aiman's new favourite dish

Vanilla Custard

100ml formula milk
2-3 scoops of rice cereal
1/2 teaspoon vanilla essence
1 teaspoon sugar
1 teaspoon cornflour

Mixed all ingredients in bowl.
Heat on stove / microwave for 1-2 minutes. Serve while warm..

note: aiman enjoy this custard so much that i did this twice last week. thanks kak aishah for this recipe. hope you can post some more.. hehe..

baru2 ni kak aishah ada suggest me an organic biscuit. carrefour ada jual biskut ni dan mama beli la untuk try pada aiman. biskut ni keras sikit berbanding biskut biasa.. aiman suka betul sebab bila dia gigit2 biskut ni x cepat lembik.. layan je dia gigit biskut tu.. hehe

cerita last weekend

last weekend was somehow turn out to be remembered. i was quite glad to received 2 of my friends who i haven't got the chance to meet for quite some time. it started out with a phone call from nana (maimunah) who recently get a practical student from usm. the student are my third year student who currently doing his training in JPS. the last time i met nana was in HUKM after i delivered aiman.. waa.. nana was the first one to arrive at the hospital.. thanks babe! so when she called last week, i instantly suggested that we should met. we actually planned to meet at Juru Autocity last saturday, but dira (who also i havent got the chance to meet since new year.. hey dee, lama sangat la x jumpa.. bukan jauh pun! ngeh ngeh) suggested that she and nana come to my house for lunch.. wah.. ini sudah menarik (i thought).. boleh la masak sikit2

so on saturday morning, me and harris n aiman went to the market.. this was aiman's first trip to the market.. mata x berkedip tengok ikan la, tgk org la.. hehe.. so, we bought few things to cook and went straight home.. so the gotong royong started.. (well, you should see my house before any guests come.. haha.. macam tongkang pecah..)

well, this is the menu for saturday lunch..

nasi putih
sup tulang
ikan pari bakar
kerang rebus (nana makan jugak benda ni... dia elergi teruk.. teringat time utm dulu.. hehe)
air asam

ermm.. ni yang jadi lapar time gini ni.. hehehe.. nana n dira arrived around 12.30pm.. by that time i finished cooking so we straight away had our lunch.. huuu.. kenyang teramat.. we mingle and gossip for a while before dira n nana went back at 3pm.

later in the afternoon, after asar, me decided to go for a quick shopping at Queensbay mall.. last week i received an sms about La Senza's sale.. so you know what i shop heh?? kekeke.. best betul.. dapat la yg baru2 sket.. sejak bersalin dok pakai nursing punya je.. x best! hehehe.. jusco also had their sale last weekend. i bought a pant for aiman. as aiman only have 1 pant. papa bought himself a refill ink pen.. ehehe.. papa x beli apa2 pun..

on sunday, we decided not to go anywhere. so, we ended up lazing around the house. i made pancakes for bfast, mee kari for lunch and reheat the sup tulang for dinner..

so, that's what happened during last weekend.. how bout yours?? share with me la..

pledge to earth and helping those in need

recently we celebrated the earth day (for those who forget, let me remind you.. it was last tuesday laaa). one question that continues popping into my mind is what have i done to help reducing the amount of wastes everyday.. we malaysian is still low in recycling our wastes. as a lecturer, i do try to incorporate recycling in my research (currently researching the impact of using rice husk ash as additives in soil stabilization). but as a mother, i still struggle to do my part. going to market and shopping with family are still one of the activities that mothers do. do you realize that we still use plastic bags in our daily shopping? no matter if it's a small shops near our houses or the mega- super- big markets such as carrefour, tesco, giant etc still uses plastic bags. most of the western's country have changed their plastic bags to paper bags. they encouraged buyers to bring their own bags to put all shopping items. it is sad to say that we don't adapt this environment to our daily life. i was even surprise during few visits to local mall like billion when i said to the counter girl that i want to reduce the amount of plastic bags used to pack my shopping items, she straight away reply that it is their job to put each different types of thing into different plastic bags. i ended up carrying more than 5 plastic bags when i can actually mixed the items into 3 bags only! huh! watching the documentary of al-gore 'the inconvenient truth' opens my mind and eventhough we are definitely late in receiving this kind of information in malaysia, we still can catch up.

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these past few months, i've started organizing my household's waste. i've tried seperating plastic bottles and cans and also tried to recycle it. i sent these wastes to the office cleaners and they sold it to collectors. i told them to keep the money to themselves (it's not much actually but still can buy them drinks etc). currently, my husbands help to keep things up. eventhough there are times when we just give the recycleable things to the garbage collector, but we still seperate those items. i can see that they put these thing in different place than the domestic wastes (means that they do sell these things to collectors).

in the office, we already tried to incorporate the usage of recycled papers. memos are printed on recycled papers and drafts too.. dean said that we saved a lot when not buying papers anymore. it's good actually to see this kind of attitude in the office. unless it's an official letter, we print everything on a recycled paper. other than that, we do try to reduce the amount of electricity and water usage. in usm we called this 'greening the office'. it seems to get good cooperation among colleagues. alhamdulillah. and the most popular in usm currently is the 'white coffin'. USM's cafeteria has banded the usage of polystyrofoam.. they encouraged us to use new packaging (need to add 20cents more because these thing need to be recycled..) or we can help reducing the amount of wastes by eating at the cafeteria.. these are few of the effort done by usm to help reducing the damage to our environment. you can see the usm initiatives on helping to protect environment by checking into our website and go to 'campus sejahtera' or healthy campus link - see my labels on the right column.

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as a mother, i would like to start this effort to save the earth and helping others especially those in need... i would like to start a community of people who would like to recycle all their babies things such as clothes, bottles, baby cots, strollers, prams etc. these valuables will be given to those in need, especially to those in remote area. i will try to find a good family/ orphanage where these thing will benefit them a lot. i welcome any comments and hopefully god help me to help other people in need. i would like to start this community because i do have several things that can be given to places in need (like nursery or orphanage) and i would like to have my family and friends to do so. i love kids. i want my son to live comfortable with good things and i believe that other babies/ child should feel the same way too.. maybe this will be a way of helping others to have a comfortable life too.. i will explain to you later the cause of this commitment in my next posting.

the pursuit of happyness

last sunday we watched this movie at astro's HBO.. cerita sebenarnya mengenai kepayahan seorang lelaki yang kehilangan harta benda dan kerjayanya... lakonan will smith.. rasanya inilah cerita pertama will smith yang betul2 menyentuh perasaan mama.. sebak betul tengok cerita tu.. terutamanya bab dia kena tidur dalam bilik air subway sbb dah kena halau dari tempat tinggal dia dan bagaimana dia kena bersusah payah dengan anaknya mendapatkan tempat setiap hari di tempat 'homeless'. kesian betul.. tp memang motivating la cerita ni.. recommended for families with children.. banyak kualiti cerita macam ni.. takde la cerita macam filem malaysia.. seronok dibuai perasaan je.. tak membantu membangkitkan minda! huhu.. teringat komen enche naga pasal cerita congkak.. boing boing gegar!! hehehe..

ayam organik

huuuu.. dengar pun macam seram je kan? semalam masa balik dari office, me and hubby decided to find this ayam kampung organik.. actually, we planned to try this last few week tapi sebab kami tak jumpa kedai tu maka tertangguh la agenda cari ayam ni.. hehe..

at first we thought that the supplier number given in the internal USM webpage was a chicken breeder.. rupanya they got the supplies every week from semenyih. http://www.azzain.com/product.htm waktu arwah emak ada dia pernah cerita kat saya pasal kepentingan makan ayam yang disembelih dengan bersih..

emak dulu selalu pergi kelas fardhu ain dsb di office dia.. ada satu ustaz pesan untuk jaga makanan kita kalau kita senang dan mudah nak menuntut ilmu. yang perlu diketahui adalah, kalau kita boleh lihat bagaimana ayam disembelih secara komersil, kita boleh lihat ketidak bersihan cara penyembelihan tu.. huhu.. bahasa!.. bila ayam disembelih, ia akan dimasukkan ke dalam satu periuk air panas untuk mencabut bulu2 ayam tersebut.. masa inilah ayam tu akan kiranya macam direbus dengan bulu + darah + najisnya sekali.. lepas tu baru ayam di hantar ke pasar dsb.. waktu arwah ada dulu, dia memang ke pasar dan tunggu ayam di sembelih (maknanya dia pilih sendiri ayam hidup). dia juga tunggu abang jual ayam tu cabut bulu ayam tu.. harga memang mahal sedikit dari kebiasaan tetapi kita mesti tidak was2 kan???

sambungan untuk ayam yg dibeli semalam adalah, ayam tu memang diberi makanan yang sihat sahaja... tidak dicucuk (sebab teringat dulu ustazah kat puteri wilayah marah kami waktu kelas. dia kata kami banyak sangat makan ayam cucuk, sebab tu jadi pemalas cam ayam.. hehehe) dan ayam ini diproses mengikut hukum syarak dan tidak direbus bersama darah dan najisnyaa.. huhu..

semalam stok tinggal seekor saja ayam saiz XL (ayam dia memang besar) tapi harga pun boleh tahan, rm18.. dah siap di potong dan cuma untuk dibasuh sedikit dan sedia utk dimasak.. jadi menu semalam adalah tomyam ayam + sayur dan ayam goreng.. nyum2.. leleh air liur aiman waktu kami makan..

pagi tadi kami bfast karipap daging.. beli dengan orang yang sama di parit buntar.. yang bestnya karipap ni adalah bahan2 inti dia masuk misai kucing la.. ulaman2 la.. sedap seh!! nanti mama goreng lagi sekali baru ambil gambar.. pagi tadi rush x sempat... hehe

aiman progress

good news! pagi tadi nampak aiman dah start duduk sendiri.. huhu!! tp aiman tunjuk kat papa dulu, pastu baru mama nampak.. hehehe.. anak mama dah besar la.. terer betul! yeay!