Less is more

I found one article, about Danny Gokey of AI8. And i'd like to share one interesting quote.

The lesson here is that when it comes to sharing information about your personal life, less is more.

Less is more. Iye, betul. Less is more is a very good phrase to be applied to all situations. I dont know how about other people, but for me, I always agree with that.

Berbalik kepada cerita pasa Encik Danny. Aku tak tengok masa dia audition AI. Not come across him that time. Dan, aku tak tau that he's a widower. Kawan kat ofis cakap "You tak tengok audition ke? Dia ada bagitau wife dia baru meninggal."

Dan, macam biasalah, bila dibawa cerita sedih, he's claimed to use his grief untuk memancing undi. Hmmm... aku tak kisah la dia nak guna kisah sedih ke, ape ke. Yang penting adalah talent dia. I bet, kalau dia keluar awal pon, he has bright future in Hollywood punye dunia nyanyi menyanyi nih.

It's my 20 cent.

Btw, Iman is sent to his nenek @Sunway sebab NannyMun dia demam campak. It has been 3 days we left from at 6.30am. Perghhh gile kentang awal. Bulan ni kurang hantar ke babysitter. Bulan lepas pon. Hmmm...

When it drops...

Aku rasa gundah. Rasa takut. Rasa sedih. Baru 4 bulan lebih aku menikmatinya. I enjoyed it since day one. I have put my full passion on it since the day I figured out I was pregnant back in February last. I was so determine and bersemangat for it.

Tapi bila dah berkurangan for this past 2 days, aku rasa sangat takut. From 15 yesterday, it dropped drastically today. Only 8 after 3 session. Waaaa sedihnya.

Apetah lagi bila dengar cerita pasal anak dah tak nak menyusu direct. Takut. Sedih. Sooner or later, Iman will do the same thing. Dan itu lah yang paling aku takut dan sedih.

BUT,

I know I shouldn't give up. There are many solutions and tips to increase it. I have to try those tips. I have to do that for Iman. I've been his milk supply for almost 5 months. OMG. 5 months???? Biar betik. One more month to go for solid food? Then feeding set hunting begins! And, another 6 months for him to be 1-year-old??? Then to think how to celebrate it. Uwaaaaaaaa... my baby sayang dah besar. Rasa macam baru je semalam Iman selalu keluar tengok dunia yang indah ni. Then now I know how Kimora Lee Simmons felt when her daughter Ming straightened her very beautiful curly hair. KLS nangis, dan kata "10 years from now she'll be 18-years-old. And then getting married". Ahaks.. lawak pon ada. Tapi betul. I felt the same thing.

From my humble new muahmuah

Typical kitchen cabinet untuk apartment yang kecik dan kiut ^_^ hahaha perahsan.

Belum habis kemas. Ingat nak mengemas semalam dan hari ni, tapi tak sempat. Been to SJMC and Armand's birthday party.





Trivia:

• hadiah birthday ke 27. Yeee.... I'm 27.
• ada banyak compartment tapi taktau nak letak apa sebab barang tak banyak.
• memerlukan satu wall shelf untuk letak microwave oven. This one will be DIY-ed by Husband and Iman hihihh
• tingkap yang half naked, sebab belum berlangsir.
• this cabinet is 8ft x 6ft. Eh... rasa macam lebih 6 kaki.
• oleh kerana tak suka lantai yang berhabuk, tiap-tiap hari aku sapu.
• kalau tak spend masa dengan my 2 heroes, i'll spend most of my free time in here

Oho. Kesian Iman. Batuk belum hilang. Paed suh stop bagi Salbutamol. Try dengan Singulair pulak. Anyway, he's so suka roll here and there lah. Kali ni memang kena monitor sebab dia tiba-tiba dok bawah coffee table. Aiyoooo. And, he can roll towards me. Hahaha.. nak nenen punya pasal, he struggle to reach me.

Oh this is Iman, lepas seminggu keluar dari wad. Dan gambar itu adelah ikut turutan. Lawak pon ada haha ~~

Malam ni nak tengok CSI. Rabu lepas CSI dan start season baru. Season 8. Tapi last week aku tengok cerita Cinta Gila (feat Rita Rudaini). Rita cantik lah :) Alamak, malam ni ada Merlin. Ayooo.. so packed lah tonight.

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So emotional tengok CSI malam tadi. Meleleh je air mata. Ape taknya, dah 7 season aku tengok Warrick dalam CSI, tetiba dia mati. Apesal orang nak matikan watak dia? The whole team was really shocked on his death. Btw, Sara's back. Back for good ke? And she looked stunning. Catherine juga, nampak sangat cantik lah. Haha emo sungguh.

Yippe!

happi. happi. happi.

Thanks sooo much dear bB for that lovely birthday present. As he said yesterday "Tak lambat kan? Bulan 2 lagi". And he said to Iman "Meh Iman, makan sama-sama. Sambut birthday Ibu". Before that, masa aku tengah vacuum habuk, he said "Happy birthday!"

I think he's romantic in his own way. He didnt give me berdozen-dozen white roses. He didnt brought me to candle light dinner. Even, he didnt bring me, yet, to my fav place to bersantai-santai.

But in his own way.

OMG. So happy dapat kitchen kabinet sampaikan taktau nak kemas camane heheheh

AI8

Have you watched it last night? I was excitedly tunggu dan tengok Danny hahaha.. teringat kucing Roza nama Danny :p

OMG. He steal the limelight lah. At least, he steal mine. Hahaha. Dah la nyanyi lagu penyanyi kegemaran ku. Cewah. Anoop is not bad oso. Kan dah cakap, this season, male contestant memang bersuara sedap. Walau pon tak semua.

The desparate-to-glamour-Tatiana, bak kata Simon, and most-talkabout-person, bak kata Paula, is cute hehehe.. tapi elok lah dia voted out. Bagi peluang kat orang yang betul-betul bersuara sedap.

Courtesy of US Magazine

Post untuk cikyam

Question by Ayra's mommy

by demand nak tau camne ek? skang ni keje bangun minum bangun minum macam
baaanyakk je. ke nanti dia kurang frequency tapi more tu volume? aii banyak nak
tanya . takpe ke?

Jawapan dari yang baru 4 bulan jadi mak. I put in points ye cikyam :)

• Ada train Ayra guna botol tak? Penting train guna botol sebab nanti nak tinggal dia dengan bbsitter sepanjang kita keje, InsyaAllah senang.
• What i did was i give EBM to iman start with small bottle, yg 2 oz tu. The amount tu akan bertambah sket2 ikut pertambahan umur dia.
• Nak tau dia cukup ke tak minum guna botol, bila 2 oz tu dah habis, dan dia macam lapar lagi, then you'll know that 2 oz tu dah tak cukup. Then topup jadi 3 oz pulak.
• Iman pulak, I gave him 3 bottles of 3 oz, masa mula2 start kerja lepas confinement. And 1 extra bottle kot-kot tak cukup.
• Then his nenek kata "Iman dah tak cukup dengan 3 oz". So I gave him 3 bottles of 4 oz. Macam tu lah. Now he needs 4 bottles of 4 oz. Tapi pernah sekali his daddy jaga dia, he could finished 6 bottles of 4 oz. OMG. Haus ke?
• Paling penting, must have 1 extra bottle. Stand-by kot-kot Ayra tak kenyang :)

To full breastfeed ni, banyak sikit kerja kena buat. Orang kata 'renyeh'. It's not simple and easy punya mission. Tapi berkat ketekunan dan a lot of patient, you'll appreciate every single drop of your breastmilk. Kata-kata semangat untuk diri sendiri which I said everyday is EBM is the only connection to me and Iman, while i'm apart from him.

A few items kena stand-by untuk buat adelah:

• cuci semua botol untuk bekalan EBM anak
• cairkan EBM dan panaskan EBM
• prepare EBM dalam setiap botol
• prepare breastpump untuk bawa ke tempat kerja. This includes basuh dan sterilize (can skip if you want to)
• balik rumah, simpan EBM dalam botol/storage bag untuk EBM, keep it by 3oz or 4oz or 5oz, up to you. This one is to ease you to manage urusan membekalkan anak ke tempat pengasuh.
• label by date. Penting sangat nih.
• simpan EBM dalam tempat beku kat atas tu (fridge). Kalau boleh susun ikut tarikh. First in first out (FIFO).

Banyak kan? Tapi seronok, trust me.

Anything, you can email me :)

Percubaan

untuk memegang botol susu sendiri sudah berjaya. This is during his feeding time petang semalam, nak habiskan EBM yang dah dicairkan. Gambar a bit yellowish sebab rumah lampu kuning :)


Fyi, EBM yang dah dicairkan tidak boleh dibekukan kembali and it'll in good condition for only 3 days. Dan juga, EBM perlu dihabiskan at one time feeding. So, kiranya, kalau sekali feeding tu tak habis, kena buang. Sayang? Memang sayang tapi terpaksa buang.

A few simple things

Badan ku rasa sedikit kepenatan. I might need one sweet time for myself. Spa? Hair treatment? Body massage?

Aku rindu my 2 heroes.

Dr Angelina called Iman as "Izz". Not only her but all nurses at the paedtrics ward panggil Iman "Izz".

Oh, the delivery of my-long-hunting-meja-makan is today. Yeay!

I'm done with store spring cleaning. The store is actually 2nd room of the house. Tapi oleh kerana berdekatan dengan pintu masuk, jadi, all the kotak-kotak is dumped in there. Bila dah kemas-kemas semalam, nampak sangat bilik tu terlalu besar untuk dijadikan store.

Dan juga, the hadiah hari jadi will be installed this coming Thursday. Woooo... sangat seronok. Rasa nak tidur kat dapur jek. Hahaha..

Dapat tahu benda ni dari Am. 13-years-old dad? OMG. Tak muda sangat ke? Cannot imagine how he know how to 'do that' at age 12. Tapi semuanya tak mustahil dengan adenya segala mak nenek kemudahan sekarang.

The final cut of American Idol 8 is over. Tahun ni peserta lelaki sangat menarik. Menarik in term of bersuara merdu dan sedap :) Ada a few contestant yang menarik perhatian aku tahun ni. Nanti lah, sebab belum hafal nama diorang.

Happy birthday to Roza. Chatted with her a day before her birthday, tapi tak sempat nak wish sebab masa tu Iman dah boleh discharge. Sms-ed her but as she said "Aku off handphone".

reason to smile

Ignore the blur picture BUT can u see that happy face?

This lil one can go home today!

Now waiting for Ayah :)

Iman not well

"Tak sihat pon masih nak meniarap. Given magazine for him to read. Haha. With his Ayah oso. Manja neh. Taking nebulizer to cairkan kahak. Anyway, he's get well. Our pray with you Iman"

Iman admitted to SJMC since Wednesday morning. Morning is 4am. Lung infection. His heart beat was too high for baby sampai kena buat ECG masa kat ER. Alhamdulillah, thank God, it was nothing to worry kata doc. Dia kata it's due to his nose blocked, sebab tu the heart is trying very hard to pump the oxygen. Then Iman kena buat xray, nak check lung pulak. Ok, there's virus jahat kat situ. Haisshhh. That thing caused the high fever. Kesian anaknde.

Since admitted, his temperature was up and down. Highest was 39.9. I keep on sponging him. Kalau tinggi sangat, nurse mandi kan. According to paed, the fever should be ok by petang semalam but however it was still high. High = more than 37.5 and Iman's was around 38 something. Paed decided to add another antibiotic. Jadi, Iman amik 2 jenis antibiotik malam tadi.

Dan pagi ni, Alhamdulillah, he's getting better. Demam pon dah ok. Yeay, Iman tak demam dah. Yet, need to monitor lagi lah. Takut demam dia datang balik. Dan juga, to monitor his lung also. Paed kata his lung is getting better. Alhamdulillah syukur. Btw, we are switching to our previous paed. Lucky he breastfeeds as usual. So, boleh la topup antibodi secara semulajadi :)

So, we are going to spend another 2 nights here. And I've been on leave since Wednesday. Hohooo sudah 3 hari EL. Husband pon sama. Well, nampaknya, kena postpone lah store spring cleaning before hadiah birthday datang. Since he's getting better, I'll marathon my tergendala Merlin's marathon :)

To Iman, get well soon.

Zombie

Rasa macam zombie kampung pisang lak. Dah 2-3 orang tegur "Awak tak cukup tidur ke?". Jawapan standard "A'a". Then, reply selepas mendengar jawapan standard aku tu "Biasa la dah ada anak kecik".

Well, Iman tak ada la berjaga lama. Dia cuma berjaga kejap, bfeeding, lepas tu zzzzzz balik. Tapi tak tahu la nape bawah mata aku hitam. Tak ada la teruk sangat tapi still, hitam sket-sket. Haishhhh kena buat something nih. Tapi apa dia? Tak tau laa. Aiyooo..

Oh, the contractor come and measure my 'hadiah hari jadi' hehehe.. Awwww... cannot wait lah ;p

Meniarap sudah

Walaupon tak sehebat mana, tapi aku rasa seronok sangat. Iman dah boleh meniarap. Genap 4 bulan dia dah boleh meniarap sendiri. Sebelum ni dah 2 minggu terkedek-kedek nak membalikkan diri sendiri. Selalu half way. Bb pon happy jek. Pastu bentang toto depan tv, bagi Iman main kat situ. Sambil menunggu kot-kot dia meniarap lagi hehehe..

Istimewa untuk Iman.

I dont want miss a thing Aerosmith

I could stay awake just to hear you breathing

Watch you smile while you are sleeping

While youre far away dreaming

I could spend my life in this sweet surrender

I could stay lost in this moment forever

Every moment spent with you is a moment I treasure

Dont want to close my eyes

I dont want to fall asleep

Cause Id miss you baby

And I dont want to miss a thing

Cause even when I dream of you

The sweetest dream will never do

Id still miss you baby

And I dont want to miss a thing

Lying close to you feeling your heart beating

And Im wondering what youre dreaming

Wondering if its me youre seeing

Then I kiss your eyes

And thank God were together

I just want to stay with you in this moment forever

Forever and ever

Dont want to close my eyesI dont want to fall asleep

Cause Id miss you baby

And I dont want to miss a thing

Cause even when I dream of you

The sweetest dream will never do

Id still miss you baby

And I dont want to miss a thing

I dont want to miss one smile

I dont want to miss one kiss

I just want to be with you

Right here with you, just like this

I just want to hold you close

Feel your heart so close to mine

And just stay here in this moment

For all the rest of time

Dont want to close my eyes

I dont want to fall asleep

Cause Id miss you baby

And I dont want to miss a thing

Cause even when I dream of you

The sweetest dream will never do

Id still miss you baby

And I dont want to miss a thing

Dont want to close my eyes

I dont want to fall asleep

I dont want to miss a thing

Yep, i dont want to miss every single his new skill.. sob sob..

Sometimes I wonder

Bila tengok American Idol audition, ramaaaaaai rakyat jelata yang men'join'kan diri untuk mencuba nasib. Tapi obviously, terang-terangan ok, ramai sangat yang lupa nak dengar suara sendiri sebelum ke audution. Hahaha.. not that kind of lupa, tapi buat-buat lupa yang suara tu kurang enak didengar oleh worldwide.

Yeah, it's a reality show tapi ada cukup masa pulak that 4 judges dengar dan attend semua orang-orangan tu. Tak penat ke diorang melayan orang yang lupa nak dengar suara sendiri tu?

I really really wonder.

Oh, my lil baby Iman turns 4 month today :) Alabiyuuuu shayang..

Currently

sticked to tv and laptop watching Merlin. Sudah ada copy until episode 13. Thanks to Bob! Pertukaran antara Korean movies and any drama series lalalalalala...

I turn 27 today. Accidently wear old uniform today. Thank God, muat. Patut la rasa pelik jek masa sarung. And, happy anniversary to Roza & Wandy. Senang nak ingat. We share same date to celebrate.

Iman will celebrate his 4-month-old bday in 2 days time, which is lusa. Wah, another 2 months to solid food. Waaaa... time fly so fast.

Will meet a long time no see friend today.

Al-Fatihah kepada Kak Ha sekeluarga atas pemergian Abang Min. Kuatkan semangat, demi anak-anak. InsyaAllah, kami akan tolong mana yang termampu. I feel your sadness.