Jihan's first neb...

Jihan had quite a bad URTI recently and when i came home from work one day, i found out she was a bit tachypneic and her cough was very chesty...according to my maid she had audible wheeze as well...but she didn't give any medications to Jihan or called me to infrom on Jihan's condition...

Jihan was very uncomfortable with her condition and she cried whenever she coughed....there were bilateral rhonchi and she appeared very tachypneic...we decided to bring her to the A&E for a neb after the medication we gave did not improved her condition...

Jihan was rather scared at first to get her first neb but the she seemed to cool down and felt comfortable with it....soon after completing the neb, i auscultated her lungs and the rhonchi had disappeared and she was no more tachypneic...in fact, she was singing and dancing in the A&E...

that was her first episode of acute wheezing....hopefully, it was just a hyperactive airway...and now she is back to her square one- active, cheeky and mischivious...!

Jihan's birthday celebration

a simple celebration with close families and friends....Jihan demanded an Elmo birthday cake and i'm proud that i made the cake by myself!!! and Jihan was so happy with her cake....

more picts @ our fotopages

happy 28th birthday, dear hubby...

it's my dear hubby's birthday today....we've been celebrating his birthday together as husband and wife for the past 4 years....since it's a working day today, we had to postpone the celebration to a later day...

i bought something useful for him yesterday..went shopping for the present with Jihan...Jihan chose a birthday card with a picture of a frog in front...she excitedly tell everybody," tomorrow is papa's birthday...my birthday was yesterday..."

just now, we went to fetch dear hubby at his workplace...then Jihan said to his papa, "papa, happy birthday, i love you, papa.." i certainly didn't ask her to say that, because dear hubby thought i taught her to say so.....she said it on her own...

to my beloved husband, i love you more and more everyday...may Allah bless you always...and may we live happily ever after till the end of time...

it's celebrations time!!!

it's Jihan's 3rd birthday....

Jihan celebrated her 3rd birthday yesterday...but i was so tired and too lazy to update it in my blog...nowadays, blogging is no more a priority to me but i do miss blogging so much...and i missed reading all my friends' blogs too....but i have another important priority now, to get through my Masters....

anyway, we brought Jihan to choose her own present at the Toys R Us Midvalley...we wandered around the store until she decided that se want "THAT" thing so much!!!! guess what she really, really wanted yesterday..? a shopping cart!!!!

then i asked her again, whether she wants anything else..? she told me, "No, No, enough!!"

then we went to Tony Roma's to have dinner....i really like the environment there because it is so kids friendly....and the food is superb and the portion is so satisfactoryly will make your stomach full!!!

we had chicken voodoo, asian salad and free pasta for Jihan...the waitress chatted with Jihan and asked how old is she...we told her that it is her birthday!!! so, later, they brought a special icecream with a chocolate brownies on top complete with a lit candle and they sang a Happy Birthday song to Jihan....Jihan was so stunned but excited...unfortunately, we didn't bring our camera to capture the moment...

we reached home and Jihan was so eager to play with her shopping cart...she kept pushing the cart and pretended going shopping with the cart...

to Jihan, happy 3rd Birthday, dear....we always love you no matter what, cheeky and mischivious girl...we hope you'll grow up and be a good caliph, a good and obedient daughter...you are always our precious gem...

back to student's life..

do i miss my student's days..? i spent 7 years to complete my medical degree (2 years of matrics and 5 years of medical degree)..it was a smooth journey though, i passed every single exams...

well, probably not...but now i am one again....but this time as a mature student who needs to work and to study at the same time....i am upgrading my life from a normal doctor to become a specialist in my field, insya Allah in 4 years time...

i need to make a lot of sacrifices...Jihan's and hubby's birthdays are just around the corner and i have not think of any plan yet to celebrate their birthdays!!

i've been doing lots of reading pertaining to my work and i spend abou 2 hours at night to myself doing my own works...

i miss cooking, baking, reading novel and go out to the shopping malls during the weekends (with the increasing price of the petrol, we tend to stay at home more now, and now i have to travel quite far to Hosp K, the expenditure for petrol increases twice as we have to use 2 cars to go to work...)

i miss my old days where i can just relax and do whatever i want...now, i have to read books, do some research reading, do mcq's abd stuffs...

i pray that i'll be able to finish my study in 4 years time...then i can enjoy my old life back....and spend more time with my family...

the madness begins....

after 2 weeks of relaxing and taking my own sweet time doing the things i love, it's back to work again...the different is, it's not just purely work this time, but now i'm back as a student...a postgraduate student in medicine, specializing in family medicine and the course takes 4 years to complete....! a master programme in medicine is different from other programmes....the duration is longer and at the same time we have to work like usual plus the extra courseworks, assignments, researches and of course we have to study to pass the exams....i'm in a tough place now...

i started to feel the burdens already...there are a lots of things to do apart from the normal things that i always do...i need to do a lot of sacrifices in term of family arrangements and my interests...meaning that, i have to cut down my blogging time, the time for cooking and baking experiments in the kitchen, the time for shopping or window shopping and doing unnecessary things that can use up my precious time to revise and do my coursework....

i think Jihan feels that i'm a bit different already....before this, i never seriously read thick medical books at nights, i used to watch TV with her and play with her....weekends are exciting moments for us, we used to go out and do a lot of activities outside, but starting this week, we need to rush to get everything done at once...

and i become a bit hot-tempered...due to the stress...Jihan always disturbed me when i tried to sit down and read, she would take my pen and started asking for book or papers for her to scribble...and she wouldn't sleep early so that i can start reading my materials!....

i'm juggling my life and i hope i'll be able to settle this madness to a better pace and sail through safely throughout these 4 years....

1,2,3,4,5..once i caught a fish alive!

we spent a good weekend at the Cyberview Lodge Resort & Spa recently....this time, we brought atok, wan and bibik as well...we booked 2 rooms that are connecting to each other...

initially, i thought of bringing wan to the spa but due to time constraint and the spa was fully occupied, that plan was cancelled....so instead, we watched VCD that we bought recently in Kuantan (the picture quality was superb!) and had a splash in the pool and had an iranian dinner at a nearby restaurant (La Vida Restaurant & Cafe)...

the next morning after breakfast, we decided to hire 2 fishing rods and tried our luck at the lake near the spa...at first, we threw our bait far to the centre of the lake but no luck at all...then we saw some fishes swimming at the bank and we lowered our baits there...atok got the first catch!!...small size puyu fish....then another, and another, and another....i tried my luck next and caught a few puyu before handed the rod to dear hubby...each of us caught a few puyu and we were screaming excitedly when we caught them...

at the end of 1 hour, our pail was full with puyu fish!!!

it was a wonderful experience for each and everyone of us...Jihan was excited watching the fishes get caught....

altogether we managed to catch 52 puyu fish within 1 hour...not bad eh..!

happy 1st birthday "A Mother's Discovery"

this blog is celebrating it's 1st birthday....i learnt a lot from my viewers who also shared their opinions and thoughts with me....and i made a lot of new friends too...

i'll carry on pouring my thoughts and ideas into this blog and hope to share more with you...

enjoy reading!

feeling better...

i'm not sure at what time i actually, properly dozed off last night...probably 2 am or 3 am...the last time i remembered, i was still heavily wheezing....alhamdulillah i'm still alive today...

i woke up in the morning with no wheeze but i was extremely sleepy...i invited few of my colleagues for lunch today, so i must get up and prepare the lunch!

alhamdulillah, the cough was better, no shortness of breath and no wheezing...i continued of regular dose of corticosteroid inhaler...i prepared the ingredients and cooked the meals with no problems...

and my colleagues enjoyed my foods, alhamdulillah....and i went to take a bronchodilator form the clinic, fearing of another asthma attack during the weekend...

hopefully, i'll be in good health throughout...

acute asthmatic attack

i can't sleep tonight...i'm currently having a bad wheeze...NO, i'm not known to be asthmatic before...i do have allergic rhinitis but no eczema or asthma...

i discovered that i was having a bad cough after i came back from Pulau Kapas...and my cough mainly worsened at night...last week, i had an episode of acute nocturnal wheeze...when i went to work, it disappeared...

i consulted my colleagues as i was in denial of having asthma at the age of 27+..! she said probably i was having a hyperactive airway post URTI...so, i took a course inhaled corticosteroid as a preventer of my wheezing episode....

and my cough was getting better....no more nocturnal wheezing and nocturnal cough...and i started to taper down my steroid...

but tonight, i really cannot sleep as i felt a little bit of chest tightness and a lot of cough, followed by both inspiratory and expiratory wheeze...when i was doing my cross trainer in the evening, i also had an exercise-induced cough but not as bad as tonight...

i took my stethoscope and heard rhonchi all over my lungs...

i definitely going to take a bronchodilator from the clinic tomorrow...but as for tonight, i will see first...if it worsens, i might go to the emergnecy department for a nebulizer...

relaxing....

i'm on my 2 weeks leave now before i join Master in Medicine (Family Medicine) in June 2008...i'm planning to relax and do whatever i wish to do before the madness starts again....arghhh!!..

so, what's the plan for these 2 weeks..?

well, i completed my 2-days full cake decorating course with my sifu, Kak Ayuliana...she's the BEST!! i learnt to decorate 8 pieces of cake using different techniques and methods and the results were superb!!! i never dreamt to be be able to make such beautiful cakes...it was never my ambitions before...but now, i've acquired the skills and that is one of the wonderful gift and knowledge given by Allah...i thank HIM for giving me the chance and the opportunity to learn these beautiful techniques from a wonderful friend...

i bought 2 new books earlier, Sundays at Tiffany's (James Patterson) and He Loves Lucy (Susan Donovan)...already finished reading the first on and currently reading the latter one...

i need more workouts!!! and control my foods!!! arghh....! i reached 55kg (from 61-62 kg) in around 4-5 months but during the past week i put up a kg....! (sigh)...i'm feeling happy and good with my new weight and figure...this was my post delivery weight...my aim now is to reduce further to at least 53kg and down to 50kg....!

i just came back from Petrosains...brought Jihan along to give her some scientific exposure...she enjoyed herself there...and now she is fast asleep....

i'm planning to try out new recipes...aiyaa, how am i going to curb my appetite then...?nevermind, i can do extra workouts to burn the calories...hahaha...

i bought a new activity books with a lot of colourful stickers inside and i plan to do it with Jihan...she doesn't know about this book..if she is being good, i'll let her have fun with the stickers later...

next week, we are travelling to Kuantan...ooh, i can't wait to taste my favourite ikan bakar, sotong goreng tepung and such!!

at the end of my 2 weeks break, we are going to celebrate mother's day and father's day at Cyberview Lodge again!! i'm longing for spa treatment...must beg dear hubby to treat me!! and not forgetting a hair cut and a hair treatment too....

that's all i think...i'm planning to have all the fun before June 2008!

travel cheap, healthy and nutritious

usually when we travel outstation, we usually eat at the local restaurants/stalls...but on the recent vacation (a 3D2N package with daily breakfast and 1 BBQ dinner), i chose to prepare homemade food plus some other healthy snacks for my family...

i made egg and tuna sandwiches with lots of lettuce and tomatoes and cheese (yummy!!)...and i packed some Jacob's biscuits as well...i also brought some packet drinks (Ribena and Yakult - bots are Jihan's favourites!) and the 3-in-1 drinks.....not only that, i also brought some raw materials (namely mayonaise, tomatoes, cheese, bread and tuna in can) so that i can feed myself and my loved ones with sandwiches....

we travelled almost 5 hours to Lumut and had lunch in the car with my homemade sandwiches....a lovely, healthy and balanced lunch!....that night for dinner, there were still some leftover sandwiches so i finished them off and ordered room service (nasi goreng) for Jihan nad hubby....

we had good buffet breakfast the next day...we were all hungry after splashing and swimming in the pool....i made a cup of hot milo and nescafe for me and hubby and we had a few biscuits and bread too...we planned to go to the Lumut Jetty in the afternoon and i prepared yummy tuna sandwiches for our lunch....

that night, we had scrumptious seafood BBQ dinner (inclusive in the package)...

i was glad that we finished all the raw materials that we brought...on the way teravelling back to KL, we stuffed ourselves with strawberry wafers and Jacob's Crack (my favourite!)...we stopped at R&R Tapah to pray and treated ourselves with a single scoop of Baskin Robbins and a mocha ice blended (shared by the 3 of us)....

we save quite a lot in this vacation in terms of food....furthermore, it's homemade and you know how clean, healthy and safe the ingredients used...this can prevent events that you hate most during a vacation - to fall sick!....

Happy Mother's Day

to all great mums out there, Happy Mother's Day!!!!

we spent the weekend at Swiss Garden Damai Laut, Lumut...we didn't purposely planned that this short family vacation to occur on Mother's Day, it was a coincident...i really enjoyed this vacation with my hubby and our dear princess....

we spent our time on the beach, playing with the sand...Jihan was afraid of the waves though....then we took a dip in the swimming pool....i managed to make a few laps while Jihan made new friends with other kids while splashing and playing in the pool....hubby took lots and lots of great photos with his Nikon....

we had good food that i cannot resist!...and we drove to Lumut town and the turtle sanctuary...

this is the only time that we can spend our quality time with Jihan without thte help of others...i wish i can do this more often ...

will upload our precious moments @ our fotopages soon....

to touch a mother's heart

mother's day is just around the corner....we are going to celebrate it at Swiss Garden Damai Laut and Spa in Lumut for a 3D2N rendezvouz....

during this year, i've read a few novels by different author that really touch my mother instinct....i've written about My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Piccoult and subsequently after that i read my sister's novel, Olivia's Sister by Claire LaZebnik....it is an interesting story which touches on responsibility....

At 21, Olivia Martin has mastered the art of cynicism. Maybe that's inevitable because of her dysfunctional family - a desperately needy, alcoholic ex-model mother; a rich, ill-tempered father with an imperious new wife; and a spoiled half-sister. Olivia's modus operandi has been to ignore them all and just drift through life, tough and alone. However, just as she is in danger of falling in love - or at least in lust - for the first time, Olivia's familial responsibilities come crashing down about her. Her father and his second wife are killed in a car crash, and she is left to inherit both their considerable fortune and guardianship of her four-year old half-sister. Despite, Olivia's view that 'If I'd wanted to be saddled with a kid at this point in my life, I'd have grown up in Oklahoma,', she has no choice but to do the right thing and try and raise a child she's only met on a handful of times.

currently, i'm reading My Best Friend's Girl by Dorothy Komsoon....similarly, it is a totally enjoyable reading.....

Best friends Kamryn Matika and Adele Brannon thought nothing could come between them - until Adele did the unthinkable and slept with Kamryn's fiance, Nate. Worse still, she got pregnant and had his child. When Kamryn discovered the truth about their betrayal she vowed never to see any of them again. Two years later, Kamryn receives a letter from Adele asking her to visit her in hospital. Adele is dying and begs Kamryn to adopt her daughter, Tegan. With a great job and a hectic social life, the last thing Kamryn needs is a five-year-old to disrupt things. Especially not one who reminds her of Nate. But with no one else to take care of Tegan and Adele fading fast, does she have any other choice? So begins a difficult journey that leads Kamryn towards forgiveness, love, responsibility and, ultimately, a better understanding of herself.