Tasik Kenyir Breakaway

We decided to take a short break, this time to Tasik Kenyir Resort and Spa… unfortunately, it was in the rainy season…we hardly saw Mr Sunshine….we had a dip in the swimming pool once, touring the town of Kuala Terengganu but did not managed to stop by at the places of interest, and on the last day of our stay, we got to go on a boat ride around Tasik Kenyir even though it was pouring….

It was a nice place…we hope to go there again when it is sunny…lots of outdoor activities can be done…

A few pictures here…pictures tell a thousand words…enjoy!

a successful training...

i've been longing to write about Jihan's recent achievement....it has been almost 3 weeks that she has successfully wee-wee in the toilet and 1 week of successfully poo-poo in the toilet...!!!

it happened out of sudden...we had trouble to get her to pee in the toilet as she kept holding her urine in the bladder...she would do that from morning till late afternoon until we put her back on diapers, then she would pee (a lot!!!) in her diapers....i wasn't that good at being so patient...she said that she wanted to pee, when i brought her to the toilet nothing came out...every few minutes she would drag me to the toilet but she came out dry....so 1 evening, i was peeing in the toilet bowl and she squatted on the floor in the toilet, and there it was her first pee without having me to scold and force her to pee....yeay!!! and now she would pee on her lovely toilet seata dn she just loves flushing the toilet....



and since then, she was dry by day and surprisingly by night as well, and there was never any accident before....and when we go out, she will pee at the public toilet, provided it is clean and non foul smelling...



but then i had another serious problem with Jihan....she was having constipation as she tend to hold her bowel content...i asked her to just poo-poo in her diapers but she was reluctant and kept telling us that it will leak to her legs...she ahd only 2 bowel movements per week insted of her normal habit of everyday and that was really worrying....her stool was quite hard and she only passed out a little....



then one day, she just decided to poo in the toilet and it was a success...the next day, she poo-poo 5 times in the toilet and since then she poo-poos daily in the toilet...



and now she keeps telling people that she is already a big girl as she is now fully utilize the toilet very well....and she got herself a Barbie tri scooter with a Barbie helmet for her excellent achievement....



P/S: she never use her expensive potty that we bought last year for the training....maybe i should keep that for my next baby....

BPA-free feeding bottles

i heard about BPA-free feeding bottles for quite some time but i did not take any action towards it...it's not that i was ignorant but i was quite usy to read thoroughly about it until recently....

you can just type the word BPA at any search engine and you'll be surprise at how much articles and beneficial informations you get from them and you would want to turn 360 degrees....BPA causes more harms than good...!

to my surprise my Jihan had been using a non BPA-free bottles since she was born!!!! after making some research, i decided to throw away the old bottles and change to a new brand...the older brand, AV*&T has not marketed the non BPA bottles widely in Malaysia yet, so it is quite difficult to find one...so, i resorted to MAM....i brought Jihan to to Mothercare and she chose the pink bottles....

Jihan seems to like the bottles without any fuss...it wasn't difficult for her to change from the old one to the new brand....

i'm waiting for the Year End Sale (YES) to buy a few bottles of similar brand for my newborn later...

salam Aidilfitri

i have not been updating this blog for quite some time...i wasn't feeling very well and i was preoccupied with other things as well..even, the other blogs were not up-to -date as well....i'll try my best to update them as soon as possible ( when i'm feeling ok and when the ideas are pouring..)

alhamdulillah, i'm able to fast the whole Ramadhan during this pregnancy (insya Alllah, 3 more days left..)...i was able to do so when i was pregnant with Jihan 3 years ago...but i was quite sad and i regretted myself for not be able to do the terawikh prayer...i was very, very tired after the breaking of fast and would usually put my feet up to rest...

despite that i was able to fast the whole Ramadhan, i wasn't feeling that good though, especially in the morning after sahur...i felt nauseated and sometimes vomited and my stomach got this hurricane going on inside...i felt better towards noon...

this Aidilfitri, i haven't make any cookies yet..probably won't be doing it though...might make some cupcakes, but that depends...me and hubby didn't tailor-made our baju kurung and baju melayu, so we bought the ready made ones...(i was scared that i won't be able to fit into them because i'll be 17 weeks pregnant during the Aidilfitri)....but somehow, i 'm still able to fit into my kebaya this Aidilfitri...yeah!!...i lose some weight this Ramadhan, my latest weight the last antenatal check up was 52.3kg...

anyhow, i'm taking this opprtunity to wish my readers a very prosperous and joyous Aidilfitri and maaf zahir batin....may Allah bless us this Eid...

take care and drive carefully....

award form kak neeza

thanks kak neeza for the award....so sweet of you...muah!

i'm 28 years old

i have not been updating this blog for a month!!!! yeah, i was quite busy and i'm not in good health as well...

i turned 28 last month, on July 5th...hubby gave me a bautiful watch and Jihan gave me a matching new wallet....and they treated me for lunch at Bubba Gump....

i have been living for the past 28 years and now i'm married to a wonderful hubby and blessed with a precious gem, Jihan....i have accomplished a few numbers of personal achievements that i am very proud of and those cannot happen without the support of my beloved parents, hubby and family....

i love my life now...furthermore, we are very excited and happy with an unexpected news that we received a few days after my 28th birthday....



i'm due in March next year...i pray and hope that this pregnancy is a smooth one....i created a new blog regarding this pregnancy, The Miracle of Life...

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!