Welcome back to me :)

Assalamualaikum and hellooooo people!

Such a cliche entry of each post mentioning that it's been xx days/months or years u have been neglecting this blog. Hehe

Well, let see, last post mentioned that I'm a mother of ONE
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but now I'm a mother of TWO babies!
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Boom..that's new! lol

Ok not two babies, a toddler and a baby!😍


Dah tu je,will TRY to continue more later.


Tata!!

Lunch Hour Post

Assalamualaikum & Hellooo..

Having the thoughts of writing a blog post EVERY SINGLE TIME I'm having those "TO-DO LIST" in my mind but it just wont happen!Now, let see what we have here :

1.Dear son is almost 2 next year, (it's almost New Year people!) Dedicated entry for his 1st birthday have yet to be achieved.Not even his monthly milestones!Owh please..I aint got time for that. Hahaha!

2.Entries on holidays, with or without lil Arif (pre-baby :p)

3.Still breastfeeding lil Arif, can't wait for him to self-wean but don'think it's around the corner.May I have my ***** to myself back? ;p

4.No, I'm not (yet) pregnant with baby no.2 BUT I'm itching for it, BUT I think I can't manage 2 babies at one time BUT Lil Arif can have "small-gap-sibling". LOL,see how complicated are my feelings right now. (Not sure if it's important, buy hey just making a point here)

5.Need to figure out helps on babysitting 2 babies (if no.4 happen).

6.OK Alright enough!

For 20 minutes or so, I can only rambling these much.Now lets get back to meeting!

p/s : I NEED a holiday trip. Beach holiday in precise!But I wanna have private pool to myself too.LOL

Excited Mother,

Birth Story of Nur Arif Nawfal

As'salam and Hi!

(Yeah, office still fill with boxes and movers been ignoring our dept for the past 2 days already..)

Lets continue to Birth Story shall we? Before I change mind and somehow jump to another post that is not related to the previous post..Hahaha!

My Estimate Due Date (EDD ) should be on 27th April which falls on Sunday. Yezza,the same birth date as Zettong,nak jugak sama2 kan..hihi. My gynae kept on talking about induction and until the last check-up, we still can't figure out wth is induction! LOL sangat..talking about au-naturale process kan, konon nak water birth but the only hospital offering it is Pantai Hospital and the gynae is a guy.Back to the story, Dr Jumeah gave us 2 dates which were 2 days after 39-weeks's check-up OR a day after EDD for induction. After a good talk, we opted for later date or direct admission if contractions begin. Took a week off from work,just to have more time with each other, relaxing,more eating and trying to be ready. Managed to get one of the craving fixed which was any crab dish at Mohd Chan's Muslim Restaurant Shah Alam.

So,days passed by and it's Thursday morning,earlyyyy morning around 3.30 am where I started to feel discomfort in sleeping,some-kind of menstrual cramps.. (you're period free for 9 months and when it comes back, you just can't recall it, :D). I thought it must be something that I wrongly ate the night before. Grab the phone and started to track the gaps..and asked few opinions on twitter, but the pain are still manageable where I decided to informed my husband..of course he continues to sleep cause we're not really in hurry.. -__-"

Rise and shine, it's already 7 am and yeah, pain comes and go, have a shower, called my mama and of course she panicked, a lil..asking us to rush to hospital but I refused as I know I'm not in the 3rd stage of labour,just yet.. So,what a mom do best, she came along with breakfast! Yippie yeayyy!

Chat over breakfast, my mom made a few rounds of her laundry too.. called the labour room,asking whether should we register ourselves since I'm having 5 minutes gap and then decided it's too early to enter.Then called both of my grandparents to make dua for easy labour and fast forward to evening, managed to get few hours of sleep and woke up screaming pain! Hahaha..Hubs scolded me,telling instead of screaming I should be doing zikir or selawat..Well, Helllooo.. the screaming was out of nowhere in my sleep.. huh!

Then, we knew, we can't be forever holding onto waiting game in our house,get ready for another round of shower,grab our bags and walked down the apartment. Drove to hospital and arrived around Maghrib,check ourselves in labour room and happily settled for a night out.

Dr Jumeah performed VE and I'm only 3-cm dilated!! OK, agreed on epidural before I drained out of energy to push which gonna take another-god-knows-how-many-hours..Asked for last round of blended mocha but hubs bought Choc Blended instead! Still no coffee allowed,even at the very last moments before deliver..bosan jer!

Around 11 at night, Anesthetic came and explained a lil' and performed the epidural injection procedure.Few minutes after that, I can actually fall asleep..till the next major contractions came around 2 ish am.Asked whether the dosage was enough and the nurse claimed it was sufficient enough and not to be overdose..she performed another VE and yup,it's already 8 cm dilated!Weeeeee....

She asked me to practice on breathing techniques while she's arranging the tools around the labour room...From what I can recall, hubs already stand beside me,on my left..few nurses walking,relax phase and helping me (you know,the position of the leg, and etc).. After few blinks my gynae was already in front of me and confirmed it's time as it's already 10 cm dilated!! WOWWWW!

Few pushes,with eyes wide open,a cut and with the help of forceps, at 3.48 am on Friday 25th,my son was born! Alhamdulillah!!!

He was so tiny,light and immediately placed on top of my chest for skin to skin moment...and you know what, I did not CRY!! Like I used to when I watched tv series of people giving birth!! Soo weird Tasya,soo weird! Plus,my husband helped to informed the nurse and doctor prior to giving birth that we wanna breastfeed him.

I didn't dare to asked for how many stitches I get, and you know what, my legs were crazily shaking when my gynae perform the stitching!! I guess it's one of the epidural effects. Few hours later we're already moved to maternity ward and before you know what's coming, lets try to sleeeepppppp.... LOL!

Welcome to our world, Nur Arif Nawfal bin Nur Afiq.We love you!!

Till then,

1st Pregnancy

As'salam and Hello world!

My office is in the midst of moving to new place ( further away and time consuming eventho' it's bigger) hence explained my free time for 3 days in a row.

Feeling like making this special post on pregnancy and birth or maybe I should separate it? Ok,lets make this as THE ONLY post on my first pregnancy :)

Married in May 2014, and down the road to August 2014 I was confirmed positive as no show of red flag. Of course with 2-3 test kits to triple confirm it as we don't want to get false hopes before going out to gynae.

The first month of pregnancy were nothing abnormal (since I wasn't aware of this pregnancy). The moment we found out about me pregnant, my appetite dropped and HELLOOO Nauseaaa!! To make it worse, it was right after Raya where people were still celebrating it and open houses were everywhere! I hates the smell of curry,rendang and whatever related to Raya. Please don't offer me Roti Jala people! Hehehe..it was so funny to recap back.

Went to nearby clinic which have female doctor to make this pregnancy official and it continued for 2 consecutive months.

When the pregnancy hits 3 months and it was time to break the news to family members, extended family members, Girlfriends and the boss (my work-boss ;)). Remember that we don't get to have a proper honeymoon as time doesn't permit? Right after we make the announcement, off we go to our long-waited honeymoon,or might I say baby-moon :D

Nausea was my bestfriend throughout this pregnancy, right until admission to labour room. I can't really cook hence dining out almost every night and yuppp,Finance 101 problem over here! From 1st to 2nd trimester, Fried Kuey Teow was my FAVORITE and Nasi Kandar was my 3rd trimester FAV!! Not really into sour stuff like asam jeruk whatnot but I really love this childhood sour candy.

Other than that, fruits always been my remedy in treating nausea. Coconut drink was my fav since the early stage of pregnancy. But many told that it's not really safe to drink plain coconut at te very early stage of pregnancy..being said that, I already passed my first trimester, Alhamdulillah :) 

Crazy craving was watermelon juice at 3 AM!!! Hahahaha, nope my husband does not tolerate with my womb service order :p But on any other time, this were fully APPROVED!

On another note, we opted DEMC as our preference hospital and Dr.Jumeah as my O&G throughout this pregnancy ,started at the 4th month as my mom said early and thorough checks would prevent anything bad that might affect the baby, inshaaAllah as she already experienced with 2 miscarriages before.

We learnt that morning appointment(s) would result to happier doctor.. hehehe! Alhamdulillah, I don't have to experienced "mium air gula test"..maybe my weight gain was at par level,maybe? 

The only thing that we didn't really manage to do for this pregnancy was to capture 4D Scan of lil'guy in there as he'd be hiding around and not showing his face, Side face ada la..bazir je kalau mcm tu..

Total weight gain for this pregnancy till labour was at 7 kilos. Happy me :)

Don't really experience on morning sickness but more to evening sickness ..that's why I can still hide the pregnancy news from workmate during 1st trimester. I also have lil routines such as drinking milk (first Anmum,then Hi-Goat) twice a day, and listening to Surah to sleep.

Pregnancy journey were not always cheerful, Right after 36-weeks checkup, I experienced non-stop,an hour of contraction, the pain was the most intense on the right side of my tummy. It just doesn't feel the same as what my Gynae told me on signs of labour. No gap for contraction and I can't really catch my breath.This happened when we actually in my SIL's house to pack up the baby's crib.Thank God that it's only 15 minutes away from the hospital.My husband then called up DEMC's labour room and they asked us to admit right away. 

Upon admission into the labour room, I got "lucky" to be attend by the most rough nurse there and she performed VE on me and I cried..then the Gynae came,and you know what, her VE procedure weren't as hurt as the nurse!I just don't get the old nurse -_-" Gynae confirmed that cervix's opening was just at 1cm and she knew that it's not the right time just yet. She suspected that it's my appendix and few minutes later, a GP came in, made checks and confirmed that the contractions that I've been feeling was my swollen appendix.Because I was pregnant and the baby pushed the appendix's position to the upper side and when it got swollen,then the contractions came.

So yeah, hospitalized for almost a week,continued resting at home for another week and antibiotics was the only remedy (no operation just yet cause appendix and pregnancy are just plain messyyy). Owh, on another note, my BFF-Zetti was also admitted into the labour room on the same day as me! (Except that she's in different hospital , how I wish she could be next door and I just can visit her right after deliver) She came out with a beautiful baby girl named Zaara and me,baby still happily moving around in my belly..hehehe,Alhamdulillah for both occasions :)

Anyway, time really move fast than you can realize it and I'm already in the labour room,for the 2nd time. That time,reality hits me that I'm really going to be a mother !!

Till then,

Comeback!

MashaaAllah!!!

I miss my blog, I REALLY DO! Especially when I view it back and yeah,I've a nice template to work with.So I'm back people!! 

A year ago, I'm someone's wife and this year I'm someone's MOTHER! SubhanaAllah! Can you believe that?! I can't either!!

So where should I start? 

The moment I discovered I was pregnant? The 9 months journey of love-hate-puke foods? Or straight to labour stories? Oh heck,I don't even cover (yet) the wedding receptions and honeymoons!

I really need to find time for all these,or else this shall be the last post of 2014!

Throwback Vacation 2012 : Tioman Island

Salam & Hi,

I can't sleep and kept on thinking about my unfinished posts for 2011 /2012!

To cut the story short, here it goes on my family vacation last year to Tioman Island, Pahang..

My dad used to worked there for quite some time when I was in high school.So, he kept on telling us how nice is the ocean and how cheap the foods were... With God's willing, we all 5 of us (minus my younger sis,she had to work!) arrived there within a week planning! (Sometimes impromptu plans could work)

There's car park provided with a cost

Checked air fares via Berjaya Airlines and the fares were CRAZY!! It wouldn't be much of a deal if i)you're rich ii) you're traveling alone/with couple but with 5 of us, it was cheaper to travel by car. Left home after midnight and arrived Mersing Jetty Point just before Subuh prayer.Had our rest & breakfast in Mersing town, bought the ferry tickets and waited for our scheduled ferry.

Noticed our sleepiness? Makan pon pejam mata..

A lil' note on the ferry schedules, we didn't do any survey on it but divers there did mentioned you can actually call the ferry's company before arriving jetty to check on their schedules coz it's all depends on tide forecast / situation. 

Reliable map and entrance of jetty

Had a lil chats with a lady who're regular there visiting her husband, on how expensive items can be in Tioman compared to Mersing, specially when it comes to tourists. So, if you guys planning to stay Tioman Island on budget, do pack extra amenities before going there.

As far as I can remember, the journey from Mersing Jetty to Tioman Island was around 1.5 hours. Make sure you know where to stop as there are about more than 4 stops in Tioman Island itself. We picked to stop and stay at Tekek Village, where the main town is.

Subhana Allah ! The water : clean & clear!

Tekek Village is a small town where you can actually walk from one end to end, maybe like less than 10 km all together,maybe.. not sure on the exact km but what I know is you can walk. From this town too, the connector to Juara Village which is on the other side of the Island, facing the South China Sea (gonna review about it later)

Owh, did I mentioned, we walked to our chalet?? It was a torturing walk under hot sun!

Lets go onto the accommodation : unless you're willing to splurge on the accommodation, please look no other than Berjaya Resort (located at the very right end of the town, you can't walk from jetty unless you're training for marathon). My dad picked on "Sofia by the beach" which had a big sign of "East Divers Tioman" infront or maybe back of the chalet.

Very basic chalet, a queen size & single bed in a room, private toilet, air-conditioner and mosquito repellent provided. The best part is this chalet is one of the chalet that are facing the beach.. fit our requirement,perfectly! I believed the breakfast buffet were provided through out our stay but dad made add-ons for first day lunch & dinner. We're too tired to seek another option on our day 1.

We noticed that this chalet are manage by an old lady with his husband only, their not the owner, btw. So, anything from receptionist, housekeeping and cooking plus laundry, these two will be handling it. Not sure on how they did it, but they managed to pull it off. Maybe you can expect less on their speed, but they did just fine for us.

Basically this trip were all about relaxing and enjoying each other, add on the beautiful beaches. Hence, repetition of activities did occurred for our 4 Days 3 Nights' trip.

If Berjaya Resort is at the very right of the town, Tioman Marine Park is on the very left of the town. This is where we walked each day we were there to have free dive with views! It took us around 15-20 minutes to arrive and it such a fun way to actually reconnect with your sibs & parents. The best that you can do with your gadgets were just snapping pictures, I don't think I can surf the net while walking..do u?

We walked 3km in total each days and don't think we ever lose any weight since we stopped at this one stall that served keropok lekor, abc, coconut rice, waffles and moreeee.... Can you imagine, going back and forth times 2 stops?Hahaha...nothing get burn! Maybe our skin did get burned?!Hehehe..

Owh, you'll be amaze with the airport and the only ATM Machine they have it there..

It's a small designated area for landing/depart and airport's lobby. There's mini post office sharing the same building with BSN, the only local bank there. At least you can make emergency withdrawal there..

I think I'm gonna continue on Juara Village in the next post cause I'm still awake from 2pm yesterday and I need to sleep!

To be continue..

Till then,

Changes

Assalamualaikum & Hello,

I don't think I'm gonna post out about my receptions day, just yet. Simply because I don't get the final outcome of the pictures & video.

What triggers my mind lately.. well, for the past 2 months being somebody's wife. The changes that I've and still have to adapt being someone's spouse. I really want to believe this is more than a new bed partner-change kind-of-thing ;) 

But of course, you can never run from the fact that you have a new bed partner! AHAHH.. Been in the situation where I gotta sleep together with my sister on a queen size bed, then alone in single bed at home and college. After marriage, OF COURSE I came back for either a Queen or King size bed! Ko gila nak tidur single bed je, puhhleesss!!

Sleeping Habit

I mentioned warned Big Boss that I'll be all-over-the-place when it comes to sleeping. I'll NOT be on the same spot where you see me first sleep. My leg can be taking over your side, my hand could be flying all over and such. I did told him that my dad once saw me curling under the passenger seat in an airplane when I was 9!! AN AIRPLANE for god'sake! Well,maybe he doesn't buy it.

I guess he believes it NOW!Ok, maybe few days after we got hitched!

Ooh, I just recovered from this massive auto-shut down especially while watching TV and it's not even 9 pm yet! Been suffering that for the past 1 1/2 months! Now I'm just back with only minor auto-shut down (which I don't mind) where I'd fall asleep as long as it's comfortable. Been sleeping for the whole Pacific Rim movie, it was like I paid the money just for sleep and blast aircond!

Yesterday, he just posted a FB status :

Yup, I married that guy!I don't think he really did whatever he mentioned in his status, but whateverr dear husband :p

Dating Venue

Before marriage, dating venues will always be malls, from having lunch to dinner, watching movies together or just window shopping. Other than malls, mamak shop would be 2nd runner up..

Now, IKEA has been the latest favorite place for Big Boss for a "hangout". He dislike the place when we were singles.I guess marriage has inspires him to decorate and it make more sense to decorate now,than before.. hehehe

Not a problem for me till I keep on grabbing items that I don't need but because it's on SALE and it cost less than RM10. Another DAISO moment!! -____-"

"I'll do it" terms

When you're living together,on ur own, u'll of course need supports from each other to finish up the chores.Still struggling on getting my time management correct but my dear husband on the other hand is very stress-free.

There's time where the bathroom needs a clean-up and he'll say that he'll do it.I just can't wait.When I asked if he notice any changes and he said :

 "Yeahh, why do u do it? Didn't I told you I'll do it? "

"Of course honey, that was WEEKS ago when you said that. By the time you want to do it, you'll never find the bathroom door"

:D

Shopping Style

A simple and short grocery shopping can makes me so tense out! Well, for me because I don't know what I'm suppose to buy for cooking. For husband, it's an easy task for him, he'll just pick up whatever he prefer to have like 2-3 bottle of juices or 2-3 boxes of cereal at one go.

For me, searching for the lowest price for a particular item is a must but he,on the other hand will always pick the favorite or 'usual' brand. Like a dish detergent which I couldn't care much on the branding, coz in the end, most of the brands will have at least nice smell. He'll will stick or loyal to the same brand coz that what he's comfortable with.

There are things that he'll compromise but it will happen after I did my justification (s) on what's best since my past experience. It feels sometimes like I married a shopaholic husband, just because he'll buy first and think later. 

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Seems like that's it for now.

Till then,

Pre-Honeymoon : Villa Samadhi

Salam & Hi,

I came across this place, maybe few weeks prior to my solemnization day. Having to absorb "You're not entitle for marriage leave so sayonara honeymoon" was a bit of frustrating. Did a lil' reviews on net, mostly people's blog posts made me sooo eager to check this place out.

Did a lil bit of discussion with Big Boss and argued a lil bit, typical me :p but we didn't actually agreed on booking since there's no available weekends for us after the solemnization.

Waiting and still giving hopes to myself that we're gonna go there, coz I knew that the MAIN honeymoon was a longgg way to go...

I guess I got lucky and Big Boss actually decided to have our first night as married couple there. Without having to travel far. Teeheeee!

Made the reservation a day before through their direct on-line reservation. You can also check on Agoda or booking.com but the room that we (Read : I) wanted wasn't available. There's different level of perks provided based on the room such as direct-pool access or space. So, choose wisely caused it could not be beneficial sometimes.

We checked in quite late and plus we got lost.Did my homework on the possibility of getting lost and few bloggers did mentioned it was hard to locate since there're no sign of the villa. Didn't get to capture the entrance of the villa but I still remember that it were covered with bamboo trees, plus the instinct of mine saying that's the villa..ahah!! It also have safety guard's section just outside the gate.

You'll have to provide your booking slip or at least your full name so that the guard can re-check before opening the gate for you.

We were given lemongrass drink and cold towels to refresh ourselves while waiting for our room.

Us, while waiting for our room. I still have my solemnization's makeup on. :')

And the view is just amazing! Even though it's just a pool but the atmosphere was just so peaceful and you can never believed that there's such place as this one in the middle of Kuala Lumpur!

Once the room is ready, we were ushered to our room, I picked "Luxe Crib" btw. The reception lady (can't recall her name tho') gave us a brief details on the villa's facilities and what not. I'd also noticed that all the staffs there were barefoot and I did asked the lady why. She said that it's easy for them to identify if the floor are not up to the standard and clean it before being told to do so..

She also did an amazing job in explaining the room and the room is indeed the biggest room for "Luxe Crib" category.I guess we do got lucky for that! It was on 2nd floor, no pool access tho'..

From left top : Bathroom : his & her sinks, rain showers and auto-set jacuzzi, our king size bed.

From left bottom : Separate TV Room, with study desk

Bigger picture of the bathroom : Open wardrobe with free slippers :)), also free toiletries such as colgate,shaver and shaver foam.

Balcony overlooking the pool and the dining hall. 

Our room were at the very end of the villa and hence it was covered with few trees that were super fine for us, especially during rainy days!Romantic sangattt! ;p

From left top : Pathway beside the villa to dining hall and pool access.

From left bottom : Dining hall and day-bed by the pool

You have options for having your breakfast at the dining hall or on day-bed beside the pool.There's buffet of bread, fruits,cereal, coffee and tea. You'll be given choices on breakfast set of heavy dish like nasi lemak, noodle soup or sausage & omelette with choice of your juice drink. You can also pick to enjoy your breakfast in the dining hall or the day-bed by the pool. Wanted to have that too (the day-bed option) but we wanna enjoy the breakfast buffet without having to move far. ;p

Settled with breakfast, we relaxed by the pool for a while and regretting ourselves on not bringing our swimming attires. But then, this was our pre-honeymoon before incoming hectic weeks, swimming maybe out of our option for the day.

Headed back to our room to enjoy our balcony, short nap and packed to check-out. Big Boss did mentioned on extending our stay but since I have to vote (I got married a day before general election!) and thinking of unpacked boxes in our new house holding us back from enjoying this place more.

Overall, Villa Samadhi indeed a really good bargain on relaxing and enjoying your time without having to leave the city itself.

Till then,

Solemnization Day @ Akad Nikah

Assalamualaikum & Hello ;)

So here goes the R.E.A.L B.I.G D.A.Y that WE (Read : me & Big Boss) have been waiting for, since the day we decided to be more than just "a friend". Really!

People always say that you can never really enjoy your last sleep before getting married because of nervous, anxious or whatsoever related to feelings. I beg to differ! If not because of my cupping henna that I'd decided to put on the night before, I could have the normal comfortable sleep as any other days :p

Woke up around 5ish am due to that henna cracks were all over my sleeping area (Mind : I slept on a "thai sofa" with all hands & legs wide out like a star!) . I think I continue to sleep back and woke up around 6am!

Had the usual morning routine and knocked on every body's door cause mama & sis had early make-up session with Faressa. So they take turns and mama will wake the boys up. Made milo and ate few leftover sponge cake for breakfast. It was an easy morning for me I think since no one running around and shouting, hehehe...

Started my makeup session around 8 am and an hour later, relatives came over before heading to mosque together. Even when they came, only few came into my room to check me out & say hi.

Makeup by sis lin 

                                           

Still in manageable condition..till I had the very last minute touch with veil and makeup,that's where papa decided to panic. No wonder mama let him sleep till the right time to woke him up.. ;p

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We arrived mosque just in time before the groom arrived!Everyone were all over the place and left me at the back of the mosque,waiting for the right time to walk in..which in the end I assumed that was the right time and walked past guest and be seated.

Masjid Al-Ehsan, Bandar Kinrara

Had few snapshots with families, girlfriends and ex-office-mates before the ceremony started.

*Missing Fadi*

Mama & Mak Ngah

Aunties 

Sister & Cousins!

Then the nervous moment came along.. 

Way back during our meet-up with Ustaz Baharudin (Kadi for this particular mosque), he did said that there are times where his boss will show up and monitor the ceremony.He also mentioned that usually no questions will be ask,specially if the ceremony take place at the mosque..ok,good tips ustaz!

Then, when the ceremony was about to start, and another familiar face where moments like "Eh, tu bukan ustaz kat kursus kahwin hari tu ke??!!". Indeed, he was!!Ceremony stars and he asked Big Boss a question and zuuppp!!! I knew he can't remember it! "Rukun Nikah".. -______- Malu ni!!hehehe...

Alhamdulillah with one lafaz, I'm somebody's wife!!!! I'm his wife!

Accepting "Mas Kahwin" or "Mahar"

From him

From me

HUGGING Sessions!

Guests were ushered to the nearest cafe for light meal and we (bride & groom) continued with our photo sessions. Feeling so hungry and didn't have much time to spend with the guests.

After all,akad nikah went very smoothly that I'll never forget for the rest of my life, inshaa Allah :)

Till then,