Kasih suci

Perjalanan masih jauh harus kau tempuh
Ku di sini memerhati tanpa rasa sangsi
Jangan gentar ada sabar semai di jiwa
Ku di sini mendampingi agar kau mengerti

Berlarilah kau berlari
Terbanglah dikau terbang tinggi
Bumi yang engkau jejaki
Janganlah dikau lupai

Andai kucapai si pelangi
Akan kuserah kepadamu
Agar dapat kau mewarnai
Seluruh hidup nanti

Yang hitam harus dijauhi
Jangan disimpan dalam hati
Putihkan jiwamu dengan
Kasih suci

Kuterima dirimu dengan seadanya
Dalam suka dalam duka
Kau tetap cahaya

Ku bersyukur pada Yang Esa
Punya segala-galanya
Sederhana tapi oh sempurna
Oh oh oh...

Yang hitam harus dijauhi
Jangan disimpan dalam hati
Agar dapat kau mewarnai
Seluruh hidup nanti

Putihkan jiwamu dengan
Kasih suci

Self reflect

Many thing happened, well .. lately.
I realized how lucky I am even though ...


 I did complaint.


 I  sighed. 


I cried.


 I asked for forgiveness. 


I tried to change.


But, it has never been easier. Sometimes I made the same and stupid mistakes. Though, from the top of that,  I learnt these...

1. blood is thicker than water.Love u my siblings!

2.Parents are everything. Love, respect, call and visit them as frequent as we can because, if they departed from this world, nothing we can do to replace them. If we want to seek forgiveness, to help them, to say how much we love them, say it now before it is too late to do so. Remember, people who disrespect their parents will not have respect from others. I love you mak n ayah.

3.If we love our kids, do not allowed them to be disrespectful us as the parents, if not they will not have true respect for anyone.

4. Parents, please respect your kids or otherwise they will disrespect you in the future...


Love,
Nurul

My first learn to spell puzzle

I realized, this blog is slightly changing to 'parenting and toddler activities' , but seriously I am too fond of any activities which related to the toddlers since I have a little explorer at home. He is too into any activities and he seems never tired of doing so.

Thus, when I was in Primark yesterday evening, I bought this puzzle cards for Haris. The cards are designed to develop the kids' spelling skills. There are 12 pcs of puzzles with the very basic pictures and spelling.

As usual, my boy loves them! Can you spot the crescent? My boy called it, 'moon honey'. Do you want to know why he said so? The answer is because, he was influenced by one of the cartoon in the kids programmed channel ,Cbeebies.

There was a fox in Tinga-Tinga Tales, craving for the honey from the moon and that fox kept saying 'moon honey' repeatedly ;-p.

I am older yet wiser?

I am getting older I guess. After giving birth to Haris I can easily get back pain especially if I did any hard works.  People said, that was because of the epidural. Frankly, I think it makes sense but not 100% certainty because a friend of mine who did not take the epidural while giving birth is still having a back pain like me and to be honest it worsen than mine.

Ageing is the answer! Yes, I always know it...

Ok, all I need is now, forcing en hubby to give me a great massage or sometimes Haris will do too. His weight is just right when he stepping on my back every time I say , 'Haris , massage mama please',hehehe. Unfortunately, sometimes he wants me to become a horse instead. He will say, 'mama horse pls, then when I positioned myself like crawling, he will climb up to my back and said,'that way ,mama' and when I did follow his instructions, he will thank me by saying, 'kuku mama'. the words bring the meaning of the 'thank you' version of Haris.

The pics are not related to the post, I just want to share my current obsession which are cooking nasi dagang, keropok lekor and all Kelantannese  style of foods.

Nasi Dagang

Keropok lekor

Created by Allah from his oven, Haris at 2 years and 2 months old. And, for the reason of that, I thank you Allah more..alhamdulillah.

That is why the customer service is important ...

I am in the midst of planning my weekend getaway to one of the countryside in Holland.What I am so pissed of is the way the owner of one of the Bed and Breakfast replied my queries.

Here is the email between me and the owner. Basically, I asked the owner about the reservation. I wrote something like this,

Hi, 

There is slightly changing the programmed. It is two nights instead of one night.

Do you have a vacant room for two night on 14 october until 16 october 2011? And is your B&B is easy access by bus from Steenwijk train station?

If the answers are yes for all the queries above then I would like to confirm my reservation.

Thank you

nurul

And he replied in Dutch something like this,

goede morgen de prijs 80 euro voor 1 nacht  voor 3 pers voor bed and braekfrast vr gr hoeve montigny

In the web, they said they speak Dutch, German , Italiano and English. When I asked them in English..

1. They replied in Dutch. So, what is the point of saying they speak English if they did not use the right language to reply my email!

2. They did not answer my queries about the vacant room, how to get there etc. If I received an email like that, I guessed they have a vacant room for us. But , unfortunately when I replied that email to confirm my reservation, the owner replied back by saying something like this.

we have not a room for you

That is exactly the replied which I got from the owner. Can you see how unmannered they were? No, greeting at least 'Hello or Hi' will do in this email. Besides that, There is no 'sorry' or 'thank you' in this conversation. 

I do not expect the customer service in this B&B to be this poor. I tell you what, I am glad they have not got a vacant room because I can see myself cursing them if I stayed in their accommodation with the bad service. With Eur 80 per night, I can find much better quality hotel with a good customer service.

So, people out there, if you want to visit Giethoorn, do not book this B&B, Hoeve Montigny Giethoorn. Personally, I have deleted this B&B in my list, forever! As simple as that.

Playing with the dough

Dough is one of the favourite things that Haris loves to play with. Playing with the dough teaches him to understand better about the colors, rolling, pressing etc.

Rolling pin-he knew how to say this!

The red and the blue dough-He was asking to make a dinosaurs and the stars.

The stars that he made

The car by using the mould

Was making the car

I guess that was something that he imagined of in his mind

The colorful doughs in the air tight containers

Kept rolling

This activity was lasted for about an hour ;-p

Puffy paint

I learnt about making the puffy paint from here. The recipe for this paint are the equal amount of flour, salt and water. Then added a small amount of the food colouring. Keep stirring until all of the ingredients look smooth and puffy.

After that, scoop the puffy paint into the squeezing bottle and you are done!



Unfortunately, Haris did not enjoy squeezing that much. He was amused and kept saying 'bobo' when the colors hit his hands. Thus, I changed the style of painting. Instead of squeezing , I put the colors in the baking tray for the cupcakes and stood the board on the 'easel'. He used the brushes to apply the puffy colors on the paper.

Guess what? He enjoyed it!

p.s-The finishing product of this type of colors are, lumpy, silky and shiny...