Friday, March 3, 2017
when you are grown
I am not a perfect mother. But I am your mother nevertheless. There may be things that I am not good at teaching you or even just to let you know. I want you to be a decent, kind, generous and humble being. Remember Allah. Love Allah swt the most above everything else. Our purpose in life is basically to serve Allah swt.
When I was little I thought my mother was the most perfect being. She is the adult and she knows all. But now I know, she couldn't have known it all but she was my mother and she did her best.
I would like to pass on these bits and pieces of information that I think would help you in the long run - when you are grown.
1) When you are married, treat your mother in law and father in law well. Be kind to them. Talk to them, make small talk, ask them how they are. Help in the kitchen. If your husband forgets to keep in touch, you remind him.
2) Love your parents. Call me - always. Talk to me. Hug me and kiss me - always. :) Always come and visit your parents.
3) In the course of your life, if you befriend a guy who is married while you are not, please don't go and do activities with him without his wife. Make sure you know the wife and speak to her personally if you have to do any sort of activities with the husband. Make sure the wife knows because sometimes the husband lies to protect himself.
4) Please don't be the third party in someone else's marriage or relationship.
5) When you want to marry - niatkan kerana Allah swt. Love for the sake of Allah.
6) Before you have children, know that they are amanah from Allah swt. It is a happy burden to have but ensure that your husband and you can guide the child to the path of Allah swt.
7) When you are pregnant, gain knowledge from Islamic books on which doa to read so you can protect the child even from the womb. I have the book in my collection if you cannot find one on your own.
8) Always be in the state of zikir. It doesn't matter what kind of zikir. We need to stack up our pahala points and this is the easiest way.
9) I pray that you will wear the hijab once you hit puberty. Not like me.
Friday, December 16, 2016
*TIPS PERGI HAJI DI USIA MUDA*
Tuesday, December 6, 2016
Marriage....
Wednesday, August 17, 2016
Broken heart
I don't know what he wants from me. Not too long ago, he told me "Don't complain..don't assume..." - now that I have stopped doing that he goes back and say.."Complain!! ( re the house defects to the developer ok yes but it is still complaints!! and then the other day he didn't tell me that we are heading to Aeon and when we had a fight as a result of it he said " I made the u turn, you should already know that we were heading to Aeon!" Really? Now you want me to assume? I give up. I am now married to a sensitive old man who doesn't have fun with the wife anymore.
Well, in his defence, he provides well for us. I am grateful for that really. Then I guess next in line is his exercise because he needs to lose weight. Between work and his exercise routine and the exercise routine he has Arwen on, there isn't much time for anything else. Not much time for the wife especially.
Oh and another thing he says " I am reactionary..I react to how you act" ..Really? Then, what am I? A robot? You think I don't react to how you act? You come home and you are quiet because apparently you don't want to tell me what a heavy responsibility you have to do at work in order to earn a living for us because you don't want me to worry. Oh how sweet. Instead you decide to keep quiet and sit in front of the telly and then expects me to talk to you so you can react to me. What a load of crap. So I can't react to how silent and grumpy you look and decide maybe I should stay away. For self -preservation, more than anything else really.
So that' is where I am right now. In self-preservation mode since whatever I could say might explode a time bomb.
I know this is a blog for you Wen but yeah you might want to know when you are all grown up that sometimes marriage sucks and it takes a lot, a lot of compromise and a hell lot of hard work.
Monday, October 12, 2015
When you start work
Friday, October 9, 2015
Brandedbutcheap
That was the name of my online store. Bak and I started it in December 2008. Finally after almost 6 and a half years, I decided to put it on a back burner or kind of put it on hold indefinitely but basically what it means is right now I have stopped conducting business online.
I was beginning to feel that I was never fully present in anything that I do. It seemed that I was always rushing and I was not doing the best that I can in everything that I do and I didn't have a proper down time or me time. What made me feel worst was that I could not be present in the moment when I am with you. I mean physically I am always with you but my head and my mind just wasn't there. I may be with you but I was itching to get back to the computer because I had tasks to complete. Then when I am at the computer, I get easily irritated whenever you need me because I had to stop and my concentration is interrupted and then when I had attended to you, I had to change mode back to the business woman and then I had to stop again to become the cleaner, the cook, the teacher, the driver, the nanny and of course the mother. It is just terrible to balance this act on my own. I don't even have time to play with you.
I thought what is the point. I should feel like this if I work outside the home, if I were to work in an office away from home but here I am working at home and still feeling super stretched and unavailable emotionally.I have been slowly pulling away and doing less on the business but that is unfair to the customers and clients who has their stuff on consignment with me. So by the end of your standard 3 year, I have officially terminated all consignments and stopped selling online. Now 10 months down the road, I feel a whole lot better.
It is not easy being a stay at home mom. It is wonderful but not easy, unless maybe you are so rich that you can hire a maid, a nanny, a driver, a cook, a teacher and god knows what else a mom does. I'm too tired to list it all down. It is a lot of work. People used to call stay-at -home moms - ladies of leisure. Right now I think my title should be lady of manual labour. I also detest the term housewife but that is what society has come up with. I think I should be given the designation work-at-home mom because seriously I do work. At home. All the time. Seriously. Don't believe me dear society? Try it. I dare you.
Sunday, March 15, 2015
Social Media
Right now, you watch YouTube for the cartoons and Froggy and DCTC and World Lego. No facebook and no instagram. Yet - I guess. The time will come I suppose when you will ask for an account but I hope we can delay that for a long while still. You already have a phone now ever since Bak upgraded his phone and then his old phone became mine. So you got my old phone earlier in 2015 which meant you have access to whatsapp and whatsapp groups. Your friends from school created a whatsapp group recently. You are in it but you are not active. Thank GOD!
I try to limit my phone usage to only the necessary and only when I am by myself. I try not to do it when I am with you and Bak or even when I am in anyone else's company. It's tough but I think its the right thing to do.
Monday, February 16, 2015
Parents
Jom amalkan 10 tip utk yg nak jadi parent....dah jadi parent.... Yang Baru jadi parent semula.... Sama2 kite amalkan.... Terutama tip yg no 6 tu....
1. Kalau tiba-tiba teringatkan anak kirimkan bacaan al-Fatihah. Sampai ke ayat "iyyakanakbudu waiyyakanastain" - yang ertinya "Hanya kepada Mu kami sembah dan hanya pada-MU pohon pertolongan..", mintalah apa-apa hajat masa itu yang ada hubung kait dengan anak yang kita ingat tu, habiskan bacaan surah al-Fatihah doakan semuga anak kita diberi kefahaman yang sebenarnya dalam urusan agamanya, memiliki ilmu yang bermanafaat dan serahkan urusan kepada Allah untuk menjaganya.
2. Pandang wajahnya semasa dia tidur ucapkan bahawa, ayah atau mama nak (nama anak) jadi anak yang soleh sayang!. Cubalah amalkan ( ustaz kata ini makna kita bercakap dengan rohnya ) dan ucapan ini adalah DOA dan Allah Maha mendengar lagi maha melihat.
3. Masa bangun solat malam, solatlah hajat disisinya. Maksudnya kita solat dalam bilik dia dan dekat dengan dia. Jika kita selalu buat dan kita juga selalu beritahu dia yang kita sering doakan dia, dia akan rasa satu ikatan kasih sayang yang hakiki yang kita amat sayangkan dia dan nak dia jadi anak soleh. Dia akan tahu kita selalu solat hajat untuknya.
4. Minta dikasihani. Ucapkan setiap masa bahawa kita ni sedang menunggu panggilan Allah. Jika Dia tak jadi anak soleh bermakna dia tak sayangkan kita dan tentunya kita akan merana di Alam Barzah nanti.
5. Peluklah anak selalu walaupun dia sudah besar, sebagaimana Kita tatang dia masa kecilnya. Aura ciuman dan belaian ibu sambil bisikkan padanya yang kita bangga mempunyai anak sepertinya.
6. Maafkan anak kita setiap masa walaupun perbuatannya amat melukakan hati kita.Muhasabbah diri mungkin kesilapan yang anak lakukan itu adalah kerana dosa-dosa kita dimasa lampau.
7. Yang paling penting jaga tutur kata kita, jangan sekali-kali ucapkan perkataan yang boleh melukakan hatinya. Jika ini berlaku juga kerana kita TER.. kata, cepat-cepat cari masa yang sesuai untuk kita minta maaf padanya. Mengakulah padanya itu kelemahan kita, kita marah kerana dia buat salah, bukan bermaksud membenci. Ceritalah buat macam dramapun boleh .
8. Amalkan membaca ayat 40 surah Ibrahim supaya kita, anak dan zuriat keturunan kita termasuk dalam golongan orang2 yang tetap mendirikan Solat. [Wahai Tuhanku! Jadikanlah daku orang yang mendirikan solat dan demikianlah juga zuriat keturunanku. Wahai Tuhan kami, perkenankanlah doa permohonanku.
9. Selalu ingatkan anak bahawa tak guna ada pangkat, belajar tinggi, hatta hafal Quran sekalipun jika tidak mempunyai peribadi yang mulia. Allah tak pandang wajah yang cantik tapi pandang hati yang cantik. Allah tak sayang, manusia tak suka.
10. Masa basuh beras niatkan "Ya.. Allah lembutkanlah hati anak-anak ku sebut nama dia.....untuk faham agamanya ", [kenapa Kita nak dia faham agama, kerana anak yang tak faham agama boleh bawa ibubapanya juga ke neraka] sebagaimana engkau lembutkan beras ini menjadi nasi ". Basuh beras arah lawan jam (macam org tawaf ) sambil selawat kepada Nabi Muhamad SAW. Masa buat kerja ini hati jangan lalai..dan ingat kepada Allah selalu.
Tuesday, February 10, 2015
Life
Life pulls you in every way possible. I am turning 40. I used to think 40 was old but now I know that I still feel like I am the same person as I was in my teens and my 20s. Yes, some things have changed, developed or regressed within me but essentially deep down I am still the same girl.
Tuesday, January 13, 2015
2015
It's already 8 days into the new year. There wasn't much to rejoice this year as the year 2014 ended on such a sad note for the nation. The floods in the east coast was the worst anyone has ever seen and experienced. The victims are now reeling with the aftermath of the floods and are now having to deal with the devastation left by the flood and the grim prospect of rebuilding their lives basically from scratch. To top off this natural catastrophe, came the news of the Air Asia Indonesia flight that crashed into the ocean. There were no survivors. 3 major aviation incidents in 1 year in tiny lil Malaysia is a bit much to handle. I am forever thankful and grateful to Allah SWT for all the blessings that we have but I am also very aware of how fleeting and precious life is. I pray, I make doa for our safety, for our healty, for our happiness, for our security, for our peace of mind, for the nation's peace, for world peace.
Friday, October 3, 2014
Sabar
There are times that the world does not make sense and everything around you is crazyyyyy and you feel like everything is against you. You feel tired, exhausted just totally weary and spent. You almost feel like you just want to stop. These are the times that we must persevere, get up, get dressed no matter what. No matter how terrible the world is, show up and pray for better things to come.
Friday, July 18, 2014
MH17
Tuesday, March 25, 2014
Mh370
Wednesday, February 19, 2014
Life
Kids having kids, once healthy in-charge adults are getting sick and dependent, parents passing on .... And so this is life. The circle of life. It makes me sad and melancholy in accepting this fact but alas there is not much I can do to stop it. We are all on the same journey.
Tuesday, February 11, 2014
Friday, January 3, 2014
Welcome 2014!
Mama prays for better and brighter things for you and for us as a family this year. I don't really make new year's resolutions nor do I celebrate the incoming of a new year but right now is a good a time for me to berdoa agar Arwen menjadi anak yang rajin, pandai belajar, baik, mendengar kata as well as a warm, generous, kind, humble human being, seorang umat Islam yang soleh dan berjaya di dunia dan akhirat.
I love you baby!
Monday, November 4, 2013
Wednesday, October 23, 2013
Work-at-home Mom
I am deleting the word stay-at-home mom from my vocab. There's no such thing. Unless you have a nanny, a maid, a driver, a cleaner, a cook, a teacher who helps with homework hahaha. to top it all off these days we might not work in an office but somehow is running a business of some sort from home! I am a work-at-home mum.
Friday, July 12, 2013
Rahsia Surah Al-Kautsar
Rasanya lebih manis daripada madu, warnanya pula lebih putih daripada susu dan lebih wangi daripada kasturi.
Surah ini disifatkan sebagai surah penghibur hati nabi muhammad kerana diturunkan ketika baginda bersedih atas kematian 2 orang yang dikasihi yaitu anak lelakinya ibrahim dan bapak saudaranya abu thalib.
Berbagai khasiat terkandung di dalam surah ini boleh di amalkan:-
♥baca surah ini ketika hujan turun dan berdoa, mudah-mudahan allah s.w.t memakbulkan doa kita.
♥jika kita kehausan dan tiada air, bacalah surah ini dan gosokan di leher, insya allah hilang dahaga
♥jika sering sakit mata, seperti berair, gatal,bangkak sapukan air mawar yang sudah dibacakan surah ini sebanyak 10x pada mata
♥jika rumah dipercayai terkena sihir, baca surah ini 10x mudah-mudahan allah s.w.t bagi ilham kepada kita dimana letaknya sihir itu
♥jika membacanya 1, 000x rezeki kita akan bertambah
♥jika rajin membacanya, hati kita akan menjadi lembut dan khusyuk ketika menunaikan sholat
♥jika orang teraniaya dan terpenjara membacanya sebanyak 71x, allah s.w.t akanmemberikan bantuan kepadanya kerana dia tidak bersalah tetapi dizalimi
Sunday, March 24, 2013
Pintu Rezeki
1.Membaca “La ilaha illahah” - Barang siapa yang lambat rezekinya hendaklah banyak mengucapkan la hawla wala quwwata illa billah (HR.At-Tabrani).
2.Membaca “La ilaha illallahul malikul haqqul mubin” - Barangsiapa yang membaca “La ilaha illallahul malikul haqqul mubin”, maka bacaan itu akan menjadi keamanan dari kefakiran dan menjadi penenteram dari rasa takut dalam kubur”. (HR. Abu Nu’aim dan Ad-Dailami).
3.Melanggengkan Istighfar - “Barangsiapa melanggengkan istighfar, nescaya Allah mengeluarkan dia dari segala kesusahan dan memberikan dan memberikan dia rezeki dari arah yang tidak diduganya”. (HR.Ahmad, Abu Dawud, dan Ibnu Majah).
4.Membaca Surah Al-Ikhlas - “Barangsiapa yang membaca surah al-Ikhlas ketika masuk rumah, maka (berkah bacaan) menghilangkan kefakiran dari penghuni rumah dan tetangganya”. (HR.Tabrani).
5.Membaca Surah al-Waqi’ah - “Barangsiapa membaca surah al-Waqi’ah setiap malam, maka tidak akan ditimpa kesempitan hidup”. (HR. Baihaqi dalam Syu’ab al-Iman).
6.Memperbanyak Shalawat atas Nabi Shallahu Alaihi Wa Sallam - Ubay bin Ka’ab meriwayatkan , bila telah berlalu sepertiga malam, Rasulullah Shallahu Alaihi Wa Sallam berdiri seraya bersabda, “Wahau manusia, berzikirlah mengingat Allah. Akan datang tiupan (sangkakala kiamat), pertama kemudian diiringi tiupan keuda. Akan datang kematian dan segala kesulitan yang ada di dalamnya”.
7.Membaca “Subhanallah wabihamdihi subhanallahil ‘adzhim - ..dari setiap kalimat itu seorang malaikat yang bertasbih kepada Allah Ta’ala sampai diberikan untukmu sampia hari Kiamat yang pahala tasbihnya itu diberikan untukmu”. (HR.Al-Mustaqfiri dalam Ad-Da’wat, dinukilkan dari Ihya Ulumuddin al-Ghazali).




