What I learned when my kid start schooling

My eldest daughter is already in Standard 2. I've learned a few things along the way, so was just thinking of sharing them with my audiences. Ohhh...wait!! Do I have my audience?? Silent reader, maybe...haha. Anyway, these are what I have learned when my kid start schooling :

1. u got to keep ur PATIENCE on the extremely high level especially when dealing with this situation.

Situation 1 : In the morning, waking ur fast asleep lovely kids of yours for Subuh prayer  and they start to cry because they don't want to leave their beds.

Situation 2 : The crying did not end and goes on during Subuh prayer and u can't concentrate on your prayer (this is  because she only wants to pray together with me, if I leave her behind and pray first the situation gets worse)

  

Situation 3 : When u sent her to the bathroom and told her to finish her bath and stop   crying, u came in to check on her another 10 mins later, she still weeping and leaning against the bathroom wall doing nothing other than....u know what. Grrrrrrrrr!!

*10 mins of precious morning hour wasted*

Situation 4 : On our way home after work, she fell into sleep in the car and the morning situation repeated (my eldest kid is schooling in 7.50am - 4.00pm school hour and usually my other half will pick her up after Asar prayer)

Situation 5 : The crying episode continued in the evening but usually it will gets worse with the "baling-baling barang" and "hentak-hentak kaki" situation which is so annoying to me and again the bathroom situation will be repeated

Situation 6 : She fell asleep again while doing her homework and we couldn't do anything to wake her up. The next morning, she'll skipped Situation 1-3 but she will repeat Situation 5 since she did not manage to finish her homework and updates her books to bring to school according to the timetable.

Situation 7 : The same situation goes on and on almost everyday of school days

2. kids on early school years, they listen but they never learned lessons from the everyday situation. You have to keep reminding him/her everyday about the same things like these: 

Situation 8 : don't watch tv while doing ur homework

Situation 9 : do ur homework early especially on the weekend so u could have a piece  of mind

Situation 10 :  keep ur books according to the time table on the eve of school day, not in the morning of next school days so you have more times in the morning to get ready for school

Situation 11: don't loose ur sport's uniform again *instead, she has lost it 2 times already and the uniform is not cheap, ok!!

3. the everyday situation differs in boys. What I can see is, boys are much easier to handle. They won't get too emotional while on the other hands, girls are much more spoiled and got too carried away with their emotion

4. store more on-the-go foods in your handbag for after school 'hunger' unless u want to make a stop at the petrol station or convenient store on your way home

5. u need to provide them with supplements because they tend to fall sick easily

6. u need to spoil them with promises during exam's week and making sure u keep it after they received their remarkable results...yeayyy!!

7. no more normal rate on hotels since u can go on a vacation during school holidays ONLY 

 

8. some of the hot-temper-encouragement situation will fade along with their age...... ...alhamdulillah    

Well, that's all I could think of for the time being. Will update later if there's something I left behind. For reminders, these learning process (except for no.5-8) only happened when you have kid who is schooling from 8.00am-4.00pm straight. So you can see why all the annoying and patience testing behavior occurred in the first place...*THEY ARE TIRED!!*

Android users is ruining our IG club :(

Salam Jumaat....

If u notice on my profile, I wrote that I'm an Instagram addict. For Iphone users everybody knows Instagram. But 2 days ago it hit me that Instagram will be no more exclusive to Iphone users ONLY since it is now available for Android phone users. WHATTT?? Mode : Heartborken.

"dissapointment has a name...it's heartbreak - John Mayer, Heartbreak Warfare"

Now, if anybody ask me, what is Instagram, I couldn't proudly answer like this any more..." A photo sharing apps that's exclusively invented for Iphone users..bla bla bla".

 I just found out that the disappointments has been felt around the world when reading this, Iphone Users : Android is ruining our instagram club. Well, actually they do. Iphone has lost another exclusivity. Before, when Iphone users posted something on FB, the words via FB for Iphone will appear, now it's all gone with the wind updates, despite the facts that everyone is making request that the feature makes a comeback, we were disappointed again and again after one update to another, the feature never make itself appear again.

Steve Jobs has done a great job changing our way of life and I really admire his capabilities and brilliant ideas (which was copied promiscuously in the same form but different names of apps world). Now that he's gone, to see his masterpiece slowly lost its trademark disappoints me again and again and again. However, when I read this part of the article,

I think: that which smartphone we own has begun to inform our identities. In our gadget-filled lives, our phones have become another way for us to organize ourselves into separate groups, to label each other as "other" and "apart." Our tech has come to define us. 

I'm changing my angle of view to the positive sides. Besides, we smartphone users basically use it for the same thing, social networking, checking mails on the go, surf webs on the go, finding locations; just like the author of the article said, so lets just get along and share pictures of how beautiful our lives is.

P/s : this makes a good reason to add another smartphone change to Samsung Galaxy Note, perhaps :)

update: still disappointed no matter how hard I try to welcome androiders to my IG world:(

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 Bismillahirrahmanirrahim.........

 

“ Sesungguhnya pada kejadian langit dan bumi, dan pada pertukaran malam dan siang, ada tanda-tanda (kekuasaan, kebijaksanaan, dan keluasan rahmat Allah) bagi orang-orang yang berakal; (Iaitu) orang-orang yang menyebut dan mengingati Allah semasa mereka berdiri dan duduk dan semasa mereka berbaring mengiring, dan mereka pula memikirkan tentang kejadian langit dan bumi (sambil berkata): “Wahai Tuhan kami! tidaklah Engkau menjadikan benda-benda ini dengan sia-sia, Maha Suci Engkau, maka peliharalah kami dari azab neraka” [Aal ‘Imraan 3: 190-191]

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Simple Butter Cake

Disebabkan electric mixer dah ada, so its time to bake something....yeahaaaa!! We'll start with a simple cake first.

Recipe: Butter Cake
 

Adapted from Food-4Tots

Ingredients:

2 and 1/3 stick (250g) unsalted butter, at room temperature
7 oz (200g) plain flour/all purpose flour
1 tsp baking powder
7 oz (200g) castor sugar
4 eggs
½ tsp salt
4 tablespoons fresh milk or yogurt
1 teaspoon vanilla essence

Method:

1. Preheat the oven to 375°F.
2. Lightly grease the pan with some butter.
3. Mix the flour and the baking powder together and sieve. Add in salt and mix well. Set aside.
4. Use an electronic beater to mix butter and sugar until well combined or pale yellow in color. (Note: Sugar has not dissolved yet).
5. Add in the first egg. Beat well after each addition of egg until creamy.
6. Scrape down the sides for even mixing.
7. Add in vanilla essence and mix well.
8. Fold in the flour into the mixture and mix well.
9. Finally, add in the milk/yogurt.
10. Pour the mixture into the greased baking pan. Shake it lightly to distribute cake mixture evenly.
11. Bake until golden brown and cooked, about 40 minutes. Use a cake tester to test if it’s cooked.

12. Remove it from the oven and let cool on the wire rack for another 5 minutes. Serve warm.

p/s : Ditch the salt if using salted butter.

My point of view....

Bismillahirrahmanirrahim...

Macam mane ye nak mula...ermm. Sebenarnya hari ni mak budak ni nak membebel pasal komplen yang mak budak buat hari tu dekat SKMM. Alahhh...pasal lirik lagu Bawaku Pergi tuuu. Terkini, lagu tu pon dah kena banned, for temporary or permanent sementara tunggu keputusan muktamad jawatankuasa yang dilantik, tu di luar bidang pengetahuan mak budak ni ye. Anyway, lets just hope for the best into a better environment for our generation.

Yang kena banned tu bukan gara-gara komplen mak budak ni sorang je ye. Ni sebab dah keluar paper Utusan Malaysia sebagaimana dipetik daripada Mstar online :

Utusan Malaysia melaporkan rungutan Presiden Majlis Pemuafakan Persatuan Ibu Bapa dan Guru Nasional (PIBGN), Prof Madya Datuk Mohd Ali Hassan yang meminta lagu tersebut diharamkan kerana membawa unsur negatif serta boleh mendorong remaja lari dari rumah.

Dah baca kenyataan balas penulis lirik dia. Antaranya, dia menyatakan bahawa: -

1.lirik lagu tersebut menggambarkan imaginasinya nak bercuti ke luar negara dengan isterinya terutamanya ke Bali/Indochina - apa dia ingat manusia yang dengar lagu dia tu Tuhan ke, maha mengetahui segala imaginasi yang dia ingin gambarkan. Lain orang lain interpretasi dan pemahaman, ok! Lain la memang tulis situ " saya nak gi Bali dengan bini saya makan angin"....muahaha. 

2."Saya gemar mengembara, dunia ini ada 196 negara dan sempadan dunia saya tidak berakhir di Siam,” katanya. .- bagi kebanyakan orang yang tak kaya macam dia, nak pergi kenal sempadan selain sempadan Siam pun tak MAMPU. Ntah-ntah nak gi skolah blaja Geografi pun tak MAMPU.

3. "Saya menulis sebagai seorang dewasa dan jika pihak yang kurang matang yang mendengar lagu saya bertindak bodoh, itu bukan hal saya." - di manakah tanggungjawab sosial dia sebagai seorang manusia beragama Islam dan artis yang dikenali di Malaysia???

Semua petikan di atas, dipetik daripada laman web http://mstar.com.my. 

Lagi satu ada jugak komen-komen pembaca yang tak menyokong pengharaman lagu ni dengan alasan, lagu-lagu barat lebih merosakkan. Mak budak rasa lagu-lagu barat memang orang tak heran sebab zaman berzaman memang merosakkan kalau tak ditapis betul-betul. Sebab apa??? Sebab diaorg tu orang KAFIR. Memang diaorang takde pikir dosa pahala, baik ke buruk. Jadi tak payah la nak compare dengan lagu barat sebab semestinya diaorang tak setaraf kalau nak dibandingkan dengan kita orang Islam ni, yang sepatutnya mempunyai budi pekerti yang lebih mulia dalam setiap pekerjaan kita. Lagipun ramai yang tahu, memang misi diaorang nak menyesatkan umat Islam yang cepat lalai. Takkan la kita sebagai Muslim nak menyesatkan saudara seagama kita sendiri kan. 

Kesimpulannya lebih baik buat lirik yang simple dan mudah difahami atau lirik yang berbunga-bunga pun tak kisahlah asalkan maksud yang nak digambarkan tu sampai, dan takkan disalahtafsir oleh orang-orang yang kononnye berfikiran negatif. This is only my opinion on this issue. Everybody else is entitled to their own different point of view.