Iman's first day at school

Today's the first day Iman Raziq go to school. He was so excited since last night, susun semua uniform, stationaries and school bag for the big day. We were too surprised to say anything while witnessing him do all that by himself.. dah besar anak papa & mama nih ;-) Iman Nuryasmin was whining all the time, demanded to be sent to school together with her brother. Sorry Yasmin, this year you have to stay in the nursery. You're still a baby girl. They both went to bed quite late, around 11pm just to make sure everything was ready.

We arrived at school at 10am. It was so nice to be welcomely greeted by the school prefects and teachers. He was quickly assigned to a class full of international students. There are students who come from Greece, German, China and Indonesia. Btw, Iman got himself a Malaysian Chinese classmate who had just arrived from KL yesterday. His class teacher is called Ms. Robinson. She seems so nice, quite an active and cheerful person. The parents were not allowed to be in the school area during the school period, and so we leaved. As we walked our way out of the class, there was a mixed feeling of proud, sad and overjoyed as we looked at our Iman, happily playing with the toys in the classroom. Well, kindi is the year where students play and sing a lot.. and make friends too!

We went straight back home and watched the dvd entitled "Blades of Glory", as a mean to keep us occupied while waiting for Iman to finish his school for the day. Hahaha... the movie made us laugh for a while, and helped not to worry about Iman too much.

Around 3pm, we rushed to the school to get Iman. We looked over into the class and we couldn't see where Iman was. As if she understood whom we were looking for, his teacher told us that Iman was so tired until he fall aslept on the floor. Hahaha... I could figure where he got that from, ME! Listening to stories will always make me feel sleepy. Well Iman, starting from today onwards, you have to go to bed as early as 9pm, right after Maghrib. You're not going to sleep in the class any more young man ;-)

Nothing in progress

Salam;
There is nothing happening going on this week. Just keep doing our routine, go to school in the morning, leave our kids with Huari (sal's youngest brother), get back around 5pm, watching television or dvd's at night, and go to sleep as early as 10-11pm, and doing the same routine every single day onwards.

However, we managed to find ourselves couple of new interesting places such as Lakemba and Homebush. Well, Lakemba is one of the suburb in NSW where majority of the people are Lebanese. Its just like being sorrounded by Arabic people there. So easy to find tudung, jubah, Islamic books and all other Islamic stuffs. There is also so many Halal food here, but mostly Arabic cuisines. Tak boleh masyuk arr...

Then, there is the Direct Factory Outlet (a.k.a DFO) at Homebush. It is like a big hangar. Can find so many popular branded clothing outlets including David Lawrence, Ralph Laurens, Billabong, Quicksilver, Pumpkin Patch, Guess, Giodarno, to name a few.. The prices are also quite reasonable since they are actually coming directly from the factory. So, next time if I'm running out of shirts or shoes, I'll know where to go ;-)

No picture this time since there is nothing interesting scenery to take. And as usual, we really really really miss you guys out there. Love everybody :-)

Rindu TGV

Salam semua....

There is nothing much to say in this new post. It just that it has been a very long time since we had watch our movies in TGV Mines or KLCC. Back in Malaysia, going to the cinema is our weekly activities. Now, since the ticket costs us about AUD12.50 per person, it's such a waste. Mahal woooo... So jealous when Farid (my x-rumet cum best friend) said "best ooo tengok wayang semalam". Hampeh la lu mat. Nanti laaaa...

Yesterday, I received an email from one of my friends. He gave me a list of movies that will be out in 2008. Well, there are so many good movies that I really love to see but hey another option will do, which just wait until we can buy or rent it on DVD's. And hehe... sape-sape yang bermurah hati nak buang atau hadiah DVD, please don't hesitate to mail it to me okay. DVD's here is so expensive, cost about aud20++ per new movie or aud10++ for old movies.

To our friends out there, if you do have a picture together with me or Sal or even with our kids, kindly e-mail it to me. I would like to keep those picture for our memories. Thanks guys...

Tones of memories with all of you... Miss that a lotzz

cerita tujuh malam

Salam semua. A big apologize for the late update. Been quite busy these two three weeks. This time, I’ve tried not to insert any more sad entry but what can I do, it is sad. Just this afternoon we went to the airport to send ibu Sal, angah (adik Sal) and achik (our adopted family member) who were leaving for Malaysia. Sekejap je rasanya...sunyi balik umah ni. Dah tade suara angah ngan achik dok jerit-jerit melayan kerenah si iman ngan yasmin, tade dah suara ibu tanye nak masak ape ari ni ek, long? to be frank, selama ibu kat sini for almost 3 weeks, Sal seemed to less care about these cooking things. But actually it's a good thing since we could enjoy the taste of ibu's cooking. Sekejap tadi masa aku bukak microwave tengok ade semangkuk lebihan sambal ikan bilis (lauk nasi lemak smlm) ibu masak masa aunty asfa datang umah. Sedihnye........menitis jugak la air mata ni. Bila lagi lepas ni aku nak merasa nasi lemak ibu?

Another thing that surely will make us so sad and miss a lot is when the time everybody sitting and loitering at the balcony outside our room. A lot of chatting, borak2, berasap, enjoy tgk bintang kat langit waktu mlm.... something that we've seldom done before. In fact pintu balcony tu kitorang mmg jarang sgt bukak since tak brp secure utk anak2 (grill balcony tu agak luas).

Dalam pada tu still grateful jugak la bila dpt bwk diorang jalan2 sekitar Sydney. Mmg tak dpt cover suma. But the most important thing is that we've brought them to almost every places in Sydney. Darling harbor, sydney opera house, paddys market, taronga zoo, gi tgk 3d kat imax, westfield, bondi junction, bondi beach, mandi laut kat coogee beach, la perouse, picnic kat centennial park, city.... kira orait la tu kan...sempat jugak kitorang memerah keringat si achik ngan angah sorting catalouge kat dlm garage..he he. Sepanjang diorang ade kat sini, kiranya kitorang pun cuti jugak la... research makin slow, alahaiiiiii........ ni baru nak mula balik, adushhhh! memang kena pulun abis nih, lagipun dah tahun baru kan, kena ade azam baru la.

Adik huari stay sini sampai awal bulan 3. Dia dijadualkan balik malaysia 3/3/2008. So lucky to have him here, at least we have someone in the house to talk to and good for Iman and Yasmin, at least they have somebody to play with. Tapi esok bila dia dah balik, tak tau la camane...what to do kan? Dtg sini niat nak belajar, jadi nak tak nak kena la kuatkan semangat no matter what the condition is.

One of azam tahun baru ni, aku dah buat plan nak balik Malaysia bulan 10 in this year. Tak kira la, aku akan usahakan jugak. Rindu sangat kat suma, family, kengkawan, fsktm, alamanda, klcc, midvalley, he he..aku berdoa sgt Allah murahkan rezeki kami kat sini dan semoga harapan nak balik Malaysia esok tercapai, insyaAllah.

Ok la.

Selamat hari raya Aidil Adha

Wednesday, 19^th December 2007 – Malaysian Muslims in Australia celebrated Eiduladha today. All Malaysian Muslims including some from the Arabic countries gathered as early as 7 O’clock in the morning at Malaysia Hall to perform the Takbir Raya and solat sunat Eiduladha. Right after that, we had some jamuan, which the main menu was nasi lemak, ha ha..typical Malaysians huh? Not as many attendees as Eidulfitri celebration but the scene was still quite happening with takbir raya and salam bersalaman.

We didn’t prepare much for this eiduladha but Sal did cook somethings, though. Nasi himpit, kuah lodeh (her specialty), sambal tumis sotong and daging dendeng goreng. But the truth story underneath that was she wanted to keep herself busy so that she didn’t have to think so much about how deeply she misses everyone back at home. Luckily, we had two special guests from Malaysia coming over today…DR MASITAH and her father! But not for long as they were actually heading to Adelaide in the afternoon. So, at least their presences added on some sweets to our eiduladha celebration this year.

We managed to visit a couple of friends’ houses and might be the best thing was we’ve been proudly parading our baju raya all day. Some Aussies who happened to walk passed by us looked at us as if we were wearing something very very weird, but some did give complement.. ha ha… didn’t care actually!

So Muslims in Malaysia will be celebrating Eiduladha tomorrow. We would like to wish everybody selamat hari raya aidiladha and enjoy the day to the fullest! See ya in the next entry…bubye!

Selamat Hari Lahir ke-3 sayang

Happy birthday to you,

Happy birthday to you,
Happy birthday to Iman Nuryasmin,
Happy birthday to you...

Hari ni (12/12/07), genap 3 tahun Iman Nuryasmin dilahirkan. Syukur Alhamdulillah, kami dikurniakan Allah dengan anak gadis yang cantik dan sempurna sifat.

To our dearest baby girl,
maafkan mama and papa, for not be able to throw a big bash birthday celebration as always this time for you. But we still managed to get you a yummy birthday mud cake, though and we can see that you really liked it..good! And Yasmin, we are very sorry and regret so much as we didn't get you any birthday present like we always do this year. We just want you to know that, we will always pray for your success, well-being and your happiness!

This year celebration, there is no Atuk, Opah, Uncle or Aunty, or friends to join in together. There is only four of us, Papa, Mama, Abang Iman and you, Yasmin. Papa and Mama try so hard to make you happy here. We really hope you can remember this day forever, as how we have to live in hard a way in order to achieve what we want in our life. Almost all nights, we've been crying and thinking about all the families and friends back in Malaysia. So sad...Allahuakbar, harini tak jemu-jemu papa and mama cium Yasmin, our birthday girl.

Don't worry sayang, just bear this in mind...apa yang papa n mama buat, semuanya untuk yasmin and abg iman. You two are the most precious gift and we promise, we'll do anything to make you happy, always!

Happy 3rd birthday darling...

What a torturing week

This week... ayoyo... My supervisor (sv) seems to be the most hardworking human being on earth I've ever met! He expects me to come and see him almost everyday. Hari-hari kene bagi report ape progress. It is totally not cool and torturing! If I were to miss my presence at my workstation even only for a day, he will definitely email and ask me why...what the @#*&? Plus, he'll never miss to flood me in with piles and piles of research papers to read. Adushhhh! Aren't this insane? Is doing PhD this insane? Btw, my sv is actually the deputy dean of the School of Computer Science & Engineering (CSE) in UNSW :-(.

The most happening thing for me is that I've just received my PC yesterday (Jumaat). A CSE PhD student will automatically be allocated with an amount of money from the school to buy PC or laptop. I was thinking about buying a laptop but my sv disagreed. He already knew that if I'm using a laptop, surely selalu hilang takdak kat school. Hohoho... Anyway, my PC seems to be the most advance and powerful machine among all the other PCs in CSE. The spec:

Intel(R) Core(TM) 2 Quad Processor Q6600
2GB (2X1GB) NECC Dual Channel DDR2 667MHz SD RAM Memory
320GB SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive
bla bla bla... check out the website:
http://www.dell.com.au

It was shipped from PENANG, MALAYSIA. Wah wah wah... proud to be Malaysian.

Right now, we are still waiting for the laptop ordered by Sal. laptop tu warna pink lagi;-) shipping from Penang gak...haiiii..rindunya kat tanahair...... Maybe by Monday dpt la kut....

One problem though, and a big one I think. The OS of my PC is Windows Vista Home Premium Edition, but my sv asked me to use Linux. And here, you have to configure your own PC. Hahaha, never used linux before. Who can help me to give a tutorial in how to install the linux. Do I have to reformat the PC? Help! Help!