Aizara Melaram

Terkejut aku bila tiba2 Aizara mencuitku sambil bertanya, 'Ibu, cantik tak, ibu?' Bila aku toleh, terkejut sambil ketawa, aku tgk dia penuh ngan calit2 biru. Rupa2nye, dia pakai eye shadow kat pipi. Ishhh, entah mana dia tgk org pakai eye shadow or make up ni. Sejak aku ke sini, tak pernah lg aku pakai eye shadow depan mata dia. Dah le semalam, dia ambik lipstick sapu kat bibir. Pas tuh, boleh lg tanye cantik ke tak dia tu.... Dah pandai melaram dah Aizara ni. Ni la sb terlalu attached ngan ibu dan bergaul ngan auntie2 kat sini.

Sometimes aku kesian jugak ngan dia. Sb tak dpt bergaul dgn rakan sebaya. Sometimes aku bawak gak dia pegi rumah jiran yg ada anak sebaya. Tp klu ramai sgt budak2, dia macam tak leh nak campur. Dia lagi selesa duk dgn auntie2 dia. Bila diperhatikan, memang nampak dia agak matang dibanding dgn kawan2 yg sebaya ngan dia. Hopefully balik Msia nanti, dia dapatla bercampur ngan kawan2 dia supaya dia dapat enjoy her childhood.

Shopping at Castleford Outlet

Last weekend, aku ngan kawan2 plan nak gi shopping kat Castleford Outlet. So, on last monday, we all pun heading to the place. As decided before, we bought train ticket (return) from Leeds to Castleford. Aizara pun excited la naik train. Start walking to the platform hingga la sampai kat Castleford Outlet, mulut dia tak berhenti bercakap dan menyanyi...

Sampai kat Castleford, kitaorg pun get off from the train. Kawan aku, Anum kata ni bukan tempat dia ni.... Tempat dia lain, ada building besar and jalan sikit je terus jumpa ngan Outlet tu... Lerrrr... Kitaorg tanya kat a couple train conductors, but non of them seem to know about that place. Uuiiikkk, pelik ni... So we all pun try la call member2 yg lain yg tau pasal tempat ni but tak de plak yg angkat telefon. At last, aku call hubby aku kat Msia, suruh dia cari info pasal Castleford Outlet ni... Rupe2nye, kitaorg tersalah station, daaaa.... We supposed to heading to Glasshoughton. Tu la tak buat homework before travel, ini le jadinye.... Dah la salah beli tiket pas tu salah turun plak tu... So, we have to wait for another train to go there...

Akhirnye sampai lah kitaorg ke tempat yg sepatutnye dituju. Dgn seronoknye kami melangkah menuju ke outlet2 yg sedang menanti kedatangan kitaorg ni. The place is very nice. Ada byk designer outlet yg aku pun tak kenal nama2nye. Antara outlet yg terkenal yg ada kat situ, Nike (besar outlet dia....), Mango (MNG), La Senza, Liz Claireborne dan byk lg.. Dah la time tu tgh sale. Kami pun seronok la melangkah dari satu outlet ke satu outlet. Masuk outlet Nike, kami semua tersgtlah happynye sb sale sampai 70%. Kasut2 pun dah less 50%, pastu buy another pair dpt lg 50% diskaun. Gilerrrr.... Tp kami tak beli kasut pun sb nak tunggu summer sale yg dgr khabar lg murah....

Masuk kat La senza plak, hishhhh, lagi gilerrr... Lingeries murah2, sampai ada yg harga 50 pence je... Klu kat Msia, mana nak dapat harga cam tu!!! Pastu, kami ke outlet lain plak... Sedar2 dah berbeg2 kami bawak... Aku nak snap gambar punye la susah. Sebab tangan dah penuh. Kiri kanan dua tiga beg aku pegang... Shopping tak ingat!!! Then kawan, anum nampak outlet Lee Cooper yg tertulis 'Buy 3 for 2'. Tanpa berfikir, kami terus masuk... Memang ada plan pun nak beli jeans... Setelah puas membelek dan menerai (try), kami melangkah keluar dgn 3 pasang jeans di tangan (dlm plastik le, takkan bawak kat tangan plak kot...). Aku rasa, shopping kat Outlet Lee Cooper paling puas sekali. Maklumlah, bayar £12 aku boleh dapat 3 pasang jeans....

Last sekali, kami pegi ke outlet Kitchen apa entah... Aku dah lupa dah... kami sempat la beli casserole dish set of 3 for £7.50 je. Ada lg yg aku nak beli, tapi tangan aku dah tak larat dah nak bawak. Dah le gi naik train, bawak Aizara lagi. Klu naik kete, ngan outlet2 tu aku beli. So, after 6 hours shopping and window shopping, we all heading back to train station. Punye la lenguh tangan aku mengangkut beg2 plastik yg agak2 byk dan berat. Tp we all puas, dpt shopping macam2... Tengok je la beg plastik yg tersadai tu... Nak snap gambar tgh bawak beg sambil jalan pun dah tak larat. Hari plak mendung. So we juz want to get back and rest... And try our new clothes yg dah beli tu...

Cold Summer

Cuaca sekarang semakin tak menentu. Klu tgk kat kalendar, bulan April ni dah kira masuk musim summer dah. But sometimes we felt the weather is colder than in the winter. Snow shower dah berapa kali dah turun dlm bulan lepas (kira2 it's the end of winter and dah masuk summer dah tu). Cam last saturday afternoon, ketul2 kecil air hujan turun about half an hour. Memang cuaca agak sejuk hari tu, but tak sangka plak sampai beku air hujan.

Hujan beku memutih kat kaki jalan dan atas kereta

Ketul2 kecil air hujan yg menimpa atap umah aku (close up)

Suasana di waktu hujan ketulan air batu

In the afternoon on the next day (sunday), snow shower turun agak lebat. Tp malas nakkluar rumah main snow. Sejuk2 cam tu and kenyang plak time tu, baik duk dalam umah and paling best kalau dapat duk atas tilam di bawah duvet yg tebal. Sempat snap a few pics je. Tu pun dari dalam umah je la...

Snow shower in the sunday afternoon

Aizara excited tgk snow

Penuh asyik aizara tgk snow

Ibu, snow, ibu, ambik gambar ibu, ambik gambar..

Pesta Makan2 di Beeston

After my last blog, I haven't had time to update my memory lane ni... Bukan apa, sibuk bersuka ria ngan rakan2 perantau ni. So, today, I'll try my best to update my memory lane with stories that had happen on weekends and early this week. Klu sempat dan daya kerajinan ku kuat utk menulis.

So, we start from last saturday. Last saturday aku buat mee goreng basah, setelah lama teringin nak makan. Lagipun, aku dah beli mee tu dr hari isnin lepas dan ikut label, mee tu dah expired dah, oooppppsss.... Tp setelah pemeriksaan (chewah, cam inspektor kesihatan la plak....) dibuat, aku dpti mee tu masih ok dan masih boleh dimakan. So, aku pun goreng la dengan senang hati... And aku jemput la member2 aku (dah cam adik2 aku dah kat sini...) datang makan sama2. Tak best kan, makan sorang2... Disebabkan mee tu tak mencukupi, masing2 cakap nak order fast food utk memenuhi selera makan... Late nite, kitaorg pun order chicken grilled, chicken burger la dsb... Bila dah kenyang, member g duk kat area sini cakap diorg malas nak balik. So diorg bermalam kat rumah aku la malam tu....

The next morning, we all discussed what to have for breakfast. And ada la yg rajin nak buat cekodok bawang. Aku plak, volunteer utk buat maggi goreng.... Tgh duk proses2 for maggi goreng, housemate aku balik and suruh buat bihun goreng... Dlm masa yg sama, dia kluarkan kepala ikan salmon yg dia beli last2 week. Dia mintak aku buat kari kepala ikan. Oleh kerana kepala ikan tu besar dan byk, and after had a long discussion, we all decided to make kari kepala ikan dan asam pedas kepala ikan. After long process of making lunch, here are the menu for the day..
Kari kepala ikan salmon
Asam pedas kepala ikan salmon
Tempe goreng
Sambal kicap, dan....
Last but not least, blended sambal belacan (lumat sgt sampai tak nmpk rupe...)

Lepas lunch, kami dihidangkan dgn dessert iaitu ice cream. Tak sempat nak snap sb laku sgt. Pesta makan tu berlangsung dr tengahari sampai ke malam. After dinner, kami duk layan konsert AF 6 kat Youtube. Terasa cam duk kat Msia kami malam tu... Dgn masakan dan rancangan TV cam tu, so, terlepas lah rindu pada Msia tercinta. Alhamdulillah...

South UK Trip

I juz came back from a trip to the south of UK. It was exciting and tiring. We traveled by car for 4 days. And it was unorganized trip as i would say. We traveled to Cardiff and Bath on the first and overnite at Plymouth. It was tiring coz we traveled at 5am until 10pm non stop. On second day, we went to Eden Project and Lands End, interesting places to visit but the weather is not what we expect to be. The rains pouring in the afternoon until nite. And the timing was sooooo not right, we arrived at the Lands End at 6.55pm and we couldnt enjoyed the sight seeing.... On our third day, we stopped at every town that we past through and it was raining all day long...

It is an exciting journey but I could not enjoy it truly. It is not because of my daughter (she's suppose to be the sunshine in our trip, right!!). I think the trip is not parent-child friendly. It was meant for the girls who wanna have fun!! I'm not that girl anymore. I need to think of my daughter... And it makes me feel drifted away from the group. I missed all the fun and I have a hard time to enjoy myself while looking after my daughter.

Bukan aku nak kata yg Aizara tu restricted my fun tp aku tak dapat share kesusahan aku tu ngan kawan2. Lain bila berjalan ngan kawan2 ni. Klu ngan famili, kita boleh nak suruh tgk2kan anak sekejap while I'm enjoying myself. Especially ngan husband, tentulah boleh bergilir2 jaga anak, buat susu, tukar lampin, berhenti rehat, berhenti makan. Ngan kawan ni, they have their own agenda and plans. And of course diaorg nak enjoy themselves kan, but at least have some thought and perihatin to this parent and child, right, share the burden. Tp sapa lah aku nak bagitau benda2 cam ni kat diorg.