Part of Growing Up

On the 10th March evening, he fell flat face on the concrete floor. When I first saw him, he was tring to avoid my gaze, maybe he was too terrified that he thought he would get a scolding, a good one, instead I just talked to him calmly and I saw tears running down his cheeck. My poor boy, his baju melayu top near the collar was in dark red. Took him to a clinic as I thought the MO can just clip his lips, then he said need to be referred to a surgeon. Least we know, his gum needs stitches too and appointment was made to have him under GA the next morning.



"one restless boy, waiting in his gown. he looks cute though"


"sticker for him, to lift up his spirit"


"he waited for 10 mins at the OT sebab mak dia sibuk berbreakfast, he woke up to see the nurse and not the mother :P. for this i kena an earful from hubby. Sorry sayang, doc kata 1/2 hr, Ummi pergila makan 1/2 an hr."


"ini lapar punya pasal, dah tak ingat dah sakit mulut"




10 stitches to upper gum and lips and it will be removed this Thursday. So far not much drama from him, sibuk melompat lagi adalah :O

Nael is in Year 1

Nael aka Zul Arif to his friends is now in Year 1 and 4th January onwards, the ZAN household has to follow his schedule, no more waking up late for the parents :P Our day now starts at 5:45am for hubby and moi at 6:00am, reason being, I'm still b'feeding Aidan and 15mins more I consider as a luxury to catch up on the sleep lost :) No issue for Nael to wake up early too, he is more eager than usual, wakes up, take shower and hubby will give shower to Aidan too at 6:15am, yes that EARLY while Ummi prepare breakfast and bekal for everyone.

His 1st day was OK, no crying, no sad face, all I can see was his smile, his thumb up and occasional yawning. Boy oh boy, my boy has grown up. He's sitting at the last row, last seat because we were late and actually I was the last parent sending him to his class. Blame it to the bad traffic..huhuhu.

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So for the last 5 days...

1) he gets confuse when we drop him off at gate C in the morning, he wasn't sure how to get to his building. Fyi, this school is huge compare to other schools I have seen and they have 3 blocks that look the same from gate C. Once he gets to the correct building, he knows where his class, there are 5 classes where each has ~38 students, he will lookup for his class name at the door :) . By Friday he knows his way. *phew*

2) during recess, a few days I gave him lunch box and 1 day without as I wanted him to get his snack on his own. He is usually with his partner in class, name Azi@t, once he finishes his meal, we encourage him to get some other food, not that we want him to get canteen food but we just need to know how he handles his money when buying food/drink. So, what I observe, he gets confuse about 1 ringgit note but not the syiling. That is understood as his kindy taught them on the syilings. But if the food cost more than 1 ringgit, this confused him more hehehe...So, to cut short, I just thought him

a. First, put all your food and water on the cashier table, take out your wallet from pocket.
b. Then give 1 ringgit note, if it's more than that, the Kakak will ask you to give her, 10/20/50 cents more.
c. Whatever that you have pay previously, cakap "Ini dah bayar". Pay only what you have not paid. (I saw the kakak ask him another ringgit just because he was carrying with him his half eaten fish ball)

3) toilet - is so so, better than filthy public toilet. He has not use the toilet yet, hemm.....but we already asked him to show us how to unbuckle his canvas belt. He pass!

4) going home - arghhh, headache. A lot of times reminded him the path that he has to take to reach gate C. On Wednesday, his Atuk went and search him frantically all over the school. He was suppose to meet his Atuk at gate C waiting area, after 10 minute of no show, Atuk went for his rounds and got a call from him!!! We thought someone loaned him a handphone and we thought it's a smart thing to do that the night before, hubby wrote 4 major numbers at the back of his business card and placed it in his wallet. It showed that he knows when to use it during emergency. When he was talking, the line was cut off and minutes later his Atuk found him at gate C waiting area. Probed him and he told us that he and Azi@t were using public phones to make calls :P and Azi@t loaned him 50cents..aduhhh!! Even on Thursday and Friday, he showed up late at gate C but we found out another thing, Azi@t has to make calls to his father after school dismiss and my kind boy has been escorting his friend to the canteen to make the calls hehehe..Patutlah keluar lambat!! Aiyoh!!!



"Nael with his partner in crime heh..heh..heh"

ZAN I - Post Birthday Party

I have been meaning to write something about the kiddos but didn't find the time..been busy or buat2 busy :P

ZAN 1
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I did not tell you about the post party aye...it was awesome coz the birthday boy had fun! Remember the end of May was super duper blazing hot although it was at night? The choc fudge Ben 10 cake from Resipi Rahsia melted only in 1 and 1/2 hours in room temperature! but the ZAN brood together with atok, wan and other cucus had terrific dinner and it was time for games. What we had for games were written here
but the bestest in my opinion was the blind folded musical chair! Hats off to Che Na...lawak gilos I tell you. Just imagine these kids blind folded scrambled for chair small plastic stools and the final between 2 girls was super duper eeking funny when I (as the emcee) moved the stool out of the circle..so basically they were on top of each other!! har har har. Too bad we did not snap pictures but it was all on video...yay to that!

These are the teka teki Questions I gave :-
1)Kat hujung katil ada apa?
2)Dalam banyak2 mata, mata apa yang paling besar?
3)Bapak Ali ada 5 orang anak iaitu nana, nini, nani dan nina, sorang lagi nama apa?
4)Dalam banyak2 ikan, ikan mana yang paling garang?
5)Kalau gajah naik basikal, manusia naik apa?


Silalah jawap ya anak-anak....




Eeee..hokeh hokeh..back to Nael. We have extracted 2 bottom milk teeth on 2 different visits to the dentist. Syukurlah, he is so okay with dentist, not afraid at all and even ask me to take him to see his dentist. 1 tooth cost me RM20...is that cheap or expensive?


Did I tell you that we went to Dino Trek? yes we did. In anticipation of the brood will get tired due to the 'wide coverage' that we need to explore, I bugged the kids and hubby to go to bed really early and woke them up early. So by 10am, we were at the KLCC car park and went straight for the tickets. The kids enjoyed them, Nael loves the racing with the Dino and amazingly Aidan loved the jiggy! Muka tak tau malu, 2 to 3 times he did his jiggy. I wish I can upload the video but I don't have it with me at the mo. In an hour, we were done :) hehehe...Ingatkan besar manalah...But that day we covered major malls in town, KLCC, Pavillion and Tropicana City Mall and once we were back at home, the kids and hubby slept like a log. Maknya yang jugak tak tido :P.




Coming up ZAN II

Nael is 4!

Written on 21st May 2007
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My dearest darling Zul Arif Nael...

It was 4 years back, 21st of May 2003 at around 1:30pm, I held you in my arms and we were overcome with so much joy and emotions to see such a beautiful and healthy baby. Despite the knot of your umbilical cord which can be fatal and your neck was wrapped and twisted by them, alhamdullilah you were protected by Allah, you were safe and most importantly healthy. Bringing you up was not an easy task especially on the health department but who would want to remember? We cherish every single little thing from your wet diapers to your cutesy little smile and now we, your parents go crazy with your wicked foolish manja expression that you flash from time to time. We are your biggest fan and we would die to make you a one happy boy. We love you to the bits sayang and with so much pride and joy we're looking forward to have another 100 years to be with you.

Happy 4th Birthday Sayang Ummi and Papa



"Fresh from the oven - Taken on 21st May 2003"


"At nursery, ready to cut cake with friends - Taken on 21st May 2004"


"Tengah godek2 Ummi's pusrse - Taken on 21st May 2005"


"Budak nakal tapi manja! - Taken on 21st May 2006"

Color blind? and prezzie

Written on 12th April 2009
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I recall when Nael was around 4 plus when we first have our maid joined our household, it was in 2007 (Nov). His eyes were big and mortified when he first saw our maid. My maid was actually had tough life back in Indonesia where she worked in her sawah bendang dan kerja ladang (we were told) so basically she was overly tanned, boleh dikatakan "gelap". From then on, he always say "Ummi white, papa white, Aidan white, Bibik brown" Each time I hear this I will "shesshhhhh" , "No!!" , " Tak baik cakap gitu ". But I never really stress on that seeing that he is just a kid and maybe fascinated on describing objects with colors.


Then, one day his conversation went like this :-

Nael : Bibik...lepas twelve apa?

Bibik : eight? (with her limited english)

Nael : Noooooo..wrong...Itulaa bibik nie tak tau sebab Bibik brown.

urrgghhh!! *horror*

Initially, we treat it as humour but then until last Friday.....


Moi : Tengah makan and suap Aidan

Nael : poo poo in the toilet and summoned me to clean him

Bibik offered to wash but Nael very adamant that his Ummi yang buat. I was so annoyed and ask Bibik to just do it..Then when they were done, Nael still crying in the room and Bibik told me this

Nael kata " Nael tak nak Bibik wash, nanti bontot Nael BROWN!!"

ROTFL!!!! but then I realised, he was very serious about it. I played along and asked him to show me, he even tunjuk his bare bontot!! What is it with my maid being brown?? *&)(&(^^&^*%$


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List of things that Nael wanted to give me for my birthday :

1) Donut

2) CD song song

3) Small bottle Not big bottle like in Mak Ngah's room (I think it's perfume)

4) Ultraman

Suffice to say, I received none of the above except for Birthday song and 3 kisses, left cheek, lips and right cheek.

Bolehlah tuuu, I'm touched!

Nael is 6!

Written on 21st May 2009
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Let's do some recap on his milestone from 5.5 to 6 years old.

Nael is currently reading Dr Seuss's Hop on Pop which he finds it hilarious, Bacalah Sayang and also some of his school materials that is Book 16 for his English reading. He is an average for his reading skills and I'm currently coaching him to do Math from Year 1 book, plus some other Math, English, Bahasa work book bought from some bookshops. He will do one of these activity after he's done with his school homework. He's doing okay for his academic which I have no worry on that and he's now started to speak English again (albeit he needs help in rephrasing his sentences).

He's still into Ben 10 and Ben 10 Force and one funny thing he loves to watch PPG too which I find it quite hilarious. He has some new games for his PSII, some sort of samurai lawan2. He said it's Basara and since he joined TKD classes, he will demonstrate what he learns after each class. His 'new student' is off course his adik :P, the great impersonator :) . Nael latest interest is playing badminton with his cousins, his papa bought him racket for small hand like his, very cute! Alternately, we have been playing freesbie with the kids. Nael instantly fell in love with this game and also he asked for a kite for his birthday. Ehh wait..he asked for so many things for his birthday like roller blades *roll eyes*.

Personality wise...he's obidient type, shy in public, very rajin related to education ie doing homework, reading, what not. He shows his intimacy towards his loves ones, very technical little young man, very drawn into gadgets and quite sensitive about what other peoples think or act towards him.

Health wise...looks like he's allergic to dust, cats fur, he can easily has running nose with teary eyes and sneezing too. Phlemy cough and flu are his 2 best friends :( Still very skinny around 17kg. Eat moderately and very slow too unlike Aidan :P but one thing positive, he would want to taste a lot more variety of food like curry and sambal. I think that's a great achievement for a fussy boy like him.


Nael sayang, Ummi and Papa love you sooooo much and we pray that you will turn out to be a good young man and be blessed by Allah swt in your life. May you be anak yang soleh, disayangi dan disenangi oleh semua, Insyallah. Happy 6th Birthday Sayang, from your loving parents and your die hard fan Aidan :)



"The birthday boy is having high fever! Munching Milo nuggets while waiting at paed's"

Nael at 5.5 yrs old

Written on 13th Nov 2008.


This Nov month, Nael's turns to 5.5 years old and it's a high time that Ummi jot a few of his accomplishments, milestone indeed for our future readings ;)

Character building - he's more independent, he showers on his own, albeit sometimes I peek just to ensure he showers in the right order, hair and body shampooed and everything is properly cleansed, etc. Sometimes, Ummi or papa has to force him out of the shower, cutting short his joy splashing with water. He can pee on his own w/o supervision but we have to remind him constantly on how he has to clean himself "dicky dah basuh? tangan dah basuh?" but on the big business side, errr that we still have to clean up for him :P

He's very inquisitive, we the parents always have to entertain his 5 Ws, sometimes I just go "yeahhh...uhumm, arggg..ehh ye ker? ok... yes..ohh??.. noooo!" so much of entertaining his queries :(. He's very loving towards his brother AIdan but sometimes very imposing as a big brother. He is quite an obidient boy and I can relate how he perservere on resisting to have any cold drinks/sweets/ice cream due to his coughing/flu or he has run up of his max of sugar intake for the day. He knows his schedule well too. In the morning, every weekday, he will take out his book and read with his papa and after coming back from kindly, he will diligently read his surahs with his nenek and once reach our house, he will do his kindy homework while watching his CN. Before he goes to bed, he will shi2 first, wash his hands and feet and also brush his teeth deligently. So, I'm very please with that.

On the other hand, yang Ummi dia tak tahan, he can be very whiny at times..grrrr...sometime he does his baby like acting, crying and whimpering tak pasal2 and ask me to pujuk. When we deny something from him which is always buying toys for him, he will ask gazillion times when we can buy him this toy or that toy OR when can he has this toy and that particular toy already broken albeit we said No earlier..subtly but persistently..itu yg Ummi dia tak tahan tu hehehe...but when he gets something that he really likes...ohh goshh...he'll profusely says "thank you Ummi, thank you papa" baik jer...

He also has a bigger appetite than before right after he consumed Lysene vitamin. His likes for food varies and the best part, he eats vege! green vege to be exact!! It all started when we told him Superman eats carrot and he bought that! hahahaha..He loves cakes, choc cake the best and deifinetly a sweet tooth himself.

Academic wise, his Teacher Mala said he's quite a shy boy, only with his friends, he is ok, playing with them but whenever his teacher asks him any question, he just refuse to answer but all his work, he can do it on his own. His teacher even praised him, he did not need much help on his studies, he does all his workbook on his own, his Math is really good and so does his writing, one of the best! mehh must be taking after his papa's gene :)