ORDINARY SUPERHERO

Luv you guys! I like this picture very much....Arif was holding his elder brother's hands. And both of them were smiling! And owwh, the sarong pants were bought in PD last weekend.  

Arif: Baba...Arif dah semayang dah. Baba: Owh! Bagus...very good. Arif: Nanti tuhan SAYANG adik... Baba: Ya betul...sapa sembahyang Tuhan sayang dia, Baba pun sayang Arif! "Rabbi Ja'alni Muqima Assolah Wa min Zuriyyati". Ya Rabb, jadikan lah aku dari kalangan orang yang mendirikan solat dan zuriat ku juga.

The kids school's necessities are all done after numerous trips to Bata, Jusco, Giant, One Stop Centre etc. etc. The big question remains, when can Baba takes leave for a family break? Mr Santa will be coming and December will be over soon. Sighh..... 

AlhamdulilLah, AlhamdulLah, AlhamdulilLah. This is to inform that my beloved wife has safely delivered a baby boy at about 3.10AM this morning at Amp*ng Putri Specialist Hospital. This is our sixth (yes,....6th) child; and our third boy. This is the first picture taken immediately after I have performed my Azan and Iqamah in the delivery room. This picture was taken after the baby had first tasted his mother's milk; still in the labour room. Look at that smile.... Akid and other kids are all asleep after coming back from visiting their baby brother at the hospital. More later, Insha Allah. I need to catch some sleep.

Kak Chik came to me when I was reading weekend's newspapers yesterday afternoon. "Daddy, can you take me to school?" "Ok, I will send you to school tomorrow." "Daddy, can you take me after I finished my school?" "Mmmm....you go and bring me my hand phone; let me check if I have meeting, I cannot take you. If I don't have meeting, then I can take you" Obligingly, my little girl went to take my hand phone on the table and handed over to me. I glanced through my schedules; no meeting tomorrow but I know I am gonna have a very tight day tomorrow to wrap up one urgent assignment. But again, I didn't want to disappoint my little girl. She's still waiting patiently for my answer. "Okay....., I will send you to school tomorrow. In the afternoon, I will call your mummy first. If I can take you, I will take you; If I cannot take you, mummy will take you. OK?" "OK, thank you Daddy." Short and sweet. ...

Olympics dah habis. Nasib baik bola English Premier League dah start - sekurang2nya ada lah benda nak tengok kat TV hujung minggu. ************** Pagi ni masuk ofis lambat....dengan sengaja. Lagipun hari ni ada raptai perbarisan hari Kebangsaan. For the last two weeks, kerja memang stressful. Masuk ofis sebelum jam 8 pagi dan balik hampir tengah malam - almost every day. So pagi ni lepas hantar Kak Long dan Akmal ke sekolah, hantar Kak Chik pulak. Hari ni sekolah (tadika) dia ada buat field trip ke pusat membuat barang2 dari tanah liat. Sebelum jam 8 pagi dah nak kena hantar ke sekolah. Lepas tu hantar anak dara no. 2 ke sekolah agama. Lepas tu baru lah sempat pergi breakfast dengan beloved mem dan Akid. Akid share makan tosai dengan Ibu. Akid: Baba....banyak bendera (sambil menunjukkan bendera kecil Malaysia yang digantung di dalam kedai). Baba: Aaa..'ah, bendera Malaysia. Akid: Yang tu...yang warna hitam putih tu...? Baba: Tu bendera negeri Pahang.. Akid: Yang merah tu....be...

My dearest Kak Long, Baba harus meminta maaf dari Kak Long kalau hari ni Kak Long dimarahi Cikgu atau didenda di dalam kelas kerana Kak Long tak bawa tugasan yang Cikgu suruh semalam. Bukan salah Kak Long. Adalah sangat tak adil kalau Kak Long yang kena marah oleh Cikgu BI atas sebab kealpaan Baba. Sepanjang hari ni Baba resah, runsing dan dibebani rasa bersalah yang teramat sangat sebab lupa masukkan dokumen tu dalam beg Kak Long sebelum ke sekolah pagi tadi. Baba lupa! Mungkin sebab dalam kepala Baba ada dua tiga benda lain yang Baba tengah fikirkan sebab hari ni Baba ada dua tiga meeting penting. Semalam, Ibu telah menghantar SMS kepada Baba meminta Baba carikan bahan dari internet untuk Kak Long. Tugasan untuk subject BI Kak Long katanya. Sebab kat rumah kita tak ada printer, Baba dah siap cetak dokumen2 tu di ofis. Oleh kerana Baba sampai rumah pun dah lewat malam, Baba ingat nak bagi dokumen tu pagi tadi sebelum Kak Long ke sekolah. Hatta masa Kak Long mandi pagi tadi pun Baba ma...

When I asked the kids whether they would want to extend their stay for another week at their Atuk's place last weekend, the answer I got was a resounding YES!. My Wife too thought that it would be better for her to be in Melaka since I will be out of KL for half of this week. So here I am, home alone; bujang again . Just had my dinner of tomyam campur that I bought on my way back home. Nothing interesting on TV. So instead of watching TV, I switched the Astro channel to listen to radio. Besides, I brought back some works to be completed and sent to client latest by tomorrow morning. Spoke over the phone with all the kids before they went to bed just now. Reminded them of the do'a that we normally recite together before they sleep. Sweet dreams my dearest. Baba miss you all.

Cuti sekolah sudah pun seminggu berlalu. Sebelum cuti ada perancangan nak hantar anak2 balik kampung Atuk/Nenek mereka di Melaka dan aku dengan mem (dan akid dan Kak Chik) balik KL. Biar lah Kak Long, Kak Ngah dan Abang Akmal duduk kat rumah Atuk diorang seminggu. Maid pun boleh hantar sana, boleh lah tolong my MIL. Ingat boleh lah ber'manja-manjaan' dengan my Wife. Tapi macam biasa lah, lain yang dirancang, lain pulak yang jadi. Lepas konsert akhir tahun Abang Akmal dan Kak Chik hari Sabtu lepas (17-11-2007), kami sekeluarga balik ke Ayer Keroh. Oleh kerana jadual kerja aku memang padat dengan crazy deadlines sepanjang minggu ni, aku cadangkan kat my Wife supaya dia pun duduk Melaka lah seminggu ni. Bukannya apa, Aku tak nak lah dia terkebil-kebil kat rumah tak sempat nak bermanja dengan laki dia yang sentiasa sibuk. So for the whole of this week, Aku pulun kerja tanpa rasa bersalah pukul berapa nak balik rumah. Memang kerja gila (ke gile kerja?). Hari-hari balik rumah lepas t...

I showed my earlier post on Father's Day to Kak Long few days' back. She suddenly realized that she was the only one who did not give me any card. I didn't really mind since Kak Long memang jenis sempoi, she doesn't really care even about her own birthday. But not to be outdone by her younger siblings, she gave me this card. Saaayang Kak Long !

This is a backdated entry. I was at the office last Friday night when I received a call from Kak Chik . "Baba, bila Baba nak balik" "Kenapa?, Baba tengah work lagi ni" "Cepat lah balik, Kak Chik ada kad birthday Baba..." "Birthday? Kan birthday Baba dah lepas" "Shhhh.....bukan birthday lah, happy father's day!" I heard someone whispering to Kak Chik. This is the card made by Kak Chik at her kindie. This is the drawing of cable car by Kak Ngah. Both Kak Ngah and Abang Akmal drew cable car using water colour and gave to me as their thank you gestures for our recent holiday trip to Langkawi. This is the creative works of Abang Akmal. And this is another piece by Kak Ngah to me for Father's Day. Happy Father's Day to my blogging father friends, Sifu Ayoh Keng , Bro Jiwa , Pak Adib , the Scribe dan ramai lagi. Semoga sentiasa dirahmati Allah sentiasa. Al Fatihah dan Doa yang berpanjangan untuk Almarhum Ismail bin Ibrahim, my late...

One afternoon, many many moons back. We were just jalan-jalan at Ampang Point. My kids and I were at the kid's section, while my wife was at the ladies' section with Akid . "Baba, boleh tak Angah nak beli baju?" "Baju apa? Kan dah banyak baju baru?" "Tak...., ni baju yang pakai kat dalam punya" "Yang pakai kat dalam punya? Yang macam mana?" "Alaaa, yang ada tali tu" Angah was making her hand gestures. Looks like she was explaining a shirt with a strap over the shoulders. "Yang macam mana? Baba tak tahu la" Oh no, I hope she would not ask for a spaghetti strap t-shirt. I would not allow that! "Baju tu kita pakai kat dalam, lepas tu pakai la baju lain kat luar" Angah still trying hard to explain. "Macam tu?" I was pointing to the big advert that showed some kids wearing chequered shirts with plain coloured t-shirts in the inside. "Bukan....." Angah sounded a bit frustrated. "Dia maca...