Newborn Essentials Checklist

Finally I found this newborn essentials checklist on the web. Though this is my second pregnancy journey, I forgot most of things as my eldest son was born about 4 years ago :p. This would be helpful to assist first time mother to plan what they should get for their coming soon newborn :)

You can have the pdf file by clicking on the link below :

http://www.squawkfox.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/newborn-essentials-checklist.pdf

Happy Birthday Mama

I want to dedicate this poem to my beloved mama, the most special woman in my entire life,Happy 59th birthday mama :)

Thank you, Mom...

for the love, strength, and care

for in this world that is quite rare

for being my guardian and my guide

on those sad days when I cried

I'm proud of you because...

you never gave up hope when the times were hard

you kept going forward through it all, yard by yard

you have never let others change who you are

you have always shown me that you're my favourite star

you move through the unknown with strength

no matter how far the length

I would have never been here today....

without your motherly advice

without your ultimate sacrifice

without the support I needed

I never would have succeeded

without your unbounded love

I could never stay above

I just wanted you to know....

I will always stand by your side

I will give back and be your guide

I will fight for you in the hard times

even if all I have are a few dimes

I will never lose my faith in you

my love for you is always true

I will always be there

on those days you are hurt and sad

and you feel everything is going bad

I will hold you in my arms and say

I'm glad to be with you here today

when you feel you are alone

I will be your chaperone

So thank you, Mom,

I love you so much!

never forget, the support and love I have for you will never diminish,

you are one of the strongest people I know,

so don't let anyone else's evil decisions or careless actions

change who you are today.

you are better than all of them and stronger in every way.

This beautiful poem was taken from (http://www.familyfriendpoems.com/poem/thank-you-mom-5)

 Few years back, when mama and me travelling to India to visit my twin sister in India, beautiful memory :)

Small celebration for mama's birthday, wish I could be there too :(

Awesome Scotland Trip

Assalamualaikum!

I haven't been on blog for a while. Seems like my blog been decorated with spider web.

I always have this kind of feeling that i want to write as much as possible in my blog ever since i came to the uk...hehe

Scotland is such a beautiful place that must be visited by passionate travellers. I fell in love with the historic building, clean city, the building architecture, lovely surrounding, it was just perfect. We managed to spend only 3 days and 2 nights in Glasgow and Edinburgh! Honestly, this short trip wasn't enough! I would say that Edinburgh is one of world's most beautiful and compelling cities.We wish we could spend longer time in Scotland. We went to scotland in december which was during winter time, therefore the night was longer and day time was shorter. Not much we can do literally. There are few interesting places in Scotland that we managed to visit during our stay in scotland. Let's the pictures do the justice hehe

Spectacular Edinburgh town :)

 Along the way to Glenshee Ski Centre

 Edinburgh Castle

 Snow storm!!Look at wafiy, he's afraid of heavy snow hehe

2 hours driving from Edinburgh.

Till we meet again Scotland :)

Chilling in london

Hola London!

London is one of my dream destinations to visit and alhamdulillah Allah has made my dream comes true.

We have made a prompt decision to visit london on weekend due to time constraint. Apart from that, weekend is the best way for a short gateway as it wont disturb my crazy experimental works and my husband's part time job. My husband also can keep his annual leave for our holiday in malaysia by end of this year, InshaAllah..hehe ( This is my outdated post)

Prior departing to london, we did some homework about places of interest in london so it would be easier for us to visit tourist attraction places in a short period of time. As this was our first time travelling to london, we decided to board by train which cost us about 75 pound for the return tickets. It's way cheaper than hire a car as we could save time, fuels, insurance and MONEY. Most importantly, we could reach London just in 2.5 hours by train! Travelling with a toddler is very challenging especially when he started to move around, screaming, yelling...haha. We get off at London Euston station (final station) and bought our oyster card at the underground station. It's located at the ground floor in the station. The price for the oyster card is 5 pound and you can reload the card at the self-service machine which is so convenient. If  you're confused and have problem, many ground staffs around are available and they are more than happy to help you. 

I did some homework before leaving to London. To tackle all part of London in a very short time (2 days), hopping bus is definitely the best option. Cheaper bus ticket can be purchased on-line. Interestingly, the ticket validity is for two days! Thus, you don't have to worry if you aren't able to tackle all part of London city within a day. You can happily resume your journey on the next day. We purchased the ticket from the website and interestingly the tickets came with free ride of  awesome city cruise across Thames rives. I personally think the price is affordable because the bus has three main routes;

1) Original tour
2) Sightseeing in the city
3) Museum tour.

Offering 80 bus-stops at different point of interest, I bet it would be the most enjoyable trip in London,believe me! You can choose which routes you want to access and just press the button to get off from the bus at the designated bus stop. Within two days, we have covered most of tourist-attraction places such as Tralfagar Square, Tower Bridge, Buckingham Palace, London Bridge,Harrods and London Eye (had queued for nearly two hours!). Just after an hour been in the row, I just came to realize that I lost London eye tickets! It is impossible to find your lost tickets in a such massive crowd :( Someone may took our tickets. The only thing I can do at that time was to keep on praying may Allah ease everything for us because I REALLY REALLY want to ride the capsule and wish to see those eye-catching view! You need to pass 3 stations before you're allowed to ride the capsule. Pheww...I was explaining to the staff that I lost my ticket while queuing for the ride and it was impossible for me to find the it. Wafiy was definitely our super saver, alhamdulillah.Without Wafiy`s presence, they might just ignore our explanation and may think we were cheating. Been on the capsule was one of the best feeling ever. It was so beautiful,lovely,breathtaking view from the top of the capsule. The capsule size is really huge as it could occupy 30 person in each capsule.

London, though you're such a hectic city, I never get enough of you :)

My twin and I

As most of you aware, i was born as a twin 29 years back in HUSM kubang kerian. We were separated following our dream right after our SPM in 2003. Time flies so fast, it has been nearly 12 years! Chasing our dream is never easy, i am in Engineering and she is in Medical line. I loves physics and she loves biology haha..really? But Allah knows everything, after all those ups and down we have been through, we finally choosing to be in the teaching profession,being a lecturer! What a beautiful plan from HIM to both of us. She was in india during her undergraduate studies and right now, i am in manchester pursuing my PhD studies, we were at different time frame and place but apparently with the same mission and vision, searching for knowledge.

The most frequent question been asking by other people to us " tak gaduh ke masa kecil?" we used to be a real fighter during our childhood time haha fighting and quarrelling are two common things for every kids. Having said that, those things keep us closer and understand each other better. To be honest, as we were always together most of the time during our school day, thus, we dont have much space to get closer to other people. Remembering this quote told by one of my friend "friends always change but family members remain with you, forever :)" Nonetheless, this situation has changed when me and my twin were destined to further our bachelor degree at two different continent (me in my homeland,malaysia while she was in bangalore india). Being alone and survival (without my twin) for the first time is quite challenging. Initially, i always feel alone hehe i was lucky enough been surrounded by easy-going roommates and it cured myself. In fact, things much better and went smoothly when my time was occupied with classes and activities :)

wani,

manchester,uk.

Life has no smooth road for any of us, we just have to keep looking upward :)

Busy Baby

Hello everyone,just creating my new blog, as we grow older, we tend to feel unhappy with our previous write up haha i am referring to my previous blog..As for me,the latter is always better as we become more mature. Every journey has its own traveler and we are all belonged to a specific journey and dream. You and i are in different boat. Hopefully you can get something beneficial from my blog,inshaAllah. Happy reading!

Happily with my beloved lappy. Pretending to be the most busy baby in the world haha

wani,
manchester,uk.
Life has no smooth road for any of us, we just have to keep looking upward :)