Sunday, December 12, 2010

3 Days Before the birth of Khayla

Note: I wrote this entry days before Khayla was born but did not get around to post it. It felt ages ago that I was being melancholic about leaving the world of just 'Mr & Mrs Junaidix' now that we have another extension of 'Junaidix Jr.' (or Little Carneyz).

... before we welcome our little but biggest project into the world.
*Sniff*

Bye-bye couplehood. Hello, parenthood.

I know this may sound weird considering that we are over the moon about this pregnancy, but I know I shall miss the world of two-some.

No more before sleep cuddles.
No more on the spur of the moment dates.
No more fancy-schmancy trips.

BUT.

I know that there is no way we will trade this chance with all that. Hell, no. Even though we will most probably have to deal with these:

Midnight cries for milk.
And a change of dirty diaper.
Colic. Milk. Dirty diaper. More milk.

I believe that the waiting period has been a blessing in disguise, in a way. It allows us to become closer, to become strong for each other, to basically strengthen our marriage. I know we are both ready for the next stage of our married life (I hope so!) and the timing could not be more perfect.

Thank You, God. Alhamdulillah. I pray that the journey from here will be more beautiful and joyous, and the birth of our little one will be a smooth process. I pray that the little one will be another bond to tie our hearts together even more, and perhaps some day we will be blessed with more little ones.

*Deep breath*

I'm ready baby.

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Sunday, November 28, 2010

House Renovation - Before & Work-In-Progress

Saya sangat banyak WIP (work-in-progress) sekarang.

WIP di ofis (of coz, yang ni tak penah abis la kan).
WIP dalam perut (teruskan membesar anakku!)
WIP projek rumah.

Haruslah topik ini berkisar projek rumah. Sebab. Projek kerja adalah sangat bosan. Projek dalam perut ialah sangat sulit. Kita tunggu saja kelahiran budak kecik *sekali lagi, sila doakan kelahiran beliau tanpa apa2 masalah*

Anywayyy...

Projek rumah sekarang sudah berjalan. Petang tadi lepas balik dari library, kami singgah melawat tapak projek. Saya expect tak de apa2 yang berlaku lagi. Tapi, to my pleasant surprise, sudah ada beberapa progres (itu bermakna harus mengeluarkan duit lagi dalam waktu terdekat. Huhu...).

Ok, let's have a look at some of the progress:

1. Ruang tamu:

Sebelum (Ruang tamu)

Selepas

2. Next, ruang dapur yang comel:

Ruang dapur sebelum renovation

3. Bilik air utama:

Selepas:

Buat masa sekarang, kiteorang masih kekalkan jubin dinding dapur sebab rasa rugi pulak dah pasang jubin tapi lepas tu nak tanggalkan. Tapi seriously. Arkitek apartment ni ketinggalan zaman ke apa?? Dah la jubin dapur hodoh dan low quality (kalau tak pasang pun tak pe, bazir duit je), tile dinding pun warna yang tak memberangsangkan & pasang separuh tinggi dinding je.

Sedang serabut kepala fikirkan nak buat apa dengan dinding dapur itu. Haruskah dibuang saja tile nya dan cat semula, atau tambah duit tile sampai siling? *sel2 otak sedang bekerja keras*

Maybe lepas dah tengok ruang dapur dengan tile baru, hopefully dah ada inspirasi untuk ruang dapur yang comel ittew :)

Lepas exam --> kena start packing barang dan concentrate Projek Baby!

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Sunday, November 21, 2010

Re-activating Project House

Remember that time when we were still childless, boleh lompat2, had oodles of money stashed in the bank (haha!), so much free time at hand that we went on many, many honeymoon trips, and dreaming of renovating our very first property? Yes, that was one year ago exactly. Read here.

So we waited. And waited. And waited for the house to be completed and the keys delivered to us. When we decided that we had enough of putting our lives (and other plans) on hold for the sake of this house, we then decided to move on to our second third big plan - taking MBA. Oh, the second big plan was getting pregnant and that too, took a while to materialise so we skipped to Plan #3.

There's a saying that says, 'Man maketh grand plans, but God has the final say." (Manusia mampu merancang, tetapi Tuhan yang menentukan segalanya). While we view our lives in stages and in chapter by chapter, God does not necessarily makes it that way. This year is a testament of the saying - suddenly we find that Plan #1, 2 & 3 materialised concurrently! So, lesson learnt - always be prepared for whatever possibilities.

Suddenly we found that our plans are executed in reverse order - Plan #3 (study) came first when we enrolled in the MBA programme, then came Plan #2 (pregnancy) which was discovered after we had registered and accepted the offer. Recently, Plan #1 (home renovation / moving houses) came along, making our lives even more interesting.

So back to this posting topic - the project house. You would have think after having so much time at hand we have planned and decided on our interior decoration ideas, shopped around for best buys of whatever items needed for the renovation and looked up for the most reasonable contractor to source the job to. Unfortunately, being slackers that we are, we left everything to the last minute until the house is ready to move in. By that time, we are heavily pregnant and preparing for final exam. Hmmph.

Tapi sempat jugak pergi survey electrical items and household items and sourced for quotations from contractors! I mean, not that we have much choice since:

A. We already have to pay full monthly installment to our bank upon receiving our house keys;

B. Which means we have to move out of our current rented place to avoid having to pay for two houses;

C. And, we have to act FAST coz the baby is coming!

So, in between revising for final exam, we managed to find the shop selling the most reasonable price for ceiling fan and aircond, bought cheap lightings from my favourite store, IKEA (they costed only RM10.60 each! These are for the bathrooms) and signed on a contractor to do major renovation works such as install plaster ceiling for the living and dining area complete with in-lightings and down-lights, do wiring works and install the fans and lightings, change the kitchen floor tiles so we can install kitchen cabinet later on and install grilles.

Since we now have to keep some funds for the baby and for our studies, we have to slash a big chunk off from the original budget for home renovation and do the renovations by phases (so expect phase 2, 3 & so on until our plan is completed). Sadly, that means postponing the following:

1. Kitchen cabinet - the one our contractor proposed is not exactly up to my expectations, plus it exceeds the budgeted cost by RM1K. We spent an hour discussing our wish-list for the kitchen cabinet that fits our 'comel' kitchen with IKEA kitchen consultant and the price was double the budget - so I am willing to wait and save up more for that kitchen cabinet that will bring more joy and happiness to me rather than just a 'tangkap muat' kitchen cabinet.
2. Bathroom - apart from installing the cheap lighting, we will have to do further renovation at a later stage i.e. full tiling of the bathroom wall up to the ceiling, install shower screen and change the sink. Of course Suami Terchenta will do some plumbing work himself i.e. install new rain shower head and water hose for the toilet.
3. Painting - we have not decided on the colour for our feature wall at living/dining area, kitchen and master bedroom. I am also seriously considering wallpaper but it is costly.
4. The curtains - have to use current one.

Excuse me, I go sleep on the rest of our decorating needs first. Nite, folks!

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Saturday, November 13, 2010

Kecoh2 Bersama Makcik Bibah

Makcik Bibah datang ke KL minggu ni. Terus ajak berliburan. Eh, tak sedar ke dah jadi mak orang, masih nak berpoya2 cucuk langit dengan saya?

Sungguh.

Saya pun dah lama tak cucuk langit. Asyik cucuk mata sebab tension di ofis. Asyik cucuk duit sebab beli barang untuk bakal anak yang sudah beri notis 2 bulan. Tak lama lagi, dia akan kena evicted dari perut emaknya. Maaf anakku, sila jangan overstay. Mak sudah teringin nak melompat2, kalau melompat sekarang kena marah dengan ayah. Macam hari tu, gatal hati nak tengok cerita hantu, bila hantu keluar mak terus melompat dari kerusi tak sedar diri sedang boyot. Ayah gelak guling-guling. Sabar ajelah.

Ok, berbalik kepada Makcik Bibah yang hendak beronggeng dengan saya. Sebenarnya, kami pun tak punya banyak masa untuk pergi beronggeng. Ada satu lagi assignment yang perlu present dan submit next week, jadi kalau ikutkan hati nak aje saya postpone. Tapi... kesian pulak sebab ni dah kali kedua Bibah turun ke KL. Kali ni dia bawak anaknya. Saya pun teringin nak tengok si Haifaa... Maka, terus aje lah on programme.

Malam sebelumnya, berhempas-pulas menyiapkan part assignment. Sampai tido pukul 4pagi! Not good Carneyz... :( Saya janji tak buat lagi, maafkan mak ye baby... Next day, pagi2 lagi dah tercongok di library, discussion smp pukul 1pm, dan lepas tu lunch. Lepas lunch, kami sempat tido dalam kereta selama 1 jam. Nasib baik tak kena tangkap basah kan. Hahahaha!

Lepas tu, barulah calling2 Bibah, dan pergi ke rumah kakaknya. Akhirnya dapat jugak dukung baby Haifaa ;) Macam baby2 yang lain, Haifaa sungguh kagum dengan janggut Suami Terchenta. Sesiapa bayi sahaja akan terpegun dengan janggut beliau. Adakah mereka boleh nampak bidadari2 berjuntai di janggut ittew??? Huh. Kecemburuan.

Lepas lepak2 di rumah kakak Bibah, kami pun keluar menuju ke 1Utama. Suami Bibah yang drive. Bibah dan saya duduk di belakang. Suami Terchenta jadi co-pilot. Sepanjang saya kenal Bibah, ni kali pertama saya tengok dia dah hubby sejak majlis perkahwinan mereka 2 tahun lepas. Masa tu, mungkin masih pengantin baru jadi tak berapa mesra. Lepas tu, dia duduk di KL, hubby pulak di Perak. Tapi kali ni, Bibah memang la very2 loving dengan hubby. Nasib baik saya tak bukak tingkap dan muntah darah. HAHAHAHA!

Honestly, saya tak menyangka akan tiba masa bila conversation in the car akan berkisar tentang barang-barang bayi:

'Ko beli berapa pasang baju untuk anak ko?'
'Erk. Aku beli sepasang je. Pastu aku mengharapkan kawan2 hadiahkan la baju untuk anak aku nanti...'
'Eh, mana cukup! Ko kene beli byk2x... Baby ni suka muntah, pastu suka berak. Lagi satu, ko kene beli baju yang jarang2 tu, kot2 rumah ko panas. Tak de la dia kepanasan sangat.'
'Hmm... ok.'
'Nanti dia pakai lampin ke, pampers?'
'Aku beli pampers je kot.'
(Suami Bibah mencelah, 'Isyk2x... kaya...')

Dan begitulah seterusnya sepanjang trip pergi dan balik dari 1Utama. Dulu2, bercerita tentang gosip2 orang perempuan, tentang kat mana nak beli tudung murah dan best, tentang pakwe, kerja dan pakwe lagi... Tapi now masing2 dan jadi mak orang (dan bakal mak orang), topik sudah berevolusi kepada perbualan tentang anak. Tahun lepas, saya mungkin akan ketawa guling2 kalau habiskan setengah jam cerita pasal puting botol susu. Yalah, tahun lepas saya tak menyangka akan pregnant tahun ni. Woohoo!

Lepas menghabiskan 2 jam shopping barang anak (lagi!) di Jusco, saya decided untuk belanja Bibah makan di TGIF memandangkan Jumaat lepas ialah birthday beliau. Sekali lagi mau muntah darah tengok mereka bersuap-suapan sambil share satu pinggan. Tapi, ekceli saya suka. Hopefully bila baby dah keluar nanti, Suami Terchenta akan terus romantis macam ittew. Ahem. En Suami? Are you reading this?

Apapun, saya rasa kurang tension sebab dapat jumpa dan spend time dengan kawan rapat sejak di UTM dulu. Masih ingat lagi kami sama2 duduk dengar ceramah masa minggu orientasi. Masih ingat lagi kami selalu buat assignment sama2. Dan sama2 takde pakwe sepanjang kat UTM Oh ya, Bibah la yang buat hasutan supaya sms Suami Terchenta masa kami di final year). Dan a few times, Bibah temankan saya dating dengan Suami Terchenta buat pertama kali after grad (Mesti masa tu dia yang nak muntah darah tengok aksi2 malu2 kucing kami).

Lastly, ialah gambar kami dengan pasangan masing2 sedang menunggu makanan di TGIF:



Makcik Bibah, next time datang KL, kita gi IKEA pulak ye? (ayat ini tidak disokong oleh Suami Terchenta dan hubby Bibah)

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Friday, November 05, 2010

Shamelessly Exploiting My Unborn Child

On Wednesday night, Suami Terchenta fetched me at office at 8pm. As usual. Now you know why I hate work kan?

I was telling him how hungry I felt coz I had very light lunch for a pregger like me (kaya filled steamed bun). Yet, my body is growing at such an unbelievable rate, while my baby inherits the father's gene a.k.a. the baby's current weight is just 1+kg je!

As we approached the traffic light, it suddenly turned red and Suami Terchenta quickly crossed the red light. We were delighted at beating the light but the delight was short-lived - a traffic police waved frantically at us to stop.

Suami Terchenta rolled down the window and began apologising for his mistake profusely. The policeman ignored his apologies and started to ask for his IC and driving license while mulut tak berhenti-henti berleter. En Suami Terchenta made a sheepish face and I automatically placed both hands on my round belly so our baby did not have to listen to her parents being scolded :p

Upon noticing me looking all pale and tired and HUGELY pregnant, the policeman stopped berating us and closed his summons book.

'Kali ni saya maafkan awak. Lain kali jangan buat lagi.' He ended his mini-lecture. We sheepishly thanked him and drove away. As we drove by other drivers that were stopped, we noticed that some were in the middle of persuading the police traffic not to book them, and some even went out of the car to argue with the police. Luckily we got away with a mini-lecture only! Phew!~

Later only did I realise that I was using the fact that I am heavily-pregnant to escape the law! HAHAHAHAHA! Ok, ok. I know this is not good, babies are innocent creatures and should not be used for evil purposes i.e. to run away from being punished. But still, thank you Pak Polisi, for being sympathetic towards this pregnant, workaholic lady! ^_^

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