Cyza Sector

Today, I just want to share some impressive story about my other half. We have been married for slightly more than 9 years and blessed with 3 beautiful kids. She started to work as a tutor in August or September 1999 in a local public university in south of peninsular Malaysia. After completing her masters degree in 2002, she became a lecturer. End of 2005, she pursued her Ph.D studies. Originally she planned to study abroad. We preferred to go to UK. But then we were not allowed because she has performed her first degree in UK. Hence, we selected New Zealand as an alternative. However, while planning all these, she got pregnant of Alya, our third child. Because of that, we collectively decided to just continue her study in Malaysia. At the same time, I can continue to work as a process engineer in  an edible oil company in Pasir Gudang.

Recently, she successfully completed her Ph.D (Chemical Engineering) with minor correction, well actually most of them are just formatting errors. I must say that her thesis and research is very impressive.

While we were undergraduates

Since we’ve known each other more than 12 years ago, I always see her as a genius person. That is one of the most important trait that she has. She study less but she can pick-up very fast without any effort. On the other hand, I studied harder than her because I’m not that clever or brilliant as her or the other students. I need to put more effort to succeed in whatever I do and whatever I learned. That is my key to success >>> Work Hard. I will read wherever I am, even at the bus stop while waiting for my school bus or while stopping at the traffic light in my car. I don’t like to waste the precious time just like that.

Work

Both of us have a good career, I thank God for that. As some of you know, I’m currently doing my Ph.D and I’m in my 3rd semester. In the university, I will at most of the time be in the lab, working on my research. My wife, in the other hand has more jobs to do. She has to teach (lecture), supervise research students under her, write and publish papers, think of her research, coordinate and manage her consultancy Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) work and much more. In addition to that, her English is so good that she also do proof reading and editing services which focuses on chemical engineering thesis and technical papers. You know what… I’m really impressed in how she managed to do all of those work, calmly. It’s really amazing!

Home

At home, it’s a different story. As soon as we reached home, I will normally relax, rest, watch TV, tease my kids or do my online activity. On the other hand my wife will change her attire and go straight to the kitchen to cook for us. During this fasting month, I prefer eating at home rather than buying from bazar Ramadhan or eating out at any Ramadhan Buffet. While I rest, she still work, but now she work in the kitchen, with our maid assisting.

Later at night, she will check our kids homework and revision. My kids prefer to refer to her rather than me. I don’t know why? Am I that fierce?

Superwoman

Do I consider her a superwoman? Yes, definitely. She is more excellent than me at work. Of course, I have a different set of experience because I have been working as an engineer for almost 6 years. That’s a different story. But now, I’m starting my career as an academician and I’m catching up with her. Once she is assigned a task or a project, she will be laser focused to complete it as soon as possible. Yep…she’s very focus. That’s one thing that I need to learn and master from her. I need that to be successful in my career and my online business.

Before I end this entry and break fast in a matter of minutes, I would like to say to my wife that I appreciate her being part of my life. All of us love and embrace you. You are such a great person, wife and mother. Thanks for everything, my dear…

Oh yea… before I forget.. Thanks for cooking chicken rendang for me… hehe

It was an exhaustive but rewarding weekend. Last Friday, we break fast (iftar), as usual at home. Normally, my wife will cook something for all of us. If you asked me the menu that evening, I have forgotten…. haha… and I just asked my wife and she also have forgotten about the menu she cooked.

Saturday Story

Then on Saturday morning, we headed to Kuantan, my wife’s hometown to have iftar there for the first time this fasting month. We requested my mother in law to cook laksa and fried mee. Laksa is for us while the fried mee is for the kids. They are not ready to eat laksa yet. We arrived in Kuantan at about 4.30 pm and visited a Ramadhan bazaar at Taman Tas. We bought a handful of colourful and tasty food for the iftar. We arrived at my in laws at 5pm and I rested myself.

The menu that day (Saturday) at Kuantan:

1. Laksa
2. Fried mee
3. Martabak
4. Variety of cakes (kuih-muih)
5. Orange cordial
6. Hot tea
7. Green Bandung drink
8. Kurma

As usual after performing Magrib prayer we went to perform Isya’ and Terawih.

Sunday Story

The following day, we returned back to Johor Bahru and hope to make it to have iftar at my parents place. We managed to reach my folks home in Taman Gembira at 5.30 pm, that is after we did a little bit food shopping in Bazar Ramadhan in Kampung Melayu Majidee.

Honestly, I don’t like the experience buying food there. It was pack, crowded and difficult to walk. Another obvious reason I hated going to this kind of Bazar Ramadhan is because there are a lot of women who could not care less about their own attire. I avoided to look but most of the times, it was accidental view. There are women who wear very tight and fit dress. There are also some who wear see through dress which reveal their body underneath!!! What the hell is this? Are they fasting? Or simply showing off their flesh.

Well, that’s one of the most significant reason I hated to go to most of the Bazar Ramadhan. However, the one in UTM is OK. Maybe because most of them who are there are UTM students and staffs, and all of them are decently dressed. The Bazar Ramadhan in UTM is also not crowded. Ops… enough of that… Need to stop that before I changed subject.

Back to my original story. We have iftar at my folks home on Sunday and the menu were:

1. Martabak
2. Otak-otak
3. Various assorted cakes (Kuih-muih lah)
4. White rice
5. Daging Gulai Kawah
6. Chicken rice (for the kids)
7. Kurma
8. Ayam percik
9. Curry fish
10. Fried chicken
11. Hot tea

Why the hack the menu was more? Easy… My mother informed me that she has nothing to cook at home after my younger brother, Budeen left earlier the same day. So, I told her not to worry. We will buy the food at Bazar Ramadhan. Upon reaching home, I found out that my father also has bought food. It was basically a simple communication break down. That’s fine. The extra food was successfully carried forward for sahur!!! as usual…

Tuah’s new home

My mother happen to accidentally took care of a baby stray cat at her home. The cat, named Tuah, is not physically cute but she is a charming cat. The problem is my mother cannot take care of the cat because she is not very fit to take car of Tuah. Tuah will eat and do her business anywhere (shit)… Hence, my mother asked my favour to relocate Tuah to anywhere far away from her house.

Feeling pity of Tuah’s fate, I offered to place him behind my house. That will be a place, not too spacious but better then no where for an innocent teenage cat who don’t know what’s happening. Will continue about Tuah soon. It’s time to break fast…

One week after entering the operation theater in Johor Specialist Hospital, Ikhwan encountered another interesting tragic moment. Guess what…

After school, he squeezed his time to cycle his bike. As usual, he “Rempit” his bike and collided with his sparring partner, Azam, a standard 1 boy neighbour, from the same school. He fell and slides on the tar road with his left cheek, left elbow and left hip affected.

He was supposed to attend the Jawi class at 7.30pm. However, due to the injury, misery and pain, we let him skip the Jawi class.

Today is Sunday and yet his skin injury is not totally dried yet. When it is fully dried, I will be the one who will “kopek” his dried wound. hehe…

The photo up there was just taken when I write this entry. It was originally worse than that with Ikhwan continuously crying. Deserve him right and let he learn the lesson. He have not yet felt from a bike that bad.

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This is the follow up post (yeah…I know it’s one week already) about Ikhwan’s experience in the hospital. Sorry, I just posted photos and brief description. Very the busy!!! hehe

Ikhwan waiting agonizingly before entering the operation theater

Ikhwan with his new dress

Ikhwan after the operation…His playing game!!! In my laptop.

That’s the tiny piece of paper. Very small… The overall cost of the one-day treatment is RM1,700. 90% of the cost is covered by the insurance and 10% of it was covered by us (RM170). This was just a simple treatment/procedure. Just imagine what will be the cost for a massive or chronic illness?!!!

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Note: I’m writing @ typing this blog post from a side of a bed in Johor Specialist Hospital, Johor Bahru.

As the title shows, that is what happen to my son. 3 weeks ago, Ikhwan played inserting small papers inside his left and right ears at school.

Last Friday, we went to the clinic as he complained about something stuck inside his left ear. It was found that some sort of wax has emerged inside his ears, possibly an infection due to his act of inserting paper inside his ear. The doctor vacuumed the left ear and the wax was successfully removed but with some struggle as Ikhwan cannot sit still at all. After the left ear is clear, the doctor checked the right ear which Ikhwan does not feel anything. Just pure checking…

The doctor found a tiny piece of paper inside his right ear.

To cut things short, today we met the doctor again to see the outcome – to check whether the paper is still there or dissolve. Well, guess what…. the paper is still there and not only the doctor, but me and my wife can see the paper using the tool (i don’t know what it is called) to look into the ear thing.

He asked us to immediately go to the Johor Specialist hospital and meet up with the E&T (ear and throat) Specialist, Dr. Ridzo. He said that Ikhwan need to be taken to the operation theater in order to remove that tiny piece of paper. Wow…. that bad…

Ikhwan was shaken to learn the news. He started crying, fearing the experience he will be facing soon.

Before we continued to register Ikhwan’s admission into the ward, we checked with our insurance agent about the payment procedure. This is very imperative as we have paid insurance consistently each and every month for the pass 5 years. We will be devastated if the insurance would not cover the cost of this minor treatment in the specialist hospital.

To cut long story short… Ikhwan was admitted to the day care ward and to standby to be called into the operation theater.

To be continued…

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Today is a very interesting day. Believe it or not, I taught my kids, Ikhwan (8) and Marsya (6) how to open, read, type and chat using their own email account. Before that, I thought both of them how to register and login their own email account.

So, it is official, Ikhwan and Marsya has their own email account and I can send email to them. Their mother can send email to them too. Their grandfather, uncles and aunties also can send email to them as well.

It is really interesting and I look forward to see how they will progress. I hope this exposure can stimulate their brain faster than normal. I hope this activity will be a good one to further educate and train them to be independence in information seeking. It was quite tough to explain to them about what is email, username, password, reply, chat etc. But the outcome was great… They seem to like the idea of being able to email and chat .

Alya (5) seems not interested yet to learn about email. Maybe next year I will teach her.

Following was my chat (GTalk) with Ikhwan just now… It was his first time chatting with me. Marsya was with him while he searched which letter on the keyboard to key in. They were both down stairs while I was up stairs. The overall chat took 22 minutes, mainly because I have to wait him to type the chat… haha…

me: Ikhwan
Awak tengah buat apa?
Awak tengah tengok kartun ke?
Sent at 8:03 PM on Sunday
me: CEpat lah sikit…kenapa ikhwan taip lambat sangat??
Marsya tak tolong Ikhwan ke?
Ikhwan…cakap kat Marsya jangan nenen banyak sangat…he he
Sent at 8:06 PM on Sunday
ikhwanfirdaus02: saya tengah tengo komputer
me: oooo
best tak cakap-cakap kat komputer?
he he he

Sent at 8:09 PM on Sunday
ikhwanfirdaus02: bas
me: bas apa?
apa lah awak ni?
awak ketawa ki ki ki ki  ke?
Sent at 8:11 PM on Sunday
ikhwanfirdaus02: kenapa daddy cakap banyak?
me: eh…tak boleh ke?
Nak borak – borak dengan anak sendiri…huhuhuhuhu
Sent at 8:15 PM on Sunday
ikhwanfirdaus02: lemang tak boleh pun
Sent at 8:17 PM on Sunday
ikhwanfirdaus02: cepat lah jawap sokalan saya
me: lemang? memang lah
bukan lemang
sila eja betul betul yek….
Sent at 8:21 PM on Sunday
ikhwanfirdaus02: dah saya dah tak nak borak lagi
me: ok babai
Sent at 8:25 PM on Sunday

Next project

After they are familiar with login, reading and replying emails, I will move on and teach them to create and maintain their own blog.

For a start they will use blogspot.com but then, after a while and when they are able to understand blogging, I’ll present them their own dotcom. I want to provide them the dot com and web 2.0 adventure. It is the web 2.0 era and soon web 3.0 will emerged. I don’t want my kids to be laid back and not knowing or not alert on the internet wave. I want them to make full use of what is good from the internet.

After they are familiar with email and blog, I’ll introduce them to Facebook. Facebook is equally important web 2.0 tool nowadays for networking and other positive activities.

And finally, when the timing is good and when I see some sign of maturity, I’ll train them on how to make money online. I strongly believe, they will be excited to be able to make money by themselves. When? I can’t say yet. If either one of them are ready at the age of 13, I’ll teach him/her. If either one is ready at 10 years old, why the heck not?

Then, I need to teach them how to register google adsense, click bank etc. I also need to expose to them about paypal and how to withdraw money using western union or our own internet banking system. Wow…that, I believe would be very interesting…

I’ll let reveal when they have their own personal blog that they run themselves soon…

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Chocolate!

Everybody has his or her own favourite chocolate. My wife loves chocolate so much. Well, normally women/girl loves chocolate more than their guy counterpart. As for me, I have my own favourite chocolate. I’ve discovered this chocolate when I was studying in UK. Since that, this chocolate, Maltesers, has become my favourite choice.

In Malaysia, I rarely buy Maltesears because it is not widely available and the price is slightly on the higher side. Last Sunday, I decided to celebrate nothing by buying Maltesers. My kids never tried it before. They are only used to consume large size Cadbury chocolate with almond and tool them few minutes to throw the wrappers into the dustbin. Sometimes, or maybe rather every week, they demanded us to buy Kinder Joy and we have to buy 3. Why 3… Because there is Ikhwan, Marsya and Alya. Sharing is not enough…haha… Once in a while we buy different types of other chocolates and together we eat them…

But, after this I can say my kids will request us to buy Maltesers on a weekly basis…hehe…

Have you tried Maltesers? Get a packet now for your partner…he/she will like it and love you more…

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Recently we visited MPH and all of us bought ourselves book(s). The damage of RM was OK… haha…  That does not matter as long as we provide our kids with ample books and reading materials. Surprisingly this time, Marsya requested for a novel – “Gadis Bubble Gum”. She’s still 6 years old and will only enroll to standard 1 next year. Her reading ability and spirit really amazed us, the parents. However, she still needs to improve her english. As for Ikhwan and Alya, both of you need to improve your reading skills…hehe…then you’ll get rewarded by Cyza Sector…

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I received a call from one of my good friends last night. It has been a while since we last had a conversation through the phone. Both of us are kinda busy managing our own lives and trying our best to excel in our career. It was such a pleasant surprise and we talked for quite a tremendous amount of time, trying to catch up on what’s happening in each other’s life. She seems to notice that I have not posted to this blog for quite some time already, that’s why the call.

At times, I do miss my life and my friends when I was single. I had a wonderful time back then, together with my friends in England. How I wish that we can have a gathering and meet, talk and have fun together, regardless of our status.

I learnt a lot from my friends. All of them have their own colours. Each colour have their own meaning. Each colour have their own admirer. But of course you cannot satisfy everyone. No matter how hard you try, there will be people around you who can’t accept what you do. So, don’t worry, just be yourself and let them choose what colour they like.

It’s time to bring your memories back. Remember all your friends. Maybe me and my husband should held a gathering at our house. One of these days I will have to contact all of them and drag them to JB. Have a holiday here in JB and leave your hectic lives in KL for a while guys….. Adiossss….

p/s 1: Do you think I wrote those? This entry was written by my other half. I took this article from a blog she wrote before (in 2007) before she permanently halted till now. I persuaded her to continue blogging, but perhaps, she doesn’t have the interest in it. As long as she don’t stop me, that’s OK.

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p/s 3: Photo was adopted from http://www.flickr.com/photos/liverpoolsuburbia/2847511541/. That photo shows a store where I have once bought a sleeping bag in Bradford City Center. 

Yesterday, we went to Jusco, a routine weekly activity, to grab hold of our groceries. On the way to the cashier, I saw some cards being sold. Looking at its price, RM2.90, I just took it and paid it with the rest. I want to play this with my kids.

At home, I played it with my kids and also our friend’s kids who happen to dropped by at our house. The kids were very excited playing the cards. I only know how to play 2 games. I have totally forgotten how to play other card games. That’s fine, I’ll google it later.

It is also interesting to capture the first moment of them playing cards like this. I hope to spend more fun and quality time like this with my kids. I’m proud that Ikhwan also is good in chess. I taught him how to play chess last 2 weeks and now he is good at it. As good as he is, he still cannot beat his sifu, that’s me. Maybe one day, he’ll be able to challenge and won a chess game against me.