Cyza Sector

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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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.

Sometime in this life we have to make some sacrifices. That is life. I’m very grateful to have one happy family. I’m blessed with a great job and the opportunity to further my study in the highest level. What else can I ask more?

I realized I have earlier mentioned about arranging my online activities. But then, I also realize that, I need to prioritize my time with my kids, especially to monitor their studies.

Ikhwan, my active eldest son, is in standard one and require serious attention from us (the parents). He likes to play and go to school. But when it comes to doing homework and studying, he needs somebody to motivate him. That’s when we come in. I’m now committed in spending 1-2 hours every night to ensure he can perform in his study, especially in reading Malaysian and English language, jawi and mathematics. I hope we can prepare him well enough before the final examination next month. We want to see him improve his grade in his examination in both his official school and religious school.

Marsya, 5, our expressive first daughter is very diligent and require less attention in terms of her studies. She’s doing very well in her pre-school and we are trying to bring her up to another level. The only thing is her mood which is sometimes unpredictably annoying.

Alya, 3+, our charming third child, is still very small. We don’t really expect her to study seriously for the time being. We want her to have her own sweet and fun time studying at school.

That’s the current sacrifice I have to make. Maybe I cannot call it sacrifice, but rather define it as responsibility. Before this, I have not really paid sufficient attention to their studies. After work, at night, I only focus on my online activities. But, their future is very important and precious to us. We don’t want to gamble their future. We want the best for them. We want them to excel academically and morally and grow up to be good people with great career. We have to do our best to provide them with the best education and support plus motivation + love.

That’s it. I’ll reduce my online time in order to ensure my kids are doing well. I have to re-arrange my strategy because I have to spend more time thinking and running my ph.d research too.

Oh gosh… when can I relax???

My online time will be roughly around 1 hour every night, I’m guessing… And I must proportion it finely to do all the blogging, affiliate, article marketing, SEO, and other making money online duties…

Please, I seek other almost similar parents to share your experiences with me…

In the house, our IT department have 3 laptops (2 in good shape and 1 is in ICU), 1 PC, 1 broadband modem, 1 wireless router and zero printer. Most of the time, the laptops will be occupied by me and my wife for doing some blogging, surfing and other works. We are comfortable because we can individually use our own laptop peacefully without interrupting each other.

However, I think the new generation is going to rule over us. Recently, we’ve introduced e-learning to our kids and they immediately liked the new education method. Ikhwan, Marsya and Alya became so interested and amazed with the colourful photos/screen, animation and the sound. Before this we never thought about searching those learning tools for kids from the internet. Well, there are a lots of those stuffs in the virtual world for us to grab and use for our kids.

After Goggling the net, we found 2 interesting interacting learning website which are ABC Alphabet and Phonemic Awareness for Kindergarten and Pre-school; and Online Learning Games from Fisher-Price. The kids love the interactive learning website a lot that it is difficult for us to stop them to use the laptops.

Ikhwan using his mother’s laptop (Alya is checking out what Ikhwan is doing) while Marsya is using my laptop.

They simply love the interactive learning process. Luckily, Alya did not fight to use the laptop. If not, maybe we have to get another laptop for her!!!

They are learning via StarFall.com website.

Learning “h” for horse…the website pronounced the letter “h” and “horse”. This is help the kids to learn and understand the meaning of horse and how to pronounce it.

We’re glad that there are alternative tools to educate our kids. However, we could not 100% let them learn through the website or software. They still need to learn how to write and count manually by themselves. They need totally understand the concept. The interactive and animated e-learning process should be regarded as a different way to educate our kids creatively and to have fun.

So, for those of you out there who have kids, you can try it. While those of you who are dying to get married and have kids, consider this as some early information to educate your kids. The most important thing is that we are able to provide quality education for our kids efficiently and effectively. Adios…

Let’s pray and do what we can to ensure adik Linie safely returns to her family. We don’t want the same event which happened to adik Nurin repeats. You can play a role to spread this information to others so that the entire nation unites and search for the unfortunate girl. We appreciate real valid informations to assist the parents and the police to organized the search and rescue operation.

To those who kidnapped the girl, please show some mercy to adik Linie. She is still small and she has astma and require proper medications. There are millions of other positive activities that can be done apart from kidnapping a little girl.

To those who have small kids (including me), we better take 110% care of our kids. It seems that our country is not safe until the culprit is totally brought to justice.