Islam | Patutlah Senyum itu Satu Sedeqah!

Hati yang resah mampu terubat dengan satu senyuman.. walaupun senyuman itu dari orang lain. Ramai yang sekadar cakap je senyum itu satu sedeqah.. tapi ramai ke yang sedeqah senyuman?

Selalu kalau pergi beli barang.. geram kalau tengok cashier tu tergedik2 dengan kawan-kawan cashier yang lain tapi bila cakap dengan kita.. terus muka masam macam kita buang masa dia.

Kadang-kadang meluat tengok orang yang bekerja di bahagian info muka masam mencuka.. Kadang-kadang nak sedapkan hati.. nina selalu cakap.. agaknya laki dia marah dia kot pagi tadi tu yang mencuka tu..

Tapi pada hakikatnya.. senyum itu kalau kena pada gayanya akan jadi sedeqah.. Ruginya sapa yang muka masam tu.. Dahlah orang sibuk mengumpat dia.. dia pun runsing juga memikirkan kedut-kedut di muka tu.

Okaylah ya.. sebenarnya tak niat pun nak kutuk orang.. tapi kadang-kadang how i wish people would smile no matter how tired they are. Mungkin itu peringatan untuk diri sendiri.. selalu masam je muka dengan anak-anak bila order tengah tak menang tangan hehe.. Cukup-cukuplah ya.. karang got carried away la pulak ;D

p.s. jangan lupa senyum tawww!!

Islam | Patutlah Senyum itu Satu Sedeqah!

Alhamdulillah.. Sesungguhnya Kau Maha Mendengar, Ya Allah.

Alhamdulillah.. sebenarnya 2 minggu ni risau semacam sebab ada satu masaalah yang rasanya memang tidak dapat dirungkai. Tapi hari ni, alhamdulillah, selesai sudah masaalah tu.. dengan tidak dijangka-jangka.. dengan satu panggilan telefon sahaja.

Nina bersyukur sangat.. sebab walaupun nina tidaklah runsing sampai tak lalu makan, tapi nina perasan bila nina tidur.. nina akan mimpi segala apa yang nina fikirkan.. cerita macam-macam yang berkait dengan apa yang nina fikir pada siangnya. Selalunya.. nina kalau mimpi bukan-bukan tu nina faham la.. sebenarnya ada sesuatu yang merunsingkan walaupun selalu nina tidaklah 'overworry'.

Alhamdulillah.. dan kali ini, bila nina sebut alhamdulillah.. bergetar hati ini tanda syukur dengan nikmat yang Allah berikan apabila masaalah yang dilalui hampir selesai.

Alhamdulillah.. Sesungguhnya Kau Maha Mendengar, Ya Allah.

Journal | ...

Entah kenapa hati tak sedap dari semalam.. Rasa sedih pun ada.. rasa sunyi pun ada.. rasa macam tak sedap hati. Mungkinkah remark - remark orang keliling yang tak sedap didengar. Mungkinkah perasaan yang agak sensitif akhir-akhir ini menunjukkan umur yang makin meningkat ataupun hormon yang sentiasa berubah.

Bila difikirkan.. apa yang orang lain fikir memang tak penting. Bukan salah kita orang lain tak boleh tutup mulut. Mungkinkah hati sakit kerana apa yang dikatakan itu ada benarnya. Ataupun kita yang terlalu ego untuk mengakui hakikatnya.

Days come and go.. Night falls and pass.. time flies..
Along the way.. we meet a long of people.. a lot of strangers.. a lot of acquaintance and friends..
As the passes our lives.. they touch and make an impact..
Sometimes positively and sometimes it's so bad that it changes someone's life completely..
I know how powerful those impact can be in our lives..
I just hope that.. if I ever make any.. even if it's a tiny one..
I just pray that it's a positive one..

I just don't want to be responsible for any changes that I caused.. negatively
nor do I want to be responsible for any damage in a person's feelings..
the way people touch mine a few days ago..

I now release the past.. it's time to let go..
I know.. whatever remark that people do.. whatever smirk that's clearly seen on their faces.. I know that it lies in my hand to channel it into a positive energy..
At least I know it will make me a more compassionate and a more careful person thinking of the pain that it caused me.. and for that.. Alhamdulillah.. Ya Allah.. aku redho..

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Fuuh! Hectic Hectic Week!

Dah dua minggu hidup ni kelam kabut giler.. Sejak NinazCakes Syahr El Fundraising berlangsung.. alhamdulillah.. rezeki mencurah-curah. Tak tahulah sebenarnya siapa yang tolong siapa. Syahr El tolong NinazCakes ke NinazCakes tolong Syahr El. Alhamdulillah.. tak sangka.. sebenarnya kami nak sedeqah mengikut skill saja sebab nak bagi cash memang tak ada.

Betul lah orang kata 'What you give, you get back!' You get back more than you give actually. Sebenarnya.. kami tetapkan sehingga 15 Julai untuk mempercepatkan kutipan wang untuk diberikan untuk Syahr El. Cabaran kali ni boleh tahan la..

1) Tak taulah siapa yang tertumpahkan air dalam oven. Sampai sekarang ni tak berani nak on. Jadi kami bakar pakai 1 oven sahaja. Alhamdulillah.. yang okay oven besar.

2) Ada satu hari tu .. delivery pukul 1 dah settle.. sebabkan ada sorang tu janji pukul 3, kami legar-legar lah.. alih2 terpaksa cancel sebab kereta dia rosak.. isy isy isy.. nak buat camne kan..

3) Air con rosak.. kena baiki RM300 terbang camtu je.. Alhamdulillah.. tak payah tukar the whole compressor.. hehe kalau tak terbang RM500++

4) Ada yang book.. bila reserve.. call tak dapat.. buzz tak jawab.. (lain kali kena mintak payment dulu hehehehe.. siap ada clause : non refundable hehehe) Alhamdulillah ada orang lain yang beli hehehe

5) Masa aircon rosak tu la, tertinggal ice box.. selalu letak dalam icebox. kek tu tak lah cair.. Alhamdulillah.. hari tu delivery semua cepat.. cuma satu je yang cair hehe

4) Disebabkan kami bagi free delivery.. kami groupkan order mengikut kawasan.. Jadi.. masa penghantaran tu memang unpredictable. Alhamdulillah.. pembeli Syahr El's Box of Love begitu memahami.. Next time kami tau lah.. nak limitkan route mana ;D

Okay.. minggu depan yang akan datang ni, nina nak sort gambar pulak.. Gambar punyalah banyak dalam CPU.. yelah .. kita bukan pro kan.. satu gambar kena 2-3 kali shoot. Itu pun ada yang silau la.. yang malap la.. nak adjust pun nina pakai PICASA je. Nantilah.. nina nak share kelebihan Picasa ni! Bagi yang takde basic.. PICASA ni memang excellent! Agar sukar untuk get used to it tapi once you get it, insyaallah senang dan mudah! Yang penting, senang nak trace balik mana gambar yang dah di download.

Okaylah ya.. taknak tulis panjang-panjang.. sebab ni kira warm up dulu sebab dah lama giler tak menulis di blog ni.. Hati tu nak menulis.. tapi kalau dah baking the whole week tu penat la jugak.

Fuuh! Hectic Hectic Week!

I LOVE BLOGHOPPING!

Hari ni.. sambil-sambil ber'facebook', bila nampak gambar kek cantik tu, mulalah klik sana klik sini.. Wah rupa-rupanya ramai orang yang menjual kek dari rumah macam nina.. Makin lama tengok makin cantik design.. Dah la cantik.. bermacam-macam variety kek dan kuih-muih.. Terasa kecik sungguh diri ini hahha..

Silap-silap hari bulan boleh lemah semangat tengok produk orang yang jauh lebih hebat dengan teknik fotografi yang 'first class'. Nina ni kadang-kadang ambil dengan kamera je.. tu yang silau sana silau sini!

Tapi tak boleh patah semangat tau!! Sebenarnya.. bila tengok orang punya.. kita mesti mengobarkan semangat kita! Yelah.. nak meniaga bukan senang tau! Kadang-kadang kita rasa dah cantik.. rupanya ada yang nak lagi cantik.. Kita belum pandai buat, customer dah order dulu.

Lepas tu.. kalau takat produk cantik pun tak jadi tau! Mesti kena ada rupa jugak.. Nina perasan, sesetengah orang tu tak kisah pun bayar lebih.. janji cantik dipandang dan sedap dimakan untuk dihadiahkan untuk orang yang tersayang.

Alhamdulillah.. Allah berikan kekuatan untuk bertahan dan dikurniakan anak-anak yang paling suka kalau nina masak! Apatah lagi sokongan padu sang suami yang tak putus-putus memberi support! Bisnes partner la katakan.. :D Okaylah ya! It's the last day of school holiday.. tengah pikir-pikir.. nak potong rambut budak2 ni ke tidak.. Chow dulu ya!!!

I LOVE BLOGHOPPING!

Memories | Sometimes to Forget is a Blessing.

Lately.. I have been occupied by my school friends in our School Group @ Facebook and no matter how hard I try, I have very little memories of school.. and I mean very very little memories. I wonder if it's because of the aging factor.. or the sleeping in the afternoon while nursing my babies that caused that. After thinking for a while.. I have to conclude that it's a blessing.

I hated school. Being in the group, though entertaining most of the time.. also comes with sad memories. I'm just lucky though.. I'm blessed with the ability to forget all those bad memories. I really don't have to try any harder to remember because I really want to forget those memories.
Sometimes I wonder if things would have been different if I was in a different school or went to that school willingly. Or would it be different in a bad way if I choose to cling to the bad memories.

Earlier last year.. I found classmates from my primary school.. Though I remember bits and pieces of the memories.. I forgot most of it. I can only remember the ones I decided to remember.. those sweet memories but mostly.. I'd say it's gone.

Alhamdulillah.. the brain is a powerful organ indeed. Though it can remember many many things, I believe that it's even more powerful if we can forget.. so that we can move on.. I had to erase a lot in order to move on.. Though I can't remember (because I refuse to even try to remember) there are times when there is still a piercing pain in my heart that 'can' bring tears in my eyes and I stopped thinking completely about it.

I'm glad that I decided to move on.. and forget and forgive whoever and whatever things in life that seemed to bother me.. because no matter what... Life Goes on!

Memories | Sometimes to Forget is a Blessing.

Well, looking at the picture above, it definitely shows that we have been avoiding the shop lately.. The day after the picture was taken, I took out a really frozen whole chicken from the freezer which was planned to be cooked 2 weeks ago when my mother in law came. It was procrastinated until this afternoon.

This afternoon, while waiting for the chicken to defrost, I had to fry out filo pastry sheets, rolled and cut and fried with chillies because we were too hungry. I woke up late this morning so we had a very late breakfast. Then it was a very late lunch or err.. should i call it early dinner. Tonite, my son made 'teh tarik' because he wanted to eat biscuit (still hungry?). In the washing machine, hidden my laundry which is going to be hung by my kids tomorrow. By now, you are free to judge me.. whatever judgement you may think reasonable.

I've heard before complaints about other wives who have been labelled 'lazy' because they chose to buy dinner outside or choose to let the maid do the cooking. Also heard poor mommies labelled as bad mommies because their kids lack discipline. Sometimes, kids easily labelled as nuisance simply because they talk loud or at least louder that the rest.

I'm not saying that I don't judge.. I do judge sometimes.. but then, most of the time, when I heard other people judging others.. I do wonder whether they even think of what people judge them. Or do they not care what people think of them as long as they don't hear themselves the judgment.

What I'm saying is that.. before judging people.. perhaps we should take a moment judging ourselves or consider what people judge us. Because whatever we see is only one side of the world.. Maybe we might want to wear his or her shoes for a couple of hours or try to see the whole picture before making any conclusions. Or.. perhaps.. just judge for the better judgement :D

Note : This is a reminder for myself..