Yuki 2013

Assalamualaikum.

Hi everyone.
I name this post as 'Yuki 2013' simply means 'Snow 2013' or in other words our winter experience in 2013. It's just a way of us remembering our winter moments, i year 2013, most of the time we're in Yonezawa.

It's been said repeatedly that winter i Yonezawa is so taihen (tiring). Yes it is. You really have to put big extra effort in handling the snow. It's not as simple as when it falls, and the snow will cover the land beautifully and we can start our snow play and so on. Simply no no. It's not as simple as that. And if you live in cold areas, the snow will just stay there, refusing to melt, and choosing to be in that snow-state depending on how long the cold temperature lasts. The snow will get solidified, become icy. And icy means slippery. You have to have that winter boots where the base are specially designed for walking on slippery surface in other words, icy snow.

Hehe and why on earth am i saying here? Hehe i just find that heavy snow as hard as situation of you getting into bad traffic. But let's just put that aside and enjoy this moment because after all, it's one of the best experience, isn't it? I know one day I will look at all those snow moment photos and be thankful that I've been through this. Been there, done that! Hehe. This is what we call blessing in disguise then.

Phewww again, this entry is getting tedious isn't it? Whooshh!

And I believe this entry is better if it comes with some photos uploading here. Hehehe. Enjoy!

Bubye
Ahlami

P/s: Ada gambar khayra & ken hamza jugak atas yuki time diorang turun Yonezawa. And these photos semuanya kat Uesugi Jinja hari tu ada matsuri (festival)

5 months old :)

Hello again.
So roughly, it has been a month since my last update. Hmmm this blog has officially become monthly-updates, hasn't it? Hahaha! It's not that I don't have time to say something, but recently, I have been spending those time updating and checking on my instagram and twitter. Facebook is not an exception of course. So, I've been keeping this blog of mine in a mess and in abandon-state. In any chance, have you found any spider web here? Hahaha.

Oh anyway, to break off this abandon-state, let's say something about our little sugarcheeks turning 5 months old! Alhamdulillah! Again, how time flies so fast, doesn't it?

She can roll on her tummy now. But it seems she has not yet fully enjoyed that, because most of the time when she rolls on, her hands kinda locked up under her chest. Hehe so funny when she wanted to smile but at the same time was struggling with her own hands. But hey, that would count as a another milestone for Khayra! Clap clap to my girl! Hehe.

Well, here are some photos of her. The last photo was snapped yesterday, the day she turned 5 months old.

4 months old

Someone has just turned 4 months old today!
Sorry tak sempat nak update apa apa when we were in Malaysia. Nothing can beat time with family! :) Anyway, this little girl of ours is 4 months already! How time flies. She has been learning lots of new things every single day. May you grow up healthy and happy always my dear Khayra!

3 months Already!

Alhamdulillah :)
Anakanda tersayang is now 3 months old :)
Shall update some other stories. But gotta put on hold about that.

Tick tock tick tock

Tick tock tick tock.
We are now counting down the days to meet our families and friends in Malaysia! Only 7 days more left :) May Allah ease everything and make our journey safe and smooth, ameen!

One Year in Nihon!

Today is December 6th 2012.

The date I first arrived in Japan is the night of December 4th, 2011.
So just a quick update simply saying that it has been a year for me, living in Japan.
Alhamdulillah Ya Rabb, for making this valuable for me, for giving this huge experience.
Although having said that, despite all the ups and downs, the hardships that my husband and I had to go through. We have become even stronger and wiser, inshAllah. Hoping for better us.

Slowly I adapt to living in Japan. There are a few changes that make you become adaptive towards those changes. Especially the spacious house. Huhu you have to be really really really rich to afford a big and spacious house if you want to live in Japan. Like reaaaallly rich! Hehe. Anyway, staying in just a nice comfy house makes you realize to become more grateful of what you have. Alhamdulillah again. My nihongo has not moved to any higher level though :( But I've got an increasing number of nihongo vocabs, yeay! Thanks to my husband of course :)

Alritey, some photo sharing peeps :)

First Injection

Alhamdulillah.

Khayra had her first immunization injection (two shots of vaccines) last week.
She is now healthy and happy and becoming more active everyday.

Juruh anok Ummi ni, teriok kejap jah maso keno cucuk tuh. Hehe

Gambar Passport

InshaAllah kami sekeluarga akan balik Malaysia pada 14 December ni. Tapi passport anakanda Khayra tersayang takde lagi. Wuwuwu. Kalau nak buat passport kat sini, kena pegi embassy Malaysia tu kat Tokyo and it will take up to 3 months untuk passport tu siap. Pelik kan! Why kat Malaysia boleh buat dalam masa sejam je. Wuwuwu lagi *tak puas hati* hehe.

Anyway, so for Khayra, we have to apply the Emergency Certificate lah jawabnya. And proses untuk siap around 1-2 days. Dah discussed dengan orang kat embassy tu and they promise to complete it in one day. Jangan la nak buat drama plak yer. Kami nak balik kampung nih. Hehe. Nak buat Emergency Certificate ni, requirements dia lebih kurang nak buat passport je rasa. Gambar passport kena ada. Yang tak puas hati nya tiket return tuh. Tak paham plak. Hoho harap maaf, saya tak keje ngan pejabat imigresen. Hehehe.

So 3 days ago, pegi lah amik gambar passport cek mek Khayra nih. Hehe. Susah jugak rupanya nak jumpa studio yg sudi amik gambar passport budak kecik. Oh Yonezawa!

Away for 3 days

Encik suami ada outstation di Kyoto. Jauh sangat lah dengan Yonezawa ni. Naik shinkansen pon total hours of journey is about 5 hours gurai. Sebab kena stop kat tokyo eki plak kan.

First time kena tinggal ni. Nasib baik anakanda ada bersama so takde lah sunyi sangat. Tapi anakanda hari ni meragam sket. A bit cranky. Nak berdukung aje. Tabah lah yer Ummi. Demi mu Khayra! Oh hoii nak pengsan rasa. Hehe

Yuki 1st December

Betul betul yuki turun 1st Dec baru baru ni. A few days before tuh, mashaAllah sejuk nyaaa! Sejuk sangat. Hadoii.

Someone has become 30!

November 30th, my husband just hit the 3 series number! Hehe. He is 30 now. A very proud father.

Really, this is a quick update.

So happy birthday to my greatest man, our hero in the family. The one who works hard for me and our daughter. Never complains. My best friend, my best mate ;)

Our 1st Anniversary!

Alhamdulillah. 25th Nov baru baru ni was our 1st Anniversary. Setahun dah jadi suami isteri. Sambut bertiga pulak tu.

Kekkon kinenbi, 1-nen me. Korekara mo, yoroshiku onegaishimasu!

2 months old!

Alhamdulillah. Aisha Khayra is 2 months old today (11/11/12). Such a nice date, isn't it? How time flies. I can still remember the first cry I heard from Aisha at Shimanuki, two months ago :)

Kouyou

My husband has never failed to convince me that Japan is so unique and tanoshi(fun)!

As simple as having four seasons in a year. Having said that, it does not mean the atmosphere here is the same as the atmosphere that I had experienced in Adelaide, Australia. However, both are unique in their own ways.

In Japan, every season has their own symbolic activities. Let's say fuyu (winter), we have yuki (snow)! And mostly, people will have snow festival, go snowboarding and so on

Natsu (summer) will be fun with people going to watch hanabi (fireworks) and also going to beaches. Haru (spring) has always been famous with sakura. So people will grab this chance to go hanami (picnic under sakura tree) to watch the beautiful sakura blooming.

As of now, it is autumn here in Japan. And when autumn sets in here, we go see the colourful leaves mostly around the hill areas. We call this colourful leaves as 'kouyou'.

And we did go sightseeing this beautiful kouyou as of today :) Alhamdulillah!

Of bercukur

Assalamualaikum.

Somehow rasa macam bersalah pulak sebab pernah berjanji dengan diri sendiri akan update every single important story bila dah bersalin. Cerita pasal anak la. Contohnya cerita bercukur kepala umur 7 hari.

Anyway, Alhamdulillah, mengikut sunnah nabi SAW, Khayra was successfully shaved by her nenek! Alhamdulillah. Betul betul masa umur 7 hari. My mom memang pakar bab cukur rambut baby baru lahir ni. Kan ada orang cakap gerun sebab kepala baby kan lembut lagi. Tapi my mom macam relax aje buat tu. Pengalaman la kan. Cucu pon dah 27 orang! Bulan 11 ni nak tambah lagi sorang! Hehe.

Oh yer, saya baru tahu rupanya. Kalau betul betul ikut sunnah, baby baru lahir tu kena cukur rambut dia sepenuhnya sampai botak. And rambut tu akan ditimbang ikut berat emas semasa. Then nilai harga emas tu disedekahkan kepada org yg selayaknya lah. Kalau banyak rambut nya, banyak lah sedekahnya. Tapi tak kisah, yg penting niat sedekah dan ikhlas kan hati. Banyak sikit biar Allah saja yang tentukan :)

Here are the pictures before and After Khayra bercukur.

Tapi sekarang rambut macam dah banyak balik dah. Alhamdulillah, rambut Khayra jenis yg agak cepat tumbuh kot.

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Arigatou Tomino-san!

This entry is dedicated to our beloved friend, Tomino-san!

My husband used to work part-time (baito) in Post Office here in Japan with Tomino-san. She is such a lovely friend and a very kind-hearted woman. She did attend our wedding reception in Malaysia, flying all the way from Japan. I know that she enjoyed her time in Malaysia and wish to go to Malaysia again next time, probably for another wedding ceremony? 

Anyway, yesterday we received a special gift from Tomino-san :)

This is the gift :)

This is a letter for me. Thank you Tomino-san! Faiz helped translating all the words. I really appreciate your wishes to us :)

And this one has really made our day. This is a special card that she has made for us, as a congratulations greeting upon a new arrival of our baby. All those words were written and collected from some of their friends wishing us omedetou (congratulations!). They still remember Faizu-san! :)

 

This is Aisha's face expressions as of today, she is so happy the fact that tomorrow is weekend! And waiting for her Ayah to bring her jalan-jalan maybe? Hehe

To Tomino-san,

If you're reading this, we would like to say thank you very much for all the wishes. 

We wish you a life full of happiness and luck too! 

We hope that we will meet again someday, probably visiting Aichi-ken? Let's hope for that! And you are most welcome to visit here, in Yonezawa!

Ummi & Ayah

It's really been a while again since my most recent post. Just feeling guilty does not move your fingers to run on keyboards, in other words to update your blog. But you must have time and ideas what to blog about! Hihi see I am just wasting time here trying to point out the unimportant thing.

Yes, I have decided to let Aisha Khayra call me 'Ummi'. And my husband has chosen 'Ayah'. As simple as that :)

Being Ummi teaches you to be more organized about your time and work. As for me, delaying things to do will just make me end up being messy all day long. Having an infant that requires your full attention shapes you to be more punctual, and not to do things sambil lewa saja. Hehe. Well that is just my opinion.

Having Khayra in our life so far has taught us to be more bekerjasama. Alhamdulillah, I have a very very very very very helpful husband that always willing to do from A to Z house-chores. Thank you abang for everything! We love you so much! May Allah reward al of us with lots of khayr :)

Bubye
Ahlami

Aisha Khayra

Alhamdulillah!

My husband and I are so happy and grateful to announce, our seed of love is finally here! 

A sweet little one has joined our home, a bundle of joy to call our own :) 

Someone tiny, someone very sweet, 

We would like for you to meet,

Aisha Khayra binti Faiz Adi Ezarudin,

Born on 11th September 2012, in Shimanuki Hospital, Yonezawa-shi.

Weight 3.85kg.

Proud parents, Ahlami & Faiz Adi :)

bubye

Ahlami

Ps: Will update the birth story soon! :)

Ma & Uming

Assalamualaikum wbt.

Di waktu sarat mengandung ni, ingatan saya tak pernah putus pada Ma saya. Rasa macam tak baik sangat mengeluh sakit sana sini. Penat nak buat ni, penat nak buat tuh. Tak boleh buat kerja rumah tu, tak boleh buat ni. Macam macam lagi lah. Terasa apa sangat laaaahh yang saya hadapi ni kan. 

Ma melahirkan 10 orang anak. Eh, sebenarnya 11 orang anak. Tapi anak ma yang ke 9, yang lahirnya cukup sifat, tidak panjang umurnya. Meninggal sebaik sahaja dilahirkan kalau tak silap saya. Atau meninggal sewaktu masih dalam rahim saya tak pasti. Tapi dah cukup sifat la, sebab nama arwah abang saya tu ialah Yusof. So, kadang kadang saya terpikir la kan, ma beranak pon ada yang rapat rapat beza 1 tahun, anak kecik lagi, lepas tu mengandung plak yang baru. Tapi itu laa orang kata, sifat sabar mengatasi segala galanya. Mungkin di hati ma waktu tu, ini ialah rezeki yg Allah bagi. Rezeki. Rezeki. Alhamdulillah. 

Ingatan saya juga tidak lupa kepada ibu mertua saya, yang kami panggil Uming. Uming melahirkan 6 cahaya mata, dan suami saya adalah anak ketiga. Alhamdulillah uming sekarang sudah sihat daripada serangan stroke pada tahun 2006 kalau tak silap saya. Uming yang saya nampak sentiasa mendahulukan anak-anak dalam apa jua perkara. Suami saya pernah bercerita, kalau time pagi pagi nak gi sekolah, kat tangga pon uming suap lagi nasik ke mulut anak anak, sebab nak bagi anak-anak kenyang sebelum pegi sekolah. Huhu pengorbanan ibu.

Itu baru serba sedikit kita cerita mengenai kisah ibu ibu kita kan. Alhamdulillah dan tahniah kepada yg berjaya menjadi ibu solehah. Semoga saya pon dapat menjadi macam Ma & Uming suatu hari nanti. InshaAllah :)

saya, uming & ma :)

Bubye

Ahlami

Ps: Entri skema sket. Hehe rindu punye pasal:P

Atsui

Assalamualaikum wbt.

Atsui ni maksud nya 'panas'. Hehe saya budak baru belajar. Selama saya datang Jepun ni, baru beberapa kali pergi kelas nihongo sebenarnya. Oh yer, nihongo tu maksudnya 'bahasa jepun'. 

Anyway, yes, baru beberapa kali pergi kelas nihongo. Masa mula mula datang sini konon2 nya semangat la nak masuk nihongo class, lepas honeymoon tu, we found out that we're having a baby kan, lepas tu diikuti dgn morning sickness yg on off saya alami, so xdapat laaa saya nak masuk nihongo class. hehe alasan alasan. sebenarnya malas :P

Actually nak cerita lately ni weather agak panas. Yer, ini lah yg dinamakan 'natsu' iaitu 'summer' maksudnya. Kalau tengok kat luar tu macam mendung kan, tapi bila keluar rasa je  bahang panas nya. Xtau la datang dari mana panas nya tu. Subhanallah. Lain summer di Jepun and summer di Australia (lagi lagi nak compare ngn Aussie hehe). Panas sini kita akan kuat berpeluh. Tapi panas aussie ni panas kering, maybe jugak sebab Adelaide ni dikategorikan kawasan ala ala gurun gitu. Hehe. Alhamdulillah saya dapat experience dua jenis summer yg berbeza. Tapi kalau boleh xnak lama lama. Hehehe

Gambar takde kaitan dgn entri. Saje letak gambar masa ni pregnant 32weeks kalau x silap. Amik kat studio utk kenang kenangan. Anak first, excited nya lebih org kata. Hehe

Hari ni 38minggu 5hari usia kandungan. Baby, suka yer dok dalam perut ummi ni. Makin kutunggu nk beranak, makin laaama lagi rasa nak beranak. Huhu. Permudahkanlah ya Allah!

bubye
Ahlami