Bit-by-Bit with Nihra & Family

From Lake Tekapo, kami terus ke Queenstown. We stay at Lakefront Apartment. Depan Lake Wakatipu...wa tak tipu yee..hehe..that's the lake in Queenstown. It's a 3 bedroom apartment lengkap dgn peralatan dapur dan mesin basuh, tapi old fashion sikitlah!! Harganya $320/night. Agak mahal, tapi disebabkan nak dekat pekan dan depan tasek, terpaksalah. In the end bagus juga duk dekat pekannya, sbb Queenstown tu kecik je!! dan parking yg ada hanya for 30 minits shj!! Manalah sempat nak berhenti  shopping for 30 minit sahaja (tips** if u want to buy baju jenama canterbury, sini murah banding tempat2 lain- tapi murah setakat $10-$20 shj!! baju canterbury memang mahallah!!). From the aparment, about 10 min shj kami berjalan ke pekan. In Queenstown, we only went to skyline gondola. The view is breathtaking!! Nampak semua bandar Queenstown. Actually there's so many things you can do in Queenstown. Ikut budget dan keberanian masing2!! hehe..ada bungy jumping, jet boating, gliding dan be...

walaupun dah sebulan berlalu trip ke south island, kami nak share juga percutian kami ni..Kami bercuti ke south island selama 8 hari. Flight ke Christchurch 6.50 pagi dan kami bertolak dari rumah 4 pagi, tapi bila sampai domestic airport, tak buka lagi!! At 5 o'clock baru buka. Terasa macam masuk amazing race pulak, tunggu airport buka!! Check-in counter semuanya guna computer sahaja. Bila nak masukkan beg, baru perasaan beg tak boleh lebih 25kg. So tanya pekerja situ, mcmana dia org tahu beg 25kg. They said, kat dalam nanti  mereka akan timbang dan kalau beg lebih 25kg, beg akan ditinggalkan sahaja. Kecoh juga kita org, sbb tak timbang dulu beg-tak perasaan ada penimbang kat tepi. Then abah pegi tanya org kaunter, they said kalau beg berat, mereka akan buat announcement- kena bayar NZD70. Di airport lepas pulak bawa roti sandwich. Rasanya tak berapa strict domestic airport compare international. Selain beg, kami bawa juga cooler-isi tin sardin dan segala macam rempah. Semuanya l...

Sudah lama kami menyepi dr berblog..Isnin dah selamat first stage study, barulah semangat nak menulis semula kat blog ni!! In the last 2 months, ayah dah balik semula ke sini. Sekarang ni kalau aqil tak nampak ayah, mulalah melalak. Dah tak boleh pakai alasan ayah pegi sekolah!! (sepanjang 3 bulan ayah takde, bila aqil tanya ayah, mama sebut ayah g sekolah, then terus dia diam). Last 3 weeks pula, tok wan, tok, mak lang dan pak lang aqil dtg sini!! Seronok kami bercuti selama 2 minggu. Mamalah paling seronok, sbb dah lama tak bercuti tanpa fikir pasal belajar! Tapi hakikatnya, cutilah berapa lama, selagi tak habis belajar, selagi itulah tak puas cuti!! Masa di airport, bila nampak tok wan & tok, aqil speechless!! haha..terus malu2 gitu..selama ni tengok kat skrin komputer je, tiba2 boleh peluk pula. Tapi sekejap je malunya, sampai rumah, pantang tak nampak tok wan.."where tok wan??" Selama 8 hari, kami bercuti ke south island (NZ ada dua island, north dan south). Su...

The past few days, berita utama di sini adalah mengenai had umur utk amik lesen dan 'right hand rules'. Alkisahnya, di NZ, umur 15 tahun dah boleh dapat lesen kereta. So sekarang because of too many accidents, kerajaan nak naikkan had umur kepada 16 tahun. Seems reasonable enough, but ramai juga yg menentang. This people adalah orang2 pedalaman. NZ only have about 4 million people and and 1 million of them in Auckland!! Since NZ ada 2 islands, so boleh bayangkan betapa tak ramainya org bila keluar dr bandar Auckland!! This rural people mengharapkan anak2nya boleh bawa kereta sendiri to drive to school or tolong jaga ladang kot! This brings back memory masa zaman remaja dulu, kalau balik kampung, syok aje naik motor tanpa helmet!! Nasib baik tak mati katak!!! Punyalah tak kisah! The 'right hand rules' pula its where NZ is the only country in the world yg amalkan!! The rules started when Alvis Prestly died in 1977(this how berita utama start out the news yesterday) and ...

Summer is almost over..just 2 more days..then its autumn again. Setelah ditinggalkan ayah in December, I have been working really hard (ia ke??!!), going through emotion over berita Ucu, then berita SV ku.. proposalku.. Ucu? getting better..alhamdullilah, ingatan bertambah baik-dah boleh sembahyang. She's taking medicine yg berharga RM2000++ utk 15 biji!! yg peliknya, dr pakar dia kata kalau beli kat farmasi, it will cost RM8000, but with him, only RM2000 je..ada ke patut??!! SV? today is his last day..tak wish pun good bye..'cause it's not goodbye yet!! He wants to transfer me to AUT..boleh ke???!! thus, lupakan confirmationku!!! but life goes on..still working on my research yg tiada keputusan..abg tersayang semakin rancak mengutip data..lagi 2 minggu nak balik-hoorreyy!! aqil..semput pula..tapi dah ok dah.. my sister in law and her friends dtg bercuti..sorry sahabat2ku di albany..tak sempat nak kenalkan. cuti sakan diaorg-sewa kete and drove themselves to Welling...

2 days ago call Ucu. Alhamdullillah, she knows me. Bolehlah berborak-borak. But throughout the conversation dia asyik sebut mata dia tak berapa nampak and she doesn't know why dia sakit. Ucu kata sebelum ni tak ada apa2, sihat aje, luka pun dah baik, tapi sekarang sakit2 satu badan, rasa lain sangat. I think she doesn't really knows she have brain cancer. So, she's a bit worried. Dia kata anak kecik lagi.. ulfi(her oldest daughter) nak amik upsr mcmana, mamanya sakit..The only things I can say, doa ucu, insyallah sembuh.. My mom said, dia boleh mandi sendiri, makan pun berselera dan dia ingat nak sembahyang, tapi bila dia sembahyang, dia tak rukuk atau sujud..berdiri tegak je..most probably she doesn't remember ayat2 bacaan. Rasa lega sangat dapat berborak dgn Ucu. Minggu ni, dia buat rawatan radioterapi dan juga rawatan kampung. Yakin pada 'keajaiban ALLAH'..anything can happen.. Today meeting with my SV..gave me a new direction for my research and also t...

This morning got the latest update from abah. There's not only one titik kanser but about seven!! Ada satu besar yg menolak saraf mata causing her to be blind, just nampak mcm bentuk sabit sahaja. But ALHAMDULLILLAH ucu dah sedar, boleh makan dan minum, boleh berjalan ke toilet dan kenal org sekeliling bila bercakap. She will ask for her son, Hamdan, tapi her memory relapse juga. Pagi dah beritahu ada kat hospital, then petang dia tanya lagi where she is. The Dr cannot to any pembedahan sbb cancernya dah merebak..but they going to do radioterapi utk mengurangkan kesakitan. Tapi berita yg paling sedih, the doctor said biasanya kalau keadaan mcm ni, hayatnya tak panjang..sebulan-dua sahaja!!  I know, ajal dan maut hanya ALLAH yg tahu. Kita yg sihat belum tentu hidup panjang. Mak said..dah bahagian dia.. sayang mcmana pun, kalau ALLAH dah jemput, kena lepaskan. The only we can do now adalah doa dan buatlah sedekah atas nama dia. Is this why I'm here, in New Zealand??!! So I can ...

Its a long weekend 'cause of Auckland Anniversary today..don't know what its about..yg penting cuti!! Its been raining since Saturday, which is nice.. On Saturday, skype with abg and family. They gave me a bad news..ucu @ maksu tak sedar diri..2 years ago dia buang one of her breast 'cause of breast cancer and ever since then luka dia tak baik sangat. Last 6 month she had another chemotherapy kat tulang belkang pula..the last 2 weeks dia asyik pening kepala. Then on saturday, dia muntah then terus pengsan. Paksu ingat, tak ada apa2, sbb ucu mmg selalu pengsan tiba2. BUt she never wake up, and in the morning they took her to Hospital Abdul Samad. The Dr did a brain scan, and there's cancer!! When she finally wake up, dia tak kenal orang!! Yesterday, anak2 dia pegi melawat pun dia tak kenal. Today the Dr is going to do another MRI, to see if the cancer attack the whole brain or just one part. Now I'm praying its not worse, boleh dirawat, ucu akan kenal semula all of...

Alhamdullillah ayah..walaupun mama cukup liat nak menyiram..tapi hidup subur pokok lada dan jagung ayah. Cuma carrot tak tahu ke mana!?!! Cuaca sekarang cukup terik dan panas(tapi paling tinggi pun 26 darjah je!!). Mama pun malas nak keluar waktu petang ( alasan ... Shortland Street season baru dah start sebenarnya!! ). Ada juga tanam bunga lavender..mati kering!! kesian pokok tu..haha.. Ini lagi satu pokok yg ayah bela..tapi ampun ayah(dan juga Ida dan Kak Asna)..tengah nazak!! last week hujan, rasa kenalah air hujan, so mama tak menyiram pokoknya. 3 hari lepas tengok dah layu. Cepat2lah mama siram kan air.. baru plan nak masak ikan asam pedas! Sekarang ni pagi petang mama siram ya! Daun kesom sumbangan Ida dan Kak Asna

Sejak ayah balik M'sia, mama semakin malas nak masak. Especially aqil pun tak kuat makan. Kalau masak pun, semua yg favourite aqil..sup, mee goreng, spaghetti. Tapi makannya 3-4 suap aje!! Geram juga dia tak nak makan. Tapi minum susu kuat ..kalau kat nursery dia tak minum susu botol..itu yg bila balik rumah boleh minum susu sampai 4-6 botol. Satu lauk aje aqil boleh makan banyak..lauk AYAM goreng!! Sekali makan boleh 4-5 ketul (yg keciklah)!! Senang mama masak..heheh..

I love to look at the sky dan di sini, bila cuaca cantik, the sky is blue with no clouds..luas mata memandang!! Setitik awan pun tak ada!! Really beautiful..rasa lapang je pemikiran... But, cerah musim summer its not really good here... http://nz.news.yahoo.com/a/-/top-stories/6671073/uvr-most-deadly-in-january-nzers-warned/

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I'm feeling the pressure to finish writing my proposal and taking care Aqil alone as well..salute to all single parents who manage to do everything single handed!! My favorite song by Miley Cyrus to keep me in positive mood.. The Climb I can almost see it That dream I am dreaming But there's a voice inside my head saying "You'll never reach it" Every step I'm taking Every move I make feels Lost with no direction My faith is shaking But I gotta keep trying Gotta keep my head held high There's always gonna be another mountain I'm always gonna wanna make it move Always gonna be a uphill battle Sometimes I'm gonna have to lose Ain't about how fast I get there Ain't about what's waiting on the other side It's the climb The struggles I'm facing The chances I'm taking Sometimes might knock me down But no, I'm not breaking I may not know it But these are the moments that I'm gonna remem...

Last week kami beramai-ramai ke museum Auckland, sbb free for resident Auckland!! Ambil peluang..walaupun kalau kena bayar  hanya $5 utk dewasa dan budak bawah umur 16 tahun free, but museum..dah tahu, tak best punya..hahah.. The museum ada 3 tingkat, kami sempat pegi 2 floor sahaja. I don't think NZ banyak history, sbb ada brg2 yg dipamerkan were from the 70's!! Zaman mama tu..ehh..dah tua dah ya..boleh masuk museum kisah ku!! Sebelum ke museum, we went to the starship hospital melawat adik khael, 8 mth baby boy yang bertarung nyawa dgn penyakit exzema..sedih tengok . a very strong boy with strong parents. Betullah, ALLAH takkan uji hambaNya dgn sesuatu yang tak mampu diharungi!! Semoga cepat sembuh! Then after we went for lunch at auckland domain where the museum is. Makan pau strawberry!! Sedap cik june buat..nanti nak order!!

my computer corrupted!! and i did not save the latest file in my pendrive!! mcm nak pengsan rasa!! i'm using linux-ubuntu ..not windows...mmg jrg buat backup, sbb linux susah masuk virus. But yesterday, i decided to upgrade to latest version. Halfway through i decided to stop uploading, sbb mcm ada file x compatible je rasa. But i did not restart the computer until this morning. bila on kan tak keluar apa2..terus mintak tolong technician..dia kata kena reinstall..chances nak dpt file semula 50% je!!..menangis dah masa tu..but around 3 o clock, alhamdullilah dpt retrieve all the files..esok kena reinstall linux ubuntu. Peringatan dr ALLAH sebenarnya peristiwa ni, jgn leka, jgn over confident, jgn take things for granted!! I want to share this pictures with ayah,  sumbangan en hanafiah dan cikgu ida!! (dr kamera dslr nikon60)- thanks u guys!!