Bit-by-Bit with Nihra & Family

Its already 2011... 27th Dec 2010 lalu genaplah kami 2 tahun di bumi NZ. Insyallah lagi setahun (++6 months kot ) perjanjian KPT berakhir..emm, kenapa menyepi selama ini?? too busy?? not really... lets just say hormon tak stabil!!! hehe.. Aqil is getting taller, with the same berat 15 kg. Alhamdullilah tak pakai nappies lagi, "nappies is for baby". But malu nak cakap, bukan kami yg ajar tak pakai nappies, tapi teacher2 dia kat day care yg trainkan!! I was told 3 years old do not wear nappies, and aqil turn 3 in August, which was winter here. I told them could we wait until summer, sbb tak kuasalah kalau terkucil kat rumah yg bercarpet time winter !! But the teachers teruskan shj, so for almost 2 weeks aqil balik umah dgn seluar yg lain dipakai waktu pagi. Kadang2 dlm beg sampai 3-5 pasang seluar basah!! and in the end, berjaya juga aqil balik umah dgn seluar yg sama dipakai. Tapi dekat rumah, it took him another 2 weeks, nak biasakan dgn toilet rumah ( toilet daycare rendah...

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...