Looking Back on Our Raya

How was your Raya? Best ke tak best? For me, semestinya BEST!! :D

Our theme color for this year is blue again. If I am not mistaken last year pun biru jugak. Ni hubby nye idea so that he dont have to buy a new baju melayu. For me, mesti kena ada baju baru walaupun warna yg same.

Tgk tu betape biru nye kami di pagi raya. Nasib baik cushion xwarna biru jugak.

First time raya di Kltn mmg best. Maklumla family ramai, meriah jugak la. Family hubby buat adat bg duit raya malam kat rumah atok nye. So time tu la best skali utk budak2. Panjang betul barisan nye. As for me, this is my first time bagi duit raya camni. Maklumla sblm ni xpernah raya kat Msia as a person with income ;P

Sampul duit raya import dr Jepun lg.

Tp satu jek yg tak best raya kat kltn ni. I DIDN'T GET TO EAT ANY RENDANG!! Baru tau yg org kltn ni tak mkn rendang. Derang byk mkn kuzi, satay etc. Kuah masak lodeh pun takde. 2 hari lepas baru 1st time pekena masak lodeh utk raya thn ni mase jamuan raya kat Beppu. Serious kat kltn ni mmg makanan derang lain sket. Xde yg pedas2. For me tak kick la kalu xde yg pedas2 tu... Tp walaupun makanan lain but still bleh naik 3 kg this holiday in Msia. I gained 1 kg every week!! Terkejut tgk nombor kat penimbang.

One more thing yg tak best sket tahun ni. Kami xde gambar raya bertiga! Harris moody sket hari tu. Even nak suruh pakai baju melayu pun xnak. Pagi2 lg dah berperang nak pakai baju melayu. Hopefully raya haji nnt sempat amik gambar bertiga.

Our First Camping Trip

Huhu sudah lame tidak update blog. Lepas hantar paper aritu, sgt la malas utk buat byk benda termasuk la berbloging. Then bile masuk bulan puasa ni laaagi la malas. Asyik nak tidok je sambil baby dok tendang kuat dan buat somersault. Update Turkey rehat jap.

Kali ni nak citer pasal our first camping trip to Tsunoshima. Actually, K. Hanny dah lame bg tau tempat ni. Derang kata lawa. Tp mase tu xpernah terpk nak pegi. Jual mahal la kunon. Tah camne tah thn ni kami decide utk pegi camping sbb next year ada baby takut tak dpt pegi. Lagi pun tinggal 1 thn lebih jek lg kami disini. So mase ada chance ni baik pegi.

2 km to Tusnoshima

Mula2, survey tempat nak pegi tu. Ada satu blog Jepun tu amik pic kat sana cantik sgt. Mcm tak percaya ada pulau cantik camni kat area Kyushu ni. I mean selain pulau Okinawa la. Tu mmg tak leh lawan kot. Specially, kat Ishigaki Jima. Tp nak pegi sana jek dah mcm nak blk Mesia mahal nye so mmg tak dpt nak gi ler kami.

Road to Tsunoshima

Plan mula2 nak join K. Hanny and org Yamaguchi uni. Tp bile tanye tempat camping tu ckp khemah dah penuh. So kami pun pegi pada hari derang blk. Tak sempat jumpe K. Hanny n family but sempat gak jumpe anak2 muda dr Yamaguchi uni.

Tsunoshima memanggil-manggil

Kami bertolak dlm kol 9:30 pagi dr Beppu. Half way sampai Usa kami naik highway. Then ikut Route 10 sampai Higashi Kokura, then naik highway blk sampai Shimonoseki. Turun Shimonoseki IC ikut jln bawah (R119) sampai la jumpe jln 276. Total dr Beppu to Tsunoshima ni about +- 3 hours. Kalu byk keter mmg slow la jadi nye.

Cobalt Blue Beach

Sampai je kat pulau. Terpegun tgk laut colbat blue tu. Sgt cantik dan panas. Tp tak berlengas cam kat Beppu. Angin best jek bertiup2. Sampai je kat camp site terus check in then terus gi mkn kat restaurant dekat situ. Mula2 nak gi kedai yg depan camp site tp byk sgt keter dan xde parking. So kami pi mkn kat kedai kat gambar bawah tu. Mkn tempura sotong dan sashimi sotong, hubby plak mkn fry seafoods. Gambar mknan tak ambik sbb kami saaangggat la lapar.

Lunch time. Lame giler tunggu turn. Org ramai sgt.

Lepas perut sudah kenyang baru la kami pergi blk ke campsite utk angkut brg dr tempat parking ke khemah. Mujur khemah tak jauh mana dan nasib baik jugak campsite tu ada trolly angkut barang. So brg2 kami yg byk tu sekali angkut je ke khemah. Harris pulak sgt la good boy. Dengar kata dan slalu pegang tangan time jln. Maybe tempat baru kot. Takut lg.

Trolley angkat brg dr parking to campsite.

Lepas angkat brg masuk khemah. Kami pun pergi main air kat pantai. Harris rupe2 nye takut ombak. Kena dokong baru msk dlm air dan suke org tarik plampung CARS dia tu.

Warming up main pasir dulu.

PEACE papa!

Dah puas main air kami naik atas n mandi kejap b4 siap2 utk bbq. Me n hubby gilir2 membakar sbb Harris slalu hilang dr pandangan. Harris by this time dah kenal tempat. Specially tempat vending machine! Sikit2 nak uwit beli air.

View from campsite.

Mlm tu teman kan Harris tido. Dlm kol 8 camtu Harris dah tido dah sbb gelap gelita. Tp org Jepun yg sgt la ngok main bunga api kat tepi khemah kami. Actually, kat campsite ni tak leh main bunga api sbb takut kebakaran. Tp mlm2 derang main jek. Tak kisah sebenarnye derang nak main bunga api. Tp dah la bising, menjerit2 plak tu. Kesian Harris nak tido jek dengar bunyi dom dam. Pompuan Jepun lak takut la konon jerit kuat giler mcm kena rogol. Kalu iyer pun nak main gi la main kat dengan pantai. Org pun tak de kat sana dan kemungkinan kebakaran pun xde. Mmg tak pk org langsung. Pak guard lak xde so xde sape nak tegur.

Bangunan yg mcm church tu actually campsite toilet.
Di ubah suai semata mata utk msk movie.
Toilet hanya bleh di pakai dr Jul 9 ~ Sept 4.

Lepas Harris lena, me n hubby dok kat luar sambil borak2 kosong sambil tgk bintang. Best gak buat camni ek kadang2. Nak kol 9 camtu kami pun masuk tido.

Ice cream early in the morning.

Awal pagi, Harris la mula2 skali bgn dan kejutkan mama and papa. Sibuk ajak gi luar. Lepas mkn pagi, mandi dan kemas2 brg kami check out dr khemah dan ronda2 pulau. Mula2 pegi light house then mkn ice cream kat cafe.

Sotong putar

Dah puas meronda. We all decide to go to Fukuoka n visit the Hard Rock Cafe and do some shopping. Kebetulan ada kedai dah nak tutup dan jual byk baju budak Levi's yg cumil2 dah murah. Ape lg angkut jgn tak angkut ;-P

At the end, kunon nye pi camping but end up......
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Save duit kat camping, but habiskan duit kat shopping huhuhu

Conclusion: Tahun depan nak pi lagi tp kiter puasa bulan 8. Bulan 9 bleh gi kana.....

Turkey part 2

A few days after arrival in Istanbul, I did lots of shopping. The clothes there are really cheap and above all have my size la. Bukan senang nak dpt my size specially in Japan ni. Nice maternity clothes pun byk yg murah2. So angkut la byk2. Sorry la no picture. Mase shopping mmg tinggal camera kat rumah. Hubby bz taking care of Harris and me bz shopping (-_-)V

Then b4 hubby had his Lasik surgery we went for sightseeing around town. Sbb pk2 nnt lepas ni xleh gi mana dah. Xkan nak tinggal dia sorang2 kat rumah. So we all decided to go the famous Blue Mosque and Ayasofya. We took the tram there. Thank good ada aircond. Panas giler hari tu. FYI, panas camne pun kat Istanbul tu derang takkan pasang aircond dlm taxi. Seriously cannot stand the air polution and of course the heat. Mesti bawak kipas tgn kemana saje. No wonder my sis soh beli kipas tgn Jepun kat 100 yen shop byk2 aritu.

Inside an air condition tram to the Blue Mosque

Sampai je kat Blue Mosque. Tourist xbleh msk sbb its praying time. Tp as Muslim bleh jek msk kata nak sembahyang. Lame jugak tunggu pak imam nak dtg. Lame sgt tunggu almost sejam gak la. Sbb tok imam xsampai2. Kami pun decide to go to Ayasofya.

The Blue Mosque or Sultanahmet Camii in Turkish

Inside the Mosque
The tiles

Lame sgt menunggu, sampai tertido pakcik ni.

Nak msk Ayasofya kena bayar 20ytl. Lebih kurang RM40+-. Kalu bab bayar2 tempat bersejarah ni mmg tak kisah sgt mahal murah sbb bukan slalu bleh dpt chance camni. Pejam mate je la mase bayar tu. But here still murah dr kat Europe dulu.

Ayasofya from a far

Masuk jek dlm Ayasofya ni Harris terus terlena maybe sbb gelap dan nyaman. Ayasofya ni used to be the biggest cathedral for a 1000 years during that era. Then when Ottoman was in power he transformed it into a mosque. Then again Mustafa Kamel Atartuk ordered the place to be a museum. Tu la sbbnye tourist kena bayar nak masuk. Kalau mosque anytime bleh msk dan free jek.

Very rare!! U can never see Allah & Virgin Mary + Jesus in one place

Since the place had been transformed so many times. The muslims during Ottoman era just cover Virgin Mary and the crosses with beautiful tiles or wall paintings. The Virgin Mary above came out during restoration of the place. The center of the building where Christian people used to pray was facing Jerussalam, when it became a mosque they built the mihrab facing Mecca. Thats why the mihrab is not at the center of the building.

See, mihrab tak center sbb this place used to be a cathedral.

Naik je tingkat atas konon nak tgk beautiful golden tiles of Jesus ke Emperor and Empress apetah. Camera xdak battery. So golden tiles tu just remain in our memory je la. Then Harris pun bgn dan nak kuar dr stroller. We all pun decide to leave the place and headed to Eye Clinic for hubby Lasik check up b4 operation the next day.

Work Done-Turkey part 1

WORK DONE! Satu paper dah siap. All together ada 3 chapter dah dlm dissertation aku tu but still not so perfect la. Tak cukup sana sini. Even my literature review pun x complete lg. But submit jek sbb dah tak tahan tgk depan mata.

So now, keje pun dah habis. I would like to update on my trip to Turkey last month. Been wanted to do this for a long time tp tak buat-buat jugak.

My trip to Turkey was from 28 June to 14 July. Almost 3 weeks like that. First2 rase bersalah jugak amik cuti in the middle of semester. PhD student xde class so dtg xdtg tu xde sape tau. Tp nak dijadikan cerita during our trip tu, APU got 3 people infected with H1N1. So APU was closed for a week. Supervisor pun xperasan aku xde kat Jepun mase tu. So kire lucky dan kurang la rase bersalah nye.

B4 we start our journey, Harris selsema sket so bawak la dia pegi jumpe doc then terus mintak skali ubat selsema yg kuat sket biar Harris bleh tido slm flight. Sbb seblum ni susah sgt dia nak tido dlm flight. Sampai demam2 aritu.

We took Korean Airline for this trip because of its connection. Fukuoka - Seoul is about 45 min to 1 hour. Then transit was about 2 hours like that. Sempat la mkn kimchi kat food court. From Seoul to Istanbul was about 10 hours. Harris tido for the first few hours. Dlm 2, 3 jam jugak la. Pastu dia pegi round satu flight. Tgk kat luar tingkap, the landscape was full of icy mountains around Mongol or central Asia. Sejuk je tgk kat luar.

Dah tak tahan nak ikut Harris tawaf satu flight, I decided to give him another portion of medicine. Lagipun dah mmg timing dia mkn ubat pun every 4 hours like that. Lepas mkn jek ubat Harris terus tido. Terkejut gak terus tido lena mcm tu. Dah nak sampai baru la Harris bgn.

This is the first time Harris tido lame giler dlm flight, tu pun ada makcik Jepun selang 2 dr kiteorg mengadu Harris bising. Dia ckp kat stewardess dan minah ni pun ckp kat hubby la. Nasib baik stewardess ni pandai ckp kat laki aku. Kalu dia ckp kat aku, aku dah maki blk dah soh makcik Jepun tu beli ticket 1st class ke or get herself a private jet. Anak aku punye la baik camtu pun ko kata bising!? Anak aku bayar ticket full jugak mcm ko tau! Cit!!

Mase jln2 dlm flight, baru la tau kenape makcik tu bengang. Depan dia pun ada 2 baby bising sket2. Padan muke ko!!! hahaha Yg menjaga anak lg susah tau drpd ko yg xmenjaga! Aku emo sgt mase tu. Dah lah mengandung, mknan muslim meal dlm flight xsedap, xcukup tido, nak muntah sume ada. Nasib baik xmeletup jek mase tu.

Sampai2 je Turkey my sis jemput kat airport then terus gi rumah dia. Kami anak beranak sume kena jetlag. The next day mmg stay kat rumah jek xgi mana sgt. Ptg gi shopping kejap jek. Harris pagi tu bgn kol 4 pagi dgn excited nye berlari lari dlm apartment. Sampai org kat bawah marah. Kesian org bawah.

Day 1: Turkish Breakfast

Will update again.

Ticket Booked!!

Dear blog,

Finally, I booked my ticket to Malaysia with Korean Airlines. Semlm dpt green light from the Research Office for the Conference in Swiss Garden Resort in Kuantan dan ari ni terus booked ticket. Angkut anak beranak sume blk Msia. I cant live without them la. Mesti kena blk sama.

So sume sekali cost me 152,810 yen (around RM5500), around 20,000 yen expensive than Cathay Pacific. Thats why, pk pk jugak nak pilih naik KE ke CX. Member Facebook sume suruh naik CX but kire2 kalu naik CX kena bermlm dan tambah duit hotel + sight seeing + souvenir etc at the end same je harga nye. So at last, I chosed KE sbb bleh transit on the same day. Airport Incheon bleh tahan best nye jugak. Specially, the playground utk lepas anak saya yg sorang tu. Org pun xde sbb its at the 2nd floor. Ada kusi besar utk kami baring2.

Financially, this trip will be financed by my uni but just me only la. Hubby n Harris sendiri bayar. Still ok sbb Harris is not yet 2 years old. For those yg ada nak kecik tu. Mase kecik2 ni la bawak dia jln rata2. Lepas dah umur 2 thn sume kena bayar dah. Tambah sket je lg harga sama mcm org dewasa.

This time just blk for about 3 weeks saje from 17 May - 10 June. Last time blk for 3 months rase saaangat la lame. Tak mau dah blk lame2 sgt. For me, hubby and Harris our home is in our little house in Beppu. Last time blk Kltn nak dekat sebulan but this time xde plan nak blk Kltn. In laws will be in KL instead in the first week of June.

I finally finalized my schedule in Malaysia. So far I am kinda free if I am in KL. I have so many eating place to go, takut hari je tak cukup hehehe. My schedule is as below:


I am thinking where to go in Kuantan. Places to visit before and after the conference. Specially places to eat good food. I mean REAL good food and child friendly. At least ada baby chair la.

Ish, I have so many things to plan that I can't really update this blog frequently as before....