A contest by ibu addinnasa --> Share your story & this might BE yours!

Ibu Addinnasa is having a giveaway, offering Crabtree & Evelyn products as the prize for 3 winners. Me being the fan of this brand of product, would surely be in as one of the contestants :)

Let's check out the prizes<--always the best part!! :

3 kotak sabun 100g Rosewater!!!

Yupp...all Crabtree & Evelyn products are lovely - the pink colour, the roses pic on the box and the fragrant rose smell...it's awesome!!! (in fact I use this Crabtree & Evelyn rosewater mist body spray everyday after shower), but never buy the bar soap, which is definitely pleasant!! and much lovelier if I could win this soap from this contest ;)

And the rules:

1.Anda cuma perlu ceritakan pengalaman anda semasa melahirkan anak sulung anda. Buatkan satu post khas mengenainya dan tidak kurang dari 48 patah perkataan.

2.Ceritakan tentang hadiah ini di blog anda,

3.Tinggalkan komen di sini beserta dengan link tentang post anda.

And the due date is 25th July, winners announced on 30th July...

So here is my entry cum story for the above contest!

TITLE: MY BIRTH FAIRYTALE

Once upon a time….there lived a lady, who got married and….

There goes my story…

I conceived a month after my wedding. The due date for me to give birth (EDD) was 24th May 2005. Well, there’s always first time for everything – first day at school, first date, ‘first nite’.. and that includes first time giving birth! All expecting mothers (including me) are scared stiff by the thought of giving birth, even those who don´t admit it, I´m sure!

I took 3 weeks annual leave before the date of EDD, for the fear that most people say that it’s normal for an expecting mom to give birth 2 weeks earlier than the EDD...simply on the reason that I had always wanted to give birth at my hometown with my mom beside me…3 weeks was pretty-long-wait, especially if the waiting is to give birth --> for the first time ever in life!!

Day in day out, nothing happens, my tummy got bigger, and me moving around got slower--> me feeling like as large as an elephant, movable like a ninety five years old!! Finally….in the late afternoon 23^rd May 2005, there’s a ‘show’ <--lil blood + lil mucus on my pants. I screamed in panic, quickly and with full of suspense told my mom, who just assured me not to panic as it might take hours and hours for my servic to dilate fully.

At around 6 pm, my mom & my dad (my dad was alive then..) took me to my elder brother’s house which is located about less than 10-minute-drive to the hospital (Kota Bharu Medical Centre-KBMC). My brother advised me to have something to eat before we went to KBMC, so that I would have enough energy to push lor…So guess what did I eat? Yepp…I managed to finish a pack of fried mee (my fav ;) <--that’s a heavy meal!!

At around 9 pm, I was admitted to the ward, no contraction yet actually, So I was put on drip, to assist in faster servic dilation/opening. With the drip on my left hand, I started to feel the contraction, which got intense soon after. I decided not to take epidural, though I have the chance to take it…sounds like me brave enough to endure the normal birth and all its accompanying pains!! I didn’t understand myself for declining epidural, but one thing for sure, I just wanna feel and experience the normal birth without the epidural…sounds weird rite…

The gynae ie Dr Lily broke the membranes (amnion) in order to speed up the procedures. My service was fully dilated, hence the natural urge to push came at around 11 pm something, but pity me, I didn’t manage to push hard enough for my lil baby to come out, he’s like stucked while his head is already visible (the term is ‘crowning’)….this horrifying condition persisted for almost 1 hour, where I did try to push again and again, till I started to lose energy, and felt like giving up and falling asleep due to exhaustion.

Recalling back the moments, the funny(or perhaps the weird) part is almost of all the things I have been reading in the tons of books and magz are completely gone once I was in the actual labour process..yup..I have been buying and reading all the books, listened to all the tips from friends, colleagues, internet and even went to the ante-natal classes, feeling confident and completely informed - but when the actual moment came, I felt like blur and blank anyway...Thanks God, my mom was beside me, holding my hand all the time, continuously reciting doa for me.. (my hubby couldn’t be with me, as he was in KL ..), while my dad, my elder brother and my younger sister took turn to be in and out of the labour room, giving me encouragement, citing doa etc…

Dr Lily had no other choice, as the longer is the waiting, the baby is at the risk of suffocating, so she prepared the tools to administer forcep on me to pull the baby out…FORCEPS!!!!so terrifying…me seeing the forceps, I attempted to push for the final try…with all my energy and hope..and YESSS, alhamdulillah, my baby was safely born!!!

I gave birth to my Zharfan exactly on the expected due date ie 24th May 2005.
at around 1 am. (based on my reading in mag, only 5% of babies are born on the EDD, so my baby is included in the statistics!)

Only Allah knows my feeling and joy afterwards, the relief, the gratefulness ( me not bothering about the stitch that was done by Dr Lilt afterwards)…the thing that’s still fresh on my mind is….how I felt so totally amazed at myself after giving birth and full of syukur. I made it at last- and it was a normal birth!!

Being pregnant and being a mother is one of the greatest blessings and joys in a woman's life..how true it is.

Everytime I see my boy - Zharfan, I see myself in his looks..I want time to slow down,so I can enjoy being with him more before he grows up and leaves home.I wouldn’t swap my mother-and-baby years for anything in this world...being away from him for 7 months (Sept 2007-March 2008) was the hardest part for me to endure..(that was the main reason I started to have this blog initially, to express my loneliness while I was in UK).

Now my Zharfan is 4 years old, active, smart, adorable--> proud to have him as my lil sweetheart..

And the lady- now a mom, and the boy, together with their whole family lived happily ever after!

~THE END~

Note : the above story is truly my real story cum birth experience..though the title is ‘fairytale’ :p :p

Till then,
Mama Zharfan
10.40 am
~home sweet home~

PERADUAN ~ KISAH & LAGU

MamaManja is having the above unique, interesting contest, which runs from 10th July till 31st July. Result will be out on 3rd August '09.

Before we check out the rules, let's cuci-cuci mata viewing the prize..

yess..a lovely bangle 'AVON Rerama Klasik Bangle'<-- perfect accessories for the coming hari raya...sooo tempting, me love all accessories from AVON!!! Here are the rules that I copy paste from MamaManja blog:-

• Menjadi FOLLOWER Mamamanja
• Add blog MAMAMANJA kat bloglist korang
• Upload gambar di atas sebagai BANNER DI SIDEBAR blog korang dan LINK kan ke ENTRY ini
• Nyatakan LINK blog Mamamanja dekat entry korang

Dan cara2 tuk join contest ni plak ialah

• Nyatakan TAJUK LAGU & tulis lirik LAGU yang berkaitan
• Buat entry tentang KISAH yang berkaitan dengan lagu tersebut
• Nyatakan LINK ENTRY korang kat ruangan komen

So here is my entry :

TAJUK LAGU : JANGAN ADA BENCI (Casey)

LIRIK LAGU:

Andainya ada di antara kita nanti
Berubah hala serta janji J
angan ada benci
Suka dan duka dilalui
Jadikan kenangan di sudut hati

Andainya cita-cita tidak kesampaian
Ikatan murni terputus di pertengahan
Jangan dikesalkan
Jangan lantaran kegagalan
Kita saling berdendam saling bermusuhan

Ungkit-mengungkiti
Sakit-menyakiti
Memusnahkan diri

Kita harus tabah dan bersedia
Cekal hadapi kemungkinan yang tiba
Kadangkala yang berlaku
Di luar kemahuan kau dan aku


KISAH DI SEBALIK LAGU:

Well...actually this is the song that I gave to a special friend (let me just call him "N")...it's a long story..but to cut it short...our relationship was objected by my family although initially it was approved by them. So when he was about to bring his Mom to see my family, my family declined, solely on the reason that he was a convert - yup, he was a Chinese Muslim, converting at the age of 20. Our relationship lasted for about 2 years, when I was in my final year at university..

So before I said goodbye to him, I gave him a letter, explaining why we had to break off, and in the letter, I wrote this lyric of the song Jangan Ada Benci (well, those days we yet to use email), we just exchanged letter lor...

The last time I heard about him was when I gave him a call (just to tanya khabar) and he told me that he has already engaged to a Muslim girl, and he said that we won't be contacting each other anymore, as that is painful to him (to me too)...dunno whether he actually got married or not..but I do pray for his happiness and joyful marriage life.

Whenever I listen to this song, I would automatically remember him. it's like 'auto-link'...he has been one of the kindest, special person that came into my life, though for a short span of time..' (don't want to write more about him, as it might offend my hubby plak..)

Sounds sad story rite..yep, sad but true, and it did happen to me, and still fresh in memory, as if it just happened yesterday.

To N, I pray that you become a pious Muslim (I know you do), and I hope that Allah will always bless you with prosperity, success and happiness in life.
~THE END~

To MamaManja, thanks for organizing the contest!! and as usual, me praying for the luck to win the cute prize!! Amiiin..

Till then,
Mama Zharfan & Ariff
8.40 am
~home sweet home~

My love day..

5 years ago, yesterday, at 10.14 pm, I was honoured to be awarded & to hold the title cum status of a wife, to a loving man cum my hubby now, Mr Rohisham..

I have the faith that he's the best one fated to be my other half, who completes me, and my life.. and miraculously my love for him has never changed from our first date until now ;)..Thanks God for Your blessings...Alhamdulillah

So, to mark our 5th anniversary, we decided to have dinner at one of our fav, affordable restaurants -->restoran nelayan titiwangsa. For the past 4 years, we usually had an overnite stay at any lovely hotels thru out Msia to celebrate our anniversary every year, but for this year, we would also have the hotel stay, not exactly on our special day, but next month lor.. :)

So we arrived at Tasik Titiwangsa at around 6.45 pm, we strolled around the lake, taking some pictures, and Zharfan was overjoyed to see a very large, new playground at the lake (well..we haven't been here for couple of years actually...)

The dinner was ok, though the steamboat was not so nice (prawns are ok, but crabs are not so fresh...huhh..)

So for my dear hubby (I know he sometimes reads my blog)..
Thank your for coming into my life, for being there whenever I need for a shoulder to cry on, or to share my happy moments and joy, and thanks for our 2 charming boys!

Till then,
Mama Zharfan & Ariff
10.30 am
~my cozy office~