TOT : Paper Plane

We need to prepare a paper plane from an A4 in one of the TOT sessions.

It is easy for me. Having four son, paper plane is something that I made almost everyday. 

The facilitator put some markings on the floor - Kampung (village), Daerah (district), Negeri (state), Negara (country) and Dunia (world). We need to make sure that our paper plane flew the furthest. 

A few planes managed to fly to the world during the trial session. But during the real game, only two planes managed to fly beyond the world marking. One of them was mine. 

It was a tie and I lose the final battle to 21yo Raizen Mahathir. You just cant beat a boy in paper plane game.

Nazmi and fridge

Have you seen this entry? (here)
He was ecstatic when he walked in our hotel room in Sepang. At last. A fridge of his size.

Slothville

...one day, he shall enter the Slothville like me.

TOT : Dice game

In one of the games in TOT, we need to be in a group of two and produce a dice from a sheet of mahjong paper, in 10 minutes.

Then, we went to the field and play a sort of snake-and-ladder game, using our dice.

It is a quite simple paper engineering task. Our dice (left) came out nearly perfect and easy to roll. Some dices from other groups were cuboid so it is nearly impossible to get the number on the smaller surfaces.

Thank you to my teammate, Zaki for keeping up with my bossiness. lol.

TOT : Motto & Logo

I attended a Training of Trainer for Professional Facilitator last week. We went through one psychological assessment after another, ice breaking games, energisers and more than 20 group exercises conducted by all participants. We were trained/assessed by a psychological officer from my office, assisted by two psychological officers from the Royal Malaysian Police (PDRM). 

It was fun and full of surprises.

The first assignment - AS USUAL IN ANY TEAM BUILDING ACTIVITY- was to form a group, choose a motto and design an emblem/logo. This is the quick sketch.

This is our group struggling with crayons.

The end product is really neat. I give my group 10 stars.

Yellow tape & Marker pen

We just finished packing clothes for flood victims (well, this was 6 weeks ago). I put away the yellow tape and the marker pen I use for labeling. He found it anyway. And I continue labeling.

EVENT: Brown Bag Session

I am organising this.
Tomorrow.

#mydesign

Entering ALICE MODE

I just told my husband that I am entering Alice’s mode starting this week. He knew how annoying it is. lol.

If you have watched Alice Cullen in Twillight, then you know the “mode” I am referring to. There are scenes where Alice suddenly went stiff and her eyes widened when she had a vision / premonition of the future. It usually took a while until she surfaced from the vision.

I was appointed to be the lead for decoration team for my office’s annual dinner (not again!). The whole thing – the concept, deco ideas, and construction will usually come through my mind, sometimes at will but most of the time, I couldn't control them. Just as Alice Cullen's. It happened so sudden. I don’t know what happened around me during that period. I think I didnt hear anything either.

I will see flashes of designs and construction possibilities using every kind of materials and methods, possible failure, possible connections to the tiniest detail (type of joints, screw). It happened frequently when I involved in paper engineering work, fortunately, NOT this time around.

Please bear with me, all. Only one week plus.

They are best friends

In awe

Cleaning Up is a Breeze after Baking

... when you have kids who voluntarily lick clean the utensils.
#mychildhood 

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Third day of school - 2015

Bekal.

Wholemeal bread slice (cut into 6 bite-size pieces), thin layer of butter, tomato, cheese sausage and sliced cheddar to hold everything together. Bake for 10 minutes.

I cut the bread, spread the butter and cut the cheese the night before.

Food Panda

My first time ordering food from the panda.

The process is simple. I ordered sushi online during a meeting which I supposed will stretches until lunch time, pay using my credit card and after the meeting (exactly 60 minutes after I placed my order - as stated in the website), a man called my hand phone. He is already standing at my office lobby with my sushi. 

Jemput.

Second day of school - 2015

Bekal.

I know it is unhealthy to give them processed food and sugary cereal. Over the weekend, I will prepare homemade chicken nugget, beef sausages and homemade everything. Just like the old (pregnant) days where I was sooooo efficient and rajin with brilliant ideas of what to bake EVERY SINGLE MORNING.  

Yes, b.a.k.e. because the baby (Nazmi) wanted something fresh every morning :)

First day of school - 2015

Nazran's first day in Standard One.
Nazreen's in Standard Two.
Nabil's in Standard Four.
Our's with three kids in school.

It was a breeze on the first day. Alhamdulillah.
They solat and had a breakfast together.

Book wrapping - half way

Book wrapping Sunday.

These are half of the books. For three kids. Two schools.

They have not received the other half - Nabil's activity books for primary school, everyone's activity books for sekolah agama and Nazran's textbook for primary school. Around 50 pieces more.

The yellow containers are the kids' organiser containers for flash cards, pool-related stuff, art supplies, head accessories, wires, sewing supplies. The kids also have one each as their keepsake box. I purposely bought the small one so it is easier for the kids to move it around.

My husband re-arranged the kids' room, took out everything, change the layout and our living room was a disaster on Sunday, with me sitting at one corner, wrapping these books. 

Baby Nazmi lost in the pile of stuff once in a while. Nabil will be the one checking Nazmi every 10 seconds. lol.

1st ASEAN Malaysia Young Entrepreneurs Forum

I attended this forum today.

It started with Keynote Address by the SecGen of MITI and a talk by ABAC Chairman. Followed by a forum by four panels - founder/CEO/director of Sakae Holdings Ltd (think Sakae Sushi), Soft Space, Leaderonomics and Special Adviser from METI, Japan.

Afterwards, TokPa made an appearance and talk about AEC and had dialogue with the participants. He ends the session by officiating Malaysia Association of ASEAN Youth Entrepreneurs (MAAYE).

I am glad to be part of this history.

Since the participants are mostly young, we were frequently reminded to update everything on social media #malaysia2015 #asean #mymaaye. This is the first time I saw a lot of people taking photo most of the time (well, at least people around me did that) and uploaded it to social media. Of course I did that too although I found it a bit awkward.

These are what I managed to capture during the session. I tweetted it to MAAYE, to share the notes with others who couldnt make it to MECC today.

Slothified

My kids knew I am crazy about sloth despite the fact that I didnt like anything furry, especially cat.

My friend tagged me this photo in effbee. THIS IS BEYOND CUTE, I COULD CRY.

I want to meet a baby sloth. A brown-throated three-toed sloth, to be specific. The one that appear smiling all the time :)

Circumcision : Nabil & Nazreen

We arrived a bit late (one hour late, actually) at the hospital. We were not rushing, giving the kids ample time to have their breakfast and relax. They were really excited to receive a goodies bag, full of goodies - books, stationery and even cash! I am not excited. This is something that I try to avoid +_+, but it is your kids' HUGE milestone, you have to face it although you cant stand the screaming/crying.

After registration, the kids change into this cute (what do you call it?) gown(?). Alololo cutenya.

Papa playing his role comforting the kids while I just stood there motionless (ok, I snapped a few photos) listening to other kids screaming and crying +_+

I couldnt even look at the stainless steel equipment down there.... I truly understand their fear. FYI, my SIL, Dr. Shazni is the one performing the procedure. Thank you, Aunty Ani. I cant imagine the challenges you faced down there while they were struggling to get off the bed +_+

Luckily it was performed in a military hospital so we have macho military men holding my kids down.

Both in the recovery room. Relieved.

One proud father. Sleepy. Time to go home.

Roof leak

This is the time of the year :)

My sister is worried about the flood in Kuantan.

And I am worry about the roof leak.

Last week, we sent 8 huge plastic bags of wet clothes to the laundry. The roof leaked on top of our walk-in closet. 

Presents for their aunt

My kids bought some presents for my SIL's birthday.
I hope she is happy with these. She travels a lot so they got her travel-related things.

Wacana Kepiminan Perdana : PPTD Bersama YAB PM

I attended this session along with 3000 PTDs from all over Malaysia. Fun to finally meet each other after 9 and 10 years (I joined 2 batches - different batch for Unggul and DPA). Instead of having 334 batchmate, I actually have double that :)

School break : Suite memory

We went for a holiday.

I booked a room with two twin beds, online. Upon check-in, the hotel admitted that there was a mistake at their end. The room was fully-booked but they still accepted my booking.

They gave us a suite, instead. With no extra charge.

Alhamdulillah. THANK YOU. The kids have fun running around the suite.

Nazmi's another favourite spot

MyDesign : Megarafting Kufi - the process

Morning:
Received a message & invitation to be part of the Gift / Souvenir Committee.
Requested to design some souvenirs.
Agreed to kufi. Hyperventilated on the possible failure - but try to design anyway. They are my sweet and wonderful friends, I just couldnt say no without even trying.

Printed grid paper from the internet.
Made this in two hours. 

Evening:

Managed to finalise the kufi before going home. Phew! Didnt want to get nightmare at night. But still had a good dream on the possible design layouts and colour scheme - that is a normal dream for designers. lol.

The next day:
Beautify the kufi. Instead of linear, I designed a square one too.
(here)

Next next day:
The tumbler supplier emailed the design template.
Came out with one design using red watercolour background. The theme is red-white-black and some was suggesting red. So, instead of plain flat red, I opted for the one with texture and more character.

Posted in the WA group for crit session. They requested for more designs. So I came out with a few. And printed it so they could see the real size.

I will post the final tumbler design. I havent received the tumbler yet.

Nak bawak beg..

He wanted to carry a bag, just like everyone else. So Papa has to carry the bag like that allllllll the way to the car.

I am having a Designer's Block now

It is similar to the writer's block.

I cant come up with creative idea at all for the moment. I have a lot of creative works to be done but I couldnt even design a simple 2 inches x 3.5 inches card. I usually capable of doing that in 5 minutes. JUST IMAGINE HOW SEVERE MY BLOCK IS NOW!

Let alone designing a whole booklet packed with infographics and artworks for two programmes. Both are due today.

My last severe designer's block was back in 2006. Long time ago. I still remember, I took quite some times to recover.

THIS-IS-NOT-HAPPENING.

MyDesign : MegaRafting

My friends trusted me to design a kufi for the 10th Anniversary event - MegaRafting - for batch 2/2004. It wasnt easy. I designed a few and asked them to choose.

India : Road trip

India is not a safe place for ladies. I got a lot of reminders on that. But, it is okay if you have a trusted driver to drive you around.

When I told my friends that I am planning a road trip, against all odds, with a lady companion, from Delhi to Jaipur in Rajasthan state (nearly 270km), overnight there and travel to Agra in Uttar Pradesh state the next day (another 240km) and back to Delhi (210km more), I received a lot of objections. 

Well, I LOVE YOU GUYS too. 

There were ups and downs. but overall, it was a memorable trip. I should do this more often with my adventurous friends.