owh,i can see the drops from your mouth!!!hahaha....yup,the dinner was roasted chicken and spaghetti with meatballs:-) and for your info,the chicken have been prepared on last friday,which is had been sitting in the fridge for 2 days (48 hours)!!! this is really the secret of preparing chicken,especially whole chicken bcoz this can help the meat to absorb the flavour of the spices.
anyway it'll took only about 15mins to spice the chicken but will took 1 hour to roast it since its a whole chicken.and the spaghetti just took nearly 20mins to prepare everything,including the meatballs.this is really a very simple but very,very tasty dish.looks luxury but not that difficult to cook or get the ingredients.
this is far more easier than cooking the indian dishes.but anyway,we'll only have this kind of dish once in a while since we r used to eat indian food(rather than western!!
and 1 more item to show here,the dessert!yes,u read it right,the dessert.wanna see what i did?its trifle,just a basic simple trifle.its my first trial,and looks not that bad.but for all the taste of the dishes,pls do refer to mr.abdulla malik(my beloved hubby) since he will give much more accurate info.
deaf and blind triplets.....yes,u heard it right.they r triplets and they r not only cant hear but also cannot see!!!i've just watched the programme in the discovery channel.and its one of the most amazing story i've ever heard in my life.....
just imagine that u cant see and hear nothing.how would that be?just think about the kids,they r supposed to be developing thru seeing and hearing things around them.but this is not possible in their case.
so how do they develop actually?and how about the parents?isnt it so difficult to raise 3 disabled kids with the same prob?all this questions will be answered thru the programme.
the mother was actually a single parent when the triplets were born.they were born at 23 weeks of pregnancy (premature),and this is what caused them to be blind.they were also become deaf due to the reaction to the antibiotics while they were at the hospital after they were born.
later on she met her boyfriend whereby they get married eventhough that guy knows about the kid's condition.he's such an amazing guy!!this is really a touching story to be seen or heard....
it'll be much more nicer to watch rather than read it over here.u can check this out on the youtube.there r actually 3 parts of it.spare some time to watch it.really an inspirational story of life......
LIZ Hooker, 32, has the only deaf and blind triplets in the world. Here she tells of the trials - and triumphs - of bringing up her three very special little girls.
WATCHING over my three daughters playing in the park, I'm astounded at how far they have come.
Sophie, Zoe and Emma, now seven, are the only deaf and blind triplets in the world but they simply refuse to let it stand in the way of them having fun.
And as I watch the three of them together, I feel like the proudest mum in the world.
It was a huge shock when I got pregnant because my marriage to husband Francis, 40, was failing. We already had a daughter, Sarah, now 10, and hadn't planned on having any more children, so when I discovered I was carrying triplets, I'd no idea how we'd cope.
In April 2000 and just 23 weeks pregnant, my waters broke. I was rushed to hospital where doctors used drugs to try to stop my labour. But just a week later, I gave birth to three tiny baby girls weighing just over a pound each.
They were the tiniest babies I'd ever seen, but over the following months, I watched in amazement as they grew stronger.
Incredibly, they defied the odds and just five months after they were born, all three were home.
Then Francis made a shocking discovery. "I don't think Emma can see," he told me when the girls were six months old. I was devastated when an optician confirmed our biggest fear. Emma was totally blind, caused by the blood vessels in her eyes not developing because she was so premature.
My thoughts instantly turned to Sophie and Zoe and it was a triple blow when we were told they too had little eyesight.
My girls had been robbed of seeing the world, and as their mum, I would have done anything to help them - but there was nothing to be done. As hard as it was to come to terms with the diagnosis, I was determined to give the girls the best life possible.
Just as we'd begun to accept the news, things went from bad to worse. When the girls were 20-months-old, I noticed a worrying change in their personalities.
They had come on in leaps and bounds during their first year, taking their first steps and starting to talk. But all of a sudden, their moods changed. One day, I found them curled up, banging their heads on the floor.
I rushed them to the doctor, assuming they were ill - and listened in disbelief as he told me that as well as being blind, they'd now lost their hearing too. It was caused by the antibiotics given to them when they were born.
They were also suffering severe vertigo and struggled to hold up their own heads. Life had dealt the cruellest blow and there was nothing anyone could do to change things.
Overnight, they became very clingy. I got so scared when I picked them up from the floor because they couldn't see or hear us. Imagine how frightening it must have been for them!
The strain was taking its toll on my marriage too. Francis and I had met when I joined the US Marines at 18. He was a British Marine and we'd lived in Plymouth for two years before moving back to my native Houston, Texas.
But after everything we'd been through we knew our marriage was failing and we finally divorced when the children were three.
While he still provided for the girls, being a single mum was tough. So when I bumped into an old boyfriend, George, now 35, it was the best thing to happen to me.
We soon fell in love again and married a year later - George was totally unfazed about raising the girls as his own.
It took three years for the triplets to start walking again. Sophie was the first to take a few stumbling steps and I'll never forget it. She was holding on to the wall when she suddenly stepped into the hallway. It was an incredible sight and a year on, Emma and Zoe followed suit.
The girls have since been fitted with cochlear implants, which has made a huge difference to their hearing. Sophie cried the first time we switched them on but Zoe's face lit up with the most beautiful smile I've ever seen.
But despite everything, they are three amazing little girls and I couldn't be more proud.
Sophie is the youngest, but she loves to be a mother hen to her sisters. Zoe is the tomboy and a real daredevil, while Emma is a real girly girl.
Sophie sees colours and shapes, while Zoe sees enough light to make out the windows. Sadly, Emma has no sight at all.
They go to a special school at the moment, using sign language. We do hope that one day they will be able to go to mainstream school, but they will always need some sort of interpreter.
At the moment they don't join in with other children and it's rare they play with each other. But they do have some sort of sisterly bond.
Life is a 24-hour job and very exhausting. My day consists of waking up at 7am to put the batteries into their implants. Then I wake the girls before getting them dressed for the day.
Afterwards, I walk them downstairs one by one, and sit them at the kitchen table. I then get out their white canes and we walk to the bus to take them to school.
They go to school five days a week, which gives me some time to run our video production company from home. After tea the girls love to have a bath together and go to bed at around 9pm. And my other daughter Sarah helps out whenever she can.
All parents have to have eyes in the back of their heads but I have to have three sets. They can't tell me if something hurts, or how they are feeling, but I've learnt to guess what they're thinking.
Even so, we are making slow but steady progress, and life does have its special moments. Now I'd move heaven and earth for the girls and will do anything to help them conquer their world.
hey guys (and gurls) this is what i cooked for today.its mutton curry (kari kambing) and chicken fry (ayam goreng).very simple dish but not that simple to make since it took nearly an hour just to cook the mutton (i was in a rush,so it was too long for me!!)actually it's lamb not mutton but still call it mutton,very used to it.
in london its not possible to get any fresh meat,including fish.all is frozen so its fresh from freezer actually :-p its been quite some time since we didnt had any meat either mutton,beef or chicken.and this is really a big issue since there's no possibilities to get fresh vege's or fish here on a daily basis.
we used to stock up on chicken and meat so that can use whenever we want to.but the vege's and fish,very very rare :-( not that we cant get it,but not daily.just stock it up in fridge and use it later on.not like my homecountry (malaysia),we can just drop by to the market at anytime if we wanna get any fresh groceries.get back home and cook it on the spot :-) ....i missed those wet markets!!!!
anyway,we really need to reduce the consuming of meats and change to more vege's (sounds very nice,but hard to apply!!!!)and i'm already half way thru this challenge :-) we managed to eat meat only once a week,not like previously,used to cook daily!!!trying very hard to cook a balanced meal for my lovely family :-)
Divorce rates are lower in families where husbands help out with the housework, shopping and childcare, according to a study of 3,500 British couples published Tuesday.
Couples where men do housework are less likely to divorce .The research by the London School of Economics (LSE), entitled "Men's Unpaid Work and Divorce", found that the more husbands helped out, the lower the incidence of divorce.
The study said its conclusions blew open the theory running since the 1960s that marriages were most stable when men focused on paid work and women were responsible for housework.
"The lowest-risk combination is one in which the mother does not work and the father engages in the highest level of housework and childcare," the study found.
Researcher Wendy Sigle-Rushton said economists have spent much time examining and trying to explain the link between women going to work and divorce rates.
"However, in doing so, they have paid very little attention to the behaviour of men. This research... suggests that fathers' contribution to unpaid work at home stabilises marriage regardless of mothers' employment status," she said.
The study analysed married couples who had their first child in 1970, a time when most mothers of young children stayed at home.
"The results suggest that the risk of divorce among working mothers, while greater, is substantially reduced when fathers contribute more to housework and childcare," she said.
i really didnt expect any gifts for my birthday (since i get married that means for the past 4 years).my husband's only reason not to get me any present bcoz that we r muslims and can not celebrate birthdays :-/ well,eventhough that's true,but i'm really not sure what is the real explaination for this kind of celebration.this is including valentine's day,since this is other religion's practice.so if we do celebrate that clearly shows that we r following their path.in quran,the celebration that we should celebrate (as far as i'm concern) is eidul fitr and eidul adha.there's no such birthday or valentine's day stated in al-quranul karim....
well,this must be hard to accept for most of the muslims,but its the truth.there's no birthday or death day in our religion(as 1 of my relative said).but still got some research to be done regarding this matter since some people said if we celebrate just to make other's happy and didnt follow the other religion's way of celebration,its fine.but,i dont know....
but,for my biggest surprise,my husband get me a box of chocs and a bouquet on my birthday:-) its a very,very BIG surprise for me.never expected this and never ever imagined that he'll get those presents for me....he told me that since i've been always asking for a bouquet,he simply get it for me,nothng to do with the birthday.sooooo sweet huh :-D i'll always be loving u darling,no matter what happens.i promise!!
anyway,the question is still open.can or can not we celebrate the birthdays??and what is the exact explaination????a big question mark on this....
This is what i've cooked for today's dinner:Dhall curry (sambhar@kari dal) and Kingfish gravy (ikan tenggiri masak sambal).it took me more or else 1 1/2 hours to finish up the cooking for both of this meal.i dont think that i need to post the recipe since its just a basic daily cooking for a common housewife like me;-) so i'll post some other recipe that is much more interesting and complicated.maybe some time later.especially if i tried something new (hope it'll be as it should!!)
Hi everyone.... its my first post.actually started just to see what is a BLOG really means :-) my sisters :hathi,nore & naz all got this what u call as a BLOG.so i became really curious what's really in it.this dragged me into creating my own blog (just to learn more about it).hope it'll last longer than what i expect.i really dont know what else to say.....
Just trying to mess up my life (that is already messy) with this blog.Just digging into the truth in the blogging.Really have no idea what is this about.....
