Our third son will turn one month old tomorrow, insya Allah.
Sorry for not writing for so long.
The truth is - a lot of things had happened and I was either too busy/tired/sick to blog or did not have internet access when I felt up to it.
Anyway, here's a quickie ( with apology to Jue, who had sent me numerous email which I have yet to reply...)
Alhamdulillah, Muhammad Asim Hanniya was safely delivered at 10.34 p.m. on 17th February 2009 in Universiti Malaya Medical Center. My third boy is named after one Qiraat scholar and the current president of Hamas - a combination tribute to the past and the contemporary. He weighed 3692 gm at birth - the biggest one for me so far since both Huzaifah and Humaidi only weighed about 3 kg at birth. Hanniya also made the record for causing the longest wait in the hospital - I was admitted at about 10.00 a.m., and gave birth more than 12 hours later. And quite a dramatic delivery too - which was described as 'combustion expulsion' by Dr Stefanie, who was in charge in the labor room. I had quite a bad experience in UMMC, but not as bad as the one I went through in Putrajaya Hospital more than 3 years ago. So, I must admit that giving birth in Tokyo was the 'most pleasant' experience I've had so far - if one could call it 'pleasant' anyway...
We have moved to Putrajaya. Exhausting process it was - to get the house key (which by the way is a government staff quarters) I had to finish a list of tasks involving paying utilities installment fees, getting head of department's signatures and all. Then, the moving of stuff from my parents' place - by stuff, I am referring to stuff we brought back from Japan, stuff we left there before we went to Japan and stuff we've been accumulating since we came back from Japan. We rented a 3 ton truck to move the stuff - and the truck was nearly full when we were done with it.
Next, the purchase of furniture and electrical appliances. It takes a lot of money to furnish a new home and I'm glad, alhamdulillah, that we do have some savings. We spent quite a small fortune but I must say that our new place does feel homey right now. It feels good to finally being able to put a lot of our wedding presents to good use. (Electrical appliances like rice cooker, toaster, kettle, table fan and bed linens definitely make better wedding gifts than glass wares...) We still need new curtains, but for the time being we just use old curtains that we brought back from Tokyo.
I'm on maternity leave - my first maternity leave, actually since I gave birth to Huzaifah just 11 days before I left for Tokyo and Humaidi was born during my study leave - until 17th April. Am enjoying my exclusive time with Hanniya to the max. And Jue - for the record, I went for traditional massage, eating jamu, mandi daun, wearing barut, bengkung and the works, so don't worry okay? You take good care of Man, Husna and yourself - seems like it's going to be quite a tough semester this time around...
