Monday, October 20, 2008

Telur Mata "Kerabu" or Is it Mata Lembu?Kerbau???


All my life, I meant before this, I always refer the egg that is cooked by itself without any stirring prior to as "telur mata lembu". I thought that is right. Then, when I got married and have children, my husband taught me another name - "telur mata kerbau". He said that there is no such thing as telur mata lembu. Really? I guess there was never an occasion within my friends that I need to call such egg coz I dont like egg that much. So, the name telur mata lembu was never challenged until I met my husband and his siblings:-)
Now...egg is one of Anis's favourites. We introduced her to the egg and she loves it - mostly to eat with white rice. And the cooked egg has a new name now -- telur mata kerabu! Courtesy of Anis Syaza. No matter how much we tried to correct her, she still call it telur mata kerabu.


So, this cooked egg now has transitioned into another name...which would be the right one?
Telur Mata Lembu? or
Telur Mata Kerbau? or
best yet - Telur Mata Kerabu
any other names?

Sunday, October 19, 2008

History

The PM suggested that history should be taught way back at the primary school level. Did we ever learn history years ago? Well, not formally in primary school but I do think that we get to be introduced with what happened years ago in primary school, maybe not in so formal class like "History" subject.
I do so love history in secondary school even though I can never find out how to best memorize all the dates that we're supposed to remember. Well, for one, you'd need to know which date to just ignore and which date should be remembered. I normally just memorized them before the exam and totally forgot all about them soon after the exam was over. But one thing that I love the most is the story that it brings. And I think in primary school last time, history comes in the form of stories - children do so love them.

On our long journey back from Alor Setar after Raya week, we spend the time going through our own family history. It started with questions like,
"Umi ceritalah, camana Umi dengan Abah kenal dan boleh kahwin", and they want details up to the point of how we see "things" at that time, or another famous questions that can go hours and brought up more questions from them,
"What I was like when I was little. Who was the naughtiest? Who didnt sleep well at night"....This part can go on for hours with laughters and more questions and comments from the children. It'll bring back beautiful and funny memories that we sometimes take for granted and the repercussion was - "I dont remember" or "I'm not sure if it happens that way" and so on...But the gist of it - History is important, not just country's history. I think history should start from family history and that's exactly what build us today - our actions today, most of the time are decided on our experience, on what happen years ago maybe and that's what build us and we should treasure it and tell it to our children in education way that'll make them actually know the morale of the story...

Tuesday, October 14, 2008

What Sudoku Meant to me....

1- It'll take me off my mind from "home"work for awhile
2- It gives me the chance to say "pergi main jauh, jangan kacau Umi"
3- It makes me sleep late at night and loose a little bit more of my beauty sleep
4- It allows me to break the Ergonomic rule I set about no bending your wrist with my mouse when I try to click as fast as i can when the time is almost up
5- Give me the chance to play with basic numbers that I have known all my life
6- It probably work out my brain better - spatial side? (huh?)
7- A chance to improve myself with number arrangement :-)
8- Let me practice number counting with Alif (who keeps on adding, ten, eleven,and so on to distract me from the numbers)
9- Let me challenge Elisa again and again and still lose to her (well, about 20% winning record is not that bad)
10- Gives me the break I badly needed from everything else and forget about the goblet curtain header that I've been avoiding for the last 2 years!

Finally - was it a way to waste my valuable time with?
I don't think I will stop playing yet...