Berbuka di Marhaba Restaurant, Bandar Sunway

Last Friday was my hubby's birthday. So being me who love to make surprises, kali ni konon2 nak buat surprise jugak la for him. Pakat dgn adik beradik dia so dorang pilih nak makan nasi arab. So Kak Ton pun 2-3 hari buat research mana nasi arab yg sedap kat KL ni, kriteria utama harus lah ada private room sebab akan bawa bala tentera kecik ku itu, kalau tempat ramai2 orang ni memang a big NO la sebab serabut, dorang pun ramai-ramai orang memang akan melekap berkepit je dgn Mommy nye.

So google punya google, terjumpa la satu restoran ni, Marhaba namanya, lokasi kat Publika which is a big NO jugak nak meredah Jalan Duta tu pepetang Jumaat. Luckily dia baru bukak cawangan baru kat Bandar Sunway, which is tengah2 jugak la untuk semua tetamu-tetamu nak berkumpul.

So far, this is one of the best restaurant I've been so far ! The food was great, the ambiance was great, and the service was tip top !

Kami order Lamb Hanith, one of their signature's dish, sedappppp lembut sangat lamb dia sbb dia guna baby goat katanya. Selain tu kami order Chicken Mandy, Roti Mulawah yang besar gile tu, makan dgn Saltah Fahsah, terbaikkk baq hanggg :)

Unfortunately gambar makanan nye takde pun hahaha so these are the pics i got from the net. Credit to : Google Images.

Mulawah Bread

Hanith Lamb

Lokasi restoran ni betul-betul berhadapan dgn entrance Sunway Resort and Spa, kalau tak jumpa dalam Google Maps/Waze, boleh search "Borneo Rainforest Bistro" sebab Marhaba ni betul2 sebelah Borneo tu. Valet parking rm13 per entry betul2 depan restoran, tapi kami parking kat Sunway Pyramid Tower Hotel punye parking, much2 cheaper. Sebelum berbuka jalan2 kat Sunway Pyramid dulu. Don't worry tempat-tempat ni berdekatan satu sama lain so senang nak jalan.

I requested for a private room for all of us, lucky me we got a room with the karaoke set ! Haha. dah la betul2 sebelah surau (actually it was another VIP room yang digunakan as surau maybe sepanjang bulan Ramadhan ni). The best part is, kalau mention nak celebrate birthday, the staffs will decorate the room siap-siap FOC ok hehe.

Selain daripada tu dapat mcm2 complimentary like birthday cake, Arabian teh tarik for adults and ice cream for the kids lepas makan. Sebelum makan tu dpt complimentary kurma, the Arabian tea and salad. Food and drinks pun sampai betul2 before berbuka as per requested. Nice !

The birthday boy !

Overall memang sangat berpuas hati, private room yang sangat2 privacy. And yang paling best is skang tgh promotion sempena pembukaan baru cawangan Bandar Sunway ni, beli 1 Hanith Lamb and you are entitled to buy 1 Chicken Mandy for RM1 ONLY ! Normal price dia sepinggan RM30 okeeee.

ni untuk korang yang nak makan buffet, tp mcm kitorg order a la carte pun berlebih jugak nasik. anggap je 1 pinggan tu boleh makan 2-3 orang.

For more info boleh visit their website, siap ade harga sekali, boleh congak2 dulu sebelum pegi, like what i did :P

http://www.marhabarestaurant.com.my/

with the best companions; the family :)

A story about my sweetheart

Dah lama nak tulis pasal ni, tapi tak tertulis. Maybe sebab terlalu panjang, or I don't know where to start with, or maybe I was in denial.

My eldest daughter has been diagnosed for having Global Developmental Delay (GDD) few days before she celebrated her 1st birthday. You can google about GDD for more info.

It all started earlier than that. Vivy tak membesar ikut perkembangan yang sepatutnya. at 6 months old dia still belum pandai pusing badan, belum pandai duduk sendiri, apatah lagi merangkak. She sat in the bumbo seat. Orang-orang tua asyik cakap biasa la budak-budak ni lain-lain, ada yang berjalan dulu baru bercakap, ada yang bercakap dulu baru berjalan. I took the words walaupun jauh di sudut hati ni rasa ada benda yang tak kena. Finally when she was about 8 months old, I decided to take her to see a neuro paed in Gleneagles, since I hate the long queue in the government hospital.

Vivy used to hate strangers, biasalah budak-budak. So when the so called neuro paed hold her hands, she started to cry. And kebetulan memang time tu nap time dia, so she was cranky during the whole session. Doc tu check mcm doc kat klinik biasa check budak kalau demam, and said "I can't see anything wrong with her, what I can say is she's not a happy baby".

Zapppppp sentap terus mommy nye. From what point yang you can judge if my baby is a happy baby or not? She cried when you hold her hands, and lepas tu terus cranky, so sebab tu dia bukan a happy baby? Terus dia suruh buat MRI scan je. My husband and I were so pissed off with the doc and terus balik.

I called my cousin, a specialist in HKL to ask for her opinion. She then helped me to set an appointment with paed in HKL. Sesungguhnya lepastu menyesal sgt sebab dah pernah jumpa banyak paed from private clinics and hospitals, tp paed yg terbaik I can say is from HKL. The paed (sorry i can't remember her name) siap tanya lagi kenapa baru sekarang nak bawak Vivy datang? I should come earlier, when she was around 6 months, when I started to ask myself why Vivy tak membesar ikut perkembangan yang sepatutnya. So memula paed refer kami to nutritionist to plan for her diet, sebab Vivy perlukan lebih zat-zat untuk menguatkan badan dia, so that dia boleh menampung badan sendiri untuk start duduk, berjalan dan seterusnya. Fyi, Vivy memang taknak makan, dia just minum susu je. Macam-macam kitorg try bagi makan but still she refused to eat. Paed jugak refer kami untuk start buat Occupational therapy (OT) and Physiotherapy (PT) and set kan appointment for Vivy. So sejak tu my husband and I did a lot of readings, start dari situ la termasuk blog-blog mak-mak yang ada special need kids, time tu rasa bersyukur sangat2 keadaan Vivy is actually tak seteruk yang kami fikirkan mula-mula.

When she was 1 year plus, she still can't walk. Kitorang usaha macam2, every month cuti bila ada appointment kat HKL, tapi dah nama pun gomen kan so sebulan dapat sekali je appointment. So kitorg try bawak pegi private pulak, kebetulan my SIL worked in the rehabilitation centre in Kelana Jaya, WQ Park. So kami try bawak buat OT and PT kat situ every week, memang menangis dia tiap2 kali pegi. Kalau sejam session tu memang sejam la dia menangis. Pernah drive berdua je dgn Vivy sampai Port Klang, sebab baca recommendation mommies yang pernah bawak berurut kat akak tu. 

Sampai la Lana lahir, Vivy still belum boleh jalan. But i can say that kehadiran Lana betul2 bagi kekuatan kat Vivy, kat kami jugak; the parents. Since Lana lahir, baru la Vivy berselera nak makan banyak, maybe sebab ada rival. Since Lana dah start bertatih, Vivy pun nampak berusaha nak berdiri, nak tatih sama. We finally sent her to the nursery with her sister, all this while her grandma took care of her while we were working. Susah mula-mula nak cari daycare for her sebab rata-rata bila orang dengar umur setahun lebih takleh berjalan lagi dorang taknak ambil. But dgn izin Allah, we finally found a perfect place for our girls, the owner sanggup accept Vivy sebab dia sangat berminat nak tolong kami dalam development Vivy. All praises to Allah, syukur sangat-sangat. Since Vivy masuk nursery, her social skills is also getting better. 

When she was 2 years and 5 months old, few hours before my 29th birthday, first time in my life I saw her bangun sendiri, berdiri and melangkah 2-3 steps. Menangisssssss la Mommy nye. I swear that was the best moment in my life, and the birthday present I'd ever had ! Since that day, she showed us improvements almost everyday, more steps each day. Subhanallah !

And yes, finally, she can walk now, Alhamdulillah. Thank you Allah, thank you to all the people around her, the nursery staffs, our family; her grandparents, uncles and aunties, and especially to her lil sister Lana. It will still be a long way to go. 

First target achieved , Alhamdulillah. Now we are still monitoring her since GDD has no cure. It's genetic. Tak pasti lagi if she got autism or not. But after I compare dgn ciri-ciri autism yang selalu diperkatakan, tak nampak pulak on her. Tp bak kata sorg paed dulu, we have a few more years to prepare her so that Vivy can enter normal school mcm kanak-kanak sebaya dia. So now kami kena fokus untuk speech therapy pulak. Insyaallah insyaallah insyaallah usaha, harapan dan doa tu tak pernah putus !

What made me started to write about this is this video. I watched this at my work desk at office and cried at the very first 5 seconds, non stop sampai habis ! This video reminds me of the times that we spent while seeking treatments for Vivy especially masa kat HKL. Tunggu turn lama gila, made me bersembang dgn few mommies yang bwk anak-anak syurga mereka. Selalu nampak anak-anak senasib dgn McKenzie (the girl in the video), tapi tak nampak langsung kekesalan or kesusahan kat muka parents mereka. Pernah sembang dgn sorg mak yg ada 4 org anak, 4-4 ada masalah penglihatan. Masa dia bercerita tu wajahnya tenang je, langsung tak mengeluh ke merintih ke padahal rumah bukannya kat KL, jauhhh tu ulang-alik bawak anak2 ke HKL to seek for the best treatments ! I believe that all parents are proud of their kids, no matter what. I thank Allah for giving me such a beautiful daughter like Vivy, made me bersyukur selalu. 

To everyone who's reading this, please, jangan merendah-rendahkan anak orang, jangan mengata-ngata kejadian Tuhan, if you have nothing nice to say, just shut up. Jangan ingat budak-budak tak paham apa yg korang cakap. At least jaga lah hati ibu nya. You won't know the feelings until you become a mother.

New Stroller (again)

Lol.

Yeah, i sold our P&T Dot, and replaced it with another double pushchair.
A simpler one, a lighter one.

Kinderwagon Hop !

http://kinderwagon.com/AboutUs.htm

Reason of letting go our P&T is obviously because of my eldest daughter Viviana hates P&T's reclined seat. Seat dia yg paling tegak pun mcm reclined sikit, yang makcik tu dah biasa duduk tegak mcm atas high chair bila naik Xplory. Semput plak mak jemah nak beli Stokke Crusi plak, tak kosser.

Another reason is P&T's second seat laaagi reclined. Jessamine masa kecik2 ok lagi duduk kat 2nd seat tu, makin besar makin pandai memberontak sebab dia tak nampak ape2 la kan. kesian jugak sebab kadang2 nampak cam terpinggir je kat bawah tu huhuhu.

So, i made a research. but this time taknak beli buggy dah. sebab nya hubs semenjak kerja shift ni, kadang2 sabtu ahad pun keje, so nak keluar dgn budak2 ni je malassss sgt bila mengenangkan nak handle P&T tu sorg2. sebenarnye takde la susah sgt, tp berpeluh2 jugak la haku kat parking lot tu nak assemble sorg2, sambil tertoleh kiri kanan sbb takut org nampak tertonggeng2 kat situ hahaha. so this time i decided to buy an umbrella fold twin stroller.

Ok kenapa beli yg depan belakang and bukan sebelah sebelah mcm Mclaren Twin? sebab kitaorg kadang-kadang malas nk tunggu lif, especially kat mall yg crowded. so sometimes ktorg naik escalator jugak. so sah-sah la yg sebelah2 tu tak muat kan nak naik escalator. another reason is, budak-budak ni tgh fasa suka berebut benda. so possibility nak tercetus pergaduhan tu sangat tinggi hahaha.

For those who's looking for a stroller especially tandem, i would suggest My Baby Berries

their official website -->http://mybabyberries.com/

you can find their facebook here -->  https://www.facebook.com/MyBabyBerries

the owner is Kak Fauziah, sgt warm hearted and friendly :) They are based in Kajang, very efficient and provide fast response via Whatsapp. Their price (for Kinderwagon in my case) is actually cheaper than some other online sellers who claimed they shipped directly from UK/USA, siap ada ready stock and negotiable lagi. Ada official receipt for warranty purpose. Suka suka suka !

I'll write another post for the review soon.

Till then.

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Review : Phil & Teds Dot

Hi hi harini nak tulis review pasal Phil & Teds Dot.
Fyi P&T Dot ni adalah P&T yg paling kecik & compact sekali dlm byk2 P&T series.
We bought this sebab dia adalah antara tandem buggy yg paling compact.

ni bila disumbat di dalam bonet myvi, mmg cukup2 je, so kalau nak bwk beg2 balik kampung kena letak kat seat penumpang la

kalau ikutkan stokke xplory tu rasa lagi bulky dari P&T Dot ni hehe

see bila kakak tido, recline kan 1st seat, yg Lana duduk tu actually adalah 2nd seat (asalnya kat bwh), pacak kat atas skali (ada adapter)

my personal review : 


it's quite complicated at first nak bukak tutup dia, tp bila dah biasa tu senang je. although dia 3 tayar, but it has a good balance, nak gerak memang senang, kalau dlm shopping mall tu muat jela kalau nak lalu celah-celah rak baju tu, mcm single stroller. but overall, xplory still no 1 in my heart hihihihi :)