Wednesday, October 29, 2008

Registration Day

We went to Heriot Watt early in the morning together with our beloved son. We have to bring him as we couldn't get anyone to take care of him for that time being. We preferred offer instead of asking for help. Therefore, we just bring him over to our registration day and wished he behaved well that day.

We went to our uni by bus. From Kak Yani's, it just took us 7-8 minutes to arrive. All the briefing was attended by Mr Hubby as it seems unappropriate to bring kid in.I just waited at the entrance with Aqil. The staffs also recognise me as they passed through me to get to the briefing room. We were given a key to enter the classroom building and a set of stationery like calculator, writing pad and guidance book.

Since Aqil didn't want his dad to carry him, I had to carry him from 9 to 4pm.It was really tiring and all I can do was wishing that I got full strength in the ramadhan to get through the day and Alhamdulillah, with the inner courage that I have, I managed to get through that day.

The messy thing happened during the matriculation card processing. We had problem with the medical registration (they just didn't see me carrying a cranky boy because it was late afternoon, most kids are getting restless...the staff consumed my time and i just passed the dental registration as being pushed by Mr Hubby (he is very pushy here).We went back home straight after that.

The next day, I stayed at home and missed the class. Anyway, Mr Hubby brought back 2 bagfull of lecture notes. Seeing the bulky notes, I wonder how I am going to get through all of that with the limitations and difficulties that I am facing here...

Sunday, October 26, 2008

Continuation....

We rested to release our bodyache throughout the night. Luckily my son easily adapted with the situation. The next day, we started our house hunting. We waited at the said location but the agent did not appear (this was flat leased under university student welfare, quiet frustrating!!!). However, we did not feel to much frustrated because i don't really like the surrounding eventhough the house is really close to the bus stop and just take 5-7 minutes on the bus to the campus. After waiting for an hour (nearly!), we went back home and rested. We searched through the internet for new ones. Other friends also helping us whenever they heard or found new advert on house for rent.

In summary, we did went to some houses but couldn't make when we couldn't find the said address, the agent did not bring the house keys (apedaa!), the landlord was too picky, and also we've been cheated by agency as we were foreigner (whey got kidse've been told the house was taken while we just about to fill in the form!!!). I felt that were valuable experience to share with my friends who wanted to go abroad, just be strong and careful with the locals! One must be easily adapted with the environment or else you will feel lost all the time.

When we just about to reach one week staying over abg jamal's, we feel it is not proper for us to stay on more than that since they got kids and only two beds in their house. We hope for another home to stay over until we find our home. We've been parasit for almost 3 weeks in edinburgh but that's fate we have to accept. Luckily, there a sis wanting to return to Malaysia for Eid and she allow us to stay in her house Thank you very much Kak Yani, you are really our saviour at the time we really need help. Her house is fully equipped since it has been rented by 3 or 4 Malaysian continuously. We celebrated our Eid there with small Malaysian dishes that I know how to cook eventhough there was missing ingredients!!!

At Kak Yani's, we thouroughly hunt for house and nursery. We got some houses but, as my husband went, there was one nearby but small and only 1 room. And it is very far from the bus stop. As for nursery, my husband went to one in Juniper Green and already filled in the form, then, late evening, we received a phonecall from Pinocchio, a nursery in our campus saying there is place for my son. We decided to send him there instead of Juniper Green. When we looked at the price, we were shocked but my husband preferred there since we plan not to buy a car.

We found our home now a week after we stayed in edinburgh.We met the landlord at night after we break fast and I just said we take the house and nego on the rental. We glad to have a very nice landlord so far and not picky. That is why we picked this house although it is smaller than kak yani's and more expensive than kak yani's.When about to move on, my husband refused to ask for help from our friends here, he did but the help did not turn up maybe due to buziness. So we migrated by taxi and carried ourselves the stuffs we can carry. It was very tiring night that I will remember for the rest of my life.

View from our house window...

Saturday, October 25, 2008

Finally..

It has been a long time idling in writing this blog. I've been very busy throughout september 2008 arranging my studies stuff. What a hassle i've went through which i feel i'll never want to mess up my life with it again. Lots of grieves and stresses on me.At one point i feel like my head is like a overpressurized vessel and waiting to blow up.And it releases as I looked into my son cute face (i'll never can be more stress than that, and it means, my son is my cure!!). I guess it happens to all mothers, the children are their cure.

Back to what happen in the past few months, my VISA readied on the 10th Sept, we straight went to the MAS office and bought tickets for 3 with our OWN money since MARA said they could not attend last minute ticketing for 2 of us. (i don;t know what will make them CAN'T do that now since everything is done online and ticketless) And we struggling to find the correct form to refund our money, have contacted them in MARA London, haven't reply (well, this is typical, hassle!)...We afraid they refused to refund as they have promised us to refund our money 100%.

So , we flew on the 10th, at 11.45 pm, we checked in early as i want to have meals in the MAS golden lounge (this was my wish ever to my hubby, as i can't enjoy the time in that lounge during my trip to paris last time). We went in and eat a lot...haha...but i guess last time was better since they served nasi goreng...

In the flight, at first we've been given front seat with the baby bassinet attached point.But, there was other family who in need of the baby bassinet so we moved to the back and have the four middle seat for us..MAS staffs were very kind to us..Thanks guys..we really appreciate that..and lucky, on that day, the flight wasn't that full. My son slept through the journey to london and it took almost 12 hours. I couldn't sleep though (very usual). We also had our sahur in the flight.

We arrived Heathrow in the early morning and my son was very fresh (u can expect how he behaved then,).lucky,we didn't go so much hassle at the immigration.There we waited for transfer flight to edinburgh at 11 am. Well, the process for immigration took longer than expected as our flight from kl had a slight delayed.From thre, we really appreciate that kl airport is much better (proud of Malaysia).

We arrived Edinburgh around 12.30 pm, we were brought to penghulu house before abg jamal's (our petronas senior). We rested a few hours than went to abg jamal's.we met his wife, kak g and kids (3 of them). They are really kind to us and we can't have the right word to express how much we thanked them..thanx abg jamal & kak g!

To be continued.....