Ayuni Ayatillah

A collection of my articles published in various websites

This is just a few of the many articles that I have written online. Do get in touch with me at ayuniayatillah@gmail.com if you would like to have more samples other than what's available here :)

Makchic Suri - Wadah mama papa kontemporari •

Resolusi 2020 : 5 matlamat keluarga untuk ditetapkan pada tahun baru ini - Makchic Suri

Saban tahun, kita menyambut tahun baru dengan penuh rasa keazaman untuk memperbaiki diri. Ada sesuatu mengenai permulaan tahun baru yang meniup nafas pembaharuan kepada kita, dan kita mula merasa bersemangat untuk membuat sesuatu perubahan ke arah yang lebih baik. Sebagai ibubapa, tabiat menetapkan resolusi atau matlamat keluarga (family goals) adalah sesuatu yang bijak untuk diamalkan. Ia boleh mendidik keluarga dan anak-anak untuk “pandang” semula ke belakang bukan untuk menyesali, tetapi mengkaji dan mencuba untuk menjadi lebih baik lagi di masa akan datang.
April Magazine •

Vietnamese chef keeps her love of food alive in Malaysia | April Magazine

I stumbled upon Mai Lap Lanh’s Instagram page some time ago and her food postings caught my foodie-eyes. I have always wanted to try authentic Vietnamese cooking, so a few months later I found myself in Mai’s kitchen, learning patiently how to prepare Pho and Vietnamese spring rolls, much to the impatience of my tummy. Hailing from Hanoi, a culturally rich province in the north and the capital of Vietnam, Mai’s youth was spent entirely in the hometown. “I grew up spending time in the kitchen wi...
April Magazine •

Nadia Bakly Sewing for the Love of Little Soles | April Magazine

In person, Farhan Nadia Bakly exudes an ethereal beauty with a pleasant and reserved persona, but inside, this mother of two is built with determination and discipline—the most important traits a businesswoman needs. There is a sparkle in Nadia’s eyes when she speaks about her handmade leather shoe brand, Bebebundo, particularly when she refers to it as her baby. A term so precious that I instantly knew what passion drives her entrepreneurial journey. In retrospect, Nadia never really saw hersel...
WargaBiz •

Zaffuan Zin: A Man Who Dares To Dream Big

Everyone can start up a business, but one has to know that there’s more than the transaction of selling and buying that can ensure a business to endure its rough patches and grow sustainably into the future. For Wan Mohamad Zaffuan Wan Mohamad Zin, Executive Director of WGN Scan Sdn Bhd and Managing Director of D’Aquarian (M) Sdn Bhd, his years of experience dabbling in business has taught him that it is a lot about planning ahead, particularly in the elements of the financial preparation.
WargaBiz •

Lavender Confinement Care: A Helping Hand For Modern Moms After Delivery

A business idea can sometimes come from the most unexpected places. The ability to recognise a problem and offer a solution – this often translates into a successful business endeavour. What’s more when it is a solution for a person’s problem and recognising that it could also benefit others. For Nurul Asmad binti Ghozali, 34, a mother of three children, it is no surprise that the inspiration to set up Lavender Confinement Care came from her own experience.
Azleen Abdul Rahim •

To Reduce Bounce Rate, You Can ‘Force’ Visitors To Stay Longer On Your Website Using These Types Of Content

How many times have you come across a blog or a Facebook page, read the headlines, skim the paragraphs or timeline and immediately decided to leave? I admit I do that countless of times. Not particularly because I dislike a brand or hold any grudges to anyone or anything. It’s simple – the contents do not speak out to me. Think of the internet as a vast universe, and your brand is just a tiny dot on its colossal landscape. How do you make yourself stand out? Even when you have worked so hard t
April Magazine •

Bringing Up Boys: a mother’s courage to bridge the emotional gap

My son Khaleeli is turning 3 soon. He is blooming and thriving ever so wonderfully, absorbing every little detail of the world around him, just like any other toddler would do. He is beautiful, in his very own way, very expressive, naturally wired for rough, physical play and obviously developing a mind of his own. He will take every chance to imitate everything adults do around him, including house chores.  Like sweeping the floor, for instance. “Khaleeli, put that broom away.  You’re just
Makchic •

My Story: There's No Such Thing as 'Supermom'

Every mother wishes to be able to do everything a mother is expected to do – take care of the home, cook for the family, educate and nurture the children or even bake a scrumptious chocolate cake. Before I became a mother myself, I used to put that image high up on my motherhood pedestal, wishing that I could be that mother who manages to juggle every single thing on her own. Unfortunately, the truth is that this would never happen. Not to me, at least, because I’ve learned that there’s no suc
Makchic •

My Story: Losing Baby Weight and Reclaiming My Body

Let me start my story with this one confession – all my life, my biggest insecurity has always been my weight. It started as early as my teenage years. Back then, I was active in sports and that helped me manage my weight well. The sports stopped when I entered university and my weight soared up the scales and I gained almost 10 kilograms. I did whatever I could to shed the weight, even to the extent of signing up for slimming programme with my very limited financial resources. A few years la
April Magazine •

Yuna: How to remain intact while breaking barriers

Malaysian-born singer-songwriter, Yunalis Zarai a.k.a. Yuna, 29, has come a long way from her early singing days on MySpace. What began as an innocent means of soul-searching quickly transformed into a burning passion for music after she started writing songs at the tender age of 14. With a strong online presence, Yuna effortlessly garnered a huge number of followers and quickly became the ‘new cool’ for the Malaysian music scene. Breaking the barriers of the local music industry, she became th
April Magazine •

Baby blues: you should not let it rule you

I remember being in a perpetual motion of light and dark. Light was the days, and dark was what seemed to be endless nights tending to a baby who only craved for the comfort of my breasts. Dark also seemed to linger well into my days as I struggled to keep up with his demands while attending to an erratic 4-year-old sister who was losing so much of my attention and also struggling to cope with a sibling. My baby was perfect, apart from being a little yellow from prolonged jaundice. He was all
www.ethissa.com.my •

Why Moms Need To Go Through Confinement | Ethissa

Pregnancy is a miraculous journey, but it is also body-changing experience for every woman. Even though a woman’s body is amazingly designed to adapt to various physical and physiological changes during pregnancy, it is very important for a mother to take care of her body throughout pregnancy and well after delivery. Asian mothers have long been known to practice the traditional confinement period after giving birth, covering 40 days post-partum. This critical period is the healing window for