2 in 1

Sana', my Algerian friend texted me last Saturday afternoon. She wanted to hold a surprised bday party for her bestie, Wani who happens to be one of my closest friends too. Last Saturday was Azalea's bithday FYI. She turned 1 dat day! WOWZER, it really had been a year already, aye? So, instead of celebrating only Wani's bday we ended up celebrating Azalea's as well. Hey, that lil pow-wow was such a good opportunity to catch up with my friends and their latest goings-on in their lives.

To the birthday girls, Wani & Azalea:

May Allah shower both of you with His mercy and forgiveness

AND

May each and every passing year bring you wisdom, peace and cheer!

Liana +Me+ Azalea+Amal+Nicky+Wani (Sana took this pix).

Don't mind her. She doesn't mean to be rude.

Mommy and the birthday gals.

The birthday cake - cheesy choc!

p/s: Thanks 'aunties' for throwing me this party. (on behalf of Azalea, lol)!

To Azalea:

Hey we're (mom+dad) gonna celebrate your real birthday with a partay that suits your age along with a group of suitable peers, thehehehehe) real soon. But let's wait for dad first, okay? Love ya!

My sweetie pie!

Of late, she's quite cranky. Perhaps, sebab bile kat umah just ade kami berdua. Unlike kat nursery yg penuh dengan manusia. Skang dah pandai main and pandai buat orang ketawa. Sheesh!Sungguh tak kupercaya dia akan menginjak ke umur satu tahun in this short time! Walau sampai umo 30 tahun sekalipun, you will always be my baby!

Happy Birthday Octoberians.

Happy birthday to these October babies! *hope it is not too late.

1st - My dad

6th - My one and only baby brother

7th - My other half (encik hubby lerrr)

12th - My nephew Danish

21st - My baby sister, Ijah.

And a very happy anniversary to my parents (13th October 2011), 27 years of sharing! We love you to the point of no return.

"Semoga Allah panjangkan umur and murahkan rezeki kalian. Amin."

Our still-under-construction property!

We believe that there's no other place like home and because of this too, we didn't mind to put our back into getting the right house to live in. This house proves that love at a first sight does exist. An embodiment of a true-blue infatuation, I must insist.

Anyway and anyhow, to cut a long story short, this house and its atmosphere are just perfect for our lil family and we definitely can tell when a house is right for us. Instinct works wonders, fellas! It's really like we get strong flutters when we are in the house. In certain conditions, our hearts might palpitate as well :)

With Allah's blessings and mercy, insyaallah this house would bring all the joy and happiness to its dwellers. Amin!

The master bedroom

Via the guest room

The front view of the house.

Our side lawn

A "convertible" utility room

The front lawn

The hall

The family lounge

The staircase

The other part of the living hall

Our house rear view

A view via our dry kitchen.

The patio

The hall in full view.

Our mini store

The house in full view

The Pak Gad's house.

A Home Song

by Henry Van Dyke

I read within a poet's book
A word that starred the page:
"Stone walls do not a prison make,
Nor iron bars a cage!"

Yes, that is true; and something more
You'll find, where'er you roam,
That marble floors and gilded walls
Can never make a home.

But every house where Love abides,
And Friendship is a guest,
Is surely home, and home-sweet-home:
For there the heart can rest

~The end~

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Panggilan Haji.

Selamat menunaikan rukun islam ke 5 wahai mak, ayah and tok.

Semoga memproleh haji yang mabrur.

We miss you guys to the max!

p/s: Teringin ke Makkatul Mukarramah and Madinatul Munawwarah, pronto!

A small step that can make a huge difference!

Hari Rabu adalah hari ke pasar malam. Time study dulu pegi pasar malam just nak cari food untuk pre-dinner, dinner and supper (gile pelahap). But now, things have changed. Now, pasar malam kat KL ni is the best place to get fresh meat, fish, vegies yada yada yada.

Sedang-sedang mencuci mata.

Bumped into this kakak yg jual barang2 mainan.

I took a great look at them and found tada..................

A so-called lappy for kids and to a great surprise I bought it for only RM15! The best thing about this pasar malam lappy is that it is a bilingual lappy. This multi-function lappy is of two languages: Arabic and English. It's worth every penny of mine, I tell you. The fact that I could not find laptops for kids yg dijual commercially yg gune Arabic had made me actually bought it.

The thing is, I want Azalea to be exposed to Arabic especially since she has already receive tremendous input of English via her morning cartoon programs. So I guess this is a good head start to get her acquainted with that language and hopefully she could learn it easily someday due to this little exposure, amin. To my knowledge, this lil exposure will be restored somewhere in her mental lexicon to the extent that next time, when she's ready to learn Arabic, her restored language input is ready to be triggered and learning Arabic would not be something impossible, insyaallah.

*I hope that this will have a significant effect on you supaya senang belajar Arabic later on in your life, Insyaallah*

Kisah suami isteri

Here I am lazing on my bed on this not-so-peaceful Friday morning. I can hear all sort of noises from my bedroom window. Children and their high-pitched roars. That indicates nothing but sheer happiness. Azalea is still soundly asleep and her beautiful slumber is still not being affected at all by the irritating yet negotiable sound waves. The usual Friday mornings are so unlike this one today.

Before me and Takim went to sleep last nite, we had a disagreement. A disagreement about Malaysian films. Not a blatant disagreement. I'd see it more like a banter rather than a debate between two opponents. thehehehehe. Kelakar la jugak since dua-dua dah jadi macam pengkritik filem la plak. Initially, he asked me to go out and catch this new movie yang his fav. actor berlakon. My reply was "I don't think we should spend around rm20 for that so-called comedy. It is not comical pon. Not funny at all and it doesn't deserve our RM20!" To my disbelief, he blew a sharp response defending the actor including the director... bla bla bla and the next thing we know, we woke up late this morning when he actually had to rush for a short course at Concorde, KL. That surely served us rite...

My husband kate saya tak chill and xsupport Malaysian films.

I beg to differ!

My two cents' worth:

I am not trying to be critical here. This is just a layman's humble opinion. I think my opinion is worth to be heard. It is not that I don't appreciate Malaysian movies or films. In fact, I do! I love Yasmin Ahmad's, Afdlin's and some other Malaysian-made masterpieces. As for comedies, I appreciate good comedies since I love to have one hell of a laugh. We rarely have good comedies that we can really be proud of. My only resentment is that either we realize it or not, we are surrounded by heaps of junks. Comedies yang got no values except for massive lawak murahan. Ini belom masuk lagi bab2 story line yg tah hape2 and acting yang ___________ (please fill in the blank with your own adjective). Scarry! Ni mende2 yang sgt transparent and you dont even have to be an expert to notice such flaws!

Just so you know Takim...

Those are the very reasons why I resort myself to the avoidance strategy. Don't get me wrong. Tapi, I still bleh teman u to watch your movies yg I can tolerate cam KL Gangster tu...Any movies yg I rase worth our RM20. I just avoid myself from watching any crappy stuffs so that I can live my life without wondering why on earth they are ever made? I prefer to exercise one of my rights as a free human being by forbidding myself from being fooled by those movies yg meant to fool me. Okay. I love you! You know I would trade 100 best movies in for you! As long as you are happy.