Life is a fabric, we are the colours..

Its double joy for me today ..yeayyy!!

2011-03-25T05:56:00.001+08:00

Today would be one of my happiest day in life

Woke up early morning, saw a big box next to the bed

i wonder what's in it that 'incik suami' brought home?

surprise...surprise..jeng..jeng...

and here it is....

my own mesin jahit tepi kain hooyyeeahhh!!!

its like a dream come true for me :D

suka, suka sangat. Thank you abang! saranggheeyyy

no more trips to the kedai mesin jahit tepi for me

no more paying RM5 for jahit tepi tudung sekolah (mahal kan!!!)

cerita jahit tepi yg mahal itu akan ku share dilain masa, tp mmg taubat tak pergi lagi kedai tu

memang ambik kesempatan sungguh, mentang2 masa tu dah nak naik sekolah term baru

dia boleh charge sampai macam tu sekali, hmmm...nak cakap lebih2 pun tak guna

sbb sama2 Melayu tp sedihla..

And my second good news for the day is when i met an old friend while picking up my online order

actually, tak pernah pun shop online for clothings as i know i'm too picky to buy anythg from the internet

kalau nak beli barang esp baju, mesti nak belek2 dulu, pegang2, raba2..eh eh mcam lg sohaimi pulak ;)

but since produk yg ini i berkenan sangat2, and tgk2 owner dia dok kat bangi aje

i pun apa lagi, set masa pi rumah dia nak tgk baju2 tu

and to my surprise, she was my junior masa kat Alevel!!

what a small world kan? seronok dapat jumpa adik junior, seronok dapat tgk baju yg cantik2 and seronok dapat harga special wohooo!! double joy!

terus tangkap 2 baju ni

dengan yang ini...

cantik tak? hehehe....tak cantik? takpe, saya suka!

anyway, borak punya borak dgn adik siti (the supplier) memang seronok. I salute her sbb dia tak kisah pun share her stories of doing the business. Adik Siti, kalau ada terbaca posting ini, akak ingin mengucapkan ribuan terima kasih atas semua yang dikongsi bersama. I pray for your success dunia dan akhirat, insyaallah. Amin. Dan yg lagi best tu, i boleh ambik bulk order with special price from her.

I definitely gonna share this with my families and friends.

Sat lagi nak hantar email kat sedara mara, kalau ada yg berminat kat design tshirt2 ini, boleh join dalam my bulk order :)

to blog or not to blog?

2011-03-07T19:34:00.000+08:00

i've been away for wayyyy to long,

i almost forgot how to blog

but i decided to blog again

because i want to cherish all those moments in my life

and also because my other half insist me doing it

for the sake of our 4 angels :)

I'M BACK!!!

UK Day 2 - UMIST 'where its all started...'

2009-04-28T16:11:00.000+08:00

Started our 2nd day in Mnchester very early in the morning as we wanted to go to Car Boot Sale yeahhh...bestnye!! Still remember during our student life 11 yrs ago, CB is one of the most looking forward activities during weekends. Kalau skg ni pergi lgi la banyak benda nk carik. We are eyeing more on children's books, dekat riyadh books are very expensive!! :( Went to Oldham CB with Mkck ana as our tour guide. Its so freezing cold that morning, kesian ayman n kak cik.

At Oldham Car Boot. This dog is gigantic!!

They were both looking up at the aeroplane. Notice that ayman got hooked with the big bus and never wanted to let it go. Nsib baik 2pd je hehe...

Back from the car boot, kakak asked 'Where are we going next Umi?'

'Do you want to visit Umi's and ayah's school ??' *mischieviuos smile on*

'Of course!!!' Umi dgn ayah pergi sekolah kat mana? Naik apa? Belajar apa? Cikgu perempun ke lelaki and the questions kept pouring in...hahaha..

Picture taken 11 years ago. In 1998, taken by my lovely roomie Jijie :) Why am i wearing baju kurung? No idea! Must be bcos we were just came back from some msian events.

Umi dgn ayah right after umi's graduation day. Ayah bagi umi small teddy. Ayah kata taknak bg bunga sbb bunga cepat layu ..iyolah tu haha..

11 yrs ago we never had imagine that we will come back here right at this spot, taking this photo with our 4 lil rascals. Not 1, not 2 but 4!!! phewww...a lot has happen in our life and theres a lot more coming. Who knows what will happen in 10yrs time from now..only He knows.

UK Day 1 - Manchester

2009-04-27T13:21:00.000+08:00

Tengah tunggu pkck Acul setting up the car seats for kak cik n ayman in his car. Going to the nearest ASDA to do some groceries for our Road Tour. Later in the afternoon, ayah and pkck acul went to fetch our rental car which is then become our 2nd home hahahaa...

At the back is Mkck Ana's cosy house in Cheetham Hill.

ASDA 24hr Hyper Market. Notice the parking signboard for "Parent and Child only' - This is one of the reason i wish we culd live in UK hmmm...

The ASDA was exactly next to Manchester City Stadium as can be seen here.

Trip to Manchester United Old Trafford Stadium.

Happy Birthday My Love...

2009-04-22T14:35:00.000+08:00

Today is my dearest 34th birthday. I am so blessed to have him in my life. Alhamdulillah..

To dearest Abang, i just wanted to tell you this:

I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.

I love you not only for what you have made of yourself, but for what you are making of me.

I love you for the part of me that you bring out.

~extracted from Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Love you dear...yesterday, today and forever.

Yours always, Ina. (22/4/2009)

UK Road Trip: 6th March 09 – 27th March 09

2009-04-21T23:39:00.000+08:00

The idea to have a trip to UK came about when we got the news that my Sis-in-law will be following her husbd to Liverpool to pursue his pHd. This is real good news. We have been talking a lot on paying my DH’s untie a visit who is currently in MANCHESTER...yes!! OUR Manchester...ahhh..there so much sweet memories there :) And the purpose of visiting becomes much reasonable now knowing that we will also be visiting ‘Lil Sarah (the girls cousin). So then, the surfing and browsing for our ‘Trip Down Memory Lane’ begins…

Dec 08 – Start surfing for flight tickets. Planned to go somewhere in March/April. Reasons; winter just over and spring is coming. You dont want to explore UK during winter when the day time is shorter and the temp is like freezing cold! Got Saudiair tickets Ryadh-Manchester for ~SR1300/ea (50% offer). Available flight from mid march-end april only. Lesson learnt: plan your vacations early to save more. Now the tickets are in our hands, apa lagi start browsing for details places to go lah!!

Accomodations:

We are so lucky to have families in Manchester and Liverpool; and a close friend in Edinburgh who hv been constantly calling us to pay them a visit (in other word, they are offering us free accommodations!! Alhamdulillah. It sure did save us a lot) To Makcik Ana, Pokcik, Ma, Acul, Faizi and Ijan- thank you very much for your hospitality. Kami amat terharu dgn layanan yg diberi, Allah shj yg dapat membalas budi baik kalian semua. Ikhlas dari kami diRiyadh. So the only accomodation we need to settle is for our trip in London. We figure out that London is one of our must-visit place. We both didnt get to explore much during our student year..yelah, nama pun student masa tu. Budget ciput, harapkan kawn2 bwk jalan je. hehee..The girls were so excited knowing that they'll hv a chance to see the actual 'London Bridge'..yeah yeah, i know. That famous bridge in London is actually called Tower Bridge but people has been mistakenly it with London Bridge. I did explain this to the girls, and yet they still sang the fmous rhyme all the way to London. So then, we booked a travelodge near Heathrow, again at an offer price for booking period 3months in advance.

Car Rental

Now that accomodations settled, time to browse for the cheapest car rental. The first you should know about renting a car in UK, always make sure you've browse through UK Car Rules and Regulations -> http://www.gatwick-car-rentals.co.uk/driving-uk/on-the-road.php

We did make a mistake the first time when we excitedly booked a 5-seater car with only 300pd for 14days, when we are a family of six! Not after my aunties raised the issue then we knew that we have to get a 7 seater. Nsib bik boleh cancel booking. We end up with 7seater Zafira, approx 500pd for 14days (which were then got replaced by Ford Galaxy with no extra charges). And with 3 hildren under 100cm height we need to find boosters and car seats. Alhamdulillah, my sil in Liverpool had settle all these in advance. So now we'll just wait for the flight day praying hard that our Visas will be ready by then.

The Comeback - Intro

2009-04-21T18:26:00.000+08:00

Pheeewww...it has been so long since i've last blog. What was the last entry? "Take a Break..' i did take a loooonnggng break huh. The last entry was like a year ago!! Gosh..lucky i still remember my password. What make me came back? Hmm..not so sure. Maybe since ayman is more independent nowadays i hv more to my own sweet time. He spent a lot of time playing with the sisters and came looking for me only if either he got ushered off by the girls for not playing the way they want or just bcos he's feeling sleepy. Sighh..time really flies huh??

Take a break, have a cornflake!

2008-05-29T20:28:00.000+08:00

Kakak is sitting for her end of year exam this week before the 90days summer break. She had finished her Arabic, Maths and Social studies papers for the past 3days which she had commented 'kacang aje' except for arabic (no surprise sbb umi pun x reti nak ajar huhuhu) She will need to study for the rest of the papers (ESL, Science, Islamic, Computer, Language)during this 2days break. She always find Science very difficult to understand, hence when I sense her reluctant to study for her Sc subject, i'd suggested that we bake something before she continues her studies. She excitedly agreed (she always love to help in the kitchen!)and promised to study more on Science that night. We decided to bake the easiest biscuit of all, Biskut Cornflakes ;)

P/S: They met the Villain of McD at Geant Riyadh Gallery last night, and ayah took a snap. Ayman look so uncomfortable being next to the Villain haha...

Summer Fun!

2008-05-25T14:50:00.000+08:00

Its summer time and we are counting days to go for our annually 'cuti-cuti malaysia' yeahh!!! Last year our enroute were Riyadh-KL-Langkawi-Kuala Terengganu-Batu Pahat-A Famosa-Tiara beach Resort before off back to Riyadh. It was really fun especially when the holiday was spent with our beloved family...Here are some of the memorable moments captured.

This year, where to huh?? Maybe to the Land of Hornbill?? *wink2* tungguuuu....

KG1B Classroom at Al-Iqbal International School

2008-05-24T13:40:00.000+08:00

One day, Alia came home from school and this conversation took place:-
Alia: Umi, do you want to see how my class look like inside?
Umi: Yes, sure. Show me, but before that can you please take off your shoes and put on the shoe rack, please?
(She quickly did what she has been told to before going through her school bag..looking for that one piece of paper. A smile crossed her face after she finally found it..)
Alia: Look umi, i draw this at school.
Umi: Wow!! its wonderful. Ok, now tell me about all the things in this wonderful picture of yours.
(She started with pointing at the picture of Ms Uzuma teaching the class about colours..and so on so forth. Not until she finished her story-telling, then umi start with Q/A segment)
Umi: Who is that girl standing next to your teacher?
Alia: Oh..thats my friend. its a boy la umi, he's been punished for being naughty
Umi: Ooo..no wonder he look so sad:(. And what about this? What is this?(umi pointing at a picture of milk bottle on the bag rack)
Alia: thats my friends bottle.
Umi: Is it a milk bottle? like ayman's one?
Alia: bukan betul2 macam ayman punye, tapi sama sikit je..kawan adik tu minum air dlm botol susu la umi
Umi: oo..iyeke??? hahaha...

Umi's new tool :)

2008-05-22T04:07:00.000+08:00

Ayah had bought umi a new oven and here are the first few experiments done with it...and lots coming up(hopefully! hehehe ...)

Alia's End of Year Event

2008-05-22T02:28:00.000+08:00

Alia was in her quarantine mode when we got the news of her end of year school event which will be held in less than a week time. She was begging us to let her join the ceremony and since her teacher also had written personally asking umi to come for prize giving ceremony, so we decide to let her go. The teacher requested to prepare her a yellow long frock, together with yellow shoes and yellow jewelleries...not forgetting she had to learn a poem title 'Traffic lights' for her class performance. She was all into the show and giving her best effort in memorizing the poem (its good to see such enthusiasm in this lil girl! :) Umi spend half a day to come up with the required 'frock' and was glad it was home-made instead of grabbing from the garment stores cos alia seems appreciate it more..she said the frock is very special because umi made it especially for her ;) We had great fun together that day, only the two of us..

'Traffic Lights'
Red light red light what do you say?
I say stop and stop right away
Yellow light yellow light what do you say?
I say wait and ready right away
Green light green light what do you say?
I say go and go right away
Thank you, thank you red yellow green
Now i know what traffic lights mean

Pox in da House!!!

2008-05-04T11:58:00.000+08:00

Pheww..!! It seems like ages from the last time I wrote. Now i know its not that easy to keep a blog flowing smoothly ;) Yes, i did sit down and log in twice before this third attempt, but there's always distractions either from the squad (who else!), catching up with the world updates and not mentioning the calling from my so-called social networking aka FB haha...Who said full-time housewife has all the time in the world huh??! Totally disagree.

What's goin on for the past couple of weeks? Theres good things and bad things, of course. Bad things first, i always like to save the best for last haha...We have been attacked by the Chicken Pox virus!!Well, currently the virus had landed on Alia and Kak chik..though i really hope it will stop there. Have been busy trying to prevent the one who got it from getting worse and also doing all the best i can to stop it from spreading to the others, especially lil ayman. Alhamdulillah, they are recovering well.

The good news is the squad has an additional cousin on the 30th April 08 ..Yeay! Cik ly just delivered her second baby and we just cant wait to hear details on the newborn baby boy. (Ema, culina if u read this please update us!! and dont forget to email us the pic) The next day after hearing the news, ayah came home from office and with his mischievously smile, handed umi a piece of paper. Guess what!! We've booked a ticket to go back home ..yeay!!! The date is still a secret though haha...jgn marah yea my beloved families...saja nak buat surprise :)) InsyaAllah, klau dah dekat2 esok, we will announce yeee...hehehe..So, to swap with the 'special date', here are some pics of the girls art work. Umi has put up one special art board in the activity room and we will put up all the kids art work there. Before we put up new batch of work, umi will take a snap of them so that we wont miss one single creative ideas of the Azrul's girls hehe...enjoy!

p/s: instead of uploading pics of the two girls w their 'pinkish fairies trails' (i told the girls fairies has pay a visit and leave trails on their skins, so they better not scratch them or else fairies wont be friend w them anymore *wink*), i've put up some pics of the growing ayman. Some pics are best to kept private, right? ;)

These slippers are made for walking...

2008-04-14T00:30:00.000+08:00

While ayman getting busy exploring on his feet nowadays, umi had no choice other than trying the best to make the house as 'babyproof' as possible so that he will be able to explore without hearing the words 'dont touch' constantly hahaha...finally, his on his feet at 13mths old!

As for kak cik, she's already an expert with clicking the mouse at 3years old! That is quite advance compared to her two elder sisters hmm....millenium kid i guess :) Now her two sisters will have to add another competitors when playing computer games. Lucky we have three PC at home (including umi's laptop huhu..umi had to sacrifice lohhh....) The funny thing is, when one girl decide to use the PC, automatically the other two will rush to the nearest PC available..well, kids will always be kids huh ;)

This is for Kak Cik who turns 3yo today! (13th April 2008)

2008-04-13T13:47:00.001+08:00

We had two people in our family who shares same birthday in the month of April, that’s ayah and kak cik. Ayah birthday falls on the 22^nd while Kak cik’s on the 13^th of the month. Still remembers those days when umi was carrying Kak Cik, being the third experience Umi adopted those ‘take it easy’ style all through the 81/2months of growing her inside me, in fact she’s the lightest among the sisters! Having her is such a dramatic situation. Had been admitted into Putrajaya Hosp two weeks earlier before due date because of very low water level as claimed by Dr Kamsiah of Az Zahrah Bangi, umi had a very restless sleep the night before she was born. Of course there’s the contractions but very mild and it is so frequent that umi had got immune with it haha..

Then on that bright, sunny morning, ayah came around 8am anxiously asking if umi had the feelings for labor. Seems like everybody is getting impatience with the waiting. Asked ayah hows the two girls were doing back home left with Mak and Bibik Idah, ayah said they were fine. Just kept on asking when umi will be back with their lil sister..yes, both of them still wanted another sister, they said baby girl is cuter than the boys..haha..after had my breakfast (thanks to ayah for just being around, luv u!), umi insists ayah to go and get the groceries for the girls as umi’s instinct say its not time yet. Ayah make umi promised to cling on the cell all time so that he’ll get to be updated. Half an hour after ayah had just left, umi got that terrible back pain..macam nak tercabut pinggang rasanya. Umi decided to go and look for the nurse instead of using the calling button as the nurse counter is just next to umi’s room. Umi figure out that walking around should benefit the delivery process also, right. As soon as they saw umi walking towards them in such agonize, one of them direct umi to the checking room. Few minutes later a lady doctor came and she was so surprised to find that umi already was 6cm dilated. She quickly instruct to get umi to the labor room which is on a different floor! While the nurses chaotically pushed the trolley into the lift, umi was so glad that umi did cling to the cell as ayah requested. So, during the lapse time when umi not in pain, umi got to call ayah and told him that we are on the way to the labor room. The nurses did asked where’s the baby father, and when umi told them he’s at Alamanda buying some fishes, they just giggles..hehe..Around 10mnts after the call, ayah arrived just in time to hold umi’s hand and with the third push, Nur Aina Nadirah was born at 11:45am, 13^th April 2005 with only 2.5kg. Welcome to outside world my sweet lil child, may you grow to become anak solehah and happiness will always be with you, amin.

Homesickkk...

2008-04-08T16:28:00.000+08:00

Had chatted with beloved Mak and Ly today makes me feel so homesick. Oh how I wish we all could fly back home right now and then..*sigh*

Maybe it would brightened my day a lil bit if I just paste the latest pic of our beloved family back in Msia. These pics were taken during our trip back home last summer hols. The first picture is at Tiara Beach Resort just two days before we had to go back to Riyadh. The second photo was taken at KLIA, with all the people we love so much…Mak, Mami, both Abahs and adik2ku..while the other half of the family bunch, though not present, are always in our heart so dearly.

Love is missing someone whenever you’re apart, but somehow feeling warm inside because you’re close in heart. ~ Kay Knudsen

Geant Salam Mall

2008-04-08T01:56:00.000+08:00

Seems like we are in the mood to go places with 'Salam' word lately J This week we decided to get the groceries at Geant Salam Mall, 30mnts drive from Umm Hammam. No 1 item to get is kakak's school bag. She excitedly showed umi the broken handle as soon as she got home from school yesterday and demonstrated on how difficult for her to drag that old trolley bag without the handle, and she did it with excitement because she knew she'll be getting a new one! Hmm…umi just hope that kakak realize how lucky she is. I still remember when I was her age, we only get to shop for ‘Back to School’ items at the beginning of the year only. In fact, before the shopping trip, my beloved mak will always check if the old one can still be use and when I mean usable, that’s mean its either untorn or still fit the size. Well, I guess mak just want us to learn to appreciate things more..and that’s what i’m going to teach my kids. We only spend an hour to get all the items in the list, and while ayah unload the trolley, umi took a snap of the ‘lil bunch….

Kak Chik at 2yo, soon going to 3yo yeay!

2008-04-05T15:20:00.000+08:00

A Trip to Salam Park

2008-04-03T17:36:00.000+08:00

Its another weekend in Riyadh, but it surely is an interesting one. Ayah had promised to bring us to a new park recommended by his colleagues and the exciting part is there’s a lake in the park! Yeaahh…one would think what is so exciting about it?? Its just a park with lake, we had a hundreds of them back in Malaysia…Tasik Titiwangsa, Tasik Perdana, Tasik Shah Alam which are all open to public 24hrs. But not here in The Kingdom and as expected, anything in Saudi that involved H2O maintenance will cost us a price.

We decided to go after Asr on that Friday, with Uncle Zul and Auntie Nini tagging along behind us. Credit to Google Technology which ayah had surfed the night before (that’s our smart daddy hehe..), we reached our destination after 20mnts driving. Uncle Zul had a glinch in finding parking space, it turn out that he had to make one round of u-turn and with all the impatience girls who just cant wait to get off from his car, whats more seeing that ayah and umi already waiting at the ticket booth, haha…We had to pay 3riyal each to get to explore inside the park, hoping that the fun waiting inside is worth the pay. The sight of a beautiful lake with magnificent fountain (surprisingly a stunning rainbow also) welcomed us that afternoon. The girls gasps seeing there’s even paddle boat ride to enjoy!! Hmm…looks like Salam Park will become their favorite now haha…Guess you should know our first activity there and then right? Ayah had to fork out 20riyal for the rides, and we are very lucky that Uncle Zul came along. At least they don’t have to cramp in one boat. With two adults as the captain with each two kids crew, they paddle to the centre of lake for 20mnts, while umi, ayman and auntie nini as their loyal camera women.

After the paddling activity, we strolled around the park and found that there’s actually a lot of choice for boat rides. There’s the Swan boat, Mickey Mouse Boat and a few more. Everybody agreed that enough paddling for today, and decided to enjoy the train ride instead. This time Uncle Zul generously chip in for our tickets, it cost SAR5/each. It was a fun ride, well at least ayman enjoy the sound of the train so much that he’s been so quite all along haha…Then we just spend the rest of the time lazing beside the playground. As soon as the call for Maghrib Prayer, we decided to heed back home, hoping that there will be another visit next time.

Its Art and Craft Time!

2008-04-02T00:59:00.000+08:00

My serenity

2008-04-01T20:32:00.000+08:00

New friends

2008-03-29T20:22:00.000+08:00

The girls were so excited knowing that they’ll be visiting one of Umi’s friend’s that night, what’s more knowing that the friend also has two lovely daughters their age. They just cant wait to meet their new friends, so Umi suggest both to make a ‘Nice Meeting You’ card each to bring over. They love the ideas so much that they even start discussing on how to decorate the cards among themselves. At least this would keep them occupied for the whole day until the trip.

We reached Adila and Adlin house around 8:00pm, and were stunned with how big their living room was! After less than 5 mnts, the kids already got acquainted with each other and they played like they were all time best friends haha..Dila and Adlin youngest brothet, Zahir was so glad to meet Ayman again, his partner in crime during Hajj trip couple of months ago.

Few weeks after the visit, we were invited for their housewarming party. This time the girls came up with their own suggestion to bring cards for adlin n adila..hmm umi just feel glad that they've learn the beauty of giving to others :)

Fun in the park

2008-03-28T18:19:00.000+08:00

One fine Friday morning, with some fried rice, keropok and a jug of hot milo we dashed to Riyadh Zoo, hoping that it is opened haha.. (as usual, our last minutes planning). As expected, they were closed for renovation. Well, at least we get to enjoy the Friday morning breeze ride with no traffic jam, and it was really great! Not until ayah mentioning about his growling stomach that made us decided to go to our favorite park just behind Euromache. We called it ‘the royal park’ as it is surrounded by these huge and luxury Arabs houses or I would rather called Palace.

It always make me wonder what it would be look like inside these magnificient residents. Hmm...maybe I should start finding friends among the Arabs so that they can invite me to their palace and then I’ll know what its look like inside huh J Reached there around 10:30am, we just love it when there’s not many people in the park. We can choose our favorite place to settle, normally nearby the swings and slide. The girls as usual went straight to the swings while ayah start unpacking the fried rice with keropok. Umi’s fried rice never been so tasty as we ate it in the park whilst the morning breeze gust to the face...hmmm..

Mid-term School Break (1st – 15th feb 08)

2008-03-27T20:01:00.000+08:00

Kakak had her last exam paper on that Sunday, and Monday was the starting of a 2weeks school break. Umi had come up with some idea on how to occupy the girls time during this 2wks break, a project called ‘Scrapbooking for Ayah’s birthday present’. The girls are soo excited to start with the project and surprisingly, umi feels the same way too! :)

We only went outing on Thursday night of the first week, shopping for groceries at Geant Khurais. It has been quite some time that we haven’t been to Geant, the last trip was like few months back. Had our dinner at food court before heading to the theme park. As kakak just finished her mid-term exam, as a token for her ayah let both kakak and adik chose one ride to enjoy. Just for the record, they do not often get the chance to spend time on themepark as we think its just a waste of money. It wud be much better if the money is spend on books or art&crafts items…at least they can be more creative with it. Still, once a while wud do no harm to let them enjoy the rides..wudnt it? As it turn out, both of them decided to ride the ‘Screw Ride'. Unfortunately, adik was so scared that she cried with her eyes closed all the time!! Even kakak had that frightened look ……exciting feeling gone in a wooosh! J Done with the so called entertainment, we strolled into the Hypermarket to get the groceries. Reached home around 11pm and everybody was so tired that within minutes all ZZzzZz…………..

Since we did not get the chance to shop for art accessories last Thursday night, ayah promised to take us after Friday prayer. Yupp, it sure exciting when ayah gave us the green light to shop for art&craft stuff! We went to Riyalin shoppe (some sort like Kedai RM2) and bought some water colours, colour paper, some glitters, ribbons, wrapping papers and lots and lots of glue!! Since umi insist to check if there is any sale at Jarir Bookstore (the largest bookstores in Riyadh), ayah being as sporting as usual, took us there. Luck was not on our side as we left Jarir 15mins later empty handed. Next stop was to Malaz restaurant, to tapau Umi’s favorite ‘Prawn fried Rice and ayah’s ‘Crab Massala’ for dinner. Poor ayah as it turn out that his fav dish is not available that night, so ayah will just enjoy umi’s chicken sambal (leftover from lunch). Before we drove home and end our outing, our last mission was to collect a new PC for kakak and adik’s room!! Yupp, we decided to gave the girls their own PC as we feel that kakak has started to enjoy having her own things in her room. Hmm…umi’s lil girl had grown up ..sigh! Time just fly when u really enjoying it, isn’t it? As for the rest of their mid-term break, the girls are sure enjoying themselves with the water colour painting and glitters craft.

Better late than never

2008-03-27T15:31:00.000+08:00

I've been trying to find some time to start with this blog thingy for quite some time right now, yet never got it materialised. Yday, after finished helping kakak with her science project, it just strucked me that i've just got to write this down!!Never want to forget the look in her eyes, gleaming with excitement and those big grinnn...She was so thrilled to bring the model of 'bones and muscle' to school and show-off to her friends. She even ask for my help to put it at the safest place possible so that her lil sisters wont ruin it haha...talking about stingy sister. Oh, by the way, just to make sure i'll remember how we made it, i'll list down the things needed; used tissue roll cut into 2, a rubber band, a balloon, and masking tape. Guess i need to make our digicam handy so that we can take a shot of it, well next time maybe. As for today, i've promised myself that i'm not going to let those special moments in my life flies without i'm remembering it even a lil bit. May there will be more happy moments coming up...insyaAllah.

p/s: the pic is just to remind me how glad she was ;)