Tok Mimah's birthday gathering

This was last february...during the cny break, gosh..this posting is almost 2 months overdue. In the past years, we normally celebrated Tok's birthday at home in Pekan with table covered with foodie end to end...it is a normal scene for any birthday celeb in Pekan. However this year, it was even better he..he..Atok actually annouced that she wanted to treat the whole family at Zenith hotel..
So there we were to celebrate the special occassion together in red--in conjunction with cny--melebih dari cina :)

To Atok, wishing you much love, good heatlh and blessing life..always and forever.

Aunty ann's engagement

Ok the wedding is just round the corner --about 3 weeks times but we just have to have this in this family's blog of ours.The engagement was arranged in less than a month I think but no doubt it was a beautiful kenduri. The ceremony marked as the official start of the new relationship between Aunty Ann and Uncle Sumali and for the family welcoming Uncle Sumali into the family. Like any other engagement we had in the family, we all hope for the best.

Along did not join the party as he was away in Langkawi and Cameron joining a school trip. Everybody was asking for him, and Along said he knew that all along...macam glam sangat lah dia tu! So our Angah was taking the limelight with the girls...finally huh? he..he..

We also didnt bring Aariz with us...as we only made a short trip , just overnight thus tot it is better to spare Aariz from the exhaustion and the chaotic of organising kenduri at one's place.

Karaoke is a must thing in most of our kenduri..started of with the "otai" --

Mummy and Abah had a go as well...erghhhh...not "a" go but actually a few attempts...heeee...cant resist..hopefully people have pleasure listening...if not sorry lah!

Even the future bride and groom had their round of karaoke-ing. They are regular at Red box , i heard...dah practised lah tu :)..I think that is about all...we will meet again with the lot Dec 22nd for the big day!

SKIM's Graduation Day 2012

There is so much delay in my sharing but better late than never, right? This event was held early Nov..should come before the posting on UPSR result. Alhamdulillah that this year we got the chance to join the gradution day since both Angah and Adib managed to place themselves for some prizes.

Angah got the Leadership award--for his role as the School's head boy and also for leading some other co curicullum activities. Before the ceremony started, the  teachers put up slide show of the activities that the school carried out for the whole year..and from there, I realized that our Angah was really active..his face was like everywhere,and being the head boy--he would lead like 90% of the school's activities--we  feel proud of our  Angah...sangat kecil kecil cili api kind of a person...I hope he will continue this positive attitude through out his high school as well..amin.

Apart from the Leadership award there is also Best educations award separately for a boy--Daniel (with the spec)  and a girl, Co Curriculum award-- the last pic at the bottom i.e. Eddie and Sportmanship award--the first--Amir Aliff. I think it is good that the school separate those achievements and have more to go up the stage, rather than have only 1 person conquering all.

Then ...the out of the blue kind of surprise is when Adib got best English prize for standard 2. Memang mummy and abah terkejut beruks. In fact Adib was also suprised himself. He didnt even know when was the exam...punyalah..he is such a baby...I have been asking him when was the final exam right to the day he gave me a slip to inform that he would be getting a prize for best English. I was a bit worried about him because he told me that tehre were other kids who already in Band 5 and 6 and teacher told him that he is only Band3...but I remember the teacher said maximum for standard 2 is Band3--at Band 6 a student should be classified as having good akhlak. I told Adib many times...we call and name him Adib which means "Yang Beradab" for a reason ha..ha..ha..

Adib was all so proud and looked very concious to go up the stage! He walked so fast eventhough I told him to slowly walking and look at the camera..he..he..

 The students staged a few performance which I think were very much more lively and interesting compared to prior years. If I remember correctly, previous years, they use to perform coral speaking and choir and thats about it.

The most memorable of this year's performance is the one performed by the OKU class..I think many actually shed their tears watching and listening to the song they presented.

Here we go again..us after the ceremony..proud of Angah and Adib...and also Along for also made us proud going up the stage for his UPSR result last 3 years....he..he..he..that was the only time erghhhhhhhhhh

Adib's birthday Party

It was so unplanned...I thought we want to skipped this year or arranged one after PMR. Adib's and Along's birthday is just one day different, so I thought it just right to do the makan2 and what not after PMR. However, Adib told me " mummy tu lambat sangat tak best lah"..so we had the party organised that weekend after me explained to him that we cant do wednesday, thursday, friday or saturday--told him we need to buys goodies for the party on saturday-i.e.a non working day and he happily agreed.

Then, after agreeing on the day -- I asked him to handle the invitations part--after all it is his birthday and told him to invite whoever he wanted and only tell me the number of friends coming. He came back and told me there will be about 30 friends coming. Frankly we didnt think that many would come but I still prepared the goodies packs accordingly. 30 oklah...I didnt even booked the cake, was assuming that Secret Recipe wont be out of Chocolate Indulgence--Adib's favourite--but unfortunately, they were all sold out ..adoiiii kesian Adib, he then chose New York Cheese kalau tak silap.

And sunday came...at noon, we had lunch with Tok, Aki and all. Then about 2pm, the friends started to arrive...one after another and finally there were like 20+ kids under the roof. Sporting enough to wear the mask!

We had cake, sandwiches, nuggets &  drummets--free flow, pudding and honeydew sweet...nobody wanted to try the mee rebus...salah menu lah :) But I think nobody went home hungry...

It is great fun being a host to the kids. They ate and played and made all sort of noises...really great fun!
The truth is we've have never thought that many would turn up as only handful stayed in the same street. We will make better arrangement next year definitely.

 Bising nya jangan cite lah....like ribut taufan really!

And the end of the day, I asked Adib if the party was ok..." Adib happy tak?"...and he replied "Happy Mummy"...he only got like 2 to 3 birthday presents from the friends, but that didnt bother him..having his friends celebrating his birthday was all that he wanted...
Last but not least...."Happy Birthday Mr Froggy and Along...semoga jadi anak yg baik dan soleh and Mummy loves you both so dearly...with all my heart and more"...
By the way, Adib called me today at lunchtime..telling that he was selected to be the KAFA prefect for next year session....His annoucement was like this "mummy...cikgu tadi tanya Adib awak ada buat salah ya? Adib terus ngaku Adib ada masuk kelas masa rehat - pastu cikgu cakap, sebab guru besar nak cakap tahniah, awak dah terpilih sebagai KETUA PENGAWAS TAHUN DEPAN ehh...salah pengawas bukan ketua pengawas" He actually shouted at that capital letters...ha..ha...I accepted the news with "YEAHHHHHH"...the truth is Bibik has called me earlier to break the news...even Bibik was overly excited ha..ha..ha...so i mocked the terkejut part ...heeee...Congratulations Adib!

Mak Usu and Afroza birthday bash

We were in KL last weekend to celebrate Mak Usu and Afroza's birthday. Everybody was there except for Uncle Bell. The party was held at Mc D and theme colour for the day was red.It was a great event...a successful one...it was awesome to mingle around with families. There were games before the birthdays girls blew out the candles.



The kids enjoyed the games. Along and Inas being the only teenaged grandchildren of Tok Bibah were reluctant to join--at first, but mummy was there, kan....so that hesitation was easily handled! and they played along till the end.....good boy Along :) and Inas of course...see they even wore the head gear.Noin...at 17 years old, she's cheeky and very sporting so no problem with her...By the way, it's our first time seeing Noin with the tudung....manis Noin...personally i think it is too early for Noin but if she ikhlas then why not.

Tok Haji was there too....and it was Tok Haji's first meeting with our precious Aariz. He asked a few questions about Aariz and i was touched that he does have some details right about our little one, means he does care despite his other commitments...god bless~
I love family gathering...hope we are able to organize this kind of event more often...

Along and Adib's birthday

For the past 7 years we have been celebrating Adib and Along's birthday together....for obvious reason that their birthdays fall in the same month - oct- and in fact, Adib's birthday is just a day before Along's. Then for this year we happened to arrange Aariz's bercukur in Oct so we tot yeah why not throw the party on the same day...and we had the birthday bash...

Being a teenager, Along was not that keen with this birthday party thingy...but being a mom, it is just necessary for me...and thus, we used our parents' right and forced him to just stand there...and he did reluctantly...good boy!
Nothing much actually, adib blew the candles...then we distribute the goodies, shared the cake and that' about all.
At the end of the day, I asked Adib...if he's happy with the birthday bash...

Thank god...he said he did.."Adib happy tapi hadiah sikit tahun ni semua untuk Aariz aje"..oucchhhh

Then Angah menyampuk happily "yeah birthday Angah nanti Angah sorang"

So... I just got to remind him "Tahun ni yours will be with Aariz lah...Aariz kan december"
And Angah .."ah..ah...ya.."...he..he..tough luck :)

Majlis Bercukur Aariz

After being postponed, one date after another finally we managed to organised majlis bercukur for Aariz last week. Aariz was almost 10 months. The delay was basically due to Aariz himself jugak...we just need to be 100% sure that he is ready for crowd and having people touching him freely without having to sanitize beforehand. Yes, for almost 6 months or so --during his quarantine (until hari raya)..we sanitized our hands before every single touch. Cant take things for granted~The marhaban group is a all-ladies..they recited the Yassin first and later the marhaban. I was pleased that the older brothers helped out or take part during the "bercukur". Their involvement makes the whole occassion to be extra special.
Being boys, they can be unpredictable at time-being too involved with computer games and all--thus when they willingly following the "acara" and helped along without showing any hesitation--blissful--
i hope my boys will grow up to be those who uphold and respect responsibilities..."anak yg soleh" insyallah.
We have been keeping Aariz's hair for more than 2 months I think...purposely for this
occassion...finally glad that we got to shave him again. for some reason , i cant stand boys with long hair..cam serabut ajer....