Gathering

Most likely i'll have a family gathering for break fast this coming Sunday...
and most likely i'll prepare Ayam Butter Masala, Nasi Tomato, Chap chye and something for dessert, i guess.

My friends wanted badly to break fast at my place but i've got no time to do it...so sorry guys...maybe not this year...The reason why is that i just finished sewing my sofa covers which took forever to finish it....i also just got better from my flu and i have not done any spring cleaning yet except for my windows..i feel like i'm swimming in unfinished and never ending to-do-list and so this year beriftar at my place was strictly for my family members only....

It's been ages for me that i haven't updated this blog because blogger keep having problems which irritates me.

Anyways..........
Teacher's Day is coming and i don't have a grain of idea what to get for Aniq n Aliah's teachers.

My birthday

Last Saturday, my mum called me at 1pm plus and asked what time i would be coming..she wanted me to buy her serai and lengkuas that she forgot to purchase. But i told her that i can't be there that early...maybe about 5.30pm to 6pm..and I'll be making epok-epok to be brought there and she said OK....

So at 2.30pm, i was out with my family to go to Sembawang Shopping centre to buy my stuff and a off-white poccilini handbag that i've been meaning to get so hubby told me that he would pay for all my shopping purchases as my birthday gift. Meaning...i just point...and he would pay...lol
So i bought a handbag, eyelash curler, a mascara and an eyeliner...that's all...It should be less than a hundred dollars...and we bought a gorgeous brooch for my mother's birthday that will be on coming Monday.

Reached my mum's place at 6pm like that and i saw rzyan and eya in the kitchen helping mum out. Even Cik waidah and her family came as well so it was kind of merry occasion. Mum cooked a lot of stuffs like lontong, sambal goreng, bargedil, popiah accompanied with lots of fruits.

After breaking fast and solat maghrib, i sat in the kitchen with my mum and others and we were talking and making jokes and it was hilarious when there was this kumbang flew in and most of them including my brother, Kandar were scared and screaming, running out of the kitchen....lol....
I'm not scared of kumbang but only to slimy cicak and mighty flying coakroach...eeewwww..

Suddenly my mum called me to sit outside...so i watched television then.
Then out of sudden, the lights were off and i saw my hubby carried a birthday cake and all of them were singing birthday song and looking at me...aiyoh...
me so malu u know..

It was a celebration for the three of us ...me, shahlan and my mum.....

It was rzyan and ashik who bought the cake and arranged all this so once again i like to thank them from the bottom of my heart who gave the three of us a wonderful surprise....

Fruits hats

Mr mix fruits

Ms watermelon fruit juice or ms gloomy?

Today at school, they made hats and pasted picture of fruits on it. Took a picture each of them just for memory sake.

Aniq knows how to write his name already without me telling him the alhabets.
Aliah can do it too except i need to tell her the alphabets but i'm sure she eventually get there...Ibu believe in you, ok sweetie.

Let's go riding...

This is my favourite cake from Secret Recipe which is Chocolate Indulgence...

Ice mocha

After the Family Day Event, we went to IMM because i have never been there....

It was such a big place so we did not covered all area..but i bought dark purple curtain from Giant and it was quite cheap...i like cheap stuff...And it was meant for Hari Raya this year....

the design was quite plain ..nothing extraordiany but it's ok.

I spotted there was pony rides for $2 only so i decided to spoilt my kids and had fun...

I don't why but everytime i saw fun stuffs...i would let the kids to go for it unless it was expensive then of course i would have to reconsider...i wouldn't want to spoilt the kids in that way either ...or else i'll get into deep trouble...which serve me right ok ok i have to shut up now.....lol

We had our dinner at Burger King and we continued to browse around the mall till i found myself in desperate need for caffeine.....my throat was like screaming for one....and the best part was i couldn't find any Coffee bean or Starbucks (aiseyman...nak kopi mahal pulak...ngada-ngada punya tekak).

So we passed by Secret Recipe and my hubby was cracking a smile and said that why don;t we have a cake and a coffee to unwind..

I was hesitated because it's going to be costy if i just want a coffee....But i budge at the thought of eating cake( confessions of a cake junkie)....hhmmmm...and i was torned between cheesecake and chocolate cake so i asked Dh to get chocolate cake and he agreed..hehe

So we ordered Blueberry cheesecake, Chocolate Indulgence and an Ice Mocha and total cost was around $18.00....wOopppsssyyy

SMRT Family Day

It was SMRT Family Day on last Sunday. We arrived at about 1.00pm like that and it was considered late. But it's ok because it ended at 5pm so we went around for 4 hours. The guys in the picture are my hubby's colleagues...they arrived way early than us.

Taking picture at a helicopter.

Snapped a picture with skinny and unmuscular spiderman and Darth Vader. Good side Vs Evil side.

She is my hubby's colleague's fiancee. We met on last year Hari Raya and we clicked instantly....

She is such a sweet girl.

Aniq tgh koner baring tu....jangan main main....


Aliah at first had difficulty controlling her bike but one minute later, she got the hang of it.

We queued for such a long time to get her hand painted when a guy came up and said that the stall will be closed just like that...no warning, no allowance ...Nothing!!

So we begged the girl to paint Aliah's hand since she was next in line and Aliah been pestering me to get her hand painted since the time we stepped in. And luckily the girl agreed and we told her to paint Aliah a butterfly...It was a simple design...which was sufficient to get Aliah happy.

Even though Aniq is not that excited like Aliah about getting his hand painted...i just a brush which was lying on the table and scraped yellow colour that had been dried up and painted Aniq a star....I always tried my best to be fair to them as possible.

Overall the family was moderately ok....but at least the weather was nice that day...itwas not that hot and it was a little breezy.

Pastamania

This one was taken sometime ago at Northpoint, and it was newly opened that time.....the interior design is interesting compared to other outlets and i like it....

My hubby was complaining that my most of my photos were not candidly taken and so i let him took this candid moment on my free will ....haiz...nak posing vogoe pun tak boleh....nasib nasib..

I forgot the name of this dish....This is what happenned when i uploaded pictures that were taken some time ago...i tend to forget all the details....haiz

Yup...forgotten the name of these drinks...

Pls look at Aliah....confirm sah dah lapar....

This is the kids meal set which came with garlic breads and a drink. I chose carbonara for them and they liked it...except that the gravy is a little watery compared to the cabonara from the main menu like the one below.


This was my meal(cabonara) and it was satisfying good for me. The sauce was creamy and thick.

I needed a dessert that time for my sweet tooth so i picked this and the taste was quite plain...nothing special about it...it was more like a mousse....and once again, i've forgotten the name of this dessert.

While waiting, Dh called out to me and asked me to take his picture and so i did it....and i was telling myself....hhmmm...dia pose boleh eh.....

And so were the kids....pose manja lagi....

New shoes for my darlings

Bought them new shoes....both from Reebok, for their sizes...not much choice to pick from.

Now they always want to wear these sport shoes everytime we went out even though they have other shoes in the cabinet....

For hari raya....i hope to buy capal for Aniq to go along with his orange baju kurung and i already spotted a shoe ...a lady type one of course for Aliah at Kiddy palace ...it was so pretty....

For me, my hubby already bought me a white high heel shoe with gold metal thingy on it from Charles keith which was on sale that time...he paid about $36++ (original price was $49), i think and it was a good deal.

So have you bought new shoes for the upcoming Hari Raya ??

Best Friend

A best friend to me is someone who wishes good things for you, who gives you motivation or encouragement when you feel you can't and who gives you the ugly truth even when you don't want to hear it.
Sound simple?
Then why didn't i have one?
People always call me as their best friend easily but when i needed them ...they seem to be nowhere....weird or self-centred?

I remembered how I was feeling down when i was not yet blessed with child yet somebody whom i called my friend kicked me when i'm down.
While she was happily pregnant, she said to me that if one day i got pregnant...she will throw me a kenduri (sarcastic way) and her child definitely will be big by the time i got pregnant.....
So you tell me.....is this what a best friend should behave...

I don't expect her to be perfect because i myself is not perfect...but i am loyal and wishes good things for the people i love...

Even people who are almost strangers to me even wished me well and prayed for me that hopefully god will bless me children one day.....see how other people can sympathise me better than my own friend...

I was quiet when she said that...because there's nothing i said that can ease the pain in my heart ...the hurtful words she said to my face.... the words that she can't take back..

Masa tu, aku berdoa kepada Allah semoga dia memberi ku hikmah di sebalik kesabaran ku ini...i am thankful that Allah gave me a handsome boy and a beautiful girl....Syukur alhamdullilah...

That day..i lost faith in best friend because i haven't found one(a real one)....but if i were to find one ...i will definitely grab and hold on to it..because i believe everybody needs friends at least if not best friend...

NDP 2009

Finally found our spot..but it was not great though..
We supposed to join ashik and rzyan but that section was closed so we weren't allowed to go through and i was joking to apie that this was exactly like the zombie kind of movie where you can't get in when the virus breaks out...yeah that's me and my wild imagination..apie was laughing and joined the fun saying that maybe ashik and ryzan had turned into zombies so that's why we were not allowed to go in...hahaha...

The weather was not hot but the place was crowded everywhere so it was kind of stuffy there so my makeup wore off that fast. So smile is the best remedy to looking good in photos...hehe

He was eating langsat bought by eya but don't know why that he seemed like dozing off...zzzzz

I brought mee goreng cooked from home, peanuts, some soyabean drinks and candies. And Eya brought some lemon tea drinks, fruits and some nuggets+fish fillets so that went well with my spicy mee goreng. Kesian Ashik and rzyan....

We were so excited to see these and the kids were amazed too!!

It was such a pretty sight.
I was joking with apie that if my son were to be a parachuter on National Day...while people were cheering them on ..i will freaked out till my son landed safely and i realised that i can really freaked out and i was not joking at all. OMG...!


This is one of the pictures that we took from the fireworks.

I just realised that Aliah doesn't own any red blouse or dress or anything in Red in her wardrobe..I wonder why....Maybe i find that colour too garang for her...(shrug)
Snapping a picture with Rzyan and Eya before rzyan went off with ashik since they have their own transport.

G.I Joe and archery

The kids were excited to watch G.I Joe. Frankly speaking that i never imagine that i will enjoyed this movie as much as i thought.

Eye focus on the bull's eye...

I always wanted to try achery and i finally got to try it at last...It was at DM Achery at Suntec City and it cost $5.00 for 12 shots and Dh and i shared the shots just to feel the kicks.

Not bad at all, i think...I only took two shots which one off target and one at the black marking. Still need more practise with that.

For Dh....he hit most on the yellow zone...he knows how to aim ..thanks to his training on task force reservist. For a gal like me...hhmmm...need time to know how to aim...

2nd celebration on the actual day

On second thoughts, i bought a small birthday cake which is of course a chocolate one for my hubby. The reason was that i realised the kids have understood the meaning of birthday for the first time after celebrating their classmates birthdays in school.

Dh was working morning shift so he didn't know about this cake that i bought from Prime Deli after i send the kids to school.

So we celebrated in a private manner...just me and the kids....

The kids were so happy singing the birthday song ...even Aniq was dancing to the tune....hahaha

You'll see what i mean in a video shown below.

Dh was very pleased with the cake which we found quite soft and creamy but not too sweet...it's perfect..