Tupperware Party at Tina's house

This evening Tina and Enol held a Tupperware party at their house. Enol's auntie demonstrated the alternative way of cooking a pizza inside a pot, which to my surprise tastes quite good. Afterwards she presented the business model of Tupperware to the ladies. Jo bought some of the Tupperware products because they were sold at the discounts.

Happy Birthday Enol

Little Caliphs Ihtifal & Mini Concert 2010

Maisarah's kindergarten, Little Caliphs Prima Saujana is organising its first Ihtifal and Mini Concert together with Little Caliphs Cyberjaya and it was held at the LCPS school area. Ita, the principal of LCPS asked me to become the MC, and it was an offer that I cannot simply refuse. Even though the event will starts at 4pm, we have been there since 2pm to help the organisers get ready. Besides, Maisarah is participating in several performances and she also needs to practise her routines. The event went smoothly and the children were very enthusiastic bunch singing songs and performing their dance steps. Everybody receives an appreciation token including Maisarah who took the Spelling Bee (Girl) award.

Ilyas with his cousin, Elsa

Family Photo

With the addition of a new member in the family, perhaps it is time to have a new family photo. However, it's not easy to have everyone under the same roof at the same time so we were quite lucky tonight to be given such opportunity. Some of us are still wearing working clothes and there are those who already preparing to go to bed but by 10pm everyone managed to put a smile in front of the camera.

Congratulations Enol & Tina

Yesterday my sister Tina finally gave birth to a healthy baby girl. She weighs around 3.1kg and both are doing fine in the KPJ Kajang Hospital. So today after Jo finishes her work, we went there with Tok Wan and Mak Tok joining us. Ilyas was quite excited to see the baby but Maisarah was a bit apprehensive at first. However after awhile her curiosity turned to happiness as she is already looking forward to play together with her first female cousin.

Four Open Houses and a Wedding

Pink truck, how cute.

Ramadhan Rainbow

From the perspective of a little girl

Breaking fast with the orphans

Today we are invited to attend a charity breaking fast event organised for Rumah Amal Peribadi Mulia, Prima Saujana Kajang at the Borak Coffee Shop, Prima Saujana. One of the organisers are the parents of Aisyah, Maisarah's schoolmate. While waiting for Maghrib, we were treated to Quran recital and religious talk by a prominent ustaz. After breaking our fast and performing Maghrib prayer, there were performances by the orphans in form of poem recital, nasyid and dance. TV3 personality, Azizah Ariffin hosted the event and towards the end they were holding a birthday celebration for a number of people including Aisyah. Maisarah is very happy because she got to play around with her schoolmate.

First Day of the Fasting Month

Although it is not obligatory for the children to fast during the month of Ramadhan, we encouraged Ilyas to experience how does it feel to be an unfortunate one, those who are struggling to get their food on the plate every day of their life. So we woke him up for the early breakfast and I was quite surprised when I found out that he is still fasting after his evening school ended. However, when there is half an hour left before the breaking of fast Ilyas started to feel restless and asking for a drink. I make him think about something else by playing a computer game with him. After that Jo took him to the bathroom so that he can have his shower. When he is fresh and nice smelling, it is time to break the fast. He easily downed four glasses of water and we had to slow him down so that he can have a proper meal. We are so proud of him because he is so determined to complete his fast. Later on he asked us whether he still had to fast on Saturday and Sunday. Well...

Relatives from The Netherlands

Over this week my auntie and her family will be coming down to Malaysia for a holiday. They have been staying in Holland for more than 20 years and the children are more comfortable speaking in Dutch than Kelate. They brought with them a Moroccan lady named Layla and fortunately she understands some English. For the next few weeks they will be very busy meeting friends and visiting various places in Malaysia and the neighbouring countries. I'm sure they will have lots of fun and I hope they will have plenty of happy memories to talk about once they get back home.