My eldest princess is now 8

Yaya turned 8 yesterday. We had a small family celebration, started on the eve of her birthday by going to the cinema to watch "Despicable Me". It was one great movie, even adik was laughing loudly in the cinema (dah la suara dia memang besar...hahahahah). Yesterday, I baked yaya a choc cake (I just bought Coles' choc cake premix), and cooked her favourite chicken rice for dinner.  I just realised I baked her the same choc cake when we had her 1st bday celebration in Brisbane, that was for celebrating her turning 5, 3 years ago. Same cake, same plate, but yaya looked a lot of different in that two years.Ohhh she has lost that baby look, dah besar dah dia....I am practically holding my breath when I wrote this sentence..........................................
and now exhaling....

Her 1st and last birthday in Brissy

And yesterday, as I have wrote on Sunday, we had a visit from the rental agent with some potential tenants that will take over our rented unit in November. And this morning, I received a call from the agent informing me that there will be another visit tomorrow evening. Alhamdullillah, Allah mudahkan cari replacement. InsyaAllah.

Ok I need to post some pictures for the love ones at home to see yaya bday celebration in FB. Daaa...

yours truly,

Monopoly on her bday

Yaya is 8 today. Alhamdullillah. Kami doakan yg terbaik utk yaya, kesihatan berpanjangan, kejayaan dunia dan akhirat.
Den amik cuti arinie, baked a choc cake for tea time, and soon to cook her fav chicken rice. Now all four of us are playing the monopoly, the oz edition. This edition pakai credit card maa, no cash.

Happy Birthday Abah/Atok

Today, Abah turns one year older. Alhamdullillah, syukur to Allah, for Abah is still here with us, and we are given the opportunity to celebrate abah's birthday this year (though we are far away). We wish abah is bless with better health, and given more strength to fight the cancer. Allah, please give me a chance to look after him. Please let me realised his dream. Please Allah, he is my inspiration, my courage is his words, my knowledge is his wisdom, my dignity is his respect. Please protect him from any harm and wrong doing. Amin.

I have recorded a video of yaya n adik singing the birthday song and mailed the CD last week. Was informed that abah's laptop is not working, don't know if he could play the CD anywhere, or have access to internet. Anyway, enjoy the video.




Happy Birthday Abah. Maaf, dah 4 tahun tak dapat celebrate birthday sama. Next year kita celebrate OK, InsyaAllah. I will always be your little girl.

yours truly,

And our fun day ended...

Pheewwwwhhhh so exhausted both from the journey and the zoo adventure. Feel like resting and put my feet up for the rest of day. Wish I could read Cornwell book, been sitting on the shelf for months. But I have a good theory book to finish. Takpe fazid..tak lame je lagi...think positive...

Glad I have some soto left over and nasi lemak bought from the brisbane nasi lemak seller. We bought four nasi lemak for our lunch today, but still have two more packets. hahahahhahah...

OK...got to go. I had a very wonderful day today, spending time with love ones on this special day. And I am happy for today I received many happy and warm wishest from friends. Was surprised to see soo many wishes on my wall just now when I login to my fb. Thanks friends for the thoughts. Am totally speechless. So before I go to bed today, I must reply all the messages as a token of appreciation.

A surprised birthday card from my two lil princesses and my hero.

This is the first time I received a birthday card from all of my love ones in one card .... hehehheheh... yaya wrote (and at the same time reading them) the birthday wishes while atang supervise her. I was pretending not to hear anything although I was in close vicinity..ahhahahaha...

Celebrating my 34th birthday with the love ones......PRICELESS!!! 

p.s. will try to post the oz zoo story as soon as I can ya...

yours truly,

She is Two

Alhamdullillah, thirah is two years old today. The chocolate cake that I baked yesterday is for thirah's birthday. And because of this special day, we took the kids out for some splash at South Bank Parklands.

Happy Birthday Thirah. Mama and Babah will always pray for the best in your life, and may you will always be bless with good health and prosperity

For the chocolate cake recipe (Ms Taj :D), this is from kak Hanieliza's collection, please follow the link. Sorry la den barred dari copy text kat blog nie. Cake dia memang sodap...cuba laaa...

KEK COKLAT

Bahan A

250 gm butter

250 gm gula perang atau kastor

4 biji telur gred B

1 sudu kecil esen vanilla

250 ml susu segar

Bahan B [ Ayak ]

290 gm tepung gandum (I used self-rising flour instead)

50 gm serbuk koko

1 sudu kecil nescafe instant

1 sudu besar baking powder (omit this as I used self-rising flour)

1/2 sudu kecil soda bikarbonat

Cara

1. Butter dan gula dipukul sehingga kembang.

2. Masukkan telur satu persatu. Pukul lagi. Masukkan esen vanilla

3. Masukkan Bahan B yg telah diayakkan berselang seli dengan susu segar.

4. Kacau rata dgn senduk kayu.

5. Masukkan dalam loyang yg telah dilapikkan kertas dan bakar dalam oven yg telah dipanaskan suhu 170'C selama 45 minit atau sehingga masak.

6. Sejukkan dan hiaskan dengan topping coklat.

Coklat Topping

1 cawan susu pekat

60 gm butter

50 gm serbuk koko

1. Kacau secara double boiler sehinga larut dan sejukkan sekejap.

2. Tuangkan atas kek dan hias mengikut kretibiti sendiri

yours truly,

The birth-day of one of the most important person in my life

Tu dia panjang tajuk entry kali nie :p


Today is my mom special day. We wish her wealth and health, and most importantly she is always under Allah blessing.

Happy Birthday Mak. We love you endlessly (sayu la pulak...sob sob)

Ok, am not typing emo things here. Mak will not read this anyway, coz she is not into computer. I want to share with you of an online service that I used to send gifts for Mak on her birthday. But first, here is the story on how I came across this online service. This is the third year I celebrated Mak's birthday away from her. The first year I actually didn't do anything. Not even sending her a birthday card (and I regretted it so much). Was busy settling down, well actually, it kinda slip away from my mind of getting Mak something. Not that I forgot her birthday, will never do that, will never forgive myself if I did it (mane tau in the future), but it just that at that time I didn't know what to do. So there was nothing special from us on her birthday, only a phone call that has became a weekly routine (twice a week) since we arrived here.

So last year, I was browsing the internet, a few weeks before Mak's birthday, and I came across several online gift shops that provide delivery service door-to-door. I compared prices and delivery option, and found a website that is reasonable for my budget. Nobody knew about it, hehehe, I even kept it secret from my sistah. And it has been a custom for us, siblings to celebrate our parents birthday, trying our best to meet on weekends (if the birthday do not falls on weekend, we will celebrate prior to the day). So on that day, my family was suprise of the gift. And that was my intention. Both Mak and my sistah love the gift. My sistah said it was huge, pretty flowers with fresh fruits. Good.

And for my sistah birthday last september, I sent her a flower and fruit basket, using the same online gift shop. I am satisfied with their service.

What online gift shop I am talking about? Here it is, Love.com.my. Click on the picture to browse their shop.

This year I tried finding different option, but still I found Love.com.my is the best. They even sent me an email reminding about Mak's birthday a few weeks before the important day, making a good rapport, taking care of their customers ya :D .

So for those who are living abroad, who are thinking of getting/sending your love ones at home (malaysia), to celebrate special occasions, to represent yourself, to show love, etc. Click on Love.com.my

(am posting another testimonial on their website soon)

Special dedication for Ms Taj

Happy birthday Ms Taj.... may all you wish come true ya (shopping2 ekk.... harus baca buku Kinsella nie). Have a wonderful day sis.




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1 year old I am now...

We are celebrating thirah turning 1 today. Will write about it as soon as I can.

1 year old

According to Islamic Calendar, Athirah is 1 year old today. She was born on the 26 of Zilhijjah 1428.



Happy Birthday my little princess, Nur Siti Athirah.

Yaya birthday party : the gift

Thanks for all wonderful gifts. Yaya is so happy.

Yaya birthday party : the cake

Two cakes, but not all for Yaya. This was a joint-birthday celebration, celebrating Yaya and her cousin, Dina birthday (actually Dina was born on the 16 of Oct. kira advance birthday celebration la nie). Yaya's birthday cake was a simple butter cake with vanilla icing. Masa nak order tu, ingat nak design disney cartoon character, malangnye kedai kek King's dah tak buat design camtu. Katanya kontrak ngan disney dah abis. Jadi pilih la design bunga-bungaan ditambah dengan figurine doll ngan payung aje.



We brought the birthday candle from Brisbane. Babah has requested for these candles. Satu hal la pulak nak pasang 13 candle tu. Yaya nak tiup pun jenuh...hahhahahah






Yummy...dah lame tak makan cake with icing nie.... hehehe

More pictures here.

Yaya birthday party : the guest

Kami jemput pun tak ramai, cuma sedara mara, rakan-rakan yang ada kat Sban dan jiran terdekat. Peluang berjumpa dengan rakan-rakan yang setahun lebih tak jumpa.

Antara yang sampai awal, Ainul, Hanafiah n kids. Datang dari Seri Menanti nak pulang ke KL. There was an entry about sending Ainul and kids home at Brisbane airport. Ainul, accompanied by her family has completed her masters at GU. Abis aje, mereka pulang ke Malaysia.




Atang with Azneil. One of his bestest friends (kira kamcing giler laa). Diorang nie slalu bertiga, Angelo lagi sorang. I called them the 3 stooges. Angelo currently on board a ship. Azneil wife, Zalia, was somewhere else when this picture was taken.




My best friend Rozai. Kami berkawan semenjak di bangku sekolah rendah lagi (bukan bangku tu yang rendah ye.. sekolah peringkat rendah OK! hehhe). Lagi sorang tu, Pian, one of Azri best friend.


Kanan sekali, Sofea, wife of Pian. Anak diorang Patricia tak nak ambil gambar.



haaa...complete suma. Sebelah Rozai tu hubby nye, Azmi.


These are my in laws. Tu yang athirah manja sangat tu.

More pictures in our fotopages.

Yaya birthday party : The food

On the 4th day of Syawal, we held a small makan-makan event in relation to Yaya and Dina (Dina is my brother's youngest daughter) birthday. It was just a small feast, so we invited only relatives and close friends. All home cook meal. My sistah, the chef cooked laksa penang and nasi goreng cina, while others grill lambs and chicken.

So that morning, pagi-pagi lagi dah kuar gi pasar beli ikan n mee laksa, gi Giant beli ayam pieces. We have ordered marinated lamb shoulder a day before, but the thing will only be ready after 12pm. I marinated the chicken (under my sistah advise of course). The makan-makan thing started at 3pm. So atang has to went up and down to Giant to get the lamb and the birthday cake.




lalat pun datang tanpa jemputan, kena pasang lilin, yang kejap2 padam sebab ditiup angin.



the spread...


the BBQed lamb, chicken and sausges. Oh yes and ice-creams for all kids. Nothing much, alhamdullillah hampir semua licin. Total guest (approximate) 40+.

For more pictures, please go to our fotopages.

Thank You for all birthday wishes

Yaya would like to say Thank You for all birthday wishes she received from you guys. Last Sunday, we celebrated her birthday at Kenny Rogers Alamanda.



She was having a bad cough, so she was not enjoying her fav spaghetti Bolognese. No birthday cake this time. That has to wait after raya, celebrating her birthday with her cousins.



For her present, we decided to give her PS2 instead of Nintendo DS. Our reason is simple, we could control her time and she can play with anyone else. We just bought the play station on Friday, 5 days after her birthday. Surprisingly she didn’t asked for anything this year, not even asking us about her present. She was overwhelmed when we bought her the PS. I think she was soo distracted by her old toys at VSP…hehehehe….


Adik couldnt be happier for her sister. "nanti den bleh challenge kak long..." hehehhe

My eldest princess celebrate her 6 years birthday

6 years ago, I gave birth to Yaya @ Seremban GH. She was born at 9.20am, weighted 3.4kg.

Happy birthday my dear little princess. Babah, Mama and Thirah love you soooo much..... You are the apple of my eyes.

We plan to do something today. But we are not sure what. Stori mori later ok guys....

p/s: ada sape2 tau tak mane nak carik Nintendo DS yang murah. Ada tengok kat mall aritu, RM800++ ..mahal weh...kat Brisbane lagi murah...kalau ada... gi tau ..thanks guys..

Special dedication to my brother : Happy Birthday

38 years ago mak gave birth to her only son. According to mak, my brother couldn't wait to see the world, so mak nearly delivered him in the car. hahahhah

Happy Birthday dear bro. Semoga dipanjangkan umur dan dimurahkan rezeki.

The age gap between my bro and me is 6 years. During our childhood, I spent a lot of time with him. Most of the time we would fight and wrestled. We were like cats and dogs at one time, and a best of friend another time. He was rough. A bully..heheheh... but I was also tough, always fought back. This may have attributed to my boy-ishness.

He has many times took charge of looking after me when mak and abah on overseas trip. Once we asked mak permission to take a bus, to go back to our kampung at Jelebu, just for fun. Just the two of us. I was 8 or 9 years old at that time. We took a bus from Seremban to Kuala Klawang than another bus to our kampung, Kg. Kampai. It was a fun ride.

He is so smart, but unfortunately he is not a good teacher....hahahha...this is true. He could solve a very complex maths problem just a few minutes, but he is not good at showing you how. Because he solve the problem in his head. His favourite toy is rubic cube, any type of it.

He has influence me a lot in the choice of music, but not similar. He was once a follower of this hardcore metal genre. "entah apa bijik butir yang disebutnya". Abah always refer that as "lagu setan"gegegeggegeg....

So to my dearest bro, we wish you Happy Birthday. Semoga makin bertambah rezeki dan diberi kesihatan.

Special dedication : HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO MY BELOVED SISTAH

Today is my beloved, darling sister birthday. HAPPY BIRTHDAY DEAR SISTAH. We wish you all the happiness, prosperity, longivity and Allah blessing.

My sister aka Along is celebrating her....mmmm....shouldnt reveal it....sensitive to her...haahha...ok she is 9 years older than me.... you guys have to figure that out ya. She is the only sister I have, and the most understandable, loving, caring, cool sister, and I am a lucky person to have her as a sister. We have never fight, I can't recall any disagreement we had, maybe a slight disagreement, maybe because I am a good sister (except for one incident that I read your diary...ggegege..ampun). Honestly, though we seldom share common interest (I have mentioned before that she is into make-up which I am not...hahhaha), but that didn't prevent us to share loads of other things.

Growing up I always look up to her (yes this is true, I know you dont know about this sistah). With respect she has set a very good example to me. Though during our adolescent years we were apart most of the time (she went to boarding school since she was 13, then A-Level, later to London), but when we were together we surely spend time together. Well almost all the time laa... because sometimes she needs to be with her friends, and I have some friends too...hehehehhe... but we are surely close. Until today.

In the family there is only me, Along and Abang. Abah always remind us to stay close with each other, because we are just it. Abah said,"anak abah 3 orang aje....". So whatever happen, put/think of your family first. So Along being the eldest has to make sure that her adik-adik are all well, in everything. Susah jadi anak sulung nie.... But nobody can do that except her.

So today is her special day. Special day needs special attention. So here is a special entry, and special dedication to my only sistah. The greatest sister in the whole world.

Along... Happy birthday.... we hope today is the most memorable day in your life. We always dua that you are under Allah blessing, all the time, and always under His protection.

Happy birthday dear sistah. Thanks for all your kindness and support (being it financially and spiritually). We love you, forever and ever.

With hugs and kisses.

A video of Yaya singing a birthday song to her Mak Long

It fits nicely

Haaa.....my wish is granted...hehehehhe



The custom-made tshirt by LAIN Brand

More pictures on Abah's birthday celebration in our fotopages

My dad's special day

Happy Birthday to Abah aka Atok... we love you so much....

Kami sentiasa doa semoga Allah lindungi Abah dan dimurahkan rezeki...Amin

Kami order ini dari LAIN brand. Mari-mari order t-shirt kat LAIN brand.

This is the first design given by zizie. I ask her to put something like "you are world greatest atok.." So she came up with this.



But I think the word "behind this shirt...." did not suit, so I asked zizie to change it into this..



Called up Abah this morning to wish him Happy Birthday. He has recieved both the t-shirt and birthday card from yaya (tak sempat nak snap the card). Hope Abah will wear the tshirt tonite...huhu... at the birthday dinner...bleh kaa.... harapan dari jauh nie... tak sempat nak cakap kat abah tadi...

Anyway.... very hope that Along will snap the tshirt and..plz...plz...plz ... send the picture to us yaaa.... you owned me many pictures oledi la sistah.....ur birthday cake, mom's birthday bouquet... aiyah...when laaa....

My Birthday (April 5)

I opened my eyes this morning to atang's singing the bufday song. Hah.... today is my bufday, my 31st bufday. But... I didnt feel special today, probably of not feeling well, felt like I am down with a flu. Plus I am meeting my supervisors and team members this afternoon... So the special day just went by without anything 'special'. But we tried to make it feel special, because we dont have many special occasion to celebrate each year, except for birthdays, anniversary and hari raya. The first thing that came to our mind is, is there any Halal bakeries around, to buy a birthday cake. We looked in the islamic finder website, but we couldnt find any bakery around here. To make one is not possible because my kitchen is not yet equip for baking (aarrgghhh I need to get the hand mixer and baking trays one of this day). So we have decided to buy fish n chips from george seafood, and not just the normal fish n chips that we usually get, we want to make it special, so the fish and chips must have something special added to it.

That afternoon, after my meeting with the supervisors and after atang picked up yaya at her school, we went to George's to buy our special fish and chips, for extra special, we added prawns, oysters and calamari to the order....hehehehhe.... And that is definately something. After Asar prayer... we had our early dinner.... the meal was so huge.. we couldnt finish it in one sitting... or actually the meal last until the next day lunch....hahahhahahah.... What a scrumptious dinner we had on my bufday.

And to that...thank you Allah... for letting me enjoy my 31st birthday with my beloved family. And thanks to Atang and Yaya for always be there to support me. sob ... sob