Too many things to catch up with......

Year of 2009 have just started but there are already too many things to catch up... Ayyooo.. what with me nowadays.. getting slower or the time is really getting faster each day.

Year 2009 faculty's activity started with the 3 days 2 nights stay at PD for our family day. Aduyaiii.. soooo tiring. The activities is very tight and yet the Sukaneka was too energatic for mak mak and bapak bapak budak budak to do.. I fell down twice during the activity, alhamdulillah no serious injury just some bruises and terseliuh! So sad that my hubby is not around to help me when I'm injured.. Huhuhu he was working on the day of the occasion.

Two of my roommates, Dila on the right and Kak Ruby the one in the middle. The one on the far left is my vice dean (academic) Prof Jamilah....

We can always judge how was the presentation by looking at the participants' faces...

During the Sukaneka... Felt like it was years back when I last done all the activities that I may consider as Lasak! I'm too scared to jump using the small gelung..

But yet our Dato' was soo energetic..

However our team won first place for overall games in the sukaneka.. Yey yey.. Dato' must be very happy . For the record he was in our team.

The face of victory.. The barbeque was good but maybe the hotel should add more variety to the food served.

Dato' getting ready to enjoy the grilled dishes..
Muka muka kenyang ... makan sampai esofagus ya...
Part of my faculty members..

The tiring faces yet so happy realizing we were going back on that day.
Then back to routine work at the office. While we were busy doing our chores each day.. People in Palestin were fighting for their life. I was so emotionally touched by what happened and still happening in Gaza. To show our support all university's staffs and students gathered together in a perhimpunan aman at Nilai Stadium. The speeches from all representatives were so emotional and touching. Maybe we cannot help directly for the war but we can do our part by donating some of our money or belongings for the victims in Gaza. I strongly believed that eventhough my money doesn't value that much when I'm boicoting items directly related with the Israeilis but yet at least when I leave this world I can answer to Allah that I've tried to do my part by not contibuting to the people that is trying to destroy the muslims.

Everyone was so emotional during the picket. This was my first time joining this kind of event so it was a little bit scary for me.

The start of 2009

On the first day of the year 2009 suddenly me and my hubby have this weird nationalism spirit.. We discussed about our country and best of all regarding my recent students. Thinking about the medical students and the dental students nowadays made me worried. Why? Because I know that they are smart students, brilliant students but I'm not sure why they didn't do very well in the previous examination. Maybe the spirit is just not there and they are just not appreciating the opportunity that they had being selected as medical std or dental std they should feel greatful and make the best out of it. Then we started remembering about our own relatives, basically more towards his relatives since I'm the only child in my family.. Thinking about our beloved niece (Kak Yong), my hubby started to have the idea of giving his niece the early exposure of what is it like being a uni student. Besides his intention of buying her few books to get ready for the coming PMR. So of we go to KakNgah's house to fetch her up.

Bringing her to work is great! She's nice and sometimes it feels great listening to stories from a 14 year old girl, after all I was way past that age. Mak Aih... I'm getting older laaa..... She went into 1 of my tutorial and a behavioral science class discussion. Hope she got the idea. She seems energetic and spirited, then I guided her to make her own schedule and to write down her pledge to herself. While having our lunch, my office mate did mention to us regarding the Aquaria at KLCC and Kak yong seems interested in going so I decided to bring her there jst to make her enlightened a bit before going back to school.

Love the trip there .. Here are some pics we have taken but the quality of the pics is not so good bcoz no flash is allowed..

Sapa besar Auni ker fish nih

Em sure we look so yummy to the piranha.....

The fishes look so delicious .. Bakar pun sodappp..

Mamosa.. cutenyerrrr

But the worst part is my son is scared to almost everything that's larger than his palm... Haih...

Simple Malaysian Life?

Ever heard of that quote? The simple Malaysian life... Well I'm not certain whether the people who wrote it meant it or it is just a plain sentence that people wrote because it sounds good. As for me I believed there is nothing simple in Malaysian life especially when we practice the culture brought by our ancestors. Let us just focus on the 'Adat Resam' without touching the religous part because in Islam is simple and the best way of life undeniable!

Regarding Malaysian culture.. past few weeks I helped in 'merewang' for an aqiqah at my IL hometown at Kuala Pilah. The first think I had in mind when my hubby told me regarding the occasion, I thought that it will be a simple doa selamat occasion with some servings to the guests as we are going to sembelih 2 goats. But.. It is not as simple as what I had in mind... Gosh.. hmm.. what is the word to describe it..EXTRAVAGANZA..maybe that may describe the occasion all together..

2 Tents were set up for the purpose of the Aqiqah so that may give you the idea of how big the occasion is .

However the best part of all was everyone were so curteous in lending helping hands to help making the kenduri a big success. Despite all the hard work, everyone is still being able to smile during and after the kenduri so no matter how complicated our culture is as long as we enjoy I think its OK..

My BIL still smiling after washing piles of dishes.. The Orang Kuat for this time kenduri since his 2 other brothers were not around.

One Day Outing

During my mother's visit to our house last holiday, we went for a one day outing at Zoo Negara.. Sounds not so interesting but this one day outing is worth it.. Because my kids really enjoying it. But the toughest challenge was suddenly on that particular morning my boy showed symptoms of flu... Alamak.. but after further deliberation we decided to carry on with the plan and as for Arif we'll minimized his activities so that he won't get worse.

Auni is trying to push his brother around..

So the simplest way we can tought of is using the stroller for Arif.. Hehehe Auni is so jealous because his brother got to sit but she really enjoy walking and running. So no big deal!

Abah is actually more exited than the kids.. Hehehe he is actually trying to hide his exitement.

Few snaps of unique features that we encountered..

1. Guess what is this picture all about?? This is actually an ape trying to show off his back side.. He actually succeeded attracting most of the visitors

2. Guess how many turtles were there?

Answer.. 3.. Hahahaha check out the picture below so you will have a clearer idea and a better angle of what actual happen so that I don't have to describe further.

Free tiger show for today..

I salute my daughter because she kept on walking and running during the trip without complaining or making any attitude.. The only time she'll let us carry her is for taking picture and at the aquarium because she is too short to see.
This is a funny shot because we just been back from my sister's kenduri aqiqah and the kids have seen goats for real, yet Abah got so exited to pose with a goat at the zoo..

Which one is bigger the fish or Auni??

Maybe Arif is wondering about his future.. Heheheh..He was actually under the influenced of his medications so that what made him looked tired and sleepy. But Arif behaved very well and responded to the animals that he encountered today, just that he was not as active as he used to be. Cian anak mama.

We finished sightseeing after walking from 1.00 pm till 4.00pm... Fuhh. legaaa.. As for Arif and Auni.. it is now time for a deep nap...