Berebut...

Haa...inilah yang kekadang tu muka Bapak monyok. Si Alia ni bak kata orang 'dah bagi betis nak pulak peha'. Apa tak nya, Bapak bagi dia online ngan Starfall tu dia tak puas-puas walhal dah 2 jam melekat kat computer.....dahlah Bapak banyak kerja lagi nak buat. Walaupun Alia belajar banyak from Starfall, lain kali kesian lah sikit kat Bapak tu......

Alia's First Day At Kindergarten

Pagi-pagi lagi Bapak dah suruh posing......malam tadi Alia tidur lambat, so bangun pagi mood kureng baik....Tapi bila dah mandi & pakai uniform.....Alia pun tak sabar nak pegi school....Ni dah ok dah....dah breakfast makan roti + nutella. Bergaya ngan beg Barbie yg comel macam orangnya. Uniform, saiz terkecik kat sekolah....kasut putih pun carik saiz paling kecik kat kedai... Langkah pertama ku ke menara gading......Kenapa mata Alia bulat bonar?? Alia nervous ke? Kawan dia yang tak pakai uniform tu nama dia Munirah.....Alia asyik lupa jer nama dia... Kawan-kawan Alia ramai sebenarnya....yang lain-lain tu tah ke mana lah....Alia shared fries dia with her best friend, Munirah.

Ni kindergarten ke circus?? Penat betul si clown tu tak habis-habis buat belon dari tadi......... Budak-budak ni bila pecah satu, mintak lagi satu.....
Alia, the smallest girl in her kindergarten with her sword ballon....her heart ballon dah pecah dah........

This is my clafouti

My fruit clafouti, very easy to make....

Ingredients

• Can peach slices


• 1/3 cup plain flour


• 2 tbsp self-raising flour


• A quarter cup of castor sugar


• 3 eggs


• 2 cups milk


• 1 tbsp vanilla essence

Method

• Grease a shallow loyang & arrange the peach slices in it(can substitute with mixed fruits if you don't have peaches)


• In a blender, mix the flour, sugar, eggs,milk,vanilla until you get a smooth batter


• Pour over the peaches & bake for about 50 minutes or the clafouti is golden brown
  

Selamat mencuba :)

Halwa Telinga

Alia~ Sungai Buloh jazz musician, with her seksapone....

To serenade you....... until deaf

Haaa......nak tau apa bende ni? Kecik jea, nampak harmless...it's a plastic sexaphone.....hubby beli kat pasar malam....dah lama dah.....Inside one plastic bag ada drum, violin and trumpet sekali, semuanya kecik-kecik.......Memanglah murah, saje nak hiburkan hati Alia sebab gantikan gitar dia yang dah patah.....Ingat tak ada bunyi....tapi...Subhanallah !!!!......Tak sangka pulak keluar bunyi bagai nak gegar serumah......Alia kekadang tu mainkan the sexaphone betul-betul kat lubang telinga Shaza, kakak tersayang.....while she was taking her nap yg lama tu......"PHOTTTTT!!!!", "Kakak !!!....Bangun!!! ....Solat !!!"

Apa lagi si Shaza .....Angin satu badan lea......

Langkawi (Part 1)

Front of resort lobby

Resort lobbyThe swimming pool... just us nobody else
Awana Porto Malai
Awana Porto Malai
Awana Porto Malai

21 Dec (Friday) 2007

Busy packing.....included umbrella....who knows it might rain in Langkawi as Johor, Pahang, Kelantan were flooded.

22 Dec (Saturday) 2007

• Soo....sunny.....with blue sky. Arrived at Langkawi Airport about 1.40 pm. Rented a car (Nissan Sentra) for RM 350 from Sat - Tue.
• Went straight to Red Tomato (Pantai Cenang) for a decent lunch. This is a mamak restaurant. As usual, service was a bit slow....
• 3.30 pm ~ Headed to our resort (at Pantai Cenang) and checked-in.
• 4.20 until 5.30 pm ~ Our first dip in the pool.....just us.....nobody else....so cool and refreshing.
• 6.00 pm ~ Early dinner at Boom Boom Cafe (located near our resort & specialising in Tandoori and seafood) as Alia said she's very hungry....as if she could gobble a horse. A bit pricey though for 2 roti boom, 3 naan bread, 1 fried rice + drinks, but the side dishes (chicken & meat) were good.
• 6.30 pm ~ A short visit to Awana Porto Malai - photo session.
• 8.30 pm ~ After maghrib prayers went shopping for slippers, snacks, toilettries & fruits.
• 10.30 pm ~ Lights off.

Food, Glorious Food.....(Aidil Adha Eve Part 2)

Macam-macam ada......
Karaoke session

19 Dec (Wednesday) 2007

We reached Klang (at about 2.00 pm something) with 3 batang lemang (bought at Bukit Rahman Putra), trifle and peach clafouti. Much to our delight, the rendang, sup tulang and kuah kacang were already cooked by Mak Su and Mak Cik Noridah (hubby's sisters). Cik Ju (Mak Cik Noridah's helper)was in the midst of preparing kuah lodeh. Since there's not much to do.....hubby was hooked with the karaoke set until 6.30 pm......Stopped for prayers and giving chance to Ariff for a few songs....and they continued singing after dinner.

20 Dec (Thursday) 2007

Woke up early to cook the nasi minyak and acar timun. Fitri cooked curry ikan tongkol......(just like the nasi dagang style). By 7.45 am everybody was ready for the Aidil Adha prayers at Surau Al-Ikhwan. Mak Long arrived early and she brought along some grapes and bananas...perfect, since our house lacked of fruits.

The prayers started at 8.30 am and the surau was packed with people. I guess not many of them balik kampung this year.....The khutbah touched on the meaning of qurban and our role in berkorban towards Islam, parents' responsibilities, the challenges in raising children,the maksiat that are happening in our society...........

I felt good that morning, the weather was crystal clear and the sun was shining. The atmosphere was serene and people were happy and greeted each other in ukhwah spirit.

Back home, we quickly took out the marinated chicken that I prepared the day before and deep fried them. Tossed some salad, lined-up together with the nasi minyak, curry ikan tongkol, acar timun, trifle ~ kuah kacang, rendang, lemang(we packed from last night's dinner) and we had our raya feast .........

Salam Aidil Adha everybody....

A Poem.....(A dedication to all readers)

What Man May Learn, What Man May Do
Poem by Robert Louis Stevenson.


What man may learn, what man may do,
Of right or wrong of false or true,
While, skipper-like, his course he steers
Through nine and twenty mingled years,
Half misconceived and half forgot,
So much I know and practise not.

Old are the words of wisdom, old
The counsels of the wise and bold:
To close the ears, to check the tongue,
To keep the pining spirit young;
To act the right, to say the true,
And to be kind whate'er you do.

Thus we across the modern stage
Follow the wise of every age;
And, as oaks grow and rivers run
Unchanged in the unchanging sun,
So the eternal march of man
Goes forth on an eternal plan.