Exam Fever - the kids ?? Or their mom???

This week, both kids are facing their final exam. It's nearly end of school season.... and we already have activites scheduled on each weekends till the school end. Izzaty's ASHR Ceremony, Izzat's TEB concert, Hari Kantin SKBB, Kumon parents meeting, ect. The good news is... right after the school season ended... we're off to Moscow.. Just the 2 of us.. InsyaAllah.
I had a great time so far staying at home on leasure... while guiding the kids preparing for their final exam. (If the kids are home, then I'll be pretty busy giving orders and guiding them to study... but when they are in school.... boy, it's heaven! :)) And I'm enjoying every minute of it :)

Counting days to ASHR Ceremony

Today, someone got an invitation to a very special event in Berjaya Times Square!! Yes... It's Izzaty's big day - her first KUMON ASHR ceremony. She's pretty excited about it and proudly present me her tag :





Izzat got irritated coz he was not invited :) He was in pretty bad mood.. that boy! :) Last night I talked to hubby via webcam (he's in Japan now). Since Izzat was in bad mood... he refused to talk to his daddy. Both kids were suppose to do some revision this week (it's final exam week!!) but since they have kumon class last night... thought I'd let them rest... they did some revision before anyway... Tawakal je lah... Hopefully both of them will do very2 well... Aamin.

NAG5697 - the unexpected meeting

Raya was all right.. but I had to back to work on 4th of Syawal... and THAT is NOT all right! In fact, it spoilt my raya mood... TOTALLY! What made it even worst was the fact that my immediate boss was also back to work on the very same day... and basically there was no one else in our section except just the 2 of us... and THAT to me is a toture!! :( There was nothing much to do in the first 3 days of work.. so on 5th Syawal (that was the 2nd day I worked after the raya break)... I sneaked out to go raya to some relatives' houses. And guess what?! We were stopping at the DBP traffic light when I noticed there was an "UMKC" sticker on the back windscreen of the car right infront of us... and I excitedly informed my hubby "Look!! Kereta tu ada UMKC sticker lah!" Wondering who the owner of the car is.. I quickly scanned the car's plate number and realised it was NAG5697!! My first car!!! That was my old AURA CHARADE!! My first love!!! hahahaha... Never expect to see that car again.... after all these years! It looked so old now... but still powerful on the road (speeding quite fast leaving us behind after the traffic light turned green.. I tell you!!). But I managed to snapp some pics of the car...





Hubby's leaving for Japan tonight (another fact that made my mood even spoilt!). Izzaty's facing her final exam next week... and to tell you the truth... she's pretty calm about it... but me... her mom... is getting nervous!! I do hope she will get a very good result and manage to maintain getting the first place in the whole Year 2 classes. I have been trying to urge her to study... but the raya mood is still on... so it's quite difficult to switch the mood to something ... which I guess is not so exciting.. *sigh!*. But I pray to Allah... and hope she will do her best.. and get the best result again.... Aamin. I'll worry about Izzat once I got his exam schedule.. (another headache!). Meanwhile... I already got headache now - I got bisul near my left eyes you know... is it a sign of old age? Or is it stress??. Aiyoyo.... stressful lah life nowadays...

Back to work on 4th Syawal...

I'm back to work on 4th of Syawal. As usual, I have to 'berkorban'.. give chance lah to my colleages to balik kampung (yang jauh2) and have fun for raya. I brought Izzaty to my office today so that I could coach her to do some revision for the final exam. If I were to leave her at home, I am sure she would be lepaking with the neighbours' kids and will not even touch her books.

Not many people are in the office today... just me (and izzaty of course), zainal (urgh!), jamil, fong and acong@azri. The rest are probably still sleeping now at their hometown... *sigh!*.

The fact that I'm taking 4 days off next week helps to cheer me up! :)

Eid Fitri celebration - 2007

Went back to hubby's kampung in Kampung Sempang, Malacca on the last day of Ramadhan. On the way we stopped by at Jasin's wet market to buy chicken (to make my favourite rendang hijau) and santan (one of the ingredients for the rendang hijau). Had to queue for at least 20 minutes to buy the santan! Anyway, the rendang turned out okay... except not as spicy I wanted it to be... and in the evening, we decided to go to Malacca town to buy Izzaty a new bracelet... she got a nice one... cost us around RM700 if I'm not mistaken... she loves it! :)
1st Syawal was celebrated in the usual way. Went for Eid Fitri's prayer... then salam-salaman and maaf-maafan within the family (Hamzah and family reached Malacca at around 3am!). Then later we went to Mak Nyah's house, Nek Chik's house and Pak Mat's house.. (the usual houses). By the time we reached home, MakSu and family from Seremban are already waiting for us... and ayah's nasi beryani was ready.... yess!! makan time again!! :) After that... nothing much... eat, eat and eat again. We also received some kids visitors who just 'dropped by' for some 'duit raya'... 2 of them happened to be Izzaty's schoolmate from SKBB... wahhh... sekampung rupanya! What a small world! :)
2nd Syawal... back to Bkt Beruntung.... and on the way we dropped by in Seremban at Mak Su's house and in Kepong to visit my PakLong Denan and the adorable MakLong Ani. Met Pak Itam and wife.. and also Diana and husband... and also their 4 months old baby - Ilhan Mikael... so cute!
3rd Syawal... went to Angah's house in Subang to beraya and to fetch mak. Later, both family went to Achik's house in Cheras.. and then to Pak Itam's house.
4th Syawal (that is tomorrow)... back to work!!! :(

Dreaming of RH122

2 more days (after today lah)!! Everyone has catched the raya mood.... :) The girls go shopping every single day! Well, the bonus is out... so we have lotssss of money to spend :) The watch that I bought in Venice last year went kaput... so I need a new watch (or is this just an excuse to buy a new watch?? hehe). So yesterday I bought an "ELLE PARIS" watch for RM260 (after 30% discount).. it's simple, very cute and yet elegant in its own way.. I like it so much :) Today, I bought a few triumph panties and bras (for raya?? hehe).
Hubby is trying to book a Perlis' car plate number 'RH122'. Hmm... IF we get that number.... I am dreaming to buy a toyota wish... or may be a toyota avanza... *wink*... macam orang kaya laaa... hahaha!!

Pre Raya mood... :)

Went to post office to post zamri's kuih raya and some 'instant' paste. It cost me RM134.10 for a normal package delivery by air. I can't imagine what it would have cost if I chose to use 'Post Laju'!
All kuih raya and baju raya are ready... yeay! 4 more days before hari raya and I am now getting the raya mood... finally!! For the past few weeks, I just listened and watched everyone around me excitedly talking about Raya break but somehow I did not feel excited or felt anything at all. It's probably due to the fact that all raya preparation was done earlier... even before the fasting months. So while others busy shopping preparing for raya excitedly... I just watched and kept quiet. Bonus is out... yeay! It's 4 months this year.... one year extra from the previous years.. alhamdulillah. Do not plan to spend the money on anything... need to save it for our next trips... to Russia this coming Nov... and hopefully to Europe next spring, insyaAllah.

Along and family came for break fasting yesterday evening... the kids had fun playing bunga api with their cousins.
OPsss.... 5:15pm.. time to go!!!