raya 2.9 and its even

September 26, 2009June 7, 2012 / livingseri / Leave a comment

so i’ve been browsing so many raya pics from the (part of your life and updated every single second!!) facebook. what makes me happy looking at them photos are the smiles of the family members, the babies(!!) of so many acquaintances and their many firsts (first raya, first dress, first shoes, first time moms and dads and first whatevers) and yes i love the colours! i love looking at purple, green, brown, blue, pink (yikes!!pink???) pretty dresses! (it’s becoming a hobby nowadays..especially…. :P)

raya this year has been simple, like i mentioned before, but with a difference…we are even numbers this year! :)) all those years taking the public transports and mam would always say i’m always the odd one out because sometimes i ended sitting alone on bus journeys

i must say we are all happy to have you with us this year. who would have thought, last year i was just a simple independent naivete who’s always been ‘alone’…..i am still a simple independent (in times of need) naivete but…yours. and it seems my blogging nowadays always referring to you. well, i don’t think other people are reading mine anyway~

one year can make so much difference. unexpected but pleasant, or otherwise, unexpected and heartbreaking. i mean really, it felt like such a short time when a year has gone by. and countless changes, experiences, feelings have i felt. and as always, there will be some i took as some learning journeys of my life, and while others part of the many beautiful colours which paint my memories. but anyway, this post is not about life.

it’s about taking everything in a day and make a picture of it in my mind and heart and appreciating the blessings i’ve had so far. i feel like i’m becoming a greed at taking it all in. i felt every single thing and moment in this life must be captured and treasured. every smiles and laughters must be remembered. but of course, giving my trust to the One and Only. Forgive me Lord. we always forget.

but i’m loving my life now and let’s have a look at the purpled family.(and of the blue and maroon-ed)

hmmm…..if ramadhan is full of iftars every week, now it’s open houses and invites to raya gatherings… apart from the food, i don’t think i care that much anymore, i just want to spend some quality time with my family or read and do laundry!!

26 and Engaged

July 16, 2009June 7, 2012 / livingseri / Leave a comment

a perfect week had gone by. i wish i can relived the week and savour the moments again. a moment of bonds of lurve, care and belief. and i am officially a fiancee to Suhaimi Tweevran. just saying it makes me glow laaa 😉

anyway, between working (it was the first week of classes back at the mosque…so imagine the number of calls i received and decisions and making sure things are well and running for the first day of classes!!) and preparing for the day, wahh really one of the times when my mind is just jumping from one thing to another…but alhamdulillah, our day went well and smooth. perfect just as i had imagined it!

first would be the backdrop. excellent work by Kak Tini of JG Wedding Creations. turqoise and beige curtains and white roses with a touch of butterflies. we had to have the backdrop to cover the shelves with its all nitty gritty bits and there is no way guests are going into my totally crammed room. but i’m truly glad we have it at the living room for the comfort of everyone and of course me, the princess (as little Amirah called me) haha.

oh before that, i have to say i’m really happy that the gifts turn out nice anyway, to me and my mother’s eyes la. we did the final touches on the night before, adding pretty pretty yellow orchids and red carnations with some baby breaths to give more colour to our silver metallic and black themed hantarans. i hope you like it. 😉

and love the pouches for the bunga rampai!! and the handkerchief + hairclip gifts!

then came the cake, absolutely gorgeous cake!! (rinacreations.com)

and after what seemed so long…being dolled up..and thinking what have i put myself into(??!!)with all this make up on??! haha. but the dress is real nice and the idea is to feel like galadriel, which i think i did, especially when i was all ready and waiting at the living room, one of the LOTR dvd was on play. a very smart way to ease the nervousness 😉

and the moment came, amazingly huge crowd, and i thought you mentioned 20 from your side?? 🙂 with my paternal and maternal family members, and his family members who came, our hall really saves the day.
two families bonded and really there’s no word to describe the beautiful feeling especially when kak Surifah put on the ring. i mean my mind was just shouting THIS IS IT. SERI YOU’RE ENGAGED!!

at that few minutes, it actually felt long to me.:)
more pictures to feast on:
..paternal cousins and aunts..Thank you to my aunts for some of the cakes and puddings as gifts~ i heard the durian beancurd was a hit with the guests!
..from him..
Cik Saad and family-sans- Hanis. Thank you Suli for the Batik Cake
love these pics!

..his family..

my joy my life my everything and the most hardworking people on the day!!:) well people, you got your wish to see me having a boyfriend and engaged….and coming soon…haha

well there’s a list of people i had to thank:
my paternal aunts for preparing some additional feast and yes, the durian beancurd(!)and some of the gifts for him
cousin suhaili for baking the mentioned cake. my aunt Wak Mal and family for staying the WHOLE day till late night to help clear up the buffet stuffs and whatnots.
kak Tini for the gorgeous backdrop cum dais, kak rina for the gorgeous cake, and cik leha for making me feel like a gorgeous galadriel..erkkk…:))
oh yes the caterer cik jehan for the best teh susu! and sumptuous food!
and dayah and husband othman for staying throughout as well and being the official photographer
my armoured petals for the nice gift! so going to use the wedding journal! 😉 dyan and mahir and fana and Teach for coming~
and every single person who came and celebrate this meaningful day with me and my family. all of you make it more beautiful than ever. i kinda have a preview to the Big Day, hehe;)

and you, for making me a part of your life.
never in my imagination, has this very picture came to mind, but God has HIS ways and has lead me to you. you mean so much to me now more than ever. and i treasure every minute with you.
well, i can say we’ve never really been that far from one another all these years…it just takes us longer to find each other…

ps:thank you for the perfect gifts and the giant cake/cupcakes ;)and for pampering me with more books and more blue roses! and yes red roses would be nice sometimes;))

believe

July 10, 2009June 7, 2012 / livingseri / Leave a comment

There’s a few things which i’ve believed in:

1. i believe in my ability and capability that This Is the job for me. it’s even two passion in one: religion and education. i believe i can soar and achieve much more in this line of work. that my being here is right.

2. i believe in talking to Him, regardless of my spiritual weightage at any point of my life. (i don’t know if weightage is the right word, it just sounds right ;))

3. i believe in my family who has always believed in me. that we will stay strong and together no matter what happens. that my brothers and sisters will achieve success in their own way and interest. that whichever my parents had done, taught and chosen for me has, all along, directed by Him. for that i can’t ask for more that just my ratu and romo to be here with me.

4. i believe in you. truly.

Pride

June 28, 2009June 7, 2012 / livingseri / Leave a comment

Watch.

No, it’s not about the late music legend MJ, although the world is somehow grieving still for his loss. RIP MJ.

But it was my brother’s performance at Chong Pan CC!! which is he? he’s the handsome boy whereby towards the end he did a one-man show of going through the two lines of his NPCC peeps and eventually leading the team backstage. my little brother he is!!! and i am so proud of him!! great performance from the bowen sec npcc!!

officially

May 17, 2009June 7, 2012 / livingseri / Leave a comment

the open house of the new mosque in the block marks its functioning for the public officially….three very challenging days has gone and i think it went well….i cannot be critical since everybody, and i mean everybody worked so hard to make it went succesfully. i am so glad it’s done with. the preparations towards the event, my heart body and soul to decorate my classes. the nervousness and whatnots. i’m just real glad and HUGELY relieved that my mock class- cum colouring and drawing competition went so well!!! and my feet is hurting doubly bad!

and since the mosque is all about family as a niche “loving and affectionate mosque”, i realised my family members pretty much involved themselves these few days…apart from me as the staff, my mother is also a member of the women’s wing of the mosque, so we’ve practically spent the whole week at the mosque, mother helped to decorate class, nuri came to help around last friday, and then father bought lunches and got stuffs for us…my brothers for helping to move the books we bought for the Reading Room, and of course, my dear for lending us a hand sending the books to the mosque, accompanying me to collect mcys booklets and…more books.
what would i do without my family~~

so ok… let’s stop here, my eyes really can’t take it anymore….so…glad….it…went…well…zzzzzz

bookmarks to match the books

February 3, 2009June 7, 2012 / livingseri / Leave a comment

i was planning to tuck in early tonight, but i cannot resist the laptop~
on a short note, my mind has been going on non-stop, seriously with all the work needs to be done. yesterday and today, i felt like i’m a machine running on full non-stop, going from one thing to another, that time almost passed by unnoticed. although it’s fulfilling knowing that i’ve accomplished some tasks. i must be enjoying what i’m doing huh?? hehe.

since i couldn’t get the chance to find a box for my bookmarks, which by the way, 6 more bookmarks to reach 100(!) i created one myself using coloured ice cream sticks!!

ok, ok, it’s not important news, but it makes me Happy!!! haha.

home is here

January 10, 2009June 7, 2012 / livingseri / Leave a comment

my first class starts today! will be teaching teens year 4 at the mosque and somehow i was prepared for it. excited and ready to roll!! haha. i think sitting in the office doing paperworks and brainstorming has taken its toll that for once, i’m moving around and talking and sharing and whatnots!!

have i told you that i love what i’m doing?? that the sacrifice is almost worth it sometimes. tomorrow will be another day of teaching. although not exactly something which i looked forward to at the start of this year, but somehow i was able to comfort myself and have a shift of thinking. i’m the few people who can do this. so let’s do it seri! hehe

anyway, last friday, went to see my youngest sibs Nuri and Khidhir performed at their school’s CCA Openhouse. they represented their cca-NPCC. and their big sister here is just so proud of them!! they used to be little babies and now they’re up there all uniformed and holding mark-four rifles, aka, fake rifles doing some precision drill squad. truly happy to be there and you of course. for sharing one of the most important part of my life.

and when their teacher praised them for their commitment and being active participation in their cca, commenting that it must be because of the family’s good upbringing, i had a split thought of doing su*jud Syu*kur right there and then! hehe. it’s just that, truly, we are a simple family, unrich and not exactly born of academics nor having some blueblood or whatever it is. and we’ve had our hardtimes, i’ve witnessed it all. and somehow, i’ve realised those hard times have shaped us- me and sibs to be more grateful of what has been laid before us and to do the best in everything we do, and i know it has been God’s work all the way, i just feel we’re blessed and protected. that’s all i can say.

i won’t trade for anything. despite the flaws each of us have, i don’t know how i’d live without them. without my nuri’s adorable teasings and my siti’s wittiness and how she could talk sense straight to the point, and my haliffi’s concern in ignorance, and my khidhir the apple of the eye, still a baby although he has grown so tall. of course, ratu and romo. his silence and her chatter.

oklaa, no need to be so mellow right??? haha. i’m contented at the moment. truly.
please remind me to get down to earth, because i’ve been up high in the sky for quite awhile there. There’s so many things to do Seri!! let’s get moving~

a wedding bond

November 5, 2008June 7, 2012 / livingseri / Leave a comment

4 full days at KL was such a memorable family affair that even my younger siblings are already missing the days and the people we left behind. honestly truly. we missed the laughters and endless conversations. we missed the two apples of everybody’s eyes – little Haris and Ikmal, we missed the togetherness and yes, we missed the food!! :))

we’re there to celebrate a cousin’s- Kak Mala’s wedding, my mother’s first brother, our pak ngah’s second daughter. ok to explain the family tree is quite a mouthful. but quite simply, my Mak Long and Pak Ngah and their family are Malaysians living @ KL.

we arrived KL thursday evening and bunked in Pak Ngah’s apartment, and just enough time for us to join in the malam berinai and apa lagi kita2 pun join la. and especially the *ehem* pengapit *ehem*. all preparations for the wedding set and ready, like the hantarans are ready, pelamin and so on so forth.

and already that night, the chatters started, mak long and my mother always, always have something, stories to talk about, kita yang mendengar pun penat~ haha.

the nikah/ solemnization took place friday noon, at Muadz bin Jabal Mosque and i got the honour of being the ‘ring bearer’ (feeling frodo LOTR pulak)~~

and the bride herself, kak Mala is so so so gorgeous! you know how people will say “pengantin muka lain” well yeah something like that.

P1060254 ~ the bride with her bridesmaids ~

well, i’ll skip the details la ek, because honestly there are hundreds of pictures. and the pics on the nikah alone are alot, taken from many angles~ i wish i had a nikon coolpix at that moment!!

Rosmila & Wan Haziezul, the latest addition to the family! Abg Zizul proved to be a friendly knowledgeable person and the perfect match for kak Mala. and yeah, mereka adalah pengantin paling sempoi!! siap lawak2 atas pelamin, abg zizul sempat tunggu furniture kat rumah baru lagik that sanding morning!

and saturday would be the sanding event. now this is the exciting part~ the sanding was held at a communal hall within the neighbourhood. though it looks near from the apartment, but walking would be quite a distance. while everyone else already at the hall, i stayed to wait for the bride, and amongst some kelam kabut and *kipas pengantin tertinggal at the hall, and no one else around, so the pengapit dr*ove to the hall to get the *kipas, accompanied by cousin halim, why, of course, the pengapit don’t know the way to the hall, also thinking oh Lord, oh Lord, please save me! but at that point of time, the knowledge and being able to dri*ve comes in really really handy.

and when everyone’s ready, the bride and groom ready to go, the pengapit had to again, dr/ove herself to the hall + cousin halim, his wife and little daughter. all the kanchiong ness dissolve and the automatic calmness came by itself when the bride and groom made their grand entrance to the hall, accompanied by the bridesmaid and the bestman.

as much as i hate pink and the fact that the very last time i wore this dress was during raya with the girls two years ago, this very dress had fulfilled it’s actual destiny that day, hehe. and for that, i loved this dress.

alhamdulillah, the whole event went well, although there were some glitches here and there but what we missed the most – the family in Singapore who couldn’t be there with us. Cik Jamal & Family, Cik Mail & family, Cik Amat and family and Cik Saad and family. Because we believed had all of us, the complete family were there, it would be more grand. and then it would really be a family affair. and i could just imagined the glow of pride in Mak Long and Pak Ngah.

All the same, i really looked up to kak Mala for her preparations for this wedding, they already have a house, kereta tak payah cakaplah, both have their own cars, and the wedding was well prepared to the bits and pieces. and the hantarans were beautiful.

to Kak Mala and Abg Zizul, SELAMAT PENGANTIN BARU!!

i’ll leave you with some pictures~

Haris and Ikmal

even my brothers are smitten by them. this is what we say “like uncles like nephews”

and it’s Ikmal and Haris we miss the most!!!

raya 2.8

October 2, 2008June 7, 2012 / livingseri / Leave a comment

after years of years having to travel and waste more hours on buses and mrts on our first day of rayas, alhamdulillah, this year we were able to have some comfort travelling and really, you’d be amazed how small singapore is, just because the journey took much less time in driving!! we could go from woodlands to bedok and back north to yishun, in less than two hours~ sorilah ye like jakun talking about the distances hehe.

but what’s most important is that i drove my family well and safe. of course i won’t deny some minor glitches like missing the exit at expressways, and the 2-3 times i had to emergency brake at traffic lights. but so far so good la right! even though had to fork out more money this raya spent on renting the car but well, it’s a good feeling able to drive my family around. :)) it truly is a nice feeling. and everytime our car passed another raya-ing car, my family would be waving and mouthed ‘selamat hari raya’ to the other family. some would wave back some are like blurrr. aper dah~

and the kamir family wishes everyone good days ahead! Taqabbalallahu minnaa wa minkum~

FamilyDay

May 4, 2008June 7, 2012 / livingseri / Leave a comment

All of us got a chance to go to Sentosa last Labour Day! it’s actually a Family Day for Seagaters, and my Mam managed to get us all tix! except for my brother Lifi (who had to rest and due to return to camp that evening), all of use were pretty excited. it’s been like eons since we went to that island. the last time i went was…..hmmm….gosh, i seriously couldn’t remember!

apart from the crowd, the ‘rationed’ drinks and long queue for some snacks, we pretty much enjoyed the whole thing. got some pics, but by half the day, we’re all too tired to pose or even took pictures~ the heat!! and my mind already reeling with the things i need to complete.

The skyride and luge was great! we so want to return to try that again!!

well..a good day it was indeed.

living seri

maybe memories

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