It's ABE's Birthday Today

It's your birthday today, so don't feel down.

Don't think of bad stuff and frown;

May you find all the joy, peace, happiness and contentment in your heart.

Thank goodness for you. Where would WE be without you?

Happy Birthday!

070707 Wedding

It was my cousin brother's wedding last weekend. Ahmad Johan or Jojo is the 3rd son of my Uncle Kassim & Aunty Shidah. This is the first wedding in my uncle's family.

Farah , Nissa & Aunty Shidah...all ready to go.

The guys with the hantaran

Jojo's bride, Siti Asmah is from Johor Baru. 070707 was the special date chosen by the couple to tie the knot. A few of us, the close relatives of my aunty and uncle were invited to attend the akad nikah and the bride's reception held at the Alumni House in UTM Skudai.

The drive from KL to JB was exceptionally challenging...especially from the Pedas Linggi to Ayer Keroh stretch. Some parts of the highway were only opened to one lane of traffic due to the ongoing construction work...urgghhh...when will this ever stop!!!

The jam in JB

Father of the groom..in pink.

The groom entourage "berkampung" at Pulai Spring Resort for the weekend. The event started with the convoy to the akad nikah ceremony at the mosque in Bandar Baru Uda in JB. Then a small reception at the bride's place.


On Sunday was the reception by the bride's family.....a simple reception in a cosy & friendly environment.

To Jojo & Azmah...congratulations!!! To Uncle Kassim & Aunty Shidah..take it easy ok...save some energy for this weekend reception in KL.

Reminisce the 80s

It's 7.00pm now...and I am taking a break from my serious writing. Have been cracking my head to write this curriculum stuff since 10.00 this morning!! It's driving me up the walls.

Thank God I discovered this online 80s radio station - WANX .107 The 80s Channel. It plays all hit songs of the 80s.

The 80s brings back lots of good ole memories of my college days at UW - Madison. The free and easy days when life was only about going to class and doing assignments. Well...of course there were the TGIF parties (which we'd rather pass and leave that to the Mat Sallehs to get intoxicated and behave foolishly afterwards).

We, Malaysians partied differently. We would go apartment hopping and ate Nasi Brayani and Laksa our seniors jamu us. Well, that was in the first semester as Freshman. And then later when our langkah was more panjang and we got cleaver at socializing ie. time for movies with the seniors guys or just lepaking at the Students Union eating ice-cream...or playing bowling 5 rounds until we had blisters ;-))

Now...back to this 80s radio station. Its playlist includes songs from:

a. Journey - Faithfully ......aahhhh...this was my roomate Liza's favourite band

b. Billy Ocean - Love Songs That Make You Cry ...the lyric of the song goes this way....there'll be love songs that make u cry. I remember Jupe & I played Billy Ocean's record non stop one night...one of our crazy days!!!!

c. Quaterflash - Harden My Heart...wanna harden my heart...gonna swallow my tears...haa...this song...I remember keeping it so close to me heart after I received a letter from "someone" back home saying that he had found "someone" else. Darnnnn...

d. Police - Message in the Bottle...really like the music of this song & other songs by Police.

e. Michael Jackson....who could forget the "Thriller" album which sold millions....everyone loved MJ those days & he was still the big nosed black guy then.

f. ABC - Look of Love....those nights when we potlucked at each others apartments, this song so frequently played on the radio station 98.5FM.
g. Phil Collins - One More Night...ahhh...this song...no need to cerita here lah...memories..memories.

h. and many, many more memorable songs

I guess....till something more interesting comes by, I shall continue reminiscing....

Adusssss....

It's been crazy these last few weeks for me. I missed the school holidays. I missed a few important weddings. Missed sending friends off for umrah..And most unbearable one was..I missed the Father's Day weekend too.

My children spent Father's Day with their Daddy in Port Dickson. It was a good three days of lazing by the beach with Dad. They came back with all fun stories about the weekend. But the biggest blow was when my little girl said this to me, "We have gone to PD and enjoyed ourselves...and you still have not come back from work??"

Adusss....that was a REAL boomer!!

With my submission date for a project to a client drawing closer by the day,life has been so, so challenging. The long nights at work...the working weekends and this is the third straight weekend which I have had to come back to work. I tell myself to just hang in there...just a bit more to go and soon everything will be over and life will be back to normal.

But something tells me...this isn't so. Not when I know that there are also other "projects" lined up and need my looking into in these next couple of months.

Goshh...this is definately going to be tough....sigh :-((

World Environment Day - 5 June

World Environment Day is celebrated each year on 5 June. Let's work on improving the quality of the environment.

To start...recycle, save energy, save water, plant more trees...and walk more.

RESPECT THE NATURE AND THE NATURE WILL RESPECT US.

Together we can make a difference.

Farah - Fourteen Today

My second daughter Farah turns 14 today!! Unfortunately, she's currently in Seremban at my mom's place babysitting her younger cousins till Tuesday.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY FARAH...from Mama, Daddy, Nissa & Abang!!

Vasculitis

Our ex-maid Yani came back to the house for a few days last week. Yani's new employer was away on holidays. My present maid, Bibik was overly excited coz she would now have an extra pair of hands to help her with the moving of things during this peak period of my house renovations.

For the first few days, Yani was ok. On the 3rd day my maid told me that Yani had an infection on the leg. When I got back from work, I asked Yani to show me what she has got and to my horror..there was a big patch of skin lesion on her leg.

We took her to the clinic that night. Doctor mentioned that she had vasculitis. According to the doctor, it's got something to do with the inflamation of the blood vassels due to poor immune system. Gosh...sounds pretty bad huh?? Anyway, doctor gave her some antibiotics and did a dressing to clean the ulser like lesions on her leg.

So...what is vasculitis anyway? I did a search on the Internet and found this tutorial site which explains vasculitis is layman's language.

Tutorial is found here...Vasculitis.