Selamat Menyambut Kemenangan

Selamat Hari Raya. I hope it has surpassed all your raya expectations. Mine has been somewhat off-key. Nonetheless, as always, I have photos to share if you'd like to see.

I found pretty lantern-lights at Typo (we hung them on with masking tape actually); I love the effects the lights have.

Pretty pastel selendangs shared by Fatin for raya. On fb only. In fact I havent seen these in the shops.

 Raya di rumah atok (these is a couple of the few gambar we took this raya. We were camera shy this eid).

Kalau harapkan humor anak2 - I said, could you please write raya menu on the chalk board? And this is what I get.

 He was in Makkah for the last days of Ramadhan and on Eid.


Bergembiralah seadanya di hari kemenangan. Doa untuk Palestin dan balasan Allah untuk kaum yang zalim.




~ xoxo

From Jubail (With Love)

Our bachelor sent us this. He wanted to show that it is >30˚C at 3:00am where he is at. He is now in Saudi, on a year stint at a petro-chemical company. After graduated he threw caution to the wind and said I am going to work in Saudi ma. And I said ok, go for it.

So it is going to be his first raya away from home. Mungkin akan beraya di Makkah tahun ini he said. And I thought, MasyaaAllah (can I come too?)

(everybody asked us where Jubail is..)


And on a lighter note --

Much earlier we cyber-stalked him and found his photos on instagram. We matched his ray-ban photo with one of Cruise's in aviator shades.. haha

(I had fun concocting this up and then sharing it on whatsapp with the kids. But just between you and me, in fact I think they look like langit dan bumi!)




~ xoxo

Baby Photos Part III

I have (more) baby photos to share (it is either about babies or food).

This is a somewhat old photo. Rambut Umar dah makin lebat; especially yang di tengah kepala. So instead of Dennis the Menace we have Umar the Manis.. haha

Sara pakai baju pink saja terus manis.

Suka facial expressions Umar. But Sara cant care any less; tidur saja.




~ xoxo

A Pre Ramadhan Story

(I am seriously backdated in this space!)


We were at the place called Berkat Madinah recently looking for Ramadhan stuff. Kata Aida, Chef Ammar cari barang2 dapur di situ.

Alang2 kami di ayam penyet Wong Solo Ampang (seriously sedap; of course la masa tu belum Ramadhan kan) lalu terus ke kedai Arab ni. The shop was small-ish; compared to the Suria place in Jalan TAR / Chowkit.

Kami mencari kurma medjoul sebenarnya, lalu terjumpa sesuatu yang tak pernah jumpa di Malaysia...

Kepala kambing! Lalu teringat baked kepala kambing di US dulu (masa makan ternampak yang masih ada rumput di celah gigi kambing!! Eeewwww..) Hubs said, I might buy the kepala kambing of these days (and I went like, NOOOOOO..)

And found a recipe book that I just had to buy (and yeay, we have new recipes to try! I like the baked lamb leg..)

ps - yes, we checked the Jericho medjoul dates we bought is not from Israel (I looked up again the article on the dates but it is no longer there. I was going to share that..)




~ xoxo