Memories...of the smiles we left behind

Watch the movie when i was in secondary...MRSM Seremban.
Love the plot...Robert Redford...beautiful & magnificent voice of Barbara Streisand.
I remember hanging a huge poster of the handsome Robert Redford on the wall above my hostel bed...
Really love the song...

MRSM...oh MRSM

Memories...
Lights the corner of my mind
Misty water colored memories...
of the way we were
Scattered pictures...
of the smiles we left behind...
Smile we gave to one another...
of the way we were
Can it be it was so simple then...
Every times  re-written every lines
If we have the chance to do it all again...
Tell me would we...
Could we...
Memories
May be beautiful and yet...
Was too painful to remember...
We simply choose to forget...
So is the laughter...
We will remember...
Whenever we remember...
The way we were...............

...wrap it up...with lots of love

Soon...
There comes another year...2011
meaning...
my long and most valued holidays are soon to end...
wanna record some of my 'closing' and meaningful activity for 2010 ....................
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Balik kampung !
Well...
( most people would show their trip to London eyh?)
a lot that i learned...
many things i have experienced...and gone through...
smelled flowers...
aarghhh...
smoke gets into my eyes!

never should i forget this building...and the story it symbolizes...

  ...on my way back to Perak...
stopped by...

just to let Naufal know his 'roots' ( half of it )

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and looking at this picture of Syabilla and Faiqa...makes me realize ..how time fliesphoto taken at the same place...but at different time...(oops! tertukar kedudukan ...)

appreciate the craftsmanship

i wish i have a house crafted like this....

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love the stairs too!

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and most of all...

got presents from my beloved sister...Ayu

oleh- oleh dari trip nya ke Vietnam

...etc

Thank you Ayu...

She just made my mum happy in Bangkok.

Balik Bangkok nanti...hulur lagi ya!(:

Happy Birthday to my beloved brother Abdul Hisham (30th December)

Happy Birthday to my beloved Syabilla (31st December)

Happy New Year everybody.

...a beginning to an ending...???

     Attended my 1st meeting ( season 2011) this morning...which ended up at almost 1 .00 afternoon.
* given the same old post...
*The same old story...
but with a brand new Head of School (Principal)...with the same old approach!... or rather... more 'elaborations!'.....huuuuuuuuuuu
*Worst...it's gonna be the whole 5 days in a stretch....of meetings as early as 8.30 am!
...and it's not even a New Year!
God! We teachers really need that long holidays...at the end of the year!

...penthouse ???

...a cool and cloudy morning...

after last night's none stop down pour 

but it's the best weather to do some light warming up on my bike...

and so i did

...enjoyed the scene of which i could not  see it often...

or anywhere

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long armed monkey family...

Lutong

penthouse!

...the chosen one...

Ali ibn Abi Talib, 'A bad deed that offends you is better in the sight of God than a good action that puffs you up with pride.' 

...abettor...am i ???

Sad to see that lots of family still lavishly spend money to a wedding...
Worst ...
...the wedding which is initially meant to only announce the marriage...is filled with events not according to SyaraQ
Worst still...
As a neighbour...i am forced to abet...some of the events!

Forgive me Allah. Have mercy on me.

...Ahoi Women!

Dapatkan Mesej Bergambar di Sini

...and because i am a woman.

... kena gigit semut jer...

naufal: nanti doktor inject sakit buuuu!!!
ibu    : tak de lah...sapa kate? ...mcam kena gigit semut jer ...
naufal: kawan naufal cakap...
ibu    : tak der lah...
naufal: kawan naufal kate sakit ...bila ubat kebas dah hilang...

those are parts of the conversations made by my dear Naufal...before his circumcision been done yesterday..4th december 2010.
Boy... a day he is sure to remember...or rather should remember!
A day to manhood...as they called it...is it really???
i know..i know
it's a bit late for him to be ...
but i should be thankful and grateful anyway coz finally he agreed to have it done!
it was yearafter year that i actually proposed that he'd go for it...
but every time the holidays season comes...it ended naufal saying, "tahun depanlah ya bu"
Hmm...my baby Naufal!

Yesterday, 4th December 2010
at the clinic...
we reached the clinic at around 8.00 am...even the doctor were not yet around..
but that's actually my intension...to be the first...so he wont have to listen to any cries or moans from other boys!
nurse  : Muhammad Naufal !
Naufal: Huuuu!...(puting his arms on his chest...and looking a bit nervous and trembling)...hahaahaa
Ibu     : That's okay, just go...baca selawat ok...
Then the waiting began...ibu pulak yang lebih risau!
(baca Doa tuhan saja yang tahu...tak henti2...)

half an hour later...
walked out of the door...half smiling...(i should have taken a photo of the moment... (: )
naufal : tak sakit lansung!( with him holding his pulikat...walking slowly ...)
ibu     : Alhamdulillah...kan ibu dah cakap...tak sakit...
So you guys... guess what happen after?
just enjoy the photos...

 ...for dressing

 ...guess what i use to keep the Pulikat getting adhered to the 'subject'  ?

My problem now is to get Naufal into 'confinement'. period...

...i am a Minang !

This is a song sang by a blind but very talented  Indonesian...a Minangkabau ( i guess)
He sang with his ' guitar kapak'...making it sounds as though he is singing with a band!

I remember how abah used to play his 'record player'...which i guess was the only device one could use to listen to recorded songs. Cd's and Computers were way out of the story ...
Zulkarnaen was among all that let me understand some of the Minang's version ...though i had troubles understanding at the very first time i heard...
but having to listen to it over a thousand times...i became a real Minang!
Not to mention some other Minang songs sang by Elly kassim and Tiaramon!

Lorong Raja Uda will always be on my mind...
A place where i had the chance to'live' with abah, along and angah...even though it was only for a week during school holidays...
Abah will fetch me from atuk's house...to stay for a day or two in abah's house...in KL
A memorable place where i used to walk together with my other sister Aloi ( stepsister actually ) to GH to meet up with my step mother ( arwah ) whom was working there as Ayamah...
She's a lady with a smile...seemed like she knows everybody in the hospital !
I guess ...during those days...walking for several miles was never a problem...
and...
We never get back empty handed...
There's always something that we need to bring home.

Going to Chow Kit daily market was one common routine that i did during my stay...
Me and my stepmother will walk along TPCA ,Jalan Raja Uda then to Chow Kit to get some groceries and did her marketing

Everything now...is only a memory.