This is where I want to be on my birthday morning, together with all lovers of Rasulullah S.A.W….
Today is a very tiring yet very satisfying day.
We did not go out today as I was expecting some guests to come over. I was in the mood to do some cooking and was in the kitchen for solid 3 hours. I was very satisfied with the end results of the food that I prepared : Spaghetti Meatballs, Really Spicy Tomyam Fried Rice, Curry Chicken with French Loaf and lastly, Roti Boyan with Sambal Tumis Ikan Bilis. Buah Duku was on the menu too. I prepared everything with my bare hands, except for the Roti Boyan which I ordered from a friend and I just need to fry them.
Guests started to arrived from 2 pm till my last guests left after Maghrib. By then, my right arm started to ache due to strenuous movement, I guess. I rested while watching TV with my family, then I started cleaning up the mess. Truly dead beat at the moment.
Nevertheless, the satisfaction is there. Seeing my guests and my family enjoying, savouring my cooking is priceless….
Really unexpected. A genuine surprise.
Right after Afrina finished her tuition, we rushed to one of my KSS sisters’ house. My other KSS families were already there. As usual, we chat, we joke, we laugh, we eat.
Then at one point of time, one of them switched off all the lights. I really thought he wanted to adjust the lighting and was about to ask him what was he trying to do. Then I heard a birthday song being sung by everyone there. For a few second, I looked around to see who’s the birthday person. I realized that it was for ME!! 😀
My KSS sister brought in a cake from the kitchen and they sang a birthday song for me. I was truly shocked and speechless. And I almost cried. Little that I thought they would organized a surprise birthday celebration specially for me. My birthday is on Sunday actually. That’s why I had no idea that they would be celebrating for me in advance. Sweetness!!
Worried. Angry. Disappointed. Furious. Pain. Regret. Tears.
The day I will never forget.
Forgive me, Ya Allah…… 😥
Love it when guests come visiting my abode. This time it’s my aunt, cousins and niece.
Specially prepared Fishball Mee Hoon Soup and Roti Boyan for them.
Nothing much to do after my guests left. All the major housework already been done. So we just did our own things, me with my laptop, Afrina on the PC, Afiqah glued to TV and Affandy playing his toys and IPad. We can’t go out visiting tonight as Afrina has tuition to attend. PSLE is just round the corner. Seraammmm…… 😀
Update :
We did go out visiting at night. My MIL called up and we visited FIL’s elder sister who lived nearby my place. Since it’s only one house and it’s so near, I agreed to it.
Every Raya, we will go visiting to Hubby’s side of relatives with my in-laws. This somehow strengthen our ties, not just between me and my in-laws, but also with Hubby’s relatives.
My in-laws came to my house first before we proceed to other houses. Since we only get to meet Hubby’s uncles and aunties once a year or so, we stayed quite late in each houses. So end-up we could not complete all houses for visiting.
After visiting six houses, we called it a day. InsyaAllah, we tend to continue our visiting tomorrow.
Alhamdulillah, my left eye is getting better. It’s no longer swollen, but the itchiness and some redness is still there. This morning, Afrina asked me how come my eye cures so fast when I do not put any eyedrop. My answer is simple, Allah. I simply asked Allah for the cure. 😀
Today starts the Term 3 school holiday. I stayed home with Affandy, while my girls went out with their friends for Raya outing. This is the first Raya outing with friends for Afiqah. She insisted that she is BIIIIIG enough to go out with her friends without me. I was reluctant at first, thinking that she’s still too young to go out on her own, but I gave in eventually. Her friends’ houses are just within walking distance and she sms-ed me whenever she reached their place.
Love to see these little girls donning their head scarves. They look so sweet and innocent.
Afrina also brought her friends came to our house. She group is bigger and errr……different. They are all in their pre-teens and have their own individual styles and dressings. I just wished that I could be more comfortable and relax when I was with them. Maybe I was not sure whether to treat them like adults as majority of them are taller than me and they look quite mature, or I should entertain them like my children as they are only 12. Nevertheless, I’m glad that Afrina is mixing with Malay friends too, as I always see her hanging around with Chinese girls at school.
Afrina and one of her BFF look so much alike. They have been asked many times by others, even teachers, if they are twins or siblings or somehow related to each other.
I really hope that they will remain as BFF even if they are posted to different school next year.
My left eye is getting worse this morning. It’s like being glued, so sticky, so red, so swollen, so watery and so itchy. If only I can scratch it, I will.
Affandy woke up with a bit of temperature and he starts to sneeze and cough. I asked him if he thinks he’s fit for school, definitely he said “no”. At that point I’m not sure if he is really going to be sick, or he just wanted to stay home and play “Angry Bird” on my IPad2. After a little bit of consideration, thinking that today is the last day of school for Term 3, and they will be having Hari Raya Concert later, being absent from school is the right thing to do. So, two sick people accompanying each other today.
I told myself that I am sick today, so I am allowed to not to cook. Self-declared MC. Whether the boss (Hubby) approves or not, I am entitled for a MC on weekdays. Furthermore, it is agreed that he is the boss of the house, but I am HIS BOSS, so, yeah, today the Boss of the Boss is not cooking. Since Hubby will be having a BIG HARI RAYA lunch with his company, my decision of not to cook is so right. When Afrina and Afiqah came back from school, I got Afrina to buy Nasi Lemak and that’s the lunch for the four of us. Life is so easy. 😀
Today there’s some real life drama going on, which I’ll write about it in private someday. Some people can really act and continuing lying without a single sense of guilt. Let’s see how far these people can go.