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Happy New Year!
2011 has been an amazing journey for us, filled with ups and downs. We’re so thankful the year ends on a happy note for us, alhamdulillah.
Here’s to summarize some awesome moments of 2011 during my blogging hiatus.
- November Babies birthday celebration. Hi-Tea, scones and great company! Thank you Liza, Farah & Syidah for making this day a memorable one!
- Cousin Ridhwan & Nadia weds. It was unfortunate we couldn’t be there with them on their joyous occasion, but we’re extremely happy for them!
- Cousin Lilin & Hafiz ties the knot. Congratulations to the newly-weds!
- Great short getaway to Krabi (Thailand) with family and close friends! We had a fabulous time there!
- Holes in heart no more. My thirdborn, Anaqi, has both holes in his heart closed, as we found out during his recent heart scan. All praises to Allah!
While we cherish these happy times, 2011 has also given us moments of grief. We lost a cousin very near and dear to us, due to pneumonia :’(. Her demise has truly shaken our families.
Raihaniah, may Allah bless your soul and place you among the believers.
Hopefully 2012 will bring us more joy, prosperity, wealth, great health, and Barakkah from the Almighty - insyallah. Looking forward to a wonderful 2012 ahead!
This year promises a lot of family weddings – from aunts to cousins to second cousins. I don’t know why but 2011 appears to be a good year to be tying the knot for some of my relatives.
In January itself, I’ve attended two family weddings – one is of my maternal cousin’s daughter (Yani), and the other is of my maternal aunt (Cik Noi).
Here’s me with Yani, the bride.
And here’s me with Cik Noi, the bride.
More photos on my Flickr:
On 1st & 2nd Jan – Wedding of Yani & Faris: http://www.flickr.com/photos/aprima/sets/72157625754152765/
On 15th Jan – Wedding of Cik Noi & Cik Wan: http://www.flickr.com/photos/aprima/sets/72157625811924357/
I’ll be expecting at least 3, if not more, family weddings to attend sometime mid this year and towards the end. So exciting!
To Yani and Faris, and Cik Noi and Cik Wan: May you be blessed with eternal happiness and an everlasting marriage.
Here I am trying to revive my almost-dead blog (again) after a five-month long hiatus. I don’t have any good excuses for my lack of blogging (plenty of bad ones, but no good ones). Non-coincidentally, I’ve picked a nice binary date for its resurrection 
So what’s been up (or down, if I may say) throughout this undeserving abandonment period? I try not to end up in an endless rant, so here goes…(I’ll start with the good bits first)
Hold your horses, Anaqi!
Since the last posted video of the little bub taking his first few awe-worthy steps, the boy has now mastered the art of speed. While this achievement is in every parents’ tracking milestone, I often shudder at the thought of him having bumps and bruises on his forehead each time he fail to apply brakes when he makes his little dashes, and eventually bang himself onto the wall, or high-table, or the organ, or his siblings! The last time he collided with his brother, Mika, he imprinted a tooth mark on the tip of his right brow!
Birthday Get-together: Aries and May Babies
We never fail to organize a get-together for a mini birthday celebration no matter how belated it gets. This year’s Aries birthday celebration took place at Yati’s abode, and May Babies get-together at Liz’s. Of course you’ll bound to find non-Aries/May Babies also ‘menyibuk’ blowing candles on cakes *cough*Misha*cough*
But let’s give Misha some credit for her effort in making birthday cards for Ahnaf and Nasha, shall we? 
More photos can be found on my Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/aprima/sets/72157623949140720/
Sahril and Elysha weds.
Yes, the tallest one in our group of poly friends finally weds to long-time girlfriend of 15 years, Nuryn Elysha. The event took place at Downtown East Pasir Ris, and dear hubby is privileged to be his driving companion in our very own MPS.
More photos can be found on my Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/aprima/sets/72157624219075462/
It’s a Digital Age.
And so I’ve succumbed to ‘the dark side’ (as many say), ditching my Blackberry Bold 9000 for the new iPhone4. The week of its launch, the husband and I decided to place an order with Singtel for a pair (yes, husband ditched his existing telco as well). Due to the huge sell-out, we had to wait for the new stock to be available. We’re amazed that it only took us 1 week before we have our hands on our ‘new toys’. But now it looks like OUR kids have THEIR hands on OUR new toys! >_< (I’ll save the details for my next post)
Crash-Boom-Bang.
02.06.2010 was a fateful day for us – a day that had led to an interesting chain of events. The husband had fetched me from work this very day, and as we turned into ECP, there was a massive jam due to an earlier accident. In the midst of cars changing lanes and abrupt braking, we got ourselves into a 5-car collision, and we were at the tail-end of the collision. How sad. We ended up having to tow the car over to the workshop.
This picture was taken the following day at the car workshop, where the damages were more visible than during the night before. As the repairs were taking place, we started talks with our existing car insurer for policy renewal as it was expiring in a month. Sadly, they refused to renew our insurance policy. We scouted around for other insurers yet faced the same rejection. Their reason? We made 2 claims in one policy year and our total claims (including third-party) exceeded $30,000 
. When all appeal failed, we were left with no other choice but to leave our car untouched at our parking space for months.
Being too dependent on our little transportation, we found ourselves handicapped for the very first time after 4 years. It’s not easy when you have 3 kids in tow. Husband and I even decided that it’s high time to let the car go – sell it off, and see if we can get a second-hand replacement under another name. Meanwhile, someone by the name of Ken from a brokerage insurance agency came to hear of our situation and offered help. By God’s grace, on 06.09.2010, he managed to source an insurer for us, albeit with steep conditions. I was ecstatic! It didn’t matter that it burnt a hole in our pockets, but we’ll do all it takes to get our dear MPS up and running again (until the right time comes to REALLY let it go).
Now that THAT’s settled, and road-tax renewed, we’re getting it serviced and hopefully we’ll get to ride it again next week
12.12.2009 marks the day my second cousin, Syiq, ties the knot with long-time beau, Zainal. Five years ago, on this very day, it was P & I who walked down the aisle as husband and wife. Fancy them sharing the same wedding date as ours! Heh.
I also came to know that the groom is a very close cousin of my office colleague. Talk about small world!
To Syiq and Zainal, a brand new chapter in your lives has begun! May Almighty grant you all the happiness life will bring.
More photos can be found on my Flickr site: Syiq’s Wedding Photos
Last week I attended Kahar’s wedding at Kg Ubi CC and it was great to have met up with long lost pals from primary school years. Some I haven’t seen for almost 3 years, some since my wedding, and some even since 1991! *gosh*
We took photos with the Bride and Groom, but didn’t get a chance to take one with my own camera (there was a queue of people wanting to take photos with the couple, and they were already behind schedule to go over to the bride’s place, so I gave it a miss). However I did get a chance to take photo’s with my ex-Temasekian pals. Here’s one for keepsake.
And to Mr & Mrs Kahar, here’s wishing you an everlasting marital bliss!
The wedding was held at The British Club and it was most certainly a gorgeous and lavish event. The bride is as beautiful as ever (and so were the bradesmaids). Kinda makes me feel like getting married all over again (hehe).
Ria & James, here’s wishing you eternal marital bliss! And thanks for honouring me with the montage presentation, and be part of this big event. Congratulations once again!
A hearty congratulations to my second cousin, Zurah, on her wedding to Fadli. May she and her spouse be filled with a blessed and everlasting marriage…
This came to my Inbox from Yati today. Photo courtesy of Rendra (her photographer cousin).
Definitely pin-up-worthy, me thinks.
Selamat Pengantin Baru, you two…both of you look so gorgeous tau!
More pictures here if anyone’s interested. 
And there’s more to come. *waits patiently for Cik Nasir kita to sign in to MSN so I can get those high-quality ones from his super-duper camera*. I haven’t added the full captions and all, because I intend to change the gallery theme, and eventually have to enter the captions again, so might as well do it at one shot.
Just so you know, I screwed up the speech a little – forgot my opening line, how nice… *rolleyes at self*. Anyway, the whole dinner went pretty well, and the food was damn good. Mak pengantin masak tau, don’t play play ok…The games were fun. Reminded me of the games I played during last year’s company D&D.
Yat & Sham, I hope you two like your toysgifts. You still owe us pictures of you inwith those. ;p
Note to self: Remove your corsage if you intend to drive. It is not steering-wheel-friendly.
Yati’s wedding preparation is finally reaching its last phase. Last night when Liz & I came over to her place, we saw that the ‘khemah’ has already been erected, and the cooking utensils caged up at the void deck. We helped out in lining her six-storey cake tier with laces, and then assisted her (and her crafty aunt) with the bedroom decoration. I really admire her aunt. She could sew very nice curtains and bed covers, and design the ceiling canopy as well. Everything DIY, you know! It saves her a lot of cost, instead of going to the professionals.
Later today, Liz and I planned to lunch at Orchard and get our pedicure done. Then, it’s over to Mom’s place to dump all my things temporarily – the stuff to be worn/brought to the wedding on Saturday and Sunday mostly. Then, it’s over to Yati’s place again to catch her henna-making in action – thanks to Sumitra.
Okay, that’s all for now. Gotta go and touch up on the speech a little bit.
