e-Raya during the circuit breaker 2020

Here’s a video update on this year’s raya. We are all encouraged to stay home, especially during the Hari Raya. There were no visits to families’ and relatives’ houses. Sadly, it was quite a short and brief raya for the first day. We arranged a video chat first using Zoom, then it was kinda complicated then we switched back to the normal Whatsapp video call just in groups. Haha! It was unsynchronised, first we had the video chat with my husband’s side, and while we were at it, my family decided to call up too! And then our garage friends, and the kids... they just sat down on the sofa, watching the tv, not engaging much with the e-raya. Then, our phone cameras are up, polaroid is out, nikon camera is on and we take our usual family pictures but this time, with our cats and friends who had been staying with us during the circuit breaker and lockdown.

The foods.. let’s not forget to talk about food on Hari Raya. Usually every other year I would stay up in the morning and cook all the rendang, kurma dish, masak merah and lontong. Just not this year. Even our kueh, baked some honey cornflakes as usual and tried baking nutella pods, but it all got wiped out even before raya. 

Here’s an animation of mum dad and a whole lot of monsters. Hahaha 😂

Counting the days..

Tonight's henna party reminds me that she's left with a few days until she'd become a Mrs. A day which we will celebrate to a new family member, a new family branch and to future areas of discussions. When everyone used to live under one roof, we witness their well being, if they'd eaten, went out, up all night with their computers, went to school, not home, had a fight, birthday gatherings, eating on the floor with newspapers altogether. Now, we will start to ask 'how are you?', 'where are you from?', 'what do you do every other day?'.

I still remember how we will always be in the toilet together, walk to the shop together, sleep together, steal together? iron our hair together, literally using an iron, how we used to pretend we were sleeping with our favourite wrestling stars but it was just our bolster, our skip-school days and head to Marsiling CC for karaoke, the times where we sneak out to loiter around the house at night and sssssloooowlyyyy minding every step we make just so our parents or brothers can't hear us, our moments swimming in the small bathroom by covering the drain hole with a towel.

Looking forward to your wedding, beloved sister 💖 Don't worry about anyone else, only think about what makes you happy first.

Qasya's first collage with MS Word

Qasya reached home and showed me a worksheet he'd received in school. He's going to present a 'show and tell' in class next week. Tokpik: Diri Saya.

Since I'm planning to print something tomorrow, I might as well help to complete his homework early. So I decided to use this opportunity and guide him to create a collage for his school work.

ps: Sorry that we didn't think about doing it like this back then Fina (^-^")

Feline Gifs

Singamoto Trackday Round 2

The editing, vetting, compiling and making is finally done. We've been busy for the aftermath of fatigue, visitation to the hospital for an x-ray, to making kid's morning for school while still going through the media process. Mood: Hungry and sleepy, but I can't go to sleep now(11.53am), I still need to take a shower and fetch the kids from school in the afternoon(1.30pm), and that's soon.

Kudos to the team! Love the thrill, fun and enthusiasm during each event. Most importantly, get well soon to my husband who was one of the few that got into an accident during the event. Rest well baby, I'll stand by you 😉, don't give up. Fall 3 times, get back up 4.

Camera on a Friday

Decided to bring along the camera and take some shots fetching them from school on another Friday. Walked home from school and brought Mono outdoor for a little while. It was a crazy hot weather just like any other day. Usually I'd bring along a must have umbrella, funny how I find it important now than before, I hated umbrellas that I'd rather walk in the rain than to pack an umbrella the whole day in my bag, well.. back then haha.

I've been feeling weird lately. Missed period in January(but I don't wanna think otherwise.) My usual symptoms before my period would be being a clean-af-woman where I find myself doing spring cleaning from morning until night comes, spick and span, cleaning of the turtle tank in the a.m. folding everyone's wardrobe, putting things in place in the storeroom, and whatever that's placed somewhere it doesn't belong around the house, it'll find it's way back to where it does belong. That will go on for a few days till I start to breakdown and stop everything that's important to life, strictly no washing of dishes, no cleaning, no washing can't even get myself out of bed, and even if I did, it's mealtime and back to sleep for many hours, maybe even 24 hours of sleep haha, and that will go on until... it's time.

We are looking forward to a tiny junior but we're still waiting, we'll wait through all the uncountable pregnancy test kits, we will still wait for you, Insyaa Allah.

Getting everything ready for tomorrow, husband's track day round 2! Vroom vroom! 🏍