Meow with MyKidz!/

/Monday, December 31, 2007/

HMS Family Day 2008 at Austin Hill was full of its usual noises, chaos, smiles and laughter. And as usual, I ended with blue black this time on the 'bums'. Although no 'brutal ball' or 'brutal girl' (Oja) this time round, we did have 'brutal musical paper' and newly crowned 'brutal girl' (Zetty).

Funny reviews
Telematch - Anis said the rules should be 'no rules at all' since we didn't fully understand the rules (aiksyen je-saje nak confuse organiser). Mykidz liked the final game very much...anything went to the line including stones, mentos, immigration cards, etc.

Amazing Race - Clever Atiqa for finding a very good spot to hide. From one angle we could see her but she could still be invisible from other views. Sofea enjoyed the game so much so she slept all the way while Abah ran here and there with her in his arms.

Bowling - One lane was occupied by the seniors headed by our CEO, grandpa while another lane consisted by the youngsters. While Ylo showed her superhand in bowling, the cheek hubby went about groping and exposing his upper body. Yam/Mawi has 1 year to strengthen his arms so that the bowling ball never fall behind him instead of going towards the pins. While the adults played, kids kept themselves occupied by playing on their make-shift slide

Prize giving
Again the telematch's organiser left us confused with the announcement of the 1st and 2nd winners from the back!! I think we need to decipher the hidden codes...ha ha...Dr R's Hidden Codes or Dr R Dictionery!!

Mykidz would like to say thank you for all members towards making this family day another memorable one. We will definitely miss the sounds of laughter, merajuk, cries, etc. Hopefully we meet again in the next family day! Plus thank you for the pillows!

MEOW
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/Wednesday, December 26, 2007/

/East Coast to Bedok Camp/

Yesterday, we decided to take a walk (more like hike) following the east coast park connector. We took bus no. 31 and stopped near the flyover with slight drizzle falling from the sky. As usual, Abah led us through muddy pathways (claiming its the designer's fault that we were to walk this way). We reached East Coast Food Centre, had our lunch (Satay Haron, Ayam penyet n Fried Rice). Kidz had a short swim before we started our 'road march' in search of the Bedok underpass. Luckily Mak did not wear her kasut cantik...if not will be muddy too!!! We marched to Bedok Jetty where we saw Bibik Atiq n Bibik Wani 'sun tanning' on the beach. We stopped for a swim while we waited for their 'quick' packing up. We headed towards East Coast Venture Centre and OBS before we spotted the underpass....YAHOOOOOOOO!!!

The underpass led to the back of Bedok Camp. This was very nostalgic for me since I did these many many times when I was young....walked down from Kallang to Kg Bedok. Kidz and Abah started singing several army songs while Sofea listened only. By the time we reached Upper East Coast bus interchange, our legs were giving way. Lucky there's bus no. 13 and 853. The next time (in a day or two) we will be continuing our journey exploring upwards to Bedok Reservoir Park.

MEOW
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/Monday, December 24, 2007/

/Emma n Sadiq/

Today we went to visit Emma before heading down to Parkway Parade. The boys went to play tennis with Abah n friends. Emma n Sadiq were as cute as ever. Sofea received several playful slaps from Emma.

MEOW
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/Sunday, December 23, 2007/

/Aisyah turns 5!!/

We celebrated Aisyah's birthday with a blackforest cake, rojak, pizza and soft drinks. As usual, Aisyah was pretty shy during the singing session. Ayu was the one very eager to blow the candles and cut the cake. We also sang advance birthday song to Sabryna (3rd Jan) and Danial (22nd Feb).

MEOW
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/Thursday, December 20, 2007/

/Hari Raya Haji/

MEOW
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/Tuesday, December 18, 2007/

/Princess Sofea/

Can't get enough of taking pictures of Sofea. These two were taken by Fuad using his camera phone today since he had to babysit her while I went for a short meeting at the mosque.

Nowadays she loves to smile and chuckle in her sleep.

MEOW
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/Saturday, December 15, 2007/

/Update Update/

One week passed by quickly. Next week we will be celebrating Hari Raya Haji. There's still lots of clearing to do but we managed to squeeze several outings in between.

Abah had his 'testimonial match' with his past and present students at Bishan Park Sec. School. The boys were pretty excited to play a game against another team but they had to listen to Abah making his final speech to them.

Last Thursday, since it was so sunny, we went out to collect housing documents from lawyer's firm in HDB Hub, then took the car to drive down to Ikea Tampines to purchase fleece blanket for the kidz and finally picked up Shaffiq n family before heading down to Jacob Ballas Children Garden at Bukit Timah Road. We got a shock to find the tree house was built beside a bayan tree. That night, Danish gave us a fright by sleepwalking into our room at midnight. He couldn't remember about it when asked the next morning. Previously, he used to cry in fright with his big eyes popping out...later describing who made him like that!!! Scary!

Sofea is one happy baby to be carried around town either in the mummy sling or the most heaviest pram I ever bought. She getting heavy everyday plus the cheeks are so tempting to get several squeeze from me!!! Need to get new clothes for her soon!

Muhammad received a letter stating that he will receive a $100 voucher for his Good Progress Award. Good for him!! At last, he is getting something for his effort. Every year, the boys will receive letters for Edusave Merit Award but because of Abah's salary, they did not qualify to receive. We just get to frame the letters only.

MEOW
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/Monday, December 10, 2007/

/Today's events/

We woke up early for breakfast and also to bathe Sofea for the 1st time. Normally Mak will come over in the morning to bathe her but since I'm much better plus Sofea is no longer the 'lembek' baby, I persevered to give it a try. While I held her, Abah cleansed the body with warm water. When finished, both of us realised that we forgot to wash her face!!! Ha ha...

We sent Muhammad to Punggol MRT at 11 am since today he started his GenY camp at Punggol Point. The turnout of children were more than last year's. Muhammad seemed nervous because he kept fidgetting with his bag almost 10 times. Mak said he's definitely nervous!

Danish also went camping starting today...where else...Mak's house! He was excited since can play PS2 with Hafiz. So left the 2 girls with us at home for the next 2 days.

MEOW
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/Friday, December 07, 2007/

/Cik Ad in the NEWS!!/

Eversince the interview last week, Fuad had been asking if we read the article in the newspaper or not. Finally its out! Yesterday it appeared in Mind Your Body but they spelt his name, Ahmad Fouad!!! Today when mykidz saw the pic, Danish asked..."Why Cik Ad bake???"

Cranberry Brownie was part of his final year project. So many samples were brought home but lucky person to taste them was AYU! Cik Ad looked good like one Thai Actor according to my friend.

MEOW
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/Thursday, December 06, 2007/

/Sofea - 1 month 7 days/

Today lil Sofea is 1 month and 7 days. She received a visit from Uncle Mamat, Abah's brother from Taman Jurong earlier today before heading down to Dr Balkis's clinic at 3 pm. Dr Balkis gave her the Hep B jab and also performed the circumcision. We were all surprised that Sofea weighed 4.2 kg. Its no wonder all of us have backache and hand ache when carrying her around. She's more alert of her surrounding...loves looking at all of us..can recognise voices and faces (i think)...starts to smile and cooing.

MEOW
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/Tuesday, December 04, 2007/

/Jinbara/

Teringat 3x singing this song durin our past k-ok session!

MEOW
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/Rediscovering Bottle Neck Tree Farm/

We decided to head down to the Bottle Neck Tree Farm at Lentor this morning after the kidz finished their work. They packed their change of clothes plus seedless grapes. The kidz did their fishing while me n Abah tried our hand at prawning. No prawns ate our bait so tough luck cannot eat bbq prawns. Sofea slept peacefully since its quite cool and windy. This december, we wanted to revisit those fave places for the last time before we made our big MOVE in Jan.

MEOW
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