Babu & the head of the author of SG's national anthem


TV style lama in living room style lama


Kitchen stove style lama


Babu ngalih hoho


Babu & Aunty Khalbi outside the Malay Heritage Centre
These were the swimming pools outside the apartment we stayed at


Salam

Just a short update on the above topic. A 3 day shoppoing trip to Spore with Izyan and joined Khalbi who left for Spore three days earlier. Everything was in order as planned. However, some little funny unexpected and quite worrying incidents happened to me and Izyan.

The first day was fine.... we bought kaka punya Blackberry at Far East Shopping Centre. On the second day, we decided to split groups after our trip to Vivo City, Clementi to look for abang punya tali fishing, the Malay Heritage Museum and Kampong Glam. Izyan bought a beaded handbag for babu from a little boutique at Kampong Glam. We went home from the Arab Street and later Khalbi and Nina decided not to have the evening shopping but after Asar, Izyan and myself went to Orchard road to buy more things on the list. The last shop we went to was the big book store, BORDERS.... at around 9pm, we decided to go home and because of our sore feet, we wanted to go home by a taxi... but after queing for more than half an hour... no taxi came to Wheelock place. We were already on the most front que... but still no taxi... . So that was a first incident. At the end, we menyamal and decided to jalan kaki balik to Cairnhill Crest.... It was not that far actually... just behind Paragon... So balik tah kami jalan kaki all the way from Wheelock place.... Reached home about 25 minutes later... Upon arrival... pakai kunci kan buka pintu dari luar.... BUT, a second incident happened.... we were locked out of the house... the key got jammed and neither the people inside the house could open the door from the inside.... So Mal had to call for the security staff to attend to our problem. While waiting, we did not waste time... Mal went to the veranda and had a chat with me outside her apartment's door. A few minutes later, the security staff came... tried to play around with the key and Alhamdulillah... he managed to get the door opened. Ngaleh shopping and jalan kaki... which was like naik bukit sikit to reach home... that we went straight to sleep.

On the last day, we started a bit late... like after 12 noon and we had to make sure that we must be home by 5 pm so that we could leave for the airport at 6 pm. While doing the last day shopping, we also did our GST claims from Isetan, Tangs, Forever21, Mac, Swatch and Mango. At the end we managed to collect some $63.00... he, he... dapat lagi pakai beli Burger King and Biskut Millies di airport. We went to Kinokuniya book store, Izyan was looking for some books and babu managed to read some books jua... while waiting for Izyan. Then, we had lunch at the Kartika Indonesisn Restaurant at Takashimaya. We had tauhu telur, kangkong belacan and beef rendang and rice! Izyan... no rice sharing, please.... ha, ha..... Then around 4.30 we balik, mandi, sembahyang and then panggil taxi to go to the airport. The taxi driver was quite a chatter box. All the way to the airoirt, we talked a lot on his job as a taxi driver and family. He just visited Brunei in May this year with a group of Singapore tourists and stayed ath the Empire hotel.

Upon arrival and clearance of goods for GST refund... the most climax incident happened........ We planned to go to Spore like a month ago and discussed with Khalbi on the dates o that we could go home together. So we chose the evening flight. Having done it, confidently, I believed that Izyan's and my tickets should be correct that we should be leaving Spore on 10 July, last flight. I did see my ticket befire and the return time Spore-BSB was 10.25 and arrival 12.20. When we checked in the staff at the RBA counter said that our names were not in the list... because he said that we should have been travelling in the morning flight. What??? It was like a bombshell...... but bawa bertenang......... I asked the staff if we could be rescheduled as the flight was quite vacant due to H1N1 fenomena.... he checked it was possible but with extra payment. I agreed to pay but at the end he said there was no need to pay but with one condition that there would be no meals for us during the flight. Wow... that was more than fine.... of course I agreed.

So before boarding... sempat lagi roaming di kedai dalam airport. Beli burger, biskut and we had or early dinner at Secret Recipe. Thanks to Khalbi for the dinner treat.......

Then dalam plane kena offer jua kami makan... he, he... rezeki....... but Izyan nda mau... ia kenyang... and babu punya share pun bawa balik for Afan...

So that's it... we reached home around 1 am.... and now feeling mengantuk and I am back to work today...... but will be on leave again from 16 July......

Sorry no photos.... hope Izyan will upload one or two nanti.......

To Hajal Mal and Nina ... thanks for the hospotality... inda kami jara ah.... kami amu tinggal di Cairnhill Crest lagi... he, he.....

To Khalbi... tahnks for the companion and all the shared treats............
Cheers..........


Salam every one.... Alhamdulillah the above function has taken place successfully and merrily on Friday, 3 July 2009/10 Rejab 1430. Before the actual event everybody was like nervous expecting that Aqil will be crying all the time takutkan orang ramai.... but..... unexpectedly... he was not! He was the most well behaved baby on earth!! ha, ha..... bisai sesangat anak atu... pandai jaga nama baik keluaraga-keluaraga... good mood through out the day... he enjoyed being blessed with the dzikir and selawat nabi, enjoyed the buburih paste and he had to make three rounds of salam with the guests.... coz we thought that inda payah to the men's group... sekali kena claim... but Aqil sudah salin baju and so he had to wear the casual baju with the dastar but he still looks gorgeous!! Enjoy the pics below...





Salam.........
Aqil had a little practice for his majlis dzikir and kesyukuran this Friday. So we put him in his baju songket and dastar but without the long pants and sinjang. Here is a photo of him..... that with much effort from everybody to calm him down from his manja cry... hu hu.... be prepared as there will be more cry this Friday........Enjoy........

Majlis Dzikir dan Doa Kesyukuran
Bagi Cucunda/Anakanda
Muhammad Muaz Aqil bin Muhammad Muaz Akmal

10 Rejab 1430/ 3 Julai 2009