Amirah's last day of school at Taska

26th August 2011 (Friday) - this day commemorates the last day of Amirah's school at Taska... Mama terasa sedih pulak sket sket... apa tah lagi Amirah, tuan empunyer badan. i'm sure she will miss her Taska, her teachers and especially her friends. Aisyah Ram, Dina, Echa, Elly, Amani, Nurul, etc. Well, Amirah will turn 5 next year. She needs to have better education. Current taska only provides babysitting and nursery, that's the disadvantage of it. Otherwise, it is a perfect place and heaven for kids. Besides that, Taska won't accept her little sister, Fina due to overload of kids. Fina has been in the waiting list since she was born and now, she's almost 2 yrs old. So, we had decided to keep the sisters together by sending them to other place after Raya holiday. Its going to be a totally different world for Amirah and Fina. Truthfully, Mama is a bit worry about that. For Amirah, she needs to cope with new friends and adapt with the new environment, now with books and syllabus. She will be taught in English, plus bahasa, mandarin n jawi classes. For Fina, she definitely need to adapt with the new enviroment, but i guess she will be better in adapting herself as she's still young and she never have any experience in taska before cause our maid is currently taking care of her at home.

Mama gave the teacher a camera that day to take some pictures of Amirah and her friends. The pictures turned up well, except there were no teachers in any of the pics. So, mama gave the teacher the camera again today so that amirah could have some memories of her teachers as well.

Mama still remember that these are Amirah's friends that she used to talk about everyday, each time she came back from school. One of her best friends is Aisyah Ram (her pronunciation: Asharam). lately mama just found out that Aisyah Ram is the daughter of one of mama's seniors back in the University of Minnesota. Her dad is Ramzanul Borhan. Well, he got married with Baheeyah, also a senior in CMU and Aisyah is their first daughter whom they send to the same taska. According to teacher, both Amirah and Aisyah cannot be separated and they are really best friends. Aisyah is a year younger than Amirah. Well,its kind of sad that we have to separate them with the new school, knowing that Amirah now has a best friend and know how to treat her friends well.

Besides Aisyah Ram, there are also Dina and Elly. Heard that Dina and Elly are also good friends of Amirah and Aisyah but perhaps not as good as Aisyah. Almost everyday when Amirah got back from school, she will kept reporting to mama that Dina or Elly hit her or hit Aisyah Ram. well, you know how kids sometimes exaggerate things. Mama layan aje... besides that, there are also stories from Amirah of kids who are naughty will be put in the babycot. Well, i'm not sure how true it is but that's how a kid interprets things via seeing and observing.

Well, Mama hopes Amirah has a great time today with her friends on her last day of school at the taska. Mama also asked her to 'salam' all her friends today, in conjunction of her last day of school and hari raya. Today is also mama's last day at work before 2 weeks hari raya holidays.

After 2 weeks, Amirah and Fina will be going to their school together in which Amirah called the school, "School Red". Btw, Amirah call her taska as "School Orange". This is because she likes to color coded things around her.

Have a great day, darling! Mama, Papa n Adik love u so much.

Some memories with her friends in Taska:

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Amirah - 3 Years 9 months

She's approximately 3 Years and 9 months now! she's getting matured and more talkative now. She cant stop talking especially when Mama is around. penat nak melayan... She will persuade you until you respond to her loudly. you need to clearly agree or disagree with her or else she will keep calling your name...

well, that's Amirah! still, she's a very caring and loving daughter. That is why Fina likes to messing with her big sister. As Fina likes to follow and imitate what Amirah is doing, Amirah is like an idol to her. That will make Amirah as an easy target to get scolded if she or Fina did sth not right.

Well, we signed up Amirah for a ballet class once a week on Saturday. this is because we noticed that Amirah likes dancing so much. Every time she watches Disney or Barbie movies, she will dance along with the princess or barbies in the movies. well, so far so good. sometimes, she felt reluctant to go as she didnt want to take her bath, or sth like that. As Fina is still small, we cant sign her up for the ballet class yet. But every time if she follow us to send Amirah to her dancing class, she will wait patiently while watching her big sister's every single moves. she looks interested as well.

We planned to transfer Amirah to a new school in September. Fina will be going there as well. We noticed that Amirah's current school does not teach the children on how to read, and so on cause it is just a nursery. so, most of the time, Amirah and her friends will watch the tv or movies in the nursery besides some simple games or light education. i pity her as most of her same age friends had started to attend the smart reader, or other similar school except her. so, she tend to mingle and be friends with the kids who are younger than her. with the new school, it will be more discipline and more structured education for her and her little sister. She was quite excited to see the place and the facilities when we brought her to see the new school yesterday plus knowing that Fina will be attending together with her, that made her more excited. But i think she didnt realize that she would leave her current school and her current friends. She will no longer see her friends and teachers in the current school. i bet she will miss her friends especially Asharam, Dina, Eka, Elly, etc, some of her friends which she usually mentioned at home. it will be a totally new world for her with the new school and new friends. Hopefully she can cope and ok with it. I'm quite worried when thinking about that. i myself will not liked it if i were in her shoes. well, hope for the best and that she takes it positively.

Next, her new passion is no longer Princess Aurora of Sleeping Beauty. i hope she's still okay with Barbie as Barbie will be her birthday theme this year. last year's was Disney Princess where she became Princess Aurora while Fina became Princess Cinderella. a few days ago, she mentioned to Mama that she no longer wanted to be like Princess Aurora. She prefers Ariel, the Mermaid now. She also requested to me on getting her some Tinkerbell's stuffs. gosh! please Amirah, please like Barbie still. crossed fingers.

Mama aka I bought Amirah Disney movies songs CD to listen in the car. Apparently, she likes the songs so much that everytime we are in the car, she will forced us to listen and sing along with her. She will force us to sing the duets with her especially Beauty n the Beast and A Whole New World (Aladdin), where Mama can only sing the lady's part while Papa can only sing the guy's part. Unlike us, she can sings without limitation. Other songs that she loves to sing are The Circle of Life (Lion King), Hakuna Matata (lion King), Part of Your World (little Mermaid), Happy Working Song (Enchanted), etc...

Her other passion currently is also make up... She will get mama's make up and put on her own.. not bad, really. after that, she would also make up Fina as well as Papa! she also likes it when we put inai on her finger. She loves it to see colors on her finger... sometimes she would take some nice colored marker and color her fingers instead! last weekend (24th July 2011), we took Amirah for her first Pedicure. That was after she colored her nails with a blue marker and it wont come off even after we tried to washed it. At last, we decided to try pedicure instead. I bet she enjoyed her 1st pedicure session very much. Papa also tried it for the first time... Fina just watched although she really looked interested and would like to join as well... next time, dear... huhuhu

Lately, she also seems to like Lion King as well. She cant stop watching the movies, listening to the songs from the movie, plus mama n papa also brought home some plush of Simba and Nala for Amirah and Fina from London. Well, of course Amirah took Nala while Fina took Simba. They really excited to see the plush when mama handed to them at the airport as soon as mama n papa arrived from London. we got those from Disney Store in Oxford Street, London. Luckily, there were only 1 Nala and 1 Simba left at the store, so Mama quickly grabbed them for the 2 adorable daughters.

A few days ago, I explained to her about ramadhan month where everybody will be fasting, then comes eid month... she looks interested and would like to try fasting as well... i doubt but since she looked really interested, i will give her a try...

last night, Amirah had a fever. So, she skipped her school today.She must be gotten from Fina since Fina just recovered from the same sickness as well. and Fina got that from me... i started the sickness in the family this time. So, because everybody seemed not feeling that well, we decided not to go back to Perlis or Penang for awal ramadhan. We will just go to kajang to celebrate Pak Ngah's pre-birthday celebration. I had also requested Papa to eat up at Restaurant Stadium Negara as i'm craving for the nice chillies crab and fried bun there... slurrppp...

ok, till then, here are some updated pics of Amirah:-


before going to see Disney on Ice 2011



At Rania's Ariel themed birthday party


At Auntie Rina's Wedding


Amirah n Fina with Cheongsam attires

London 2011

Dear Amirah,

Papa kena gi outstation for 5 days. This time to London. After did some thinking and consulted some people, mama decided to take my annual leaves and ikut Papa. the reasons being were because it will be just a short trip, mama can do quick shopping while papa is working :), free accommodation and the best part, also free airline tix. Yup, free airline ticket sbb Papa boleh redeem Papa punyer Enrich points yg byk tuh. So, boleh dpt return ticket from KLIA to Heathrow for mama. Mama just bayar tax jer. So, overall for the 5 days trip to London, Mama just paid about RM1,800 aje.. so, sgt berbaloi kan?

But the down side was, we can't bring both of u along. lagi pon, takut Amirah n Fina kena jet lag lagi, and Mama can't afford to bring both of u jalan2 sebab Papa pergi kerja time tu.. takkan kita nak duduk kat hotel saja kan? plus full price airline tickets for both of you, dekat RM4000 sorang = RM8000. so, apa yang Papa n Mama buat, we called back up from Perlis.. we decided to minta tlg Mak Tuk, Tuk Ayah, Si Ti and Si Di jagakan Amirah n Fina kat Kajang.

Well, overall for Mama, the London trip was a shopping trip.. boleh dikatakan mcm shopping raya laa kot... anyway, plan asal takde laa nak beli byk sgt pon, however we ended up borong sakan pulak... From 2 luggage of about 25 kgs total, we brought home 3 luggage (addition of 1 big luggage) with total of 60 kgs. Some major items yang Mama n Papa bought were of course toys and plush (Simba n Nala) from Disney Store; sgt banyak baju, seluar n kids clothing from Primark; Samsonite luggage from Bicester Village; shirts papa yang sgt byk; one top from Burberry; Handbag from Gucci; jerseys and sports related from Lillywhites, 2 dresses from Zara, etc.

We stayed at Marriot Hotel, Marble Arch. Short walking to Oxford St. Papa was only available on Saturday and Sunday. So, we spent our time shopping for both of the days. We also went to Notting Hill on Sunday afternoon tu. On Monday n Tuesday, Papa kena work. So, mama kena jln sorang2 or jalan ngan wife boss Papa, Michelle. On Monday, mama jln2 kat Oxford Street lagi, before going to Hard Rock Shop and lunch kat Hard Rock Cafe dengan Auntie Michelle. Malam, mama ngan Auntie pergi tgok musical show, Mamma Mia kat Prince of Wales Theater. The show was really fantastic. Sgt2 best. I'm sure both of you will also enjoy it. At the end of the show, they would sang all the hit songs again and danced together.. even some of us pon would stand up and danced along. Nanti dah besar, i will bring both of u to see such shows ya.. We were lucky that with only 62.50 pounds, we could get box punyer seating, macam VVIP pulak.. even the seatings located below cost about the same, yg penting kena pandai cari booth yg jual seat murah.

On the last day (Tuesday), mama jalan sorang2. Mama decided to take a hop on hop off bus tour from the Original Bus Tour. Last 2 years during winter, we took the Big Bus Tour. Mama stopped at some main landmarks of London and took some pics before ended up taking a short tour to the Tower of London.. i only found out that the Tower of London was also the same place that they used to shoot Harry Potter. Finally i ended up to make a quick stop at Disney Store, to grab those lovely Nala and Simba for both of u. Our flight back to Malaysia was later that night. We arrived the next evening.

Amirah dengan Adik ikut sekali ambik mama n papa kat airport on Wednesday tu.. amirah ngan fina dtg ngan Si Di, Tok Ayah n Mak Tok. Amirah tido dlm kereta. Fina duduk dgn Mak Tok. Fina excited sgt bila nampak papa n mama... kejap nak ke depan, kejap nak ke belakang. As for Amirah, bila nampak mama pegang Nala, Amirah pon bangun.. Mama bg Simba dekat adik... Mama n Papa really missed both of you when we were in London.

For both of u, these are some of the pics that Mama n Papa took in London. We Love both of You.

4th of July, Birthday's Mama n Zoo Negara

Its 4th of July and its Mama's birthday. We took a day off just to spend our time together. First we took our beloved yellow RG 7111 car to the workshop in Ampang to change the windscreen. Well, the car got a crack on the windscreen quite sometime ago. But we couldn't hold any longer. so, we decided to ahead to Ampang instead.

While waiting for the car, we had a birthday lunch at Restoran Ikan Bakar Sekinchan. We went to the restaurant in Kota Damansara before and it turned out not that good. But this time, it was far better than our previous experience. We ordered ikan siakap n cencaru bakar with other side dishes. we took our own sweet time there as it would take 2 hours for the car to be ready. Then, we decided to walk to the workshop. On our way there, we stopped by Manjaku store. Mama decided to get some of the things, while Papa called the workshop's owner to fetch us at Manjaku instead.

Well, the car was ready. Then, we suddenly decided to go to Zoo Negara. Amirah n Fina were really excited that we were going to see animals in the zoo. They really had a great time, watching the shows, particularly parrots and the sea lions, walking and running around as well as taking the tram. Some animals that attracted them that day were the hippos, giraffes, elephants, lions, tigers, fish, penguins, cows, ponies, monkeys, etc.

After that, we decided to relax a bit and enjoyed some ice creams. yummy. well, fina n amirah slept during our way back to Kota Damansara. We really had a blast day, filled with unplanned activities. Quite awesome really, when we just decided on activities adhoc instead of planning them earlier.

Since the zoo visits, kakak Amirah kept talking about the zoos and the animals that we saw over there. She also mentioned on the animals at the night safari and the aquarium that we saw back in Singapore.

As for Fina, a zoo visit sure improved her vocabs on the animals. Now, she even knows how to sound like the animals that she saw in the zoo. And of course, Fina enjoyed more at the zoo as she was braver than her big sister. :)