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The following dialogue happened on the way to kindie this morning: -
Papa- “Dina- here’s the card.” as Papa passed her the gate access card to swipe at the exit.
Alisha- “Papa ni… asyik suruh orang buat je!”
Papa- “Mestilah. Papa kan Boss.”
Alisha- “Tapi selalukan Boss duduk kat belakang, bukan drive kat depan!”
Badabam! (Cue canned laughter)
Translation-
Alisha- “Papa… you keep on asking people to do that!”
Papa- “Of course! I’m the Boss.”
Alisha- “But, Bosses usually sit at the back, not driving up front!”
Here’s the sequel to Attack Of The Shark- its’s entitled Hungry Shark and is directed by Emily.
Papa likes the bit at the end myself… enjoys!
Must be the Oscar bug, but it seems Haris is even now making more movies. And even Mama is trying to get into the act by insisting that she should be credited as Executive Producer! Haha…
Whatever it is, Papa feels he shouldn’t yet quit his day job!
July 2010
July whizzed by so fast. It’s the in between the birthday months, and also we were fast approaching the fasting month. Papa remembered clearly one day driving Alisha and Dina to Kindie, they were giggling like mad little girls (they were little girls after all). When Papa looked around at a red light, imagine my surprise when I saw what they did. She could even be so proud as to “present” her work to Papa. The tool for this “art piece”? A simple eraser. Sigh…
August 2010
August saw Em and Haris turning 10 and 8, respectively. However, this year, the celebrations were muted as the dates fell within Ramadhan. In Haris’ case, the 1st day of Ramadhan. Papa couldn’t be around that night, as he had to be on duty for an event in Times Square. The very first birthday that Papa missed. Hopefully also the very last. We never actually managed to have a proper celebration for their birthdays at all that year
September 2010
Raya Aidil Fitri! Yeaaa!!! After a month long of fasting. Em and Haris nearly did the whole stretch… well done. As is tradition, the Kiddie Crew went to perform the Eid Prayers in the morning. This year we went to Masjid Wilayah. After the prayers and the sermon, we went home before going celebrating at the Grandparents places.
April 2010
April saw Alisha’s Sports Day- her first ever (if I recall correctly). For the first time , Papa attended an indoor sports day- in their school hall. It was fun as all the kids got prizes irrespective of who won- of course the actual winner got a bigger prize. They had events that involved the parents as well, so that was cool. Before it ended everyone got up and did that “dadadada” song- Haha- Can’t remember the title. You know the one that you have to mime with your hands the duck, chicken and something or other? No? Well… it was fun in any case.
As we were going to BSC quite a lot for blading, Aunty Mel decided to give the kiddies a present of their own personal rollerblades. Aunty Mel had bought hers earlier from Skateline, and so brought the kids there for their fitment one day. Only little Lisha didn’t get one as she was too tiny still Thanks Aunty Mel for saving Papa from having to buy them himself
May 2010
May was pretty quite. The breakfast sessions continued of course save for those days that we ran late or Alisha didn’t feel like having any. The baby fishies also started dwindling in numbers as they grew fast and moved on to the big pond. We had a session at the Kindie for a parents-teacher review of the kids progress. Papa remembered Mama asking if Alisha was fitting in well and behaving, as she can be a bit bossy. The reply was classic- “They’re all bossy here!” It turns out that most of the kids were either the eldest or youngest, so were used to getting their way. Fortunately, it seems bossies cancels out bossies… haha.
Papa also gave Haris a special present for his very good placement in the school’s exams. It also served as an incentive for the others to strive well. He got the Prime box set made up of Optimus and Jetfire. Yes… Transformers robots. He was a bit looking forward to the Decepticon Devastator set, but they ran out of stock of the big set and only had the small plastic models; as such it was the big badass Prime set. Mama did ask who actually the toy was for. Does the question need to be asked?
June 2010
June also saw us making a trip down south to Singapore- one of many for the year. This time it was also for Universal Studios. It was real fun for the kiddies even though it was very hot. Alisha surprised us by agreeing to ride on several rollercoaster rides- one in JP and the other in Far Far Away. The latter she did on her own without Papa or Mama, just with her siblings and cousins. Too bad the Battlestar Galactica ride was still non-operational (edit- read they recently opened), so I guess it’s worth another trip later?
Alisha celebrated her 5th birthday that June too. We had a combined party with Shafiq over at his place. Don’t they grow up fast?
