B-day boy & mama
Happy b-day adik!
We bought the presents yesterday. Mama got some voucher from Sogo and as always, we'd spend it for the babies mainly (if not totally)...spent half of the voucher amount for presents - theirs and Abang Waiz's (who shares the same b-day with Naufal!)...and kena bagi Abang Aizat jugak if not sure jealous one lehh!
The kids love the presents....and we love them more than ever!
Spent the day at The Souq and Alamanda....closing the outing with a late lunch at Tepian Cafe in the Archipelago Boutique (betul ke tu?).
Alisya @ Tepian cafe
They serve good food there, not much choice on the menu but the food is really really good. Price wise, it's not expensive at all but the drinks are a bit on the high side lah. The environment is very relaxing. We love it. If they deliver consistently, it's gonna be our fav place in Alamanda.
B-day boy already tired!
Talking about spending time with family, I picked this one from my old blog, no editing done. No kids at that time. Just married. Read on....maybe we can learn something.
Colors....what's your choice?
THE FAMILY AT R&R SEREMBAN SOUTHBOUND
This happened a few years back before I went for Hajj.
I was on the way back to Segamat with my wife Siti Hajar. We stopped at the R&R of Seremban (Southbound) for supper.
While waiting for our foods, I noticed a family – a mother, a father and a daughter (8-9 years of age perhaps) – was having a decent helping of food.
The family is obviously poor, judging by their clothings. The meal they were having are being paid by somebody else, somehow I overheard.
The thing that captured my attention was how happy they were. Although the hardship of living a decent life was pretty clear on the face of the father, he kept smiling and talking softly & sweetly to the daughter.
The father even declined to have other food, because he was just enjoying a loaf of bread with his mug of hot milo.
I learnt something quickly from them…..
Being happy is the main thing that you should do with your family, no matter what is happening around you.
A poor father, sacrificing his needs of having delicious food and opted for a loaf of bread as long as the family members are having better food than him. Really back to the basic, which is something that we often neglected, or take for granted.
And what have we been up to?
Complaining about some not so delicious food at a 5-Star hotel function, paid by the company, whereby some people have to work really hard to have a simple breakfast for the whole family.
Well, some of us tend to have the mind set that it is enough for us to give away some amount of our income for the needy, we have done enough for them.
Perhaps it is not fair to stereo-type these kind of people as heartless….well at least they do contribute some of their income to the needy‚….at least‚….
Till when do we want to dwell in the ‚“at least” territory?!!!
This happened a few years back before I went for Hajj.
I was on the way back to Segamat with my wife Siti Hajar. We stopped at the R&R of Seremban (Southbound) for supper.
While waiting for our foods, I noticed a family – a mother, a father and a daughter (8-9 years of age perhaps) – was having a decent helping of food.
The family is obviously poor, judging by their clothings. The meal they were having are being paid by somebody else, somehow I overheard.
The thing that captured my attention was how happy they were. Although the hardship of living a decent life was pretty clear on the face of the father, he kept smiling and talking softly & sweetly to the daughter.
The father even declined to have other food, because he was just enjoying a loaf of bread with his mug of hot milo.
I learnt something quickly from them…..
Being happy is the main thing that you should do with your family, no matter what is happening around you.
A poor father, sacrificing his needs of having delicious food and opted for a loaf of bread as long as the family members are having better food than him. Really back to the basic, which is something that we often neglected, or take for granted.
And what have we been up to?
Complaining about some not so delicious food at a 5-Star hotel function, paid by the company, whereby some people have to work really hard to have a simple breakfast for the whole family.
Well, some of us tend to have the mind set that it is enough for us to give away some amount of our income for the needy, we have done enough for them.
Perhaps it is not fair to stereo-type these kind of people as heartless….well at least they do contribute some of their income to the needy‚….at least‚….
Till when do we want to dwell in the ‚“at least” territory?!!!
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