A Surprise Durian Party

On Sunday, July 17, 2011 we had a wonderful durian party at Dato’ Haji Ahmad Badawi Hall, in Butterworth, Penang.

The party started after the seminar(SEMAIAN) that we attended at the hall.

We were going back to the hotel when the uncles from ‘GABUNGAN’ brought us a very big bag of durians.

They said the durians were from orchards in Balik Pulau where the best durians from Penang come from.

The durians were very sweet and tasty.

We had the party outside the seminar room, facing a nice green field, full of pigeons.

It was the best durian party that I ever had

To eat the durians, we must first open the fruits 🙂

Meeting Uncle Adnan Othman

Last Sunday I went to Uncle Adnan Othman‘s house for breakfast.

Uncle Adnan is from Terengganu and in ‘Trengganuspeak’, his name is Adnang Othmang.

Uncle Adnan Othman was a very popular singer in the 1960s.

He used to sing with a band named ‘The Rhythm Boys‘.

After that, he worked for Bata Shoes as a shoe designer.

Bata Shoes sent him to London for a shoe making course.

And one of his classmate was the famous shoe maker, Datuk Jimmy Choo.

Now Uncle Adnan do not design shoes anymore.

He is now an artist.

I went to his art gallery and saw so many beautiful paintings.

He draws boats in Terengganu rivers, waterfalls and flowers.

Uncle Adnan also has lots of guitars and he let me play his guitars.

Then my big sister Kaman sang a Cuban song, ‘Guantanamera’ while Uncle Adnan Othman played the guitar.

We also listened to his old songs from his LPs and EPs on his record player.

LP means ‘long-playing’ and EP means ‘extended play’ record album.

That was the first time I listen to songs from a record player!

I really enjoyed meeting Uncle Adnan and he gave us lots of story books.

You can view Uncle Adnan’s paintings at his blog: adnanbinothman.wordpress.com

Rambutan Picking

I was in Terengganu for the last two weeks for Eid holidays.

Kuala Terengganu is my parent’s hometown.

On the second day of Eid we visited Tok Teh.

Tok Teh is my grand aunty.

I called my grand uncle Tok Teh too.

It is very sad that he had passed away.

There were a lot of red, ripe rambutans on the rambutan trees at Tok Teh’s house.

So, a few days later we visited Tok Teh’s house again for a rambutan picking.

Rambutan is a type of a fruit with hair on its skin.

‘Rambut’ is hair in Malay language.

My big sister Kaman used a pole (galah) to pluck the rambutans.

My other sisters and I ran to collect to rambutans.

It was like a ‘rambutan rain’ 🙂

It was really fun.

This is the first time I went rambutan picking.

It was as fun as apple picking.

Later we ate the fruits.

They were very, very sweet.

A Penang Prawn Noodle Lunch

I went to Penang last May.

Over there, I had ‘Penang Prawn Noodle’ for lunch.

In Malay, ‘Penang Prawn Noodle’ is ‘Mee Udang Pulau Pinang‘.

We had our lunch at a restaurant in Sungai Dua, Penang.

There is a big paddy field across the restaurant.

When I reached there it was very hot.

Then it became cooler because it was raining.

I think the noodle was too hot but my parents said it was tasty 🙂

There were lots of prawns in the noodle.

My sisters ate fried kuey teow.

My sisters said the fried kuey teow was very delicious.

We drank cold ‘Lai Chee Kang‘; a drink with ice, jelly and lots of other things.

I think the food at the restaurant was delicious but too hot and the place is very hot if it is not raining.

A Wedding Reception In Putrajaya

Welcome to Kak Tasneem's wedding.

Kak Tasneem and Abang Fathi.

On Sunday July 11, 2010 there was a wedding reception in Putrajaya .

The bride was Kak Tasneem and the groom was Abang Fathi.

Kak Tasneem is Uncle Nasir Zihni and Aunty Mah’s eldest daughter.

The hall was beautiful and full of fresh blue chrysanthemums and white roses.

I met Ami Ma, Ustaz Ismail Mina, Pak Cik Burhan, Ustaz Luqman, Uncle Datuk Dr. Sidek Baba, Aunty Dr. Norlida and a lot of my father’s other good friends.

I ate rice with tasty chicken and mutton.

We were there for about 5 hours and I took lots of photos 🙂

Pak Cik Burhan and Ami Ma.

Kaman and my father

Kafah

Silat performance

I met Uncle Datuk Dr. Sidek Baba

I was busy snapping photos at the reception.

Kashah and me.

Mama and Kaman.

(: Happy Birthday Kaman :)

There was something special happening on 13th March.

It was Kaman’s 15th birthday!

Kaman got 15 presents.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY KAMAN

I love Kaman very much 🙂

Our Nasheed Performance On You Tube-Part 2

This is the second song we sang during our nasheed performance at the Masjid Sultan Salehuddin Abdul Aziz Shah, Shah Alam.

Our first song was ‘Khalifah Of Allah’.

Our third song was ‘Alhamdulillah’ and then we sang ‘Khalifah Of Allah’ song again.

Anyway it is noisy because of the sound of the blower of the “air stage’.

The stage’s roof needs the blower to blow in air because it is like a big, big balloon.

My father promised me to try to upload a better video with a better sound and a better quality picture soon.

The name of this song is ‘Animals Love to Hear Quran’.

Please click here to watch the ‘Our Nasheed Performance On You Tube-Part 1‘.

I’ll post the third part of the performance video soon.

I love to perform on stage 🙂

By the way, I made the sound of a bird at the end of the song.

Our Nasheed Performance On You Tube-Part 1

This afternoon my father uploaded a part of our nasheed performance at the Masjid Sultan Salehuddin Abdul Aziz Shah, Shah Alam on the You Tube.

Anyway it is noisy because of the sound of the blower of the “air stage’.

The stage’s roof needs the blower to blow in air because it is like a big, big balloon.

My father promised me to try to upload a better video soon with a better sound and a better quality picture soon.

The name of this song is ‘Khalifah of Allah’.

Please click here to watch our ‘Our Nasheed Performance On You Tube-Part 2’.

You Tube Logo In A Star

Performing Nasheed At Shah Alam

Yesterday my sisters and I performed nasheed at the Maal Hijrah 1431 Carnival in Shah Alam.

First we sang the ‘Khalifah Song’.

Second we sang ‘Animals Love To Hear Quran’.

Third we sang ‘Alhamdulillah’.

And last we sang the ‘Khalifah Song’ again.

“Animals Love To Hear Quran’ and ‘Alhamdulillah’ were written by Dawud Wharnsby Ali.

It was raining very heavily and we have to wait for the lightnings to stop before going on stage.

It was fun to perform on stage.

The carnival was organised by the Jabatan Agama Islam Selangor(JAIS) together with MUAFAKAT (my father’s NGO).

It was held at the Masjid Sultan Salahuddin Abdul Aziz Shah or Sultan Salahuddin Abdul Aziz Shah Mosque in Shah Alam.

Shah Alam is the capital of Selangor.

I hope that there will be more chances for us to perform next time 🙂

My father will upload the performance on the YouTube soon.

A Moment With English – Enjoying English

On 3 /5 / 09 I took part in a program at Sekolah Kebangsaan Padang Hiliran (SKPH).

The name of the program was A Moment With English – Enjoying English

The program started at 9:00 AM and ended at 11.20 AM.

skph-audience

I read an article from my blog entitled the Swine Flu.

My big sister Kaman gave a speech about “The Creation Of Universe”.

Kaman also did a book reading.

She read ‘Budu Spell’ from a book ‘Growing Up In Terengganu’ by Awang Goneng.

My big sister Kashah did a story telling about a girl named Jannah.

My big sister Kafah sang a song about butterfly.

We sang two songs.

First was the ‘Khalifah Song’ and the next song was ‘Guantanamera‘.

The ‘Khalifah Song’ is an English song.

‘Guantanamera’ is a patriotic Spanish song from Cuba.

After the program we ate fried noodle keropok lekor.

The keropok lekor was tasty but the noodle was too spicy.

I met a lot of kakak and abang in SKPH and a lot of teachers too for example the Head Master and Teacher Siti.

All of them were very nice and I enjoyed visiting the school.

I am very happy because Kak Syaza and Abang Kimi wrote comments in my blog 😉

I think there will be more programs in SKPH.

I love going to SKPH!

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On Sunday, July 17, 2011 we had a wonderful durian party at Dato’ Haji Ahmad Badawi Hall, in Butterworth, Penang.

The party started after the seminar(SEMAIAN) that we attended at the hall.

We were going back to the hotel when the uncles from ‘GABUNGAN’ brought us a very big bag of durians.

They said the durians were from orchards in Balik Pulau where the best durians from Penang come from.

The durians were very sweet and tasty.

We had the party outside the seminar room, facing a nice green field, full of pigeons.

It was the best durian party that I ever had

To eat the durians, we must first open the fruits 🙂

Last Sunday I went to Uncle Adnan Othman‘s house for breakfast.

Uncle Adnan is from Terengganu and in ‘Trengganuspeak’, his name is Adnang Othmang.

Uncle Adnan Othman was a very popular singer in the 1960s.

He used to sing with a band named ‘The Rhythm Boys‘.

After that, he worked for Bata Shoes as a shoe designer.

Bata Shoes sent him to London for a shoe making course.

And one of his classmate was the famous shoe maker, Datuk Jimmy Choo.

Now Uncle Adnan do not design shoes anymore.

He is now an artist.

I went to his art gallery and saw so many beautiful paintings.

He draws boats in Terengganu rivers, waterfalls and flowers.

Uncle Adnan also has lots of guitars and he let me play his guitars.

Then my big sister Kaman sang a Cuban song, ‘Guantanamera’ while Uncle Adnan Othman played the guitar.

We also listened to his old songs from his LPs and EPs on his record player.

LP means ‘long-playing’ and EP means ‘extended play’ record album.

That was the first time I listen to songs from a record player!

I really enjoyed meeting Uncle Adnan and he gave us lots of story books.

You can view Uncle Adnan’s paintings at his blog: adnanbinothman.wordpress.com

I was in Terengganu for the last two weeks for Eid holidays.

Kuala Terengganu is my parent’s hometown.

On the second day of Eid we visited Tok Teh.

Tok Teh is my grand aunty.

I called my grand uncle Tok Teh too.

It is very sad that he had passed away.

There were a lot of red, ripe rambutans on the rambutan trees at Tok Teh’s house.

So, a few days later we visited Tok Teh’s house again for a rambutan picking.

Rambutan is a type of a fruit with hair on its skin.

‘Rambut’ is hair in Malay language.

My big sister Kaman used a pole (galah) to pluck the rambutans.

My other sisters and I ran to collect to rambutans.

It was like a ‘rambutan rain’ 🙂

It was really fun.

This is the first time I went rambutan picking.

It was as fun as apple picking.

Later we ate the fruits.

They were very, very sweet.

I went to Penang last May.

Over there, I had ‘Penang Prawn Noodle’ for lunch.

In Malay, ‘Penang Prawn Noodle’ is ‘Mee Udang Pulau Pinang‘.

We had our lunch at a restaurant in Sungai Dua, Penang.

There is a big paddy field across the restaurant.

When I reached there it was very hot.

Then it became cooler because it was raining.

I think the noodle was too hot but my parents said it was tasty 🙂

There were lots of prawns in the noodle.

My sisters ate fried kuey teow.

My sisters said the fried kuey teow was very delicious.

We drank cold ‘Lai Chee Kang‘; a drink with ice, jelly and lots of other things.

I think the food at the restaurant was delicious but too hot and the place is very hot if it is not raining.

Welcome to Kak Tasneem's wedding.

Kak Tasneem and Abang Fathi.

On Sunday July 11, 2010 there was a wedding reception in Putrajaya .

The bride was Kak Tasneem and the groom was Abang Fathi.

Kak Tasneem is Uncle Nasir Zihni and Aunty Mah’s eldest daughter.

The hall was beautiful and full of fresh blue chrysanthemums and white roses.

I met Ami Ma, Ustaz Ismail Mina, Pak Cik Burhan, Ustaz Luqman, Uncle Datuk Dr. Sidek Baba, Aunty Dr. Norlida and a lot of my father’s other good friends.

I ate rice with tasty chicken and mutton.

We were there for about 5 hours and I took lots of photos 🙂

Pak Cik Burhan and Ami Ma. Kaman and my father Kafah Silat performance I met Uncle Datuk Dr. Sidek Baba I was busy snapping photos at the reception. Kashah and me. Mama and Kaman.

There was something special happening on 13th March.

It was Kaman’s 15th birthday!

Kaman got 15 presents.

Pak Cik Burhan and Ami Ma.

Kaman and my father

Kafah

Silat performance

I met Uncle Datuk Dr. Sidek Baba

I was busy snapping photos at the reception.

Kashah and me.

Mama and Kaman.