Upacara Mandi Minyak (PSSGM)

My big sisters and I before the Upacara Mandi Minyak.

On the 5th of December, I took part in Upacara Mandi Minyak (Oil Bath Ceremony) at Masjid Taman Kosas, Ampang organised by Pertubuhan Silat Seni Gayong Malaysia (PSSGM).

It took long hours to cook coconut milk in huge woks before the milk turned into coconut oil for the oil bath ceremony.

Soon after the coconut oil was ready, the ceremony started.

We read a few verses from the Quran before dipping our hands into the hot oil and spread the oil all over our body.

Amazingly, the oil was not too hot even though it was just ready but we have to be very careful not to touch the very hot wok.

Silat is a type of Malay martial art.

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My silat instructor, Ustaz Wan Erman was reminding me (fifth from left) of what to do so that I won’t hurt myself.

Ustaz Wan was helping me to make sure that my body’ll not touch the very hot wok.

My silat instructor was helping me to oil my body.

I oiled my neck.

I spread the oil all over my body.

I (fourth from left) was dipping my hands into the hot oil.

After my first oil bath.

My 8th Birthday

My mother also gave me a stamp booklet of Keretapi Tanah Melayu train stamps.

Today is my birthday.

I am very happy to be 8!

Aunty Selina sent me a cute E-Card from Maryland, USA and I also get E-Cards from Kaman and Kashah.

I also received 5 birthday cards.

I get Abang Muhammad’s card and birthday present from Chicago this morning because Kafah forgot to collect the mail yesterday 🙂

All together I get about 35 birthday presents and 249 pieces of stamps.

 

Some of my birthday presents.

 

I am very happy because I get a stamp album and 132 beautiful stamps to start my stamp collection from my mother.

Abang Muhammad sent me 34 USA mint stamps, 15 other stamps were from Pak Cik Amin, about 6 stamps from Kaman and a stamp from Kashah.

 

I am looking at the stamps in the stamps album that my mother gave me.

 

Kaman also gave me a Malaysian mint stamp.

I also get a ‘Maisto’ Assembly Line Enzo Ferrari from my father!

 

My yellow Enzo Ferrari

 

I can assemble the beautiful yellow Ferrari myself because it is mine 🙂

I also get 2 ‘Hotwheels’ cars and a DIY metal plane from my sisters.

 

The DIY metal plane from Kaman.

 

Other presents are 3 sheets of colourful stickers, lots of nice books, a set of colouful pens and lots of other wonderful things.

And I also started my silat class today 🙂

We had a tasty Domino’s pizza birthday dinner and my mother promised me a belated birthday cake.

I hope to get more stamps for my collection

My best birthday present!

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.

Uncle Zih, Aunty Mah and Zunayra.

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

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.

I Lost My First Baby Tooth

On Sunday morning, 20th December 2009 I lost my first baby tooth.

Baby teeth are our first set of teeth.

We can also call them milk teeth.

When we grow up we’ll be having new teeth.

They are called permanent teeth.

This is how I lost my baby teeth:

In the morning we went to a farmer’s market and we bought some ‘keropok lekor’.

I ate ‘keropok lekor’ on the way home and when I was taking the last bite I saw my baby tooth on it!

I was surprised!

Fortunately I did not eat it together with the keropok.

I showed my mother my baby tooth.

My mother cleaned the tooth and keep it in a safe place.

Later when my big sisters came back home from their silat class I told them that I lost my tooth.

I am so happy that I had lost my first baby tooth.

Now I have another small permanent tooth and I think I’m going to loose another baby tooth soon 🙂

More Eid Open Houses In KL

Last weekend I went to a lot of open houses.

First I went to Uncle Amrahi’s house in Keramat.

I ate nasi beriani, water melon and grapes.

I love the water melon and grapes.

Uncle Amrahi is good in silat Cekak Hanafi.

With Uncle Rameli Musa

I also went to Uncle Datuk Rameli Musa’s house.

Uncle Datuk Rameli Musa lives in Kota Damansara.

His house has a swimming pool.

There I met my Hadith teacher, Ustaz Raof.

I met a lot of uncles who attend the Hadith (Fathul Baari) class.

I met Ami Ma, Pak Cik Ismail and Pak Cik Burhan.

I also met Uncle Dr Wahab.

With Abang Solah (Pak Cik Ismail's son)

I ate lamb, cendol and grapes.

The grapes are sweet and I like the cendol too.

Next I went to two more open houses in Batu Caves.

One was by Chinese Muslim(MACMA) and the other was Abah’s friend – Pak

At Uncle Zainal's house

Cik Bahrin.

After that I went to our neighbour Uncle Zainal’s house.

There I met Kak Dayah, Lili and Mimi.

I ate sweet water melon.

At night I went to Seri Maya to fetch atuk and nenek.

Then we went to Atuk Datuk Yahya’s house.

He lives in Bandar Utama.

I ate laksa Johor, satay, nasi beriani and some cakes.

The foods are very tasty.

When I go to open houses, I like to eat fruits.

Fruits are healthy food and they are tasty too.