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We are a couple blessed with three adorable children currently living a peaceful life in the serene small town of Changlun. Committed to making each other and all the people around us happy, we just want to lead a simple life that conforms to the Islamic values and teachings.

Sunday, April 20, 2008

Songs in Minang Dialect

There I go again.. I was suppose to finish my statement of purpose writing for my Mississippi State University PhD application, but I ended up surfing the net looking at youtube website. First, I accidentally listened to a dikir barat song from the tv ads and without knowing I ended up looking for songs in other dialects such as Minang.



Hope you enjoy it as much as I do!


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Thursday, April 10, 2008

Helping Out With The Chores (Shirt Folding)

I wish I have more time to spend with my wife, and one of the occasions I would imagine is the shirt folding chores since we have tonnes and tonnes of laundry done every day. However, we have hired a domestic helper from Indonesia to spruce things up around. But if we can have somebody like the one in the video folding shirt, she would spend less time with the linen!!


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Wednesday, April 9, 2008

The Playful Mawaddah

What can I say about her? No matter what I say, what I do, wherever I go she will always be on my mind. Regardless of how she behaves, how nuisance she can be, she is a dear to my heart.

That is Mawaddah, my second daughter, an elder sister to Safiyyah. She was born in 2005, September 2 to be exact. Time of arrival, about 7.45 p.m.

My wife and I did not plan for a second child just yet. Our eldest son was only 1 year and 2 months when my wife thought that she was pregnant. Why not for a 2nd child? Because I was thinking of pursuing my PhD study at that time and I had just finished my "pengetua"ship in UUM.

So, we moved out from the well guarded UUM compound to the more lowly rated quarters for teachers in Hosba.

I thought that was the right time for me to go for PhD study but I could only plan but Allah the Almighty has the final say.


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Monday, April 7, 2008

A Gem to the Eyes!


There is no other thing happier than welcoming a new baby to this world. This is Nur'Ain Safiyyah, my third child. She came to this world on August 25, 2007 a month before her grandma, my mother passed away. Indeed, I was torn apart between leaving my wife and the newborn baby in Changlun Kedah and my mother who was at time in the hospital, critically ill in Ipoh.

We just came back from Ipoh, visiting my mom on Aug 21, 2007. I had a long weekend with her, but still I had to come back for work, my wife too. The day after, my wife was asked to go for a routine medical check-up. Without expecting anything, I took off from work for a while just to take her to the nearby clinic.


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Sunday, April 6, 2008

Contender Asia

This is what I like to watch on Youtube if I don't have the time to watch it on AXN. The fight involves Dzhabar from Russia (?) and Soren Monkontong of Australia. Nice jab from Dzhabar KOed Soren...


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