Daaniya's Birthday: The Clown

• Initially clown wasn't in my list at all, it was just beyond my tight budget. A colleague of mine, recommended a very reasonable clown for the party, the charges were hmmm reasonable, and the performance was good too. The balloon figurines (what it's called anyway?) was free flowing and the kids were very happy.
• Usually the clown will plan out games for the kids, we just need to prepare some gifts to give away for the winners, nothing fancy, just stuffs you buy at rm2 shop would do, price giving is just a gesture and the kids be thrilled to won one of those!
• The good thing about having clown at party is, is to keeps the kids occupied. Birthdays are for kids, if there is no activities plan out for them, then there is no fun for them at all. All the would do is look and bug their annoying parents talking to each other.
• When I say kids love clown, I meant kids 5 years and above. Don't bother bringing babies anywhere near the clown, they will start screaming as though they seen a ghost! Same goes to any other mascots, be it be McDonald's Ronald or A&W Bear.
• While kids are being entertained by the clown, the parents actually can have a decent conversation with each other and the host can entertain the other guests.

Clown working on the balloon.

Kids and Clowns

The Clown is clowning!

more clowning

I won I won !!!

Daaniya's Birthday: The Caterer and Logistics

Sometime we depend too much on the internet while planning something that we forgot the old fashion way of doing stuffs.

This is what happened to us. We try to look for caterer from net. Of course with all the beautiful pictures on their blog and the testimonies, you will be quite impressed. But when you call them up, most of the time they are fully booked or not interested for catering for the small crowd. Some will give you quoatation but will not entertain you after that, they don't even have the gut to say they are uanble to cater or something. I was so pissed off.

I panicked when one of the caterer canceled on last minute. I was determined to look for replacement caterer no matter what since the function is just a week away.

Then I dawned on me, why on earth I never asked the restaurants and shops around my house that I usually to cater? Isn't that would be much better? Since I know the food quality and the reputation?

So I went to 'Coffe Shop' in pusat Perniagaan Subang Permai, yes, that the shop name. Yes, they do cater for function, and oh yes, their food is excellent. It is settled then!! No hassle, no trouble, a caterer 5 minutes from home, can things get better? In fact, yes, it did get better, At first, I catered for 200 pax, then looking at the list, I chnaged it to 250pax, I ask Kak Minah, for another quotation, then she said, "takper la dik, Akak charge utk 200pax jer, 50 FOC". I was like whoaaa, thanks thanks!

On the of the function, everyone enjoyed the food and said it was delicious, even my parents, who normally very critical about food since they rather cook themselves for any function.

Highlight of the menu? The Aqiqah kabing GOLEK!

About Aging

A colleague asked me just now how old are you this year. I answered 35.
Then I paused, disturbed by the figure and still have not recovered since.

Daaniya's Birthday: A Prelude

Daaniya's birthday was a blast. I had sleepless nights (exaggeration) planning this, worrying almost about everything, not to mention arguments I had with wife on party arrangments. At the end, all went well and everyone had fun.

I need at least couple of entries to elaborate the details and the experience I went through to organize and hosting that party.

Now I need to rest, breath in and out, in and out, assuming lotus position.

TOTAL ZEN MOMENT FOR NOW!

Hate-Hate and Love-Love

Lately I have been really down, mostly about work. There seem to be lots going on and I feel I am being left out, unable to catch up.
And I was speaking to bunch of colleague, on how de-motivated I am.

They said, it simple, I have been filling my heart with negativity and hatred. I have been letting my mind to be poisoned slowly with hatrate and negativity.

And I suddenly I realized the truth, I have been here before, at this same place, and I already know that, hatred will consume you, but I forgot!

Sometimes you think you been through things in life and you have learnt your lesson, but we are only human, we forget and we need our memory reinforced time to time. We need to be around good company, bunch of friends that think positive and push you into right direction when you are lost.

I am not going to let my heart filled with hatred, if I left it grow, it will consume my whole heart and turn it into chunk of cold coal!

What I need to do now is breath in and out real slow and take a step at a time.

Iklan bodoh macam sial kat radio yang aku benci sangat.

Kengkadang aku jaki ngan certain iklan kat radio ni. Macam streotype sangat.
Let say, iklan tu dalan bahasa Melayu, dan let say suami isteri tengah cakap-cakap pasal cetain product, si suami mesti nak hint kahwin dua-tiga, lepas tu si isteri cubit suami kononnye marah suami nak pasang dua.

Contoh 1:
Suami : Abang ada 2 kereta, 2 kondo dan dua ist...
Isteri         : Hah, abang, dua apa tu? nak pasang dua ke?
Suami : Iskh iskh takder la abg nakpasang dua isteri ...

Contoh 2:
Suami : Abang ingat nak pasang satu lagi la yang
Isteri         : Hah abang jangan nak gatal!
Suami : Bukan yang, abang nak pasang plan perlindungan satu lagi

Takder modal lain ke? Macam la semua suami selalu berangan nak pasang satu lagi, kaum lain yang dengar pun mest ingat, macam tu la lelaki-lelaki Melayu/Islam, sentiasa nak kahwin 2-3.

Bagi aku as suami, satu pun dah tak cukup tangan nak support, ni nak pasang 2-3 lagi.
Tolong la, come up with better and more creative and less stereotype commercial.

Need a committee to plan the party!

I have not organised any function on my own in my 'new' house. I have been telling my family there will be a house warming, but we had none. It has been 4 years since we moved in, and the house is hmmm very warm already as it is. There were no major function held in my house and many of my friends relatives been asking me when are we gonna invite them to my (then) new house. So  I have decided to do something about this situation.

First of all, I have NEVER organised any function, I mean real major one. Daaniya's and Imaad's 40th function were held at their grandparents' house. I had very little to do with that, just buat-buat sibuk here and there. Overall, it was a successfull functions,

Now that I am organizing Daaniya's birthday and Imaad's Aqiqah, I am panicking BIG TIME.
It's just SOOOO many thing to do. And so much money flowing steadily out of my pocket.
I am just too worried, it will turn out in a disaster, I keep on thinking the worse, no turnouts, not enough food, heavy rain or caterer screwing up. Damn I need to calm down.

I really hope everything will go on well,  this is first actual birthday party for Daaniya, since the twins and Mohd all born within same week, it is a birthday party for 4 of them, and also adding in my nephew 13th birthday which falls on same date as the twins. So there going be lots of candles to be blown that day.

Proton Family Day

I was really impressed. It was really grand. They made it look like real carnival. Almost everything that should be at carnivals were there except for rides like ferris wheel and such.
I am not sure who was the organizer, but kudos to them, they went through all the trouble (and big budget) to pull this off. And the crowd, I did not Proton Family is so big, it look like the whole town was there.

I was really hoping for the grand prize for the lucky draw, a Pesona and a Saga !!! But as always, not so lucky.

Here are some highlight from the carnival.

The signage

Factory tour, Cars in assembly line

With Darth Maul

Clowns, there were everywhere.

with Hell Boy

Daaniya love animals

Daaniya is scared of everything.

With on of the car in Creative Car competition.Thank God, these guys not designing our Proton car

Princess

Nikmat Dunia.

When it coming to unhealthy snacks, these are lil piece of heaven on earth to me!

Keropok Udang Mimi ni memang paling favourite.
Ada kisah tragik disebalik keropok Mimi ni.Kisah ni berlaku sekitar tahun 1987-an mcm tu. Masa tu aku sekolah rendah lagi. Keropok ni memang la kegemaran aku dan rakan-rakan sebaya, masa tu nama dia mungkin bukan Mimi kot, tapi packaging dia sama, dan rasa dia lagi power. Kedai bapak aku memang tak jual keropok ni dan kantin sekolah aku, tak jual keropok ni jugak(eh, sekolah aku memang takder kantin pun masa tu). So jarang la dapat makan keropok mimi ni.

So kakak aku nombor dua tu beli kat kantin sekolah dia, sebab dia dah sekolah menengah masa tu. Memang jarang la dia belikan sepeket untuk aku, dia bagi sebatang dua ada la, itu pun lepas puas pujuk rayu. Dia ni memang kedekut gila la, so lama-lama sebab aku mintak banyak sangat dia tak bagi langsung, so aku tunggu dia buang plastik tu, lepas tu aku makan la serdak-serdak keropok tu yang tertinggal dalam plastik mimi tu, sampai jilat-jilat lagi plastik tu.

Ada satu hari tu dia ternampak aku makan serdak dari plastik yang dia buang tu, so next day, dia makan keropok tu, lepas makan dia buang plastik tu dalam dapur arang  yang mak aku pakai untuk masak nasi. Cuba jawab, kejam ke tak kejam.??????
Aku siap nangis-nagis ngandu kat mak aku. Memang bila aku pikir balik, rasa tragik sangat.

Last month, masa aku gi birthday party rumah adik aku, dia hadiahkan aku keropok mimi, dia bagi dalam satu plastik untuk aku, katanya murah kat Giant sekarang. Berlinangan air mata aku (tokok tambah sikit)

So kiranya ada hepi ending jug ler citer ni kan.

 Pringles ni lagi la, Kalau bukak, mesti habis time tu jugak, jarang simpan next day. Pringle ni sedap dimakan dengan epal hijau, cuba try!

Nachos ni pun satu hal, kalau makan, memang tak leh nak berenti, lebih-lebih lagi kalau ada dip dia yang best tu.

Yang paling ketagih sekarang ni aku rasa kuaci ni la. Semua salah colleague aku yang dok makan hari-hari kat ofis. Ada satu tupperware besar atas meja dia. Satu lagi, kalau makan kuaci ni bukan boleh berenti pun. Tapi aku dengar kuaci ni elok to cut kolestrol, so kira healthy alternative for snacking jugak kan.

Snack away!

New Year Resolutions 2010

Here goes, another year, another same entry.

1. Wanna blog more (I am serious this time guys)
2. Loose weight (yeap, serious as well)
3. Spend more time with family
4. Organize a family vacation, a big mega outing, definitely!
5. Going green: Reduce electric consumption, recycle more, plant more plants, reduce usage of plastics.
6. Read more books.
7. Work hard and play hard.
8. Share more
9. Talk and Smile more.
10. Save more.

You are what you eat.

Then I would be a  lamb?

Just back from a wedding. There goes one of my new year resolution: TO EAT HEALTHY.

Over the 3-day weekend, I managed to eat healthy. I cooked healthy stuffs with plenty of salad to go with each dish. I also managed to eat frequent small portion of meal through out the day to keep my metabolisme going.

But todays wedding ruined them all, damn you Syed's Mutton Beriyani !!!

Snippets

• If you recently lost you cellphone contact, New Year is great time to get them updated!
• Feel lonely at work? Buy few packets of kuaci and eat them while work, few minutes later your cubicles will become famous out sudden.
• I old template went bonkers, so here is the new one, 100% downloaded, 0% own creativity.