Packing..packing

Lately, I have been busy alone doing the clearing and packing everything in this house. Eventhough the house is small but since two years staying here, I started to bring different sorts of things that I like. Then when come to moving out I will crack my head to pack it up.

In two days time, we will be moving to our new house located at Al-Ansab which is about 3 km from my kids school. First, I need to empty all the drawers before the movers come and it seems that I have to clear too many unwanted things that clogged my apartment. Thinking of packing time ...its so tiring, fortunately my ever ready two best friends willing to assist. They even helped me to collect the cartoons from Lulu's backyard and last friday they all together giving their hands to bring some of the items. By thursday I must finish and everything must be in the cartoon because I dont like to mess during the shifting time. By tomorrow they have to come to my house to dismantle our curtains and closet. Today I finished almost 80 percent with the packing . My hubby was astonised seeing that all are ready. "Eh.. dah kemas "..tu je lah dia cakap. He didn't know that I have been sweating . hehe (sori k dady)

Ah... It is not easy to move from one house to another but thinking of my kids are growing up and they need their own privacy no matter what we have to move. Actually I really like to stay put where we are now since most of what I want are within distance. Whenever I am short of kitchen needs I can immediately go down to Safeer . Baskin Robbin, KFC, Taza and my kids favourite place Ice Skating are within the vicinity. No shortage of water and when there are problems we just call Asraf then "five minutes after" he will come to settle it... Indian english that I picked in Oman...who cares

Eventhough our new house is a little far but big enough to accomodate my family and visiting friends. It has 6 bedrooms with attached toilet, one living room and one big dining room.

Welcom Home Ainaa

Al'Ainaa with the other teams from TAISM had gone to Cairo for the volleyball tournament. They went on 22nd till 26.10.2008. Last night we went to the airport to welcome their teams , walaupun kalah but they still managed to smile seeing their families welcoming them.

The boys team were given applaused for becoming the champion. It's ok Ainaa eventhough your teams had lost the game, atleast you guys have had tried your best.

Next year masih ada, more training and play as a team..hehehe... dapat jauk pegi Cairo Na oh....

Happy Birthday girl

My dearest Aida , since today is your birthday, mummy wish you joy and happiness and always pray for your health and successful on whatever you do. You must always know that we are so proud to have such a discipline and co'operate girl like you.

HAPPY BIRHTDAY!!!!!!!`(hadiah claim kat daddy lah)

Karaoke Fever

Semenjak Hamzah/Lynn bukak business karaoke ni... there's nothing else that we did or talked about except karaoke...karaoke. Whenever there are functions or gathering their portable karaoke set ni kan.... dah menjadi their permanent handbag lah.

Last weekend we had a family gathering at Saloma/Azlan house at Al Khuwair 33. As usual after performing our majlis doa tahlil ,will never forget with our makan beramai-ramai.

Then finally the exciting event is off-course the karaoke session. That night everybody trying to show off their talent, even yang tak tahu menyanyi pun dah pandai.

To eager and excited with karaoke until we did not realised that time has come to midnight.... barulah sedar nak balik...

Adopted Daughter

Within this 6 days we will be busy entertaining our guest who are coming from The New Cairo British International School. Their purpose to come here are to participate in the Volley Ball tournament which were organised by Taism. Since my daughter Aina, is in the team so we need to host at least 2 students to stay with us. The omputeh style are always like that, they will never let the students to stay at the hotels or maybe their one way of cost saving but nevertheless it's not a big deal for our family though.
Eventhough my house is small but I really feel appreciate seeing that they couldn't bother that much. Pity that they have to sleep in the living room, indeed we get ready with their bed, pillow and comforter. They seems to like and feel comfortable with it. We only need to prepare for their breakfast and dinner, sending and fetching them to school together with my children, whereas their lunch will be taken care by the student council.

These two beautiful young ladies as I can see are very friendly especially Caroline, she is from Australia. She told us that she ever lived in Indonesia for few years and she can converse some Indonesian words. When I fried cucur pisang this morning and asked them to try it she told me that she ever ate this type of food there and liked it very much. hehe lucunya anak omputeh ni. The other blonde girl who is from Denmark good in drawing told Aji that she is one of the top ten student in art.

At 4.30p.m after fetching them from school I immediately sent them to Centre point because they need to look for new clothes for their party tonight. My Aina will tumpang sekakilah having a chance to buy a new cloth. For dinner I cooked simple dish for them, i.e macaroni cheese, grill chicken with honey , mix vegetables and white rice. Then by 7.30 p.m we sent them back to school.

Day 2 in Salalah

Our second day in Salalah was very interesting because there were so many places that we need to explore. We woke up early and by 7.30a.m we have gone out for our breakfast. Luckily the coffee shop are opened so senang nak cari makan. After that we started with our first visit that is to Nabi Imran's graveyard. It is located at the city centre on An Nahdah Street. Nabi Imran was the father of Mariam who gave birth to Nabi Isa a.s. The longest graveyard that we have ever seen. Spent about 20 minutes there, then we moved upwards about 500 m to the footprints of Nabi Saleh's camel. The fourteen footprints of Nabi Saleh's sacred camel, as mentioned in the Holy Quran, rest here. The footprints have been fenced off for protection.

Next we headed to Al Balid (Archeological site). A city known as Dhufar, grew between 12th and 16th centuries. The ruins of this once magnificient city can be seen at archeological site but unfortunately we were not able to enter because it is only opened at 4.00 p.m. Then we stopped by at the corniche area where we had our coconut drink

By 10.30 we moved further to Nabi Ayoub's tomb. Lies about 40 kilometres from Salalah on Jebel Ittin, which rises up behind the town. The mosque and tomb - shrine of Nabi Ayoub mark the place where the remains of the prophet, possibly identifiend as Job in the Old Testament, can be found. Near the tomb there is a stone mosque which is believed to have been used by Nabi Ayoub for praying. There were so many people visited during this time. I also met the other friends from Muscat . They came one day earlier then us. Staying there for almost one hour and by 12.00 we moved out and checked-in at Samharam Apartment. We have our relaxed for 2 hours whereas the kids were excited to go for swimming at the pool.

We went out to have our lunch at the nearest Indian Restuarant at 2.00 p.m. Ordered for Chicken Beryani, fried King fish, curry sotong and salad oleh kerana terlalu lapar and dah sebulan tak makan indian food semua licin. Finished with our lunch we proceeded to Mughsayl which is located 40km on the west of Salalah. Mughsayl has a stretch of magnificent sandy beach , outlined by sculptured cliffs and blow holes formed in the limestone rocks, where plumes of water can reach a height of 30 metres or more. Since Khareef season is over so we could not see the splashing out of water from the blowholes.The view along the coast where the mountains meet the sea is spectacular. Feeling satisfied with the sight seeing and photographing session we rushed back to the hotel because my big baby dah ngantuk. Allowed him to rest for a shortwhile but the others geared up with their swimming suit and went to relax themselves at the pool.

At night we went out for our shopping , biasa lah ladies will never satisfied without done with their shopping. Eventhough Salalah is not a place of shopping paradise but we were enjoyed with the fascinating Salalah souq where we can find a lot of ready garments and materials. We found out that the cost of Abaya was much cheaper compared to Muscat where Roza and Zaleha bought one each for themselves. As for myself I bought some materials for our next Eid. hehehe... puas hati... Finally, bila semua dah rasa lapar, Haji introduced us to Yemeni Restaurant located at 23rd July Street the best Yemeni food ever. The rice was so yummy sampai we ordered for second big plate. At the same time we never missed with our jokes and borak-borak . When everybody felt exhausted we hurriedly went back. Fathers and kids immediately went to bed whereas the three moms continued with their chat/gossips.

Salalah Trip

On the second day of Eid we went off to Salalah. My family departed Oman at 6.30 a.m because on the way to Nizwa we missed the route therefore we need to turn back to Rusayl round about and started our journey again. We managed to chase the other two families and stop by at Adam around 8.30 to have our breakfast.
Salalah lies in the extreme south of the Sultanate of Oman, about 1,040 km from Muscat if we go by road and one hour plus by air. It is well known of its lavish green landscapes and we can see swaying of palm trees along a serene coastline.
We reached Salalah at 3.00 p.m and stopped by the green wooded mountain to wait for the others. Half and hour later Razak and family arrived but we have to wait for Sajali and family coz they could only speed at 120km. Once we arrived at Salalah town we had a difficulty at looking for hotel. semua dah fully book. We need to ronda-ronda to look for suitable hotel dah lah penat...sesat here and there pulak but actually it's quite fun. At last we managed to get Salalah Hotel which is located at the centre of the city but.. the next day we moved to Samharam Apartment which is more comfortable and affordable. At night we had our dinner at Lebonese restaurant located on the east part of salalah.

Eid Mubarak In Oman 2008

Kami sekeluarga Haji Mohamad Zunaidi ingin mengucapkan Selamat Hari Raya dan Maaf Zahir Batin kepada semua keluarga dan sahabat handai di mana jua berada.

On the first day of Eid we have family-get-together at Razak and Roza residence, at Mawaleh. After we finished with our maaf-maafan and makan-makan we proceeded to our Malaysian Ambassador house. This time we managed to take picture with our Ambassador and his wife.