Atlantis Theme Park Experience

Our family's trip went to the Atlantis Aquaventure was the greatest experience over all. Atlantis had been the "big hit" since it started. It is located on Jumeirah coastal area of Dubai and it takes us about 45 minutes to reach there. The biggest wet land with huge lagoon that divides into different section that is from lazy river to the fast rapid section.

On the other zone of the lagoon there is also a wet playground for kids to linger around for hours and hours. And the most adventurous section that the kids really enjoy is a four storey pyramid that named as Ziggurat. On this section there are four types of slide with different level of steepness where I was being cheated by the kids until I felt really wanted to faint (hehehe... as if I was dropping into a huge hole)later then I refused to go to the next level. On the lower level of the pyramid which is really interesting is that we pass through the water tunnel and above it we can see sharks and different types of fish.

21st December

Happy Anniversary to both of us. Thank you my hubby for being patient with all the beauty and obstacles that we have gone for the past 23 years. You're the man that I always love and wanted to grow old with . You're a reflection of everything that is wonderful in the world.

Family Day in Sur

On second day of Eid Adha we planned to have a family day at Sur. It is located on the northeastern coast of Oman about 160km from Muscat. It took us about 3 hours to reach there and Sur is well-known of it beautiful beach and mountain scenery. In June 2007 Sur was drastically battered by cyclone Gonu.

This time we went in a big crowd that is around 8 families, unfortunately Hj Amin and Sajali/Zaleha could not join us because they were having their own vacation. We started our journey at 8.00 a.m but before we reached Sur we decided to stop at Wadi Shabb to have our breakfast. While waiting for Rohimi's family ,Raja n Fauzi lead us to Bima Sink Hole ,the beautiful water reservation founded in Sur. Reached Sur at 1.30 p.m but before check-in we had our lunch near the beach. Though our food were cold but because dah terlalu lapar we enjoyed eating them all.

Relax sekejap then at 4.30 we intended to go to the Turtle beach which is about 46km from city centre but couldn't able to reach there cos it's almost maghrib so we just stopped to the nearest beach. The kids were happy having their football match but then feeling frustrated with the sunset where they have to go back. At night we have our barbecue on the beach outside the hotel area. sangat lah seronoknya.

Next day, before going back to Muscat we went to the Turte Beach resort lepak-lepak there for almost one hour. Before departed, we had our lunch at one of Sur restaurant then off we go........ and planning for our next trip.

Visit to the Grand Mosque

On the first day of Eid Adha we decided to visit Sultan Qabbus Grand Mosque. We gathered around 9.30 at the parking place and dressed like the Omani. The tourist thought we are the Omanis. They were very impressed by our look thus some even took our picture.

The terachu-cha-cha ladies in the model set-up.

Group Tour to Dubai

After postponding the trip to Dubai for quite number of times finally during the Oman National Day we decided to go together for 3 days holiday. There were 4 families going, left behind our Oja who could not go due to her passport almost expire and kak Faridah due to some personal reason. We decided to depart early because we did not want to get stuck at the Emirate border.

Supposed to arrive Dubai at 10.30 a.m but we ladies terhegeh-hegeh lagi nak shopping at carpet and vase area. Finally, each one of us managed to kecek our partner and bought the carpet happily. Since Sayed and Sajali kids never drive the quad bike so we stopped by again at the quad drive place.

Reached Dubai around 3.30 p.m but surprisingly Dubai road was jammed thus unpurposedly Sajali lost his track and was left behind. Luckily that he knew to get his way to Deira City Centre and finally managed to reach their hotel by taxi. (he..he.. teringat my first time to Dubai)

We reached our hotel around 6.30 p.m where everybody were exhausted so we thought of having our dinner at the Mall of Emirate .

Next day, since Haji and Sayed were invited by their friends to play golf we intended to have our shopping at Mall of Emirate only. Excited looking at the winter cloth furthermore the weather is getting cold masing-masing lah membeli baju sejuk. Late in the evening we have to send Sajali's family back to Deira to get back their car and having our dinner at my favourite place China Times.

On the third day we drove to Dubai Mall(the largest shopping mall in Dubai) to have our brunch. We managed to visit the largest Aquarium but could not enter due to the long que. Able to watch different species of fish from outside for few minutes then we went back to OMAN.......

Farewell dinner to our Malaysian friends

It seems that it has been a long time I did not update my blog, maklumlah busy sangat. Three days after we moved in, we were involved in International Day then followed with the Malaysian day. We were busy with our small business where we had a fruitfull return. Sangatlah seronok nya.

Last November 19 we organised a farewell dinner for our three Malaysian friend who are about to leave Oman. Roza and her kids will leave Oman on 27 November to continue her teaching whereas Meor is posted back to Kuala Lumpur and our Mr Nazri has finished his contract .

The dinner started after maghrib and as usual the participants are our close friends here. Thanks to our ambassador and his third secretary for willingly coming to our unformal function. Unfortunately we could not have our Malaysian food that night due to unforseen circumtances and thanks again to our pregnant sister Oja sangat-sangatlah bersusah payah for ordering the Omani food at Bin Ateeq.

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.