Happy Birthday Alya

Julia's youngest daughter turned 9 yesterday, and they had a party near their place in Kajang. I was lucky that I was able to make it since I was on call the evening before. Otherwise, Anita and the boys would have to get there themselves.

Alya was clearly happy as plenty of her friends turned up. Her presents were picked by the boys and hopefully they realised what she liked.

Part of the games. And my belt was off as well! Luckily my pants didn't fell off!

Initially Irfan joined the games, but after being kicked out after the second round, he went quiet and clang on to Anita for the rest of the party. Idlan however was having fun! Anita was picked to play one of the games for parents and luckily, although she lost, she didn't have to do anything silly!

The restaurant provided the games and the mascot came along of course for good measure. My Dad got picked on for his white hair. The staff kept calling him Colonel Sanders!

The mascot meeting AlyaTime for cakes!

My Dad, Colonel SandersThe cucus

I was the photographer as usual, and luckily I could still focus after the long hours last night. I was snoring away be the time i reached the car for the ride home ....

Birthday Party at Julia's

Having all three of your children celebrating their birthdays in one go was definitely a great idea. Even though, technically they were almost a couple of months apart, bundling them together saved you on the headache. But them being my nieces and nephew, created a different kind of headache for me. I had to get three birthday presents in one go.

Balloon galore as the clown was let looseNot sure what Idlan was asking for ....What? An orange sword? Lame!As this being Syawal, my sister organised an open house on the same day as well. The party was held during lunch, and Kajang, on current traffic was 45 minutes away. Managed to reach there well ahead of time, and get things organised as I was the designated cameraman.

Some of them were cooked by Mum. The rest were catered.Happy Birthday to you .... the sing song had startedYaya preferred Tom and JerryThis was one cute cake. Snow White and the Seven Dwarves.This was how you make it ...If you were going to ask for some swords, ask for eight of them. The ultimate fighting machine this ....And the games went on ......The clown arrived at around 1, and after that, it was cake-cutting and general mayhem. Unfortunately, there were no party food, so, my boys were restless. We ended up leaving early, and was caught in a horrific traffic jam on the way home. We left before most of our family members and visitors arrived. My Mum cooked my favourite dish for the party, and at least I got to enjoy that before we left.

Next destination, open house at Anita's cousin.

Suraiya's Birthday

Suraiya's birthday party really went well today, although a few people couldn't make it at the last minute. The boys enjoyed themselves. Chicky, the mascot was there of course. Of course both Idlan and Irfan had their moments - with their tantrums of course. Idlan planning on sabotaging the birthday cake.

It was always a good idea to have birthday party at a venue rather than at home. You can rest assured that the caterer will not be late, plenty of food will be available. Decor will always be provided, with a party organiser usually. But the beat thing of all, you don't have to do the cleaning up. I have been to some well-organised venue party in the past. McDonald's and KFC were very good at these usually. We, of course had Idlan's at the Bird Park, and although we spent quite a bit of money, I thought it was well worth the price.

Chess anyone?Next stop was Wangsa Walk Mall to get a new pair of school shoes for Irfan. He was certainly growing up fast indeed. I reckon that he will need a couple of pairs of new one for the next school year. There was a giant chess competition in the middle of the Walk which was quite interesting.

Irfan's new shoesLet's kick the AndroidUnfortunately I had to do a bit of work in the afternoon. Right after that, I went to Sg Wang to sort my credit cards and had a quick tea there. There was no new DVD out from the looks of things. I headed over to Low Yat next. There were showing off the new Android tablet by CSL. I ha a quick look. They were running 2.1 and was a bit buggy still from the looks of things. They were certainly smaller than the iPad. Will I invest on them? Not yet at least.

Weekend Activities

It has been a busy weekend in the household with the birthday party and last ditch open houses. The last weekend being the final weekend of Ramadhan and all. My sister hosted her daughter's and husband's birthday party on Saturday. My Auntie also traveled all the way from Sg Petani to visit us. The party went on all afternoon. In the evening, there was the Premier League fix after the two weeks international break. The result went United's way apart from Arsenal hitting form. The fiasco with the beach balloon in Sunderland really made my weekend.

On Sunday, we went to over to Cheras to attend Anita's cousin's open house. Likely going to be the last for the Syawal. Spend some time there but had to return early since I was taking my family for dinner that evening. We went to Cozy Corner in Ampang Park, a favourite spot for Anita's family but we were really disappointed last night. The food was off the mark this time around. The steak was dry, the noodles was not nice, even the fish and chips were soggy. Have they changed the chef? It was a disappointing end for a lovely weekend.

Monday arrived today and I spent the evening after work sifting through the photos taken during the weekend. Finally managed to do some post-processing on them and got evething on order. Unfortunately, I am at my Taman Cemerlang residence minus the broadband. Uploading the pix onto my site was a pain. May have to swing over to the Taman Setia home to upload it later in the week. I also need to use the printer to print some articles at some stage in the week. My friend's from college were also asking if I will be playing badminton tonight. Unfortunately it is difficult to leave Anita and the boys alone at Cemerlang and the game only starts at 9. After finishing at 11.30, I am sure that the Terendak boys wanted to hang around for a session of teh tarik. Might be playing next week we are back in Setia.

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Party Time!

At Yaya's Birthday. More pics later!