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Uncle Awang Goneng’s latest book, A Map of Trengganu is finally out! This morning, I went out with my father to pick up the books from the country distributor and helped dad with our first batch of deliveries. Anxious to be one of the first people to read it, I quickly picked up a copy from the box as soon [...]

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Today is my father’s good friend, Pak Cik Burhan’s birthday. They were close friends since their college days in Carbondale. Pak Cik Burhan is really fun to be with and certainly great to talk to. He always has interesting answers whenever I ask him  simple questions. By the way, he claimed that he has no favourite colour [...]

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We took a trip to Kuala Terengganu on 24th of December, 2010 together with Uncle Nisar. That was his first trip to the east coast of West Malaysia and we were very excited to take him around our hometown. On the evening of the 26th of December, we went to Pantai Rhu Sepuloh (Rhu Sepuloh Beach - near Bari). [...]

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Last Wednesday, we had a special guest for lunch—Uncle Nisar Shaikh with his sister and mother. Uncle Nisar is a very good friend of my dad who lives in Palo Alto, California. He was a professor teaching in University of Nebraska – Lincoln before working in an IT company in Palo Alto.   All of [...]

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On Friday night (29th of January, 2010) Aunty Selina reached KLIA (Kuala Lumpur International Airport) for a 3 days trip. Aunty Selina, who lives in Maryland, USA,  is a very good friend of my parents. She stayed at The Renaissance Hotel Kuala Lumpur at Jalan Ampang. She brought all of us lots of lovely presents. [...]

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Last Friday, my family and I went to May Tower Hotel in Jalan Munshi Abdullah to meet Uncle Zahedi, Aunty Suzana and Brother Hisham. They came from Sri Lanka to send Brother Hisham who is currently doing his Master’s Degree in Islamic Finance here in Kuala Lumpur. We met them after the Friday prayers. When [...]

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Have a wonderful birthday to the two of my beloved friends, Tahirah Mohd Nasir (Happy 15th birthday!) and Maryam Balqis (Happy 13th birthday!) I would also like to wish a happy belated birthday to my dear friend Sofia Sultana who had turned twelve yesterday. May Allah bless you all and have a great year ahead!

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A poem written especially for Uncle Osman, Aunty Yaman and Sister Arwa from Khartoum, Sudan… What should I make? Should I draw or paint? Make a glittering card? Oh, but that’s hard. A watercolour painting! Of the seaside in the evening! It would remind Sister Arwa Of her visit to Malaysia. But I don’t paint [...]

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On the 11th October 2009, we had a wonderful picnic with dad’s old friends from his university days at the Southern Illinois University, Carbondale (click here to see their blog).Their special guest was Uncle Osman from Khartoum, Sudan who was on a two weeks trip to Malaysia with his wife, Aunty Yaman and daughter, Sister [...]

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Today, I met Uncle Awang Goneng at the Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM). Awang Goneng (a.k.a. Wan A. Hulaimi) grew up in Terengganu but later on moved to London, a place so far away from his homeland. His beautiful book ‘Growing Up In Trengganu’ (originated from his blog -http://kecek-kecek.blogspot.com) was written to share with everyone about [...]

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Happy Best Friends Day to all of my friends especially to my best friend I can ever have… Noor Fareeda.

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Now is the mid-year school holidays in Malaysia and it means a ‘wedding season’ for us – Malaysians in Malaysia. We received wedding invitations here and there from both relatives and friends; sometimes we  attended a few wedding receptions  in a day! Today we attended two wedding celebrations, first in Keramat and after that at [...]

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