Hari Raya Aidil Fitri or Eid al-Fitr is the festival that follows the completion of Ramadan observance and its celebrated quite differently depending on where we are. While living in Malaysia, we would traditionally hold our “Raya open house” on the second or third day of Eid. Many of our Muslim friends would usually be [...]
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Salam AidilFitri
Selamat Hari Raya AidilFitri, Mohon Maaf Zahir dan Batin Rashad, Rohaizan & Danial …Eid Mubarak, wherever you are!
Finishing touches
A couple of weeks ago, when Lau had more or less completed the renovation of our Windsor apartment, I sat down with him and “ordered” the last couple of pieces of furniture I wanted (rather we needed!) for our apartment. One – we had no shoe cupboard. Every house needs a shoe cupboard! And I [...]
Cooking in the new kitchen
Ramadan is a time when, despite fasting, people go out of their way to cook something special for family, friends and neighbours. Sometimes we invite people over for fast-breaking (berbuka puasa in Malaysia or iftar in the Middle East). If we don’t feel like entertaining, we have the food sent over in good time for [...]
The old and the new
Hubby arrives for Eid very soon and with him his D300 and wide-angle lens. Yippeeeeee! So we’ll get some nice pics of the new kitchen and the rest of the apartment then. But right now here’s a look at the old and the new and why I should be grateful and happy! The old kitchen [...]
Mabruuk, finally!
After a couple of postponements, Bernard made it to our apartment for the final appointment – to fix the famous 4 glass doors with the vertical opening mechanism, now from Blum AND to fix everything else that remained outstanding. This was it. I had threatened that IF they did not fix everything today, I would [...]
Now on to the Windsor….
One of the things I was meant to do on this trip was to renovate our smaller Windsor apartment which we wanted to rent. I should have started a long time ago but since our kitchen project dragged and dragged, I simply had not had the time to focus on this. Now that Bernard is [...]
No more Mrs Nice Guy!
I lost my patience yesterday. I’m normally very understanding and patient but now I was tired of all the run around everyone was giving me about my 4 glass doors with the parallel opening mechanism. I can’t believe it has taken them this long to fix it! I really didn’t understand the problem. When the [...]
Its easy if you know how!
We succumbed to Astro! Mainly because we’re missing all that international news….I always miss CNN, BBC World and al-Jazeera news when I’m here in Malaysia. I find the local news channels don’t carry too much international updates. In Kuwait, I’d always be “listening” to the news whatever I’m doing – whether its working in our [...]
The fridge and the omelette
Bosch called me two days ago to deliver the fridge yesterday but I wasn’t available so an appointment was made for 11am today. I called Bernard the same day to let him know so that he could arrange the installer. I waited and I waited and I waited. It was 11:45pm and still no fridge. [...]
