week 40 | TODAY WAS A GOOD DAY (28 Sept - 3 Oct 2015)

Min Mohd

Nish Halim

Settling down with the new home & nasi lemak celebration. Alhamdulilah!

Izlynne

Today was a good day for ibu. Ibu was very happy because she made her friends happy. Ibu also made new friends and ibu met her AmazingYouProject team members for the first time and ibu is still reminiscing about it.

Today was a good day for Hope and Strength. Well, it was announced that school is off for two days. 

Today, might not be such a good day for my Faith. He was the last person to get the notice that school is off. Well, it does show on his face. 

 Imagine the script going through his head, "Tomorrow is Monday but I can't have ibu all to myself? Why? Why? I thought Monday is school day?"

Anyhow, today was a good day. 

Chech

You and books are separable. Yes, separable. Unless you want to push the bedtime. You are more synonym with all sorts of art, as well as, of course, Lego. Like daddy, you are also into movies. Which was how you met Greg, the wimpy kid. 

I was not ecstatic about the character initially. Mischievous, sarcastic, and well, wimpy. Not a role-model material. It was better for me to put myself in your shoes though. Looking back at a seven-year-old Chech, I had to chuckle. Among other things, I was crazy about Transformers, Jam, ThunderCats, Ultraman, and even Kesatria Baja Hitam!

Imagine my parents' concerns then. It has been natural for humans to notice the surface first and foremost. Therefore, they, like all adults, who did not prefer to spend their time in front of the television for the aforementioned children's series, merely saw the violent Transformers, the sexy Jam, the illogical ThunderCats, the ridiculous Ultraman, and the even more ridiculous Kesatria Baja Hitam. At first. 

After a while, my parents started to see beyond the surface. The fact that Transformers taught me about creativity. Jam, originality. ThunderCats, adventures. Ultraman, fun. Kesatria Baja Hitam, the feel good factors. 

What has Greg introduced to Khalish? Aside from the importance of being true to yourself, he has found the reader in you. I did read the first 25 pages the way it often was, but you continued to read the next 50 pages on your own. Little by little, you are conquering your first novel. 

Books and you are still separable. Yet, I love it that both of you are now closer. Thanks to the so-called mischievous, sarcastic, and well, wimpy kid. Today was a good discovery.

Maznie

 Zubye Rusli

Everyday is a good day. If we choose to see it.

Linda Latip

Milin Kassim

week 39 | WINDOW LIGHT (20 - 27 September 2015)

Min Mohd

 Zubye Rusli

Current addiction. 'Moodling'.

Izlynne

A spot which you love doing all the things you love doing. By the window; because the light comes in and gives you the perfect shadow, sometimes hues. It could be just a matter of paper chasing blown by the blast from the fan,  but you love it. 

You are content, carefree, untroubled and satisfied. That's all I want to know.

Chech

Nish Halim

Amongst your Wan's best advice to me was "Live in a room full of lights"
...and fresh air. I think he was speaking to me both literally & metaphorically.

Maznie

Linda Latip

Milin Kassim

Beautiful morning at Nenek's. And your were enjoying your time drawing on Auntie Jeda's Ipad.

Our plan for more time outdoors back in my home-town didn't quite materialise due to haze.  But than it's okay. We had so much fun indoor, and your uncles and aunties had been spoiling you and Kakak, fulfilling your every requests. And Nenek had been showering you two with so much love and good food, sigh how I wish we could stay longer...

week 38 | EMOTIVE (13 - 19 September 2015)

Nish Halim

Bad game, eh?

Min Mohd

 Zubye Rusli

Izlynne

Sometimes, in any given situation, I always think that bottling up my emotions is always the right thing to do. I have so much of it bottled up that sometimes I think my heart is going to 'explode' soon, which is quite the wrong thing and what makes it worse is when I don't do anything about it. I think I just don't have the right channel for it.

Watching you and your sisters is always a favourite thing of mine. I guess, everything that is bottled up inside me just drain away. You know that feeling, when you open a bottle of that icy cold Snapple and drink heartily; and how your thirst goes away and leaving you with that satisfaction of being refreshed - that is how you and your sisters make me, everytime I watch you three.

Just by watching you three easily makes me drift away with all your antiques and emotions that sometimes make me laugh my heart out. 

Thank you Hope, Strength and Faith - for letting me go through each day; always with a new perspective of life. I learn a lot from you.

Chech

Maznie

Linda Latip

week 37 | 2PM (6 - 12 September 2015)

Milin Kassim

After noon.
It's time to lie down, relax and escape into dreamlands.

Nish Halim

Everyday without fail,
the first thing he'd ask after school:
Mommy masak apa harini?

Min Mohd

Maznie

It's a bad air day,so stay inside and keeping your lungs healthy,while I'm busy doing some carpenter works here inside the house ;)

 Zubye Rusli

Lazy day is a happy day!

Linda Latip

Izlynne

2 pm.

I don't want to miss a single 2pm. Soon, everything is going to change. I might have to stare at the empty wall. 

I might not be able to hear your laughters when something funny appear on TV, your constant bickerings when you fight over silly things, your cute giggles everytime you have something exciting to share with me, your groans everytime you push away your veggies that I try to 'smuggle' inside your lunch - it is going to change.

Time does not pass- it seems to glide and fly away like those dandelions everytime the wind blows them - when we are together.

I want to have more 2pm's with you.

Chech

2 p.m., Saturday.

Leisurely lunch.

week 36 | HARD LIGHT (30 August - 5 September)

Min Mohd

Nish Halim

Yes, that's right. You'll never know what you have.......until you clean your room.

Milin Kassim

O My Daughter, 

I pray that the verses I share here will be first and foremost a reminder that I will take heed, in my heart and in my actions. And they will be the ones that stay in you and your little sister as you two grow up, ameen.

[And Luqman said], "O my son, indeed if wrong should be the weight of a mustard seed and should be within a rock or [anywhere] in the heavens or in the earth, Allah will bring it forth. Indeed, Allah is Subtle and Acquainted.
O my son, establish prayer, enjoin what is right, forbid what is wrong, and be patient over what befalls you. Indeed, [all] that is of the matters [requiring] determination.
And do not turn your cheek [in contempt] toward people and do not walk through the earth exultantly. Indeed, Allah does not like everyone self-deluded and boastful.
And be moderate in your pace and lower your voice; indeed, the most disagreeable of sounds is the voice of donkeys."
~Quran, Surah Luqman : 16-19

And may Allah make your dad and me be wonderful parents to you two, and our littlest Nur Jannah.

 Zubye Rusli

If a person is living out his destiny, he knows everything he needs to know. 

There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve :

the fear of failure.

~ The Achemist

Maznie

Once in a while.

Linda Latip

Izlynne

My favourite past time is to watch you take your noon nap and when the hard light quietly seeps through the curtains dancing on your snoozing face.

Chech

When the negotiation for one more bedtime story failed, you slowly retreated under the duvet.

"Sorry again, Khalish. We need to wake up earlier tomorrow."

"No worry, mommy. Just switch off the lights. We may read more books after school."

Yet, five minutes later, I found you with a book on your lap and a flashlight in your hand.

"Sorry, mommy. The book crossed my mind each time I closed my eyes. Too distracted to sleep." 

"No worry, Khalish. Just read to both of us."

I ended up photographing the scene, too. 

week 35 | FACELESS (23 - 29 Aug)

Min Mohd

Nish Halim

The force is strong with this one!

Zubye Rusli

There's no place like Atok and Nenek's 'Resort'.

Chech

Maznie

Izlynne

"Most people are happy being average. Most people are happy being faceless in a sea of faces."

                                                                                                                                 Robert Kiyosaki

Milin Kassim

The weather looks a bit gloomy lately.

So we are praying for brighter ones ahead,

Ameen.

Linda Latip

week 34 | DOOR ( 16 - 22 Aug)

Min Mohd

Maznie

Hujung minggu di kampung.

Zubye Rusli 

Setiap peristiwa di jagat raya ini adalah potongan mozaik. Terserak sana-sini, tersebar dalam rentang waktu dan ruang. Namun, perlahan potongan itu akan bersatu membentuk bak montase Antoni Gaudi. Mozaik-mozaik itu akan membangun siapa dirimu dewasa nanti. Lalu, apa pun yang kau kerjakan dalam hidupmu akan bergema dalam keabadiaan.

~ Sang Pemimpi; Andrea Hirata.

Chech

Izlynne

"When one door closes, another door opens."

Nish Halim

Boy meets world.

Linda Latip

Milin Kassim

Daddy's girl.