My Christmas flowers and our "Christmassy dinner".

I'm doing short posts cause i'm lazy obviously...anyway...these were the flowers I got for Christmas....thought i'd show Mummy as usual :)

The flowers were a mix of roses and some other stuff...I don't know what they're called.

Then we also had dinner....it wasn't actually Christmas dinner...but we took pics so i'm uploading them anyway...esp. for kaypoh ma :p

We had carpaccio again of course. :)

- A r L i N -

Christmas stuff.

I spent my Christmas eve alone on a plane basically...so I didn't really celebrate or anything...in fact I didn't even receive a SINGLE Christmas gift this year...bleh. :( Anyway we did some shopping before Christmas...and all the malls and shopping places were extremely busy...and there were a lot of performers etc.

Old matsalehs singing carols.

Some kinda band.

Tiny Dutch pancakes. Yum.

Then there were also all these Christmas events going on at our little kampung...heheh..all of a sudden it was all happening around here....there were people doing some ice sculptures and ada horsies too!

I liked the angel. Cantik.

Too bad the ride was just for kids :p

- A r L i N -

Hari Raya Haji

Ok this is a bit lambat I know...but I really haven't had time to upload pics and stuff. I spent Hari Raya Haji at Rosli's place at Ijburg or something this year. He has an amazing apartment...hehe it was all white...Mama mesti suka. Really reminded me of a club...almost like the daybed bar! :)

Syed and Rosli made lots of food...hehe like rendang, and sambal goreng and ketupat and lodeh and ayam and all sorts of stuff. It was really yummy.

Me and Syed wearing the baju and posing with Rosli's Christmas tree :p...heh thanks to him I wore the kebaya and almost froze to death.

Oh and I also made some kuih tart from scratch for Hari Raya....yes..even the filling....peh leceh!! Argh!!

- A r L i N -

I'm alive!

Hiya sisters :) Hehe...yes yes...i'm still alive and kickin! Haha....siape cakap its so hard to reach me? Mcm telefon radio station? Mariah Carey? Superstar eh? :D







Anyway..i'm trying to upload pics from the camera....some are kinda old...like these pics...well they were taken a few weeks ago when it got really cold here....and there was snow and everything was all white and pretty.

View from the balcony...see the canal/longkang thing on the right? It was kinda frozen.

From the bedroom window.

- A r L i N -

New Year's in Stockholm

New Year's in Stockholm

I spent all of last week in Stockholm with Mastura and family and had a really great time! She has two sons, Takichan and Haydar (hope I spelled their names right!) and they're so adorable! Taki is 2.5 and Haydar's a year younger. Here they are:

Mastura cooked up a storm while I was there and we had all kinds of Malay food including nasi ayam, mee goreng, tomyam, kari ayam, rendang and sambal goreng udang (yes exactly like Hari Raya!). And I also got to try some interesting Turkish dishes that she made for her husband Fevzi and that his mom made on New Year's Eve.

Ohh and Mastura and I went crazy shopping cause everything was on sale! Arlin I bought another Zara jacket! And tons of things at Gina Tricot and H&M and stuff. And 3 pairs of shoes!! We just kept buying things and loading all our shopping bags at the back of the baby carriages. :)

Here are pics of the two boys that I'm so in love with. Aww I miss them so much. I really miss those mornings when Taki would knock on my door and say Cik Nene Cik Nene Cik Nene!

They just love taking baths

Taki with his Spiderman hat on the subway

Haydar and mommy Mastura

The boys eating chips

At DeliBurger in downtown Stockholm

All dressed up on New Year's Eve to go to their grandparents

It was really hard trying to get them to stay still for these pictures!

Taki posing really nice in his shirt and Spiderman tie!

The cat Nur that reminded me of my Aslan. She was so cute and cuddly.

And here's Taki again because he just loves playing with the camera. I still hear his voice saying "senyum, senyum" (smile, smile) before taking a picture :)

Thank you again Mastura for letting me spend time with you and the boys and the cat. I had a really great time and hope to see all of you again soon!

*Renee*

My Christmas

My Christmas

Well this feels like ages ago now but I'll blog about it anyway. I actually had a really nice Christmas this year. First of all I got some really nice gifts!

This was the first gift I got and it was from Hathairat. It was so pretty! And yummy too. Beautiful chocolate roses.

And these are some of the gifts I got for people.




I was also invited to this julbord thingy at one of my schools..Christmas table's the direct translation. It's basically this buffet with Swedish Christmasy food. Here's the pre-lunch entertainment with the teachers singing Christmas carols.




And then I went to visit Maryam after the Christmas buffet and found Santa's little helper :) Doesn't she look adorable?




I spent Christmas Eve with Lasse and Eva and family. Here we are at Henrik and Snezana's. They were really sweet to have invited me and I had a really great time. I can't believe they got me gifts too! That's Vincent and Casper with their Christmas gifts which they were really excited about. And Lasse's also opening his present.

Thank you again Lasse & Eva and family for having me over!

*Renee*

Back with a vengeance

Back with a vengeance!

First up HAPPY NEW YEAR everyone! Selamat Tahun Baru! Gott Nytt År! I can't believe a whole year has gone by. Time really just flies doesn't it?

So I have tons to blog about that I haven't gotten round to in ages. So first up I think there's some leftover stuff from the Tallinn trip.

I haven't written at all about the cruise I think so here are some pictures taken while we were on board the ship.

A view from our cabin. This was on the hmm ooh I don't remember the name of the ship but we were on our way to Tallinn then. The MS Victoria? Or something? Or the Romantica?

We went to this cabaret show on the ship and it was actually pretty good.

And I had to have this drink just because it came with a neon glo-stick! It's called the polar bear or something like that.

And here I am posing like a retard with my glow stick bracelet. Yay!

*Renee*