Here's to a good friend.

On every first day of the new term during my school days, my mother always gave us the same pesan: "Baik-baik pilih kawan." I believe she meant well by saying that. I went to SRK Sultan Abu Bakar (2), Muar and I can still remember the names of my good friends. One of them was the top student, Jue. I believe she visits this blog and leave comments occasionally.

Our current neighbours are nice people too. In fact during Ramadhan, the left neighbour gave us food almost everyday! Recently she said, if you have good neighbours, that is because you are good too.

I feel lucky that I am surrounded by good people. Including Auntie De's family. As you all know, we went to visit them last weekend. She has 2 children; Emyr (2 in September) and Safiya (almost 6 months).

Emyr

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uiii, buat apa tu?

Emyr is one funny boy! He has a big and deep voice. He loves to play outside. On the day we arrived, he took his 'Shish' (Shoes) and kept on asking his mom to open the sliding door so that he could play outside.

doing the monkey dance

Emyr is a very good boy too. He sits still in his car seat in the car. And in the stroller during our outing to the Zoo.

this is how you do sumo

Emyr loves books very much. Especially the touchy feely ones. When he cries, the ubat is "Let's read books", then he will go quiet.

Safiya

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Steady... steady....

Waaaaaaaaaaaaa! I want my Mama!!!

The ever so sweet Safiya. Sarah loves her so much. Pantang dengar nak mandikan or nak change Safiya. You will see Sarah tagging along Auntie De to watch Safiya getting changed. Even until now, Sarah agah Safiya's photos on the computer. "Ala baby ni" said Sarah. I will always remember Safiya's laughters when playing with Sarah.

Uncle De

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We knew Uncle De after he married Auntie De in 2003. He's a football fanatic and the type, you will get a silent answer when you ask him question when he watches a football match.

Whoops, is that too sensitive? Sorry, Uncle & Auntie De. But I'm sure there are other more football fanatics out there. (Good luck during the World Cup, Auntie De!)

The good thing about Uncle De is, he is a very practical person. I've heard he has given a lot of good and useful advices to Babah on a lot of stuff.

Uncle De's friends

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We have met Uncle De's friends on many occasion. I suspect the husband is a football fanatic just like Uncle De. The wife is a doctor. They have an 11 month son, and also pregnant with twins (Due in December 06)

Their son is so adorable and always smiling. Both the mom and dad are very soft spoken and very polite. How I envy the mom's amenity and gentility.

Auntie De

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I started to become 'close' to Auntie De in 2002. I would describe her then as quiet but witty. Babah described her as a 'Genius'. No wonder, she was a distinction student in her final year.

During her final year, she had to attend different blocks at different hospitals around Wales. So, I rarely see her and rarely tasted her cooking. To my surprise, after her final exams, she cooked Laksa Johor for 15-20 people! Then, I learnt that she actually cooks very well. (poor thing she had to put up with my tasteless cooking over the weekend during her final year.)

We remain close until today. I have learned a lot of things from her. About cooking, parenting, life etc. She is a very good friend.

When we visited her recently, she said jokingly that if we were to post her photo on the blog, we have to GIMP or photoshop her pores, freckles etc... Sorry Auntie De, I'm too lazy to go through my GIMP tutorial notes. I've decided to post up half of your face so that viewers will only see half of the freckles, alright?

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I hope my mother and the rest of the family will be happy to know that we have good circle of friends here.