Mother's Day and the week that was

It's Mother's Day today and it's the best mother's day yet. Danial gave me my first Mother's Day card. My heart just swelled with pride even though the teachers at Generasi (Danial's daycare centre) were the ones who made it.

He can't wait to give it to me when I picked Azrai and Danial up from KL Sentral last Friday to go to Lemon Garden Restaurant, ShangriLa Hotel for Dzareen's birthday dinner (after much thought, I've decided to edit and leave out the age that supposed to come before the word 'birthday'. After all, no woman wants their age to be publicly mentioned in any form of media). Good thing we've coordinated that Azrai was to fetch Danial and to take the ERL from Putrajaya while I hang around Lake Club after my afternoon appointment. The traffic was really heavy as it's Friday night.

We thought we were late when we got to the hotel at 8pm but we were among the early few. Long story short, we had a feast from the buffet spread. There goes my diet!

Yesterday, I dropped Danial off at Setiawangsa and took the LRT with Azrai to KLCC. I volunteered to man the booth for AmBank at the convention centre. I wanted to see if there is a good crowd there to generate leads and I was quite happy to get some during my 3 hour watch. I left at about 3pm to get lunch before heading back to Setiawangsa to pick up Danial and mak and go balik kampung for kenduri tahlil 100 hari Atuk.

Azrai squeezed a half an hour snooze before we head back to kampung. We got there just around Maghrib. Nek Cik Fatimah was there to help out when the rest of Nek Cik Nah's clan has gone AWOL. I was told that Mak Teh was having a kenduri doa selamat of some sort for her eldest daughter who's entering university soon. A few of Tok Ngah's children were also present as they've missed the earlier tahlils. Uncle Sam made a solo appearance; Uncle Has and family and the others I don't really know them by name. Alhamdulillah, everything went well. Rezeki Atuk lepas dia meninggal dunia lagi murah. Takde pun menyusahkan orang and ramai yang datang tahlil. Semoga Allah mencucuri rahmat ke atas roh Atuk Sidek, Amin...