50th Anniversary

It was my 50th wedding anniversary with Ham on 27 Jun 2013. Both  our daughters came back from their abode overseas (Ida from London  and Nani from Dubai) to celebrate with us. We had a kenduri  with  tazkirah by an ustaz from Algeria, who is a PhD student at the UIAM  Gombak.

We invited him because he was to deliver the tazkirah in English for the benefit of our sons-in-law Phillip Rolland (Ida's husband) and Scott Shuey (Nani's husband.) Our invited guests of family and friends, of course, had no problems with English. Unfortunately, my boys — except for Zaki and wife Sabrina — couldn't make it earlier because they went to KLIA to pick up Fahd who came back for his semester break from Wanganui, New Zealand. The boys' mother, Ku Mek couldn't make it either because she is wheel-chair bound having had a fall in the bedroom (cockroach punya pasal) on 10 Apr, to be exact.  Her sisters Ku Yang and Ku Lan came. And the boys came later with their friend Nazrin and had a good late dinner. 



The food was catered by Ruz Aladdin restaurant. Everybody praised the nasi biryani gam (Johor speciality), beef rendang, the tapai ubi (my favourite; reminds me of my musim Jepun and Nyah's expertise with tapioca preparations.)


All in all, it was a wonderful evening and the weather stayed fine without the haze that came from Indonesia a couple of days ago. The girls left early the next morning for their holidays in Vietnam (Ida and Phillip) and Kota Kinabalu (Nani and Scott.)  We wished they could have stayed longer. Ah well, at least they came back and for that we are grateful.