CCCM - Day 8 : FINAL DAY

We started the day early as we were going to Tanjong Rambutan (not the mental asylum..:-)) to visit Izwan, our younger brother. I wanted to make it a point to visit him at least once a year. Since he could not come to visit me, then I would make the effort. Ikram was on driving duty as it was a Sunday. We stopped at Rawang R&R for breakfast. We made another pit stop at Simpang Pulai RTC to buy some fruits and toys for Hadi, Izwan's son. Kak Haj was not sure of his house but we found his housing estate. Thus, we met Rohana, his wife, who was still shy with us as we only met once in a while. They came down for Hari Raya Haji but I was not around at the time of their visit. Hadi, was already 2 years and 6 months. Tall and lanky like Izwan. Slightly darker with large eyes but still had that his father's Chinese looks. It was good to see them to forge our sibling bond.

Our brunch courtesy of Ana's cooking - very nice - the mee goreng was simple, sedap but pedas. Still we ate a lot. The lemang was made by her brother. Perfect/ I don't quite like lemang but I ate 2 pieces. 

We left Ipoh and wanted to make a pit stop at Tapah R&R but the traffic had built up and there was no parking at all. At least we had performed our prayers at the mosque near Izwan's house. Traffic was moving but volume of traffic had built up. We finally stopped at Ulu Bernam R&R for toilet break and coffee. We proceeded to send Ikram to Uitm Shah Alam. Wah was confident of navigating us as I was a hopeless driver. I could drive but I honestly had no sense of direction! We lost our way as they had closed our regular exit. We just followed the directions to the gate and had no idea where we were. So, we just followed the road sign that stated "Lebuhraya Persekutuan" or "Kuala Lumpur". I realised we were in Seksyen 9 - an old friend's area. Hmmm ... we turned a corner and it was Seksyen 23....Oh dear ... we laughed at our predicament and kept looking out for the road signs. We went through PLUS highway, NUKE highway...turned into KESAS highway and turned a corner straight into LITRAK highway. Luckily we had the Touch and Go card. We went on into LDP-Puchong highway that took us to the Motorola intersection. It took almost an hour from Shah Alam to Kelana Jaya. Well ... what a round and round the roundabouts ....ha..ha.. :-D))

After confirming with Zin that he could follow me, we realised that tonight would be our last night together for this holidays. Kak Hajar was going off tomorrow. My school called to inform me of the PMR results. I did not feel like facing the school yet but when I called Jamilah, my chief-sec, she wanted to go and take her daughter's results. Khoo, the PMR exam-sec, had a meeting for marking exam paper. Thus, I would have to be in charge. Well ... so, we arranged that I would drop off Kak Haj at Tapah toll and Abang Zul would come down from Camerons to pick her up. Zin would follow me back to Alor Setar. Then, Friday, we would come down again for Noor's cousin's wedding. Thus, I had to cancel the appointments made with some friends and had to give a meeting with an old friend a miss. Well... it's not just meant to be. .. ..

We called up Hanah to see if she was free to join us for our final dinner. We took her to Kenny Rogers at Amcorp Mall and had a good time bonding our sisterhood.

Amcorp mall - my favourite mall as it has Book Excess - all brightly lit to welcome Christmas

Muffins and Tropical Paradise ( a mixture of orange, pineapple and strawberry) 

Hanah was hungry so she had the quarter chicken with 3 choices of side dishes

We just had the quarter chicken with coleslaw

The Christmas decoration at the reception

The entrance into Amcorp Mal

Alhamdulillah. SubhanAllah. MasyaAllah. This year our Cuti-Cuti Cari Makan holidays were really meaningful and blessed. It was a reunion of sorts for almost everybody in the family. In fact this year I got to meet up and strengthen our family ties. Kak Zizah and family via Munir's wedding. And Kakak Kamariah and Naim ( only cousins ). Hamid and his mother in-law (Mala's mother). Kak Che Mah, Kak Era, Kak Ita, (Abang's wife), Abang and Abang Omar - the other half siblings. Hanah. Zin. Izwan & family. Kak Ti and family. Alhamdulillah. "Semoga Allah pelihara kasih sayang Nya antara kita". The missing siblings were Hanum and Suraya. Kak Hajar mooted this idea of a family day next year - to organize a family day. We'll see. InsyaAllah.