farewell dinner for friends in Muscat

Nida & Ramlah farewell last week at Thai Basil.

Wishing both of them all the best and will miss you always . xoxo

Majlis Tahlil

Majlis tahlil & solat berjemaah diadakan pada 16 Ramadhan @ our crib in Brunei

Selamat Berpuasa & Ramadan Kareem

It's been 4 weeks since we left Oman for the summer break. Tomorrow we will observe the first holy Ramadhan in Brunei. Wishing all muslims throughout the world, a blessed and peaceful Ramadhan .

Kuala Belait tamu last Sunday

Missing these........

The weekly tamu in KB....love the freshness of the local and imported veggies & varieties of foods and fruits on sale.

home sweet home........

Back home in Brunei....it's nice to be back! This is going to be a long summer holiday for us.

We will celebrate our Ramadhan and Hari raya (eid) in Brunei this year before our flight back

to Muscat in October.

Back to Brunei

the kids at Terminal 3 Dubai Airport

We flew back to Brunei last Friday and took the Emirates flight from Muscat to Dubai. Not many people on board. We arrived at the new Terminal 3 at Dubai airport. Went out to City centre for some food and shoppings. Dubai summer surprise is on until August. It's a good time to shop as the discount is up to 70pct. Can't resist the sale in Dubai. We had almost 9hrs wait in Dubai so we took the opportunity to go out and do some shoppings....

During checked in at Dubai we were told that we had to pay 20kg excess, cos our checked in luggage from Muscat were almost 100kgs, so after some negotiation , we only paid 10kgs ( a reduced excess) .

So there! (RBA) are really strict on excess baggage nowadays, only 20kg flat allowed.

At the airport, we stayed at Marhaba lounge in Dubai for some snacks and coffee and to freshen up . Thanks to HSBC premier. We board RBA flight at 9.45hrs from Dubai and arrived safely the next day.

back from umrah

their arrival in Seeb International Airport, Oman

nasi kuning Indonesian style

I have been very very busy lately. We got a lot of invitations (makan makan) almost every night... macam kami pulang yg farewell. This week alone we have a series of dinner invitations.

Yesterday night we had a dinner at one of the embassy's staff.

Alhamdulillah, Hazim back from umrah five days ago and followed by a doa selamat at Rashidi's place the next day. We pray that we will perform the Umrah soon. Our last trip to Mecca was in the year 2003, that was during our pilgrimage to Mecca.

Hj Ismail & Hjh Flo farewell dinner

cake prepared by hj suni's wife-Rita....well done RitZ

Marianah Othman , salwa sis in law & hubby visiting Oman

Salwa's brother recieved an Omani souveniers from Bruneian community in Oman

bibi arrived from Oz the night before .....to join the parents farewell

Ritz signing the memorial book for Hj Ismail

cutting the cake

the gift

another farewell gift

speech by Hj Zul

On 1st of July a farewell dinner was held for Hj Ismail & family at Rashidi's place.

Hj & the family will be leaving Oman for good at the end of the month .

Hj Ismail is expected to work in Oman again "InsyaAllah kalau ada rezeki" said Hj Ismail in his speech. We wish them all the best and keep in touch.

Umrah

Our son went for umrah today with our friend's Rashidi n his son Mateen. Hazim's first went for umrah when he was 6years old. Semoga mendapat umrah yang mabrur dan diterima semua amalan. Amin

Summer holidays

Summer holiday is finally here. People are busy with packings,buying souveniers for family back home,sorting out visas,worrying about the dreadful swine flu,worrying about missing their flights etc and in my case I'm busy checking on the flu vaccines, unfortunately it is not available at any private clinics here.

Not even PDO clinic has it. I have yet to find out if it is available in the government hospital. Just keep my fingers crossed!

Though swamped up with those worries, we did not forget our few friends whose going to leave Oman either for good or just for a short summer vacations. We managed to catched up at Darcy's kitchen last week. Flo is leaving Oman for good in July- farewell to you dear friend, and the rest are going back home. Freda is off to Uk for her summer

vacation,me n Ritzy are off to Brunei and Eka will be flying off to Indonesia.

We wish everyone a safe and blessed journey back home .

Memoirs of Istanbul Part 2

Me & hubby enjoyed the morning walked and the morning bargains at the spice Bazaar .

The old Yeni mosque is just 100m from the bazaar.

Doa Kesyukuran

We had a thanks giving dinner on Friday night hosted by Hj Ismail and wife at Mirchi Restaurant, in Al Khuwair.

Hj Ismail has been working for Shell for over 30years.
We wish him "Mabruk" and all the best for the future .

Semoga di murahkan rezeki selalu. Amin.