Weekend Update part 2 - Saturday Evening

Once again it was our company's "most awaited" event of the year. The annual dinner! Below is the invite for us this year. The theme is Purple and Gold! It is in celebration of our 1st oil from our Northern Fields and since the names of the wells in Northern Fields are all Bunga Orkid XXX (followed by a number), the purple represents the Orchid Flower and gold represents Oil, as in Black Gold.

Do I have something purple already, yes! and do I have something gold, yes I do. So I managed to join our company's austerity drive and not spend a single cent for this dinner. For me, that is a really Big Achievement. I wore a recycled outfit, that's sooo purple (shhh! I wore it for our dinner 2 years back), and for shoes, I ransacked the shoe cupboard and found that my wedding slippers are still ok! So there. My whole purple and gold ensemble complete.

Our table card. We are seated at our boss's table, that means front row. Good view of the stage and very high risk of being called up on stage.

Our Senior VP, giving the mandatory speech to kick-off the night.

My meal choice card and hubby's.

The Appetiser - Tuna, Shrimp and Salmon.

A Mocktail - which tasted more like lychee.



That's us, as purple as possible, oh and the guy standing behind... Adam Lambert wannabe!
Zak, Me and Izam.


The soup course - a Mexicanish dish.

My Fish Course - Seabass and Potato Gratin, really nice.

Hubby's Beef course.

With Izam again.

During dinner, we were entertained by some loud loud loud Jazz music.

Maisura's in glittery gold.

All the ladies at out table, the one sitting next to me is our Dept Manager.

Nita performing. She can sing and entertain. Not bad at all.

Dessert was this very light cheesecake with ice-cream.

Ju, Eliza, Izam and Me.

With Zila in Black Scarf.

I will post more pictures once we get them from the official photogs.

Weekend Update part 1 - Saturday Morning

Last weekend was a rather hectic weekend for me. It started off with a birthday party at 10:30 a.m at Starship Galactica. The birthday girl is 8 year old Nana (Adreanna) , who leaves across my mom's house and who was Nayli's kindy mate.

My children have been asking us to take them here, for quite sometime, but we've pretty much managed to say no. It looked really crazy from outside, with kids running and screaming around. We totally do not want to let them loose in there by themselves, and we really do not feel like trapping ourselves in there with all those children running around us. So, that was my kids' lucky day. I guess since it was early still, the crowd has not come in yet. As for the 1st hour, only the party guests seemed to be in the play area, so the crowd was still ok. It didn't turn out to be that wild in there at all. Thank goodness, because Zaim went too!

There was a floor keyboard, nice!

He must have thought that he had gone to Ball Heaven, there were balls everywhere.

Trying out this air-gun thingy.

Zaim, was happily crawling all over the place.

It's raining balls!

A game of toss, oh no... what is Zaim chewing on!

Attacking the father.

The floor is nicely padded, so it's a safe place for the kids and parents to roll around. Though it is quite dangerous to leave Zaim, crawling around, since I just realised now lookin at the picture, his shirt is the exact same shade as the floor mat.

Trying out the padded stairs next.

Some0ne obviously is having a blast.


After an hour at the play area... it's time for FOOD!!!

A party is not a birthday party without the compulsory Musical Chair.

Paste the handbag at the right spot. I also would like you to pay some attention to the green cardboard on the left. It displays the list of everyone's guesses to the number of M&Ms that was placed in a transparent container. Let me crop the picture for you...

Ok, so Nayli entered her guess, and I entered for Zaim, since Zarif just think it's way too much for him to guess the M&M's. Nayli's guess was 110 and Zaim's 263, and Zaim won. He or rather I was spot on! Exactly 263 pieces of M&M!!!

Hitting the Pinata.

The pinata is broken... everyone is scrambling for the goodies.

Adreanna's birthday cake.

Blowing the candles.

That's Zaim with the prize that he won. It turned out to be a pink digital diary, much to Nayli's delight (it was after all an 8 year old girl's birthday party!), Zarif was so upset. He was hoping for a more unisex prize, something that he could share with his brother and sister.

By then it was already 1 something, it was a bit too much excitement for one morning for Zaim. Though, he refused to sit back and doze off properly. This is him, slowly nodding off.

Going down...

Bump! he hits the stroller bar!

This means, we managed to have a peaceful quite lunch after that.

Weekend.

There's loads to upload, but here's a preview...

What did he do that made him so tired, that he fell asleep like this???

Where did I have this??

What about this picture down here, what is Nayli queueing up for?