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Ladies Trip to Ajoupa

It's almost a month before Flora leave the country, so we want to take her explore the island as much as possible :) Last week, Adam Williams, our pottery teacher, had an exhibition together with Bunty form Ajoupa Pottery. On the same day, Picasso Plein Air Painting also planned to have a session at Ajoupa. What a perfect arrangement!


On the day, it was raining all morning....after all the sunny days before. The best thing to do at that time was cuddling under the blanket on bed :) But off we go to Ajoupa, all ladies with all painting and picnic supplies. The place is great! The display are nice... Unfortunately our favorite pieces was away too expensive than my budget for pottery :( So I ended up with a piece from Adam, with his sign, and two plates from Bunty.



How about the painting? Actually I was tempted to follow Peter. He drew under an umbrella behind the bush. But since I had a camera in my hand, I prefer to use it and left my sketch book inside my bag. But I was quite happy for the picture that I got. Unfortunately, Flora and her daughter, who is a very talented artist, decided not to draw at all.


But I really hope she's happy with the vase that she bought from Bunty. It really looks like her piece from Adam's class. It was a great time together. Really hope can spend more time with them.

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Love is a verb, so do it!

Habis baca artikel Ketika Cinta Terurai Menjadi Perbuatan dari grup Muslimah. Subhanallah.
Alhamdulillah Allah masih mengingatkan.

Jadi ingat quote yg gw dapet bertahun2 yang lalu, bahkan mungkin sebelum nikah.
Walaupun sudah lupa, dari mana sumbernya.

Love is a verb, so don't try to find love, but do love someone/something.
Love is a verb, so love can not disappear, you just have to learn to love more
Love is a verb, so most of the time if you love someone/something, it's because you do something that make you love it, not because love fall from the sky.

Jadi gw bingung kalo tiba2 orang yg sudah bersuami/istri bilang bisa jatuh cinta, sama orang lain. Apalagi kalau sampai bilang karena dia sudah nggak cinta lagi sama suami/istrinya.

Ngapain ajaaaa....
Kalau kita sudah berkomitmen, ya do the work dong.
Kalau terasa 'percik2' nya sudah hilang, ya try to love him/her as a whole person, find his/her best that make us decided to marry him/her.
Kalaupun terasa ada percik2 dari org lain yg terasa sebagai cinta, dengarkan hati nurani: do you really love it/him/her? Jangan2 itu cuma nafsu, ambisi atau bisikan setan. Kalaupun (keliatannya) memang cinta, ingat juga konsekuensi yg menyertainya, termasuk mungkin menyakiti hati orang yg mencintai kita.

Rasulullah memang pernah dan bisa beristri lebih dari satu.
But he did his homework. He's a special person with a special gift.
And he learn to did it hard way with all the best quality that he had.
Seperberapa kualitas kita dibanding Rasulullah?
Jadi kalau kita berani membandingkan diri kita dengannya, berani juga nggak dengan konsekuensinya.

Dan lagi, mestinya ngga ada cinta yang lebih besar di hati kita selain cinta pada Allah SWT Yang Maha Pengasih dan Maha Penyayang. Sudahkah kita?

*just to remind my self about my priority
(copy from my fb note)

Unacceptable

Is this the 'right' way to treat a human being?
I believe, from any point of view it's just defined as unacceptable.
Very wrong but nobody says anything... Weird and ironic.
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Birthday boys and busy mum :)

Yes, my boys' birthdays are only separated by one day (Farhan on 26th and Arif on 27th).
It's good if you can make one birthday party for them. But because somehow they are different person and have a different personality too, sometimes it's only make my life went crazy :)

Like this year, we had decided that no birthday party, we only buy presents that they really want and I would send cakes to Arif's class on Monday. But you know, children change their mind a lot. So practically we have two unplanned celebration: one with my Quran Study group (since Alfa kindly made the Spongebob Cake for the boys), one with the kids from next door (since we planned to slide on Sunday and thought it would be fun to ask them too); and two other planned 'party' in school on Monday.

I didn't realize how crazy it could be until I baked 3 pans of cake, decorated it on Sunday and Monday morning (and realize I didn't have anything to prettify the cake besides cream cheese and limited amount of icing sugar, and no food coloring or else besides sprinkles :0 waaaak! No store open in Trinidad on Sunday, especially on 4 pm!!!!). Send the cakes to Farhan's class in the morning, went back home to decorate the other cake and went back to school to send the cake to Arif's class and set up the table.

I ended the day by starring on piles of pans, bowl and other baking equipment in my kitchen. What a perfect day!

It's a real challenge for me (especially with homework of 2 paintings from Hemali's class and 1 block of quilt from Cherri's class in my hand), but you know what, I enjoyed it somehow. The challenge of juggling between the tasks is really fun!
Especially when the boys came back home and said: that's the best cake I've ever had and my friends really like it!!! Thank you mum!
It's really worth to do :)


Then I really grateful to Allah for everything I have today.
And I can answer the question of why didn't I have them both born on the same day :p

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Before I forgot

This is the story of my little boy, when he got five stitches on his lip.
Lot of thoughts came when it happened, include the question why could it be so hard to find someone who can do it to 5 years old child. It ended with decision that next time I have to bring my own needle and thread although I'm not really sure I'll be strong enough to do it to my own child :(

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