A Wonderful Thursday

March 18, 2010...
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It was 4:30 am in the morning when Zakiran, our little brother suddenly comes in our room and touches my right foot with his cold hands...


"Salamu 'Alaykum, Kakah Haleema, Kakah Ajran, wake up naa..." he whispers.


As we got up, I remembered that I had taken my Sahur earlier...
And so everything goes...


I heard the morning call of prayer which I haven't heard for a while. The voices of the muezzins from all the mosques in this village merged into another voice in the soft morning air...


How nice it was to wake up early in the morning but then, I slept again.


I woke up again at 10 am from the noises Ajran and Zakiran were making while playing in Aj's bed.
I was about to ask her why didn't she wake me up when I remembered one of house rules. 

"Don't wake up a fasting person from his/her sleep."

Alhamdulillah all of us were able to do everything we needed to do for the day. 

By Maghrib time, the 5 of us were left at home with our Iftars layed out in the dining table. Amah and Auntie Salha had left earlier for their classes...


We made sure that everyone was ready for iftar before we ate.


With bread, tea, dates, and chicken curry... We were SOLVED!!

The Making of The King Puppet

My mother told me and Ajran, "Girls, help your Kakah Imran prepare the things assigned to him for his school project, okay?"

Kakah Imran was going to have a puppet show along with his groupmates, and he was assigned to make grasses and a king puppet. We were only supposed to make the grasses for him. But Ajran was doing something urgent... And I kind of got more interested on making the king than the grasses.

I've made about 2 grasses already, when Kakah Imran made a mistake on making the head of the king. o_0
I, on the other hand was trying to make a peasant. When I found out about it, I quickly changed what I was working on into a king.

I was about to hand it to him already when I held my hand back... He was doing another assignment.. COLLEGE LIFE!!

With my paint and pastels, I colored the head, made some holes for the eyes and a mouth... Then inserted 2 wooden brown beads for the eyes...

I didn't bother to color the inner parts of the body anymore, "I'll be dressing him up anyways" was what was on my mind then.

Who would've thought that something as ugly as this:

 

Would look like this:

Yeah, I'm kind of surprised myself. We all just need to extend our imagination.

I put approximately 8 layers of clothes on that.. And the sign in the middle goes like this:

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Wassalam,
Haleema

Lyncat My Cat, Did This and That II

1) Played with the mosquito net right when I was setting it up.

2) Bit and scratched my hand after I found him when we were playing hide and seek.

3) Watched love stories with our Aunties late at night. "Lyncat, kittens are not allowed to watch THAT!"

That's all for now...

Wassalam.