Trip To Zurich....

Zayd and Hannah will be bound for Zurich on 24/2 for a 5 day trip for their honor band festival. Thinking that it is such a short trip and the amount that we have to spend plus the current fincial gloom..I decided not to go... But over the weekend..I met with Mrs. Elkins who is their choir teacher and the spouse of their band conductor/teacher..how she entuse about the whole thing and what an opportunity..and how proud I should be for not just one but two who got selected..it makes me thinking..Well...for a fact..I do not want them to be really involved in music as we know what are the limitations..all along since it is a subject learned in school..we tend to let them to go along with it..while all the time we feel that we should not encouraged them much. But at the same time thinking..better now than later? Very conflicting logic... Although we ourselves do not understand one note of it when they practised and asked how it sounds..we will just go uh..uh...okey..??!!??

But this year...they audition for the place to be in the honor band festival to be held in Zurich, where selected students converge from all over the world I guess...and be in a band and play together..I believe to be selected is indeed an achievement...Actually...the teachers may not understand our reactions at all when they entused about the whole thing..they seems more overjoyed than us..thanked for all our support and encouragement and wondering where the talent came from...Well...we are actually not really that keen but we think while in school..why not let them have the feel of it....Many may not bein agreement but Allah swt knows our intention...

And thus..after contemplating and with the guise of..why not go..just incase Zayd or Hannah face a problem...I decided okay..I might go...than Azlan says..if you go alone..the kids are busy with their own schedule and you will only see them on concert days. He said..why not I try to get a few days leave...what the heck he said..its only money..insyaállah it will be recovered soon enough..hmm...so today..if he got the leave..we shall be on our way..provided if we can get the tickets...

Do You Remember When...

• Your dealings with teenagers were when you are one and not when they are yours?? Is it one and the same thing or is it much..much..different... Do you go with..umphh..I don't think I ever said that if not one of my parents will sure hunt me down to silence...Were there anybody namely adults who will care for your actual feelings before imposing...
• Today..do you have to contemplate many times before actually propose anything to YOUR teenagers...

• Kids can walk down the streets or play in your front yard without fear of being snatched.. I remembered going to the wet market by bus when I was 12 and my sis 9 to get some fish and vegetables by instruction of my late mum and take a bus back home and walk a further 30mins or so to reach the house..Weren't there any fear?
• At 16 took a bus to Bahau from K.Klawang on my own and had to change bus twice..just to go for prize giving at my previous school..what were my parents thinking..he..he..
• Ahh..well..at less 18yrs... I was taking a flight to Illinois and thus my actual life journey began...
• At 19&1/2 I got married and at 20&1/2 my first child arrived and now..he's working..
• Gosh...just heard a friend's daughter will be getting married in Dec..she's 2 years younger than my son....

• I still have the Corning ware sets that I bought thru mail order for abt USD70..my first and only....my son was abt 1&1/2 years...I still have most of the 7 pieces with their covers..close to 24 years now.
• I still have the Cornerstone 2 sets I bought for my self upon graduation....although 2 cups broke when I move to USJ 4/1G in 1992..
• I have the 2 Corningware roaster pan, that I bought at K-Mart for USD10 each just b4 returning to Malaysia in 1986..
• I still have 2 single chairs although 3x upholstered with me here in Dhahran b4 Ayman was even born..we bought it somewhere in Pulau Tikus, Penang in 1989..
• I lost most of my old jewellery by way of a light handed maid who ran away in 2000.. Left was just my engagement ring and 2 necklaces..