15 Years...

...of Living Together

Last night mad redo1 and his roomey celebrated their 15 years together.

The usual cliche "How time flies" is applicable here, considering it seems just like yesterday (another cliche) that he just said his aqad to end his single roving days.


As everything in life, the fifteen years are not without ups and downs. For that mad redo1 is very thankful to have found someone that complement his life while he tries his best to ensure the favour is returned.

There are quite a number of things we share our passion and one of them is cooking. Thus we decided the best way to celebrate the 15 years is to cook our own dinner instead of having someone else do it for us.


Furthermore, it is much better to have food prepared in the name of love and for someone you loved, while feeling the love in the food prepared by the love of your life.


Thus for our 15 years celebration dinner, mad redo1 cooked the fish and chicken: pan-frying the salmon to (his term of) perfection while the marinated chicken breasts were grilled (though in reality they were pan-fried too).


The roomey meanwhile prepared the pasta and the #2 AKS lent a hand by preparing the salad in thousand islands dressing.


It was a simple dinner, shared in joy and happiness marking a very important landmark in our life as a family.


To the next fifteen years... and beyond!


Note: mad redo1 apologizes for the quality of the photos, he left the big guns at his office thus used the phone camera and the deploy the AKS to snap these moments.


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The Passing...

...of the Storyteller.

I was together with Zaleha Khairene Ismail in my living room (she of course on the other side of the screen) when she conveyed the sad news to the rest of the nation that Yasmin Ahmad had passed away.

Of course I do not her personally but she had been tugging the hearts of many Malaysians through her memorable works which somehow had endeared her to me like I have known her for real. Then the words she wrote sharing her feelings with visitors that came to her pages enabled us to 'feel' with her the ups and downs of Yasmin Ahmad.

As it is in life, she was not everyone cup of tea, and I disagreed with a few things coming from her but it cannot be denied that her works really opened up many Malaysian minds, especially with the controversial 'SEPET' which I would say became the benchmark of how I would rate local films for the next few years.

Living in kT denied me of catching her theatre releases but I would try my best to get my hands on the original DVD of 'Mukhsin', 'Gubra' and hopefully 'Muallaf'.

Those who had the opportunity working with her must be a lucky group of people. For them her passing would be felt much more than by us whose interraction with her were limited to her work or appearance on the screen, but all the same it a sad day.

The grey sky over kT seems to be mourning the passing of The Storyteller.

And so are we... rest in peace; Yasmin Ahmad.


Al-Fatihah.


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Hello...

...Everybody!

It seems just like yesterday that she joined us in this world, and right before our eyes she has grown quite substantially. Today she is 5 months old.

We pray for your health and happiness, and we will try our best to be there for you all the time.

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Time Flies...

...so Fast.

The saying applies when you are spending time with your loved ones.

Don't you think so?

That what mad redo1 feels as he realises that Khalisa Shukriah has been under his care for more than two months now. How he feels it is only yesterday that he is reciting the Adzan and Iqamah at her ears after the safe delivery by Linda.

She was so small, fragile and with a lot more hair.

Today, she has grown so much and lost a bit of her hair. As mad redo1 stares at her face, he is reminded of his time with the older AKSes when they were at the same age.

The looks were almost the same.

Khalisa has begun responding to her surrounding and it is a treat for both mad redo1 and Linda when she smiles and lets out small cries of joy.

How he wishes that she will take her time growing up.

Coincidently, the eldest AKS, Berg is spending the weekend away from the family for the first time in our life. With the UPSR looming in the horizon, she is attending a camp to prepare her and her friends for the exam.

It is a bit weird not having her around though it is something that will eventually happen when she leaves the nest to further her studies.

It may seem to be a long away still, but I believe ten years in the future I will be saying the same old thing again:

"How time flies..."

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