Category: Family
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The Other Side
I’d like to treat the years we live in as friends. Instead of being mad at the year and myself for all the untouched and unfinished resolutions, I would rather thank it instead, reflect on what I have learnt and bid it farewell before we all welcome a new friend called 2019. The happiest moment…
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The Coin
When I was a teenager, my dad and I went somewhere to eat. I dropped a twenty cent coin from my purse but ignored it. He asked me if I was going to pick it up, I foolishly said no and said ‘it doesn’t matter dad, the value is too little for anything’. My dad…
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PS: I am MOMMY
Mondays are the worst for me. It’s horrible for most of us but it’s the day I dread because that’s when I miss Rauf the most. I look forward for work but separating from Rauf after being with 24 hours during the weekend is just dreadful. Rauf grew 3 inches tall in the past 3 months.…
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2B Beveridge St
More than a year ago, Joe and I came home from work, exhausted. While we rested Joe suddenly turned and said to me ‘Let’s go back to your first kampung (hometown) for your birthday’. Shocked, I said ‘Hah, you nak balik Kota Bharu?’ ‘Perth la’, Joe replied ‘My birthday present for your next year’. When you…
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The Birthday Party
I started planning for Rauf’s birthday party 6 months before. Typical right, first child and all. I had people telling me that he won’t even know what’s going on. Well duh, he’s one, but there will be pictures for him to see and that’s exactly what I want. I want my son to see with…
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