Today is April 1st!

April Fools

"Explaination from Ustaz Mohd Masri Mohd Ramli"

... Sambutan ini (hari April Fool) adalah dilarang untuk Muslim kerana empat sebab:

1. Larangan menipu yang sudah termaktub di dalam al-Quran dan as-Sunnah.
2. Kesedihan dan ketakutan yang tidak berasas (yang disebabkan penipuan itu) yang mungkin boleh menimpa seseorang mahupun kesemua ahli keluarganya walaupun hanya untuk satu jam.
3. Pengkhianatan ke atas kepercayaan yang diberikan.
4. Meniru budaya buruk yang bukan milik kita, iaitu penipuan.

The Princess and the Frog

• Papa and mama watched "The princess and the frog" movie last weekend. No fancy and 3D animation, it is a classic cartoon like a few years before. Fun to watch!
• ". . . good gravy! A story! Characters! A plot! It's set in a particular time and place! And it uses (calm me down here) lovingly hand-drawn animation that proceeds at a human pace, instead of racing with odd smoothness. I'm just gonna stand here and let it pour over me". ~ Roger Ebert

My princess and the frog! hehhe

Notes: March 31th, Aliya flipped her body by herself yesterday! She looks very energetic to flip and move. Alhamdulillah.

Alhamdulillah

Praise be to Allah.

• Papa allowance has been transfered last Friday.
• Rash on Aliya's face is getting better.
• Many thanks to Allah for all His kindness and supports, thanks for everything we had.

"Praise be to Allah, who promised his faithful slaves victory and support by saying, "And it was a duty incumbent upon us to aid those who believed."

I bear witness that there is none to worshipped save Allah, One, with no partners.

He sent His Messenger Muhammad (s) with guidance and the religion of Truth to cause it to prevail over all religions even though the unbelievers may detest it." and I bear witness that our Master, Prophet, and Beloved Muhammad (s) is the Messenger of Allah, He is the Imam of the Pious, the Master of the Messengers and the Mercy to the worlds." ~ Khutbat al-Jumu'ah

Aliya of the day!

Papa & Aliya...

Aliya faces....

My princess, a gift from Allah...

Notes: Last night we watched Couple Retreat movie, rented from redbox.com. These are some reviews from that movie:

• I think, this movie is fun to watch.

• It is a romantic comedy centered around four couples who settle into a tropical-island resort for a vacation. While one of the couples is there to work on the marriage, the others fail to realize that participation in the resort’s therapy sessions is not optional. ~movie blog

• Couples Retreat, at its heart, is a funny movie with a pretty solid premies that shoots itself in the foot repeatedly by not developing an identity for itself, acting like it’s smarter than it is one minute, and the nose diving into unfunny nonsense slapstick comedy the next minute. A movie that starts pretty strong but leaves you feeling like the filmmakers didn’t have a clear vision for where they wanted the film to go, and thus the movie stalls in the third act. Still, there were enough laughs and smiles in the film that I don’t regret taking the time out to see it, and so overall I give Couples Retreat a 5 out of 10. ~movie blog

Mama's Birthday celebration

Mama's birthday is on March 16, but the "party" was postponed today, March 20.

Today's activities:

[1] In the morning, Aliya and Mama just stay at home while papa went to his green house to take care his paddy(rice) plants. After Mama and papa having their breakfast, they bathing Aliya with warm water in the baby bath-tub. For the first time Aliya cried while bathing, pity Aliya because the soap bubble all over the face.

[2] At 11.30am, we went out to the post office at down town. Mama need to do delivery for her eBay item, after that, papa drove us to Wallmart. :)

[3] At Walmart, Mama and papa do the shopping while Aliya sleeping in the baby seat. krooh krooh...zzzzz..... We shopped at Walmart for 45 minutes before we heading to HyVee, then papa order pizza from PIzza Hut for today's lunch, yummy-licious vegi, extra cheese pizza!

[4] At 2.00pm, we reached home! Time to solat and prepare meals for the birthday party. Papa made Strawberry cheesecake, chicken BBQ and nasi impit. Thanks to papa for special treat today!

Papa is preparing the BBQ

Cheese cake!

Strawberry cheesecake recipe (modify from food network channel magazine):

1. Cheese cake layer:

• Cream cheese
• Eggs
• Sugar

2. Strawberry whipped cream layer:

• Fresh strawberry
• Sugar
• Whipped cream

*Mix all the ingredients in *1 in mixer, bake for 1 hour. While waiting for the cheese cake layer to bake, blander all the *2 ingredients. Then, put the blend cream on the top of the cheese cake layer. Lastly, put the cheese cake in the freezer for 4 hours and ready to eat! Yummy-liciuos!

[5] Time to settle down, rest, watched Ponyo movie (we rent it from redbox.com) and then sleep. Goodnite everyone.

Alhamdulillah.

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Mama