The Day Before My Bro’s Ijab Qabul
The preparation day started on 4 Jan 2008. Unfortunately, I couldn’t take leave because I had a meeting in the morning. Bought Faiq’s baju Melayu, sampin and songkok at Alamanda and then went to pick 
up the bakul mas kahwin and bunga mas kahwin from Zavina in Taman Mesra. Kudos to her, she did a fantastic job! Sent her to a service centre in Balakong to pick up her dad’s car, drove back to AD to pack my stuff and Faiq’s. By the time I picked up Faiq from the nursery, it was almost 5 p.m. Reached D.U. at about 5.30 p.m. Some of my relatives were already there filling the chocs in the bekas bunga telur. Drove mom to Taman Tun to pick up some stuff, was supposed to pick up more stuff but it started raining cats and zebras and elephants and dogs at about 6 p.m. So I helped out in the bunga telur department untuil Faiq started crying coz ada selumbar termasuk dalam kaki dia. Aunty Leela, my siblings and I were practically wrestling with him to get it out but to no avail. Our relatives left after maghrib and sometime after that, my bro, my sis in-law together with her sister and mom came to help out with the hantaran. 
My sister in-law brought the sireh junjung she made. She too did an excellent job, it was so beautiful and has a nice scent..a combination of red roses and jasmine.
I am not that creative with gubahan and all so I leave it to my sis in-law to do the gubahan on the bekas cincin. Helped out mana yang terdaya. At about 9.30 p.m., upon realising that we will never succeed in taking out the selumbar, I brought Faiq to the clinic. There was another wrestling session there. He was screaming and crying and kicking (my li’l man is very strong!) and finally after 
going through that ordeal, selumbar telah berjaya dikeluarkan. When we reached home at about 10 p.m., my uncle and aunt came as well. Couldn’t help much as I had to take care of Faiq. By the time he slept, it was almost midnight. I iron our clothes and went to lala land at almost 1 a.m.
