Farewell to Kak Faizah...

On the 20th of November, Kak Faizah and her kids are going to go back to Malaysia for good. Her husband will continue working for MISC until the end of the year. She's also fortunate because she's going to perform her hajj next month, insyaallah...

So, she's been on shopping excursions for the past few weeks... buying clothes, carpets etc. Some to give away as presents and some for her own use. Since food's always at the heart of malaysian lifestyle, there's been a lot of eating as well... We disguise it as 'farewell(s) to Kak Faizah'... hehehe...

First, Kak Jaz and Lisna hosted the farewell in Kak Jaz's house on the 9th of November. It was supposed to be morning coffee but lasted well into lunch time... Lisna prepared laksa sarawak while Kak Jaz prepared nasi dagang, roti jala and a heavenly chocolate cake... Some of us prepared kuih and deserts. I fried the mini fish karipaps...hehehe

Amir's focus was on the desert table...hehehe

We were intent on the discussions about carpets...

On the 11th, Kak Faizah invited us to her house for a pot-luck brunch. We had nasi lemak, mee udang, nasi impit and lontong and a variety of deserts. I made tiramisu. I was amazed looking at Kak Faizah's house... it looked like the insides of a treasure chest. Full of knick-knacks and showcase items. She travelled quite a lot, so in her travels she collected quite a lot of beautiful decorations. Just look at the pictures...

The crystals are from Egypt and the mini Faberge eggs...

Beautiful isn't it?

Very small and delicate items on display...

On her counter and behind, you can see the ceramic plates...

This is the desert table...

I was very careful with Amir, lest he breaks anything. One of the candle sticks did fall and broke but I was glad it's not broken by Amir...hehehe. By looking at her house, I realised that there's so many treasures that you could find in the middle east... Hmm, lots of shopping to be done... hehehe

Anyway, we're supposed to go to Kandahar last friday, but since one of Kak Faizah's kid was not well, we cancelled the trip. We can always go to Kandahar some other time. Lastly, Kak Faizah, it's been great knowing you and hope you attained Haji mabrur, insyaallah. Hopefully, we'll meet again somewhere on Allah's earth (direct translation of 'di bumi Allah')...hehehe