While I let my DSLR rest, I worked on my Powershot S95 and my phone camera.
I kicked off my Friday seeing my daughter having her fringe chopped and I was laughing my heart out. My mom was apologizing but I thought it was classic!
As mentioned on my micro blogging network, it was a weekend which I wanted to try out taking pics in black and white. I have been a person who always appreciated colours and love how it can make a picture so vibrant!
So taking the pictures in black and white for me was very challenging.
And I have to admit that while I did snap a lot of pictures in black and white, I cannot help but have some coloured pictures too!
My weekends always start from Fridays and then Monday I will have to recover from my weekhangover.
Friday after work, I met mom and my daughter in town for tea, catching up on stories and spending time as much as we can whenever Alfi is busy.
Then it was a chilling session with my cousin who has two adorable children. We always have had amazing relationship together and I am glad that we do.
We decided to chill out at Coffee Bean at One Fullerton that humid night. It did not even stop us to have an evening walk after that but only stop short because it drizzled.
Here were us juggling with the (active) little ones and the camera!
Failed the quality check but here are the pictures anyway!
Surprisingly, we met up again for makan session in JB! Rania was such a handful that I did not take any pictures at all!!!
Saturday morning, we sent Alfi's grandparents for a short getaway to Batam.
We thought Rania should have a picture with her great grandparents for keepsake.
If you did not know, Alfi made Mac'D forbidden food for me and I have not touched fastfood for 3 weeks. So for him to bring us to Mac D for breakfast was awesome! I was all smiles!
And so was our little girl. She is so full of expression!
And after her meal, she started feeling sleepy again.
I swear, that Saturday was a busy day! We went home after brunch, changed and off we went for a wedding!
Rania is beginning to recognize the camera and can be very coorperative with me.
Alfi's brother handed over to us his car seat. You cannot imagine how thankful we are because it was about time that Rania changed her car seat and they don't come cheap these days. So that was money saved from our pockets! *kaching!*
To keep her busy in the car seat, we gave her a toy which occupied her really well!
Good job Mummy & Baba!
At the wedding, I met a child who I wanted to meet for a very long time. Born 4 months earlier than Rania to an set of awesome parents, I am so looking forward for them to be playdates. Date each other in front of their mummies' eyes.
Ilyas is so shy, unlike Rania who made me work around the table that I did not even get to eat!
Unexpectedly, I met my old classmate in Secondary School and I was so excited. It took me a while to recognize her and herself a while to recognize me.
"Are you Azilah?" I asked. "Yes," she answered with her no-nonsense tone.
"Oh my god.. it's me. Mima."
"Mima?"
"Mima from TKSS."
Her face changed. "Oh my god, you look so different!"
I wanted to ask her whether it was for the better but Alfi answered that for me in the car. He said,"You kan kental time sekolah (off-beat in school)"
I am so glad I found her.
(p.s: see at the bottom right of the picture what the lil' girl is doing)
Sunday was a relaxed day for us. It was just late relaxed lunch, tea and doing some banking.
So if you wondered where are my products of my black and white weekend, here you go!
Thank you to the wonderful ladies who have tagged #velvetchronicles for their black and white pictures! I really smile seeing their stories of black and white.
I love this from Aladynna who had her picture taken at Sentosa.
Awesome picture from Fedah Sufyan. Make me look forward to have #2!
A lovely surprise from Khuzaimah who I forgot snapped a pic of Rania when she was 6 months.
Thank you Lynadiva and Namira for cloud pictures. They are always so serene to look at.
Thank you Linda for the picture. It makes me miss holding my daughter close.
And lastly I love children's smile. They always make you smile back.
Thank you Mariam!
A womderful reader shared with me what she used to do during the weekends and here was her note
To me Rina, I would still consider yourself very lucky for the fact that you still have both your parents despite they no longer look upon the same direction anymore. It is very tough but the awesome thing is you are a mother and a wife yourself.
The fact that you have a 4-year-old and a wonderful husband would mean that there can be many more smiles just within the 3 of you. I am sure you miss what used to be what it was before but rest assured that you are given the opportunity to have it even better within your own family.
Maybe someday, you can share with me pictures of how you make your weekends great just with the 3 of you. It was not easy for me either when I lost my dad. I know I can never have a complete family meal. But we make do and we make the best of it.
I am sure you can too. The first step is the hardest but subsequently it gets easier. I pray for you and your family and hope that all will be well, regardless of what happens next.
This is life. We are born for this.
*hugs*
If you have a story to share or ideas of how to spice up the weekend, do share with me at nuramima@hotmail.com
So how did your weekend go?
xoxo
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