Long weekend, OVER! :(

That’s right…
The LONG awaited 4 days weekend just zoomed by like a rocket… It was a total drag having to go back to work, for me, for Tecky and especially for little Rachel… When I told her we need to go back to work, she just sulked and asked ‘WHY?! Holiday no more liao?’… Breaks the heart even more doesn’t it?

So, the long weekend… What have we done?
I was supposed to process the photos taken on our last family trip to Tioman (that was 4th-6th July! IMAGINE!!!) but didn’t even get near to it at all… I wonder how long I’ll be procrastinating those pics… So what did we do?

1) WE UPGRADED THE CAMERA – again!
That’s right, we got ourselves a new toy… Absolutely loving the new toy to the max… We paid RM2k++ from our own money (which was from the excess payment from settling our apartment’s homeloan) and selling our d80 and sold the Sigma 50-150mm f2.8 and some sponsoring from 4D *wink* (not ours but FIL’s)… What did we get??? A BOO-ti-ful full frame d700!

First pic taken with the d700…
(at ISO1600 mind you!)

2) Raya…
We got Rachel a baju kurung from Jusco (at RM39.90, only to be told it was on 50% the day after we got it) and visited her friend Irfan (in his grandparents’) with her other friend, Naomi… It was lotsa shouting and fun for the kiddos the whole afternoon, and lotsa extremely YUMMYLICIOUS food (cooked by Nadia’s mom – with Nadia’s help I was told)… The much heard of tomato rice, rendang, roti jala… *slurp*

She was funny with her kurung, since it was the first time she’s wearing it… When we were trying it, she was staring at me and said “Mommy, the skirt too long lar!!” but was perfectly happy wearing it the whole of 1st day Raya – just not too ladylike, and erm, can see her panties sometimes… hahaha…

In Nadia’s house…

Taking a pic with Naomi…
Wanted to take one with Irfan having a girl on each side, but not easy trying to persuade 3 x 3 years old wey…

At the pond near InLaw’s house…

3) Water colour and crayons – FINALLY!
I’ve been wanting to let her paint for a long long time, and only gotten around doing it now… She was very excited when we were at Populars bookstore getting the water colours and crayons, and was very careful with not messing everything up… Of course, the drawing was with LOTSA supervision, as she’s a little scared that she’ll draw the ‘wrong thing’, so kept asking us to guide her, but it turned out well…

Showing off her drawing, which is now stuck on the fridge…