Kawan Lama & Windsor

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Kawan Lama
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IT has been more than 13 years since i left MSM and since then i haven't got a chance to be in contact with Ahmad Riza. For some, 13 years is just a blink of an eye but for me... that is considerably and significantly long and i am very delighted to have been reunited with him. Upon learning that he is visiting UK for his almost 10 days vacation, i took the liberty to embrace the old time memories and i grabbed the opportunity to invite him for dinner. He accepted whole heartedly and arrived at our place with his wife, Junidza, who by the way was actually our junior, his friend - Cempaka who was our batch and to my surprise has been here for nearly 13 years, and with his 3 adorable children Irfan, Aqila and Alia.

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We met, we hugged and the first word that he uttered was: lainnya ko!... hahahaa... yes i have changed - a lot. I was very much smaller and skinny back then in msm and now i have bloated by how many folds, only god knows, hahahaa... Infact his wife had wrinkles on her face just to remember which one was me but, of course - with much difficulty, finally the old timorous me came flickling into her mind... ahak. :D
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Cempaka is the one in the middle, so i'm sure u guys can figure out the rest... :D
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Ahmad Riza - he is still as chirpy as ever and yes, to answer his wife question, i will definitely recognize him should i bump into him on the street. He still look the same, the only different is his hair which i reckon has started to grow scarcely, hahahaa... Since the 4 of us, me Riza his wife and Cempaka all came from the same college, we have a lot of common things to chat about. Mummy had also enjoyed our old time stories and sure she can relate it since, by now, mummy has known most of my friends.

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We joke, we laughed, we updated each other about ourselves and not to mention our other common friends as well and of course few names spurted from our lips like a river flow. Thus our voices (especially me! hahahaa...) jumbling and dancing in the air, filling up all the gap in the living room that, at certain instances, I thought were almost palpable. I mentioned about Ariff who is happened to be in London for vacation but sadly unable to join us as he was driving up north at the time we gathered. How we wish he could come and our dinner surely would be merrier.
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Meeting old friends is always something, what more when it reminisces the good old days and how glad i am that most of us have emerged - not only in size, haahahaaa... but career wise even though there are very much more to achieve and to look forward in the future. Riza is attached with Petronas and now pursuing his PhD and i wish him all the best. Should i know that he now resides in Holland, we definitely have sneaked-out to meet him during our last visit to Amsterdam. Tapi apa pun Alhamdulillah, thanks for accepting our invitation and may Allah bless and bestows us an everlasting friendship, insyaAllah. Keep in touch, fb kan ada... :D

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Windsor
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Tanpa ada sebarang plan kami pergi ke Windsor. Plan asal nak ke Bournemouth tapi bila masuk M3 aku tengok banyak sangat road works sampai drive pun begitu sluggish sekali, terus aku deviate to Windsor. Lagi pulak time tu kami bertolak lambat, dengan jem yg tak di undang tu maka pukul berapa lah pula nak bertolak balik nanti? Windsor was not a bad choice after all.

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Di Windsor ada ferries wheel juga...

Adik berlari2 di padang lapang di Windsor, ramai org sunbathing....

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Kat situ la ni ada funfair, tapi kami cuma pergi ke satu bahagian mini funfair sahaja yg kakak begitu enjoy naik corousel. Adik ntah napa sejak 2 menjak ni takut pulak dengan benda benda camni. So kakak conquer la & adik berdiri saja diluar sambil lambai2 kakak. Dah naik tu naik choo choo train pulak, sebab nak temankan budak pun kena token, so mummy saja yg naik. Dapat lah daddy snap snap gambo dari tepi pagar.

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Habis hati....

One way ticket.... one way ticket...

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Dah tu kitorang naik big wheel kat situ. Not bad la pemandangan dia and of course this is much much cheaper than London Eye. I think kakak & adik like this the most since it gave us 5 rounds and plus we do not have to share our capsule. Bijak diorang ni tangkap gambar kita sebelum naik dan bila kita turun dia dah buat siap dlm bentuk poskad. £12 pulak tu... walaupun ada banyak keping & di serta sekali dengan CD pemandangan di London/Windsor kami tak beli lah... baik spend that money for ice cream... kan, kan, kan? hahahaa...

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Kakak dan adik tengok pemandangan Windsor...

Nampak Windsor Castle dari atas Ferries Wheel ini...

Lagi pemandangan Windsor...

Daddy tangkap gambar adik ngan kakak...

Kakak tangkap gambar daddy ngan mummy pula... :D

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Dah tu ingat nak balik lah tapi bila lalu kawasan trampoline adik mengamok nak naik. Trampoline yg jenis ada tali tu, yg terlambung2 dan aku rasa mesti gayat jugak time dia jatuh ikut gravity. Jadinya aku pun confuse dan berbelah bagi dengan keberanian adik ni, betoi ka berani ni??? Pujuk pujuk tamau jugak. Angkat, dia mengamok dan bila lepas terus dia lari ke trampoline tu lagi. Adik jump, adik jump... katanya berulang2. So sebab dia dah nak sangat aku pun pegi la beli token walau pun dalam hati aku ragu ragu dengan permintaan adik ni... When i lifted adik on the trampoline i saw his face turned slightly pale but still he sidled up to the girl who eventually buckled him up with the safety belt. So apa jadi? Beranikah adik naik trampoline ni? Adegan seterusnya tak payah cerita, kita tengok gambo kat bawah ini lah...

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Adik di pasangkan dengan safety belt...

Are you okay? tanya minah salleh tu.... Yeaaasssss jawab adik....

Sekali bila minah tu lepas ja, terus adik jerit. Uwaaaaaaaaaaa....

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Its alright, its not that bad, isnt it? Kata minah tu cuba memujuk... tapi adik nangis juga, tak kasi can, huhuhuuu.... rileks la adik... Daddy pun cuba pujuk dari luar trampoline. Malangnya bagai mencurah air ke daun keladi, tu dia sempat berperibahasa, hahaaa... namun adik tak kira tetap nangis jugaaa... laaa... rugi la token tu adik... £5 tuu... jangan la nangis adik... jangan lah nangis ya. Bila dah pujuk pun tak jalan terpaksalah adik turun.... huhuhuuuu....

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.... dan akhirnya Daddy jugaaaaaaaak yg ganti. Wooohoooo..... besss oooo... jump! jump! jump! Wooohoooooooo..........

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Ahak!

Jumpa laaaaaaaaaagi....
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