Ekka in Brisbane 2011

Saturday, 20 August 2011

Ekka is a yearly event in Brisbane calendar, organized every August. What is it about? Ekka consists of attractions such as rides, games to win stuffed toys, performances by Australian artists, selling well knownmerchandises and chocolates at cheaper price etc. We went last year and had great time. This year we didnt want to miss it for the world! Our main objective was to win a big stuffed toy for Princess Rania.

We managed to win big Elmo for her! My husband did the work, I just cheered and gave him motivation. I think the game was pretty difficult, but my husband knows the technique very well. 

I also bought Rania's Dora the Explorer merchandises too which includes travel bag, bag pack, umbrella etc all for $25.

Science Week at QIMR

Thursday, 16th August 2011

Recently QIMR (my lab where I work) held a science week. Several activities were organized during that week. My colleagues and I recently joined a Science Trivia games, we manage to get 4th out of 8th place. I think we did pretty good. Honestly, the question was quite hard for me! I didnt know any of the answer hehe.. But at least I learn something and general knowledge that night too. We called our team the 'Iron Man' because we are from the iron metabolism research group.

Another activity was Science cake stall. People in the labs were invited to bake anything they want to represent 'Science' theme. They were many creative designs of cake and cupcakes too. I also joined in, I made small ginger bread men in white and blue lab coats. Blue lab coats represents those working  with radioactive. Too photos of the various stuffs baked by the people in the lab. 

Rania with Baby Elmo

Monday, 15th August 2011

This is one of my favourite photo of Rania sent to me from Auntie Sija. She got a new toy just now, a baby elmo! *kiss* *kiss*

First Keyboard

Saturday, 13th August 2011

Guess what?! Rania just received a gift from her Uncle Zul, her first keyboard! Wow! Rania is turning into a young musician. It is mommy's dream to see her able to play an instrument. Hope to be able to send her to music school and learn to play professionally. I hope when she grow up, she will be a piano expert and can play music for Mommy and Daddy. Yeay! She just loves to press the keyboard keys to hear any sort of sound! Take a look at her photo above, looking like a serious musician! I really miss her at this moment.. Wish I can hug and play keyboard with her!

Dinner with some IHS students

Friday, 12th of August 2011

Last night, I managed to catch up with the students that are currently studying at the Queensland medical school ( which is very close to my lab).  There are Andrew, Jeh Wen and Pey Wen. Had a nice italian foods dinner with them at the South Bank of Brisbane City. We had some nice italians pizzas and lasagnas from Amici's restaurant too. They seemed to be coping really well with their study and work attachment too. It was nice being able to talk to them. Hope to see them again in the future.

All the way from Singapore

Friday, 5th August 2011

Uncle Alwis and Auntie Sija recently went to Singapore for a bit. Both of them bought special gifts for Princess Rania. Guess what, Rania got a cute Dora backpack, a water bottle and inflatable bowl. Rania loves Dora the Explorer so much, she can recognize the music from that cartoon and also the characters. These are very useful gifts for Rania indeed for her while on the move. Since, the festive season is also coming up pretty soon. She is now taking breakfast, dinner and lunch like adults do! Thanks Uncle Alwis and Auntie Sija for the wonderful gifts for Rania!

Happy Ramadhan

Tuesday, 2nd August 2011

Today is the first of Ramadhan in Brisbane as well as those in Brunei too. I'm currently in Brisbane. The rest of my family including my parents and Baby Rania are all back in Brunei. I also went back to help her settle there. She seemed to be doing alright. As for me, I'm not so sure.. I think you can guess. Anyway, happy Ramadhan to all those that has been following this blog. My baby daughter is doing just fine. She's all grown up now. Being able to sit on her own. She also able to grab onto furniture trying to stand. She's also a crawling expert now. She is a very brave girl, I must say. Before I came back to Brisbane, I'm so happy that I'm able to catch her doing all this things too. Oh dear, how I miss her sooo much. She is taking her solids food like a pro. Already had a taste of chicken and meat too. Oh yeah, she is currently 10 months corrected age. We stayed in touch almost everyday actually on Worldfon and Facetime too.

Rania's First Bday Celebration

Sunday, 31st July 2011

The initial plan was for my parents and Rania to go by themselves back to Brunei. However, at the last minute I decided to come along to help her settle her stuffs back home. My husband didnt know I was coming back, he was very surprised to see me at the airport. But I'm glad that I could see my other family members too. Rania's birthday was on the 8th of July 2011. At the last minute, we've decided to organize her party at our place in Jerudong. It was a last minute plan, that everything was done in a rush. But so happy that we manage to get Sugarban to cater our event too. We have special guess coming to her party too, Barney! Sugarban also organize some games as part of the birthday party package. We managed to pull it off! Rania got lots of gifts and toys from her cousins, lucky girl! Thanks to family who came to our event and also for all her wonderful gifts.

Happy First Year Bday to Me

Friday, 8 July 2011

Assalamualaikum everyone!

Its Princess Rania here. How is everyone doing? Mum has been updating all the posts for me in this blog. I haven't been writing. I'm such a busy person nowadays, as you can you, I'm busy crawling around the apartment. Grabbing every single things that I see, especially colourful ones. Life has been wonderful since I'm able to crawl. My latest favourite thing is to grab hold of big furnitures and trying to stand up high! Hehe. Don't worry, my Mommy, Grandpa and Grandma always there to grab me, as I'm still a little wobbly.

Do you know what day is it today? Yes, its Friday, but something special is going on today. It's my birthday today! Happy Birthday to me~~ Hehe. I'm one as of today. I can't believe it. But corrected I'm still 9 months. My latest weight check is about 6.2Kg. Not much is planned for me today, because daddy is not around to celebrate with me. I played dress up in my new blue gowns and also bright pink party hat! I had Mr Teddy, Sharky, Brown Rabbit, Pink Rabbit, Pinky Hippo and all the other toys to celebrate with me. It was a lot of fun!

Crawling Superbaby in Action

Saturday, 2nd July 2011

Our superbaby has made a lot of progress in her crawling skills. Take a look of her latest video. She has gotten much better day by day! She is also trying to stand on furnitures too. But she still need some support to keep her stable. Really happy with her progress, 6 more days to her big day!

Facetime

Friday, 1st July 2011

Facetime has been a great method to stay connected with our family in Brunei. It is a type of video call only available using your Apple iphone. Princess Rania also enjoyed facetiming with Daddy, Wawa and Irings too. Thanks to modern technology, way to stay connected is more fun nowadays!

How You Doin'

Saturday, 25 June 2011

This is one of Rania's favourite pose in a picture. I took this photo while she was shopping, she looked very serious in this photo too. What do you think? Cute is'nt :). The second photo is taken from my iphone. Actually it is from a video that I took, her Auntie Sija send this photo took me with the title a ' One Million Dollar Smile'. Hehe.

Safety First

Friday, 24 June 2011

Take a look at Rania's photo on the way to shopping! Whenever she is in the car, we make sure that she is safe and sound. Thanks to Wawa Miah and Uncle Zul for the car seat. They got it for her while she was in Brunei last April. A very useful gift indeed! She love it there too because it is very comfortable and cozy. She love to sleep in them too, at least she get a good rest before she can get busy window shopping. You must be wondering how she is at the shopping mall. Surprisingly, she really love looking at people and things! Sometimes she prefer to be picked up rather than sitting on her stroller, so that she can see things much easier. She seemed to have colour preference when we want to choose clothes for her. She love bright or light pink colour, just like mommy :).

Bon Voyage Wawa Miah

Sunday, 19 June 2011

Wawa Miah spent about 2 weeks here in Brisbane. It was fun having her around, Rania has extra someone to play with while I'm at Uni. We managed to go to so many places too. Her favourite place to shop is Target Chermside and Myers too. I think she can spend the whole day shopping there :P She spend a lot on clothes, socks, bags and Rania's toys! It was a good time for her to be here too because there's a big sale at some of the big shops here. Hope to see you again Wawa! Rania missed you a lot..

At Brisbane Airport

Bru-Brisbane Young Ladies

Sunday, 19th June 2011

On the same day, Wawa Miah left us, we had a farewell BBQ invitation organized by a couple of Bruneians families. They are actually leaving Australia for good as they have completed their studies. Congratulations to the following sisters, Shikin, Salina and Ejah for graduating this year! I hope I didnt miss anyone in the list. If I do, this congratulatory message goes to you too! Took a couple of photos during the BBQ. One photo was particularly special, it is the one by which Rania took a photo with a group of young Bruneian girls living in the same area with us. From the left, Kaka Dayna, Kaka Syaza and Kaka Anis. The last two girls parents are the ones who are studying here in Brisbane and also finishing this year. I actually always saw them playing at the park near to where we live. It is rather quiet now, since they have gone back to Brunei. I hope to see them in the future and Rania will be a bit older to, so that they can play together

Yuen's Seafood Market

Tuesday, 14 June 2011

My sister and I went for an adventure to Fortitude Valley, China Town. This area is just about 15 minutes by car from our apartment. But we went there by train, for the sake of advetnture and took us about 30 mins to get there. I was craving for some crab meat with tomato sauce made by my mom. Manage to get some big juicy crabs today from the Yuen's food market in China Town.

Little Mermaid - Theathre

Sunday, 12 June 2011

Last night, I went to see a theathre called 'The Little Mermaid' with my sister, Mariah. It was actually a ballet show. The show was marvellous and entertaining too! Would love to see more theathre in the future too. The first theathre that I ever watch was when I was in the UK called 'Wicked.' That show was also very memorable too. In Australia, I found people dressed up very well in pretty dresses and tuxedos when they come to the show. They were some young girls to wearing cute princess gowns too. We didn't dressed up though :p.

Photo of us before the show

Brisbane Winter Festival

Friday, 10 June 2011

Brisbane is currently organizing Brisbane Winter Festival for the first time ever. It is happening since yesterday, until the 29th of June 2011. We went to see what was happening too. There was a big ice-skating ring, food stalls etc. Since my big sister, Maria are currently here, we took this opportunity to ice skate! We are both not a good skater but we manage to skate a bit at the side of the ring and took a couple of photos. The last time I skate was when I was undergrad about 4 to 5 years ago. It was very crowded, but was a lot of fun! I hope that Brisbane will organize this event again next year.

'First Class' in Gold Class

Monday, 6 June 2011

Lots of new exciting movies are coming out this and next month too. I'm eagerly waiting for the screening of the Harry Potter and Transformer. The latest movie I watched solo was X-Men - First Class. For the first time, I had a go with the Gold Class seats cinema at the Westfield Chermside. The Gold Class is more of like a first class cabin when you go on the aeroplane. The seat was soft, big and comfy too! It has an electronic leg and back rest adjustment. Cool isn't.

There was also a lounge outside the cinema for a cup of coffee or event lunch. In the Gold Class cinema, we are allowed to get some hot food like chips etc, but we have to buy it from the bar there. I didn't order any, too much eating might made me feel sleepy. You must be wondering, how much is the ticket? Its AUD$25. Oh yeah, this latest movie by X-men was first class! I love it! The earlier movie of X-men was actually among a few first movies that I watched with my husband too and that was when we were still in England. Oh yeah, 2 special people are coming to town this week. Guess who?

Two First Teeth

Wednesday, 1 June 2011

After a couple of shots, I manage to take a photo of Rania's two first tooth on her lower jaw! These teeth started to show about 1 month ago. Right now, you can clearly see both of them, especially when she laughs! It is much easier for her to eat her favourite baby snacks bites right now. She likes to play her teeth with her tongue too. She bites almost anything she can see right now. Have to really keep a close eye on her too because everything she see is going to her mouth!

Development on Track

Tuesday, 31 May 2011

Today is a public holiday in Brunei in commomeration with the Birthday of Brunei's Army. Enjoy your holiday Brunei people! Anyway, Rania had another visit by her community nurse, Nurse Vivian. As usual, I was asked about her development so far. She is on track with everything! What can she do now? She can crawl a little bit, but still need a lot of practice. She likes to play bubbles and raspberries. She understands peek-a-boo game too. Apart from that, she is now expert holding her own bottles too. Latest, Rania also tried to stand by holding on to big furnitures or couch in front of her. Caught her a couple of times doing this. Yeay!

Her current weight now is 5.84kg and ength of 64cm. Nurse Vivian said she needs to gain more weight as she is slightly lower than other babies her age.  The next plan is to start taking some meat in her diet, that includes mince chicken and beef. Exciting!

Project Runaway

Monday, 30 May 2011

Do you know the program called Project Runaway? Myself and Grandma are up to something fun these days! Grandma just bought her new gadget, a Singer Overlocker. It was her dream to buy that machine! Got it for her as a gift for mother's day and belated birthday gift too. She really deserve that gift after all she has done for me here in Brisbane.

Back to our project matter, we are going to make her Baju Kurong and a dress. Grandma will be in-charged of making the patterns, and sewing the actual Baju. My job will be to put on some beads on them. I never actually put beads on any my own clothes before, I guess this is kinda experimental for me! There are plenty of designs that I can follow online too. Will see how it goes!

Rania's Latest Photo

Sunday, 29 May 2011

Hello everyone! Take a look at her latest photo! She has grown chubbier and got more hair too. Hehe..

Crawling Superbaby - Another Video

Saturday, 28 May 2011

Princess Rania is just getting much better each day! Take a look at another video of her practicing her crawling skills. Still need practice, but one thing for sure, she is getting much faster!

Crawling Superbaby - The Video

Monday, 23 May 2011

Princess Rania is getting much and much better each day with her crawling skills! Took a video of her just now in-action trying to reach for her toys. She is actually getting more faster too. Mommy and Grandma has to get fit too, will need more energy trying to catch her! Hope you enjoy the video. Feel free to comment! I actually viewed this video a couple of times, made me want to cry actually. So proud of her, love you so much princess.