Hafla – Middle Eastern Medley
Date: 8th March 2008
Venue: Living Arts Studio, No 1-3, Jalan PJS 8/11, Dataran Mentari, Bandar Sunway, 46150 PJ., Malaysia
Direction: We are opposite Sunway Pyramid. After Caltex Station, turn Left. Go straight and turn right immediately after Shell station. We are above Perodua showroom.
Time: 8.00pm-11.00pm
Tickets are for: RM65
Early bird price (before 15th Feb): RM45
A hafla in celebration of women – ‘Middle Eastern Medley’ will feature performances from instructors Naziehah, Huda, guest artists and students. Various Middle Eastern delicacies will be served buffet-style. There will be bazaars lining up choices of eclectic and genuine hand-made and home-made goodies. Henna art and make-over by make-up artist to indulge all your feminine desires! Besides dance performances, we will also have:
Other special treats:
1. FREE Henna art
2. Goodie bags
3. Lucky draws
4. ‘Hip’ Games!
And many more..
Get your tickets now by e-mailing elwardadance@gmail.com with your name, contact details and no. of tickets. Payment methods are via direct bank-in, Maybank2U, or cash directly to Naziehah.
For more information e-mail elwardadance@gmail.com or call Naziehah at 012-9250902
See all of you there!
Love,
Naziehah
My normally slow and steady weekdays are getting more hectic by the day. I was running here and there like a headless chicken trying to fit in everything that I need to do for my class, my event, my writing, my kitten.
I had many ideas running through my head. But I just do not have the time and energy yet. So among few little things that ran through my head while I was running around:
1. I still hate that ugly gangster yucky orange cat that attacked Patch. I was wondering what is it about this whole male territory issues? Why is it that a male cat needs to kill other male cat (despite that it is still insignificant helpless little baby) to ‘mantain’ its territory. And human beings ( not so coincidently) lead by men, also approach this whole ’territory’ issue in the same way. To mantain power, kill the powerless! I hate that orange cat.
2. Why did some people feel the need to know everything about everybody? And if they can’t find it all, they will keep annoying and antagonising that particular person. Why is that? Why can’t they just leave people alone, to live their life as they seems right?
3. I found a really cool shop in Plaza Alam Sentral today, while doing research. So can’t shop. Must go and shop there some day. I didn’t realise that Plaza Alam Sentral is where Sri Pentas 2 is. I was so puzzled why the people that I met there keep talking about local celebrities. Heh.
4. I wish I have a helper robot that I want to call ‘Robina’.
5. For Z, I call it ‘Robby’. Robina and Robby the Robot. (I came up with this while I was feeling a bit delirious today) (I tend to be a bit delirious if I am dehydrated, weird huh?)
Enough nonsense. Time to feed Periwinkle her supper. I am a devoted mother. To a kitten. *dadudadudadu*
Just got back from watching ‘Cuci’ the 9.30pm show with Z at Summit USJ. A great, hugely satisfying watch. I am so going to blog about it!
Patch with his half-opened eyes resting on his sister, Periwinkle.
Patch is a real fireball that boy. Always meowing at the top of his lung whenever he’s hungry. He will scratch and scratch the box (his house), demanded to be fed now! He’s the adventurous one between the two. He will walk across the room on his shaky wobbly leg just exploring and meowing. His eyes was just about to open when we picked him up and brought him into our home. And today, eyes fully opened - he died tragically. Attacked by the ’samseng’ neighbourhood cat.
We did all we can according to the vet’s advice. Keep them warm. Feed them every 2-3 hours. Gave them the best milk. Check for signs of flu and diarrhea. She mentioned to us that this is a very fragile and crucial time for kittens. Rarely did they survive at this stage, especially motherless. She did warn us, and we thought we had everything covered.
And this morning we cleaned the house. Saturday routine. We left the window open.
Stupid ugly gansgter yucky orange cat came in and attacked poor Patch. Z screamed emergency! Both of us jumped straight into the car and drove back to the vet. There’s nothing that the doctor can do. The poor thing too small. The injury too deep. She had to put him to sleep.
Both of us was never a ‘pet person’. We had no idea what we sign up for when we brought those 2 little darlings back. Our plan was to keep them safe and warm until they are big enough and then probably give them up for adoption. We didn’t expect to become so attached to that little fellow. Now both of our hearts are heavy and gripped by grief we don’t know we had for the poor little kitten.
Rest little kittie. Thank you for the very short-lived joy you share with us. The Almighty knows best and thank you for the opportunity.
The Secret is THE book last year. Selling millions in copies, debated endlessly, some like it, some hate it. That’s just the way everything is, isn’t it. But personally, I really like the book.
In my opinion, the concept of ‘Law of Attraction’ is nothing new in Islam. Since I was small, my mother taught me how to practise the Law Of Attraction in accordance to Islamic principle.
This is what she said to me -
‘Kakak kena selalu bersangka baik dengan Allah’ (’You must always have good feeling towards Allah and what He gave you’). By always adopting a good and positive feeling towards anything that Allah gave me, I am attracting more and more good things my way!
She also always mention - ‘Kakak kena selalu bersyukur kepada Allah, baru nikmat akan ditambah’. (’You must always have gratefulness in your heart, only then you will be blessed with more’). Isn’t that another concept in The Secret? That we must have the feeling of ‘gratefulness’. This is because gratefulness opens the heart to every single thing that is good in our life. When we ’saw’ the good things, immediately our heart will feel better and warmer knowing that there is a Higher Power out there looking after us.
There is a sentence that I remember in the book saying - ‘the Universe will give everything to you in the most harmonious way’. Do you know what this means actually? It means that Allah knows what is the best way to give everything that you asked for. That’s why sometimes, even when you asked and pray, but was not granted - that is because perhaps that is not the most ‘harmonious’ way! We must always believe and have faith of the Goodness in Allah and be grateful always.
And that’s what my mom means by - ‘bersangka baik’ 
I am done teaching the 2 lovely sisters our trio choreograph this morning. Both of them catch up real quick and now it’s time to practise to make the movement and the song to gel better.
They told me they were nervous since it’s their first time performing, and I understand that very well. It can be nerve-wrecking, especially for a first timer. But I have my full belief in them and I am sure that they will going to do great. Most importantly for me, I just want us to have fun. I want the whole thing to be something that we can enjoy and take back as a very happy memory. I don’t believe in up-tight perfectionism that kills the fun in doing anything. Keep it light. You’ll be happy and live longer too! 
Now, I need to make sure of the rest of the event. Of if you do not know what I am talking about, visit my other blog here.
So, now Z and me has officially become the Pa and Ma kitten. We went and see the vet this afternoon to ask her what to do with the kitten. Apparently kitten that small (around 2 weeks old) are very fragile and tend to die when left at the vet because of the constant sick animals coming in and out. Also, if we left it at the shelter, they will normally put them off to sleep because shelter homes for pets can’t afford to take care of kittens that small.
She said both of them has better chance of surviving left with us. Now how cruel a human being can you be to say no to that? Despite my hesitance and doubt, I guess we need to just do it first.
The nice lady vet said that both of them looks healthy but hungry. She fed them some milk and showed us how to feed them as well. We need to feed them using syringe because they do not know how to eat by themselves yet. We keep them warm in our Tesco box by wrapping a warm water bottle in my green and yellow shawl.
We haven’t name them yet because we knew nothing about pet names and keep coming up with weird and inappropriate names like ‘Einsten’ and flowers that people use to make drug.
We went for our evening walk today, Z wants to shoot some hoops. We saw 2 abandoned, or maybe orphaned kittens, and now we have 2 kittens. 1 white with patches of black on it’s head. 1 blackish brown.
The thing is, both of us knew nothing about kitten. We were never the ‘pet person’. And I am most probably am having allergic reactions to them now. But I couldn’t just possibly leave them alone out there, knowing the possibilities of them being devoured by stray dogs.
So I Googled about ‘How to Take Care of Kittens’ and I am freaking out! It seems like such a lot of work for such a very small creature. You need to get them vaccinated and dewormed and things like that? And we were not supposed to feed them cow milk? Do other people with pet kittens really adhere to all that? Or am I just reading some very uptight people’s advice on how to take care of kittens?
While we were giving them bath (before we knew that we were not supposed to give them bath), I keep asking ‘did they die already?’ everytime they were quiet. I am so afraid they’ll die on me. But if I leave them outside, they might die too.
So, now maybe tomorrow, we’ll give them to SPCA. Or give them to ‘pet shop’ people.
But they are so cute..
Maybe it’s the countless time I spent watching ‘10 Things I Hate About You’ during my teenage years. Maybe the fact that he is just so chiselled-ly good looking with curly blond hair. Maybe because he is the sort of actor I like, JohnnyDepp-ish, indie-ish. But when I log on my computer, and the Yahoo news immediately offered this piece of news - I really do hope it was some marketing tag-line those entertainment people always comes up with to make people want to watch their movies or something like that. I am so sad when it’s not. And the news is true. :’(
I know she is kinda sad too. (I remembered watching all the Heath Ledgre’s movie in her room - all the dvd is hers)
Kak Idlan, sedih tak? (if I am not yet married, I’ll say the exact same thing too)
Mr. Z, the hubby, said something sweet to me just now. He said that he wants to change strategy. He wants to spend time working until certain hour only everyday so he can spent the rest of the time with me after that. Isn’t that sweet?
Well, he is getting busier everyday. I am getting busier everyday. Everybody is getting busier, everyday.
I guess it’s easy to slowly lose the romance and the mushy-mushy feeling once you get married. When everything becomes a routine and that special person just becomes somebody you share a house with. Whom you have lunch together everyday with. Whom you shop grocery together with. You get the drift.
So it’s really nice. When suddenly he comes up and say something like that. So, now that I write it down here, it’s easier for me to come back to and read - when the fighting is on again! 
