Well, it didn’t rain on Leen’s cousin’s wedding today in Kampung Melayu Subang. It was a pretty good day. I do find the wedding season tiring, but one thing that makes it a little less painful is the fact that Leen’s family can be so much fun (and since it’s a big family, that means big fun).
We figured it would be nice if we could get to the party early so the night before the wedding we rented some rooms at—of all places—the Rubber Research Institute of Malaysia. Ah yes, rubber. At one time there were no rubber trees in Malaysia, but one day someone decided it would be cool to get some from Brazil and now there are lots of ‘em. No trip to Leen’s hometown would be complete without a drive by one of Johor’s many rubber plantations, which really smells and always gives me an excuse to say to everyone in the car, “If you want to fart, do it now!” But I digress. The RRIM is on the road to Sungai Buloh, and if you drive inside and navigate the little roads with funny names (Jalan H. Microphylla, Jalan H. Nitida, Jalan H. Brasiliensis, etc.), you’ll find a nice-looking group of buildings, one of which is the Malaysian Rubber Board’s lodge. It’s only RM60 a night to stay here, which is already a sweet deal but we got the rooms for RM45. Wicked, eh? We booked the room for two nights because the plan is to go straight to KLCC on Christmas morning so Alisdair can splash around in the wading pool, and so we can meet up with Fir Mamat. Should be a good time. Azlin and Faaris are with us and will be going with us in the morning.
I was hoping to go to bed early, but it’s almost 4 AM and I’m still up, because I really wanted to upload a video to YouTube. It’s a very short video of Alisdair saying hello (well, not really, but you know) to his grandmother and his uncle Troy. My mother really wants to see it, so damn it I’m going to upload it. Not a fun process when you’re using Bluetooth to connect to your phone’s WAP connection. It’s really slow and the connection crapped out several times. Anyway, it finally finished, so without further ado, here’s Alisdair’s Christmas greeting:
OK, so he’s not into the whole Christmas thing. There is another video in which he manages to get out a nice baby talk Christmas greeting without crying, but that’s twice as long and would take hours to upload. This one will have to do. I think it’s cute enough.
Merry Christmas from the MacVays: me, Leen, Alisdair, and of course Smokey.
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I am here laughing my head off! Poor Alisdair doesn’t know what you are doing LOL. Anyway I still think it is dam cute and the effort you put to download it makes me happy.
hugs, MOM
ps I can’t wait for Troy to see it!
kukukukuku….
Its Happy “Holidays”! Mr. Mac!
have a great christmas. hope to finally meet you in the new year! come round for tea sometime when you are free.
Owwhhh I can’t wait to reproduce!
Happy holidays! I’m off to Muar this Saturday celebrating Raya Haji in the dark! Yay…
jordan, i am going to upload one of avarayna soon and you will hear both of them (i swear) sounds the same. too cute!
we a had a good christmas. avarayna got a sleigh from her aunt maria. who would have ever thought a kid of mine would get a sleigh??? hehehehe
jordan, i just re-read my comment…its a sled not a sleight..jeez b’y me brains all over the floor
Aida;
Where are my pics you were supposed to e-mail me? God you are starting to sound like a newfie LOL. I hope you had a great xmas and send me those pics.
hugs, MOM
Mom: I think Troy’s going to love it. After all, Al really gives Troy a big hello—in fact, it almost sounds like hello!
Kuku Man: Selamat Hari Raya Haji to you.
Sharon: Will definitely do that!
Nizar: Sabar, sabar! Anyway, we’ll be in Muar for Hari Raya Haji as well. So we’ll all be in the dark together! Yay!
Aida: our kids do seem to be similar in a lot of ways. I remember you mentioned Avarayna likes to eat her hand just like Al. Well, turns out Al’s probably teething already. Imagine, he starts teething at 3 months! This kid wants to grow up too fast!
linda aka mom, i sent the pictures long ago! must be something wrong with yer email. but you can check out her pictures on http://www.macamacam.wordpress.com i have a ton of pictures of her there.oh yeah, the newfies here are starting to get to me. my only connection to speaking KL malay now is me and leen emailing each other like crazy.
jordan, seeing the trouble you had to go thru with uploading, i wont be doing it but frank has a software that compresses video and its pretty good so i would be compressing one of our many videos of her and sending them to you via email and have it in your head, they are from different mothers and fathers! LOL