Welcome Home !!!
Happy Birthday to...
Dato' Sharifah Sofianny Syed Hussain (a.k.a. Kak Sherry, Mama She, Beh, Adik Ani, Sherry, etc) & Ammar Ahmad (the soon father-to-be)
Birthday cupcakes befitting the birthday girl...
Mother & daughter looking forward to the show...
The Seven Dwarfs
Belle & Lumiere. The prince did not appear until the end of the show.
Under the sea with Ariel. Prince Eric was washed ashore...
Fairy godmothers Flora, Fauna and Merryweather from Sleeping Beauty
Princess Aurora & Prince Phillip
Cinderella & Prince Charming
The Princesses and their Princes
The princess wannabes
Inas
Iman
Little Minnies
It is most little girl's dream to be a princess, meet prince charming and live happily ever after.
However, Disney's fairy tales can be deluding and give non-positive moral values to children. It can put a child under a lot of pressure to be the perfect little girl in order to live up to her idol princesses.
Fairy tales in their classic form, are mostly gruesome and do not really have happy endings. Disney recasts the fairy tales and adds fluff to make it palatable for children and modern audiences.
Ayah & Adin preparing for the trip... getting personal googles and snorkels
Beautiful scenery of the beach at Sungai Ular, near Cherating
The reception
Breakfast at the terrace
Around the resort & ready for the island trip...
Tenggol Island, here we come...
Brain corals, right on the beach
Tenggol Island Resort
All geared up...
Adin testing the water
Adin, on a snorkelling trip at 4 years old - life wasn't so complicated then...
WR... One with nature...
Me... trying to be friendly with nature...
Adin...trying not to be afraid of nature...
Something underwater caught Adin's interest. Tengok...
After a humbling underwater experience
Encounters in the South China Sea on the way back to Dungun
Fishing boat in the open sea
Fish, caught for a living
Tuna in their natural playground
After the island trip
The scenic Kuala Abang Beach near Rantau Abang after the monsoon.
Adin & Ayah at Pantai Kelulut, Marang (Pulau Kapas on the background)
Adin & Ayah at the same spot 11 years ago...
Pantai Kelulut holds fond memories for us. During a trip to Terengganu in 1998, we stopped to see Pulau Kapas from Pantai Kelulut. Adin saw the water and immediately wanted to get in... His words to Ayah... "Ayah, nang eghh..." Ahh...Those were the days...
Visiting Terengganu is not complete without having nasi dagang. The famous nasi dagang at Cabang Tiga in Kuala Terengganu is not as popular as before, so we were told. The current popular spot for nasi dagang is Warong Norzila in Kuala Ibai.
Rows of pots filled with the heavenly nasi dagang, nasi kerabu, nasi minyak, pulut kuning...
On the way home...
Tenggol Island seen from the mainland, Dungun
Kemasik Beach, near Kerteh
Scenic view of the beach
Row of fishermen's boats seen on the beach
Taking a puff under the Mengkuang Pandan tree
Kemasik Beach, from another angle...
Tenggol Island, we will be back!
