Every Monday students at Tadika Noble are required to sing the National Anthem and the Selangor Anthem. We have never taught Pasha to sing any of those and the songs that he knows are mostly the tunes from his favorite TV shows such as, Thomas and Friends and Chuggington. Other than that, he is only familiar with some nursery rhymes such as, Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, the Alphabet Song and a few others. As such, Negaraku is something new to him.
Can you find Pasha? He is standing on the left, the third boy from the front. While others are singing, you can see Pasha doing other things such as closing both his ears, scratching his head. Well, he is doing many things except singing…
Now Mama Pasha has downloaded Negaraku and Duli Yang Maha Mulia for him to listen and learn.
Negaraku Negaraku, tanah tumpahnya darahku,
Rakyat hidup, bersatu dan maju,
Rahmat bahagia, Tuhan kurniakan,
Raja kita, selamat bertakhta.
Rahmat bahagia, Tuhan kurniakan,
Raja kita, selamat bertakhta.
Duli Yang Maha Mulia Duli Yang Maha Mulia
Selamat di atas takhta
Allah lanjutkan usia Tuanku
Rakyat mohon restu bawah Duli Tuanku
Bahagia selama-lamanya
Aman dan sentosa
Duli Yang Maha Mulia
P/s:
Papa Bear does not know the Selangor Anthem either…
The great thing about going back to Dumai apart from being able to have a family get together and celebrate Pasha’s Granddaddy’s 63rd birthday, is the food. Previously, I wrote about lontong and now it will be about Bandrek and Sate. These are the food that this entry is all about. That’s why I did not have the time to look for visitors…
That’s the sate still packed. Notice the marketing effort that the owner has put into his sate. It’s not just some old newspapers or generic, blank wrapping paper. This one came with a logo, name and contact info. Banana leaf was a nice touch as well.
This is Mama Pasha’s favorite sate, the Sate Padang (beef). The yellowish spicy sauce made from a mixture of rice flour, coconut milk, turmeric and few other stuffs is the trademark of Sate Padang. I don’t quite like it as much as Mama Pasha does. I would normally just eat the sate without the sauce.
This is my favorite, the Sate Kambing (lamb). This version came with peanut sauce instead of soya sauce. I had the soya souce (Sate Kambing Bumbu Kecap) version on another night but did not snap the photo as it was too delicious to wait.
Last but not least, Bandrek, a special drink that I could not find anywhere else but Dumai. I could get the instant one from Jakarta but the taste is nowhere near the one made in Dumai. Bandrek is not even known in KL. Brought back some instant Bandrek home but they’re just not that nice…
Bandrek is made from a mixture of cinnamon sticks, star anise, cloves, coriander seeds, cardamom pods, lemongrass, Indonesian palm sugar (gula merah), milk, coconut and optionally, egg. I love mine with egg added. I can’t describe the taste. Only those who have teated Bandrek know what it taste like.
So, if anyone asked me, what’s more worth it than getting as many visitors as I could to this blog when a buffered earning from Nuffnang was on? The answers are all of the above. All Nuffnangers know that when you have a BE, the best thing to do is to get as many visitors to your blog as you can since that is the best way to maximize your BE earning. However, for me, BE came at not quite the right time…
The statistics taken from Nuffnang Analystics clearly showing a huge dip in visitors on the column labeled 01-Jan. That was the time that we were in Dumai, Indonesia. The two high spikes are the results of AFF Suzuki Cup 2010 and AJL25, repectively. Nevertheless, our lost there was our gain with our family in Dumai.
Posted on the January 15th, 2011 under Pasha by Papa Bear
Last Thursday, 13/1/2011, Sun-Maid held a talk at Pasha’s Tadika. For the benefit of those who have no idea what Sun-Maid is, it has nothing to do with any maid, except for the picture on its logo, but has a lot to do with the Sun and lots of grapes. Sun-Maid is all about some good raisins. Check it out at Sun-Maid.
For your information, The Sun-Maid girl trademark was inspired by a real person – Lorraine Collett Petersen, who in 1915 lived in the Fresno, California, area where the company began its operations.
Now back to the Sun-Maid event. During the talk, students were called forward to answer simple questions and Pasha came forward and was asked about the color of the grapes. He successfully answered, “Green!” and won himself a 500g tub / canister Sun-Maid raisins.
Pasha peeking at the raisins that he had won. We are glad that Pasha was brave enough to step forward and stand up there while many others were watching. Something like a public appearance and he had no problem with it. Mama and Papa are proud of Pasha!
The winners posing for the camera. Then, Pasha could not resist the raisins anymore and he opened it up and ate some raisins right there and then. I am not sure whether he was actually hungry, or curios about the raisins or simply excited and could not wait to taste his very first prize in school. By the way, the talk was still going on behind him…
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