malaysia boleh

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we just came back from an exciting hockey match between malaysia and south africa....at the junior world cup in rotterdam..malaysia the underdogs took on the tall south africans and came out 4-1 winners! what a match...the score would have been 2-1 to the malaysians, but because of the brilliant supporters, we felt like we added to the 2 extra goals...haha..
sultan azlan shah was there to give his support and sarjit & co delivered a match worthy of potential champions....its a breath of fresh air compared to usually seeing our national teams thrashed at almost every sport known to man...the next game is tomorrow, against argentina who also won their game against germany today...and on saturday sarjit & co will take on germany, we might well go there and watch that match to add to the goals...and after that to a nice british school summer food fair...yum yum...
well done to the malaysian jr. hockey team!

Cirque du Soleil

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there are no animals in this circus we went to see today....we caught the cirque du soleil on their european tour in rotterdam. it is an acrobatic display with a theme of the orient...i.e lots of chinamen and women..thoroughly enjoyable and recommendable if at least once. the show we saw today is called dralion (dragon campur lion lah...seriously), it has clowns, acrobats, trampolines, 7 ball juggling, walking on giant balls and even a character who pretended to be a visitor but turned out to be one of the clowns. luckily the air con was working in the giant tent, it was 30+C today, feels like malaysia, but you dont sweat so much. on the way home, went up the euromast, which is a ketot version of the kl tower...it has a nice revolving lift which turns quickly for you to see the whole flat landscape...and a big bonus of a cloudless and clear day...(i think we saw kl...haha!)..a tiring but fun day...we also had a visitor from kl...he also knows my bro..so we showed him and his wife around scheveningen..this is the time of the year when you want to be in this country..

family and friends

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lots of happenings this last few weeks...we learnt about the sudden passing of our uncle last week. arwah pak badik was in mekah doing his regular umrah assistance work that he has been doing for quite a few years now. this time he will not return. he succumbed to his heart attack/coma. though it is a sad and shocking event, we felt that he left us at probably the best place on earth, in the holy city. to his family our deepest condolences, we hope they gather the strength to overcome this loss. al fatihah to pak badik. i miss him dearly. on hindsight it all made sense when he was adamant about sending me and my wife to the airport earlier this year. he never came to the airport to send me off, i guess he already knew it was his way of saying his goodbye.
it is also a busy period in our flat this week. my in laws have just returned home to kl today, whilst we welcome my wifes best friend and her family who just arrived from brussels. we did the usual tourist package in holland, volendam, herring with bread, oysters and amsterdam/the hague to come.