Kindy raya

Since school restarted after the raya break, Aiesyah has insisted on wearing the hijab to school. Just before the Malaysia Day weekend, the kindergarten organised a combo Merdeka-Malaysia-raya celebration, where the kids were asked to put on traditional costumes. I'd say these two make quite a dashing couple, don't you think?

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P/S This was supposed to be published on my other blog, but I posted here by mistake. I think it does add more colour to this site, though.

Global Challenge 2011 Update

The Medium Challenge
Read two novels from each of these continents in the course of 2011:

Africa:
1. Black Mamba Boy by Nadifa Mohamed
2. The Boy who Harnessed the Wind by William Kamkwamba

Asia:
1. Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi
2. The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai

Australasia:
1. Genesis by Bernard Beckett - DONE
2. Lilian's Story by Kate Grenville - DONE

Europe:
1. The Museum of Innocence by Orhan Pamuk - DONE
2. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

North America:
1. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button by F. Scott Fitzgerald The Night Bookmobile by Audrey Niffenegger - DONE
2. Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maude Montgomery - DONE

South America/Central America:
1.
2.

The Seventh Continent ( either choose Antarctica or your own ´seventh´ setting, eg the sea, the space, a supernatural/paranormal world, history, the future – you name it):
1. God Emperor of Dune by Frank Herbert - DONE
2. 


From your own continent: try to find a country, state or author that is new to you.


Try to find novels from fourteen different countries or states.

6 out of 14, and only 3 and a half months to go. Not good.