Pirates Ahoy!

Rumah Aman turned into a treasure hunting ground when all the children and invited school friends converged to a tea party and birthday celebrations themed The Pirates of the Caribbean on August 3, 2008.

Some of the children dressed in The Pirates of the Caribbean t-shirts with bandanas, one eyed patches and swashing balloon swords, had a swell time acting as pirates.

Most of the children had their faces painted with beards and moustache and some even had their eyebrows made thicker like those of Captain Hook’s.

Led by Captain Mike Separuh (pronounced spa -rowh, separuh in Malay means half) the magician, the “pirates” had a jolly good time singing, dancing and playing tricks on each other, not forgetting the sword fights which were “aggressive” and “dangerous”.

Each of the 20 school going children of Rumah Aman were given an opportunity to invite three of their school friends and parents to attend the tea party.

Some of them chose to invite their school teachers instead. There were about 100 attendees.

The tea party was thrown by Y. Bhg. Datin Pon Ishak who came with her four sons. Y. Bhg. Datin Pon is the wife of Y. Bhg. Dato’ Ahmad Nawawi, Rumah Aman’s patron.

The tea party was organised partly to celebrate Rumah Aman boys whose birth date falls in July and August besides rewarding the children who did well in the mid term school examinations.

The boys who celebrated their birthdays in July were Muhammad Redha Yaasin who turned 9, Muhammad Ashraf Hakimi, who turned 8, and Muhammad Firdaus Hadiyani who turned 5 years old. The only August birthday boy is Muhamad Faiz Md. Salleh who is now 5 years old.

The boys who did well in their mid term school examinations were Muhammad Firdhan Rahmat,9, who came 1^st in his class and Raziq Hafizi,9, who came 3^rd in his class. The other two were Amirul Amsyar, 8, and Razman Azrai,7.They received a medal and a school bag each from Founder of Rumah Aman, Mehrunissa Dakri.

Abdul Rehman Dakri who is also the founder of Rumah Aman gave away watches to Rumah Aman children who can now tell time. They are Muhamad Firdan, Raziq Hafizi, Muhammad Arif, Muhammad Redha Yaasin all 9 year olds. Mohamad Nor Amirul Shah, Muhammad Asyraf Hakimi, Amirul Amsyar and Roslan Hamgalim, all 8 years old and Razman Azrai, Izzul Isam, Muhammad Hafizuddin and Ahmad Rifqi, all 7 years old.

A butter cake decorated to the theme Pirates of the Caribbean sealed the birthday celebrations.

We like to thank Datin Pon for organising such a wonderful tea party, our children’s friends and their parents for joining in the celebrations, “Captain Mike Separuh” who kept us entertained and Aunty Aishah Halim for the cake and its creative decorations.