My Walks of Life

She`s been baking festive cookies as long as I can remember, that should be around I was 4 years old. But, she the fact is..mama said, she baked as young as she was 8 years old.

Mama was a primary teacher with 10 NGOs + 1 political party. That`s enough to describe how`s busy her days were. Still, she manage to baked thousand of cookies. Her cookies were ordered from her school-colleagues, relatives & NGOs friends. Her cookies order were not only during Raya festives, but also for other festivals as well. Her no 1 and evergreen cookie is the pineapple roll tart. The taste is unbeatable. She made the jam herself, instead of buying.

I still remember Ancho, Angah and I were merely helping greasing & garnishing the cookies. Our tiny fingers would sometimes sneak out several cookies to the mouth, yet claimed still fasting:) Farah was not so interested helping though. She said, she couldn`t stand the smell of butter in our our kitchen, and it was like a bakery factory, with lots of cookies on the shelves. At one time, after several years I was about to lose enthusiast as well, feeling the aura to throw up at everytime seeing those bunch of cookies. Later, I enjoy it untill now.Amazingly, although mama baked most of the time during Ramadhan (especially), she manage to khatam Al-Quran, perform tarawikh and attending her NGOs activities:)

Until today, although she had retired teaching, she`s more busy with NGOs and keep on baking. The secret of her delicious cookies? She bakes for joy.Not for bussiness. She uses all the quality ingredients ,no matter what -eventhough the butter and flour`s price is increasing. She has never calculate how much she spent and how much she earn from her cookies selling.What else can I say?...she`s one superb mom!