Thank You Cards

I was writing out Thank You cards for the teachers at Yusufs Pre-School as it is the last week this week and I thought I might as well hand them out now (with choccies from M&S) before they break up. I told Yusuf to draw a few things inside some of the cards and just had to share his drawings because they are just soooooooooo cute! He has this huge crush on his own teacher Katrina and drew her a red rose, himself and lots of kisses! It is just tooo cute!

Trial Pack

Today was the Day Of The Trial Pack that Zaheer insisted we do. I wasn't looking forward to this for 2 reasons:

1. The amount of mess it was gonna create (anyone who knows me knows I have slight OCD about certain 'mess' situations like the bed not being made, stuff lying around on the bed, etc)

2. I had a hell of a lot of stuff and did not want to go through the trauma of deciding which things I should take and which I should leave.

So after a mini breakdown mid-morning (it all got too much plus it delayed the trial pack a bit), collecting Yusuf from nursery and going town to buy some luggage, the Trial Pack started.

Royal Brunei Airlines are really mean when it comes to the weight of the luggage- 20kg suitcases and 7kg hand luggage which is nothing if you're relocating to a country on the other side of the world! So we had to find some really really lightweight luggage and try and fit everything into them or ring a Manchester based company called Marcos (although why they have an Italian name I don't know since the guy on the phone clearly sounded like a Pakistani and am pretty sure the company is run by a Pakistani since they are based in Cheetham Hill) who do air freight for £3 a kg which is the cheapest I have found so far.

Anyways, the lightest luggage we found were from Argos for £5.85!!!!

They are cheap and nasty but they hold soooooooooooo much stuff its brilliant. We bought 3 of them for us all plus I had another cheap hand luggage case from Primark weighing in at 1.5 kg, Zaheer has got a rucksack (1kg) and Yusuf has got the most amazing little Scooby Doo trolley case (for which I am secretly extremely jealous about and am thinking of ways I could steal it).

Well 3 hours later I discovered that absolutely everything I wanted to take fits into the 20kg holdall!!! I was so amazed I made Zaheer weigh it 3 times to make sure! Of course Zaheer and Yusuf each had only 10kg of stuff and after noticing me standing there with more stuff I could take (but wouldn't really use) proceeded to stuff their holdalls with all sorts of crap to make sure I couldn't use their allowance! (I have my ways..........muahahaha.....)

Overall a very stressful day but very happy that it is (a) over and done with and (b)
we don't need to ring Marcos! Happy days! ;-D

Introductions..........

My name is Shamim (hence the Adventures of Sham). I am 24 years old, married to a gorgeous man called Zaheer and have a boy called Yusuf who is 4 years old.




We are going to be moving to Brunei Darussalam in August due to Zaheers job. This blog is for everyone that knows me and wants to keep in touch and for those of you that are thinking of moving to or visiting Brunei and want to know more about it.

It is also a way of keeping myself sane and not going crazy with the nerves that hit me every now and then at the prospect of moving to a different country with a different culture and way of life.

So introductions over, I want you to message me, ask me anything you want about Brunei (bearing in mind I don't actually move until the 20th).

To all of you that know me- KEEP IN TOUCH!! And leave messages!

Well, hopefully I will post soon with everything leading up to the move (trial packing, airports, etc).

xxxxx