Where has she disappeared?

A new member to RAIHAN?

I was looking through my stack of photos (thousands maybe now) and I found this charming one of a cute little girl confidently oozing her charm among the famous RAIHAN (her favourite nasyid group then). It was taken when the little missy was three I think at a Raihan Concert held at Sekolah Menegah Munshi, Melaka. She was not afraid at all, at all... I remember the first time she appeared before the public when she was just two years old at The Premier Montessori School Annual Concert at the Straits Meridian. Although she had just joined the kinddy two months before the concert, she performed with the other classmates in a group sing-along. Standing in the centre with a crown of flowers supplied by the Mum and her long dress bought by the proud daddy, she looked just like an adorable, little doll. And there she was singing with a serious face, Malay, English and Chinese tunes complete with all the hand movements! I couldn't believe that she could remember the lyrics of the Malay songs what more the English and Chinese ones.. But sing she did. We were so proud of her. She has grown now into a confident, young lady, soon going to join her seniors at the Secondary school. I miss the little girl who loved to perform her songs and dances before an audience, oblivious of her surroundings. Time passes very fast indeed. Good luck to dear IMAN, may Allah guide and protect you always.

Is this the little girl I carried?

Is this the little boy at play?

I don't remember growing older

When did they?

When did she get to be a beauty?

When did he get to be so tall?

Wasn't it yesterday

When they were small?

Sunrise, sunset,

Sunrise, sunset,

Swiftly flow the days.

Seedlings turn overnight to sunflowers

Blossoming even as we gaze.

Sunrise, sunset,

Sunrise, sunset,

Swiftly fly the years.

One season following another

Laden with happiness and tears ..

.....(part lyric from "Sunrise, sunset" - The Fiddler on the Roof)