End of Holiday

Hahaha…a bit unfortunate this time. I can’t find a perfect timing for my photography session with nature. Been busy with family and niece. But at least I got one picture of green padi field on the way coming back to PD. Here it is…

Thanx to this awek...she was so generous to give me a pose...hehehe

It was a very long journey coming back to PD that Sunday. It was ok and smooth from Alor Setar to Juru but approaching Kuala Kangsar, it was totally the opposite from smooth and ok. It jam packed from bumper to bumper. The fastest that I can go was only 30km/h. I can only be patient until we reached Simpang Pulai Toll and that is the limit. I decided to use the old road but it can only lasted for 5 minutes when we realized the old also was experience the same thing like the highway.

So, switched to plan C…we turn our way to Tronoh. From there, we can reach Klang easily and the road condition also is ok. We made a stop to UTP, the place we used to be during our 1st year in USM. The place just turn into such a beautiful place. Never thought its gonna be like that. The last time we were here was in year 1999. It has been 10 years now.

It was getting dark..somewhere around 6.30pm + its cloudy. So I just keep my camera away this time.

Then, made a stop at Giant Teluk Intan. Meet with Usop. My best friend Usop. Spend a while with him at the nearest McDonald’s there. Hit back the road and we reached home around 12.30am that nite. Did I mention the time we depart from Alor Setar? We started to moved from my parent’s house at 11 o’clock in the morning.

Usop..my best buddy...dah gemuk sikit dah mamat nie..

What a journey…

X'mas Day

I’m going back to Alor Setar this X’mas Eve. No intention of celebrating X’mas but just taking some advantage from the public holiday during end of the year. I also just fixed and painted my car. It all black and shiny now, just like a black mirror…hahaha..

Abah and Yong can’t wait any longer to meet Hazwan. Hazwan has become their best because Hazwan is friendly towards anyone. You can do anything to Hazwan and yet you can hardly hear him getting angry or moody or something. Hadi also has become their best as well because Hadi is just a silent type of child. He doesn’t create a lot of headache to Abah and Yong, that’s why they like him. But the most waited person is actually Hafiz. Probably because Hafiz is still cute and easy to nurse him…hahaha, anyway I just can’t wait to be in Alor Setar. The green padi field is waiting my camera there.

Kak Nim finally back for good from Italy. She and her family were also in Alor Setar. It was a great breakaway.

Kak Nim, Abang Joi, Hafiz, Aishah and Amir

Amir

Aishah

Amira

...and of cause, the 2 menace

Nothing much (part 2)

Breakfast at Kopitiam Bangi

Nice place to visit

Can you guess where this is..??

Nice isn't it..?? If my toilet is like this, I have to hire a dedicated maid just to clean the toilet. This is actually one of many toilets inside Masjid Besi or Masjid Tuanku Mizan, Putrajaya. The mosque is just so huge and the surrounding is just so peaceful.

It was raining that day, quite heavy to be precise. I don't have a chance to get a nice landscape picture due to the weather instead, I took a lot of my family pics inside the mosque. heheheeh...

I call it Masjid Besi due to the massive steel structure inside it

The Jedi strike once again..hehehehe

Majlis Khatam Quran Asyraf

Along is having a small reception for her eldest son, Asyraf. It’s actually Khatam Muqaddam. Hehehehe..well done Asyraf. Keep it up..

Along and Abang Long

The Lucky Boy

Another Birthday

2 days after Hadi’s birthday, it is now Hafiz’s birthday. We already planned to have a simple celebration at Taska where Hadi, Hafiz and Hazwan nurse. By having the celebration there, we hope it will be more fun for Hadi and Hafiz to celebrate it with their frenz. The Taska is just a walking distance from my wife’s office. In fact, the Taska is actually inside Politeknik’s compound.

My wife bought small cakes/muffins (I’m not sure what it is) for the celebration plus snacks as a gift to all the children in Taska. Unfortunately, I was not able to attend it. Distance, has become a huge restriction for me to be there. Perhaps, I’ll be more fortunate next time.

Hafiz as well, he was not there to celebrate it. He was sleeping and my wife don’t have a heart to wake him up. No worry as Hazwan is there to eat all the cakes/muffins on behalf.

Yum..yum..

betul..betul..betul..

Happy birthday Hadi...

Today is Hadi's birthday. He is 4 years old now. Next year he will start his pre-school education and learn a lot of new things. As the eldest brother, hadi has become mature in his own way.

We don't have any plan for him today but we do have a plan to go to KL in the afternoon. Hadi is asking a Transfomers School Bag as a birthday give. Hope we can find it in KL.

This is Hadi taken last week during our outing at Umbai Ikan Bakar

....and this is Hadi during 6 months old.

(tips:- better to cover baby's head with cap, kopiah etc during babies photography. Its cuter that way)

....interframe, this is Hafiz . Look almost similiar to Hadi isn't it..??

Khutbah Jumaat

It’s Friday. Like any other Friday, I will spend my afternoon in the nearby mosque to hear the khutbah and to perform the solah.

I have a mixed feeling about khutbah. I’ve experienced a bored khutbah, a touching khutbah, a courage khutbah, a weak khutbah, and the list goes on. For me since it is compulsory to every muslim, khutbah should be an effective medium to guide the ummah. Although the khutbah can preach about ‘Buah-buahan Malaysia’ or ‘Berhati-hati di jalanraya’, I really hope that khutbah can come up with a topic far more important than that.

Today for example, I’m not sure what is wrong but I guess the combination of the preacher and the topic that makes the khutbah a bit bored. A man on my left, he slept even before the khutbah started. The man on the right, busy with his iPhone which I found it very rude. No one is paying any attention to the khutbah. I bet, no one can even remember what the khatib had said during the khutbah.

If a khutbah is delivered in the right way with the right topic, I don’t think people will fall asleep. Nowadays, people in Malaysia are hunger for knowledge especially in religion. I have experienced a lot of good khutbah. Typically, when khatib is not using any text from JAKIM or JAIS or JAINS etc, the khutbah will be a good one. Most probably, the text is just too general and not really connected to the local people. It can be anything, I’m just guessing.

A friend of mine did mumbling to me about a bored khutbah. He said, we have to stop at least 2.5 hours of production during Jumaat (2.5 hours = 150 cars = RM9 Million of lost). If the khutbah is ineffective and bored, can we blame the khatib and sue him for our lost..??

Nothing much

Like the title above, I got nothing much to say. Just wanna put a picture only...hehehe

Ikan Bakar Umbai, Melaka...

Sekarang nie, kerja kat opis berlambak gila..Hari rabu minggu lepas, aku balik dari opis pukul 11.30malam. Esok paginya, pukul 6.45pg dah terpacak depan PC. Memang tak masuk akal sungguh. Letih rasa badan. Tapi nak wat camna, aku ada dateline yg kena kejar. Bukan aku sorang ja, satu opis pun macam tuh..

Ingat nak reward la diri aku sket. Pi la kedai tomyam yg aku selalu pi kat Seremban tuh. Tapi nak jadikan cerita, tutup la plak hari Khamis tuh.Terpaksa la beli dari kedai sebelah. Yg tak bestnya, dah la lambat (orang takdak pun, tak paham la apsal lambat), mintak lain dapat plak yg lain. Pastu plak tak sedap langsung. Terguris sungguh hati aku minggu lepas. Sedey giler...

So, aku nekad nak makan ikan bakar yg best. Aku bawak family aku pi Umbai. Kebetulan plak adik Huda pun datang umah, dengan dia sekali aku angkut. Punyalah ramai orang kat Umbai tuh macam hari penamaan calon la plak. Tapi mujur order sampai cepat. Tak macam kat Seremban, lambat giler..

Alhamdulillah, ikan bakar semua sedap2 belaka. Tak sempat aku nak capai kamera, habis licin kena sental ngan wife + adik ipar aku...Ini takleh jadi, aku kena lupakan kamera kejap. At the end, tader pun satu gambar ikan bakar yg aku tangkap malam tuh..tapi takpa, janji terubat kesedihan aku minggu lalu..

nie ada gambar sebahagian kedai2 ikan bakar kat Umbai yg aku snap dari tempat parking aku..(satu gambar jer)

LIMA 2009

Its 5th of December 2009. Today will be the last day of LIMA Exhibition in Langkawi. Sad..sad..sad.. The last time I went to LIMA was in year 2003. When you're single, you're not attach to any responsibility. You just have to think about you only but when you have kids with you, a lot of factor need to be considered.

I have lost touch with the aerospace industry for quite sometimes. It will be nice if I can go to LIMA again one day so that I know the latest aerospace technology in Malaysia. Who knows, I might stumble upon my classmate during the exhibition. A good network will be okay for me if any..hehhehe..

One day, my aerospacian family will be in LIMA again like the old days...one fine day.

Beach and Sea

I was born in Alor Setar in year 1979. I’m not sure how Alor Setar looks like during that year but our house in Alor Merah is surrounded with padi field. No sea and no beach nearby.

Then after 40 days of my age, I was sent to Kota Bharu, Gopeng, Perak to my grandparent’s house. The next 10 years of my life, I lived in a memorable kampong style surrounded with abandoned tin mines and rubber tree. No sea and no beach nearby.

Today, I live in Port Dickson. My home…is just so near to the beach and sea. After all, PD is the most well known recreational beach in west Malaysia.

To make things more obvious, I married to a lovely wife from Besut. Her house is just a walking distance to the nearest beach. Although PD is not comparable to beach at east coast but both places will have silky smooth sand and wide-open sea.

Plus a year of matriculation in USM Penang, it was almost everyday I can see an open sea from the campus. So wonderful

Looking back to the journey of my life, we actually can’t expect few things that come. I never thought it gonna be this way but it just happened.

I still can remember vividly a ceramah from Ustaz Ismail Kamus (if not mistaken). He said “ when our body is buried at a particular place after we dead, that particular soil from that place is what our body is made of”

One fine day, we all will know where our body is originated from but by that time, we already dead. So what the use to know anymore. Things is, as long as we do a good deed, that certainly will count for the life after.

The Baywatch

Hari Raya Aidil Adha