What-a-Wonderful-World

Every weekend i need to plan something to get myself occupied and it is not that easy to make something that really enjoyable. Bintulu, Sarawak! What can you really expect. You turn here and there and you almost cover everything within a day. Then you need to make another plan to stay away from boredom. Yesterday I asked cikgu Rodi whether he would like to go to similajau. I was there 14 years ago and I could imagine how mesmerise and tranquil the place would be. The river, the thick rain forest, the sandy beach and the sound of waves. He agreed to accompany me and would like to bring his roomate along. The more the merrier. Then I gave cikgu Rodi few ringgit for him to prepare nasi goreng and any other things that came to his mind. As promised, I picked up them at Surau Alshakirin and straight away drove to the National Park. Ooo.....I forgot that we must pay a fee of rm10 each. The Park still remained the same. Not much change from my years of visit. It would be nice and better if...

It was an opportunity for me to bring my children for the Art Expo. About 28 countries participated and the paintings were marvelous. The price ranges from rm2000 to rm350,000. That must be very expensive for me. However, I just wonder how on earth people still can effort to by them. There are many international art collector out there in the market. I love to see the painting by Nik and his talent is magnificent. There were paintings by the chinese artist that attacted my attention as well. Cute potraits and characters. I have to make another trip on friday just to bring Ikhlas and Shamim. Let they enjoy the beautiful painting and all the hard and patience works by the artists.

All of us went to KLIA airport to send Ubai to UK. Right after isyak solat everybody was preparing to the airport. Ubai was in a car with me. I have so many things I need to tell him. What are the dos and dones. Mean while ummi, grandma and all the small kids were in the other car. We promised to meet each other at the departure area. Wan Lah will go with his friends from Sri Petaling to the airport. We try to be at the airport early try to avoid the long queue. But my thought was a mistake. There were already many people queuing at the check in counter for the Emirates. He seemed not really recognise the people who were boarding the same flight. Anyway, it did not really matter Ubai has to learn how to live and survive. I met Winnie and her friends after the check in and wished Ubai all the best. I thanked them for their undevided assistance during the whole process. Hhhmmm....I thought I was going to cry when ee departed each other. Time to go was already near and we managed for phot...

Today is another busy day for me. Ubai, Wan, Hadi and myself went to Lowyat to buy computer. I dont know how many more computer that they want. I only wanted to buy a power bank for my handphone. Then I told Ubai and Wan to wait for the computer until installation completed and I walked to the car. I told Hadi to be in the car while I need to go to a stamp shop. I used to be here for a while to browse new and old stamps. My passion for stamps never ending since when I was small. Perhaps one of my girl really keen enough to get my hobby going...

Isnin lepas aku saja jalan jalan kat pasar melayu. Memang niat nak belibikan tenggiri untuk dibawa pulang. Pusing punya pusing nampakbikan terubuk yang tersangat segar bugar. Harga sekilo adalah rm25 and local bintulu. Kalu kat Malaya nsk dapat yang segar dan berkilat macam ni mmg tak dapat. Rasa macam nak beli je untuk di bakar atau buat asam pedas memang sedap. Anyway aku tak jadi beli sebab aku nampak ikat terubuk sekor dalam peti ais masih tak terusik. Entah sapa yang nak masak!

I missed kebab I would say. I am not fussy about food. When come to food I really concern about the halal status especially when you are in overseas where non muslim majority. It is not that easy to get abundance of food like here, Malaysia. Once I was in Austria in Ramadhan 2006, we were searching for food. We walk endlessly to find local mosque for iftar and were lucky enough to find Turkish Mosque. We were told that kebab was halal and prepared by muslim company. Started from that day I only devoured kebab. When I was in Munich last month, kebab was my staple food. Almost everyday I ate kebab. I stopped by at the Osbenholf station and picked up a kebab and having it in my hotel room. Now I really feel that I missed kebab very much.

Everything about eating outside and I am getting bored. The expensive price is one issue but the food never satisfied to my taste. Its gonna be a boring life for another 16 months to come. So, what am I supposed yo do? I already have my plans laid down on the table. Few I can do it now but others I got yo wait until my new home is ready. Have to be patience for a time being. This morning I was planning to go to the fish market. It was raining from last night until the morning. I saw the fish in the fridge and it worth to make a curry. I checked the available ingredients and jotted down the remaing required ingredients. I start the car and drove to the town and purchased lemon grass, few spices etc to make a perfect fish curry. Now it is ready to be served.....

I came back from work at 6.00 p.m. Normally I never work on weekend and I hate to spend time in the office. My weekend must be my holy holy day. Since with my new assignment demand extra hour for me to tidy up few issues and jouse keeping I got no other choice? I drove home reluctantly and was thinking what should I do today. When I arrived home everything was so quiet. My friend was in his room and another roomate has not returned home.. Hhhmmmm.... I yhink better rest and having a shot nap while waiting for maghrib. I was turning left to right and right to left but my eyes were just could not close. Aiyooo...... I woke up and try to get down the stairs and mety friend just woke up. He asked me whether to ho to Pasar Melayu. I replied ok. We drove for 15 minutes and we reached the place. I thought it was like pasar malam, instead it just a delipidated wet market. I walk around and found out that the fish quite fresh and cheap especially ikan tenggiri. Is it baracuda?? Anyway my frie...

This is my second week in Bintulu. What should I say about my new assignment? Hhhmmmm.....let me tell you how I am going to work and back from work. Bintulu is totally different from 14 years ago when I first came here. I never thought that I would ever return again to this isolated town. But now this is not a quite town but full of people from all over the world just because continuous project ftom MLNG. I normally leave home at 6.30 and return home after 6.30. Almost 12 hours I have spend for my project. In other words i left home when it was dark and returned home when it has already dark. Life has changed and it eould not change forever. Since being alone without family like a flying butterfly, I think I still can sustain my and managing my little time.....

Hari ini aku ke majlus walimatulurus saudara Aris di Kampung Jepak. Sebenarnya aku pun tak tahu kat mana tapi Aku ajak Tuan Haji Fauzi bersama dengan aku. Tuan Hj mmg famous kat sini. Mengalahkan YB! Aku dah berjanji dengan Hsji untuk ambil dia di surau pada pukul 8 pg. Nak cari surau ni pun satu hal. Aku drive round and round sebab sebab misunderstood about the instruction. Di sini yang peliknya kenduri di adakan pada waktu pagi. Kenyang breakfast pun tak selesai lagi. Setiba di Madjid nampak imam turun dari kereta sambil memakai sampin. Aku nampak ada beberapa orang office mate dah lama tiba. Kami terus ke dewan masjid dan mendengar kutbah nikah oleh pak imam. Alhamdulillah dengan sekali nafas sudah selesai mereka menjadi suami isteri. Lepas tu semua hadirin telah di jemput sama sama menjamu selera di rumah pihak perempuan. Aku pun tanya Aris berapa lama cuti. Dengan senyum simpul dia menjawap seminggu. Oklah tu...kita kasi can dekat dia....

I always tell my chilren about my childhood life to my children and my student life. It is good to reminisce the good and the bad experiences to them. One of my fond memories is having almond layered cake during my weekend grocery in UK. Shopping is tiring but interesting. I told my wife before I left for Munich and London to bring her Walnut Layered Cake. I was not sure whether it is around since I had left UK almost 25 years ago. I rememembered going to Mark & Spencer purposely to buy this cake. For me, the taste was nice and always filled my stomach prior to my cooking time for the weekend. When I arrived London last week, I took opportunity to go to M&S to get the cake. I was hesitated whether the cake was still available. I went to the basement and searching for the cake and thank god it was there. I never imagined that I would have a similar cake after 25 years! When I arrived home I showed my family about the cake. It seemed that nobody was interested with it. When I ...

I am having a very late lunch now. This morning after breakfast at the restaurant I drove around Bintulu and leading towards town. My thought was to roam around the fish market and trying to figure out what would be the best activities for me to manage while staying in Bintulu for one an a half years. I was here 14 years ago but Bintulu has been turned into a magnificient changes. Now you can enjoy many local restaurants with varieties of delicious menu. One of it that I discovered was raisin beef fried rice. This is my second time I ate at similar restaurant. The taste is great and different with little sweetness erupted from raisins and the beef that was cut into cubes. I think I can improve the version better by replacing a cgicken and with a little smack of chilli padi. That must be awesome!

Aduka, Adinda and Teruna already grown up and now they are already 9 weeks. Sometimes it is not easy to identify them because of their similar color of blue. But I think now you can differentiate which is which because of different sizes and the color appears differently. My children asked me what I am going to do with them? My reply was, ' I am going to sell all of them'. I just started with my breeding program of pure pedigree persian and insyaallh everything would be fine. I hope to expect the first new born would be by nextvyear...

I was hearing somebody was talking. I was not sure whether they were speaking English or Malay. I saw an english man at the table with a lady with a huge turban like. I thought she was from Africa. I continued my eating and browsing the face book until that lady walking across my table. Sponteneously I said, 'Hai Yuna, how are you?' And finally we start taking to each other and taking photos. I was Yuna who asked me to take a photo together....

I took this photo this morning at Munich Airport. It must be a dream car for everybody. As I said, it may just be a dream. In Munich, you can see moat of the expensive cars on the road. BMW and mercedez are widely as a taxi. But for us those cars are untouchable by ordinary people unless he is a wealthy man or related to dot dot dot and being as a datuk syok sendiri. The tax is too much. As of now none haa been seen that the car tax is going to reduce. Let me reserve my comment for now!

This was the first jamuan hari raya after coming back to KL. You know what? This is a special jamuan hari raya in Munich host by our Boss, YB. We depart from Hosbunof at 1.30 pm. To be honest I can never spell and pronouce the German language correctly. Everything in the state of confusing! The weather was not good with drizzling almost the whole day. We thought that we could wandering along the lake and enjoy the sunshine. I have seen few paintung from Firdaus and they are remarkable and still have rooms for improvement. Now I am already at the airport and ready to wish sayonara to Munchen....

I love the lighting effect. It glitters like stars in the sky and would reflect a romantic reflection. I use to take photos that someting looks extraordinary during my travelling so that whoever is readong my blog they would get at least a little bit of information. This candelier is not cheap. Eventhough it is cheap, I dont think that I would prefer to have one. I am not a type of person who is diligent enough to clean the sticking spider webs sticking to the crystals. But if someone would like to offer me for free, I dont think that I would turn my back on him....hehehe

I was assigned here for a week. There were few things to be statergised and understood because I press a full gear at site, Bintulu. What had impressed me was about the company cafetaria. The building looked very modern, futuristic and alegant. The color combination of black and white blended each other very well and define the concept of modern living. The ceiling was put at a very high elevation to make it look very spacious and luxury. Each individual wall for intwrior and exterior were aligned at angular that look like a terrain of a padi field cascading down from the hill to the toe. It just gorgeous and magnificent!

Charly arrived in Malaysia on the 14th August. I thougt everything was fine when me made a clearance at the animal hostel. I went to the adjacent room to check Charly to ensure that he was fine. I removed him from the carrier and inspected him whether he is ok. He responded to us bravely and Ubai and myself took turn to share a photo with Charly. We took all the documents and proceeded to the forwRding agent. It was already dark and late to settle all the paperworks. Tomorrow I will fly to Bintulu for my new assignment and time was not with me. I have not pack my belonging and the whole day driving around KL to settle many thing really drove me crazy and exhausted. I was panic when I found out that the vetenary cert was not there and this would be a prolonged issue. Ubai came down to me and mentioned that the page 9 in the vet passport was not quite acceptable and requested us to deal with the quarrantine devision. We went home with the praying that everything would be ok. I told my...

I better buy one! I saw this shop while I was walking at Munich city centre. It would be useful for me as being a handyman.....hahahaha. The price is ok but the most importantly they are not easily available in local. Yes...this is in my bucket list