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Thirty Six Years ..and loving it.

2011-07-15T17:31:00.000+08:00

June 12th 2011 marked our 36th wedding anniversary and loving it. Really hope that we have a happy life together that last eternally. Sometime I wonder how times fly.

Just the two of us having a quite dinner at a new restaurant "A Pilgrimage Grill"

With all the promises that we make and we break, why do you think people get married? Because we need a witness to our lives. Theres a billion people on the planet, I mean what does any one life really mean.

But in a marriage you’re promising to care about everything; the good things, the bad things, the terrible things, the mundane things. All of it, all the time, everyday. You’re saying, “your life will go unnoticed, because I will noticed it, Your life will not go unwitnessed, because I will be your witness.” ‘

Mignon McLaughlin says ‘ A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person ‘-. and here we are, and its truly lovelier 36 times around.

My Latest Books

2011-05-20T21:21:00.008+08:00

My son Joey presented me a book’A Doctor in The House - A Memoirs of our former PM, Tun Mahathir Mohamad. It was for my birthday I guessed (belated). I remember he promised to get me something ‘big’ for that special day. This must be it. The other book was AMOT,- AMap of Terengganu., a second book written by Awang Goneng. I was there when he did launced his first book GUIT – Growing Up In Terengganu at Kedai Buku Abdullah Alyunani way back 2007. You can read it here.

Curiosity driven, one can't stop wondering why he chooses not to have AMOT, his second book launched here - Kuala Terengganu, where the happening were centered. Your guess is good as mine.

Armand in Paris

2010-12-09T20:25:00.008+08:00

This slide was created in 2008, but unfortunately it could'nt be uploaded. Reason being I lost the password to access the server. After almost two years, I got it back. Armand was five years old then, when Shima after completing her PHD (Southampton) took him to Paris for holiday.

Maher Zain - Insha Allah | ماهر زين - إن شاء الله

2010-10-14T21:55:00.000+08:00

Lisa sWedding

2010-09-21T23:20:00.001+08:00

Kapal pesiaran RM1.2 juta untuk susuri Sungai Terengganu

2009-10-05T01:20:00.003+08:00

Kapal pesiaran RM1.2 juta untuk susuri Sungai Terengganu
04/10/2009 1:20pm

KUALA TERENGGANU 4 Okt — Kerajaan negeri Terengganu membeli sebuah kapal pesiaran dua tingkat bernilai kira-kira RM1.2 juta bagi memudahkan pelancong menyusuri Sungai Terengganu dalam usaha meningkatkan sektor pelancongan di negeri itu.

'Why the need for a RM1.2m two storey ship to cruise Terengganu river. Dont we have enough 'bot penambang' to serve the purpose.

Pengerusi Jawatankuasa Pelajaran, Pengajian Tinggi, Sains, Teknologi dan Sumber Manusia Ahmad Razif Abdul Rahman berkata kapal yang mampu menampung sehingga 150 penumpang itu dapat merancakkan lagi pertumbuhan ekonomi penduduk di sepanjang tebing sungai, terutama di kawasan Seberang Takir dan kawasan sekitarnya.

“Kerajaan negeri juga telah berbincang dengan Jabatan Perikanan dan Jabatan Pengairan dan Saliran (JPS) mengenai pokok nipah yang banyak terdapat di Seberang Takir untuk diusahakan penduduk setempat.

“Mungkin kita akan sediakan satu tempat ekonomi untuk produk nipah seperti air nira dan barangan kraftangan dari tumbuhan itu untuk dijual kepada para pelancong yang menyusuri Sungai Terengganu dengan kapal itu nanti,” katanya.

If you're travelling from K.Terengganu to Dungun,there's already a long line of nira sellers along the road at Kg Pasir Puteh , before reaching Rantau Abang.

Razif berkata kapal yang dibeli di Bangkok, Thailand itu dijangka dapat dibawa pulang ke Terengganu selepas musim tengkujuh awal tahun depan.

Why Bangkok Thailand, when boat enthusiast from all over acknowledged Pulau Duyung boat builders for their impeccable skills.

Selain kapal itu, beliau berkata kerajaan negeri juga menempah tiga buah bot penambang baru yang berkonsepkan tradisional untuk pelancongan dan bot-bot berkenaan dijangka siap tidak lama lagi.

Beliau berkata dengan kemudahan asas yang ada nanti, Seberang Takir dipercayai akan lebih membangun dan penduduknya, rata-rata nelayan akan mendapat manfaat daripada projek pelancongan itu. - Bernama

In what means do the fisher folks benefited from this 'noble' project I wonder.

OH WHATS NEXT !!!

JANGAN MENGELUH

2009-01-20T23:51:00.002+08:00

Kita selalu Bertanya dan Al-Quran sudah menjawabnya.

KITA BERTANYA : KENAPA AKU DIUJI?
QURAN MENJAWAB "Apakah manusia itu mengira bahawa mereka dibiarkan saja mengatakan "Kami telah beriman," ("I am full of faith to Allah") sedangkan mereka tidak diuji? Dan sesungguhnya Kami telah menguji orang2 yang sebelum mereka, maka sesungguhnya Allah mengetahui orang2 yang benar dan, sesungguhnya Dia mengetahui orang2 yg dusta."
-Surah Al-Ankabut ayat 2-3

KITA BERTANYA:KENAPA AKU TAK DAPAT APAYANG AKU IDAM-IDAMKAN?

QURAN MENJAWAB "Boleh jadi kamu membenci sesuatu padahal ia amat baik bagimu, dan boleh jadi pula kamu menyukai sesuatu, padahal ia amat buruk bagimu, Allah mengetahui sedang kamu tidak mengetahui."
- Surah Al-Baqarah ayat 216

KITA BERTANYA : KENAPA UJIAN SEBERAT INI?
QURAN MENJAWAB "Allah tidak membebani seseorang itu melainkan sesuai dengan kesanggupannya."
- Surah Al-Baqarah ayat

KITA BERTANYA : KENAPA RASA FRUST?
QURAN MENJAWAB "Janganlah kamu bersikap lemah, dan janganlah pula kamu bersedih hati, padahal kamulah orang2 yg paling tinggi darjatnya, jika kamu orang2 yang beriman."
- Surah Al-Imran ayat 139

KITA BERTANYA : BAGAIMANA HARUS AKU MENGHADAPINYA?
QURAN MENJAWAB "Wahai orang-orang yang beriman! Bersabarlah kamu (menghadapi segala kesukaran dalam mengerjakan perkara-perkara yang berkebajikan) , dan kuatkanlah kesabaran kamu lebih daripada kesabaran musuh, di medan perjuangan), dan bersedialah (dengan kekuatan pertahanan di daerah-daerah sempadan) serta bertaqwalah (be fearfull of Allah The Almighty) kamu kepada Allah supaya, kamu berjaya (mencapai kemenangan)."

KITA BERTANYA : BAGAIMANA HARUS AKU MENGHADAPINYA?
QURAN MENJAWAB "Dan mintalah pertolongan (kepada Allah) dengan jalan sabar dan mengerjakan sembahyang; dan sesungguhnya sembahyang itu amatlah berat kecuali kepada orang-orang yang khusyuk"
- Surah Al-Baqarah ayat 45

KITA BERTANYA : APA YANG AKU DAPAT DARIPADA SEMUA INI?
QURAN MENJAWAB "Sesungguhnya Allah telah membeli dari orang2 mu'min, diri, harta mereka dengan memberikan syurga untuk mereka... ?
- Surah At-Taubah ayat 111

KITA BERTANYA : KEPADA SIAPA AKU BERHARAP?
QURAN MENJAWAB "Cukuplah Allah bagiku, tidak ada Tuhan selain dari Nya. Hanya kepadaNya aku bertawakkal."
- Surah At-Taubah ayat 129

KITA BERKATA : AKU TAK DAPAT TAHAN!!!
QURAN MENJAWAB "... ..dan janganlah kamu berputus asa dari rahmat Allah. Sesungguhnya tiada berputus asa dari rahmat Allah melainkan kaum yang kafir."
-Surah Yusuf ayat 12

Peringatan ini saya terima dari sahabat yang prihatin pada saya. Saya sebarkan peringatan ini kepada sahabat2 tersayang untuk ingat mengingati kepada kebenaran

Dato' Razali Ismail Meninggal

2008-11-29T20:20:00.008+08:00

Yang Di-Pertuan Agong, Tuanku Mizan Zainal Abidin mengaminkan doa ketika menziarah jenazah Dato' Razali di Lorong Kenanga, Batu Buruk. -Foto SHUHAIMI AHMAD.

Oleh: Aida Abd Rahman
Negara dan negeri Terengganu khasnya, kehilangan seorang pemimpin dan tokoh akademik berwibawa serta disegani ramai kerana pengalaman dan idea bernas yang sering dilontarkan bagi melahirkan cerdik pandai dalam pendidikan di negara ini.
Allahyarham, Dato’ Razali Ismail, 59, yang juga Timbalan Menteri Pelajaran yang dilahirkan di Kuala Berang pada 25 Jun 1949, kembali ke Rahmatullah di Institut Aminuddin Baki (IAB), Genting Highlands, Pahang secara mengejut ketika sedang bermin badminton, kira-kira jam 6.30 petang, semalam (28 November).

Beliau meninggalkan seorang balu, To' Puan Nooraini Lob Yusoff, 51, dan lima anak iaitu Muhammad Nurazli, 30 yang juga Pengurus di Sime Darby Bhd; Asrul Shah, 27, bertugas sebagai Pegawai Tadbir Diplomatik; Khairul Amar, 23 , masih menuntut di Amerika Syarikat; Khairul Anwar, 21, menuntut di Universiti Industri Selangor dan yang bongsu, Khairul Arif, 15, pelajar di Sekolah Menengah Agama Persekutuan Kajang, Selangor.
Seri Paduka Baginda, Yang di-Pertuan Agong,Tuanku Mizan Zainal Abidin, berkenan berangkat menziarahi jenazah Allahyarham di rumahnya di Batu Buruk, Kuala Terengganu, sebelum dikebumikan di tanah perkuburan Islam Sheikh Ibrahim, bersebelahan pusara ibu Allahyarham, kira-kira jam 1.30 petang, hari ini (29 November) .

Sebelum itu, jenazah Allahyarhamyang diiringi isterinya, To’ Puan Noraini dan dua daripada lima anak Allahyarham, Asrul Shah dan Muhammad Nurazli dihantar ke Hospital Bentong (HB) untuk pemeriksaan dan bedah siasat kira-kira pukul 9.30 malam tadi.
Turut berada di IAB membantu menguruskan jenazah ialah Menteri Pelajaran, Dato’ Seri Hishammuddin Tun Hussein serta para pegawai Kementerian Pelajaran dan IAB.Setiausaha Kerajaan Negeri, Dato’ Mokhtar Nong turut berada di samping jenazah di IAB dan HB.
Dalam Pilihan Raya Umum Ke-12 yang lalu, beliau mewakili Barisan Nasional (BN) memperoleh 32,562 undi mengalahkan Naib Presiden Pas, Mohamad Sabu (31,562) dan calon bebas seorang wanita berusia 89 tahun, Maimun Yusof (685).

Dato' Razali sebelum ini merupakan Pengerusi Perbadanan Tabung Pendidikan Tinggi Nasional (PT PTN) dan bergiat secara langsung dalam politik sejak 2004.

Unit Komunikasi Negeri

(Sumber diperolehi : http://www.terengganu.gov.my/)

Belum pun sehari tempoh beliau kembali keRahmatullah para yang berkepentingan sudah mula membuka gelanggang. Baca disini dan disini. Apa perasaan keluarga allahyarham.

Miss Grace Decker

2008-10-27T18:04:00.020+08:00

I would like to add some detail to what I'd commented on Zawis "My Schooldays 1967 - 1968" .Heres what I commented

changgeh said...

Zawi

From your account its true teachers those days were more than life itself. They earn respect rather than demand. Money to them is not everything. Not that they are well off but rather they knew which student came from a poor background and in whatever small way they could help they sincerely & willingly did it. How we missed them.

It was 1966, I was in the school library (doing nothing) when this Miss Grace Decker walked in; an American PeaceCorps. She happen to be the Library teacher and I was then the chief librarian.” What are you doing here dear, you should be in class” she lamented. I told her ”I could’nt because the form teacher had ordered me to go back home and get my school fees, it been due for a few months now”. I didnt go back but instead hid myself in the library hoping by the next hour it would be safe when another teacher took over the class. Even if I did go back, its pointless cause I knew my parent would never afford the school fees. Hence the hiding in the library. She took pity on me I think when she open her wicker handbag and started counting..1 dollar, two,three four ..until she stop at seven dollars. She handed the amounts and ”Go back to to the class and take this money to pay your fees.” And that ’s what I did.Its been 42 years since and I owed this teacher not the money but the kindness. I wonder where's she now. Thank you Miss Decker . I owe you one

Here is an old photograph of Miss Decker together with yours truly (extreme right) and few friends taken in 1966 at her house by the Batu Burok beach. She shared the house with another teacher by the name of Miss Carol who taught us English Literature. They're not just teachers but they are also friend. I'd been keeping this for the last 42 years.

A Closeup of her...aint she pretty?

Miss Carol in her Baju Kurung

The message she wrote at the back of the photograph she gave me.

Every weekend we would cycled to her house. And the house would be turn into a 'club' of sorts. We would gather and each and everyone of us would have a field day; swimming, playing guitar, reading books from her small library. Some would even have a joyride on her 50cc honda cub..she won't mind. One day a friend of our was caught for riding without a licence. She was very upset not because of riding without a licence but of being caught.

armand daniel firdaus......adf

2008-09-09T23:18:00.025+08:00

Armand turns seven last May and growing and growing

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

Tokki and Opah loves you very much

Armand blowing the candles

'Long live ADF'

Mama slicing the pieces

Armand having his share. While OPah looks on.

Showing his skill on 'my' favourite bowling .... that's what he told everybody. Never strike though.

After which...'i'm thirsty i'm thirsty.water please tokki ' he never miss on his water

..........and popcorns too

Playing with daddy's toys....Tokki bought when daddy was about his age. It been well kept ever since.

Meddling dad's computer...his favourite games for sure

'Tokki, looks i'm having a nap in the water'

Doing the slide

A hug from Opah

Whatever ,still like to be under dad's ketiak.

Positive Thinking

2008-01-19T14:54:00.004+08:00

Look at this glass in front of you. Is it half full or
is it half empty

Now, do you realize that it is entirely for you to decide what the answer to this question is going to be. The choice is yours. So, the very same reality can be seen in totally opposite ways: in a positive way, and in a negative way.And there is always a positive side to any thing, any situation, any event, any person. Look at the world in a different way. Try to find out that positive side. At first, you might literally have to dig it out, but after some time, it automatically appears to you. In fact, you eventually only see the good side.

Everything is beautiful, "everybody's beautiful, in their own way", as the song goes.

In any situation, however apparently bad, keep cool and coolly examine the situation. Turn it upside down, inside out, downside up and outside in. Suddenly you realize it could have been worse. Find out how and why it could have been worse. Finally, the good side of it will just appear to you.This can happen gradually or in a flash.

Soon you'll see all things and all people in a positive way What you call "failure" is in fact simply a new opportunity to try again and do better than if you had "succeeded" in the first place.

Now, have you noticed that a rich person has more of a chance of getting a bank loan than a poor person? In otherwords: you must have money to be given more money! In the same way, if you are a "happy person", you'll get more happiness.

As the great American poet Theodore Roethke said: "The right things happen to the happy man" Don't worry, whatever type of person you are, you can easily turn yourself into a "happy person".

You can almost say it's "easier said than done" but please, just try and soon, very soon, in fact much sooner than you think, you'll take up a sturdy and radiant Positive Attitude to life and THAT is the only key to wellness, happiness, and a longer life.

Of Floating Mosque and Buah Gomok

2008-01-01T00:57:00.000+08:00

It was 7.30 in the morning, I was having my usual ‘jogging’ activity at my favourite spot – the track in the vicinity of Masjid Tengku Tengah Zaharah. We locals called it Masjid Terapung or reffered to as Floating Mosque. Its one of the icons of Islam in the state.

Masjid Tengku Tengah Zaharah(The Floating Mosque)

Being a weekday there were not many joggers around except for a few. Going by theirs attires they were the jemaah who I thought decides to stay back for their briskwalking round the track.
The track was wet due to last night downfall. I decided not to continue but instead make a detour down the beach. Yes during the monsoon most coastal part of K.Terengganu were full of debris. You could see stretches of all kinds of everything,, uprooted trees, plastic bottles, diaphers tangling with the branches along the coastline. These deposits were pushed ashore from the ulu areas by the gushing waves.

Debris piling the coastline

Terengganu Equestrian Resort(TER) is in the background.

The sandy beach seen here is once a anglers haven with fishes like Ikan Kakap Merah, (Red Snapper)Kuku etc ...now its fill with sand brought by the gushing waves over the years. Those who frequent the place will testify to that.

While combing the beach I stumble upon a few buah gomok nicely snug among the debris. Awang Goneng describes in his GUIT’ ‘’ as the flat shelled , tough and dark as ebony .

I took it home and had a plan in mind. I wanted to bores holes in them and takes out the kernels then fill it with molten lead reminiscent of what we did when we were kid or liken to what Awang Goneng did when he took it home and bored holes in them and kept them on an ant's colony. Once the ants have had their feast and left the gomok shell light and hollow, the skilled in this gomokcraft took them home to fill with molten lead, its shell to love and polish with spit and Kiwi, then bandied about as gleaming objects of desire. The weighted gomok were used as hurling objects in our games, or smashed against rival gomoks as children do with conkers in other parts of the world.’’

Buah Gomok Snugging among the debris

....I took it home and had a plan in mind. ..

So folks, to those who doesn’t know how a buah gomok or buah ipir looks like, its my pleasure here to show you some images of them which I salvage from the debris.

GUIT Signing - The Teganung Chapter

2007-12-26T12:39:00.002+08:00

Its a real people's launch of GUIT, but not a monsoon cuppa, as the day was bright and shiny with no rain, not even a trickle. The sun was in full smile.... we did have our cup of tea still.

The excitements were everywhere as banners, posters are up in every nook and corner of the shop - Alam Akademik formerly known as Kedai Pok Loh Yunang They came in full force, ex teachers, housewives,schoolchildren, pensioners (like me) schoolmate and kampongmate of the author.My former classmate Mr Tan Lip Chuan, a successful local businessman came and bought 10 copies of GUIT to get it signed and pass it to friends and business associates as gifts.

The 'guests' line up for the registration and by 10.30am the mayhem begins the moment Awang Goneng entourage arrived. The event was schedule at 11.00am though.

Its supposed to be a ordinary peoples' affair, no grandeur of sorts. But I was suprised to notice that there 're a few familiar VIP in attendance. There's Dato Mohd Said, MP for Jasin, Dato Mohamed Aziz MP for Sri Gading and three local VIP Dato.Nasir Tan Sri Ibrahim Fikri,Dato Azmi MP for Kuala Nerus and K.Terengganu MP Dato Razali Ismail.

I was made to understand later that the famous duo were in town for other event but when they heard that GUIT was to be launched that day and the chances of having their books signed by the author himself, they make their way to the shop accompany by their counterparts. But its common with VIP they always find reasons to jump queue. I had mine signed earlier on. They came, shake or rather touch your hand, theirs eyes and minds are somewhere else they don't look at you in the face.No wonder they don't remember us the next encounter.They don't touch my heart as Awang Goneng did.

The Famous Duo, Dato Mat Said and Dato Mohamed Aziz having their book signed by the author.

Awang Goneng, Yours Truly and Mr Razali (our ex P.E teacher)

Mr Tan Lip Chuan kelek a pile of Guit while having a word with the author

Kelek in Terengganuspeak mans to hold it between your lower arm and the upper arm in abent format.

Awang Goneng signing my copy of GUIT

Awang Goneng rendering a few paragraphs from his book

The 'Fifth Generation of Pok Loh Yunang' singing a Nasyid.(in English)

Now I've seen the man himself, after having a word or two and listening to him reading a few paragraph of his book. Its wonderful everytime leafing through the pages of GUIT I can feel and sense as if he was there infront storytelling word by word.......''There is that certain special feeling, that now we are no longer mere virtual friends, when we visit each other’s blog we understand the person better. Ahh..nice!'' borrowing the wisdom of my favourite blogger http://rubyahmad.blogspot.com/