tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21183530070858702942024-03-14T03:29:48.794+08:00Destinasi ku ...Hidup ini suatu perjalanan menuju destinasi ABADI ....water lilyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10181497875800193709noreply@blogger.comBlogger511125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2118353007085870294.post-26116374468804544322024-01-04T00:28:00.000+08:002024-01-04T00:28:16.792+08:00Tears of appreciation Assalamualaikum all2024 is here. To me, it’s just another day. Every day is a new chapter in life.Yesterday, I received a message from my PhD student, a Chinese citizen, travelled all the way, millions kilometers away, leaving the husband and child, to pursue her study. She wanted to see me as she is going back to China next week.I agreed to see her, it’s part of my responsibility as a water lilyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10181497875800193709noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2118353007085870294.post-23669604831587181952023-11-14T12:16:00.007+08:002024-01-04T00:31:50.097+08:00The price for lazinessAssalamualaikum and good morning.Monday, 13. A public holiday.From a morning walk at Tasik Shah Alam on this holiday. Holiday? Yes, it is supposed to be a day for a rest. Resting means not doing anything. Being served a nice food, sit back enjoying your day, doing things that you want to do. That’s a definition for ‘MY REST DAY’ @ ‘HOLIDAY’.But .. the reality is not always like what we water lilyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10181497875800193709noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2118353007085870294.post-38541779265099075842023-08-18T01:14:00.001+08:002023-08-18T01:15:26.570+08:0018.8 and parents Alhamdulillah ... SyukurWhen I posted about the T.O.P, I suddenly saw the post date which is 18.8 .. and realised that it is a significant date for me. Well ... it's my birthdate.The gift of love 💗💗Even without these flowers, I can feel their love.Alhamdulillah .. the greatest Rabb has bestowed me with life, brought upon a mother who had sacrificed her life for me. I am sure there were water lilyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10181497875800193709noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2118353007085870294.post-3440471663326673992023-08-18T00:17:00.002+08:002023-08-18T00:17:51.529+08:00T.O.P T.O.P - Tempat Orang PencenToday is my visit to the hospital again. And today is for the physiotherapy session for my tendonitis. Alhamdulillah, after several session, the pain subsided. But, more therapy is needed, and it has to be on my part. And as advised by the therapist, I need to give the hand a rest (boleh ke??), with it being the right hand, it's a challenge. Perhaps I need a full water lilyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10181497875800193709noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2118353007085870294.post-46768319679819655592023-07-28T10:49:00.001+08:002023-07-28T10:49:28.706+08:00SEMPORNA TRIP - DAY3DAY 3 (DEC 2019) - BOHEY DULANGWe were waiting for the cue from the land operator of our next trip. Whether it is going to be a Bohey Dulang or not. Why wait? Because they need to get the confirmation from the ranger whether it is safe to go there or not.Bohey Dulang is a hike. Hiking to the top to enjoy the magnificent view of the sea. However, the climb can be slippery though, especially if it water lilyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10181497875800193709noreply@blogger.com0Semporna, Sabah, Malaysia4.479391 118.611545-75.6698199876511 -22.013454999999993 84.628601987651081 -100.76345500000002tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2118353007085870294.post-62502159722503790112023-07-27T12:43:00.001+08:002023-07-27T12:43:28.573+08:00Semporna - Jewel in the Eye - Family Trip : Day 1 18 - 21 December 2019This is a long overdue post. I would want to put it here as a remembrance to the beautiful moment we had together. The trip was planned way ahead. It was Matta Fair 2019, sometime in April. It was our first visit to Matta Fair ever. People had been telling that you can get a best bargain going to Matta Fair, so, we try our luck. Our plan was to go to Europe. water lilyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10181497875800193709noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2118353007085870294.post-87463163728362796202023-07-25T16:29:00.001+08:002023-11-14T12:19:04.616+08:00KRIUK ... KRIUK AssalamualaikumJust feeling like rambling again today. Anyway, who reads blog these days. Everyone has moved to Instagrams, TikTok .. less text to read. Only viewing and listening. I wonder whether it has any cognitive effect. Well .. time flies, the world has changed. It changed from the first day I started blogging, left the blog unattended and writing it again today.====Kriuk ... water lilyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10181497875800193709noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2118353007085870294.post-90471395903732777692023-02-09T12:07:00.001+08:002023-07-27T12:59:50.429+08:00Semporna Trip - Day 2 18 - 21 December 2019Day 2We were told to be ready for the adventure by 8 am, the latest. We were also told to pack up our things as we will be transferred back to Semporna, the main land, after the snorkelling advanture, completing our island getaway. We woke-up early to enjoy our breakfast on the deck. And to our added surprise, there were turtles accompanying us enjoying the water lilyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10181497875800193709noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2118353007085870294.post-23413465502930960362023-02-09T12:06:00.002+08:002023-02-09T12:06:41.383+08:00Kaki BangkuAssalamualaikum and good dayJust feeling like putting down some notes here."Kaki bangku" ... kalau menurut peribahasa Melayu, kaki bangku bermaksud orang yang tidak pandai bermain bola.But in my case, "kaki bangku" brought another episode in my serial pain. 'Ala kulli hal ... Alhamdulillah. It's just a minor mishap, due to my own negligence and careless. It's a reminder from Allah SWT to a water lilyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10181497875800193709noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2118353007085870294.post-70297400563982324632021-03-17T22:34:00.003+08:002021-03-17T22:55:20.684+08:00It’s not always a clear sky .... AssalamualaykumThere are days where the sky is bright, the feelings were great. But there are days where the sky is cloudy and the feelings are gloomy.I seldom read messages from the former school mate. Not that I don’t like to read them, but there are too many messages to read and take action upon. Work is now all through the messages. Groups are mushrooming with more task to be completed.water lilyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10181497875800193709noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2118353007085870294.post-38849613405330940032021-03-16T21:58:00.004+08:002021-03-16T21:58:50.622+08:00W.R.I.T.I.N.G AssalamualaykumWRITING?? What is writing? A source from Wikipedia says that “writing is a medium of human communication with the use of symbols in certain languages”.Literally, the word is write defined by Oxford dictionary as “marks on surface”.Now, is write or writing a word of noun or verb? Writing can be a verb, and can also be a noun depending on the context it is being used.water lilyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10181497875800193709noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2118353007085870294.post-71722130281797130822021-01-21T10:37:00.004+08:002021-01-21T10:37:37.906+08:00W.F.H Salam all and a very good dayIt's a wonderful day ... wfh, odl, bbnu ... acronyms .... acronyms ... work from home is a norm. We woke up, did a bit of warm-up activities, breakfast, and get into the 'office'. Then, break for lunch, continue working, when the times up, shut down the laptop, off to the kitchen to prepare dinner. And the cycles begin. And life becomes an iteration. To water lilyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10181497875800193709noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2118353007085870294.post-4488246386184799372021-01-13T10:39:00.002+08:002021-01-13T10:39:54.250+08:00MCO 2.0 It's MCO again.I am not surprised with the announcement. Most expected.Working from home? Nothing changes ... I have been at home since March 2020. It is nearly a year. Classes went on as usual. Students were evaluated and assessed. They passed and failed. The turbulence behind the happy faces on the camera is something that no one knows. Or behind the closed cameras of an online classes, water lilyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10181497875800193709noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2118353007085870294.post-77174899273051985442021-01-11T09:55:00.000+08:002021-01-11T09:55:11.053+08:00O.D.L New day, new week .... usual life cycle with new challenges ahead. May Allah ease all our undertakings and blessed us in all our doings.Last week was hectic. Semester is coming to the end. Lecturers and students are all busy. Gearing up towards the finishing line. And last Friday I had presentation scheduled for my Final Year Project students, to present their Research Methodology. And water lilyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10181497875800193709noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2118353007085870294.post-16895341265976847252021-01-07T13:30:00.000+08:002021-01-07T13:30:17.057+08:00Cats Morning peeps ...Look at this beauty .... so cute looking thing ... peeping through from behind the basket. Looking terrified? or perhaps analyzing the environment. Cats lover will jump to get a hold of this cutie.Source : Google imageWhy cat? Why talk about cat? Definitely not about this cat. Am I a cat lover? Nope. Neither a cat hater. As long as I remembered, never once that I had put a water lilyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10181497875800193709noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2118353007085870294.post-66710167841892136202021-01-06T16:36:00.002+08:002021-01-06T16:48:20.035+08:002021 -- Welcome 2021 2020 leaving us with too many first encounters. When the Covid19 first burst into the world in late 2019, it was thought that it's going to be just another flu outbreak. It will come and eventually go away. But .. as all of us aware, it seems that the virus still love to stay within us. Among us. So almost 2/3 of the year 2020 was spent in-house to most people.Many benefittedwater lilyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10181497875800193709noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2118353007085870294.post-4131922263259824092020-02-26T10:19:00.000+08:002020-02-26T10:19:34.474+08:00MalaysiakuSalam all,
2020 comes with challenges.
The Coronavirus, CoVid-19 has invaded the world, invaded the media and news. Not enough with that, Malaysian was shocked with the current political turmoil. A situation that has never occurred before.
Busy with classes, I was behind with the news. It was after finished preparing dinner that night when my daughter was talking something weird about the water lilyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10181497875800193709noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2118353007085870294.post-85752182940783011582020-01-28T17:18:00.000+08:002020-01-28T17:32:03.694+08:00MarriageOne day, a mother and daughter were cleaning the dishes after their meal. Earlier, they were preparing the meals together. Then suddenly the daughter asked ....
Daughter : Why must this be the women's task? (referring to the task they did earlier, preparing the meals and cleaning).
Mother : Nope. This is not solely the women's task. The men can do this too.But as a wife, we want to do the best water lilyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10181497875800193709noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2118353007085870294.post-73978220937832243072020-01-04T07:22:00.001+08:002020-01-15T09:32:53.338+08:00Team work makes it happenAssalamualaikum
I came home late yesterday as I was invigilating the exam that ends at 5.45pm. Soon came in Atikah, my eldest from work, followed closely by ayah, my hubs. It seems like everybody came home together. The day before, we have planned to have the grilled salmon for dinner. Sometimes, planning were not materialized due to many factors, mostly fatigue.
But today, we are going to makewater lilyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10181497875800193709noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2118353007085870294.post-49148554059743130182020-01-03T12:32:00.000+08:002020-01-03T12:32:32.258+08:00The eyes behind the glassAssalamualaikum
I often use this phrase 'I feel old' .... well, this is not true at all. I not only feeling old, I am practically old. Only an old lady would have dropped her pair of glasses from the top of her head unnoticed, and later rolled over it with her tyres. And that is me .... welcoming the new year, 2020.
I was in quite a rush yesterday evening, the gate wont open that I need to stepwater lilyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10181497875800193709noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2118353007085870294.post-75540187196343651672020-01-02T16:20:00.001+08:002020-01-02T16:20:36.404+08:00Back to SchoolAssalamualaikum,
The heap was all about 'Back to School'. Little ones are all very excited. New clothes and shoes. New friends and new life. Eager to be called school children or pupils. Parents are eager too. Catching their children on their lenses for future referencing. Mothers making sure their kids have enough food to eat and drinks. What a lovely seeings.
Obviously I am old. I no longerwater lilyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10181497875800193709noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2118353007085870294.post-80001662938297609922019-03-29T17:56:00.001+08:002020-01-02T13:13:02.909+08:00Turkey : Day 3 - Istanbul
Assalamualaikum
Day 3 in Istanbul ... it continue to be a rainy and wet day. But that doesn’t hinder the joy that we had. The journey began by going to a museum. The Dolmabahçe Palace which is now turned into a museum. It has a lovely surroundings, suited its status as a palace. At the side of the palace is overlooking the Bosphorus Straits.
This is at the main entrance. To preserve thewater lilyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10181497875800193709noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2118353007085870294.post-72716238601775216372019-03-29T17:48:00.002+08:002020-01-03T12:44:47.852+08:00Turkey Day 2: BursaAssalamualaykum,
18 December 2018
We are scheduled to go to Bursa on the second day. We left the Armada Hotel at the wee hour in the morning. We left at 5.30 am, before the call for the Fajr prayer. We need to leave early to avoid being caught in the traffic. Futhermore, Bursa is kilometers away from Istanbul. The hotel packed us the breakfast so that we can enjoy it during the journey. It iswater lilyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10181497875800193709noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2118353007085870294.post-355762821712026032019-03-26T17:28:00.000+08:002019-12-31T11:54:45.485+08:00Turkey Day 1: IstanbulIstanbul - Part 1
Day 1. 17 December 2018
The preparation starts weeks earlier, its all because the kids were at the hostel. Sabrina will only finishes her SPM on 7 December 2018, Hakim will only be back on the 14 December 2018, that is 2 days before departing.
The flight was scheduled 11.50 pm. Its a buckled-up, sleep tight flight. An approximately 10 hours flight to Istanbul. We will be water lilyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10181497875800193709noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2118353007085870294.post-9000938391972862122018-08-26T18:35:00.002+08:002018-08-27T13:16:28.099+08:00Qurban 2018Assalamualaikum.
It’s Zulhijjah 14. Pilgrims in Makkah had completed their pilgrimage. All are in new hopes and determination. Determined to be a better muslim. Determine to leave behind all the sinful activity. Determine to always be on the righteous path. And determine to perform all that are instructed to
us and to deter from doing all that is forbidden. May Allah accept all our duas and water lilyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10181497875800193709noreply@blogger.com0