December 31st, 2009

My life's been leaving footsteps and memories, good and bad, behind. Like this blog that I have that left untouched for so long that I, at times, tend to forget. Perhaps, it's FB that makes me not update here anymore. It's easier to connect at FB than jotting down memories in a blog.

So let's rewind back to catch up on what's up.

June: big event. got married :D
- went to Singapore and KL for honeymoon.
oh how i love June 2009 this year that i almost spent a month of holidaying...haha.

Between June and December - the usual stuffs. work related
- a colleague passed away.
- friends getting married.
- couples getting pregnant. etc. hehe.

December: sat for GO exam. Really hoping that we would get a pass at least. haha.
- couldn't sit for FR as we left for vacation.
- holiday in Singapore. we spent 6D5N this time because couldn't get enough of Singapore the last time we went in June. There were many ups and downs while we were there. While there were memorable moments, the bad moments were unfortunately the ones we tend to remember very well too. Keeping them aside, I'll think twice of going there ever again. Hujan emas di negeri orang, lebih baik hujan batu di negeri sendiri.

Typing a short post like this seems like my life been shortened in a span of six months. I guess there are just too many things happening that I could hardly even remember. There are flashes of pictures blurred in between inside this head though. haha.

As of this, its the last day of the year now. 31st December 2009. And truly time flies when you're having a good time. Holidays seems like very short despite the long month of December.

2010 awaits for all of us. Let's pray that it'll be a better year ahead, stay fresh and positive and be healthy. haha.

*i'll be posting up some more ramblings soon*

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live like Qings

Buang yg keruh ambil yg jernih

ehem.
time mood2 'cemane' ane, this song is perfect. haha.
byk tips2 buat2 yg newly weds.
enjoy and hayati...

degupan perasaan

gementar rasa hati ketika ini untuk membayangi hari besar kmi akan di nikahkan
gemuruh rasa jiwa di masa ini atas rasa tanggunggjawab yg bakal kami pikul bersama
akhirnya chinta kasih sayang air mata peluh suka dan duka terjawab jua
lembaran muka surat baru di kehidupan kami sebagai pasangan suami isteri
bermulanya di sini
tak lama lagi.

Love of Heaven

A must watch for those thinking that Malay movies suck. This one has lots of messages that we as human tend to neglect. esp as a muslim.

a rating of 4 and a half star out of 5. Oh and two-thumbs up!

Loveate

He looks cool. He is cool.

Bilakan albumnya ane kan keluar??

Tell me.

100%

my lap's at the doctor coz of CPU usage problem which has gone up to a 100%. It's crazy. It's causing my lap performance to a very slow snail system. Sigh. I'm pretty disappointed as this is not my first problem with this lappy. Sent it to get it reformatted and the problem persisted. I hope sending it again will finally fix it.

Ori ke plastik?

It's hard not to be like 'that' and be like 'this' and not to remind you of 'that'.

nahmean ?

It's even hard to be in a state where we say ' Hey, I've seen that before somewhere', so in the end we just have to find something else 'new'. And again, being 'new' is not always NEW.
haha. I'm repeating my self. u get the drift. It's hard to be ORIGINAL. Something original is hard to find. SOmething new is always as a result of 'one-thing-leads-to-another' and thus making it better.

Macam kereta model baru. We'll always relate to what we have seen before and up to a point criticising a new model as a 'copycat' of 'this' model.

went with sally to look for Kia's new model in the market named "Soul'. Damn nice. We also like the Cerato model. Wait till the Koup version comes into the market and I believe it'll be a hit. U must be thinking that we're joking talking abt the Kia right? nope. See for yourself and u'll be amazed on how 'i wish i could own that' feeling u'll get.

Haha.

This post aint about cars.

Its about ori ke tak ori.

and being ori is just not so ori.

hehe.

Kaku Aku Melihatmu

rock and rollin'
bila lah agaknya the second album will come out ah..
this is the first single from Faizal Tahir. enjoy!

The Missing Photog

had a bbq at Sally's ngangah then we went to RIPAS emergency to meet the doctor. i need some ailments to cure my beautiful voice and about to get worse sickness. We were there almost at 2300hrs. and we waited for almost 2 hours for our turn! never thought there'd be many pple at the middle of the night. Sigh. I slept in public on bench like you see a beggar dozing off on a bench in movies....

Tamarinda bagus untuk suara

I was supposed to have a night at a 'hotel' but changed my mind as I had nothing to do there so decided to join Sally's invitation to jog around Masjid Qlap..

While we were about to leave the scene, there's this one Indon guy dressed ala rocker, and we had this terrible thing in our head still about strangers asking for help/questions...and since we were 'exposed' , we were approached lah by this guy and he asked where's this bookstore in kiarong..So told him that it;s just right across the mosque... and off he went....

*fuuh* that was close...
no bad thing happen.

I dunno why, but we are always approachable by strangers.
haha and that includes salesman and promoters...hmmm free food samples, anyone ? hehe..anytime..

I was losing my voice past 2 days and i was suggested to drink air asam jawa campur gula dan garam. didnt have the chance to make one on my own so decided to just buy the ready made one from a supermarket. atupun Sally yg suggest that they have the commercial version hehe. I hope i can have my voice back by tmw.

have to be early tmw and will be excused from work tmw.


Good night!

A Mystery Story. It is not.

While still in our car in one of the parking lot in Gadong, time was around 1915 ish, a Malay guy was knocking on our car window's asking for questions. I reluctantly did not do him any favour of offering him any help coz of safety reasons. Besides, why would he wanna ask us when other shops were open and readily available for questions, isn't it ? Scary eh...luckily our windows and doors were all shut...

The title above was a composition I asked my students to do, and all I read was almost the same thing or almost the same cliche stories you could have imagined in ur head. Haha! pontianak tya, heard a sound tya while left all alone at home tya; and suddenly I woke up and realised I was dreaming tya etc... u know haha...predictable. They are probably exposed to the same movies that everyone's watching, thus lack in creativity and imagination. A little twist here and ther would have been better.

I had another haircut just now. and the last i remember i had one was last 2 or 3 weeks. Which means it's the 2nd haircut i had in a montH! Huhu.


I need to be reminded that i need to focus and be on track. there are many things that I need to do and get done ASAP. and these things are actually very simple and very easy and takes less time than I thought it would. it's just that i procastinate and hope by the end of the day it's gonna be alright when actually it;s the other way round. Sigh. FOCUS MAN!

switching off now. End.

Half-Shutter

Just did this out of boredom.
It's something Ive had in mind.
About to reach there, but not quite...

Kittens

It's a rare sight for us at home to have kittens as we don't have cats. The pictures above are of our neighbour's cat who just happened to deliver outside our house. The mother's been changing places of its kittens and the above was the last one she left. I took the chance to snap some of its pics before she took it away.

I have not seen any of the kittens now. I remember it was four of them altogether. They must be healthy and grown a little already hehe.

The screwdriver serves as a measure of scale on how small the kitten was. No harm was done at the kitten at all, that's just for your info ;)

The Cuti

This was posted in a blogger's entry. There are some validity in it so I'm sharing it with you guys.

Have a read. Hehe.

Holidays. Aaah..... tdo bgun laptop makan tdo bgun laptop makan tdo....

boring tu eh. haha. Move!

Pendek jua cuti ane eh.
Sigh. When can we have break like 3 months lagi ah. haha. Macam semester break dlu. Hmm...in my dreams...

My Jungle camping diary

Trees all around.
Humid, wet, dry condition.
Have to make your own resting place.
You make fire yourself to cook.
Water worth all the money can buy.
Toilet buat sendiri jua.
Thinking of having a shower? That's a luxury.

Malam main bunga api.
Walking in the dark with only a torch light and a platoon to guide of.
Unseen insects you never thought of imagining popped out infront of your eyes.

Kilograms of bag.
Another weight on the hand of that M16.

walking a kilometer.

I was unprepared for what to bring.
Now I've learned alot if there's another camping next time.

O night and the moon you are beautiful with the stars surrounding you

Malam Bulan Dipagar Bintang - P. Ramlee

Tekeduhung hamba mencari2 lagu madu tiga di Imeem, hamba ter-stumble dengan tajuk lagu ini.
Sudah kilala dgn melodi nya, having to listen to it again and reading the lyrics, I just cant help but di buai mimpi indah dengan melodi penyanyinya.... oh...bulan..... oh bintang...

malam bulan di pagar bintang
makin indah jika di pandang
bagai gadis beri senyuman
pada bujang idaman

belai kasih ingin di manja
dengan cumbuan mesra
untuk penglipur lara
penawar dek asmara

malam bulan di pagar bintang
tambah seri cuaca malam
murni sunggu ciptaan tuhan
bulan bintang lampu alam

andai kata bintang menyepi
bulan tidak berseri
malam menjadi sunyi
tidak berseri lagi

Don't mess with this

Madu Tiga - P. RAMLEE


I still like the original version by P. Ramlee. It's always the case where the original singer still shines and unbeaten but Ahmad Dhani's version is interesting. Hehe. Definitely a catchy song.

I'm losing things. I misplaced some things that I really2 need now. Sasak ku eh mencari. Where the heck is it ah.. . . . . .LOST!?

Shuflle generasi ke berapa ne ah...

Salam.

First up, there's a new iPod Shuffle. Hehe. You know how tiny the shuffle was and now it's even tinier ( i think) and sounds nicer(feature wise). All the good of a shuffle plus a new feature they put in this time, called Voiceover. Click here to know more. Personally, I dont really find it interesting though, nevertheless it's a new feature that's non existent in other ultra-portable players.

I used to listen to the music using my shuffle while jogging, and now that I'm back to jogging alongside my teddy bear Sally (haha), I kinda missed not having it. Note, I often jog away from her coz she's taking her own sweet time .. right Love, haha! :D

But she's catching up. kan. hehe.
Hope we can maintain 'tiring' ourselves at least 3 times a week ah love.
We need to get in shape.
As in IN shape. haha.

My bday's coming up. And I want the shuffle. hint2. haha.

Time and effort to see it grow

I'm half a soldier now.
Thinking about it, meaning I have two bosses to satisfy.
Need double the effort and time to think about things.
And what's more important is I wanna see it grow.
Macam 'anak' saja hehe...

An eye for a fish

Ever seen a goldfish with only an eye?
U know the kind of goldfish which has its eyes almost popped out.
And Sally and I saw a goldfish with an eye empty!
Nyilu kami meliat.
Nampak g tu the socket of the eye! It's red and white in colour.
Eugh! (Kambang bulu ku ni typing this haha!)

The Light

Ya Allah rahmati kami dgn Al-Qur'an
Jadikan ia pimpinan
cahaya
petunjuk dan rahmat
Allah ingatkan kami
apa yg terlupa
ajarkanlah
yg tak di ketahui
rezekikan kami membacanya
sepanjang malam
sepanjang siang hari
jadikan ianya hujah kami

Pahlawan Hatimu

Oh Cinta (Gangsta Groove Remix)(mp3.PORTAL007.net) - Phlowtron feat. The Fabulous Cats


Phuture Phlow..

CHORUS:-
Ohh..
Bawalah daku bersamamu oh sayang,
Kita kan terbang ke angkasa kekayangan.

Khazanah:-
Seperti bidadari yang memancar segala aura,
Kadang kala ku tangis, ku tenung, ku terasa,
Keanggunan kata-katamu yang tersisih dari pura-pura,
Suka duka tiada lagi bermakna,
Wahai cinta seribu ciumanmu,
Menusuk kalbu seluas lautan syahdu,
Seindah purnama kilauan mata,
Kelembutan jiwa ragamu,
Oh Cinta, terima cintaku dalam dingin pertama,

Rindu subur pertama,
Seolah –olah aku cintamu yang pertama,
Kali mata bertentang mata,
Kalimah kasih yang tiada ucapannya,
Yang tiada riwayatnya,
Tiada tandingannya,
Cinta yang tiada pengakhirannya,
Seperti bidadari yang membelai bintang purnama,
Ku ingin menawanmu…oh cinta

CHORUS:-
Ohh..
Bawalah daku bersamamu oh sayang,
Kita kan terbang ke angkasa kekayangan.

Fabulous Cats:-
Episod kisah cinta musim ini agak berbeza,
Berbeza berganda dari yang dulu-dulu,
Sudahlah dah sudah,
Kirim salam sajalah,
Peringkat itu tiada penyudah,
Bukannya sengaja aku patahkan luka dan jiwa sesiapa,
Sekarang ku dah rasa berbeza,
Kan ku dah dewasa, tinggalkan semua bara,
Ku bawa ceria ke mukanya ya,
Mainan bicaraku kan ku bawa kau syurga dunia,
Bersama merata kita jelajah cinta
Percayakah kau? Adakah kau percaya?
Cubalah kau percaya? Kau tak percaya?
Ku alu-alukan kehadiranmu oh cinta.

CHORUS:-
Ohh..
Bawalah daku bersamamu oh sayang,
Kita kan terbang ke angkasa kekayangan.

Andika:-
Pada suatu hari ku buka mata dirimu ku lihat,
Hidayah menjelma dihadapan tanpa ku niat,
Menyerupai sekuntum bunga seanggun merak,
Kehalusan sentuhanmu buat hatiku tergerak,
Beriku permisi menjadi pahlawan hatimu,
Cintamu menyusuk kalbu kaulah teman jiwaku,
Kehidupan seharian denganmu sentiasa cerah,
Cintaku padamu dan hanya padamu kan ku serah,
Dunia kita berbeda namun kita sepadan,
Dugaan kita lalui hanya menjadi rintangan,
Bilaku dalam kegelapan kau menjadi cahaya,
Sinaran yang mengalahkan bintang-bintang di angkasa,
Adakah ku dalam lamunan? Adakah ini nyata?
Susah buatku untuk percaya namun ku pasti akan cinta kita,
Kerana inilah persoalan sering diriku tanya,
Langkah demi langkah ini permulaan kasih kita.

Kebangsaan 25 Tahun

I don't remember when's my last involvement in celebrating National Day. Flag waving or the dances (which i think I've never involved in) and perbarisan lalu .. .. hmm nth bilakah last ku involved.

But it's this year that once again I got myself involved (perbarisan lalu) under different cause. 25 years reminded me of my age on how young we still are as a country. The whole thing was tiring; waking up early in the morning for almost everyday in a week and had to wait for hours in preparation for the perbarisan lalu did take up a lot of patience. It may be a waste of time but the experience we get from this kind of activity that makes it worthwhile.

So if people asked what have I contributed to my country for it's Silver Jubilee celebration? It's got to be the perbarisan lalu (among other things hehe). Remember, all the preparation and everything (time, effort and other sacrifices) have contributed towards the success of today's main event at the stadium. And every Bruneian involved should be really proud.

Time

have u ever felt like u need more time just to think, just to do and finish something yet there's not much time left?

Time's not with me right now.
I need time to settle things down yet only when time's over we wished that there's more time so that we can finish and do what we want to do.

SIGH.

We take time for granted.
It flies without us realising it.
A year past, an hour flies, a day or two..
It's getting close....
Yet the time's not waiting...

MOVE!!!

Different Imaging

It's not hard for us to say if a picture is good or the other way round.
We judge things by the things we have seen before and thus make a comparison between the good and the bad and learn from it.

Some images look good on a laptop.
They may only look good on a laptop and not when it's printed out.
Laptops can fool ur eyes.
but its the people at the photo shops who cuci our images that spoil everything.
is it?
or is our eyes nt good enough to be a critical judge to manipulate a good picture ?

Too many human errors lah taking place......

So may I suggest to you readers not to edit ur pics on ur pc so much. A pic taken by ur cameras are actually good enough to be developed and cuci by the photo shops people. Manipulations are cool but have it at its minimum. The simpler the better.

Just an advice to share ;)

Take out your diskettes.....huh? disc what?

Does anybody still use diskettes these days ?
Y'knw we'll be given a diskette if we wanna take passport pictures of us at the studios and we'll be charged $7 for 4 pics and a diskette. The purpose of the diskette is for the soft copy of our picture.

Diskette??
When's the last time I ever use a diskette?

So I asked the person if they could just transfer the picture to my pendrive since I dont have a diskette slot on my laptop. I was stupidly rejected, and they say Sorry sir, we cant. We only accept CDs.

WTH???

Technology has become so advance that even a diskette which was once new can become so old that we have already forgotten about it yet out there, there are some people who use them.
I'd say to those who still use diskettes, let's swim with the fish will you!

What's tagged in Malay?

Tagged by Pidols

whoever gets tagged has to write 10 things about the person who tagged him/her.
1. my brother's girlfriend (sorry kalau nda updated to ur status haha!)
2. she's studying in Egypt.
3. has many siblings...
4. ...mostly girls (luruskah)
5. hardly talk to her.
6. you can read abt her at http://www.pdoolish.blogspot.com/
7.
8.
9.
10.

The person who got tagged has to write 10 things about himself/herself:
1. I'm gaining weight.
2. I wanna lose weight. Fast.
3. A Nikonian :D
4. An educator.
5. A soldier. Haha.
6. A photographer.
7. A blogger of two sites; here and there.
8. A driver.
9. Sally's precious one.
10. And I love her :)

Mati Hidup Kembali

The Door

Same door, different sides.
Opening a door opens up to a different opportunities, offering different sights and sound.
Open up the door to a different new world.

I sound like an advert. Haha!

Golden Glow

It was raining heavily last night and i had this view of the mosque in my car and some branches of tree obstructing my view. The colours blend just perfectly tho the image of the mosque isn't clear. However it has the look as if the mosque is painted isn't it.

BANjiR

It suddenly appears that rain cause me or us to freak out. Screaming inside, please stop, please...
And that's if you live in a flood prone areas. Low lying, and even those living in slightly hilly areas with the risk of having landslides would wish that the rain would stop and wouldn't be as bad.

I'm not complaining. What is there to rant about if this is what God's given to us. Some will benefit and some will lose.

I didn't attend work again today as our place of resident was surrounded with heavy flood. So heavy that it's even worst than last week's(above picture). My prayers go to those who will have their most important day/s this weekend as its normal to have weddings and the like every Sunday. It does feel devastating to see our neighbour's house flooded and they are going to have their son's wedding this weekend. I really hope the weather will be good these coming days.

Selingkar Kayu

Perhaps the image should've looked better in portrait mode than landscape.
In case you haven't a clue on what it is, it's a vase. Shot from a top.

Bullish Year

Attended two houses yesterday for the CNY and both were in Tutong.
Makan sup dagingteringatkan what year this year is: Tahun Lembu hehe.
Happy Chinese Niu Year to all my Chinese friends.

Featuring the REAL kakitiga in Silky Smooth motion picture productions (jeng jeng jeng..:)

Salam.

Today I officially change my banner after using the 'old' one for quite some time.
It'll probably change again from time to time or else that's it for this year.

I encourage you, viewers to comment on the pics I posted here and in KAKITIGA.
Your criticisms are greatly appreciated and will be handled maturely :)

Thank you!

Oh Rainbow!

Sally text me of this bright striking rainbow the other day and captured it.
This was taken a day after the heavy rain and flood that we experienced. Nice.
And it rained soon after...

Terbang

Aku ingin terbang bak burung di angkasa
di awanan berteman berkelompok berkawanan
berkepak berkiap kiap mencari makanan
kehidupannya umpama ingin bebas dari diri sendiri
terbang mampu berjalan merangkak

akan mampukah terbang lagi
bila sayapnya kepatahan
bila tiada upayanya berkaki
tiada upaya mencari makanan?

Kehidupannya bisa terbang
di angkasa di awang awangan
aku juga seperti burung
cuma tiada sayap untukku terbang
juga punya kehidupan
punya nafsu makan mencari makanan

mula merangkak kemudian berjalan
berlari tapi tidak punya mampu
untuk terbang...

Aku ingin seperti burung
Aku ingin terbang
Terbang jauh mencari kehidupan bersamanya

Nukilan ku: E1

Lelahmu

Spent almost the whole day here. To attend a workshop. It was fun. Food's great. Just that the workshop could have been improved with lotsa practicals.
Tiresome.
Lotsa work to do now.
Wanna sleep.

I wish to spend some relaxing time in the first picture. So cool and relax looking. I wanna breathe the air and wet my tiredness away under the sun.

Yes!

Pictures look even better if we can view them on a larger screen.

I just found out that most of the pics i posted look far better on a 17'' monitor (or bigger) than a 13.3" monitor on my laptop. But strange somehow it looks good too on a small screen...like an ipod touch.

I bought myself an extra storage of 1TB to store my growing images. I really hope that would be sufficient for err years.

and oh there's gonna be a new format for SD card users. It's called SDXC which will be able to offer up to terabytes of data! That's a lot of images in a small card you know. But unfortunately current cameras are not compatible with the new format. It'll be out pretty soon this year.

All these make me wanna have new SD card and a bigger larger monitor screen :D

Oh, yesterday marks another important day for me and Sally. The time will come. And when it comes it'll fly, it'll make us sweat and our heart beat faster than ever before. Unbelievably, it's finally dealt with despite years of delay. Haha.

Love, are you READY!? :P

Salute!

Pic above is taken by a friend. If you're looking at this, allow me to use ur pic as it's edited ah. hehe.

Just experimenting on this kinda effects ala Beatles album like. Finally got this effects. Pretty simple actually. Sigh. Just knew how to after so long. Haha.

The person's saluting is also our friend who posed for the camera. It's rather informal as you can see him without the barrett (the hat that soldiers wear). Position of the right hand is just at the tip of the person's eyebrow...

Trapped for 30mins

Took the pic in bandar ard 1045 last night. enjoying the silence of Bandar at night. Watching the brightly lit moon and resisting the cold of night. without realising the time was already 11. So we headed back to our parking at Yayasan. thinking that we could get out for free without paying for the ticket. Skalinya apanah. There's not even a single car in the lot and no parking attendant on duty anymore! in other words, we were trapped, not being able to go out! so we went roaming around by car dari atas we went down trying to find anybody who's working; security personnel was outtasight. So we went  back up, and we went to the front area of Yayasan. One door was still open so we went in and bagi Salam. thought  nada org, baik jua ada! haha. the securities. Luckily they were there. Or else we could've spent the night in Bandar. eh salah, my car could've  left there for the night hehe. 

It's panicky from the beggining knowing that there's no parking attendant on duty. we ended up looking for loopholes for almost half an hour enough to make us take a deep breathe and sweat, a little. Haha. Love, akhirnya nda jua pyh mbayar $1, but we ended up in a bad way haha.

Hujan

Click on 2k9

Here's my picture version of ushering 2009.

If you look at the pic carefully the branches are a bit weird.
Well, that's coz it's taken upside down. Haha. But yeah, really.

Macam greeting card Taun Baru Cina ada jua sulnya hehe.

Tong chang Tong chang~

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This is my first post for the year 2009.

Doh.

Haha.

Holidays past so quickly that we feel like we need another month of doing nothing. Isn't it. haha.

Reflecting 2008, many things have happened in my life.
Too many that recalling it in this post wont fit. And I dont think you want to know jua. Hehe.

Professionally (work), I will be bearing even more workloads. I don't know how I will be able to cope with this. I really hope it's bearable and worth all the effort. Otherwise it'll just be a waste of time.

Sally and I have also been involving ourselves with one of the most expensive hobby and interest of all time. No matter whether they say digital or analog. It still costs money. Hehe. And I'm talking about photography. It is growing and it's proven by the increasing number of pictures that we post in our blogs and further to prove it, the birth of 'kakitiga'.

Even more important this year will mark a very important history in my love life with Sally. Aah... tunggu je lah. Haha. Insyaallah. What's sure is that there will be 'clashes of events' because many of our friends will be having their important day too on the same date.

Till then, all the best for 2009 to all of us!

Cheers!