ORDINARY SUPERHERO

I have been receiving many SMS'es wishing for a blessed Ramadhan, but this one particular SMS from a friend of mine is worth sharing, Sawadee...Rumah urut kiew-kiew danok mengucapkan selamat berpuasa pada semua pelanggan setia. Langgani promosi all-in 1Malaysia chip-chip masat servit dapat B1N1 mask + berbuka puasa percuma bermula 12.30 tengahari esok. Kami menyediakan bilik tambahan sepanjang puasa. (Masuk ikut pintu belakang sahaja.) By the way, it's actually from the same friend in my  previous entry. ***************** Ramadhan Mubarak to all blogger friends and kind visitors. May you have a blessed Ramadhan. InshaAllah.

I saw my friend on his bicycle riding to his office somewhere near Jalan Sultan Ismail this morning. Upon reaching office, I SMS'ed him. ME: Bro, saw u on d bike this morning. Congrats.....but I hv to say this.....u need to lose some more pounds! Hah ha ha too much flesh is...........gross! Shortly afterwards, he replied FRIEND: bet u enjoyed the view of my cute ass.....esok main bola? ME: Like I said, too much of flesh is gross! Nasib baik belum stat puasa. Yes, esok aku main futsal. FRIEND: cisss, sebelum raya mung kena mintak maaf dgn aku. Hah ha ha what a way to start a day.

Terkedu saya membaca berita ini hari ini, "Rahsia Beg Berdarah" . Seperti mana tidak lama dahulu saya terkedu bila membaca berita tentang kematian seorang pelajar wanita kerana melahirkan anak bersendirian di hostel di sebuah IPTA di selatan tanahair. Semoga Allah memberi keampunan kepada anak-anak ini; dan semoga Allah memberi taufik dan hidayahNya kepada kita semua.

AlhamdulilLah, thank you My Lord....for the rain. It's raining now outside my office. I could see from my room that the rain is quite heavy. I hope it would help to clear the haze...yes it's suffocating to see the haze engulfing your otherwise clear blue skies. At the same time, it would help to bring the temperature down a bit here in the office. One of the aircond chillers of the building where my office is located has not been working since Monday. So it's a bit stuffy in the office. Standing fans are not enough to circulate the air within office. Again, AlhamdulilLah for the rain. Now let's sing together.... Thank you Allah, Thank you Allah (remember Raihan's song?).

I am currently at the Coffee Bean somewhere near 1 Borneo complex in Kota Kinabalu. Been here for since Wednesday. My flight back to KL is at 3.30PM. So I have a lot of time 'to kill'. The fourth instalment of the national symposium on Islamic banking for the state of Sabah was concluded yesterday. We still have two more stops to go - in Trengganu for east coast region and in Kuching. Unlike the earlier three events that were held in Penang, KL and JB, this time the symposium in KK was conducted in 2 days instead of one day. The organiser felt that we need to give more exposure to the bankers and lawyers in Sabah on the basics of Islamic banking both from Shariah and legal perspectives. I presented two papers at the symposium - one each per day. It may be a bit tiring, but I am glad to see the enthusiasm in the face of the participants during the 2 day event. I would say they were genuinely interested to learn and gain more knowledge on the subject. I could feel that during...

This morning, I saw a shoe (was it left or right side?) lying in front of my gate when I was going out to send the girls to school. My thought was, "....budak mana la punya kasut ni". It was an 'Admiral' jogging shoe. Came back from sending the girls, I had a quick bite of toasted bread and ready to send Akmal to his Sekolah Agama. Meanwhile, Kak Chik was all set and ready. Yes, I has a date with my daughter this morning - we had earlier planned to go for jogging around the neighbourhood today. (Kak Chik's school was closed for three days from Monday because 2 students were down with hand, foot and mouth (HFM) disease). Only when I came back from sending Akmal, I realised that my jogging shoes were not at the place where I left them yesterday. Oh no....! And when I checked in the shoe closet - I was surprised, not only my new Nike jogging shoes were not there; my 2 pairs of futsal shoes were also gone. Cisss,.....tak guna betul punya pencuri. Sakit h...

So what happened last Sunday the 28th? The run went out well I would say. I wish I could have put up an entry much earlier; but I was caught up in terrible deadlines in the last few days. Let the pictures do the talking. The participants were asked to collect their Race Pack on Friday and Saturday. I went to collect it on Friday (26th June) itself since I would be sending my niece to UiTM on Saturday. There were long lines divided into each race category. The lady with a tattoo on her arm was in the queue next to my line. Hope to see her again during the race. :) This is the Race Pack. It contains the running bib and another smaller bib to be attached to the bag on race day. There's a complimentary event T-Shirt inside. But I didn't wear it on the race day because......I bought a new running shirt specially for the event!. Baru la semangat. Heh he he...gaya mesti mau. Penting tu..... It's a Nike dry fit made of thin fabric that is supposed to ensu...