ORDINARY SUPERHERO

At the moment, I am listening to the songs from the album someone by the name of Aunur Rofiq Lil Firdaus. Who? Aunur? Rofiq? Who? Thanks to the great review by Bro. Jiwa , I was pleasantly surprised when I accidentally found the CD by OPICK - titled 'Istighfar'. I was browsing through the CD titles at SOGO one day and saw the latest collection by M Nasir. I was about to proceed to purchase M. Nasir's CD when I saw OPICK's album. Took quite a while to decide which one to buy. Decided M. Nasir could wait. I think I made the right choice. The CD has been my companion while I am driving for the last 4 weeks. The songs are very soothing and at the same time, inspiring. The final track of the album, titled ' Tombo Ati ' is my favourite. I even thought it was a Spanish song the first time I heard the song. Another great song is the one that repeats the following verses, Ya Rabbana Rabbana Rabbana Ya Rabbana Dzolamna Anfusana Wa Illam taghfirlana wa tarhamna La naku ...

I have to apologize the very few kind visitors who may have hopped in and found no new updates. Sorry lah ya. It's not that I was totally out of the blogsphere. I still blogged.....but only in my head. Just like the case when you are making mental notes of what you want to do, I was doing mental blogging almost every day since my last entry in early March. Most of the time, I compose my entry while I was driving to office or when I was taking shower at home. Sometimes I managed to compose one or two paragraphs or may be just one or two sentences. The only difference was instead of typing and post the entries at blogger, I posted the 'entries' in my head. So when there were so many entries were left to accumulate in my head, it may have affected the running of the cpu in my head a bit. May be it got me carried away a bit. Being in the state of blogging but yet not blogging kind of feeling. Until yesterday. Yes I was caught in the traffic jam so bad that I decided to blog via...

  How long did I take to reach office from my house this morning?   Almost one and a half hours. From 8.20 to 9.50AM . The traffic was not moving immediately after the toll booths. Crazy.   I thought the road closure would only start at 6.30PM this afternoon. Skipped breakfast at home as I thought I could reach office early enough for a quick bite somewhere nearby office. Bad choice.   Luckily there was a small makan-makan at the Banking Department because today is the last day for one of my lawyers who is leaving after more than 3 years with the Firm.   Lucky? Emmm, may be need to rephrase that. I'm left with only one lawyer for that department and that one is also going in another month or so – for maternity. Have no choice but to redistribute works and take some of the files. Adussh, more work!  

The Malaysian young pair of Koo Kien Keat and Tan Boon Heong created the history - again!. The doubles earlier surprised everybody when they won the gold medal at the Asia Games in Doha in 2006. In January 2007, they won the Malaysian Open. This time they just won the coveted doubles title at the All England Championship. Finally, Malaysian doubles won again after a long draught of 25 years. Yes, I screamed with delight together with my kids when the shuttlecock went off the sideline for the match point. At last we have a formidable pair that we could be proud of. Congrats to Kien Keat and Boon Heong. I am proud of your achievements. Kak Teh , were you there?

Yess, I did it again. **smack on the forehead** I have tight schedules today so this morning I after the normal salam, kiss kiss and love you(s) with the kids and wife, I rushed out of the house to beat the traffic. Didn't even have time to eat anything on the breakfast table. Need to rush to the office, get some documents printed then rush to meetings. One at 9.00 and another at 10.00 in the morning. Another two meetings scheduled after the Friday prayer. Nothing else was in my head. Very focussed with the plannings in my head. Print the documents, rush to the first meeting, fifteen minutes before 10.00 a.m. I would ask to be excused, then to rush for the second meeting which would probably last until 12.30 at noon, get a quick bite then rush for prayer. After that, to rush for the third meeting and finally back to the office for the last meeting. Then while I was about to leave office for the first meeting, this SMS came in, Happy 10th A'vsary. Luv u so much. [8.52 AM] Alamaa...

Today, 25th February nine years ago, my first little girl was born. I will never forget that day. The day I declared to the whole world that I am now a proud father of a beautiful little girl. The day I cried silently when I put you in my arms and I recited the azan to your right ear and iqamah to your left ear, right there in the labour room. And your Ibu, smiled proudly in between her sobs. And the scar on your Ibu's tummy is the testimony of the drama that took place in the critical hours prior to your birth. ******** Kak Long anak yang istimewa. Dia sorang aje anak Baba yang keluar ikut tingkap; yang lain ikut pintu biasa. ******** [Bersambung.....] [Updated 28th February 2007] Nobody expected Kak Long would arrive on that day. Afterall two days before that Ibu was warded overnight at Ampang Putri for observation after she complained of contraction. But nothing happened. Ibu was dilated for about 2-3 cm and then contractions suddenly ceased. So when Ibu complained another round...

Stress, Stressful, Stressed and Stressed Out (dan segala yang sewaktu dengannya). I think that pretty well summed up the current state of my mind. It's all about work, work, work and WORK. Since the internal rationalisation, my workload and my responsibilities have increased three-folds. And the pressure at work is tremendous. Even my wife said that I looked stressed every time I come back home. Well, who wouldn't? But don't ask me to quit and find other job. I don't think I am goood at doing anything else. I still like this 'lawyering' works - despite all the occupational hazards it may have.I still like the challenge of exploring new boundaries, doing something that may not have been done before etc. etc. So I am looking forward to this coming short CNY break. I really need it. Happy New Year to any of my kind visitors who celebrate the new lunar year. For those who will hit the road, please take extra care. InshaAllah I will be in Port Dickson with the family...