Attended another wedding today, this time is Cikgu Arni. She is my Mathematics teacher way back when I'm in Standard Five at S.K Sultan Abdullah. She also teached my two younger younger sisters at the same school. Turned out that her husband is Yusran's older brother, no wonder there's quite a lot of hostel boys attending the wedding. Among them is Shaffarin, Hilmi, and Khairil.

Went to Parkson Kuantan Plaza yesterday night. Bumped across Safiyah, my classmate in Form 3 and her whole family. Her mother recognized me and know that I am in Form 5 although I'm pretty sure I never met her before. That is quite odd as people usually can't guess my age properly when meet the first time. People usually got the impression that I am 2-3 years younger than I should - that is because of my slightly 'immature' face. Or they got the impression that I'm at least a college student, especially among IIUM lecturers and staff - mainly due to my profiency in English. ;-) My dad also looks younger than he should, often people tought that he is my brother when we went out together.

24 - Eight months Zuhair had passed away. A reminder that not everyone lives until adulthood. He died at the age of 16.
25 - Four months I have lost my grandfather. An inspiration to continue learning and respect all my teachers.
26 - A month ago Atuk Fauziah died. Reminds me to be grateful that I still have two grandmother

Al-Fatihah....

Time passed so fast, as if it is only yesterday I saw all of them.

Just received the Ministry of Education Matriculation College application form. Have to send it in to my teacher by 15th October. IIUM Matriculation Centre form would only be available after SPM result is annnounced. So have to wait. Anyway, just fill in this form first and send it to give higher chances to enter any university in Malaysia.

Whoa! Looks like palmOne Tunsgsten T3 is for real. Have to start saving money to get this wonderful gadget. Really powerful, 400MHz and 64MB RAM. Bluetooth would suffice, WiFi could always be added later.

Saiful Nizam's birthday today - Fall Equinox.

My Palm Guide have exceeded 3000 vistors in just 6 months. Quite good. After SPM I must get advertisers to generate income from it.

It's A Small World

Went to Dr. Anisah's wedding yesterday at Temerloh. Found out that her father is my grandfather's friend, both her father and my grandfather were very happy meeting each other. What do you expect? They were good friends! They knew each other while learning Al-Quran together at Sultan Abu Bakar Mosque, Temerloh. Dr. Anisah's father, Cikgu Jalal often came to Kuantan and pray at our neighburhood's little mosque but we don't know he is her father.


Dr. Anisah on her wedding day.

Cikgu Jalal have tried to contact my grandfather to invite him personally to Dr. Anisah's wedding but he was at Bangi, looking after my cousins while their parent's went to Tehran. Dr. Anisah is my neighbour and my father's colleague at IIUM. Dr. Anisah is also have treated my grandmother for the past couple of years.


Picture of Ulam Raja flower taken at my grandfather's house

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Who's In My Heart?

Some people wondered, what is meant by Single, Not Available, Not Seeking that I wrote at the sidebar. No brainer, but the last two actually means that I *don't* have have some one special and not even bother to look for one. For now, that's it. Purposely left an empty space in my heart, I don't know yet how long it will remain like that. At least until I secured a place at a university, or most probably until I graduate. The empty space doesn't hurt me either, I feel free instead.

Many people said that having a special person in your heart will drive you to excel. That is not necessarily true, many of my friends who had girlfriend doesn't excel either. For me, it's not necessary and more or less a burden in my opinion. 'Maintaining' a girlfriend is not cheap you know, you have to call them, bring them for a date, buy them presents, remember their birthday, etc. Such expenses would eat up my tech-spending and savings! It is proven relationship formed during school years are usually not destined to last, so I would not unnecessarily waste my time and money on girlfriends now. Call me selfish but better save my money to buy new PDA, CDs, and anything that strikes my fancy.

But then what is my driving force? My family, teachers, and family friends. How about friends? Some of it, maybe. But most just bring negative impacts especially schoolmates. That's why I befriended my father coulleages like Doc Jamal, Mr. Zaharin and Doc Ailin. Even Mr. Asri, a bank support manager that I knew through the net. I don't care if my schoolmates says that I'm anti-social or what not. Better have a few friends that benefits me, sharing knowledge and advices rather than having a battalion of outlaw friends.

House renovation under progress, can't find much time to sit down and write lengthy updates. By the way, my dad have bought a Zire71. ;-)


My Family's PDA

Azra, Amalina, Syukree, Qayyum, & Amar came to my house to discuuss the SPM Visual Basic question. Not much a problem, figured out the solution in just two hours. Then my grandparents came, they have been in Kuantan since yesterday and slept at my uncle's house. My friends went home after watching Miracles of the Quran Documentary VCD by Harun Yahya.

Well, well. Spent almost the whole day at Mid Valley Megamall. Met Auntie Hamisah at Delifrance, she have a brand new Sony Ericsson P800 with her. Sigh, Treo 600 went out too late. That minus one member from my family Palm User Group. Doesn't matter as long as it serves the purpose. She just need basic PDA functionalities so the lack of 3rd-party apps won't bother her.

So many days without any updates. Bummer, I miss my PII 300Mhz dinosour and my Streamyx. The trip to KL with the State Foundation is not exactly pleasant, too many hiccups here and there. Delayed bus, filthy room at UKM (my school's hostel is much better). Have a session with the Dean Faculty of Education on Tuesday morning before having a quick tour of UKM. Then off we went to Multimedia University in Cyberjaya. Their facilities are impressive such as the library and E-Gallery. A real bummer, the air-con not working due to maintainance and black-out during briefing in the lecture hall. Then I think I had enough, called my auntie to pick me up at Putra Mosque, the next stop. Nice timing, I arrived there just when my auntie is about to park her car. Quickly I unload my stuffs from the bus into the car. Off I went to Bangi, safe and sound. Whereas my friends had their trip to PM's Residence cancelled, trapped in traffic jam, their buses broke down and only reached Kuantan at midnight. Pity them, I just lounge around at Bangi while they face those mishaps. Wednesday afternoon my parents picked me up and visit the National Museum with my cousins. Didn't see the main exhibition, just went to the Exotic Cats & Birds Display and Gold Heritage Display. Quite interesting, different from the usual display. At night went to Mid Valley Megamall for dinner. Bye for now, pictures later.

Just done packing my stuffs to go to Kuala Lumpur this afternoon. More details later...

While the other visits KUKTEM, I just hanging out at the school's Computer Lab 2 helping Mr. Ramly to make a multimedia presentation especially regarding Flash MX. Join 5SB for Chemistry, as I have to be their technician to handle the LCD projector. At noon went to Kuantan Parade to meet Doc Jamal and Mr. Asri. We discussed many things mainly computer-related stuffs. After that went to the Clinic at Jalan Gambut for my Orthodontic appointment. Only at 6.15pm I went home with my father now packing my luggage for my seminar tomorrow and holiday. Yay!

Didn't came to school yesterday, got a cold. Don't worry, I'm only absent one day this year. But that already made teo of my teachers phone me. My classmates and the rest of students taking Technical Drawing is going to KUKTEM this very moment. They will spend a night there tonight before having their tour of the campus tomorrow.