LRT, Taxi, Monorail and Jabra

Instead of heading straight to Bangi to pick up the medicine Uncle Azman agreed to meet me at Sogo. Took the Putra LRT from Wangsa Maju to Masjid before exchanging to STAR and went to Bandaray station. There he was, with Auntie Hamisah at The Fish Shop. The kids opted to stayed at home today and have cartoon marathon. After a quick lunch I stashed my luggage in Uncle Azman's car before we took a taxi to Low Yat Plaza. How arrogant the taxi driver was! My uncle kindly asked him to change the radio channel from Tamil station to something else but he refused and scold him back. We had to bear with the Tamil music all the way to Low Yat Plaza.

The real reason to be at Low Yat Plaza is the PDA Phone Fair. Both Uncle Azman and Auntie Hamisah already have a PDA Phone, O2 XDA II and P800 respectively. So why we are here? To get a pair of Bluetooth headset of course! The Bluetooth headset on offer is the Jabra BT200 Free Speak. Listed price is RM399 but we get it for RM350 because we bought two.


The Jabra BT200 Free Speak Bluetooth Headset

The Jabra BT headset design is different from Sony Ericsson and Nokia. Instead of covering the ear, Jabra put the transmitter at the back of the ear. Such design allows Auntie Hamisah to wear the BT headset under her tudung, so don't get the impression she is scolding you when she giving orders to her kids thru the BT headset with her phone tucked away in the handbag.


Uncle Azman & Auntie Hamisah

After that we went drop by at Berjaya Times Square before heading back to Sogo using the Monorail. The Monorail is suprisingly spacious inside but the ride is harsher than any other light rail system in KL. After walking down the stairs of Medan Tunku's Monorail staion we met this one poor guy. He came all the way from Kluang, Johore for work reason only to be robbed and beaten. Furthermore, he had one big scar at the back of his head as a result of the robbery. Without any money left he pleaded us to give him some money. He even produced a copy of his police report so we gave him enough money to get back to Kluang.


One of KL Monorail's Train

After that we ate at Umar Khayyam Restaurant at Medan Tunku before we went to Sogo to pick up the car and go to Uncle Azman's house in Bangi.

An Unexpected Change of Plan - Again

I should be back in Kuantan right now, but here I am somewhere else. I've been instructed to go to KL to pick up some medicine for my mum and I gladly accepted the job. My Grandmother asked me to go to KL with Uncle Fadzlu tomorrow but I wanted to go today. By the way, Uncle Fadzlu planned to visit his fiance's family at Mentakab first before going back to KL. So I decided to follow Uncle Fuad but then came Kak Nana with a KL-bound bus ticket in hand. So we made a deal - I take the bus and she ride the Kembara with Uncle Fuad and his family.


Uncle Fuad & Anum

The bus ride is very comfortable, instead of 4 seats in a row it only have 3 seats in a row with seats comparable to the one found in Bussines Class flights. It wouldn't be very comfortable in the Kembara for long distance ride anyway. The traffic is smooth, without any major trafiic congestion. The traffic only slowed at Senawang for a bus parking at the side and at the tunnel construction area in Sg. Besi. I deaprted from Pagoh at 1pm and arrived at Pasar Seni LRT Station at 3.20pm. From there I took the LRT to KLCC to join Uncle Fuad and his family. Not forgetting Kak Nana too. Then came Zareeda and Kak Syuhada joining us.


Auntie Lin & Farish

While Uncle Fuad and Auntie Lin do their shopping at Isetan I went to Kinokuniya and bought myself Executive Orders by Tom Clancy. The novel is basically about an even worse version of 11 Septmeber - the plane don't hit WTC but hit the Capitol killing almost the whole Congress. Then I dropped by at Arch Collection and bought an art piece for myself. For mum and dad I bought them veneer bookmarks.


Kak Syuhada & Kak Nana

We had dinner at KLCC's food court. It is not cramped with people as usual, maybe most of KLites is still at their hometowns for Eid. Before going home we went to Parkson and unexpectedly I had to buy Kak Nana, Kak Syuhada and Zareeda a pencil case for each one of them. There goes RM30+. Kak Syuhada's pencil case was the most exepensive but I would not see her very often after this anway as she would pursue her study in UK next year.

After that I went to Uncle Daud's house in the Kembara while Kak Nana, Kak Syuhada and Zareeda took the LRT. After sending Farish to sleep Uncle Fuad and Auntie Lin went out again to pick up Kak Nana, Kak Syuhada and Zareeda at the LRT station before visiting Dato' Rahim (my grand uncle) house.

An Unexpected Change of Plan

As my readers should have know I should be in Johore this 1st of Syawal but I found myself in Jengka, Pahang due to some family matters. Anyway, here the pictures. I'll be in Johore tomorrow and hopefully I can blog from there.


Uncle Azman & Muhammad


My Father & my Sisters


Auntie Siti & Uncle Hanafi

By the way, Uncle Azman had bought an O2 XDA II to replace his stolen original XDA. I managed to get this two pix and tested it's Bluetooth function. I succesfully paired with his wife's P800 and transfered a 2MB+ MP3 file without much problem. It's camera is good and the screen is very bright. But then, it doesn't include WiFi as what it advertised and only availabe as an SDIO expansion card?


P800, XDA II, Zire 71


Zire 71, XDA II, P800

- Sound of Hari Raya Untuk Semua by Raihan -

Operation Salvage

While everybody else is busy cooking food for Eid-ul-Fitri something had fried my motherboard especially the ports. With the ports out I can't give commands to my computer and I couldn't fix a missing system file. Zahir came to help but no avail. The problem is the Hard Disk contain several important personal files and it had not been backuped! *Gasp* Thank God I had another PC, a Pentium II dinosour that is even older than the broken PC. Following Zahir's suggestion I plugged it in to the PII PC to salvage the files.

Plugging the hard disk should be an esay task but with the weird layout of the Dell PII PC I had to attempt twice before I succeed. Then I managed to salvage all the files which is now on it's way to a CD-R for archiving. Boy, this is really a snag to my Class Album VCD project which is still under authoring process. With my digital studio down looks like I had to borrow dad's laptop to complete the project. The hard disk is still functioning so I seal it and put it somewhere safe.

In December updates would be sparse, next two week I'll be shuttling between Johor (Mom's home state) and Pahang (Dad's home state). Then Langkawi and KL before school open next year. Wait, I didn't have to go to school right? So I'll be dozing off at home, writing and surfing. Maybe I'll came to school if my two younger sisters managed to get a place at my former school.

This year I'll be celebrating Eid at Pagoh, Muar, Johor for the first time after my grandfather passed away last May. *Sob, sob* :-( This reminds me of the last gift my late grandfather had give to all his family members and friends. It's a piece of carved lightweight wood with a rope meant to be hung in a car. It is inscripted with Arabic calligraphy. One side is written 'Bismillahi-Rahmani-Rahim' (In The Name of Allah, the Most Beneficent, the Most Merciful) while the other side is written 'Ya Hafeez' (The Protector).


'Ya Hafeez' (The Protector)


'Bismillahi-Rahmani-Rahim' (In The Name of Allah, the Most Beneficent, the Most Merciful)

If you see any car with it hanging around it should be my mother's side family or family friends. Notice the shape and inscription, it is custom ordered and the shop promised not to produce a similiar shape with the exact inscription for sale. If you ask the car owner with it, he/she would know Allahyarham A. Rahman @ Abdullah bin Hj. Said. If they don't, tell me.

Once again, may you all have a joyous Syawal!

- Sound of Save Me by Remy Zero -

Mission Accomplished!

Alhamdulillah, my SPM is over! Yeehaa! All of my classmates got so excited finishing it until they don't even care to studt for Chemistry. ;-) Amidst the happiness, my 'twin' ('twin' as we share the same birthday and mother name) Mubin got admitted to hospital after an accident before Chemistry paper 3 starts. From my sources he suffered fractured rib and had to do the last paper at the hospital. Maybe after my dad confirmed his ward I'll go visit him.

Here the pictures!


Some Last Minute Study


Sense of Accomplishment is Clearly Potrayed


Afro Man

Meanwhile my little sister managed to get 5As in UPSR along with my other cousins such as Syafiq, Naim, Iman, Akmal, & Liyana. Looks like my grandparents had to fork out a lot of 'duit raya' this time!

Blog Makeover

In conjuction with Eid-Ul-Fitri I'm changing my blog template. Hope you all like it. Tell me if there's anything wrong with it.

Selamat Hari Raya!

Changes to Blog

In conjuction with Eid-Ul-Fitri I'm changing my blog template. Hope you all like it. Tell me if there's anything wrong with it.

Selamat Hari Raya!

New Definition of Duit

D - Doa

U - Usaha

I - Istiqamah

T- Tawakkal

Sorry for posting so short today and in Bahasa. I'll brought to you all scene of the last day of school this Thursday Insya'allah. One more paper to go - Chemistry.

Maintainance Message

As some of you might aware, I had removed my Tag Board because of serious case of abuse. Please leave your messages at 'Comments' under each post or email or contact via Yahoo Messanger. Pranksters beware, HaloScan records your IP address and the time of posting. I can ban abusive commenters and track their location augumented with data from Nedstat. For those good guys, sorry for the inconvenience. The board got out of control. Does anyone know any tagboard services that can ban abusive commenters?

1000 and Counting...

Well, my blog had surpassed 1000 visitors in just a few months time. This is comparable to my earlier web site - My Palm Guide. But this is a far cry from Pak Adib's blog. At his 100th post he already have 19514 visitors! COngratulations!

By the way, the Great Malaysian Blog List (GMBL) had also reached 1000 blogs with Azra's blog being the 1000th. As the news is displayed at main page of GMBL her number of visitors increased rapidly. Unfortunately her PC is down, so she can't make any new postings.

Hmm, the number of visitors from Singapore had surpassed those from United Kingdom. The link at Ruqayyah's page had been contagious with more of her friends put a link to both Azra's and my blog. Nevertheless it's a good developement but after this I have to resurrect My Palm Guide - number of visitors had dropped due to the lack of updates.

- Sound of Bidadari by Rabbani -

What If Your Mom Finds Out About Your Blog?


Above: Widmar, whose blog was recently discovered by his mother Lillian (inset).

This guy thinks it 'horrifying'. Read more at The Onion.

Update: Read Blogger's official stance on this matter.

A New Friend

Looks like international traffic to my site is on the increase. First in place after Malaysia is UK - maybe it just those Malaysians staying abroad like Sang Kelate, Idlan Zakaria & Doc Borhan. Get to know a new blog friend today from Singapore - Ruqayyah a.k.a Akai. She landed on my page through my tag-board posting at eNovel and I noticed her by her posting at Azra's blog requesting to add a link to her blog. Chatted with her through MSN Messenger before iftar.

By the way, all links directing to my school site is dead. We are on the process of moving the site. Maybe it will be up and running when the school opens in January.

- Sound of It's Easier to Run by Linkin Park -

Ramadhan @ SMART

For the past few days I only have Iftar (breaking of fast) at home so today for change I went to my school to have Iftar with my teachers and friends. Don't forget Tarawih Paryer too. We have apprentice Hafiz Imams from Sg. Karang to lead the prayer. Most probably the first and the last time I'll have Iftar at my school.


Some of Form Six Brothers


Form Five Girls


'Makan Suap'


Tarawih Prayer


Ta'alim Session After Maghrib


Our New Bus!

Idealism The Philosophy of The Matrix And The True Nature of Matter



Read it here. Very enlightening insight from renowned writer Harun Yahya. He's one of my favourite writer. Apart from The Matrix it also discuss other movies like Total Recall and Thirteenth Floor.

- Sound of The Matrix Soundtrack -

Down Memory Lane

Opening my picture archive, this is what I found. It bring back many sweet memories. I know would not return to such time anymore, so carefree, so little responsbilities, so happy....

To all my friends of 1Gigih 1999 - 3 Gigih 2001, thanks.


[L-R]Syafiq, Faiz, Hisham, Waqi, Hazwan & A Senior

Can't believe this picture is taken during Form 1, they look so small, so childish and so cute! Haha!


[R-L] Fatihah, Faezar (Principal's Daughter) & Syazana. Can't see the faces of others

Taken during Form 2 if I'm not mistaken.

By the way, today is the Principal's 53rd Birthday. The school is organizing an Iftar Dinner this evening for all the staffs and hostel students at the hostels dining hall this evening. Celebrating her birthday perhaps?

- Sound of Terima Kasih Guru by Saujana