Thursday, April 9, 2009

In Memories

Assalamualaikum...

Hi All, it has been exactly two weeks since the passing of my late father Allahyarham Sheikh Abdullah Bin Hussin. Today I have the courage to write in my blog a little bit of this and that about him. Let me tell you something about him.

Bio:
Name: Abdullah Bin Hussin registered in his birth certificate. (Allahyarham only uses the Sheikh when he was appliying for his IC during his teenager years)

D.O.B: 20th March 1947

D.O.D: 26th March 2009 (He was 62 years old and plus minus 5 days)

C.O.D: Heart Attack

Life & Achivements:

Allahyarham Sheikh Abdullah Bin Hussin was born on the 20th of March in the year 1947. Born to Hussin Bin Salleh (as far as I know) who is an Arab from Hadrammaut, Yemen that came to the Tanah Melayu an opened up a textile business. His late father business strech all the way from Kota Tinggi to Pontian. Little known about his mother Fatimah because his mother died at a young age of 21 having the TB virus.

Allahyarham Sheikh Abdullah has 2 siblings, the eldest is his brother Allahyarham Mohamed (passed away in the early 1990's at the age of 40+) and he has a younger sister Mon Binti Hussin which is still alive and Allahyarham is the 2nd sibling out of the three. His father remarried again and gotten another 7 more siblings, 6 sons and 1 daughter. They are very close to one another and since the passings of the eldest brother, Allahyarham Sheikh Abdullah has gotten the respect as the eldest sibling in the family.

The late Sheikh Abdullah childhood life is not crystal clear for me because he seldom talks about it to me. He was brought up in Johor Bahru as far as I'm concern. I can't remember whats the name of his school. He was very close to his brother Allhyarham Mohamed.

He is known to work with his father selling textile, if anyone to ask how well he knows about the fabrics he is an expert without doubt. By the touch of the surface of the fabric he knows what kind and where it came from. Allah gift to him but none of his sons and daughters have that touch. Then he became a Navy Soldier and got married with my mother in 1968.

I don't know how long he served with the country but it was not that long. Next he worked and sells meat and poultry in the market and also runs the business of importing the meats to Malaysia and also opened up another business selling textiles in Komtar Johor Bahru. All of this doesn't last that long and the cause cannot be disclosed.

Allahyarham Sheikh Abdullah can be said as an ego man but with kind heart. He is very straight forward. To deal with this man there is no hanky panky. You want to talk to him tell him the truth he will understand. He is very knowledgable, you can discuss with him about politics (home and foreign) sports, cars and etc.

Allahyarham had lived a happy life for the last 62 years and now he is with God. So long Abah, there isn't a day that I wont miss you. All of you are in me, all the good and bad times will live in my memories for eternity. Thanks for all the sacrifice you have given me. Thanks for all the love in world you had shown me. I only can repay by praying for you everyday and night for your safety in your life hereafter. Forgive me for all my sins to you.

Al-Fatihah...

On the last night before he died the next morning he was with my sister and he gave a farewell song to her and to us in which he has ask us to listen to the lyrics as a sign he will depart from this earth soon...

Andai Ku Tahu

Andai ku tahu
Kapan tiba ajalku
Ku akan memohon tuhan tolong panjangkan umurku

Andai ku tahu
Kapan tiba masaku
Ku akan memohon tuhan jangan kau ambil nyawaku
Aku takut akan semua dosa dosaku
Aku takut dosa yg terus membayangiku

Andai ku tahu
Malaikatmu kan menjemputku
Izinkan aku mengucap kata taubat padamu
Aku takut akan semua dosa dosaku
Aku takut dosa yg terus membayangiku

Ampuni aku dari segala dosa dosaku
Ampuni aku menangis ku bertaubat padamu
Aku manusia yang takut neraka
Namun aku juga tak pantas disurga

Andai ku tahu
Kapan tiba ajalku
Izinkan aku mengucap kata taubat padamu
Aku takut akan semua dosa dosaku
Aku takut dosa yg terus membayangiku
Ampuni aku dari segala dosa dosaku
Ampuni aku menangis ku bertaubat padamu

Monday, March 2, 2009

Something New...My New Baby


Hey Guys/Gals...

Meet the new addition to my really small family...Her name is FLASHER (aka Sony H-50)...Just bought it yesterday and so her birthday is on the 1st of March 2009...yahooooo...

Features (ini bukan DSLR ok!!!)
  • 9.1 Mega Pixels with Super HAD CCD
  • Carl Zeiss Vario-Tessar Lens with 15x Optical Zoom
  • Large 3.0" Clear Photo LCD Plus tilting screen
  • BIONZ Image Processing Engine
  • Double “Anti-blur” Solution: Super SteadyShot and ISO 3200 High Sensitivity
  • Face Detection Technology for Children and Adults
  • Smile Shutter
  • Intelligent Scene Recognition
  • HD Slide Show with Select Music Playback
This is just the summary...untuk maklumat lebih lanjut silalah layari laman web:
http://www.sony.com.my/product/dsc-h50



Digital SLR Look. With the lens hood attached, the H50 is ready to go (and a lot bigger).


The lens hood attached and the camera powered on.


Top. The Shutter button at the edge of the substantial grip, the prominent Mode dial, the Power button to its left.


Thursday, February 26, 2009

Monday yang Tragis

Bangun pagi seperti biase dalam kul 8am...check download yg hari ahad punye...YES!!!Prison Break yang Season 3 download Completed!!! Start download untuk Season 4 plak...dah settle gua gi amek tuala...terus mandi!!!jam menunjukkan jam 9am selepas abes mandi.

Dengan perut yang sedang menggerudi sebab tak breakfast lagi kumpulkan baju kotor yang weekend punye turun bawah dan basuh baju...(Hari Isnin lepas gua tak kerja, Brunei public holiday sempana Hari Merdeka dieorang yang ke-25...muda lagi rupenya Brunei ni).

Settle baju dimasukkan dalam washing machine naek atas...gua nyalakan sebatang rokok terus duduk depan laptop dan mula kan aktiviti surfing...cari movies yang boleh di download...setelah setengah jam spent mencari movies...hantar ke tempat pemprosesan mengdownload.

Jam sekarang menunjukkan jam 10.15am, cucuk external hardisk dan mula explore cerita apa yang sesuai ditonton sementara menunggu sehingga tengahari. Di dalam list movie, ada cerita bertajuk Der Utergang (mengisahkan tentang Hitler di saat2 getir kekalahan Nazi Germany...tak sempat habis tengok). Setelah 45 min berlalu, telefon rumah berbunyi dan memandangkan orang lain sedang nyenyak tidor di bilik masing-masing gua dengan gagahnya mengangkat.

Kedengaran suara Redondo di talian hujung sane, die memulakan dengan ucapan good morning (ingat gua tak tau lah taktik kotor dimulakan dengan suare yang baek dan intonasi suara yang seperti menginginkan sesuatu). "You need to finish the Test Execution file and send to me by today" itulah kata-katanya. Tersentap gua mendengar permintaan itu.

Apalagi gua pun bergegas (bukan gua je yang kena siapkan kerja...budak 2 orang tu pon kena gak!!!hahaha...) ke laptop dan terus sambung nengok movie tu...Hahahaha(gile ke apa telefon orang laen suruh kerja on a public holiday).

Gua layan movie tu sampai kul 12.30pm dengan harapan gua mampu menyiapkan kerja dalam mase 1 jam setengah sebelom bergegas ke Miri amek dak2 laen balek from KL. 12.30pm gua start wat keja...mak aih..sikit punye leceh kerja tuh...dengan perut kelaparan sebab tak makan dari pagi...dengan sungguh-sungguh membuat kerja...jam tepat menunjukkan jam 2pm...Shit!!!Gua tak mampu menyiapkan kerja..cume 25% je siap...Arghhhh...persetankan hal kerja...gua masuk bilik gi amek kunci kereta dan terus gerak ke Miri dengan harapan dalam kul 7pm sampai balik Seria sambung kerja kul 9pm boleh hantar.

2.10pm sampai simpang tige ke Sungai Tujuh/Kuala Belait and Tutong/Jerudong/Bandar Seri Begawan/Muara. Gua amek arah ke Sungai Tujuh, sampai di tol pertama pukul 2.20pm. Pemanduan pada hari itu amat sederhana kelajuan nya...dalam 120/130 kmph(walaupun tanda jalan menunjukkan 80km/h)

Sampai di check point brunei pukul 2.35pm, pemanduan yang hebat (terdetik di hati gua pada waktu itu) hal-hal di check point Brunei agak smooth mengambil mase dalam 2 minit sahaja. 2.37pm berjaya cross boarder sekarang berada di tanah jajahan Malaysia. Sampai di check point...tiada masalah yang timbul. Alhamdulillah seraya hati berkata. Dengan pantas gua accelerate pedal minyak kereta sampai ke Tol jambatan RM10(ia, tol disini harge RM10 sekali masuk or keluar).

Pemanduan dari tol RM10 sehingga ke simpang empat yg tidak muncul dalam peta yang telah dilukiskan Saiful membingungkan gua...gua tekad and nekad untuk terus sahaja(walaupun sebenarnya belok kiri pun boleh itu kalau nak ikut jalan gelombanglah) yang mana menerusi jalan ini gua akan ikut jalan pesisir pantai...kesilapan besar diwaktu begini ikut jalan pantai...panas terik tak ingat.hahaha...

Sampai di aiport Miri jam di tangan menunjukkan 15minutes pass 3..so perjalanan dari Seria, Brunei ke Miri, Sarawak mengambil mase lebih kurang sejam sahaja. Sewaktu di check point masuk Malaysia, kenderaan-kenderaan Brunei sudah mula sibuk memasukki ke arah Brunei kembali(dalam hati mengharapkan sewaktu pulang mengambil mereka dan ingin memasukki semula ke Brunei tidak memakan mase yang lame).

Setibenya di airport menanti ketibaan Maz and Mala...1st batch yang akan tiba di Miri dari KL, gua beli Famous Amos 3 bungkus berlainan rase...pastu gi 1901 makan Coney Dog. Mereka tibe jam 3.50pm tapi nak keluar tunggu beg and bagai diaorang kuar dalam 4.20pm. Kami mengambil keputusan untuk tunggu Saiful sampai dari KL around 5.15pm kat airport gak dan Maz belanja air di Starbucks(setelah 2 bulan memboikot minuman itu...tp sebab orang belanja and takda choice laen...minumla jugak 1 Grande Caramel Machiatto Hot To Go). Di kala menunggu Saiful sampai, sempatlah jugak survey tiket kat AirAsia nak balek ke KL nanti. Saiful sampai 5 minit awal, pukul 5.30pm dia dah siap checked out dan seterusnya mengambil alih pemanduan untuk pulang ke Brunei.

Perancangan sebenarnya pada hari Jumaat, selepas amek orang-orang di Miri akan bergegas pulang ke Seria dan terus ke Bandar amek Jaja and Shahida and Azhari akan mengambil Aisyoul and Abg Jamal(tak tau plak die balek hari Selasa). Tetapi setelah menempuh jam di Miri, kami mengambil keputusan untuk meminta pertolongan Azhari gio amek orang-orang yang turun di Bandar yang akan tiba jam 8.10pm.

By the time sampai kat tol RM10 dah pukul 7pm yang semestinya tak sempat kalau nak amek orang di Bandar. Naseb baek dah bagitau Azhari awal-awal, sampai je kat tol jam sejauh 5km untuk masuk boarder Malaysia Brunei. Kiteorg nak sampai from the tol at 7pm to stamp passport at the Brunei side it took us 1 hour 45 mins. Jauh dia cume about 5-7km.

Perut dah lama berkeroncong lagu Beriyani Kambeng...Saiful pun apa lagi tekan pedal minyak sampai tenggelam memecut dalam hujan ke Kuala Belait untuk dinner kat kedai Thailand. Tak ingat lah nama kedai. Makanan dia biase jela...dan Saiful belanja(itu yg penting..hehe). Habis makan dalam kul 10pm tiba-tiba dapat SMS dari Jaja yang dieorang land kat KK sebab Bandar hujan lebat tak boleh land kat situ. Terusla kelam kalibut call sane sini nak tau perkembangan.

Memandangkan orang di KK tak tau bile nak gerak ke Brunei, plannya ialah tinggalkan satu kereta di airport Brunei kunci letak kat bawah tayar dan satu lagi kereta balik Seria. Dari Seria ke Bandar memakan mase selama lebih kurang sejam kalo bawak dalam 120/130km/h tapi kiteorg bawak lebih dari itu.Hahaha...

Mission sterusnya nak amek Azhari kat Bandar sebab Abid tak follow, pas makan antar the girls balek dulu then gua and Saiful(die drive dulu) terus ke Bandar amek Azhari. Dari Seria kul 10.30pm sampai airport dalam kul 11.20pm. Pastu perut gua plak buat hal, sampai airport tanpa membuang masa cari bilik air dan melabur saham(TERBAIK!!!). Dari Bandar gua bawak balik ke Seria, dengan pecutan tahap DEWA(tapi kelemahan di jalan gelap terpaksa slow down lagipun jalan basah) berjaya sampai kat apartment kami di Seria kul 12.40am.

Tanpa membuang mase, sampai umah salin baju terus tidor...hari yang amat Tragis sewaktu bekerja di Brunei. Hari yang amat meletihkan jugak!!!Huhuhu...

Saturday, February 14, 2009

Sesi TT ~ 53 Cent?

You be surprise with the price of petrol over here. It's 53 cent per litre equivalent to RM1.32 and VIOS full tank it's going to cost about 22 BND/RM53.26 that is for 40 litres of petrol. Cheap ehh??Yeah it's freaking cheap.

Here's the proof...LOOK!!!


After a few months of SILENCE

Hi again all,

I'm back to blog...it has been a while since I last blog...let me see..since November I think...well now I'm back again..

The Story:

My new assignment/project is in Brunei for Brunei Shell Petroleum...I arrived in Brunei last Sunday, on the 8th of February 2009. What's the guy's name who pick us up??Hmmm...can't remember...there were four of us, Abid, Azhari, Jaja and myself. It took us almost 2 hours to get to Seria in Brunei from Miri that is because we stop to go the bank, go to the pharmacy, get some drinks and there was an issue with Abid's PR status to enter Brunei...something to do with the visa.

The road trip from Miri to Seria actually only going to take about an hour and fifthteen minutes...but because of the stops and visa thing..and yeah it took 2 hours...before we reach the boarder...we came accross a bridge...and the bridge's length is like crossing the muar bridge...and the toll for that bridge is RM10...it's DAMN expensive DUDE!!!

OK..after we cross the border the road there was wavvy(Gelombang just like the driver who pick us up said) and the scenery is like driving back to Segamat either from Tangkak or Yong Peng...to much GREEN!!!

Once we reach our apartment..the apartment's place is called F19...weird!!!The apartment was huge...it got 4 rooms, 3 bathrooms, a kitchen with fridge and all the things there...to keep it short...the apartment is livevable...i like it...hehe...

i got ROOM 4...it's kind off the smallest room...but its COMFY!!!we arrived at the apartment around 6pm and its getting dark...i unpacked my suit case and after 10minutes we all went out for dinner. YeeYee was downstairs to greet us and show us around Seria. They brought us to the town(the town is small even SEGAMAT punye town lagi besar) and we were given a car, we drove a Toyota VIOS that night but the next day we will be getting a Daihatsu Terios and shared it with another guy called Ash(an Indian guy from India who keeps bragging on "Last time when I used to work in IBM, oh when I used to work in Accenture and ohh...when I was in Sweden) so the car is shared between Abid, Azhari, Ash and myself. So we went for dinner at a place called Restoran Nasi Ayam WYWY. I ordered something prawn portueguese something, something and it SUCKED!!!if ever you guys wants to come to Seria, don't order that. I totally BANNED the place as long as I'm in Seria.YUCKSS!!!

Then incident happens...we got a parking compound from the POLICE!!!we parked the car at a private parking place(Metro Parking to be exact) but the law in Brunei stated that after working hours all the spaces belongs to any private parking space will be under the jurisdiction of the law enforcement(that is the POLICE) and you given a receipt not the actual SUMMON!!!you have to collect the actual SUMMON within 24 hours at the police station.

At the POLICE station, we were trying to get away with the SUMMON. The police officer said, "Kite bersikap adil kepada semua orang." So we have to pay the SUMMON!!!no 1st or 2nd WARNING!!!and it cost 50 BND. There goes my 16BND. We made a record, within 3 hours of arrival in Brunei, we already get a SUMMON. Cool ehh...hahaha...After that we took a spin around town which we can do it in 5 minutes...hahaha...then we went straight home.