I capture this scene quite sometimes ago in front of Klinik Jeganathan KB. This clinic is especially notable for those with 'saraf' problems so we frequently see handicapped people who should be in hospital being helped into The Clinic for treatment. Being a private clinic, facilities are basic. This clinic provide the wheelchair but it's up to the patient's family members to help manage the patient. This is one case; after getting the treatment....
I was in KL around Bukit Bintang area in June this year having some 'makan' with my daughter and son when we spot this Turkish Ice Cream Seller. We were impressed by his antique as he scoop the stiff ice cream and do some dancelike movements..
These are my entries for this Christmas e-card competition. If you like my drawings please, please vote for me. Thank you!
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My last project at uni was to create book covers for Alice in Wonderland (Lewis Carroll) and Perfume (Patrick Suskind) for the 2009 Penguin Design Award. Two book covers in two weeks is a lot of work but I got it done, albeit with some blood (got to watch those craft knives) and tears.
Here's my final cover for Alice, which my second and third year tutor selected as one of their two favourites out of the year (who knows why).
Here's a discarded idea for Alice that had quite liked.
*I'll be writing in caps at the correct places
It's the end of November and I've still got nothing to blog about. Well, I do have but when I'm tied down with work and all, by the time I'm home, I forgot half of it because all I want is to see my bed. I've only got time to blog today because I put aside all my newspapers from Thursday up to today (I only read Star and NST today), finished up all the memos, claims, etc and now I've time to blog! And also play Fishville (shhhh!!!) while responding to queries on the company Facebook.
It's been raining whenever I feel like going out of the house for a round of photos. It's been a while since I last held my camera for hours at the garden, streets wherever you can think of. There's so many things to shoot, I'm just lacking of a location. I'm bored of KL streets. Maybe you have any ideas for me? Or maybe you would like to volunteer yourself for me to practice on model shoots?
It's going to be Christmas in 25 days. I'll try to be in the middle of the celebration to get some shots. Hopefully. Or maybe I'll just spend time at home. We'll see.
In the meantime, if you don't see me much here on my blog, find me on Twitter @rainingheaven. I'm sure that you'll find me. So, this blog is not dead. I'm still very much alive.
Til then, back to my papers :)
ALLAAHUAKBAR ALLAAHUAKBAR ALLAAHUAKBAR
LAAILAAHA ILLALLAAHU WALLAAHU AKBAR
ALLAAHU AKBAR WALILLAAH ILHAMD
The takbir filled the atmosphere, from radio, television and the loudspeakers from nearby mosques. This is the Aidil Adha; the day of Sacrifice. This day we remember the sacrifice of Prophet Abraham a.s.; the ultimate test of Faith. Today we sacrifice lambs, cattle, even camel (imported) to commemorate the occasion. We means other people because my household did not sacrifice in this year's Eid. This year my brother-in-law sacrificed a whole cattle on his own and invited us together as guests.
The morning started with a light breakfast of Roti Jala and Nasi Himpit Kuah Kacang with satay goreng; satay made in frying pan rather than grilled over charcoal fire. To make a proper satay took much more effort and this is not that much inferior in taste. This is my wife's improvision and it's been our practice for many years now. Then we proceeded to the nearby Paya Bemban Mosque for Eid Solat. The mosque was overspilled such that the late comers had to pray on tarmac.
The as usual we visited my sister's house at Kg Khatib Ali, the house where I spent much of my growing up years, only this time the old house had made way to a new concrete double storey bungalo as preparation for the wedding of son Dr Hazmi with another doctor...
The new house is spacious and ready for the occasion on 26th December. We spent all morning there and near noon we excused ourselves for my wife's family at Pauh Lima; some 20km away.
The slaughtered cattle came after Friday prayer. It's all the family's joint efforts to divide the meat into thirds; two thirds to be given away and one third for feasting among relatives.
It was rather tiring but satisfactory. As usual the fresh meat with ribs were cooked as soup, others were grilled and fried to be eaten with white. Curry is not normally used for qorban meat. It was mostly soup or 'singgang' with lots of ginger, garlic and spice..
The next day is the day for visiting the passed away loved ones. Normally we visited the grave on early morning of Eid but since I was at Kota Bharu and the time to and fro is one and half hour plus half hour visiting, we dicided to pay our respect on the second day...
We visited In's father's grave in the afternoon as it is nearby..
Actually, I was about to name my article Sleepless in Seattle --thought it was pretty cool. But well, I wasn't really sleepless. I did manage to sleep well the night in Seattle and woke up pretty early in the morning. So yeah, the title needs to change.
Although I didn’t spend time in Seattle much but Seattle was the city I first arrived and it would most likely I spent 2 days and 2 nights there. Anyway Seattle was cool city.
We arrived in Seattle-Tacoma International Airport in the afternoon. We spent an hour at the immigration because of the long queue and processes.
We took a charter bus from the Gate00 according to Carla our colleague’s advice. It was very good and cheap, USD18 round trip. We were there only 2 persons on the bus—that makes we feel so special! *lol*
Seattle was so beautiful city in my thought. I like it there. But it was rainy day—no wonders why this city has been nicknamed “The City of Rain”. That’s the reason why I didn’t have a chance to tour around the city that much. We stayed at the Sheraton hotel, and we spent a couple of hour exploring the city a bit. We went to the shop around there and went back to the hotel.
The next morning, we spent all day meeting at Sheraton and we need to fly to Portland.
The way back from Portland, we need to stop by say hello to Seattle again and we stayed overnight there at Extended Hotel. The hotel is nearby the airport because we need to catch the early morning flight 6:00AM to go to San Francisco.
I was luckily to have a chance tour around Seattle and thanks to Thomas (My personal tour guide). He tooks me everywhere I want to go. J We had a chance to say hello to the original Starbucks!—now I understand why people sleepless in Seattle. Well, and just so you know Seattle is a birthplace of Bruce Lee and Brandon Lee. But I didn’t’ see them anywhere so…
We also went to the mall in Seattle and walk around and around the farmers market. It was cold and windy; we found Italian coffee shop to sat down and drink hot chocolate.
We had dinner with Scott at the place near the market. One of the great benefits of travelling is that you got a chance to try on local foods which you hardly found anywhere.
So Seattle in my thought, I think it is a special city. I hope I can have more chance to explore next time around.
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