Thomas The Train

If it is not because of Thomas The Train, chances are I will not be updating this blog ... at least not until i can find any good story to share ... i usually resign to being dumb and lazy. My petty lame excuse is always i am busy ... maybe im not not saving the world or human being or anything of the sort ... but I AM BUSY! after all everybody is always busy doing something :) ...

Here i am 1.a.m. in the morning in front of my laptop ... downloading Thomas & Friends for my little one. Qais Amiir all into cartoon at the moment. He will wake up early in the morning asking "Bah, Thomas Bah" ... he pronounce it "Tho"mask" ... and we better switch on the TV immediately or none of us will be able to leave the house. I think he watch everything there is in the Ceria channel (We purposely not subscribing to the cartoon channel) and NTV7. Our Sunday morning in front of TV nowadays is watching TomTomBak, Ultraman, whatever channel that has Aznil & kids. Luckily Thomas is only on the weekdays. I dont get to watch my Football Crazy & Football Extra (The wife must be laughing out loud)

If not he'll be in front of laptop watching Upin & Ipin (Trust me i never knew there is such cartoon) ... or some short clips he like i.e. Malaysiaku gemilang, Warna2 Malaysia, Kristal Memburu Impian (Coz he like the scrambler a lot) and few others.

So terpaksalah daku muatturun dari youtube semer kartun Thomas yg ada :)

WE CELEBRATE OUR 3rd ANNIVERSARY TODAY!!!

To my dearest wife ... i love u so much and u r the love of my life and i love like a lot a lot a lot!!! 324324763294 millions time.

The Making Of Too Fast & Too Furious: KL

Who said we cannot make a fast cars thriller action with limited budget and money. Some of you may have seen Gangster, KL Menjerit or maybe the new Impak Maksima (If im not mistaken). This is another local thriller action in the making. All you need is creativity, some radical approach to stunts, a tricycle, a bottle of drink in case the stuntman got thirsty (Like in this case), and professional cameraman! ENJOY VIEWING!!

MY BOY, THE TOY & ENJOY

Speaking of boy’s toys, theres like endless list of toys and games for boy nowadays. Power Rangers, Superman, Spiderman, Batman, Fantastic Four and all those superheroes has got thousands sort of toys for boys. Now theres Star Wars, Transformers, Thomas the train, Noddy, and even Lego with it range of giant playsets, Hot Wheels ... phewws! I could spent the entire day trying to mention all. And usually price of all these can easily empty your wallet. It cost a bomb for you to get a decent payset.

Since we have spent quite much on Fisher Price and all the toys & playset for baby, including one huge playhouse that practically occupied the whole living area and one whale shape mini swimming pool that almost made Achik pass out after having to literally blow the pool, we decided that maybe we only need to buy ordinary non-branded toy for Qais. After all, hes only gonna use it for a while and then after that it goes into the toy box (Untouch maybe forever). So nowadays we usually buy his toys from Giant, or sometimes if we can find a decent toy from pasar malam like cars, lorry, bus or anything. Once a while maybe the expensive ones.

Not having new toys often now, cause another problem to us. He is actually fine and couldn’t be bothered at all with not having a new toy. He is happy on his motor or rather a tricycle we bought from Giant after he wont let it off. It was more like a love on first sight. He saw the tricycle at one corner of children department, immediately run and sit on it, and when we realize he is already everywhere in the department cycling. What choice do you have? Its either the motor come home with us or everybody stays in Giant. If he is not on his motor, he is either playing with his two favourite cars (Paksu’s cars that become his!), small ball (Free gift from Breeze with Ronaldinho’s signature on it), his AF (A children laptop set. Don’t ask how he comes with the name AF, we are still pondering about it) or playing orgam (Organ).

It is usually miserable to everybody if he starts telling ... “Nak main orgam! Nak main orgam!” coz we will have to bare the pain of hearing unidentified strange genre and sometimes spooky sound (Seriously it is!).

So, he is totally fine with no new toy. The problem now is ummiqais. I probably dont have to explain to you in words. Maybe some of these pictures below will explain everything!

NGERINYA BAS EKSPRESS

Untuk sebulan dua yang lepas, berbuih-buihlah mulut rakyat Malaysia bercakap tentang kemalangan bas ekspress yang berlaku di Bukit Gantang, Perak itu.Tak habis-habis dengan kejadian bas-bas ekspress yang kemalangan dan kejadian nyawa-nyawa yang tak salah apa-apa yang ‘kehilangan’, percaya dengan tak percaya kita akan terus terbaca berita-berita yang sama dimasa-masa depan, terutamanya bila dah dekatnya musim Berhari raya ini. Bukan ‘capui’ mulut nak bercakap atau saja-saja nak buang masa mengata siapa-siapa dibulan puasa, tapi kalau dilihat pada apa yang terjadi dalam sebulan dua ini, nampaknya cerita yang sama akan berulang macam cerita hindustan yang boleh ditayang bertahun-tahun dipanggung di India.

Setiap kali ada kemalangan, timbullah macam2 suara yang bingit bercerita disini sana, bertalu-talu bercakap ada kepincangan yang kena dibetulkan, ada penguatkuasaan yang tak berkesan, ada bas yang tak sempurna kenapa dibiarkan berjalan, ada pemandu mabuk, dadah dan berkhayalan, ada syarikat-syarikat bas yang berlumba menimbun kekayaan, ada pemandu yang berkali-kali disaman ... macam-macam cerita dan macam-macam perkara yang selagi boleh nak dibangkitkan. Semua tak betul dan semuanya kena di’betul’kan.

Tak pernah pulak kedengaran pertanyaan-pertanyaan mungkin pemandu bas ‘tak cukup makan’, mungkin ppenumpang-penumpang dalam bas wajar ‘ditali pinggangkan’, mungkin yang kta perlu kesedaran & pendidikan, mungkin jugak latihan dan peringatan, yang dah banyak saman perlu dibawa ke ‘pengadilan’. Kan lagi elok kalau pemandu, pengusaha bas dan penguatkuasaan duduk semeja berbual-bual mesra. Boleh jugak dengar pendapat dan cerita, boleh luahkan semua yang dirasa, boleh sama-sama berusaha. Biarlah kali ini yang nak balik berhari raya, semuanya sampai dalam suasana yang ceria dan gembira.

Ramai dari kita mungkin tak naik bas atau dah tak nak naik bas atau dah tak perlu naik bas sebab ada kenderaan yang lebih ‘class’. Tapi risau jugak walaupun kita tak naik bas, bila memandu di jalan raya ... anak yang baru petah bercakap menunding jari, “Tuuu bas, uuuu lajunye basss ....”. Lagi pulak, bila dibelikan mainan lori dan bas ... jadinya serupa cerita Merapuh dan Bukti Gantang!

FireWorks!

Actually, this post suppose to be earlier than the “Salam Ramadhan & Selamat Berpuasa” ... but because I couldn’t find time to actually finish it, so it comes after and the story is a bit old & dah basi ...I promised my son (Or maybe actually ummiqais) that I would bring him to Merdeka Parade this year. Since this year is the 50^th year of our glorious Merdeka, i guess they will have a 'grand' merdeka celebration this time with all those grand merdeka parade, merdeka showcase, cultural show, concert, fireworks showcase and bla bla bla. So i promised that i will bring them (Qais & ummi) to Dataran this time.

We are all excited and can’t wait to show Qais all the military patrol truck, army tank and those canggih artillery from our Force. I personally, eager to see Sukhoi in action (I heard they gonna have sukhoi & MIG doing some TopGun action this year ... huhuhu must not miss that one!).

Suddenly ... alamak! Kena balik kampung. Initially I plan to go back early August so we’ll be in KL for Merdeka. Not so lucky, i have to go to Kuantan early August, so we cannot make our trip balik kampung. And the only weekend that looks possible is the merdeka weekend. SANGAT KU KUCIWA!

So, not wanting to frustrate everybody (Including myself), i decided to bring them to Malaysia International Fireworks Competition. Kononnya sebagai ganti tak boleh pegi parade. Since Cecipanz pun memang nak pergi, so boleh la jadi another Cecipanz night-out. We all decided nak pergi opening show by Malaysia Team.On the day, Yang fell sick so Leny and Alya can’t go. Poor Yang and poor us (Melepas chocolate cake). Ninie wanted to go but can’t because some friend want to pass over some stuff from the husband, so she’s supposed to meet the friend somewhere. That left us and Afza & Syaban. Takpe demi fireworks!

We hit the road at about 6.45pm heading to Jusco Equine where we supposed to meet Afza. Road was still clear all the way, except many cars seen entering Putrajaya from Kajang & Puchong. That means we have to be there early to get good spot. We get to Jusco at about 7.15pm (U can get to Putrajaya quite fast using the SMART tunnel from Tun Razak). Had our dinner (And Afza’s lunch) at KFC & quickly off to Putrajaya. Ingatkan nak tapau KFC poppers tapi alahaii poppers nya sangatlah “besar”. Lagipun kitorang memang dah bawak kerepek & ada some leftover KFC tu angkut je sekali.

At about 9.00pm macam tu, we manage to get a good spot right beside the fun-fair park. Actually at the time we get to the stretch infront PICC tu, they havent closed the bridge, so we manage to cross over to PICC and park by the roadside in front of PICC. We walk a bit and found a good spot by the lake exactly across the area they fire the fireworks. So kat situlah kitorang melepak sambil tunggu fireworks.

Fireworks begin at 10.00pm sharp and lasted for about 20 minutes. Qais Amiir initially sampai tutup2 mata sebab takut, tapi after a while dah ok dan dah seronok tengok fireworks. Apza dengan baik hatinya jugak buat video call dengan Leny dari awal fireworks sampai habis. Tak tahulah besar mana jek Leny nampak.

Habis je fireworks lebih kurang jam 10.30pm ... semua orang berpusu-pusu keluar dari Putrajaya. Tahulah kalau dah semua kereta keluar all at one shot ... it took us almost one hour to get to Puchong LDP toll. Tapi, all in all ... experience ni memang menyeronokkan.

SaLam RamadHan & SeLamaT BerPuaSa

Ramadhan datang menjengah sekali lagi ... rasanya macam baru je Ramadahan berlalu, dah sampai sekali lagi di bulan Ramadhan. Maybe its not too late to wish everybody Salam Ramadhan & selamat berpuasa ... harap-harapnya Ramadhan kali ni akan membawa lebih MAKNA dan menjadikan kita insan yang lebih baik ... aminn insya allah :)

For myself, aku cuma berazam moga-moga dapat manfaatkan bulan ni lebih baik dari tahun-tahun yang lepas ... and personally hopefully tak perlu outstation kemana-mana ... cukup la tahun lepas aku berpuasa di merata2 ceruk rantau, hopefully tahun ni tak payah la. Bukannya tak best outstation masa puasa ni, cuma lecehnya bila kena travel alone ... buka puasa & sahur sorang2, SANGATLAH BORINGNYA!! So far cuma kena ke Kuantan 27 - 29 Sept (Tu pun biarla tunda hendaknya).

Funniest thing this Ramadhan so far ialah kena GELAK dengan ummiqais di tengah2 pasar ramadhan Bukit Indah. Actually dalam lebih kurang sebulan lepas, Astro tayangkan cerita 'Perempuan, Isteri & ...' dan semenjak tu ummiqais memang sangat tension sebab selalu bila boring2 aku akan imitate dialog Nasir Bilal Khan dalam cerita tu ... lebih kurangnya dialognya ...

So Friday lepas kitorang singgah pasar ramadhan bukit indah nak beli juadah nak berbuka ... dah habis beli tu dalam tengah berjalan nak balik beli otak2 ... tetiba jek la pulak terserempak dengan Sofia Jane ... dalam ramai2 artis yg duduk kat bukti indah tu time tu la pulak jumpa Sofia Jane ... ummiqais pun apalagi ... memang ketensionan yang dah terbuku lama ... bantai gelak kat situ pastu cabar2 lagi "Ha! pegi la cakap kat dia kalau berani ..." :( Memang seronok la ummiqais ... CEH!!

AbuQais: Lepas ni nak hafal dialog Sarjan Saunders iklan merdeka tu pulak!

Zaleha, aku nak kau cakap apa yang kau cakap dekat Tapa tadi ... aku tak dengar. Kau cakap apa yang kau cakap dekat Tapa tadi .. Haa! (Part Haa! Nasir Bilal Khan tu memang aku lawak laaaa)

OuR boY Turn TWO!!

Our QAIS AMIIR ABQARI turn TWO!! Alhamdulillah ... Happy Bufday to yok! (As he pronounce it). Happy birthday! Happy birthday! Happy birthday to youu!! ...

Feels like it was only yesterday that i first hold his warmth body, reach his tiny little fingers ... first feeling of fatherhood. Seeing him seeing me for the first time. Fatherhood is beyond words.

Today Qais Amiir is 2 years old (THIS WAS SUPPOSED TO BE POSTED ON THE 6TH BUT BABAH WAS AWAY WORKING! PATHETIC!). He is our world, our source of spirit and courage, he is every bit and every inch the love and joy of our life. He is our strength when we are weak, he makes us smile when we sad, he lift us when we are down ... Words are just too limited to describe ... he is everything :) ...

HoPeFuLLy ThiS wiLL cHeeR U uP!

|| HAPPY TOGETHER ||



| Imagine me and you ... I do | I think about you day and night || If I should call you up invest a dime | And you say you belong to me || I can see me lovin' nobody but you | For all my life || I can see me lovin' nobody but you | For all my life |

| Imagine me and you ... I do | I think about you day and night |
| It's only right | To think about the girl you love || And hold her tight | So happy together || If I should call you up invest a dime | And you say you belong to me || And ease my mind | Imagine how the world could be | | So very fine | So happy together |


| I can see me lovin' nobody but you | For all my life || When you're with me baby the skies'll be blue | For all my life | 
| Me and you and you and me | No matter how they toss the dice || It had to be | The only one for me is you | | And you for me | So happy together || I can see me lovin' nobody but you | For all my life || When you're with me baby the skies'll be blue | For all my life | 



| Imagine me and you ... I do | I think about you day and night || It's only right | To think about the girl you love || And hold her tight | So happy together || If I should call you up invest a dime | And you say you belong to me || And ease my mind | Imagine how the world could be | | So very fine | So happy together |


| I can see me lovin' nobody but you | For all my life || When you're with me baby the skies'll be blue | For all my life | 
| Me and you and you and me | No matter how they toss the dice || It had to be | The only one for me is you | | And you for me | So happy together || I can see me lovin' nobody but you | For all my life || When you're with me baby the skies'll be blue | For all my life |



SMILE DEAR :)



I'm dedicating this song to you ... dont be sad or be mad or get frustrated for what happened today ... dont let sadness and tears ruin ur beauty face ... smile for you know that i am always here for you ... in happiness and in sadness.



CHEER UP DEAR :)

Its not expensive present that makes me happy ... u make me happy and its most important to me that u r happy. dont be sad dear coz ur love is all i ever wanted ... ur love suffice!

Finally its all sorted out ...

My transfer arrangement has been dragging for about 2 months or so ... finally today its all sorted out. Well its kinda all sorted out. Its a done deal im told, so the ball is in my court now whether to accept or to consider other options or maybe even stay for future opportunities ...

I have been with my unit for two years since august 2005 ... guess ive past my learning curve & the motivation to learn is rapidly diminishing now! feel relief that its all sorted out well and good for me :)

The other side of it .. its also a bit sad to be leaving the unit. We have a great team there and its working great with everybody putting their bit-part contribution to achieve our KPIs & SLAs rating. I can proudly say that we have the best bosses ... both my AGM and my manager is a great mentor, a teacher, a leader ... and also best buddies! i thank them for making my experience there a wonderful one ... and indeed a valuable and precious one!

Now, i must seriously consider all options available in front of me .. and perhaps looking forward to a new journey ... im sincerely grateful to Allah for these oportunities ... Alhamdulillah. Its all for my wife, Qais Amiir, family, friends ... everybody around me ...

LuCunYa qais!

Semalam, aku balik ke rumah Bukit Indah sebab nak tengok DVDs & sambil tu nak ambil beberapa barang nak bawak ke Kuantan. Bila dah sampai kat rumah tu, memang leka lah lepak sambil masak maggi & habiskan ice-cream sampai pukul 3 pagi. By then, aku decided that its loo late to drive back to Hulu Kelang & baik aku crash jek kat rumah.

So ... of course UmmiQais bising tak balik2 sampai pagi (Hehehe im sorry). Malam ni, dengan niat berkobar-kobarnya kononnya nak tidurkanlah Qais sebab semalam UmmiQais kata kesian tinggalkan diorang terkontang-kanting. As we go to bed, aku pun mulalah berbunga2 nak start bedtime story sebab memang selalu aku akan ceritakan bedtime story to Qais before sleep. Conversation during bedtime story tu lebih kurang macam ni:

***As usual dia memang susah nak tdo sekarang & masuk je ke bilik dia akan menangis meraung2***

Akupun mulakan ...

BABAH: Takmo cry! Ok, Babah cerita bedtime story ok ... story apa cerita malam ni ... (Kononnya berangan maybe i can be a bit more creative ... i decided to go with Troy!) Haaa! BAbah cerita Troy malam ni ok?? ... Once upon a time ada seorang raja yang sangat kuat ... nama dia Agamemnon ...

QAIS: Kancil bah! kancil!

BABAH: Heh! ok ... takmo story Troy, nak story sang kancil yek?? hem ... babah dah habis dah ni cerita sang kancil nak cerita. OK! Pada satu hari, sang kancil berjalan-jalan di tepi sungai. Dia berjalan berjalan berjalan bunyi kuk! kuk! kuk! (Aku pun taktau betul ke tak bunyi sang kancil berjalan macam tu) ...

QAIS: Ye makan bunga (Dia makan bunga) Ye mandi (Dia mandi) ...

BABAH: Heh! kancil makan bunga?? ...ha ok lah kancil tu berasa sangat lapar. Dia pun nampak banyak pokok bunga dan dia pun makan bunga-bunga tu semua ... ngap! ngap! ngap! ngap! lepas dia dah kenyang makan tu, sang kancil berasa sangat panas dan dia pun nak mandi ...

UMMI: Ntah apa2 ntah ... makan bunga boleh panas ... kot makan durian panas percaya la jugak. Ni makan bunga panas.

BABAH: Ssshh! diamlah i nak story ni ... sang kancil pun terjun ke dalam sungai ... Bushh!! dia pun mandi la dengan seronoknya ... lalalala ....

QAIS: Butak seyuar bah! butak seyuar!

***At this point kitorang bantai gelak sebab dah tak tahan sang kancil mandi lupa bukak seluar***

BABAH: Ha! Ha! Ha! ... ok! ok! sang kancil tu lupa bukak seluar ... dia pun naik bukak seluar dis dulu dengan pampers dia ...

QAIS: Pampers punuh bah!

***Dengan tak boleh tahannya & tanpa kontrol2 kitorang BANTAI GELAK GILA sebab sang kancil punya pampers penuh ... misi bedtime story Qais habis kat sini jek ... kensel story ... kitorang suruh dia tdo jek ...***

SeCond entrY ...

Actually masa publish the earlier post tu tak ada gambar MUNGE FAVOURITE ku yang ni. So, this is the flowers i got from my WIFE ... TQ! TQ! and TQ! again ...

|08.08.07 Is uP ... CounTdoWn 08.08.08 bEgiN|

I officially turn 28 yesterday .. yey! yey! yey! happy birthday to me! happy birthday to me! thanks everybody for the thoughts, sms & all wonderful wishes. May Allah bless us all ...

Initially i was not very excited about this birthday. Not that getting older is not a good thing, but mainly bcoz im swamp with work and work and work ... and getting tired of working ... and work will just keep on piling up on you until u cant see and think of other things ... enough with the things u can't catch up at office, now it wont let u breathe at home ... balik pun asek teringat kerja kat ofis jekk ... rasa cam tak cukup lama jek pegi rest kat Bali ... patutnya pegi Bali dua tiga bulan baru boleh recharge the energy ni (Honest thought, bukan pasal ayam2 kat sana).

Im now also a bit frustrated with progress of my transfer ... actually i dont quite have an idea of where i would actually gonna end up ... i was told that im going to different unit under HR SSO, then they changed and told that im not going anywhere, then suddenly theres story that theres opportunity for me to go to Selangor ... and then back to "you are not going anywhere at the moment" ... then maybe u could try Special Affairs Unit (Trust me its not what you think ... its a lot dull) ... then back to "nahh better that u stay".

Tapi semalam adalah hari yang sangat munge2 bagi diriku ... a pleasant surprise from my sweetcandy bunny little kucikociko wife ... i love u 52313.411153 X 247538.6321865 millions time (Please dont do the maths) ... muaahhhass! muaahhhss! See what i got for my birthday ... thank you so much and i love u and love u and love u everyday and eveready and forever and forever ... u stay in my heart and i love u ... forever forever (ala cam dalam lagu tuuu). Belon yang besar dan banyak itu telah meng'glamer'kan aku di opis kerana semua orang macam terberenti keja sambil dok usha aku yg muka macam traffic light merah tgh berenti ... sambil terkedip-kedip tengok MUNGE FAVOURITE ku dan belon yang sangat besar dan boleh cecah syiling ... oOo! oOo! tergezutnya dengan gaban sekali aku .... dah la brader anta 

munge tu tengok aku tengah tertonggeng-tonggeng ambik fail kat bawah meja ... kalau berat 45kg mahu aku sekali buleh float niii ... I LOVE THE BALLOON ... and that on top of cake .... :) u memang mengsurprisekan i ... and maybe jugak kak som kat ofis tu yg happen to also celebrate her birthday yesterday ... and also my ofismet yg tak berenti2 datang melawat sambil tanya nak tak balloon tu?? akak boleh kasi anak akak ... HALLLOOOOO ... my birthday ok?

Bila dipikirkan balik ... this week memang sangat dah BESTNYA!! i got a cake and big balloons from my wife, i finally can hookup to the internet at my father's house, i have 195 DVDs to watch that i bought from Bali ... AND IT'S MY BIRTHDAY!! wonder how better can it be ... herrrmmm??Oh! and also special thanks to Leny & Yang and my wife for the surprise lunch yg tak jadi sebab aku yang doyok ini kena pegi discussion ... but we had dinner together yesterday :) TQ! TQ! so much ... i appreciate that very much. at least dinner tu buatkan otak i yg dah malfunction back working ...

It's honestly a good day for me yesterday ... i appreciate all the surprises and wishes and dinner and all ... Thanks GOD ALMIGHTY ALHAMDULILLAH! AND THANKS U ALL!!

AbuQais : Pagi ni balloon tu dah ada ikat kat kerusi makan Qais Amiir ... wonder cemana la rupa balloon tu after office nanti.

Im back!

Lepas dengan 'bijak dan jayanya' men'delete'kan my earlier blog ... baru terasa buhsan yang teramat sangat sebab dah takde blog nak tengok. Walaupun semenjak-dua menjak kebelakangan ni sangatla malehnya nak update blog ... tapi sekarang ni rasa lebih buhsan sebab tak ada blog langsung nak tengok. Maka, dengan jayanya berusahalah semula insan yang maleh ini untuk create semula blog baru bersama-sama azam baru nak update blog selalu dan bagai-bagai lah lagi azam yang macam-macam seperti seorang perwira yang bersemangat waja nak pergi berperang ... JENG! JENG! finally i have my own blog again!!