Thorny but sweet

Alhamdulillah we are back home in Qasrul Amani after spending just over a week in RIPAS Hospital... Semuga kami semua mendapat rahmat dan hidayat dari Allah dari semua yang kami alami dan hadapi. Amin.

And if the thorns scare you, the young shoot is actually sweet especially if cooked with coconut milk. Just go to the tamu and ask for umbut nibong from the local vendors and maybe you will be lucky to be able to buy some.

By God's will

There are a lot of things we can plan in life but there are some which you may not plan for but will happen by God's will. After our enjoyable trip to Miri and Singapore my wife was severely suffering from short of breath and the swelling of her feet worsen. She had been complaining of these ailments for nearly the whole of 2009 and last Friday whilst we were in Bandar because I was supposed to attend a company dinner, we decided it was best for her to seek treatment because she could not stand the pain any longer. We spent about 6 hours in the RIPAS Hospital Accident & Emergency Department. The doctor said the swelling was due to excessive water retention and after x-ray the doctor found that she had water in her lungs and had to be admitted immediately.



The evening before that we celebrated my bro-in-law & wife's joint birthdays. They're born on the same date.



Friday morning I was stalking these two insects in my bro-in-law's garden.

The baby grasshopper which was feeding itself on a plant's leaf

From baby grasshopper

and a spider which had just caught a fly for breakfast

From spider

Thanks...

Why is 1st day always hectic?

So happy to be on leave for the last 2 weeks but coming back to the office, that's a totally different story. Really feel like should not have gone on leave due to the outstanding work.

So what did I do during my leave? Went to Miri and Singapore after not being to these places for a long time and attended a nephew's wedding in between.







For more photos click Day 1, Day 2 & Day 3.

Happy New Year 2010

Majlis Berbedak & Bersanding Azrin & Nor Azlina

For more photos click HERE





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Majlis Pernikahan Azrin & Nor Azlina (updated)

To see photos of the preparation the night before that click HERE.

For more photos of the Majlis Pernikahan click HERE.

Dragonfly Profile

Back to basic

Went to Miri for the weekend. It started bad with 2 hours in the Q before we left the Sarawak border check point... although most of the waiting was before the Brunei border checkpoint. After that it was okay and the journey home today was a breeze because we decided to go just after lunch at 1 pm.

I did something to my blog when I was there and it went wrong, so that's why its back to basic. Well, it looked clean though. Maybe I'll leave it like this until I find the time to do something.
To kill time whilst waiting, anything will do...





Where we stayed



Waited for the sunset but it was not a beautiful one with the sun behind the dark clouds



My face was still red from the heat rash



and we spent most of our time sleeping, shopping and eating

Inspirational

As part of our effort to learn more about padi planting, we were really grateful to Pehin Aziz (and Hj Zak) for their time to take us around their padi field in Wasan and sharing tips and experiences. We hope one day we will be able to produce padi from our land in Lot Sengkuang Labi. So far, we only managed to manually clear the land and it surely took a lot of effort by my brother and our helpers to get to this result















and along the way I also took a few macros







For more photos click HERE

More macro

A few more macro taken on 11 Dec





Click HERE for more macro

But my favourite is this one

Macro - lite testing

To Bro PainQler, thanks for the words of encouragement. Here's some photos that I captured during the trial of the macro lite.

Birthdays

Mum, Isad and Ira



Wan612



Lina