Oh my.....this is painful

With the move to London progressing well, we've decided to put our car on the market. Visited my cousin last night and he said he has just bought a brand new Honda Accord 2 weeks ago....same as ours...diffierent colour though. But nothing much to regret as I did not want to 'broadcast' our move to London until it's firmed up and 2-3 weeks ago would have been pre-matured.

Anyhow, he suggested that I place an ad on mudah.com.my and I would have to recommend it having tried it. It's free and quite effective (I got 3 inquiries within 24 hours of advertising it).

Hopefully, we'll get to sell our cars. (BTW, the photo is taken in front of our house. That is something that we have not decided on - to rent or what? That's for another posting...sometimes later)

My sweetheart's new hobby.....

.........is browsing property websites for London (and I have to admit that I am excited about it too). Since the possibility of us moving to London came up a couple of months back, that has been her favourite past-time activity.

A few useful website we've found are;

• http://www.livinginlondon.net/ (the 1st page with the postcodes is excellent for researching the areas in London.
• http://www.foxtons.co.uk/ (the best property website for London, in our humble opinion....as users; and that counts a lot right!!!)
• http://www.findaproperty.co.uk/ (another property website we find useful)

We still haven't decided on where to live. But it's quite useful and interesting to be able to find out about the various areas and the sort of properties available for rent. We will be spending a lot of time in arriving at a decision here....

London, here we come!

The whole family is relocating to London. MSH and I are having mixed feelings; being in KL for the last 4 years has been great, especially for the kids. Adni's been great for them and BA and LO, despite the infamous landslide, is still home...and a great one. The kids are really excited about it. When asked, it's because....they'll get to play with snow.... I still marvel at how kids think.

A lot of researches needs to be done; we need to sort out work permit, visas, flights, movers, housing there, schools etc.....

Will update.

WE WILL NOT GO DOWN (Song for Gaza)

WE WILL NOT GO DOWN (Song for Gaza)
(Composed by Michael Heart)
Copyright 2009


A blinding flash of white light
Lit up the sky over Gaza tonight
People running for cover
Not knowing whether they’re dead or alive

They came with their tanks and their planes
With ravaging fiery flames
And nothing remains
Just a voice rising up in the smoky haze

We will not go down
In the night, without a fight
You can burn up our mosques and our homes and our schools
But our spirit will never die
We will not go down
In Gaza tonight

Women and children alike
Murdered and massacred night after night
While the so-called leaders of countries afar
Debated on who’s wrong or right

But their powerless words were in vain
And the bombs fell down like acid rain
But through the tears and the blood and the pain
You can still hear that voice through the smoky haze

We will not go down
In the night, without a fight
You can burn up our mosques and our homes and our schools
But our spirit will never die
We will not go down
In Gaza tonight

Gaza

Mini Bar

I saw this in my hotel room a few weeks ago. I was in Singapore for an overnight trip and found this interesting. Is it the hotel being toughtful, bold, unpretentious, etc?

I guess it costs a bomb just like anything else in hotel's minibar. You noticed how hotels always charge snacks and drinks at least 3 times higher than their market values outside.

I have to admit though that this is the 1st time I've seen such mini bar selection. But I won't be surprise to start seeing more of these in future.

Remind me of the self-service vending machines of the nineties.

Selamat Hari Lahir putera ku

This is the cake for my son's 5th birthday. He is very excited about it.

What I realised was that the true milestone here is the fact that this is the 1st time he understands the significance of the the day.

He has been looking forward to it since more than a month ago and when it was 1st November, he started to 'celebrate' even though there's another 19 days to go.

He wanted cakes, special dinner, present of course and guess what, even a card.

To me, this is a very exciting day and managed to be home early for an early dinner. He enjoyed it obviously and I don't know whether I really look forward for the same day next year. I guess the demand will increase but hopefully my little boy would also be a bigger little boy by then.

Life

What's life?

To some, life is to be lived.

you only live once.

To some, life is a test.

you will be held accountable to how you live your life.

To some, live is a measure of length.

live is short.

To some, life is full of adventures.

live your life to the fullest.

To some, life is the opposite of death.

you are alive, so you are not dead.

To some, life is full of opportunities.

grab all you can, don't waste time.

To some, life is a journey.

a journey goes on, a journey for.....

To some life is meaningless.

huh....what?

To some life is priceless.

How much?

What is life? to you and me?

I like to think of it as a journey, with a beginning and an end...

it not the destination that matters, but how I fill the journey,

not where I end up but how I get there....

and what I manage to gather along the way, the junks, the rubbishes, the useful things....

maybe that's life to me....and what will come after it...i believe

Manila Wires

I saw this in Manila earlier this year.

I remember walking out of a restaurant with a cup of coffee in my hand in Makati city and this view greeted me.  I found it interesting enough to capture.

I don't know what I was really thinking; some sort of wondering at how complicated things could be.

Maybe, my life was not that complicated then......maybe

Remind my of Simplicity....

I am back

Assalamualaikum...warahmatullah...
brothers and sisters....we all love rasulullah....
our journey goes on, a journey for Allah....
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I am back....life's been quite testing in the last 1 year;
I am walking again, slowly....learning again to build my steps...
one after another. I still stumble and fall...
I've lost count how many times I've fallen flat on my face. Too many...just too many.
But I have to carry on....I just have to. For AAH.....especially for them.
I am walking again, hopefully will be running soon....
The SCAR is still there....will always be there I think.
But that's life. I just hope and pray that it won't reopened.
That it won't happen again.

The truth is, I still have nightmares.....
every night.....
but it's not the nightmares you get when you are fast asleep....no...

my nightly nightmares are at the point just before I fall asleep.
and sometimes in between sleeps as I wake up in the middle of the night....
and every morning just as I wake up.........
sometimes my whole body jerks,
sometimes my whole being shivers....

I wonder why....been wondering for a very long time.....

My guess is, those are the times when my guards are down,
those are the times when my consciousness waver, and my true soul surface,
those are the times when my conscious determinations to move on, to keep going, to.....when my conscious determination.....to live on.....falter.

anyhow, enough about me.

How have you been doing?

Live's good?

Remember always;

Why you are here....