KUL-LAX-IAH

I'm back in Houston for the second time, after the first trip back in 2005. Boarded MAS Airlines flight MH 094 at 0940, that only took off at 1040. I'm gonna be here for about 1 week, returning home on 4th Aug. The whole week, beginning next Monday will be filled with workshops, forums and teambuilding event. Its gonna be fun and exciting.


After took off from KLIA, we landed in Taipei for transit. To my suprised as i was walking towards the exit gate, i heard a loud knocked on a glass wall besides me. I turned around and saw a very familiar face that i haven't met for quite a long time, he is Ulat Master or now known as Captain Hafizan.


He is going to be First Officer on board MAS Airlines bound for LA. The very same flight i'm in. :D well its gonna be a reunion thousand feets above ground. I've spend a few hours with Pijang talking about our lives. Btw, Pijang just got married to a Sabahan and i miss that ceremony. This guy is as the same as he use to be, either back in MRSM or UTP. He speaks in Ganung slangs and me in Kelate slangs. The point that you know someone will determine how you gonna communicate with them, its not gonna change, despite what that person has become. Just before we landed in LA, we chat again before he head off to the cockpit.

Arrive in LAX at about 1.30pm local time. After a long queue for immigration clearance, i was again had to go to Interview Room. I don't know what kind of terrorist traits inside of me, makes them pick me up. There is nothing much happen in the room, as the Custom and Border Protection officer busy checking my data. They asked me several questions like "Where do you works?", "Where you gonna stay in US?", "Give me your home address?", etc. Inside the room together with me, is MAS flight steward. I chatted with him (to kill time), he mentioned that he is also the lucky one. Gonna be pickup everytime he arrived in US. So i guess i'm not alone in this scenario...hahah.

After about 1 hr, the interview ended. I rush out to answer my nature calls that i've been holding for the past one hours....relief. I collect my luggage and rush to Terminal 6 to catch domestic flight to Houston. Luckily the flight that supposed to fly at 4.30pm got delayed to 5pm. Not much rushing for me. Again killing time at terminal 6. Grab Starbuck Mocha Frapuccino and went for smoke.

One good thing about business trip is that, you get the opportunity to fly Business Class....sweet huh. From LAX to IAH (Houston International Airport), i'm boarding Continental airlines in First Class. It took about 4 hours to get to Houston. By the time i arrived its already 10pm. I'm already damn tired by this time. Collect my luggage and went out.

Suddenly a man greet and asked me if i need a cab. This guy is a Palestinian who had been living in Houston for the past 15 years, making a living driving taxi. Anyway his car is not a normal taxi, but a Limo. Ohhh great. His name is Ayser and we chatted a long the way, mostly about our Brotherhood, if you know what i mean.

There are 2 Marriott in uptown Houston, one is Marriott and the other one is JW Marriott. Both are just about 2 miles away. Ayser drove me to the wrong Marriott, i should have stress JW to him. Anyway at about 11pm i'm at the front desk of JW Marriott checking in. My room is 1923, waiting at the lobby for the lift with my totally exhausted and dehyrated body, when the lift door open, i met a very familiar faces. 2 of my colleague from Malaysia are here too, thats great. I'm not gonna be boring this weekend. Gaddafi, Akmal (new hire) and Azrin are going to be my buddies here. :D . We already plan for Hooters outings...

Today (Thursday), i'm resting in my hotel room after the jet lag. Tomorrow i have two meetings to attend to.Till then, stay tune.

2:00 am

"ure heartless, n u hurt me.
i wish i nvr met u.
cnt blieve i act tot ure worth knowin.
nw ive md my dcision, i'll nvr wanna talk 2u or c u.
im erasin u frm my memory."

can i sleep over that? another terrifying night.

Nak ditelan mati emak, Nak diluah mati bapak

Have you ever been in a condition where you don't have control over it. A question where all the answers doesn't add up. A junction where each road leads to the same junction. Solutions that always wrong no matter how hard you cracked your head to solve it.

It ain't fun and ultimately not something you enjoy or take pleasure doing it eh? In fact it is something that you always try to avoid.

The effect of this situation among others, uncontrolled anxiety, bad insomnia (for someone who always insomnia like me), higher intakes of caffein and nicotine (thank god i'm not a drug addicts, otherwise i might be OD already), listening to melancholy song like Smashing Pumpkin-Disarm, staring at your phone worrying whats the next killer question gonna be and last but not least more pornography ( ok...this one is overrated).

Thats LIFE. Sooner or later you have to face it, no matter how safe you play. I'm now on this hot boiling bowl....again. Maybe i'm totally 'mangkuk', just what i like to call my friend Nik. :D hahah. or maybe i didn't think hard enough to find amicable solution or a better closure. May Allah help me find answers.

Green Day song Basket Case is currently playing on my iTunes, kinda reflecting this whole things in a musically representation. Funny huh.

Anyway here is part of the lyrics that i think, jive with me.

Do you have the time
To listen to me whine
About nothing and everything
All at once
I am one of those
Melodramatic fools
Neurotic to the bone
No doubt about it

Sometimes I give myself the creeps
Sometimes my mind plays tricks on me
It all keeps adding up
I think I'm cracking up
Am I just paranoid?
Or I'm just stoned

I hope she sleep well tonight despite all this nonsense drama.

The Sun, The Moon and I can't sleep

Tried to sleep but i can't. My brain is still up and running, with all sorts of things flashing in and out. I rolled over many times, trying to find the best positions and still i couldn't find one. I woke up and wen to the kitchen, took a spoon full of Breacol. I'm hoping that codein effect will make me feel drowsy and sleepy.

Wo wo, i'm not an addict.... just i'm just trying to sleep. If you watch Fight Club you know how suffer an insomnia can be. At lest i didn't have my own Tyler... yet.

Can The Sun and The Moon rise/set together?

They complement each other, but they can't be together. Unless its kiamat day.

"Matahari tidak mungkin baginya mengejar bulan, dan malam pula tidak dapat mendahului siang; kerana tiap-tiap satunya beredar terapung-apung di tempat edarannya masing-masing. [Yasin36:40]

Dia bertanya (secara mengejek): "Bilakah datangnya hari kiamat itu?" Maka (jawabnya: Hari Kiamat akan datang) apabila pemandangan menjadi terpendar-pendar (kerana gerun takut), dan bulan hilang cahayanya, Dan matahari serta bulan dihimpunkan bersama.
[al-Qiyamah 75:6-9]

Maybe we complement each other but can't be together

Transformers - a childhood memories?

The hippiest things in town now is definately Transformers movie. A movie based on a cartoon series back in 80's. The cartoon was on the same league as He Man, SilverHawks, MASK, Thundercats, Saber Rider (and the start sheriff), Ghostbuster and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle among others. Those who were born in the 70's and early 80's, will surely recognize all these cartoons, unless you didn't sit infront of tv at 5.30pm. I watched this much anticipated movie, today at Times Square. I miss the beginning parts as i arrive late....demmit.

Besides the title and character's name, watching the movie is a wholly new experienced and not a 'flash back' of the memory of the show at 5.30pm. One thing for sure when a cartoon is brought to the silver screen, the producer/film maker will try to make it as real as possible, whereas a cartoon supposed to be a fantasy. Don't you remember when your mom say "..tu cerita kartun je..." she is trying to differentiate between reality and fantasy.

In the movie, the character looks very complex compared to the original cartoons. If i'm currently a 6 year ol' boy with no prior knowledges of Transformers, then i would say the movie character is Kewll, but since i am me, i prefer the cartoon more!

Anyway, the overall flow of the movie is very good, there are variety of emotions among human and Autobots, the action and weaponary are real, actors and actresses play their roles well, the GCI was fantastic as if your brain may interpret it as REAL and the heroin is simply hot.

I would suggest y'all go and watch this movie. It would be a money worth spend.












The original Optimus Prime. Very Kewll!!

















Optimus Prime in the movie adaptation. Not Kewll !!













Remember He-Man, "By the power of the GreySkull, i am He Man"











Thundercats: Lion O, Panthro, Tygra, Cheetara, WillyKit, WillyKat, the charming Snarf and Jaga.

Coming soon to silver screen.












Who can forget MASK.
M : Mobile
A : Armored
S : Strike
K : Kommand









Ghostbuster. Remember Slime?











Saber Rider!













Silverhawks.

















The ever funny Ninja Turle.

aku ingin tidur....

kenapalah aku payah sangat nak tido. maybe sebab caffein intake aku semakin byk lately, nicotine intake pun byk jugak, or maybe sbb aku selalu tertido semasa Buletin Utama keudara.

Damn, mcm ni kul 2.30 ni baru boleh tido ni.... otak aku dah rasa jemm ni.....arghhh. Mana nak dapat pil tido huh? kena amil preskripsi doc dulu ke?

i wish i could sleep like this ol' man. Anytime, anywhere.... so peaceful

Undone - Sweater Song

Lyric from Weezer Undone-Sweater Song one of 'the best' songs in the world (at least for me!!). Pic taken at Akarkarya Jam Studio, Uptown during my frens jam session.

Golf Fraser Hill - continue

i promised to upload photos of my outings at Fraser Hills as soon as i got back, but it didn't materialised, get used to it!!

Anyway 2 weeks later, here is the shots.

up up and away....

golfer with cucur.

Entrance to the club.

flora in Fraser Hills

Note: the conditions of the pitch on the game day, wasn't that good. It rains a day before and also during the game. All players complaint they lost a good number of balls. I finished the game with only 1 ball left....

Golf at Fraser Hill

I'm waking up damn early for a Sunday Morning Standard. 6am!!

me and couple of office mates have a plan for a golf round at Fraser Hill. Gonna kill birds with two stone today, playing golf and of course taking a good photos.

wait for my results this evening.

graduation, a make or break point

i chat with my friend tonite, a girl. i asked her why did she break up with her previous boyfriend? her sincere answers, validate all the thought that i had or been discussing with Taki and other friends, that some girl will find a new love when they graduate.

Graduation is a make or break point in their relationship. If they make it they will end up married and if they not, you know what happens.

There are lot of cases where the relationship end up in jinjang pelamin, take for example Ilin and Tong, Che We and Ana ( or is it Ani) (a couple from secondary school.....lotta respect from me) plus many other couples.

In fact, may did break up just before-during-after graduation. One good example would be Tumpaq and his beloved girl friend Afdzan. An exemplary couple which the rest of the world would expect to be together forever. Another heart broken case maybe related to Jiman and his girl friend. Mat Prot and Tini, plus many others.

I would know what caused their split, and i may never know. One of the reason given my correspondent during the chat was, they couple because it was the 'in' thing at that time. Their friends are all having couple, so why not? The love is real. Oh well at least at that time, you know women feelings is one at a second, don't ya?

After graduate, it was a different world. Trust me. Your point of view change. You grew up. You see things differently. So do their feelings. They won't be much peer pressure at this time, coz youre spending less 'social' time with your friends. If youre working (which i expect all middle and low class ppl will do), you're gonna spend half of your days in the office, quater of it to socialize or for yourself, quarter of it stuck in traffic jams/LRT and the rest of it to sleep. With this kind of life, youre kind of making your own decisions and starts to evaluate things and making your own decision.

She also mentioned that she is looking for an older (read mature) guys. Scientifically we know that men maturity is 4-5 years behind women. The maturity wavelength between 22 year old women and men are totally different. I'm not saying that same age marriage won't work, it did, it just need adjustment on both sides. Even our old folks also advise us (men) to find a bride a few years younger than us. This recipe has been around since the beginning of time.

This girl confess to me that she is looking for The One. I joked with her, that The One only exist in The Matrix.....hahhahah..Well, i pray that she gonna find her man soon. I'm praying for mine too... :D (my woman yahhh)

aku terkunci di luar..... grrrrr!!!

-aku terpaksa merempat smlm kerana terkunci di luar.
-wallet dgn segala kunci (termasuk kunci kereta) tertinggal di dalam rumah.
- rasa tension yg teramat sangat.
- kunci spare ada dgn kakak aku yg berada di London.
- satu lagi kunci spare ada dgn bapak aku di Kota Bharu.

Idea2 yg keluar utk mengatasi masalah ini
1. balik ke kelantan, duplicate kunci dan balik semula ke kl.
2. pecahkan mangga dan pecahkan pintu.
3. mintak bapak aku courier kunci spare and amik MC ari Isnin.
4. panggil 'lock master'.

aku choose option no 4 and it cost me RM180. RM70 utk buka satu kunci, RM70 x 2 (mangga dan kunci pintu) + RM30 (service charge... damnn!!). Anyway aku gembira sebab mangga dan tombol pintu tidak rosak dan aku rasa kagum jugak ada org boleh bukak pintu mcam tu, sebijik macam dlm cerita Hollywood.

si Lock Master tu berjaya bukak pintu rumah aku dlm masa 10 minit!!

jadi kepada sesiapa yg terkunci di luar, silalah telefon Lock Master ini utk mendapatkan perkhidmatannya 0163857580.

*ini bukan bertujuan mempromosikan Lock Master ini, tapi sekadar membantu sesiapa yg akan bernasib malang!

plupp..

plupp..

best shot out of 500 shots.

Lok Ching

i arrived home from work at 6.45. it was after i had a glass of teh tarik with Akhmal at Pelita Jln Ampang. i had no mood to work, holiday syndrome still in the air. there was meeting in the morning and it went very well, on the afternoon there was some briefing about Flexible Work Hours. it was a good session, letting us (the employees) knows what constitute the flexi hours and what not. although it seems that all the examples focus more on those with families issues, hey what about a single person, don't they also have issue??

anyway, when i reached my apartment, i saw this old man selling something on the back of his kapchai. at first i thought he was ice cream or rojak peddler, but as i approached him, i smelled a sensation that i had missed for a long long time. it smells like a barbeque but not quite the same, a little more like ikan bakar but with more aromatic feeling. the smell of the item and the charcoal burning, bring me back to the good old time of my childhood.

it was a very famous snack for kids in Kelantan. i couldn't find this thing at any other areas, maybe it wasn't sold there or maybe i didn't looked enough. but today its here in KL. this thing is called Lok Ching.

funny names but don't ask me how did it get the name. as far as i'm concern everyone in Kelantan called it Lok Ching.

It come with two flavor of sauces, pedas and manis. normally people would just mixed it and called campur. just like McD ice cream, the choc and the vanilla.

here is the photo of Lok Ching or whatever name your call it out there. :D

me now flickr compatible

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pukul gambar = dialect used by kelantanese, which means snap photos.

Sunset..

Sunset at Tanjung Harapan, Klang

1/80s | f/5.6 | ISO 200 | 50mm

Genting....proving ground for my D80

Menuju ke puncak kejayaan versi 1.

"adik, belajar rajin2 ye, besar nanti jgn jadi
penari macam kakak."

Extreme French Kiss.

Sunset.

Silver lining.

ExxonMobil

Very satisfied with the bokeh.

The Alien has landed.

Menuju puncak kejayaan versi 2.

Keto lipang.

I've been thinking whether it is good ideas to upload my photos here in the blogs. I noticed that the blog always attempt to load everything when the page start, and i have more photos here, the lagging will be significant and the viewer will be frustrated.

Maybe i should look at other dedicated photo sharing websites like flickr or photopages.

hmmmm....... good ideas though.

I once had a dream

I had a dream
It was a long time ago
I type it down on this blog

Day after day
Month after month
Its still a dream that never faded from my senses

Not until today
Dream has become reality
I hold it in my hand
I squeeze it gently
I command it with my will

I'm happy

My view will never be the same again.... D80

*first series with this camera

underladder in cherating

geng2 underladder went to Cherating 2 weeks ago, on their first group vacation after we all graduate from UTP. It was a very fun reunion, just like when we use to lepak bawah tangga (hence come the name underladder).

Some photos from the trip, with my loyal Sony W5 (perhaps the last series i took with this point and shoot camera)!!

Official emblem on the t-shirt

Tungkai during sporting event

Endangered species found on the beach

Life on the sand

"peruk sapo paling kepeh?"

cikgu besar sekoloh menengah kerteh 1

Farid's family minus 'endangered species'

Wedding Ayie

"apa pegang2.."

LordNabil with his D80 in action
(lepas ni aku pun buleh buat)

Telur separuh masak 2 + roti bakar 1 set + kopi susu = kaww!!

"uh uh nate sedakk nyo"

Brokeback Mountain part II

Tarian Tepi Pantai part I

Tarian Tepi Pantai part II