2009 begins with a smile

May we all have a wonderful and fruitful new year 2009 and 1430H filled with so many good things and that many sincere prayers and wishes will be granted by Him. Lets all join in our prayers to ask God for his blessings and protection from all evil doings and harms. And may we be better than the previous year and continue to do good for the mankind and the earth itself.

And I shall also be praying so that all my angers and jealousies that I felt to be channeled to improving myself and as the main drive to achieve what I desired for the betterment of myself and will continue to be inspired by so many successful people I have come across.

Photo taken on an annual dinner invitation at the Legend Hotel grand ballroom, KL, 13 December 2008

We had makan2 at my first brother's place on the new year's eve. And we waited for the countdown 10 minutes before 12 midnite in front of the telly.

In 2008:

1. I managed to complete my 6 days Shawal sunnah fasting - for the first time in my life.

2. Lost a few kg of my weight but I put them all back by November....

3. Started liking the aerobic regime, took a break from it on Ramadhan, thats the whole September and by October till early December too busy to spare time to go back to the usual regime causing the weight gain.

4. Learned so many things on becoming the head of an international conference secretariat and met and befriended with so many esteemed ademicians across the Asia Pasific

5. Broke up the relationship and resuming it again on my birthday.

6. Managed to initiate the house project in December

7. Relationship with the Mother went on better but did not talk much to another two members of the family

8. Received 2 new nephews last July

9. Co-supervise 2 PhD students and 2 Masters students and as the main supervisor to another Masters student

10. Publication number increases mainly on international proceeding papers but yet to produce a journal paper.

11. Made new baju kebaya and kurungs from 2 different tailors and their shops are just stone throw away from each other. Before that, has been loyal to the another tailor who has been making clothes for us since my primary school years. Unfortunately , her health began deteriorating by the end of 2007.

12. Had my first ever facial in July and have since continued having it on a few occassions and so far liking the results

13. Managed a subject on my own for 2 programs for the first time.

14. Had my first laptop

15. Bought a digicam and a mobile phone for the first time in Malaysia




I hope to do better especially on:

1. Losing weight and keeping myself healthier and more energetic

2. Producing journal papers

3. Expanding the research network

4. Supervision skills

5. Time management

6. Money management

7. Work management

8. Research management




I also would like to:

1. Complete my first round of the house project with the help of the personal loan. The house will be equipped with the most necessary items only so as to make it habitable.

2. Move into the new house

3. Get back to the fitness regime and thinking whether to stick to the old fitness centre or moving to another place.

4. Assist him to secure a job in a nearby university by the time he finishes his viva so we could take things to another level

5. Learn how to swim in a proper swimming lesson session after 3 -4 months of fitness regime to improve on my stamina level

6. Taking a short break across west and east malaysia every other month or so be it on my own or with family /friends. Basically travel more!


7. Go to Cairo to meet my maternal relatives by the end of the year. I have not seen them for 27 years.


8. Read more journal papers, and finish reading those books on my shelf before I start to find or buy new reading materials


9. Read more.....quran, and many more books!!

10. Try not to go to sleep again after subuh except if I am very tired or could not sleep well at night.




Wishing that:

My silent wishes will also come true. Ameen

Another New Year: 1 Muharram 1429 H

Muslims celebrate the new year 1429 H according to the hijriyah calendar today, 10 January 2008. Just like a couple of years ago when we celebrated eid fitri twice a year, i.e. in early january and in the end of december, this year, we will observe an almost similar event for Awal Muharram ( The beginning of Muharram).

Common knowledge to many muslims, the hijrah calendar marked the day our prophet nabi Muhammad (SAW) made his flight of journey with those muslims from Makkah (termed as the muhajireen) to Madinah (and welcomed by the muslim people of madinah, termed as the Ansar) after the 13th year he was raised and chosen as the final prophet to preach the completion of the Abrahamic religion where it was declared as Islam.

Firman Allah in Al-Maaidah 5:3 (translation):

"This day have I perfected your religion for you, completed My favour upon you, and have chosen for you Islam as your religion".

At-Taubah (9:100):

The vanguard (of Islam)- the first of those who forsook (their homes) (i.e. Al-muhajireen) and of those who gave them aid (i.e. Al-Ansaar), and (also) those who follow them in (all) good deeds,- well- pleased is Allah with them, as are they with Him: for them hath He prepared gardens under which rivers flow, to dwell therein for ever: that is the supreme felicity.





I was asked yesterday by Prof. AK on what would my resolution be and I told him as a matter-of-factly: To be better than i was in 2007. Short answer yet it summarized what i wished and desired for.



I need to redeem myself, especially that I still owe some technical papers to write and to be published in the online chemical engineering journal. And I need to shed off some more weight to get fitter, healthier and sexier. I also need to learn on improving myself on the time management skills as in less procrastination, more productivity and I need to manage whatever little savings I have in order to continue my next "mega" project on my new house.

Anyways, Awal Muharram is a national public holiday today, and I am off to visit my old friend Rashid Saharudin to see his first born baby, who is already a 6 months old boy called Mohd Danish Haiqal.

Here's wishing everyone a great year round, both 2008 and 1429 H. May we achieve better things and overall a better year than we had in 2007.

At the dawn of The New Year 2008, I shall...

Hmmmm.......let me think.....lotta things in my mind but I guess I will strive to better whatever necessary for the greater good of all human kind the survival (of the fittest).


Here's a clip from one of my all-time favourite movies: When harry met sally, during the moment they met once again during the new year eve and Harry began confessing all what he has felt for Sally all those while:

One thing for sure, I've been blogging for over 3 years now, but I only made the blog public in 2006. It was a bit jumbled up, contains haphazard sort of entries, not really something you should be checking down the archives but they reflected what those times were for me. It might have been one blog malarkey had i not seen what it would implicate in my life.

There was one time I wrote on my disappointment of not being able to attend the graduation day in the middle of 2006 but thank God, I made it this year. I only came to realize it recently when I did my own archive browsing. But please, under any circumstances, refrain yourself from going through them (rather inarticulate to put it mildly). After all, this is a biasa-biasa-sahaja (petty and trivial presentation) blog and does not even deserved to be remembered when was its 100th, 200th postings, anniversaries and so on.


But I've made friends with some of the bloggers in my "hot spot" list. Some I have met in the real life while others are cyber mates or somewhat close to that. Some are actually my real life old buddies/colleagues and I hope I aint giving some impression that I am here to open a can of worms.


I neither have a proper list of the New Year resolution nor do i really stick to everything that I've thought of as my own personal goals, but nevertheless, I do make my own mental notes of what I would really, really want to achieve in this year. Call me incorrigible but I reckon as a muslim, we are taught to persevere to do the best we can and when we have come to a certain point of our efforts, we execute them by tawakkal (submission with all our faith) to God for He knows better and He is the Almighty One, The omnipotent and the ever living.



Silent wishes and prayers they may be to any mortal but I never shy of asking them to be granted by Him. If he allows it, then so be it.



But above all, what i really do know now is that I am S.I.N.G.L.E again! There you go, my own personal declaration statement and not an iota ashamed of it (dalam hati please please please pretty please let there be single, available rightfully man for me!!!!!!!! ). Of all the things, MJ has chosen to uphold his traditions and would rather prefer to let his parents match him up with his local birds. A bit sad innit, but we are friends nonetheless. Ala2 teman tapi mesra, TTM.


(another clips: Single by Natasha Bedingfield , please click here).



Bismillahirrahmanirraheem, in the name of Allah, the most gracious, the most merciful, I am hereby stepping into the year 2008 with refreshed spirit, revived mind and rejuvenated soul and hoping for more good things to come inshallah. The wiser, the sexier, the fitter, the healthier, the better, ameen.