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Happy New Year 2009

Nine flowers
Originally uploaded by Adibi

To all readers of my blog,may I wish you all Happy New Year 2009.May I take this opportunity to thank all of you who keep on reading my humble blog.I hope you enjoy reading them as much I enjoy writing them during this year.

May I also seek your forgiveness for all the typos,grammatical errors and my weaknesses in writing and presenting my blog to you.

God bless to all and take care:-)

Steel and concrete structures under a bridge...

Sweet dessert

Sweet dessert
Originally uploaded by Adibi

After having a feast of satay Kajang at Taman Warisan this morning with my family and our relatives,I was given an orange.It was very sweet that I decided to eat it slowly to get the feeling...

Suddenly,I remember that I have my compact camera(Lumix TZ2) with me;so I tried my hands to snap a macro.By the way,I am still learning to improve my photography.I hope you like it.

One of my bad habits that needs immediate change is to replace sweet cakes after my lunch or dinner.I think sweet fruit like this one is a better choice.

To my fellow muslims an muslimahs,may I wish you A Blessed and Prosperous New Year 1430-as sweet as this orange:-)

SDARA DINNER 08

SDARA DINNER 08
Originally uploaded by Adibi

My congratulations and thanks to the AJK Makan Malam SDARA 2008.You guys did a great job and the singing of the school song while wearing a white shirt with the badge tranported me back to mid 60's when I was a kampung boy studying at full boarding school in Tanjung Malim...not to mention the old songs of L Ramle and Jeffry Din etc,etc..

Bukit Kepong,here we come..

For photo-story,click here.

Muhasabah

Today is the last Friday of the year 2008 and 1429H.I think it is quite appropriate for us to 'muhasabah' ourselves before the arrival of the new year.If we treat our personal lives as projects,we need to do a regular progress review so that we keep on improving ourselves before the dateline(or death line) arrives!Nobody knows when the project will end,so it is imperative that we have the sense of urgency.Many of us,including yours truly,tend to keep postphoning any good deeds or amals as if we own tomorrow.

This is to remind me first and others to allocate a time before the end of this year to ponder and create an action plan for next year.Let's do something for ourselves.

"On that Day will men proceed in groups, sorted out, to be shown their Deeds. Then shall anyone who has done an atom's weight of good, see it! And anyone who has done an atom's weight of evil, shall see it." (Qur'an 99:6-8) For better elaboration of this topic,may I invite you to read a short note written by the famous Ulama Yusof Qardawi.Click here.

Merry Christmas

To all my Christian friends and readers,may I wish you and your family Merry Christmas!

To others ,enjoy your holiday and I will be joining my friends riding our bicycles this morning at FRIM.The photo was taken at FRIM a few days ago and it showed great contrast between the dark area and the lighted area of the Institute.

Take care and God bless.

Going up and going down..

FRIM231208
Originally uploaded by Adibi

To go up a hill,it will take a lot of efforts but to go down,just a small mistake one can just fall.Life is just like that...

From my short experience in cycling,going uphill is a struggle,When I arrive at the top of the road curve,it is a bliss going downhill-the rewards of the climbing.While enjoying the fruits of one's labour,one tends to get carried away with joys and suddenly there is an abrupt corner and many fall to the ground.So be careful all the time,irrespective wherever you are...

C'est la vie..

Coloured views..

I took this photo a few years ago while waiting for my wife shopping at Lot 10.Everyone who walked under this green canopy turned green. If I were an alien who has just landed form Mars,I would have concluded that all human beings are green!

In many cases in our daily lives,we may have similar experience.Our prejudice and our sentiments are just like the green canopy that may have great influence what we see,what we hear and what we think.To know the truth,we require knowledge(theoritical,empirical and transcendental[wahyu]) and aqlul/qalbu salim.

Lay off IJN

My congratulation to the Malaysian cabinet for deferring the privatisation of IJN(National Heart Centre).It was a wise move.In my humble opinion,it would be a wiser move for the government to reject it and keep it as a 100% government organisation.

To Sime Darby, if you want this type of business or to increase your profit,please go and do it yourself.Any fool with money can buy anything.We are short of this type of organisation and I suggest to Sime Darby to go and add another one instead of buying the existing one.

Two of my close relatives(one uncle and one cousin) who were ex-government officers died in IJN in the last five years.I have been there many times and I am very pleased with with the level of service there.Looking at the other private hospitals as benchmark,IJN is doing fine.Then why should the government sell it to Sime Darby or anyone for that matter?Why is the need to sell?From my experience as ex-CEO of a KLSE list company,there are two main reasons.First,to recover our investment and make a profit.Second ,to get a strategic partner who can expand the business further.IMHO, neither do the government need that sum of sales proceeds of 51% nor the Sime Darby is a strategic partner in this line of business!

Another point of concerns is the medical specialists.Those who have chosen to be working in IJN, they have decided to work for the government and the rakyat.If they were to work for the shareholders in private sectors, they could have earn more than 5 to 10 times what they are getting now.I know of one who left the private sector and returned to government service.My own brother-in-law,an O&G specialist decided to remain in government even though a few of his friends(also my friends) have left for more money.I took my kopiah off to salute these angels !!!

So,lay off IJN.QED.