HULL..HERE I COME

Wed 12August 1987

The trip was rather to see other interesting places in UK. At the same time, meeting other Malaysian from different walks of life. I accompanied Khalid to meet his cousin in Hull, located in the north of UK. We took a coach from Victoria, London in the morning. We reach Hull around 3pm after 4 and half hours journey by road. It was decided to stay at his cousin's apartment for 3 days at Kingston-Upon-Hull. His cousin, a lecturer from UPM, the Malaysia Agriculture University(now known as University Putra Malaysia) stayed with his wife and one son. He took a postgraduate study.

Upon meeting at the Hull Coach station, i was introduced by Khalid with different language as they spoke Javanese. Of course, we knew them by an abbreviation JPS -stands for Jawa Peranakan Selangor (the term used to describe their clan when they speak other).

We had an entertaining evening as they (the Malaysian students within the same community with Khalid's cousin) invited us to join to play Badminton (even it was not my favorite sport). I enjoyed the game.


Thu 13August 1987

We had a late breakfast. Poor me as i am the early bird. Had to bear my stomach until the breakfast is served by the host.

We were then brought to a small town known as Hornsea. The name itself  known for the beach meant for the local within Hull. The attraction was not only to go the seaside but also to the well-known Pottery outlet in this town.

Being in summer, we were had the chance to pick strawberries at the nearest farm to bring home too.

Fri14August 1987

Even we are musafir (away from home and had some priviliges for performing solat in simple ways as allowed by the religion like combining the two prayers into one), with God bless, we had the opportunity to perform Friday prayer at the Hull Islamic Centre. The Moslem community in Hull were quite big and hence,ease the community to get the Halal meat. Alhamdulilah.

Sat15August 1987

We were privileged to be Khalid's cousin guests. On our last day before we took the coach at 4.30pm, we were shown the Humberbridge (imagine you see the 1st Penang Bridge) . I was made to understand that the bridge had the longest span in the world. Well, i am not good to explain it in words. It was one of the best bridges i have seen in my life apart from the Penang Bridge (which made the Malaysian proud of it those day). We spent some time at Hull Town Centre to buy momento before leaving the town.
   

SUMMER HOLIDAYS 1987 - PART II

SUMMER HOLIDAYS 1987
(Dedicate to my friends, Zul,Khalizan and Fadzil who had a great fun with me for the holidays)


Sat11Jun1987
It was our second trip for the Summer Holidays 1987.We started the journey to one of the sandy beaches, Bournemouth. Located in the South East of UK.We spent a night, as usual, in the camping area known as Hurn.
A small town between Bournemouth and Paignton. After the dinner, we walked around Torquoy to enjoy the nightlife. We were disturbed by a group of drunk teenagers.

Tourquay by night

Sun 12Jun1987
We started the day by spending some time at the beach. swimming and canoeing. It was a sunny day. Being a muslim teenager who just want to have fun at the beach, we do not expect to see something that is different and forbidden. But it was an experience for us being in a foreign land to see different cultures of people going to the beach. On the way back to London, we stopped at Plymouth. Just another English town to observe and enjoyed walking around.

At Bournemouth

SUMMER HOLIDAYS 1987

Personal note in 1987

Fri26Jun87

A great Friday for me. I passed my first year examination. Alhamdullilah, So another 2 years to go.

Sat27Jun87 

The summer holidays started. it was my first summer holidays in UK. Unlike other friends who had extra    

money, they spent their vacation back home. 

We started the holiday to Southern part of UK. Brother Zul  and Razak drove the car. We started the journey around 4 am after Subuh Prayer to Great Yarmouth. 

7 am.We arrived and spent the day there. 

Sat27Jun1987:Pleasure Beach,Great Yarmouth,UK.

Model Village, Great Yarmouth,UK.

3.30pm.We left the town and went to Margate where we have to spend a night day by camping at the   located site. 

8.30pm.We arrived Margate.The camping area known as Birchington. It was a green area where you meet all type of people going for holidays.We prepared 2 tents for 5 of us. 

Sun28Jun87

6.30 am. Time for shower and prayer. Suddenly, out of blue, we heard a small plane landed nearby our camping site. It was shocked to know that the camping site is located next to a runway of a small airport.

10 am.We left the place for the last destination, Brighton.

1pm.Arrived Brighton and relaxed ourselves at the beach. It was a sunny day despite we felt cold once in a while. This was the first beach i been in UK.

6.30pm.We left for a memorable trip. The first of few series for Summer Holidays. It only cost GBP20 per person (5 of us) for hiring the car, the fuel, tent's area and food throughout the journey.

11pm - We arrived home safely. What a weekend. Another 2 months to go before attending the second year term.

BRUSSELS DAN AMSTERDAM

SUN08DEC12-
 My family trip to end 2012 was a good one even with a small budget.
This time around we invaded only 2 countries in Europe namely Belgium and Netherlands.

11.59pm - the B777-200 aircraft left Kuala Lumpur International Airport for Amsterdam. This was the third time  I visited Amsterdam after 1989- during my studies in UK and 1993 - when Manaf was there. It was totally a different journey.Four of us.
we landed safely at the Schipol airport,Amsterdam around 6.30am on Mon09Dec12. My new friend, Wilfred was late to welcome us at the airport.

Decision made subsequently upon arrival to purchase  return train tickets to Brussels. We took the new train managed by a new company known as Fyra.We purchased the 7.55am tickets. It was unfortunate that the train was delayed for almost an hour. The journey had 5 stops passed two countries ie Netherlands and Belgium and the best part that the passengers doesnot require to stop for Immigration clearance upon arriving Belgium. We got confused on which road to walk upon reaching the capital city of Belgium, Brussels. Our tiredness is gone upon reaching the hotel and saw the turkish kebab restaurant nearby.

 

WED19JUN13-WHAT U KNOW ABOUT YOUR FATHER?

WED19JUN13
THE 3RD NRM/FINANCE TOASTMASTER MEETING AT SUBANG.

Shihaj (R) presented a token of appreciation to the GE of the day,Shirley Bak.

Attended by only 13 people.The confirmation of the attendees were 14 initially (only 1 no-show for the event). The much fun awaited of the 3rd meeting for NRM/Finance Toastmasters meeting held at our office, Network and Revenue Management meeting room, 1st Floor, Admin 3A Building, Complex B, SZB.

The SAA called the meeting to order at 5.59pm. This time was Sharifah Azlina who volunteered to be the SAA.

KB(right) awarded the best table topic speaker .

To lead the meeting, myself again led to be the TMD (toastmaster of the day). It was honoured to have the Division C Governor for 2012/2013 (under the district 51) to attend this meeting. Another guest was Hisham
from GE Aviation who intended to form a new club in Subang by seeing how the meeting was conducted.

The theme of the day was "The Father's Day" and hence, the TTM (Table Topic Master) arranged the session with the subjects related to Father's Day. Participated by 10 people and evaluated by  my best friend in TM, Brother Zolkifly (among the pioneer of MAS Anggerik members in 2005-2007).

10 people with 10 different stories from how my father looks like, my favorite father, expectation of a father to a nice story about a father colded his son who spoilt the cake (which ended up the son has to eat half of the 4kg cake- amazing - guess who's story is this?).

The 2 prepared speeches by Noraini (PASSION on her 2nd speech) and Jamila (THE BLACK CROW) who concluded her 10th speech for the basic manual of CC fulfilled the objectives of the day.

Jamila (L) was congratulated by Shihaj on her achievement.

The first half of the meeting was ended up with the refreshment provided by the club.

The second session continued with the evaluation session. Headed by Sirley Bak to be the general evaluator of the day, she was assisted by the 1st timer of the role players:-

Nurhema -with countless unacceptable words like Ah, um,ok, so , you know etc. (THE AH COUNTER)

KB - The English teacher of the day.Remember to differentiate between memorise and remember!!
         Word of the day -PLAN were used 6 times only.PLAN PLAN PLAN PLAN PLAN PLAN

Emil - Representative from ROLEX on our timing for each speaker/role players. Superb!!

The meeting concluded at 7.30pm. It was an enjoyable evening.Thank you to Shihaj on the inspiring closing speech. He shared on the kids of two different worlds in Asia and western countries with different philosophy of life on failure and success.Above all, we need confidence in life to survive!!

SUBANG
THU20JUN13

p/s Special thanks to Azu for the photos.

Karachi-Kuala Lumpur : 3-in-1

Dinner in Kuala Lumpur

Jun2011..The business trip planned by Sunshine Aviation Services was concluded by the dinner at a restaurant nearby KLCC. The meeting wished by them is like a courtesy visit upon my only visit to Karachi in 2010 (when MAS is still in operation into pakistan). The few meetings arranged in the morning as well as in the afternoon of Monday 04Jun12 was a memorable one for them. In between, somehow, i managed to bring them to meet their former boss (our first Area manager of Pakistan back in late 1980s), Tuan Hj. Haron at his retiree office in Subang. It was a surprise for him. The last manager, Shah also attended the dinner.

Good Morning Vietnam

Destinasi seterusnya...Ho Chin Minh atau lebih dikenali sebagai Saigon.
Sekadar jalan-jalan ditengah minggu, dengan pesawat B738, cuaca hujan yang agak lebat sewaktu mendarat di SGN (kod 3 huruf untuk destinasi ini)- ianya suatu pengalaman baru buat saya dan isteri.

Dengan tanpa tujuan untuk membeli-belah, hanya sekadar melawat tempat baru dan menziarahi sahabat lama yang bertugas disana.