Sunset at Sandakan ... from Sabah Hotel

1st trip to Sandakan... nothing much to see from just from a one day one night working trip but the chances to snap few breathtaking sceneries from the hotel's window is not something to be missed...

I tried to capture the bird from my telephoto ... the distance makes it look like a blotted thing in the sky...

Behind the tree ... as the sun set, different type of panorama can be seen.... maybe because it was closer...

A little bit deviation from the topic... the village set up near the work area...

Ahmad and Alif

Ahmad Sirhan and Muhammad Alif Safwan.

The big brother is Ahmad and the younger one is Alif. Ahmad because when young, he can't pronounce "Sirhan" well and as he grows from baby to toddlers, his "activeness" need to be reduced so, we started to call him Ahmad. Because of that, he feels that he owns that name. When Alif comes around, the name "Ahmad" is forbidden to be used because thus why Alif has a Muhammad instead of Ahmad to accompany his name.

They are not the bestest friends but as brothers they can be good to each other... some of the time ..

They declare "war" among each other most of the time, but there are time that they act brotherly towards each other-- especially when playing cars or robots or "lawan-lawan"...

Most of the time they displayed "do not disturb" me attitude mood towards each other....and when boundary crossed, the smaller one will start crying while the big brother will try his best to stop him for fear of reprimand (most of the time, its over use of "energy" from his side that cost the younger ones to cry)

But you can never deny their relationship as brothers when they're asleep.
The synchronization was just too similar to contest .....

Ahmad's New Look

Another one of my child join the speckie group. Ahmad Sirhan. We had to persuade him to get the glasses done for him. He refused and was actually in denial because he said wearing glasses will make him look like a "dork" or a "nerd". So, he refused saying that he is not short-sighted, just a little blur on the sight:-)

We got his eyes check and was surprised to find out that the power is actually high - 175 on both eyes. Anis couldn't see at all without her glasses, Aina only wears her glasses when necessary. Ahmad, like a good boy he is, listens to mommy and daddy and wears his glasses most of the time.

I don't have much hope that Alif will not be joining the speckie group, it's probably a matter of time.

Long Silence

Its been awhile since I last wrote, no its more than awhile. I just can't seem to bring myself to abandon other not so important things and do what I think I must do. Self -control. That's what I am lacking now. I had planned to complete my commitment but it didn't happen because i can't control myself into doing what I should do but instead I did what I like to do - such a waste of time. I know I am being vague. But its like "membuka pekung di dada" - how do you say that in English(?) - opening one's wound (?) if I started recounting how many planned must do things that didn't happen because of me, doing thing that I like that really is kind of a waste of time.. oh well....