Fever

Yesterday was my first time experienced fever in here. It was okay until I got flu in the afternoon after solat zuhur. Had to take one day off to work due to my uncontrollable dizziness. Woke up in the morning as usual and ready to take bath but as I began to walk out of my room, I started to fall. Then I said to myself, I don’t think I can make it today. If I force myself, I’m afraid it’s going to be worse and I can’t even concentrate on work at the office. So, I laid back on my bed and grabbed my mobile and rang my office to tell that I’ll be taking sick leave that day. I slept till 11 am. Felt a bit dizzy as I got up but not as bad as before. Thought of taking paracetamol. Walked to the kitchen to get the medicine and I realized, I was fasting! So, forget about it. The only thing I could do was, sit back and relax on a couch. Couldn’t sleep anymore. I had enough sleep. It’s been a while I didn’t feel this kind of feeling. A feeling where you wake up in the morning on weekdays and had nothing to do. Actually I was recalling the time where I was jobless hehe. It was like heaven when you got up from bed, turned on the PC, started surfing the net, and that was my everyday routine!

By the way, I had my fast breaking outside today. The restaurant name is Gourmet Burger Kitchen. This restaurant is from New Zealand and they only sell burgers. Not ordinary burgers, but BIG portion of burger. I wish I could show you a picture of my meal. Unfortunately, I forgot to bring a camera along. Actually I didn’t forget, I was on purpose left the camera at home ‘coz I didn’t feel like carry a camera today. I shouldn’t do that again next time should I? Nevermind, past is past. It wasn’t that bad at all. I enjoyed the food. Well, I was starving since I woke up in the morning even though I had sahur last night. That’s my weakness. I get hungry if I had fever or sneezing repeatedly. Plus, the weather is getting cooler nowadays. Pop in the mall for a few minutes after finished the fast breaking, and guess what I saw at my first sight? A camera shop! The only shop I can’t resist. Walked in and looked up for any interesting stuff. My plan to buy a camera hasn’t succeeded yet. Gonna have to wait end of this week then I’ll make sure this time, I’ll bring home my new camera! Hehehe. I just can’t wait any longer. It’s been a long wait actually so, I don’t wanna wait anymore.

The Nikon D80 is out of stock in Malaysia but unlike here, they still have stocks available. So, I reckon I still have chance to get the camera until I saw a newly launched camera, Canon 40D! Oh man, it really captured my eyes! Damn, am I going to go for Canon instead of Nikon? We’ll see about that later. So, I went home last night and began to do some research about Canon 40D. The specification looks great and sufficient to satisfy me. My merely worry is the colour that Canon produces. I know I like Nikon’s colour so very much. What about Canon? Well, I’ve seen so many pictures taken by Canon and it didn’t disappoint me at all. Just that, I really have to sit down and think properly if I really wanna go for Canon ‘coz I’m not gonna turn back after this. Perhaps I should go to the shop and test a few shots to see how good is the new processor (Digic III) from Canon 40D. I hope I could make up a decision by end of this week because I’m gonna start shopping afterwards!

Excuse me for my grammar yang tunggang langgang.

P.S : I’ve just added up more songs on my music station

Cheers,

Faris

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Music Station

I have just added new page on my blog, Music Station. If you have no idea where is the link, it is on your left side under Pages menu. Those are some of my favourite songs which I regularly listen to. I’ll be adding more songs in the future. So, stay tuned! Enjoy your stay.

Cheers,

Faris

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The Unexpected

It’s weekend again! I’m really looking forward to go to Central London to see what’s happening after missed a few events last weekend held near London Tower Bridge. There was Thames Festival or some call it end of summer party. The only thing is, it’s fasting month. It makes me a bit lazy to go out. I rather stay at home watching tv or surfing the net or listening to music, but I’ll be missing all great stuff in town. It’s been a while now I didn’t take photos. Someone once said to me, if you wanna be good in math, do exercises everyday. Same in photography. It’s all about sharpening skills. Another problem is, I tend to get extra sleep during weekend. I bet we are all the same? LOL.

Last night I went to Malaysia Hall for the first time to have fast breaking. I was so excited when I got there because I rarely meet Malaysians since I came here until last night, I saw all Malaysians gathered in one room. Felt like hommy. Arrived there quite late. Nearly to breaking time so, all tables were occupied and the room was kind of packed with people. Luckily I managed to get myself “nescafe beng” and “murtabak” but no place to sit so, I had to go outside. Had to wait for about half and hour then I went back inside to have proper meal. The funny thing happened after I ordered the meal was, the lady who attended me asked whether am I a student or not? I said, no, I’m working. She said, “owh alright, if you’re a student, we’re giving free meal.” And I was like… what the tuttt! If only I knew, you know what I’m gonna answer. Well, it’s too late anyway. I smiled to her and said, “nevermind, I’ll come back again next time as a student.” She laughed.

I enjoyed the food. Felt like eating malaysian food. Well, it was malaysian food LOL. It was almost 8.00 pm when I finished the meal. After washing my hand, I went back to my seat and started thinking, where should I go now. I know nobody here, I have no friends, I’m not familiar with this place, I’m just gonna sit here until someone come to me and say Hi? Nobody ever do that I reckon. Then suddenly I remembered one thing. I haven’t done maghrib prayers yet. So I quickly went to ask is there any surau here? They said yes. Alright, at least now I’ve got something to do rather than just idle. The surau was dark but there was a voice reciting quran. Apparently, there was a guy inside surau but he turned off the front light because there was nobody. After done the maghrib prayers, went back outside and sat on the steps alone waiting for terawih. I didn’t know they do terawih until that guy I met in the surau told me it’ll begin at 9.15 pm.

Now I really felt like Malaysia during solat terawih. It’s been a while because I normally do my solat jumaat at Barking Mosque where all of them are Pakistani. The way they recite azan, iqamah and quran are totally different from Malaysian. Pakistani have their own accent and melody when they do those stuff. As for me, of course I prefer Malaysian way. Anyway, back to terawih story. After finished solat terawih, an announcement was made for all to stay for a while because someone was very kind to sponsor foods for jemaah. Bak kata pepatah melayu, “rezeki jangan di tolak, musuh jangan di cari”. I stayed there and enjoyed the food to the fullest. Until now, I can still feel it. I think I have no problem if I missed sahur this morning LOL. Good thing happened as I stayed there, I managed to make a few new friends. I’m glad now ‘coz at least, I have contacts whenever I come back again.

All of a sudden, I saw someone where his face looked quite familiar to me. Surprisingly, it was my old friend! My primary school friend! We haven’t met for about 13 years I guess since he moved to another school. He didn’t recognize me. I did. He looked shocked when I told my name ‘coz he barely recognized my face but he still remember my name. So, it was amazing what had happened to me last night. Something you never expect. It was fun though meeting new people, get to know new places, new environment ‘coz you’ll never know what’s gonna happen.

Love,

Faris

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Work Place

It was silent today at work. I didn’t talk much as usual. Sometimes I join the conversation but very rare. Most of the time I just remain quiet. There’s nothing much to talk actually when you’re surrounded by people who are senior than you. Well, not to say I don’t have conversation with them at all. I can be talkative when I do know what I am talking about. As for me, my vocabulary are so bad. Sometimes while I’m talking, I quiet for a few seconds to find the right word, then I continue again. It’s about time I guess. Hopefully as time goes by I’m going to be as fluent as them. If I find it so hard to talk, I’ll just concentrate on my work. End of story.

It happened to me a few times whereby I was like stuck. My brain was like stopped from thinking. Even today, it happened again. Perhaps I didn’t really focus on what had been explained by my boss. I made quite a few mistakes today at work. When I stuck, I didn’t ask my boss. I just sat at my desk trying to figure out the solution by myself. Ended up with my boss asked me why did I take so long to finish it. So, I said I was stuck. I knew when I said that to him, his face expression changed, and I was like… “gulp”. I’m a dead meat now.

Although my works aren’t that much, sometimes it can give enough headache to me to get the things right. Try to pick up every single thing sometimes may explode your brain’s memory. So, the best solution is, always take note or write it down on a piece of paper or whatever so that you won’t forget next time. Or else, you’re gonna get smashed by your boss if you keep asking him/her same thing all over again. Ahhh, I hate to write anything related to my workplace. I wish I didn’t. But I already did. Nevermind then.

I almost forgot. Realize or not, today completed 7 days we fast. So, 23 days to go. Don’t waste it. Make use of this month to the fullest!

Friday is a dress down day. Yippi! No need to iron shirts. Gonna wear my new jacket huhu.

Love,

Faris

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Cats

As requested by one of internet blogger, also a frequent visitor here Inna, she wanted me to post pictures of cats. So, here they are.

These cats aren’t mine. I’m not a pet lover, sorry mates *Grin*. I used to hate cats so much when I was a kid. They were like my enemy LOL. I remember there was one day I went to Quran class not far from my house. When I got there, I saw there was a cat lying down right in front of the entrance door comfortably. It didn’t move even a bit. So, I said to myself, this is going to be a big problem. I was like 20 metres from the cat and I couldn’t get any closer. The only thing in my mind that time was, either go home or discover another door. As far as I was concerned, that was the only door I knew, so go home was the best option.

But it’s going to be another problem if I go home. What am I going to tell my mom? She probably won’t accept my reason. She would think I am telling porky pies. My knees were shaking. I stood still staring at the cat. The class already started. I could hear voices from the class reciting Quran. What should I do now? Well, I was hoping it moved a bit at least so that I could run into the class quickly, but unfortunately it didn’t move at all! I gave up. I went home. Without my mom’s conscious, I hid at the back of my house but “kantoi” at the end ‘coz I got caught by my maid’s neighbour. She saw me and told my mom I didn’t go to Quran class. I wish I could staple her mouth with giant stapler but it was too late now.

So I surrender. I storied to my mom the whole thing started from the beginning. She smiled and made me a bottle of susu. She said she’ll let me go this time. I was like, hooray! Boleh lah lepak depan tivi tengok Suria Perkasa Hitam sambil minum susu. Best giler!

Love,

Faris

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