Thoughts 01FEB2011

If you are never scared, embarrassed, or hurt, it means you never take chances - Julia Soul
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step - Dr Martin Luther King Jr
Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don't know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is! - Anne Frank

Thoughts 31JAN2011

Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody else has thought - Jonathan Swift
In a moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing - Theodore Roosevelt
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honourable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing - George Bernard Shaw

Thoughts 28JAN2011

Never discourage anyone ... who continually makes progress, no matter how slow - Plato
Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure - Napoleon Hill
Almost everything comes from nothing - Henry F. Amiel

Thoughts 27JAN2011

I don't believe in failure. It is not failure if you enjoyed the process - Oprah Winfrey
Formula for success: Rise early, work hard, strike oil - John Paul Getty
Failure doesn't mean you are a failure it just means you haven't succeeded yet - Robert H. Schuller

Thoughts 26JAN2011

Leaders don't create followers, they create more leaders - Tom Peters
If they can make penicillin out of moldy bread, they can sure make something out of you - Muhammad Ali
The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but reveal to them their own - Benjamin Disraeli

Thoughts 25JAN2011

The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest intention - Oscar Wilde
It is impossible to feel grateful and depressed in the same moment - Naomi Williams
Responsibility is the price of greatness - Winston Churchill

Thoughts 24JAN2011

The distance is nothing; it's only the first step that is difficult - Marquise du Deffand
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises - Demosthenes
Beginnings are only difficult without any action - Byron Pulsifer

Thoughts 17JAN2011

Only you can control your future and you need to start making choices that will eventually bring you to your new life - Lisa Marie Williams
It's nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice - Author Unknown
There is nothing so annoying as to have two people talking when you're busy interrupting - Mark Twain

Thoughts 14JAN2011

Love your enemies. It makes them so damned mad - P D East
Anyone who says "Easy as taking candy from a baby" has never tried it - Author Unknown
Those people who tell me that I'm going to hell while they are going to heaven somehow make me very glad that we're going to separate destinations - Martin Terman

Thoughts 13JAN2011

He that cannot obey, cannot command - Benjamin Franklin
A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better - Jim Rohn
Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle - Plato

Thoughts 12JAN2011

Blessed are those that can give without remembering and receive without forgetting - Author Unknown
There is only one pretty child in the world ... and every mother has it - Chinese Proverb
There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating; people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing - Oscar Wilde

Thoughts 11JAN2011

A life with love will have some thorns, but a life without love will have no roses - Author Unknown
Our words can cut or comfort, hinder or help, harass or heal, injure or inspire - William Arthur Ward
No matter who broke your heart, or how long it takes to heal, you'll never get through it without your friends - Carrie

Thoughts 10JAN2011

I am a big believer that eventually everything comes back to you. You get back what you give out - Nancy Reagan
Formula for success : under promise and over deliver - Tom Peters
Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up - Thomas Edison

Thoughts 07JAN2011

Try and fail, but don't fail to try - Stephen Kaggwa
Relationships are like glass. Sometimes it's better to leave them broken than try to hurt yourself putting it back together - Author Unknown
Success is a great deodorant. It takes away all your past smells - Elizabeth Taylor

Thoughts 06JAN2011

Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us - Hal Borland
The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; new feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes. Unless a particular man made New Year resolutions, he would make no resolutions. Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective - G K Chesterton
We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year's Day - Edith Lovejoy

Thoughts 05JAN2011

New Year's Day is every man's birthday - Charles Lamb
Many people look forward to the new year for a new start on old habits - Author Unknown
Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right - Oprah Winfrey

Thoughts 04JAN2011

The greatest barrier to success is the fear of failure - Eriksson
Failure is the tuition you pay for success - Walter Brunell
There are no failures - just experiences and your reactions to them - Tom Krause
To be wrong is nothing unless you continue to remember it - Confucius

Thoughts 03JAN2011

An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves - Bill Vaughan
To err is human; to admit it, superhuman - Doug Larson
The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest intention - Oscar Wilde

Yameen's "Merisik & Bertunang" (2 of 2)

Yazmin's Engagement

Saturday 1st January 2011

The day my daughter, Yazmin Haji Abdul Aziz
got engaged to Abdul Hadi Abdillah, at home @ Seksyen 9, Shah Alam, Selangor Darul Ehsan

The 'whole gang' with Abdul Hadi & Yameen

All the pretty maids in a row [aunties and nieces]
Smile ... you're on candid camera

With their respective mums

The daddys discussing all the required monies to be spent

With their mums and the 'buah tangans'

Everything went smoothly nice and happy

Prof Madya Hajah Yon Bahiyah and Alia Aqilah were also there

This sofa bed looks like my 'afternoon bed

And all the 'expired men' on one side

Carpets from Makkah ??? Think so ...

And then came Abdul Hadi (even though he is not supposed to be here)

Tenk kiu mummy ....

And ... tenk kiu ... the other mummy ...

Can we be friends ???

Don't you see it ??? Here ... here ... here ... it is !!!

Yes ... I think it is real ... got stone some more !!!

That's mine ... I want it back !!!

And we say thank you, dear Allah swt ...

There were about 50 people all together (more than we expected)

The host makes sure that it is all nicely prepared

There's cameras ... and there's view cams too

Let's negotiate ... okay ... okay ... okay ... (all okay)

Our ceremonial presents to the guests

Arrival of the honourable guests

Tickets please ... no tickets no entrance !!!

We can give you a discount to enter !!!

Yameen's "Merisik & Engagement" (1 of 2)

Yazmin's Engagement
Saturday 1st January 2011
The day my daughter, Yazmin Haji Abdul Aziz

got engaged to Abdul Hadi Abdillah, at home @ Seksyen 9, Shah Alam, Selangor Darul Ehsan

The lunch, ending the ceremony for the day
Alia Aqilah was there too
With mama's family members
Hajah Linda, Yameen, Ina, Danish, Marlina, Kemar, Nadirah, Alia, Azarul

All in the family .....
Me, Azamel, Abdul Hadi, Yazmin, Prof Dr Hajah Mala, Fairuz, Azar1f

Azarul, Akmar, Marlina, Abdul Hadi, Yazmin, Linda, Ina, Mama, Amel

Abdul Hadi's family

Abdul Hadi's Mama, Abdul Hadi, Yazmin, Yazmin's Mama

Hadi's Auntie, Hadi's Mama, Hadi, Yameen, Yameen's Mama, Norlia

Waiting for the entourage to arrive

One for the album (after the ceremony)

"The Man" : Abdul Hadi Abdillah

My future "mother-in-law", insyaallah ...

Where's the ring ??? Where's the ring ???

Suhanis, Yameen, Marlina

Hadi's mother & Hadi's Auntie

Mama with the neighbours; who are best friends too

Nervous Me with Tom Tom Bak

Hadi's Father (in the middle)

On arrival of the guests (received by Mama, Ina and Linda)

Hadi's mother, leading the arriving honourable guests

Pretty ladies, in a row : arriving for the ceremony

Prof Madya Dr Hajah Rohayah, Prof Dr Hajah Junaidah, Prof Dr Hajah Mala, Hajah Norlia

Yameen with Auntie Su (Noor Azrina)

After the make-up and hair-do [at the back : Noor Roslinda & Mama]
[Nadirah, Marlina, Noor Akmar, Alia Qistina, Yameen, Noor Azrina, Suhanis]
Wow ... who dat ???

The 'professional make-up man'. He's gooood !!!!

Auntie Lind and Auntie Terk : tumpang semangkok !!!

1st January was also Abdul Hadi's Birthday

With Alia Aqilah (hopefully future sister-in-law)

We're "Engaged"

With Brother Amel - one for the road

With Brother Azarif; and Suhanis

With Brother Fairuz; and Alia Aqilah

With Abdul Hadi's Friend