Late afternoon stroll at the Bird Park!

Since I have an extra hour after arriving home from my lecture at UPM, I decided to take my lens cap off and headed somewhere to shoot. The weather was pretty OK. So why not!

I arrived at the place just before 5. It should open until 7. One thing I noticed straight away is the lover's bird population is getting less. Are they being slaughtered in time for Valentine's? There is also a new addition in the ground, a new koi pond. A quick stroll, fill up the memory ard then home happy ..... I hope!

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More video uploads

I have been clearing up the clutter on my desk for the last couple of desks, and that included all the clutter on my PC, thumbdrives and my other USB drives at home. Most of the files had been streamlined, but some of them just need compressing. The ones that needed some work on were my video files. They needed conversion into smaller files that can later be converted into DVD movies. So I went to work.

Managed to transfer the ones I don't need and convert the ones I wanted to work on. The problem was, the files were all in HD and was taking up a lot of disk space. I managed to convert most of them into YouTube files now. I'll probably upload some in the next few days. The above was just some of the samples

Back to Kuala Lumpur now

Hey! What's so funny?We finally made our way back to Kuala Lumpur at around 11.30. Initially we wanted to wait for the laksa shops to open, but the boys were getting restless. They have to go to school tomorrow anyhow. Would be better of making an early start. We stopped for food in Tapah, had lunch there, and I as usually got a supply of pau and jambu batu. We reached Kuala Lumpur by 3.30, picked up the maids and returned to our house at Taman Cemerlang.

Idlan running down the hallwaySince it was kind of early, Anita wanted to go out to KLCC to get her eyeglasses fixed. The day before, Irfan accidentally stepped on them and it was kinda crooked. A quick visit to the shops and things were fixed. We then went on to have dinner at Chinoz. However I was disappointed with the dinner tonight. I ordered the wrong stuff.

My ultra-dry chicken pie!The salad was good as usual. For the mains, I asked for chicken pie. Little that I realised, there were no gravy or cream as when I imagined from my usual order.The boys enjoyed their pizza which was the main thing. I was starving when I went home, and ended up having some noodles! Note to self - ask the waitress to describe a new dish should you about to try one .... Tired now. Time for bed!

I also just uploaded the slide for the Kuala Kangsar trip here.

Menanam di pagi buta!

Woke up early and Puan Anita had already left for Pasar Tani. I took Idlan for a walk around kampong which he found fascinating. He noticed some houses lined up with plants and decided he wanted some as well. We got some lemongrass and terung belanda!

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Kuala Kangsar, Here I come!

It was a tiring journey straight from work to Kuala Kangsar last evening. In fact I slept most of the way, then straight to sleep again upon reaching here. Friday has always been busy for me, with the quick ward round before starting my clinic. The clinic usually run straight through lunch, when I sheepishly made my exit for the Jumaat Prayers. I also sometime needed to come back after prayers, or worst still had to create a fuss in order to go for prayers.

For yesterday, I had to something extra since Habibah had to leave early and Edmund still in Klang. I also had to give a tutorial to the Oncology Trainees after which I had to run back to perform some procedure in the ward. Luckily I did not have to do the driving. We had the family driver doing that.

Morning walkI had an early dinner on reaching home. We were stuck in the jam however getting into the PLUS toll plaza at Jalan Duta. Once that was done, we only did one toilet stop. By the time we reached Ipoh, both Idlan and Irfan were asleep. We finally reached Kuala Kangsar at 10.45. Unpacked, then I went straight to sleep, and only woke up during the Suboh athan this morning.

Breakfast timeFather-in-law and his morning newspaperPuan Anita had to do some business this mooring, so I was at the kampung home with my two boys and maid. Still planning what to do for the afternoon. I was keen to drive up to Penang but I was not sure if the boys can cope. We will see to that later. In the meantime, I had been reading the first few chapters of 'Superfreakonomics'. It was part economics, part satire, but very sharp observation on the things that happens in our life today and why certain things happened so. There was a part explaining that prostitutes are more likely to sleep with a policeman than to end up in jail, all pretty common sense stuff but interesting read none the less.

Time to chill with the bookIt's Superfreakonomics Time!Will keep everyone updated with our plans for later. Penang sounded a good idea ….