Lunch at Nottingham

Early in the morning we set off for Nottingham to meet up with our friends there. With my wife as navigator we took less than an hour to reach Amrul's house there 9via the M6, M69 and M1). Spent some time chatting and off we went, to Zarina and Zamri's place. Amrul is a really good cook and he loves cooking but I guess, it's nothing strange as most of the best cooks in the World are men.

Both Amrul and Zarina are my wife's colleagues and both are pursuing their PhDs at the University of Nottingham.

We dropped by Amrul's office on the way and the architecture is really fantastic.


Had really good food at Zarina's house. As usual, I was busy eating that I forgot to take pictures of the food. By the time we started on our journey back, it was already dark.


It was really nice to meet up with them again.

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Best Site for Mobile Content

I am thinking of getting myself a PDA to replace my ancient Palm. While searching for one that will suit my needs (I defenitely want one that has satellite navigation), I came across this great site. Though I didn't find the PDA I was looking for I found a lot of great stuff. MobileSoftMarket is one of the best sites to shop for mobile content. This includes Productivity Tools, EBooks, Desktop Tools, Games, Wallpapers and Videos.

Even though most of the products listed are targeted to BlackBerry users, they also have programs and ebooks for Symbian, Palm, Windows Mobile and the PSP as well.

The great news is that readers of my blog will get a discount of 15% OFF on all products at the shop. All you have to do is Just enter the discount code "0NGKAE" at the end of the purchase process. Go and check out the site.


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New Year Wishes

This has been quite an eventful year. The new year is just 1 and a half hours away. Eagerly counting down the minutes, just me and my wife. The kids are already sleeping.

It's amazing because this is the first time in 4 years, since our marriage, that we are spending a New Year's eve together.

Anyway, here's wishing all visitors to the ah ok lah blog, a very, very different, eventful, prosperous, healthy, fantastic, wonderful, joyous, awesome, plentiful, brilliant......

Saddam Executed

Saddam Hussein was hanged to death at around 6am Iraqi time (3am GMT) at a secure facility in northern Baghdad for "crimes against humanity". Read the BBC news here.

It's no surprise that most dictators end this way but somehow, I feel that in this case, justice was not served.

The purported reason for going to war against Saddam and Iraq, the WMD's, were never found and according to this report, the US Government knew from the start. So was there any other reason?

Why wasn't he tried by a special International Tribunal like in the case of Slobodan Milošević.

If Saddam had not got out of hand and invaded Kuwait, he would have probably remained the CIA's "best friend in the middle east" but as we all know, he grew too big for his own good.

I was talking to this Iraqi friend (who's now a British citizen) and according to him, "Iraq was bad under Saddam. Now it is 100 times worse".

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Roti Chanai eat all you can

Finally got roti chanai and we had it today for breakfast, lunch, tea and still have some left over in the fridge. Read my previous post here in case you are wondering what I am on about.

Although it looked more like chapati to me at first, it began to look more like the roti chanai I am familiar with after heating up.

I also cooked dhal curry as the side dish and it was not that bad. I took some pictures but forgot to download them, maybe later.

Need to get some sleep now. Going over to some houses for Eid and of course for more Malaysian foooooood.

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Running around in chilly Chicago

Have you checked out the latest PayPerPost Postie Patrol clip #3 in Chicago?

Postie Robyn is given a number of tasks to do using the HP gear provided. In the video, she sets out to achieve all these tasks in below zero temperature plus chilly wind. I was actually shivering just looking at the video as she makes a snow angel (I think that's what she was trying to do) by lying on the snow and moving her arms around.

The best part comes last and I went Wow! as I saw the prizes she won. Yeah! Robyn, that was great and you deserve it.

I won't tell you what she won. See the clip for yourself.



I would love to participate in a Postie Patrol too but fat chance of that ever happening as I am in far away England.

This post is brought to you by HP, which has everything for all your Digital Photo Printing needs.

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Selamat Hari Raya Haji

Eid ul Adha or Eid e Qurban, commemorates Prophet Ibrahim's (Abraham's) willingness to sacrifice his son for God. It also marks the end of the Pilgrimage or Hajj to Mecca for Muslims.

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