the weekend that was...

hello peeps!

long time no write. just didnt have the mood to write. office pc was so 'dinosaur-age' that i found no mojo to do anything on the pc other than work-stuff. and today, i arrive at work and VOILA, i had a new pc on my table. so now i'm pretty charged up working with a new pc.

anyway, how are things? i have quite a lot to update actually. and don't know where to start. ok i'll try, with stories over the weekend.

friday night - went out for the 1st time for dinner with colleagues. in my 13 nearly 14 years in the previous job, i didnt have colleagues, so going out with colleagues was way out of the question. i had fun though. went for Seoul Garden dinner and the 7 of us were quite a noisy bunch. Alhamdulillah for the great bonding.

saturday - woke up with the plan of going to Science Centre for the Sultan of Science Exhibition. but was a little taken aback with a phone call at 10. Nani (my maternal grandma) was admitted to the hospital for bedsores. She's a Parkinson patient and I think she lies too much on bed with no movement so that explains the bedsores.

still we went to Science Centre. watched Arabia on Omni-Max and it was an eye-pleasing show. And when the Kaaba, Makkah and Madinah were shown, tears formed in the eyes. even my male cousin admitted he had tears in his eyes. ni baru tengok kat Omni-Max screen ni, kalau tengok real depan mata? MashaAllah.

And the Sultan of Science exhibition was an eye opening experience. Many a times we were told what the 'world' wants us to know. But before Wright Brothers learnt to fly in the 20th century, Abbas ibn Firnas flew in the 9th century. Before Beethoven and Mozart came to the scene, there was Al-Farabi, the person who invented the rebec, the ancestor of the violin. Ibn Sina was the pioneer who discovered that diseases spread through water and that tubercolosis was contagious. The world knew him by the name Avicenna and thats how the word "Medicine" came about. Ibn Nafis discovered the pulmonary-heart blood circulation system. And a lot more pioneers, and they were all Muslims. MashaAllah.

we lunched at IMM and went back home. then went out again to visit Nani in NUH. on the way to NUH, came a phone call, the Nenek wants to be sent to TTSH for severe vomitting. Ya Allah. One after another. Visited Nani a while, then off to Tampines to pick Nenek up to send her to TTSH. upon reaching there, we were told Nenek has been sent in a taxi with my cousin sister. Since it was late night, and she hasn't been warded yet, we decided to head home but not before detouring to Jurong West to have our dinner at 10pm. Rats were running in the stomach already.

SUNDAY - went out early to Geylang to get stuff. We even got our Eid clothes already. Since the design and colour was readily available, I decided that we should buy it now then wait till Ramadhan, when the prices will be steeper. I'd rather be at home jihading with tarawih then be at the crowded bazaars jihading with the crowd in Ramadhan.

went to TTSH to visit Nenek after that. had lunch and went home.

by the time i reached home, the only thing i could think off was to plonk myself on the sofa and zzz... Hahaha!!

the weekend that was. Busy and exciting.

Ilal Liqaa'...!!