Family Shots

It is our colourful family, and its not often that we can be together as Jar Jar Binks is always occupied with his studies and with his 'better-half'...

Pic above is a pose by Jar Jar Binks in Bali Nov 2008, when he went for a study trip with the HBP team from USM. A distant cousin to Mr Bean, he ain't shy in posing several candids with Perth as the backdrop.

A morning snapshot near the minden gate in USM. Left to right; Yoda, Chewbacca, Ewok & Jar Jar Binks. We had a great family photography outing, albeit a short session...

Two days before, my wife and I went round Georgetown heritage sites together with New2Mac, Citan, Canonteh...one of the images i have uploaded here in flickr

Raya 2008

The raya 2008 started with aplomb, the USAIN BOLT style. The pictures below depicted the celebration we had in many locations; bukit jambul, bagan dalam & kampung (tak) selamat.

Jani & family came and stayed with us 1 day before raya and fahrudin came a day later. It was a packed atmosphere in bukit jambul during the 1st day syawal




















This is the family of tan sri hanan and puan sri zaharah who made the crowd on their toes with their antics. they followed us to kampong selamat and then to mak tam's and fahrudin's sg petani. we had a great session in mak tam's when we spontaneously made two teams and threw riddles to each other. obviously puan sri's team won by a narrow margin.

Akmal who was our darkhorse answered 'taxi' and if not for this answer we would lost to the puan sri's team heavily.

In Bagan Dalam, we had this one big great photo organised by Jani, with 3 nikon clicking-away. This line is made up of the better halves who toasted the 40-under club....perghhh!








and this is Ina's family















and Noni's















and Jani's too


























































shivaji the 'boss'

Najoise3 Series

HellBoy Part III

Saturday 26 July 2008 was a blackday for my mother in law (MIL) as she got robbed and injured in her own house.

It was a bright 6.45am morning when her daughter left for work and leaving her alone, a usual routine for umpteen years. Never before my MIL felt her safety is compromised as the village is rather peaceful (aptly named, Kampong Selamat) and no such mishap ever happened to the place she called home for the past 70 odd years. She is 84yrs old and ailing due to the old age osteoprosis and on that very morning was crouching and inching her way for breakfast in the kitchen. She was initially not surprised as she thought 2 figures in front of her were to be two of her many grandsons probably popping up early morning. But suddenly the 'grandson' got hold her right arm and warned her not to shout.

She immediately realised that the person is a 'bad' guy and in the scuffle, broke her arm. The intruders shoved her to the floor and began emptying cupboards and cabinets finding anything valuable they can retrieve. During that 10minutes of frantic activity, my MIL who is laying scared-still on the floor witnessed all the ransacking and too hapless to crawl for safety fearing that the robbers can easily caught her. The intruders hastily ran out after getting their loot but my MIL had trouble to call for help as she has no vocal strength, the phone was out and herself, very limited in mobility. With a broken arm she crawled out of the house, inched her way through shrubs 80 meters away to her nearest neighbour. We just cannot imagine how long it took her crawling and the agony she carried with her.

Help came immediately after, but then it is all too late for the memory of the tragedy has already been etched into her and we wonder if she would ever say her village "Kampong Selamat" again.

The StarWars Family

raya 2007 in damansara
Originally uploaded by troy16

L-R chewbacca, ewok, yoda, jar jar binks

Family theme song here

Welcome!

Our planet is situated in Penang Island, an island far far away from Timbuktu. Many light years ago and due to the dark-side, the high council decided to migrate from the mainland's Province of Wellesley formerly known as 'death star' as the Malayawata's megatron constantly spewing its fiery breath oxide daily to the surrounding Prai communities. The republican starfighters used to only prepare coffee 'neat' as we need to only expose our cuppa to the Prai air for free sugar complement from the Prai Sugar factory who provided sticky sucrose from the air. Thats why, we jedis took our starfighters to the calmer galaxy of Bukit Jambul. A serene community laced with the Penang International Airport for milleniums, the forever 'under-maintenance' Penang Bridge, the Queensbay Mall and the University where Jar Jar Binks learnt his saber skills.

A short profile on each starfighter:-

1) Chewbacca a.k.a Adil (adil_dexman@yahoo.co.uk)
Chewwie is a 17 earth years Wookie, hefty 170pounder and 36" belly. Apart from his infamous war-cry... oooeerrgghhh! has a full range of amouries; a Nikon D40, a couple of Sony-Ericssons, an avid iPodder & Nike apparels for evening runs (supposedly on a diet program!). Taking his final exam SPM in 2008 and who dreamt to be a pro-chef Anthony Bourdain (who never cooks but gets to travel and eat anything under the sun!). This species has high intelligence in inter-galactic communication (friendster/mySpace) coupled with extremely rapid finger reflex in text messaging with eyes closed - a true jedi's trait that Obi-Wan Kenobi would be proud of. See his flickr photo website here

2) Ewok a.k.a Khadijah (khadijah.puteh@gmail.com)
Once she was a radiant queen, Padmé Amidala by name and hails from the planet Naboo Tasek Glugor but eversince smooched by Jabba the Hut, she turned into a midget but dynamite Ewok. It was 48 years ago when she was born and key member of the Galactic Senate. Cooks well, prolific surfer on PC but a tad slow on Mac system just like R2D2 on a desert terrain. Beautiful but one need extreme caution when her nostrils flare like hippo resurfacing from water (like the Darth Vader's headgear) ... she can be quite intimidating to all jedis especially Chewwie, master Yoda & Jar Jar Binks : )

3) Master Yoda a.k.a Ridzuan (ridzuanismail@gmail.com)
Jedi High General, survived for 480 yoda years, he has. Small though he is but has the ability to gravity-pull the jedi council into a fearsome quartet of Chewbacca, Ewok, Jar Jar Binks and the master jedi himself. Hrmmmpph... Yoda has many dark sides, easily bringing Inspector Gadget to shame. His green light saber sword is his Nikon D300 and the master swashbuckled his way through into the inner cyberworld to creat this blogspot with many saga images to upload. More to come, he will. See his flickr photo website here (for friends & family), and here (for workmates)

"Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering. I sense much fear in you."

4) Jar Jar Binks a.k.a Alif (medieval_axer@yahoo.com)
A Gungan species and you can get more character information from this site. Or his flickr image website, click here
22yrs old, slim & tall Yao-Ming like, diet strictly on veggies and lamb only. Milo fluid. Sleeps during the day and an active nocturnal species. Like Yoda, Mr Binks is obsessed with anything click-clack and thereby has a sole proprietorship of a Nikon D200, SB800, 80-200D f/2.8, 12-24 f/4, 17-55 f/2.8...etc. All the good fast lenses. Jar Jar Binks aspires to buy his own gears (Master Yoda is delighted and full of anticpation). He has a partner Princess Leia who resides from the other side of our island galaxy. Jar Jar Binks is now officially a retired young musician as he felt its best to concentrate in one field. Awww man... you can do both, man!!