Kimi's 360°

Besides spending quality time with your spouse and children, what is the best way of spending your precious weekend? Before this, there was none that i can think of. And this weekend, there is!

This afternoon, i received an invitation preview of the awesomely new Google product called Google Wave. What is that? Well, you need to Google the ‘Wave’ then

After less than an hour of playing around with Wave, i can say that it such a fantastic collaboration tool that i’ve ever seen in my life. I’ve never thought that someone (company, perhaps) can produced such elaborated messaging system that so simple and highly efficient. The messaging system is in real-life manner where you can see the message(s) appear on your browser as the participants typing in.

There are so many features that i’ve yet to explore and i’m using my weekend to go in the greater depth of what Wave can do.

Have a good weekend to you and a ‘Wave’ weekend for me.

p/s: This preview is strictly on invitation basis. So get yours if you want to experience the power of Wave.

Happy birthday to me as usual. Jan 1 seems to be celebrated by others in various ways. I might be the one who always have a quiet celebration. I managed to take my wife & son to KLCC for our lunch. Had pasta & caesar salad and a glass of warm water. After my medical checkup, i need to be very careful on my food intake, thus the selection. Done with that, i got myself couple of books (YIHA!) and 2 Dockers pants for my office attire. We shoot back home at 3pm ++ and after that we head to my dear friend’s nikah, Zalizan. At last, he got married. I’m so excited and so does other. I’m relatively tired when i arrived at Masjid Persekutuan. If not for Zalizan, i won’t be around. I wish him all the best with his new journey of life. Trust me, it’s the best & most challenging journey that you can have in your entire life.

Once the ceremony done, i head to TTDI Jaya to fulfill an invitation from my wife’s friend. Had some nasi beriyani & ayam masak merah. The portions relatively low compare to before. I have to be careful.

Around 9.15pm, i head back home, with sweaty and smelly baju melayu. I really can’t wear baju melayu without sweating a hell lot.

Now i’m here, blogging this entry, before i take my shower. It’s been sometimes that i’ve left doing this. The time to start back has arrived.

That’s about it. That how i celebrate my birthday. Jan 1 might be so special to other, and to me, it’s only a date which starts the year. And number 34, well, it just a number too. The number looks special to me.

I received this card few days before Aidilfitri. It’s a wedding invitation from one of a good friend of mine in the office. Glancing through his invitation, i can said that this will be the Wedding of the Year for 2006. I bet no one will come close to this one in term of preparation, exclusivity and ceremony scale, unless for someone who dare to part ways with his pink form share at the price of RM 1.50.

The ceremony will be held tomorrow night at a place where i had my secondary education long time ago.

To the newly-wed couple, welcome to the Club!

 -kimi-

Below is a descent template which was sent by one of the staff (yes, descent). Strangely, it have been copied for the last 4-5 invitations without any alteration to the text or whatsoever except for the date & venue detail. Well, we fall victim to MS word copy & paste feature, me think.

Thinking of sending an invitation? Use this. It’s free, just Ctrl-C & Ctrl-V to your email apps. BTW, the english is kinda messy. Proceed with caution

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Subject : Wedding Reception [insert some date]

Assalamualaikum Wbt. & Greetings,

To all members in [your company name], we would to like invite all of
you to our Wedding Reception that will be held on [the day] ([the date]).

For details please refer to the attachment. Your attendance will definitely
bring much joy to our family.

Attached in this email the detail of the reception.
Thanks and regards;
[Your Name]

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There you goes! It’s DONE! So simple. It have been recycled for couple of times. Why don’t you use it when your time arrive…

-kimi- 

 

 

 

Last night, when the rain is still keep on pouring, i brave myself to one of the hotel in the heart of KL. The traffic is as usual hell, eventhough there are some improvement due to present school holiday. I got an invitation for a buffet-dinner which i can hardly resist. Before arriving at the cafe, i’m thinking to have some Arabian food which i never had it for quite sometimes. I’m so ‘hantu’ to Baklava, that sweet dish which can makes your tooth rot easily.

I was greeted by a Arabian chef by the name of Mokhtar at the entrance. He took us for a ‘food-tour’ for couple of minutes. At a glance, the food looks awesome to me. Unfortunately, there is not much of selection for the Arabian food. Nevermind, me think. My friend is buying.

While having our dinner & discussion, the chef asked whether if we mind if he join us. We have no problem at all with that. He just finished his work-shift, so he is free and heading home for rest.

Mokthar (if the spelling is right), is a very nice person to my eye. He is from Egypt, working in that hotel for the last couple of months as Arabian food chef. Specialty in Kebab making, which i can say his Kebab is better than any other i’ve ever tasted before. A very tall guy. At 2 meter of height, i felt like a miniature when compare to him.

As we continue our conversation, i discovered that, Mokthar is not a chef by education. He is an ustaz, teaching people about Islam as well as how to read Al-Quran in a proper way. Holding a degree in Literature from Al-Azhar University, he really gained my respect. No wonder at a glance of his look, i know he is a brilliant guy. Before this, he manage to memorized Al-Quran, TWICE. It really awed me. Unfortunately, due to lacking of repetitive improvement, he can’t do that anymore. But he told me, give him 3-4 months, he can do it without any hassle. I’m speechless.

One of the most engaging topic that we talk is his experience of losing money in famiy business, coming to Malaysia alone hardly knowing anyone here and about Islam as a religion. It’s very interesting when he mentioned about the ‘timeless concept’ of Islam. Whatever being taught in Islam is the core. As we live in this ever-changing world, we need to change to suit Islam, not otherwise.

Before i left the cafe, i ask him a favour whether he is willing to teach me arabic language. He is more than willing to do that. He asked me to meet him up in one of this day to discuss about it.

I’m looking forward to learn Arabic Language. It will help me tremendously in improving my Al-Quran recital. It’s like a dream come true.