Guess we never meant to be...

Salam,

Today 16th October 2010, my Muhaimin turn a month. Yeay! He is really gaining much spending time at his nenek's doing nothing only milk, sleep and poo poo.

hi world!

I haven't seen him almost a week and look forward to spending time with him later tomorrow when I drive down to Pekan. -On my way from Penang now-. Thank goodness we hv technology to transfer data and pictures. Those pictures of him kept me occupied everyday in his absence. Tks to the wonder of MMS.

In all the happiness celebrating my son turn 1 month, I'm saddened to received a sorrow note. The passing of a friend who I never knew in person yet I always find inspiration and mesmerised with his photography works.

Taufiq Shariff - a guy who even share the same family name.

Some of our friend joked that we are brothers but I guess we never were to be in the end. 

His passing was due to brain tumor and cancer and I am deeply hurt that someone so talented and creative like him had an early call. I guess God's love supersede any humans love towards him. 

Nevertheless, we are still blessed by his presence in this world though on a short period. I believe he has live his life to the fullest and for all his photography wonders I just want to say my thank you.

Taufiq,

I hope u will be happy up there, doing what u do best - Capturing beautiful moment and now very near to your 'Pencipta'

I am sorry for not taking the opportunity to know u better. To understand u as a person rather only acknowledge u by your works. Your passing will be a loss to world of creative photography, missed to your love ones, to your close friend and indeed to a complete stranger like me. However, you will always left sweet memories and have touched so many life.

Though we never know in person but the opportunity to have a conversation with u in FB, agreed on few things that happened in fotopages and successfully left my comment on your work on blogspot will be cherished as my best moment with you.

Now that you have left us, I guess I hv to see life differently. Not on a negative note but to seize every opportunity that come upon; carpe diem!

Taufiq Shariff; I guess we really never meant to be...

Death has do us apart. Al Fatihah

taufiq shariff  r.i.p. 

all pictures belongs to him and taken from his fotopages

In tears,

Mohsein Shariff

p/s: u can enjoy more of taufiq beautiful works at his blog.

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Kepada Nya jua lah kamu akan kembali

Hujung minggu lepas aku kembali ke kampung halaman untuk menyertai persidangan UMNO cawangan. Aku tiba seawal hari Sabtu supaya saki baki persiapan dapat dilakukan. Tambahan ayah telah meng'amanah'kan ku untuk menghadiri satu kenduri perkahwinan di dalam kampung. Aku tiba bertemankan tok yang juga mengambil kesempatan pulang untuk melihat keadaan rumahnya yang lama tidak dijenguk sejak pulih dari serangan angin ahmar. Alhamdullilah perjalanan kami balik ke Tasek Gelugor selamat.

Mujur ada kakak dan keluarga yang sudi meneman tok di kala malam. Itu yang lebih baik dari mengharapkan aku yang pasti akan sibuk (buat2 sibuk) untuk memastikan perjalanan persidangan kali ini berjalan lancar. Menjawat sebagai Ketua Pemuda Cawangan, aku harus memastikan kuota kehadiran ahli ke mesyuarat mencukupi jika tidak kami tidak akan dapat bersidang. Lalu bertali arus sms ku kirim pada rakan2 agar menunaikan tanggungjawab sebagai ahli. Terkadang termenung juga ku memikir apa caranya semangat dan tanggungjawab dapat dipupuk di kalangan masyarakat kampungku. Yang berjiwa muda terus 'masyuk' dengan arus hiburan manakala yang tua  terpaksa berpenat lelah dalam mencari sedikit kesenangan.   

Hari ditunggu tiba juga. Petang Ahad itu kami semua berkumpul sekali lagi di Dewan PAKK bagi menjalankan tanggungjawab. Bermula dengan persidangan pemuda yang bersidang di bawah pokok ala kerajaan PR Perak suatu ketika dulu. Perjalanan mesyuarat lancar dengan kehadiran 12 ahli. Aku agak gusar awalnya kerana ku kira makin ramai kurang berminat pada UMNO. Tampak semacam ada kelesuan dalam organisasi UMNO masakini.

Selesai mesyuarat Pemuda, Wanita dan Puteri UMNO, kami disatukan dalam mesyuarat yang lebih  besar penglibatan iaitu mesyuarat cawangan. Ini merupakan kemuncak persidangan UMNO di peringkat cawangan dengan semua ahli di cawangan bersidang bersama. Acara yang dinantikan oleh setiap ahli UMNO cawangan untuk bersama2 bermesyuarat dalam merangka kerangka halatuju UMNO di masa hadapan.

Ketua UMNO Cawangan, Hj Roslan memulakan ucaptama beliau tentang senario politik masakini, bagaimana undi pengundi Cina menjadi faktor kemenangan dan kekalahan BN. Ramai beranggapan pengundi Cina mula beralih arah tetapi ramai sebenarnya tidak sedar bahawa pengundi Melayu pun sedemikian rupa. Cuma yang membezakan antara keduanya adalah sebilangan besar bangsa Cina mendaftar sebagai pengundi walhal orang Melayu hanya gah memperkata tentang hak bangsa tetapi tatkala perlu diterjemah dalam bentuk undi tidak pula yang berdaftar. Inilah polemik bangsa ku

Kami sebulat suara di belakang ketua cawangan dalam membawa usul pemberian lesen perjudian bola oleh kerajaan harus dikaji semula. Semua bersetuju tidak ada faedahnya menaksir cukai dari sumber yang tidak halal. Apatah lagi dalam senario politik masakini hanya akan memberi modal besar kepada pembangkang membawa isu dan mendapat 'mileage' politics. Kerajaan seharusnya konsisten dalam perjuangan menegakkan agama. Tidak boleh ada timbang tara dalam 2 isu (Kalimah Allah dan Lesen Judi) kerana kedua- duanya melibatkan pendekatan kerajaan. Jangan sampai rakyat mencebik tindak tanduk kerajaan yang tidak sensitif dalam 2 isu ini.

Ketika mesyuarat menuju pengakhiran, Bendahari UMNO Cawangan, Paksu Bakary mengambil kesempatan menyampaikan amanat. Beliau memohon agar warga emas jangan dipersiakan. Tidak disangka itu merupakan wasiat terakhir beliau. Beliau menghembuskan nafas yang terakhir sejurus selesai memberikan ucapan. Dalam keadaan kelam kabut, semua harus menerima ini adalah ketentuan. Walaupun digamit kesedihan, pemergian beliau harus diredhai. Benarlah ayat ayat dari Tuhan - Daripada Allah kamu datang, dan kepadaNya jua kamu akan kembali.

Alfatihah buat arwah.

Farihah Idris Wedding Reception

Today is an auspicious day for some. My cousin got married and everyone of us are here to grace her reception.

It's hard to get everyone together and opportunity like this don't come easy hence to hv most of relatives for the event was truly fantastic.

My dad is from a large family of 7. He has 3 brothers and 3 sisters. He is the fifth of the family. God bless all of his siblings still alive and kicking. The event bring them together once again.

They were very close before and even closer now. With children all grown up in front of their eyes and now counting grand children, life never been exciting to each and every one of them albeit some up and down over the years

Today was a happy day for paksu idris's family, the youngest. They accept a son in law in their family. As our nucleus family grow older, I wish the bonds that tie us as family last to the next generation. God's will.

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New inSpiration

when you don't have the desire and inspiration to write; just be calm and stay focus. You may need to sit back and reflect what actually could have gone wrong. Was it the workload? or was it simply because you have fed up with some theatrics in the August house? Both ways can hurt you.

For that, i decided to have myself for inspiration and i did what i know I am best doing... 

Yup. Taking picture, Snooping for the right angle, Playing with confuse lighting or anything you want to call it. 

After all pictures capture moment of a thousand words...

3 of us.

I love caramel

aaa..

My Name is Moqq and I'm a surfoholics!

I need help, real bad. Ever since I hook to my bb  I have been addicted to net like nobody's business. I forgot my lunch, I misplaced my things and worst I am not paying attention to wifey (as if i've been! hahah). This has become serious when I realised I cant live without one. It is like my own Makan Bola, Tidur Bola minus Minum Coca Cola ( yes, m still boycotting coke since Jan last year!) journey. scary habis!

The first thing in the morning after my bb alarm do a Radja-Jujur to wake me up, I would check on soccernet of last night result. Next after i would check my twitter account on what's happening amongst my tweets friend and it will go throughout the day. My typical net surfing would be current news on Malaysiakini. A stop on my posto that would link myself to the other bloggers such Che Det, Rockybru etc and obviously a fair share of soccer/football on Arsenal and other EPL teams. Fuhh what make matters worst I could do (or shall i say overdo it) while I was driving. Demn terror.

I shall say it like an adrenaline rush to sms, facebooking, emailing and evertyhing while you driving even you know how risky it can be but believe me being surfoholics are more contagious and dangerous. It has hit my brother in law who just change to a bberry and my sister has start complaining how we treated the blackberry like our new wife. hahah.

I think I should enter addiction centre just like Tiger before it's to late otherwise all the endorsements will run away. what say you?

cuti-cuti Malaysia - family road trip

Malaysians are blessed with many festivals and celebrations. It is likely due to our own unique diversity. Every community celebrate one's festival in rich cultures and traditions with the other would join hand in the spirit of harmony.

Festival/ holiday also a point to breakaway from daily routine and enjoy oneself with the company of the loves one. Indeed that what happened to me and family who took our break on a road trip along coastal road of Selangor and Perak in conjunction with the recent awal muharram celebration.

This is how the story goes...

nice cloud awaiting us near sekinchan

making our way towards Lumut on Alphard. jeng jeng jeng

our first pit stop - muara Sungai Hj Dorani

baby aleesya also tag along

kamal did some stretching before hand

it was not something we anticipated. the monsoon should be on the other side of the coast!!

baby aleesya

abg kamil awaiting his dinner

everybody was here except yours truly (unofficial photog)

Ayah giving his approval on bangchik new bunkface hairstyle

the best ikan bakar in town.. artis ramai datang.. not that nite la!

post natal punya diet. :)

kanak-kanak ribena bermain pasir

geng bolot kerusi pantai

teluk batik on holiday mood

generation gap in teluk batik

dont get me wrong, this was a truly 1 Malaysia spirit with all giving a helping hand 'memukat'

david hassselholf?

harimau datang... wuarghhh

i love this shot so much. tks milla

the happy family.

the gile2 couple

our vow

catch me if you can

on our way to pasir salak, a stopover for fuel. 2 orang bakal soljar

a time travel experience. Recommended

off to Teluk Intan, on the way stop over for lunch at the famous mastan ghani outlet. Their specialty mee rebus and rojak.

a shot inside the leaning tower of pisa  Teluk Intan

Yes, i need to tone down that back

Our own royal tenenbaums

On our way back home, lunch stopover in Sg Panjang for a taste of makanan hutan.

we have landak, pelanduk, kijang, mata harimau , ikan keli, and many more

Recommended for food cravers

That's all folk. Next trip is Southern part of peninsula. Till then, bubbye!

Hard Rock Hotel has a soft spot in Penang.

The music might be louder and hard for some. The ambiance may not suitable to holiday goers who are looking for a remote setting. The cook's food could not satisfy to everyone's liking but without a doubt Hard Rock Hotel Penang had offered another 'must go places' on your item list whenever you decided for a vocation vacation in Penang.

Situated right at the heart of Batu Ferringhi, Hard Rock Hotel has fast becoming a landmark attraction to Penang Island. After barely open last 2 months, the former Casuarina Beach Hotel is a talk of the town and I, myself look forward to having a peep of what it has to offer. The opportunity rise when I was in Penang last few weeks and with the holiday mood was still swinging high, the chance could not be missed. ;)

It just another night outing with the lads,(yes, i left milla at home). The rain did not stop us making our way to Batu Ferringhi. Eagerly for a chance to meet his idol, King Michael who was immortalised at the hotel, Encik K was all excited. Abg B, the local lad keep his composure intact even I could see the excitement in his eyes. This is his first time as well. For me, Hard Rock Hotel is just another hotel (blah la... pretending not too damn excited myself). After all, me myself had had enough of the Hard Rock Franchise in the last week and going to another one was just to fill in and get ready to be shrunk a few hundred ringgits on merchandise.

But i was wrong, i was totally wrong.

'With a total of 250 guestrooms, there is nowhere more luxurious than Hard Rock Hotel Penang to spend your holiday. With a contemporary feel, all rooms are well-designed with guests in mind. With Wi-Fi connections, iPod docking stations and 32-inch LCD screen TVs, you can stay connected with your loved ones and be entertained 24 hours. The walls in the Hard Rock Hotel Penang are adorned with images, memorabilia and icons reflecting the revolution that changed the face of music, fashion and arts. It's a celebration of popular culture from the 50's through the new millennium. Its fun atmosphere and clean, modern lines make this the ultimate ROCK RETREAT for all!'

See, i tell you. Btw the above para is not one of my writings. It's an excerpt from the official site. Sorry about that dear! Since i only better to describe Hard Rock Hotel Penang through my captivating eyes, let's enjoy the pics, shall we? :)

King of Pop being immortalised

Encik K inter framed my shot on the band

Testing out the shirt.    
                       

The difficult part as always

taken by encik K

making fun of ourselves.. yeay!

yes,  you can smooch at hard rock hotel

reporting to mem

stop for supper @ tari cafe after long night out