Mt Cameroon - unveiled

Finally, the majestic Mount Cameroon appeared, right after I was done with the workshop at Le Meridien. I got back to hotel and I was so tired, and then I was thinking - wait a sec, I might as well take a look in case the clouds moved to unveil this shy mountain. YES, there it was!

I do not know, there is something about this mountain that attracts me. Apparently there are more things going on in the area of the mountain. One of the participants is from a village, 200M up the mountain. I can't imagine when the mountain erupted in 1999, and what happened to his family and all.

Someone was telling we that we can eat cheap seafoods at the foot of the mountain. Apparently, there is a river that's full of large shrimps (after all, the name Cameroon is derived from French words that bring the meaning of 'River of Shrimps', there you go). This is serious. I gawked in awe - I wish I can go there. I do not really mind doing a project here, really. The people are nice, there things to do, the client is fine. The only prob was the key account manager over here. Well I will not dwell into that.

OK I will leave you guys with the pics of Mt Cameroon.

+ Very nice, it is like monster!

+ Another one!

+ I took one with my cameraphone, yes I am that KIASU, although I am not in Kiasu-land

+ The flower that I have never seen before, it is really nice and huge!

+ I am still interested in the flower really but in the background - Bo, on the right. He is the other fellow consultant that delivered the workshop with me - we'll be travelling to Paris tonight. I talked to him about coming back and deliver the whole project. Hehe

Bonjour du Cameroun

Pour votre information, je suis maintenant au Cameroun, pour le travail et pas de vacances! (hah tu dia, French menjadi-jadi gamaknya, haha).

+ Sorry ni gambar nasi goreng aku masak hari tu. Siap dengan telor mata lagi kan.

Yes, I am in Cameroon now - yes apa lagi, negara yang pernah menggegar World Cup in 1990, sebagai negara underdog yang mampu menjatuhkan salah satu pasukan bolasepak yang tergah di dunia. Anyway, aku tak jadi Hasbollah Awang pulak ye. Tujuan aku menulis ni supaya blog aku ni tak jadi sunyi dan bersawang.

+ Boleh aku tengok tumbuhan kat sini aku boleh homesick. Sbb semua tumbuhan macam kat Malaysia. Hehe.

Aku ke sini sbb deliver a workshop to a pontential customer, so Day 1 dah down and then esok aku kena deliver one more and then off I go. I will fly out back to Dublin via Paris. Hari bermalam kat Paris semalam sbb malas nak kejar2 flight. Anyway, Bo the other consultant is with me. So tak de la bosan sangat. Aku naik bosan travel via Paris, memang tak suka airport tu. Selalunya memang kena avoid lah, tapi nak buat cam mana aku nak naik Air France ke Cameroon.

+ Pemandangan ke arah jalan dari level hotel Akwa Palace ini.

Pengalaman kat Cameroon ni nice. Very much like Malaysia, dari segi cuaca, humidity dia, temperature dia, tumbuh-tumbuhan pun hampir sama. Tadi masa break, diorang kata tadi ada GUNUNG, and then tetiba hilang di sebalik awan. Aku tak percaya, tapi bila aku balik hotel ni yg dinamakan Akwa Palace Hotel (gila tak nama dia, hehe), aku terperanjat bila aku tengok gunung tu, punya la besar gila. Macam rasaksa nak telan aku! Memang aku terperanjat sungguh. Mt Cameroon nama dia, pernah meletuskan lahar (yes it is a volcano), in 1999. Utk laporan mangsa-mangsa yang mati, aku tak pereksa pulak!

+ Esok aku nak ambik gambar dari posisi yang sama di mana Mt Cameroon akan muncul.

+ Mt Cameroon yang pernah meletus in 1999

OK apa pun, aku kena tidor dah ni. Ni aje lah post aku yang ala kadar. Wpun aku ada banyak gambar dah ambik sejak balik Dublin, aku letih dan liat nak update. Hehe. Sbb aku tak nak award blog sunyi tu, aku pun teruskan la kegigihan aku ni.

Sekian.

Brisk-walk from Dun Laoghaire to Sandycove

Ni yang aku geram nih, geram aku bercampur baur dengan tension, sakit jiwa dll aku rasakan skrg ni sbb aku dah tulih panjang panjang dah tadi, tapi tup2 tak leh nak pubreesh pulak (semua apa aku tulis ilang dan gambar2 aku dah upload ilang di angin lalu). Ish, geram nya aku. Tapi itu la takdir nama dia. Takdir dan waktu. Hah tu dia.

Aku pi brisk-walk semalam lepas dinner (ini petua Luke la ni), dari Dun Laoghaire to Sandycove. Sandycove is a town close to Dun Laoghaire, like stone throw away la cam tu, bak kata omputeh. Yang aku kesian as aku jalan2 tepi laut tu kan, kesian tengok mat dan minah saleh ni yang dah pukul 9:00 malam dah masih tawadduk nak dptkan tan tepi laut tu, sambil menyalai diri di bawah mentari yang dah makin kuyu. Kesian betul aku tengok.

Aku rasa aku nak propose la kat mat saleh ni kan, pi la beli Clinique tanning solution tu, macam ada sorang tu buat kan - pergh tan dia tertarik memang da bomb la tan dia lepas pakai product immediate-tan solution tu kan (mati la aku nak kena jawap lepas ni, kalau dia baca blog aku ni). Hahaha. Sorry ar, gurau aje tau, tapi tan anda itu memang terserlah!

So sebab aku malas, and entry ni adalah entry bonus utk hari ni (tak tau aku kenapa bonus aku kata), maka diperturunkan kat bawah ni gambar2 yang aku ambik MALAM tadi. Brisk walk apa nama ni kan, siap boleh ambik gambar pulak kan!

+ Tajuk gambar ni SENJA NAN MERAH, cantik tak? (Cuma tak de Ziana Zain dan Awie aje mendendangkan lagu tu kan, kalau buat video clip memang boleh jual lah kan). Pandai kan aku ambik gambar. Aku kena puji, sbb tak de sapa akan puji. Haha.

+ Forty-Foot, tak tau kenapa dia namakan 40-foot ni. Sbb mungkin kedalaman tempat ni la kot. Sbb tempat ni tempat swim dan diving. Anyway, masa Xmas day, ada acara renangan dalam air sejuk ni yang dah dari turun temurun orang buat - so, bagi aku, tak de la kerja aku nak buat benda2 gini. Baik aku berselimut masa Xmas day, atau pun perangat cold turkey utk dimakan breakfast.

+ Satu lagi gambar cantik daripada sentuhan artistik aku. Haha.

+ Tengok la rumah2 tu, cantik kan tepi laut. Tapi sah sah la kan, jutaan Euro ghega nya. Malas nak pikir pasal property, sbb memang tak terjangkau akalmu! Tapi crane to menyebok aje kan, jadi gambar aku tak cantik pulak jadinya...

+ Caviston restaurant - restoren yang menjadi bualan ramai sebab apparently sedap dia nya seafood, dan nak dpt table pun susah. Mana tak susah ada 2-3 table aje dalam restoren ciput ni, tu sebab susah, kena masuk waiting list unless kalau kita nak sangat makan, bawak meja sendiri. Average meal (campur semua) diaorang kata dalam Euro40 per person, bukan apa bukan aku blogger suka citer pasal harga makanan macam blog sorang tu kan, tapi aku nak convey kan apa food review kata. Aku pun tak poie lagi, sbb meja lipat aku tak sampai dari M'sia lagi - nak bawak meja sendiri.

+ Nak balik tadi, lalu kat People's Park. Cantik pulak tulips2 ni, sampaikan jadi macam plastik pulak sbb aku guna flash kan. Bunga plastik tak apa, jangan jadi manusia plastik kan? Hah, aku tak berniat nak hint2 sesapa. Haha. Aku buat ni, macam ni beribu aku punya readers kat blog ni kan? Haha.

One of those days - boring

[Photos will follow suit. I am off for my lunch in the park now]

This is where I ate earlier:

+ There were tulips and all, but I could not be bothered to take pics of them. Haha.

***

I was late to go to work today. Well I estimated that I would be in by 10.00 AM and I got in at 5 mins to 10.00 AM. It was not so bad after all, yeah?

Here I am. I am not sure what I will write anyway. Anuar from Finance Dept has asked me to go to lunch with him, which I said YES to (I suggested lunching in the People's Park). I was aware that I wanted to make a trip back to my flat to finish off the Nasi Goreng Belacan that I cooked yesterday. So I guess dinner won’t be such a decision-making-process tonight then (but wait a second, there is not much left). Whatever!

I am sitting at the desk wondering about so many things really. I am supposed to help out a colleague with the knowledge management portal but she is busy attending a conference (this has delayed things). Unless we agree on the way to go ahead, I won’t be able to start. Now Day-2 is close to being gone. I need to start soon.

On top of that, my head is wondering on so many things really. The certification that I need to list down all the projects that I was involved in before, the PPR for the Sudan project, the expense claim for Sudan (the final one), the bank holiday that I need to plan, the friends that I am supposed to meet that I don’t have the energy to meet. Oh this is so complicated I think. Do you know what I feel like doing? Nothing! Absolutely nothing. But I am more worried about work really and the up coming holiday. I don’t know where to spend it. I don’t want to be stuck here and not doing anything. On the other hand I want to discover this place. Although I can fly down to London but, I am hearing what my body is saying – tiredness! Overused!

OK now, what was I up to in the weekend last week. Well on Sunday, I went to spend my credit notes at Philips. I had Euro140 to spend – simply because I returned the Living-Color light. It was meant for a friend back in Malaysia, but it didn’t work out well and I could not grow to like it anyway – just not me. So in the end, I spent it on my iPod speaker that I have been wanting to own (yes, it is not Bose, but what the hell) and a portable vacuum cleaner that is just nice for my tiny place. Oh there is another one, I bought myself a new earphone for my iPod – it was kind of color coordinated with my pants on that day; Green!

+ This is the Philips LivingColor light that I could not grow to like!

+ The Philips shop I talked about - on Dame St.

+ The iPod speaker. Quite nice by the window. But I need to go back to the shop since I can't select the next song etc. Perhaps I will go back to the userguide again.

+ Cute earphone, don't you think - it matched the the drink and the pants I wore that day!

Then I moved on to eat at Milano. (Yes I did all these alone, it was fun really). I had some baked pasta. Actually they have taken away the Mushroom Ravioli that I like so much. Now, I must find another place that does Ravioli. I wonder why they took it off the menu really – it was. It is, or now, it is used to be my all-time favorite. I had the same thing again and again during my Cambridge days – so happen there’s a Pizza Express (as they are called in the UK) just outside Downing College.

+ The food at Milano, yum yummmm

+ Rozita, if you read this, check out the small poster on the left. Haha.

+ The restaurant, by Temple Bar where tourists congregate

Right after that, I carried on with window shopping at Arnotts and Debenhams. To finish it off, I got a phone call that a friend invited me for dinner. Ramlah is also my neighbor – her place is just next door. I managed to go to Asian Foodstore to buy some Halal chicken, lemon grass and chilies. Uh after dinner I went for a walk by the Pier. Check out the pics.

+ It is beautiful right? On the way to the pier. And, mind you, it was close to getting dark. Nice camera work.

+ Nice to be back.

+ I want to own one...

That was the Sunday that just passed.

Kami kehilangan Noormi

I wrote this comment on a my dear friend, Rozita's blog - responding to her composition on the same loss I faced years ago. Me and Rozita - we used not to know each other. We used not to know each other's existence. We have got this close owing to Arwah Noormi - our beloved friend, a mutual friend that silently connected us. Noormi was more than just a friend - a friend who never ceased to bring smile to us, a friend with that magical presence. Someone who could just turn a solemn situation into an immediate stir of laughter and beyond.

It has been a decade since she left all of us due to lymph node cancer. She passed away at SJMC. As I said, here is my response to Rozita's writing, and I can't agree more. There are times that I want her to be present. I want her to be present for me to tell her that I do not care about what I am facing as long as she is around next to me. Now that she's gone, but I am grateful that I had the chance to be a part of her life, and I was able to give as much smile to her as much as she did to me and to many others.

Noormi, here are a few lines which are never enough to encapsulate all the colourful experience I have had with you.

I wept when I read this. I did not realise my eyes got all watery and tears rolled down my cheeks.

It was only yesterday the image of Noormi came to my mind when I was describing how she told me story of how Shazz used orange juice to make pancakes! It was when she visited me in UK from US. I told the story to John when I met him over coffee in Dublin yesterday. I started talking about Lent, where according to Christian teaching, there's one week prior to Lent, they need to give up luxury food and down to basic - milk, bread, flour; hence pancakes! That is how - I would remember Noormi everytime the subject of Lent pancake brought up! How funny is that? But the way Noormi told me the story! We had this similarity, where we would laugh before telling and laugter is contagious and we'd burst into laughter only to ask, what are we laughing at? Haha.

Noormi never failed to make me smile/laugh. I remember taking the piss out of her, after she was done with 1st phase of chemo and came to Parkview to pick me up to go to One Utama. We liked One Utama. She warned me that she had started to wear tudung before she arrived at my office. I could clearly remember the tudung she wore that day - it was polka-dots, black and white, fine cloth like a selendang to me, it was stylish, after all, it's Noormi I am talking about... it was her early days with tudung... it was indeed her 1st week. That is so clear in my head... that very day, the tudung, the red Satria, the way she took off her shoes to start driving... I made fun of her... Even the way she turned her head to make sure that she'd be able to get out of the parking space... I could not stop laughing... She was playing along and she knew how nasty I could be when I was taking piss out of her... I was so glad to see her back on track again... She was so immuned to me and me being myself.

I know. I can never get enough of her company. Now looking back... and now, she is not around. All my prayers for her. I know, it is huge loss. I could still remember, that night were at Subang Medical Center, to be with her in those last few minutes, the battle of us to say the final good bye to a very fine friend, a rare individual who managed to make me smile...

I could remember still, the way she sat on my bed in Bristol (at Goldney Hall), the night we were supposed to go to Xmas ball (albeit her tiredness arriving from States on that day), that very night that were were bored dancing on the dance floor (uh I can remember the black dress she wore with traces of gold laces, nicely blended with the black dress), and then out of fun we grabbed the mic and sang away (yes, Noormi I was karaoke-virgin before I knew you, and now I just love singing...), and then we left the karaoke place since our melodious singing had attracted many more to ruin our night. That was fun - we had brilliant time. She just arrived in UK that day really. She chose to stay with me, that was fun. She just broke up with her ex earlier that year or something.

I was in Durham recently, I passed that place. It reminded me of Noormi. She told me stories of visiting Leong in Durham. I must not share the story here, but it was hillarious. Noormi could make me laugh easily.

Oh how can I forget, he asked me to come around to SJMC, when she talked about he chemo. That was after my tennis games. I was there in shorts. You can never imagine how privileged I felt, she said - I don't want other people to see me like this (she was referring to her chemo). I was there till late. She talked bout Dr could not find veins anymore, she was suffering. I had to be strong for her. She talked about how she was not going to be able to have babies for the medicine/drugs were so strong and Dr was not sure how that will turn out given that she got married and have babies. We talked. As much as I was so sad to listen to her stories, I was there listening, praying she'd be strong to stick around and still to be one of my closest and meaningful friends.

As I am writing this, I am sobbing away. I never forget about her. Never. Yes we have moved on but, the memories with her will be here to stay. Yes we have lost a very dear friend, but after the loss, we became such a close friend that we never thought of before.

I guess we won't forget there is always Noormi in this friendship we have now. There's always three of us.

We miss you Noormi! All my prayers for you my dear friend.

Surprising myself with breakfast

I was going to actually have a nice breakfast - as always, the fattening breakfast (fried bread, baked beans and two sunny side-up fried eggs). I used to cook this breakfast when I am in UK, staying with Faris. So, since I was taking the day a bit easy today, I wanted to finish off the flat-cleaning session with nice big breakfast.

However, today I had to give the baked beans a miss, for some obvious reason below...


Now I am going to get ready to go to the city to return the Philips Livingcolor lamp that I bought in Jan 2008. They said, I can't get my money back, but I will get some credit vouchers to be spent on Philips products. I do not know. I am not a fan of Philips, unless I want to get tonnes of the energy saving bulbs!

Trip to York, 03 May 2008

What have I done besides lingering about in this bustling city of Newcastle? Well I have not been up to much of things really. I have taken the chance to really unwind and rest – besides daily ritual trip to the city centre pointlessly. Faris is finishing off real soon. It is now his high time for shopping, and all the stuff that he wants to shop and ship home. So I was there as a catalyst for him to find the word YES to almost everything – you know I love it when people spend :) But he has spent his money on nice stuff.

We went to York the other day. It was on 3rd May. It was fantastic day. The sun wasn’t entirely out but the forecast was promising. I have been wanting to go to York for some time now. Finally it was granted.

York is really nice place actually. It reminds me a little of Cambridge. There is old section that is well preserved, where we could walk on the old little tiny narrow lanes and the shops are all for midgets so to speak. It was nice experience. We did what tourists in York normally do – checking out the minster (cathedral), went to the castle to realise that we are lazy bums of not having the guts to climbs the steps to really check out the old castle. Well after seeing thousands of old English castles in my life, they are all the same I guess.

Faris’s colleague, Jane, did encourage us to check out Bettys. Apparently, they serve the best of scones, tea cakes, food, tea biscuits etc. All about English food indulgence and Jane did even caution us on the queue we need to get into in order to get in. The obstacle was itself to find where Bettys. It really bothered me for the image of Bettys was stuck in my head throughout the whole trip. "We must end up in Bettys!" – that little voice kept on whispering into my ears.

Well, we stumbled upon it by accident and we quickly got into the queue (true enough there were about 20 people in the queue already, and the restaurant was full). We were hungry enough to immediately decide that we would have lunch instead of just tea/scones. Upon being seated, we settled for English tea, grilled salmon and nice English tea. It was an experience indeed, it felt like as if Jane Austen was there recording every movement of ours to be translated into a book. Nah, kidding. It was an experience on its own – having tea the English way (what’s new, as always).

So I must now let the pics do the story-telling. Tarraaaaa!

+ The entrance to the train station

+ An old fortress/chapel by the garden entrance

+ A chapel before heading to the real cathedral

+ Cathedral that York is famous for

I am resting

I am simply resting. I am back in Newcastle before heading to Dublin in 2 days' time. I am taking this opportunity to relax, eat, relax and eat. Haha. Something that I did not have the chance doing when I was in Sudan.

I am not certain what has hit Blogger.Com and now my Good Bye Sudan entry doesn't appear here on the main page. I have no clue what's happened. Anyway, as I thought this would be an entry to 'test' my blog, I am about to click the button 'Publish'. I hope this blog machine has not gone bonkers or something.

;)

Good Bye Sudan!

Hari ni adalah hari terakhir aku di Sudan. Pagi ni aku bangun punyalah awal. Aku tak tau kenapa. Malam tadi, kami semua pergi ke As-Sahaq - a Lebanese Restaurant for our last supper (eh lain aje bunyi dia...). Any tu la kisah dia. There were only myself, Fredrik, Tamim and Michael. Matthias didn't join since customer buat hal - mintak benda bukan-bukan and it was his part, so he had to finish it.

+ "Selamat jalan, sila datang lagi ye", kata lelaki Sudan ni..

OK now, I have been in Sudan for like 5 months. So apa main take-aways nya? (Wah take-aways kekonon, very consultant punya terms... kekadang over-used pulak). OK, what are the nice memories in Sudan. Aku nak buat gak la 10 Unforgettable Memories macam kat dalam Luke's blog tu. OK here goes...

(1) Kebaikan hati rakyat jelata Sudan - rata-rata rakyat Sudan ni baik hati. Jarang la jumpa yang macam berangan hebat kan. Lain sangat kalau nak compare dengan Nigeria tu kan. Anyway, they are nice people in general. Cuma limited nya kebolehan mereka berbahasa Inggeris, boleh melimitkan perbualan. Lagipun Arabic aku very limited. So rata-ratanya they are very nice people.

(2) Taat pada agama Islam - orang Sudan ni, kalau sampai aje waktu solat, terus solat. Kat tepi jalan ke, kat dalam office ke. Dalam offie, bentang sejadah, terus bersolat kan. Kat Nigeria pun nampak macam ni kat tepi-tepi jalan, tapi kat Sudan amplified sikit experience tu sebab rata-rata orang sini adalah Muslim. So tu lah yang meriahnya. Kalau diorang tau kita Muslim, apa lagi la kan. Terus ajak ke rumah. Eh tak de la, diorang lebih warm lah kalau tau kita Muslim.

(3) Jus segar di Khartoum - aku suka jus buah2an kat sini. Best dan menyegarkan. Tak de ditambah air dia kata, so 100% jus lah, ori la bak kata orang muda2. Hehe. So very nice. Jangan tak tau, boleh gak mintak jus strawberry. Tak tau mana datangnya strawberry tapi sedap la kalau kita mintak jus yang segalanya-ada-didalam-satu-gelas. So semua dicampur, dan nampak macam kek lapis pulak warna dia.

(4) Petronas di Sudan - first time nampak Petronas fuel station mengimbau kenangan Malaysia pulak. Banyak gak le petrol station Petronas that I saw. Bangga la jugak kan, our national petroleum mampu bersaing. Lagipun bilateral connection between Sudan dan Malaysia pun agak kuat, so there is nothing surprising about that. But still, aku masih ingat, nampak Petronas for the 1st time, aku dok asik ambik gambar. Tak tau la aku kalau aku kalau aku nampak Nasi Lemak Kak Tijah kat New York, mau aku tidur kat tepi kedai tu kot! Hehe.

(5) Driver yang baik hati - esp si Nagi yang bawak aku keliling Khartoum yang tak de apa sangat ni. Kalau duduk sini boleh gila kalau tak ada aktibiti. Aku akan ingat jasa si Nagi ni. Disamping tu aku aku akan ingat driver2 lain spt Waleed dan Muhammed. They are nice people. Aku nampak development Waleed, daripada someone yg kami rasa boleh menimbulkan masalah to someone yang very cheerful dan nak belajar Bahasa Inggeris. Paling manis, ye ke paling manis, dpt belikan si Nagi ni phone baru dari Malaysia sebab phone dia tu ada masalah, sian pulak kat dia.

(6) Arabic / Bahasa Arab - Apa tidaknya, aku appreciate Bahasa Arab lebih sekarang ni - ye lah Bahasa Al-Quran kan! Aku belajar Bahasa Arab form 1 sampai form 5. Masa tu aku dok belajar aje, absorb segalanya masa tu, that led me to get A2 masa SRP. But now that aku dah berada di Sudan aku appreciate sangat, sampaikan aku ada guru Bahasa Arab sendiri by the name of Nader. Well, he moved away from Amarat and and then aku tak ada la dah orang nak ajar aku. Well, yg aku ingat a few "Ma fi moya phil bait" - tak de air kat rumah saya, "Nehna masheen illal mattar" - Kami nak pergi ke airport, "Ma fi musykilla" - no problem, "Amshi tawali" - go straight, and counting 1-10, 20,30 etc. For the 1st time I realise, I can connect with this language and kalau lama duduk sini, mungkin boleh pick up.

(7) Souq Al-arabi - best gak Souq ni, memula pergi dengan Maria (uh dia dah resigned as of yesterday, nice colleague to work with). Yang bestnya dapat tengok lambakan barang-barang yang banyaknya dari China la kan. Tapi yang best tengok kehidupan orang2 Sudan di sini - this is the real Sudan. Kalau kat office tu ramai gak orang Sudan, tapi orang yang macam ada pendidikan dan taraf hidup pun dah lain. Kalau nak actual Sudan, dtg la ke Souq macam ni. Di sini la aku beli selipar, arragi/jelabiyah, dpt tengok buaya kering pun ada. Hehe.

(8) Kepanasan/cuaca Sudan - Kehangatan mentari kurasakan, tidak sehangat api perbalahan... hah tu dia, lagu Kak Aisyah "Kemaafan Dendam Terindah" pulak yang terkeluar. Masakan aku boleh lupa kehangatan Sudan sampai 43C. Org tak paham kenapa aku mention pasal Sudan panas, sbb aku dari Malaysia. Kat Msia ada humidity so lain sikit. And ada banyak malls - boleh la selit masuk mall kalau dah panas sangat kan. Sudan is getting hotter as we pass the months from April onwards. So aku tak tau boleh jadi panas macam mana lagi. Panas dia tak tau macam mana aku nak cakap - kekadang petang2 masa aku balik kerja, aku keluar dari office, macam kepanasan tu macam kita lalu a group of aircond compressors! That is the kind of heat the weather emits. Aku bukan complain, tapi nak kasi gambaran. Uh cerita pasal cuaca, kali pertama aku merasa ribut pasir / sandstorm minggu lepas. Menakutkan tiba, segumpalan besar pasir2 halur membentuk awan hitam menutup pandangan dan menghampiri aku dalam jarak masa tak sampai beberapa minet.

(9) Kegahan Sungai Nil - pertemuan Sg Nil Biru dan Putih berlaku di Sudan dan the fact that this office berada di titik pertemuan tersebut or in Arabic it is called Al-Mogran, well, the ability to be at this point on earth kan, something lah. The Nile itself, tak perlu nak diperkenalkan, and to be able to be at the point where the 2 sources meet - it something. Sapa tak kenal dengan Nil yang membelah bumi Africa dari Uganda, Ethiopia, Sudan dan Egypt kan. Selama ni kita dekat dengan Nil di Egypt. Jadi dah tau source dia ni, lebih bermakna lah (teringat pulak masa kecik2 mandi kat sungai, hehe. Mana keseronokan itu? Hehe)

(10) The project and the team itself - I won't forget this project all in all, the people that have been involved, me, Fredrik, Matthias, Rim, Maria, Michael and Tamim. It was great team. The dynamic was just there. Although there were times when we fought over ideas, opinions, approaches, but in the end, it has done us good. The customer liked it, and it has impacted the team-spirit. I will remember this. Sharing the apartment with Matthias - was new experience. Looking for an apartment was an experience. Well, one of the many noticeable ones - the change of character of 'someone' who used to be so uptight and full of rules, and now the person can laugh together to my stupid jokes and we are in the end a bunch of consultants that could stand each other and able to have fun in/out of the office. Thank god for that. I could only wish that I would end up in this kind of team dynamics again.

So, with that I bid farewel to this country, Sudan and the experience that it has offered me. It was not a smooth ride, it was not an utter disaster either - on the other hand we made the most of it. So, good bye. And I am not sure whether I will return, only time and fate will tell. It is all in God's plan. Insya'Allah - as customer will like to respond to us everytime we ask for commitment. :)

PS: Banyak lagi benda kalau aku nak masukkan dalam ni. Memula aku tak tau cukup ke SEPULUH, last2 banyak lagi yang aku tak masukkan spt Kambing yang aku ingatkan ada kaki LIMA, last2 aku realise ekor dia BESAR, nampak macam kaki (Kalau aku masukkan ni, sure Luke suka kan?... hihi), lepas tu ada pulak ayam dekat apartment tu yang akan berkokok secara randomly, tak leh tidor aku! Kelakar la pengalaman ni.