october catch up

1) yes i have not written for quite a while .... more than a month to be exact ... but for those who know me ....can always catch up in my other sites ... well while waiting for my wife to fetch me .... maybe good to pen down something to kill the time.

2) we are still swarmed with hari raya spirit ...so i think it is not too late to wish you all selamat hari raya... hope we all enjoy the celebration in whatever means and will .... as usual aidifitri has always come with anticipation to me and left with memories ....unique one everytime

3) went to dubai recently. dubai always gives me certain feeling of excitement - it is big boys playground .... the pace of development is difficult to comprehend .... at the turn of the millenium ... i hardly heard about the place ....but now the sands in the dessert have been sculpted into hundreds if not thousands of skyscrapers .....as usual i would pause and try to relate this to history ...i am not historian and my knowledge about it graces at the top most layer only ...very shallow. i imagine what is happening in dubai and uae as how ancient emperors of past civilisations created their legacies ....what moves this is vision of strong leadership - one of the ingredients and of course plus deep pockets and others....

4) apart from that .... being away from home and not watching bernama tv or tv3 news ... exposed me to the reality of the world and uninsulated news...buzz words around were economic recession .... despite being gung ho about development there were shaky feelings in the air about the free fall of the stock market in dubai, abu dhabi and the rest of gcc .... again my comprehension about economy is worst than my history knowledge ...but from what i gathered the numbers indicate whether we would get bonus next year or not ... or even worse whether we could get to keep our job next month or not ...got a message in my facebook page from a friend in uk that he had become casualty of the thing called redundancy ...well that what translates when stock market fall to people on the street...

5) thats all for now .... weekend comes again .... what weekend means during this month of syawal is we have to set for another round of open house trail ....not a bad thing ...it is part of modern day malaysian culture that promote silaturrahim ....