Wedding door gifts.

 

Assalamualaikum Yeops and Yongs and Greetings everyone!

A common sight for door gifts for the guests  to a muslim malay weddding throughout the country.  For  gents, you will be given a different set from the ladies.  Something did came across my mind ….

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Labu or Jack ‘o’ Lantern

Assalamualaikum Yeops and Yongs! Greetings!

Hello again , sorry for the delayed entry.  towards year end there’s a lot of other commitments and last minute year resolution which didn’t came up to materialize. Of course , you need to have a plan for execution and not for perfection.  Don’t wait for perfect moment – just get it movingggg!!! Continue reading “Labu or Jack ‘o’ Lantern”

Bridge over River Perak – Part 1

a bridge in manong , across the perak river..finally comes to place.

I was trying to recall the tune from the movie ” Bridge over River Kwai ” about WW2 POW building a railbridge only gets it blown up by their own army.  As an adult with raised in the city, rivers usually amazes us on one point or another.

The Klang and Gombak river was polluted and there are plenty of bridges some of which we’re unaware of in Kuala Lumpur. Continue reading “Bridge over River Perak – Part 1”

Tool Review: Leatherman Micra.

Asssalamualaikum wbt  and greetings to all!

Hello Yeops and Yongs!  Thank you my readers for visiting my blog and for today’s content on the tool review, it will be  Leatherman Micra.  If you haven’t heard about this multitool maker, Leatherman , this is indeed a solid and practical tool.

I have a different models from Leatherman but today I’m just going to bring it up on Micra.

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Jambatan Cempakasari. (Cempakasari Bridge)

Hello Yeops and Yongs!  This is morning after the solat Eidul-Adha at Masjid Parit ( Perak Tengah)

I decided to explore this bridge , you can’t see it from the google map, switch to satellite view and you will see a small bridge crossing from Parit to Kg Belanja Kiri.  This bridge connects the villagers from the nearby village across Sungai Perak ( Perak River) to the Parit town. Continue reading “Jambatan Cempakasari. (Cempakasari Bridge)”

Letup Letup

the nameletup letup ”  literally means pops up.  this could be due to the fruit itself that pops up . Scientifically it is known as “ Passiflora foetida“.    Please don’t be a smart aleck and go over to any village folks in Perak and smugly asking them ” Pakcik / Makcik, can you show me where I could get Passiflora foetida ? ” .  If they’re patient enough they will ask you to describe what you’re looking for.

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Where will you find these? 

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Hello World

introduction

Yes – this will be my first post.  I have been wanting to write since many many years back and it finally gets to me that I need to get this journey started.  It became obvious that I’ve been keeping notes here and there , mentally and in my journals . It also serves as a good legacy for my next generations.

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” The Journal “

So occasionally I will find some back to the future stuff where , it was meant to be written in the past but  I may write it in the present and doing my best to have it fit into the present context.

So here goes and hope this journey will be useful ( either all or in part) to you all.

 

here goes..