LIFE GOES ON...........such a bless........

Back to my normal life again, Alhamdulillah.

My darling hubby had gone back to UAE .

Zaid had moved back to Mu’tah , staying with his wife, Azra.

Safiyyah still has a month off before leaving Jordan and starts her 3rd year medical school in Ukraine.

Izzat, Mimi and I only have 35 days left before going home for good and resume our life back in Kemaman.

Time flies extremely fast …gonna miss all unforgettable events here in Jordan…………

I still have a few activities before flying home.. not sure I am able to do all I’ve planned … keep my fingers cross, InsyaAllah.

As for now, my dreams are sometimes still visualizing the Egyptian blues…. It looks funny when each dream is joined by the white uniform Egyptian policemen….. maybe the policemen are always there no matter where you are….. on the road/roadside , in the mosque , in and around the shopping arcades , on the train , by the river, next to the dustbin , down in the hotel lobby, guarding the tourist buses/sites , on the ferry , in the pharaoh’s tombs.. just name the venue, the ‘white’ policemen are loyally standing/sitting there……..

There are a few magical moments that I’ll never forget while I was in Egypt :

Swimming in the Nile River…so refreshing….
Sailing on a felluca along the Nile River …. feeling so romantic….
Visiting the village folks who live by the Nile River bank …. feeling so warm and exciting…
Riding horse carriages in and around the cities of Aswan and Luxor…. feeling like a Queen in a fairy land…

One last thing to remember…. We met the TV3 crew of the “Spice Road “ programme at our hotel lobby right before we left Cairo, Mr. Nasser and Chef Sabri ( chef in IKIM ) . The cooking + travelling series will be aired this coming Ramadan, InsyaAllah. They have been to many arab countries and still have 3 more countries to go before heading home….

Thank God , so far everything is running smoothly …… I always hope and pray that my family and I are living our life accordingly to the teaching of Islam..with all the boon and wonderful life from The AlMighty God, how could we forget YOU, ALLAH………THANK YOU SO MUCH !!!!!!!!!

BIRTHDAY GIRLS !!!!!

BELATED HAPPY BIRTHDAY MIMI !!!!!........

ADVANCE HAPPY BIRTHDAY SAFIYYAH !!!!

Mimi's birthday was on the 29th of July..... Safiyyah's will be tomorrow, 1st of August.

Mimi is 5 this year and Safiyyah is 20.

Mimi cried a lot when she's a baby but Safiyyah very seldom cried.

Mimi is more to arts but Safiyyah loves Science.

Mimi wants to be a teacher, Safiyyah a doctor-to-be, InsyaAllah.

Mimi loves pink but Safiyyah likes green.

Mimi is lady-like but Safiyyah was a bit tomboy ( when she was 5 ).

Mimi was delivered by C-section but Safiyyah was normal/natural.

Mimi and Safiyyah both share these :

** almost same faces

** not so fair complexion

** talkative

** quite 'hairy'

** have big round eyes

** more active than other siblings

** love watermelon very much

** like to ' perasan a lot ' ...hehehe.

No matter how similar or different both of you are, mama will always love and adore you forever and ever....you are the genuine diamonds of my life.....

May ALLAH grants Islam and Iman in your hearts forever....AMIN.

DI SEBALIK TABIR .............

Tanpa mereka , tak mungkin majlis kenduri perkahwinan Zaid dan Azra dapat terlaksana sebagaimana yang dirancang........

Jutaan terimakasih kepada semua ahli Persatuan Pelajar Malaysia Amman, Jordan yang diketuai oleh Sagol .......jasa kalian hanya ALLAH sahaja yang dapat membalasnya ...

Kenangan manis semasa sebelum dan selepas majlis akan sentiasa terpahat dalam ingatan kami sekeluarga.

Terimakasih buat Ust .Sagol, Wawa, Ust. Asyrafdini, Ust. Mizi , Ust. Nuh, Ust . Asyraf , Ina, Ilyana , Ust. M. Razi, Ust. Mujahid, Ust. Muhaimin, Ust. Hazimin , Ust. Izzat dan Safiyyah yang menjadi tulang belakang persiapan dan perlaksanaan majlis kenduri kahwin pada 28 julai 2007.

Mr. President Persatuan Pelajar Malaysia Amman.... pengarah majlis kahwin....Terimakasih ye Ustaz M. Shahrol .....


si kenit-kenit ni, orang sibuk keje diaorang best je main buai ye...

videolady .....mak ooiiii cik piahhhh ... dressing kalah pengantin....

sian pengantin kena potong cili... biasalah kan....kena genyeh periuk lagi susah...

petugas makan dulu sebelum bertugas, baru perut tak keroncong dan dapat jalankan tugas dengan adil dan saksama...hehe

Ust. Izzat ni sedap berehat je ekkk, kutip sampah-sampah tu... Izzat Cleaning Services sedia memberi khidmat mengutip sampah tak kira di mana....

gurau-gurau menanti tugas seterusnya.....siapa yang paling peramah tu haa ?? macam tau-tau je...

sempat posing depan buah...Asyraf, Mizi ( dari Syria ) , Nuh.... semua masih single dan I memang rekomen sape-sape makcik yang nak jadikan diaorang ni menantu....

tengah busy menggenyeh periuk selepas masak..... gang tahan lasak ni.... eehhh Nuh, jimat air tu, ni Jordan , air susah tau....

tukang basuh periuk yang hensem dan ceria... dua-dua telah berpunya... sorry...Ust Sagol , Ust. Muhaimin.

patutlah daging ni sedap dan lembut..selembut dan sesopan tukang masaknya..ust. Muhaimin...

DJ Razi yang glamour diimpot khas dari Radio 007FM Sweileh , Amman.... sesiapa yang memerlukan khidmat beliau boleh hubungi hotline 00962007700 sambungan 999....

pantang anak jantan menangis kerana cik bawang..... siap kau bawang....3 anak jantan macho, Asyrafdini, Asyraf, Hazimin.... siapa memerlukan pisau yang tajam sila hubungi Asyrafdini di http://wewr.multiply.com/music/item/609 .

eh..kerusi ni nak susun macamana ...melintang ke memanjang ?? ke guane asyraf ???

ehhh DJ Razi ke ni.... silap lah, ni Chef Razi kembar DJ tu....


lepak setelah selesai majlis.. ina dan ilyana....

Bos BESARRR sembang-sembang setelah siap segalanya...Alhamdulillah.


Timakasih Sagol dan rakan-rakan, tanpa kalian majlis kawin saya taktaulah jadi camne... kalau ada yang nak kawin saya pulak sanggup masak untuk majlis tu... hehehe....kata zaid kepada sagol dan rakan-rakan...

Semoga persatuan ini berjaya melangkah maju dari hari ke hari ..... ukhuwah yang terbina InsyaAllah akan terus bersemi dan subur demi mencari cinta Ilahi yang hakiki.... Amin.

KISAH PENGANTIN BARU LAGI....

28 Julai 2007, majlis kenduri sempena perkahwinan Zaid dan Azra telah diadakan di MSD , Amman dan dihadiri oleh hampir 180 tetamu telah hadir.

Setinggi-tinggi penghargaan khas buat Pengarah MSD serta kakitangan yang bekerjasama dalam menjayakan majlis ini.

Terimakasih tak terhingga buat semua petugas terutama ahli-ahli Persatuan Pelajar Malaysia Amman yang mengendalikan majlis perkahwinan ini.

Terimakasih kepada semua tetamu yang sudi hadir ke majlis ini.

Maaf dipinta di atas sebarang kekurangan dan kesulitan semasa majlis berlangsung.

Doakan agar pasangan pengantin Zaid dan Azra berbehagia hingga ke anak-cucu, cicit, piut dan selamanya, InsyaAllah.

mimi bersama jiran arab yang sudi hadir.....

sila-sila, jemput naik......

AJK buah-buahan....

bersama sebahagian tetamu.....


bersama sahabat dan tetamu yang hadir....


cenderahati untuk tetamu......


makan-makan......


makan-makan lagi....

mari masak daging........

hari nikah bersama tok kadi dan sahabat-sahabat...

selamat pengantin baru dan 'lama'...

upacara bukak hadiah.........

pasukan kompang dari Mu'tah.......

ahli silat dari Irbid...

LEGAAAAAAAAAA........... lepas ni boleh kembali berblogging............

SELAMAT PENGANTIN BARU ANAKANDA !!!!

Alhamdulillah jam 12 tengah hari tadi, anakanda Zaid Anuar selamat dinikahkan dengan Siti Nuradzra Zulkafli bertempat di rumah kami beralamat di 287 M Al Qurtubi Street, Amman .

Dengan ini juga secara rasmi I menjadi Mak mertua kepada menantu pertama kami, Azra.

Kini hanya tinggal majlis kenduri yang perlu diuruskan dan majlis ini akan berlangsung di ruang legar Jabatan Penuntut Malaysia ( MSD ) Amman dari jam 12.00 pm - 3pm , 28 Julai ( Sabtu ) .

Semoga segalanya berjalan lancar, InsyaAllah.

Terlebih dahulu ingin diucapkan jutaan terimakasih kepada semua pihak yang terlibat termasuklah :

* Pengarah, Pegawai Atase dan kakitangan MSD Amman.
* Persatuan Pelajar Malaysia Amman.
* Persatuan Pelajar Malaysia Irbid.
* Persatuan Pelajar Malaysia Mu'tah.
* Jabatan Agama Suweileh, Jordan.
* Semua petugas dan tetamu yang hadir semasa majlis pernikahan dan kenduri.

TAHNIAH DAN TERIMAKASIH !!!!!

Cuti Blogging...........

I kena ambil 'cuti' buat seketika berblogging kerana terlalu busy dengan pelbagai urusan termasuk urusan PERKAHWINAN MY SON .ZAID ..............

Majlis Pernikahan akan diadakan pada 26hb JUlai 2007 dan majlis kenduri akan diadakan pada 28hb JUlai 2007.........

Doakan agar majlis berjalan lancar sebagaimana yang dirancang, InsyaAllah...... AMIN.

ASWAN PART I ...... nice small town....

Our next stop is ASWAN, the most southern city in Egypt , very close to Sudan. We took a night train from Cairo to Aswan and it took 14 hours to reach Aswan .It's only a small town and its no 1 source of income is tourism....

Tourists from all over the world visit Aswan or rather transit in Aswan to be able to explore Abu Simbel area , almost 280km from Aswan. Aswan is located on the bank of the NIle River and many nile cruises can be seen along the bank.



At first we planned to get to Luxor and then took the nile cruise / the felluca to Aswan , but then the tour guide advised us to get to Aswan first by train and then be on the cruise or the felluca ( a sail boat without engine, just the sail )...the river flows downstream from Aswan. We decided to take the felluca instead of the cruise since it looked more 'egyptian ' sailing ....( Aswan Part II )


We stayed at Nuba Nil Hotel, 2 minutes walk from the train station and in the evening we took a horse carriage around the town, it's very cheap 40LE=JD5=RM25 per hour.... In Jordan this ride is very expensive JD20=RM100 for half an hour...so, how could I resist riding it......



The next morning at 3.30 am we were all ready to get to Abu Simbel, 280km from Aswan.... there were more than 20 buses convoy to get to this temple. We have to move in a convoy since this place is located very close to the Egypt/Sudan(40km away from Sudan ) border and there was a case ( a few years ago ) a few tourists were shot dead by the guerrillas while they were on their way to Abu Simbel... However, it's funny when at first the driver told us it's a convoy and we must wait for all buses to gather at the meeting point and at 4am we were let go by the authority... it's then no more convoy, every driver tried to overtake each other just to be ahead of each other and reach Abu Simbel first.....we reached Abu Simbel at 6.45am and we had 2 hours to be there.


The view was so breathtaking, it's a combination of hills on both lands and the Lake Nasser flowing in the middle....one can get to Sudan by boat crossing the lake.....but the lake is large.

Lake Nasser

So, with 80LE= 10JD=RM50 paid for the entrance fees... there we were, facing the largest statues of 2 couples of kings and Queens of Ramsis II at the Sun Temple......











When the conservation efforts to preserve the temple from the soon-to be built High Aswan Dam and its rising waters were begun in the 1960s, the temples were dismantled and relocated in 1968 on the desert plateau, 200 feet above and 600 feet west of their original location.


The massive facade of the main temple is dominated by the four seated colossal statues of Ramsis. These familiar representations are of Ramsis II himself. Each statue, 67 feet high, is seated on a throne .



We got back to Aswan and in the afternoon, we were brought to the famous Aswan High Dam and the Philae.

Aswan High Dam.......Dam construction in southern Egypt, that exploits the water of the Nile.The construction was started in 1960, and fully finished 10 years later. The Aswan High Dam became an expression of political tensions in those days — financed by the help of the Soviet Union, a few years after the war inflicted upon Egypt by Israel, France and Britain. Of the total cost of US$1 billion, about 1/3 seems to have been a gift from the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union provided 400 technicians for the work. The lake that grew gradually from the construction, is called Lake nasser, in honour of the president Gamal Abdul Nasser, who died the year the dam was finished.The embankment is 111 metres high, with a width of near 1,000 metres. Lake Nasser is 480 km long and up to 16 km wide. The power station has a yearly output capacity of 2,1 gigawatts, but the full capacity cannot be realized because Lake Nasser's water level is lower than optimum.

Aswan High Dam

The Philae Temple..Philae Temple was dismantled and reassembled (on Agilika Island about 550 meters from its original home on Philae Island) in the wake of the High Dam. The temple, dedicated to goddess Isis. Although antiquities on the island date between the 26th Dynasty and the Roman Period, most of the work is from that of the Roman. This was a time of immense popularity of the Goddess Isis, and this was her island, where pilgrims would come from all over the Mediterranean. Construction on the island took place over an 800 year span, and it was one of the last strongholds of Ancient Egyptian Religion which continued to flourish here into the 6th Century. When the Temples where finally closed by Justinian in A.D 550, it ended 4,000 years of worship of the pagan gods.

Aswan offers a great deal of tourist attractions and the it's more fascinating as we took our Nile excursions on a felluca from Aswan to Kom Ombo ......next entry...Felluca Nile Excursion.....