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March 29, 2011

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Farewell, Prince Philip

Caption: Screenshot of various online news on the passing of Queen Elizabeth II's husband, the late Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh sourced from the Internet. BY the time you read this, Operation Forth Bridge has been completed and the Duke of Edinburgh, the late Prince Philip has been laid to rest. Like many who read of his passing on April 9, memories related to Prince Philip just came flooding back. For me, it brought me back to the time I was sitting for SPM in 1986 at an all-girls boarding school in Seremban. Stressed out (and sometimes bored) and looking for some relief, a group of friends and I (I think there were 5 of us) decided to write to "someone famous" and get the person to wish us Good Luck. So there we were -- movie stars or pop stars wouldn't cut it for us, we decided to write to royalty. Not Princess Diana, our teenage minds thought, because she would be receiving too many fan mail but someone who would have the time to read through his mail an...

It's now or never..

So, I've finally done it..succumbed to this urge to have my own blog. After years and years on my day job observing the ins-and-outs of the IT industry in Malaysia (this dates way back to the days when there were no such place as Cyberjaya and Putrajaya, when the only Net connection was dial-up, when the only social network was the IRC chat-rooms, yada yada yada..), I've finally gone and signed up for one. A bit late with twitter, tumblr and what-not are already on the scene, don't you think.. It was at a media session with Mizz Nina (hey! I know who Mizz What-You-Waiting-For Nina is...) that sparked off the interest for real. I was there to interview the fashionista-songstress for a story on twitter, when I met Chen Tian Chad. I was unfashionably early for a Jalan Conlay do at 9.30am and so was he and so we struck a conversation. He gave me a card (with Man About Town being one of his self description..) and I gave him mine and the lack of other company got us yak...

When four generations get together..!

I had a very busy Christmas weekend as you can see below. I just love my family and the get together was a great way to end 2011. Story below courtesy of the New Straits Times :) BATU KIKIR: If you have ever been to a sleepy hollow called Batu Kikir in Negri Sembilan in the 70s, you might have visited a shop belonging to the late Haji Abdul Hamid Bin Haji Ismail. At this shop he made a variety of songkok to be used daily by his customers or even for special occasions. If not for the songkok, you might have visited his shop to post letters or packages for he was the postal service representative before there was an offical Post Office in town. Of Minang blood, the quiet and slim man was also know as Cikgu Hamid to some for before he opened up his songkok business, he was a religious teacher to many. To commemorate his passing 30 years ago, 200 of his descendants met up in Batu Kikir over the weekend for the inaugural get-together of family members. ...

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