A Father’s Day gift from A’isyah

Yesterday morning A’isyah came to me with a (late) Father’s Day gift. I didn’t get the chance to spend the day with her this weekend, but this made up for it. She gave me a card:

a cake (had some of the cake with A’isyah this morning):

and a photo-frame, with a picture of us.

After a bit of hunting down, I managed to date the picture. It was taken on 26 October 2006, just after A’isyah’s first birthday. We had stopped by at Cameron Highlands on the way back to KL from Ipoh. This was about six weeks before moving to Dubai.

The full-sized picture is here.  (My, I was rounder back then.)

World Cup Fever is here

Actually, it arrived about a week ago, and we’re in full swing already. There are already teams who have booked their place in the round of 16. I haven’t watched all the games, but thanks to Astro, I’ve at least watched the highlights of every game. There have been some good games, and there have been some shocking results. Some early favourites haven’t performed up to mark (see the lackluster Spain, or the uninspiring England), and some teams have done better than expected (see Ghana, the only African team to win their opening game).

Now if only my work schedule would cooperate and give me the time to watch the key games. :-)

Starting a photo-blog

So, I’ve decided to start my own photo-blog. It’ll probably be as infrequently updated as this blog (hehe), but I wanted a place for me to share certain pics. I haven’t decided yet how public I’ll be, but I recently set up a Flickr account to share pics with certain people. That didn’t work out very well, so my Flickr account was just lying dormant. Then I decided I might as well use it for something. Plus, I didn’t want to clutter up this blog (which is sorta like a journal) with too many photos.

So here we go! What I see welcomes visitors.