The two-week trip....

Watching Gulliver's Travel last Friday plus being reminded again and again of the two-week trip...

It is already more than a year.... the two-week trip to Germany.... Hildesheim to be exact...

The trip for work... while with my previous company... there was a joke there that says once you got a chance for business trip, you are then qualify to resign.... that was what I did...!!!!
Just to prove them right!!!

When I was told that I was required to go there, I was initially excited.... then I learnt that I will be traveling alone... and there the worries started... and so the net traveling started... finding more about the place I'll be going... asking around from those who have been there... what to bring... how to travel around....

Then the journey started... the flights.... penang - singapore - frankfurt - hanover......All in all including the transits it took 24 hours to reach the hotel from bayan lepas airport....

When I landed in frankfurt, I actually cried.... part of me glad that I finally landed in germany, part of me sad for being there alone.... who am I to talk to??... hey, it was the first time I'm at that side of the world.. don't I deserve some company to be excited about???...

Hildesheim is around 40 minutes drive from hanover airport... i actually saw some rabbits hopping around at the airport, while the plane is landing..... and it was cool... at that time, it was supposed the summer time... but I guess the summer that year started a bit late.... ;)

This was where I stayed... Burgermeisterkapelle....Translated as 'the mayor chapel' if i'm not mistaken... A small family-business hotel... with small, limited rooms at reasonable price....50 euro per nite... equivalent to around rm250 at that time.... the rate is better now, I think... It was run by a couple, the wife at the front desk and the husband was the chef... they are friendly but our conversation was limited due to language barrier... I remember their 6-years old son asking whether I speak Deutsch... and he doesn't speak English... and so, the end...

They have all the nice tv series.... csi, grey's anatomy etc... except that everything is in germany, translated... nothing in english with subtitles... left me with no choice to watch... CNN channel... anyway, at that time it was the bird flu outbreak... maybe CNN is just the right channel to watch...!!!

Enough I think... before everyone gets bored....

Getting a new gadget.....

Remember Inspector Gadget????
"Next time, gadget..... next time..." Always at the end....

It's different now in what people look for when getting new handphone... explaining why it's more of a gadget now instead of serving its original purpose of invention...!!!!

Accompanying a friend getting his new one recently, opened me up to all other features of current latest models... Things people put special interest in a handphone....
Keyboard aka papan kekunci.... for updating blogs, fb, twitter via mobile....
Touch screen display... for searching for the 'look for' icon from the many on the screen...
Speaker, sound... for listening to the music...

And the fact is... ringing of incoming calls is no longer a feature people are interested in....!!!!
Hmm....

Complete and Finished....

People say there is no difference between
COMPLETE & FINISHED.
But there is.....
When you marry the right one, you are COMPLETE.....
And when you marry the wrong one, you are FINISHED.....
And when the right one catches you with the wrong one, you are…………
....COMPLETELY FINISHED....


... from the morning mails....

Are you a conservative or liberal..???

Another courtesy from 'morning mails'....

If a conservative doesn't like guns, he doesn't buy one.
If a liberal doesn't like guns, he wants all guns outlawed.

If a conservative is a vegetarian, he doesn't eat meat.
If a liberal is a vegetarian, he wants all meat products banned for everyone.

If a conservative is homosexual, he quietly leads his life.
If a liberal is homosexual, he demands legislated respect.

If a conservative is down-and-out, he thinks about how to better his situation.
A liberal wonders who is going to take care of him.

If a conservative doesn't like a talk show host, he switches channels.
Liberals demand that those they don't like be shut down.

If a conservative is a non-believer, he doesn't go to church.
A liberal non-believer wants any mention of God and religion silenced. (Unless it's a foreign religion, of course!)

If a conservative decides he needs health care, he goes about shopping for it, or may choose a job that provides it.
A liberal demands that the rest of us pay for his.

If a conservative reads this, he'll forward it so his friends can have a good laugh.
A liberal will delete it because he's "offended."

So... where do you belong???

Nice songs....

I have always like songs with deep lyrics... Nice and meaningful words arranged perfectly, describing the special bonding... listening to the lyrics is just comforting, blending you with the stories told... although most of the time it was trying to guess the words before looking for the correct words in the net.. and the next time you listen to the song, it was time to sing along...

Butterfly Kisses by Bob Carlisle is always my favourite.... Especially the part where it says...
"With all that i've done wrong, i must have done something right....
To deserve her love every morning and butterfly kisses at nite...."
And it was sang deep from his heart.... so touching.... any daughter hearing her father singing this song will have tears in the eyes.... kalau pitching tak lari la.... ;)
Thanks for putting this song in fb ya..!!! (You know who you are....)

Another one that I like is "Just the two of us"... Will Smith version.... from a father to his son...
And for that, he actually invested a full Karate Kid movie.... just for jaden... nice song, nice lyrics sang with a more relax way but still without fail touch your heart... mine yes, others not so sure...!!!

Well.... my father...
Sometimes there are simple things he did and i just feel his love... especially since he is not easy with words...
when he held me close walking under umbrella on rainy days, while another hand holding the umbrella...
when he went out early in the morning to get breakfast because his daughter was supposed to go out earlier then other days...
when he willingly accompany his daughter for istiqara, when the daughter needed some signs...

and yet... this daughter knows that somehow in some way she is yet to make him happy...... hmmm......