Lil Ariff Birthday

Ariff turned 3 last saturday...hmm...dah besar dah dia..unfortunately i was in penang for Kak anis's wedding..and i missed his birthday bach kat alamanda...with his own selection of cake...

Seeing ariff growing up..being part of it...hard to explain...writing this thingy here...i can hear ariff playing around outside...dah petah betul bercakap with all his remarks and unbelieveable wittiness...making noises...singing all those songs from all the famous artist....my dear nephew is so updated..

As kak ijah always wrote in her blog...yupp, tak sudah sudah ariff with all his helah ...something that i can't expect from a three years old...

Hahahaha, ariff just ran in ...and asked me this question.."Boleh tak ariff makan papali?"...."buat apa nak makan papali"....silent a while, maybe fikir that papali maybe too big too eat and not that good maybe because of all that fat..."hmm...mana kuih papali yang papali makan tuh?"...."dah habis la ariff.."..."hmm dah habis...ala...nanti atuk beli kuih untuk ariff laa"...and he ran out of the room....hehehe...what was he thinking...(Hearing he saying.."sian mamaya,,,mamaya sakit ker mamaya?"....apa pulak laa dia kacau mamaya tuh....)Mana laa dia belajar suma benda tuh...hahhaa....maybe from his ummi...knowing kak ijah....hahahah...

Remembered one story..kak ijah told me about his new "tabiat"....as ariff now a kindergardener(hahahha...ada ker such word)...he woke up rather early....to get ready for his own.."work"......and after bath..he will stand in front of the mirror ...holding comb and trying hard to do something with his hair..kak ijah, looking at his effort...trying to help him..."biar ummi tolong meh"...he refused and said.."jangan laa ummi..ariff nak buat rambut macam papali.."....after sometime..he turned around ...seeking for approval.."macam rambut papali tak ummi...hensem tak ariif ummi...macam papali tak ummi..."...

Everybody can sing...yet to get the right tune, pitch, and the lyric is a difficult task..especially for a 3 years old....but not for my lill ariff....i had to honoured him with a very delicate ears to sound..that he able to capture the tune even at first hearing..."Menyanyi kerana gembira....menari kerana gembira.." with his "mic" in his hand..Among his best "performance" will be lagu my heart...and lagu papali "sampai ku menutup mata".......hmmm he just not sing it...he feel the song...ogy will definitely love him if he enter AF,as he will be able to "gali" and understand the song well......hehe....his fav song currently is izinkan ku pergi....he even able to take the high note rather perfectly...bravo lil ariff....the "next" af champ..hahaha

"mamaya bukak pintu...mamasu bukak pintu..ariff nak salam..ariff nak balik".....Yet, i guess the best thing about ariff now...is his ability to appreciate and be part of the family...he now understand that he is Ariff Hakimi, the son of ummi and abah, cucu atuk ali n nenek, ariff mamana, papali, mamaya,mamasu and kak uswa, cicit oyang doyah, abang adik aufa.....

There is nothing much more important than a family ties.....mak and abah since we all 5 beradik kecik, always instill inside every one of us..how special a family bond is....like all normal siblings fighting, gaduh etc, were part of our every day lives....and being the only boy...i was having the hard time to fit in..or maybe my sisters had tough time to live with me....prove...all of them had scars,thanks to me...Yet,mak and abah,had always keep us all together...Jani buat hal, 5 -5 kena marah, li buat salah, all the five got scolded, ya tarik muka, all the 5 kena panggil....sometime i can't understand the significant....but allah knows better, mak abah knows better....growing up....i thank that.There is nothing more important than family. As mak reminded me in one of my mak's session.."li....always remember.li...u have the best siblings in the whole world...nothing like your sisters....."......and i could not agree more....

Looking at ariff, fitting in well in the family of Atuk Ali and Nenek Nyonya...papali hope, u learn better than ur uncle....Ariff have a great potential and hopefully we all can shape and teach him to be a wonderful muslim....a 3 years old.....that is my lill nephew, Ariff Hakimi....Happy Birthday Ariff....

p/s-Slide courtesy of kak ijah at www.sup-ekor.blogspot.com

Gather at heart...

AMSA was part of my life when i was a medical student...and it had been kind of surreal for me for the past 2 months...when...memories from AMSA started to flow back into my life..

Started with my trip to bangkok..where i met Kong in MBK ....and had lunch with A and his parents...Followed by a week after that, Joel from Phillipines came to KL, where we hang around at Dome, Bukit Bintang for coffee and cake..Out of the blue, Taka from Japan called me last 2 weeks, and 2 hours later, i was sitting with him having blended mocha at coffee bean midvalley...and just few days back...i met with Adi and Winnu from Indonesia where we watched Spiderman 3 at Blitz Megaplex in Jakarta, chatted with Kristo in my apartment's living room at 1 in the morning...and playing around with Adi's niece and nephew in Cibubur...Managed to IM online with Nana in Amsterdam and Fumi in Nara yesterday..talking to Apple in Taiwan currently

In short, few things had changed, in fact the major things are....we are no longer an AMSAsian where we all met...no more a medical student...responsibilty is different....some had gain weight...(saying that...most had gained weight)...conversation shifted from clinical theory to everyday experience and personal opinion...dreams are now more realistic and objective....most grew prettier...sweeter..and matured...Love to hear and share how things had evolved in our small little world through this relatively short period of time....

Yet, something is not change ..and hopefully will never change...the bond.....the special bond...although we are from different background...yet the sincerity of an honest friendship that was grew in AMSA...nurtured a strong special bond...

Nicholas Fung, or Nick, sum it best through his sms this morning.."I know exactly what you mean. We still gather at heart".....

the long hiatus..

Yupp, it had been so long..ages as i like to say it...i always say i have lot of things to share ...but never get posted here ...I'm not sure why it was hard to write...

"Napa dah lama tak update your blog?"..."Linyer blog tak der paper yang baru pun?" ..."Ur sis blog r more updated than yours"..."Li ...bz sangat ker?"..."Writer's block yek.."...all of those statement...question....

Hmm...i don't have writer's block...neither was busy...just that ...the mood of writing was basically not there when in front of the screen..it just went blur ...and tup tap...i moved on..without living a trace in this blog of mine...

It had been 10 months since i started my journey as a doctor...it had been a rollercoaster journey...sad, happy, fear, lonely, blur, name it..there are all mixed up creating a termendous picture of my journey through this short yet "long" 10 months...

Several things happened, several things don't happened, several things just stay the same....Kak Ina is in Sydney, Aufa Zahidi is part of my life, Ariff already in kindergarden, Infectious Disease is my new love, O&G is what i'm doing right now, browsed bangkok and stayed in jakarta,hosted tv program, being 50 most eligible bachelor, involved in accident, ....that just part of it...meeting and losing people..indulging numerous tasty stuff...in and out of health...feeling up, down,and in between it...are partly, ofthe other part of it....

I know i had been missing lot of memories that i can browse through if i managed to capture it here .....yet ..they must be reason why it won't end up here ....everything must be for a reason...

Nevertheless, i'm back..had started writing back for the last one month...the little white and black book...writing in blog is interesting...but the classical way of noting the moments are best done by hand and paper...

For people who had been asking me for a long long time...it was not because of all of those reason...i was just re-organizing myself, refining my attitude, and redefining my mind....I guess...hahaha...but saying that, thank you for people who were concerned about me...i'm not blogging for people to read about myself...yet, i'm glad as people step in inside here to peek and feel what my life felt...

Hope this is the end of ....a long hiatus...