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. . . nawtee in nottingham (20th-23rd Sept). . .

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assalamualaikum finally after years of dreamin, i finally set foot in the UK. well, i was actually expecting to go to the main centre city, London but then again Nottingham counts as UK too. plus that the fact that Robin Hood once lived here (i'll get to that later)... i did expect it to b cold but was suddenly shocked bcoz it was quite windy. bear in mind, cold+wind is a deadly weather to me. every part of my body would be stiff cold (dont go thinking 'that part', please, kids might be reading this) i wished that my cousins n friends would've come last week as Geneva had an official 2 days off of work, Jeune Genevois (2-days respect for the dead) n a bonus of Saturday n Sunday which means a 4 day leave. i had to take a 2-day advance leave the following week for d sake of my cousins n friends (something which i did in vain as i planned to use all my annual leaves for visiting Brunei d next few years). anyvain, i loved Nottingham. apart from the finger-ear freezing weath

. . . ramadhan al mubarak . . .

assalamualaikum bagi sekalian umat muslimin n muslimat di seluruh dunia, tak kira dmana mereka berada, terutama mereka2 di Negara Brunei Darussalam ku yg indah permai... SELAMAT BERPUASA! sadang2 tah... tahan2 tia dulu parut tu. apa jua ganya sebulan. bulan2 lain ia jua nya abis ngasak makan saja. gerenti ada jua yg garut parut... denyut2 kepala... tais liur mliat makanan sana sini... gerai ramadhan bjuritan urang membali makanan... i miss all that ;-( anyways, yet again, selamat berpuasa. wassalam

. . . saturdays & food . . .

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assalamualaikum (this blog was supposed to be posted on the 30th Aug) ahhh... another peaceful day after a long week of work (more of like surfing endlessly n downloading tons of things...) another casual saturday which always seem to excite me even though there is a 95% chance that i will spend it sleeping through the whole day. however, for this saturday, i really wanted to go out & walk all day since next week is the start of Ramadhan... yaaaayy!!! s season of forgiveness n cleansing... (as well as starving... hehehe). this Ramadhan i think will be semi-grueling due to the fact that one; its still summer n its hot as it can be... two; breaking fast would be somewhere around 820pm... another extra few hours compared back in Brunei, it'll be around 630pm at the most... and so begins my mission to find, as always on my off days, things to stuff my ever hungry stomach. saturday is such a perfect day to find food, bearing in mind that i am also a lazy-ass who is lazy enough not t