I've been to many places. Seen so many faces. But in this journey, everything was different.
At first, I was anxious, afraid and overwhelmed with disbelief. Will I ever be accepted to enter HIS house? Or even step to HIS holy land? Am I worthy to be HIS guest?
But Allah is Merciful. The door is always open for to seek HIS forgiveness.
"O My servants who have transgressed against themselves [by sinning], do not despair of the mercy of Allah . Indeed, Allah forgives all sins. Indeed, it is He who is the Forgiving, the Merciful."
[Surah Az-Zumar (The Troops) 39:53]
My sister once said, once you've been here, everything else is miscellaneous.
It was truly a blessing and I wouldn't change it for the world.
I should be very busy at this time of the year. Being a houseman, dealing with sick people, angry consultants etc. But I decided to postpone my induction due to personal reason. For now, I'm glad of the choice I've made.
My family and I went to Saudi Arabia for 3 weeks and we just came back home earlier this month. It was truly a wonderful journey. We paid ayah a visit, stayed in our beautiful second home in Jeddah, and did our Umrah and Ziarah. Alhamdulillah. Everything went well. Although it was hard for me to bid farewell to Mecca, Madinah, ayah as well as our home, I had to do it, but praying that I will come back to this miraculous place again one day, Insya-Allah. I'll write as well as post pictures about our journey in my next post.
Oh, about the above pictures, I baked a few trays of chocolate chip cookies the other day and decided to snap some pictures. I got the recipe from a dear friend and it tastes as good as it looks, believe me. I've tried tons of chocolate chip cookies recipe from a few recipe books as well from the internet since I was in primary school, and this is by far one of the best recipe I've ever tried. Just leave a comment if you want the recipe, I'm more than happy to share :)
Nasib baik tak beli sampai 3 4 paper utusan hari ni. :p Got really exicited when I opened the paper today (padahal memang dah tau masuk paper, sebab tu beli pon, kalau tak haramm nak beli paper hari2. haha) . Tak dapat jumpa, tengok dalam paper pun jadilah.
By the way, his area was not severly affected by the earthquake, but they felt it somehow. 7.5 richter scale man, even the Hiroshima Nagasaki blast recorded 5.0 richter scale.
Those were the places that we've been when we were in Sandakan, Sabah. There are a lot more interesting places that we don't have the chance to go, due to the lack of moolah as well as weekends-lah.
For wildlife enthusiast, Borneo is one place you should go! There are lots of National Parks in Sabah for you to get lost into. And for those who wants to go to their honeymoon, I recommend Semporna. You can find the most beautiful crystal clear water, white sandy beaches as well as breath-taking water-chalet in Semporna since its the getaway to multiple number of great islands i.e. Sipadan.
I surely will miss my six weeks in Sandakan, the great company and friendly people that we have make friend with. :)
And yes, my aim of 70% GO JOLI and take pictures during our stay in Sabah (refer to the previous entry) has reached its target, but the 1% aim of going to the hospital for the sake of filling up the attendance has reached above its target limit to 20%, since we went to the Medical Camping in the center of Borneo.
Today was truly a great day to go out with my big black machine, the models and two awesome mommies. Eventhough it was drizzly, but we managed to take great shots!