Missed Opportunity..Perhaps?

This current entry will be "Missed Opportunity..perhaps?"

I don't usually talk about my past relationships hence this entry will be vague... but those who know me well enough will know what I'm writing about. This blog helps me put down my thoughts and put things into perspective. When it comes to relationships some people say I'm choosy or too cautious-perhaps I am but when I was carefree I only ended up getting hurt..
To me relationships isn't something to be taken lightly. I'm not into having one night stands or short flings.

Coming back to the title of this entry:
When I went back home in June, I met HIM for the first time. I've been hearing a lot about HIM in the last year and I wasn't too sure whether he would be my type. I was pleasantly surprised..proper gentleman with a sense of adventure although a bit of a mummy's boy kot.

Nevertheless , I thought not bad...I believe the way someone treats their mother is reflective on how he will treat his wife..insya-allah. What I would probably wanted to find out more would be whether he is a good Muslim-even someone with a good character kalau tak practice then I'm not interested. But all that takes time which I do not have considering how far apart we were...
We had a lot in common but in the conversation I found out he was seeing someone already. Missed opportunity..damn! Even if I wanted to keep in touch with him distance between Malaysia and London is too long...

When I went back again for puasa, I met HIM again and I met the girlfriend-I was a bit taken aback-she was SO similar to me it was surreal.
I acted cool as I always do and secretly I didn't want to like her but we actually got on. I wondered if I had come back home to settle down earlier that could've been me with HIM instead of her? I don't know whether we would've got together but there could have been a chance..
Jodoh itu Allah yang tentukan...

There are a lot of things I've enjoyed being in London but sometimes I feel like my relationships have suffered because I've been here too long. I know people say you don't know where your jodoh will be but I think it is very unlikely I will find it here.

Perhaps another opportunity will come...I hope so 2010...

Random thoughts

I am writing yet again waiting for my flight to london. It seems like the only time I have these days in updating this blog is at the airport. Just a few random thoughts I have going through my mind...

1. Since I started my new job I've been lucky enough to work in the Middle East- the work has been challenging but interesting. My new workmates are nice enough and as a newbie I am trying to fit into the crowd but what I like in the company is that diversity in the workplace is accepted and actually is seen to be working...well so far anyways....

2.After my assignment I went back to Malaysia to spend Ramadhan back home. It was my second trip back home this year which is a rarity-Since it was Ramadhan I wanted to be at home more but I still met up with my peeps-thanks for taking time out to see me. :)

I'm a bit worried about my parents and where we are staying at the moment. Everyday we hear of news about people breaking into houses and more worryingly killing residents in order to get a few valuable things in innocent people's homes. We already had a group of workers breaking into our house in Sg Buloh already earlier this year. There were about four of them breaking into our house early in the morning as soon as we had switched the alarm off in order to open the windows in the morning. My parents were in Penang at the time but the criminals tied up our maid and my dad's stewards at the time. They crashed our house but didnt manage to take anything valuable since we don't keep anything majorly valuable in the house. Fortunately, the maid and the stewards were released and managed to escape. The criminals fled the house with some of our things but alhamdulillah no one was hurt. But I can't help wondeirng if we're not so lucky next time....

What the criminals didn't know was that their criminal act had been caught in our CCTV security camera which was passed to the police but no one has been caught just yet.

There have been more break in cases in my area and all we can do at the moment is take as many safety precautions as we can like: installing alarms, barbed wire round the house and securty cameras.

This is not a rare case because it is happening everywhere around Malaysia. We have become very wary of people and strangers passing by the house in case they might be monitoring what goes on at our home and when to strike...There are security guards patrolling the area but sometimes even some of the secutry guards are in on the act. Who can we trust nowadays??

3. Lastly I am worried about the way Malaysia is heading at the moment...Malaysia is going through political change as well as coping with the global financial crisis: What I think is sad are the politicians are bickering away on who wants political power and parties talking about having a handover of government. This is all happening at the cost of the Malaysian taxpayers. I wonder when we will see the politicans stop playing their games and actually start getting on in addressing the concerns of the people e.g. the rising cost of inflation, how Malaysia is going to minimise the effects of the global financial crisis and addressing the social problem of immigration in Malaysia.

Someone should be 'man' enough to put a stop to all this bickering and actually get on with the real job in hand....
I wonder who it will be ..if it ever happens....

We are the same...everywhere..

As I am sitting here in the airport lounge in the Middle East waiting for my next destination-I decided to watch Queen Rania's you tube vidoes in addressing some of the stereotypes and misconceptions of the Arab world...
This was a project which she set up for five months from April 2008-Aug 2008 whereby You Tube users all over the world could send in questions about the Arab world covering topics like terrorism and rights of Arab women.
I admire what she is trying to do and using technology as a means to reach people..

There should be more people like that in the world...

Let's all try to beat stereotypes and misconceptions about Islam.
Here is a clip which I found truly touching: enjoy!