Nothing & Everything

Last month, we brought Al-Walad to Sentosa Island. He was very excited and we enjoyed ourselves a lot. It was his first time there and for some of us, the first time there after a long time.

My mom went together with us and so did my two sisters. My eldest sister brought along her family too which included her twin son and daughter. So, armed with my trusted Sony Ericsson w810i camera phone, I managed to piece together a little video of our outing. Please click on the link below and I hope you enjoy it...

muhammad@sentosa

There are also some photos that I took during the Sentosa trip which have just been uploaded to my photo album.

I have neglected this blog for quite a bit. I only wished I was not so busy. A lot of things happened during the past month. Israel air strikes on the Hezbollah in Lebanon prompting the latter to declare an open war. Another tsunami hit the Javanese coast costing close to 400 lives.

And here we are, busy with our mundane lives. Engrossed in our daily greed to be number one. We are so buried in our own personal desires that we forget to think about others. We forget how to act in times of emergency. Take for an example the incident reported in the papers about some ambulance crew trying to transport a collapsed patient down the elevator of a shopping center. They had to endure other shoppers who are determined to squeeze into the elevators and alight at their desired floors. What if the patient had died? What if the few seconds he/she needed to be saved are wasted by another shopper wanting to get to the Levi's Store on the 3rd floor? What if it was us, ourselves, on that stretcher?

Well, just as long as it ain't me...or is it?

Just the other day, I was on a bus on the way to work. Dreading the imminent onslaught of work later on, I decided to take a peek outside the bus window. I saw a snazzy white sports car, complete with all those ah-beng-ish decals. The design was too corny for my taste. But then, I spotted a caption at the back of the car which became the highlight of my day and what I like to call, my smiling-point. The caption read :

Speed like lightning, Crash like thunder

Oh! The irony! Well, at least the driver got one thing right. -wink-