The Month of Ramadhan

Today is going to be my 9th day of fasting..alhamdullillah...
and insyaallah i'll make it to the 30th day.
Long-long time ago, and far, far away when i was in the States, i seldom fast..let me correct myself, i never fast...period. How could i fast in a country where most people in my university town called Denton, Tx never fast? Well, actually the so called "brothers" and "sisters" did fast and a lot of other muslims too..but noooo..not me... i was "lost" as they say... but not that lost laa..just my other half having the fun of his life then, and my other good half was told like," okay what..no parents to scold if you don't fast". That was when my good half lost to his other half, and so the story goes..

Now, I'm a married man with a lovely wife and 4 beautiful kids, though very naughty ones (the kids, I mean)...but they are the love of my life now (though photography sneaks in every now and then..hehehe!). When I look at my kids, they are 12, 9, 6, and 3 years old, and they all fast except the youngest..I'm ashamed at myself for not fasting when I was like 20 years old..My 6 years old daughter has been fasting when she was 5! Full day pulak tu! It's been that way since my first son..the wifey trained them that 
way, thank god! 
But if you were to ask my youngest, we call her Baby G, "Baby puasa tak?" She will adamantly answer," Puasa..!" even though she just had a glass of water not 30 minutes ago! Maybe she was thinking that puasa means no eating only, but drink cannnn...!!

Puasa month, my assignments in photography, normally come to a cruising speed of like 30kmh, you know the speed like when you're driving and searching for a house in a street..and last 2 ramadhans ago the speed was like no speed at all..dead stop! like you found the house you were looking for!

The past months since January 2007, it was like driving an F1 with the occasional pit stops. I could've put Schumy to shame...hehehe..Alhamdullillah..There were the kerabat's wedding at PERSADA Johor (DYMM Sultan of Johor dan kerabat DiRaja were present) the Menteri Besar of Johor and Datin, and most of the V VIPs, if not all ! It sure looked like each and every one of them was there...
Then there were the 2  photography courses that I conducted with SPACE UTM..that was another high! That was when one of my students, Izham, showed me his blogs..and then I was reading another, then another blog. Some blogs made me laugh histerically in the middle of the night! I couldn't recall which ones, but there were several..maybe I should link them here later.

Alhamdullillah, this ramadhan, next wednesday ada job! SAJ just called this afternoon to confirm assignment...hope this will start the ball rollin' for this Ramadhan, Insyaallah...