THIS IS THE END...

Assalamualaikum w.b.t.

This is the last entry of this blog.
Thank you for all the visitors and May Allah's blessing and peace be upon us all.

ZBA

From Etisalat to Batelco and now back to Streamyx...

Another Experience in Life...

To Mr. Farizal...please email me at zuhairi_ahmad@yahoo.com

Thank you.

See you later.

ZBA

Profile 2009

Experience...a short stop of a never ending.

You just accumulate experience at every tick of the time. Every moment brings you closer to the Never Ending.

If a person asks, "Tell me about yourself". What he is looking for are actually the details your experience. Experience in life. From the time you were born, i.e. from a small kampong masjid in Perlis all the way until now in Al Hoora…and to where ever next?

If an angel asks, "How did you use your time in this world?" What he is expecting are also the deeds of your experience. Experience in life. From the time you had your first wet dream all the way until you hear your last tick of time.

It is all about Experience.

It is how you are paid here...in RM or USD.
It is how you are rewarded in the hereafter...water or fire.
It is how you are decorated here…Dato’, Tan Sri or Tong Sri. Even a singer can get a Dato’ here.
It is how you are placed there…No. 1, No. 2 or No. 8. Even a poor guy can enter No. 8.

It is all about Experience...Experience in Life

So...we have to improve it for a better 'pay'.

Zbadbahrain
17/2/2009

From Dubai to Bahrain...sketchy

Sama-sama kita ingat mengingati...

Alhamdulillah di atas segala nikmat yang telah diberikan...

Apa yang dikatakan HAK kita sebenarnya adalah HAK Allah segalanya.

TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY…one experience of a journey.

The university seal

I was there from Dec 1988 until Dec 1992. Exactly 4 years. I don’t know why but today after almost 17 years, I miss Texas Tech. It was there where I learnt about Americans; the good and the bad about them. It was my first experience of being away overseas and meeting a lot of different people from all over the world. The US was a melting pot at that time. It still is. But not until I arrived in Dubai a couple years ago that I realized…Dubai is even more ‘melt’ and ‘gelled’ with human diversity.

States was booming then and leading the world in every aspect. Everybody wanted to go to the US. It’s was like a brand everybody proudly wanted to be associated with. But at present time…we may have to ask Obama how he is ‘cleansing’ the US brand.

Will Rogers Statue

It is not about the US that I’m proud to be a part of but the ‘experience’. All famous items and brands in the world today are created from the same experience, the US experience. Things like fast foods and carbonated drinks are popularized from their experience. In other words, it is not literally about the US brands but the US experience. Thus, no experience is bad experience; it is just how you use it.

The College of Architecture

For me, we want to move forward from our experience. In general, Japan is a good example of a nation which had moved and developed further the technological experiences of the west by creating something even better then called their own. In turn, Japan assaults the US and the West economically through its advanced experience. Unlike Japan however, Iran is another example of how technological experience can be literally transferred or copied. The exact US experience was reproduced and copied through a process called reverse engineering. (Read for knowledge: Here, Here , Here and Here)

Americans themselves could have obtained the experience originally elsewhere but what really matter was how they used and took advantage of it.

In Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas, what we learnt formed part of what we are now. For the whole 4 years, the academic experience contributed 50 percent of the total. In fact, I don’t know how much of that I actually used. The other half was actually the experience of life. Something that had already developed further and gave us more understanding and control of things around us. There were multitudes of good and not so good experience back then. Some still transfer and copy those experiences in their lives. Personally, what is more important is how to use them for a good course. InsyaAllah.

Like the countries that used the experience for their own good, I use the US experience to stand for what is right in my belief.

Zbadbahrain

27/01/2009

(All photos are by : Here)

Oops...Not to forget. Met the love of my life also here at TTU.

Blogging is Free...

We are now living in everything 'Free' society. At least as far as the internet and things online are concern. For the youngsters, anything online is expected to be free. The songs, the movie, mp3, mp4, the ceramah, the dakwah and everything online now are absolutely free. You can just download them and enjoy.

Goggle is giving all the people of the world free access and channels to express ourselves. There are too many of them out there. For good or for bad…it’s an absolute free publicity…what you need is an account and a keyboard to write.

Papa blog…mama blog…ustaz blog…lawyer blog…cikgu blog…pm blog…ex-pm blog…neighbor blog…friend blog…ex-friend blog…you blog.

Now…Naim also blogs.

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BARACK 'HUSSEIN' OBAMA...What's in the name.

I must say, every President of the US will start with a very good and powerful inaugural speech. There’s nothing different from what was said by Bush when he took oath 8 years ago. Inspiringly uttered only to all his supporters. A lot of empty promises which resulted in a total disaster to his own presidential legacy.

There are a lot of ‘Hope’ and ‘Change’ that people of America and the world would expect. No doubt, one powerful person from a powerful nation can bring change to the world. As much as Bush had changed this world to be as bad as it is now, we hope Obama will make it better. Not that I fully endorse him but our world will be affected one way or another by all his decisions and dreams he may have in months to come in the White House.

For us Muslims, we only pray to Allah to give us change. Nobody would be able to change anything in this world without Allah’s permission. If a person could change anything, the uncle of Rasulullah pbuh, Abu Talib, would have been Muslim before he died.

My personal feeling is that, to hear the name ‘Hussein’ to be announced during inauguration as the President of the United States has given me some positive hope. There’s no weight and relation of deeds whatsoever to the person who is bearing that name but ‘Hussein’ is the name of the beloved grandchild of the Greatest man alive.

For the good course, I only hope that by bearing the name ‘Hussein’ which the Prophet himself picked for his beloved grandchild, Barrack Hussein Obama will be the new door of respect and understanding about Islam for his people. As the first African American President being elected, people of the Unites States have changed. We hope they will change even further to accept Islam…insyaAllah.

As he said in the inaugural address: "To the Muslim world, we seek a new way forward, based on mutual interest and mutual respect.”

The rest is still just ‘Hope’.

Zbadbahrain

21.01.2009

KITA MESTI TERLIBAT...

Ramai yang mengambil sifat tidak kesah dengan keadaan di Gaza. Masalah di Gaza bukan masalah aku. Mereka yang mati. Bukan aku, bukan ahli keluarga aku. Rumahtangga mereka yang hancur. Bukan rumahtangga aku. Aku masih selamat di sini, aku masih seronok minum di Starbuck dan baru saja kenyang makan BigMac di McDonald.

Terus baca di SINI.

Upside Down Architecture...

It’s already in the human nature. When we think of a normal thing to be boring then we start to create something abnormal just to be interesting. Easily we could try using different colors or textures but those might not be catchy enough to grab attentions.

Why not we think totally out of the box and throw ourselves 'upside down'. Now, that kind of thinking has actually put some of the human creations to be crazily interesting.

There is entirely nothing special about crazy ideas because we are crazy sometimes, but to successfully create something out of craziness is a demanding challenge.

These are examples of the solutions for that craziness and abnormality.

Zbadbahrain

Upside down and crooked!

These are taken from Unusual Architecture

KHUTBAH DAN QUNUT NAZILAH...SOLIDARITI ISLAM

KLIK IMEJ:

LOGOS AFTER ECONOMIC AND GAZA CRISIS!!!

A colleague sent me an email of these logos with a title:

A LITTLE LIGHT-RELIEF IN SERIOUS TIME...

What will your logo look like when the crisis is over???

To continue or to cancel...projects in Gulf

There are a lot of uncertainties at this point for the overall Middle East development. One way or another this gloomy situation will definitely affect all of us who are expatriating here. As mentioned below, this coming March 2009 will be the critical time....to continue or cancel most of those mega projects. Cancel means retrenchment. Retrenchment means..."balik kampung". We pray for the best insyaAllah.

March is make-or-break month for Gulf market
7 January, 2009

By David Rogers from Building.co.uk.

Developers set to decide this spring whether to restart or ditch suspended schemes.
Experts are predicting that March will be the critical time for developers in the Gulf to go ahead with delayed schemes or cancel them for good.

Dubai has been hit the hardest of the emirates in recent months, and UK contractors and consultants working out there have all admitted that workload in the once booming emirate has slowed down significantly.

Spring could settle the future of projects such as the Trump Towers, recently put on hold

Now some in Dubai have claimed that this spring will be the make-or-break month for many schemes as nervous developers must decide either to go ahead with delayed schemes or to pull the plug on them completely.

Sachin Kerur, a partner at law firm Pinsent Masons, said firms will decide in March whether to press on with stalled projects as the availability of financing should become clearer then.

And Minoo Jamaji, managing director of Roshan Construction, added: “March will see banks decide how much financing is available. Plus, by March we know how the market will be.”


The worst example:

Credit crunch drives cement billionaire to suicide
7 January, 2009

By Sophie Griffiths from Building.co.uk

German owner of UK cement firms including Hanson despaired as economic downturn hit his empire
The owner of several UK cement companies has committed suicide due to financial woes triggered by the credit crunch.

German billionaire Adolf Merckle, was 94th on Forbes’ rich list for 2008, but killed himself after his business empire began to crumble in the wake of the economic downturn.

The 74-year-old tycoon made his fortune after developing a small inherited pharmaceutical firm, employing 80 workers, into Germany’s largest pharmaceutical wholesaler. Merckle’s business empire grew to include drug manufacturer Ratiopharm, and large parts of vehicle manufacturer Kassbohrer and Heidelberg Cement Group. He employed 100,000 people by the time of his demise.

HeidelbergCement acquired Hanson in 2007, but was reportedly having problems digesting its former UK competitor.

Other British firms included within the Heidelberg Cement Group include Castle Cement, recycling company SRM , and Minerals Resource Management, a firm which recycles inorganic materials into the cement industry.

BANGKIT ISLAM BANGKIT!

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Qatar-Bahrain Friendship Bridge

Qatar-Bahrain Friendship Bridge

Built: 2009 - 2013

Duration of works: 51 months

Cost: $3 Billion

Location: Between Qatar and Bahrain

Structural Type: Cable-stayed bridge

Function / usage: Road bridge

Part of: Qatar-Bahrain Causeway

Lenght: Over-40 km twin carriageway,

running over 22 km of viaductsover the sea

and 18 km of embankments

Title: The World Longest Fixed Link Bridge

Consulting engineers:
COWI Consulting Engineers and Planners AS

Contractor:
Vinci

PARIS/MANAMA - French construction company Vinci has been chosen to build what will be the world’s longest bridge, a span of 40 km that will link Bahrain and Qatar, the French weekly Le Point reported Wednesday on its website. The contract, which is worth $3 billion, was signed at the royal palace of Bahrain in the presence of Vinci’s head Yves-Thibault de Silguy.The Qatar-Bahrain Causeway, as it has been named, will reduce the time of travel between the two states from the present five hours, via Saudi Arabia, to about 30 minutes.

The Bahrain-Qatar causeway project is set to begin next year and is expected to be completed in four years.“The $3 billion causeway will have two lanes and one for emergency. The 25-mile causeway is ready for electric grid and oil pipe connections,” the Bahrain News Agency (BNA) reported Tuesday.

This longest fixed link in the world, known as the Friendship Causeway, is expected to boost the trade exchange of both countries.“The volume of commercial exchange has increased 167 percent in the last seven years. Bahrain exports industrial and aluminium products, on the other hand imports iron bars and petrochemicals from Qatar,” the Bahrain news agency said.

Construction on the bridge will begin after nine months of studies on the project have been carried out. Some 12,000 vehicles will be able to travel daily between Bahrain and Qatar when it is completed.

Currently, the world’s longest fixed bridge is the Lake Pontchartrain Causeway, which spans 38.4 kilometers. – SG

Sources for the above are from: Saudi Gazette

BAHRAIN 2030

I will be 62 years old to see this development fully developed. Hopefully this blog will be the witness if I live that long. Only God knows...


Bahrain National Planning Development Strategy Bahrain.

In 2007, following an 18-month process of research, analysis, consultation, and design, SOM submitted the Bahrain 2030 National Planning Development Strategies. The plan is the first project to inventory and propose virtually every aspect of a new national infrastructure. It exemplifies a forward-looking process designed to address the role sustainable land use development can play in guaranteeing stable, predictable, and long-term economic growth.

From the original site: Here

TIME TO ORGANIZE

Acknowledgement:


All the Islamic related entries will be updated in my 'Remember Allah' blog.
This blog is reserved for all other interests...if they may be of any interest to anybody.


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Our Protest Against Israel's Assault on Gaza

After Friday Prayer today hundreds of Muslims gathered outside Abu Baker Al-Siddiq Mosque protesting against Israel's deadly attack on Al-Ghazzah (Gaza). I was there joining and witnessing the rally. I wish the local language could serve me well but the Arabic, I know not. But the least I can do is to be there...protesting and supporting.

Takbir...Allahuakbar! Allahuakbar! Allahuakbar!

Hanya Tahun Berubah...

1. Hanya tahun yang berubah…keadaannya belum tentu.

2. Tiap-tiap tahun berazam baru dengan segala resolusi dari no.1 sampai no. 10++

3. Yang berubah sebenarnya hanyalah nombor…dulu 8 kini 9.

4. Bagi zba…nombor juga sudah berubah dari 40 kini 41

5. Talian hayat dah berkurang…satu tahun dekat kepada mati.

6. Kubur tersenyum…dunia sudah mula tidak selesa.

7. Sakit belakang dan sakit gigi...

8. Resolusi sebenar...bersedia untuk mati...should always be no. 1

9. Seperti juga target kerjaya dunia mesti tinggi dan reaslistik...maka tidak ada yang lebih realistik dari mati.

10. 2009 apa ada pada janji.

NEW YEAR 2009 TO FREE PALESTINIAN

How can one celebrate the New Year with this kind of images...

The least we can do is pray for them...

DUBAI OPERA HOUSE by ZAHA HADID

This is what you can do when you have a lot of money in your mind. I don't think they will build this one for now. The money is now literally just in mind for Dubai, at least for a year or two.

Another design by Zaha Hadid...

Just an eye pleaser but might not be the best design architecturally. My tutor once said..."difference is not necessarily good"

DUBAI OPERA HOUSE

The design calls for an exciting new cultural centre in the new Seven Pearls district of Dubai. This landmark development will accommodate an opera house, playhouse, arts gallery, performing arts school and themed hotel on an island in Dubai Creek just off the mainland part of the district. All of these facilities will be state of the art to host world class performances and exhibitions. The opera house will have a seating capacity of 2,500 while the playhouse will have a seating capacity of 800.

Read the whole thing at : Dezeen

We will see...

Where Are You Muslim Leaders!!!

How Can We Allow These Enemy of Allah Destroy our Ummah...

See it for yourself...the World has nothing to hide...

To Hell You Two!!!

Fighters in Gaza...you have my prayer

We have to take a stand.

We have been taught. We are very well learnt about this issue.

And my stand is…I am with you Muslim fighters in Gaza and fully support of you. You have my prayer…May Allah give you victory.
For those who had been killed by Zionist…May Allah forgive and give you all the high status of the shuhada.

God damn Zionist!

HAPPY NEW HIJRI YEAR 1430...it's has been a year

Today, 1st Muharram 1430 is exactly one year since I first put my steps into the world of blogging. It was during Hijrah Holiday in Dubai last year I started this blog. Maybe it was due to a bit of peer pressure or I was really looking for something to do with my time and importantly with my faculty up there in the head…my brain. People blog in Dubai, in fact almost everybody has one. While reading some of theirs I decided to have my own. Without any specific reason and theme…and undeniably for the sake of having it at that time…I started SAJAA SRONOK, my first door to blogging.

I am not a politician or political critic, not a news editor, not a businessman and certainly not a writer. I’m just a husband to a beloved wife and a father to my two sons…and that by itself is already one heck of responsibility in the Akhirat time…not to mention hardly perfect for this worldly time either.

Though there was no milestone that I can be proud of with my blog but as far as self satisfaction …I’m satisfied. Maybe it is like an ardent angler ; hours and hours wasted by the beautiful lake on the smelly boat without ensnaring a single fish is always pictured as a fully satisfied moment. Even if the actual feeling is horrible and depressing or God know what…who cares!

This blog is my blog for myself...and maybe 2.34 million bloggers out there have the same exact reason. The main thing is we don’t want to cause trouble to people and we dont't want people to find trouble with us. The only thing worth standing and dying is for the sake of Allah…the rest is insignificant.

This blog for one thing is a pure self assertion of personal taste! I like budu my wife like tempoyak…you can like whatever you want.

Happy New Hijri Year 1430…

May Allah bestow His mercy, blessing and peace to all of us and may this new year will bring us all closer to Him...insyaAllah.

Bush's Eye...

Maaan…

I really wish that shoe hit bull’s eye onto Bush’s face. It was a really a miss of lifetime opportunity. If it happens then we can change the term now for a direct hit to ‘Bush’s Eye’. What a humiliation to him...

This is a clear message to this Modern Pharaoh as how bad he had put the situation in Iraq in particular and to whole world. Not to mention that throughout the whole Islamic world…he is worth more humiliation than just being hit in the face by a shoe but rather the whole shoes in Muslim world should bear his face as insoles…

Here is the extract from Ustaz Anwar’s Blog:

The Best Shoes in the World!

Didn’t G.W. Bush say that the Americans would be greeted in the streets of Baghdad with flowers and roses?

Seven years later G.W. Bush himself is greeted with a pair of shoes!
Yesterday while Bush was speaking at the office of the Iraqi prime minister in Baghdad, an Iraqi journalist threw a shoe at the President, who ducked it, only to have the second shoe thrown at him, and again he ducked it. The President has been showing off his skills of ducking since 9-11. The man said: “This is the farewell kiss you dog!” and then he said: ““This is from the widows, the orphans and those who were killed in Iraq.”

Both, the throwing of the shoe and calling him a dog are ultimate forms of humiliation and disrespect in the Arab world. This, alHamdulillah, is proper greeting for this invader of Muslim land. But the even more proper treatment is that which is leveled against the invading troops on the streets of Baghdad.

The shoes of this journalist are better than those leaders in the Arab world who paraded their daughters to dance for Bush.

Before the Green Zone Scholars, and RAND Muslims, the promoters of the fiqh of humiliation, step up to the stage in defense of Bush and claim that this act is ‘against the Sunnah!’ let it be known that the Muslim is kind with the disbeliever who is decent and pays due respect to Islamic authority, but the Muslim is harsh against the arrogant and the transgressor. The words of Rasulullah to the leaders of Quraish were: “I came to with slaughter,” Abu Bakr cursed the disbelievers in Hudaybiyyah, and Omar would consistently beat these disbelievers, curse them and threaten them. On another note, and as ridiculous as it may sound, for those who say that al Maliki is “wali amr” and as Muslims we should not revolt against him, is this journalist at sin for not having sought the permission of al Maliki to throw his shoes? Because to them, this is definitely an act of fitnah!

Unfortunately he missed. As someone on the net has rightfully stated:
“Nobody wants to see President Bush being missed by a flying shoe like this. It’s a once in a lifetime opportunity that has been missed here.”

In the End, if anyone of you gets to know the brand of shoes this journalist was wearing please inform us about it. We would all like to go out and buy some, in solidarity with our brother!

$2.1bn Bahrain Lagoon...another good place for the Modern Nomad

The current economic down turn seems NOT to be affecting these people in Bahrain. Or maybe this is one way to boost up the economy by giving the public some hope and confidence...masquerading the actual truth. Whatever that is, this kind of news gives 'the Modern Nomad' like us some new hope of a better oasis...insyaAllah.



A new $2.1 billion development will soon be built between two causeways in Bahrain after council officials gave their conditional approval to plans. The Municipal Council on Thursday gave the Bahrain Lagoon project in Manama the green light following negotiations on the design and access to the scheme. It will be built between the Shaikh Isa and Shaikh Hamad causeways, featuring two five-star hotels, residential and office apartment buildings, a public park, an open market and a food court.

The project, to be developed by Retaj, will be developed on land that is privately owned as well as belonging to the General Organisation for Social Insurance (Gosi), Gulf Daily News reported on Friday. "Retaj has agreed to our terms and conditions to have the seafront and roads open to the public," council technical committee chairman Hameed al-Basri told the paper. "The project will not be open for business until environmental and technical aspects are fulfilled and other authorities concerned approve it."

From:

ArabianBusiness

Masa dan ekonomi...belon hampir pecah!

Lama tak menulis...

Urusan kerja banyak mengambil masa harian. Masa lebih yang sedikit hanya untuk rehat dan dimanafaatkan untuk yang lebih memerlukan...hmmmm. Kadang2 terfikir, Allah memberi setiap insan masa yang sama 24 jam sehari, 365 hari setahun namun pencapaian sesetengah manusia terlalu besar dan agung. Terlalu jauh berbanding dengan kita. Banyak yang telah mereka capai dan terlalu banyak jasa yang sempat dicurahkan. Contoh? Tak perlulah, terlalu banyak, lihat saja sahabat2 yang telah berjaya di dunia dan nampak macam akan berjaya juga di akhirat….

Tanyalah diri kita sendiri sejauh mana kita menggunakan masa untuk kebajikan dunia dan akhirat…masa adalah yang paling bernilai di kala ini. Masa yang baik dan digunakan untuk amalan2 soleh dan kebajikan. Masa yang sempat digunakan untuk berpesan2 dengan perkara yang hak dan berpesan2 dengan kesabaran. Masa yang digunakan sebeginilah yang akan menjadi matawang yang tak ternilai di akhirat nanti.

Sebut tentang masa…

Sekarang dunia mengalami masa kejatuhan ekonomi. Bila disebut perkataan ‘jatuh’ maka pasti ada yang akan merasa sakitnya. Kalau menunggag basikal laju2 maka jatuhnya amatlah pedih…ada yang patah gigi dan ada yang patah tulang. Kadang2 yang di tepi jalan juga terkena sakitnya. Dan yang di tepi jalan itulah kadang2 lebih sakit kerana tidak bersedia di masa itu...dan kita kebanyakkannya berada di tepi jalan.

Jika wang dapat membeli masa…maka ‘Dubai’ sudah pasti membelinya. Dan jika Dubai mampu membeli masa itu maka ianya sudah pasti yang terbanyak di dunia. Kenapa? Kerana ‘Dubai’ masih belum cukup masa untuk membuktikan kepada dunia bahawa mereka 'berkuasa' untuk memecah segala rekod dunia lagi! Tidakkah kita tahu bahawa mencipta satu rekod secara tidak lansung mungkin akan mencipta satu rekod yang lain juga? Jika 'Dubai' mencipta rekod sebagai negeri tercepat memajukan ekonomi bertaraf dunia dalam jangkamasa belasan tahun sahaja, dengan segala rekod 'terbesar' dan 'terpanjang'...tidakkah ianya akan memecah rekod juga menjadi negeri paling cepat atau paling teruk jatuh merudum...hanya Allah yang tahu.

Yang pasti kini Dubai tidak mampu membeli masa itu...dan masa, di ketika dan saat ini akan meninggalkan Dubai sebagai satu fantasi yang belum selesai...

Semasa berada di Dubai, naluri ini dan setiap insan yang melihat pertarungan mencakar langit dapat merasai sendiri bahawa 'belon ekonomi ini' akan pecah...namun ramai yang tidak menjangka ianya boleh berlaku begitu cepat. Persoalannya adakah ianya sudah pecah?!

Melihat kepada berita-berita di media massa...keadaan buat masa ini adalah tidak menentu...

Semoga sahabat2 di Dubai selamat semuanya...dan semoga yang di Bahrain ini juga dikekalkan rezekiNya di masa ini dan di masa-masa akan datang...insyaAllah.

Amatilah berita2 ini...(click the headlines for the full coverage)

• UAE-based developer Tameer is to lay off around half of its workforce amid the slowdown in the local real estate market caused by the global financial crisis, Arabian Business has learnt.
  

• Emaar Properties chairman Mohamed Ali Alabbar said on Monday there “might be” redundancies at the company due to the downturn in the local real estate market.
  

• A “significant portion” of unexecuted projects in the UAE will likely be cancelled or postponed in 2009 due to the global financial crisis, Moody's Investors Service said on Monday.
  

• With the world economic crisis continuing to get worse and worse and the price of oil dipping into the 40's we are witnessing an extremely negative effect in the Dubai real estate market

• DUBAI: The UAE government-controlled property giant Nakheel said yesterday it has made redundant 500 of its staff, 15 percent of its global workforce, because of the global financial crisis and that it would be scaling back work on some of its projects.
  

• A total of 200 employees have lost their jobs at Dubai-based Damac Group, the property company confirmed on Monday.

Masa dan ekonomi...

Ingatlah Allah di masa kita senang...nescaya Allah mengingati kita di masa susah.

Happy 15th Anniversary…28th November 2008

Masa begitu cepat berlalu...

Pejam celik…pejam celik…
Dah 15 tahun aku bersama isteri tersayang.
Tidak ada yang lebih indah pada hari ini bila ku bangun
dan melihat isteri di sisi.

Banyak pahit manis yang dilalui.
Banyak sejuk panas yang dirasai …
Namun yang menjadi ukuran ialah hasilnya,
kemanisannya,
kebahagiaannya,
ketenangannya aku bersama isteri dan anak2 ku…
Di kala ini dan di saat ini…Alhamdulillah.

15 tahun kita bersama…

Aku bersyukur kerana telah diberiku isteri sepertimu…
Engkaulah yang satu…

Aku bersyukur atas doa-doamu terhadapku...
Di belakangku sokonganmu yang padu

Aku bersyukur kaulah yang paling memahami…
Segala karenah, ego dan kekuranganku berjaya kau selami

Aku bersyukur makan minumku anak-anakku terjaga rapi…
Air tanganmu mengubat hati dan menambah kemesraanku

Aku bersyukur rumahtangga...hatiku terurus…
Tenang harianku melangkah ke hati...dan ruang tamumu

Aku bersyukur atas segalanya…
Semoga berkekalan kita dan menjadilah kita insan2 yang bersyukur…

Ameen…ameen Ya Rabbil A’lameen.

Happy Anniversary my dear.

AL QURAN READING...

Alhamdulillah

The Ustaz teaches the kids every Friday and Saturday morning at 10.00.

Ustaz Hadi and my 2 sons...

Go back to the basic...

BAHRAIN PROJECT UPDATE 5

New Raffles City Bahrain, hopes to attract new investment with its unique ‘wave,’ inspired design

Located in the heart of Bahrain Bay the new development of Raffles City, designed by Rafael Viñoly Architects, will offer 4,300,000 sq ft of mixed use residential and retail space. The design for the ambitious project is formed by four separate sites that gradually slope downwards towards the seafront promenade, architecturally linked by a series of ‘waves’ which emanate from the waterfront and culminate with four concave leaning towers.

The multi-billion dollar project, which aims to be completed in 2012, promises to transform the Bahrain Bay skyline with its distinctive design and it is hoped will attract investment for international conglomerates and brands.

Three curved high-rise towers form the culminating gesture of the wave design, which will incorporate luxury apartments and two-storey penthouse suites with views overlooking both the Arabian Gulf and Bahrain Bay itself. The fourth tower, which sits slightly in front of the other three, will encompass serviced apartments. Forty-seven apartments sitting below the towers comprise the development’s most exclusive residences, each featuring a private swimming pool, landscaped terrace, courtyard and drive-way to a parking garage.

The terraced arrangement of these villas not only affords unrestricted views to the centre of the bay and centre of Bahrain, but also provides privacy that belies the urban nature of the project. The design is inspired and derived from souks, or markets, which are the hive of commercial activity in Arabic culture and it is hoped the development will attract a similarly bustling business and commercial aesthetic.

John Edwards

Reporter

BISMILLAH...

From my Remember Allah blogspot: HERE

THEY WILL NEVER STOP...racing to 'heaven'

Pak Arab yang sentiasa berlumba mencakar langit...

...dan meredah lautan.

...mencari syurga di dunia.

NAKHEEL HABOUR & TOWER

Nakheel of Dubai is preparing for a Mega Project which will be another world's tallest skyscraper! A battle that will astound the world! At this year's Cityscape Dubai, Nakheel unveiled a new landmark project called Nakheel Harbour and Tower.

This new tower that will surpass Burj Dubai in height and grandeur! ( Burj Dubai pun belum siap lagi....)

NAKHEEL TOWER:

The height of Nakheel Tower will be over 1km (3,280 ft.),
Total cost will be over $38 Billion,
The tower was designed by Woods Bagot architects,
Nakheel Tower will be located in the center of New Dubai near Jebel Ali,
The tower will be a combination of four individual towers joined at various levels and centered on a single open atrium,

Design elements for the tower will contain themes from Spain’s Gardens of Alhambra, Egypt’s Harbor of Alexandria, Iran’s Isfahan Bridges, and Morocco’s Promenade of Tangier,
The tower will have over 150 elevators, more than 200 floors and will take an estimated 500,000 cubic meters of concrete to construct,

A 100 room ultra luxurious hotel will be located at the top of Nakheel Tower,

Project completion estimated for 2020.

Please watch the Habour Movie here: http://www.nakheelharbour.com/

INCLINED TOWER, DUBAI

Capital Gate to become Guinness Book of Records' most inclined tower?

As Construction of Capital Gate continues ADNEC, the developers, and RMJM, the project’s architects, have submitted a joint application to the Guinness Book of Records to recognize the tower as the 'most inclined in the world'.

The 35 storey gravity defying feature tower will lean westward 18 degrees, 4 times as far as the Leaning Tower of Pisa which currently leans 3.97 degrees.

Because of its unique posture, Capital Gate is being constructed on top of an incredibly dense mesh of reinforced steel. The dense mesh sits above an intensive distribution of 490 piles which have been drilled 30 meters underground to accommodate the gravitational, wind and seismic pressures caused by the lean of the building. Features of the tower include 728 unique custom-made diamond-shaped glazing panels that due to the structure's curving shape will be fitted at a slightly different angle.

David Pringle, CEO, RMJM Asia and the Middle East commented: “Capital Gate will be one of a kind. Its graceful, asymmetric diagonal structure, known as a ‘diagrid’, supports the tilting external load of the building and we believe that this is the first building in the world to use a pre-cambered core.”

Capital Gate will accommodate the 5-star ‘Hyatt at Capital Centre’ hotel and will provide exclusive office space in Abu Dhabi.

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