al-Ishs

yesterday afternoon, i had this precious moment when daud and i were alone in our lounge room.

we were sitting by a window where we could see the sky easily. he pointed to the sky and said, “papa, look. cloud moving.” suddenly, i remembered when i had been about his ago now, i had sat by my parents’ house veranda. i had looked to the sky and just watched the clouds moving with a good feeling. and that feeling came again yesterday.

thank you, my boy. you had no idea how precious it was for me. although i didn’t say thanks because i didn’t think you would understand why, know that i was grateful, and i still am.

please welcome yunus shiddiq ishs, a new addition to our family.

he was born on 27 july 2009 at 3:56 pm in melbourne, australia.

may god always guide him.

my album, “visions”, is out already! you can buy it from cd baby.

i wrote a new song yesterday, “birth of love”. it almost resembles the popular “happy birthday”. it’s also short.

what’s news… my beloved wife is pregnant. it’s about 10 weeks now.

i managed to get my green p plate after failing once. i failed my test in broady, and then went to an alien land, hoppers crossing, and got it there. yet i still find driving a hard thing to do.

i recently met a lot of high school friends in facebook. i decided to create a group for ‘95 alumni (facebook login required). if you’re on of them, please join.

two days ago, siraaj mentioned the phrase “baraka flow” again… and i’ve been thinking about it. how does one know what their baraka flow is? hm, interesting.

two days ago, i passed my hazard perception test.

i’ll do my driving test in the next two months.

today, we had a lot of fun having a trip… to our backyard.

we ate together under a big tree there. we had fried noodles and tuna fillets. yummm…

daud needed to wipe his hand. so, he did it… on me.

and daud also had fun playing with his ball.

we finished by praying together there.

last night, i spent about 2 hours producing 3 hard-copies of my thesis (as rmit requires). 2 hours??? yeah, several accidents happened. i printed one copy on the cave, took it upstairs to the data preparation room, made two copies of it, and now i was ready to bind them… and i wasn’t. i noticed that the photocopier produced extra visible lines. ugh, if i were the examiner, i wouldn’t care, but you know, academics, while some of them have really low expectations for artistic presentations (see the posters in conferences to see pixellated images), some of them can be absurdly finicky (“your paper is good, but i don’t like it. i flag it as ‘reject’.” i’m not kidding. it happened to my senior supervisor). therefore, i printed another one. and to speed up the process, i tried to print another copy to another printer. my access was blocked for printers other than the one at the cave! what happened? anyway, gayan helped me printing another one. thanks, mate.

and then, the laborious task of binding… creating the holes, putting the pages in, and tada. i gave them to beti, and phew. wish me luck, everyone.