Aizat's Birthday

It is Aizat's 14th birthday today. I'm sure he has been telling everyone at school about it. I feel sorry for him for not buying his present today. I have been real busy. Hopefully I can do it tomorrow. Aizat is a good son. Maybe a bit lazy with his school work, but what do you expect from boys, I can live with that. The only problem I have with him is his temper. He will easily get riled up and throw his tantrums though he will get out of it as fast as he got into it. My worry is that it will affect his health if he continue in the same manner.

In the morning I sent my car for servicing. Normal 20,000km servicing and it costs me more than RM500.00. Wow. No wonder some people do not send their car for servicing until they break down.

After servicing the car and attending a meeting which was hastily called by a friend, I left for Melaka. My sister is going back to Adelaide to finish her PhD and Makcik wants to send her off at KLIA. They wanted to take the bus but I thought I might as well go back to Melaka and pick them up.

I reached Jasin at about 1:20pm, just in time for Friday prayers. Normally I would pray in my kampong but today I decided t try the new mosque in town. Actually it is not so new as it was completed a while back but I have never used it before. It was a very nice mosque but today it was only slightly more than half filled. Maybe there are too many mosques around. After Friday prayers there was a solat jenazah. Since I have some time I decided to perform this prayer. Not many people waited for it. Maybe they had to rush back to the office. Lately, I try to participate in solat jenazahs. Hopefully when it is my turn, I will have people praying for me. It turned out we were praying for a small child. The Imam read the doa and translated it into Malay which was good. At least we know what we are asking for from Allah swt. I hope the parents redha with Allah's test.

I reached Kesang and had lunch. Kampong cooked food has always been my favorite. I know today will be special what with my sister leaving for Australia. Sure enough, it was curry ayam kampong and sambal udang. Apparently my brother-in-law had a good catch of prawns the day before. So I had more than my usual share of lunch.

We left at about 3:30pm and reached Klang at 5:00. My sister's flight is at 9:30pm so I still have some time.

Quite a few things to do still:

1. Prepare letter to Pak Lah and mail to Chairman
2. Complete masjid report for AGM
3. Write Board Paper on work progress and project status
4. Prepare site visit plan to send to DOI
5. Complete tasks for Reunion
6. Collect funds for school Jogathon

I better stop before it demoralize me.

Sallams,
HBO