Hari Raya terakhir

Bersama Haizir pada Hari Raya 2010


Aidilfitri 1431H merupakan Hari Raya terakhir buat Busu Jalil, suami kepada adik bongsu arwah ibu saya, Busu Lijah. Busu Jalil telah kembali keRahmah Allah pada hari Isnin 22 Ogos 2011 bersamaan 22 Ramadhan 1432H. Allahyarham memang telah lama tidak sihat dan sering keluar dan masuk hospital.

Minggu lepas, sepupu saya memaklumkan kepada saya bahawa Busu Jalil tidak sihat dan berada dirumah anak beliau di Kajang. Saya yang dalam kesibukan (bila agaknya kita tidak sibuk?)tidak sempat menziarah beliau. Malah saya beranggapan akan dapat bertemu beliau semasa Hari Raya yang tinggal tidak berapa hari lagi. Saya sebenarnya lupa bahawa ketentuan Allah tidak mengambil kira perancangan kita.

Akhirnya saya cuma sempat menziarah jenazah beliau pada hari Selasa, 23 Ogos 2011. Syukur juga saya sempat berbuat demikian walaupun terpaksa berhenti dua kali dalam perjalanan Kuala Lumpur ke Melaka dan sekali dalam perjalanan pulang kerana terlalu mengantuk.

AlFatihah untuk Busu Jalil. Semoga dipermudahkan jalan bertemu Pencipta.

A small part of Dubai in Pictures

Uncle Didi commented in my earlier post why there there was no photos of Dubai. So here goes.

Burj Khalifa (in the background), presently the tallest building in the world

A giant aquarium in Dubai Mall, purportedly the largest mall in the Middle East or was it the world?

Another image of the aquarium

In an area called the "Gold Souq" where there were numerous jewellery shops

A waterfall in the Mall

This was what I had for Iftar in my hotel room

One of the mosques that I went to for my tarawikh prayers

Inside the mosque, after prayers

Outside view of the mosque

The hotel where I stayed in Dubai

At the restaurant where we normally had our Iftar

With my hosts at Iftar

At our Principal's office

Sunrise as seen from the plane just before reaching KLIA

Dubai was too hot when I was there. As such, I only left my hotel when going to the office for my meetings except for the one day that I went to Dubai Mall.

First Ramadhan in Dubai

It is the first of Ramadhan 1432Hijri and I am in my room at Al Bustan Rotana Hotel in Dubai. I arrived yesterday, Sunday, 31 July 2011 for a meeting which was scheduled to take place today. The meeting was however rescheduled for tomorrow as my colleague from Beirut will only arrive later today. Travelling from Lebanon, he needs a visa but being Malaysian, we can just hop onto a plane from KLIA and get into Dubai with no questions asked.

The temperature outside is more than 40C, so I have no intention of walking around in the heat. This trip reminded me of my first trip to Dubai in 2004. I arrived at around 2:00am and the flight captain announced upon our arrival that the outside temperature was 42 degrees C. It really caught me by surprise as I was in a jacket.

Initially I thought I would go to the office for a while today but later decided to do some work in the room instead. The office hours in our Principal's office in Dubai during Ramadhan is between 10:00 am and 3:00pm. Maybe they need the short hours as the temperatures can be uncomfortable.

My hosts have promised to take me to a good Lebanese restaurant for iftar today and I am looking forward to that. Since the restaurant is part of their group, we always have good food and service.

Have a good Ramadhan and May we be Blessed.