Your Opinion Does Not Matter
I was with the Aide de Camp to the Sultan of Selangor yesterday. He hasn’t dived for more than a year now. So he has asked me to go with him to the KD Sri Semporna naval base (the ADC is a Lieutenant Commander), put up a night there, before boarding our version of an LOB..the CB-90 combat vessel.
All I have to do is to pay for my air ticket KUL-TWU-KUL.
Drool people….
KD Sri Semporna
CB-90H Combat Vessel
A year ago havoc struck the region when a high magnitude earthquake displaced the ocean floor in the Indian Ocean region. This in turn sent huge waves crashing, first into the Acheh province in northern Sumatra, followed by the southwestern area of Pulau Langkawi, before hitting coastal areas of mainland Kedah and Penang. These waves of destruction then traveled north hitting the Phuket and Phang-nga provinces on the west coast of Thailand before hitting Sri Lanka and southeastern India in the Tamil Nadu province. It did not stop there. People died on the east coast of the African continent. By the time the waves finally subside, they have traveled all the way to New Zealand and Alaska.
Let us not be caught off-guard again. An early warning system may not be able to prevent another tsunami from happening, but it would certainly save more lives.
My son, Mohamed Amirul Farhan, was born on Christmas Day 2002. He is the apple of my eye. A handsome and sharp boy. I hope he will learn the bittersweet aspects of life and that it would help him mature to face this cruel and cold world.
My, My what a big boy you’ve become,
Seems not too long ago, you had just turned one.
Yet, today is your Birthday, sign of another year past.
It’s hard to believe you’re already 3, and still growing up so fast.
Before you know it, it’ll be girls and a car,
Then off to college, or perhaps you’ll be the next Big Movie Star.
No matter where your Fate shall take you, or your Adventures should roam,
Never mind the reason you’re always Welcome to come home.
For now it’s bikes, bugs, or maybe your favorite play toy,
Nevertheless, you’ll always be my “Little Boy”
Forever, My Son.
I saw my Angel tonight…my Angel gives me traquility…
There’s a message in the wire and I’m sending you this signal tonight
You don’t know how desperate I’ve become and it looks like I’m losing this fight
In your world I have no meaning though I’m trying hard to understand
And it’s my heart that’s breaking down this long distance line tonight
To all my Christian friends, have a Merry Christmas!
To all my Jewish friends, chag urim samey’ach! Shalom alekhem!
I feel lethargic after that drive to Kuantan yesterday. I must be old…
…or not enough compressed-air breathing.
Can someone give me a 50% mix for me to breathe in?
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PORT DOUGLAS, Australia (11 Dec 2005) — A spear fisherman has escaped with a gashed arm after fending off one shark only to be mauled from behind by another in a frenzied attack off Queensland’s far north.
Melbourne charter boat operator Glenn Simpson, 44, is nursing his badly wounded left arm which required dozens of stitches after the attack at a reef off Port Douglas.
Mr Simpson was spear fishing with his 15-year-old son Luke when the attack happened early Sunday.
“I had one come straight in my face – I punched him with my left arm to get him out of my face,” Mr Simpson told the Ten Network.
“And as I did that I was thinking I got rid of him and another one came from behind and grabbed my right arm.”
With his boat 60 metres away, Mr Simpson, who was bleeding heavily, told his son to leave him.
But his son refused and instead helped his father back to the boat.
“I ignored him. I stayed with him all the way back to the boat,” Luke told the Cairns Post.
“I’m happy that I stayed with Dad.”
The feeding frenzy began after Luke speared a trout.
“After that they started harassing me and dad a bit,” Luke said.
And then, “just out of nowhere, it was just like shark city,” Mr Simpson told the Ten Network.
“It was like something out of a movie,” he said.
“I consider myself very lucky, you know, especially with the mood the sharks were in.”
The Simpsons have vowed to continue spearfishing but admit they will be more cautious in the water.
A spokeswoman for Cairns Base Hospital said Mr Simpson was in a satisfactory condition.
Another man was killed by a shark a year ago while spear-fishing at a reef close to the area of Sunday’s attack.
Growing up can be a pain
You’re not a man until you’ve come of age
We’ve given up our teenage years
In the effort to pursue our career
Who assumes responsibility
of having to support our families
Who’s protecting us from harm?
Is there anyone around that we can trust?
So we search for answers to our questions
Looking for the answer
No answers but we’re taught a lesson everytime
Through mistakes we’ve learned to gather wisdom
Life’s responsibilities fall in our hands
Keep on learning
Keep on growing
Wisdom helps us understand
We’re maturing
without knowing
These are the things that change boys to men
The goals we set may exceed reality
cause failure is always a possibility
Who can tell us that we’re wrong?
It’s up to us to figure out
what life is all about
This photo was taken in 1991 on Penang Bridge enroute to our headquarters in Penang after the last training exercise I had while I was still there. Around a month later I was sent on a course and subsequently posted on promotion to the Recruit Training Center at RMAFB Ipoh.
Left to Right: Myself, Leading Aircraftman Faizal (now a Flight Sergeant at the No.3 Search and Rescue Squadron), Aircraftman Nizam (I’ve lost touch with him), and Corporal Hashim (left the service as a Warrant Officer II)
Old soldiers never die, they just fade away….
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