Leaving

Hello everybody. Its been a while since I wrote anything. Been busy migrating. No biggy just leaving everything behind. The family, the friends, the house, the car, the job, the weather... really everything apart from luggage allowed on the plane (not much by the way: 20kg max per person and the bags itself is about 5kg). Opps I forgot to include the wife and the kids... yeahh they are luggage for life in a +ve kind of way.

So before its lost in my memories I want to write and share pics about leaving before i wrote about our adventure in our new home city = Melbourne, Oz which btw is really beautiful and "da besttt!!". So before leaving "tanah tumpahnya darahku" we all made a point to meet everybody saying goodbyes and do as much activity possible with everybody. This includes karaokes, picnic by the river, futsal, family gathering, dinners and so forth.

We were really touched about the support we got about our migration (apan was the only guy with negativity - just his nature and said that i should be a cleaner here) especially the family. My mom and dad were supportive and understood our reasons well. I will always remember my moms first respond "baguslah muda2 cari rezeki.. nanti dah lambat susah". It was enough for me to go all out.

One thing I realized the young people were really intrigued of the idea of migrating while the old were really conserved about it. But what really touched me personally was people were sad that we were leaving especially closed shah alam friends and AZ (apa taknya... every other day lepak sama2 and we help each other in every possible way) but really understand that we are leaving to make a better life for ourselves and wish us well in doing so. So for that I thank every one of you. Sekarang dah jauh2 and kinda lonely (too much kids time and not enough adult time) you kinda feel nostalgic. So enough of the emo stuff, here are some pics and briefs description

At the airport. A lot of people came to see us off and say goodbyes. The wife was a little emotional and cried a bit. Its very understandable. Thank you everybody that came. It means a lot. Siap sempat main monopoly deal lagi lepas tu wafi lak boleh menang... frust.

NATS futsal family. Yes its a family. We have known each other for more than a decade. We meet every week and play our hearts out. Punya lah semangat we even have a blog and seasonal tourny. check it out at nats.blogspot.com. Anyways really nice of u to give me that "comel" Jom-bo-yani football. cool giler.

Our farewell dinner at serai seksyen 3. It was a very memorable dinner. really felt sad about leaving cause so many turned up not to mention that we are very close. I quote wafi's mom " you guys arent close, you guys are GLUE!!". They even gotten us the biggest farewell card. Thank you again.

The office farewells. Great to have the opportunity to say goodbye.

With KYS guys, future leaders of Malaysia lah konon bak kata arwah principle Ramli. Personally I can see it happening. Insyallah.

Pontian family. What a great clan. Happy to have so many great people in our lives. Very sincere and loving.

Office mates/mentors/tani mates. Real smart people who taught me a lot about my career. Shan in particular always paints a good picture for me. I'm gonna miss our "intellectual" talks.

Zareef's last day at school. Just the other day he was randomly/suddenly saying "ayah, i miss my friends and teacher... oh yaa my toys too" But i personally started feeling emotional when i start seeing the kids saying good bye to zareef especially Maimunah the girl that is holding hands in pic above.

With the cousins and aunties. The really like to spend time with each other. we even went ice-skating which lasted for 5 minutes. asik tergolek jee..

Diner and movie with the man and mama. Man nak mintak belanja sebelum pergi.

Office mates... we really struggled together and "powered" the nation.

My PEP batch in TNB. This i can confirm the future leaders of TNB. TNB is in good hands if it does.

Naomi, Amy and Thomas. The loveliest family you will ever meet and we had good food too. Sorry about the thing at the airport the other day thomas.

The wife with the addictive scrapper buddies.

Kakak2 sebelah. Really fortunate to have great neighbors.

Nik and lina... its been a long time since we met them. Dah nak pergi baru jumpa. but it was great to catch up and learn from them about oz. Really nice couple. Thanks for the pens. We love it and use it everyday.

ExxonMobil farewell. A lot of people came to say goodbye to maz. I told her that her office group is really hard to come by. Went to college together and worked together not to mention gossip a lot together.