The Story of Ammar - short film

Something to share...a story of great inspiration,

Reminder to self...

SSP : School Band and Wind Orchestra.

I'd always have fond memories and usually feel nostalgic whenever I see school band playing or marching...remembering own experiences with the rest of the band members, practising songs, marching in the hot sun, performing at events and competed in schools' competitions and I love it when we traveled on the bus in our yellow and blue uniforms, white boots, black caps, white gloves and all...

not forgetting, me and my dear friend completed the "set" with ponytails ..hehehe...

Anyway, in May I had the chance to go to the finale of Wind Orchestra among the boarding schools with some friends...all the 9 schools in the final were good, these 13 - 17 years old boys and girls really worked hard to reach this stage. I believe all of us were proud of them.

And I'm happy that my former school became the champion..yeay..yeay..

:-))))

and also "Best Conductor" for this girl...(clap clap clap)

Listening "live" at Putrajaya International Convention Centre (PICC) to these girls playing gave me goosebumps...

Here's the video/link from youtube (here) of them playing "Vesuvius" during the competition.

The girls are currently in Sydney Australia at the invitation of Australian International Music Festival(AIMF2013) for some performances and compete in the event between 7 -14th July 2013.



All the best to them..may they gain wonderful experiences there.

Garden of Flowers

I admit to feeling stress lately with work...,

..it started early of the year and some time between end March and early April I guess I reached the height of it that I went to see a doctor as I was worried about my health.

Alhamdulillah it was not that bad...BP and sugar level ok..she said I just "need to take things easy and don't think too much". :-) ...,

but I really needed to get away for a while...and by chance my niece mentioned that strawberries at Cameron Highlands were in good season.

haha...that clinched it..I took 2 days leave and with my sister we drove up there.

But for this posting, I'm sharing the photos taken at the garden of flowers, located within the Agro Technology Park (MARDI) at Tanah Rata.

How soothing to see the lovely flowers....indeed a good therapy.

Have a lovely weekend to all my blogger friends.

:-)

"Shine your way"

I love Yuna's song "Terukir di Bintang" ~ 2012 best song in "Anugerah Juara Lagu" of TV3.

Here's the original version by Yuna, who wrote this song herself,

She is now pursuing her dreams in USA...all the best to her.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwZ9r-boZ9Y

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F46-GCxB_HY

Her recent project : "Dreamworks "The Croods" Soundtrack " Shine Your Way" by Owl City feat. Yuna."

For the youtube link, click (here)

Nice one.

Have a peaceful weekend.

Prayers and support from afar...

"Inilah Barisan Kita"

Being Malaysian, and coming from a family of a father as former policeman and brothers in armed forces I really am saddened by the current happenings in one of our states.

My prayers for the safety of our troops in Sabah especially, and all over Malaysia.


Keep your spirits high.

Link to youtube - Here

Al-Fatihah and prayers to our fallen heroes...

prayers for their families and other families too...may they stay strong, spiritually and physically.

Amiin.

Seeing reds in C.H :-)

I love strawberries...,

but how frustrating that the places that we went to didn't allow any picking .. :-(

Any pickings to be done at the counter...haha..

Different kinds of strawberry I managed to "pick"...hehehe..

and of course not complete without this :

and the local strawberry ice cream

Mr Google Image - mine already finished..hahaha

:-)

Tioman option : snorkeling

On the 3rd day in Tioman Island, some friends opted to go snorkeling whilst I joined the second group and visited one of the snorkeling sites, by car...hehehe..

(n for future reference, one friend left behind at the chalet as she wanted to rest before taking off ~ she went back a day early. But last week she was back in Tioman Island for diving, and came back with lovely video and photos).

Here are some photos taken from the jetty..it looked quite easy...I might try that one day, (and in case my diving friends are reading this ~ I "MIGHT"...hahaha...)

For the above photos and more, here's the pictures slide:

:-)