..pictures from everywhere..

..grilling sata..snack of fish paste mixed with coconut

and kesom leaves..3 sticks for a dollar..tasty when taken

hot and on the sand, as waves softly lapped the beach..

..a boy and his cat enjoying a snooze..

..cat is Ayam, spayed and over weight..

boy is son, Akram, gaunt and under weight..

..sessions court, Kota Bharu..pakmat's day in court..

..civil claim for son hurt in a accident..

..Deepavali for a pair of sisters..saw this family enjoying

their Deepavali at Cameron Bharat Tea Plantation..

..aimed my phone at them..their parents smiled with

pride when I said, 'take care of your daughters,

they're pretty..'

..BIL's wife down with dengue..warded at HUSM,

Kubang Kerian....dengue is always a threat in Bachok..

...despite numerous campaigns

and home inspections by the vector division..

..Friday prayers at Masjid Langgar, Kota Bharu..it is a

two-storeyed mosque..Pakmat preferred the upper level..

..Pakpong, getting his once in a while bath..

..cats figured prominently in home..with feed

bought by the sacks..

..son-in-laws..

..a birthday wish from my neighbour..both are

Heads of secondary schools in Bachok..husband is head of

a premier school..always busy and seldom seen..

..carrying out responsibilities that came with the job..

..the monsoon is here..Kota Bharu getting a bit

of rain..the domed building is the newly opened Parkson/Giant..

...you have to pay for their underground parking..

...unlike Tesco..market of preference for

this old man..where the shopping is relaxed...

..and place for prayers neat and roomy..

..Pantai Irama..getting some strong wind..

..even political posters are not strong enough to resist

the wind..there was a day when it was so strong,

it lifted my neighbours zinc and aluminium garage..

...felled a coconut-tree on another neighbour's kitchen..

..and lifted sarongs of unwary damsels crossing streets..

..niece Wani trying out her dress for engagement day

on the 2nd day of Aidil Adha..father is the traffic chief of Tanah Rata..

mother a police sargeant attached to the

Anti-Vice division, Brinchang..

..Wani's fiancee is also a cop, in Langkawi..

..and pakmat looking good..:)

..burial of SIL, wife of pakmat's elder brother, Johan....she died of

breast cancer..after a month hospitalised..may she rest

in peace..

..a fisherman back from weeks at sea..

enjoying a smoke and resting at the fish complex, Tok Bali..

..with the monsoon on, they rested more than they fished..

..Tok Bali is a favourite fishing spot for enthusiats..

..siakap and senagat, cousin of senagin, the catch..

..most of the pictures are taken with my trusty Sony-Ericsson that my children..ok, you know..one or two are with my daughter's Nikon S230 that we gave for her 16th birthday..