This time its outing time to one of British Heritage's pearl: Audley End. We didn't get the chance to go inside the mansion. However the grounds, garden and service wing are fantastic enough. Will definitely come again next time to view the inside of the mansion. Truly worth every penny!!! Me likey me likey!

Fatihah to my apple laptop, kesudahan yg tragis, kena simbah ngan air oleh tuannya yg tak berhati2...pastuh bongok la pulak tuan dia tak keringkan, terus on...short circuit la jawabnya!
so picture2 dlm my precious laptop tak dpt nak recover. so no updates (khas buat zura n jehan)... till next album comes, though it will not be the same, posting from a windows laptop (sama jer tapi saja nak ngada2)

But no cry cry, finally, my current windows laptop can be converted to an apple laptop at last. It is not that simple for those who does not have an IT background, but it can be done.

Introducing my new apple laptop, baru keluar di pasaran hari ni!!! hangat!!! hangat!!!



note: beggers can't be chooser

Making his debut into the outdoor world, finally baby Adam is going outing!
We went to Wimpole Hall this time. Check out http://www.wimpole.org/ for further details of Wimpole Hall. Masa keluar rumah pun Adam dah jakun hehehe....sana sini kiri kanan pandang, maklumlah jarang keluar rumah. Baby Adam is nearly 4 months old. A happy baby yg suka sembang sorang2 hehehe...

Serupa mcm dah jadi hukum alam pula, asal hari minggu ja, kena pi berjalan2. Tapi sabtu ahad ni tak terasa nak pi jauh sangat. Ahad, hari ni, lepak rumah saja, sambil layan siri cerita "Ayat ayat cinta" kat you tube (but i like the novel more). Semalam kawan Sufee datang Cambridge dan aku pun ikut depa jalan2 cambridge. Seperti biasa pelawat selalu mesti nak tgk King's College. Then atas dasar pukukan rayu aku, depa semua setuju untuk naik tower kat Great St Mary Church. Ingatkan tak tinggi sgt, sekali alamak lama jugak tara nak sampai atas. Tangga dia jenis spiral dan muat sorang ja. Naik ok lagi, bila nak turun mak ai...aku gayat sungguh. Then ke Trinity Hall, tempat keja Maza utk punting. Hahahaha lawak siot...punting kami zig zag, pusing sana sini...sekali kena langgar dan ada la mangsa accident terjatuh dlm river cam hehehhehe...... btw, rupa2nya husband kawan sufee tuh, sembang2 kawan aku zaman kecik2 dulu...class mate chik. lawak sungguh...dia tanya..."hang kenai tak fitri and siti rohkmah, anak dr shukri?"...hahahaha lawak2. mai main sembunyi2 kat rumah usm dulu(p/s....best oo rumah tuhhh...buleh main badminton siap dlm rumah, tapi ada cam berhantu sket, maklumlah rumah colonial)....kecik kecik dunia ni.... uish teruk sungguh BM aku (btw bahasa melayu ka bahasa malaysia???? byk kali tukar...aku dah tak keep track BM stands for what)

Its been raining this past few days. I thought of capturing cambridge on its wetter days. I love the rain and the gloomy now. More than the sun. But alas my immune system is not that strong and I am easily down with fever or flu in these kind of weather.

Upik, my new friend, and I had taken a walk to Grantchester through the meadows. We felt like Elizabeth Bennet and was romanticising doing her walks. I had always been a fan of Jane Austen, but Upik, is far more a fanatic than me.

The best part of the walk was when we got to the Orchad, where we had tea and heavenly scones. I never had proper scones before. The way is to spread the full fat (i presume) clotted cream, and layer them with jams. Now i am hooked! We did burn back all the fat we ate (believe me, its true, as Upik had a pedometer to calculate the steps walked and calories burnt).

Oh I so love taking long walks through the nature and at last England are full of places to take them. For more walks in Cambridge: http://www.plcane.clara.net/cambridge/


Just seeing the picture makes me salivate...

Volunteered to have my brain scan. By the end of the 2 hr session, got 25 pounds...and the best thing...a copy of my brain image. Cool eh. Would frame this. I might go for more volunteer session after this.
lepas ni sapa kata aku takdak otak...nah tgk otak aku...ko ada ka otak? kekeke

This is how the MRI machine looks like.... Have always wanted to know how it feels to be in one of them!

I thought my camera has lost it. It sometimes make this weird vibration (like a mobile phone) which makes the picture looks blur. Well this morning it did behave. Me, Azlin, Anissah and Tahnia went kayakking at the Cam river. By the way, there was a brigde over the Cam river...thus where Cambridge (Cam Bridge) got it's name.

It has been a while since I kayak...I miss it so much! Now with summer coming up, I can always kayak...the company that rents kayak is just behind my department. They have also canoe and punting. We started end of Mill Lane towards Grantchester. We did not go all the way to Granschester though, next time maybe....canoeing maybe?

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But how many (countless) generations before them have We destroyed? Can you find a single one of them (now) or hear (so much as) a whisper of them? (Surah Maryam: 98)

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As also 'Ad and Thamud, and the Companions of the Rass, and many a generation between them. To each one, We set forth parables and examples; and each one We broke to utter annihilation (for their wrong actions). And the (disbelievers) must indeed have passed by the town on which was rained a shower of evil: did they not then see it (with their own eyes)? But they fear not the Resurrection. (Surat al-Furqan: 38-40)

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See they not how many of those before them We did destroy? Generations We had established on the earth, in strength such as We have not given to you, for whom We poured out rain from the skies in abundance, and gave (fertile) streams flowing beneath their (feet): yet for their wrong actions We destroyed them, and raised in their wake fresh generations (to succeed them). (Surat al-An'am: 6)

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But how many generations before them did We destroy (for their wrong actions), stronger in power than they? Then did they wander through the land: was there any place of escape (for them)? Verily in this is a message for any that has a heart and understanding or who gives ear and earnestly witnesses (the truth). (Surah Qaf: 36-37)

The Vesuvio volcano overlooking Pompeii...


This was taken from Harun's Yahya website http://www.harunyahya.com/pernat13.php. Check out the website for the whole article, with lots of pictures of how the people of pompeii died. The beginning of article is about the people that Prophet Lut a.s was sent to. The people of Pompeii lived around the same time and had the similar end like them.

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Pompeii Had a Similar End The Qur’an tells us in the following verses that there is no change in Allah’s laws: They swore their strongest oaths by Allah that if a warner came to them, they would follow his guidance better than any (other) of the Peoples: But when a warner came to them, it has only increased their flight (from righteousness) - On account of their arrogance in the land and their plotting of Evil, but the plotting of Evil will hem in only the authors thereof. Now are they but looking for the way the ancients were dealt with? But no change wilt thou find in Allah's way (of dealing): no turning off wilt thou find in Allah's way (of dealing). (Surat al-Fatir: 42-43) Yes, "no change will be found in Allah’s way (rules)". Everybody, who stands against His laws and rebels against Him, is subject to the same divine law. Pompeii, the symbol of the degeneration of the Roman Empire, was also involved in sexual perversity. Its end was similar to that of the people of Lut (as). The destruction of Pompeii came by means of the eruption of the volcano Vesuvius. The volcano Vesuvius is the symbol of Italy, primarily the city of Naples. Remaining silent for the last two millennia, Vesuvius is named the "Mountain of Warning". It is noteworthy that Vesuvius is known as such. The disaster that befell Sodom and Gomorrah is very similar to the disaster that destroyed Pompeii. To the right of Vesuvius lies Naples and to the east lies Pompeii. The lava and ash of a huge volcanic eruption, that happened thousands of years ago, caught the inhabitants of that city. The disaster happened so suddenly that everything in the town was caught in the middle of its everyday life and remains today exactly as it was two millennia ago. It is as if the time had been frozen. The removal of Pompeii from the face of the earth by such a disaster was not purposeless. The historical record shows that the city was exactly the centre of dissipation and perversity. The city was marked by a rise in prostitution to such an extent that even the number of brothels was not known. But the lava of Vesuvius wiped the whole city off the map in a single moment. The most interesting aspect of the event is that nobody escaped despite the terrible violence of the eruption of Vesuvius. It is almost like they did not even notice the catastrophe, as if they were charmed. A family eating their meal were petrified right at that moment. Numerous petrified couples were found in the act of intercourse. The most interesting thing is that there were couples of the same sex and couples of young boys and girls. The faces of some of the petrified human corpses unearthed from Pompeii were unharmed. The general expression on those faces was bewilderment. Here lies the most incomprehensible aspect of the calamity. How did thousands of people wait to be caught by death without seeing and hearing anything? This aspect of the event shows that the disappearance of Pompeii was similar to the destructive events mentioned in the Qur’an, because the Qur’an particularly points to "sudden annihilation" while relating these events. For example, the "inhabitants of the city" described in Surah Ya-Sin died all at once in a single moment. The situation is told as follows: It was no more than a single mighty Blast, and behold! they were (like ashes) quenched and silent. (Surah Ya-Sin: 29) In Surat al-Qamar, again the "instantaneous annihilation" is emphasised when the destruction of Thamud is recounted: For We sent against them a single Mighty Blast, and they became like the dry stubble used by one who pens cattle. (Surat al-Qamar: 31) The death of the people of Pompeii took place instantaneously as just as the events recounted in the above verses. Despite all of this, things have not changed much where Pompeii once stood. The districts of Naples where debauchery prevails do not fall short of those licentious districts of Pompeii. The Island of Capri is a base where homosexuals and nudists reside and is represented as a "Homosexual paradise" in tourist commercials. Not only on Capri and in Italy, but in nearly all the world, a similar moral degeneration is at work and people insist on not learning from the awful experiences of past peoples.

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Mount Vesuvius (Italian: Monte Vesuvio, Latin: Mons Vesuvius) is an active stratovolcano east of Naples, Italy. It is the only volcano on the European mainland to have erupted within the last hundred years, although it is not currently erupting. The two other volcanoes in Italy, (Etna and Stromboli) are located on islands. Vesuvius is on the coast of the Bay of Naples, about nine kilometres (six miles) east of Naples and a short distance from the shore. It is conspicuous in the beautiful landscape presented by the Bay of Naples, when seen from the sea, with Naples in the foreground. Vesuvius is best known for its eruption in AD 79 that led to the destruction of the Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum. It has erupted many times since and is today regarded as one of the most dangerous volcanoes in the world because of the population of 3,000,000 people now living close to it and its tendency towards explosive eruptions. It is the most densely populated volcanic region in the world.