this is a real story, as recounted by the great-grandson himself. a truly touching love story. one that transcends the boundaries of patience and true love. and in it, is a lesson that touches my heart so profoundly, because it's the one thing that i have yet to grasp in the true sense of the word. may Allah grant me the mother of all patience. amiin!

"this is a story about my great-grandfather. he was sent to fight in the dardanelles during the first world war. dardanelles is on the other side of the bosphorus, a narrow channel in northwestern turkey that connects istanbul to the aegean sea. it connects the aegean sea to the sea of marmara. we lost 250,000 people there, and so did the enemies. miraculously, my great-granddad managed to come out of that war alive. he was then taken to yemen to fight the british army. he was captured there and was sent to england as a POW, to a place called gosport. i've been there, this town is now known as "turk town" because alot of the POWs continued living there after the war. my great-granddad lived there for seven years. all that time, nobody knew if he was alive or dead. after seven years, he went back to his village and found my great-grandmom still there, waiting for him. she could have assumed that he had died and gotten remarried but she didn't and she waited for him. she knew deep in her heart that he was still alive and he would come back for her, so she waited for him. my grandmother only saw her father for the first time when she was seven years old, she was born when my great-granddad was away at war. now my great-grandparents are buried together, their graves side by side, in the village. i will always visit them whenever i go there, and insya Allah, i will take you there too. i know sometimes its hard, but remember that patience always pays back. true love waits, just have faith."

thank you, for the lesson. i WILL try my best. may Allah help me.

seni cok seviyorum!

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eversince he got acquainted with a certain dr mcdreamy (*ahem* MY dr mcdreamy, not the one on GA. heh), my wombat of a nephew would tell us that he's DR AMIR, although sometimes he'd also tell us he wants to be a builder like B-O-B (spells BOB!). so to encourage the little critter, this excited aunty got the little wombat a toy doctor set from toys 'r us. it has a stethoscope, a syringe, a thermometer, a plastic scalpel, scissors, bandage, medicine bottles and even a little plastic tag to prove to everyone that you're indeed a real doctor. heh. cute stuff. dr amir's mother has been telling me that when he plays doctor, he'd "treat" her using a toothbrush, his moisturiser and of all things, telon oil. apparently dr amir believes the telon oil is the mother of all medications. whooooo!

two days ago, when i was on the phone with dr amir, i told him that his favourite doctor uncle is not well (he was down with a flu), and what is he going to do about that. when he heard that (as narrated by his mother) he scampered off to get his doctor set. a few seconds later, a very amusing and thoroughly hilarious conversation ensued between me and him. please take note that this is a real phone conversation.

dr amir: wak intang (that's what he calls me, duh!) please breathe.

dr's mom aka nurse: he has his stethoscope on

me: oh ok (starts to take deep breaths, in and out)

dr amir: not so loud, wak intang!

me: ???

dr amir: wak intang, please open your mouth

me: but doctor, i'm fine, i'm not the one who is sick

dr amir: wak intang, please open your mouth, wak intang

me: *sigh* (opens mouth and says AHHHHHHH)

- silence -

me: errr, doctor? is everything ok? am i alright?

nurse: he's cutting something using his scalpel

me: oooh do i need a surgery then, doctor? what are you cutting?

dr amir: onions!

me: ??????

nurse: LOL!!

me: *sigh* ... okaaayy ... get well soon, onion.

nurse: now he's using the scissors.

me: oooh are you cutting up the bandage for me??

dr amir: i cut wak intang's hair

me: *speechless*

nurse: LOL LOL!!

dr amir: wak intang i give you injection, wak intang

me: ok, what did you inject me with?

dr amir: peanut butter

me: ............

nurse: LOL!! how much, dr?

dr amir: one dollar, fifty cents

geee dr amir, i guess i wasn't really expecting a nice gourmet dinner and a haircut as part of your "treatment". heh. then again, i thought it would be free of charge since i WAS the one who got you that doctor set.

but its ok babes, you can do whatever you like to me, who knows, you might be one helluva fine doctor one day, insya Allah. that is, if you don't turn out to be another unkle jamie oliver/david rocco/bob blumer ... or bob the builder.

Jewel mused @ 10:21 PM | | Permalink

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heh. damn i'm good with words or what?

*ahem*, i've decided to take up his challenge to post seven pictureless entries consecutively for the next 14 days, just to prove that ...

1) there is always something to blog about. people always say they got nothing to blog about, etc.
2) you don't need pics to blog
3) blogging without pics enhances your creativity

ok he made those up on the fly. for an old geezer, he sure is fast with his brains. heh.

i know i can do this cos i've been so lazy downloading/editing/uploading/sharing my photos and have been posting pictureless for sometime now. peasy lemon easy squeezy. so here's my first pictureless entry of the challenge and yeah i should be able to do six more before the 14 days are up. piece of cake. heh.

today i'm gonna talk about my new toy ([tongue firmly in cheek] i know, it's very common for bloggers to brag about their worldly possessions. heh). it was supposed to be a birthday present (no i didn't just have a birthday, i meant my last birthday, in july 2006, but thanks for getting all excited! heh.) but apparently the present-giver thought i don't fancy that particular thing and got me another present instead. ok, i love the second present (its a canon photo printer, y'all! woot!) but i'd be brain dead and have been living under a rock all this while to actually NOT fancy the first gift. in fact, i've been lusting for that thing for ages! yeah lusting, like with rabid-dog frothing in my mouth, salivating kind of lusting. ja know whut i mean??

you must be wondering what is this thing i've been lusting for right?? you can't wait to know what it is right? RIGHT? no? NO?? sheesh. i'm gonna tell you anyway. heh. it's an opid, eh i mean ipod, y'all!!! WOOT!

yes, i've recently gotten my grubby hands on a beautiful 5G 30gb ipod, courtesy of my brudder. he decided to give it to me anyway since i kept whining on how beautiful and sexy it is and how i'd love to have one of my own. hehe. yeah yeah i can be quite a whiner, so what?

pictures, you ask? AHA! you almost got me there. heh sorry folks, no photos of it for now. but sheesh, you guys know how an ipod look like right? it's the same lah. heh.

dah tu jer ... pointless entry, but a pictureless one, nonetheless.

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