THEN ...AND...NOW...

INAUGURATION: 4TH JANUARY 2010 - renamed: BURJ KHALIFA
WORLD'S TALLEST TOWER

BURJ DUBAI



REMINISCE...I am sure all of you would love these! THEN...Our favourite black & white TV programme in the early 1960s. NOW... la... la... laaaa......

MICKEY MOUSE AND DONALD DUCK

WRAPPING UP YEAR 2009. WELCOME YEAR 2010

TAKE A BREAK - WILL BE BACK SOON!

Cut-work Voile on Net

Thread-work Needlepoint

Thread-work - (several needles broke)

MY LOVE - SEWING TO PASS TIME IN THE 1980s









My recent passport photo taken in July 2009








ASSALAMUALAIKUM

Dearest ALL,


Eleven months past, I started blogging and I hope all of you enjoyed viewing. I had six followers todate:

My first follower is Dzul (Hasan), a nephew from Melbourne, my paternal cousin's son.

Second is my maternal cousin Dr. Fadzil Jaafar, who has the best of both worlds, Singapore and Kuala Lumpur

Rina Malini a niece, my maternal cousin's daughter, who finds time to communicate with me via emails, residing in Kuala Lumpur

The Denver 234, Hazu Dcc, je je bahrizal joined in November. (Please view column: About Me. Thanks). I assume they are my Malaysian relatives. Interestingly their blogs look professional. I would like to say to all: "WELCOME TO MY BLOG AND I THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT."

I would also like to thank my niece Rufaidah (Sarah) Ismail for helping me to link websites/blogs: GERBANG PERDANA, Hirman and Koleksi Resipi Pilihan Diana.

Writer for GERBANG PERDANA: alexandaricairo is my Malaysian second cousin's son, who studied six years in Cairo.

Hirman Rasid is my paternal cousin's son who has the gift for writing poetry and composes songs for love.

Food Blogger for Koleksi Resipi Pilihan Diana is Nur Diana Arshad, my maternal cousin's daughter who would love to share with all readers, her recipes.

My special thanks also goes to Fajrina Abdul Razak who came to my house and devotedly photographed all those pictures which I have mounted on my webpage as "decor" and to make my blog look interesting??

Finally I would also like to thank all of you who have followed my blog and I hope that you are not pressured with certain article input. My intention is: a) to encourage reading habit and b) ... sharing is caring.

I am taking a break and INSYAALLAH I will resume writing in early 2010. In the meantime, I would like to wish all of you "A VERY HAPPY NEW YEAR."

Wassalam

AISHAH SAID

PATIENCE IS MOST FITTING

My Favourites - which needed a little imagination to look artistic with the blending of colours.

PRACTISE MAKES PERFECT - sandstitch on calico fabric

Those who meet hardship with a strong bearing and a patient countenance are in the minority. But we must consider this, though it may seem obvious: if you or I will not be patient, then what else is there for us to do? Do you have an alternative solution? Do you know of any provision that is better than patience?.

Those that achieve greatness have to surmount an ocean of difficulties and hardships before finally achieving success. Know that each time you escape a difficulty you will have to face another. Through this constant conflict, you must arm yourself with patience and a strong trust in ALLAH.

This is the way of the noble-minded: they face difficulties with firm resolution, and they wrestle hardship to the ground.

Therefore be patient and know that your patience is only through ALLAH. Have the patience of one who is confident of forthcoming ease, of one who knows that there will be a good ending, and of one who seek reward from his Lord, hoping, that by facing diffilcuties, he will find expiation for his sins. Have patience, no matter what the difficulty and no matter how dark the road ahead seems. For truly, with patience come victory, and with difficulty relief follows close behind.

After having read biographies of some successful people from the past, I became amazed at the amount of patience they displayed, in their ability to bear heavy burdens only to emerge as stronger human beings. Hardship fell upon their heads like a lashing of freezing rain and yet they were as firm as mountains. And then, after a short time had passed, they were rewarded for their patience with success..

OLD SINGAPORE IN WATER COLOUR

TELOK AYER MARKET - (no more Lau Pasat!) - Now converted to AN UP-MARKET EATING HAUNT

"SINGAPORE RIVER" - I LOVE THE GOOD OLD DAYS!

THE BLESSING OF PAIN

BEAD-WORK - "NONYAS" are skillful with beads

Pain is not always a negative force and it is not something that you should always hate. At times a person benefits when he feels pain.

You might remember that, at times when you felt a lot of pain, you sincerely supplicated and remembered ALLAH. When he is studying, the student often feels the pangs of heavy burden, sometimes perhaps the burden of monotony, yet he eventually leaves this stage of life a scholar. He felt burdened with pain at the beginning but he shined at the end. The aches and pangs of passion, the poverty and the scorn of others, the frustration and anger at injustices - these all cause the poet to write flowing and captivating verses. This is because he himself feels pain in his heart, in his nerves, and in his blood, and as a result, he is able to infuse the same emotions, via his work, into the hearts of others. How many painful experiences did the best writers have to undergo, experience that inspired brilliant works, works that posterity continues to enjoy and benefit from today.

The student who lives the life of comfort and repose and who is not stung by hardships, or who has never been afflicted with calamity will be an improductive, lazy, and lethargic person.

Indeed, the poet who knows no pain and who has never tasted bitter disappointment will invariably produce heaps upon heaps of cheap words. This is because his words pour forth from his tongue and not from his feelings or emotion, and though he may comprehend what he has written, his heart and body have not lived the experience.

A FINE SUNDAY MORNING - 6TH DECEMBER 2009

MY LOVE - WORK!

Left: my mini work - on Voile

Right: Applique: Velvet on Calico

Left: On Linen: which gives a better outlook

REPEL BOREDOM WITH WORK

Destroy boredom by working.

Those who have nothing to do with their lives are the same people who spend most of their time spreading rumours and falsehood, mainly because their minds are devoid of beneficial thoughts....

When you find yourself to be idle, prepare for depression and despair, because idleness allows your mind to wander in the past, the present, and the future, with all of their difficulties. Therefore, my sincere advice to you is to perform fruitful acts instead of being idle, for idleness is a slow and veiled form of suicide.

When you apply this simple precept alone, you will have travelled at least fifty percent of the way towards happiness.