2021

Annual entry.

What have i achieved in 2020?

1. Self actualization.

Mainly raising up the kid. And hoping to get him a younger friend this year. 🤲🏻

2. Explorer

Mainly in Malaysia

• Jan: Hilton, Kuching
• February:
  • Sri Aman (Haris’ first long ride)
  • Kuala Lumpur (Haris’ first flight)
• July: Cove 55
• October: Sumiran Exo Camp
• November: Damai Beach Resort (Haris’ first birthday)
• December: Roxy Sematan

2021

• Still unsure due to the Covid-19 situation.

3. Wordsmith- working on my Doktorbudak. And hopefully my Fizalius Studios project.

4. Play Time- starting back our boardgame meetups. Initially amongst family. Now extending to friends as the covid in the state seem under control. Joined a number of virtual treasure hunts as well this year

5. Entrepreneur- no progress for 2020. 2021 should work on the piece of land. And probably sell off sri aman house.

6. Professional contribution- apart from the writing for Doktorbudak, i guess i will start the diabetic pathway and local obesity clinic SOP.

Hopefully 2021 will be more fruitful then its former year. Aminn

2020

Onlookers,

(Photo Credit: 360tour.asia)

I guess this blog will be only have a once a year post 🤣.

What have i achieved in 2019? I have neglected some of my Personas and probably it’ll stay that way in the future.

My Personas

0. Khalif

2019 – Status added from husband to father 🎉. Managed to do jemaah prayers until when the baby was out and we were back to taking turns doing our prayers. Maybe 2020 will try and revert back to jemaah prayers.

2020 – more Quran recitals (at least Yaseen Thursdays and al-Kahf Fridays)

1. Explorer

2019

• Jan: Jordan
• March: Kota Kinabalu
• July: Melbourne
• December: Hilton, Kuching

2020

• February: Sri Aman & KL
• March: KL & Koh Sa Mui
• July: Morocco Portugal Spain
• December: Tokyo Osaka

2. Foodie

2019- #fizaliusGOmakan

2020- continued

3. Hobbyist

2019- Monthly BG meetups down the drain

2020- Paraphrazed. And diligently keeping bgstat scores

4. Puzzleteir

2019- went for Kuching Hunt and thats it

2020- will join again whenever possible

5. Cinephile – neglected now. We are down to netflix series at home

6. Philanthropist – also neglected

7. Kiddoc – 2019 new paedstop for SGH not done

2020 will start a new paedstop for SGH. And articles for doktorbudak.com

8. Gentleman –

2019 least weight is 88kg

This year to join fun runs. And weekend walks. No weight targets as long as not more than 89

9. Author

#fizaliusGOmakan (cook and dine)

#fizaliusGObaca (books, quotes & writings)

#fizaliusGOjalan (trips)

unachievable in 2016&7&8&9

10. Entrepreneur

Wisma Morhan: no progress

2020: new house? Archery centre?

Hope 2020 is more productive than 2019. The Personas shall be downsized as follows

1. Khalif/Gentleman= Self-actualization
2. Explorer= World discovery
3. Foodie/Author= Wordsmith
4. Hobbyist/Puzzleteir/Cinephile= Play time
5. Entrepreneur= Major project(s)
6. Kiddoc/Philanthropist= Professional contribution

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Onlookers,

Let’s recap 2018…

My Personas

0. Khalif

2018 – Status changed from single to married 🎉. Trying our best for jemaah prayers as much as we could.

2019 – I think i’ll drop the Mondays and Thursdays puasa resolution this time. Will try more on Yaseen Thursdays and al-Kahf Fridays.

1. Explorer

2018

• Feb: KL
• March: Japan
• July: Maldives
• December: Jordan

2019

• January: Jordan (cont)
• March: Langkawi
• July: Perth
• October: Morocco Spain Portugal

2. Foodie

2018- Foodblog on fizaliusgo (not done)

2019- #fizaliusGOmakan

3. Hobbyist

2018- Paraphrazed: Have yet to complete for all my games collections

2019- continued. Monthly BG meetups perhaps.

4. Puzzleteir

2018 – went for two hunts. Kuching Heritage and a Kampong Hunt

2019 – will join again whenever possible

5. Cinephile – whenever possible.

6. Philanthropist – might join Unimas program

7. Kiddoc – 2018 changed working station.

2019 will start a new paedstop for SGH.

8. Gentleman –

78kg 💪🏻💪🏻 (Not achieved) 2018 least weight is 82 pre-wedding.

This year to join fun runs. And weekend walks. No weight targets as long as not more than 89

9. Author

#fizaliusGOmakan (cook and dine)

#fizaliusGObaca (books, quotes & writings)

#fizaliusGOjalan (trips)

unachievable in 2016&7&8

10. Entrepreneur

Wisma Morhan needs a next step perhaps drainage? 2019 seems a bit better coz im back in Kuching

Hope 2019 brings prosperity and a new addition to the fam. Insyaallah

Lost City of Petra. Day 2

Onlookers,

Date: 24.12.2018

It’s Christmas eve and we are on our way to Petra from Amman Guest House. We ubered our way to the JETT bus station in 7th circle which took about 5 minutes ride. (2JOD).

Our bus departed at 0700 as scheduled and reached Petra 1038 with 30 minute pitstop at Caravan Serai.

We checked in at Petra Palace Hotel, which is an old hotel with a bulky cable tv. There was no kettle to boil water but hot water can be easily available from the resto.

We had lunch of Moussaka (which is eggplant in minced beef tomato sauce served with coconut rice) and Fatoosh (salad and croutons in apple cidar dressing served with naan bread). (17JOD)

After lunch, since there was no Petra by night, we decided to roam around, initially just to Mousa’s Spring but Mr Salleh, the taxi driver gave the idea to go to Little Petra as well for a fee of 24JOD.

The taxi driver also showed us the aqueducts of the bedouin and stopped at various photospots.

Then we had dinner at High Castle resto. Mixed grill and Falafil (12JOD)

And we bought some groceries as well from nearby supermarket for 29JOD including an insight guide book 💕.

Thats the end of Day 2.

Lost City of Petra. Day 1

Onlookers,

Date: 23.12.2018

Whilst day 0 included our trip from Kuching to KL, dinner at 4fingers and overnight stay at Tune Hotel, day 1 was merely the trip all the way from KL to Amman.

9 hours flight from KL to Jeddah on Saudia Air with 2 main meals;

4 hours transit at the congested airport of Jeddah over one nutella smoothie;

And another 1+ hours from Jeddah to Amman, totalling to 14 hours trip from KL (1220) to Amman (2115 local time; 0315 KL time)

Thats excluding 1 hour immigration queue (wrong queue line), money changing activity, sim card data purchase, another 30 minutes airport transfer worth 1JOD/minute (inclusive of lost parkibg ticket fee) and check in at Guest House Amman.

Thank Allah the hotel was super-comfy (if you exclude the faint smell of after-tobacco)

We ended the night happy. Alhamdulillah. Except the fact that RHB screwed up my credit card at this crucial moment.

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Onlookers,

Today is departure day and we decided to take our own sweet time. We checked out at 1100. We had a problem obtaining the free luggage storage service. We strolled around Namba train station whilst waiting.

After stowing away our burdens, we headed towards Osaka Castle.

We had a lunch picnic under the tree in the nearby garden and after that headed home. We looked for the rapi:t train to Kansai Airport which was worth 1270.00 each.

We reached the airport at 1811 and try to find our way around. Air asia X was at international Terminal (South). E1-E7.

After baggage drop, we ate our last meal in Japan.

It was delish. Cost 1300.00yen.

Bubbye expensive Japan. Hello lovely Malaysia 😘.

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Onlookers,

Its almost the end of our Japan trip. How else better to close the journey with Universal Studios Japan! 😘

We ran towards the Forbidden Journey ride and today there is no timed pass. It was awesome!

Done.

1. Hippogriff ride
2. butterbeer drinking
3. JAWS
4. Jurassic park the ride
5. The backdraft (san francisco)
6. Spiderman the ride.
7. Terminator 3D
8. Flying Dinosaur

It was the perfect ending ride in USJ 😍. After a bit of shopping and a stopover at HRC, we hunted for dinner but then decided we should finish our rations instead.

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Onlookers,

Today is our second day to Kyoto. Hopefully more fruitful than yesterday. We started our day at 0745 to get the non reserved shinkansen. We managed the 0853 KODAMA. Previously we took the Hikari train.

Our first destination is a repeat of Fushimi Inari.

Then we had a picnic under the Arashiyama bamboo grove before catching our 1300 Saigano romantic train.

620 Yen for the Romantic train, we began the ride on time.

Saigano Train is not so romantic at all. The train is bumpy and the fact that we are on a standing train, i couldnt really take in the scenery regardless how beautiful it is…

A bit of a waste. Another waste would be us buying return bus tickets to Kinkakuji temple which shouldve been covered yesterday.

JR line to Enmachi then we walked to the bus station to Kinkakuji. 230 yen one way. 🤪 (then we found out that the bus covered by JR) DAFUQ!!!

Entrance fee 400 yen to this temple.

We decided to end pur day and head back to Osaka. A Latias raid later, we reached Osaka and tried the Ayam Ya branch in Namba.

And the day ended early for us with a full tummy. Alhamdulillah. That dish with kara age was worth 780+380.

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Onlookers,

We began our day early today to catch the 0816 train to Kyoto. The highlight of today is the Kiyomizudera Temple. The train rides itself lasted an hour (3 stops). I refuse to pay more than what i have.

8.16-8.31 we went to the info counter to get guides. We took the bus day pass worth 600.00.

We took the 206 bus to kiyomizudera. It was quite a hike up the hill to see the temple.

Theres a well of health, love and knowledge in the temple area. Then we had vanilla green tea ice cream for 350 yen.

We searched for a halal food shop but it was full and another one besides it was reserved.

We walked a bit and found another indian resto. Dhaba Noorsbi Gion. One meal cost 1200.00.

We strolled at Maruyama Park and headed straight to Nishiki Market.

In Nishiki Market… theres nothing much excep convenient stores and seafood galore.

We bought fridge magnets from here worth 100 yen each.

Next stop is daikakuji temple but when we reached there it was closed. But then we were informed that we should go to kinkakuji instead of dai (facepalm)

We found ourself back on JR and planned our romantic train trip. 😅.

We skipped Arayashima Bamboo Tree to go to Fushimi Inari but got lost to the outskirts of Nara.

As we reached Fushimi Inari, the tourist spot is dark and not lit like in the pictures.

Another disappointment. We went to Kyoto station to grab dinner at Ayam Ya.

Post dinner we head back to Osaka.

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Onlookers,

Today is a bit laid back for me as i could just laze in the hotel room whilst waiting for checkout time at 1100 and train to osaka at 1303.

The rest went to ameyami and some fabric shop in Nippori fabric town. We started to enter the JR system at 1140.

oolong tea 160.00

We reached Shin osakaa 1600 and went straight to Namba station to our abode. Surprisingly, the fast lane for the escalators here are of different side from Tokyo. Tokyo fast lane on the right, osaka left.

We reached the hotel at 1842 after a delay in obtaining the keys.

We strolled to Dotonbori whilst hubting for dinner and found an Indian resto. Might as well rest the sashimi and ramen for today.

It was a good mutton biryani served with yoghurt and chicken curry worth 1080.00.

Glico Running Man, an icon of Osaka. Wondered why. 😅

A far walk ahead is hard rock cafe and we ended the night with some pokemon hunt.