Our Basic "Nuclear" Family Unit

Standing, from left to right: Yours sincerely the head of the family, My wife Azmah (retired from job as lecturer at UiTM).

Sitting, from Left, our youngest daughter Arlida (studying Engineering in France on JPA scholarship), son Faisal (an IT person, working with oil company Shell at CyberJaya), eldest daughter Eliza (a medical doctor working at General Hospital Melaka). Eliza is married.  I am sorry we don't have a picture (yet) of our son-in-law Imran (leturer in chemical engineering at UniKL Melaka), and of our 2-month old grandson Adam Faiz.  I promise that we shall include their photos ASAP.

Cheers,

Abdullah.

Hello everyone,

Welcome to my first ever blogger site.

First of all I would like to wish my wife, Azmah, a happy mother's day, which would fall on the 14th of May. Happy Mother's day is also dedicated to my eldest daughter, Eliza, who had just became a mother on the 1st of April, 2006. Her son, named Adam Faiz, was eager to come out and see the world. He was delivered by caesarian section when he only completed 28 weeks in his mum's womb. As is always the case, he has to be supplied with artificial life support system for the first several days while he was kept in his incubator in the ICU. Alhamdulilah lately he has shown encouraging developments. Although he is still in the incubator, he is no longer in the ICU. His doctors has decided that he no longer needs the artificial support system, and he is feeding on his mothers milk through the feeding tubes. Let us pray and doa that everything will go fine with Adam. Our thoughts are always with Adam, Eliza, and Imran (Adam's father and my son-in-law)

And of course, I am now upgraded to a grandfather. In Malaysia, we granddads are given the title of "Datuk". Many other people can also earn and are awarded the same title by our KIng The Yang Pertuan Agong or by the Sultans and Heads States through the recognition of their contribution to the country, state, or society.

I would like to invite you to make any kind of contribution to this site to make it more lively. Please share you wisdom, memoirs, travel stories, jokes, news, etc.

I am looking forward to active participation from my friends, such as Dr. Kamal Shah, Dave and Dee, and many other members of SERVAS who had contributed so much to our previous SERVAS-SEA mailing list.

With best wishes and hope to see you on line.

Cheers,
From Abdullah CT.

Yes, this picture is that of yours truly (Abdullah Che Tengah) taken when I was a little younger.