What's Up?

I have not been updating my blog for quite sometime now. Four months to be exact and a lot of happenings during that period actually.

In August, I was hospitalized for six days due to a stone in the urinary tract and had to undergo surgery and missed my brother in law's wedding in Sandakan, Eid in October which fell on my wife's birthday, VSSS (voluntary selected separation scheme) announcement by my company in the same month. Tell me the difference between retrenchment and VSSS? They sure picked the right time to make such an announcement, right smacked after the Eid festival. I was not on the list though, who knows I could be next.

Soon after that, a diving trip to Tioman Island with my son Najeeb who also obtained his PADI Open Water Diving Certification, another surgery due to the same problem and was hospitalized for a day, a weekend trip in November to Jakarta and again, hopitalized for two days with another two rounds of surgery and a plastic stent placed in the urinary tract between my kidney and bladder. What could be more intersting that that? I think I have used up my medical insurance entitlement for the whole year!

Najeeb on the left and his dad with their first ever father and son underwater photo.

The young PADI Scuba Diver!

A school of ikan Sela Kuning in the background.