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Adib
A corporate refugee who has been there and done that. Now,I am back to school-learning and teaching at the same time.
Interests: reading, blogging, walking and cycling(quite often) etc.And always carries an iPad and a Moleskine notebook wherever he goes..
Recent Activity
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This is my attempt to sketch portraits using pencil in my iPad..Now,I know it is not easy... Continue reading
Posted yesterday at The Reader
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This is a figment of my imagination in the form of a simple sketch of a bridge spanning over the labyrinth weirs located at Taman Seri Empangan,Presint 5,Putrajaya.Among my cycling buddies,it is known as The Forbidden Bridge.I gave it this... Continue reading
Posted yesterday at The Reader
Malaysian author Tan Twan Eng has won the £25,000 Walter Scott Prize for historical fiction for his second novel The Garden of Evening Mists. He travelled from his home in South Africa to be at the ceremony in Melrose in... Continue reading
Reblogged 3 days ago at The Reader
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Many a time,we spent too much time with friends than with our family members..They are our friends too..What are you doin today?Below is my family event for today. Continue reading
Posted 4 days ago at The Reader
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This morning,I plan to join my PUR Group to cycle with fellow riders from Presint 16,Putrajaya.I fully support our cycling group to participate in any community ride so that we make the crowd as well as motivate others to ride... Continue reading
Posted 5 days ago at The Reader
كِتَابٌ أَنْزَلْنَاهُ إِلَيْكَ مُبَارَكٌ لِيَدَّبَّرُوا آيَاتِهِ وَلِيَتَذَكَّرَ أُولُو الألْبَابِ via adib.typepad.com Let me re-post this posting I did five years ago to remind us to tadbbur and tazakkaur... Continue reading
Reblogged 6 days ago at The Reader
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Man-made beach near Pullman Hotel,Putrajaya Continue reading
Posted Jun 11, 2013 at Daily Snapshots
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It has been almost 10 years since I started using typepad for my blog.Today is my 3333th blog posting.It looks like I wrote at least 90% of the time over the last decade.Lately, the number of readers had gone down... Continue reading
Posted Jun 11, 2013 at The Reader
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I was very lucky yesterday on my way back home from KL.It was hot and sunny and I managed to capture these two snapshots as I travelled along MEX elevated highway.By the way,I was not driving. The above shot were... Continue reading
Posted Jun 10, 2013 at The Reader
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I love to shoot at blue sky with some interesting structures...Here is one shot that I like when I first got my DSLR way back in 2007.It is not in Europe but quite near to KL for day trip.. Continue reading
Posted Jun 9, 2013 at The Reader
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Where we had our breakfast by the lake.. Continue reading
Posted Jun 8, 2013 at The Reader
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No,not really...I did this for fun using an apps from appstore in my iPad2. On second thought,why not having iPad sketchers and artists display their artistic talents at public galleries? By the way,here is my sketch of two tulip flowers... Continue reading
Posted Jun 7, 2013 at The Reader
In this Quran verse from Surah Al-Furqan, Allah provides a glimpse of some of the characteristics of His slaves that he calls Ibad-ur-Rahman. 63. And the slaves of the Most Beneficent (Allah) are those who walk on the earth in... Continue reading
Posted Jun 6, 2013 at The Reader
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The last decade shown a tremendous change in the palnning and design of residential areas but only for middle and upper classes of Malaysian society in a few selected areas.This photo shown is a well designed housing estate in Presint... Continue reading
Posted Jun 5, 2013 at The Reader
In politics and marketing.perception is reality!How do we manage lies?During the war,they call it the art of deception!If someone were to tell lies about me,I will not defend it.I will expose the liars with hard facts and evidences to prove... Continue reading
Posted Jun 4, 2013 at The Reader
It’s that feeling that you get when you bring an idea to life. There are few things more powerful than creating something; especially when that something is a product of your own imagination, day dream or brainstorm. Going from chaos,... Continue reading
Reblogged Jun 3, 2013 at The Reader
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Hibiscus flower under the great sun light at The Promenande,Putrajaya Continue reading
Posted Jun 2, 2013 at Daily Snapshots
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In 2005,I took this photo and blogged about it as my morning glory: In 2010,I did the same with the photo below:- And today,I am blogging again about the same thing-the morning light changed everything and I love watching the... Continue reading
Posted Jun 2, 2013 at The Reader
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..like this one..please stop and have a look.Then you shall realise that so many beautiful things that have passed through your life but you just took them for granted or worse you ignored them.If you could give a few more... Continue reading
Posted Jun 1, 2013 at The Reader
Major cities with bike share systems are coming to terms with a well-worn truth: Nothing matters until it happens in New York. (At least in the eyes of New Yorkers.) A prominent biking advocate in Copenhagen created a “whine-o-meter” to... Continue reading
Reblogged May 31, 2013 at The Reader