my 1st flex web application

I'm not sure if I did a good job on it. Well just wait and see for the feedback.. if it ever get to be used. Anyway I just glad I've got something working. http://hidayahyatim84.s43.eatj.com/ISBCDevApp/isbcpapers.html After a bunch of trial and error. Honestly I don't like working this way. It would be really great if I really understand the method and makes me have control on stuff. Ouh well I still have a long way to go..

So my directory pretty much end up looking like this for the project. hehehe.

Sufi Farisa

I could still picture her vividly. Her chubby face, how she talked, how she laughed, frowned. How she fond of hubby. and me too apparently. hehe. Well she pretty much liked everybody. She had so much energy in her. I'm really grateful I could be apart of her life. Even for a short while. It's just that I wish I had hug her that night and tell her how much I adore her..

I first met Sufi Farisa when she was a baby. That time when I visited hubby's house at Gombak (we were still bf/gf back then). Then she got bigger and she called me kak dayah. Later she called me autie-kak-dayah. Which was a bit long but really cute. heh. Hubby told me a lot about her. She was his first niece. and she was really manja with him. Like mama said wan spoiled farisa a lot. heh.

The thing that I remember most about her is the gaga song. She would sing the song enthusiastically with the hand and jumping here and there. Farisa liked to give advices too. She would advise us a lot of things. Like telling hubby not to call me honey but auntie dayah instead. She would read the doa when we got into our car.
She always told me to sit with her. And not to go anywhere else of course. Then her mom; kak long would told her not to ordering me around. hehe.

She was the center of attention in the family. Her loss is a great test put upon the family. I have learn that Allah put test to the people that He loves. I pray that mama and babah, kak long and abg firdaus, faris and fariha, hubby, fiq and yen, kak yam and kak ani, the whole family, are given the strength to pass on this test. Farisa is chosen by the Almighty to be in a better place. She will always be remembered. Rest in peace Sufi Farisa. Al-Fatihah.

Little steps

I got to create my first WTP project that have Flex in the front end and Java in the back end by invoking servlet like normal Web App and deployed in Tomcat webserver. So I encountered a few problem that almost make me want to give up. There were a few tutorials that I followed but I think I want to put up the steps that I did and what I understand from the coding in MXML file, which is for flex, here. I don't want to make the same mistake twice of course.

So the tuts that I followed:
http://voiceoffresher.wordpress.com/tag/flex-with-servlet/
http://www.devrecipes.com/2009/04/20/flex-with-java-servlets-how-to-use-xml-from-an-httpservice-to-populate-a-data-gridtable
http://learn.adobe.com/wiki/display/Flex/2b.+Code+Files

I'll be going home now~~

research

Ok so after a couple of weeks without any research or kopi or meow2 I need to refocus now. I think before I was stuck at installing WTP in Flex Builder. But later I got to resolve it by installing from different source which was not from Malaysia source, US if Im not mistaken.

Ok somehow I don't know where to start now

Redang; SubhanaAllah

Last weekend hubby and me followed my colleagues went to Redang for a little break. And it turns out to be a nice and memorable vacation that actually I didn't quite expect. Thanks a lot to mr organizer and our activity organizer shah, muza and sayuth for making the trip ermm overwhelming. hehe  Me and hubby had a really good time.

So we made our move separately from the others since we were from Putrajaya. It took about 6 hours to reach the state of Terengganu. And to tell the truth this is my first visit to pantai timur after... let me see 20 years . I went there last with my family when I was little. so for the first time that garmin we bought serve a good purpose.  We spent the night at badar's house, whos joining the trip as well, and headed to Redang the next morning. The road trip was really exhausting that maybe to go by flight is not a very bad idea after all. Eventho I was not the one driving. hehe.

1st day
I was worried about getting seasick at first and took the seasick pill. But as the consequence of exhaustion all of us just slept all the way on the ferry trip to the island.

Redang really wowed me. The white beach. The totally clear blue water that make you see all the fishes and I felt like a jakun a bit. . Our chalet were not that fancy since the sole purpose to go there was.... snorkeling! yeayy!

So at noon we started the first snorkeling trip and yup I was a freaking first timer. I had planned on what to wear beforehand since it quite bugged me how will I snorkel as a good muslimah. hehe. So I did some research on what are the girls wearing when snorkeling. What I found mostly wear the bawal tudung and at some point it could come off when you were in the water. So I decided to wear the ekin kind of tudung and muza wear this syria tudung which really looked nice on her and suit for swimming too.

So I think that ekin tudung really made my trip a whole lot easier. The first location we went to was in open sea (which I first heard as opency; err ape maksud die ek. heh). And it wasn't that bad  eventho I can't swim. hehe. but the life jacket and of course hubby helped to pull me around. hehe. So we were there looking at the coral and the fish. and it was so amazinggg to look at. It's like a whole different world down there; living peacefully. Ok I might sound so dramatic but looking at the bottom of the sea was really mesmerizing. Makes me awe to the greatness of Allah. So I was like talking through the goggle thing to hubby and he didn't really give attention and it made me wonder. Then I realized that he was exhausted by keep swimming and tagging me along and the coral was not in his priority at the moment. hehe Thank you hubby! I made a promise to myself to learn swimming. Tapi.. bile? isk.

After dinner we played bunch of games starting with treasure hunt, then guess-what-song then build-anything-u-like-with-trashes-around-you.. hehe. . And it was fun! I can't really remember the last time I played all these games.

So after the games we laid down on the beach watching the stars. Well.. it started off with gossiping actually .  Anyway there was no clouds and no pollution I guess, so the sky was really clear and you could see all the stars I sure glad I had my contact lenses on. But I should have had my camera. Because.. guess what we got to see a shooting star! for the first time in my life. well actually I saw it twice. And people said make a wish if you see one. But of course I didn't believe that. hehe.

Ok of course I did not see it this big. But it's really cool right! *picture from google. heh*


2nd day
We rent an underwater camera for 50RM (from 9am to 6pm if  I'm not mistaken) I taught at first so that we could take pictures of coral, fishes and stuff. But in the end the camera was full of our pictures of course.   It was really worth it though. So I have a favorite picture:  

We should have rent this camera earlier. So on this second day we went to two places for snorkeling. And finished all 150+ snaps we had with that camera. I finally got to see baby sharks after dok jealous with jimi and others who got to see them the day before. They kind of playing near the beach I guess. And they didn't bite luckily. This boy who one of the boat crew said the baby sharks come near the beach around 4pm, thats when you could see them. Later around 5 their mother (mak shark katenye) will call them back.  and I had a sudden shudder when he said that.

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Aiyo times up. Need to get back to work. All in all the trip went really well. Alhamdulillah.. We managed to have a little vacation in the middle of the hassling of work.   huhuhu...

*pictures credit to siti fatimah and sayuth.