from kamarul shahrin's photography blogsite http://www.kamarul-shahrin.com

sam and irfan

felda residence hotsprings - sept 25 2009

3 room villa

felda residence hotsprings - sept 24 2009

irfan and izmir

and my father

felda residence hotsprings sungkai - sept 24 2009

opah mi and atuk with the kids

felda residence hotsprings - sept 24 2009

alia, imir and atuk

sept 24 2009 - felda residence hotspring, sungkai

izmir and alia in the natural hotwater spa.

irfan accompanying izmir during his stay in university hospital kl.

at this time we were still staying in alor star and it is at about this time when we decided to move back to kl for izmir's sake.

a muscle biopsy was done and the sample was sent to australia. the results came back later confirming the disease to be dystrophinopathy, or duchenne muscular dystrophy. the news was devastating to us and until today our lives have been a race against time searching and hoping for a cure.

izmir with family in hukl for muscle biopsy 2005
izmir in front of alor star tower 2005
izmir in front of alor star tower model 2005
izmir and alia in front of house in ara damansara before moving in 2005
izmir at home in alor star 2005

 How could anyone let this happen...?

 I wish I could wind back the clock...and stop this from happening.

Marang Resort and Safaris - recent pictures

 What used to be the management chalet. This is where we spent sleepless nights thinking, brainstorming ideas and planning our tomorrow. I loved spending time here. I would take the earliest flight from KL and have breakfast of nasi dagang just on this side of the Kuala Ibai bridge. it wasn't that early really by the the time I got here from the airport and if I am unfortunate, the nasi dagang could have been sold out.

At one time, I spent about 3 months living in this resort with my family including my maid, working on a project that will make part of this resort even more boutigue.

I have a small porta-cabin office about half a kilometer to the left of this bridge, on the beach right on the edge of a swamp. The cabin is wired to the main office ( we don't have broadband yet in those days ) and every morning I would 'remote access' my Mac in my office in KL. As far as my architects were concerned at that time, it was as if I was upstairs in my room. On quite a number of occassions I was visited by those boys who were selling Macs in Terengganu because they have probably never seen anybody worked virtually before. I mean theoretically and technically, they were experts and i used to sought their advise when things didn't quite go right. But these were tools to me. I determine how I want to work and where I want to work.

Marang Resort and Safaris - recent pictures

 It is so painful to see the resort that I once designed and built, abandoned and faded to dust. This used to be the 'gateway' to the resort where you find at the end of this bridge, an island on which is the reception, main office and the restaurant. All these were carefully inserted instead of imposed upon and the 'man-made' sat comfortably on the edge of nature in an almost seamless transition of space, neither one or the other.

I don't know how anyone could abandon this beautiful resort and left it to become something like this to rot.