Mid October Already?

At some point, I paused posting anything. Partly, I was busy handling personal matters and partly, I also resisted the feeling that I have to be posting something, just because I wanted to be a content creator (I used to joke with my youngest as content kereta). Many do so, to an extent that I felt silly, making things up just to get the attention of others. I would prefer not to do that and in fact, I am really a shy person all my life and only got to be a 'social' person out of necessity. Otherwise I prefer to fade in the background, doing my own kind of things uninterrupted.

Speaking of my youngest, he was fetched by my eldest to be home for the long Deepavali weekend. Apparently, he was down with fever and given the current influenza outbreak, I took him to the clinic this afternoon.

Let me retrace back to several days earlier. Well, October was the month of Nobel Prize announcements and the Nobel Prize in Physics  this year goes to a discovery in quantum science, namely macroscopic quantum tunnelling. 

In the past, I would have written something 'elaborate' in the social media or make a blog post about it. This time, I don't feel like to, because of the feeling that everyone seems to champion quantum S&T these days and like what I've said above, I prefer staying in the background and not be a 'quantum cheerleader'. For chemistry, I find it interesting to see Omar Yaghi as one of the Nobel laureates, given that he is a son of a Palestinian refugee. But perhaps the name also stand out to me, because of his visits to UPM before this.

Back to personal matters; on Wednesday, we rushed to Rompin to visit my sister-in-law and her husband who just had an accident. This is the shape of their car. Really bad, total loss.

They were hit by a runaway oil-palm carrying lorry, rolling down a slope without a driver. Alhamdulillah, they escaped with only bruises and minor cuts. The husband (driver) spent a night at the hospital (now discharged). My sister-in-law was actually thrown into the back seat on impact. I can't imagine what they were feeling then. It could have been worse. Their car went into one side of a ravine while the lorry went to the other side. So far they are ok. Here's a pic of my sons with Abang Mat (rightmost, the driver).

Today, while my eldest went to fetch my youngest, we had our breakfast at an eatery in City Park. My son had a job interview this morning and another interview online in the afternoon. He has yet to arrive home this evening, probably stuck in the traffic jam as people going off for holidays for the long Deepavali weekend. I have returned the Macbook that he bought for me back to him since he needed it more than I do. I'm fine with my old laptop as is. When I have enough money, I just hope to upgrade the hard disk and get a new battery - probably will stick with it till the end.

That's it for now.