New neighbour from Pakistan

This week we have new friend from Pakistan. Their flat is three doors from our flat. One day my wife wanted to go her lab, one guy went out from a flat and headed toward my wife. He asked my wife ?" are you Malaysian". My wife asnwered "Yes we are". He said that he is Phd candidate, doing research about Malaysia.

After a couple of days, my wife just tried to visit his wife if she was in flat, and then his wife invited us to have dinner in their flat. Actually We were happy to accept this invitation, but can't go in the night, as sometimes our daughter usually goes to sleep early. So we were invited to go at 6pm after Asar prayer.

During the visiting, we had wondeful chating with them. We exchanged a lot of information about our country. Amongts good information I wanted to share is he will do a Phd about Malaysia in terms of economy, politics and religion. His supervisor asked her to read about Al-Arqam, and Dr Mahathir's ideas. So I gave him a book about Madrasah Nurul Iman that may be a nice book to be read. He was really happy and said that he should go this place. The place I meant is Madrasah Nurul Iman.

He likes listening to mystical Sufism music. I saw him like he is pretty common in sufic lifestyle such as halaqah zikr.

Camping site in Pakistan. It is called by Kaghan.

One of the beautiful places in Pakistan.

The local name of K2 is Chogori, which in Balti language means, The King of Mountains. This name is little known to the outside world. It is therefore desirable, that, the present name - K2 is used: It is, however, beneficient to popularize the local name which so succinctly conveys the hugeness of this gigantic mountain. K2 has variously been described as the "awesome", "killer" and "savage" mountain. This is because of the massiveness of its size and some unsuccessful attempts, made upon it, by various expedition parties, including Americans who apperently have made quite a few attempts on it.

K2 is a rocky mountain climbing upto 6,000 m, beyond which, it becomes an ocean of snow. K2 peak is situated on the Pak-China border in the mighty Karakoram Region. The traditional route to its base camp goes from Skardu, which is linked with Islamabad by a fairly good road, as well as, by air. From Skardu the route goes via Shigar-Dassu-Askole upto Concordia over the Baltoro glacier. The exact height of the peak is 8,611 m/28,251 ft. However, some American magazines show its height as 8,760m/28,740ft which does not seem to be correct.

The below picture is Saiful Muluk Lake