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		<title>Ammar&#8217;s world of colours</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was quite free last week &#8211; so I scanned some of Ammar&#8217;s work and turn it into a video using Google&#8217;s Picasa . The background music is Yusuf Islam&#8217;s I Look, I See song . Since Ammar saw his works in Youtube he was so excited &#8211; he even asked me to scan his [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://rizalafif.net/2010/03/ammars-world-of-colours/</link>
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		<title>Why we need to learn Arabic</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have been in Saudi for over 3 years now but my Arabic knowledge has not much improved &#8211; my bad. I have heard many lectures , read many books about the importance of reading and understand Quran but it has never giving me the same impact that these lectures on myself. Mashaallah it was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://rizalafif.net/2010/03/why-we-need-to-learn-arabic/</link>
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		<title>Competitive Strategy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The new semester had started for my Competitive Intelligence study at OUM - I have to take two subjects for this semester which are Competitive Strategy and Macroeconomics . As an online student- not being able to attend to the seminar in MY, I had no choice but to find alternative ways to understand the course [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://rizalafif.net/2010/03/competitive-strategy/</link>
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		<title>The Makkah and Madinah trip</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This was the first time I drove with my new Trailblazer from Riyadh-Makkah-Madinah-Riyadh. It was enjoyable trip with additional passenger &#8211; Pah. She stayed with us for almost 6 month and only 2 weeks before leaving that we managed to bring her here. Apa nak buat I was busy with Hajj, project and also the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Trip Madinah</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The time lapse video was taken in early January 2010 . I started taking the shot after maghrib and completed it around 9am the next day. This was only our second trip to Madinah &#8212; took Pah with us before she&#8217;s leaving Saudi Arabia back to Malaysia.]]></description>
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		<title>The Madrasah</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I read some stuffs about homeschooling &#8211; and always admire Susan Wise Bauer idea of classical home education. You can read the intro here Classical education depends on a three-part process of training the mind. The early years of school are spent in absorbing facts, systematically laying the foundations for advanced study. In the middle [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://rizalafif.net/2010/02/the-madrasah/</link>
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		<title>Hajj Day 1: 8th Zulhijjah 1430</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As we enter Makkah area from Taif &#8211; the journey was getting slower &#8211; the long queue of buses and cars at few checkpoints took us hours to reach Masjidil Haram area &#8211; which on an ordinary day it would only take at most 1 hour. The bus stopped ~ 2km from  the Masjidil Haram [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://rizalafif.net/2009/12/hajj-day-1-8th-zulhijjah-1430/</link>
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		<title>Hajj Day 0: 7th Zulhijjah 1430</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I left home around 6.30am that day on the 24th November 2009 &#8211; the weather was fine الحمدالله and I still can’t believe that I made it after all &#8211; after the boss told me two weeks ago that I should postpone the trip to next year. I did not gave up &#8211; called some [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://rizalafif.net/2009/11/hajj-day-0-7th-zulhijjah-1430/</link>
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		<title>Trip Details to Dammam</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Start: 2009-10-08 08:01:29 End: 2009-10-08 12:10:09 Total time: 0 days 4 hours 8 minutes 34 seconds Distance: 417.16km Average speed: 100.7km/h Max speed: 164.0km/h Max altitude: 1151m Time zone: GMT+03:00 Type: Normal track &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211; Stop (1): 08:01:30 to 08:06:23 Stop for: 0 days 0 hours 4 minutes 53 seconds Stop (2): 08:07:48 to 08:11:26 Stop [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://rizalafif.net/2009/10/trip-details-to-dammam/</link>
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		<title>Reading Competitive Intelligence</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Knowledge]]></description>
		<link>http://rizalafif.net/2009/07/reading-competitive-intelligence/</link>
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