Went to Uzbekistan in 1994 to visit their R&D department in Tashkent the state capital of Uzbek. Dr Najem and Izhan join the trip. Our intention is to scout for talents to work in our R&D office. Stayed there for a week. The R&D center were not that fully equipped unlike ours in Malaysia, but they produces lots of research papers.
Dr Adham host took us to visit their ski mountain resort. We took the cable car right to the mountain top. Since it was summer, there are not many people around. Our host Dr Adham took us around. During one night, he took us to see the famous Russian ballet.
We were lucky to had visited the country when they were celebrating their 100 years of their scientist . It was held in another city called Samarkand. In Samarkand, we had the opportunity to visit the famous Imam Bukhari Mosque & Moseuleum. However they Center were short of reading materials especially the Quran since they were not allowed to practice Islam freely during the communist period. On my return trip to Malaysia later, I organized to collect the Quran from office mates and had them shipped to Tashkent.
Their mosque were of high architecture value but not fully utilized for prayers.
We later recruited Dr Azham to work in our office. He worked in our R&D for almost 7 years. During his stay in Malaysia, I played host to him on several occasion. Took him back to my hometown in Kedah and brought him to places like PD and Penang. During fasting month I used to invite him for break-fasting in my home and took him for the Terawih prayers.
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| Samarkand |
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| Fruit Market Tashkent |
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| Dr Adham & Hazim in Penang |