Bismillah

Dekat seminggu tak tulis blog. Banyak bende berlaku seminggu nih. Tapi banyak da tak ingat detail die. HUuu..

Terimalah apa yang masih ada dalam hard disc (otak) apa-apa yang berjaya dirakam oleh deria-deria penglihatan, pengdengaran, bau dan rasa...

18 Ogos 2007

Sukan Tahunan Pertama KAFA Ibtida'iah Masjid Zakaria. Masjid Zakaria, dekat je masjid ni, dekat dengan medan makan 'kubur' yang femes di kalangan student UIA. Aku kenal masjid ni bila ramai kawan yang ke masjid ni untuk solat terawih mase bulan puasa. Sebab apa? Sebab setakat ni, masjid ni la yang paling pantas dalam menghabiskan 8 rakaat terawih - pukul 9.15 da abes; tatkala masjid UIA dan surau-surau dalam UIA banyak yang abes 8 rakaat pukul 9.30 - 9.40.

Tapi tu bukan ceritanya, seminggu sebelum hari ni (18 Ogos), Nadiah telefon aku tanye aku nak join ke tak program derang kat masjid tu. Rupe-rupenye derang kelas skill Community Service dan buat program macam ni lah assignment dan exam derang.

Malam tadi (17 Ogos) ada miting kat masjid tu, bincang pasal perjalanan program sukan tu nanti. Tak semena-mena aku disuruh jadik host sukan tu nanti. Uhh.. Boleh ke? Aku tgh selsema.. Boleh? Hmm.. Lama bincang perjalanan sukan tu, sampai kol 11 baru abes bincang. Balik, singgah makan kat simpang (depan SBPI), sampai uia kol 12. Tidur, esoknya nak ada dekat masjid kol 7.30 pagi.

Majlis perasmian bermula agak tepat pada waktunya, VIP pun datang on time. Pukul 8.40 start majlis, ucapan ketua guru, ADUN GOmbak Setia, pegawai-pegeawai mana lagi tah. Pukul 9.15 start la sukan. Lama tak jadi host sukan. Last sekali jadi masa sukaneka ANTRAXX Comrade dekat Janda Baik setahun lepas. Time tu handle abang-abang dengan kakak-kakak senior COmrade. Payah nak jaga, senior susah ikot kate. Hehe. Tapi sonok. Kali ni jaga adik-adik darjah 1 sampai darjah 6. Sonok. Adik-adik ni sporting. Time acara terbuka, open sape nak masuk, sume orang angkat tangan. Time aku hulur microphone tanye-tanye kat derang, sume berebut nak jawab. Hehe.

Sukan abes pukul 1.00 lebih. Kemas-kemas. Makan-makan. Kol 3 baru balik UIA. Penat. Tapi seronok =).

Demam yang bersilih ganti

Cuaca sekarang tak tentu. Kejap panas terik, kejap hujan lebat. Pagi-pagi selalu sejuk sangat. Selalu selsema. Malam tadi pun da terasa demam lagi, tapi bile g Convest Hill hilang plak demam. Hehe. Kelas pun banyak tuang seminggu nih. FDC. GEN. Aircraft Structure. DS. Skang ni sume subjek kecuali Aircraft Structure da lengkap 2 kali aku tak datang untuk sem nih. Hu.

Convocation Fiesta (CONVEST)

Start hari Jumaat ke Khamis ari tu? Khamis kot 23 hb. Stall dekat Convest Hill tak bape banyak taun nih. Tapi tahun ni la aku paling banyak habis duet kat situ. Hehe. Malam tadi je (28 Ogos) habis RM 100 lebih. Huhu. Mula-mula bila eh aku beli? Hmm.. Hari Sabtu. G ngan husen mase tu. Apsal aku g ngan husen eh? Hehe. Ade ape eh mase tu? Tak ingat da, tp mmg g jalan-jalan dengan husen. Beli Ar-Rahiq Al-Makhtum (The Sealed Nectar). Melayu punya, Sirah Nabawiyah, YADIM terbitkan. Beli dekat gerai Anak-anak Perak, Kedah dan Penang. Murah. RM 50. Tinggal satu je plak tu mase aku beli. Hehe. Alhamdulillah dapat. Sebelum ni ingat nak beli English Version, The Sealed Nectar, Darussalam keluarkan, tapi da jumpa translation Melayu yang bagus nih, beli lah dulu.

Lagi beli buku 20 Persoalan Asas Palestin. Ustaz Maszlee tulis. Nipis je. RM 7.

Tamat untuk hari tu. Hari semalam plak, bli lagi buku. 'Life is an Open Secret'. Hari tu mase balik rumah mase weekend sebulan lepas, ade terbace review buku ni dalam paper. Bekas student UIA author dia. Pastu plak ramai figure antarabangsa yang review buku dia ni; Sheikh Yusuf Estes, Mike Handcock, Ummahfilms pun ade review. Dasat. Buku koleksi cite pendek pasal motivation. Bile tah nak bace. Beli je dulu. Lagi pun ade promotion, beli buku tu dapat paper beg buku tu jugak. Hehe. RM 20. http://www.lifeopensecret.com/.

Malam tadi jugak beli baju melayu. Konon nak beli macam baju Raihan tu (yang butang sampai bawah, macam kemeja). Ajak husen, tolong nengok-nengok. Last-last bli benda lain plak. Beli dua pulak tu. Satu baju macam baju tabligh yang labuh paras lutut. Wane coklat mude. He. RM 37. Satu lagi bli baju melayu bese, tapi ade kerawang-kerawang pada dada. Uuu.. RM 48. 'Ni boleh buat baju raye ni husen.. cantik..' Hehe. Pakai bawak g teraweh ah nanti. He.

TOtal = RM 162. Banyak. Huhu.

Tak boleh pegi lagi lah Convest nih. Kalo pegi mesti ade bende nak beli. Heh. Macam-macam ade kat Convest nih. Makanan, baju, seluar, tudung (temasuk yang dijual kat gerai 'World of Tudung 60" ', hehe, cam best je name gerai die), jubah, aksesori, kete ade, buku, magazines, sume ade lah! Sebut je. Orang pun macam-macam ade. Cafe mahalah sume tutup time COnvest, sume orang bertumpu kat sini. Semalam makan kat Convest ngan husen pun, nengok orang lalu-lalang, ya Allah, macam-macam jenis orang ade. Tinggi pendek, lawa tak lawa, kemas selekeh, yang bagus yang tak bagus, yang bekapel yang solo yang jalan dengan geng ramai, yang sedar diri yang tak sedar diri (if you know what I mean), sume ade. Teringat pepatah Jepun yang da selalu aku sebut dalam blog ni, 'Jinsei iro iro, hito sore zore' - dunia berbagai-bagai, manusia pelbagai ragam. Naseb baik malam ni closing. Hehe. Tapi tak leh g, ade skill gamelan.

Sementara tu, time tengah tengah Convest nih, Nadiah lagi sekali ajak satu lagi program kelas skill dia. Kat masjid tu jugak. Kali ni program motivasi untuk student UPSR, PMR, dan SPM. Dia suh aku jadik MC lagi. Start kol 2 petang hari Ahad. Ade ceramah motivasi. Pastu petang tu kol 5 sampai kol 6.15 ade LDK. Jadi fasi. Hehe. Tak pernah do jadik fasi. Pernah ke? Fasi ajo fardhu ain kat orang asli pernah la. Fasi untuk dak-dak nak exam ni tak pernah ar. Teringat kata Cikgu Dani 'Diri sendiri tak terjaga, nak jaga diri orang. Macam? Macam? Macam bagus-bagus, pelajar,'. Hehe. Tapi takpe, kite share aje la ape yg kite boleh share kat derang. Ade 5 group UPSR, 3 PMR, 1 SPM. Dapat jaga UPSR. 5 orang satu group. Comeeeeelll derang. Geram aku. Bagus pun bagus. Ingat lagi tak nama derang? Mamat nak jadik doktor, afiq pun, amirul nak jadik akitek, huda dengan nina nak jadik pramugari. Hehe. Modul? Terpulang pada fasi. Aku guna benang mase nak memperkenalkan diri, lilit-lilit benang pada jari sambil memperkenalkan diri. lepas tu orang seterusnya amek benang yang sama, sambung lilit kat jari dia, dan sterusnya, macam aku experience masa ikot DRIC COmrade dekat Pos Sg Rual. Best. Derang gelak-gelak mase nih. Comel je derang gelak (mase tertekan jugak, tertekan fikir macam mana nak buat modul interesting, yang boleh make them happy). Lepas tu borak-borak pasal UPSR.. minggu depan 3/9 nih start. Lepas tu next modul, suh derang lukis rumah idaman derang. Nak rumah yang macam mana. Dasat-dasat gak idea derang, bagus. Pastu da abes mase sejam, (kejap nyeeee, tak puas), pastu nasihat-nasihat sikit (cite pasal Sallehudin al-Ayyubi yang think big, kite pun kene think big! Impikan benda yang besar-besar). Pastu amek gambo.. Kejap je, sejam dengan derang. 'Takde yang nak mintak autograph aku ke?' Hehe. Sejam je, takde bond sangat. Kalo setengah hari ye ade agaknye. Tapi ape pun, semoga korang semua berjaya =). Derang siap panggil aku Ustaz. Heh. Dengar ade yang panggil Amirah, Nadiah sume Ustazah jugak. Hehe. Bagus, bagus.

Malam tu pulak ada baca yasin dan solat hajat. Lepas tu ade majlis penyampaian cenderhati. Lepas tu makan. Lepas tu basuh pinggan. Heh. Tak gune punye Mun. Ko da janji nak datang basuh pinggan tapi tak datang! Huh. Tapi best ah basuh pinggan ramai-ramai. 'Ko kan suke basuh pinggan Jimin?'. Aku suke.. tapi tak pernah lagi basuh gune sistem orang. Hehe. Ade pakcik ni buat sistem tersendiri nak basuh beratus pinggan dengan gelas. Hehe. Amirah plak sebok 'Apsal ko yang basuh? Apsal ko yang basuh? (patutnye kiteorang yang basuh, kiteorang punye program..)'. Hehe. Ko rilek je. Zuhdi besemangat basuh sampai basah lencun kain dia. Dengan periuk² skali basuh. Periuk surau sebelah rumah aku pun tak pernah aku basuh. Hehe. Tapi bila da beramai-ramai basuh dengan kawan-kawan, sangat seronok. Benda yang banyak rasa sikit. Benda yang susah rasa senang. Alhamdulillah.. Time kasih la Nadiah, Amirah and their groupmate ajak aku =) Ajk surau plak da risik-risik 'Uish.. bagus derang basuh nih.. bulan puasa nanti boleh ajak derang tolong..' denga derang borak sesama sendiri. Aaaaa.. Aaaa.. Cemane Zuhdi? Terawih kat masjid ni lagi ke taun nih? Hehe.

Convest plak. Ada ape dengan Convest? Selain dari stall kat Convest Hill. Ada banyak benda, paintball tournament (kesian team pokok kalah kat quaterfinal..), ada medex (medical exhibition dak medic Kuantan buat) yang aku tak pegi pun.. Dulu mase kat matric lagi pernah pergi medex (acara wajib Convest tiap tahun). Same je kot. Ada futsal tournament. Ada Mock Trial. Aaaaa.. mock trial. Aku pergi. RM5 tiket. Last nengok mock trial mase final sem matric, husni (my rumet mase final sem) belakun jadik ape tah. Hehe. Best. Yang kali ni pun nengok cam best je. 'Driven' tajuk die, cerita pasal sorang dak skolah ni selalu kene buli, last-last die pegi bunuh pembuli tuh. Boleh tahan la, banyak kelemahan yet banyak jugak yang dasat-dasat. Lakonan bagus. Video pun vivid, bagus. Audience sume menjerit-jerit (of course la audience yang pempuan, laki ade jerit ke?) ketaksuban nengok best sangat kawan-kawan derang belakun kat main audi malam tuh. 'Ni bukan tempat orang tudung labuh la husen' cakap kat husen. Hehe. Dengan bailif dalam cite tu gedik jalan lenggang lenggok dengan skirt fit die. Witness pun ade yang terover gedik (which is watak die mmg macam tu, dan die berjaya bawak, buat orang menyampah + geram nengok die, memang power ah die belakon), tapi yang best witness-witness dia ada characteristic yang unik, ade yang bangga dengan diri sendiri, ada yang banyak cakap, ada yang yakin pada diri sendiri tapi hakikatnya tak betul. Kreatif. Bagus. Seperti biasa, memang penuh melampau ah main audi malam tu. Berebut-rebut orang masuk. Tiket habes jual rasa nya. Boleh ke engineering buat program macam nih? Yang orang berebut-rebut nak masuk? Boleh ke? Boleh ke? Boleh ke? Aaaa.. Aiman yang bayo kan tiket aku malam tu. Ingatkan aku RM 5 ko eh? Hehe.

Pastu 3 hari - Sabtu sampai hari Isnin hari tu, kampus sebok. Sangat sibuk. Nak g kelas Aerodynamics pukul 8.30 Isnin ari tu pun susah, jammed kat bulatan depan sampai lepas engine. Siap ada orang block, parking blakang kete aku plak tu. Aku tak leh nak keluar. Ampeh tol, selambe je. Tanpa buang masa aku terus letak note selit kat wiper dia (as a complaint. Hehe), cakap please think about other people/cars when parking next time. Hehe. Tapi tu lah, memang ramai giler orang. Kat depan CAC dengan riverside toksah cakap lah. Orang pakai jubah hijau besepah-sepah amek gamba dekat-dekat situ. Bestnye da grad.. Belum turn aku lagi.. Tunggu lagi setahun nak grad, lagi 2 tahun pulak nak convo. Huuuu.. Semangat! Semangat!!

Malam ni ada Grand Munajat dekat Masjid sempena kedatangan merdeka esok. Ada munajat, baca Yassin, tahlil, ada forum 'Adakah Kita Merdeka', salah sorang speaker dia Ust Wan Sohor Bani Leman yang tersohor itu. Hehe. Best best.

Esok balik. Petang. 6.30. Hari tu tak bli tiket kat pudu pun.. Naseb baik jugak Acer PM dekat Vypres LAN cakap 'nak g mane?'. Aku jawab nak g bli tiket kat pudu tapi malas gile nak pegi. Die suggest tak yah gi pudu, bli kat Petronas Batu Caves sebelah Giant tu je, die agent Transnasional. So bli kat situ je hari tu. Hari Sabtu kot? Haaa.. lepas bli tiket tu aku terus g Convest ngan Husen. Baru ingat! Hehe. Alhamdulillah dapat tiket esok 6.30. Da nak abes jugak tiket nengok ari tuh. Huu.. Balik! Balik! Kat rumah da ade astro!!! Hehe.

p/s - astro, astro jugak, midtem FDC, DS, A/C structure usah dilupe.. isk..nak g UTM lagi Isnin Selasa nih. Aaaa.. stadi! stadi!

Merdeka Speech: Please Care
by Prof. Dr. Waqar Asrar
Head of Mechanical Engineering Department, IIUM
from India

'This morning I went to a class, I saw the class very messy. The whiteboard was not white, it was grey. And rubbish all around the class. Then I told the students; 'One of the visions of the university is to be in international standard. Does this whiteboard show our internationalization? All the rubbish on the floor? International standard?'. 'No,' said the students. Then I ask my question, 'Who is the university?'. They did not answer. I said, 'It is not Prof. Dato' Dr. Syed Arabi Idid (the Rector) the university. It is not either Dato' Azmi (deputy Rector). They are PART of the university. You (students) and I (lecturers) are also PART of the university. So if we see these (rubbish on floor, and dirty whiteboard) what do we do? If WE CARE, we make a complaint, tell them (authority of university) that this (unwiped) whiteboard does not fit with our vision to be in international standard. Tell them! If we dont care, and we dont tell, who else? Do you expect that Dr Syed Arabi to come to the class to check wether it is clean or not? No! He has other things to do. It is WE that if we CARE, we can achieve the international standards..'. So I told them, 'Please make complaint..'

'And then I asked my second question, 'Who is Malaysia? Dato' Sri Abdullah (Ahmad) Badawi? All the cabinet ministers? How many of them in the minister line? 100? 75? 50? How many is the citizen of Malaysia? 25 million? Which matters most? If we see something not right and we dont care, and say 'tak apa lah..', what will happen? So, PLEASE CARE. That is my Merdeka Speech. Happy Merdeka (waving his hand to us)'.


Hehe. Budak-budak ni kat kelas tergelak lepas dengar speech dia (the fact that he IS a foreigner yet die bagi speech merdeka yang sangat-sangat terkesan dalam setiap antara kami). Die pun tergelak jugak tapi cakap 'No! I am serious! Please care!'. Dia da cakap pasal complaining ni da lame. Sejak mula-mula belajar dengan dia masa 2nd year dulu dia da galakkan student dia complaint klo ada apa-apa yang tak btol pada management, or anything. 'That is what the very nice box outside our office is used for (kotak komplen)' die selalu cakap. Since that memang aku akan komplen apa-apa yang aku rasa tak btol, macam sistem admin kat mahallah yang selalu nya kelam kabut time nak check in/check out. Aku pernah komplen ada staff yang tak mesra. Hehe. Betul benda yang Prof Waqar cakap nih, memang kita ada vision, tapi takkan la pemimpin nak tau semua benda. Memang wakil rakyat selalu ada vision nak memajukan kawasan dia, tapi takkan la dia nak pergi cek setiap satu inci kawasan dia. Kita sebagai penduduk (atau student, atau citizen) lah yang nampak apa yang berlaku di sekeliling kita. Kita tau apa yang tak btol. Kita bagitau lah pada authority. Baru la semua mission and vision bleh dicapai. Kerjasama. Cuma jangan komplen macam dalam lagu 'Negarakuku' da la. Tu kurang ajar. Kita komplen ikot channel yang proper. Bukan pergi surau, lepas solat lepak-lepak ngan ahli qaryah, kutuk-kutuk orang sana sini, ini tak betul, itu tak betul, lepas tu balik rumah tutup cerita. Tu bukan komplen. Komplen, kita salurkan pada jalan yang betul. Mesti ada reason and firm basis kenapa kita nak komplen. Contoh kat universiti, kalau tak puas hati atau nampak ada yang tak betul, file a complaint, sama-sama kita international kan universiti kita.

Cite pasal komplen la plak. Hehe. Tapi the point is, Please be Care. Kalau kita tak care, sape lagi yang nak care.


p/s - ada banyak lagi nak cerita, da siap tulis dalam PC kat bilik. Petang ni klo sempat, inshaAllah akan post. Nak balik muo ni esok! Baliiikkk!!! Baliiiikk!! He.

The Little Tiny Steps

Bismillahir Rahmanir Rahim

Padan la takde orang gune pc nih. Tak leh bukak frenster kat pc ni, kene masukkan password admin. Hehe.

Baru balik dari seminar. Tadi seminar pasal safety and hazard precautions, orang dari SIRIM bagi talk. Sister, first time setelah 3 semester join seminar aku jumpe speaker seminar sister.

Banyak yang berlaku seminggu nih. Yang paling memberi kesan secara fizikal - hujan. Dasat hujan, subhanallah. Aritu siap ade dengan ribut sekali, pokok tumbang, CONVEST wording kat bukit kat Sumayyah pun tumbang; tinggal ONVES je. Hehe. Tiap-tiap pagi sejuk gile. Selalu nengok temperature kat alarm clock ade dalam 25 degree gak. Hari-hari macam tu. Sejuk wooo.. tidur pun pakai sweater. Talhah datang memang tepat pada masanya, sedap peluk time sejuk-sejuk nih. Hehe. Semalam nak demam da, sejuk. Selsema blom elok-elok lagi. Tak mandi pun pagi tadi - hazard precaution. Hehe.

Ape lagi eh?

Assignment GEN Dr Abdi reject. Isk. Tajuk asal aku 'Creating Ethical Environment in Engineering Firms'. Tajuk baru yang dia kasik - 'How Engineering Firms Create Condusive Ethical Environment'. Ya Allah.. ape beze antara due tajuk tuh? Aku nak je tanye 'Do you want me to just change my topic or you want me to do a whole new 5 page essay?' Tapi dia busy time tu melayan student lain yang mostly antara derang kene reject topic nya. Hehe. Dr Abdi.. Dr Abdi.. (or student actually.. student.. hehe). Skang ni nak wat ape? Ubah la sikit-sikit isik dalam tuh.. Hemmm.. Due Tuesday nih.

Salwa sakit. Ketiba-tibaan sume orang (geng-geng Salwa) sms aku mase aku tgh kelas GEN. 'jimin pinjam kete, urgent!!!'. 'Uih.. tak leh ar.. aku nak pakai nak balik bilik wat report aero, pastu kene g engine balik.. apsal nih?'. 'Salwa masuk hospital'. Petang tu kol 5 aku g HKL dengan Acap. Sakit perut luar biasa. Pucat muke Salwa. Sakit sangat kot. Tak pun da puas tahan sakit. Doc blom abes diagnos lagi sakit apa. Katenye kol 11 pagi tadi die buat ultrasound. Ape agaknye result die. Semoge cepat sembuh...

Balik dari HKL anto Acap g opening Convest kat Main Audi. Da kol 9.30 malam mase tu, tak start-start lagi pun aku nengok. Heh. Lepas anto Acap terus g Kaed, denga talk Tawheed Series, Final Episode: Influence of Tawheed in My Life. Speaker yang sangat-sangat aku suke: Bro Shah Kirit. Sampai-sampai je talk baru start (kelam kabut carik main audi Kaed. Mane nih? Mane? Sume tempat ramai orang kat Kaed nih. 'Uish malam-malam pun ramai orang, macam lagi ramai dari siang je'). Tak selesa sangat masa tu - Pagi tu tak mandi (sejuk woo) terus g klas, balik klas kol 1 sambung wa report aero yang blom siap buat sejak sampai kol 3 pagi malam tu, lepas tu g klas aero, present, kene bom dengan Prof Waqar (isk..), petang kol 4 (blom balik bilik lagi nih) g jumpe Madam Martinelli dengan Fana Mai Kak Aishah, nak tanye pasal 'Ape cite dengan Astronomy Club kami? (Madam memberi jaminan, untuk the next Syura bulan depan, Madam akan forwardkan proposal kami.. Alhamdulillah..), jumpe sampai kol 5, amek Acap kat engine, solat jap kat e0, terus g HKL, balik HKL singgah makan kat simpang (tak makan lunch hari tu), balik makan terus g Kaed.

Ngantuk gile. Dah la nota, pen sume tinggal dalam kete. Tak bawak ape pun g talk tuh. Kalo ade leh gak tules-tules. Mate da kecik, gagahkan jugak nak denga. Da la audience sume banyak foreigner (seperti biasa untuk Tawheed series 1 ngan 2 yang aku g pun, terasa macam aku sorang je Melayu lelaki. Isk. Tak nampak Melayu lain pun) takde sape yang boleh buat borak. Duduk sebelah mat salleh ni, bagi salam, senyum, lepas tu diam sampai abes talk. Heh. Shah Kirit buat lawak pun aku gelak sorang-sorang. Hehe.

Sangat suke bile Shah Kirit cakap pasal 'Tiny Steps' tu. Tapi skang tak sempat nak cite lah. Da kol 5, ade briefing EIT kat Main Audi. Lain kali cite, inshaAllah.

Aaa.. malam ni ada talk pasal Sallehudin al-Ayyubi, kol 9 malam, kat experimental hall. Jum g jum! Ajak kak aishah lagi lah. Bro shah kirit smalam ajak, die g. Dak2 laki jangan marah eh? aku selalu ajak korang asek tak nak je.. =p inshaAllah aku cube ajak korang lagi.. heheh

g dulu..
wassalam..

21 August.. are wa nani?

21 Ogos.. Ada apa dengan tarikh tu?

21 Ogos 1969 - seorang paderi Kristian Katolik dari Australia telah membakar Masjid al-Aqsa. Tentera Yahudi pula bersekongkol apabila menghalang laluan lori bomba yang dalam perjalanan untuk memadamkan api di masjid itu. Kebakaran itu telah mengakibatkan 1/3 daripada bangunan masjid musnah, termasuk Mimbar Sallehudin al-Ayyubi.

Kejadian itu membuatkan pemimpin² negara Islam bangun dan duduk berbincang. Ini membawa kepada penubuhan OIC bagi membela nasib penduduk Islam seluruh dunia.

Penubuhan OIC pula telah membawa kepada penubuhan UIAM pada tahun 1983.

Two years ago a Datin called him to have a chit chat with her youth son and daughter. Both children were in tahfiz school where the ustaz there always scold them and hit them. This made the Datin to take her children away and send them to a boarding school in England at the age of 12 (the boy) and 10 (the girl). 'It is so different, there are not many muslims in boarding schools in the UK, perhaps they two were the only muslims there, unlike in universities, so many muslims we can find at British universities..' said Ustaz Hasrizal. Now (two years ago), after 10 years, the boy has now finished his Master in Chemical Engineering at the age of 22 and his sister has a degree in Law at the age of 20. 10 years being away from family. Being away from Islamic environment has made the siblings' thinking just like the Westerners. Their mother, at the age of 40s, realize that she has to do something to turn her children into something good. So she called Ustaz Hasrizal.

Ustaz Hasrizal came to their house and the Datin said 'We are going to leave you three in the house so that my children will feel comfortable to ask you anything without their parents around. we will come back in one hour.'

So the girl is the first to meet Ustaz Hasrizal.

'So you're the holy man?' she asked.

'I know superman I know ultraman. But I dont know any holyman...' said ustaz. Hehe. 'I am just a normal person your mother call me hear to meet you,'.

'So what are you going to teach me today?'

'I am not going to teach you. I am here just to have a casual chat with you regarding any topic you want to talk about.'

'Okay, I have a lot of questions. My first question; what do you think about wearing scarf? I dont believe in wearing scarf and I will never wear it,' provocatively she asked.

Ustaz started to think. How should he react? Should he respond as an Ustaz? Telling her about many ayah that tell to cover the aurah? If he respond in this way, it will only satisfy the Ustaz and it will not do anything to the sister.'I cannot start with that question. Ask something else. I will come to that question later.'

'Oh? Okay. My second question; why do we have to pray? Five times a day! I am not going to spend my time five times a day to pray!'

'I cannot start with that question too. Ask some other question'

'Okay, my third question; whay cant we keep dogs at home?'

'Em.. I think that is also not going to be our first topic tonight..'

'So, what is going to be our first topic tonight!!'

'Let us discus about purpose of life. What is your purpose of life.'

'Is it important to discus about this topic? Neglecting about all questions just now?'

'Imagine you go to a stadium; Arsenal versus Selangor, for example. Everything is there; the players, the referees, the field is ready to start the game. Suddenly you find something missing - the goal pole. The where you shoot the goal. How are they going to play soccer when there is ni goal to shoot at? You are no familiar with socceR? What about playing golf? You just hit the golf ball without knowing where to shoot the ball to because there is no hole. You hit and follow the ball. Hit and follow, hit and follow and no end until you feel like you are G*olongan O*rang L*emah F*ikiran (GOLF)!'

She laughed.

'You might laugh tonight. But you are actually laughing to the majority of the people today whose life without goal or golf hole - no purpose of life.'

And then she asked, 'Okay, what is your purpose of life?'

'Do I have the answer? Do you have the answer? I think both of us have no answer. Because the answer to our purpose of life, had already being mentioned before we were born, and it has been mentioned by the One who created us - Allah. What is the purpose that Allah mentioned? 'And we (Allah) do not make human and jin except to worship us','

'If you accept that you need God in your life, then can I only answer why we need to pray,'

'If you accept that you need to pray because you need God in your life, then can I only answer why you need to wear scarf. Say an example; Agong invited you to the Istana to recieve the 'datuk'ship. And you have been asked to wear an all black baju Melayu suit to go there. Will you ever question that? No! You will not ask him why he asked you to wear such because you need him. You are the one who want that 'datuk'ship from him, you need him. Then you simply follow the rule of clothing that the Agong has decided.'

'For your third question; why cant we keep dogs at home. Have you ever heard any ayah from the Quran that says 'O ye who believe, when you see dogs, chase them away and hit them,' ? Any hadith about that? No! You can never found any ayah from the Quran and Hadith about hiting and chasing dogs away. The only ayah is about when any dog is licking your cup of water then you should wash that cup 6 times with water and one time with turab. So, when the society, Malay society hates dogs, it does not mean that the religion hates it too.'

The conversation last for one hour. Alhamdulillah, all three questions asked by the sister, were answered properly.

Ustaz Hasrizal
Back To Roots Campaign, AIKOL

Understanding of Isra' and Mi'raj

It is not a myth!

'Indeed, in the stories of these men (stories of the prophets) there is a lesson for those who are endowed with insight' (27:111)

The word 'ibrah (lesson) in this verse is a connotation which means more than a 'lesson' but 'see ourselves in the stories' or 'connect ourselves to the stories'. It is not like we read the stories of the prophets and claimed that it only occured at their time, but, connect ourselves wihtin the stories.

-A simple metaphore of Prophat Muhammad's journey of Isra' and Mi'raj (a journey to Masjidil Aqsa in Palestine today from Makkah in Saudi Arabia and then journey from Masjidil Aqsa to Heaven both together in one single nigth);

Say you are a UIA student leaving inside in its Gombak Campus. One day, you ride your car from UIA to Carefour Wangsa Maju, which is a 15-minute journey, to buy some things. A housefly accidentally enters your car before you started the journey and toghether with you, go to Carefour Wangsa Maju. After buying everything you needed to buy, you return to the car, and the same housefly again, accidentally enters the car together with you. So both of you and the housefly arrive UIA safely. And the minute you open your car door to get out of it, the housefly flies to its home and make a very big surprise to its family and community.

'I have just came back from Carefour Wangsa Maju!' told the housefly.

'When did you go there?' asked the housefly community confused.

'Just about an hour ago...' the housfly said.

Do you think that the housefly community will believe the housefly? It would take 3 generations for housefly to go to Wangsa Maju from Gombak. The grandfather starts the journey from Gombak, proceeds by the father, then the son would be the one to arrive at Wangsa Maju! But still, our lucky housefly in this story had arrived Wangsa Maju and came back to Gombak in just one hour! It is because the housefly rode with a human car, a transport that is alien to housefly community, but it has happened.

In the story of the Prophet Muhammad, we all know that he rode 'buraq' (some scholars claimed buraq is one of the animals from Heaven, some others claimed it is one of the Malaikah). Since Buraq is a Malaikah, and Malaikah is made from light, can we imagine how the journey went? In the speed of light - a transportation that is still impossible for human, but, it has happened.

Solat: A Mi'raj for Mukmin.

Usually things that are free, we take them for granted.
Say this,It takes almost RM 10,000 for a Muslim to perform Hajj in Makkah.People even die during performing Hajj.It takes about only RM 80 for first timers to perform Solat (Songkok Raihan RM 23 or telekung from Indonesia RM 50, Sajjadah from Turkey RM 20 etc)Have you ever heard people die because of performing Solat? The only that we hear is that until people die, they dont pray.

Why Solat is the Pillar (tiang) of Deen?

Tudung? Christians believes in their religion, wearing hijjab is considered pious. There was one old woman, a patient in a hospital in Ireland. She was waken up by a Muslim Malay woman doctor who was wearing hijjab to take her blood pressure. 'Jesus Christ! Am I in heaven?' the old woman wondered. 'No, unfortunately you are still in the hospital' said the doctor. Apparently the old woman thought that the doctor was Mary because of her hijjab.

Songkok? Indonesians wear songkok, and yet enter the churhes all over Jakarta (they are Christians and wear songkok for culture)

Name? Tariq Aziz (Saddam's man). Looks like a Muslim name isn't it? Tariq Aziz was a Christian until his death though.



Muhammad had the chance to communicate to Allah through Isra' and Mi'raj and the amazing journey gave us also the chance to communicate to Allah - Solat.

Allah knows the things we need even before we know it. But, Allah loves our voices. The voice of a humble slave to its Master. So, speak to Allah, and pray. Allah is Al-Wahab.

We always make dua to Allah. But most of us, are subconcious of the dua. We simply make dua without knowning the meanings of the dua we are making. We dont even pay attention to the dua we make because we simply memorize it and didnt make any effort to understand it.

Some people refused to pray. What? What if Malaysia refused to make connection with a certain country. It means that Malaysia declare war on that certain country because of the disconnection. What if we refuse to make connection with Allah by solat. So it means we are declaring war to Allah. Wana'uzubillah.

Solat is done. What have you done?

Sometimes people claim that 'Ooo.. orang tu baik la, sebab die sembahyang..'. But otherwise, even people whoe are praying do at the same time, munkar.

Why?

There are 3 basic steps in every Ibadah. Say the ayah that prescribed sawm,

'O ye who believe, fast has been prescribed to you as it has been prescribed to people before you, may you all be pious.'

1. Input: Command based on faith ('O ye who believe..')
2. Process: the act of ibadah ('..fast has been prescribed to you..')
3. Output: Taqwa ('..may you all be pious.')

If we have performed solat, but still we feel like there is something lack, there must be something wrong in the input or process.Input- To whom do we pray? When we are reciting niat for solat, do we really mean that we pray for Allah?

Process- below prescribed dosage. What if we take very low dosage of medicine when we sick? The effect of it will be slow or even will never give effect. Same like solat. We need to pray perfect 5 times a day, inshaAllah on time.

- knowledge about solat. improve the knowledge! How pity a 22 year-old muslim pray with the knowledge of a 12 year-old kid! You know, the knowledge of solat that we obtained from school, from primary school is the knowledge that was suitable for us when we were kids, like 10-12 years old. Now we are 22, there are a lot more things about solat that we need to learn. We upgraded our OS from Windows 98 to Windows XP now (or maybe Windows Vista). Solat? Have we upgraded our solat?

- wisdom. Sometimes, after obtaining knowledge of solat, we need to think and see the environment to apply our knowledge.

- reciting without understanding

- the humbleness during solat. How humble are we when we are performing solat? Muhammad always watch the vast sky before he perform his solat. Why? The sky is so vast, and can easily make human feel so tiny among other things in this universe. No matter how intelligent we are, there is still greater power that sustain the universe. Muhammad perform solat as a slave. We wish that we never pray like a master, but pray as a slave, a humble slave.

Solat as the Prophet did and feel.


Notes written from 'Isra' Mi'raj: A Day To Remember'
Talk by Ustaz Hasrizal
(studied in Jordan and had been staying in Ireland for almost 1 decade, now he is the Advisor at IJN)
16th August 2007
9.00 pm
Back To Roots Campaign, AIKOL

Seronok pergi conference tuh. Alhamdulillah.. terima kasih la kat sesiapa pun yang rekemen kan aku kat ajeb suh letak name aku g conference nih.. time kaseh banyak =)

Apa yang tertules kat bawah nih.. adalah lebih kurang segala apa yang aku catat sepanjang conference tuh. Munkin ade yang terkurang, mintak maaf la, tapi ni je yg mampu aku share dengan semua.. =)

Unity for Peace

International Islamic Fair 2007: The Conference
28 - 29 July
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Session 1: Update on the Ummah
Moderator: Bro Yusri Mohamad
Lecturer
Ahmad Ibrahim Kulliyyah of Laws
International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM)


Paper 1: Iraq – Reality & Hope
Faieza Fadhil Al Obaidy
Vice President of Arab Women’s Association

- Tak paham ape. Paper is in Arabic. So as the presentation.
- The translation was only given yesterday (29 July). Belum sempat bace lagi…

Paper 2: Palestine & Israel’s Imperial Agenda
Imran Nazar Hosein
Director,
Islamic Studies of Muslim Organization of Greater New York

Imran Hosein ni orang yang kite nampak ketokohan pada dia. Yakin pada apa yang disampaikan with very good English with some humor. Berjaya membangkitkan dan membincangkan isu-isu yang sensitif.

- Quran explains everything
- Christians and Jews differ on certain view:
o Jews reject the son of Mary though they also believe that the Messiah will come
- ‘You have a PhD from MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the foremost institute of tech in the world)? But if you internally blind, you’re just like a cattle’
- The mysterious link between Britain and the Holy Place would not be explained by typical political analysis.
- Who are controlling the world? ‘We control US’ Ariel Sharon once said not long ago. But then US is the ruling state of the world today. So, Israel?
- Gold? Is the price growing up? No! The price of ‘the paper’ is going down.
- ‘O you who have attained faith! Do not take the Jews and the Christians for your allies; they are but allies of one another (expected to have bad intention towards muslims)’ (51:4)
- Surah al-Kahfi teaches about men who gave up everything far faith

Paper 3: Darfur – What is Going On?
His Excellency Mahdi Ibrahim
Member of Parliament of Sudan
X-Sudanese Ambassador to US

Mahdi ni memberikan talk yang sangat-sangat informative (malangnya aku tak berapa nak dengar sebab isi-isi talk dia, boleh aku katakan terlalu politikal, aku tak faham sangat. Antaranya kisah-kisah yang dia ceritakan masa dia jadi duta dekat US.

- Sudan: 25 million km² = size of Eastern Europe.
- 7 million people.
- Focus on IDP caps (internally displaced person, I don’t know what it is)
- Millions of conflicts: farmers x nomads; between tribal (there are 573 ethnics) war over land, water.
- It is the longest African war – killed 2 million people, and made millions others in refuge.

Paper 4: Need for Unity among South East Asia (SEA) Muslims
Dr. Amir Farid Ishak
Activist in Interfaith NGOs in SEA

Memberikan gambaran terhadap keadaan muslim di seluruh Asia Tenggara dan menggalakkan menuju kearah perpaduan antara muslim Asia Tenggara.

- Mongol once conquered SEA in 13th century but they were too busy invading Europe that time, so Mongols in SEA were weak and were defeated by Madjapahit.
- Madjapahit was then under the sovereignty of Malacca.
- Territorial expansion by Malacca also brought together Islam.
- But now, only Malaysia, Indonesia and Brunei remain Muslim countries where other countries in SEA are mainly Buddhist.
- Problems:
o Indonesia: secularization of uneducated poor Muslims.
o Malaysia: Disunity within Muslim groups; tension from non-Muslims; Malaysian youths embrace American popular culture while government tries to preserve Islamic practices
o Brunei: not much problem – Muslims are well-off in the rich state.
o Singapore: Muslims are minority – 14%, secularization of the Muslim life.
o Philippines: 4 million Muslims (5%), conflict with the government, officially had been 25 years, probably had been centuries.
o Thailand: 4 million Muslims, same like the Philippines.
o Cambodia: less then 4% Muslims. Many migrated to Malaysia.
o Myanmar: 4% Muslims
o Laos: just 400 Muslims.
o Vietnam: 66,000 Muslims.
- Non-Muslim scholars are more interested in us: many books on us.
- Muslim ummah in SEA is a potential formidable force if we cooperate and unite!

Paper 5: Acheh – 30 Months After
Fadlullah Wilmot
Country Director for Muslim Aid, Indonesia

He is an Australian, has been teaching in various schools in Indonesia and Malaysia, and speaks Malay fluently. He was the Personal Assistant to the IIUM’s Rector in 1990s. He is the father of Wardina Safiyya.

- Acheh is a continuous state of conflict for 150 years:
o 1873 – Dutch: 30 years of guerilla attack against the Dutch
o Soekarno
o Japan
- BUT!!! On 15 August 2005, an MoU was signed at Helsinki. What the heck?! What MoU? Peace is still not installed in Acheh until now.
- There are many reasons of the conflict in Acheh:
o Tsunami factor
o TNI (Tentera Negara Indonesia) factor
o Kalla (Jusof Kalla, the Indonesian Vice President) factor
- It costs Indonesia as much as USD 130 million per year for security operations in Acheh.
- Its just about Muslims hypocrisy.
- Muslims have to be critical: Muslims all over the world have been criticizing the conflict in Bosnia, Chechnya and Iraq. But Acheh? Why we kept silent on that?
- ‘Lets not be excited about symbols, but get excited about ideas’.

Session 2: Business, Economy & Finance
Moderator: Dr Ahamed Kameel Myden Meera
Lecturer,
Kulliyyah of Economics and Management Sciences
IIUM



Paper 1: Gold Dinar – the Kelantan Experience
Nik Mahani Mohamaed
Pioneer of the Islamic Banking System in Malaysia

- Dinar is a Greek word ‘Denarias’.
- Why now? Alternative mode of investment
- We, the ummah today are ignorant!
- Usury (Riba’): Paper currency. Its Haram!
- Say an example: You want to buy a valuable thing. You buy it with a paper called money which is initially doesn’t have any value (it is us that give value by printing the figure at a paper). Is it just? We should buy the valuable thing with another thing that is also valuable, i.e., gold such as gold dinar.
- Minting issues: licensed pawn brokers.
- Gold dinar is daily-rated pricing based on market price for gold 916 carat.
- Minted at 1, ½, ¼ dinar.
- ‘Owning dinar is an investment’

Paper 2: Banking for the Poor
Dr. Asyraf Wajdi Dato’ Dusuki
Assoc. Professor
Kulliyyah of Economics and Management Sciences
IIUM
Was the best student in Economics in IIUM

- OIC members conquered the top 10 of the poorest country in the world with 60% - 80% poverty in 2006.
- Saudi Arabia, Kuwait & UAE’s GDP are totaled at USD 1.1 trillion in 2001.
- Many reasons why poor has been denied to access to banking list.
- Methods of microfinance:
o Workable poor will form a group
o The group will seek money from microfinance institution (MI)
o MI will provide training to the group.
o The group will pay progressive loan.
o Members within the group will asses each other
- Islamic microfinance; the source:
o Sadaqah, zakah, waqf, deposit
- The use:
o Charitable contracts (Ar-Rahnu) i.e. loan; participatory contracts (musharakah, mudharabah); exchange contracts (murabahah, ijarah); hybrid contracts.

Paper 3: Mobilizing Zakah Resources
Bro Alim Ali
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I did not really pay attention during this paper presentation… (Its 3 o’clock in the afternoon! Sleepy… Hehe) This is the only point that I wrote down…

‘The Americans (the citizens, not the government) are the world’s most charitable people,’

These are the statistic;

- USD 1.8 billion for tsunami
- USD 73 million for Pakistani earthquake
- USD 3.12 billion for Catherina disaster

Paper 4: Islamic Products & Services – Serving Humanity
Dato’s Ma’amor bin Osman
Secretary General
Malaysian Muslim Consumers Association (PPIM)


- ISO was created by industrialists to niche the market.
- Good Muslims produce good products.
- ‘Blue Mosque Fraternity’ - gathering of Muslim entrepreneurs to share experience.
- Muslims should support Islamic banking instrument organized by Muslims.
- ‘We are what we eat’
- http://www.muslimconsumer.org.my/

Paper 5: In Search of the Perfect Islamic Products & Services Hub
Bro. Mohd Shukri Abdullah
Malaysia International Halal Showcase (MIHAS)

- Global market value for halal products: USD 2.1 trillion.
- We should build a platform among the OIC members:
o Proper infrastructure
o Economic & political stability
o Good governance
o Strong commitment to Islam and its principles.

Session 3: Human Relation, Media & Global Reach
Moderator: William Rodriguez
The Last Survivor of WTC 9/11
Saved hundreds of other victims since he held the master key of the North Tower
19 Years working at WTC before as a janitor

- He gave salam… is he a Muslim?
- National Security warned him when the first time he received an invitation to go to Malaysia last year ‘Don’t go to Malaysia! They’re gonna kill you!’
- ‘I have converted to Islam, it was last year’. Apparently, he recited the shahadah in front of Yusuf Estes inside a taxi in London.
- 9/11 has been used to criminalize Muslims all over the world for 6 years.
- ‘Bang!!!’ he heard a big bang from below the base as he was working at the basement that jumped him up. And that was actually BEFORE the first plane hit the tower. His testimony was never be included in 9/11 Commission Report though.
- That day he was late for work. If ever he was early, he would be at the top of the building during the explosion as he would be everyday before that.
- He was an atheist, but when helping the victims, he heard screams everywhere that made he said ‘God, please help me! I don’t know how to help these people!’.
- There are 5 master key holder of the building, 4 of them were the first to flee away, leaving William being the only master key holder during that hectic moment.
- He helped hundreds of victims, pulling them out of the building. Up to he was the last person to come out of the building alive. Everyone said ‘Get out of here! Don’t look back!’ and when he was running away from the building, he looked back, he saw the worst thing in his life – people jumping out of the building from 50, 60 storey, falling down, and bumped on the ground not far from him. He can even see their face on the ground, and knew some of them, but that time, their bodies were no more one each. Their bodies turned into pieces. Moments later, the building collapsed.
- He ran off below a fire truck, and he can feel the fire truck stroked down by the falling steel and bricks. He thought that was the end of his life.
- The firemen searched for the survivors immediately after the collapse and found William safely.
- The collapse of WTC did not only kill the people inside, it has also killed all the search dogs, and 62,000 people leaving nearby were ill due to the toxic dust from the rubble.
- Salvatore Giambanco, Felipe David, and some others have also survived, but all their testimonies were not included in the 9/11 Commission Report.
- ‘We owe the truth to them (the families of the victims)’.

Paper 2: Post 9/11 Exposures
Annie Machon
Former MI5 agent (British Intelligence)

‘She has the license to kill, no kidding!’ said William. It is true indeed. She was the British spy and has been one of the MI5 agents before she blew the whistle on MI5’s crime and incompetence that caused the lost of her ‘license to kill’.

- There are two groups of agents served for the British government; MI5 – deals with the internal espionage, and MI6 that deals with external affairs.
- She gave an example on what espionage is all about;
o Bombing in London 1994
o The British blamed two Palestinians (students studying engineering in London).
o But then, the MI5 was the one who responsible for the bombing.
o Why they did that? ‘They afraid that someday those Palestinians grew up and could harm the safety of Britain since they have the potential’ Annie mentioned.
o Those unfortunate Palestinians are still in prison up to this date.
- MI6 has even the license to kill abroad provided that they get approval from their political master. Just like in the movies. James Bond is not a fantasy.
- How did the three towers fall down freely by a plane crash? (There’s another tower besides the twin WTC, it was 47-storey building. It collapsed in 6.5 seconds).
- Civil Contingency Act – any minister can declare state of emergency in UK system.
- Put pressure to the media! To the politics! 9/11 should be re-opened.
- The victim’s family felt overheated, they want the truth!
- ‘You have to be an activist! You have to get involve (in re-opening of 9/11)’.

Paper 3: The New Media – A Welcomed Change
Khaleed Taha
Director of Technology, Al-Jazeera Network
Founder of English Channel Al-Jazeera

- Al-Jazeera
o Mubashir
o Al-Jazeera.net
o Ar-Riyadhah
o Mobile
o Al-Wathaqiyah
o Al-Jazeera
- Al-Jazeera
o School of thought
o Free and democratic media
o Fearless, believe in saying the truth for life
- We can capture, upload and share – SMS, MMS, blogs
- ‘You have the power to create something new!’
- ‘You ARE the new media!’

Paper 1: Depleted Uranium (DU) Project
Dr. Doug Rokke
Foremost DU expert of US Military

He was assigned to prepare the soldiers to respond to nuclear, biological and chemical warfare and sent to Gulf during the Gulf War. What he experienced has made him a passionate voice for peace. He became convinced DU was causing illness such as cancer, and that the Pentagon was downplaying its danger. When he went to public with his views, he was sacked.

- He was absent from the conference physically. He is sick, due to the DU, as William mentioned. But then tele-conference was made between KL and US.
- The phone call was not very clear.. Only two points that caught my attention:
o ‘Throw greed and power aside’
o ‘Live together in harmony’

Paper 4: Establishing Muslim World & GPOW Cooperation
Prof. Emeritus Dato’ Dr Khoo Kay Kim
Prominent Malaysian Thinker

* GPOW is Good People of the World. That is how some people refer non-Muslims to, GPOW.

Siapa yang tak kenal dengan Prof Khoo Kay Kim? Seorang tokoh pemikiran negara, penganalisis segala bidang – penyatuan kaum, politik, sukan, sosial dan kebudayaan dan sebagainya. He is one of the co-authors of Rukun Negara. He was the one who launched the first sports degree academic program in Malaysia during 95/96 academic session at University of Malaya. He is also a prolific writer and has published 205 items in period 1963 to 1998.

- Malaysians are like eagles that think they are turtles.
- Since ’57, each ethnic group try to maintain each culture
- Non-Muslims in Malaysia do not know about Islam, because Muslims in Malaysia do not have the feel of obligation to explain to them what Islam is.
- 1913 – ‘A Malay must be a Muslim’ a statement of constitution created by British administration that has already exist since 1913.
- ‘Malays must take the lead!’
o ‘Every Muslim must by obligation, a mubaligh!’ (imagine, Prof Khoo, a Chinese GPOW urged Muslims to be a mubaligh. Aren’t we feeling like to be one (mubaligh)? )
- 1826 – British administration never allows Christian missionaries to preach Christianity to Muslims in the Strait settlement.
- Scholars, universities should be more involved in telling the public what Islam is.
- ‘There is a need to make Islam clearer to other people’.

Paper 5: Dreaming of Global Peace
Datuk Mukhriz bin Tun Mahathir
Coordinator of PEACE Malaysia


- Mile of Death 1991, Iraq. A place where thousands of Iraqi refugees were killed along a highway by an air strike
- USS Lincoln the aircraft carrier, carries 90 aircraft. Total up worth USD 4.5 billion.
- War means willful killing.

Session 4: Community, Arts & Education
Moderator: Dato’ Mustapha Ma
President of Macma

For this particular session, I was not taking down notes.


Paper 1: Revolutionizing Islamic Entertainment
Farihin Abdul Fatah
Composer
Founder of Raihan the nasyid group


Paper 4: Socio-Political Awareness – Key to Survival
Dr. Abidullah Ghazi
Specialist in Islamic Studies & Comparative Religion


Paper 3: Towards Well Rounded Islamic Education
Dr. Tasneem Ghazi
Dr. Abidullah’s wife

Together with her husband have a life-long commitment to write, develop and produce Islamic educational material and quality textbooks at various levels.

- ‘Ta’lim never comes alone. It comes with tarbiyyah’


Paper 5: Muslim View Magazines – Anyone?
Rafay Faruqi
IT experts

Paper 2: Islam, Beyond the Difference
Yusuf Estes!!!
International Islam Preacher

Yusuf Estes. First time I know him from Firs about a year ago when he showed me a video of Yusuf’s talk at India which he got from his friend. First time watch him talking about Islam, I was impressed by his humor and entertaining way of conveying the message of Islam. Yusuf’s many websites make it easy to share Islam. Alhamdulillah I have almost 2 gigabyte-size of hundreds collection of his videos. People in mahallahs in IIUM can easily access to my computer, //jimin in Mshome network and all the videos are under ‘Ceramah Collection’ -> ‘Yusuf Estes’, while people in IIUM without LAN connection may feel free to contact me and ask for the videos. ‘Sharing is Caring’. Sheikh Yusuf Estes is also known around the world on local cable and satellite TV stations like: Islam Channel in the UK, Voice of Islam in New Zealand, and Peace TV with Dr Zakir Naik in India, Huda TV in the Arab world and even on Saudi Airlines in flight programming.

It was a video conferencing between us and Sheikh Yusuf from his house in Washington. He could not attend here with us because ‘something happened to his house’ (that was what I heard from him during the video conference. It might not be true, because the connection of the video conference was not very clear).

- Islam contains ‘salam’ in it
- Salam means
o Surrender
o Submission
o Obey
o Sincerity
o Peace
- If we want to achieve peace, we have to establish peace first with Allah in our heart.
- To achieve that, we have to read and explore the book of Allah.
- ‘Come together only on truth’.
- Unity can only be unity when it first unity with God.
- http://www.yusufestes.com/
- http://www.watchislam.com/
- http://www.islamtomorrow.com/groups/
- http://www.searchforislam.com/

‘Tell me, I might forget. Show me, I might remember. Involve me, then I will remember’
Dato’ Mustapha Ma

‘There was a man driving his car in a rural place one night. Suddenly his car broke down. He did not know what to do. There was no one there. Fortunately, a car passed by and the driver saw him at the side of the road. So, the stranger stopped by. ‘Please help me, my car broke down,’. ‘Oh, don’t worry, I will help you, I am a mechanic,’ said the stranger. So the stranger looked at the engine. Then he asked the man, ‘Do you have a hammer?’. ‘Yes I do!’. The man gave the mechanic the hammer. ‘Bang!!’. The mechanic then hammered one part of the engine and immediately asked the man to try starting the engine. Amazingly, the engine started.

‘Thank you sooo much!’ thanked the man to the mechanic, ‘How much should I pay you?’.

‘Oh, not much. Its only RM 100,’.

‘RM 100?? Well, that IS much. You had just hammered my engine. And that was only one simple hammering and you charge me RM 100 for that?!’.

‘Oh? That hammering? The hammering is very cheap, I only charge RM 1 for that. But to know exactly where to hammer, I charge you RM 99.. =)’.

End of story.

The conference has provided us the RM 1 part. The RM 99 part, it is up to us. We have to get involve, and act accordingly to apply all things that we have from the conference.’

Shah Kirit Govindji
Program Manager
IIF 2007 Conference

The resolution of the conference:

‘It is time for action!’

'There's a story about quality. Once there was a foreign tourist travelling alone to Kuala Lumpur without his wife. One day he decided to by a fan for his wfe. He passed a souvenir shop and found many kinds of fan. He asked for the price for one of the beautiful fans hanging on the wall, "How much is this?". "RM200" said the shopkeeper. "This?" he asked again for other kind of fan. "RM100". "Oh! All are expensives!" cried the tourist, then he asked "Which one is the cheapest?". The shopkeeper pointed down to a bakul on the floor with many cute little fans inside of the basket, "Only RM1 each" said the shopkeeper. "My wife would never know the difference of RM100 fan and RM1 fan anyway.." he wondered. So the tourist bought one of them and after the day has end, he went back to his hotel and lied down resting. Unfortunately, the air-cond of the hotel broke down and so, he took out his RM 1 fan. But the moment he opened it, the fan shattered down on the floor... So he went again to the store and asked the shopkeeper, "Why did my fan broken?". The shopkeeper asked, "Didnt you buy the RM1 fan?". "Yes". "Ooo! To use that you have to open it veeeeeery careful and then, you place it in front of your face, and you have to nod your head yourselve to have the blowing air!". The moral is, by a quality product'

Dato' Mustafa Ma
President of Malaysian Chinese Muslim Association
On his comment during moderating Session 4
of the
International Islamic Fair 2007: The Conference
PWTC, Kuala Lumpur

More of this, and many others. Soon. InshaAllah.

'A Drop of the Ocean'



A person asked Mother Theresa, 'Why did you do all the things for the poor, treat their wounds on the dirty street of the Calcutta, when you can do much more bigger good things. The thing that you did there is just like a drop of the ocean'.

Mother Theresa replied with a smile, 'If I did not do all that, then the ocean will be one drop less,'

In Islam, there so many good things that we can do. Even meeting your brothers with a smile is a charity. Throwing of stones from the road is a charity. There lots more good things, act of mahmudah that we all can do.

You can fool yourselves, you can fool others, but you can never ever fool Allah. No matter where you would run, Allah Sees you everywhere, Knows what you do. Observe your doings, dont forget to pray when its time, and be good.

Idris Tawfiq main auditorium e3 iium 26 July 2007

2 Julai 2007
Progress Report 2

Nampaknye jauh cume certain plan je yang aku teruskan wat. Yang lain tak wat pun.

Pergi PD
2 hari 1 malam. lama tak pegi rumah Puksu Nain, PD pun da lame tak pegi. Puksu bawak gi pusing-pusing pekan PD, jalan-jalan Seremban 2. Yang paling penting pergi mandi pantai. Da lame gile tak mandi pantai. Sonokk.

Jogging
Baru 2 kali. Banyak kali tertangguh sebab hujan, rumah ade wat wiring. Due-due kali jumpe org yang hampir sama. Ada apek duk kat celah pokok wat senaman sorang-sorang. Ade amoi asek jalan lajuu pastu selalu cek masa kat jam tangan dia. Ade mak cik yang asek seeeeeenyuumm aje pusing-pusing keliling dataran jalan kaki. Ade pak cik pakai cap asek turun naik tangga kat pentas dataran tuh. Hehe. Orang-orang yang same je sume.

Tolong ayah
Ade. Sikit-sikit ade. Semalam tumbangkan 2 pokok jenis palm kat depan rumah. Da tinggi mengganggu wayar letrik ngan tepon. Tinggi gak pokok. Sampai kene letak cone merah kat tepi jalan, takut pokok hempap kete yang lalu lalang. Hehe.

Bahasa Arab
Tak gerak langsung sejak ari tu. Huh.

Novel
Same. Static. Malas ah nak bace-bace nih. Apsal tah. Satu bende je yang aku suke bace mase cuti nih - surat khabar. Hehe.

Blaja calculus
Blajar lah sangat. Haha. Tak bukak langsung buku Anton Biven Davis yang aku kate nak study balik tuh. Bilik pun besepah-sepah lagi lom abes kemas ngan buku-buku ketas-ketas sume. Da 2 minggu da. Takde mud nak kemas.

Hal-hal berbangkit
Pergi Batu Pahat
Ni pun satu lagi tempat yang da lame gile tak g. Memang da lame melampau ah. Bile last? Time-time skolah dulu kot? Jalan-jalan ngan dak-dak skolah. Gi Summit men boling (dulu Muar lom ade boling). Kali ni pergi ke Pacific Mall. Baru bukak. Aku tau baru bukak sebab iklan die ade kat depan rumah aku. Signboard besaaarr kat depan rumah 'Pacific Kini di buka'. Macam la Pacific tu 2,3 km je dari rumah aku. Huhu. 50km ade la! Jauh betul die g letak signboard.

Besar boleh tahan Pacific. Boleh kate Mall yang paling besar belah utara Johor. Tapi takde ape sangat pun. Banyak lot kedai lom bukak. Pusing-pusing, kejap je pastu balik. Balik singgah rumah Makngah. Lame tak jumpe Makngah.

Menonton Televisyen
Ni je la bende yang paling banyak aku wat cuti nih. Asek duk depan TV je. Ada jugak la bende-bende menarik yang aku nengok.

Antara yang best aku nengok;

Lara Croft due-due movie aku lom pnah ngk walopun ade CD die kat rumah. Tapi due-due nengok kat TV3 ari tuh.

'Malang Hari Kerana Hati' (lupa da tajuk die, aku men agak je). Zul Yahya, M Rajoli. Best. Cite pasal sorang mamat nih susah btol nak bangun pagi. Selalu lambat pegi keje (kol 12 baru sampai ofis. sampai kene bagi warning yang ke-100 oleh Boss die). Bini die pulak dah fed up asek nak kejut laki die subuh sepanjang 10 tahun kawen. Tak bangun-bangun plak tuh. Selalu die tinggal je laki die, die terus pegi keje sendiri. Last-last bini die tinggalkan btol-btol, g lari rumah mak, nak asingkan diri dari suami. Pastu kete die kene tarek, tak baya 6 bulan (takde duet, gaji asek setengah hari je sbb asek datang lambat). Rumah die terbakar, lilin sambar langsir mase tgh takde karen. Last-lasti die balik umah ayah die, ayah die nasehat, lateh die supaye leh bangun pagi, solat Subuh, perbaiki diri. 'Solat Subuh tu penting, sebab die solat yang pertama dan membawa berkat kepade seluruh hari tu, dari pagi, sampai malam'. Bagus cite nih. Watak die sikit sebanyak mencerminkan aku sendiri. Susah nak bangun pagi. Aku cube cuti nih nak bangun pagi, boleh, cume masalahnye lepas solat Subuh mesti aku tido balik, sampai kol 10, 11. Aku cube perbaiki.. takmo tido lepas Subuh..

'Aku Ingin Terbang'. Ni yang terbaik ah. Drama Melayu terbaik bagi aku. Sedap gile cite die. Cite pasal sorang gadis buta, abused oleh pakcik die yang jage sebab mak ayah die da takde. Die lari pegi kat makcik die yang lain. Makcik die ni plak jage anak sedare die yang yatim piatu jugak, laki, Solo name die, yang carik duet main gitar kat Pasar Seni. Solo plak bele Akmal, sorang dak kecik yang lari dari rumah sbb kene dera ngan mak tiri die. So derang berempat duduk satu rumah. Macam satu famili, duduk kat rumah kampung kat Kg Baru. Memang macam satu famili yang happy ah.

Gadis buta tuh obses nak nengok rama-rama sbb mak die dulu selalu cite kat die rama-rama ni cantek. 'Saye tak pernah nengok rama-rama, tapi saye tau die mesti cantik. Kalau saye dapat nengok beluncas pun jadik lah!'. Pempuan tu jugak penuh dengan impian hidup, cite-cite die tinggi, Solo plak ade bakat, tapi takde impian langsung. Akmal bijak, tapi ayah die lari tinggalkan mak die, die kene abused, so Akmal nak sangat carik mak die.

Pempuan buta tu cakap 'Tuhan Maha Adil kan? Die ciptakan baik ngan buruk, untung ngan rugi.. macam saye, tak pernah dapat nak nengok mak ayah saye, tapi saye dapat kasih sayang mak walaupun sekejap.. Akmal, die pernah nengok mak die, tapi, die tak dapat kasih sayang mak.. Saye ade impian, cita-cita, tapi, saye tak mampu nak capai sebab keadaan saye nih.. Abang Solo pulak ade bakat besar, boleh wat lagu sedap, boleh nyanyi, main gitar, tapi Abang Solo takde impian pun..'.

Solo insaf dengar kate mcm tu. Die fikir.. lepas tu die mule wat lagu.. gune lirik yang pempuan tu buat 'Macam mana ko buleh wat lirik, tapi tak leh tules?' Solo tanye. '(Tersenyum..) Abang Solo tau tak, dalam otak manusia nih, ade satu bahagian yang simpan suuuuume bende yang kite lihat. Tapi kalo orang macam saya, saye gune bahagian tu untuk simpan suuuumee bende yang saye dengar. Saye dengar sekeliling saye.. saye simpan, sebab tu saye buleh wat lirik..'.

So die berdue ngan Akmal sekali, same-same main muzik dan menyanyai kat CM sampai derang ni jadi femes, ade ramai jemput derang perform kat majlis kawen, siap ade satu magazine nih interview derang. Derang mule dapat duet sikit. Bile pempuan tu dapat duet, pakcik yg abuse die dulu dengar cite, die terus carik dak pempuan nih, mintak duet. Pempuan tu takut, die kasik duet. Bile kene hasut ngan member jahat die, pakcik ni pun culik pempuan nih, simpan kat satu rumah kosong. Pastu mintak duet kat Solo RM10 ribu. Mase nak amek duet tuh, die tglkan pempuan tu sensorang, pempuan tu pun lari dari rumah kosong tuh. Orang buta, nak lari mane sorang-sorang? Pempuan tu pun eksiden (selalu cite Melayu nye eksiden mesti bodo-bodo nye eksiden, tp cite nih scene eksiden yang agak real gak ah bagi drama Melayu). Solo ngan Akmal tejumpe die esksiden, panggil ambulan.. 'Saye nampak tempat yang cantiiiiiikkk sangat.. ade rama-rama!' pempuan tu cakap dalam alat bantuan penafasan dalam ambulan sambil tersenyum menangis. Tak lame lepas tu pempuan tu pun meninggal..

Last die tunjuk pempuan tu kat satu tempat yang luas kat lereng bukit. Ade pokok besar sebatang. Cantik tempatu tuh. Ada rama-rama sekor datang terbang dekat die. Die gembire. Lepas tu tunjuk Solo ngn Akmal belek-belek baju kurung ade corak rama-rama yang derang nak hadiahkan pade pempuan tuh. Sedih siot. Best gile. Kalo ade ulangan kat TV lagi lepas ni, aku rekemen, nengok ah. Banyak pengajaran dalam cite nih. Aku nak cite ade dialog-dialog die bagus, ade pengajaran, tapi banyak aku da lupe. Lakonan pun tak mengecewekan, ade hairi othman. Skrip tak skema macam cite gerak khas, skrip die nih mmg vivid. Solo pun pandai blakun. Pempuan bute tu pandai. Mak cik tu pandai. Akmal pun pandai blakun. Nampak vivid. Memang best ah!

24 Jun 2007
Mari kita muhasabah diri kita

Sebelum tu nak cakap. Kadang-kadang orang baca blog aku ni banyak bahasa Melayu ada orang menganggap blog aku tak cool. Blog aku skema. Mungkin ada yang anggap tulis dalam English orang lagi ramai suke bace. Bukan aku tak reti tulis dalam English. Bukan jugak aku tak suke English. Aku suka belajar bahasa asing. Cuma aku nak memartabatkan bahasa ibunda aku. Kalau tak aku, orang Melayu, siapa lagi nak martabatkan. Oleh sebab itu aku sedaya mampu cuba untuk meng'cool'kan bahasa Melayu dalam blog nih, dan juga mencampurkan satu, dua perkataan English supaya korang pembaca selesa baca, tanpa merosakkan sangat bahasa tuh. Kalau terase skema tuh, harap abaikan aje. Yang penting isi. Lagipun, aku suka berjurnal, bukan berdiari. Tu sebab kadang-kadang panjang.

Hari ni aku sms ramai kawan-kawan. Tanya pendapat derang pasal aku. Tak ramai yang balas. Ada 5 orang je balas. Setakat nih.

'Treat sume kawan2 same. Excited bila wat sumthing yg minat. Ade leadership tp more to a follower. Manja'

'Menipu. Supportive'

'Manja. Seorang yang lurus. Mudah berkomunikasi. Mudah down tp still di peringkat yang ok'

'Bertanggungjawab. Ada ciri pemimpin tapi tak cukup tegas. Kdg2 tak pandai cakap 'tidak' kat org lain. Manja'

'Selamber dan senang - senang nak keje bersama, senang nak bergurau bersama'

Ada sesetengahnya aku memang sedar dan aku sendiri tau tu tak bagus, tapi aku sendiri tatau cemane nak ubah. Macam 'seorang yang lurus' tuh. Betul. Aku sedar. Aku mengiyakan apa sahaja tanpa selalu berfikir panjang. Jarang sekali aku berfikir sebelum jawab 'ya' atau 'boleh' untuk soalan atau permintaan. 'tak pandai cakap 'tidak' kat orang lain' tu pun parah jugak. Aku menyerahkan segala-gala bila sesape mintak something dari aku. Dan selalunya orang pijak aku balik dengan selalu tak pulang, pulang lewat. Aku tak pandai carik alasan tak nak kasik walaupun aku pandai 'menipu'.

Lepas ni kene berhati-hati, jangan terburu-buru membuat keputusan. Fikir dulu apa sebab dan akibat.

'Mudah down' tu pun merisaukan aku. Bende tu betambah-tambah jadi. 'Kualiti' down tu aku tak bape risau.. macam dalam sms tu cakap 'still diperingkat yang ok', tapi sebab 'mudah'nya aku down, menyebabkan sampai perkare kecik pun aku jadik down. Aku risau perkembangan mcm tu. Huhu! Aku mudah jeles dengan banyak bende. Aku mudah frust dengan semue bende yang aku nak tp aku tak dapat.

Lepas ni kene selalu bersabar, tak buleh fikirkan sesuatu bende tuh, terlalu mendalam. Yang da lepas, biarkan disimpan, yang akan datang ni yang perlu kita cari.

'Ade leadership tp more to a follower', 'Ciri pemimpin ade tapi tak cukup tegas'. Aku tak risau kot? Sebab aku memang tak rasa aku boleh jadi pemimpin, kecuali pemimpin keluarga yang memang wajub. Hehe. Ke mmg patut aku risaukan? Aku memang dapat rasa aku punya suara jarang didengar (dipatuhi) oleh ramai anak buah bila aku jadik ketue sesuatu team. Memang tak tegas kot? Muka pun muka tak bengis. Hehe. Em. Bila nak bagi arahan, aku terlalu kesian kat anak buah. Bila anak buah bg alasan, aku dengan mudah kate 'oo? takpe' (ni da libatkan peribadi 'tak pandai cakap tidak' aku nih). Aku cuma taknak ada yang bermasam muka dalam team aku. Bukan tak nak tegas. Mungkin jugak aku kene berubah.

Lepas ni kene tengok keadaan yang sesuai untuk berlaku tegas.

Tu kawan-kawan cakap. Famili? Dulu aku seorang yang bukan family-oriented. Masa membesar, umur 12 - 17 tahun, famili aku tak berapa menggembirakan, banyak krisis berlaku berbanding kisah manis. Kena pulak masa tu tgh gelodak remaja. Dalam hati aku memberontak, 'Kenape keluarge aku mcm nih?'. Berdose aku. Bila da besar sikit, da jumpe kawan-kawan asrama, selalu buat aku ketawe dan gembire, aku buat tak kesah dengan keluarga aku, sampai kene tegur dengan Ayah. Sejak tu aku mula berfikir. Setiap orang ada rezeki masing-masing (ade keluarga elok, ade yang tak bape elok). Kite kene pandai cari jalan untuk memperbaiki keluarge kite kalo keluarge kite tak bape elok.

Time kasih pada orang Jalan Drummond. Die da banyak tunjukkan cara nak appreciate famili, merapatkan famili melalui kisah-kisah die dan famili dia =). Skang nih tengah berusehe, nak menghargai famili. Cuba nak rapatkan hubungan famili. Selain dari hari raya, famili azimin da bertahun-tahun tak berkumpul makan bersama. Da bertahun-tahun tak keluar jalan bersama. Walaupun suara paling tidak didengari sebagai anak bongsu, azimin akan tetap mencuba menyuarakan cadangan untuk bersama =)

22 Jun 2007
Progress Report

Jogging
Hari ini berjaya jugak aku kuatkan semangat nak jogging pepagi. Dah lame aku tak jogging pepagi nih. Bila last aku pun dah tak ingat. Yang aku ingat antara attemp baru aku tahun 2005. Sekali Haitham tidur bilik aku konon tak nak kasik aku tidur lepas Subuh. Last-last die pegi jogging sorang-sorang. Aku tidur. Sebelum tu aku melawat matric, Nazri ada situ lagi, plan dengan dia nak g jogging kat UM pagi-pagi. Sampai masanya dua-dua tidur.

Lepas-lepas tu aku tak penah nak cube pun bangun pegi jogging lepas Subuh. Haha. Pagi tadi aku berjaya. Aku pergi dengan Ayah dengan Mak Cik kat tanjung. Untuk yang tak tahu, tanjung tu pusat rekreasi kat Muar, tepi sungai, view yang cantik, angin pun tiup lembut. Sampai pukul 7.30 pagi dekat tanjung. Ramai. Kereta banyak parking kiri kanan jalan.

Ayah dengan Mak Cik jalan kaki, exercise kaki. Aku pulak lepas warming up terus jogging. Ramai, lebih seratus orang ada kat tanjung tuh. Ramai Cina. 90% kot? Banyak orang tua-tua suma. 'Ramai cikgu pencen..' kata Ayah. So banyak yang jalan, jalan laju. Tak ramai yang jogging. Kadang-kadang terase macam aku sorang je jogging. Hehe. Yang muda-muda? Ada. Tapi tak ramai. Sangat tak ramai relatively.

Jogging sepanjang waterfront tepi sungai tuh. Ayah kata ada dalam setengah km jugak. Pegi balik da 1km. Semput gak nak pusing due, tige kali. Hehe. Dekat tengah-tengah tanjung ada dataran. Kat dataran tu banyak la group-group tai chi. Tadi yang aku pasan ada 3 group tai chi, satu group wushu (siap ada main pedang wooo!! Uuuu). Da lepas penat jogging tepi sungai tuh aku jogging pusing-pusing dataran tuh. Semua cina aku nengok dalam group tuh. Cuma ada satu group depan pentas dataran tu ada sorang pakai tudung. Mak cik. Lepas da pusing-pusing 4,5 kali, aku benti belakang group yang ada mak cik tuh, try ikot, jauh kat blakang.

Mula-mula saja nak suka-suka je, ikot dari belakang. Sebab aku pk, bagus jugak ada gerak-gerak kan anggota badan lain, dari asek jogging kaki je yang gerak, nak wat senamrobik sendiri tak reti. Tapi ade nyonya kat row belakang group tu ajak aku masuk join the group.

'Mari sini sebelah, ikot!'

Baik auntie tuh. Dia ajar aku macam-macam jugak. Walaupun ada instructor ajar kat depan, tapi aku tak nampak movement yang kecik-kecik. Kalau nampak gerak kaki, aku nampak gerak kaki je. Tapi rupa nya ada kene tekan peha dengan jari la, kena bengkok kaki la macam-macam.

'Bukan itu macam, kaki kene goyang punya.. Haaa.. itu macam!'

'Tangan kene kasik hayun belakang ar? Aaa.. itu macam!'

'Ini kene tekan punya.. tekan dekat tangan pakai jari. Aa.. itu macam!'

'Aiya! You tak goyang kaki! Mana boleh! Kasik goyang lo!'

Bila aku terasa nak benti, nak kuar, auntie tu tak kasik 'Nanti.. nanti.. ada lagi punya'

Aku join sampai habis akhirnya. Penat siot! Dia macam senamrobik. Ada lagu Cina. Seronok jugak, tai chi dia ikot beat lagu. Aku ingat tai chi gerakan dia slow.. tolak tangan ke kiri.. tolak tangan ke kanan.. Hehe. Maybe ni tai chi yang jenis rancak kot? (Tapi takde la rancak sangat, slow jugak kadang-kadang) Dia banyak teknik yang nak lancarkan perjalanan darah. Tu yang kene tekan jari pada certain part of body. Banyak tepuk-tepuk badan. Banyak henjut-henjut kaki (tu yang auntie tu suh 'kaki kasik goyang punya' hehe). Selalu kiraan senamrobik sampai 8 kan? Yang aku ikot ni tak tau bape. Dia kira dalam Cina, aku tak ikot kira. Banyakkk.. Sampai kadang-kadang da tak larat nak buat. Nanti pegi jogging lagi boleh ikot group tu lagi.

Sampai pukul 8.30. Seronok! Lepas ni nak jogging 3 kali seminggu! Bukan sahaja menyihatkan badan, malah melatih saya untuk tak tidur selepas Subuh. Hehehehe. Semangat!!


Tolong Ayah
Ada! Tadi menyapu satu rumah! Hehe.


Bahasa Arab
Da dapat kumpul lebih 30 perkataan dari cite Nabi Ayub petang tadi. Walaupun dekat semuanya dah tau, tapi takpe, refresh. At least dapat jugak tau cemane perkataan tu die gunakan dalam ayat-ayat dalam cite tuh.


Novel
Baru gerak 50 muka 'Inikah Cinta'. Payah tol nak gerak sekaligus banyak. Mesti rase boring, ngantuk. Aaaa.. Jap lg nak tidur baca lagi.


PD
Puksu tak jadik balik Muar. So Mak Nor ajak kite sendiri pergi ke PD. Pagi Sabtu nanti pergi inshaAllah. Balik Muar semula hari Ahad.


p/s - teringat dulu selalu jogging dekat matric. Kalau malas, jogging keliling matric, pusing keliling rumah orang kaya-kaya kat seksyen 16 situ. Kalau lalu depan umah cina yang ada anjing, especially bila anjing-anjing tu keluar betenggek kat tembok pagar rumah tuan dia, huhu, kadang-kadang sampai takut nak lalu depan rumah tuh! Ada anjing yang lagi besooo dari aku pun ade! Haha! Kalau rajin, jogging ke UM (biasanya pagi-pagi, petang selalu tak sempat, jauh). Pukul 7 pagi start. Nak jogging dari matric ke pintu masuk UM tu da 15 minit. Selalu ikot route ke library, then lalu depan Perdana Siswa, jogging mendaki ke Dewan Chancelor, (kalau sempat dan tak penat, menghala ke AAJ ngan Pasum, lagi atas) lepas tu turun menghala ke Masjid Rahman kat pintu masuk lagi satu. Lepas tu pusing kanan menghala ke tasik. Biasanya sampai sini da benti jogging, penat, da setgh jam lebih jogging. Lagipun masa ni da sampai kawasan rekreasi dengan sport, banyak court dekat sini. Ramai yang jogging. Ramai main tenis, basketball. Lalu tasik, nengok orang main kayak. Ada jugak satu, dua couple duk merendek blakang-blakang pokok kat tasik tuh (kalau jogging petang). Geleng kepale. Lepas tu lalu blakang Perdana Siswa menghala semula ke pintu utama. Biasanya da tak akan jogging balik da lepas benti kat Masjid Rahman tadi. Sampai la ke matric bejalan kaki. Pukul 8.30 pagi sampai, terus sarapan roti canai kat UKC. Hehe. Sonok! Skang kat jalan kat situ da sebok da nengok. Ada banyak construction jalan raya, wat flyover atas roundabut antara matric dengan UM tuh. Bahaya nak jogging kat situ sebab pavement tempat jalan kaki pun da pecah untuk construction tuh. Takde kaki lima. Heyy.. teringin nak jogging lagi kat matric.

22 Jun 2007
Impian untuk Melawat Negara Orang

Dari kecik lagi aku da didedahkan dengan external affairs macam nih. Dulu masa kecik-kecik mak kata pernah bawak ke sempadan Siam kat Perlis. Tapi aku tak ingat langsung.

Tahun 1990 Abang Joe sepupu aku ke Washington sambung Master. Aku ikot mak ayah hantar dia. Die ada jugak hantar poskad ke rumah aku. Balik Malaysia ada jugak kasik souvenir. Aku mula terpengaruh dan mula pandai merasa jeles nengok orang pergi ke negara orang. Aku mula menanam impian, aku nak jugak ke negara orang. Nak nengok negara orang.

Tahun 1996 aku berpeluang untuk ke negara orang. Pak cik 2pupu aku, Abang Fuad kawin kat Singapura. Ayah watkan passport untuk aku, bertakhta di bawah passport ayah. Passport untuk ke Singapura sahaja. Tapi di Singapura aku hanya berada di kawasan Woodland sahaja, iaitu daerah yang paling dekat dengan Johor Bahru. Selesai majlis kawin, kami terus pulang ke Muar dengan singgah sebentar di bandar Woodland membeli coklat. Aku merajuk besar hari tu sebab tak dapat nengok Singapura betul-betul. Aku tak pegi ke city centre nengok merlion, naik bas ade gerabak macam kereta api, naik MRT (mcm LRT), tak dapat nengok city Singapore yang tepi Selat Puteri tuh. 5 tahun berlalu, passport aku pun mati tanpa pernah menjejakkan kaki lagi ke Singapura.

1996 juga, Abang ke UK sambung degree untuk 2 tahun. Die selalu hantar poskad dan pelbagai kad pade aku, tak lupe jersey MU ori die belikan aku. Pergi ke France dan belikan aku t-shirt Disneyland dan jersey PSG. Pergi ke Holland blikan kasut kayu tradisional belanda tuh. Aku semakin berjelesan sambil rasa bangga ada keluarga aku pernah sampai ke negare-negare tuh.

Tahun 1998 aku berpeluang menunaikan Haji di Makkah. 40 hari di Makkah dan 8 hari di Madinah adalah pengalaman yang sangat sangat berharga bagi aku. Sangat menakjubkan. Bukan sahaja dapat melawat tempat Islam bermula dan tempat Baginda, tapi juga dapat melihat 1001 ragam jutaan manusia yang berhimpun di sana. InshaAllah ada rezeki, aku nak sangat menziarahi ke sana lagi.

Peluang aku untuk ke negara orang lagi hanya datang 6 tahun selepas itu, tahun 2004. Plan asal adalah untuk ke Miri melawat Puksu Nain yang kerja di sana, dan Puksu akan membawa aku dan Mak Nor melawat Brunei. Tapi malangnya, Puksu ada mesyuarat di Bangkok pada hari sepatutnya aku ke Miri. Mujur juga diberitahu awal, maka aku tak perlu membuat passport untuk ke Brunei sebab Muksu hanya akan membawa kami pusing-pusing sekitar Miri.

Tahun 2005, aku mendapat berita gembira dari Tim. Tim menjemput aku menjadi salah seorang dari 5 committee untuk trip ke Indonesia anjuran Kulliyyah of Engineering. Plan asal hendak menakluk seluruh pulau Jawa iaitu ke Jakarta di barat, Bandung, Jogjakarta hingga ke Surabaya lebih 1,000 km di timur Jawa. Kesemuanya menaiki bas dan kereta api, suatu pengalaman yang aku rasa sangat-sangat tak akan dilupakan.

Tapi atas sebab budget, kami hanya berjaya untuk pergi ke Jawa Barat - Jakarta dan Bandung. November 2006 kami berlepas. 5 hari di sana adalah sangat berharga dengan pelbagai pengalaman hasil setahun planning oleh kelima-lima committee. Tahniah untuk semua!

2007, Acap akhirnya menunaikan kata-katanya untuk membawa aku ke Brunei, setelah 2 tahun kata nak bawak. Dengan plan yang sangat kalut dan sangat tak memuaskan, kami berempat berada 7 hari di Brunei (tak termasuk 2 hari di Miri). Semuanya kerana rezeki dari-Nya, beberapa tempat berjaya dilawati. Tapi sebab planning yang sangat lemah, banyak jugak tempat tak dapat pergi. Apa pun, 7 hari di sana agak memberi kesan kepada kami dengan pengalaman yang berguna.

2007 juga aku diberi peluang sekali lagi apabila trip ke Beijing oleh Kulliyyah of Engineering membuka tempat kepada semua termasuk aku. RM 2,000 tak termasuk makan. Aku tertarik jugak. Tapi sebab sepanjang 6 bulan terakhir ni aku da keluar banyak sangat duet (RM 2,000 lebih untuk Indonesia, Brunei, RM 3,000 untuk yang lain - PC baru, tuka henpon etc), aku amek keputusan tak ikot ke Beijing.

2007 sekali lagi, Aiman ajak aku ke Bandung, melawat member skola dia kat sana. Tak tau la die ajak-ajak ayam ke ape. Tapi, sebab da takde duet, aku tak ikot die ke Bandung.

Selepas ini?

Nadiah dgn Amirah da asyik push aku suh bawak derang ke Jawa lagi sekali. Tak pasti derang serius ke tak. Bunyik nye macam serius. Ajim pun nak sangat pegi ke Bandung. Korang, nak wat, wat btol-btol. Kite kene kumpul la bincang bila nak pegi, budget bape, mane nak pegi, bape lame nak pegi.

Trip ke Ethiopia by Kulliyyah of Engineering. Paticipant cum committee. November 2007. Aku salah sorang committee. Tapi aku tak sure Ethiopia ni jadik ke tak. Klo tak jadik, pergi ke mana? Klo jadik, ayah aku tak kasik pegi. Management pun berterabur, aku kecewa jugak nengok. Aku tak senang dengan management yang tak tersusun dan selalu menyimpan rahsia macam tu. Nasib baik ade Aliani yang susah payah nak jadikkan semua jadik kenyataan. Mintak maaf la Alia kadang-kadang aku kurang bagi kerjasama. Aku mengharapkan seseuatu yang tersusun dan nampak 'pasti dan meyakinkan' daripada board Ethiopia nih. Macam trip ke Indonesia hari tu. Walaupun masa da nak pegi tu kelam kabut jugak, tapi aku nampak hala tuju yang jelas yang macam Tim explain pada SEMUA committee. Kite memang dasat ek Tim? Saya memang respect ah awak sebagai program manager!

Mungkin selepas ni, trip aku seorang diri pergi. Mungkin jugak berdua. Backpack travel. Tido tepi jalan pun boleh (tak boleh kot.. hehe). Best gak macam tu.

Plan yang paling berpotensi jadik kenyataan: Tokyo - Osaka - Sendai (mungkin jugak ke Ibaraki) di Jepun. Dah bincang dengan Padil kat Sendai. Plan cantik, cuma masa je tak mengizinkan. Kena carik masa aku cuti dan Padil pun cuti. Masa yang berpotensi: September 2008 atau lepas aku grad (November 2008). Total estimated expenses: RM 3,000 (tak termasuk makan, tempat tinggal dan transport kat Jepun yang di sponsor oleh Padil)

Second most potential plan: Germany. Munich - Berlin - Salstrouz(Austria). Da bincang dengan Topek kat Munich. Plan cantik jugak. Boleh pergi even die tak cuti - aku akan jalan sendiri sorang-sorang. Tapi Topek suggest datang masa winter, tiket kapal terbang murah, lepas tu die tengah cuti, lepas tu die leh ajak men skii. Hu! Masa yang berpotensi: January - March 2008 atau January - March 2009. Total estimated expenses: RM 4,000 (tak termasuk makan, tempat tinggal dan transport kat Jerman yang di sponsor oleh Topek)

Third most potential plan: Brunei. Baru cakap-cakap kosong dengan Ayah. Abang da pesan, kalao Ayah nak pergi, cakap kat die awal-awal, biar die tempahkan tiket murah. Miri - Brunei - Kota Kinabalu. Masa yang berpotensi: Awal September 2007 atau bila-bila aku cuti semester atau cuti midtem. Hehe. Total estimated expenses: RM 300. Or maybe free - Ayah ngan Abang belanje. Hehe.

huh.. potential kunun.. mane nak carik dueettt?? Dueett? Mane nak cariiik?? Aaaaaa...

Negara lain yang aku teringin nak pegi:
Tempat (Kenapa nak pegi situ)
Seluruh Tanah Besar Britain (bangunan-bangunan lama dan suasana city dan country side)
Perancis (Paris! Kota romantik! Eiffel Tower)
Sepanyol (Alhambra, kota bekas kerajaan Islam)
Belanda (Kincir angin! Bunga-bunga especially tulip)
Switzerland (Keindahan Banjaran Alps)
Itali (Naik gondola kat Venice!)
Turkey (Masjid Biru dan budaya masyarakat Asia-Eropah)
Russia (Moscow, kehebatan kerajaan zaman perang dunia)
Mesir (Ketamadunan manusia 3000 tahun dulu)
Afrika Selatan (Masyarakat kulit putih, kulit hitam dan asia yang bercampur kat situ)
Iran (Ketamadunan Parsi dan Islam)
China (Tamadun dinasti-dinasti China)
Thailand (Budaya jauh berbeza walaupun jiran Malaysia)
Australia (Australian outback)
New Zealand (South Island, alam semula jadi)
Kanada (Suasana kampung mat salleh, alam semula jadi)
Amerika Syarikat (Tamadun masyarakat kulit putih)

Dalam Islam pun digalakkan bermusafir melihat dunia lain, nengok bangsa lain, perhati indahnya alam ciptaan Dia. Dengan tujuan untuk berfikir selepas melihat, mentafsir dan menambahkan iman kita terhadap Dia. Mudah-mudahan bagi yang berkelana di tempat orang dapat memanfaatkan masa dan peluang mereka untuk memenuhi galakan Islam ini dan sentiasa mengakui kebesaran-Nya. Mudah-mudahan tak lama lagi tiba pulak giliran aku berkelana kat tempat orang pulak...

21 Jun 2007
Dekatkan Diri Pada-Nya

Tuhanku..
Daku hadir..
Daku pasrah..
Mengenangkan diri ini
Yang penuh dosa

Tuhan..
Kusedari
Namun kealpan menyelubungi
Lantas kusujud
Menyerah pada-Mu
Agar disirami cahaya kasih-Mu

Dikaulah, harapanku
Dikaulah, kekasihku
Dikaulah, segalanya
Tempat kumengadu
Ku hadir pada-Mu

Tuhanku..
Kau Pengasih
Kau Pemurah
Mengurniakan daku Rahmat dan Kasih-Mu

Sungguh aku tak layak untuk syurga-Mu
Namun tak pula sanggup untuk ke neraka-Mu

Kerna itu kusujud
Menyerah pada-Mu
Agar disirami cahaya kasih

Dikaulah, harapanku
Dikaulah, kekasihku
Dikaulah, segalanya
Tempat kumengadu
Ku hadir pada-Mu

Baru selangkah kurapat kepada-Mu
Seribu langkah Kau pada ku
Kutahu Pengampunan-Mu melangit tinggi
Engkaulah.. Engkaulah..

Dikaulah, harapanku
Dikaulah, kekasihku
Dikaulah, segalanya
Tempat kumengadu
Ku hadir pada-Mu..

'Ku Hadir Pada-Mu' oleh Mirwana.

Kita selalu ada banyak masa untuk makan minum.
Kadang-kadang habis berjam-jam makan kat NZ Curry House Wangsa Maju sambil nengok astro kat screen besar die.
Kita selalu ada masa untuk tidur.
Tak cukup tidur malam, kita tidur siang.
Kadang-kadang lepas Subuh tidur sampai nak dekat tengahari.

Kita selalu ada masa untuk keluar berhibur.
Kita boleh luangkan masa nak nengok Transformers yang nak kuar tak lama lagi kat KLCC.
Bukannya amek masa 2 jam movie je, tapi nak beratur beli tiket?
Tempoh perjalanan nak tunggu LRT, bersesak dalam LRT?
Nak dekat setengah hari amek masa.

Kita ada masa nak surf LAN kat mahallah.
Ada masa godek satu-satu PC orang dalam LAN.
Terjumpa video best, kita nengok.
Sampai 4 jam straight menghadap PC pun boleh.

Kita selalu ada masa untuk siapkan assignment kita.
Tak sempat buat semalam, hari ni pagi-pagi kita bangun awal siapkan.
Kalau malas bangun awal, sejam sebelum hantar pun kita boleh luangkan masa tiru assignment orang.

Tapi kita ada tak luangkan masa untuk Dia?
setiap hari ada tak kita spare time kita untuk Dia?
Kalau ada, berapa lama yang kita spare?
5 minit untuk setiap solat Fardhu?
satu hari baru 25 minit.. Cukup ke?
Kita perlu mengingati Dia sepanjang masa.Adakah kita mengingati Dia? Sentiasa?

Sentiasa mengingati Dia, kaitkan segala kejadian dengan Kebesaran Dia sambil memuji Dia, agar kita boleh sentiasa mengingati Dia.InshaAllah.
Lepas memuji Dia dan sentiasa mengingati Dia, jangan lupa sentiasa mintak perlindungan Dia.Minta kita sentiasa dekat dengan Dia.Minta apa yang baik untuk kita.Mudah-mudahan kita sentiasa dekat dengan Dia.Amin..

Dulu buleh set kan kat blogger, kite nak tules utk hari ape.. i.e. ari ni 4 july.. tp kite leh set kan kite nak tules 1 july walopun kite tules ari nih.. skang ni da takde ke? ke aku tak jumpe? malas nak carik.. aku tules tarikh je eh sendiri.. terima lah.. posting2 yg aku da sediekan kat rumah spanjang 2 minggu.. hehe


20 Jun 2007
Cuti Semester

Dah lame jugak aku tak duk rumah mase cuti semester. Ada je program tiap-tiap kali cuti yang 2, 3 minggu tuh. Dah dekat taun jugak kot tak habiskan cuti 2 minggu kat rumah. Paling lama pun duduk seminggu kat rumah, seminggu lagi ikot program. Dari yang international - trip to Indonesia, trip to brunei, sambut orang Indonesia datang Malaysia, sampai masuk kampung orang asli - Pos Sungai Rual kat Kelantan, Kg Husin kat Sg Siput, Perak dengan Kg Susu kat Cameron Highlands. Tak masuk lagi program Comrade lain macam program dekat Asrama Darul Falah, ASDAF (asrama dekat Damansara untuk anak-anak orang asli). Tak masuk lagi dulu ade 10 hari tour de Semenanjung pergi ke beraya kat Terengganu, Muar dengan KL.

Untuk cuti semester yang kali ni ada dapat satu, dua invitation join program macam-macam. Ajim ajak ikot program dia Bakti Siswa Rakan Muda masuk kampung kat Klang. Dein ada ajak jugak ikot program Enginius pergi Penang. Pergi Motorola tak silapnya. RM 15 je. Berminat jugak nak pergi, tapi lambat kasik confirmation kat die, seat da penuh. Takpe lah, memang niat asal nak duduk rumah pulak cuti semester nih.

So? Apa plan duduk rumah?

Tak banyak.. antaranya nak kemas bilik, sebab balik dari UIA hari tu bawak balik sekali berdozen buku-buku. Nak susun balik dekat dalam bilik, pilih mane yang penting je bawak balik UIA semula nanti. Bilik da penuh da dengan buku, kertas, file yang simpan dari seawal darjah 1. Sayang nak buang semua. Simpan.. Tapi akhirnya, buang jugak sikit-sikit. Sekarang ni bilik tgh penuh besepah dengan buku dan kertas-kertas.

Lagi?

Hmmm.. lagi ape eh? Nak jogging kat tanjung kalau buleh 3 times a week. Pagi-pagi pukul 7. Tapi da dekat seminggu duduk rumah belum start lagi jogging nih. Asek tido balik je lepas Subuh. Pastu bangun kol 11 dan ke atas plak tuh. Isk. Pagi tadi lepas Subuh ayah ada masuk bilik, 'Tido ke?' ayah tanye. 'A ah' aku jawab mudah lepas tu tido balik. Rupanya die nak ajak aku g jogging kat tanjung pagi tuh. Pukul 11.30 aku bangun baru dia cite die pegi jogging. Aaaaa... Tak ajak!! Esok pegi lagi nak ayah? Hehe.

Baru dua.. lagi apa plan ada?

Hmmmm.. Tolong ayah? Hehe. Tolong bakar sampah ke. Tolong sapu rumah ke. Tolong kemas rumah ke.

Lagi? Lagiii??

Weekend ni Puksu Nain balik sini. Mak Nor ajak ikot Puksu Nain balik ke PD, duduk rumah die satu malam. 'Boleh jugak' aku jawab. Lama da tak pegi PD. Bila last pegi PD? Raya 2001 kot? 6 tahun dah. Huhu. Boleh, boleh.. nanti boleh ikot Puksu Nain balik PD. Aaaa.. Kalau Ida ngan Mak Mok tau aku g PD tapi tak pegi gath yang derang buat nih, mampos aku. Huhu. Shhhuuuu.. Senyap! Senyap!

Ada lagi?

Ada kot.. Ingat plan nak belajar balik bahasa Arab. Ada copy file 'Kisah-kisah Nabi' dari LAN hari tu. Dalam dia ada 7 video animasi tanah liat (macam Wallace and Gromit tu) cite pasal nabi-nabi. Dalam bahasa Arab. And aku try nengok hari tu kat bilik UIA die guna bahasa Arab simple, mudah didengar, senang nak tangkap. Cara aku nak belajar balik? Aku nak nengok video tuh, sambil tu catat perkataan-perkataan yang aku dapat tangkap dan catat maksud dia (video tu ada subtitle English).

Lepas tu, masa tengah kemas-kemas buku kat bilik semalam, ade terjumpa assignment-assignment Calculus II kat matric dulu. Ingat nak buat balik kot soalan assignment tu. Buku Calculus Anton Biven Davis tu pun kebetulan ada bawak balik jugak. Bolah la sikit-sikit wat kot, nak refresh balik. Next sem ni belajar Aerodynamics. Ada banyak integration kot? Yeh? Kalau takde pun takpe, buat je latihan. It might be useful. Dalam Flight Dynamics and Control ke, dalam Aircraft Structure ke..

'All the things that you have learnt, derivatives, integration, in calculus, all are not rubbish! They are useful!' Prof Waqar cakap masa aku amik Intro to Flight mase 2nd year dulu.

Lagi.. nak menghabiskan baca novel. Ada 3 novel yang aku da beli da setahun lebih da kot? Tapi tak abes baca lagi. Yang belum abes baca - 'Inikah Cinta?' HM Tuah Iskandar. Aku suka catatan perjalanan dia ke North America dalam novel tu. Yang aku tak suke kisah fantasi dia yang nyata mencerminkan kan hidup penulis sendiri. Benci giler. Nampak macam penulis perasan dan syok sendiri. Tapi apa pun, aku blom abes baca lagi catatan perjalanan dia kat North America tu. Seronok dan jeles jugak baca. Dia pergi sekitar utara USA dengan Kanada. Pegi kampung masyarakat Amish, pergi nengok Virginia Fall up close, pegi Washington DC, macam-macam. Memang terasa macam kita sendiri nak pegi jugak lah! Seronok jugak mengembara negara orang sorang-sorang. Bila ek aku nak pegi?

Lagi satu blom abes baca - 'A Year in Merde'. Aku pun tatau kenape aku susah sangat nak menghabiskan satu novel English. Aku jeles jugak nengok semua orang bace novel Inggeris. Tapi, bape banyak aku da baca habis novel English, boleh kira. Ada la 5 buah kot seumur hidup aku. Haha! Sebenanye aku tak faham sangat (or mungkin susah nak imagine ape yang penulis maksudkan sebab perbezaan bahasa - aku kene intepret dulu baru boleh imagine, kira nya aku berfikir dalam bahasa Melayu, bukan directly berfikir dalam bahasa Inggeris). Korang yang minat novel English ni memang macam aku ke? Imagine berfikir dalam bahasa Melayu? Atau korang berfikir terus dalam bahasa Inggeris? Tapi novel 'A Year in Merde' tu cite pasal sorang mamat British ni berhijrah ke Perancis dengan niat nak mengorat French woman. Tak lama lepas aku beli buku tu tahun lepas da keluar sequel dia 'Merde Actually'. Heh. Ni pun tak abes baca lagi.

Yang aku belum start baca - 'Arca Kasih' by Norazlina Nordin. Da setahun lebih beli. Tapi tak baca-baca lagi. Aku pun tak tau kenapa aku beli. Bese aku beli novel-novel cite pasal mengembara. Macam 'Stefa Isle' dgn 'Original' mengembara kat UK, 'Mengundang Jauh' kembara dekat Timur Eropah, 'ADAM' dekat US dengan yang tengah aku baca ni 'Inikah Cinta' banyak pasal kat Kanada. Arca Kasih cite apa agak nya. Tak tau.

Ada lagi satu yang aku blom abes baca. 'From Beirut to Juressalam'. Dia bukan novel, tapi lebih kepada diari dan catatan perjalanan. Hasil tulisan Doktor dari Penang yang join Program Kemanusiaan Britain ke Palestin masa 1988 Shatila Massacare. Seperti biasa, aku malas nak baca sebab perbezaan bahasa. Heh. Yang ni lagi lama. Beli masa 1st year kat matric dulu. 2003. Da 4 tahun da. Huhu!

Hu. Da 4 da? Tadi kata 3. Heh. Lord of the Rings lagi? Two Towers dengan Return of the King due-due aku blom abes baca lagi. Tapi aku da nengok filem die yang extended (sepanjang 4 jam untuk setiap siri), da tak payah la nak bace novel, semua da ada dalam filem extended. Hehe. CUma ada jugak sikit-sikit takde dalam extended pun, macam watak Tom Bambadil. Tu hari tu aku search kat Wikipedia, dapat lah membantu memaham kan sikit. Aa.. lupa, hari tu beli 'Unfinished Tales' prequel untuk Lord of the Rings. (Sebenanye prequel LOTR are 'The Hobbit' dengan 'The Silmarillion', Unfinished Tales ni lebih awal lagi dari hobbit dengan silmarillion). Hehe. Tak paham ape bace. Tolong la someone buat movie dari novel nih kasik aku paham sikit. Huhu!

Da 7 da novel? Haha! Tak sempat nak abes kan baca cuti nih!

Waaa.. banyak nye plan.. Tapi sume plan yang indoor je.. Hehe. Takde plan jalan-jalan ke luar. He. Can I cope with the plans? Ntah lah.. Semoga cuti kali ini bermakna jua bagi aku.