Chocs that no longer Halal

I've got this from a friend (thanks!), originally posted in PPIM's website. You guys might want to check this out.

All the below Masterfood Company Chocolate Products (Mars) are no longer Halal. They started using Animal product rennet(pork) in it for products that have expiry date after 1 ^st of October 2007.

Check this article from BBC News
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/ 6653175.stm
And this from the Vegetarian Society
http://www.vegsoc.org/news/2007/ mars.html


Bounty
· Celebrations
· Dove Chocolate
· Flyte
· Galaxy
· Kudos (North America)
· Lockets
· M-Azing (North America)
· Maltesers
· M&M's
· Mars Bar
· Mars Delight
· Milky Way
· Minstrels (UK only)
· Mars Planets (newly inroduced in UK)
· Skittles
· Snickers (The top-selling candy bar in the United States. Known in the UK as Marathon until 1990.)
· Starburst (Originally Opal Fruits in the UK.)
· 3 Musketeers (North America)
· Topic
· Twix
· Snicker's Marathon Energy Bar
· AquaDrops

Well, looks like we have to look for another chocolate products, I guess.

9 Siti

Telah lama saya cari artikel ini, baru sekarang jumpa. Sebab saya pernah dengar sekali dulu, tapi tak sempat catat jadi terus hilang dari ingatan. Jadi saya kongsi di sini untuk tatapan semua,semoga dapat jadi inspirasi untuk kita semua, Insya Allah.

(cewah, sempat lagi blog beberapa jam sebelum pergi camping hehe)

Antara 9 Siti yang patut dicontohi:

1) Siti Khadijah
- Beliau merupakan isteri Rasulullah s.a.w yg melahirkan anak2 Rasulullah, setia dan menyokong Rasulullah walaupun ditentang hebat oleh org2 kafir dan musyrik, menghantarkan makanan kpd Baginda ketika Baginda beribadat di Gua Hira’.

2) Siti Fatimah
- Anak Rasulullah yg tinggi budi pekertinya.
Sangat kasih dan setia kpd suaminya Ali karamallahu wajhah walaupun Ali miskin.
Tidur berkongsikan 1 bantal dan kdg2 berbantalkan lengan Ali.
Rasulullah pernah b’kata aku takkan maafkan kamu wahai Fatimah sehinggalah Ali maafkan kamu.

3) Siti A’ishah
- Beliau isteri Rasulullah yg paling romantik.
Sanggup berkongsi bekas makanan dan minuman dgn Rasulullah.
Di mana Nabi s.a.w minum di situ beliau akan minum menggunakan bekas yg sama

4) Siti Hajar
- Isteri Nabi Ibrahim yg patuh kpd suami dan suruhan Allah.
Sanggup ditinggalkan oleh Nabi Ibrahim atas suruhan Allah demi kebaikan.
Berjuang mencari air utk anaknya Nabi Ismail (Pengorbanan seorg ibu mithali).

5) Siti Mariam
- Wanita suci yg mmg pandai menjaga kehormatan diri
dan mempunyai maruah yg tinggi sehingga rahimnya dipilih oleh Allah s.w.t
utk mengandungkan Nabi Isa.

6) Siti Asiah
- Isteri Firaun yg tinggi imannya
dan tidak gentar dgn ujian yg dihadapinya
drpd Firaun Laknatullah.

7) Siti Aminah
- Wanita mulia yg menjadi ibu kandung Rasullullah.
Mendidik baginda menjadi insan mulia.

8) Siti Muti’ah
- Isteri yg patut dicontohi dan dijanjikan Allah syurga untuknya
kerana setianya kpd suami, menjaga makan minum, menyediakan tongkat utk
dipukul oleh suaminya sekiranya layanannya tidak memuaskan hati,
berhias dgn cantik utk tatapan suaminya sahaja.

9 ) Siti Zubaidah
- Wanita kaya dermawan yg menjadi isteri Khalifah Harun Al-Rashid.
Sanggup membelanjakan semua hartanya utk membina terusan utk
kegunaan org ramai hanya niat kerana Allah s.w.t.

Web bagus

How many times you face a situation where you want to drive to a place, but you don't know how?

I always face this kind of situation, but luckily I have a father who is crazy about maps and roads (which explains his profession la kan). Recently he always promoting this website to the whole family,which he finds very helpful and convenient; the Wikimapia.
And I love it too!! Very interesting and convenient as well.
(Eh by the way, who says women can't read maps?? It's only the men who won't listen. Haha)

Yup, I know Wikipedia is very popular to us but Wikimapia, maybe only certain people have heard about this web.Come on, try it!Especially for ladies, well we need to know these kind of things too you know.

Oh sangat-sangat la membantu web ni, macam Google Earth la jugak kan! Bagus bagus
OK tu je nak share, nak pergi bercuti sambil bercamping sekejap okay.. see ya!

Mencantikkan SHOPPING?

Assalamualaikum dan salam sejahtera.

Pagi Krismas ni saya bangun awal, kebetulan pula berpeluang tengok program motivasi Dato Dr Fadzilah Kamsah di TV. Ada pula soalan yang sangat menarik dari penonton dan saya pun sangat-sangat teringin nak dengar jawapannya, iaitu Apakah cara-cara untuk mencantikkan shopping?

Kelakar jugak dengar, tapi betullah majoriti orang perempuan terutamanya memang suka shopping. Siap ramai dengan bangganya mengaku shopaholic lagi. Yang ni saya tak faham sangat, apa la hebatnya menjadi shopaholic ni?? Membazir lagi adalah..(no offense, personal opinion ye;) Tapi apapun, tak ramai wanita yang tak suka shopping tapi tak semua lelaki pun yang tak suka shopping kan. Kat sini saya nak kongsi antara petua Dato yang boleh kita praktikkan semasa shopping.

1. Buat list
Ni benda basic tapi ramai orang tak buat..tak tau la kenapa. Malas kot? Kalau selalu tak buat list ni, nanti beriya pergi shopping complex last-last beli benda yang kita tak perlu pun, dan benda yang kita nak terus terlupa nak beli..(alamak sendiri pun terasa jugak..huhu)

2. Makan dulu baru shopping
Yang ni saya baru tau! Tapi Dato cakap ni memang benar sebab ikut kajian, kalau orang yang lapar tengok apa pun cantik, semua dia nak beli. Kalau orang kenyang ni dah penat makan, jalan pun slow, mata pun ngantuk sikit-sikit jadi takla bernafsu sangat nak beli. Sangat la bagus petua ni. Ingat-ingat balik, kalau shopping ngan kawan-kawan pun selalunya kita jalan dan shopping dulu baru makan kan, sebab lepas makan dah malas nak gerak dan rasa nak balik je. Jadi kena la makan dulu lepas ni! Haha

3. Tuju kat kedai tempat kita nak beli barang dulu
Contoh la kalau nak beli handbag la kan, dah target dulu beg apa nak beli, brand apa, kat mana semua baru pergi terus kat kedai tu. Jangan tengok tempat-tempat lain lagi.

4. Bawa peralatan solat
Bawa sekali telekung ke atau apa-apa yang berkenaan. Boleh juga kalau tak bawa dan nak pakai telekung awam kat surau tu, tapi setengah orang mungkin rasa tak selesa dan setengah surau pula mungkin takde telekung awam. Jadi lagi selamat kalau bawa sendiri, tak pun memang pakaian kita dah bersih dan menutup aurat, pakai je pakaian kita untuk solat, kan senang. Jangan tak solat sudah la.

5. Singgah kedai buku
Setiap kali keluar shopping jangan lupa singgah kedai buku. Macam saya pernah cakap dulu `book is a lifetime investment'.. jangan pernah menyesal kalau kita beli apa-apa buku pun. Insya Allah berguna sampai bila-bila.

Jadi, bersempena dengan Year End Sale sekarang ni marilah kita mempraktikkan petua-petua menarik di atas okay. Nak beli barang ke baju ke kasut ke boleh tapi berpada-pada, jangan sampai membazir pulak. Nak-nak orang cam saya sekarang yang menganggur takde income sekarang ni..haha:)

Pity, an enemy

Assalamualaikum and good day.

Days at home gave me opportunity to do some reflections and observations on people around me. One of the thing that I realized is, some people always avoided other people during their weakest moments, maybe during depressions, when sick, suffering from diseases or others that made them think they are more vulnerable and fragile compared to others. These people refused to talk about their condition and always pretend that everything is perfectly fine, and try to live a normal life as before, like nothing had ever happened. But later I observed that it is not the pain that they suffered bothers them, it was actually the strange glances and pitiful eyes of others that they can't stand.

For me, I suggest that we try to treat them as we threat other normal people, and avoid shooting discriminating glances that can make them feel uncomfortable. It's a good thought to approach and ask about their condition, but these kind of people probably preferred it to be in a private way, let say a face-to-face talk rather than in front of a crowd.Or rather, they will seek for people that they are comfortable with and shared their feelings, problems and concerns that bothered them much.

Yes, some people could not tolerate pity at all. These are strong people that stand on their own feet and like to do things independently, without the help of others. Thus during hard time, I guess it's not hard to support them in the way that they prefer most.

Why I'm writing this is, I personally think that I would behave like these people when I face hard times.

My Bro's Big Day

Yeay, finally I've got myself a sister (in-law)!

Well, as most of my close friends are awared of, I was busy helping my family preparing for my bro's big day the whole last week. I even went back home as soon as I finished my FYP presentation! Alhamdulillah, praised to the Almighty that the wedding went well and my parents sleepless nights are paid off. This wedding is a pretty huge deal since it was the first in the family, and my parents being a total perfectionists did helped to complicate the whole proceeding (hehe). Nevertheless, the days were over and now we are almost finished transforming back our home into normal condition.

Here I would like to share some sneak peek of my bro's wedding, I just love to post wedding experience because it was full of joy and very beautiful too ;)

My bro sengih2 bagi mas kawin kat wife dia

At Kak Lin's. Her house theme was gold..a perfect colour for a wedding

The pelamin at my house.Notice the rare lilac pink colour chosen by my brother? He had a hard time finding the pelamin and the canopy and the baju pengantin that match the colour.. but afterall it worth every effort. The colour is wonderful! (Or so said by the guests ;)

The newly wed posed for me! As usual I'm being an amateur unofficial photographer at (almost) all weddings I attended.. hehe

The female cousins ;)

The eightyfivers small reunion. Thanks guys for made it! (my wedding nanti jgn tak dtg plak!hehe)

To all of my UTP and STJ friends, thanks fo coming :)

Congratulations too to my big bro and his wife, finally married happily until ever after, insya Allah.And the lucky bridegroom was also turning 26 yesterday, so I guess he'd got the best birthday present ever this year, A WIFE :)

Happy birthday big bro !