Remembering the death..

I've got a pair of tortoises for my 21st birthday (more than a year ago) from a friend, and they lasted for like 2 weeks before they died after a skin desease (at least that's what I thought).They were so cute and their size was as small as a child's palm!Maybe they were not used to the hectic surroundings(uhm, to be specific-on my study desk, in a medium size aquarium), or experienced an overdose chlorine or they just not meant to be human's pet by nature.I always had this rare passion over tortoise, so when I discovered a picture of my late tortoise in my phone memory(I even forgot their names already!!), I was quite overwhelmed and decided to treasure it forever in this blog.

Well, like the tortoises, we ourselves will be `dead' if we failed to adapt with our surroundings.Look, I emphasized the word FAILED, because everybody has their own capability in adapting to new environment, some are fast and some are slow.Yet it doesn't really matter as long as you manage to survive in the end, or else you will end up like my tortoises. `Dead' in this context means having endless difficulties in life, just because we ourselves are reluctant to change ourselves for the better.Unlike the tortoises, they could not do much to their life since they do not have a mind to think, and when the surroundings are hard and cruel, they just died.While we as a human being are gifted to think and live life wisely so that in the end, we will do something beneficial not only for ourselves, but to the rest of the world.

( I'm not sure if I'd done a good deal of explaining this, but I hope you guys get what I mean.Just a babbling of thoughts at 1 am in the morning.)

Sacrifice (Part 2)-Antara sumbangan dan pengorbanan

Sering kali, kita tersalah tafsir kedua-dua perkataan ini, dengan menganggap tiada bezanya kedua perkataan itu, macam sinonim la kiranya. Sama ajelah agaknya, menyumbang dan berkorban, kedua-duanya berdasarkan perlakuan melakukan sesuatu untuk orang lain, tanpa dibayar atau tanpa mengharapkan sebarang balasan (ideal case).Ini tafsiran peribadi saya, dan tidak merujuk kepada mana-mana kamus atau pakar bahasa.Saya lebih suka menggunakan definisi perkataan tafsiran sendiri, supaya senang difahami dan untuk memahamkan orang lain.

Letakkan diri anda di situasi berikut.

1- Anda sedang menjamu selera di sebuah RnR di tepi lebuhraya, apabila tiba-tiba ada dua orang pelajar sekolah rendah menyuakan tabung derma ke arah anda.Melihatkan surat akuan pelajar tersebut yang mengutip derma untuk mendirikan sekolah, dan kasihan terhadap mereka, anda pun mengeluarkan beberapa note merah dan memasukkan ke dalam tabung tersebut.Sesungguhnya sebagai seorang pelajar, bukan sedikit nilainya jika menderma menggunakan beberapa keping note merah.Lepas juga duit makan seminggu dua.Tapi anda puas, kerana telah melakukan sesuatu yang baik dan bermanfaat kepada orang lain.

2- Anda kepenatan setelah sehari suntuk menghadiri kuliah, dan rasanya perkara terbaik untuk dilakukan selepas solat Asar adalah tidur (ni hanya situasi sahaja ya, sesungguhnya tidur selepas waktu Asar sangatlah tidak digalakkan!).Tiba-tiba ada seorang rakan menelefon anda, dan meminta anda mengambilnya di stesen bas lebih kurang 45 minit dari tempat anda.Dalam kemalasan, `reluctance’ dan sedikit terganggu itu, anda gagahi juga pergi menjemput rakan tersebut atas dasar persahabatan.Lama-kelamaan anda juga berasa senang kerana dapat membantu seorang rakan yang memerlukan pertolongan, dan berjaya membuktikan anda seorang sahabat yg baik.

Kadang-kadang kita terasa sungguh `baik’ apabila kita sering menderma untuk anak-anak yatim atau tabung amal, atau terasa diri ni sungguh berbudi apabila kita menjemput sahabat dari stesen bas yang hampir sejam jauhnya dari tempat kita, pada hari-hari kuliah (sekadar contoh).Kita terasa kita banyak berkorban untuk sahabat-sahabat kita, tak kisahlah dari segi masa, kewangan, perasaan, emosi dan sebagainya, tapi benarkah kita sebenarnya berkorban, atau hanya memberi sumbangan?

Saya ingin mengajak anda membuat sedikit anjakan paradigma dalam pemikiran kita.Sebetulnya apa yang kita sering lakukan untuk sahabat-sahabat kita hanyalah sumbangan, dan hanya sedikit yang mampu melakukan pengorbanan kepada orang lain.Sebenarnya sumbangan itupun bukanlah besar sangat pun, kerana itu adalah memang menjadi tanggungjawab kita untuk membantu sahabat yang memerlukan, sebagai contoh mereka yang kurang berduit,kurang berada atau kurang apa-apa sahaja berbanding kita, kerana kita berada di situasi yang selesa untuk menyumbang sesuatu kepada rakan kita.

Jadi bagaimanakah pengorbanan sebenarnya? Senang cerita begini, kita ambil satu case study.Seorang rakan yang mempunyai masalah kewangan mengadu kepada anda.Dia memerlukan RM400 untuk suatu urusan penting, dan pada masa yang sama anda hanya ada RM500 (scholarship untuk sebulan).Anda tahu secara kasar, anda berbelanja untuk makan lebih kurang RM300 sebulan, RM 100 untuk barangan pengurusan diri dan RM100 lagi untuk keperluan yang lain.Jadi, RM500 itu adalah cukup-cukup untuk anda setiap bulan.Lagipun anda bukanlah orang yang berada sangat, ibu bapa pun telah cukup susah di kampung.Jadi, adakah anda sanggup memberi pinjam RM400 kepada sahabat anda itu, iaitu secara proportionalnya anda perlu mengikat perut untuk survive sepanjang sebulan itu, dengan hanya berbekalkan duit RM100?

Jika anda mengatakan sanggup, maka anda memang layak bergelar seorang sahabat sejati.Yang bukan setakat memahami erti pengorbanan, malah sanggup mengambil risiko dan mengaplikasinya dalam kehidupan seharian anda.Sungguh, pengorbanan sebenarnya meletakkan kepentingan orang lain lebih dari kepentingan diri sendiri.Sedangkan saya pun rasa tak mampu untuk melakukannya.Mungkin immediate impulse anda mengatakan ;
`Mana logik untuk survive sebulan dengan RM100??’

Tapi, kalau kita fikir kembali, segalanya logik dan masuk akal.Macam-macam anda boleh buat dengan RM100 itu untuk membolehkan ada survive sebulan.Anda boleh berpuasa (jimat duit makan), melakukan bisnes kecil-kecilan (jual keropok atau gula-gula, modal banyak mana sangat pun kan), makan sekali sehari, berbelanja hanya jika terdesak, tidak membeli makanan sebaliknya masak di rumah, dan pelbagai lagi alternatif.Tidak la sampai mati kebuluran.Cuma sanggup, tak sanggup je.Tapi memanglah, kesanggupan sebegini bukan calang-calang orang boleh buat...saya tabik spring lah pada siapa yang sanggup melakukan pengorbanan seperti ini.

Menyorot sirah nabi pun ,tentunya antara paling masyhur kisah pengorbanan Nabi Ibrahim a.s yang sanggup menyembelih putera kesayangannya, Nabi Ismail a.s demi menurut perintah Allah Subhanahu wa Ta’ala.Sanggup baginda mengorbankan putera baginda kerana yakin dengan perintah Allah, sehingga Allah menggantikan Nabi Ismail dengan binatang sembelihan.Maka jadilah ibadah korban setiap kali menjelang Hari Raya Aidil adha bagi memperingati kisah bersejarah ini.Kalau kita, rasanya sanggupkah? Bukan setakat anak sendiri, kalau anak kucing kita mati kena langgar lori pun kita boleh meraung-raung dan demam seminggu sebab tak boleh terima kenyataan.Susah nak terima sesuatu yang lebih berkepentingan dari kepentingan diri kita sendiri.

Akhirnya saya ingin mengajak kita semua berfikir;
Sebenarnya ada ke kita melakukan pengorbanan dalam hidup ni? Ke setakat ni semuanya sumbangan? Atau yang lebih teruk, sumbangan pun kita tak mampu atau tak ikhlas nak lakukan?

Fikir-fikir dan kenalilah diri, Wallahua’lam.

Sacrifice

Jika tiba-tiba ada seseorang bertanya kepada kamu;

"Adakah kamu sanggup berkorban?"

Apakah respon kamu?

(to be continued..)

Best Therapy

(gambar hiasan : taken at Bukit Tinggi, Pahang on Feb 2006)

What you always do when you are feeling down, heartbroken or when you just feel the whole world are against you?This kind of feelings always occur when you had a lot of problems, conflicts or crisis that reach your limit until you feel like run away to the farthest part of world and hide yourself.In easier words, this situation is often referred as stressed or tensed, or whatever you used to call it.

My favourite therapies of overcoming stress are normally to play either two games : bowling or squasy.I will abruptly asked my willing friends : `Jom main squasy/bowling harini ' and some of them will eventually understand, I need to clear off something in my mind.When I am in campus,usually I played squasy to release the stress but during internship, of course the best option is bowling since the bowl lane is just five minutes downtown.Do you notice the similarities between those two games? Yup, `pukul/ baling sekuat hati'.Hahaha maybe you all can guess what type of person am I, who found satisfaction in throwing and smashing balls (rebellious? expressive? you make the guess ;P).

But I made an amazing discovery myself, about several years ago.I found the easiest, quickest or perhaps the best therapy that always there, only I was too ignorant to notice it.The best therapy so far, which is guaranteed (insya Allah) effective, is no other than the Quran verses themselves.Try it, it surely works!As Allah had promised in his book of wisdom :

Who have believed and whose hearts have rest in the remembrance of Allah. Verily in the remembrance of Allah do hearts find rest!
(Ar-Ra'd, verse 28)

Which means when you are stressed out or tensed for having tough luck and miserable life, just take your wudhu' and recite or read the holy Al Quran.You will be amazed on how the positive energy flows to you as the words in the kitabullah is not from a human- those are sacred words came from the Most Almighty.Thus it make sense, right, to feel relieved as we are comforted by our own creator- the owner of the whole universe.Among my all-time favourite verse is non other than the famous Al Imran : 139:

Faint not nor grieve, for ye will overcome them if ye are (indeed) believers.
[translated]
"janganlah kamu bersikap lemah, dan janganlah pula kamu bersedih hati padahal kamulah org2 yg paling tinggi darjatnya, jika kamu org2 yg beriman"





How sweet!

Tagged

BUSY.

That's the best word can describe me for the past weeks..

Of course, I never prefer blogging at home and I just recently connected to the internet in the campus.

Meanwhile, I've been on top of Ms Bijoux's list in her recent entry, thus for her sake( yes,kakak, this one is for you!) my responses are as follow:

1o years ago I:

1. Love playing rounders at Ida's house

2. Was the Assistant Head Prefect of my primary school

3. Formed an all girls alliance named APM (only the members knew what it stands for ;P)

5 years ago I:

1. Was form 5 and had lots of fun (despite the SPM year)

2. Became dormates with other Vigilances during SPM week

3. Did lots of unpredicted and unexpected decision(some I regret forever)

2 years ago I:

1. Went to Amsterdam and Sydney (two of the cities that I wanted to go most!)

2. Organized several big events in campus

3. Realized that I really should sacrifice for the sake of others

1 year ago I:

1. Multitasked in fulfilling responsibilities as a student rep, a future intern, a normal person and a faithful believer(perhaps)

2. Did an unexpected decision to had internship programme in Penang

3. Became a frequent customer of Air Asia

Yesterday I:

1. Skipped dinner but went hungry late at night, so I had my `rarest' late supper -maggi

2. Experienced some miscomm and was late for an important meeting

3. Still croaked to talk (at least better than yesterday, where a lecturer asked me to introduce my name and I can't utter even a single word due to cough and sore throat, thus a friend had to introduce my name on behalf of me.Tough luck.)

Today I:

1. Shall try to sort the FYP titles or make a proposal

2. Sleep late and hope to wake up early

3. Hope my voice would return to its normal condition

Tomorrow I will:

1. Plan my tasks and schedule throughout the sem

2. Get confirmation or approval on the FYP titles

3. Get 50% of the tasks on my Stick-On Notes done

Three snacks I enjoy:

1. MERCI chocolates

2. Jack N Jill's Garlic flavoured potato chips

3. Famous Amos cookies

Three things I can't live without:

1. Religion

2. Faith

3. Belief

3 things I want to buy with rm1k:

1. Keep a portion in the account

2. Give a portion to the flood victims

3. Give another portion to any orphanage or the needy

3 shows I like:

1. Some CSI Miami..

2. Maybe some House M.D..

3. Or some Desperate Housewives..( I don't fancy tc shows anyway)

3 places I've lived:

1. Seremban

2. Bayan Lepas

3. Seremban again.Home sweet home.

Anti-Climax

OK OK..

I know I'm being over excited with the end of internship, new blog templates and everything..
I just remembered that I won't be blogging much for the next 2-3 days to perform the gimmick on the 15th of January on time.
So...here I present you the face-lift result of the blog skin.
Still in observation period..so later when I think I'm not quite like it, I will change it back to the old one.
I know most people will comment `adeh, colour buat sakit mata aaa'..but I think red suits my blogging mood perfectly (eventhough my favourite colour is green).

OK friends and viewers, comments, anyone?=P

Back for Good

owh, kucing garang ini sedang melepak atas scooter hariri.

gambar courtesy of jasa.

(mungkin dia marah kat jasa mempaparazzi dia)

Salam to all,
Sorry for the sudden break.I was busy with my final report, last minute clearance arrangement and all, I hardly have time to update since I was pretty determined to finish my report before I finish my internship.

Alhamdulillah, all was done, even the certificate endorsement and the recommendation letter by my boss.I couldn't quite understand the funny feeling I had when I read the recommendation letter, the evaluation form and all good comments about myself (since my boss is very very nice, supportive, easy-going and all, he reminds me a lot of my father's character, just that he's certainly younger than my dad), and of course I believe it was the result of my obedience and commitment in doing all tasks given, extending working hours to submit urgent tasks, and even my obsession to participate in training and completing online courses when I had no work(perhaps la kan..huhu). I don't really fancy compliments, so all this makes me feel `seperti menjual diri pulak’ (and I didn't mean it literally, you know what I mean).

Today's my last day of internship here, so the unpleasant, almost sad atmosphere was in the air. (at least for me) since other people still busy with their daily jobs.Kilanglah katakan, so you must expect the workloads and deadlines to meet every now and then. I will blog more about my intern experience soon, since I forgot to bring my memory card reader today. ( menangkap gambar curi di dalam plant!haha)After all, it's better to save the best for last, right?

In case you think I'd completely forget my intention to make some face lift to the blog, you're absolutely incorrect! I've finish editing and modifying codes here and there, and I just wait for the right time for a best impact .I'm thinking of doing that in the middle of this month, in conjunction with something special (hint*hint).OR maybe I won't.Afterall, just wait and see.Blogskin je pun kan.

OK then, all the best in life.

And for my batch, welcome back to university life.I'm pretty sure we need some time to get familiar with the long gone academic activities i.e study, go to lectures, tutorials, quizzes, tests and exams.So the best of luck for all of us.

Post-Anti-Toll Coalition

Alhamdulillah,

The Anti-Toll Coalition was held peacefully yesterday, with many and many of FRU and policemen around incase for any unpredictable act. As all of us can predict, this major event were not even covered in most of the local newspapers (you know why) besides The Star, so do browse the unlimited source (the internet) for more. Just FYI, I found the reports by Jeff Ooi is very much detailed, and do visit his LensaMalaysia for more amusing photos during the peaceful protest.I hope this will open the government's (and other respective big shots) eyes, for the sake of Malaysians (and also for the sake of the coming election).We know who's position is at stake right now.

Enjoy.

‘It pays more to become poor’
(quoted from one of the banners in the protest)

Anti-Toll Coalition

Ladies and gents (whether you're directly effected or not),
This is a casual announcement to the Anti-Toll Coalition, with detail as follows:

Date : Sunday, 7 January 2007
Time : 4 pm
Venue : in front of Sunway Pyramid shopping complex, near the Litrak office

Purpose : to launch a rakyat’s protest against the January 1, "not-so-high" 60 per cent toll increase. (this sentence is quoted from Rocky’s Bru)

As if we are not enough with the huge price increase of important needs in 2006( i.e fuel, cement, basic needs ) and now the 2007 new year's gift (toll, for the hundreth times)- there is one desperate question i always had in my mind : For whom actually we pay our money for?

Certainly not for ourselves, since we are already burdened with various charges and taxes even for our daily meals. A very close friend of my father, who's making a fairly good salary as a professional ( I don't need to mention his exact job, since this is just an average example-but he surely isn't a politician), is paying income tax as high as RM 40000 per year (thus everyone with tax-calculation knowledge can guess his annual salary), and not to mention other taxes e.g the cukai pintu,cukai kereta, cukai jalan, cukai makan di restoran eksklusf dan fastfood, etc etc(the `cukai' word sounds more frightening than a dull `tax' for me).To remind everyone this is only for one average man from the 24 million population of Malaysia citizens, and I'm sure there are numerous wealthy people in our country, and the government gets a huge portion of money from these type of people(unless they did not fulfill their duty like our famous assemblyman in Klang or his other infamous friends too).To say that we ought to help the government pay some money as the government's obligation to compensate the concessionaire for our own good, does it really make sense??

As KeAdilan information chief, Tian Chua said, "The truth is all this is just wayang as the government has already agreed to the toll rates when it signed the concession agreement that is lop-sided and against the interest of the rakyat," (Chua’s statement is as quoted in Jeff Ooi’s Screenshots-do read this very important report on press conference organized by PKR, attended by other opposition leaders and NGOs)

So the very question that all of us should ask in mind:
For whom actually we pay our money for???

Thus, for those who care especially who live around the central region, do come and express your protest to the government this Sunday. If no action taken by the government after all these while and effort, you know your role in the coming election.

Come on, we lost so much for the past few years (especially the dreaded 2006) and you still want to stay the same, old, faithful you?
I certainly don't.

Kota Tinggi, 27.12.2006

Gambar-gambar banjir ni di forward oleh seorang kawan, banjir di Kota Tinggi pada 27 Dec 2006.2 jam pekan ni ditenggelami air..Sesungguhnya inilah ujian Tuhan untuk hamba-hamba-Nya. Jadi kawan-kawan, selain membelanjakan duit anda (tak kesah duit scholar,elaun kerja,duit mak ayah sume) untuk shopping, shopping,shopping dan beli barang tak berapa perlu tu, jangan lupa menyumbang untuk saudara kita kat kawasan banjir okay.Untuk hari ni di Johor ada lagi 25000 berkampung di kawasan penempatan banjir.Semoga mereka tabah menghadapi dugaan.Justeru kita perlu terus berdoa dan berdoa agar bencana ini cepat reda.Amin.

AirAsia vs MAS??

(ini edisi memberontak selepas final presentation terpaksa dipostpone kepada esok sebab my SV took a leave today.In other words, he completely forgot that I will have my final presentation today.Takpe, he owes me full marks for that.)

Since I traveled by airplane quite frequently in these eight months of internship( about 6-7 returned flights in 8 months), I would like to compare the two most popular airline companies in Malaysia (as if our country had other than those two :P).Well scope of comparison is within domestic flights only, particularly KL-Penang-KL and vice versa, Economy Class (Ye ni for MAS, since Air Asia takde class class). If any of you who will be traveling at the same frequency of mine in the future, of course domestically (yang international flight kita cerita lain kali tau.Domestic sahaje!), then I think you might find this info as a helping hand. And also I warned you guys, this is personal view and may differ from others, and also may differ in certain circumstances. Thus, feel free to voice out your views for the improvement of our airline companies, in conjunction with Visit Malaysia 2007(now I sounded like a Visit Malaysia ambassador or something. Just ignore me).

Air Asia
-cheap, I even got a RM1.99 ticket for returned flights, of course you must include airport tax of RM35.00 so it sums to RM36.99, thus for returned flights it costs RM73.98- still very cheap! But I just managed to get this rate for once only
- very easy to view the schedules, browse and buy (online!)
-for normal time, the tickets are quite standard, around RM200-RM300 for returned flights. Whereas as you know, the quicker you buy, the lesser the ticket costs.
-there are three flights to Penang daily, in the morning, afternoon and night.
-approximate journey is around 50 minutes, but including boarding, take off and everything, you might as well consume up to 70 minutes until you reach the LCC terminal building!
- no complimentary drinks served
-no outside food and drinks allowed (but I always smuggled a mineral water every now and then and frequently spotted by the stewardess, thus I conclude that a mineral water should be okay)
- always delayed/retimed. My worse experience is a delayed on Friday night flight. Suppose I board at 10.20 pm, but it delayed until 12.40 am (just imagine the old folks and small kids!), resulted in me arriving home (my house is 40 minutes from LCCT) at 3.00 am.
-The flight steward and stewardess are less friendly and seldom smile, they always wear the expressionless look on their faces, even when they greet the passengers. My guess is they probably just tired have to stroll the food and merchandise trolleys back and forth in every flights, and the trolleys looked heavy, though.
-Air Asia flights are usually full, most probably because the tickets are cheap.
-this is personal, but I really HATE the stewardesses wearing tight mini skirt with black pantyhose. They attract too much unwanted attention and unsuitable as they always walk back and forth the plane aisle. Why don’t they wear long skirts instead??
-anyway, most of my journey Penang-KL-Penang/vice versa were by AirAsia, so I guess a good deal of ticket price really means something to an average traveler like me ( in other words, I'm not a daughter of any Tan Sri or Datuk, and I'm not traveling for business purposes.Saya hanyalah seorang intern yang homesick.Hehe)

MAS
-the ticket is of course more expensive, and normally people have to buy tickets at their counter. But now they have the e-ticket system, thus it is equally easy as buying tickets from AirAsia, anyway sometimes they do offer lower rates, so be alert to catch those.
-the steward and stewardess are much friendlier (and good looking too.You see, in saying good looking I didn’t mean they are all pretty and handsome and gorgeous, but their sweet smile, soft spoken, kind attention when you need something and all, that makes them good looking)
-you get complimentary drinks and a pack of salted peanuts, just for a 40 minutes journey
-when I say 40 minutes, this is a true first hand experience. I don't know how the pilot did it, even initially when they greeted the passengers on board, they stated that the flight will take 50 minutes to Penang..and I conclude everything to a speculation (within myself) : MAS airplanes are faster than AirAsia's??
-MAS flights are not usually fullhouse, e.g during my recent MAS flight, most of the three- seats-in-a row rows are occupied with only one person each row. Less crowd, I suppose.
-the flight always on time.Always.Last time I boarded like 20 minutes before departure, and I must rush all my way to B11 (terminal domestik paling jauh!!!!!)to see the terminal was already deserted and I was among the last passengers to board into the plane.Kalau naik AirAsia and you're late for like 15 mins before departure, what you can see is just a long line of queue even though the plane hasn't arrive yet.At first I found this quite bizarre, but since AirAsia provides free seating policy you just have to struggle your way to your favorite seat.
-there are a lot of MAS flights to Penang daily, and the last time I saw the departing schedule, there were more than three flights in one night.Bagus…jangan tak balik modal sudah, since most of the flights tak penuh pun.
-since boarding by a MAS plane means you have to depart from KLIA, there is always a massive crowd in the surau especially during Maghrib prayer, so it is quite inconvenient. I hope KLIA will make a bigger surau or add more especially at the departure level (Level 5).
-KLIA is more crowded than LCCT, thus you might feel quite uneasy.
-since you board from KLIA, you must pay the higher car parking fee compared to LCCT.
-the walk to the terminal is quite far too, especially in my case (Penang, 8.30 pm flight from KLIA, B11 terminal.Argh!! Rasa seperti mahu pengsan sebab jauh.Dah la dah lambat masa tu).
-as a conclusion, MAS airplane is highly recommended for those who need to arrive on time, and untuk yang sangat mementingkan layanan mesra daripada petugas penerbangan anda.

OK enough babble on comparing those two.I think I'd made a good job in not biasing to one side ( am I??) , because both actually had a fair share of pros and cons. And to others, who had their own views, feel free to share or even criticize. (^_^)

Kak Aliaa & Abg Shah's

(ini edisi memberontak selepas final presentation terpaksa dipostpone kepada esok sebab my SV took a leave today.In other words, he completely forgot that I will have my final presentation today.Takpe, he owes me full marks for that.)

Date : 25 Dec 2006
Time : 1.++ pm
Venue: The bride's house, Bertam (near Kepala Batas), Penang

candid! (I like this pic!)

wakil muslimat UTP..ehh ade 2 org tu dah ex dah :P

kak min and kak shasha(pengapit import khas dari sabah)

pelamin! theme : hijau (laagii!)

kamar pengantin

Bride and Groom

Match made in heaven :P

Semoga bahagia!

Well, firstly I would like to apologize for the late entry..I know a lot of people had request for these exclusive pics..
Just FYI I’d tried to upload these pics for like 4-5 times and it failed eventually.Yelah we knew how the internet connection had been for the past few days.
OK back to these pics..(sorry for the poor quality of pics.Masa tu rushing, tak sempat nak set camera dan saya malas nak edit)..

Kak Aliaa’s reception was held on 25 dec and sangat la meriah.I spotted a few familiar faces..yelah since both bride and groom are ex-UTPians as well.To those who stared the pics in complete confusion, let me give a brief intro for both of them.Kak Aliaa (Aliaa Ahmad Zakiyuddin) is an ex Civil Engineering students in UTP, former RCSU, kakak SmartGroup, graduated in Dec 05(rasenye la..kalo salah sorry ye).While Abg Shah (Shahruzzaman Mohd Azam Zaki) is a former IT student, graduated in Dec 04 (kot lah??Forgot maa).He is quite familiar especially to the current 3rd, 4th or 5th year UTPians..since he was the orang kuat MEDTECH dan selalu menjadi abang MEDTECH yang garang semasa MAS (including mine, M.A.S Jan 03).After all both of them are nice and kind and sweet and they are just meant to each other( apakah ayatku ini??).OK may they live happily ever after in Allah’s will..and for the rest of my seniors/friends, kalo nak your wedding dipaparkan di sini jangan lupa jemput saya ok…hahaha^_^

Explaination...

Ini hanya teaser.Can you guess who's wedding is this?? Wait for my next update soon..

OK, I think I should do this formally.



Salam to all readers,



Maybe some of you were quite surprised with the change of this blog theme over the weekend.Actually it was done accidentally, and I didn't even notice it until this morning.Yup, public holiday also means blogging holiday for me :P I was testing and adjusting the blog codes here and there, and I didn't notice I actually forgot to change back my blog template to the previous one.Thus no worries, ladies and gents, I'm back with my old sweet blog theme.And yes, don't expect this skin to stay that long.As the coming 2007 is just around the corner, I'm thinking to do some `face-lift' over this faithful blog...just wait and see.



I'm actually expecting to do it by this week, but suddenly my boss handed me some tasks to be completed within two days! And I am in the midst of revising and doing last minute adjustment to my presentation slides!! (Perfect timing :( ) There goes my intention to appeal a half day on Thursday, but on Friday I'm confirmed (by myself) an off-day to a short vacation in Kangar, before going home (again).



OK, expect more from me soon..(or maybe not so soon)

Daa~

CAPRICORN WOMAN

(ini edisi memberontak selepas final presentation terpaksa dipostpone kepada esok sebab my SV took a leave today.In other words, he completely forgot that I will have my final presentation today.Takpe, he owes me full marks for that.)

CAPRICORN WOMAN
(hint*hint* my birthday is coming!haha.Cis promot lak)
A tall slim, cool and quiet woman. Once she is mad she can be very fierce. She can work better than some men and she is very high confident woman. In her opinion, woman is not just a flower or decoration at home or at an office and certainly not a weak sex who needs protection.
She likes to control and hide her weak emotions. She will never try to change anyone, but she will learn to accept them as they are. If she does not like someone, she will not comments or criticize but she will completely ignore that person.

She hate plastic and an artificial flower because it make her feel that you are not being sincere. She loves real flower and it's scent. She loves a guy who wear after shave cologne. If you are a type of a guy who wear your Jean one month before washing, or wear an old sneaker, then you can forget about her.

She loves music and nature even there is a rare case otherwise. She loves to go picnic in nature, so if you don't have so much time for her, you can take her fishing too.

She is not as jealous as Aquarius or Leo woman, but do not cross the line O.K. Better not to see she gets mad, especially in front of public when she feels like loosing face. She loves to make up and dress perfectly and very neat, so never rush her for this matter.

She has her own goal in life and does not care if you have a doctorate degree or not, if she thinks you are not bright then she will not care about you at all. She likes smart people by character not by certificate shown. If you can not show her this quality, go and take a bus and go to the next stop.

She does not like a dreamer who talk about his dream but never put his hands in action to make it happens. Don't bother to tell her "everyone is doing it, you should do it too", or "I think you should do it, it's good for you", because she will do what she wants to do only.

She is a neat and tidy person, so if your apartment is a pigsty , do not take her there. If you go out on a date with her , try to be presentable such as nice and clean dress, clean nails or else it will be your last date.

She is a cool type and will not nag, so easy on your ears. She is a slow but sure type. She will always respect and honor you and will never try to make you loose your face. If she loves you, she will help you in anything you do.

She likes to help people and expect nothing in return. If she asks you for a favor and does not get one, she will feel very disappoint. She has a high hope and a high faith and beliefs in her own confident than believing in "Luck".

If she is your wife, you will have nice and clean home and a gourmet cooking. If your parents visit your house, they will be please. She is a 3 in 1 means , a perfect mother, a perfect housewife, a perfect wife or you could say "happily ever after".

Comment : All of these are quite true , except for the very second word: tall<< I'm an absolute UN-tall person! As always, this type of personality description are not to be taken truly and totally, but it can motivate you to become a better person.
So, what's yours?
(credit to Kak Qila for forwarding this)

Selatan yang banjir

Sedang kita bersenang-senang di sini, ramai saudara kita menderita kerana banjir terburuk dalam sejarah sejak seabad lalu.Siapa yang pernah dengar Johor,Melaka, NS (ohh negeri ku yang tercinta) banjir teruk?? Memang ada, tapi jarang sekali.Banyak jalan-jalan utama ditutup, dan mengikut berita pagi tadi lebih 60000 orang telah dipindah ke pusat penempatan banjir sementara.Juga lima orang telah terkorban akibat banjir yang melanda secara tiba-tiba ini.

Syabas dan tahniah untuk badan-badan NGO yang bertindak cepat membantu mangsa banjir ini, contohnya MERCY Malaysia yang telah memulakan khidmat klinik bergerak, ahli politik, NGO dan orang-orang perseorangan lain.Untuk anda yang tak berpeluang menolong terus di selatan Malaysia, bolehlah memberi sumbangan wang di sini dan...hmm alamak saya tak berjaya cari website lain untuk pertolongan jarak jauh banjir ni.Tambahan pula di pantai timur Semenanjung pun dah mula banjir, mungkin anda sendiri boleh jadi sukarelawan atau hulurkan sebarang bantuan untuk membantu mereka.Atau setidak-tidaknya, doakanlah keselamatan dan keteguhan hati mereka dalam menghadapi musibah ini.

Eh..dalam keributan banjir di Malaysia ni, mana PM kesayangan kita? Oh pergi bercuti rupanya.

Meh la balik Pak Lah, meh kita pakat pi tolong rakyat jelata ni.Katapun bekerja bersama rakyat, takkan rakyat dok susah kita pi holiday kot?

Anda mahu undi yang biru tu?? Fikir la sendiri.

Ferragamo for the Family

When I just got back from Langkawi, I realized that my brother's birthday is just around the corner.That explains the bad feeling I had back then, when I don't have the usual gleeful mood to go shopping in Langkawi.Rupanya saya terlupa beli hadiah untuk Ame masa di Langkawi.I was totally upset with myself, how could I forget my own bro's birthday? Since once I'd forced him to get me something on my birthday (four years ago kot? Can't remember), then he surprised me with a cute paper holder in a beautiful, shiny purple box, complete with ribbons!(at that time I think he didn't have any girlfriend yet, so his bad taste in selecting present for a girl was long forgiven).Last year was even worse, I totally ignored his birthday over piles of MPP work that needed to be done.Adik apakah diriku ini??Thus, out of guilty and determination to become a good, sweet little sister, I vowed to search for his birthday present before I get back home on Friday.



Yet still, worse come to worst.I am very much busy the entire week, and didn't have time to go to the nearest shopping complex to search for his present.Until the last hours before I depart to KL, I found a beautiful Salvatore Ferragamo's miniature perfumes set in the Eraman Shop (whoever always go to airports-KLIA, Langkawi or Penang, must be familiar with this shop.The airport duty-free shop). What a perfect little gift.Although the initial intention is just to search for my bro's, later I said to myself; why don't I get something for the whole family instead? Plus the chocs from Langkawi that I brought home are just for my friends and relatives, takkan Ma ngan Abah nak bagi coklat gak kot.So the result is as below.

For Mom

For Abah

For Ame and Kak Lynn

For saye sendirilah!

P/S : For Afiq the one identical with Mum's, tapi botol warna jernih and of course for men.Tak sempat amik gambar, dia dah bawak lari dah)

Why perfumes? Recently I grew a passion on perfumes especially the miniature set with gorgeous bottles!Yes you get me right, I don't fancy sangat nak pakai tapi lebih kepada nak buat collection or bagi orang..:P

And yes, this gift then given to my big bro as his engagement gifts (since I bought a pair of Belgian chocs and two identical perfumes for him and his fiance), so
THIS YEAR I OFFICIALLY DIDN'T GIVE HIM ANY BIRTHDAY GIFT AT ALL.

So much for being a sweet little sister.

Kesimpulan dari cerita ini ialah, ingatlah hari jadi abang anda dan letaklah ia dalam reminder telepon.Sekian terima kasih.(tiba-tiba kesimpulan bahasa melayu pulak)

Bagaimana Melayari Internet dengan Kebersamaan Allah

Tiba-tiba saya jumpa artikel yang menarik.Lalu saya pos terus ke blog ini.Semoga dapat dimanfaatkan bersama.

Bagaimana Melayari Internet dengan Kebersamaan Allah

Oleh: Fathi Yakan
Internet merupakan senjata bermata dua, satu pendekatan yang mempunyai dua wajah yang bertentangan; dalamnya ada unsur peruntuh dan membina, memati dan menghidup, petunjuk hidayah dan godaan. Dan cara bagaimana ia digunakan adalah garis pemisah antara keduannya.
Saya harap tidak keterlaluan jika saya katakan bahawa internet mempunyai daya tarikan, keberkesanan, mudah dicapai, dilayari dan bersifat intraktif yang menjadikan ia alat terkini dari segi kesan dan ruang cakupan. Ia melitupi bola bumi tanpa sekatan dan tandingan. Ia boleh dijadikan mimbar untuk orang Islam menegakkan hujjah keatas manusia dengan menyebarkan Islam dan menyampaikan dakwahnya kepada seluruh manusia diseluruh pelusuk alam.

Benarlah seperti firman Allah taala yang bermaksud: Supaya tidak menjadi hujjah manusia terhadap Allah selepas kedatangan rasul-rasul.(an Nisa’ 165)
Dan firman maksudnya: dan begitulah kami jadikan kamu umat pertengahan supaya kamu menjadi saksi kepada manusia dan rasul menjadi saksi keatas kamu.(al Baqarah 143).Walaubagaimana pun kita sepatutnya mengetahui bahawa internet dipenuhi dengan segala jenis unsur yang rosak dan merosakkan dan syaitan jin dan manusia memuatkan rangkaian ini dengan berjuta-juta laman yang canggih dan cekap dengan seni mempedaya dan menyesatkan satu perkara yang tidak diterima akal dan sukar digambarkan.

Satu kajian yang disiarkan oleh majalah Time menunjukkan bahawa bilangan laman seks mencecah angka 650 juta laman pada tahun 1998 dan dianggarkan akan sampai 8 bilion pada tahun 2002. Salah satu laman ini memiliki 300,000 gambar lucah dan telah dihantar sebanyak lebih satu bilion kali???

Manakala dari sudut perniagaan, satu kajian menunjukan bahawa sejumlah pembelian bahan lucah melalui internet mencecah 18 bilion dolar. Ini mendorong pengkaji Steve Waters berkata dalam komentarnya terhadap betapa besarnya bencana ini: “biasanya pelayaran internet bermula dengan cuba-cuba, kemudian ia berlarutan menjadi penagihan dan disertai dengan kesudahan yang sangat merbahaya”.

Semua itu perlu diletakkan dalam perkiraan apabila berbicara tentang internet, melayarinya dan berinteraksi dengannya.

1. Seseorang yang ingin melayari internet wajar membersihkan niat dengan betul dengan menetapkan terlebih dahulu tujuan sebelum memasukinya.
2. Mereka yang melayari internet sebagai alat untuk berhibur akan lupa diri dan tanpa disedari terheret ke pada kamatianya dalam keadaan ia tidak menyedarinya.
3. Kemudian duduk dihadapan internet dalam tempoh yang lama akan mensia-siakan pusingan hidup seluruhnya. Mereka akan mengabaikan tugas dan tuntutan untuk mendapat kebahagiaan didunia dan akhirat. Inilah kerugian yang nyata.

Disamping ia juga akan menyebabkan kehilangan daya tumpuan dan menyebabkan akal bercelaru.Adapun apabila kita melayari gelombang internet yang ganas dalam laut yang gelap dan dalam keadaan ditemani Allah bererti kita hidup dengan kebersamaan ini dalam setiap suasana, urusan, kondisi dan setiap masa.Rasa kebersamaan ini bukan suatu yang boleh dipinjam-pinjam atau direka-reka… kerana itu, ia bukan datang dan pergi sebaliknya satu keadaan yang tetap terus berkembang tanpa kurang atau surut.

Merialisasikan kebersamaan ini sesaorang perlu mengekang nafsunya daripada hawa dan penyesatannya. Hawa harus ditolak dan nafsu sepatutnya dibimbing untuk menaiki tangga kesempurnaan, meninggalkan kealpaan, mengalahkan waswas dan mengatasi ajakan-ajakan syahwat. Kemudian dengan memelihara keberterusan “muraqabah” dan “muhasabah” serta mengekang nafsu dengan keazaman dan dipaksa dengan pekerti dan akhlak yang mulia, apa lagi dizaman yang penuh dengan fitnah dan keajaiban ini.

Seperti yang pernah diberi amaran dan ingatan oleh Rasulullah s.a.w secara khusus mengenai zaman tersebut dimana orang yang siuman menjadi bingun, perkara makruf menjadi mungkar dan mungkar menjadi makruf sebagaimana sabda Rasulullah s.a.w yang bermaksud: apabila dunia hampir kiamat akan berlaku fitnah seperti potongan malam yang gelap, fitnah seperti kepulan asap, dalam situasi itu hati manusia akan mati seperti matinya tubuh badan mereka, mereka beriman pada pagi hari dan kufur pada waktu petang, beriman pada waktu petang dan kufur pada waktu pagi antara mereka ada puak yang menjual akhlak dan agama mereka dengan habuan dunia.(hadis riwayat Ahmad)

Kita berdoa kepada Allah supaya memberikan kita kesihatan dan berterusan dalam keadaan afiat serta bersyukur dengan afiat tersebut. Kita mohon dari Allah kebaikan masa dan kebaikan mereka yang hidup pada zaman ini. Kita berlindung kepada Allah dari kejahatan zaman dan kejahatan mereka yang hidup pada zaman ini. Allah maafkanlah kami, ampunkanlah kami, perelokkan kesudahan kami dan pastikan pada waktu kematian kami, kami sedang melakukan kebaikan dan amal soleh. Amin ya rabba al alamin.

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My Guild Wars profession

My meeting was postponed (again!) to 2.00 pm, thus I took this quiz just for fun :

You scored as Monk. The Guild Wars profession that best fits you is monk. You keep in touch with your holy side, and don't like to start conflicts. If a conflict does start you always stand up for your friends and are there for them when they need help. Although not easily tempered, when you do get angry you can, and will smite down your adversary. Monk 78% Elementalist 63% Warrior 63% Ranger 56% Mesmer 50% Necromancer 50% What kind of Guild Wars profession best fits you? created with QuizFarm.com I'm best-described as monk? (Rasa cam sangat baik pulak).Anyway this type of quizzes ain't to be considered for real, just to reflect your unconscious state of mind or to motivate you for self-improvement.Once in a while, I recommend you guys to sit for these online quizzes, and observe the results.You might turn out to be beyond your own expectation..:P

16 December 2006

(note:this post is specially dedicated to my lovely family,relatives and neighbours..also to thoughtful friends who came all the way just to attend this simple event.To my bro and my future sister-in-law, I always pray for both of you and may we soon be family for real, insya Allah..)

P/S : To those who are new to this blog, this was NOT MY engagement day.It was my brother's. Just FYI..:)

28 penerbangan Air Asia ditunda??

Perkara ini bukannya sesuatu yang baru,malah sebagai pelanggan biasa AirAsia saya rasa boleh bilang dengan jari setiap penerbangan yang tepat pada masa.Yang lain semuanya mesti delayed, kadang-kadang sampai lebih 2 jam.Itu untuk penerbangan KL-Penang-KL, bagaimana pula dengan penerbangan ke destinasi yang lebih jauh?

Apabila ibu saya telefon kelmarin dan bertanyakan hal ini, saya agak tenang menjawab.Biasalah tu, lusa (Jumaat) ok la kot.Kemudian bila baca laporan di akhbar-akhbar tempatan, rasa marah pula.Masalahnya, apabila kebiasaan delay ini terjadi,penumpang tak diberitahu lebih awal.Padahal semestinya kakitangan Air Asia dah tahu pasal ni memandangkan flight dari KL tak sampai lagi,seterusnya boleh beritahu penumpang secepat mungkin. Tidaklah kita tertunggu-tunggu sebab masing-masing pun mengejar masa.Pernah saya dijadualkan naik flight jam 10.20 malam suatu malam Jumaat, kemudian kapal terbang delayed sehingga jam 12.30 malam!Bayangkan betapa lama saya dan penumpang lain perlu tunggu.Saya ni pun kira OK lagilah, tunggu berjam-jam pun takpe, orang muda, seorang pula tu.Kasihan sangat tengok ibu yang bawa anak-anak kecil dan warga tua yang ada.Semestinya mereka penat menunggu, sudahlah lambat beritahu, tiada complimentary food pula tu.Sudahnya, hampir pukul 3 pagi jugalah saya tiba di rumah.

Worse case, pernah sekali ibu dan adik saya ke Penang untuk bercuti dan melawat saya, mereka telahpun boarding ke dalam kapal terbang dan dan pesawat dah pun bergerak untuk berlepas.Tiba-tiba kapal terbang terlanggar tangga untuk penumpang naik ke pesawat dan terus pesawat diberhentikan untuk pemeriksaan lanjut.Sudahnya, penumpang-penumpang yang dah boarding ni disuruh keluar semula dan tunggu pesawat lain untuk ke Penang.Mujur diberikan kupon makanan sementara menunggu lebih dua jam.Memang, ini dikira masalah teknikal dan tak boleh dielakkan, tapi bukankah ini juga antara aspek yang perlu diambil kira oleh syarikat penerbangan? Manakah kebajikan, keselesaan dan layanan terhadap penumpang??

Apapun saya pernah buat kesimpulan dengan keluarga saya, macam mana orang kutuk pun Air Asia ni sebab sering delay dan layanan kurang memuaskan, orang tetap akan naik Air Asia.Sebab tambangnya murah dan flight yang kerap.Sudahlah ada satu saja perkhidmatan pesawat tambang murah di Malaysia ni.Kiranya, kita tiada pilihan lain.Buktinya, hampir setiap kali saya naik Air Asia, penumpang memang penuh setiap seat, walaupun free seating (macam naik bas.Oh, sesetengah bas ekspres pun ada seat allocation!)Nak naik MAS? Aduh, takpayahlah. Purata tambangnya 2 kali ganda Air Asia.Lebih banyak prosedur dan leceh pula.

Kalau macam ni perkhidmatan pengangkutan yang disediakan menjelang Visit Malaysia 2007, adakah anda rasa ianya berbaloi untuk menyambut kehadiran hampir sekali ganda pelancong asing di Malaysia, kurang 20 hari saja lagi? Mungkin kita patut mengundi di sini dan lihatlah hasilnya.