malaysia : the next generation

assalamualaikum…


Akademi Fantasia, Malaysian Idol, Gangstarz, IKON, Mystarz, Celebreteens, Bintang Kecil and a whole lot more of this. where actually our future generations are moving to? hedonism suddenly becomes most important part of their life. who’s actually giving them the opportunity? the so called platform...and; who’s actually is encouraging them to seek this? to be part of it....to pursue this as their solid-bright-dependable future? WHO? I’m not trying to discard the fact that youngsters like music, like to enjoy themselves up, to search fun things....I’m not against it, because I use to be ones. I know. but there’s a very big gap between ‘putting effort searching for it’ with ‘everything has been laid before the eyes’. a damn big gap.

my oh my, if this lovely cultures continues and the media keep on banging in something like this for the sake of getting the ratings up, and the parent keep on endorsing their children to seek and involve in this, and adding some more to that....the relevant bodies unable to control or manage things like this; can we imagine what will apparently happen to our reliable future generations? this is as exactly what the saying says “there will be time whereas the westerns will look upon the orients while the orients do the same towards the westerns”. the orients tend to lose-up their traditions, the glorious history of the ancestors, their soft-but-firm practice in dealing with things, their outstanding manners concerning to living in the community, their demeanor in finding fun and enjoyable affairs and also tend to lose grip in their local customs and ethnicities.

who will basically inherit the cultures from us? and I’m not talking about inheriting our ‘way of life’ yet. I know religion is best practice whenever the person understands it rather that just inherits it from their kin. here, I’m putting this in a very simple substance....or we go one at a time. if this lovely next reliable generation of ours is busy in impressing the singing, dancing and presentation jurors in whatever reality show...and their, relative and friend were so busy showing the support by lifting the placard then whose actually can we trust when come to upholding, preserving and promoting our priceless traditions, values and cultures? WHO? one of my friends got this from one of our soldier who was sent to Bosnia. the soldier said Bosnia is about 10 years in development ahead of us and the nation destroyed while the people were so busy treating hedonism, they neglected their priority in life and they started to disbelief in God, and now look what has happened to them. sadly, slowly we are taking the similar route as Bosnia....and are we dare enough to face as what they’ve faced?....wallahualam.

al-fatihah buat pejuang-pejuang

assalamualakum...

rasanya masih belum terlambat - Al-fatihah untuk 6 orang pejuang-pejuang negara yg pergi meninggalkan kita baru ini; captain nor azlan, nor intan asykeen, sarjan khusnizam, sarjan mohd azmie, sarjan saifulizam dan sarjan ahmad ridzuan. semoga roh mereka bersama roh para salihin dan muqarrabin. kepada mereka yang ditinggalkan – takziah, walau segetir dan sepahit mana yang di rasa tidaklah Allah jadikan sesuatu sia-sia. Dia jugalah yang mengetahui segala-galanya. jasad mereka mungkin tidak lagi bersama kita tapi ingatan dan kenangan tentang mereka akan terus bersama kita.

sedih, sememangnya sedih. sebagai saudara seagama dan sebagai rakan senegara saya juga terasa kesedihannya. ada isteri yang kehilangan suami, anak kehilangan bapa, bapa dan ibu kehilangan anak, adik kehilangan abang/kakak, abang/kakak yang kehilangan adik, majikan yang kehilangan pekerjanya dan negara yang kehilangan pahlawan dan pejuang. begitulah rapuhnya nyawa....tidak diduga langsung bila akan diambil semula olehNya.

walaupun tempat kejadian di bahagian yang tidaklah sependalaman mana...terutama di sebelah pantai barat semenanjung...namun beberapa hari diperlukan untuk mencari dan alhamdulillah setelah hampir lima hari kesemuanya berjaya ditemui. walaupun mereka gugur tidak di dalam mana-mana peperangan pun namun gugur mereka adalah gugur pahlawan, gugur pejuang kerana dengan adanya mereka ini...kehidupan kita sedikit-sebanyak berada dalam aman dan tenteram. memanglah Allah yang mengurniakan keamanan ini tetapi mereka adalah assebabnya dan pastinya mereka sekarang berada dalam jagaan dan kemuliaan Allah....amin.

sekejam-kejam binatang buas....

assalamualaikum...

baca muka depan star hari ini? citer pasal kanak-kanak beumur 4 tahun yang dibunuh kejam, belek ke dalam citer toreh dan ragut di Port Klang. perhh!! kehidupan makin mencemaskan....dunia semakin hilang serinya bila di fikirkan...ye tak?? manusia-manusia banjingan semakin ramai, yang menjadi mangsa tentulah pula berganda juga ramainya. hidup yang singkat ini sepatutnya di warnai dengan ketenangan, keceriaan dan keseronokan. ini tidak...rasanya takde warna pulak!

kalau takde kejadian-kejadian yang mengerun dan mengugat ketenangan kita camni pun...kehidupan kita dah suram sikit-sikit warnanya disebabkan hutang dan persaingan....jadi mengapalah nak ada semuanya ni. bunuh kanak-kanak berumur 4 tahun – ini kerja siapa? rimau, singa, beruang ganas....itu semua takde dalam hutan batu cam yang kita diami sekarang ni. habis angkara siapa? rasanya mereka ini lebih ganas dari binatang yang disebut tadi. apalah dosanya kanak-kanak berumur 4 tahun. toreh dan ragut....apalah kejamnya sipelaku tu. kalau dia toreh pokok getah pun baik....harga getah la ni pun boleh tahan mahalnya. mangsa bukan setakat hilang RM 250...itu kira sikit banding dengan RM 15-20 ribu belanja pembedahan untuk sambung jari-jemarinya. alaahhaaiii....itu yang kekadang tu malas nak beli dan baca akhbar-akhbar harian sekarang ni....takut di cengkam dengan rasa cemas, gerun, takut dan bimbang. tapi sebab nak tahu perkembangan semasa....dan ada lebih-lebih RM 1.20 maka belilah jugaaa...

teringat kisah semasa saya bertandang ke rumah member sekolej dulu. tempat belajar saya dulu nun jauh di utara dan rakan ni pun asalnya di kampung-kampung sebelah sana jugak maka kami amik kesempatanle bila diajak. kami sampai dengan 3 biji motor...dari tepi jalan besar masuk ke rumahnya jalannya betul-betul muat basikal atau motor saja dan jaraknya adale sekitar 1 km. sampai saja, kami disambut oleh bapa dan ibunya (itula sahaja penghuni yang ada sebab abang dan kakak rakan ni semua dah bekerluaga dan telah berhijrah). kawasan sekitar rumah masih boleh dikatakan hutan....walau dah di ’dusun’kan sedikit sebanyak oleh rakan bersama ibubapanya.

saya sempatle bertanya pada orang tua rakan ni...”pakcik duduk di rumah dalam kawasan camni tak risau dengan benda-benda halus, hantu, binatang buas ke?”...agak ilmiahlah kononnya soalan saya tu...hehehe. ”oooo...setakat hantu tu kita tak risau sangat sebab kita kan lebih hebat kejadian dari depa tuh, binatang buas...kita ada bela anjing garang dua ekor..dan kita boleh pakai senapang rela tuh, tapi risau sangat kalau makhluk dua kaki nama manusia, hahh!!...ini pakai apapun belum tentu boleh kalahkan depa”, gitule terang bapa rakan saya tu. bayangkan dalam banyak-banyak makhluk yang menggerunkan tu.....semuanya tak la segerun manusia sebab apa yang membimbangkan mengikut orang tua rakan tadi ialah manusia amat tidak boleh diramal tindakan mereka....kalau kejam mereka boleh jadi sekejam-kejamnya dan kalau baik mereka boleh jadi sebaik-baiknya...gitule....wallahualam.

a short story about 'dignity'

assalamualaikum...

dignity. one word with thousand meanings. do we have one? I believe most of us do -but we seem to forget that we do have it. the numbers of people who intentionally try to forget that they have one are greater than the numbers of people who do it unintentionally. why so? actually because of so many reasons....the mother of all reason is ‘money’. they for go the concerns with their own dignity as long as money keep pouring-in. doesn’t matter if the boss want me to do something unethical as long as they compensate me well, what is dignity?....I’ll pay my ‘teh tarik’ not with dignity but with money. in fact this how’s the world works these days. for these people, not only they do not concern with their own dignity but they ‘play’ with it. they even make fun out of it.

okay now let’s put it this way, if we are alone and have to defend ourselves what would be the ‘one’? this is one hypothetical question – we are materially deprived, we don’t have family, we normally wandering all the times...if we suddenly being attack - again what will be the ‘one’ that we going to defend? even if we are in that vulnerable situation and the attacker instruct us to take-off the cloth we still reluctant to do...up to the point they threatened to kill us, still we try harder not to obey. taking-off cloth is equivalent to throwing the dignity down into the ditch...isn’t it? so doesn’t matter if you are in whatever state, always think of how to uphold your own dignity higher. your dignity is actually you....it also involve with your heart’s strength, shyness and sensibility.

let’s give concern to our own dignity....be it by doing so we might lose few things or even many things but our dignity is damn priceless than those things. it might be hard when come doing it (upholding it). possibility of people slam you is high, they might criticized your action so on and so forth. the truth is you definitely couldn’t satisfy every single person....but what you can do is to go along satisfying yourselves. only you know your ownself and, the dignity only have you to depend on. for others, the value of your dignity is nil...but not for you. defend your dignity rightfully (perhaps this can be the ‘last thing’ that you probably have) and uphold it higher - right where it belongs....wallahualam.

I Can Go The Distance

assalamualaikum....

this is the lyric for the song - "I Can Go The Distance" that has inspired me a lot and still does up to now....

I have often dreamed
Of a far off place
Where a hero's welcome
Would be waiting for me
Where the crowds will cheer
When they see my face
And a voice keeps saying
This is where I'm meant to be

I'll be there someday
I can go the distance
I will find my wayIf
I can be strongI know every mile
Will be worth my while
When I go the distance
I'll be right where I belong

Down an unknown road
To embrace my fate
Though the road may wander
It will lead me to you
And a thousand years
Would be worth the wait
It may take a lifetime
But somehow I'll see it through

And I won't look back
I can go the distance
And I'll stay on track
No I won't accept defeat
It's an uphill slope
But I won't lose hope
Till I go the distance
And my journey is complete

But to look beyond the glory is the hardest part
For a hero's strength is measured by his heart

Like a shooting star
I can go the distance
I will search the world
I will face its harms
I don't care how farI can go the distance
Till I find my hero's welcome
Waiting in your arms...

wallahualam