chasing our own shadow in 2008

assalamualaikum...

new year is just around the corner, approximately in 60 days time we'll be meeting it. what exactly will be waiting for us? nobody knows. will it be our 'glorious' year?, nobody yet could determine it. the tiny turmoil has already started. I believe everybody has sense it. the new toll rate and the new petrol price. enough with this two things first...scaryness has already there. this two things are the most influencing factors to our economic condition. undoubtedly, everyone knows about it.

I'm not trying to make this issue bigger, because its already big. by god's help we manage to go thru 2007 and definitely we'll still asking His help in order to get thru 2008. my oh my, its definitely a scary one and I even got few friends that already making their finger crossed! hoping for a bright and shiny 2008. a people-friendly year. for the low-income group, not even crossing fingers but they've done the same to their legs!! I might be wrong here, but this happen partly due to our intention of to quickly become a developed nation.

yes, we need to develop. we need the infra. we need to be at par with the 'big players'. but at the same time we don't want our people to suffer. the price just to damn big for the people to pay. what we really need is to close the gap between the rich at the poor first. otherwise all the developments, the infras, the technologies will only be consumed and occupied by the rich - the group that already has everything! give priority to this first, let all level of people in one line first so when the 'fruit' comes they can all together able to 'taste' it fair and square.

wallahualam.

cerita-ceriti lepas raya

assalamualaikum...

lama sesangat dah tak tulis kat sini....angkasawan dah pergi dan dah turun balik. raya pun dah masuk hari yang ke 9. pergi rumah terbuka? sekarang memang tengah 'schedule' kan le ni. kalau betul 'timing' nya tak payah masakle bila 'weekend'. gas jimat, belanja dapur pun jimat cuma petrol dan tol je kena keluar lebih sikit...tapi takpe yang penting silaturrahim tu...kan? apapun bila dah makin nak meninggalkan syawal ni makin ribut 'kepunden' le pulak nak kampui balik kumpul duit untuk 'cover' belanja raya. bukan sikit anak juga belanjanya kan? lebih-lebih bagi orang yang dah berkeluarga.

takpe le pelan-pelan...insyaAllah dapat le 'cover'. anak pun sekarang ada yang dah pandai 'serahkan' duit raya kat mak-bapak balik...yeela diaorang pun tahu mak-bapak dah banyak berabis untuk menyerikan raya diaorang tu. mak-bapak yang beringat pastinya akan menyimpan duit raya anak-anaknya tuh...mak-bapak yang betul-betul kering takpe le...pakai je dulu duit raya anak-anak tu. esok-esok ada rezeki lebih bayor le balik...paling koman bukakan akaun skim saraan pendidikan nasional tu (SSPN-kalau tak silaple..!!). selamat gitu. belanja pendidikan sekarang dan untuk di masa-masa akan datang bukanle sikit...banyak brotherr!

entahle kalau dipikir-pikir gusar juga...tapi gitule hakikatnya. cuma apa yang kita boleh buat ialah 'planning' dan 'prepare' dan seterusnya yang paling penting berdoalah padaNya supaya dipermudah kehidupan kita, anak-anak dan generasi yang seterusnya. tidakkah dia sebaik-baik tempat untuk mengadu dan memohon pertolongan? kita doa kat Dia pun memang Dia suka jadi tunggu apa lagi brotherr!. kita mohonlah agar dipermudah kehidupan dan dipermudah kematian kita...alaaa...lagipun Dia tahu pasal kita lebih dari kita sendiri tahu pasal diri kita sendiri...tak gitu? wallahualam.

....all are because of Him

assalamualaikum…

its been 17 Ramadhan, how is it? great is it? loss few inches of the waist line? allriighht….. another 13 days to raya. I shared the spirit with you guys, the ‘raya’ spirit. happy and looking forward to it but that actually wouldn’t be the thing that worry and sadden us more. it would be the Ramadhan that is leaving us! ‘raya’ is important but ‘Ramadhan’ is more and more important. Ramadhan is not just month but it’s the month of everything. its might be hard at the beginning but we’ll fall in love with it at the later stage…just be brave to be open and you’ll have it. me too. adjusting the schedule is the one that really gave me the heck of a time…but now I'm adjusted already! and getting used to it. alhamdulillah the whole family has undergoing the same.

Rasullulah and sahabat even cry when reaching to 1st Syawal and definitely not because of ‘raya’ but because of can they being given another opportunity to see the next Ramadhan. that is how they value Ramadhan. it’s the most sought-after month for us the Muslim. it is where the Allah’s rahmah, forgiveness and the potential to be freed from hell’s torments being placed. all we have to do is to grab it. for all you know…if we taking nap during the daytime, we’ll still being given the pahala by Allah. that’s why I for sure will nap not only once a day but few times a day if got the chance doing it..hehh..hehe! it’s the pahala guy…the pahala!!

let’s fill-up the next 13 days with the ibadah and devotions to Allah up to the max. it might be our last Ramadhan. doing so I believe is still too little comparing to what Allah has granted us. stay stun for a while and look around us. it’s all given by Him. the health, the material, the kids, the parent, the career, the car, the time and last but not least the LIFE. its all came from Him. the ‘strength’ to lift hand to do the takbir is also came from Him. all given by Him…so lets do the best because of Him for this coming another 13 days of Ramadhan. also not to forget to stay awake and alert exclusively to get the night of the Qadar…..wallahualam.

Ramadhan pun terus berjalan....

assalamualaikum...

"cap..cup..cap..cup", sedapnya anakku yang bongsu mengunyah 'nata de coco'nya. si abang hanya memerhati - sedih. "adik puasa ke?", tanyaku. "kuasaa..", jawabnya 'confident'. gitula anaku yang pompuan sorang...umur nak masuk 5 tu. 'kuasa' dengan 'puasa' pun payah nak bezakan...inikan pula maksud puasa...lagile tak paham. takpe le janji dia 'puasa' dah le walaupun puasanya tu ikut version dia...hati senang, takde sapa ganggu hatta abang yang kekadang mengerlingg...mengetap gigi!. itula 'version' puasa bebudak dan satu lagi 'version' puasa bebudak ialah diaorang ni selalu puasa tapi tak solat...lebih-lebih budak yang berumur di bawah 10 tahun. ramai yang sebegini dan takpe le sebab mereka memang pun belum dikuatkuasakan untuk bersolat, belum wajib tapi ada pula yang walaupun di usia yang camni solat dan puasa dah tip top. perrhh!!...ini memang hebat dan kita yang ada anak ni pun memang sentiasa nakkan anak kita jadi camtu kan?...insyaAllah.

tapikan...ada tu, yang dah tua bangka umur diaorang tapi bila puasa saling tak tumpah macam puasa bebudak tadi. diaorang puasa tapi tak solat. berlambak-lambak...brother. kan lebih baik kalau dah tak solat tu lebih baik dioarang tu tak puasa terus...sebab dalam rukun islam puasa datang selepas solat. jadi kalau dikira ikut formula matematik kampung pun kita tahu dah...kita kena buat solat dulu then barulah aci nak buat puasa tuh kan? satu lagi untuk mendapat puasa yang class A, pra-syaratnya jangan ditinggal amalan-amalan wajib yang lain...yang diperintahkanNya untuk kita buat. itu je..

solat ni kan...sebelum kita nak tinggalkannya, cubalah kita renungkan dulu kepayahan dan pengorbanan Rasulullah berulang-alik jumpa Allah untuk susutkan bilangan 50 rakaat ke 5 rakaat sahaja. ini cerita Isyrak-Mikraj brother...dan rasanya semua kita tahu. kita tak habis-habis berselawat, menyanjung Rasulullah tapi kita buat tak kisah kepayahan dan pengorbanan baginda dalam menjadikan solat ni mudah untuk umatnya...alaahaaaiii... fikirle brother. tak kesian ke kita kat Rasulullah? takde nilai ke pengorbanan baginda? memang solat atau apapun amalan dan ibadah kita lakukan hanya kerana Allah, tapi di sini hanya nak menunjukkannya dalam cara senang fikir. dalam cara pendek akallaa..kalau benar kita sanjung Rasulullah maka perlulah amalan dan suruhan baginda kita ikut namun segala amalan tu memang dah pasti kita lakukan kerana Allah. itu dah confirmed!. gitule.....wallahualam

ceria menyambut Ramadhan

assalamualaikum..

diriwayatkan daripada Thalhah bin Ubaidillah r.a katanya;

seorang penduduk Najd telah datang mengadap Rasulullah s.a.w dengan keadaan rambutnya yang kusut. kami mendengar nada suaranya tetapi tidak memahami kata-katanya. setelah hampir kepada Rasulullah s.a.w dia terus bertanya mengenai Islam. lalu Rasulullah s.a.w bersabda: Ia adalah sembahyang lima waktu sehari semalam. lelaki tersebut bertanya lagi: Masihkah ada sembahyang yang lain diwajibkan kepadaku? Rasulullah menjawab dengan bersabda: Tidak, kecuali engkau ingin melakukannya secara sukarela iaitu sembahyang sunat. Seterusnya kamu hendaklah berpuasa pada bulan Ramadhan. lalu lelaki tersebut bertanya lagi: Masih adakah puasa lain yang diwajibkan kepadaku? Baginda menjawab dengan bersabda: Tidak, kecuali jika engkau ingin melakukannya secara sukarela iaitu puasa sunat. Rasulullah meneruskan sabdanya: Keluarkanlah zakat. kemudian lelaki tersebut bertanya: Adakah terdapat zakat lain yang diwajibkan kepadaku? Baginda menjawab dengan bersabda: Tidak, kecuali engkau ingin melakukannya secara sukarela iaitu sedekah. kemudian lelaki itu beredar sambil berkata: Demi Allah, aku tidak akan menambah dan menguranginya. Rasulullah s.a.w bersabda: Dia amat beruntung sekiranya membenarkan iaitu menepati apa yang telah diucapkannya.

hadith riwayat Bukhari & Muslim

salam Ramadhan Al-Mubarak dan selamat berpuasa

cute guy 'smeagol'

assalamualaikum…

incidentally, I came across to once again catch Lord of The Rings: Return of The King. it’s been aired last night and honestly it never stops to amaze me although it’s my third or fourth time. it’s still one of the movies that interest me a lot. the one that fascinate me most is how on earth can the writer come out writing such a story and the character that keep my brain pounding due to its outstanding and full with surprises role in the storyline is definitely the “smeagol”. its ever cross to my mind that the writer use to read Malay literature or myth because that “smeagol” probably is his version to ‘dogol’ – a funny character normally being mention in Malays comical literature. infact even the names sound almost alike!?

well, smeagol might be my favorite character but my favorite scenes in this third saga are one when the Nazgul – the great warrior of darkness being killed by a lady and the other one is when the King and its people bowed, kneeled before the four hobbits. the latter probably superseded the former as the scene that I like most. this scene gave so many messages. it portrayed that though the hobbits are small but to the King they’re not. the King knows how ‘big’ the hobbits are concerning to their contributions and sacrifices. the King never patronized the role they’ve played. the King went on with his status-quo bowing to this little people and called them ‘friends’....ooohhh, what an intriguing moments!!. as for us...we’re so messed-up doing the opposite. we so use in giving ‘title’ to the others (though we haven’t mention it verbally!!) but the treatment tells it all. 2nd class people, 2nd class friend, 2nd class student, VVIP, VIP, so on and so forth.



I’m not worshipping the western movies but the effort, creativity, research and time spent are the one that I adore most – undoubtedly. we can learn this and I believe somewhere here, someone is doing the learning. I believe in our strength and creativity too. giving a time, support and money....sooner or later we’ll come out with one too, same goes to the writer. we’ll have someone like that JRR Tolkien. we should never stop believing, not even in this area but in whatever area especially if it for the benefit of the mass. ‘believe’ is one thing but have faith in what we believe is another thing. so lets ‘believe’ and have faith in what we believe as this will keep us striving to be the best. hidupp smeagol!! hehe...heh...wallahualam.

tinggalkan cerita lama...

assalamualaikum...

dah berapa tahun kita hidup dan dah berapa tahun pulak kita di kuasai oleh hati yang meruntun kesedihan, perasaan yang dibelenggu dengan rasa marah dan jiwa yang bergelodak? perbandingkanlah dengan hidup yang disuburi dengan hati yang ceria, perasaan yang tenang dan jiwa yang damai. yang mana lebih banyak pecahan peratusannya? susah nak di ukur…tak mana susah brother. tengok dalam-dalam pada diri dan tanya seikhlas-ikhlasnya diri tu pasti akan jumpa. sifat kita, perwatakkan, pembawakan, personaliti, perangai, tabiat, imej, ketrampilan dan berbagai-bagai lagi jika dikaji satu-satu pasti akan dapat memberikan jawapannya.

apapun jika jawapannya besar peratusannya kepada yang negatif maka kita perlahan-lahan, sedikit demi sedikit tanamkanlah azam untuk mengubahnya. ”people do change”. tapi jika jawapannya dah berat pada yang positif maka kita kena kekal dan terus memperhebatkannya. ”enhancing for the betterment”....enhancing tu kira macam memperkayakan lagi atau memperhebatkannya lagi bukan...en...hancing! (sebutan B.Malaysia baku) itu ’hancing’ ada sikit-sikit pertalian dengan bau kencing tauu...itu lain tuuu!!. satu lagi kalau dah berat ke belah positif maka tak payah mengubahnya le…cukup sekadar memperhebatkannya. tak payah buang tenaga untuk mengubah sesuatu yang dah dikenalpasti elok dan baik. simpan tenaga dan curahkan kepada mencari cara atau ide untuk memperhebatkannya lagi itu ajee..


Ya Allah, ampunilah dosaku, hilangkanlah kemarahan hatiku, dan lindungilah aku daripada syaitan - Hadith riwayat Abu Daud. Hadith yang juga doa Rasullulah.

walaupun kita banyak berat di sebelah negatif tadi maka sekarang adalah masanya untuk mengubahnya menjadi ringan dan beratkan pula di sebelah positif tu. apapun yang telah berlaku, dilakukan atau terlakukan itulah tandanya kita ni manusia biasa. kita memang dilahirkan hebat tetapi tetap tidak ‘sempurna’ dan kita sebenarnya sudah cukup sempurna dari yang sebelumnya apabila kita 'berusaha' menjadi manusia sempurna walaupun terkandas di tengah jalan. the thing that counts is the journey not the destination. the ‘journey’ will determine what kind of ‘destination’ that we’ll be having. yang lepas tu lepaslah…ambil wuduk, angkat takbir solat taubah dan iltizamlah untuk tidak mengulanginya lagi…insyaAllah. bukankah Allah itu maha pengampun? lepas tu fokus pada yang mendatang…sebab selagi hayat dikandung badan selagi itu lah perjuangan tidak terhenti apatah lagi perjuangan mencari redha dan rahmatNya…sentiasa berliku, sentiasa mencabar dan di cabar, gitule….wallahualam.

sekolahku batu-batu

assalamualaikum...

pernahkah anda terlihat akan iklan 'MySchool Rocks'?...School Musical Dance Competition... apa ntah? rasanya kalau sesapa yang ada astro mesti selalu come a cross iklan ni kan? perhh! boleh kata selalu lah kuar iklan ni. kira macam pertandingan menari antara sekolah lah gituu.... bagus juga kalau bebenda camni selalu di adakan kerana ikut kata mereka boleh menjauhkan remaja terutama anak dan adik-adik yang masih bersekolah dari gejala tak sihat seperti dadah, lepak, gangsterism, buli, rempit dan sebagainya. memang murni niat tu...cuma kalau dikaji secara mendalam sikit, langsung tak kena cara. niat tidak menghalalkan cara. camna bagus dan murni pun niat tu ia tetap tak boleh menghalalkan cara!!? betulke dengan melibatkan diri dengan pertandingan yang berlakunya pergaulan bebas antara lelaki dan perempuan, dengan kaedah menari dan bersuka-suka, girang gumbire seperti ni boleh menjauhkan remaja dan pelajar sekolah dari perkara-perkara tak sihat seperti yang dinyatakan di atas tadi? betul boleh ke?

untuk jangkamasa sekejap dia nampaknya macam satu kaedah penyelesaian tetapi untuk jangkamasa panjang tetap akan timbul gak problem sosial. bila mereka dah pandai menari tu kat mana esok-esok mereka nak menari? kalau tak di disko dan pusat-pusat hiburan yang sekarang melata. bila masuk selalu tempat camni apa pengaruh pulak yang mereka hidapi? sikit-sikit lama-lama jadi bukit...kepada mereka yang came-out dengan ide ni rasanya cubale cadangkan atau cari ide lain yang lebih 'ketimuran' kalau susah nak cari yang 'keislaman'. cubalah...kekadang kita ni terlalu mengikut, sedangkan untuk mengikut atau untuk memimpin keduanya ada 'their own rules of thumb'.

takkanle kita nak pakai cara-cara yang memang bukan ciptaan kita dan selalunya yang bukan ciptaan kita payah nak 'sesuai 'dengan kita malahan kekadang boleh 'merosakkan' pulak. sekolah dah banyak masalahnya...cikgu-cikgu pun dah banyak tugasnya. janganlah kita nak serasikan sangat-sangat 'pendidikan' dengan 'hiburan' walaupun 'learning should be 'fun' tapi fun tu maksudnya menyeronokkan bukan hiburan yang keterlaluan. alangkah kalutnya negara kita ni bila semua sekolah dah terlalu ambil serius untuk 'join' pertandingan yang sebegini...lebih-lebih lagi bila sekolah tinggi agama pun terlibat sama. karut sesangatlah bila kelihatan ustaz dan ustazah tengah tergedik-gedik mengajar anak-anak muridnya melakukan 'moondance' , 'breakdance', salsa atau ntah apa-apa dance lagi. kesiannya kita bila gambaran camtu jadi satu realiti....wallahualam.

becoming more mature and wiser...

assalamualaikum...

I’m not talking about biological maturity (or if I’m not mistaken...they call it puberty?!) but when exactly does we feel that we are really mature and wise? when we were 15? 25? 35? 40? or 50? or even 60? difficult to say? is there a person who’s never mature and wise? or is there a person that never really bothers about this? well....I doesn’t know about you out there but I feel mature now. wise? that ones too. I probably would say that this is my turning point’s moment...in everything I do and in everything I say. I feel great. I feel lively. how do we know that at certain age or certain point of time we has actually matured and wised? this definitely is one hell-of-question is it? principally I don’t think there’s a person when he’s at the age of 13 or 14 he would say to his friend or to people around him that he will be matured and wised at the age of 25....he would not surely know that. on the contrary....he might eagerly try to buy-out his friends by saying that he is then matured and wised...at the point of saying it.

in reality, if we softly-cracking our lovely brain just to amplify the thinking ability we would probably know that there’s no a crystal-clear indication in knowing our maturity time and same goes to becoming wise. we are all mature and wise then.... as it should be at that time and we all perhaps more mature and wiser now. a 12 years old boy will possibly more mature and wiser than the other boys, be it that the other boys were few years older than him. the chances he is more mature and wiser (in whatever he is doing or saying) than the others are there. when he is 18 of course he will be more knowledgeable than when he was 12, but is it ascertains that he is more mature and wiser? the answer....??

okay, suddenly we know that there are apparently 2 type of matures and wises. one is mature and wise linking to our inner strength (conscience, mindset, creativity or whatever...) meaning we might be more mature and wiser today compare to yesterday or whenever we are 18 compare to when we was 13, or the other way around. the second one is that we can be more mature and wiser compare to the others albeit we’re in the same or difference time zone with them. so, is there possibility that our kids are more mature and wiser than us? again...the possibility is still there. it always has...and we without doubt need to upgrade and update ourselves every seconds of our life so as somehow or rather we able to stay ahead. ahead of our kids, of the others and definitely ahead or our previous self....wallahualam.

setelah 50 tahun merdeka

assalamualaikum....

setelah 5o tahun negara merdeka, ada lagi rakyat yang 44 tahun tersisih tanpa mengecapi pembangunan...alaahaaiii.... walaupun mereka ni orang asli takkan le kita nak bagi kehidupan yang serba-serbi asli? mereka jugakan rakyat negara bertuah ni. tak gitu? sebak juga bila melihat anak-anak mereka berlajar beramai-ramai mengelilingi lampu pelita (dalam hati bertuahnya anak aku) tapi di mulut apahallah wakil-wakil rakyat atau mereka yang bertanggungjawab tak buat sesuatu. ini bukan baru 4 bulan negara merdeka dan bukan baru 4 tahun mereka hidup camtu....ini mereka dah hidup camtu selama 44 tahun - 44 tahun beb?!!

peka dan put some extra effort la brother wakil-wakil rakyat. tinjau-tinjaula kawasan dan jengok-jengok mereka yang bermastatutin di kawasan tu. sedih dan sebak terasa....yeela mereka tu kan sahabat senegara. yang paling pelik wal ajaib ialah mereka tu bukan jauh pun dari KL ni...kat belakang Zoo Negara tu je di Ulu Kemensah. melihatkan anak-anak orang asli yang kecil-kecil tu kekadang tak terbayang yang mereka tu hidup di negara nih...macam mereka tu rakyat negara miskin dunia ketiga je bila di lihat sekali lalu. adusss..

sempena negara yang akan menyambut 50 tahun kemerdekaan ni di harap masyarakat orang asli di Ulu Kemensah tu pun akan 'dimerdekakan' dari kehidupan serba daif dan kekurangan. mereka tidak boleh di anggap sebagai melukut di tepi gantang atau golongan rakyat kelas ketiga atau sebagainya sebab kebanyakkan mereka telah ada sebelum kita datang ke bumi bertuah ni lagi...mungkin tidak mereka tetapi sahabat atau kaum-kaum yang seangkatan dengan mereka. mereka generasi yang terdahulu maksud saya. jadi bila kita melaungkan merdeka dan mereka turut sama melaungkannya pastinya laungan itu akan jadi lebih bertenaga, kuat dan bersemangat...tak gitu? saling lengkap melengkapi kan?....wallahualam.

pungkoq persona mengancam?

assalamualaikum…

bolehke dengan pungkoq yang termenonjol 9-10 inci ke belakang tu Persona menguasai pasaran kereta sekelasnya di Malaysia ini? payah gak nak kata. dengan pasaran yang sekejap naik sekejap turun susah juga nak kata. kalau di tinjau-tinjau dari segi bentuk memang kereta tu sebenarnya kereta Gen-2. depan seperti biasa berubah sikit dari segi kosmetiknya seperti di bahagian logo dan grile depannya, perubahan lain yang ketara memang lebih di pungkoqnya. ada sekali baru-baru ni semasa saya sedang memandu melepasi tol damansara menuju ke rawang tetiba terlihatlah pada cermin pandang belakang akan kelibat Persona ni....memang stylish...tapi yang lain tak de sangatle ’istimewanya’ mungkin sebab dah biasa nengok Persona.

saya bukanlah pakar nak kata akan aspek teknikalnya, cuma soalan saya adalah seperti diatas. bolehke Persona menguasai pasaran atau memperolehi jualan yang menggalakkan? soalan kedua saya mengapa agaknya Proton tak launch Persona dahulu dan kemudian Gen-2 sebab setahu saya dari dulu lagi hampir semua model kereta akan dilancarkan model ’sedan’nya dahulu dan kemudian diikuti oleh model ’hatchback’nya. memang dah gitu gayanya dan selalunya teknik jualan sebegini memang berjaya menghasilkan jualan yang baik. why change something that’s work?. mungkin zaman berubah maka kaedah pemasaran pun turut berubah atau they really bold enough to try something that are new.

Persona ni mungkin akan lebih mempersonakan jika harganya benar-benar dalam julat boleh dibeli oleh kebanyakkan orang. ini juga satu benda yang boleh dipertimbangkan lebih-lebih lagi bila semua orang dah tahu akan lambakkan kereta Proton untuk model-model lain yang belum dapat dijual lagi. ada orang yang sebelum membeli kereta model baru-lancar akan memikirkan dulu kenapa kereta-kereta model terdahulu tu berlambakkan tanpa dibeli? mungkin kerana harga? birokrasi pinjaman? kualiti? perkhidmatan selepas jualan yang lemah? alatan ganti yang mahal dan susah untuk didapati? dan berbagai lagi... dan ini melibatkan credential syarikat pengeluar tak gitu? apapun mudah-mudahan pungkoq yang baru ni bukanlah sebarang pungkoq, gitule....wallahualam.

50 dan terus gagah melangkah...

Gempita Merdeka Itu....

Kejerihan sendirian membahu
Menekuni keberanian demi kebebasan
Keutuhan bangsa dijulang melangit
Laungan keramat mengguruh sasa

Susur galur keringat dan darah itu
Kenang, peringatkanlah bersilih
Kelak tercipta satu penyuluh
Langkah pasti bersatu arah

50 gagah menongkah gemilang
Mewariskan perjuangan pada si muda
Peri mengukuh pacakkan daulat
Meletak negara teguh di persada

Penuhi kemerdekaan disanggah seiring
Deras kemajuan pesona masa depan
Pentas cemerlang bercahaya terang
Malaysia Merdeka terpahat abadi


nahmy
rawang 17 Ogos 2007

what goes around, comes around = 'karma'

assalamualaikum...

have this ever cross to our mind? what goes around, comes around = 'karma'. I tend to agree to this.....may be not much, but yeahh...I do. the best thing about this formula is that its resulted obviously when come to bad things. for instance, when we do bad things to others, sooner or later you'll get the bad things back...if it not sudden apparently somewhere in the future. or if it not you might be your kids or your next generation will get it. as a Muslim there's a word call 'kafarah'. it also goes something like the above formula...only thing this one come straight from Allah due to our wrongdoings to the others or even to Him. in fact to make the above formula or for any other formula works, still it need to be granted by Allah. we might say it differently according to our perception and belief but as a Muslim anything and everything actually come from Allah. as simple as that. as firm as that.

so, be extra careful when saying or when doing things to the others even to our own kids because what goes around comes around. scary ehh! well...as a humble person I can think of 3 ways that can possibly avoid this from happen.

1. you talk less - because words is sharper than sword. people can easily become an enemy to you once they get offended by your words. they can get angry with what you've done to them...but "get offended" and "get angry" are two different things...I believe you can do your own interpretation here. being offended is related to 'heart', and the formula can trigger well when the heart is full with hatreds.

2. empathy. always picture yourself in other people's shoes. this will definitely able to guide you from expressing something that might make people dislike you....and avoid them from cursing you then....and finally might avoid you from getting the bad things back. being empathy is definitely meant being 'mr. nice guy'. basically, nothing's wrong with that.

3. pure intentions. things said with a pure kind intention will protect you from being harrass by the bad things. you can be that vocal and outspoken and you seems like a hard-tempered person but if down deep in your heart you intentionaly meant well, than believe me...people you spoken to wouldn't get or feel offended easily. without you knowing it they might say that....all that are actually your style of giving advices or talks...wallahualam.

malaysia : the next generation

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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

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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

ultraman di perbatasan

assalamualaikum….

lama gak tak ’update’ blog ni akhirnya dapat juga cari masa ilham dan kesempatan....alhamdulillah.

semalam, sabtu sempatle saya menonton citer ultraman the movie bersama anak yang sulung tu di tv3. kalau tak salah ultraman – next tajuknya gitu le. hampir 2 jam lamanya, sampai dah dekat nak pukul 8 baru habis. saya takle duduk menonggok hampir 2 jam depan tv....on – off, sekejap ada sekejap takde tapi anakle yang mengikuti dari awal hingga akhir. saya menonton sambil buat kerja-kerja lain. apapun saya berile sikit ’task’ pada anak tu supaya dia kira berapa kali ultraman berlawan dengan raksaksa.

the findings.....amat menakjubkan dalam hampir 2 jam citer tu, ultraman cuma muncul 4 kali untuk berlawan dengan raksaksa. sekali lawan adale dalam 10 minit. jadi minit-minit yang lain tu citernya berkisar pasal apa? rupanya diwaktu-waktu lain citernya dah jadi ’melankolik’ dah jadi sentimental, penuh emosi dan berciri-ciri ’soap opera’ pulak. sebenarnya semasa menontonnya saya sendiri dah nampak ciri-ciri ni....sebab tulah saya on-off je dan sebab tulah saya suruh anak kira berapa kali ultraman muncul lawan dengan raksaksa. bukanlah pula saya nak citer ultraman tu berlawan je dari mula sampai 2 jam yang berikutnya. letihlah pulak dia dan ’panas’ pula orang yang jadi watak ultraman tu duduk dalam sarung berzip tu!!. kalau lawan je jadi ’violence’ sesangat la pulak citer tu....itu saya tahu.

tapi kalau 4 kali je keluar lawan raksaksa dan yang lainnya berkisar tentang kehidupan ultraman sebagai manusia maka eloklah diaorang buat citer tentang ‘kehidupan ultraman dan keluarganya’ sahaja macam citer ‘the brady bunch’ atau ‘ugly betty’ ke... terkecel kehairanan juga perasaan bila tengok hero yang jadi ultraman tu menangis la...termenung la....dipujuk oleh teman wanitanya la...ternampak-nampak wajah emaknya la dan bermacam-macam lagi. ultraman ni citernya sebenarnya mudah dari saya kecik saya tengok ultraman citernya memang berkisar tentang ‘good against evil’, ultraman lawan raksaksa...itu je takde benda lain pun. maka dari diorang sibuk nak masukkan isu-isu ‘melankolik’ dalam citer tu lebih baik diaorang ‘enhance’ je perkara pokoknya iaitu ; ‘ultraman lawan raksaksa’ itu je....wallahualam.

good times at Janda Baik

assalamualaikum...

it’s been a one enchanting day with Steamline. last Saturday – June 9, I was with them conducting a teambuilding. one thing that I must say here is even I’m alone but I don’t feel it that way. they make feel like I’m part of them. they’re so cooperative; the participation is so encouraging...the involvement? it’s above par. they definitely are building their team. slow but confidently...they want their togetherness become strong while building their team. nothing’s wrong with that? they are not that big (about 50 of them in total, if I’m not mistaken) and of course they’ll achieve it in a very efficient way.





building a team not an easy task...they should know the character of their entire teammates well. after that, they need to suit themselves to the team. once they achieve this, then they can move forward to one direction. making plans, delegating functions, empowering leadership, trusting each other and gearing in achieving missions or goals that come after this will become so simple. my remark is that without having difficulty they can move to the second phase. knowing each other characters and suiting-in is KACANG! for them.





congratulations to team MERAH. the number of the team might be smaller than the other groups but the effort and creativity are all there (...or maybe the luck is also with them...hehh!). to other teams...they have definitely done well too. part of my humble observation is at the same wavelength with Mr. Michael – that is the coordination of the roles and functions is a bit flimsy. other things that they might need to look into are planning and communicating. that’s it. other than this...they unquestionably is one special group of people. hope they’ll leave it that way and while doing so they should keep reaching for the sky...who knows they’ll might touch it one day!!

wassalam