Analogi

Aku suka analogi ni yang diberikan oleh seorang rakan =)

Bila ditanya, " Apakah erti Al-Fatihah bagi awak?"

Respons darinya, "Hmm, susah nak terangkan erti Al-Fatihah ni bagi saya. Tapi,kalau tak baca Al-Fatihah dalam satu hari ni, umpama macam tak gosok gigi 2 hari ar.Haa, camtu."

Wah, pertama kali dengar perumpamaan sebegini. Tapi sangat tepat dan bermakna.

Analogi ni bagi aku, dapat membawa kita kepada membiasakan diri sendiri membaca Al-Fatihah (khususnya di luar waktu sembahyang) seperti mana kita rasa pentingnya menggosok gigi setiap pagi, khususnya untuk kaum Hawa yang ada waktu "bercuti" nya, agar dia tak bercuti juga dari "gosok gigi". =)

Keadaan politik dan percutian anda?

Topik yang hangat diperkatakan di dada-dada akhbar tempatan di Malaysia sekarang ni ialah tentang kegawatan keadaan politik di Thailand. Aku sebenarnya tak minat sangat nak ambik tahu pasal ni, tapi hati tergerak jugak nak baca kisahnya petang tadi. Kesian pulak kat pelancong-pelancong asing yang memasuki pintu masuk negara itu yang kini terkandas di Lapangan Terbang Suvarnabhumi, Bangkok berikutan ditawan oleh rakyat-rakyat yang anti kerajaan Thailand.

Mengikut berita, lebih kurang 3,000 pelancong asing yang terperangkap di lapangan terbang tersebut, terputus bekalan makanan dan minuman; tidak mampu keluar dari tempat tersebut. Penerbangan keluar masuk dari lapangan tersebut pun banyak yang dibatalkan kerana sistem kawalan tidak lagi terurus; semua kakitangan di kaunter telah melarikan diri apabila puak-puak anti kerajaan ni masuk menyerbu lapangan terbang tersebut. Kata seorang rakan, tak profesional langsung.

Kejadian ni sebenarnya bagus juga agar kita beringat di masa depan terutamanya diri aku sendiri umpamanya, tidak terfikir pun nak tahu keadaan politik sesebuah negara yang aku nak pergi sebagai destinasi percutian. Apa yang aku nak tahu bila merancang ke sesuatu tempat untuk bercuti ialah tiket ke sana yang murah, cuaca ok, ada tempat nak menginap yang harganya berpatutan, makanan halal mudah ker tidak untuk di dapati; jauh sekali nak ambil tahu hal-hal politik negara tu dan kesannya ke atas percutian aku nanti. Tapi kejadian yang melanda Thailand ni betul-betul pengajaran yang berguna. Terutamanya menjelang musim cuti sejuk yang akan menjelma kurang sebulan lagi dari sekarang tika mana ramai orang sedang berkira-kira merancang percutian ke pelbagai destinasi.

p/s: Menunggu-nunggu Ryanair buat promosi tiket pergi balik 2 pence ke Dublin lagi tahun ni. Kenapa la suka sangat pergi Dublin neyh..ade daya tarikan nampaknya. Ermm..tapi, Dublin/Ireland takde masalah politik kan sekarang? huhu.

I miss the laughs

22nd November 2008. This date will be in the history of my life, ever.

MSSM AGM for session 07/08 means the existing committee is going to be resolved and new committee are taking up the legacy. At first I was thinking that this AGM will be the key to freedom. Free of weekly meetings, free of thinking "What sport sessions to be held this week?" and all and all.

But when the day was happening, when the resolve was done, something passed by my little heart. A friend asked," Don't you feel like wanna cry, Wani?". I said,"No." but in fact, I felt the touch.

Getting the last email from outgoing Public Secretary, Saran Mutang Tagal, reading the last newsletter of MSSM 07/08 by outgoing Chief Editor, Melvin Goh, reading the last messages from outgoing Presiden, Adrian Ng and everybody in the committee were a really touch in my heart.

I am now missing all the committee of MSSM 07/08. I miss the laughs, I miss the jokes, I miss everybody.

Emotional

I had been so emotional today. To be accurate, after the noon.

In fact, this was what happened in the past 3 days. Easily got pissed off. I am currently so packed , feeling like to jump into the sea and swimming happily. Put aside everything else, or better, throw away to the moon and please ..please..please stay there for some time.

So many things to catch up, until at one point, I just laid down on my bed and stared at the ceiling. Oh God. What a life.

But thank God that I suddenly realized, hey, life must go on! Do not easily be a loser, girl!

Also, feeling like to do something crazy now. Something unexpected. Something costly but..will be exciting I guess.

Guess what..

Aha..=)

p/s: MSSM AGM this Saturday, gonna stepping down as the Sport Secretary. Oppss, haven't done the newsletter yet...

Keliru

Dalam keadaan cuba untuk memahami situasi dan bersikap adil serta membantu semampu dan seadanya, aku diapit dengan rasa perlunya untuk bersikap pentingkan diri sendiri. Orang-orang di sekeliling aku, semuanya seolah-olah membenarkan sikap sedemikian atas nama kebenaran. Benarkah ia atas nama kebenaran?

Kadang-kadang kebenaran itu tidak perlu ditegakkan, malah bersikap tolak ansur dan mengalah walaupun kita berada di pihak yang benar lebih membuatkan kita sebenarnya menang.

Cuma, dalam keadaan di mana hanya aku seorang yang cenderung untuk mengalah kerana lebih pentingkan ukhwah, tapi tidak orang lain membuatkan aku termangu sendiri. Jiwa aku ini mudah berasa kasihan dan mudah untuk membantu orang. Kerana itu kadang-kadang aku menolak ke tepi kepentingan diri sendiri.

Tapi bak kata pepatah, “Buat baik berpada-pada.”

…dan sekarang, aku keliru…

Sentimental Value

I am supposedly doing my work on final year project reseach, but..nevermind. Just wanna drop some words here after so long silence. =)

It's been Week 7..and 5 more weeks to go before I can stop running here and there (for a while of course). Running ...chasing after the time..to meet the deadline.. to meet the requirements..what a busy life.

I used to keep myself exercising when it came to evening. That's me since I was seven. But now, I've to admit that, my life has changed a lot. No more time for playing and exercising at least three times a week. Again, what a busy life ever.

I also used to think that final year will be more like "lepak" year since I have ever seen so many empty slots in the 4th year schedule. Well, now I know that I am totally wrong. With 60 credits on Final Year Group Project for Master in Engineering [MEng] course, I need to (force myself) be at Uni from 9 to 5 every day, 5 days a week. I regard this final year is like a pre-working life for me. Why not? It teaches me how to work in real engineering field, being in a project group and most significant thing is, the feeling of needing to stay back at Uni as late as 8pm to finish work which I am not used to this. Going back home when it is already dark outside, arriving home with hungry stomach but no time to cook. Cooking is time consuming as said by a friend of mine, thus buying ready-made food is always an option. -Sigh-

Busy-ness also keeps me forgetting and delaying a lot of other (trivial but important) things. One of them is, to write a letter to my mom by hand. I believe that a mom will be delighted somehow to receive a hand-written letter from her children who are far away from her. Well, indeed we can just make a call or send a text to our beloved ones whenever and wherever they are, but you can't deny this, that a hand-written letter or card has sentimental value in it. Otherwise, why is the Pejabat Pos Malaysia always having bulks and bulks of Eid cards when it is about to celebrate Eidul Fitri ?

Because of the sentimental value, a proof of remembrance deep in someone's heart.

Try it and you will know the truth that lies in this words:

"What you give you get back."

=)

- Back to work -

Easy and Difficult

This afternoon, these two things came across my mind when I was having a break to perform salat at the UMIST Underground Mosque..

When something easy is made difficult by Allah,

to whom else should we turn to?

And when something difficult is made easy by Allah,

how lucky we are and verily, He deserves all the praises.

Two different things, upon Allah's will.

By which I made the do'a:

O Allah, please ease my affairs.. ease everything for me and give me great patience on top of other things. Ease my family affairs there in Malaysia O Allah The Greatest..

Busi-ness

When life gets so super duper bizi with worldly matter, the regret comes across me for having little time for new knowledge. I just realized that, I am now hardly doing some readings. How the water in a tank can increase without us putting some more in it?

- Iqra' wa uzkur -