~Sweet September

'Tis sweet September

A date to remember

Year after year

Happy birthday my dear

~(^_^)(^_^)~

~Ramadhan 1430H

Sedar tak sedar dah separuh Ramadhan kita lalui. Fuh, cepat sungguh rasanya tahun ni. Kali ini juga kali ketiga saya berpeluang berpuasa sebulan Ramadhan bersama ibubapa. Sebelum ni bekerja di perantauan hampir dua tahun. Sebelumnya lagi menuntut ilmu dan duduk di asrama. Paling jauh di Johor lah semasa sekolah menengah. Maksudnya saya telah berjauhan dengan keluarga sejak umur 13 tahun. Mudanya *tsk*. Sekarang Alhamdulillah, memang seronok hari-hari dapat sahur sama-sama, petang balik kerja dan ambil Cikgu Siti Saudah (mak saya;p) pulang, kemudian masak sama-sama. Seronok weh. Masa duduk dengan ibubapa ni la nak belajar masak sungguh-sungguh dan ambil tips-tips hebat di dapur. Heh. Lepas berbuka pergi solat terawih sama-sama. Walaupun buat 8 rakaat saja, rasa gembira solat sebelah mak. Kemudian balik rumah lepak depan tv makan pula apa kuih-muih, bihun goreng atau aiskrim yang ada. Hee.

Alololo~ Khusyuk habis=p

Tapi tak dinafikan berpuasa di STF dulu sangat la seronoknya. Begitu juga semasa di matriks (which is at Kolej Chermai, Bahau. Sangat pedalaman I tell you. Ada satu je kantin untuk student. Siap nasi, lauk semua bungkus dalam plastik yang macam kat kedai runcit tu je sebab kantin nak reduce kos polisterin. Macam kelakar bawa nasi dalam plastik=p) dan di UKM yang hebat sikit sebab kampus di HKL sangat dekat dengan Bazar Ramadhan Jalan Raja Alang dan bubur lambuk Kg Baru yang enak. Berpuasa dengan rakan-rakan seangkatan yang seronoknya bila nak berbuka sama-sama cari makanan, buat air sirap atau oren tropika sunquick satu jug letak ais banyak-banyak. Kadang-kadang gigih nak juga masak. Gorengla nugget atau telur dalam rice cooker. Paling hebat siap masak tomyam lagi. Memang multitasking sungguh rice cooker waktu itu. Hehe.

Saya paling suka nasyid Ramadhan yang ini. Ramadhan Bulan Berkat by Hijjaz. Sungguh menyentuh hati lirik dan melodinya. Antara nasyid yang sering kami nyanyikan di surau STF dulu sementara menunggu waktu solat.

Sambil kita melalui Ramadhan dengan tenang tahun ini, ada umat Islam yang bertimpa dugaan mendatang. Gempa bumi, kebakaran, kematian anak di tangan saudara sendiri, putus jari. Tapi yang putus jari itu memang sengaja mengundang dugaan. Sampai bila baru capai sifar putus jari pada Ramadhan dan musim raya entah lah. Jadi kita yang setakat diduga sikit-sikit ini bersyukurlah (e.g: letih bekerja dan berpuasa atau kempunan makan Nandos misalnya=p). Saya sendiri bersyukur masih punya ibubapa, sihat dan sempurna tubuh badan, punya rezeki yang cukup, punya rakan-rakan di sekeliling, punya kehidupan sebagai seorang Islam dan punya si dia yang jauh di mata dekat di hati. Hehe ~o(^_^)o~

Jadi apakah azam anda pada Ramadhan tahun ini? Harap-harap bukan sekadar menurunkan berat badan saja ye. Sekadar peringatan untuk diri saya juga. Bilakah agaknya saya mampu memaksimumkan ibadah di bulan Ramadhan. Hmm. Akhir kata, rasanya masih belum terlambat saya ucapkan selamat berpuasa dan selamat mengimarahkan Ramadhan tahun ini kepada semua =D


:: Gambar-gambar dan video, terima kasih En Google dan YouTube.

:: I am totally excited this week for our exciting plan with his family at the end of this year is confirmed! =D Passport done, tickets bought. Ke manakah kami? Tungguuu. Will update the details later.

Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.

~Samuel Johnson

I just read a sad and shocking news.

Lucknow, Aug 12 (IANS) A 25-year-old Muslim woman was allegedly burnt to death by her husband and in-laws for giving birth to a baby girl for the second time in Baghpat district of Uttar Pradesh, police said Wednesday.

Yes, it still happens. Discrimination and violence to women in the ever expanding modern world today. For her to give birth to a baby girl is such a crime that death is the punishment. There’s no specific detail but for all that we know she may not have even recovered from the pain of giving birth yet. For enduring nine months of pregnancy and hours of birth labor, this is the thanks she gets. Sadly, it happens in a Muslim family. Shame on the husband and the in-laws.

These people will never learn that there’s no way the woman can decide the sex of her baby. There’s no way the woman have the power to alter the sex of her baby. It’s the chromosome from the male sperm which determines the sex of the baby. There’s no way it’s the woman’s fault!

I wonder how some people can be so ignorant. How culture belief surpass humanity and religion. Say that they don’t know the actual science fact. But it’s not even logic to happily burn a living human. How could they? How could they feel they have the right to do so? How could they even have it in their heart to do so? I pity the baby. What will the future be for her?

There’s a comment section for readers. One of the comments is damn shocking too! The fellow commenter agrees that baby girls have no value any more. That baby boys are the only worthwhile investment/product. He even said ‘who the hell does she think she is anyway’ (referring to the poor dead woman). What?! Again, an example of stupidity of the ignorant people.

Boys and girls have the same value. Both have their own place in this world. If you like boys so much, go and marry one. See if you can even get an heir out of it, let alone a baby boy.

~ anew vision and anew look

My father just had his cataract operation done last Monday. Look at how cheerful he is barely 4 hours after the surgery. Hehe. He even polished off his lunch at the ward saying it was very yummy. I'll remember to pass the compliment to Jun the dietitian after this=p

Time flew so fast this week. We got new cabinets for the optometrist's room (one for each of us!=p) so we've been busy arranging stuffs giving a total revamp to the room. We're even considering to repaint the older cabinets. Now it look so spacious and so tidy that I'm excited to go to work everyday. Erk, that doesn't sound right. Hehe.

It's Nisfu Syaaban today. Happy breakfasting to those who are fasting and let us pray for forgiveness and a blissful life ahead. Till then=)

~At the Beginning~

Been flipping through my dear old notebook again and I found the lyric of this song. One of my favourite from the movie Anastasia. Have you seen the movie? A great loss if you haven't. Hehe. I am so a fan of this fantasy romantic comedy. It was an animation but it was fabulous, the whole movie with absolutely excellent music score. Enjoy the music, folks! (please turn off another music player at the bottom of this page first though..heh=p)

We were strangers..starting out on a journey

Never dreaming..what we have to go through

Now here we are..and I'm suddenly standing

At the beginning with you..

No one told me..I was going to find you

Unexpected..what you did to my heart

When I lost hope..you were there to remind me

This is the start..

c/o And life is the road that I want to keep going

Love is the river I want to keep flowing

Life is the road now and forever

Wonderful journey..

I'll be there when the world stops turning

I'll be there when the storm is through

In the end I want to be standing

At the beginning with you

We were strangers..on a crazy adventure

Never dreaming..how our dreams would come true

Now here we stand..unafraid of the future

At the beginning with you..

I knew there was somebody somewhere

Like me alone in the dark

Now I know my dreams will live on

I've been waiting so long

Nothing's gonna tear us apart

(sung by Richard Marx and Donna Lewis)

At The Beginning - Richard Marx And Donna Lewis
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Anastasia and Dimitri ~(^_^)~

Durian oh durian

Semalam telah pulang ke kampung sebelah emak setelah berkali-kali makcik Tijah menelefon, "Kome balik la, amik deroyan banyak ni". Begitu bersemangat makcik. Makcik Tijah pemilik tanah bersebelahan dusun emak. Jadi setiap kali musim buah, dia akan tolong mengutip buah-buah durian yang gugur. Kalau sedikit, biasanya emak sedekahkan saja pada dia. Musim kali ini, agak lebat pula. Makcik Tijah pun dah tak larat makan. Maka, semalam bersemangat la kami balik ke kampung di Parit untuk mengutip durian.

Pergi ke dusun rasa macam buat 'workout' pula. Untuk ke dusun emak, kena merentas dusun Makcik Tijah dulu. Aduh, jauh juga berjalan. Mana nak mengelak selut, kerengga dan pacat lagi. Makcik Tijah 'the leader' berjalan punya laju. Sambil bawa parang lagi untuk membelah durian nanti. Sempoi pakai kain batik dengan baju kurung kedah saja. Saya bertanya umurnya. Sudah 72 tahun! Tapi cergasnya, masyaAllah. Tabik betul dengan Makcik Tijah. Orang sudah biasa kerja kuat, malah boleh nampak urat-urat di kaki dan tangan. Rasanya memang tiada lemak malas langsung di badannya.

Hasil kutipan durian kami, dapat dalam 15 biji. Excellent! Di rumah adik Makcik Tijah pula ada beberapa balang tempoyak hasil dari durian dusun emak juga. Wah, sakan. Hehe. Nampaknya kena pakai mask sepanjang minggu ini. Kalau tak, kesian patient kena ambil bau nanti. Haha=p

ooh la la~

Siapa yang tidak suka durian? Ish2, ruginya. It's the king of fruits guys! Sesungguhnya saya tidak faham orang yang suka makan ikan patin masak tempoyak, suka makan cucur durian, suka makan kuah durian cicah dengan roti paun (nyum, lazatnya=p) tetapi tidak suka makan buah durian. Duh, sama je kan.

Anyway, ada banyak fakta menarik mengenai durian sebenarnya. Typhoon durian pun ada tau. Sila lah baca di sini, di sini dan di sini. Saya malas mahu kumpul dan rumuskan. Mahu pergi makan durian la. Hehe=p

~Kuching revisited 2

And here comes the third day! What a delayed entry. Hehe. The plan was to go to Sarawak Cultural Village for a taste of Sarawak’s custom and culture. SCV is after all claimed as Sarawak Living Museum. So, after a delicious breakfast of roti canai telur, we set forth. Thankfully the weather was fine and clear just like the previous days.

Sarawak Cultural Village was officially opened in 1990. It was a beautiful serene place built of landscaped tropical forest and a man-made lake. Located about 40 minutes drive from Kuching, here is where tourists can see for themselves the cultures and attributes of various major ethnic living in the whole state of Sarawak. I’m so excited to be able to climb onto every unique longhouse and the staffs are very friendly too. All of them wore traditional costumes and they’ll even give you a welcome dance at some houses. There’s a stamp and inkpad provided at each ethnic house to stamp your passport book (given at the main entrance) as a proof that you’ve been there. Each stamp resembles each ethnic and they’re very nice. Another added feature that makes me excited=p

At some of the houses, you can watch how some fine artworks are made from materials like bamboo to make water storage or beads to make colourful clothes. Wow, they were amazing. Also, a cultural performance is performed twice daily here and you wouldn’t want to miss it. They were great and entertaining. I really enjoyed it. So if you want to come here, make sure to plan your visit to enjoy the cultural dances of the many ethnic tribes.

I must say that SCV is a must visit to everyone who set foot in Kuching. The entrance fee is quite expensive though except for locals, students and those who work in Sarawak. Unless you want to cheat and produce an old yellowish student card (I’m sorry but that’s what I did=p)

By the time we’ve finished touring SCV, it was already past one o’clock and we had to rush back to check out from our hotel. After that, we had lunch to satisfy our grumbling stomach. I had pece lele, another version of ayam penyet dish except that the chicken is replaced with catfish. The rest of the evening then was spent shopping for souvenirs at waterfront. Our flight was at 830pm and it was bothering me and my shopping. How time flew so fast. My heart was sad at the thought of leaving him but out of the blue he said something that makes my heart fluttered and happy. Something that I don’t quite know how to respond to. Hee~

Well, we had so much fun in Kuching and I’m glad I get to treat my sister to a vacation here. Looking forward to another amazing trip! =)

:: Craving for yummy mee kolok and ayam penyet=p