Sunday, August 30, 2009

Middle East

Salam alaykum...

Dapat berita Apek akan fly Rabu ni, 3 September. Dia ikut ejen Medic Mesir.

Dapat berita scholar JPA ke Mesir dan Jordan akan fly pada 14 September, pukul 6.30 pagi.

Dapat berita scholar MARA ke Mesir akan fly pada 31 September. Yg ke Jordan plak, mungkin pada 12 September ni.

Peh, sekejap je korang dah nk fly. Lek2 la bro. Tunggu la kitorang yg nk kene pre-u 1.5 - 2 tahun kat Mesia ni. Sampai ati korang fly dulu. Wuuu.... sdeh2.

Papepon, gudluck la. Journey sebenar korang akan bermula sebentar sahaja lg... Jgn lupe kami di sini

Selamat berpuasa n menyambut hari raya kat rantau orang.

Friday, August 28, 2009

Another Friday

Salam alaykum

Friday, yesterday was (yup, another Friday!). We dismissed ourselves to Casa Subang earlier, since the Malaysian Studies lecture was off for the lecturer had some business to do. Usually classes ended around 1.00pm. We then walk all the way to Masjid Al-Ehsan, USJ SS15 - what, you think only SMAPK have Masjid Al Ehsan aa? - and then eat the nasi briyani at the Pasar Jumaat just outside the mosque. Well, off course, the eating part is during non-Ramadhan months of the Hijri calendar. But yesterday classes end at 11.00 am. So we walked all the way from TUC to Casa.

After some rest for about an hour, we headed to the mosque at USJ SS2, just accross the main road from The Summit. Arrived at the mosque just in time before the azan. Walking distances in the bulan pose, I was not sure whether I was exhausted or not until I discovered myself "unconcious" even before the khutbah started until the prayer started. By the time I rise for the prayer, my leg was all semut2 that I have to ask the fellow next to me to lend a hand and pull me up.

It was around that time that I saw one of SMAPK junior. Form 3 student, taking PMR this year. Don't remember the name, but he's the one of the SMAPK qari. Never known that he stayed in Subang Jaya. Intended to meet him, perhaps chit chat a lil bit and wish al of best luck in the PMR. But he vanished after I finished my sunat ba'adiah Jumaat.

Then walk again back to the beloved apartmet. By then 2 of my roomates already packed their things to go back home, since this Monday is the National Day. Lepak2 at my room. Went for Iftar at Mamak Summit at the 2nd floor (yup, a nice place for iftar) with another 2 SAM fellowmates. Nothing interesting for the rest of the day from then on.

Oups, no. There was something else interesting. One of my roomate was involved in an accident. Seriously, no kidding - this is bulan pose. He was hitchhiking a car with another 2 students when a bas kilang hit their car from the left side of the car. Luckily it was a small accident. The left headlight had become somewhat a vegetable but that was all. Never ever as close as what my family and I experienced on the Friday two weeks ago. The only problem is that when the bus driver agreed to lodge a report, the driver-cum-owner of the car had to decline. The driver had lost her license recently, so lodging a report is practically suicidal. Suicide is bad for health, yunno. Anyway, the most important thing is that each of them is still in one piece. Intact in their original shape. The car isn't really in its shape, though, but at least it is still usable. It's just a Proton Saga instead of a BMW so it should be okay.

Ahahahaha. BMW. Last week I tumpang one of my friend for the ride back to Melaka. He was in KL for some business since the morning, all the way driving from Melaka. Alone. Driving a BMW. His father's BMW. Not his BMW. He said that he actually wanted to take his parent's Vios but his father asked him to take the BMW instead. Nice.

Aha. Forgot to mention aye! The three people were - the driver, my roomate, and..... Razin! Yes, he's all right, still in one piece, still in his shape; his spectacles, mature face and immature traits intact. Oops forgot, bulan pose cannot ngumpat.

Aha that's all to write I guess. Have to stop. I am in front of this laptop, planning to do progress with my LAN and Physics projects but end up browsing youtube, playing chess online and then write this stupid posting. Waste of time. If I really want to waste time, I should be in the same bandwagon as almost everyone else - pack my bag and enjoy Merdeka at home. If I'm staying back here I should really be a hardworking, diligent, charming, alim and kindhearted man. Orait2. Next time again with some useful posting. Perhaps a report to the FRIM Kepong excursion.

Wassalam.

Friday, August 21, 2009

Ramadhan Kareem

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Ketika sang bayu sedang sibuk menghembus
Melayangkan dedaun yang kering tergugur
Menyentuh halus di pipi insan yang mengelamun melihat bulan
Dan ketika itulah titisan air mula menampakkan dirinya
Melembabkan muka bumi bertuah ini

Tiba-tiba terdengar suara panggilan
Suara yang menerjah semangat
Setiap makhluk ALLAH yang bernafas di bumi ini
Dan di situlah aku tersentak kuat dan tersedar

Bahawa syaitan sudah mula dibelenggu
Kerana itulah hikmah kedatangan Ramadhan Al-Mubarak

Ramadhan Kareem...



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Wahai tetamu Ramadhan!
Untukmu Rahmat dan Maghfirah

Air mata taubat
Dendangan tadarus
Selimut tarawih
Berbantal tahajjud!
Moga mewarisi jannah

Selamat Berpuasa
Moga Ramadhan ini memberi
1001 keberkatan dan kerahmatan kepada kita semua
:-)

Mohon maaf kalau ada buat salah
RAMADHAN KAREEM...


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Dua SMS yang kuterima bersempena kemuliaan Ramadhan yang datang bertandang. Yang pertama daripada taulan Taylor's. Tak pasti chain SMS ataupun mmg karangannya sendiri. Puitis. Kutulis semula dalam pemerengganan puisi agar lebih masyuk ;-) Perkataan tertentu diubah sedikit, yang lain-lainnya ori seperti yang ditulis.

Yang kedua drpd seorang hamba Allah SMAPK 0408. Juga kubuat pemerengganan puisi agar lebih masyuk ;-)

Tertarik dengan istilah Ramadhan Kareem... Sesuatu yang kurasakan baru dan segar berbanding Ramadhan Al-Mubarak yang acap kali didengar saban tahun. Juga kurasakan lebih syahdu dah mensuk ke kalbu, istilah itu :))

Syahdu sungguh Ramadhan ini. Ramadhan pertama di kolej. Ramadhan pertama dengan pelbagai tests dan assignment yang perlu dilangsaikan. Ramadhan pertama yang benar2 mencabar dengan suasana kolej yang penuh dengan dugaan itu, dugaan ini. Ramadhan pertama

Dan Ramadhan terakhir buat pelajar2 Timur Tengah di tanah air sebelum meneruskan perjuangan di Mesir dan Jordan. Buat mereka, selamat meneruskan perjuangan.

Rebutlah peluang Ramadhan kali ini untuk melakukan sesuatu yang lebih baik. Lagipun kita bukan lagi kanak2 sekolah. Dah besar panjang dah pun.


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Buat rakan dan taulan
Selamat menyambut Ramadhan
RAMADHAN KAREEM...

Friday, August 14, 2009

Jumaat. Jua dipanggil Friday.

Salam alaykum...

Seminggu menyepi tanpa khabar berita. Demi memeriahkan apa yg patut dimeriahkan, so terimalah kemeriahan drpd apa yg akan aku tules ini.... Hahaha, pebende ntah yg aku tulis ni. Ngarot2. haha. Mungkin still kejutan akibat eksiden Jumaat lepas? hahaha

Eksiden Jumaat lps tu berlaku waktu malam, at 8.20 am. Tragis, sudah tentu. Sakit mental sape yg jadikan pengalaman eksiden beliau sebagai isi utama esei "the sweetest memory I ever had". Mahupun sbg tajuk presentation Power Point yg bertajuk "5 things I must do before I turn 40". Haha. "Sblm umo 40 tahun, saya dgn ini bercita2 nk eksiden. Sbb eksiden is fun". Haha gila2.

Ah. Tajuk presentation aku minggu depan mmg "5 things I must do before I turn 40". Siyes tak tipu. We all kene buat either satu slide atau satu video 4 dat presentation which is around 5-8 minutes. Tu untuk kelas English for Academic Purpose (EAP). Haha EAP bez doe. Cekgu bez. Nthen kelasnyer bole tahan aktif.

Tp sayang nyer, kelas tu buat kol 2.30-5.00pm. Ahhaha. Waktu yg sgt sesuai untuk lentok dlm kelas kan? Hehe tp aku jarang lentok kelas EAP. Tatau nape. Sbb telatah penghuni kelas aku tu bez untuk diobserve kot.

Aha. EAP ni pon bahagi ikot set gak. Cam kat skolah. Ada enam set. kira set enam tu paling pro la. Agak2 aku set bape? Jeng jeng jeng... Aku set 4. Sdey syal. Ecah dpt set 5. Razin - well ofcozla bro, namepon Razin - set 6. Wuwuwuw sedeh.... Aku dikalahkan oleh fellow SMAPKians dalam pembahagian kelas English. Membuatkan aku rasa noob yg amat sgt. Mcm Acap n00b.

Haha. Menyimpang. Nk cite bende laen, cite pasal kelas EAP plak kan. Xpela, EAP ni penting gak. EAP nila precursor persediaan kitorang nak sit for IELTS test yg digembar gemborkan sebagai - "bapak ah, susah syal!!". Papepon, usaha itu penting. Kemudian Tawakkal 'Ala-Llah...

Pebende nk cite ea? Xde idea...haha. Oh. Jumaat lps eksiden.

Malam tu sad story. Tp siangnye mixed feeling. Jumaat tu smmgnye hari yg...ntah la cmne nk describe kat korang en.

Well firstly, Pada paginya ada 2 test. 1 quiz biology, 1 common test for Malaysian Studies. Kalo aku xsilap, tula pglmn fes buat test. Kalo xsilap la, aku ni pelupa kan. Haha, pelupa tp amek medic yg kene byk mengingat en...ngeh2. Dua2 da dpt result. Okla. LAN dpt markah yg bole dibanggakan. Hehehe. Stakat aku sorang je yg tahu markah LAN aku. Yg len sume terpinga2 belaka. Bio dpt 17/20 jee. Aku bkn power pon Bio bih. Dala lentok dalam kelas. Muhahahaha.


Yup. 3 minggu pertama aku amat bersemangat mengikuti setiap P&P dalam kelas. Namun sejak dua menjak ni mcm kembali semula perangai lame...Ish. Risau2. Kene catchup!

Exam. Pas2 smayang Jumaat. Pas2 patotnye balek. Namun hari tu stayback. Sebab.....

Ada Annual Grand Meeting High Flyers Club. Kelab untok all scholars yg menuntut kat TUC. Kalo ko bdk Teles, pas2 scholar plak tu - xkira la JPA, MARA, BNM, Telekom and blablabla - ko akan otomatik jd ahli High Flyers Club. Perjumpaan 4.00pm kat Lecture Theatre 2.

AGM High Flyers Club kat LT2. Structure Committee dipaparkan.
Kelas Malaysian Studies pon kat sini gak.

Kaunselor merangkap penasihat High Flyers Club - Dr Adnan Omar

Committee members drpd kalangan generasi baru - generasi kitorang la - dipilih kat AGM ni, untuk memimpin batch kami. Club ni aktif wo. Mcm2 aktiviti buat. Sape2 yg jd committee members mmg kene pandai balance study and activity club. A good landasan untuk melatih time management and leadership indeed. Stakat ni cume Presiden, Naib Presiden, Secretary, Treasurer dipilih. Ahli biro lom dipilih lagi.


PRESIDEN
Isa (CAL)
NAIB PRESIDEN
Abdullah Munir (ICPU)
SETIAUSAHA
Zakiah (ICPU)
BENDAHARI
Nik Atikah (SAM)


Isu tiap2 tahun adalah kehadiran. Xramai yg hadir. Biasanya ada student programme ttntu akan ramai hadir, student programme x ramai hadir. So voter turnout is usually very poor. Voter turnout yg poor akan affect pemilihan committee member. Tp xkesah la. Yg penting, sape2 yg dipilih, laksanakan tanggungjawab kamu.... Pemimpin itu hamba rakyat. Bukan rakyat hamba pemimpin.

So. AGM. Wow. Gempakye... Pdhal meeting je kan. Apa signifikan event ni pade aku?

Aku dinominatekan sbg calon. Bertanding untuk dua kerusi. Presiden dan Bendahari. Namun kalah kedua2nya.

Papepon, untuk dinominatekan untuk memegang pos2 yg penting nih saja, sudah cukup sbg suatu penghormatan. Terima kasih buat the current senior presiden atas penghargaan tersebut... dan buat fellow SAM members kerana mencalonkan aku untuk jawatan Bendahari.

Untuk jawatan bendahari, aku bertanding skali ngan Ecah. Tp ecah pon kalah. Hua2. SMAPK kluster kepimpinan.

Friday, August 7, 2009

Aku Eksiden!!

Salam alaykum. Ni bukan main2 mahupun satu lagi lawak bodow dari aku. It's real tuan2 dan puan2...



Aku n family members aku dalam perjalanan balik ke Melaka from USJ. Bapak aku yang drive. The journey was smooth as we were travelling southbound. Then bila sampai ke tempat kejadian, tiba2 highway jd jam. Agak menghairankan sbb ni bkn musim cuti.

Bapak aku amek lane paling kanan, sbb lane laen sumenye kalah ngan kura2. Waktu malam. Around 8.20 pm. Then sampai satu part curam, turun bukit.

Ketika itulah suddenly kereta2 kat depan emergency brake. Ada la aku perasan dalam 3-4 kereta kat depan brek mengejut. Bapak aku pon brek la jugak. Namun entah mengapa... Instead of berhenti, kereta honda mak aku tu SLIDE... MENGGELONGSOR. Seolah2 brek x cengkam.

Apalaga. Bak kata bapak aku - Bismillahirrahmanirrahim... BOOM!

 

 
Plat number tercabut.

Tragic. I remember screaming loudly, and when the impact came, my scream was muted. So it's a great collision. Luckily no one was seriously hurt, though my mum had a mild chest pain (coz of d shock and the pressure of the seatbelt on her chest during the impact. Kaksusi hurt her tulang keting coz my father's seat suddenly slide backward when the car hit the other car.

Apa yang menyayatkan hati adalah... Airbag x keluar langsung. Airbag aku x kuar. Airbag bapak aku pon x kuar. Sial. dahla brek mcm jalan x jalan je. Keta honda mak aku tu ada ABS.

ABS ni menahan tayar drpd tak berputar ketika emergency braking so that kereta takkan lose control and terbabas. Kalo kereta biasa emergency brake, tayar akan lock dan xberputar, so we can see the skidmark continuosly all along the road. ABS-equipped vehicle plak, tayarnye kejap cengkam, kejap x cengkam, kejap cengkam. So kalo kita analyse skidmark atas jalan, skidmark tu terputus2, x bersambung. Papepon, pd masa kejadian, ABS x berfungsi seperti yang sepatutnya. Masa bapak aku start tekan brek, keta Honda tu start to slow down. Tapi x lame lps tu, tiba2 brek terus xcengkam untuk masa yg lama, menyebabkan keta kami menggelongsor atas jalan. And all it need in those circumstances is a mere split of a second.

So, as a conclusion, what is ABS? In this particular 'experiment', I'd put it as " just Another BullShit".

Sebbaek kereta yg kami langgar tu, pemandu n penumpang sumenye perempuan. So xdela byk songeh. Kalo x, mula la nk gadoh la, nk marah2 la, nk road rage la, ape la, and laen2 bende2 yg menggelabah. Nak wat cne, masalah teknikal kat keta kami. Bknnye sbb leka ataupon saje2 nk langgar, juz for fun. Mereka pon org Melaka. So kitorang pon exchange contact n info, esoknye nk kene lodge police report and insurance claim. Amek gamba mane yg patot.

Satu team PROPEL datang tolong kitorang pullover ke sebelah kiri jalan. Nthen bapak aku kontek member dia, org Petronas kt Ayer Keroh. So dgn bantuan, bapak aku drive kereta tu, yg telah bocor radiator nye. Ke stesen Petronas yg paling dekat kat situ. Kat sane deal towtruck dgn tokey stesen. Alhamdulillah dpt special price. The tokay is very nice.  Dia accomodate n accompany kitorang kat stesen dia sementara tunggu towtruck n member bapak aku sampai nk fetch kitorang balik Melaka. Siap belanja kitorang cappucino lagi, hehe.

 
  
Macam Transformers


Lepas kete ditowtruckan ke Melaka, tuan stesen yg baik hati tersebut menghantar kami ke tengah highway untuk difeth oleh member bapak aku tersebut. He couldn't make it to the station bcoz of d heavy traffic. Mungkin sebab pemandu2 sume asyik memerhatikan kemalangan kami. Ala...name pon Malaysia. Kalo ade eksiden kat hiway, xsah kalo x perlahankan keta nk tengok eksiden tu. Pas2? Berhenti dan tolong org yang kemalangan? Oh pliz la.... Kalo ko buat mcm tu, ko bukan a true blue Malaysian. hehe. Fakta yg diakui oleh kaunselorku di kolej, hehe.

Oh ya, ckp pasal attitude nih. Tokey stesen tu cite, minggu lps, 30 cars mengalami eksiden on both sides of hiway berdekatan ngan tempat kemalangan kami berlaku. On one side, perkara yg lbeh urang same ngan kami berlaku - hari hujan, brek x bape makan, keta berturut2 langgar antara satu sama len. On the other side, the Malaysians pelankan keta nk tgk ape yg berlaku. Hari hujan. Still pandai2 nk pelankan keta. So insiden yg sama berlaku la jgk di sebelah yg lagi satu.....

So membe bapak aku tu pon drove us all d way to our home... We really appreciate his help.

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Xtau la ape yg akan korang rasakan kalo ade dalam kedudukan aku. Nervous? Gugup? Phobia? N apa the first thing yg dtg kat fikiran korang.

My mum suddenly felt feverish after the incident. The first thought is that she was really grateful that nobody was hurt. She was really grateful that she reminded me to fast on my seatbelt, which I usually wouldn't do unless I was reminded. In retrospect, I was glad that she did so. If not, then, by Newton's Second law of Mation, I'd have flung out through the front windshield and suffered multiple concussions on the head and other possible parts of my body.

My first thought right after the incident? Haha. A lil bit funny. I thought it was a new experience, albeit a nightmarish one, and I would learn how to handle accidents (by God's grace I dont want such horrible incidents anymore, but then we would always have to prepare for the worst) in the future. How to deal and communicate with the people from the other car. What's the procedure should you get into the trouble. How to get a towtruck. How that after the incident, we should lodge police report and claim for insurance.

They are all essential knowledge. Especially when you're nearing adulthood and would, one day, have a family on your own, cars on your own, properties on your own. You can't depend on the others by then. You would have to be indipendent and sort it all out by yourself.

My father has just gone to lodge the police report and claim for the insurance. I should have followed him.

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Kereta yg lagi satu Toyota. Kami langgar bumpernya. Tapi keta tu memang giler kentang. Dari pandangan zahir, nampak keta tu mcm scraped off aje paint dia. Tapi boleh tahan la kemek bumper dia, sampai but tak boleh tutup. But by comparison - our damage cam H1N1, damage keta Toyota tu macam bersin sekali sbb kene allergen je.


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Yang baik itu datang dari Allah, yang buruk itu datang dari kelemahan kita sendiri. pastinya ada hikmah di sebalik kejadian yang menimpa kami ini. Mungkin suatu pengajaran agar lebih berhati2 di lain masa, mungkin juga suatu ujian untuk menguji tahap keimanan kita kepadaNya...