My Crazy Brain

Moving On

2011-05-22T01:54:00.000-07:00

Visit my new blog at http://cuckoostuff.blogspot.com/. I'm not gonna update anything here from now on but i will take the content from this site to my new site. Sorry for any inconvenience. Thank you.

Of fucked-up-ness

2011-04-13T08:53:00.000-07:00

I think i messed up something. And i hate that. But if for some reason you think that it was not worth your time, fine.

Ideas and Laziness

2011-03-27T19:58:00.000-07:00

Lately i feel like i don't want to do anything. Just wanna relax and enjoy every moment that i have. With 5 assignments waiting to be done, I'm quite sure that i actually was just feeling lazy. To add, ideas also don't come that often now. Haih.~ I'm starting to think that there must be something that change. Well, now i'm in the mood of writing something, lets hope that this post contain something useful for you.

It's 1030pm and i was walking with my friend, Nik. He's a nice man. As we was walking, he started a topic of conversation regarding my course of study. So i told him every moment that i could remember as a Petroleum Geoscience student. Field trip, field work, field camp, lecturers and also the technicians, these things are as close as how you can think of about your best friends. Yes, in our courses, our lecturers aren't just lecturers, they are friends with professional background and knowledge. I'm sure if you ask anyone from our courses, they'll say the same thing. I mean, can you get your lecturer to go picnic, lunch together and also, have him play poker card with you. *yeah that's right, my lecturers can do that*

But as far as how things are good between us, i wanna tell you guys that although you can treat your lecturers as friends, make sure you don't cross the professional boundary between you and them. To put it in a simple way, lecturers can be your friends, but don't forget they are still your lecturers. So whatever you do, please respect them. By respect i mean, not only as a lecturer but as the one who has more knowledge than you do in your academic career. Trust me, you may say that you respect the lecturers but your behavior tells otherwise.

You know, habit is one thing that is hard to change. That is why i chose to understand people by finding their habit and infer their behavior. For example, say you are late to class, for the first offender, i think it's forgiven. But if every time you arrive 10 or 15 minutes after class started, that shows that you do not respect your lecturer, you don't value time, and most importantly, this shows that you are weak in following orders, which is the key to be a great leader. I have tons of example that i can tell you but yeah, if i tell you all things that i know about yourself, you may not want to talk to me again. *yes, my mouth is harsh, and if you can receive my critics, than i salute you for that*

It is hard to change habit, but it is possible. Just make sure you have the right habit for in your career and you will start to love things around you more. I think my laziness has come, so i'm gonna stop here. Hopefully there are things that you can use here for yourself.

Thank you for reading.

Idea

2011-03-18T20:27:00.000-07:00

Lately, my brain feels kind of empty. So it gets kinda bored. I think i need someone who can give a stimulating conversation. So far, i got nothing. But thanks to Muay Thai club, i kinda look forward to its training. So its not all boring cause i've something to look forward to. Still, i need my ideas.

Catastrophic Event and Advancement of Society

2011-03-13T20:58:00.000-07:00

Hi. (sorry, the post about young generation still in need of ideas)

Recently, most of our sources of information describe about the earthquake that hits Japan together with the tsunami that came afterwards. Everyone seems very surprise about the news. Well, i think if you are a fan of Japanese drama you shouldn't be so surprised as in their drama itself, sometimes they mentioned about earthquakes that occur in Japan. But well, there are a few facts that lots of people didn't know.

#Fact 1

Japan's technology is in advance state where although an 8.5 in Richter scale earthquake hits them most of the buildings are still intact. (Need a few more clarification)

#Fact 2

Japan was located on an area where several continental and oceanic plates meet, that is why they got a lot of hot springs. But still, geologically, it is not a suitable place to live.

#Fact 3

Tsunami did a lot of destruction as compared to the destruction brought by the earthquake.

#Fact 4

Most people are idiot because they believe in whatever they read. I've read a lot of things and yes, there are some misguided information that was intentionally given to us.

Forget about the facts just now. As we can see, Japan is the most advance country in the world. And so it is important, politically, economically and etc for other countries such as USA and Malaysia. But if you look at how Japan is 100 years ago, you will not believe that they can achieve this much of advancement in merely 100 years.

Well, everything started after Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Yes, the atomic bombs killed a lot of japanese people. In fact, it also destroyed many structures. But how come Japan can still advance to the top despite of many catastrophic event that led to painful death and destruction?

If you go to google and search about the history of earthquakes that hit Japan, i'm sure you'll find that almost every year, Japan was hit by earthquakes. Some of them may be a minor one. But as i mentioned earlier, the technology was so awesome they did not have any problems with earthquakes until now.

So the hypothesis was, a major catastrophic event can change a country. Now, whether the change is positive or not, that depends on the environment, sociology, people etc in that country.

If we look at Japan, obviously the changes were positive. If you look at Malaysia, i think the changes were neutral. I mean, in Malaysia people don't care. That's why it is neutral. I don't have an example yet of a country where catastrophic event brings negative effect but if for people, i think there are so many.

Anyhow, if we take every catastrophic event and turn it into superpowerful drive to get better, i'm sure we can achieve a lot in life. I'm not saying that we must be hit by tsunami everyday but sometimes, small things can also be our catastrophic event. We just need to find out what it is. Anyway, i do hope people in Japan can recover faster from this event and also hopefully they can achieve a much better environment than they have right now.

I think that is all, thanks for reading.

Nurturing Young Generation

2011-03-10T07:48:00.000-08:00

Hi.

Today i'm gonna be a bit patriotic. Enjoy.

Last night i got a phone call. "Kal, jom balik, malam ni jugak." So i was like, ok, no problem. So i pack my things and waited about an hour or so before my friend come picked me up. But then he said, "Kita kena pergi hotel Seri Pacific dulu," the reason being was to fetch my other friends who was staying there for an event with a few "datuk" (datuk here is the title given to someone, usually rich man or someone who contribute something to our country idk). To make long story short, we couldn't go back that night because my friend finished their programme at around 2. So we just sleep instead of driving back to UTP.

Next morning, which is this morning, we drove back to UTP at around 10. But a phone call came in and my friends excluding me need to go to a hotel in Ipoh to finish their other programme. And i was like, damn, i need to go back to UTP you idiot! Yes, a bit frustrated but it's not entirely their fault, it was my fault too because i want to go back early and have to follow them. So i followed them to their programme and there i met with this one guy, i think he's a bit special because he does not talk much about nonsense stuff. Pretty much i'm sure you know which nonsense stuff i'm talking about.

At first, i was hesitate to join into this man conversation with my friend, who had had meeting with dato' earlier. But after i chimed in, i thought, hey this guy is quite good. He's like eddy

(my friend's name) when he's not talking nonsense stuff. Pretty much what we talked about was the programme that eddy was organizing, how he and his organization try to nurture young generation especially malays. He has organized lot of events, mostly related to leadership skills and business-minded thinking. I've joined one of his event and yes, it is good, in a way.

Back to the man i met earlier, he said he loved to organize event, firstly because it helps him to interact with young generation and second, as a teacher (he is a lecturer but i think the word lecturer does not gives the soft aura as the word teacher does), he hopes that by organizing an event or participate in a programme can somehow increase your value as leader. Well, you have to have a good people skills if you want to interact with people. And he sees these skills can be learn and develop if you are trying to develop it by joining event. Then we went off to talk about how chinese organization helps their people, like giving 30% of their income to chinese NGO and ask them to use it on chinese people. I mean, why can't malays do that?

The question is simple yet the answer isn't. It goes back far beyond the current generation that make the nurturing in malays quite impossible. I guess you all know the answer, yes, it is jealousy and the can't-stand-if-someone-is-better-or-richer-than-they-are-so-they'll-do-anything-to-make-them-suffer-and-fail problems. I'm not saying that all malays are like that but if this culture and environment can't be change, i believe it is only the matter of time before we, malays are wipe out in our own country. I get all this from a talk that i had with a man i met only a few hours earlier. So the question now is, how can i help or we help in developing young generation?

I'll discuss this in my next post.

p/s: if somehow i forgot about this please tell me. yeah, my mind kind of working on thousands of projects right now, so sometimes i may lost track about what i'm doing. XD

thanks for reading this post.

Friends. A Memory to Remember

2011-03-03T09:01:00.001-08:00

I thought i tell you how bored i am by posting a lyric entitled "Secret" by one republic. Trust me, it is a good song. For those who said it wasn't, well, you aren't like me. I don't have that many friends to talk things to, so i think writing something for some strangers to read is far better than having a useless conversation. Well, enjoy your moment cause after this its gonna get boring.

FIRST STORY

Just now i got a visit from a friend. My coursemate actually. He's not the kind of guy i used to talk things to, but somehow when he came over, we just talk about things which i usually can't tell unless you are my close friend. We talked about our coursemates, our lifestyle, friends, gossips here and there and some other things. I really love it when i have someone to hear my story and share opinions about my story rather than just hear it without any feedback.

Few years back, i got a couple of friends that can give me a stimulating conversation. But one day, they just disappeared. Although their YM status is available, i got nothing back after i buzz or say hi to them. So i decided maybe they got other priorities but i think a few sentences telling "i'm busy" is not so much to ask, right? But never mind. Time marches on, things change and we are not the same as who we are when we were 10 or 15. And after having this short conversation, these memories came back to me and it was like bombarding every inch of my brain with old speculations and useless information. I hate this. Well, i hope that after i wake up tomorrow, all this things will be gone. Hopefully.

SECOND STORY

Yesterday was the birth date of my childhood friend, some from my high school and also my chemistry teacher. I wanted to post to their facebook wall "Happy Birthday" but i think if they aren't the type who open their facebook every 10 minutes, why bother having facebook at all? But suddenly, my recent news showed something that make me smile, even right now, i still smiling over the fact in my recent news. Obviously, its all about the girl.

She was tagged in an appreciation picture by her mother, in which makes me feels like i wanna browse the album even more. So i look at it and there she is, smiling, without any clue that shows she was not happy at the moment the picture was taken. I smiled too, when i look at that picture. For whatever reason she has while smiling, all i need to know is that she's happy. That's all that matters. And i do hope that she's going to smile even more and hopefully make this world a better place.

p/s: To someone who might understand what i said here, please don't do anything stupid.

Bored~

2011-02-11T20:58:00.000-08:00

This is the song that tells u about myself right now.

I need another story

Something to get off my chest

My life gets kinda boring

Need something that I can confess

'Til all my sleeves are stained red
From all the truth that I've said
Come by it honestly I swear
Thought you saw me wink, no
I've been on the brink, so

Tell me what you want to hear
Something that will like those ears
Sick of all the insincere
I'm gonna give all my secrets away

This time
Don't need another perfect lie
Don't care if critics ever jump in line
I'm gonna give all my secrets away

My God
Amazing that we got this far
It's like we're chasing all those stars
Driving shiny big black cars

And everyday I see the news, all the problems that we could solve
And when a situation rises, just write it into an album
Seen it straight to gold
I don't really like my flow, no, so

Tell me what you want to hear
Something that will like those ears
Sick of all the insincere
I'm gonna give all my secrets away

This time
Don't need another perfect lie
Don't care if critics ever jump in line
I'm gonna give all my secrets away

Oh, got no reason, got not shame
Got no family I can blame
Just don't let me disappear
I'mma tell you everything

So tell me what you want to hear
Something that will like those ears
Sick of all the insincere
I'm gonna give all my secrets away

This time
Don't need another perfect lie
Don't care if critics ever jump in line
I'm gonna give all my secrets away

So tell me what you want to hear
Something that will like those ears
Sick of all the insincere
I'm gonna give all my secrets away

This time
Don't need another perfect lie
Don't care if critics ever jump in line
I'm gonna give all my secrets away

All my secrets away
All my secrets away

Isaac Newton Vs Gottfried Leibniz

2011-02-06T19:18:00.000-08:00

I bet most of you know about Isaac Newton. Well, he's the second most influential people after Prophet Muhammad SAW. Most of his work revolved around one word "motion." Well, you learn about Newton's Law of Motion during high school so it's obvious if you have heard about him. Well then, who the hell is Gottfried Leibniz? Most of us don't know eventhough we learn about things that he invented during college.

Calculus. I know how scary this thing can be for most of us. Especially to those who wanted to be an engineer or a mathematician. Well, Leibniz also developed calculus, around the same time as when Newton invented calculus. Their idea is different, the approach used to solve the problem is also different. And yet both of them came out with one of the toughest subject for most of us. I can tell you about the background of this two inventors but for the fun of it, i want you to google and find out.

Now, what is so important about the inventor of calculus? Well, i am trying to say that there is a different approach that we can use in order to solve a problem. Say if a problem arise, what you want to do is to solve the problem. That is your target. But if you are using the same mentality as you use when you create a problem to solve them, then how are you going to solve it? Back to Newton and Leibniz, both of them fight for the title "inventor of calculus." The fact is, they both are the inventor of calculus. Two great mind is now fighting for one small title.

I obviously love the way Newton approach the problem, because it was valid. Leibniz on the other hand need further clarification but still he solved the problem. It's like the reason didn't matter, and all that matter is the result. To Leibniz himself, because he is a mathematician, result is important. Whereas to Newton, the way you solved the problem is important because to him, if you use the wrong way, then you cannot obtain a good result. Personally, i think that we should use both ways and apply it in a correct situation. I believe, if you have both of this personality in yourself, your work is guaranteed to be remarkable. Look at Newton and Leibniz.

Lastly, thanks for reading this boring post. Plus, since you did not google about Newton and Leibniz earlier, you might not notice that I was lying to you earlier. Go find out which one and tell me if you think you got the correct answer.

Savor The Greatness of Today

2011-02-03T21:02:00.001-08:00

Quote for the Day.

Don't think about tomorrow, cause tomorrow is nothing but a dream. Don't think of yesterday cause yesterday is nothing but history. But do think about today cause since English language exists, we always call today as "present."

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What should i do?

2011-01-31T23:35:00.000-08:00

Hurm. Its been a long time since i have this thought. But it's not like i can confront it because i got no free time before this. And now i have a lot of free time, i tried to give my mind a mental challenge and think about this stuff but well, it sucks! Anyway, we will get to what was my mind thinking, don't worry.

Alright, as i mentioned earlier, there are things from my past that shows up during my free time. First is my decision to convert from Bachelor of Engineering to Bachelor of Technology, which means i spend more time with computer and softwares. Sometimes i think that i should change from what i'm taking now to medicine. Well, because right now medicine seems a lot easier to me as compared to my program. When i asked those who take medicine, they said medicine is tough. And then i said, is it? Because the thought that medicine is a tough subject has never came across my mind.

The dilemma between medicine, engineering and technology is not the only think that i have. You see, my former self would just do what i want to do, but as who i am right now, i think a lot. Right now, my mind keep saying that i should call my friends to ask them about their well being, but it stops when i think about what i'm going to say, what they're going to say and stuff like that. Damn, I really don't like my self right now. Seriously. I feel like crap. But for whatever reason, I am who I am right now, for better or for worse.

Oh yeah. I got one question that i couldn't answer. Do my desire to take medicine is because of my hunger for knowledge or because of human factor ? I was thinking both, but i'm not so sure about my answer. And i do hope someday i'll come across something that can give me the answer. I have a lot of questions but unfortunately i don't have or don't know any stimulating conversationalist. I need someone like House, Lawrence Fleindhardt, Charles Eppes or Jason Gideon. Well, i do hope i stumble upon people whose attitude is like the character i mentioned.

I guess that's about it. I'm writing a resume and i hope i got a good place for internship this coming September. That's all. Thanks for reading folks.

Finding The Truth

2011-01-30T21:05:00.000-08:00

Hi.

It has been a long time since my last post. Well, there are reasons for that. First, i don't have internet connection at home, i mean apart from what i did which was piggybacking someone else's wi-fi. Trust me, the connection sucks. Then new semester started so i'm busy with well, you know, stuff that normal student should do. Apart from that, i found this really cool guy who sell stuff that i love, but i need to wait before i can buy the stuff.

Forget about me, lets focus on what we have on table here. Recently, there has been an outbreak, riot or whatever you want to call it in Egypt. Lots of demos and crimes occurred there. I even heard that one Malaysian student was raped. Putting that aside, I'm not saying that none of this is not true, but i just want to see, how true is the news? Well, there's a few reason i raised this question.

First and the most obvious reason, they said that Hosni Mubarak cut all internet and phone connection. So, how did they manage to send email, facebook updates, calling family members? Say that they are able to do one of the above, how far did they know about what's going on outside when what they did was staying at home on hope? My point is, when telling a stories, there will always be some exaggeration made in order to stress about the situation.

Yes i know, I'm not supposed to condemn the people who tell the stories about what's going on in Egypt. But all i want here is to be able to hear the truth minus the exaggeration part. Exaggerations make the story believeable but cause some mistakes in decision making later on. As for civilians, it is alright to hear the exaggerated version of the story but imagine if the higher-ups make mistakes in deciding thing because of the exaggerated story?

I'm sorry to say, but most people only know some part of the stories, and they will fill the other part of the story with their version, depending on their knowledge, education background, environment and their attitude. Obviously a paranoid person will tell different story as compared to an optimist. What i want to remind to you people is to search for the right story, and after you confirm that it is the truth, then only you tell the others.

p/s: Hopefully everything is going to be alright. And to my friends in Egypt, be strong and do what you gotta do in order to survive. Thanks for reading.

Advancement of Technology

2010-11-27T03:49:00.000-08:00

It's going to be a hectic week next week cause i got 3 more papers left for my final exam. But that doesn't stop me from knowing things that i like (i think im gonna regret this one). There are so many things for example, about theory of how universe was formed, the search of God Particle, life on Mars, hollow Earth theory and many other things. And among this other things, lie the advancement of technology that i would like to talk about.

You see, in 2005, i remember seeing a 256 mb pendrives. At this particular time, those who had a pendrive with themselves were cool, well, because they had something that not most of us has. But nowadays, what do we see? A 256 mb pendrives are no longer being used. The smallest size out there is 1G in 2008 and now in 2010, i may not be wrong if i said 1G pendrive is almost obsolete. I got one question, tell me what is/are the latest technology in the world that you know of? I believe by the time you finish reading this, there will be another latest technology.

I know it's not your job to know all the latest technology but believe me, if you know it, it's better. For example, HAL-5 technology can help weak/almost paralyzed people move, IBM is trying to develop the smallest processor for supercomputer (sugar cube size) and they believe that this may be possible in 15 years or so, a camera can now be use to take pictures in the corners, and some other things that you can google of. Everyday there will be a news about this new innovation, invention and creation of new technology.

My point here is, yes, it's not your job to know all of them but isn't it neat if you can know things that can be useful to you in future? You can spend a whole hour reading notifications and replying comments on your facebook but why can't you just take 10 or 15 mins per day just to google about the latest invention human ever made in technology? You see, your world, our world is growing fast, too fast that some of us might not be able to keep up (yes, the previous generation). So as current generation, i think it is our job to know what are the latest invention in technology so that when future generation comes, we can still keep up with their technology.

The world is growing fast, and again i hope you can spend some time everyday just to search and find out what is/are the latest news on technology industry. Read does not hurt you, but you may hurt yourself if you don't read. Take my advice people, know things around you. Now i'm off to study for my finals. Wish me luck!

Stupid Time

2010-11-18T16:30:00.000-08:00

Lately my mood to study has been deteriorated. I don't know the exact reason but somehow i think there's emptiness inside of me. Though i did a lot of things but somehow it didn't fill the emptiness that i have. So i think about the time, the time when i didn't think about anything, instead, just do the things.

If i remember it correctly, in primary school i didn't have to do anything. I simply just do it. There's this one time where i jumped from the first floor of my house to the ground. Yeah, my leg pained and i couldn't move for a few hours (hey, few hours is a lot of time for kids). But the fun, the joy of being able to jump from first floor to the ground was awesome. It's around this age also i decided to learn how to do a back flip and on one particular day, my head was in the water straight to the sand beneath it. But thanks to that, today i'm able to do back flip without problems.

In secondary school, hurm..not so much fun as in primary school. I still can jump from the first floor to the ground and do a back flip though. But during this time my fun was more concentrated on people. Hid my friend's shoe, sleeping throughout the class, not being bullied by seniors, hell my secondary school was fun. The only downside was it is a boarding school. So, everything you did, sooner or later the teachers will find out and you'll receive a punishment. But there's this one time i went up to "tangki air" with the sole intention to watch the sunrise, but then a lot of girls from my batch arrived later, having no other choice, i hid under the tank and had to listen to all those girly talks. And yet, they asked me how do i know some stuff that i shouldn't supposed to know. Boy, that was fun.

As i grow up, in university, i tend to think more than the action i took. So one day, well not one day, a lot of day i've been thinking of doing some stupid things that i did when i was a boy. I did end up doing some stupid things but the fun is not the same. As you become older, your choices of entertainments are limited. And i think as a teenager in Malaysia, bowling, movies or ice-skating seems to be the top choices. Me, I prefer jumping across vein to vein like tarzan, going to an adventure like robin hood, playing with knife, swords and arrows, but they don't have that kind of things here. Well, life sucks sometimes. So i just need to deal with it and hopefully, a greater benefit awaits me at the end.

p/s: I enjoy doing stupid things with my friends every now and then, and it was so stupid and i can't share it with you guys because of its stupidity. Anyway, thank you.

Selamat Hari Raya Aidil Adha

2010-11-16T17:40:00.000-08:00

Well, everyone in Malaysia knows that today is holiday because of Hari Raya for Muslims.

And here i just want to say Selamat Hari Raya Aidil Adha to all of you.

After this I'll join my friends and we're gonna have another "Korban" which instead of cows we change it to chicken. Yeah. I know. But anyway, have fun today is just make sure, for every things that you do, you need to sacrifice something, either u're aware of it or not. That's all for today.

Bye.

News Today

2010-11-15T17:01:00.000-08:00

Today is November 16. And it has been so long since I post anything about our science world. Well, today I'm gonna tell u some of the biggest news that not everyone knows, but it's good to know. Lets see.

1. IBM labs in Zurich stated that a supercomputer processor can be shrink down to a sugar cube size in the next 10 or 15 years. By lowering the size, it is energy efficient and cheaper than the current processor. Dr Bruno Micheal, together with his team create a prototype to demonstrate water-cooling principle that can be use to reduce the side effect of any devices, heat. Personally i think the faster the computer can be, more calculations can be carried out in we can advance more than what we have right now.

2. Youngest nearby black hole has been found by NASA. This black hole is estimated to be 30 years old and is a remnant of SN 1979C, a supernova in galaxy M100 approximately 50million light years from earth. By discovering this, understanding the black hole is believed to become easier. For example, theory suggest that the black hole form when a star collapsed and gamma ray burst will not be produced and by discovering this black hole, scientists believe that it's gonna support that theory.

3. Maxwell's Demon Experiment break and violated the second law of thermodynamics. The thought experiment was first proposed by James Clerk Maxwell in 1867 and physicist in Japan proved this in 2010. The idea was to separate the gas molecule according to their entropy in a close system, thus reducing the entropy of overall system. Second law of thermodynamics said that entropy in a close system should not reduced. You can read about the experiment here

I think that's the top 3 most interesting news that i read today. There are also some other things about plant and biochemistry but lets just say that i'm not interested to that right now. Anyway, if you want to read news about science, you can click here.

Ideas

2010-11-14T17:08:00.001-08:00

Everytime, when u came across an awesome idea, u should write it down because u see, it comes and then goes away. It is possible that u may lose the awesome idea if u don't write it down. Anyway, that is what the inventor that came to utp 3 years ago said. So, today i'm gonna tell u some ideas that i think is possible to achieve.

1. JETPACK

As the name suggest, this is the thing that i needed in order to fly. The idea was to create and uplifting force that is greater than the gravitational pull of ourselves plus the jetpack itself. The downward acceleration is generally 9.81 meter per second squared. So if we over come this but in opposite direction, i think it's possible for us to fly. Plus, we can use this to travel through vacuum instead of just floating around.

2. GUNDAM EXIA

Yeah, as the name suggest, it's a robot. But it's not the same as in the GUNDAM series. Since i was too obsessed to fly, i will just create a device which we can carry like a bag pack and produce an upward force. So, i think by using the rotary engine (it's efficient and less fuel consumption), amplify the power, channel it to a downward direction so that it produce a thrust upwards. So far i think this is far more achievable rather than the first one. But who knows?

3. IRON MAN

Some may said that iron man is impossible to achieve but i believe it is possible. By using the Human Assisted Limb 5 (HAL-5) technology from japan, i think it is possible for us to create it. HAL-5 so far is used to help old people or people with weak muscle to move heavy things. It is believe to enable you to lift 50kg of rice bag without breaking a sweat at all. The problem with this is US and ISRAEL have already extend the research of this thing in order to create super soldier.

4. HANDHELD EMP

EMP stands for electromagnetic pulse. Yeah, this thing is very dangerous to electronic devices. Once an electronic device is exposed to this pulse, it can no longer be used. I have yet able to figure out a way in order to make it handheld size. Because u see, the current emp devices need a large space, that is why it is only available in lab, not in public. But i think the one that is showed in english series CHUCK is also okay. But, who knows?

5. GENETIC MUTATION

I don't really sure on how do i create genetic mutation but i do hope one day i will. This has a few advantages that i know though, for example it may hold the key to curing cancer, plus we can make our own body taller, shorter, bigger, handsome and all that. But i would like to use it so that i am able to increase the level of intelligence of human being. By doing this, we may be able to understand a lot more things that we don't know now. I think i need to take something that is related to this thing first, before i can think of how to use one.

Anyway, every invention has its own advantages and disadvantages. It only depends on us, human as how we use it. By far, whatever i want to create is in order to satisfy my own needs. but who knows, one might use it for bad purpose. It's the same as Einstein. He didn't create E=MC2 in order to come out with atomic bomb and yet, the use is there. So, whatever it is please hold to this "Do not blame the pistols, blame the one who pulled the trigger"

Boring Post

2010-11-12T19:01:00.000-08:00

Today is boring.

No class. No lecture.

First paper is 11/25/2010

I hate boring, normal and dull things.

Frankly i hate today because it's sucks and boring.

So i need someone to turn this glass and let me out of this boredom.

But still, i don't want someone who's normal and boring

And that describe most of you readers.

Believe me, u r normal people.

Well, maybe i'll just wait.

For another u.

MYSTERY IN THE HOLY QURAN

2010-10-28T04:17:00.000-07:00

Very interesting findings of Dr. Tariq Al Swaidan might grasp your attention:

Dr.Tariq l Swaidan discovered some verses in the Holy Qur'an

That mention one thing is equal to another,

i..e. men are equal to women.

Although this makes sense grammatically,

the astonishing fact is that the number of times the word man appears in the Holy Qur'an

is 24 and number of times the word woman appears is also 24,

therefore not only is this phrase correct in

the grammatical sense but also true mathematically,
I..e. 24 = 24.
Upon further analysis of various verses,

he discovered that this is consistent throughout the whole
Holy Qur'an where it says one thing is like another.

See below for astonishing result of

the words mentioned number of times in Arabic
Holy Qur'an

Dunia (one name for life) 115.
Aakhirat (one name for the life After this world) 115

Malaika (Angels) 88 .Shayteen (Satan) 88
Life 145 ...... Death 145
Benefit 50 .. Corrupt 50
People 50 ... Messengers 50
Eblees (king of devils) 11 . Seek refuge from Eblees 11

Museebah (calamity) 75 .. Thanks 75

Spending (Sadaqah) 73 .. Satisfaction 73

People who are mislead 17 .. Dead people 17

Muslimeen 41 .. Jihad 41

Gold 8 .. Easy life 8

Magic 60.. Fitnah (dissuasion, misleading) 60

Zakat (Taxes Muslims pay to the poor) 32 .......

Barakah (Increasing or blessings of wealth) 32

Mind 49 .. Noor 49
Tongue 25 .. Sermon 25
Desite 8 .. Fear 8

Speaking publicly 18 .. Publicising 18

Hardship 114 ..... Patience 114

Muhammed 4 .. Sharee'ah
Muhammed's teachings 4

Man 24. Woman 24

And amazingly enough have a look how many times the following words appear:

Salat 5, Month 12, Day 365,

Sea 32, Land 13

Sea + land =

32+ 13= 45

Sea = 32/45*100q.= 71.11111111%

Land = 13/45*100 = 28.88888889%

Sea + land 100.00%

Modern science has only recently proven that the water covers
71..111% of the earth, while the land covers 28..889%.

Is this a coincidence? Question is that

Who taught Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) all this?

Reply automatically comes in mind that

ALMIGHTY ALLAH taught him.

This as the Holy Qur'an also tells us this.

please pass this on to all your friends

Aayah 87 of Suraa (Chapter) Al-Anbia

Para 17:

LA ILAHA ILA ANTA SUBHANAKA INI KUNTU MINA ZALIMEEN.

During the next 60 seconds, stop whatever you are doing,

and take this opportunity.

(Literally, it is only 1 minute).

Change

2010-10-24T20:42:00.001-07:00

Greetings.

Last few days, my friend asked me, why did i put "change is never good" as my status and i realized that the answer i gave her may not be the correct one. So, i think i will list down all the things that change may affect.

First of all, say you are a very bad person who has done a lot of awful stuff and you want to change. Kind of like Earl, the character in My Name is Earl. Well, he sure did a lot of awful stuff and feels bad about it, but imagine yourself in this character, do you want to change? Does all the stuff he did in order to change is necessary? Honestly, yes, i may have change from my previous self and right now i have a little regret with my changes.

Before i changed, i was a very talkative, annoying little bastard. I don't think too much and for whatever consequences that comes due to my action, i never care. For example, I jumped from the first floor of my school building just to show that i can. i also took my friend's inhaler for asthma and ran to the other side of the building while my asthmatic friend chased after me. You see, he might die and yet i don't care. Simply put, people feels very annoyed when i open my mouth to talk or doing something with my body part.

But now, after i changed, i'm no more a smooth talker, rather quiet person. I think too much about something and end up didn't do anything because i was afraid of the consequences. I never try anything new since i think too much and now i think that i can't do anything anymore. Yes, people don't feel annoyed anymore and they seems to regard me as normal person. It's true that without the changes, i will never be here and my grades will not be as sucks as it actually is but then i asked myself, what's the point of having good grades? Many of us dreams of being rich and that's why they're where they are with ultimate goal; to get good job with good salary.

So if for example i did not change into what i am right now, i will still become some annoying bastard. But hey, i'm a smooth talker, and i enjoy life more than i am right now. I mean, hanging out with friends, talking, and not worrying about jobs, marriage, money or anything seems to be an awesome life. But since i already changed into what i am right now, i better live with it. I'm not gonna try to change my life back but sometimes, it's fun to think about the good'ol days. Anyway, too me, change got its own pro and cons. You just need to keep the con's while acting out the pros. Whatever.

Anyway, that's all from me for today. and i do hope blogging will be a way for me to reach out my feelings towards life. That's all. thank you.

The Sleep Cycle

2010-10-21T05:51:00.000-07:00

Hi/salam.

Today i'm going to tell all of you about the sleep cycle. I bet not many of you know about sleep cycle despite doing it's act every time you fall asleep. You spent 30% of your life in order to sleep and i think it's important for you to know the sleep cycle. If not, why do you spend 6-8 hours a day to sleep, right?

Alright. Sleep cycle consists of two parts, first is the non-rapid eye movement or simply NREM stage and next is rapid eye movement or REM stage. The NREM stage is further divided into four sub-stages which we called, stage 1, stage 2 and stage 3. During the early days, scientist believed that there are actually 4 stages, but in modern days, stage 3 and stage 4 is combined. That's how we got only 3 stages. The cycle begins the moment you fall asleep.

STAGE 1

this is the first stage. If someone falls into this stage, they will loose awareness of the surrounding but also felt as he/she actually never falls asleep. This is the stage if you see your friends sleep in class while the lecturer is teaching. The trademark of this stage is the hypnic jerk. People experience the hypnic jerk will tell you that they have the sensation of falling/being shot, anything that cause them to die or hurt very bad. After spending 5 to 15 minutes in this stage, we will now move in stage 2.

STAGE 2

During this stage, the alpha wave is replaced by the theta waves. If you monitor the sleep under the electroencephalogram, you will see "sleep spindles" and "K-complexes" signature. Basically these 2 things act as guardian to you. They will monitor the stimuli that we have while we are sleeping. If, the stimuli is consider dangerous, these two things will send a signal to your brain and you will suddenly wake up. For example, if you usually sleep with the light off, if you are in stage 2 and someone switch the light on, you will immediately wake up because it is categorized as dangerous.

STAGE 3

During this stage, the theta waves is replaced by delta waves, which indicates that the body is ready to enter stage deep sleep stage. Delta waves is a slow wave movement and that is also why this stage is sometimes refer to as slow wave sleep. During this stage, the body will totally become unaware of to what is happening on the surrounding. And if the body is forced to wake up during this stage, you will notice that the person will become very grumpy, mumbles a little bit and then continue with his/her sleep. So beware if you try to wake someone during this stage, you might consider bring some back up. XD

REM Stage.

After about an hour in NREM stage, the body will enter REM stage. During this stage, the delta wave is replaced back by the alpha wave. As I mentioned, alpha wave is the wave that occurs when your brain is active. That is why during this stage, most people will remember their dreams, which scientists believe as a result that occurs because your brain tries to sort all the information that we had during the day. REM stage occurs around 30 minutes for the first sleep cycle and continue to increase in time throughout the whole sleeping process.

The total time taken for one complete cycle to occurs is around one and a half hour. So in 6-8 hours sleep will have around 4 to 5 cycles. The cycle is also affected by the circadian rhythm, our activity during the day, eating habit and some other factor. And the cycles vary from one person and another but the one i mention here is the usual thing that happen. I do hope you manage your sleep well as good and fresh start in the morning helps you to get into the mood. That's all, thanks for reading.

Oxford Young Leadership Course

2010-10-17T19:39:00.000-07:00

Yesterday, an event organized by Oxford Center for Leadership took place at Heritage Hotel, Ipoh. And i, who was given the opportunity to come, came in order to see the difference between this course and the other leadership courses that i attended. And below is the comment, honest comment from me about this program.

SPEAKER.

The speaker was awesome, but i think the allocation of time was not enough for some speakers. So in the end the speaker need to squeeze or compress everything that he/she need to say in one single slide which for me is not very good. The presentation was good but if we slip in a little activity and question and answer session, it would be better. The slide content should be minimize because too much words on the slide makes me a little fuzzy, but that maybe because i actually need a spectacles. In scale from 1 to 5, my rating is 4.2.

HALL

If you enter the hall, yes it was beautiful. But the arrangement is not quite right. The chairs were arranged so that it will face the speaker but since the speaker's content was on the slide, so we need to look at the slide as well. If the arrangement somehow include the speaker and the slide, it would have been better. The hall is big but you used like half the overall area. Please maximize the usage of the hall. You pay for the hall and might as well use every square inch of the area. In scale from 1 to 5, my rating is 3.8.

LOGISTIC AND MEDIA

This one got a little bit of problem. You see, suppose the mic doesn't work, immediately change it with another one, don't let the person who use the mic do the testing check. It's inappropriate. Then there is this strange voice coming i don't know from where, but please check because it's a distraction. How you manage the mic whether it's sensitive or not is also important. Some speaker like to hold their mic while some just love standing there. Just look at the situation and adjust the mic properly. I give 2.7 for this particular category.

FOOD AND BEVERAGES.

This is awesome. I'm not gonna talk much as by far this is the most satisfying service that i got when i was here. My rating is 4.9. (Less 0.1 because the tea and the coffee is very hot and you don't provide ice cube or plain water.)

REGISTRATION.

For me, this is also important because for first time comer, they will need you to show and efficient work, so that the standard of this program will rise even more. Some improvement that can be made, first is by using a computerize data to register who's coming and who's not. The person will just come and say his/her name and you will type "yes" or "attend" or something like that. Then you could tell where they should go instead of just scattered in front of the registration counter. Provide categories in the registration so that it would be simpler and easier to manage. This part will only be 3.6 for me.

I think that's the four categories that need comment for this event. As i said, my view may not be the same as yours. So everything is depends on how you view it. But i hope that a change is made so that the event will be more successful in the future.

Is it me?

2010-10-14T06:14:00.001-07:00

Hi. Its been a long time since I last updated this blog. Got busy with things and stuff. I tried to post or forward something that i read every now and then but then i figured that that thing is not my genuine idea. So as for my come back, i'm gonna write something that come entirely from me.

Well, everyone knows i'm not a normal friend that you can found everyday. I'm abnormal. I mock almost everything and i give the truth over everything, although most of the time the truth hurts. But i don't care. For me, if your own friend does not being honest with you, then who would?

But then it occurs to me that I talk lesser than the old me, I tend to keep my mouth shut. I'm incapable of throwing any ideas. And the thing that upset me the most is some of my friends whom I always talk or chat with, suddenly doesn't reply me. And i kept thinking, what have i done wrong?

What are the truth that they hide from me? am i some kind of disease that they need to get away from? Well, only they know the answer.

Today, its been about 3 weeks in which they haven't reply any of my messages or buzz. And the truth is, i don't really care although sometimes i feel a bit lonely because i don't have someone to talk with. and i really started to think, if this is how a friend does, then i am better if i'm on my own. Because friends upset you. And i hate being upset.

Just to let you guys know, i'm not the old me anymore. and if the changes make you feel different about me, then i'll change myself to the old me once more. Only those who knows me both before and after i changed know what I am capable of.

That's my story basically after a few weeks without any post. Thanks for reading, friends!!

Your Braces

2010-09-07T07:00:00.000-07:00

*This post is a bit emotional

It's been a while. I'm busy with test, raya and everything. So don't expect me to write much for the following week. But today's entry is something that annoyed me so much.

At first I thought people wear it because of medical reason, but as time marches on, I think that braces is a trend. Why ? Because your teeth is perfect and yet you still go through a painful phase just to wear a braces and look beautiful. And I hate that.

Yes, I don't know the real reason why you put the braces on. And I'm sorry because of that. But it turned yourself from being extraordinary (cause you aren't like other people) into something normal (you are like other people). Just so you know, beauty is mortal.

My point here is not because of the braces, although I blame the braces because it changed you. It is the fact that you change from extraordinary to normal that annoys me so much. I don't know whether or not the changes will bring any good to you but it certainly make you less interesting. And I don't want that.

I do hope that you will not read this post as it shows how much I hate you right now. And I hope that in the future my hatred towards you has gone. Believe me, I don't want to hate anybody. Especially you.

A Thirst For Knowledge

2010-08-27T06:28:00.000-07:00

You see, many of us, are studying for the sake of the exam. Yeah, don't lie to me. I'll know. But have you ever think about the knowledge that you possessed? Or about the knowledge that you don't? Have you ever wonder about the magnificent of the knowledge itself? And the answer is of course no, not, nope whatever that disagree with the question i posed earlier. I get it, you only study to get a good exam result, then get a good job, get married and die leaving a tons of fortune for your kids. Well, it's a typical thinking, and even I think like that sometimes. But most of the time I keep thinking, is that it? I mean, is that all? Our whole life, just to get a good job, married and die?

I spent a few years searching for the answer and I have yet reach the final conclusion. But you see, most of the time, my years of searching the answer led me to learn a few new things. And what if for example, we got a mission to complete? You know, like the one in the game that you have. Starcraft II, Crysis Warhead, Warcraft, Final Fantasy, Super Mario, Counter Strike and many other cool games got its own mission. So my question is, what if, you entered a mission of your own? I know for muslims, you will say that your mission is that you want to get to heaven. But did you really doing things that can complete your mission? Really ?

Come to think of it, i do have my own mission. The first one is to master all the basic knowledge that we have. Like i said, all and basic. That's why i learned so many stuff although it's not related with mine. Biology, chemistry, physics, geology, medicine and language are some of the basic stuff that I need to master. Nowadays, the education system only allows us to take one stuff at one time. If you go to engineering, you'll have to give up medicine. Why? Why do we need to do that? Why can't we just take engineering and medicine at the same time? Are you saying it's impossible? Well, I say no! It's possible. It's just you who does not give us the opportunity to take both at the same time. And for that my friend, is what i regret the most.

Yeah, call me a freak or whatever, but yes, I want to master all the basic things. I don't want to go see a doctor and here some alien terms that he'll throw out to me. And who knows? Maybe the doctor lied. Maybe he just want more money. It's the same as lawyers. He keep rambling all the laws that we have and if we don't know anything about laws, who knows if he just making that laws up for their own purposes? You go to Low Yat Plaza and want to buy something, a laptop for example. The chinese man keep telling you this is good, this is best and if you don't know a slightest thing about laptop, how will you know that it's good or not? Grow up people!

Learn! Go search for knowledge! Don't just sit there and accept everything. Not everything is true. And not everything showed to you is correct. By not having the knowledge, you are just like a monkey that only recognized banana as food, not as tool to get other food. Yeah, correct. A monkey!

p/s: I got a bit emotional cause people nowadays don't understand the knowledge. They simply learn the stuff because it's what've been offered to them and they think that it's enough for them to get a job and a career.

Seeing The Unseen

2010-08-17T18:04:00.000-07:00

Hi/salam.

It's been a long time since I wrote something of my own. Right now I'm still in the middle of collecting data so that I can post an accurate perception, although, there is no correct perception. But anyway, I don't think this is gonna be a long post, so just relax and enjoy.

Now, some of us might know that to see the subsurface, which means what is under the ground or the water bed. We will use a method of acquiring data that we called seismic. This is a method of using the sound wave to penetrate deep enough to the earth crust to know what the geology is. If you don't understand anything about seismic, you can google it. There's a lot of pages that cover the basic meaning of seismic.

From that piece of data we had on seismic, we can interpret it so that we understand how does the subsurface world looks like. If we're lucky, maybe we can find some oil or water or maybe even precious fossils that worth millions of dollars. You see, the idea of seeing something hidden is to bombard some energy, get the feedback and you can interpret it. Let us see what happen if we applied this 3 basic things into interpreting human being.

The energy is bombarded through communication, we get the feedback just by watching their body language, tone of the voices, how he/she stressed some key points and many more. From these sort of things, you can use it to interpret the underlying problem but of course, once you interpreted it, you may have to ask the person whether or not it's true. Well, we might be wrong in our interpretation, so.. asking is the best way to know. But think before you ask.

You see, through this method, we can easily predict someone's habit, gesture and attitude. I tell you this because, most of the people hide their scar. They don't want it to resurface again. For me, I am doing this so that I can remove the scar. If it is removed, then there will be no problem of it resurface again. But how do you know what kind of scar does he/she have? By doing the 3 things I told you earlier. There has been many books that introduce us to how to read body languages and believe me, it is worth to learn this.

I think my point here is, if you want to see what's inside that person's head, you can do that by communicate and get the feedback from the person. I don't know about you, but for me, reading other's mind is basically science. Read more know more and learn more. Only by doing this you can achieve what others can't.

That's all from me. Thank you.

.....and Humor

2010-08-17T17:57:00.000-07:00

With the right attitude and a touch of humor you can do what Mal Hancock did. Mal took the proverbial lemon of a paralyzing fall and turned that tragedy into real-life lemonade. Mal was in high school, facing a promising career in athletics, when a fall paralyzed him from the waist down. He endured some heartbreaking days trying to make the mental and physical adjustments.

There are no guarantee, as Mal Hancock learned, that life will be a bed of roses. On the contrary, you can count on facing some very strange events, but if you learn to face the unexpected with humor and optimism, you too can come out on top. While in the hospital, Mal began to draw the scenes around him. Rather that complain about the nurse waking him at 8 am for a sleeping pill, he drew a cartoon about it that made the point with a laugh. Soon all the nurses in the hospital were coming by to see what Mal had chosen to draw.

It wasn't long before he had sold one of those cartoons to a magazine. That single sale launched him into successful career as a cartoonist. Today Mal Hancock's name can be read on cartoons in the Saturday Evening Post and T.V Guide. Incidentally, his first book was called - you guessed it - Hospital Humor.

Mal learned a lesson which can be important to all of us. Even when you can't do anything about a situation (such as being paralyzed) , you can do a lot about your attitude toward the situation.

......and Criticism

2010-08-07T23:51:00.000-07:00

Davy Crockett had a simple motto; "Make sure you are right, then go ahead." Every one of us, like every successful person you will ever meet, faces moments of criticism. No matter what your career involvement, the more successful you become, the more criticism you will receive. Only those who don't attempt anything remain forever above criticism.

Being criticized is not a problem if you develop a positive way of dealing with it. Winston Churchill had framed on the wall of his office the following words of Abe Lincoln: "I do the very best I can, I mean to keep going. If the end brings me out all right, then what is said against me won't matter. If I'm wrong, ten angels swearing I was right won't make a difference." Churchill received much criticism in his lifetime and Abe Lincoln was roundly criticized in his day, just as most of our public figures are today. It takes a person of great courage to forge ahead and do what he honestly believes to be right when critics are howling against him.

Remember that all water in the world won't sink your boat if it doesn't get inside. Rise above it. Make certain you are right, and then stand by your convinctions. If you do, I'll see you at the top!

*Don't be afraid of opposition. Remember, a kite rises against - not with - the wind*

**Happiness is not a station at which you arrive, but a manner of traveling.**

.......and Inferiority

2010-08-07T23:44:00.000-07:00

There are moments in all our lives when we feel below par and have brief moments of doubts. As a matter of fact, the late Dr. Maxwell Maltz has written, "At least ninety-five percent of the people in the world feel inferior." The reason so may people feel inferior about their own lives, looks, skills, and abilities is because we spend too much time comparing ourselves with heroes and heroines from the make believe world of television.

Every teenage girl feels she must rate at least a "10" or she will not be acceptable to her classmates.

Every teenage boy feels that he must be a combination of Tom Selleck and Joe Theismann rolled into one.

Every father feels that he must be a super success in business before he is acceptable as a father.

Our problem is that we make the mistake of comparing ourselves with other people. You are you and you don't have to measure up to any other person. You are not inferior or superior to any human being. The creator has created each and every one of us with a touch of uniqueness and originality. You do not determine your success by comparing yourself to others, rather you determine your success by comparing your accomplishments to your capabilities. You are number one when you do the best you can with what you have every day.

*Why is it we judge ourselves by our ideals and others by their acts?*

Mengapa Palestin???

2010-07-31T01:44:00.000-07:00

Tanah Rahmat

Bagi kedua-dua pihak Islam dan Yahudi, tanah yang didiami oleh Palestin dan Israel sekarang merupakan tanah yang istimewa, yang telah ditentukan oleh Allah sejak ribuan tahun lampau. Bagi umat Islam, di tanah inilah terbinanya Masjidil Aqsa, iaitu masjid ketiga paling mulia di dunia ini, setelah Masjidil Haram dan Masjid Nabawi. Bagi penganut Yahudi pula, tanah tersebut merupakan 'Tanah Yang Dijanjikan Tuhan'kepada mereka. Di situlah nenek moyang mereka berasal (Bani Israel), dan di situlah kampung halaman mereka. Mereka percaya, di tanah itulah terletaknya Bukit Zion, dan situlah tertanamnya Temple of Solomon, iaitu kuil suci mereka. Atas kedua-dua sebab inilah, tanah tersebut menjadi rebutan antara Muslim dan Yahudi sejak dari dahulu, hinggalah membawa kepada pertumpahan darah sekarang.

Bagaimana dengan Kristian pula? Kristian juga, menganggap tanah tersebut sebagai tanah suci. Di Temple of Nazareth, yang terletak di tanah tersebut, merupakan tempat kelahiran Nabi Isa. Di tanah itulah Nabi Isa menyampaikan ajarannya, dan di tanah itu jugalah Nabi Isa disalib (mengikut kepercayaan kristian).

Sejarah Awal

Sebenarnya sejarah bani Israel wujud sedari zaman Nabi Ibrahim lagi. Namun, kita susuri sedari kependudukan Bani Israel itu di Mesir, sepertimana yang diutuskan Nabi Musa a.s kepada mereka. Kita tahu melalui al-Quran, bahawa Firaun dan tenteranya mengejar Nabi Musa dan kaumnya sehingga ke Laut Merah, di mana ketika itu Nabi Musa menggunakan mukjizatnya membelah dan menyeberangi lautan tersebut. Setelah itulah Nabi Musa dan kaumnya Bani Israel mendiami tanah Palestin tersebut. Kita boleh baca sendiri dalam al-Quran, betapa kaum ini semakin lama semakin besar kepala, meminta yang pelbagai daripada Nabi Musa dan sebagainya. Kita juga boleh lihat kisah Talut dan Jalut yang berlaku setelah kewafatan Nabi Musa, sebagaimana yang diceritakan dalam al-Quran melalui surah al-Baqarah.

Setelah Talut menawan kembali tanah Palestin daripada kekuasaan Jalut, tampuk pemerintahan Palestin disambung pula oleh Nabi Daud. Seterusnya disambung oleh Nabi Sulaiman, dengan bala tenteranya dan kegemilangan kerajaannya (termasuk haiwan, jin dan angin). Palestin dimiliki oleh Bani Israel, sehinggalah lebih kurang 60 tahun sebelum kelahiran Nabi Isa. Pada tempoh ini, kerajaan Rom menekan kependudukan Bani Israel di tanah Palestin tersebut, sehinggalah akhirnya tanah Palestin dijarah oleh tentera Rom dan kaum Bani Israel diusir keluar lalu tersebarlah kaum Bani Israel, atau dikenali sekarang sebagai Yahudi, ke serata dunia. Sejak itu, tanah Palestin menjadi milik kerajaan Rom. Sehinggalah setelah kelahiran Nabi Isa, seterusnya kewujudan agama Kristian. Lebih kurang pada tahun 300 Masihi, kerajaan Rom di bawah pemerintahan Raja Constantine yang menjadikan Constantinople sebagai pusat pemerintahan, mengalami Kristianisasi. Sejak dari tempoh tersebut, kerajaan Rom menguasai Palestin.

Kedatangan Islam

Palestin kekal di bawah milik kerajaan Rom sehinggalah kelahiran Nabi kita Muhammad s.a.w. Setelah Rasulullah berjaya menubuhkan empayar Islam, beliau wafat pada 632 Masihi. Empayar Islam semakin berkembang dan Palestin berjaya ditawan dari kerajaan Rom pada tahun 638 Masihi. Maka sedari itulah Palestin menjadi milik Islam, sebagai tanah suci yang ketiga selepas Makkah dan Madinah. Sepanjang tempoh tersebut, kerajaan Rom yang telah menjalani Kristianisasi mengalami pelbagai perubahan daripada sudut struktur pemerintahan. Bangsa-bangsa asal Eropah seperti Vikings, Magyar dan sebagainya dikristiankan, dan pemerintahan dikuasai oleh golongan gereja.

Sejak dari 1000 Masihi, tentera Kristian telah melakukan pelbagai usaha menawan kembali Palestin. Pada tahun 1063, Pope Alexander II memberikan ‘fatwa' mengerahkan penganut Kristian untuk berjuang mendapatkan kembali Palestin, dan barangsiapa yang berjuang diberikan status kemuliaan dan pengampunan tertinggi. Itulah yang dikenali sebagai Perang Salib (Crusades). Akhirnya pada tahun 1099, tentera Salib berjaya menawan Palestin, dan menguasai tanah suci tersebut selama hampir 200 tahun.

Menawan Semula

Setelah Palestin ditawan, kerajaan Islam yang sedia ada konflik dalaman pada ketika itu, semakin hilang semangat. Keadaan berlanjutan sehinggalah lahirnya seorang pemimpin agung, yang dikenali sebagai Salahuddin Al Ayyubi. Salahuddin Al Ayyubi, menyatukan masyarakat Arab yang ketika itu berpecah belah akibat perbezaan mazhab dan aliran, seterusnya membawa tentera Islam menyerang kembali Palestin. Akhirnya, pada sekitar tahun 1187, ibu negara Palestin berjaya ditawan, dan pada tahun 1291 kubu terakhir tentera Salib di tanah suci tersebut berjaya dimusnahkan. Sejak itulah tanah suci Palestin kekal di bawah pemerintahan Islam dengan aman damai. Malahan, penduduk asal Palestin iaitu Yahudi/Bani Israel dibenarkan pulang ke kampung halaman mereka, walaupun masih ramai yang bermastautin di luar. Kerajaan Islam berkembang meluas, hinggalah masuk ke era pemerintahan Turki Uthmaniyyah.

Zaman Turki Uthmaniyyah mengalami kejatuhan sejak dari abad ke-19 lagi. Proses modenisasi semakin berlaku, dan kebergantungan terhadap kuasa barat semakin wujud. Krisis-krisis dan konflik dalaman melemahkan lagi kekuasaan empayar Turki Uthmaniyyah. Khalifah pada masa tersebut hanyalah pada nama. Empayar Islam semakin lemah, di bawah kekuasaan barat seperti Britain dan Perancis.

Perang Dunia Pertama

Akhirnya, pada tahun 1914, tercetusnya Perang Dunia Pertama. Perang ini terdiri daripada dua kuasa besar; iaitu Pakatan Bertiga Britain-Perancis- Rusia menentang Pakatan Pusat iaitu Jerman dan Austria/Hungary. Setelah perang berterusan, negara-negara lain seperti Amerika Syarikat dan Itali menyertai Pakatan Bertiga, manakala Kerajaan Turki Uthmaniyah pula menyertai Pakatan Pusat.

Berada di bawah Pakatan Pusat, kerajaan Turki Uthmaniyyah diserang hebat oleh Pakatan Bertiga Britain-Perancis- Russia. Kerajaan Islam Timur diserang dan ditawan oleh Britain. Kerajaan Islam Barat yang menjangkau hingga ke Algeria dan Sudan manakala negara-negara utara Afrika dikuasai oleh Perancis. Kerajaan Islam juga diserang dari utara oleh Rusia, menyaksikan Rusia menawan kawasan utara kerajaan Islam. Perlu diberi perhatian bahawa pada ketika ini, masih belum wujud negara bangsa dan kerajaan Islam disatukan di bawah satu pemerintahan khalifah, manakala setiap kawasan pula ditadbir oleh gabenor masing-masing.

Perpecahan Negara Arab

Pada ketika tempoh inilah, kerajaan Turki Uthmaniyyah mengalami konflik yang semakin hebat. Britain melalui perisiknya yang dikenali sebagaiLawrence of Arabia, menyuburkan semangat nasionalisme di negara-negara Arab. Pejuang kebangsaan/nasional isme Arab pula menyerang kerajaan Turki Uthmaniyyah. Pemerintah Arab ketika itu, Emir Faisal I, berpaling tadah dan memihak kepada Britain. Sejak itulah kerajaan Arab menjadi tali barut Britain. Pada tahun 1915, Britain mula menduduki kawasan Iraq. Akhirnya pada 1917, Britain menduduki semula kawasan Palestin. Tentera Britain, diketuai General Allenby, memasuki Palestin pada 9 Disember 1917 lalu memberi ucapan, "Hari ini, Perang Salib sudah berakhir".

Pada 1917, Britain mengisytiharkan Deklarasi Balfour, iaitu perjanjian antara kerajaan Britain dengan ketua persatuan Yahudi Britain ketika itu, yang mana antaranya menjanjikan tanah Palestin kepada Yahudi. Penempatan Yahudi di Palestin meningkat, dari 50,000 penduduk sebelum itu kepada mencecah setengah juta penduduk, manakala penduduk Islam Palestin ketika itu hampir mencecah 1.4 juta.

Wakil daripada Yahudi ketika Deklarasi tersebut merupakan seorang Yahudi bernama Chaim Weizzmann. Weizzman juga merupakan seorang saintis, malahan saintis pertama yang menghasilkan bahan kimia acetone, seterusnya acetone digunakan sebagai cordite, iaitu sejenis bahan letupan yang menyumbang besar kepada kejayaan Britain dalam perang tersebut. Weizzman mendesak Setiausaha Luar Britain ketika itu, Arthur Balfour, supaya diadakan Deklarasi tersebut. Dek terhutang budi ke atas sumbangan Weizzman, kerajaan Britain bersetuju. Pada mulanya, Britain menawarkan tanah di Uganda kepada Weizmann, namun Weizmann menolak dan mahukan Palestin. Dikatakan, Weizmann bertanya kepada Balfour:

"Encik Balfour, katakanlah saya menawarkan Paris dan London kepada encik, yang mana satukah yang encik mahukan?"

"Tetapi, kami sememangnya sudah memiliki London!"

"Betul itu, tetapi ketika London masih lagi sebuah kawasan paya, kami telahpun memiliki tanah Palestin!"

Akhirnya, British membenarkan kaum Yahudi berhijrah ke tanah Palestin. Pada tahun 1919, Emir Faisal I ketika itu pula menandatangani perjanjian antara beliau dengan Chaim Weizzmann, menyatakan sokongan sepenuhnya beliau dan kerajaan Arab kepada Deklarasi Balfour. Pada tahun 1919, berakhirnya Perang Dunia Pertama. Kerajaan Islam Turki Uthmaniyyah menerima tamparan hebat setelah kehilangan kawasan-kawasannya yang luas, termasuklah Palestin. British dan Perancis mula menjalankan kolonisasi di tanah-tanah jajahannya. Bertitik tolak daripada situ wujudlah negara bangsa, apabila sempadan-sempadan digariskan memisahkan sempadan agama.

Kejatuhan Turki Uthmaniyyah

Pada tahun 1918, tentera kolonial Britain menduduki pusat pemerintahan Turki Uthmaniyyah, iaitu Istanbul. Pada tahun 1922, setelah tamat Perang Dunia Pertama, sebuah Persidangan Lausanne diadakan, yang antaranya mempunyai beberapa tuntutan seperti sistem khalifah ditamatkan, khalifah mestilah dibuang negeri, harta khalifah dirampas, dan kerajaan turki baru akan ditubuhkan atas dasar sekular. Ya, persidangan tersebut menjanjikan kemerdekaan ke atas negara Turki.

Seorang ahli Parlimen Turki pernah bertanya kepada Lord Curzon, ketua perunding pihak pakatan ketika itu, "Kenapa hanya Turki dimerdekakan, sedangkan negara-negara Arab yang lain masih di bawah pemerintahan kolonial?"

Lord Curzon menjawab, "Hakikatnya Turki telah dimusnahkan dan tidak akan bangkit lagi, kerana kita telah menghancurkan kekuatannya - Khalifah dan Islam".

Dalangnya utamanya, Mustafa Kamal Attartuk. Dia mengeluarkan ugutan ke atas kabinet Turki ketika itu, lalu merombak parlimen sedia ada yang tidak bersetuju dengan persidangan tersebut. Parlimen kedua yang ditubuhkan juga tidak bersetuju dengan persidangan tersebut. Akhirnya, Mustafa Kamal Attartuk mengadakan konspirasi politik lalu merampas tampuk pemerintahan. 3 Mac 1924, kerajaan khalifah secara rasminya ditamatkan. Pada pagi hari tersebut juga, khalifah terakhir, Khalifah Abdul Mejid II, diusir keluar dan dibuang negeri. Mustafa Kamal Attartuk mengambil mengambil takhta, dan proses pengsekularan bermula.

Holocaust

Keadaan berterusan, sehinggalah naiknya seorang pemerintah Jerman ketika itu, iaitu Adolf Hitler. Ketika tercetusnya perang dunia kedua oleh beberapa sebab, Hitler melaksanakan pelan pemusnahan kaum yang dikenali sebagai Action T4. Pelan ini merencanakan pembunuhan Euthanasiaberamai-ramai keatas golongan tertentu, majoritinya Yahudi. Setelah tamat Perang Dunia Kedua, dianggarkan hampir seramai 6 juta Yahudi di seluruh Eropah mati dibunuh. Setelah mengalami kerugian yang besar, Britain berundur dari Palestin dan tanah-tanah jajahannya yang lain pada 1948.

Penglibatan Amerika Syarikat

Amerika Syarikat, selaku kuasa besar dunia setelah Perang Dunia Kedua, memainkan peranan penting dalam penubuhan negara Israel. Pada asalnya, Israel tidaklah wujud sebagai sebuah negara yang hakiki. Setelah Holocaust yang dilakukan oleh Hitler tamat, jumlah penduduk Yahudi yang ada adalah sedikit, serta mereka hidup dalam kesusahan dan ketakutan. Pada ketika itulah, Persatuan Yahudi Amerika mengutuskan tuntutan kepada Presiden Amerika Syarikat ketika itu, Harry Truman. Pada November 1947, tuntutan tersebut dibawa ke persidangan Persatuan Bangsa-bangsa Bersatu (PBB) lalu pemisahan Palestin dideklarasikan. Pada 16 May 1948, kerajaan sementara Israel ditubuhkan di Palestin, dengan sokongan dari PBB. Presiden Harry Truman menyokong sepenuhnya penubuhan Israel, maka wujudlah penempatan Israel di tanah Palestin sehingga kini. Presiden Israel yang pertama ialah Chaim Weizmann.

Palestin Sekarang

Sedari peristiwa Holocaust, ramai Yahudi berhijrah ke Amerika atas dasar terbuka negara tersebut terhadap mereka, serta ramai juga yang pulang ke tanah air di Israel. Yahudi di Amerika diterima dengan tangan terbuka, bantuan dan pekerjaan diberikan kepada mereka atas dasar belas kasihan akibat Holocaust tersebut. Dari situlah, Yahudi di Amerika berkembang dan memegang tampuk ekonomi dan pentadbiran Amerika. Amerika, selaku kuasa besar dunia setelah Perang Dunia Kedua, memberikan sokongan tanpa putus-putus kepada negara Israel, yang didirikan di atas tanah Palestin yang dirampas secara haram.

Sehingga kini, Israel terus-terusan menyerang Palestin dalam usaha meluaskan sempadannya. Palestin pula berjihad, dalam usaha menawan kembali Masjidil Aqsa. Sejak kerajaan khalifah Islam tumbang, tiada sesiapa lagi yang mahu menyokong Palestin. Negara-negara Islam yang lain tunduk takut dan akur kepada Amerika. Sampai bila keadaan ini akan berakhir? Hanya dua; sama ada Palestin akan terus dihapuskan dan Masjidil Aqsa dimusnahkan dalam usaha mereka mencari Temple of Solomon, ataupun tertegaknya kembali kerajaan khalifah Islam yang menyokong perjuangan Palestin.

Di manakah kita? Kita boleh berdiam diri tidak berbuat apa-apa, sekaligus menjadikan kesudahan yang pertama tadi sebagai realiti. Ataupun, kita boleh berusaha melakukan sedaya upaya menyokong perjuangan Palestin, yang membawa kepada kesudahan yang kedua

**Dipetik dari emel yang diterima daripada an nasr ilal huda.

Knowledge Is Everywhere

2010-07-19T19:35:00.000-07:00

Hi/Salam.

Read, read and read.

That's not the only way you can gather information actually. Certainly it's the best way but we tend to neglect that there are tons of ways in order to gather the information (I usually refer the knowledge as information). Tv, environment, everyday life, and experience are the example of how we can get information other than reading.

But unfortunately, there aren't much people that aware of the information contain in these other means of collecting information. Yeah, for example, when they watch tv, they tend to seek the fun out of it and forget that tv also can give them the information that may useful to them. But hey, who the hell watches tv for the sake of information? It doesn't matter actually. Because if you watch something out of pleasure, whatever that something will stick into your brain. It's just the matter of finding it. How to find it? Depends on how well you enjoy that something. I'm gonna give you some example here;

Whenever you hang out and watch some movies, you tend to remember the whole story if the movie is something that you wanted to watch. But what if it is not? for example, Iron-Man and The Spirit. I doubt you'll remember most part in The Spirit as well as you remember the Iron-Man.

My point here is yes, Iron-Man is a better movie than The Spirit, and information will only gathers around you if you seek for it the same way you seek for pleasure. Its just the same principle used "If you want it, you will get it". But I knew that most people will not believe me. Well, I will explain it another time but for now, remember, information is everywhere. Just waiting for you to pick them up and use them wisely. That's all from me, thank you.

Time

2010-07-19T08:26:00.001-07:00

Hi/salam.

It's been a long time since I wrote some useful stuff in here. Yeah, my holiday will end this week and new semester will start next Monday. Recently I realized how time passes around us swiftly without we even realized that it was there. I still remember when I was 6 years old and stole something from the shop nearby. I also still remember the moment I bullied my friends during my primary and secondary school. And yet now I am in 2nd year of my degree program, doing whatever I can to see what future brings to me.

2 weeks from now, one of my friends will change her status from single to married, literally. What I am trying to say here is that if you remember back your past, you will realize how time marches on without any hesitation. And yet you still use your time unwisely. Sleeping more than 8 hours a day, doing some useless stuff, playing games and hanging out with friends are some example of unwise used of time. I know, I am also doing the same thing for the past few weeks of my holiday. Right now I questioned myself with this: How do I spend my time? The question remain unanswered.

Just imagine, if we sleep 8 hours a day, by the time we are 60, we spend about 20 years just for sleeping. And I don't think spending 20 years just to sleep is a good way for spending your time. That is just for example. You see, our brain needs enough rest. We all know that. But the amount of enough rest is not the same for every human in this world. So I am now trying to experiment a few things right after the semester is open.

If our brain needs enough rest, then there is a possiblity that the time needed for our brain to have enough rest is cut short. Means if average time needed is 8 hours, I can reduce it to 4 or 5 hours a day.
I can increase my sense of time if I constantly look at my watch (need to buy one first).
Our brain needs enough rest a day. So i figured that it the rest doesn't necessarily a straight rest. It can also be at certain interval.

There are also some other experiment that I want to complete but that's another story. Anyway, as I said, time doesn't wait for anybody. So make sure use your time wisely so that you will not regret anything later on.

Holidays

2010-07-01T06:12:00.001-07:00

I am now enjoying my holiday. Will continue to give brilliant insights and ideas the moment my holiday ends.

Thank you.

Knowledge

2010-06-01T06:04:00.000-07:00

Hi/salam,

ILMU TANPA AMAL IBARAT POKOK YANG RENDANG TANPA BUAH

I'm sure that most of us know this phrase. Well, i learned this phrase when i was 15, plus, i know it in arabic first rather than in malay. A question popped up yesterday, why did i remember this instead of i don't know, thousands of other phrases?

I think hard enough before i remembered something that i thought the moment i know about this phrase. If the knowledge that we have is something bad, for example, to steal a car, to disable GPS or to unlock a lock, do i need to "beramal" or put these knowledge into action? Certainly i shouldn't but one may then ask, why the hell i know how to steal a car? The answer is, for me, the act of stealing a car is wrong, but i think there's nothing wrong if you know how to steal a car. This knowledge may not be useful and cannot be put into act this time, but in other time, maybe it will.

I think we also know about this phrase

Tuntutlah ilmu dari buaian hingga ke liang lahad

In english, it simply tell us that the search of knowledge only ends when we die. Yet with our current education system, we can only know certain knowledge, not variety of it. In Malaysia especially, parents tend to force their children to get a good job like engineers and doctors, but they don't emphasize on searching for knowledge task. My parent? Well, they simply told me to do what i like, and they act like whoever i'll be in the future, it does not affect them.

Back to the real topic here, so what if i learn something like how to pick a lock? or how to steal a car, rob a bank, use a gun, and other bad stuff? Just because i said i know how to doesn't mean that i am a bad guy. I simply know it because that is what i love to do. Know things. Just so you know, i learn everything that i can, good or bad i don't care. But i don't practice it right away, i wait until the right moment appears. And learning something is good, but if you practice it, then it depends on what,how and why.

*I know not everything but knowing everything is what i want to be.

Library

2010-05-30T23:19:00.000-07:00

Hee, I have an issue. My issue is i am interested in many books but since money is a limitation for me, i can't buy books that cost more than MYR 50 at a particular time. So far i managed to buy these books:

Revolusi IQ,EQ,SQ by Taufik Pasiak
The Antioxidant Miracle by Lester Parker and Carol Colman
Great Wall by John Man
Live, Laugh and Learn pt 12 (Forgot the author)
Power Mind (I'm not sure it's power mind or mind power. The word mind is true though)
(Forgot the real title but the small description says "How does your brain arrive at a decision" or something like that)
A Dictionary

Now these are few books that i hope i can get for free.

Speeches that changed the world by Simon Sebag Montefiore
Islam in History by Bernard Lewis
Yakjuj dan Makjuj, Bencana di sebalik gunung (forgot the author)
The merck manual of medical information
50 high impact speeches
The Psychology of persuasion
Gerakan Freemasonry, Musuh dalam menghancurkan Islam

If I am going to buy all 7 items here, it will cost me around MYR 300++ I'm not saying that i don't have that kind of money, i do but I certainly hope if there's any place where i can read anything i want and return the books anytime i want. We all have limited knowledge thanks to the prize of these books.

*Selaras dengan usaha kerajaan untuk memupuk budaya membaca, saya berharap agar lebih banyak perpustakaan awam dibuka di tempat-tempat yang tertentu. Kemudahan meminjam buku dan memperbaharui pinjaman buku secara online juga harus dimajukan seiring dengan kemajuan jalur lebar di Malaysia

p/s: I just want to read books without having to pay anything. Can't i?

Seeing The Unseen

2010-05-30T05:53:00.001-07:00

Well, in UTP seeing the unseen means the oil and gas exploration in which they will use a sophisticated technology to determine whether there's a potential hydrocarbon in that area or not. But i am not going to tell you about that although i know some of you might want to know how do we explore thing that we can't see.

As it sounds, i'm going to talk about things in which it is not exactly the way they are. We usually thing it is because we are limited by the knowledge that we have, together with information needed in order to view something in its correct angle. Its the same principle used when we look at this picture.

Heh, i'm quite sure most of us look it as a couple doing a foreplay but if you show this picture to a kid i'm sure that he/she only sees a few dolphins swimming in the bottle. You see, this is because our mind has been corrupted with this kind of things, so automatically when something like this shows up we will think about this instead of looking carefully and see that there are seven beautiful dolphins swimming in that jar.

Dolphins in this case is the unseen whereas the couple doing a foreplay is what is obvious. My point here is, whenever something shows up, you don't just bang them, try to look on the other side instead. I think i already said something about looking at different angle in previous post but i don't know, maybe you guys just don't think its useful enough.

Recently, there are few cases in which we might want to look in different angle. First of all, race issues in Malaysia such as Hindraf, then about the scholarship in which the portion of non-malay races has increased, one Malaysia, the gambling issue and recently, i heard about the 40% of the real estate property in Kg Baru will be open for non-malay. Lets try and view this in different ways shall we?

When problems about different races rose, our PM immediately launched the one Malaysia concept where in this concept, no matter what races you are, you will be called a Malaysian. Of course this goes with a few condition or what i called it a bargain such as the scholarship's condition. Well, as expected there are things that we called "Memperjuangkan Hak Melayu" things going on but in my view, this is for groups that afraid their son will not get any scholarship because well, generally speaking, chinese in indians in malaysia gets better result than the malays. We can view it this way, the PM was very clever that they opened the scholarship for non-bumiputra so that there will be a competition here, they hope malays will try and compete with the chinese and indians, not just thinking like this "Takpe, aku melayu, konfem2 kalo ak apply ng result yg kurang ok p0n ak dpt".

Then there is the gambling issue. Well, i know most of us opposed it because Islam says gambling is prohibited. But i think the PM mention something about monitored gambling and no Muslims are allowed to take part of it. The license will only be given to non-muslims, so i don't see where the problem was. I get it Islam says we must not involved in gambling, and also there's hadith that admonishes us to change a wrongdoing by hand (power), tounge (advice), and hate it by heart. The problem that i see is, yes you are right but if the government does not give the license, there will be a lot of illegal bets going on and since it is not monitored, who knows maybe your brother is involved. Besides, we are not yet a muslims country as we do not implement hudud. But since we are multi-races country, if we implement hudud all of sudden, there will be an outbreak of laws, especially by non-muslims, this is because their knowledge about hudud is limited, plus, i haven't seen any methods that effectively bring these non-muslims closer to Islam.

Just so you know, I am a Muslims and i only think base on the information and knowledge that i have. I did not say that gambling is legal but given the circumstances of our environment right now, legalize the gambling issue to non-muslim only is good, and all of the thing that our PM right now proposed is something that is actually good for both malays and non-malays. We just need to view in other side. Do not, I repeat, do not view things only on one side because you are tend to base your judgment on your side.

*Remember, whenever you do something, Islam is still your religion and think by grounding your thinking to all information that you have and Islam.

A Question and An Answer

2010-05-27T19:01:00.000-07:00

Today, I am going to talk about how we view our information by raising a question and getting the answer out of that question. Well, human being always have a question. Whether it be about time, study, work, relationship, or whatever and i am not gonna explain in detail about those particular thing but rather in general.

Question is raised usually when you don't know about something or when you have some trouble or problem yourself. An answer is called an answer when you got a statement or explanation that satisfy your needs. How does this two related? Well, I know that you know the answer. It's simple, a question is raised and an answer is needed. However, in some occasional event, there will not have questions, or answers and sometimes both. For example when scientist raise a question, the answer may not be the exact answer, that is why scientist proposed a "theory" as an answer.

Now, let say that you have one question in your mind together with one answer that satisfy you the most. Are you sure that that is the right question to ask and the right answer that you get? Some of you may say yes and some may say no. Well, the trick is to view the question from all possible angle, not only in the way they are. For example, your boyfriend dumped you. First question that you might wanna ask is "Why". And you seek the answer from your boyfriend. I believed that in this situation, whatever reason that the boy gave to you, you will not believe it as you think it is just an excuse to be with another woman. So, you end up crying a lot, sad, angry and other possible things you might do when you were dumped by other people.

The reason is because you view the answer as an excuse although sometimes it doesn't. If you view it in terms of freedom, i believed your tears will be a tears of joy. Or if you view it in terms of religion, you might want to be grateful. Else in terms of money (for guys usually) you might want to scream and said "At last, my finance is stable". See? Rather than being sad, cry, angry bastard you end up being happy about something that is actually sad. That is the beauty of human perspectives.

To view something in different angles is not an easy task. You need a clear and open mind despite of how hard the circumstances that you are facing is. A question is all about something that you want to know while the answer is always something that you wanted right. Sometimes you might get an answer that doesn't satisfy your question although you have tried to view in other angles. In this case, the simplest thing to do is change the question. The great mind often is recognize when they pointed out a great question. That is just how it is.

*A question is all you need in order to become a great mind

**An answer reflects on how much knowledge that person have

Misi Mustahil 2010 (part 2)

2010-05-25T21:02:00.000-07:00

Hi/Salam

It has been a long time since i updated this blog by myself (instead of copy and paste whatever i received from my friends). Well, its because i am too busy with my life now. Right now is exam week but I managed to clear up some time just to write something here.

Well, i'm not gonna talk about exam papers here but instead since right now we are almost in the middle of 2010, i would like to review my mission that i set up december last year. Here's the "Misi Mustahil 2010" post, you can read it or put it in new tab, i don't care. Below is my comment about my mission. (Number 1 for mission number 1 and so on).

So far, this is the thing that i like most. But sometimes, i feel like what i know is useless when it comes to final exam. But still, so far this is good.
This is also my favourite thing. I am not yet a master but I am so good at writing c++ code. I also started to learn how to use the adobe after effect and database programming. (Can anyone tell me what's the name for OOP compiler?).
Haha, this one, I can tell that it will change but only a little. Well, because out of 4 paper that i answered, only 2 i think is quite good. The other two, hancusss..
Only in January and some days in February. I sleep at 1 if i got class tomorrow morning but if there's no class like today or yesterday, I sleep at almost 3. This is the problem because i didn't wake up for subh prayer. Sigh~
O yeah. I have not started any puasa sunat yet but right now eating only lunch and dinner (if i want to) is good for me. I do feel a little bit hungry sometimes but living in top level in which we need to use the stairs to come down, nah, i feel the hungry is not worth the sweat.
Hurm, this one is good. But lately (in exam week probably) my friends always left me with my roommate alone while they enjoy studying and hanging out.
This one got no progress. Sigh~~
I don't think i've made some progress on this. Maybe i do but...
I managed to save RM100 a month which is actually good. But since my mission stated only half, well, i think i need to work more on this.
So far so good until i don't have any shoes left to be used in game. Well, i think of buying one but i'm gonna wait for sale or something. (kasut futsal cm ratus2 je tp kasut biase cepat rosak lak, haih~)
I don't even know what this means right now. But if i think its okay when i said i've moved on.
Hoyeah. This one is also my favourite. Haha, i can do a backflip from a cliff as high as 5~7 meters. My friend climbed the cliff first but he hesitated whether or not he should jump. Then i climbed the same cliff, went in front of him and there you go, a backflip. Mwahaha.
This one works sometimes. Hee, the moment i clear up my table and my bed is when i'm going home from UTP. H0ho
This one is good until i got my hands on one piece anime, Numb3rs and How I Met Your Mother. I seldomly watch movies but lately, the seldom change to often. Haih~
This one, is a secret. Hee

Well, as for the overall performance in the first half of 2010, i think im doing good. But just wait until december then only we know whether im doing good or not. Hee. Thanks for reading.

A Health Tip

2010-04-19T08:37:00.001-07:00

Health - Very Very Important Tips

Answer the phone by LEFT ear.
Do not drink coffee TWICE a day.
Do not take pills with COOL water.
Do not have HUGE meals after 5pm.
Reduce the amount of OILY food you consume.
Drink more WATER in the morning, less at night.
Keep your distance from hand phone CHARGERS.
Do not use headphones/earphone for LONG period of time.
Best sleeping time is from 10pm at night to 6am in the morning.
Do not lie down immediately after taking medicine before sleeping.
When battery is down to the LAST grid/bar, do not answer the phone as the radiation is 1000 times.

Forward this to those whom you CARE about!

Here are some healthy tip for your smartness & physical fitness.

Prevention is better than cure. HEALTHY JUICES

Carrot + Ginger + Apple -

Boost and cleanse our system.

Apple + Cucumber + Celery -

Prevent cancer, reduce cholesterol, and eliminate stomach upset and headache.

Tomato + Carrot + Apple -

Improve skin complexion and eliminate bad breath.

Bitter gou rd + Apple + Milk -

Avoid bad breath and reduce internal body heat..

Orange + Ginger + Cucumber -

Improve Skin texture and moisture and reduce body heat.

Pineapple + Apple + Watermelon -

To dispel excess salts, nourishes the bladder and kidney.

Apple + Cucumber + Kiwi -

To improve skin complexion.

Pear & Banana -

regulates sugar content.

Carrot + Apple + Pear + Mango -

Clear body heat, counteracts toxicity,

decreased blood pressure and fight oxidization ..

Honeydew + Grape + Watermelon + Milk -

Rich in vitamin C + Vitamin B2 that increase cell activity and str engthen

body immunity.

Papaya + Pineapple + Milk -

Rich in vitamin C, E, Iron. Improve skin complexion and metabolism.

Banana + Pineapple + Milk - Rich in vitamin with nutritious and prevent

constipation

Good one.. Don't miss the attachments

TYPE O	You want to be a leader, and when you see something you want, you keep striving until you achieve your goal. You are a trend-setter, l oyal, passionate, and self-confident. Your weaknesses include vanity and jealously and a tendency to be too competitive.
TYPE A	You like harmony, peace and organization. You work well with others, and are sensitive, patient and affectionate.. Among your weaknesses are stubbornness and an inability to relax.
TYPE B	You're a rugged individualist, who's straightforward and likes to do things your own way. Creative and flexible, you adapt easily to any situation. But your insistence on being independent can sometimes go too far and become a weakness.
TYPE AB	Cool and controlled, you're generally well liked and always put people at ease. You're a natural entertainer who's tactful and fair. But you're standoffish, blunt, and have difficulty making decisions.

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DRINK WATER ON EMPTY STOMACH
It is popular in Japan today to drink water immediately after waking up every morning. Furthermore, scientific tests have proven a its value. We publish below a description of use of water for our readers. For old and serious diseases as well as modern illnesses the water treatment had been found successful by a Japanese med ical society as a 100% cure for the following diseases:

Headache, body ache, heart system, arthritis, fast heart beat, epilepsy, excess fatness, bronchitis asthma, TB, meningitis, kidney and urine diseases, vomiting, ga str itis, diarrhea, piles, diabetes, constipation, all eye diseases, womb, cancer and men str ual diso rd ers, ear nose and throat diseases.

METHOD OF TREATMENT

1.. As you wake up in the morning before brushing teeth, drink 4 x 160ml glasses of water .....interesting

2. Brush and clean the mouth but do not eat or drink anything for 45 minutes

3. After 45 minutes you may eat and drink as normal.

4. After 15 minutes of breakfast, lunch and dinner do not eat or drink anything for 2 hours

5. Those who are old or sick and are unable to drink 4 glasses of water at the beginning may commence by taking little water and gradually increase it to 4 glasses per day.

6. The above method of treatment will cure diseases of the sick and others can enjoy a healthy life.

The following list gives the number of days of treatment required to cure/control/reduce main diseases:

1. High Blood Pressure - 30 days

2. Gastric - 10 days

3. Diabetes - 30 days

4. Constipation - 10 days

5. Cancer - 180 days

6. TB - 90 days

7. Arthritis patients should follow the above treatment only for 3 days in the 1st week, and from 2nd week onwa rd s - daily.

This treatment method has no side effects, however at the commencement of treatment you may have to urinate a few times.

It is better if we continue this and make this procedure as a routine work in our life.

Drink Water and Stay healthy and Active...

This makes sense .. The Chinese and Japanese drink hot tea with their meals ...not cold water. Maybe it is time we adopt their drinking habit while eating!!! Nothing to lose, everything to gain...

For those who like to drink cold water, this article is applicable to you.

It is nice to have a cup of cold drink after a meal. However, the cold water will solidify the oily stuff that you have just consumed . It will slow down the digestion.
Once this 'sludge' reacts with the acid, it will break down and be absorbed by the intestine faster than the solid food. It will line the intestine. Very soon, this will turn into fats and lead to cancer.. It is best to drink hot soup or warm water after a meal.

A serious note about heart attacks: Women should know that not every heart attack symptom is going to be the left arm hurting.
Be aware of intense pain in the jaw line.

You may never have the first chest pain during the course of a heart attack..

Nausea and intense sweating are also common symptoms.

60% of people who have a heart attack while they are asleep do not wake up.

Pain in the jaw can wake you from a sound sleep. Let's be careful and be aware. The more we know, the better chance we could survive...

A cardiologist says if everyone who gets this mail sends it to everyone they know, you can save a person's life!!

*This is a direct copy from my inbox. Glad to share it with you guys.

Sebijik Tembikai

2010-04-19T08:35:00.000-07:00

Pada suatu hari, seorang ahli sufi yang masyhur bernama Syaqiq Al- Balkhi r.m telah membeli sebiji tembikai. Kemudian dia membawa tembikai itu pulang dan diberikan kepada isterinya. Apabila isterinya membelah tembikai itu untuk dimakan, ternyata buah tembikai itu tidak elok, maka marah- marahlah isteri Syaqiq dengan keadaan tersebut.

Maka bertanyalah Syaqiq kepada isterinya: “Kepada siapa engkau tujukan marahmu itu, adakah kepada penjual, pembeli, penanam atau Pencipta buah tembikai itu?.” Terdiam isterinya mendengar pertanyaan tersebut.

Kemudian Syaqiq teruskan lagi kata-katanya: “ Adapun si penjual, sudah tentu mau jualannya terdiri daripada barangan yang terbaik. Adapun si pembeli juga sudah tentu mau membeli barang yang terbaik juga. Bahkan si penanam juga sudah tentu berharap hasil tanamannya yang terbaik juga. Maka ternyatalah marahmu ini engkau tujukan kepada Pencipta buah tembikai ini. Maka bertaqwalah engkau kepada Allah dan redhalah dengan segala ketentuan- Nya.”

Maka menangislah isteri Syaqiq. Lalu bertaubat dan iapun redhalah dengan apa yang telah ditentukan oleh Allah SWT.

*I'm sure that many of us have heard this story but it's a good thing if someone documented it.

**This is a direct copy from my email. Sorry for any inconveniences

Satu Peringatan

2010-04-19T08:33:00.000-07:00

Siapakah orang yang sibuk? Orang yang sibuk adalah orang yang tidak mengambil berat akan waktu solatnya seolah-olah ia mempunyai kerajaan seperti kerajaan Nabi Sulaiman a.s

Siapakah orang yang manis senyumanya? Orang yang mempunyai senyuman yang manis adalah orang yang ditimpa musibah lalu dia kata "Inna lillahi wainna illaihi rajiuun." Lalu sambil
berkata,"Ya Rabbi Aku redha dengan ketentuanMu ini", sambil mengukir senyuman.

Siapakah orang yang kaya? Orang yang kaya adalah orang yang bersyukur dengan apa yang ada dan tidak lupa akan kenikmatan dunia yang sementara ini.

Siapakah orang yang miskin? Orang yang miskin adalah orang tidak puas dengan nikmat yang ada sentiasa menumpuk-numpukkan harta.

Siapakah orang yang rugi? Orang yang rugi adalah orang yang sudah sampai usia pertengahan namun masih berat untuk melakukan ibadat dan amal-amal kebaikan...

Siapakah orang yang paling cantik? Orang yang paling cantik adalah orang yang mempunyai akhlak yang baik.

Siapakah orang yang mempunyai rumah yang paling luas? Orang yang mempunyai rumah yang paling luas adalah orang yang mati membawa amal-amal kebaikan di mana kuburnya akan di perluaskan saujana mata memandang.

Siapakah orang yang mempunyai rumah yang sempit lagi dihimpit? Orang yang mempunyai rumah yang sempit adalah orang yang mati tidak membawa amal-amal kebaikkan lalu kuburnya menghimpitnya...

Siapakah orang yang mempunyai akal? Orang yang mempunyai akal adalah orang-orang yang menghuni syurga kelak kerana telah mengunakan akal sewaktu di dunia untuk menghindari siksa neraka..

*Dipetik dari e-mel yang diberikan kepada saya

A Goalkeeper or A Striker?

2010-04-04T16:07:00.000-07:00

Hi/salam

Last two days, I was playing soccer with my friends and as usual, at 5.30pm only me, my ex-roommate and a few other people were in the field. This post is not about the punctuality but, just keep on reading.

As me and my friends were about to start, we were having conflict on who’s going to be the other team’s keeper cause their team got the main keeper and our sub didn’t show up. So, I offered myself to be this team’s keeper as no one else are good at it except me (it’s not an exaggerated fact, it is a fact). While we were playing, I noticed that my defense went a little bit higher and some of them went to help the attacking force. Since I rarely comment anything in the field, I just let it be and in about 10 minutes or so after my defense went up, they shot the ball that passed right at the tip of my left hand (it is my weakness anyway). Damn, they scored. So I changed with my friend, he be the keeper and I be the defender. It’s tough but every time I noticed that my other defender went up, the other team attacked. Until at one point, I noticed I was in the middle line and since I am the last man, you can think where my other defenders went. Yeah, they went to up field and attack.

Did you get my point here? I guess some of you may have and some may have not. My point here is, the one that shoot the ball into the net, get the glory while we, defenders (including the keeper) does not get anything at all. Let me give you an example, if your team played and win 2-0 against the other team, certainly the question will be “who’s the scorer?” Although the team’s defense was so tough till the opponent can’t get a score, still, the scorer gets all the glory. Why is this happening? I don’t know the answer yet. I will play again with them and ask them this question. And I hope you also think about what have I wrote here.

Aku Bimbang

2010-03-23T18:12:00.000-07:00

Aku bimbang ..sangat bimbang
Bagaimanakah kalau besok..aku mati mendadak?
Sembahyangku masih banyak..yang belum terqada'
Ingin membayar puasa yang tertinggal..masih belum aku bertindak
Hutangku masih berlambak-lambak.
Finance kereta-ku belum lagi lunas tertunai
Hutang bank rumah-ku masih belum selesai
Kewajipanku masih banyak yang terbengkalai

Aku bimbang..sangat bimbang..
Apakah aku akan diberi VIP Welcome di alam barzakh
oleh Munkar dan Nankir dengan senyuman bermanis wajah
Atau .......................................
Apakah aku akan dibelasah
Oleh pembengis-pembengis di alam barzakh ?
Apakah aku dapat menahan sakit
Bila ular kubur datang menggigit
Kerana sembahyangku yang amat sedikit.

Aku bimbang..sangat bimbang..
Isyak masuk..ayah ke surau menyembah Allah
Aku depan tv menonton AKADEMI FANTASIA,
Ayah bertasbih, bertahmid..berzikir memuji Tuhan
Aku terjerit2..MENYOKONG PESERTA REALITI TV YANG SIA-SIA.
Ayah menggunakan masa mencari redhaan Tuhan
Tapi aku masih berpoya-poya seperti NYAWAKU PANJANG LAGI.
Kalaulah besok subuh Izrail datang bertandang
Bagaimanakah nasibku..setelah dunia aku tinggalkan?

Aku bimbang..amat bimbang..
Imanku masih terumbang-umbang
Ketika aku di dalam kubur..
adakah orang yang akan mendo'akan ?
Siapa akan menyedekahkan bacaan Yasin dan surah-surah Al-Qur'an
Buat meredakan siksa kubur yang datang tanpa kasihan
Nasibku di bawah tanah..adakah siapa yang akan mengenangkan ?
Hilang aku dari pandangan..
Hilanglah aku dalam kenangan.
Jadi..kenapa aku kurang berusaha menyiapkan bekalan ?
Supaya di kubur nanti aku diberi VIP Welcome.

Aku bimbang..sangat bimbang..
Amal ibadahku sangat berkurang !
WAHAI MANUSIA ... taubatlah engkau dari sekarang
Tinggalkanlah padang bola..
TINGGALKAN HIBURAN MELAMPAU dan pergi ke masjid seperti orang lain
Qada'lah sembahyangmu yang tertinggal, bayarlah puasamu
Berhentilah menjadi sahabat syaitan
Agar hidupmu mendapat keredhaan
Sebelum engkau kembali ke ALAM BARZAKH.

*Hasil coretan seorang sahabat kerdil yang merasakan kematian itu tiba pada bila-bila masa.

Lawak Jenaka

2010-03-23T18:11:00.000-07:00

Murid : Selamat pagi, cikgu.

Cikgu : (Menengking) Mengapa selamat pagi sahaja? Petang dan malam awak doakan saya tak selamat?

Murid : Selamat pagi, petang dan malam cikgu!

Cikgu : Panjang sangat! Tak pernah dibuat oleh orang! Kata selamat sejahtera! Senang dan penuh bermakna. Lagipun ucapan ini meliputi semua masa dan keadaan.

Murid : Selamat sejahtera cikgu!

Cikgu : Sama-sama, duduk! Dengar sini baik-baik. Hari ini cikgu nak uji kamu semua tentang perkataan berlawan. Bila cikgu sebutkan perkataannya, kamu semua mesti menjawab dengan cepat, lawan bagi perkataan-perkataan itu, faham?

Murid : Faham, cikgu!

Cikgu : Saya tak mahu ada apa-apa gangguan.

Murid : (senyap)

Cikgu : Pandai!

Murid : Bodoh!

Cikgu : Tinggi!

Murid : Rendah!

Cikgu : Jauh!

Murid : Dekat!

Cikgu : Keadilan!

Murid : UMNO!

Cikgu : Salah!

Murid : Betul!

Cikgu : Bodoh!

Murid : Pandai!

Cikgu : Bukan!

Murid : Ya!

Cikgu : Oh Tuhan!

Murid : Oh Hamba!

Cikgu : Dengar ini!

Murid : Dengar itu!

Cikgu : Diam!

Murid : Bising!

Cikgu : Itu bukan pertanyaan, bodoh!

Murid : Ini ialah jawapan, pandai!

Cikgu : Mati aku!

Murid : Hidup kami!

Cikgu : Rotan baru tau!

Murid : Akar lama tak tau!

Cikgu : Malas aku ajar kamu!

Murid : Rajin kami belajar cikgu!

Cikgu : Kamu gila!

Murid : Kami siuman!

Cikgu : Cukup! Cukup!

Murid : Kurang! Kurang!

Cikgu : Sudah! Sudah!

Murid : Belum! Belum!

Cikgu : Mengapa kamu semua bodoh sangat?

Murid : Sebab saya seorang pandai!

Cikgu : Oh! Melawan!

Murid : Oh! Mengalah!

Cikgu : Kurang ajar!

Murid : Cukup ajar!

Cikgu : Habis aku!

Murid : Kekal kami!

Cikgu : O.K. Pelajaran sudah habis!

Murid : K.O. Pelajaran belum bermula!

Cikgu : Sudah, bodoh!

Murid : Belum, pandai!

Cikgu : Berdiri!

Murid : Duduk!

Cikgu : Saya kata UMNO salah!

Murid : Kami dengar KeADILan betul!

Cikgu : Bangang kamu ni!

Murid : Cerdik kami tu!

Cikgu : Rosak!

Murid : Baik!

Cikgu : Kamu semua ditahan tengah hari ini!

Murid : Dilepaskan tengah malam itu!

Cikgu : (Senyap dan mengambil buku-bukunya keluar.)

*Jumpa di internet..forward to ur friends who understand Bahasa

Hormati Guru Anda

2010-03-21T21:25:00.000-07:00

Hi/Salam

Last two weeks, i went to my favorite class called Seismic Method and Interpretation..The lecturer asked us, do u wanna go to a field trip or would u rather doing assignments during ur holiday?? Everyone else opposed the field trip suggestion as we only got one week off...so, he gave us an assignment which is supposed to be sent today..but somehow when he came to class today, he asked us where is ur assignment?? So we replied, which assignment?? The "we" was only part of the class though..i kept my mouth shut cause i haven't finished it yet (yeah, i enjoyed myself a lot during the holiday)..but my point here is why do they replied "which assignment?"...then they came out with their own version of answers which is so annoying...to me, i dont know whether my lecturer is annoyed by that or not...

My version of answer is this..yeah, i know our course cause us to get close with our lecturers..and yes, we, student in my course are too well bond with our lecturers until at one point we can treat our lecturers as friends..but still, since they forgot that they are our lecturers, they tend to treat our lecturers just as friends...i dont think its wrong but i just think that it wasn't good..first of all is because we should know when to treat him as friend and when to treat him as lecturer..since some of students in my course couldnt understand this, so that is why this thing happened..second is because the way that group conveys their opinions is somehow irritate me..maybe because i once behave like them too...

Yeah, i know..some of u may know this story..the title i chose is respect ur teacher because i know what will happen when u disrespect them...it can turn ur "A" into "B" just because u disrespect them..i dont know but God may want u to respect them as they hold much more knowledge than u do...and it is normal to think that if u do bad things, bad things happened to u..i think everyone in my school knew what happened if u dont respect ur teacher as i am a good example for that...subject which i can score "A" just like that turned into "B" also just like that..and the result from that is actually big, i end up taking 10 instead of 12 subjects and i end up here in utp instead of somewhere oversea...personally, i do want to say sorry but just let bygone be bygone..

anyway, all i want to say is respect ur teacher/lecturer as they have more knowledge than u..if u make them feel bad, u will feel bad too..if not right away, maybe some other time..as for me, i knew how things will be if u dont respect ur teacher..im sorry for being such an emotional idiot while typing this..that's all from me..thank you

Pandangan Manusia

2010-03-17T19:52:00.000-07:00

Hi/salam

Rse cm da lme je xupdate blog ni..bkn xde idea, tp mls nk tekan keyboard...anyway, here's the story for this entry..

2 days ago, i went to kl sentral just to meet my best friend and as usual, we discussed a lot of things. From how are we gonna fulfill our dreams until the how to solve our world biggest problem. Then, after about half an hour talking, he suddenly opened an issue which is related with "the arrival/s" (im not sure whether it has the s or not). For those who doesn't know what the arrival is, you can go to youtube and search the video there.

I have not seen any of that video up until now..yeah, u should watch it, said my other friend..but no, the phrase that i used is "nak percaya xnk, xnk percaya xleh" ..so better leave it and alienate this thing..but well, since the discussion had gone this far, i might as well learn a bit about the arrival. So, my friend keep saying that the arrival is the video showing how dajjal's sign is being pomoted everywhere. It also shows some conspiracies and stuff like beyond our imagination..

But here are my answers to some of the videos

1) Kita view something 2 berdasarkan apa yg kita nak, bkn berdasarkn kebenaran..contoh, checked floor..bnde ni mmg da lme da wujud n kalo kite trace asl dy mmg la ade kaitan ng underground movement sume..but igt, org yg buat 2 maybe xtaw pon psl bnde ni, they just view it as art..so jgn la terus-terusan ckp itu salah ini xboleh, itu illuminati ini freemason, sane dajjal..view la dari pndgn kontemporari, bkn pndgn kuno..

2)kite x boleh mempercayai bulat2 apa yg disampaikan video tersebut..think about it, kalo dy bleh ckp yg itu konspirasi n ini p0n konspirasi, x mustahil video tersebut juga merupakan konspirasi yg sengaja dilakukan..besides, how do u know that it is really a MUSLIM in United States that produced this video??

i think these 2 reasons are more than enough to explain how i view this video..but since i haven't done any research yet, i can't say for sure about this video..as i said, if u dont have enough information, do not jump to conclusion...i think that is all from me..

*i still believe that the sign for the judgment day has become more clearer..so this video is actually a good reminder for us about the day..thank you

Cerita Tentang 50 dan 1

2010-02-26T16:28:00.000-08:00

Hi/salam

Saya ada sebuah kisah yang diceritakan oleh kawan saya kepada saya. Cerita ini adalah mengenai sekeping duit RM50 dan sekeping duit RM1. Kedua-dua keping duit ini berkawan rapat dan sentiasa bersama. Walaupun rapat, namun mereka terpaksa juga berpisah....Setelah hampir 10 tahun, mereka ditakdirkan bertemu di depan pintu masuk masjid. Berikut adalah perbualan mereka...

RM1: eh, RM50, Allah, lme btol kite xjumpe...mcm mane ko skang??sehat ke?? (dgn slang kg sket)

RM50: (dgn slang barat) owh, im fine..how bout u?

RM1: haha..ak mcm ni je la..xde bnde menarik pon..amboi, speaking ko skang..ko da pegi mane?

RM50: ive been to a lot of places..klcc, putrajaya, time square, pavilion, pulau pinang, langkawi, tioman, sabah,sarawak and many other places..(dgn sedikit riak)

RM1: o0o0o0o...byknye tempat ko da pegi..mesti best kn idop ko..

RM50: haha..not really..anyway, how about u?have u ever gone somewhere?

RM1: aku nk pegi mane lg...ni la tempat ak,, masjid2, tabung2 amal, bekas org mintak sedekah..mne la ak nk pegi tempat laen...

RM50: ish3 (geleng2 kepala)....

The first time i heard this story, i feel like crap..yeah because RM50 is too much if we want to give it to mosque or to some poor beggar but it feel awefully small when we go to places like klcc, alamanda, pavilion, time square...why is that happening? damn!!

I have my logic reason for this but im not going to share with you because if you know, then you will not want to put RM50 for the mosque..so i better leave that reason behind...

that is all from me, thank you..

Soalan Yang Perlu Di Jawab

2010-02-24T03:57:00.000-08:00

Hi/salam

Saya ada beberapa soalan utk ditanya dan difikirkan..berikut adalah sedikit daripadanya:

Bagaimanakah otak manusia menukar bahasa perantaraan yang sedang kita gunakan? I mean, kalau kita tgk org kulit hitam, dorg ade bhse dorg sendiri, so mcmmne bile dy tga speaking dgn kite then dy paling kat member dy n ckp bhse dorang before tgk kite balik n reply dlm english?? Is it something yg kite trigger or datang naturally ???
Saya suka cerita Fringe..kehebatan teknologi dan pemikiran yang ditunjukkan dalam cerita tersebut membuatkan saya tertanya-tanya..apakah senjata-senjata yang ditunjukkan adalah sekadar di dalam cerita atau telah sedia ada di muka bumi ini cuma kita yang tidak mengetahuinya??
Ade tak buku yang tunjukkan cara nk trick otak kita?? As far as i know, kita boleh trick brain kita tp kalo xtaw care dy,susah la nk trick..
Light shows some particle like properties and some wave like properties..can we separate this two properties and use only either of them???
Boleh tak kita guna regeneration properties of other living things utk manusia??contoh cm cicak yg leh tumbuh balik ekor dy pas dy putuskan..
can we rewrite our genetic code and produce a super human???
Badan manusia ade nerve yg conduct electrical impulses...so boleh x kalo kite create 1 computer yg bleh link dgn nerve n buatkan kite jadi mcm chuck?? bezanya chuck upload bnde dlm otak dy,,but my method just nk wat bnde 2 bleh on off ske2 ati...boleh x?
if einstein's equation e=mc2 is so much true, that means we can convert any matter into energy..so, is there any way to convert a 2.3kg laptop into 130years of electricity suffice to light up an entire building??
we know that soul existed..but have we ever seen one?? is there any way to see how the soul leave or enter the body?? if we say that soul is a form of energy, can we see it if we use the energy detector to someone who's in their death bed?
we know that time is a straight line..however, if this straight line is meant to be broken,,will it upset the mother nature?? can we really go back to the past and change/see the real history of human race?
Can all of this question be answered in my entire lifetime??

Kehebatan Surah Qulhuallah

2010-02-21T14:56:00.000-08:00

Pengajaran

Allah tidak menjanjikan hidup ini tidak pernah susah,bersuka-ria tanpa kesedihan, Panas tanpa hujan tetapi
ia memberi kita kekuatan, menenangkan kita semasa kesedihan dan menunjukkan jalan yang
sebenar-benarnya. Janganlah kita sombong dengan kelebihan yang sementara.

KEHEBATAN SURAH AL-IKHLAS

'Au zubillah himinashsyaitan nirrajim..bismilla hirrahmannirrahi m'

Tafsirannya:
Aku berlindung dengan Allah daripada syaitan yang direjam,
Allah yang Maha Pemurah lagi Maha Mengasihani.

Bacalah ayat ini sebelum anda memulakan apa-apa saja kerja kerana dengan
bacaan ini akan keluarlah iblis dan syaitan yang berada didalam
tubuh kita dan juga di sekeliling kita, mereka akan berlari keluar umpama
cacing kepanasan. Sebelum anda masuk rumah, bacalah ayat di atas,
kemudian bacalah surah Al-Ikhlas (iaitu ayat: Qulhuwallahu ahad.
Allahussamad. Lamyalid walam yu-lad. Walam yakul lahu kufuwan ahad..) sebanyak 3 kali.

Masuklah rumah dengan kaki kanan dan dengan membaca bismillah...
Berilah salam kepada anggota rumah dan sekiranya tiada orang di rumah
berilah salam kerana malaikat rumah akan menyahut. Amalkanlah bersolat
kerana salam pertama (ianya wajib) yang diucapkan pada akhir solat akan
membantu kita menjawab persoalan kubur
Apabila malaikat memberi salam, seorang yang jarang bersolat akan sukar
menjawab salam tersebut. Tetapi bagi mereka yang kerap bersolat, amalan
daripada salam yang diucap di akhir solat akan menolongnya menjawab salam malaikat itu.

Diriwayatkan oleh Iman Bukhari sabda Nabi Muhammad sa.w:
'Barang siapa membaca Qul huwa'llahu ahad 100,000 kali maka sesungguhnya
ia telah menebus dirinya dari Allah, maka menyeru yang menyeru dari pihak
Allah di langit dan di bumi. Kusaksikan bahwa sifulan itu telah menjadi pemendekaan
Allah sesungguhnya ia adalah pemerdekaan dari sisi Allah, Sesungguhnya ia adalah
pemerdekaan dari neraka'. Inilah yang dinamakan membaca Qulhua'llah ahad
satu hatam yaitu 100,000 kali dengan diwiridkan seberapa ribu kesanggupan kita sehari..

Sabda Rasulullah S.A.W yang bermaksud:

Barangsiapa membaca surah Al-Ikhlas sewaktu sakit sehingga dia meninggal dunia,
maka dia tidak akan membusuk di dalam kuburnya, akan selamat dia dari kesempitan
kuburnya dan para malaikat akan membawanya dengan sayap mereka melintasi titian
siratul mustaqim lalu menuju ke syurga. (Demikian diterangkan dalam Tadzikaratul Qurthuby).
Rasulullah SAW pernah bertanya sebuah teka-teki kepada umatnya Siapakah antara
Kamu yang dapat khatam Qur'an dalam jangkamasa dua-tiga minit? Tiada seorang
dari sahabatnya yang menjawab. Malah Saiyidina Ummar telah mengatakan
bahawa ianya mustahil untuk mengatam Qur'an dalam begitu cepat. Kemudiannya
Saiyyidina Ali mengangkat tangannya. Saiyidina Ummar bersuara kepada Saiyidina Ali
bahawa Saiyidina Ali (yang sedang kecil pada waktu itu) tidak tahu apa yang dikatakannya
itu. Lantas Saiyidina Ali membaca surah Al-Ikhlas tiga kali.
Rasulullah SAW menjawab dengan mengatakan bahawa Saiyidina Ali betul. Membaca surah Al-Ikhlas sekali
ganjarannya sama dengan membaca 10 jus kitab Al-Quran... Lalu dengan membaca surah
Al-Ikhlas sebanyak tiga kali qatamlah Quran kerana ianya sama dengan membaca 30 jus Al-Quran.

Berkata Ibnu Abbas r.a. bahawa Rasulullah SAW telah bersabda:

Ketika saya (Rasulullah SAW) israk ke langit, maka saya telah melihat Arasy di atas 360,000
sendi dan jarak jauh antara satu sendi ke satu sendi ialah 300,000 tahun perjalanan.

Pada tiap-tiap sendi itu terdapat padang sahara sebanyak 12,000 dan luasnya setiap satu
padang sahara itu seluas dari timur hingga ke barat. Pada setiap padang sahara itu terdapat
80,000 malaikat yang mana kesemuanya membaca surah Al-Ikhlas.

Setelah mereka selesai membaca surah tersebut maka berkata mereka:
Wahai Tuhan kami, sesungguhnya pahala dari bacaan kami ini kami berikan kepada orang
yang membaca surah Al-Ikhlas baik ianya lelaki mahupun perempuan...

Sabda Rasulullah SAW lagi:

Demi Allah yang jiwaku ditanganNya,

sesungguhnya Qul Huwallahu Ahadu itu tertulis di sayap malaikat Jibrail a.s,

Allahhus Somad itu tertulis di sayap malaikat Mikail a.s,
Lamyalid walam yuulad tertulis pada sayap malaikat Izrail a.s,

Walam yakullahu kufuwan ahadu tertulis pada sayap malaikat Israfil a.s.

Siapa membaca surah Fatihah, al-ikhlas, al-falaq, dan an-annas setiap
satu sebanyak 7 kali selepas solat jumaat, nescaya terpelihara dari perkara keji dan segala
bala hinggalah ke jumaat yang berikiutnya..

Jika dibaca 3 surah ini al-ikhlas, al-falaq and an-nass pagi dan petang nescaya tidak
mengalami apa-apa kesusahan.

Nota:
Jika sekiranya kawan-kawan ingin mengumpul saham akhirat, sampaikanlah ilmu ini
kepada kawan2 yang lain. Sepertimana sabda Rasulullah SAW 'Sampaikanlah pesananku
walaupun satu ayat'.

Sesungguhnya apabila matinya seseorang anak Adam itu, hanya
3 perkara yang akan dibawanya bersama :

1) Sedekah/amal jariahnya
2) Doa anak-anaknya yang soleh
3) Ilmu yang bermanfaat yang disampaikannya kepada orang lain

*copied directly from an email that i got from my friends..

Hari Valentine

2010-02-13T07:23:00.000-08:00

Soalan

Assalamualaikum ustaz,

Benarkah hukum menyambut hari Valentine adalah haram, bagaimana pula hukum menjual hadiah dan bunga kepada pasangan-pasangan bukan Islam dan sebahagian umat Islam yang meraikannya?

JAWAPAN

Saya telah menyertakan jawapan di ruangan artikel bahasa Inggeris, bagi membantu rakan-rakan yang kurang selesa memahami bahasa Inggeris, disertakan jawapan ringkas saya berkenaan sambutan hari valentine.

Asal-usul Valentine

Tindakan mengaitkan pertengahan bulan Februari dengan cinta dan kesuburan sudah ada sejak dahulukala. Menurut tarikh kalenderAthena kuno, periode antara pertengahan Januari dengan pertengahan Februari adalah bulan Gamelion, yang dipersembahkan kepadapernikahan suci Dewa Zeus dan Hera.

Di Roma kuno, 15 Februari adalah hari raya Lupercalia, sebuah perayaan Lupercus, dewa kesuburan, yang dilambangkan setengah telanjang dan berpakaian kulit kambing. Sebagai bagian dari ritual penyucian, para pendeta Lupercus meyembahkan korban kambing kepada sang dewa dan kemudian setelah minum anggur, mereka akan lari-lari di jejalanan kota Roma sembari membawa potongan-potongan kulit domba dan menyentuh siapa pun yang mereka jumpai. Terutama wanita-wanita muda akan maju secara sukarela karena percaya bahwa dengan itu mereka akan dikarunia kesuburan dan bisa melahirkan dengan mudah. (http://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hari_Valentine)

Selain itu, sejarahnya juga berkait dengan fakta di bawah :-

Saint Valentine is a name which is given to two of the ancient "martyrs" of the Christian Church. It was said that there were two of them, or that there was only one, who died in Rome as the result of the persecution of the Gothic leader Claudius, c. 296 CE. In 350 CE, a church was built in Rome on the site of the place where he died, to perpetuate his memory.

When the Romans embraced Christianity, they continued to celebrate the Feast of Love mentioned above, but they changed it from the pagan concept of "spiritual love" to another concept known as the "martyrs of love", represented by Saint Valentine who had advocated love and peace, for which cause he was martyred, according to their claims. It was also called the Feast of Lovers, and Saint Valentine was considered to be the patron saint of lovers.

One of their false beliefs connected with this festival was that the names of girls who had reached marriageable age would be written on small rolls of paper and placed in a dish on a table. Then the young men who wanted to get married would be called, and each of them would pick a piece of paper. He would put himself at the service of the girl whose name he had drawn for one year, so that they could find out about one another. Then they would get married, or they would repeat the same process again on the day of the festival in the following year.

The Christian clergy reacted against this tradition, which they considered to have a corrupting influence on the morals of young men and women. It was abolished in Italy, where it had been well-known, then it was revived in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, when in some western countries there appeared shops which sold small books called "Valentine's books", which contained love poems, from which the one who wanted to send a greeting to his sweetheart could choose. They also contained suggestions for writing love letters.

(The above quotation is excerpted, with slight modifications, from www.Islam-qa.com)

Justeru, secara ringkasan saya boleh simpulkan seperti berikut :-

1) Kita hanya boleh merayakan perayaan yang diiktiraf oleh Islam iaitu Idil Fitroi dan Idil Adha. Nabi SAW bersabda :

(إن لكل قوم عيدا وإن هذا عيدنا)

Ertinya : Sesungguhnya bagi setiap kaum itu perayaan masing-masing, dan ini (IdilFitri dan Idiladha) adalah perayaan kita" ( Riwayat AL-Bukhari, 952 ; Muslim, 1892)

Justeru, sebarang perayaan yang disambut oleh umat Islam mestilah terhad kepada dua perayaan ini sahaja.

Bagaimanapun, jika sesuatu majlis, keraian dan sambutan itu dianjurkan bukan atas asas atau nama agama serta tiada kaitan dengannya bahkan dibuat atas dasar adat semata-mata. Ianya boleh dan harus diraikan dengan syarat sambutannya tidak diserapi apa jua unsur maksiat dan syirik. Sebagai contoh sambutan kemerdekaan Negara, sambutan ulangtahun penubuhan sesebuah syarikat dan sebagainya. Cuma ia bukanlah disambut sebagai hari raya ketiga atau keempat, tetapi hanya sebagai majlis keraian setaraf dengan majlis perkahwinan dan sepertinya sahaja.

Ini bermakna, setiap tujuan dan asal usul perayaan itu perlulah disemak. Maka jika disemak perayaan Valentine ini. Ternyata ia berasal dari cerita dongeng, karut dan syirik berakitan dewa dan sebagainya. Selain dari asalusul, cara dan kaedah implementasnya juga mesti dilihat, jika secara adatnya ia disambut dengan dosa dan maksiat. Ia sekali lagi dilarang di atas dasar tersebut pula.

2) Tidak harus pula meniru orang Kafir dan ahli maksiat dalam meraikan majlis yang dianjurkan. Imam Ibn Taymiah dan Ibn Qayyim telah menyebut bahawa telah Ijma' (sepakat keseluruhan Ulama) melarang penyerupaan dalam meraikan perayaan agama ( atas asas agama) selain Islam. ( Iqtidha, 1/454 ; Ahkam Ahli Zimmah, 2/722)

3) Islam tidak mengiktiraf hari kasih sayang. Kasih sayang dalam Islam bersifat universal, tidak dibatasi waktu dan tempat dan tidak dibatasi oleh objek dan motif. Hal ini sesuai dengan hadis :

"Cintailah saudara seislam seperti kamu mencintai dirimu sendiri." (Riwayat Bukhari).

Islam sangat melarang keras untuk saling membenci dan bermusuhan, namun sangat menjunjung tinggi akan arti kasih sayang terhadap umat manusia.

Rasulullah saw. bersabda : "Janganlah kamu saling membenci, berdengki-dengkian, saling berpalingan, dan jadilah kamu sebagai hamba-hamba Allah yang bersaudara. Juga tidak dibolehkan seorang muslim meninggalkan (tidak bertegur sapa) terhadap saudaranya lebih dari tiga hari" (Muslim)

Kasih sayang dalam Islam diwujudkan dalam bentuk yang nyata seperti silaturahmi, menjenguk yang sakit, meringankan beban tetangga yang sedang ditimpa musibah, mendamaikan orang yang berselisih, mengajak kepada kebenaran (amar ma'ruf) dan mencegah dari perbuatan mungkar

4) Sambutan hari Valentine hari ini menjadi semakin terkeji apabila ia menjurus kepada perlakuan maksiat, mengadaikan ‘dara' kepada kekasih yang bernafsu ‘syaitan' dan dengan perlakaun seks bebas yang kononnya bagi membuktikan 'ketulenan' cinta seseorang kepada kekasihnya..

5) Islam juga melarang umatnya dari terlibat, duduk serta bersekongkol dalam majlis yang mempersendakan Islam dan bercanggah dengannya. Ini dari firman Allah yang bererti :

وَقَدْ نَزَّلَ عَلَيْكُمْ فِي الْكِتَابِ أَنْ إِذَا سَمِعْتُمْ آيَاتِ اللّهِ يُكَفَرُ بِهَا وَيُسْتَهْزَأُ بِهَا فَلاَ تَقْعُدُواْ مَعَهُمْ حَتَّى يَخُوضُواْ فِي حَدِيثٍ غَيْرِهِ إِنَّكُمْ إِذًا مِّثْلُهُمْ إِنَّ اللّهَ جَامِعُ الْمُنَافِقِينَ وَالْكَافِرِينَ فِي جَهَنَّمَ جَمِيعًا

"Dan sungguh Allah telah menurunkan kepada kamu di dalam Al Qur'an bahwa apabila kamu mendengar ayat-ayat Allah diingkari dan diperolok-olokkan (oleh orang-orang kafir), maka janganlah kamu duduk beserta mereka, sehingga mereka memasuki pembicaraan yang lain. Karena sesungguhnya (kalau kamu berbuat demikian), tentulah kamu serupa dengan mereka. Sesungguhnya Allah akan mengumpulkan semua orang-orang munafik dan orang-orang kafir di dalam Jahanam" ( An-Nisa : 140 )

Diriwayatkan dari Umar r.a. bahwa dia pernah mendengar Rasulullah s,a.w. bersabda:

"Barangsiapa beriman kepada Allah dan hari akhir, maka janganlah duduk pada suatu hidangan yang padanya diedarkan arak." (Riwayat Ahmad)

Maka majlis arak yang haram itu adalah sama hukumnya dengan majlis Valentine yang mana sumber, asal usul dan cara pelaksanaannya yang terdedah kepada pelbagai jenis maksiat. Tidak harus sama sekali untuk menghadiri majlis sempena Valentine di mana-mana jua.

"Jadi adakah pergi shopping sempena 'sale' hari Valentine juga salah?

Jawabnya, sekadar membeli belah ia tidak salah, namun TIDAK DIBENARKAN menyertai seseuatu PERHIMPUNAN, SAMBUTAN KHAS kerana Valentine seperti majlis Konsert, Nyanyian dan sepertinya.

6) Hukum memberikan hadiah sempena hari Valentine juga adalah menjadi haram berdasarkan kaedah dari firman Allah : "Janganlah kamu bantu membantu dalam perkara dosa dan permusuhan"

Bagaimanapun hukum menjual bunga sahaja, ia tidak kurang dari kategori jualan yang syubhah, makruh atau haram khas di hari Valentine.

Diriwayatkan, ada seorang laki-laki yang memberi hadiah satu bekas arak kepada Nabi s.a.w., kemudian Nabi memberitahu bahwa arak telah diharamkan Allah. Orang laki-laki itu bertanya:

Lelaki: Bolehkah saya jual?

Nabi: Zat yang mengharamkan meminumnya, mengharamkannya juga menjualnya.

Lelaki: Bagaimana kalau saya hadiahkan raja kepada orang Yahudi?

Nabi: Sesungguhnya Allah yang telah mengharamkan arak, mengharamkan juga untuk dihadiahkan kepada orang Yahudi.

Lelaki: Habis, apa yang harus saya perbuat?

Nabi: Tuang saja di dalam parit air. (Al-Humaidi dalam musnadnya)

Justeru, kita dapat melihat bahawa benda yang haram, maka haram juga dijualnya mahupun dihadiahkan. Dalam hal menjual bunga, ia juga boleh menjadi syubhah di hari Valentine seperti ini, kerana diketahui ianya dibeli khas untuk mearikan Valentine yang haram. Seperti juga hukum menjual anggur kepada tukang buat arak yang telah diketahui. Ia tidak dibenarkan dalam Islam menurut pendapat yang terkuat.

7) Para ulama juga menyatakan LARANGAN untuk saling mengirim ucapan Valentine, cinta dan kasih bersempena hari itu. Perlu dianggapkan hari Vlentine itu tidak wujud dan ia adalah sebuah hari biasa sahaja.

Sekian

Ust Zaharuddin

26 Muharram 1428 = 14 Feb 2007

*This is something that i just copy from my email...i hope im not plagiarizing anything..thank you

How To Lie Effectively

2010-02-12T20:38:00.001-08:00

Hi/Salam

Today i'm going to teach you all how to lie effectively. Some may think that lying is not going to bring you any good but trust me, people lie all the time. Especially politicians and lawyers. There is a quote for this. But i will come back to that later. Anyway, i think it is hard for me to explain the how to in english so for the next paragraph, i will explain it in both Malay and English language. Just in case if i can't describe the words in Malay, i'll just use english. Ok?

Sebelum saya membawa anda kepada cara untuk menipu dengan sempurna, ingin saya meingatkan bahawa cara-cara yang disebutkan hanyalah berdasarkan pemerhatian dan buku-buku yang telah saya baca. Entri ini hanyalah sekadar bahan bacaan dan bukan untuk diaplikasikan di dalam hidup. Sebarang bentuk penyalahgunaan entri ini tidak berada di bawah tanggungjawab saya. Peringatan, "do not try to read me and analyze whether i am lying or not because obviously if you read this, you don't know how im gonna lie".

Below is the how to lie effectively for my version:

1. Look directly in your victim's eye.

Saya rasa anda pasti ingin tahu sebab di sebalik ini bukan? Saya akan terus kepada contoh di sini, katakanlah anda melakukan kesalahan dan berniat untuk menutup kesalahan tersebut, jangan tundukkan pandangan anda kerana ini menyebabkan perasaan bersalah itu terpancar dan merosakkan rancangan menutup kesalahan tersebut. Sains juga membuktikan bahawa manusia yang pasif selalunya dilabelkan sebagai "loser" dan dianggap menjengkelkan.

2. Be confident when you are lying

Ini merupakan bukti bagi menunjukkan bahawa diri anda adalah benar. Sekiranya anda teragak-agak untuk menipu, biologi tubuh anda akan menunjukkan bahawa anda sebenarnya sedang cuba untuk menipu. Elakkan menipu orang-orang yang mempunyai abiliti membaca pergerakan tubuh kerana penipu amatur biasanya melakukan kesilapan mudah seperti ini.

3. Have a knowledge or ground for what you are lying

Sekiranya anda merancang untuk menipu, anda seharusnya mempunyai segala maklumat mengenai penipuan anda. Contoh, sekiranya anda ingin menipu ibu bapa anda kenapa anda pulang lewat, dan anda ingin memberi alasan bahawa terdapat sesuatu yang menarik perhatian anda, dalam kes ini saya menggunakan perempuan sebagai alasan. Anda seharusnya mempunyai jawapan untuk semua persoalan yang mungkin ditanya oleh ibu bapa anda. Saya akan tunjukkan satu contoh di akhir entri ini.

4. Prepare some props.

Jika anda ingin menipu dengan sempurna, anda haruslah mempunyai props yang baik. Ini menambahkan lagi realiti penipuan anda dan membolehkan orang yang hendak anda tipu percaya sebulat-bulatnya apa yang anda katakan. Misalnya, jika anda hendak berkata bahawa anda bergaduh, selekehkan diri anda dan lebamkan biji mata atau berjalan terhincut-hincut/terbongkok-bongkok bagi menunjukkan bahawa anda benar-benar bergaduh.

5. Have some practice

Menipu memerlukan teknik dan ketepatan. Menipu juga merupakan satu bakat atau anugerah, bukan keburukan diri. Sekiranya anda mampu menipu dengan efektif, anda mungkin mampu mengalahkan pemberita-pemberita hangat malah turut mampu menjana pendapatan lumayan. Praktis membolehkan anda berasa yakin dengan persembahan anda semasa menipu dan membolehkan anda menipu tanpa disedari oleh rakan anda.

Contoh penipuan:

A: Eh,,klas statistic petang ni katner eh??

B: Building M..

A: Owh..kol bape?

B: pukol 3..

pukol 3

A berjalan dari building M ke arah B

B: eh,xde klas ke?

A: Ade..tp malas ah,klas pn0h..ak just masuk,tgu attendance..then pas ak sain ak bla

B: Ko bia btol..klas 2 mne ramai sgt org dow..

A: 2 ah pasal..ak igt td mse ak msk nmpk sape je bdak ak knal..Jef,Ami,Nul,Muthu..laen bdak kos laen ah ak rse..sbb ak prasan ak nmpk Limah, Abu ng Ana tadi..dorang kan kos bisnes

B: Asal dorang sekali ng kite lak??bkn patutnye dorang free ke?

A: Tah..ak msj Limah dy ckp ni replacement klas dorang..so bnde yg die aja sme je ng klas kite yg lpas..

B: 0o0o0o...tp ko da smpai kot building M,gler rugi kalo ko patah balik..

A: xpe ah,ko dga la bnde2 penting,kang ak amek je dari ko..lgpon ak ade hal sket jap g..

B: skati ah ko..k, ak g dlu

kesimpulannya: Kelas tiada. Kenalpasti cara yang A guna untuk menipu B.

Janji Ilahi Dan Pengharapan

2010-02-11T07:05:00.000-08:00

Tafsir Surah An-Nur : 55

Firman Allah S.W.T.

Maksudnya:

" Allah telah menjanjikan kepada orang-orang yang beriman di antara kamu dan yang mengerjakan kebaikan, bahawa Dia sungguh akan menjadikan mereka berkuasa di bumi sebagaimana Dia telah menjadikan orang-orang sebelum mereka berkuasa, dan sungguh Dia akan meneguhkan bagi mereka dengan agama yang telah diredhaiNya. Dan Dia benar-benar mengubah (keadaan) mereka, setelah berada dalam ketakutan menjadi aman sentosa. Mereka (tetap) menyembahKu dengan tidak mempersekutukanKu dengan sesuatu pun. Tetapi barangsiapa (tetap) kafir setelah (janji) itu, maka mereka itulah orang-orang yang fasik." (An-Nur : 55)

Janji Ilahi Dan Pengharapan

Ayat 55 ini adalah inti tujuan perjuangan hidup. Dan inilah janji dan pengharapan yang telah dikemukakan Tuhan bagi setiap mu'min dalam perjuangan menegakkan kebenaran dan keyakinan di permukaan bumi ini.

Dan pokok pendirian mesti dipegang teguh dan sekali-kali jangan dilepaskan , baik keduanya atau salah satu di antara keduanya. Pertama ialah iman, atau kepercayaan , kedua ialah amal shalih , perbuatan baik, bukti dan bakti.

Kalau iman tidak ada haluan pekerjaan tidaklah tentu arahnya entah berakibat baik ataukah berakibat buruk. Iman sebagai telah berkali-kali diterangkan adalah pelita yang memberi cahaya dalam hati , menyinar cahaya itu keluar dan dapatlah petunjuk , sehingga nyatalah apa yang akan dikerjakan . Oleh sebab itu iman dengan sendirinya menimbulkan amal yang shalih .

Banyak pula amalan yang shalih dikerjakan , tetapi jika tidak timbul daripada iman , bercampur-aduklah di antara yang haq dengaan yang batil. Tetapi kalau keduanya telah berpadu satu , amal shalih timbul dari iman dan iman menimbulkan amal , terdapatlah kekuatan peribadi , baik orang seorang ataupun pada masyarakat mu'min itu , maka kepada orang-orang atau masyarakat seperti inilah Tuhan menjanjikan bahwa mereka akan diberi warisan kekuasaan di permukaan bumi ini.

Kendali bumi ini akan diserahkan ke tangan mereka , sebagaimana dahulu pun warisan yang demikian telah pernah pula diberikan kepada ummat yang terdahulu dari mereka.

Dengan sendinnya, apabila kekuatan iman amal shalih itu telah padu satu dan telah menimbulkan hasil nyata dalam masyarakat, maka agama yang dipeluk pun menjadi kokoh dan teguh, berurat ke bumi, bercabang ke langit, tidak dapat diusik dan diganggu orang lagi. Sebab dialah agama yang diridhai Allah.

Kalau sekiranya selama ini dada rasa berdebar, cemas ditimpa oleh takut, rasa-rasa akan ditimpa oleh bahaya juga, rasa-rasa agama ini akan diancam orang juga, sehingga keamanan dalam hati tak pernah ada, namun apabiia janji warisan itu telah dikabulkan Tuhan, rasa ketakutan itu akan hilang dengan sendirinya dan keamanan tercapai, sebagai ganti dari ketakutan.

Tetapi dasar pokok keamanan itu ,diperingatkan kembali oleh Tuhan yaitu sifat-sifat dan kelakuan yang dipunyai umat beriman dan beramal shalih itu. Yaitu mereka hanya beribadat kepada Allah. Mereka tidak mempersekutukan Tuhan dengan yang lain. Selama hal ini masih dijaga terus dan dipelahara , selama itu pula janji perwarisan itu tidak akan dicabut oleh Tuhan. Tetapi kalau sesudah itu mereka kafir lagi, rnenolak dan ingkar lagi, niscaya mereka pun telah terhitung menjadi orang fasik. Jangan kecewa jika janji itu dicabut oleh Tuhan kembali.

Itulah kandungan isi dari ayat 55 itu.

Sebagaimana telah dimaklumi Surat an-Nur turun di Madinah setelah Nabi dan sahabat-sahabatnya yang setia itu berhijrah dari Makkah, mendenta selama 13 tahun, berperang cita dengan kaum musyrikin, padahal kaum musyrikin itu sebagian besar bertali darah dan keluarga dengan mereka.

Seakan-akan tidak terbuka sedikit juga pintu pengharapan. Malahan Nabi sendiri pun hendak dibunuh orang. Sekarang mereka telah berpindah ke Madinah. Pindah atau hijrah karna keyakinan bukanlah perkara mudah. Hartabenda. rumahtangga, kampung halaman tempat diri dilahirkan, ditinggalkan karena menuruti suara kepercayaan, suara iman.

Dan sesampai di Madinah tidak pula segera apa yang dicita-cita itu berdiri. Ada halangan Baru orang Yahudi, ada ejekan dari kaum Munafikin dan ada pula ancaman dari kaum senegeri yang telah ditinggalkan itu. yaitu kaum Musyrikin Makkah senantiasa hendak membalas dendam. Ditambah lagi dengan faktor yang keempat, yaitu orang Rom yang berkuasa telah hampir 700 tahun di bahagian Palestin. Mereka pun cemas melihat kebangkitan ummat Baru ini.

Kadang-kadang seakan-akan gelaplah alam sekeliling. Seakan-akan tidak ada titik terang dari luar. Maka datanglah ayat ini memberi peringatan kepada kaum Muslimin bahwa titik terang itu bukan di luar tempatnya dan bukan dari duar datangnya. Titik terang itu ada dalam diri kita sendiri.

Masih adakah kita mempunyai kepercayaan? iman?
Masih adakah kesanggupan beramal shalih? Berbuat baik ?

Kalau keduanya ini masih ada, inilah dia kekuatan dan tenaga vital bagi seorang Muslim atau bagi suatu masyarakat Islam Karena kekuatan sejati itu bukanlah pada harta benda. Hartabenda hanya alat buat mencapai tujuan. Dan bukan pada banyak bilangan, karena banyak bilangan tidaklah ada faedahnya kalau kekuatan batin kosong melompong. Golongan yang banyak tidak mem punyai cita, sebentar saja dapat dikalahkan oleh golongan yang sedikit yang mempunyai cita. Dan bukan pula pada senjata. Kekuatan yang sebenamya ialah pada yang berdiri di belakang senjata. Tetapi yang berdiri di belakang senjata itu pun tidak kuat, kalau jiwa yang memegang senjata itu tidak mem punyai arah tujuan.

Kehidupan di dunia ini adakah laksana lautan jua, tidak sekali juga terdapat lautan itu yang tenang Airnya beriak terus dan bergelombang dan berombak. Kesusahan terletak dalam kemudahan dan kemudahan pun terletak dalam kesusahan. Tanyailah sendiri, adakah engkau berbekal? Adakah engkau tahan menderita?

Di dalam ayat ini dijanjikan dengan tegas, asalkan iman dan amal shalih, artinya keteguhan jiwa dan daya karya usaha masih sejalin jadi satu dalam jiwa mu, namun warisan itu pasti engkau terima. Engkau bukan seorang ummat Muhammad kalau engkau berputus asa, dan engkau bukan ummat Muhammad kalau hidupmu tidak mempunyai pengharapan.

Ayat 55 Surat an-Nur inilah pegangan Nabi Muhammad saw. bersama sekalian pengikutnya dari Muhajirin dan Anshar, selama 10 tahun di Madinah. Ayat inilah bekal Abu Bakar menundukkan kaum murtad, pegangan Umar bin Khathab meruntuhkan dua kerajaan besar, yaitu Persia dan Rum

Kekuasaan pasti diserahkan ke tangan kita dan agama kita pasti tegak dengan teguhnya dan keamanan pasti tercapai. Asal iman dan amal shalih juga dilepaskan dari pendirian.
Hidup itu adalah perjuangan, sekali ombak naik, sekali ombak turun. Kadang-kadang kita memukul dan kadang-kadang pula kita terpukul .

"Tiba giliran menjadi palu, hendaklah pukul habis-habisan.
Tiba giliran jadi landasan,
Tahan pukulan biar bertalu ..... "
Maka daya tahan kita ialah : pada iman dan amal shalih.

Sekali Muhammad al-Fatih, pahlawan Turki teiah menyeberangi Tandul Emas dan merebut Konstantinopel dan meruntuhkan sisa terakhir dari.Kerajaan Byzantium di tahun 1453: seluruh dunia Islam bersorak mengucap syukur Tetapi sekali pula kaum Muslimin diusir besar-besaran dan mesjid-mesjid dijadikan gereja. menaranya diambil penggantungkan lonceng oleh Raja Spanyol suami-isteri di tahun 1492.

Di tahun 1258 masuklah tentara Mongol dan Tartar ke negeri Baghdad, sesudah menghancur-leburkan, membunuhi dan membakar negeri-negeri Islam di Asia Tengah. Mereka hancur-leburkan Baghdad, mereka bakar istana, mereka lemparkan beribu-ribu jilid kitab-kitab pengetahuan Islam ke sungai Dajlah, sehingga berubah air sungai itu jadi hitam karena tinta yang luntur, dan mereka bunuh Khalifah.

Musuh Islam menyangka bahwa habislah Islam dengan runtuhnya Baghdad dan terbunuhnya Khalifah. Tetapi dalam masa setengah abad saja sesudah kejadian itu, cucu dari tentara Mongol penakluk itu sendirilah yang masuk ke dalam Islam, dan cucu cucunya pula yang mendinkan kerajaan Islam Mongol di India

Sejak tahun 1511 bangsa-bangsa Barat Kristian telah menjajah negeri- negeri Islam. Bangsa Kristian Belanda telah menguasai Indonesia selama 350 tahun. Orang menyangka habislah sudah Islam di Indonesia Rupanya karena pengaruh ayat 55 Surat an-Nur ini, tenaga Islam bangkit kembali dan penjajahan hapus sirna.

Negeri-negeri Kristian membantu berdirinya Negara Israel di pusat ke budayaan dan peradaban Arab, yaitu Palestin. Lebih satu juta orang Arab penduduk asli Palestina terusir dari kampung halamannya Tetapi kejadian ini pulalah yang menjadi perangsang buat kebangkitan baru pada tanah-tanah Arab yang mengelilingi Palestin agar bersatu padu.

Di samping terusirnya satu juta ummat Islam dari Palestina dan hidup me numpang-numpang di negeri tetangganya. 75 juta ummat Islam di Indonesia mencapai kemerdekaan dan 75 juta ummat Islam pula di Pakistan dapat mendirikan negara.

Di dalam memperjuangkan iman dan amal shalih tidaklah selalu kita bertemu jalan yang datar disirami minyak wangi , kiri kanan dipasangi gabagaba daun kelapa Kadang-kadang kita terbentur, sebagaimana Nabi dan para sahabatnya pun pernah terbentur. Kalau kita gagal sekali atau dua kali, ataupun kalau kita kalah. bukanlah berarti bahwa yang kita tuju dan kita cita-cita tidak benar, mungkin cara kita mencapai tujuan yang tidak kena jalannya.

Perjuangan menegakkan cita Islam, mencapai tujuan menjadi penerima waris di atas bumi, bukanlah kepunyaan satu generasi, dan jumlahnya bukan lah sekarang, melainkan menghendaki tenaga sambung bersambung.

Ayat inilah surnber inspirasi buat bangkit.
Maka untuk menguatkan peribadi menghadapi segala kesulitan dan pen deritaan mencapai tujuan itu, hendaklah selalu jiwa dikuatkan, sehingga tahan kena badai dan iman serta amal shalih itu tidak luntur. Cara memperkuat jiwa itu dijelaskan pada ayat 56:

"Dirikanlah sembahyang dan keluarkanlah zakat dan taatlah, turutilah Rasul Utusan Allah itu. Moga-moga dengan jalan demikian kamu akan di limpahi rahmat."

Dengan sembahyang, irnan tadi diperkuat dengan sembahyang , perasaan yang halus dan cinta yang kudus, kepada Ilahi dijadikan imbangan bagi akal yang selalu menerawang Sembahyang memperkuat peribadi, sembahyang menjadi waktu istirahat untuk mencari kekuatan yang baru. Dengan sembah yang, petunjuk pun datang. Sehingga yang gelap terang kembali,-karena pelita telah ada dalam hati.

Apatah lagi dengan sembahyang berjamaah, maka masyarakat selalu rapat. Sebab di ayat yang lain (Surah asy-Syura, ayat 38) dijelaskan benar bagaimana hubungan sembahyang itu dengan kemasyarakatan, dengan musyawarah mengurus urusan urusan bersama.

"Dan orang-orung yang memperkenankan panggilan Tuhannya, bagi mendirikan sembahyang, dan segala urusan mereka, mereka musyawaratkan di antara mereka, dan rezeki yang Kami berikan mereka nafkahkan pula."

Sembahyang bukan tempat lari, melainkan untuk mencari kekuatan meng hadapi tugas, peneguh iman dan memperkuat hubungan (Human Relation). Sesudah mengerjakan sembahyang hendaklah diiringi dengan membayar zakat. Kalau dengan sembahyang memperteguhkan iman, maka zakat adalah untuk memperteguh amal shalih. Zakat bukanlah semata-mata suatu amal suka rela , tetapi suatu kewajiban keagamaan, yang tidak sah keislaman kalau tidak dengan dia, vakni apabila harta yang dizakatkan itu telah cukup nishab (bilangan) dan sampai tahunnya.

Dengan sebab zakat, seorang Muslim menjadi orang masyarakat, bukan semata-mata beramal untuk diri sendiri. Dengan zakat yang kaya membela yang miskin. Dengan zakat penyakit bakhil dapat di ubah dari diri sendiri. Kebakhilan adalah penghalang besar bagi menegakkan suatu cita cita.

Kemudian itu hendaklah taat kepada pimpinan Rasul. Sebagaimana dalam ketentaraan, hendaklah taat kepada pimpinan tertinggi, hendaklah tunduk kepada satu kornandan, demikianlah juga beramal dalam Islam militan sifatnya. Sembahyang lima waktu sehari semalam dengan berjamaah dan bershaf, adalah bibit pertama dari disiplin. Sembahyang berjamaah mempunyai imam. Seorang Mu'min tidak boleh takbir sebelum takbir imam, tidak boleh sujud se belurn sujud imam, dan tidak boleh mengangkat kepala dahulu dari imam. Dan kemudian dari itu, sehabis sembahyang hendaklah setiap orang berusaha mencari kehidupan dan yang mampu memberikan pembagian hasil pencariannya itu untuk yang lemah dan melarat.

Sebahagian pula daripada hasil harta benda zakat itu hendaklah digunakan untuk memerdekakan hamba dan sebahagian lagi untuk Sabilillah, baik untuk Sabilillah berperang, atau untuk Sabilillah Da`wah. Dan segala tindak~tanduk hidup hendaklah diselaraskan dengan tuntunan yang diberikan oleh Rasulul lah, Utusan Allah. Jangan mempunyai atau membuat peratarun sendiri, yang berlainan dengan tuntunan Rasul. Jangan hendak lebih cerdik dari Rasul.

Teknik bisa berubah dari suatu zaman ke lain zaman, Islam pun mengakui pengaruh ruang dan waktu, (Tathbrqul umuri biz zamani wal makani), dan Rasulullah pun menyuruh kita mempergunakan akal dan ijtihad buat me nempuh segala kesulitan, karena seorang pejuang harus mengerti perubahan cuaca dan medan pertempuran, tetapi pokok ajaran Rasul yaitu bahawa ke datangan beliau adalah membawa rahmat bagi seluruh alam, tidaklah boleh berubah selama-lamanya.

Di ayat 56 itu sudah jelas, cita-cita untuk menyambut warisan, melaksana kan kehendak ilahi di atas dunia ini , yang timbul dari iman dan amal shalih hendaklah beredar atas sumbu keperibadian yang diperteguh dengan sembah yang, zakat dan taat menurut Rasul Kalau ini ditegakkan maka rahmat yang dicita-citakan itu pasti tercapai.

Rahmat apakah itu?
Rasa dendam hilang, karena semua orang berlomba mengerjakan ke baikan. Rasa benci tidak berpengaruh, sebab yang kaya mencintai yang miskin dan yang kuat menuntun tangan yang lemah supaya dia terangkat naik, bukan menindasnya. Setiap orang merasai terjamin hak kemerdekaan dan ke bebasannya, sebab kemerdekaan itu timbul dari dalam jiwanya sendiri.

Wallahu'lam...

*This post is a direct copy from an email i received from my friend. I thought i share it with you guys..and if you know the original writer for this post, please tell me..i would like to have a word with him/her..thank you

COUPLE

2010-02-07T02:43:00.000-08:00

Hi/salam

Today’s post is going to be about couple. It’s a very interesting topic where I know most of us think whether we should or we shouldn’t find a couple. I don’t know the exact answer for that question but here I’m going to write what I think about couple. All of the opinion that I will throw to you later are based on the experience of the first party, second party and third party. First is me myself, second is my friends’ experience which I heard/know whatever and the third is when my friend tell me about someone else’s experience

Alright, here we go. First of all, I want to define what does the word couple means. The exact or the correct meaning that I found so far is a pair who associates with one another. This simply means that the couple must have mutual interest or else they won’t become a couple, isn’t it? The big question is why do they need to find a partner? I tried to answer that question myself, but I only came up with some other reasons, not answers. Read the next paragraph if you want to know what do I think about why people always pray for partners.

The first reason is so that they can brag to their friend that they are dating someone. This is closest that I can get to the why question but it can be right or wrong. Yeah, do you realize how your friends behave when they got a partner? SMS-ing and calling everyday are the “must do” routine when they got their girlfriend or boyfriend. See? They just wanted to show you that they have someone interested in them although there are not hot, sexy and also do not have nice assets as you do. Yeah, this one is from me and my friends’ experiences. Some good fact, the SMS-ing and calling thing are the most annoying and the true reasons why a couple breaks up. The phrase “I’m not good enough for you” is basically just a cover story. HAHA

Okay, the second reason or opinion I have, wait, I think this is much more like the reason than opinion but, never mind. Erm, they want to exploit each other. I said this because from my observation, I’ve seen a lot of people who love something else other than “love”. For example, money, sex…I can only think up to two examples, sorry. But anyway, this kind of thing may come from only one party or maybe both, or in a weird case, the third party. Who the hell is this third party anyway? Well, the third party is the one who confront the couple and ask for things that they can exploit. Not going to go detail here, but I do think you know about this right. Sometimes, people just want to have someone SMS-ing them or calling them. Well, this is a sad story but it happened. Just because the two of them are lonely, they start to SMS-ing each other and ended up being a couple instead. And when they feel bored again, they will SMS-ing other person and end the current relationship and start a new one. The bored part is me but the other part was my friends. Funny, isn’t it?

I don’t know how, but I actually have only three points here. I think if you read my other post it will be around three to four points also but I don’t think you would noticed that. Somehow it feels like I’m doing an essay here. Never mind that, this is the third reason. I think that the so called “couple” increases their value. I mean, if you heard somebody says “Hey, do you know that Max is dating our friend, Lily?” Of course your reaction will be “What?” and you will ask the how and the why. The value increases when you know the how and the why. Because you have engaged to one of his/her good quality. Will you be attracted to him right now? No. Eventually? Yes. See the connection here? Actually, I don’t know if this point is true or not because I haven’t test it yet. But from what I heard/read in some novel/newspaper whatsoever, I think this may be quite true.

Alright, you read through all my points just now. Here comes the big question. What do you think of your partner when you read through my post? Don’t worry, I’m not saying that he/she is doing all of this stuff but base on experience, it might. So, better find out what their real intention is before you get hurt….or dump. I think that’s all for my first February post. Kind of suit it don’t you think? Valentine’s day is one February. Don’t worry, I’m just saying. Take care.

*I’m not interested in this thing though because I love being alone and I hate being bound by others.

**Whatever happens between you and your partner is not my concern. Thank you

We Are Able To Do Anything

2010-01-29T17:32:00.001-08:00

Hi/salam.

Last two weeks, I went to a date, not a “date” date but just me with my special friends which I call Haziq, because I have something to discuss with him. The date set place at KL Central, and as usual, I had to spend one and a half hour waiting for him to arrive at that place. I do know the reason but I just keep it in mind because well, he’s my special friend. As we met, we did the usual stuff, hand shake, eat something, discussing the world’s problem and laughing. Then we decided to go to Time Square, also the usual place that we go every time we hang out. While we were walking down the escalator, we saw someone who looks like an artist. Damn, first because it’s a he, second because it was Wan Najlin. He was waiting to buy the ticket to go back but since he met us, we decided to go to Time Square together.

At Time Square, the first thing that we did was eating. Well, it was because Wan is murmuring about his stomach, understand the signal; we went to Lemon Court at Low Yat Plaza. While wan was eating, there was some blind, old man with his daughter I think, came to our table and offer a tissue, which of course we need to pay for it. I said I don’t need any so does Wan and Haziq. Then I said, why is he selling tissues while he can do any other things despite his blind eyes? Yeah, I knew some blind eye man who got their Ph.D and I also knew that handicapped people will get help from the government, but from the way the old man approached us with his daughter, I think that he doesn’t know about all of this stuff.

The discussion about the old man has not finished yet. Wan and Haziq both agree to the fact that the blind old man need some help from us but I said no, he must not do that, depending on others. Because, the people like the old man usually just give up from life, which is why they depend on others, to feel alive. Right now there are tons of things that blind men can do but since we are too lazy to know about this, we end up like the old man. Yeah, blind men can ride a bike nowadays. I know you are not going to believe this, but seriously, they do. Watch Discovery Channel from the first episode until the latest one, I don’t know which episode it is but there was once a documentary about how these blind men ride a bicycle. See? I don’t know about the daughter, but if the daughter or the old man think, they should realize that life hasn’t ended yet.

Yeah, I know some stuff that handicapped people use. If you are deaf, use the amplifier (I don't know the real name for this thing), you can understand what people say in no time, if you leg has been chopped of, use cane, if your hand is chopped of, use the artificial hand. If your penis is chopped of, finger can replace it. The point is, with technology nowadays, handicapped people are getting much more attention than we normal people do. But, we, who born as normal and then become handicapped due to accident or whatsoever will never realize this. Why? Because we never think that we are going to be like that one day. Just don’t accept that your life has ended because you lose one arm, it just an arm anyway. Or leg.

Okay, let us continue with some other thing. I don't know whether this has some connection with the above but, just read it. Let say that you was admitted to a hospital and the doctor said, “Mr X, you have terminal cancer.” Isn’t it shocking? I bet it was. Then you will look down, or to your family, cry, hug and some other family stuff before you start thinking about your religion. Why did you do all that stuff for? Is the doctor the one who decided when are you going to die? No, Allah did. So, why do you need to act like the world is going to end tomorrow? My point here is not actually all the emotion, ethics and religion thing but you still got your brain. Well, people will usually think when are they gonna die but if you use that little time to think about how to cure cancer, isn’t it good? “I’m not a doctor.” So? Learn, do we have to be a doctor in know some doctor stuff? Unless you got something that cause your brain to degenerate or stop to think, then you are as good as dead. Not to be cruel here, but that is the fact, if your brain die, you die. Ask the doctor if you don't believe this stuff.

*This post is a bit of self muttering that's why a lot of irrelevant thing came out.

Dilema Kaum Sendiri

2010-01-18T04:30:00.000-08:00

Hi/salam

Entri ini buat kali ketiga berturut-turut saya menulis di dalam bahasa Melayu. Niat saya pada mulanya hendak menulis di dalam bahasa Inggeris namun pertemuan saya dengan En. Razali, seorang ahli jawatankuasa UMNO di Bagan Datoh, Perak, dan juga seorang ‘businessman’ membuatkan saya ingin menulis dalam Bahasa Melayu sekali lagi. Tajuk entri juga telah diubah. Pada asalnya saya ingin menulis mengenai perbezaan pandangan namun pertemuan saya dengan En. Razali telah membantutkan niat tersebut.

Saya pasti anda tertanya-tanya apa yang ada di dalam pertemuan saya dengan beliau yang membuatkan saya terus ingin menukar entri saya pada kali ini. Terlebih dahulu ingin saya menyatakan bahawa kata-kata beliau telah membuka mata saya dengan lebih luas malah membuatkan saya berfikir sejenak mengenai kebenaran kata-kata beliau itu. Sebelum itu, ingin saya nyatakan, walaupun En. Razali seorang yang saya kira aktif berpolitik, namun saya yakin kata-kata yang beliau cuba sampaikan kepada saya merupakan kata-kata yang sepatutnya dilemparkan kepada semua warga belia yang ada di Malaysia. Saya amat berharap agar apa yang saya cuba sampaikan kepada anda adalah sama dengan apa yang cuba disampaikan oleh beliau kepada saya.

Pembaca sekalian, kaum Melayu di Malaysia sebenarnya telah jauh terjerumus dari landasan yang diharapkan oleh suatu parti yang bersungguh-sungguh memperjuangkan taraf kaum ini. Kita melihat betapa kebanjiran artis-artis, lambakan gejala sosial, kes-kes jenayah, malah yang lebih menakutkan lagi ialah penurunan tahap pemikiran orang Melayu yang kini berada di paras membimbangkan. Jika anda berasa ragu-ragu dengan apa yang saya lontarkan ini, keluar dari bilik anda, lihatlah persekitaran anda dan laporkan apa yang anda lihat. Saya yakin apa yang saya katakan ini tidak salah. Ditambah pula dengan kebanyakan pelakunya adalah dari golongan belia. Perkara ini sebenarnya bukan tidak diperhatikan dan dikawal, tetapi ianya tidak berkesan kerana ketiadaan contoh yang sempurna bagi golongan belia pada masa kini.

Pada masa ini, En Razali lebih berfokuskan kepada bagaimana cara belia Melayu sekarang berfikir. Kata beliau “Budak muda sekarang ni semua nak senang je, handphone ada, semua ada, jadi mereka ni menjadi lebih malas untuk berfikir dan bertindak”. Lebih kurang begitulah kata-kata beliau kepada saya. Tersentak sebentar saya ketika itu, memikirkan betapa benarnya ayat tersebut. Mana tidaknya, jika diberi kelas tambahan, semua merungut, jika tiada kelas semua gembira, jika ada yang meminta kelas tambahan diadakan, semua merasa berat hati dan jelek terhadap orang tersebut. Di tambah lagi dengan longgokan alat-alat elektronik yang murah dan senang didapati, membuatkan mereka lebih terjebak kepada aktiviti-aktivit yang tidak membina daripada aktiviti yang membina. Komputer misalnya, digunakan untuk melihat cerita dan bermain game daripada melakukan sesuatu seperti mengkaji selidik subjek yang diambil atau menambahkan ilmu pengetahuan dalam pelbagai bidang lain.

Beliau menambah lagi “Cuba awak tengok orang zaman dahulu dengan orang zaman sekarang,” itu sahaja katanya. Saya menginterpretasi apa yang beliau katakan begini, orang melayu zaman dahulu lebih dihormati kerana pemikiran mereka yang matang dan jauh ke hadapan. Mereka mendapat sesuatu melalui usaha keras dan susah payah mereka, bukan seperti zaman sekarang, yang mengharapkan semua ilmu itu jatuh ke riba. Tambah beliau, Melayu masa kini sebenarnya dipandang rendah oleh kaum lain kerana apa? Kerana kebanyakan cerita-cerita buruk yang terpampang di dada akhbar melibatkan kaum melayu. Rasuah, jenayah, artis dan pelbagai lagi cerita lain di dalam akhbar kebanyakan wataknya adalah Melayu. Sebab itu kita dipandang rendah. Kita tinjau pula di pusat membeli-belah di MidValley atau di Time Square, kaum manakah yang membuat onar dan berpeleseran tanpa mempedulikan batas agama dan maruah bangsa?

Kata beliau lagi, “Awak masih muda lagi, kalau awak masuk jadi pemuda UMNO awak boleh berjuang untuk 20 tahun lagi. Jadi apa yang perlu awak buat? Cari sasaran yang lebih tinggi dan berusaha untuk mencapai sasaran tersebut. Jangan cepat berpuas hati dengan apa yang awak ada sekarang. Go further up but don’t forget to go and help people down below.” Sampai sahaja disini, saya terdiam seketika. Mencerna apa yang disampaikan beliau. Jika diingat balik, ketika saya bertanya kepada rakan-rakan saya tentang cita-cita mereka, ada antara mereka yang hanya menyebut satu profesion, “doktor, cikgu, engineer, pilot” adalah antara jawapan yang saya terima. Namun cita-cita tersebut sebenarnya bukan penamat, anda sepatutnya menetapkan sasaran yang lebih tinggi. Bak kata kebanyakan penceramah motivasi, sekiranya kita ingin menetapkan sasaran, tetapkan sasaran yang tinggi dan pastikan perkara-perkara yang kita lakukan sebagai sasaran kecil bergerak kearah sasaran besar tersebut.

Apa yang dilakukan orang Melayu ialah, mereka menetapkan sasaran yang sangat rendah dan cepat berpuas hati dengan apa yang dicapai. Saya berikan contoh seperti pemegang biasiswa pembolehubah PETRONAS, mereka berpendapat bahawa dengan menerima biasiswa tersebut mereka sudah boleh memperoleh kerjaya apabila mereka tamat sahaja pengajian. Dengan gaji permulaan RM3500 mereka berpendapat itu sudah memadai bagi mereka dan tidak perlu berusaha dengan lebih keras lagi. Hasilnya, jadilah pelajar yang rajin bermain permainan video, menonton cerita sepanjang masa dan mendapat result yang sekadar melepasi syarat bagi pemegang biasiswa. Sikap cepat berpuas hati inilah yang sepatutnya dibuang dalam diri setiap orang Melayu khususnya dan umumnya kepada semua belia. Kerana sikap seperti ini membuatkan kita berada di taraf yang rendah dan bukan orang yang berada di kemuncak. Contoh lain, seorang pelajar perubatan yang apabila ditanya kerjayanya dijawab, “Sudah tentulah doktor.” Saya agak hairan kerana seorang pelajar perubatan yang tahu mengenai pelbagai cabang dalam bidangnya masih menjawab secara umum akan kerjayanya. Di sini kita dapat lihat betapa dia masih lagi tidak mengetahui cabang mana yang harus diambilnya. Ini juga boleh dikatakan sebagai cepat berpuas hati dengan sasaran yang ditetapkan.

Kepada graduan muda dan belia khususnya Melayu, sila tetapkan matlamat anda mulai sekarang. Carilah sasaran yang paling tinggi yang anda dapat bayangkan dan berusahalah ke arah itu. Jangan kita biarkan kaum lain memandang rendah kepada kita. Saya rasa anda juga dapat merasakan kebenaran kata-kata saya ini. Bukanlah saya kata kaum lain lebih bagus, mereka cuma memandang rendah kepada kita kerana kecetekan ilmu yang ada dalam diri anak-anak muda kita sekarang. Sekiranya tahap ilmu semakin berkurangan, saya bimbang, apabila sampainya generasi baru yang memerintah, kita berasa tidak selamat akibat kurangnya ilmu yang ada pada generasi tersebut. Juga, adalah di tangan kita untuk pastikan agar suasana produktif untuk kita dan anak-anak kita dibina agar, kaum kita tidak lagi dipandang hina malah turut mampu untuk mengangkat martabat negara. Sekian. Terima kasih.

*Entri ini bukanlah bertujuan menyangkal kempen 1Malaysia yang dicadangkan oleh PM kita, namun sekadar peringatan kepada belia kaum Melayu agar melengkapkan diri dengan agama dan meningkatkan martabat diri dengan ilmu. Entri ini juga bukan bersifat racism tetapi peringatan juga kepada semua kaum lain yang ingin mengambil pengajaran daripada entri ini. Penulis tidak akan bertanggungjawab terhadap sebarang aktiviti terlarang yang menggunakan entri ini sebagai sumber maklumat. Sekian.

2 Fenomena Di Kotak Masa.

2010-01-11T22:58:00.000-08:00

Fenomena 1

Setelah penat seharian membeli belah di Plaza Low Yat, saya mengambil keputusan untuk pergi ke Time Square untuk merehatkan diri di samping menunaikan solat. Setelah mengambil wudhu’ dan hendak memulakan solat, terlihat kelibat seorang pak cik, berkulit gelap, berjambang dan memakai baju kemeja putih berserta seluar slack hitam. Dia membawa seorang anak dalam lingkungan 3 tahun. Pak cik itu baru sahaja selesai menunaikan solat sunat. Sebelum dia memulakan solat fardhunya, pak cik tersebut melihat-lihat sekeliling mencari siapa lagi yang mahu menunaikan solat. Lalu datang kepadanya seorang remaja yang pada agakan saya dalam lingkungan 20-an. Terus pak cik tersebut mengalunkan iqamat dan menyuruh pemuda terbabit menjadi imam. Dalam keadaan terpinga-pinga dan bingung, pemuda terbabit bersungguh-sungguh menolak pelawaan untuk menjadi imam kepada pak cik tadi. Persoalannya, kenapa pemuda terbabit bersungguh-sungguh tidak mahu menjadi imam walaupun dia tahu bahawa pak cik itu sudah mengalunkan iqamat?

Fenomena 2

Setelah selesai solat, saya mengangkat semua barang yang dibeli sebentar tadi lalu keluar dari surau tersebut. Lebih kurang 20 langkah meninggalkan surau tersebut, terlihat oleh saya akan sepasang kekasih yang berpegangan tangan, sangat mesra tampaknya apabila si gadis dengan selamba mencubit pasangannya itu. Saya hanya memerhatikan gelagat mereka sehingga mereka berjalan melepasi saya dan menuju ke arah surau. Saya masih memerhatikan mereka. Apabila mereka belok sahaja kearah surau dengan pantas pasangan tersebut berhenti bermesraan sebaliknya berlagak seolah-olah kawan biasa. Persoalannya, kenapa mereka tidak malu untuk bermesra-mesraan di khayalak ramai tetapi malu untuk bermesra di kawasan surau? Adakah mereka merasakan bahawa ALLAH yang Maha Melihat itu hanya berada di kawasan surau dan masjid?

Persoalan yang lebih besar mengenai kedua-dua fenomena di atas – mengapa semua yang melakukan perbuatan tersebut ialah orang melayu? Dalam fenomena pertama, saya tidak mencari sebab kenapa pemuda itu menolak perlawaan tersebut tetapi agak hairan kerana saya tahu bahawa mereka lebih senang untuk mengikut, bukan mengetuai. Dan daripada alasan inilah muncul jawapan untuk fenomena kedua. Kaum melayu sangat mudah terpengaruh dan dipengaruhi oleh anasir-anasir yang tidak baik. Jika dilihat dalam fenomena kedua, mereka bermesra-mesraan seperti mana yang dilakukan di kawasan Barat dan kerana bimbang akan pandangan negatif orang lain terhadap mereka, mereka berhenti melakukan perbuatan seperti itu di tempat yang dianggap suci oleh orang melayu beragama islam. Persoalan yang paling besar untuk entri kali ini ialah, mengapa kita mudah terpengaruh dan dipengaruhi oleh sentimen-sentimen yang sebenarnya ingin menjahanamkan kaum kita sendiri? Saya biarkan jawapan itu kepada anda. Sekian.

Apakah Cara Untuk Mengukur Manusia?

2010-01-06T04:51:00.000-08:00

Hi/Salam.

Entri kali ini adalah dalam Bahasa Melayu.

Sebelum saya meneruskan dengan lebih lanjut mengenai tajuk kita pada kali ini ingin saya mengucapkan tahniah dan syabas kepada rakan-rakan yang berjaya dalam peperiksaan semester lepas mereka. Tahniah juga diucapkan kerana mereka masih mampu meneruskan pelajaran seterusnya mengejar kerjaya yang diidamkan.

Keputusan peperiksaan akhir semester bagi pelajar UTP bakal diumumkan mungkin dalam minggu ini. Dalam keghairahan menanti keputusan peperiksaan yang tidak seberapa, teringat saya mengenai kata-kata seorang sahabat ketika ditanyakan keputusannya pada peperiksaan yang lepas, “Kau takpe, pandai, aku ni je yang kene struggle”. Persoalan saya ialah kenapa beliau mengeluarkan kenyataan seperti itu?

Kita masing-masing tahu bahawa ALLAH menjadikan setiap manusia itu sama. Jadi apakah perbezaan pandai dan bodoh atau kaya dengan miskin. Apakah banyak ilmu itu pandai dan banyak harta itu kaya? Sekiranya begitu, tidak hairanlah kebanyakan manusia di atas muka bumi masa kini mengejar ilmu untuk mendapatkan harta sahaja. Namun itu bukan menjadi persoalan pada entri kali ini. Persoalan besar yang ingin saya lontarkan ialah siapa atau apa cara yang patut digunakan untuk mengukur taraf seseorang individu?

Pelik, kerana kebanyakan yang saya tanya memberikan jawapan yang hampir serupa. “Taraf manusia hanya ditentukan oleh ALLAH”, “Aku rasa kita patut tengok taraf tu ikut kebahagiaan hidup orang tu”, “Entah”. Begitulah jawapan yang diberikan kepada saya. Saya menginterpretasi jawapan mereka begini, yang pertama berpendapat bahawa saya mengharapkan sesuatu yang berunsurkan teologi, yang kedua mengetahui bahawa saya sedang berfalsafah dan bermain kata manakala yang ketiga langsung tidak berminat dengan soalan yang diajukan. Berbalik kepada jawapan untuk soalan kita pada hari ini, tiada cara mahupun sistem yang ada sekarang mampu untuk mengukur taraf seseorang kerana tidak ada cara untuk membezakan sesuatu yang sama. Kenapa jawapan ini yang muncul dan saya katakan paling bernas setakat ini?

Saya yakin, anda mesti tertanya-tanya apakah yang saya maksudkan dengan membezakan sesuatu yang sama. Bendanya mudah, sekiranya system menyatakan dua lebih besar daripada satu, maka secara automatik, mengikut sistem tersebut, kita akan mengatakan bahawa 2 lebih besar daripada satu, kerana wujud perbezaan di antara dua nombor tersebut. Tetapi bagaimana pula sekiranya nombor tersebut adalah sama? Sudah tentu sistem tersebut tidak dapat membezakan nombor tersebut kerana ianya sama.

Sekiranya anda sudah memahami maksud saya di atas mungkin anda sudah tahu apakah yang saya maksudkan. Ya, telah saya sebutkan di awal entri ini bahawa semua manusia adalah sama, jadi tidak ada cara untuk membezakan antara satu sama lain melainkan dengan menggunakan sistem yang dibuat oleh ALLAH.

Bagaimana pula taraf mereka boleh sama? Sedangkan mereka sangat berbeza dari segi rupa, harta dan ilmu yang ada di dada? Saya katakan sama kerana setiap satu terdapat di satu tempat yang lain. Mungkin harta mereka bukan wang tetapi ilmu yang menggunung. Mungkin rupa mereka tidak menarik tetapi perwatakan mereka cantik. Mungkin ilmunya tidak tinggi tetapi kemampuannya untuk menyelesaikan masalah mungkin lebih baik. Daripada alasan-alasan ini saya katakana taraf semua manusia sebenarnya sama kerana setiap satu boleh digunakan untuk memperbaiki tempat lain yang kurang baik. Ilmu boleh digunakan untuk mencari wang, wang boleh diguna untuk mencari ilmu. Rupa boleh diguna untuk mencari wang, wang juga boleh diguna untuk mencantikkan rupa.

Secara umumnya, kelebihan seseorang itu boleh digunakan untuk memperbaiki kelemahan yang ada pada dirinya. Itulah kenapa saya katakana semua manusia itu sama. Mungkin itu juga sebab mengapa ALLAH tidak akan mengubah sesuatu kaum itu melainkan kaum itu mengubahnya sendiri, kerana ALLAH mahu kita menyedari apakah kelebihan dan kekurangan yang kita miliki di samping sentiasa mengharapkan bantuan dari-Nya. Jadi, kenapa anda masih mahu membezakan diri anda dengan orang lain? Hentikan ucapan seperti “kau pandai, kau banyak duit, kau ada itu, ini,” kerana disebalik apa yang orang lain ada, anda juga mampu memilikinya. Sebab itulah ALLAH menyebut bahawa manusia ini adalah makhluk yang sempurna, kerana kita semua dicipta sama sahaja, hanya sistem yang dicipta manusia yang membezakan kita dengan manusia lain.

Marilah bersama-sama berharap agar kita tidak lagi menggunakan ayat-ayat negatif dan menganggap bahawa kita semua serupa. Kita boleh mengadakan sesuatu yang kita tidak ada. Begitulah hebatnya kita ini selaku manusia. Akhir kata, semoga coretan panjang kali ini memberi kesan kepada saya mahupun anda yang faham akan isi kandungannya. Sekian, terima kasih kerana sudi membaca sehingga ayat ini.

p/s: Susunan perenggan agak kurang menarik kerana Microsoft Word menggunakan cara yang lain untuk mengira perkataan yang ditulis dalam bahasa Melayu. Harap maaf.

Which One Is The Truth?

2010-01-04T00:32:00.000-08:00

Hi/salam.

I just finished chatting with my old friend. The topic was “What if the thing that we see is not actually the truth, but is a set up by someone?” If you can’t understand the meaning of this phrase, it is better for you to have someone interpret it for you or you can just read throughout this post.

The reason why I threw this question to my friend was simply because I discovered something, which in my opinion is something that we should be aware of. Before I continue, let me remind you, that this post is not about true or false, because I interpreted all the evidence and facts that I have in my own way.

Before you go on with your reading, I kind of want you to watch an American series called “Leverage”. If you don’t want to watch it I recommend you to just google the thing and get a rough meaning why I ask you to watch this series. If you have done watching/googling the series “Leverage” you may understand why I threw up the question. If you still don’t understand, you may just continue to read.

If you reach this part that means you still not fully understand the why part. Ok, in Leverage, you will find that all the five characters in the series are acting together. But to their victims, all of the five people are not related to one another, make it hard to believe that all people that you encounter in the past few days is actually working on a scheme. I think if you watch Leverage it’ll be easier to understand though rather than me telling you like this, because I know that I am not a good storyteller.

Alright, enough explaining the question. Leverage was only a series which means it goes according to the script. But what if, in reality, we also fall under the scheme of someone? We may not know it though, just like the drama I told you just now. Right now, if you are a Muslim and tend to do initial judgment on everything, you might want to say that the scheme of someone is actually what God had planned for us but I actually this scheme I am going to tell you about is a human scheme. Just don’t feel surprise over this.

Have you ever heard the name coenzyme Q 10? Or simply coQ10 in many books and articles? Please google it if you don’t know. Alright, since some of my readers are too lazy to type 5 letters in google search engine, I’m going to just explain it to you. CoQ10 is an antioxidant that is said to enhance the efficiency of how our brain work. Simply means if you take a lot of coQ10 in your diet, it is good to prevent harmful diseases like heart attack, brain cancer, migrain and some other thing that you will know if you google this five letter thing. The question right now maybe “So????”.

If your mind is filled up with “so what” after reading this post until here, then I suggest you take any thinking classes or seminar to improve how your mind work because that is not the question. The true question is “really??” because although this thing is good for our body, but not many people know about this thing, even a doctor to be does not know about this. Kind of sad.

If you have google this thing, you may find the source of this “powerful” antioxidant. Most of coQ10 is found in organ that needed the most energy to do their daily routine which is the liver, heart and some other internal organ. The most surprising thing for me is coQ10 is most abundance in pig’s liver which I don’t remember the figure but if I’m not mistaken, it is about 27mg per I don’t remember the next number. But it is much more as compared to coQ10 contain in chicken and cow.

No matter how I looked at this fact, I started to doubt something. Why something that is very good for our brain is is found in something that is forbade for us to eat? In fact, it is in the liver which our prophet said that it is no good for you to eat the internal organ such as liver of other animal? But if you see in atlas view, pig is a common food found in Japan, China and USA. So, the twisted fact is this, if you eat pig, you will be as good as Japan in technology or China in economy or USA in their research and development. So there you go, religion says that you are prohibited from eating pig as it is no good for us, but science says that eating pig’s liver is good for our brain and it is proven in many countries that use pork as their daily menu.

At first I also don’t want to believe this fact but after having chicken’s liver as my daily menu, I know that the facts that I gather is true. If you don’t believe me, you can try, having chicken’s liver as your daily menu for three months, and see your exam result. I believe you will afraid to do so. Another thing that interests me is, I found the source of coQ10, which is abundance in pig’s liver in wikipedia, but right now I have some trouble finding that page again. Maybe someone realize this and delete the page about this? I don’t know. But if you do have the page, do not hesitate to contact me.

Here, I just have one question left. What if problem like this occur in other places? Which one are we going to believe? That’s all from me. Thank you for reading this post.

p/s: The only thing that I don’t believe is coQ10 is abundance in internal organ of living animal. But if the source of coQ10 is from wheat, green vegetable, meat and fish, then it is good for you to take it. I believe if you follow what Islam has taught us how, you will have a good, long, healthy life.

*Again, this is something that I thought after gathering some facts, if there is something wrong or worth to debate off, please tell me.

Misi Mustahil 2010

2009-12-31T00:38:00.000-08:00

Berikut adalah misi yang akan dilaksanakan sepanjang tahun 2010.

Mencari dan menambah pengalaman serta pengetahuan. (Mengumpul pengetahuan yang berada di dalam mahupun di luar bidang yang di ambil)
Mempelajari dan menguasai sesuatu yang baru. (Untuk permulaan, Adobe After Effect, programming dan Internet Hacking)
Mengubah keputusan peperiksaan akhir semester. (Keputusan semester lepas belum diketahui tetapi berharap keputusan untuk sem yang akan datang menjadi lebih baik)
Mengubah jadual waktu harian. (Mesti bangun 5.30 pagi dan tidur paling lewat jam 12.30 tengah malam)
Mengubah tabiat makan dan berpuasa sunat. (Sarapan dan makan malam adalah wajib)
Memaksa diri agar bersosial bersama rakan. (Please do not isolate yourself)
Berhenti melakukan perkara yang merosakkan diri sendiri.
Memaksa diri menambah amal dan membuat pahala. (Kena paksa, if not sampai bila pon kita tidak akan rela)
Membelanjakan hanya separuh wang yang diberikan PETRONAS setiap bulan.
Memaksa diri bersenam pada setiap petang. (Futsal pilihan terbaik setakat ini)
Memaksa diri melupakan kehidupan masa lalu dan bermula dengan yang lebih baik.
Memaksa diri untuk tidak berfikir panjang sebelum melakukan sesuatu. (Let your acts do your thoughts)
Menjaga kebersihan dan kekemasan diri dan barangan peribadi. (Meja belajar hendaklah bersih dan teratur)
Provide a certain time to watch movies and series. (Do not watch movies and series everytime you have free time)
Try to decrease the time needed to stare and analyze other person. (Too much time taken will make the other person to feel unconfortable)

*Misi Mustahil yang mengandungi ayat "memaksa diri" menandakan bahawa misi tersebut adalah sukar namun akan tetap dicuba

**Dua misi terakhir ditulis didalam Bahasa Inggeris kerana ayatnya agak pelik jika ditulis didalam bahasa Melayu.

The Truth

2009-12-17T23:10:00.000-08:00

I read several articles over the internet and I found out that some of them aren't true.

I went to MPH Bookstore in Mid Valley, bought some book there and read through them, and I found out that some information in that book aren't true.

I read about the some scientific findings and I found out that that is not the actual findings.

I read the newspaper about some things that happened but to an actress, but when they approached the actress, she said "No, I didn't", although the newspaper said "Yes, she did".

I saw something small happened, but the newspaper exaggerated the real things until it looks like something big happened.

I watched Leverage and I think, what if someone that I encounter today is just something that was set up by someone?

So I tried to think what if the things that we see, the things that happened, the things that is published by books, newspaper and etc, is not the truth?

What If....

2009-12-17T22:57:00.000-08:00

I've been thinking about this for a while.....

What if there are mistakes done during the past?

What if the true answer for 1+1 is 3?

What if the mathematicians during the past made an error that we didn't realized?

What if because of all this mistakes we can't achieve the advance technology that we dream of?

I don't know where to find the answer for all of this stupid question. But one day I sure will.

Selamat Tahun Baru

2009-12-17T22:54:00.000-08:00

Hope this 1431 H will provide us a great journey and adventure to Heaven.

A Short Story

2009-11-26T23:07:00.000-08:00

Salam/Hi,

PLS PATIENTLY READ THRU THIS PASSAGE.

Qur'an 3:104: Let there arise amongst you a band of people inviting to all that is good and right, and forbidding the wrong. Such are the successful ones...

Qur'an 16:125: Invite to the way of your Lord with beautiful preaching and in the best ways...

Every Friday afternoon, after the Jumat service at the Central Mosque (and shortly after Al-Usrah program), the Imam and his eleven year old son would go out into their town and hand out "PATH TO PARADISE" and other Islamic literature.This particular and fortunate Friday afternoon, as the time came for the Imam and his son to go to the streets with their booklets, it was very cold outside, as well as pouring rain.

The boy bundled up in his warmest and driest clothes and said, 'OK, dad, I'm ready!'

His 'Mallam' dad asked, 'Ready for what?'

'Dad, it's time we gather our tracts together and go out.'

Dad responds, 'Son, it's very cold outside and it's pouring rain.'

The boy gives his dad a surprised look, asking, 'But Dad, aren't people still going to hell, even though it's raining?'

Dad answers, 'Son, I am not going out in this weather.'

Despondently, the boy asks, 'Dad, can I go? Please?'

His father hesitated for a moment then said, 'Son, you can go. Here are the booklets. Be careful son.'

'Thanks, Dad!'

And with that, he was off and out into the rain. This eleven year old boy walked the streets of the town going door to door and handing everybody he met in the street a pamphlet or a booklet.

After two hours of walking in the rain, he was soaking, bone-chilled wet and down to his VERY LAST BOOKLET.

He stopped on a corner and looked for someone to hand a booklet to, but the streets were totally deserted.

Then he turned toward the first home he saw and started up the sidewalk to the front door and rang the door bell. He rang the bell, but nobody answered..

He rang it again and again, but still no one answered.

He waited but still no answer.

Finally, this eleven year old da'wah-expert turned to leave, but something stopped him.

Again, he turned to the door and rang the bell and knocked loudly on the door with his fist. He waited, something holding him there on the front porch!

He rang again and this time the door slowly opened. Standing in the doorway was a very sad-looking elderly lady.

She softly asked, 'What can I do for you, son?'

With radiant eyes and a smile that lit up her world, this little boy said, 'Ma'am, I'm sorry if I disturbed you, but I just want to tell you that "ALLAH REALLY LOVES AND CARES FOR YOU" and I came to give you my very last booklet which will tell you all about God, the real purpose of creation, and how to achieve His pleasure.'

With that, he handed her his last booklet and turned to leave.She called to him as he departed. 'Thank you, son! And God Bless You!'

Well, the following Friday afternoon after Jumat service (during which period they hold a weekly program, Al-Usrah) the Imam was giving some lectures.

As he concludes the lectures, he asked, 'Does anybody have questions or want to say anything?' Slowly, in the back row among the ladies, an elderly voice was heard over the speaker. As the voice went on, a hint of glorious gaiety and contentment was plainly evident in it even though the wasn't to be seen,

'No one in this gathering knows me. I've never been here before. You see, before last Friday I was not a Muslim, and thought I could be. My husband passed on some time ago, leaving me totally alone in this world. Last Friday, being a particularly cold and rainy day, it was even more so in my heart that I came to the end of the line where I no longer had any hope or will to live. So I took a rope and a chair and ascended the stairway into the attic of my home. I fastened the rope securely to a rafter in the roof then stood on the chair and fastened the other end of the rope around my neck. Standing on that chair, so lonely and broken-hearted I was about to leap off, when suddenly the loud ringing of my doorbell downstairs startled me. I thought, "I'll wait a minute, and whoever it is will go away." I waited and waited, but the ringing doorbell seemed to get louder and more insistent, and then the person ringing also started knocking loudly.... I thought to myself again, 'Who on earth could this be? Nobody ever rings my bell or comes to see me.' I loosened the rope from my neck and started for the front door, all the while the bell rang louder and louder. When I opened the door and looked I could hardly believe my eyes, for there on my front porch was the most radiant and angelic little boy I had ever seen in my life. His SMILE, oh, I could never describe it to you!
The words that came from his mouth caused my heart that had long been dead TO LEAP TO LIFE as he exclaimed with a cherub-like voice, 'Ma'am, I just came to tell you that ALLAH REALLY LOVES AND CARES FOR YOU!' Then he gave me this booklet, "Path To Paradise" that I now hold in my hand. As the little angel disappeared back out into the cold and rain, I closed my door and read slowly every word of this book. Then I went up to my attic to get my rope and chair. I wouldn't be needing them any more. You see? I am now a Happy Vicegerent of the One True God. Since the address of your congregation was stamped on the back of this booklet, I have come here to personally say THANK YOU to God's little angel who came just in the nick of time and by so doing, spared my soul from an eternity in hell.'

There was not a dry eye in the mosque. And as shouts of TAKBIR!!! ALLAH AKBAR!!! rented the air, even among the ladies, despite themselves.

Imam-Dad descended from the pulpit to the front row where the little angel was seated.... He took his son in his arms and sobbed uncontrollably. Probably no jama'at has had a more glorious moment, and probably this universe has never seen a Papa that was more filled with love and honor for his son... Except for One. This very one...Blessed are your eyes for reading this message.

Heaven is for His people! Remember, God's message CAN make the difference in the life of someone close to you. Please share this wonderful message (and of course anyone I've sent or will send)... If you love ALLAH, please forward this message. Spread His Word, help his and you'll see his hand in everything you do...

Q 5:3: This day I've perfected your religion for you, and completed my favor on you, and chose Islam for you as religion... Qur'an 3:110: You are the best community evolved for mankind; you enjoin the right conduct and forbid indecency, and you believe in God...

OTHER QUR'ANIC REFERENCESQ29:46; 4:82;60:8; 3:111; 39:19.

Biblical referencesIs 43:11; Ez 1820; Joh 5:30; Act 2:22; Joh 17:3; Jam 2:17; finally, Jer 8:8.

RESOLVE TO READ AN ISLAMIC BOOK EVERY WEEK OR MONTH. MAY ALLAH MAKE US BETTER MUSLIMS WITH EACH AND EVERY PASSING DAY..
Mudathir

Narrated Abu Huraira: The Prophet (SAW) said, "A time will come when one will not care how one gains one's money, legally or illegally."
- [Sahih Al-Bukhari bk 34, no 275]

-This is something that I copied from my email. Thanks for those who read this and thanks also for giving me this piece of article. I do hope we can remind each other on how ALLAH love us all-

DEATH

2009-11-26T22:50:00.000-08:00

Hi / Salam to everyone.

I was browsing some of my old picture this morning and I found that I do have the picture taken when my friend was dying in the hospital. Well, she’s dead now but I was wondering, what will my death looks like? Am I gonna die with respect and honor, or am I gonna die with shame and regrets? Will it be painful or painless? Since I feel kind of weird thinking this way, I opened my internet browser and key in the word “Death”. I don’t want to tell you what I found but I think that death is probably viewed in two ways, from the physics and metaphysics part, or the science part, and the religious part.

If we view death from the science part, we will almost certainly say that death is the end of every living organism. Well, it is true that death is the end of every living organism. For human, death can be defined as the incapability of the heart and brain to maintain and regulate body condition. In other words, death occurs when your heart and your brain can no longer be used. Science also explained that when human died, they are simply turning from one form of energy to another. If science is true, that means humans are actually a bunch of energy that will be used by another living organism. What happened to human’s right in nature? Well, that is not a big question yet, here is the big question. What will happen after we died?

Since we can’t give the answer unless we are dead or having some kind of ability to be in both death world and real world, I think this is where religions play their role. In most religion, they believe in life after death. Means there will be heaven and hell. Some of the religions believe that we will be born again according to how we lived in the past. In Islam, whenever a person died, they will be questioned about their deeds during their life time and base on the answer, you will either be in heaven or hell. In Hinduism, they believe that human will be born again but according to their deeds, they will be born as human, or animal or any other forms of living organism. Here’s the question again, what proves do you have to support your argument?

In my view, I conclude death as the natural processes. We can’t run from them and waiting is just a waste of time. And since I don’t know what will happen in after life, I will just let it be until death knocks my door and give the answer. So, I might as well enjoy the very precious moment that I have right now, and remember to bear in mind that death is close to us.
That’s all from me, thank you for reading this post.

Euthanasia - Good Or Bad?

2009-11-16T23:05:00.000-08:00

Hi and salam to everyone.

I was just finished watching House season 6 and I found something that has been one of the world's biggest issue nowadays. In the series, Wilson help his patient who has terminal cancer to die by giving him an extreme amount of morphine (if I'm not mistaken). Wilson said that the morphine will help the patient to relieve his pain. With the feeling of guilt, Wilson and House together with Cuddy go to a medical conference. In that conference, Wilson is trying to deliver his paper about euthanasia, before House drugged him and take out all of his pants (I like this House, haha). The question here is not about House, it's about what Wilson is doing. Do we consider the act as good or bad?

I googled the word 'euthanasia' and I found some really good articles about it. Euthanasia, is derived from the word "eu" and "thanatos" in Greek which means good and death respectively. The actual meaning of this word is the act of killing someone painlessly. Now, this act is bound by some factors before it can be classified as good and bad. First, ethics. Second, religions and last one is facts. Now, back on House, if you are really House's fans, I think you know that there is one time where House did this thing. I don't remember which seasons and episode, but in that series, House was asked to treat a researcher, in which he was diagnosed for terminal cancer at the end (if i'm not mistaken, again). He said to House he just want to die without suffering too much pain. House said he still has some times left before he died but on the next day, Cuddy said that during the night, everything when fine before the researcher's heart suddenly stop, and she asked whether House was involved in the event or not. House said no, but everyone knows how much of a liar House is.

Enough about House. I am sure that Euthanasia is consider bad thing if we go with ethics. Yeah, ethics is a system of principles governing the morality and acceptable conduct. Euthanasia simply means you have to kill someone, just without the pain. Ethics wouldn't allow us to do so because the killing part is unacceptable conduct. Although if the patient itself ask for euthanasia, people with ethics will think that they can't just take another person's life, although we are doing the person's favour. What the hell? This is my life, so it's up to me what am i going to do with it. That's maybe some of the stubborn old man phrase so that they will get to die easily.

Next, religions. In many religions, they said that life is sacred. It is a gift from God and only He can take it back. In Islam, there are phrase saying that suicide is strictly prohibited. Those who commited suicide will never enter the paradise. If we go with religion, they will say that euthanasia is prohibited, it is not because the act of killing, but the act of suiciding. They tend to believe that pain and suffer are things that is given by God to punish human for their sins or just to test their believe in their religion before they can gain the reward in hereafter. So by suiciding, you shorten the time needed for your punishment and this shows that you do not have enough faith in your religion and thus, will not receive any reward in hereafter. That is why religious people forbid us from performing euthanasia

The last one is facts. When a person is suffering from a terminal illness, the facts that they know are they gonna die soon. Or let say someone got into accident, and suffer terrible injury in their head. Lost their consciousness and now are using life support machine because their brain cannot do the job. In this case, we know that the person is already dead, so putting him on the life support machine will only cause an increase in the medical bill that they need to pay later on. So, they decided to stop using the life support machine and the person is pronounced dead. In this situation, the euthanasia is acceptable, because of the fact that the person has no chance of survival, and because of the fact that they need to pay more if he/she stays longer with the life support machine.

From this three factors, I decided to came up with my own thinking. Euthanasia can only be done if the person's brain can no longer be used. That means, the person is unable to think or gain consciousness. Why is it so? Because if you only have terminal cancer, your brain can still functioning despite of the pain that you feel. So, you can think of something and search for the cure by thinking process. We know that for every ilnesses, there must be a cure. Without thinking, we may not be able to know what the cure is, so by using your functional brain, you need to think of that cure. Give up means you're dead. If the person can no longer use his or her brain, that means he/she cannot think anymore. So it is good for us to just let they died because losing your brain is just the same as losing your whole body parts.

Before I end up this post, I just want to ask you a question. Especially if you are a doctor. Will you allow yourself to perform this act? Think first before you answer it. Thank you for your time and may this post help you in any ways of helping.

Human Make Mistakes

2009-11-15T21:07:00.001-08:00

Hi and salam to everyone.

First of all I would like to apologize for not updating this blog in the past few weeks. I need to prepare myself for final exam which had just finished an hour before I write this post. For the past few weeks also, I've been thinking about what will happen if my result is not as good as it always be? I said to myself, well, nobody's gonna scold you because nobody dare. But I then ask myself again, the outcome of this final exam is clear, I will not be able to obtain the dean list title. What has happened?

Then I realize something that I should have done sooner. I made a mistake. The mistake's affecting me in the way that I don't realize it. Because I thought that it was just another habit of me. But yeah, let bygones be bygones. We can't change the past, but from the past we can shape the future. That is what I'm thinking about right now.

Speaking about mistakes, I recently read a newspaper, Harian Metro to be exact, and I saw a title about a teenager who lost her foot due to mistake made by the practical doctor who treated her. I read through the news and I think it was clearly the doctor's fault because of misdiagnosed her condition. I ask my friend who' s a medic student about her opinion. She said two things. First, we don't know the true story as we only read it in the newspaper. Second is the thing had already happened. What interested me is when she said this, "We are human. Human is bound to make mistakes."

I guess you might want to know why am I interested in that phrase. My argument is yes, human make mistakes. But some mistakes cannot be tolerant. Because the mistake is affecting other people's felicity. If doctor make mistakes, patient died. If an engineer make mistakes, the project might not work out and he/she will be fired, if a leader make mistakes, the follower will not trust him and what he lead will fall down, if a normal person make mistake by killing other people, he will received the title criminal in which will turn him into one later on. The big question is, how will we avoid from making any mistakes? Knowing that human WILL always make some mistakes?.

I'm sorry to disappoint you but we can't avoid mistakes. Well, it is part of life though. But one thing for certain that we can do is how to deal with the mistakes. People usually do not realize their mistakes, and this is again, a mistakes. I am pretty confident about the fact that people will only see mistakes on others but did not find one in theirselves. Many of the great motivators use this phrase to explain about human mistakes. But, how can one find a mistakes in his or herself? Only when the mistake is showing it's effect, then will they realize it. But at that moment of time, they are too late. So, what I thought was getting the upper hand is always the better way to deal with our mistakes.

Again question, how can we get the upper hand? This one is easy. By thinking process. Henry Ford said that thinking is the hardest process for human, that is why only a few engage with it. If you think thoroughly, I am sure you are able to handle the mistakes correctly. I can give you example but I know you can think it of yourself, IF, you think. Bear in mind that life is full with choices. Right choices are the most favourable but wrong choices coloured our life and teach us something useful. Just make sure you be prepared to face the mistakes you have done, and don't run from them. A few advice, whatever you do,make sure your mistake doesn't involve other people's felicity. Because if it is, then you are in trouble and miserable.

I think that is all I need to say. Thank you for your time reading this post. Let us pray and hope that this will help you direct or indirectly. Thank you.

History Behind Mathematics

2009-10-29T06:45:00.000-07:00

This will just be a quick update. I got something to settle down this month. Exam is also around the corner, so I hope you can keep waiting for something useful from this blog.

Below are something that we don't know about mathematics.

Pi is mathematical symbol that gives the value approximately 3.14159. The value for pi is actually the ratio between the circumference and the radius in Euclidean Space.
The most ancient mathematical texts available are Plimpton 322, which is believed to come from Babylonian Mathematics, 1900 years before century
The natural logarithm e is called Euler's number, after the Swiss mathematician Leonhard Euler
The tangent function (tan) was found by Islamic scholar, Muhammad Ibn Musa Al Khawarizmi
The term "angle" was a Latin word meaning the corner

I think that is it for my short update. Right now I am also searching for the right material or topic to be discuss. So if you have something valuable, do contact me. Thank you

Melawan Sistem Manusia

2009-10-21T19:59:00.000-07:00

Seperti yang tertera pada tajuk di atas, entri kali ini akan menceritakan mengenai sistem yang digunakan manusia untuk memenuhi keperluan mereka.

Apakah yang dimaksudkan dengan sistem? Di sini saya mendefinisikan sistem ini sebagai satu undang-undang atau satu bentuk garis panduan yang telah ditetapkan oleh autoriti. Walau dimana jua kita berada, kita tetap akan diikat oleh sistem ini. Misalnya, sekiranya anda berada di tempat awam, anda mestilah mengikut sistem yang ditetapkan oleh kerajaan. Sekiranya anda berada di sekolah pula, anda mestilah mengikut sistem yang ditetapkan oleh sekolah. Walhal jika anda berada di dalam hutan sekalipun, anda mestilah mengikut sistem yang ditetapkan oleh alam sekitar.

Secara umumnya, sistem mestilah dipatuhi agar kesejahteraan manusia sejagat dapat dijaga. Itulah harapan yang diberikan oleh orang yang mencipta sistem tersebut. Namun apa yang berlaku ialah segelintir manusia tidak dapat untuk memberikan komitmen terhadap sistem tersebut, akibatnya, wujudlah pembunuh, perogol, perompak, pencuri dan pelbagai lagi jenis penjenayah. Dalam satu siri drama "House MD", ketika pegawai pemeriksa datang untuk memeriksa Princeton Plainsboro, dia menyatakan 95% manusia akan mengikut sistem yang ditetapkan. "How about the other 5%?" kata Dr. House. "Well, they have to follow the 95%" balas pegawai tersebut. 5% inilah antara manusia yang tidak dapat memberikan komitmen mereka terhadap sistem tersebut.

Sistem yang ditetapkan oleh manusia juga mempunyai banyak masalah sehingga menyebabkan sistem tersebut terpaksa digubal kembali. Sebagai contoh, di Malaysia, umum mengetahui bahawa agama rasmi di Malaysia adalah agama Islam. Namun, apabila sistem yang sama juga menyatakan bahawa rakyat Malaysia bebas beragama, maka wujudlah kes tukar agama seperti Lina Joy, membawa permasalahan kepada Jabatan Pendaftaran Negara yang perlu menukar status mereka, juga menyebabkan beberapa pihak berdebat dan berpecah belah akibat sistem yang tidak konsisten ini. Persoalannya, mengapakah pihak yang mengurus sistem ini tidak mahu untuk mengambil satu sistem yang agung, di mana sistem ini hanya perlu diurus dan tidak boleh dipersoalkan.

Anda semestinya sudah dapat mengagak sistem mana yang saya maksudkan. Tahniah sekiranya agakan anda tepat. Sistem yang saya maksudkan adalah sistem yang ditetapkan di dalam Islam. Mengapa saya berkata sedemikian? Kerana sistem ini dibuat bukan oleh manusia, tetapi untuk manusia. Sistem ini dicipta oleh satu kuasa yang Maha Agung, di mana akal manusia tidak mampu untuk memikirkannya. Apakah bukti-bukti yang menunjukkan sistem ini sangat sempurna? Anda boleh mencarinya didalam carian Google ataupun Yahoo.

Anda masih membaca. Terima kasih. Penerusan dalam pembacaan anda menunjukkan dua benda. Yang pertama, anda masih tidak mencari bukti sistem Islam ini sempurna (Kalau sudah terima kasih saya ucapkan). Yang kedua anda mahu tahu apakah sebenarnya sistem Islam ini. 3 asas utama didalam sistem Islam ialah aqidah, ibadah, dan akhlak. Dalam ketiga-tiga asas Islam ini, yang paling utama ialah aqidah. Hal ini kerana tanpa aqidah yang kukuh, maka ibadah tidak dilaksanakan dan akhlak akan menjadi teruk. Apakah akidah itu pula? Akidah di dalam Islam bermaksud kepercayaan atau keimanan kepada hakikat-hakikat dan nilai-nilai yang mutlak, yang tetap dan kekal, yang pasti dan suci seperti yang diwajibkan Islam; iaitu kepercayaan yang tersimpul dengan kukuh dalam jiwa sehingga tidak mungkin akan terurai atau tertutup walau oleh apa jua keadaan dan suasana.

Sekarang, mari kita tinjau beberapa persoalan mengenai sistem Islam dan umat manusia yang ada di muka bumi ini. Pertama, sila bandingkan keadaan fizikal dan mental seseorang yang mempunyai akidah yang kuat dengan orang yang tidak. Orang yang mempunyai akidah yang kuat tidak semestinya ustaz sahaja, namun itulah contoh yang boleh diberikan untuk dunia kontemporari yang berterabur sekarang. Saya tidak pasti apakah tanggapan anda terhadap seorang ustaz, namun sekiranya kita mengambil kira faktor kelakuan dan perbuatan yang dilakukan oleh seorang ustaz, saya pasti anda akan nampak ketenangan dalam akhlak beliau.

Persoalan kedua, sistem Islam merangkumi semua aspek dalam kehidupan. Politik, ekonomi, sosial dan pendidikan. Sebutkan apakah contoh sistem yang mampu untuk meliputi semua aspek kehidupan seperti ini. Saya pasti anda gagal untuk memberikan contoh tersebut. Hal ini kerana, yang dapat melihat semua aspek yang ada dalam manusia hanyalah Yang Maha Agung, Penguasa Alam Semesta. Sekiranya sistem itu dibuat oleh manusia, saya pasti, akan ada percanggahan di dalam sistem tersebut. Sekiranya anda tidak percaya, cubalah berada di dalam mahkamah ketika perbicaraan dijalankan. Kedua-dua peguam akan mengeluarkan akta-akta yang belawanan untuk memenangi kes mereka, tetapi perlu diingat, akta ini berasal daripada satu sistem. Jelas disini sistem yang dibuat manusia itu tidak sempurna kerana boleh diperdebatkan.

Persoalan ketiga dan terakhir, mengapakah manusia tidak mahu menerima sistem Islam walaupun telah dibuktikan oleh sains? Umum mengetahui Islam itu adalah agama namun tidak ramai yang mengetahui bahawa ramai saintis yang memeluk Islam setelah mendapati kajian-kajian mereka membuktikan kewujudan tuhan dan kebenaran dalam agama Islam itu sendiri. Isaac Newton, seorang saintis terkemuka dan merupakan orang kedua yang mempunyai pengaruh terbesar dalam sejarah, pernah menulis mengenai teologi, satu cabang ilmu yang berkaitan dengan ketuhanan. Buku yang ditulisnya setebal lebih 1200 muka surat, dan di dalam buku tersebut, beliau menyatakan yang beliau percaya dengan kewujudan tuhan. Saya kira anda juga pernah mendengar contoh kajian sains yang membuktikan Islam itu benar. Oleh itu, saya serahkan kepada anda untuk mempercayainya atau tidak.

Saya disini hanya mahu menyatakan bahawa sistem yang dibuat oleh manusia itu mempunyai percanggahan sebaliknya sistem Islam langsung tidak mempunyai percanggahan dari mana-mana aspek. Jadi, fikir-fikirkanlah, sistem mana yang mahu anda ikut. Sistem manusia, yang mempunyai percanggahan dan digubal dan di olah berdasarkan nafsu atau sistem Islam, yang sempurna dan merangkumi semua aspek kehidupan serta telah dibuktikan oleh sains bahawa ianya benar? Saya serahkan kepada anda untuk menjawabnya. Sekian.

10 Things You Don't Know

2009-10-20T16:12:00.000-07:00

Below are the 20 things that I think you don't know. If you do know something, congratulations, you can be categorized as someone who loves knowledge.

Stromatolites, a type of algae is the one that is responsible for the extinction of dinosour, not asteroids or natural disaster as stated in many articles or science fictions.
Moon can produces its own water. The moon act as big sponges that trapped the electrically charged particles using the irregular dust grains name regolith. When this happen, the charged particles react with the proton inside the regolith to produce hydroxyl and water.
Body postures (how you sit, walk, talk, etc) can affects the confidence on your thoughts. The one who sit up straight while writing their job qualification has more confidence than the one who slumped over their desk to just to write the same thing.
The lower paterial lobe for einstein is 15% more then the average adult. That's why he is so genius.
Most of us know dinosaur extinct 65 million years ago. But that period is called the cretaceous period, not the jurassic period.
To build a map, you need to have the basic map (contour map). 3 simple things to do while mapping are sketching the overall outcrops, structural mapping and detail sedimentary structure.
The letter "c" in the Einstein most famous equation and also the symbol for light, stands for celeritas, which means swift or speed.
Blue rose is now successfully created in Japan. This creation is expected to change the rose meaning from love to something else.
A black hole was found to be in the center of a galaxy. An artificial black hole has been created by chinese scientists using the metamaterial (material that cannot be seen by nature)
Marie Curie, the famous female scientist who found the polonium and radium, died because of aplastic anaemia.

Why Can't We?

2009-10-07T08:55:00.003-07:00

Persoalan utama yang ingin dilontarkan dalam entri kali ini adalah "kenapa kita tidak memaksimakan penggunan otak yang dikurniakan tuhan?". Berbalik kepada realiti, umum mengetahui, kebanyakan remaja di Malaysia yang memasuki universiti hanya mengambil satu kos sahaja. Persoalan saya ialah, mengapa mereka tidak mengambil dua, bahkan tiga kos sekaligus? Sekiranya undang-undang melarang perkara sedemikian, adakah kita mempunyai kemahuan untuk mengambil perkara yang diluar bidang kita? Pekara yang kita langsung tidak tahu mengenainya? Adakah kita juga dihalang daripada menuntut ilmu diluar bidang kita? Saya serahkan kepada anda untuk menjawab soalan-soalan seperti ini.

Sebelum saya meneruskan dengan lebih lanjut, ingin saya memberikan beberapa fakta untuk anda semua. Otak manusia mempunyai dua hemisfera iaitu kanan dan kiri. Saintis, jurutera dan penterjemah adalah antara yang menggunakan otak kiri. Manakala pelukis, penyair, penulis novel dan ahli muzik lebih menggunakan otak kanan mereka. Einstein dan Leonardo da Vinci merupakan antara contoh mereka yang berjaya menggabungkan otak kiri dan otak kanan. Einstein, disebalik kehebatannya sebagai pakar matematik dan fizik, beliau juga hebat bermain biola. Menurut Einstein dalam filem E=mc2, The World Famous Equation, sekiranya beliau tidak diberi peluang untuk menjadi ahli fizik, beliau mungkin akan menjadi pemain biola dan kita hanya akan mengenali Einstein selaku pemain biola professional. Leonardo da Vinci pula dilihat selaku orang yang mahir dalam pelbagai bidang. Sumber menyatakan bahawa Da Vinci merupakan ahli botani, arkitek, inventor, pakar matematik, saintis malah karya agungnya iaitu Mona Lisa menunjukkan bahawa beliau juga merupakan seorang pelukis terkenal.

Persoalan yang kedua, mengapakah mereka boleh menuntut ilmu sedemikian rupa walhal kita disini menyatakan "itu bukan bidang saya" atau "saya tiada bakat"?. Adakah kita hanya perlu tahu apa yang ada dalam bidang kita sahaja? Walaupun otak kita mampu untuk mengusung semua ilmu yang ada dalam dunia ini? Kajian menyatakan manusia umumnya hanya menggunakan 10% daripada keseluruhan potensi otak mereka. Apa yang terjadi dengan selebihnya? Jawapan yang sesuai untuk diberikan adalah sifat negatif yang menutup otak kita daripada melihat. Ayat-ayat seperti di atas sebenarnya hanyalah alasan untuk menutup kelemahan diri kita. Melihat kepada contoh di atas, sekiranya kita membaca mengenai sejarah hidup mereka, kita akan berjumpa dengan betapa gigihnya usaha mereka dalam menuntut ilmu. Einstein juga pernah bekerja sebagai kerani namun kerjayanya yang itu tidak menghalang usaha beliau menuntut ilmu seterusnya menghasilkan formula E=mc2, formula yang mencetuskan revolusi sains di zamannya.

Kepada yang beragama Islam, telah banyak hadis yang menunjukkan betapa pentingnya ilmu. "Tuntutlah ilmu sehingga ke negeri China" dan "Tuntutlah ilmu dari buaian hingga ke liang lahad" merupakan antara hadis yang menekankan betapa pentingnya ilmu. Persoalannya, mengapa negeri China? Jawapannya, walaupun jauh, kerana negeri China merupakan pembuat kertas, kita diwajibkan untuk menuntut ilmu membuat kertas ini. Kertas pada zaman dahulu merupakan alat untuk merekod segala macam kegiatan yang membolehkan generasi masa kini menatap apa yang terjadi pada zaman dahulu. Berbalik kepada tajuk utama kita, mengapa kita tidak mahu mempelajari ilmu yang berada di luar bidang kita? Jawapannya mudah, kerana kita tidak yakin kita boleh. Misalnya, seorang yang mengambil bidang kejuruteraan akan menyatakan bahawa bidang kedoktoran memerlukan daya ingatan yang tinggi di mana mereka ini tidak yakin dengan daya ingatan mereka. Contoh lain, bidang muzik akan ditolak sama sekali oleh orang yang hebat dalam sains dan matematik kerana mereka tidak yakin mereka mampu untuk mengambil bidang tersebut.

Cuba fikirkan sejenak mengenai perkara ini. Mengapa kita tidak mengambil beberapa bidang sekaligus. Dalam buku Atom, karya Piers Bizony, dalam bukunya menceritakan mengenai seorang saintis (Heisenberg jika saya tidak silap) yang apabila ditanya "How would you like your coffee, sir? With sugar or with milk?". Beliau menjawab, "Why can't I have both?", sebelum rakan-rakannya mentertawakannya (Pada zaman ini kopi hanya diminum bersama gula atau bersama susu). Namun, apa yang perlu kita lihat disini ialah jawapan saintis tersebut, kenapa kita tidak boleh mengambil kedua-duanya sekali? Saya menyerahkan tugas untuk memikirkan perkara ini kepada anda. Itupun jika anda mahu berfikir kerana menurut Henry Ford, "Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason so few engage in it".

Sekian buat entri kali ini, terima kasih kerana membaca.

Male Vs Female

2009-10-05T12:37:00.000-07:00

Differences in Male and Female

For some reason, human had always compared themselves with others since a long time ago. They always wanted to prove that they are better. The same goes with the debate on which one is better, man or woman? Well, my answer is none, because we are all the same, except there are slight differences in our nature.

There are 3 obvious things that differentiate man with woman. They are physical structure, reproductive organ and the last one is how they think. Since physical structure and reproductive organ are easy to be changed nowadays, I would prefer to differentiate between man and woman according to how they think. There are some biological reasons for this difference which are their brain structure and hormone production. According to some sort of balance theory from Taoism, these differences between man and woman make them always complement each other. This is what Erich Fromm said as dichotomy existence. It is the same as day and night, black and white, good and bad and many more.

In brain structure, the differences exist in corpus callosum, hypothalamus, lower paterial lobe and the nerve cells in hippocampus and paterial lobe. This structure differences cause the male and female to act differently in emosion, sexual behavior, talking, visualizing and ability to solve complex problem.

Sandra Witelson, in her research involving nine male brains and five female brains said that overall, the size of female brain is smaller than male. She also said that the corpus callosum (the “bridge” between left and right brain) is bigger in woman. Simon LeVay (1994) defended this fact after he found out that corpus callosum really is bigger in woman. In addition to that, he also said that a component called anterior comissure (nerve fibers that connect the two cerebral hemispheres) is also bigger in woman.

Let us go back in real life. Woman, in many cases, really love to tell stories about anything. What surprise me is their choices of words are far better than a man, and combine this with the tone and good intonation, you can feel their emotion in the stories. How about man? I’m quite sure that they can’t tell you stories the same as woman do.

Why is this happened? The answer is because of the transfer process between right and left brain is better in female. As I stated above, woman has bigger corpus callosum, and thus, contain more fibrous nerves involve in the transferring process. This is without a doubt, proves why woman likes to talk, especially in explaining academic things. Other than that, hypothalamus content, especially in medial preoptic, also is difference. This region, which control sexual behavior, is 2.5 to 3 times larger in male, explaining why male is always chasing for sex.
In terms of aging process, brain fibrous in male especially in temporal and frontal lobe, will first be to decline in function. These two parts are responsible in controlling how the male think and feel. Thus, changes in these brain parts will cause changes in how they think and feel. For female, their paterial lobes and hippocampus will be first to deteriorate as they grow older. During that time, they will lose their memories and also their spatial ability. We can see that older women usually forget where they put their keys, phone and also forget what they did yesterday.

The differences in the dimension and structure of the brain, is automatically differentiate between male and female in how they think and act. But this doesn’t mean anything in the academic performance. Although female has bigger corpus calosum then male, this doesn’t mean that the female is better in academic performance. This is because, all the differences in the brain structure will only results in different way of thinking and acting, as many research had done. Thus, when the theory of balances is put into account, these two different ways will have a great impact if they are combined together. These show why marriage is important to us.

References :
Pasiak, T. (2008). Revolusi IQ EQ SQ. Selangor, Malaysia : PTS MILLENIA SDN BHD

"Sorry" - A Magic Word

2009-09-28T16:18:00.000-07:00

First of all, I want to apologize for not updating this blog for the past few weeks. It is not because I don't want to update it, but I got busy with tests, assignments and some stuff. Speaking about apologizing, when I click on http://www.physorg.com/ yesterday, I saw a very good article. The title of that article is "Saying Sorry Really Does Cost Nothing".

According to this article, a study carried out by the Nottingham School of Economics' Centre for Decision Research and Experimental Economics, stated that the apology really can influence the other party's behaviour. In their study, when the manufacturer delay the delivery, the response would be either "We are very sorry and want to apologize about this" or "As a goodwill gesture, we can offer you €5 if you would consider withdrawing your evaluation". And surprisingly, 45% of the customers withdrew their evaluation in light of apology, while only 23% agreed in return for compensation.

This statistic show us that if we are wrong and have make a mistake, don't forget to apologize and say that you're sorry. Besides, it is only a word to say, and you could loss nothing if you say the word. For my personal opinion, I think that sorry is needed in certain situation but remember, some thing do not accept sorry as an answer. For example, in a matter of life and death, your mistake may cause someone's life and I don't think that people will just shut up after you say sorry to them. But really, if you make mistake, don't hesitate to say that you're sorry cause sorry may change the outcome of a situation. Thank you for reading this short post.