Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Monday, January 30, 2012

Friday, January 27, 2012

Song: Forget You

Band of a family. Also, they made a great cover of Adele's Rolling In The Deep. Love that accent.

Tuesday, January 24, 2012

Random And Radical Boredom #9

First, alhamdulillah result sem ni boleh tahan. Tapi tak dean list lah. Usaha lagi sem depan.

Second, Hello Baby Season 5 dah keluar. Okay, tiga-tiga budak dalam Hello Baby season kali ni semua comel gila. Aku memang sukakan budak-budak. Tapi bila dorang ni comel gila, aku sampai tanya balik diri aku ni, aku ni suka budak-budak ke pedophile sebenarnya? Haha. Nah satu gambar Lauren (mix korean canadian).

Lauren Hanna Lunde

Third,

Amirah Filzah, please marry me !!

Haha, sorry. Dulu dekat blog lama, aku suka menggatal. Dekat blog ni, ni first time kot tiba-tiba nak rasa syok sendiri. 2 years younger, lembut, baik, cantik, senang cerita perfect lah.

Kesian dia kalau dapat kawin dengan orang macam aku. Dah stalk habis dah pun (bunyi seram je). By the way, aku tak menepati langsung ciri-ciri suami idaman Cik Amirah ni. Sobs sobs.

Video pakai shawl pun jadi. Oh, that smile.

Monday, January 23, 2012

Turn Back The Pendulum 5

2005: Umur 13 tahun
Tempat: Kelas 2 Al-Razi, Semesta

Krriingg, krriingg !!! Loceng 10 malam berbunyi.

Loceng sepuluh malam menandakan waktu prep bagi pelajar perempuan tamat manakala prep malam pelajar lelaki pula habis pada pukul 10.15.

Aku sengseng lengan baju melayu. Siap menyalin jawapan soalan matematik Cikgu Izam daripada Faiznur. Aku menguap, mulut terbuka luas dibiarkan begitu sahaja. Tak ada perempuan pun nak tengok, semuanya tergesa-gesa mengemas barang dan mencapai beg pulang ke asrama.

Ada segelintir dua tiga muka budak perempuan kelas lain menunggu di tepi pintu. Menunggu teman baik pulang bersama, iya lah kan bestfriend forever tambah pula tangga sekolah berdekatan dengan kelas aku di tingkat 3, blok Amal.

Nafsu muda mula membuak. Pelajar kelas 2.1 (Al-Razi) kebanyakkannya senyap-senyap belaka, tapi hakikatnya 15 minit sebelum bunyi nya loceng sepuluh suku malam, mereka semua bertukar buas. Dari bermain bola kertas digumpal-gumpal daripada surat khabar kepada berlari sekeliling kelas tanpa memakai baju sehinggalah bersolat diatas meja supaya dapat pulang awal ke asrama, semua nya berlaku dalam 15 minit itu. Aku panggil waktu kemuncak.

Aku pergi ke meja Faiznur untuk memulangkan buku matematik. Rutin harian setiap prep malam, meminjam mana-mana buku kawan yang siap kerja sekolah. Entah kenapa, aku terasa ingin memekik malam itu. Lagu '"Melompat Lebih Tinggi" nyanyian Sheila On 7 sesuai dengan jiwa budak hingusan 13 tahun meluah perasaan kepada dunia.

"Ku petik bintang ! Untuk kau telan ! Cahaya nya tenang, berikan kau perlindungan !"

Lirik diubah sedikit. Sengaja. Aku memekak di hadapan kelas sambil menconteng papan putih. Namun diakhir nyanyian aku, Khairul Khusaini, teman seBentong pula menyambung.

"Sebagai peringat teman, juga sebagai jawapan ! Semua tentangan !"

Mujahid "Moja" mungkin menyahut seruan jiwa muda kami tanpa sedar.

"Ehem-ehem !"

Suara seperti ku kenal, tapi di mana ya ? Aku toleh ke kiri.

"Damn, kantoi," aku mencarut dalam hati tanda hormat.

Cikgu Zaharol "Sesungut" berdiri dengan rotan di pintu depan kelas. Sejak bila pulak dia ni rajin bertugas. Mendapat gelaran "Sesungut" kerana dua helai rambut hadapan beliau terjuntai sehingga ke dagu, seakan-akan sesungut lebah.

Cikgu Zaharol: Awak buat apa ni? Awak bertiga mari sini.

Kami tiga kepala akur. Apakah sangat daya kudrat budak 13 tahun dihadapan seorang warden.

Cikgu Zaharol: Awak ikut saya.

Kami mengekor Cikgu Zaharol sehingga ke hadapan tangga terletak diantara 2.5 (Al-Biruni) dan 5.3 (Al-Khawarizmi). 50 meter lebih kurang dari kelas 2.1.

"Sekarang, awak bertiga menyanyi dekat sini. Awak berdua main gitar, awak pulak menyanyi". Arahan diberi kepada kami bertiga.

Dengan segan-silu, kami pun memekak di situ. Glamour semalaman lah katakan.

"Ku petik bintang ! Untuk kau simpan !"

Lirik dibetulkan.

Sejak daripada tu, aku tak pernah menyanyi lagi waktu prep malam.

Song: Skinny Love

Sunday, January 22, 2012

Vid: Sek Fan

Damn, siapa potong bawang ni?

Random And Radical Boredom #8

Often, to ease ourselves from any distress (usually mental but we blame the heart), we create this one thing we called 'personal comfort zone'.

We stay in this zone, and no one can penetrate it as if there were a hidden barrier around it. We try to recover our wound, until we get better to overcome the overwhelming harshness of life, especially when we seem to be afloat in mid air, not touching the ground, and not flying through the clouds either.

But this is a subtle understanding of being a youth. Where one hand is holding on to the past while the other tries to reach the unknown future. Complicated as it can be. And lastly, we can't decide and we glide through the air we breath, taking by the wind to anywhere we can go. Believing it was all Heaven's decision.


But the reality is we isolate ourselves from things we're scared of. Imagination and hope run wild, but to take any countermeasure, we found dead end. But again, this is what being youth is all about. There is no sense of adventure if everything we plan going so smooth, that the whole picture of the lesson we gained lose its substantial meaning.

But the good thing is we remember. People grow older and environment changes, but memories remain. Sort of time travelling, whenever and wherever we sip our coffee foam during a rainy day, we are drawn back to the past. It's like jumping to the future, but the gravity of the situation pulled you back to where you've been.

Then again, we'll always find a way out. Maybe we found a piece of puzzle too early, maybe later, it can took ages or appear at the right moment, but we can always imagine the big picture. Later on, we'll realize we can only hope to Him, and time.

Because He creates story, and time tells it.

p/s: Happy Chinese New Year :)

Friday, January 13, 2012

Thursday, January 12, 2012

Vid: Kindness Boomerang

Video tahun lepas tapi dulu tak jumpa link youtube, last-last tak terpost. Ada link facebook and vimeo je.

Because kindness is contagious

Vid: The Quran and Us



Haha, teringat checklist usrah. Vid Monthly Motives (MoMo) mengingatkan aku kepada checklist usrah Toronto. Sama konsep macam MoMo, every week we have different ibadah to do, but also continue the ibadah we're doing on the previous week.

Kalau minggu pertama, baca quran, minggu kedua pula buat solat sunat dhuha, but at the same time minggu kedua kena terus baca quran.

But what's important, it's not how many pages of Quran you read, but the deed itself, that you've read and stay connected to Quran everyday. Tak silap, ibadah yang kitorang list kan dalam checklist tu antaranya lah baca Quran, solat sunat dhuha, solat tahajjud, al-Mathurat pagi dan petang and puasa isnin dan khamis. Benda ni bukan paksaan, semuanya atas kehendak diri. And checklist tu kira macam guidance jela untuk mulakan benda ni.

Buat mana yang termampu, supaya tiada alasan untuk luangkan masa beribadah - Anon (Usrah Toronto)

Quote tu dah direphrasekan and tak ingat siapa yang cakap. Anyway, let's support the cause of Monthly Motives. We'll gain the benefits, insyaAllah.

p/s: sorry update sebundle terus, sebab malas nak update untuk seminggu. 

TTL #7


Tidak akan ada kebangkitan tanpa cinta, dan tiada cinta tanpa iman - Imam Hassan al-Banna

Life: New Year's Resolution

I've never had in mind to post about this until I read Mr Wise's blog, an English teacher of mine. 2012 is nothing much, merely the same as years before, that's what I thought. It'll probably become another typical year, where you have the same resolutions, losing weight, getting 3.00 GPA and above, and hoping nothing bad happens along your way.

Hopeful, yes, but which side I'm siding, I think I'll go with the flow, spontaneously react to whatever lies ahead for me in 2012.

I got bored one evening. Jumping from one tab to another, I opened my previous blog to check my bloglist if someone updates theirs. I came across his blog. Mr Wise shares his blog with his wife. It's an inspiring blog, I would say, due to his passion of teaching, his devotion to God, his love for his family and his experiences of living. Every word has feeling to it, as if you can feel its sincerity.


The first sentence, powerful enough to make us sit and think for a second.

New Year's resolutions are the province of the young - Steven Wise

Reading all his words, encourages me to find a resolution I want to achieve by the end of 2012 ( not considering Mayan prophecy, haha ) and somehow enlightens me to anticipate events, emotions, and much more struggles.

Perseverance

If anyone of you might think the same, I would recommend you to read this ( you have to read this through different perspective if you're a muslim, but the points are well highlighted )


And hopefully it'll change yours too. Till then :)

Tuesday, January 10, 2012

Vid: The Joy of Books

Ah, nak baca Contengan Jalanan. Ceh, The Book of (Even More) Awesome pun tak sentuh lagi.

Cool vid.

Saturday, January 7, 2012

Taz: Anak Soleh

Shared from Alyaa Majid. Comel, dan juga mendalam.



Adam: Ustazah, doakan saya ustazah, saya nak dapat 5A dalam UPSR.

Ustazah: Ya, insyaAllah, ustazah doakan.

Adam: Ustazah kata nak doakan, tapi ustazah tak minta nama saya pun.

Ustazah: Ya, apa nama awak?

Adam: Adam, ustazah.

Ustazah: Kenapa awak beria-ria nak dapat 5A dan minta ustazah doakan awak?

Adam: Saya kena dapatkan 5A sebab saya nak tuntut hadiah dari emak saya. Mak saya kata kalau saya dapat 5A, saya boleh minta apa sahaja.

Ustazah: Boleh ustazah tahu apa permintaan Adam?

Adam: Saya nak emak saya tutup aurat, ustazah.

Ustazah tersebut berasa terharu lalu mendoakan kejayaan Adam.

Adam anak soleh.


p/s: 7 January, today's date is the date I entered high school in year 2004. 8 years have passed, this actually brings back memories, and I'm glad we still keep in touch :)


Friday, January 6, 2012

Song: I Won't Give Up

If I were to sacrifice one thing for another, it's feeling. I pray for another September.

Song: If I Ain't Got You

Great cover of Alicia Keys' If I Ain't Got You :)

Thursday, January 5, 2012

Taz: Nasihat Yang Menambahkan Dosa

Assalamualaikum. Taz tu singkatan untuk tazkirah.

I've got the idea to write about this when I suddenly remember the post by Affan Ruslan (my senior) that used the same title and stressed on the same thing, 'nasihat yang menambahkan dosa'. So, this is kind of a repost, but what's important, people get the message.

Lately, there have been a lot of cases or events that stirred up the mood in facebook and media (news), things that actually happened in Malaysia. Some of them, isu V for Merdeka, isu Amalina Che Bakri, isu gitar dalam ceramah Ustaz Azhar Idrus, isu gay Ariff Alfian, isu Hudud, isu Adam Adli dan macam-macam lagi.

Of course, when things happened, there will be people who opposed it, and people who supported the action. In any case, that's for sure is going to happen. But what's more concerning, most of them are Malays. Not just any Malays, Muslim Malays, Melayu Islam.

The situation is right now, when they disagree with something, they tend to throw and put up some comments, or by the appearance of them, some kind of advices so that the doers, will realize what they did is all a mistake, or a sin.

Masalahnya,
Nasihat itu menambahkan dosa !!!

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Niat = Nasihat
Nasihat = Kejian, makian, sumpahan dan mungkin hukum takfir

Contohnya, isu gay Ariff Alfian.

Okay, kita semua faham bahawa gay, lesbian, homoseksual adalah satu bentuk dosa dan dilarang dalam Islam. And if Ariff Alfian indeed married another man, it's unacceptible dalam konteks masyarakat yang mengamalkan agama Islam.

Dan apabila terdapat seseorang post this issue (link, blogpost, facebook etc), mula lah ada sesetengah orang yang komen atau ulas, kononnya memberi nasihat tapi nasihatnya berbunyi seperti ini:

Bodoh punya orang, tak belajar agama ke gay tu salah?

or

Kafir budak ni, masuk neraka nanti !

You get what I mean?

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Hukum Takfir

Takfir ialah perbuatan mengkafirkan seseorang yang lain. Hukum takfir bukan boleh dibuat main-main. Silap hari bulan, kita yang tanggung azabnya. Kita ambil komen yang aku bagi tadi,

Kafir budak ni, masuk neraka nanti !

Ini adalah statement takfir. Si polan melontarkan komen atau perkataan yang mengatakan si polan yang lain ialah kafir. Dalam konteks takfir, kita tak boleh meletakkan hukum takfir tanpa alasan yang kukuh atau pengetahuan tentang kekafiran tersebut. Hukum takfir ini ada banyak guideline atau laws yang perlu kita tahu dan ikut before meletakkan sesuatu hukum. Bukan main suka jer.

So, bila seseorang meletakkan hukum tersebut, ada dua probability.

When someone accused another person of apostacy (murtad), either one of them is kafir.

Contohnya, bila A tuduh B kafir, sedangkan B memang kafir, so hukum takfir jatuh kepada B sebab B ialah kafir.

Situasi yang sama, bila A tuduh B kafir, sedangkan B ialah muslim, so hukum takfir jatuh kepada A sebab A menuduh tanpa bukti yang kukuh.

Itulah maksud either one of them is kafir which is sangat scary sebab kalau A Islam, kemudian hukum takfir jatuh kepadanya, secara automatik dia akan menjadi kafir. Ada banyak pendapat tentang ini, tetapi yang pasti A mestilah mengucap syahadah kembali. Yang menakutkan ialah A tidak sedar !!!

Jadi sila jangan main-main dengan hukum takfir. And this is just an introduction, to make it clear about my point. Kalau nak tahu lebih lanjut tentang hukum takfir ni, sila lah belajar atau tanya yang lebih mengetahui.

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"Agama itu adalah nasihat." Kami (sahabat) bertanya, "Untuk siapa?" Jawab baginda, "Untuk Allah, untuk kitab-Nya, untuk rasul-Nya, untuk pemimpin kaum Muslimin dan untuk umat Islam seluruhnya"

[Imam Muslim]

Memang digalakkan kita saling menasihati, amar makruh nahi mungkar. Tapi biarlah berlandaskan jalan yang betul. Walaupun kita ada buat salah, jangan takut untuk menegur orang lain tapi pastikan kita sentiasa berubah dari hari ke hari.

Setiap apa yang kita lakukan ialah saham, jadi fikir dahulu sebelum kita lakukan sesuatu perkara
-Adnan Zainal-

So, bila kita nak menasihati orang, guna lah perkataan yang baik. Belajar adab-adab menasihati, kalau lah guna ayat maki dan keji, macam mana orang nak terima nasihat kita? Bukan sahaja mereka makin menjauh dari Islam, malah timbul rasa benci dan marah. Dapat dosa lagi.

So, watch out your words guys. Pepatah melayu pun ada menyebut "Terlajak perahu boleh diundur, terlanjak kata badan binasa." Maybe itu je kot, minta dijauhkan daripada dosa-dosa yang kita tidak sedar, dan improve our attitude and knowledge from now onward.

Go, both of you to Pharaoh. Indeed, he has transgressed. And speak to him with gentle speech that perhaps he may be reminded or fear [Allah].
[Taha, 20: 43 & 44]

Sunday, January 1, 2012

TTL #6


The only sound of explosion that is a melody to the ears

First post 2012. It's time to walk towards a new unknown

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