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"Uushiikum bis salati, wa maa malakat aimanuku" - "take care of the Salaat and take care of the weak people among you."

"Ummatii, Ummatii, Ummatii" - "My people, my people, my people."

And the life of the noble prophet Muhammad (s.a.w) ended.

Those are two sentences of word that Rasulullah had uttered as his last speech. Could we love him the way he loves his ummah? I remember a story of a nomadic Badwi who confessed his true love to Rasulullah saw. A Badwi once comes to see Rasulullah and told him that he did not do lots of ibadah. He however claimed that there was no other in this world that he loves (other than the Prophet). Rasulullah replied and confirm that the Badwi will be among his friend in Jannah (Heaven).

Such a short story to tell and the way I crafted it might not be as good as an Ustaz intricate it in his teaching. But then we could start to ask ourselves (i) are we a nomadic Badwi? and (ii) do we loves Rasulullah the way that we are supposed to?

One thing for sure we are no nomadic i.e. we live a good life. There are no reasons at all for not doing ibadah, taking care of our shalat and be concerned of weak people among us, to start of. Do we love Rasulullah? Do we follow his Sunnah? Ask ourselves do we really know him? How do you expect one to follow his Sunnah if we could not even be acquainted with him or his teaching?

And yet we talks a lot on love and be loved.

BERSIH 2.0 aka Kotor 200.0

Aku pernah ke Metro Manila beberapa tahun lalu atas urusan pejabat. Hari pertama di sana kami diberitahu kotaraya Manila dianggap sebagai sebuah kota demonstrasi. Jangan silap sikit maka berdemolah warga-warga Manila ini. Daripada ketidakpuasan hati kepada kerajaan, demo kerana perasaan empathy kepada negara lain, demo bogel pelajar kerana kenaikan yuran pengajian dan sbgnya.

Masuk hari kedua demo betul-betul berlaku. Kali ini demo diadakan oleh pengusaha-pengusaha Jeepney sekitar Manila yang tidak berpuashati dengan peraturan baru kerajaan. Kami pada mulanya tidak dibenarkan untuk ke Univ of Santo Tomas tetapi driver MPV Royal Starex (huhu..hanya sebuah teksi di Manila) yang tersangat mahir dengan Metro Manila dan kawasan sekitarnya, kami berjaya sampai ke destinasi tanpa melalui kawasan demonstrasi.

Akibat kejadian demo yang sering terjadi di Metro Manila, kerajaan dan pendemo-pendemo khususnya pembangkang telah bersetuju setiap aktiviti demo ini dilakukan di sebuah tempat khusus, yang tidak menganggu urusan ekonomi sekitar Metro Manila. Namun begitu sambutannya tidaklah semeriah bilamana demo diadakan di kotaraya. Selepas beberapa demonstrasi, pendemo kembali semula ‘berpesta’ di kota-kota besar seperti ibunegara Manila dan pusat komersil Makati.

BERSIH 2.0

9 Julai satu lagi demo mahu diadakan di ibu kota Kuala Lumpur. Kalau BERSIH 1.0 berjaya membawa kekalahan kepada 5 negeri di Semenanjung, BERSIH 2.0 diharap dapat membawa pakatan pembangkang terus ke Putrajaya. Alasan BERSIH untuk membawa keadilan kepada sistem Pilihanraya di Malaysia jelas satu omongan kosong kerana niat sebenarnya hanyalah berasaskan politik. Itu semua orang tahu, hatta bebudak sekolah rendah pun boleh mengerti.

Impaknya terkesan. Industri pelancongan negara akan terjejas. Setahun dari sekarang akan ada yang berkata, lihat..Menteri Pelancongan Malaysia tidak reti buat kerja. Ranking Malaysia dari segi Human Rights akan merudum. Setahun lagi dari sekarang ada yang akan kata, lihat..Malaysia sama taraf dengan Libya, Syria yang mengamalkan kuku besi dan tidak pernah mengiktiraf hak-hak rakyatnya. Bila keseluruhan ekonomi merudum dan FDI tidak lagi mengalir ke Malaysia, setahun dari sekarang ada orang Manjoi yang akan kata Husni Hanadzlah patut undur dari menjadi Menteri Kewangan.

Bila Ambiga bersuara mengenai IFC (Suruhanjaya Antara Agama) semua menentang. Ambiga diam. Bila Ambiga bersuara tentang Lina Joy dan mempertikaikan hukum Syariah, semua angkat lengan. Ambiga juga terdiam. Tapi bila Ambiga twist and turn kata semua ini kononnya keadilan untuk rakyat, semua menyokong memAm-babibuta-ga. Ambiga akan hanya menjadi Ambiga kalau tidak ada orang-orang Melayu menyokong di belakang beliau. Untuk kali ini aku bersetuju dengan ulasan Ust Khazim Elias (al-hafiz) berkenaan konsep Ketuanan Melayu...

P/s – Bagi aku BERSIH 2.0 hanyalah kotor 200%

Happy Father's Day abah!

Not many show their gratitude and appreciation towards their father. I bet not many cos’ I’m not in the statistic either. In my early days, there were always distance between dad and I. At least that’s how I felt when dad displayed his seriousness, self possessed behavior and most of time anger towards us. After sometimes, well after he passed away in actual fact, I tend to understand all this so called ferocious behavior has only one intention….to let you become humane. And I thank him for that.

Father’s Day will always be a chance for us to speak out our feeling to a person called daddy be it abah, papa, ayah or even sugar daddy…to some ;-). I missed that opportunity long time ago but I do hope my children will. I will appreciate it.

Happy Father’s Day abah!

P/s – Some nice taken pic at Gunung Lang for Amin’s Geography profile..

                                                   Nice views from top of viewing tower at the Island.

 

Playground

Boat riding to the Island charged at RM3 for adult and half pay for kid.

Nice view + Good times. 

House No 267 Part II

The ’under-renovation’ house no 267 is finally completed after due for more than one month. Well, there are still few minor works that need to be carried out but all in all, it could be considered as a finished job. I’m happy so does the contractor. So we eventually kawtim! I’m bit eager to get into the house after so many years and to get back to the kampong-neighbourhood kinda surrounding. Most importantly to get back to the natural life without a touch of too much modernization, thou Gugusan Manjoi tu taklah kampung mana sangat pun :-)

House no 267 wif 2 pagar yg cantek..

The kampung will soon no longer be a ’kampong’ with the recent development of two Mydin Malls, one in Sg Tapah and another in Meru. The Mall in Sg Tapah is just a walking distance while the one in Meru is like 10 minutes drive from house no 267. Sad thing was the development site is on the famous hi-chapperal field aka tempat jatuh lagi dikenang. Well, I guess that was the price that we need to pay for sustainability thou some people complaining that the development will kill off IKS in surrounding areas.

Padang Hi-Chapperal tinggal kenangan..

 

Car Name Initial

What does car initial stand for..

And last but not least..

P/s - It's a joke, ok?(courtesy Zul. Tq)

Long Day Friday

It was a long day last Friday. The day was an off day in replacement of Hari Keputeraan DYMM Agong which falls on Saturday. Tqvm Tuanku and may you be given more Hari Keputeraan. Early morning we travel to Kuala Kangsar, the so called royal town of Perak, try to be at the Sultan Azlan’s gallery as early as possible. Well, we were there at 10am on the dot, enough to have about an hour enjoying ourselves with all the items in the gallery. 20% of the time spent on Keris Taming Sari and good explanation given by En Aznan. He seems to know in details about all the Keris’ and Pedang Diraja belonging to the Sultanate of Perak.

Keris Taming Sari is a weapon owned by a Malay warrior called Hang Tuah, way back in the era of establishment of Malacca in 1500th. The Keris is so special that it was made from 20 different types of iron, of which some says that the metal came from the forging of bolts of the Ka’abah. According to En Aznan, Tuah feeling shame & guilty of not being able to get the hand of Puteri Gunung Ledang for Sultan Mahmud, had passed the Taming Sari to Tun Mamat to be given back to the Sultan. Hang Tuah wished to pursue Islamic knowledge and dissapered since then. When Malacca was invaded by the Portuguese in 1511, Sultan Mahmud retreated to Kampar, bringing with him the Keris and all Malacca State regalia. After sometimes, the Sultan successor, Raja Muzaffar was given the task to go back to Peninsular, where he eventually landed in Perak and was proclaimed the first Sultan in this State. Taming Sari and other insignia were given to him as the state regalia. The keris is kept at the Istana Iskandariah since then and only shown to people 4 times for the past dunno how many hundred of years.

Here the boys and Damia in front of the gallery.

Also the Taming Sari (hulunya telah ditukar kepada hulu yang bertatahkan ruby).

Next on the list was the Lenggong Archeology museum in Kota Tampan. The Museum consists of three main places (i) the excavation artifacts and items of Kota Tampan and surrounding areas including the famous Perak Man, (ii) the museum of musical instruments and (iii) the viewing tower atop the hill at the back of the museum. Kiki asked what if skeleton of the Perak Man founded in Manjoi? I say he will be called Manjoi bro…

The kids had a good time. Amin moderated to us the Paleolithic (zaman batu), Neolithic and Metal Age era (Zaman logam) which is part of his form one History study.

We had lunch at R&R near Raja Nazrin Bridge. The Perak Man’s IC here..

We then traveled back to Ipoh for Friday prayer. I missed a turn at the hi-way and we ended up paying our toll at Simpang Pulai. So we decided to do our prayer at the An Nur mosque.

Next we traveled to Kellie Castle in Batu Gajah. We were brave enough to climb on top floor of the castle for sightseeing of the surrounding area (and imagining ourselves as Brennius, legendary king of Northumberland & Allobroges, the conqueror of Rome).

 






King Brennius with brotha and sista, afraid of height…

The castle sparks an idea for the name of newly bought Half Persian kitten. We call her Kellie..

Traveling back to Ipoh we stopped at the Perak Stadium for a date with Upin & Ipin only to find out that they will only be available on the next day. We were happy with Mail 2 ringgit and Ehsan si Intan Payung…

We even stopped at 'almost-complete'' 267 house..

Arrived late in the evening everybody was so tired. When we asked Raischa, she just gave us this uwekkk looks saying that she still got the energy for another round tomorrow.. ;-)