Saturday, January 31, 2009

Jawatan Yang Tak Sebesar Mana

Jawatan ini …..
waLaupun tak sebesar mana
adalah amanah untuk dilaksanakan
ujian untuk iman dan taqwa
agar tak lagha..dengan kuasa dan reputasi

Jawatan ini ….
walaupun tak sebesar mana
sudah cukup buat insan
lupa diri dan agama
lupa kawan dan taulan
dunia adalah dia punya
ingin hidup ribuan tahun

Jawatan ini…
Walaupun tak sebesar mana
Menagih umur dan masa
Sampai rumah tangga jadi litang pukang
Anak2 merintih bersama buku Iqra
Yang tak mampu dibaca
Orang dirumah termenung
Mengenang dapur yg tak berasap
Menunggu nasi yang tak berjamah
Adakah lagi hari esok
Menanti ria berumah tangga
Menunggu dan membebel
Akhirnya …. Mencari sepi di kedai mamak

Jawatan ini..
Walaupun tak sebesar mana
Jangan jadi penghalang amal
mesyuarat tak berhujungan
sehingga bersolat di akhir waktu
appointment berpagi2an
hingga luput dhuhanya

Jawatan ini..
Walaupun tak sebesar mana
Cukup indah tak terkata
Tapi kita kan ditanya dan diasak
Pasal tugas dan tanggung jawab
Setiap detik dan masa
Adakah kerna tuhan atau manusia !

>>>nasihat untuk kengkawan yang baru mendapat jawatan ......

Friday, January 30, 2009

Morning Blues

I arrived at the faculty this morning greeted by this upside down Proton. How could this happen with students are all away for the term break ? The morning was calm and quiet. The morning traffic was not as mad as usual...and this still happened, so I wonder? It happened in front of the Faculty of Dentistry .......











Apparently the driver was inside the clinic doing her teeth. She did not secure the hand break properly and the car just slide down the drive way onto the roadside below. No one was hurt.

Monday, January 19, 2009

Start of a college life



My daughter Aqeelah started her college education today with a Foundation Programme leading to a medical degree at MSU.I can see the pressure is huge on her to perform well. Any slack in any subjects would jeopardize her chances to pursue her degree. I have tried to explain that to her repeatedly so as to make her realise the importance of it all. I hope she can cope with it and we are here to support every step of the way.


We made the decision TOO SOON. Read the newspaper report below.

Pelajar perlu hati-hati tawaran tajaan atas nama Mara
30/01/2009 5:09pm

KUALA LUMPUR 30 Jan. - Majlis Amanah Rakyat (Mara) menasihati ibu bapa dan pelajar supaya berhat-hati dengan Institusi Pengajian Tinggi (IPT)yang menggunakan nama Mara dalam menawarkan pembiayaan pelajaran.

Timbalan Ketua Pengarah (Pendidikan) Mara, Hanisah Omar berkata terdapat kes mengenai penyalahgunaan nama Mara oleh IPT tempatan dalam menawarkan pembiayaan pelajaran.

“Mara sedang menyiasat kes ini. Orang ramai perlu tampil untuk memberi maklumat bagi membantu kami menyelesaikan perkara ini,” katanya dalam satu kenyataan.

Beliau berkata ibu bapa dan pelajar boleh menghubungi Bahagian Penganjuran Pelajaran Mara di talian 03-26915111 sambungan 619/3620/3631/3985/1155/1114/1122 untuk pengesahan terhadap sebarang bentuk tajaan Mara. - Bernama

-----------------Petikan daripada Utusan Online (30/01/2009)

Aqeelah quit the next day. The college has something to do with the above report.

Sunday, January 18, 2009

Save Gaza, Save the Ummah

The event last Saturday will be a witness that we do care for the sufferings of the people in Gaza.Held at Integrated Islamic School Shah Alam (Section 4, across the street from Pasar Section 6) the event was organized by ISSA, IHSAN(ISSA'a Help & Support Network) and Aman Palestine. Two of my children are attending this school.





























Why does Palestine matter so much ?


For so many years we have been seeing, hearing and listening to the helpless cries of the Palestinians. In fact the atrocities have been going on for over 60 years. Everybody listened but no one seems to find any solution. The complexity deepens and the crisis continues. Muslim act like the problem is not theirs but an isolated people over there somewhere in the middle east. In Malaysia we have heard this notion as well; everyone just listened and could not care less. We pushed away the donation box as if we owned the few ringgits in our pocket for eternity. We heard in distance away the children crying for help, the mothers praying for food to eat and the fathers in silence looking hopeless; but pretend they were noises from unknown land. Not OURS. The act of ignorance and insensitive.

Palestine is not only about money and sadaqah. Palestine is about jihad and responsibility. It keeps the mercury of iman and taqwa. Palestine stands as a trial for Muslim to persevere their faith and commitment to the words of God. From the three haram lands, Allah gives peace to Makkah and Madinah but not Palestine. It remains a land with bloodied war and conflicts and even if the troubles subsided ; there will be people trying to ruin the whole thing. Palestine is the land of Anbiya and has been claimed by the Jews, Christians and Muslim. The battle to take Palestine away from each other has seen endless conflicts for thousand of years.

To Love Palestine is the sign of iman and taqwa. We have to bring it close to our hearts more than anything else.

Wednesday, January 14, 2009

I want to remember again

With the continuing atrocities in Gaza, looking at the grim pictures of the country and people at war, I want to remember again that I am a Muslim, a Malay Muslim. It could me, my family and this beloved land of ours in that conflict. The time when there would be no more tears to shed but the faith and who you are to defend the land thought to be yours .....

I want to remember again that .... Saya Anak Melayu.

Anak kecil main api,
Terbakar hatinya yang sepi,
Air mata darah bercampur keringat,
Bumi dipijak milik orang.
Nenek moyang kaya raya,
Tergadai seluruh harta benda,
Akibat sengketa sesamalah kita,
Cinta lenyap diarus zaman.
Indahnya bumi kita ini,
Warisan berkurun lamanya,
Hasil mengalir ke tangan yang lain,
Peribumi merintih sendiri.
Masa depan sungguh kelam,
Kan lenyap peristiwa semalam,
Tertutuplah hati terkunci mati,
Maruah peribadi dah hilang.
Kini kita cuma tinggal kuasa,
Yang akan menentukan bangsa,
Bersatulah hati bersama berbakti,
Pulih kembali harga diri.
Kini sudah tiada masa,
Majulah dengan gagah perkasa,
Janganlah terlalai teruskan usaha,
Melayukan gagah di nusantara,
Melayukan gagah di nusantara.



Bacalah semula dan hayati sekali lagi rangkap2 yang dulu tersemat kukuh dalam hati sanubari kita. Kemelut umno sekarang ini adalah kemelut bangsa melayu yang sudah lupa dari mana kita datang dan apa yang telah kita perjuangkan. Rata2 generasi yang mempelopori tunggak pemerintahan masa kini samada dalam kerajaan, korporat atau universiti2 adalah kelompok yang pernah menghafal dan menghayati rangkap2 tersebut. Mungkin bersama2 dengan saya menitiskan airmata semasa di ITM suatu ketika dulu sebelum berlepas ke Amerika ata UK. Adakah generasi yang sama telah membawa balik ideology barat untuk digunapakai dalam masyrakat kita hari ini ? sehingga kita keliru bahawa melayu ini sudah tidak relevan lagi. Kita ditipu berulang kali oleh pemimpin yang rakus dengan kuasa dan kekayaan. Pemimpin yang kita sanjungi dan sayangi suatu ketika dulu rupanya ingin menjadi diktator dan ingin kaya raya dengan simpanan dalam bank yahudi berjuta-juta dollar. Sanggup melihat bangsanya dihina dalam kemiskinan; merempat dipinggir bungalow mewah milik orang, berlumba-lumba merebut peluang milik sendiri...tapi hanya senyuman sinis yang kita terima. Dia adalah pemimpin kita. Ada pula pemimpin kita yang memukau dengan kata-kata manis, ucapan berdegar2 sehingga kita leka dan lupa apakah sebenarnya kita disini..di bumi tanah melayu ini. Rupanya beliau adalah talibarut kapitalis. Kita ditipu lagi.
Atas nama demokrasi kita sanggup berpakat membunuh dan memusnahkan bangsa sendiri. Adakah melayu tidak relevan lagi ? bumi ini milik kita, siapakah lagi yang akan berjuang mempertahankan tanah tumpah darah ini kalau bukan kita...anak2 melayu. Kemanakah insan Melayu akan bermusafir 10 atau 20 tahun lagi ? mencari satu kedamaian dan menjawab keluhan anak2 kecil kita. Adakah kita sanggup merempat di bumi sendiri , menghiburkan hati dengan seloka-seloka hidup agar jiwa yang gundah gulana mampu mengukir secalit senyuman. Kita perlu berhenti berlari kerana yang menghambat hanyalah bayang-bayang kekecewaan. Melayu adalah bangsa yang gagah suatu masa dulu. Sanggup menerjah bila bersua musuh. Kita adalah warisan bangsa itu. Jangan sesekali kita lupa.......

Thursday, January 1, 2009

Ushering 2009

I started my 2009 by escaping the mad KL traffic; with people trying to get into the city center for the celebration. I disappeared into the dark Karak highway and joined a handful of people heading home to Kelantan. I was surprised to find this small group of travellers getting away from the NY's celebration in the city. I guess they are as I am; tired of celebrating the start of time that sees resolutions that have never been appreciated , promises that stay as a promise and expectations gone beyond the practical of own self. Stop lying to yourself; nothing good is coming out from this so called celebration. maybe just a reason to get high, get drunk and get laid. A complete recipe for a devastated human spirit. but in malaysia semua boleh !

The roads through Bentong, Raub and Kuala Lipis were strangely quiet. maybe they were all in KL clogging the streets all around the city. I was there; got lost and ended in Pudu of all the places. But it was a good night to travel; nice weather and a company of talkative children. I got 4 of them at the back of my car. that means one is out of the seat belt....and today is the start of the nightmare that we all have to buckle up at the back. I hope those JPJ people would rather go partying than snooping other people's car windows looking for extra kid without the seat belt. The problem with travelling at night is that we have to deal with express buses which become the king of the road at this point and time. They violated every single rules in the book. I was doing 120 and still could not catch up with that double decker buses...pergghhhh. the winding road in the Lipis-GM stretch just did not bother them to slow down. By 6am I was knocking at my mentua's house, and they thought the burglar was at the door. Hmmm...ada pencuri juga kat kampung ya!

The good thing that happened today ; the first day of 2009, I stumbled into a wedding ceremony. Ada orang kahwin rupanya today. our cousin got married and i had enough time to make it to the ceremony. my head was a bit heavy but this majlis has to be attended. Maybe it is a sign that good things will come along in this new year.






this time around I just want to be a good person to my family, friends and people that come to me for whatever reasons.

Goodday!

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