Thursday, November 11, 2004

SALAM EID MUBARAK

assalamualaikum,

dikesempatan ini, aku nak ucapkan selamat hari raya 'idul fitr, maaf zahir dan batin kepada semua... ramadhan hampir meninggalkan kita, di manakah kita?

bagi aku, ramadhan kali ini merupakan satu bulan yg banyak 'kisah sedih' berlaku pada aku... ntah la, semoga ini merupakan satu ujian ataupun balasan ke atas dosa dosa yg aku lakukan... aku betul² mengharapkan maghfirahMu... aku tetap redha atas apa yg berlaku pada aku, yg nyatanya mempunyai hikmah dan sebab yg perlu aku find out... berilah kekuatan pada hambaMu ini ya allah...

kepada semua, mari kita sama sama check, di manakah puasa kita? adakah kita sudah mencapai tahap puasa yg sempurna? atau puasa yg sederhana? atau puasa yg biasa? hanya allah dan rasulNya yg tahu di manakah puasa kita, selain kita sendiri yg tahu apa yg kita lakukan selama ini...

semoga allah merahmati kita semua, dan semoga ramadhan ini membawa banyak keberkatan pada diri aku, keluarga aku, dan mereka yg aku sayangi dunia dan akhirat...

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muhasabah ramadhan - UNIC

hari raya hari kemenangan
hari kesyukuran dilimpahi kemuliaan
di lipatan seni mehnah illahi
ada maksud murni yg lebih hakiki

pada nafsu yg dilenturkan lapar dahaga
pada fikiran di sinar wahyu dan sabda
pada hati bersih di soat tarawih
apakah semuanya telah dimiliki

puasa mengajar erti kepayahan
menghadap ujian berlandaskan iman
puasa perisai yg sangat maknawi
penyingkap hijab antara hamba dgn illahi

puasa sempurna menahan rohani dan rasa
puasa sederhana menahan indera dan juga anggota
puasa biasa hanya melawan lapar dan dahaga

lalu di manakah puasa kita
adakah masih di tahap lama

lalu muhasabah di hujung ramadhan
sudahkah terbangun jiwa teguh dan kukuh
atau kolam jiwa masih tercemar keruh
oleh sembilu dosa dan duri angkara

ketika bertahmid, bertakbir, bertasbih
terasa kita hamba illahi
yg hanya mampu mengukir tadbir
sedangkan padaNya segala takdir

allahu akbar, allahu walillahil hamd
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wallahu a'lam...

Saturday, November 06, 2004

I DONT WANNA GROW UP!!!

Assalamualaikum,

Signs that you are a 80s' baby :

You grew up watching He-man,Transformers, Thundercats, Silver Hawk and Mickey Mouse. Not to forget, Ninja Turtles, Mask and Smurfs too. Girls watched Japanese drama series like - "Maero Attack", "Oshin" etc.

You grew up brushing your teeth with a mug in primary school after recess time. You squatted by a drain with all your classmates beside you, and brushed your teeth with a colourful mug.

Remember the days when the school nurse, comes with a list for the dentist appointment, the sound of the drilling when ur friend has a fill in his tooth.

You remember the packets of milk we get in primary school to encourage us to drink more milk.

In secondary school, girls go to the library to borrow their favourite romance storybook. In secondary school, girls wear their school kain baju kurung too labuh and guys will go to the school appointed school uniform tailor shop to tailor make their school trousers to the then fashionable "baggy pants"!

During primary school days, the teacher will punish you using a ruler to hit your palm. A bowl of noodles soup cost only 40c in primary school days. When you were in primary school, girls like to go to the bookshop to buy cute stuff such as animal erasers, sharpeners, notebook etc.

Yaohan departmental stores used to be a favourite hangout for families during weekends.

In secondary school days, you buy the Bata BM Turbo school shoes. Some guys like to wear those china made ankle high shoes. Some even like to wear those very thick socks with their school shoes.

Internet? E-mail? What the hell is that? So you thought a decade or more ago. Your friends don't have pagers or handphones in school.

CDs? What's that? Cassette tapes were the norm. Movie tickets used to cost less than $5 last time.

The goodies from Mama shop used to be Mamee, Ka ka, Kum Kum, Ding Dang choco balls (with toys in the box), colourful hard "egg", "cigerette" chocolate, pink bottle of bubbles, and small tubes with yellow sticks to blow "more lasting" bubbles that you can pop more air in or slam it on.

You never forget 'Ti Kam'.

When exams are over, the board games (eg: UNO, Monopoly, CLUEDO) & hand held video games will be all over the class room.

Your favourite sound is the bell! For it's the homemade ice cream man. The cream that tops Haagan Dazs! The pink colour ice-cream with eyes plus a wide smile.

And the other peddler you love is the old lady who sells juicy Muah Chee and thick golden syrup rolled in a ballon the tip of a chopstick stick.

Another bell is the recess bell, a time to get away from school work and to eat. Another time when there is no bell but all guys will anxiously wait for it... The PJ,PE time (time for football!)

Your favourite childhood games were playing "guli" (marbles), five stones, zero-
point, catching, and/or "Pepsi-Cola one two three"! Police & Sentry.

The best thirst quencher of all times is the yummy colourful ice tubes you can buy from provision shops. To eat them, break the tab and suck while holding the freezing tube!

All gals have a barbie doll/strawberry shortcake/ my little pony/pound puppy, while all boys have a star wars figurine or a rubber band catapult that shoots folded paper!

Once was the era whereby ice-cream sticks were valueable items, than came the paper aircrafts, chalk fights.

Everyone envies the class monitor and his assitant, cos they were the ones who can come up with the daily duty rooster, giving names to teacher on who makes the most noise.

The elite group are the prefects, the one with license to move around, they consider themselves above the law.

Some boys made their own guns from wood,and used 'Bacali' as the bullets.

And your favourite holiday was Hari Raya! New clothes, duit raya, shopping, kuih raya and family outings! (YEAH... WITH ALL THE BUNGA API AND MERCUN!!)

Cheers to the 80s babies!!!

GONE ARE THE GOOD OLD DAYS HUH? DOES READING THIS BRINGS YOU BACK TO THE GOOD OLD TIMES?