am honestly have things to blog about but not now ah…
but anyway…am actually happy i got to put my laptop to rest except for a 2 hour surfing of the net…and with this…i have contributed to the cause of saving electricity in the house and for the world!
i still want my electricity in 2045 AD!!
and am back to working 7days/week~
i had the opportunity to visit this D’talk camp which Nady (An-Nahdhah youth) organized with two muslim bodies from NYP and TP. so i came uninvited, well, not exactly…took some pictures of the talk. i came in while they were having break and were on the midst of an energizer activity.
you know this game where you have one balloon tied to your feet and among you and your teammates, you had to step and burst the balloons. so of course, the last person to still have the balloon tied to her/his feet would usually came out as winner. and everyone would be shouting and running away from one another, while trying to burst your friends’ balloons.
now the facilitator said there’s a lesson to be learnt from the game, which i found myself thinking…what the heck are you supposed to be learning from the game??! but not so fast….you can and do learn something…
so a few of the sisters gave one or two pointers. i don’t really remember what they said but one of them said that the balloon is a metaphor of an amanah. so it’s like it’s everybody’s amanah to do da’wah. i agree with that. but why would we be stepping or bursting the amanah?
now another one said, some factors like the size of balloon and the material of the balloon should be considered so the objective of the game would be realised. but how would we relate that to da’wah?
let me try to put things into perspectives.
let say the balloon is the da’wah effort which needs to be carried out. now we have person A tied with a balloon. it’s either A would be willing to receive the message, or he would be dodging away, running from us, not letting us to burst the balloon, here, would be not letting us to do da’wah.
there will always be people who would turn away, unreceptive of the da’wah which we are doing, unwilling to listen, but does not hinder our spirit and does not impede our da’watic effort. why would we be so willing and tried our best to step on another’s and burst their balloon? because that was the instruction given by the games master.
take this willingness and put in da’watic spirit. we will try our best and willing to do it…whether there’s going to be so many obstacles, attitudes given to our face, but we will do it. to realise a part of the role given to us as vicegerents.
and yes, the material and size of the balloon is important. the keyword for da’wah is simple- hikmah and wisdom. that’s the material needed in da’wah. the size? well, it depends on the person receiving the da’wah…how much do they need to know? how can we tell them about Islam? with such a quantity that will let them understand what they need to know about Islam.
and da’wah is definitely amanah. and my salutations to those attending the D’talk and the unspoken commitment to be on the sidelines, on the edge of the fortress, and spread the message of Islam.
wallahu a’lam.
i’m in the habit of delaying blogging but i honestly don’t have the time this week. wahliau, time wellspent i hoped.
it’s been all blessed days and happy wishes and prayers for these past few days.
well for the last weekend i tried squeezing time for two weddings and a birthday suprise, plus a father’s day dinner as well.
it was sweet but rockin’ at heart Hasanah’s wedding last saturday! absolutely gorgeous in blue with all them rock ballad songs which definitely made my day. baik ah Hasanah~ and what do we love-at weddings- but taking pictures and delicious food!
also we graced Za’s sister’s wedding, Maswiyah. we missed the solemnization but nevertheless, we hyped up the wedding, again, with pictures and laughters!
mono: i definitely want you girls to be at my wedding! -whenever that is!! haha
oh then squeezed my time for Dyan’s birthday surprise @ Pasir Ris, carefully planned by her fiance and her nus besties. anything for a friend don’t we? fig and olive delicacies, nice choc cake and a ‘JB’ surprise for we-dig-you-awesome Dyan!!
and anything for the family….we had dinner @ Clarke Quay, at this indonesian restaurant. father’s day and nice smelling gift.
shasha’s surprise bday at muis! (heh, i tell you, anything for a friend~)
contented with 4 of us, and mary all the way to bring the birthday balloon. truly relieved you girls loved the truffle cake and a freshly sunflower from the heart for sayanged shasha with extra blue roses for all of us!
now…what else….oh yeah…a little birthday wish for Yuun on her birthday also…
and also Ratu’s birthday last friday… me and my little sibs went out for cycling (am so happy to be spending the afternoon with my little ones!!)…just so as a ruse to go out and buy something for her…and it’s truly her day really. surprised her with a yummy ice cream cake and a dinner of pizzas + a sparkling shiny bracelet of Paris Bijoux. (wow…last mother’s day you got a pearly ring..now..bracelet), anything for a mother’s happiness!
and what else did i miss??
oh last but definitely not the least…a schoolmate got married today..Fadhlina to her man…
woow..i kept remembering how we used to tease and tease her without care during school..just because she’s so naive and blurred…but hey…she’s married!!
baju dah sama biru lagik~
and guess who i met? used to be notorious guy who i don’t know how we got to be an item during hingusan days. it’s funny..i acted like i don’t know him and he acted like he don’t know me, when the reason we broke off was because a friend’s kepo-ness. oh well…those were the days…i honestly don’t care.
so all is well. my best prayers for my friends on their birthdays and marriages. another day to live, another day to live a new life, another day for me to face..
anyway…i had this thought…i got it on shasha’s bday..i was thinking- i’m going to be a year older too very much soon..how do i act that age?
With the school term about to recommence next week, looks like our youths are catching up with what’s left of the week to fill up their time with energizing and dynamic activities this weekend.
There’s Cakap Pasal Remaja (CPR) around the corner at Al-Iman mosque with Z.O.U.Q. as its topic this time. Looking from the success of its prior ‘episodes’ and indefinite support from Muslim youths, we’re expecting more of those talented performances and engaging discussion with the panelists.
What’s Z.O.U.Q is all about?? Hmm..it’s about time you come down and see for yourself. Surely you don’t want to miss the hype.
And Ar-Rabitah’s youth, Nurabitah, is busy for its Night Cycling event, all through Friday night~ Night adventure has always been a fave with our youngsters. Remember those night Hijrah walks? This cycling adventure will wise up the youths with the battles of Badr and Uhud. With nice parks as destination and great company…cycling has never been more fun~ May everything goes well and safe journey to the youths participating!
Now, An-Nahdhah Youth has its own night adventure, though more intellectually challenging…D’Talk 08. Organized by Nur Ikhwan and Nanyang Polytechnic Muslim Society, the camp aims to tackle questions and issues which, non-Muslims might ask and at the same time, have a deeper reflection to ownselves as Muslims. Can we be Islam’s spokespersons? How do we answer questions about Islam with hikmah and wisdom? How can we be a better Da’i? Masya Allah, here are the people who stand at the sideline and spread the message of Islam. Insya Allah..
And somewhere all over Singapore, some of our Muslim youths are practising hard and preparing for MySpex 08! Amidst Euro 2008, we do have time for our own sports event of the year! Look out for more on MySpex!
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why do people sometimes asked questions when the answers are pretty much obvious?
thank God it’s friday they say…what the heck..to me, there is no version of weekend for me. i have no idea why time flies like so fast!
i was just searching around this vast internet on some things (which is not for fun…for work) and then i realised it already took 2 hours!!
and then i want to read my books. and then i want to update blogs, especially my teens’ blog, which i never got around to do it. kesian my teens, nantikan takde idea nak buat apa for their project. (oh ok i got an idea what to do!!)
and then this mind works at random, when i want it to work, it doesn’t! and when i don’t want to think about work…there’ll be all these ideas coming up, and when i thought i was sleepy, off the laptop, got to bed, and then i couldn’t sleep! because suddenly it’s wide awake! haha~ and i am on the ‘quest’ of turning around my biological clock local time. it’s so following US time…
Run Seri Run!
but all in good tidings. it’s just that we are so driven for perfection. driven just to have some bit of cash. driven to do so many things. driven to prove to, not to other people, but to your ownself…that yes, you really can do it. yes, you really can overcome all these hardships, challenges, depression, get through it all, and emerge in victory.
i seem to have this fear that what i do is going to make some impact on the whole community and one wrong step, it’s going to ruin all those hard work. it’s a huge amanah which i sometimes feel, i’m not the one to do this. it’s scary, really. i keep having to remind myself to just do it and don’t fall.
i’ve to get used to this rhythm of life. i honestly never thought it would be this way, and life is not a bed of blue roses, Seri.
be strong. believe.
i think i drink too much iced lemon tea. (ok, tak penting…;))
after a certain chat, i don’t know how to chat anymore. (tak faham? it’s ok, you don’t have to) and after a certain blogpost, i don’t know how to blog. i’m afraid i’ve become sharptongued and forgot to think before i write or talk. i think that’s the reason why i make that choice to be quiet a long time ago.
and yes, i had a hard time trying to change a certain multiply site because it looked ‘amateurish’. going through from one template to another and spending time just to manipulate the template, searching for a nice picture for header, editing here and there…and then i found one good multiply template, but of course, the picture header is just inappropriate for this site, so i had to change it to one which i had to edit the size, and put on a disclaimer somewhere of its original owner. just that, i changed the pic header to another..
now, the template designer mentioned to drop a word or two that we’re using her template, so i did. i was all praise for her work and thank god she designed this template. and what do we get???
she dropped a bomb on the guestbook..saying no Editing allowed and asked me to put on the original before i got to her list of jockers! what the heck is ‘jockers’?
oh, you mean, jokers? penting nak wrong spelling? but i don’t understand. i thanked her, which i assumed is an act of disclaimer as well. and i just change the pic header (now even the pic also i put a disclaimer!) why did she have to ‘shout’ that way?
ni lah, orang kalau dah bijak pandai. sombong.
now i’m thinking of paying her (never mind she’s a filipino emo teen), like i’m buying the template from her….and then i realise, the bl@*^%y money’s not in la!
and then i thought now it’s very important for me to design something original, or ask someone to design..or i can always buy a Photoshop or Illustrator software and design my own pictures and images and templates THE WAY I WANT IT!!
and then i remember…repeat: the bl@*^%y money’s not in!
it’s a month delayed ok! and i got to pay up the persons who’s been blogging for me also. and i might get a software at the IT fair or anywhere for that matter.
but the cash is not in…and what hurts is that, some people are having holidays~
and i can’t even belanja my adik2, who’s been so good staying at home, never whining to go here nor there, never bugging to buy this buy that. never complaining. and thank lord nuri’s got some school stuffs and cca, and edid was ever willing to attend a Teens aL.I.V.E. HP, and siti’s just content surfing wikipedia all day long.
i love them so.
and i can’t even bring myself to ask…
what a loser.
be strong. believe.
i love Narnia Prince Caspian to bits!! and am having a crush on High King Peter…while it lasts. *sigh* i do feel the movie is lacking more actions/adventures, wishing for more!! I was thinking Caspian would have a more stronger role in there somewhere. and i was expecting a glimpse of the Kings and Queens of Narnia have a flash memory of their lives in Narnia…i mean they do grow old right in Narnia? i want to know why they left Narnia in the first place….. forgot that it’s actually shown in the first movie, they became kings and queens, they were adults and they went back to the spot where there’s this signature lamppost a ‘landmark’ to the wardrobe…
don’t tell me i have to read the book~~ there’s other books to be read laa… yey! i don’t have to read the book~
my ‘thirst’ for some fantasy magical movie is quenched. i want to watch Narnia again!!
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Cakap Pasal Remaja @ Darul Ghufran is kind of cool…
Lord, i feel old sitting among teenagers haha!!
more at http://www.youngmuslimsg.blogspot.com/ or
http://www.cakappasalremaja.blogspot.com/
and there’s a mini Alunan Kasih on the 6th June…now i really hope i can make to that, been missing it seh…this time, i hope i can come down to see the performers!!
i was in luck when i get to watch one of my fave songs at CPR last sat!!
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Alamak singapore ni KECIK SANGAT ah!!!! pusingpusingpusing kat situ jugak! pusingpusingpusing rupa-rupanya kawan punya kawan, kawan punya sedare, kawan punya kawan punya boyfriend, kawan punya sedare punya girlfriend
can we forget our history without always knowing something is always going to pull us back from the future? cant they all just vanish?
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June is hectic…ok, Seri FOCUS now FOCUS
now..
i thank my peeps for having stood up for me in this sudden tag war. i love you all.
however, let us put the past behind and i doubt this anugerahband guy, or girl for that matter, would ever return to this blog anyway~
in summary, i would respect this person’s views and his/her aggressive sentiments towards the competition, heck, i would understand, it might be a boyfriend in the bands, or a family among members in the mentioned bands who happened to be the subject of my own personal sentiments and what i think of the band name.
it was never about the bands.
but i do think the person him/herself is confused to have mixed up how-i-look with what-i-think. it was not supposed to be that way. what i say have nothing to do with how i look. you may not agree with what i think (heck, i won’t really care if people agree/disagree with me) of the bandname, but i honestly think you don’t have the right to judge my looks, just as i may not agree with the bands’ names, but i definitely didn’t judge how they look. faham? tak faham? who cares!
this is stupid. it’s just a competition. why get so uptight in the first place, huh??
i gave you a helven post, and you give me a tag full of rancour. go figure. soooo not royale…spread virus cinta, ok beb??
[‘helven’ is used with the understood meaning as defined by a mr/ms loco]
dah..malas nak cakap lagi..
monologue : eh, tak tahu baca ke apa?
why would i write this
“ALL THE BEST to …….the participants of ANUGERAH BAND. make us proud…”
at the end of the post if i’m not giving my support to the Malay bands??
and voted for that matter~
and actually giving some credits to the bands
“..who knows the industry very well (because for all you know, these are bands who have been singing all their life UNDERGROUND, and they might know BETTER about the scene than you could ever be), give constructive comments which at the end of the day, even if a band lose out, they go back learning something useful, which they can apply for other pursuits…”
also i already noticed one trailer for the competition, where some of the bands actually explained the meaning behind their bandname. HEY THAT’S GOOD ENOUGH FOR ME!! JUST WHAT I WANTED! haha. i don’t need other people coming in anonymously giving their piece….
so no thanks.
monologue: just shows how important the competition is to everyone.
Narrated Abu Huraira:
The Prophet said, “Allah says: ‘I am just as My slave thinks I am, (i.e. I am able to do for him what he thinks I can do for him) and I am with him if He remembers Me. If he remembers Me in himself, I too, remember him in Myself; and if he remembers Me in a group of people, I remember him in a group that is better than they; and if he comes one span nearer to Me, I go one cubit nearer to him; and if he comes one cubit nearer to Me, I go a distance of two outstretched arms nearer to him; and if he comes to Me walking, I go to him running.’ “
have i told you that “Allah is nearer to you than your jugular vein..” [Qaf:16]
or of that “Remember Allah and Allah will remember you” [Al-Baqarah:152]
living seri 