Invictus

June 12, 2010 | Filed Under diari hidup | Leave a Comment 

INVICTUS

Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the Pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.

In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.

Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds, and shall find, me unafraid.

It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll.
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.

Bebaskan Palestin dengan tarbiyah dan dakwah

June 7, 2010 | Filed Under diari hidup | Leave a Comment 

Demi Al-Aqsa Oktober 2009

“Over the new year 2009-2010, an international group of 1500 men and women from 42 nations went to Egypt to join a Freedom March to Gaza. They did this to protest the current blockade of Gaza. To protest the fact that the people of Gaza live in a virtual prison. To protest the fact that a year after the terror attack by Israeli armed forces destroyed most of their homes, hospitals, schools, and other public buildings, they have no possibility to rebuild because their borders are closed. The would be Freedom Marchers wanted to peacefully draw attention to the predicament of the Palestinian population of Gaza. The Egyptian government, (funded to the tune of $2.1 billion a year, by us, the US tax payers), would not allow the marchers to approach Gaza. How lame is that? And how predictable! I live in the USA and during this time Dec 25th 2009-Jan3rd 2010 I saw no reference to Gaza or the Freedom March or the multi national protesters gathered there. Anyway I was moved, in the circumstances, to record a new version of ” We shall overcome”. It seems appropriate.

- Roger Waters, “We Shall Overcome“

Engineering Vs Science

June 7, 2010 | Filed Under diari hidup | Leave a Comment 

“Engineers use science to solve problems if the science is available. But available or not, they’ll solve it regardless any form of solution it takes”

- i’m on Shigley`s Chapter 5, Final exam tomorrow at 6pm.

On time management

May 2, 2010 | Filed Under diari hidup | 2 Comments 

“Before you undertake study, you need to realistically assess all the demands on your time. Consider paid employment, family duties, sport, leisure or civic commitments(mgkn boleh terjemah sbg kerja dakwah kita n masa dgn masyarakat). Good time management will not help if you are overcommitted. If you study full time, spend more than about 12 hours per week in paid employment and spend every evening at the gym, you won’t have much time to study. If you suspect you might have taken on too much, reassess your commitments, prioritise and compromise.”

Diam bukan diam sahaja

April 30, 2010 | Filed Under diari hidup | Leave a Comment 

Minggu kebelakangan ini, saya banyak diuji dengan perbahasan2 yang tak logik tak kira di dada akhbar atau di blog dsbnya. Jalan terbaik adalah mendiamkan diri dan lihat tindakan orang itu seterusnya. Saya dah cukup penat berbahas benda yang tak patut. Quoting what Dilbert said “Don’t argue with an idiot, he’ll bring you down to his level and beat you by experience.”

Terlalu banyak ketikanya kita berusaha menyalahkan orang, persekitaran, hatta kadang-kadang pakaian kita contohnya (kalau kita kata kita tak hensem sebab pakaian tu ~_~ ), tapi tanpa sedar kesilapan berpunca dari diri sendiri. Kita sering memandang perkara-perkara negatif yang berlaku tanpa kita melihat dan bersyukur dengan perkara positif yang telah dan akan berlaku.

Kejadian ketika ini mengheret ingatan saya kepada sebuah buku klasik bertajuk Arguing With Idiots oleh Glenn Beck. Saya pernah baca buku ini di perpustakaan selepas baca recommendation dari Ust Hasrizal. Ia memberikan pelbagai sketsa yang memeningkan tentang betapa rumitnya untuk kita keluar daripada belenggu perdebatan yang sudah hilang hujung pangkalnya.

Lalu apa yang saya nampak, diam itu jugalah penyelesaian paling sejahtera untuk menjernihkan keadaan.

Teringat saya kepada sebuah peristiwa di zaman Rasulullah sallallaahu ‘alayhi wa sallam:

Sa’eed bin Musayyeb berkata: Pada suatu ketika, Rasulullah sallallaahu ‘alayhi wa sallam duduk-duduk bersama dengan para Sahabat. Muncul seorang lelaki lalu dia mencela dan memaki hamun Abu Bakr radhiyallahu ‘anhu hingga menyebabkan Abu Bakr ’sakit’ mendengarnya. Tetapi Abu Bakr terus mendiamkan diri. Lelaki itu meneruskan lagi celaan dengan bahasa yang lebih kasar terhadap Abu Bakr, namun beliau masih terus mendiamkan diri. Masuk kali ketiga, apabila lelaki itu terus menyakiti Abu Bakr dengan lisannya, Abu Bakr bingkas mahu menjawab balik.

Lalu Baginda Rasulullah sallallaahu ‘alayhi wa sallam bangun. Abu Bakr radhiyallaahu ‘anhu bertanya: apakah engkau marah denganku wahai Rasulullah? Baginda menjawab: Tidak. Cuma semasa kamu mendiamkan diri, Malaikat turun dari Langit bertindak terhadap kata-kata lelaki itu. Tetapi sebaik sahaja kamu mula membalas cacian lelaki itu, Malaikat melarikan diri lalu Syaitan datang dan duduk. Aku tidak boleh duduk di tempat yang Syaitan duduk di situ.” [ Hadith riwayat Abu Dawud]

Why I Stopped Working With Busy People

April 16, 2010 | Filed Under diari hidup | 1 Comment 

after read below article, i rather use ‘enjoy’ than ‘busy’ word. if you said you are busy, you cant do this and that, actually you are losing to yourself. Be tough, guys! be it physically or MENTALLY!

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written by Marissa Bracke, a can-d0-ologist. (sounds coool~)

I no longer work with busy people. I work with people who have a lot on their plates, a lot to do, are inundated with opportunities and projects, and who find it useful to have an extra brain and an extra set of hands to help them accomplish all of it.

I love working with those folks. But I don’t work with “busy” people anymore.

“Busy” is an emotional state.

Don’t we all have at least one person we know who always talks about being “busy,” but has the least to do of anyone else in our lives? That person feelsbusy. It’s an accurate statement about their emotional status. But it has little relevance to how much is actually happening or needing to be done. It’s not that “busy” never coincides with having a lot to do; the point is that the two are completely separate evaluations.

So when I used to market myself to “busy” people, that’s what I got: people who felt busy. It took me a while to realize that there’s a big difference between someone who feels busy and someone who has a lot going on in their business. I work splendidly with the latter, and only reluctantly with the former.

Here’s why:

I can’t solve “busy.”

There is no way to truly service the problem of “busy.” I can take certain tasks or projects off a busy person’s to-do list, streamline their remaining tasks or projects, and make sure they’ve got ample support for their work at the ready. But none of that actually addresses whether they feel busy. They just wind up feeling busy with different things. “Busy” is simply not an issue I can solve for someone.

A busy person–the kind who always includes “busy” as self-description early in their conversations with anyone–will always be a “busy” person. If you took away their entire to-do list, they would still be a busy person, because it’s how they process activity. So when that person hires me because they want to feel less busy, they’re setting both of us up for failure. Nothing I do will actually have any lasting effect on their perception of being “busy.”

For my clients, being busy isn’t a problem–they just want to be busy with the right stuff.

Do you really want to stop being busy?

If we think of being busy as the emotional state of overwhelmed, frazzled and stressed, then sure. You probably want to stop that or at least minimize it. But if we define being “busy” as having many tasks or projects needing your attention, then the solution isn’t to stop that, but to readjust what tasks and projects need and get your attention.

As one of my clients said, “I don’t want to be less busy. I just want to be busy with different things.”

And that’s something I can help with. If you’re a photographer, and preparing for a shoot, composing a shot, working with the images and interacting with the customers brings you joy, then I can work with you to streamline, delegate, and sand down all of the other tasks or projects that fall outside of those activities. That way, your day is still full, but it’s full with the right stuff. The stuff that makes you light up.

I don’t want to help you stop the busy. I want to help you get busy doing those light-up things.

“Busy” is a cop-out.

We use “busy” to describe such a wide swath of emotions and issues that it’s nigh impossible for me to know how to help someone who professes that being busy is his biggest issue.

If we’re having a rough patch with the family and our car breaks down and the dog gets sick and we didn’t finish the article we were writing, we sum it all up by saying, “I was just so busy today.” If we get a dinner invitation we’d really prefer to avoid, we decline by saying, “I’m busy that evening.” If we’re feeling overwhelmed with how much is on our plates, we declare we’re “really busy.”

Busy, my friends, is a cop-out. It’s a euphemism for everything from “I’m frantic with deadlines” to “I just don’t wanna” to “I feel bamboozled as to what to do next so I’m checking Twitter obsessively to tell people I’m busy.” It’s what we say when we can’t be bothered to unpack what we’re feeling or what we’re working on (or what we’re avoiding).

Skeptical? Try this for three days straight: don’t use the word busy. At all. Find other ways of describing what your day was like or what you’re doing or how your to-do list shaped up. You may be surprised to learn how often you resort to that word, and what a plethora of emotions and activities it’s covering! (And report back–I’d love to hear how the experiment goes and what insights it might provoke.)

Salji lagi…dan lagi

March 20, 2010 | Filed Under diari hidup | Leave a Comment 

Sekarang saya malas untuk menulis panjang sebab sekarang bukan lagi masa untuk bercakap tapi masa untuk bekerja.

ps: sekeping dua gambar semasa salji minggu lepas. (on flickr)

1431H & 2010M

December 31, 2009 | Filed Under diari hidup | Leave a Comment 

This year has been a whirlwind and honestly cannot believe that it`s already over (for hijriah) and it almost over! 1430H & 2009M has been happily organized, busy and packed with all kinds of activities around here, and i have been so blessed to have met with so many wonderful opportunities, to learn new things, to understand more about others,  to be surrounded with great friends and to love being a muslim. Thank you for making this year such a success. I can`t wait to see what`s in the store for 1431H & 2010M!

Greencamp, Gapyeong. Winter 2009.

imbas memori di JUMS09

December 28, 2009 | Filed Under diari hidup | 5 Comments 

Terperangkap 6 jam dalam traffic akibat salji lebat merupakan pengalaman pertama dalam hidup. disangka seronok bila melihat di TV, rupanya lebih banyak kesulitan dari keseronokan.

Bertolak pulang dari Jalinan Ukhuwwah Musim Sejuk (JUMS09) sekitar 2.30ptg, saya dan Pijun jangkakan akan sampai ke Seoul sekitar 4.30ptg. tapi akibat salji yang sangat tebal, perjalanan mengambil masa lebih banyak dari itu. Azzam pada awal perjalanan nampak seronok apabila diberi makanan (dia sapu semuaaa!!!) akhirnya turut tidur keletihan. awal2 dia tak mau dengan saya, akhirnya dia mengalah juga! XD

kedatangan Ust Fauzi kali ni berbeza dari yang lepas-lepas. jika sebelum ni, 2x datang ke sini berseorangan, kali ni ditemani Kak Long dan Azzam. pertama kali program kami dihadiri oleh anak kecil. sememangnya membawa suasana yang berbeza sepanjang program tersebut.

saya masih ingat lagi ketika kecil, kaum ibu dan bapa akan berprogram di depan manakala anak2 akan ber’program’ di belakang. lompat sana lompat sini, jerit sana jerit sini, terjun sana sini, makan sana minum dekat sini. Bila melihat Azzam, mengingatkan saya dengan semua itu. Bila melihat Azzam juga, saya doakan semoga dia membesar dan meneruskan perjuangan seperti kedua orang Umi dan Abinya.

saya menyedari satu hakikat. Bukan mudah nak membela seorang anak menjadi dan memahami seperti apa yang ibu ayahnya perjuangkan. ibubapa berusaha menyediakan acuan sejak anak itu dalam kandungan lagi (sebenarnya sebelum perkahwinan lagi..) sehinggalah anak itu mampu berdiri di atas kaki sendiri tetapi akhirnya sampai di satu persimpangan, si anak yang perlu membuat pilihan, samada dia celik atau tidak. fitrah manusia, sejahat mana sekalipun tetap mahukan anaknya menjadi lebih baik darinya.

orang tua2 kata “Membesarkan anak itu susah tetapi membentuk anak itu jauh lebih susah”.

Moga kita diberi kekuatan dan panduan dalam membuat pemilihan jalan hidup. amin!

Simple but yet complicated (iii)

December 15, 2009 | Filed Under diari hidup | 9 Comments 

oh yes! i remember that i`ve done the same thing early this year. i thought that i`ll miss to wish my sister on her birthday so i set an alarm on my phone. but, when i sent an SMS to my sis on 6th of Jan…..

AM: ngah, happy birthday! moga pjg umur, murah rzki dalam berkatnya. moga amal btmbh dgn usia!

(10 mins afterward..Bipp Bipp on my phone)

Ngah: Thanks, tapi birthday ngah is on 16th Jan la..bukan 6th Jan!! XD

AM: err Korea different time zone. awal 10 hari dari Malaysia…. -_-;