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Yesterday evening, shortly after the muadzin calls for Maghrib prayer, I received a call from a friend, K.Azzah . "Ina, Ina ada masuk insurans UiTM tu tak?", tanya k.Azzah dengan nada suara yang agak cemas. "Tak. Kenapa k.Azzah?", balasku. "Anak akak, si Zubair yang no-7 tu kena langgar. Akak kat DEMC ni. Nak call insurans, tapi nombornya tak boleh pulak. Tak pe lah Na.", ringkas penjelasan k.Azah. Masih berbaur kecemasan dari nada suara itu. And she cut off the line. I dare not ask many questions. I'm sure she is still in a state of not answering questions. After Isya', I managed to get a contact for the insurance no. I called k.Azzah. "K.Azzah dah dapat no insurans?", I asked. Straight to the point. "Dah. K.Nab ada sini", short answer came from her. K.Nab is our dean, Prof Dr Zainab Abu Bakar. "Zubair macam mana, macam mana jadi?", I dared myself to ask her a question. "Dia kena langgar. Biasalah budak2 main

Salam semua, Dah beberapa hari tak update blog. Bukan tak teringat nak update, teringat sangat, tapi tak berkesempatan. Hari ni, sempena penutup tahun 2012 ni, tak kira apa, nak update juga blog ni. 2010? 2011? 2012? Apa signifikannya? Pada zahirnya berbeza hanya pada digit nombornya. Perlukah ianya digembar gemburkan, disambut dengan begitu riang ria, pesta sini sana sehinggakan kekadang terlupa halal haramnya? Itulah manusia yang sering lupa .... bermegah dengan perkataan 'nasia' atau lupa dalam Bahasa Arab menjadikan kita rasa tidak apa kalau lupa, kerana perkataan 'manusia' itu sendiri hampir saja kepada an-nasia yang membolehkan kita LUPA. Apa yang kita lupa? Kita lupa bahawa sambutan besar-besaran yang kita rayakan ini lebih banyak kemungkaran dari kebajikan. Sana-sini diadakan perhimpunan 'count-down' untuk menyambut tahun baru. Apa pengisiannya? Dimanakah pengisiannya yang dapat mengingatkan kita, bahawa sambutan tahun baru ini menandakan permul

Last week Ayah decided to 'balik kampung' again. To visit our parents, mak&bapak in Permatang Pauh and mak&abah in Sg Petani. This time, ayah decided to travel after Friday office hours. Therefore, ibu got to prepare some tidbits to keep ayah's eye open through the journey, ibu, will definitely doozed off despite how hard I try to keep awake. In order to reach Kampung as soon as possible, we decided not to stop during journey, thus, ibu prepared 'dinner' - the Nasi Goreng while Hakim & Sabrina were at the WetWorld Water Park with the cousins. Atikah? As usual, hooked to the internet. At 6pm, ayah arrived home, early than he usually does. "Budak2 tu mana?", ayah asked. "Kat WetWorld dgn Mia dan Chal", I answered. Mia and Chal were the cousins. "Dah masak Nasi goreng untuk diaorang. Nanti tak payah berhenti makan lagi. lambat", I suggested. "OK", was the short reply from my husband. Few minutes later, the ki

Pernah main baling selipar? Siapa tak pernah main rugi oooo...... Bersempena cuti sekolah yang dah nak sampai ke penghujungnya ni, anak2ku and their cousins stayed for +-2 weeks at rumah Mak Tok. They EXTREMELY enjoyed their stay there, and Mak Tok had to bear with the shouting and yelling in the house. Luckily Pak Cik Li and Mak Cik Farah were there too. Pak Cik Li memang rajin melayan kerenah anak2 sedaranya. Bayangkan .... two trips to AirTerjun. Hissh ...ibu pun tak sanggup. Yang lagi buatkan hidup kanak-kanak ni (Atikah pun kanak2 ke??) happening adalah games - tak kira electronic ataupun tradisional. One of the game that we had the opportunity to watch them play was the 'Baling Selipar'. Itu pun masa nak ambil anak-anakku dari kampung - on their last day at Mak Tok's. Tau cara bermainya kan??? What you need is 2 pairs of slipper - campur2 pun tak apa. Yang penting ada 4 belah, and a ball. Tennis ball will do. No golf ball or hockey balls please ... kalau g

Salam all, Saturday... when everybody else were at home with their families, I was serving the faculty at a briefing in Puncak Alam, Family? Left alone to tend for themselves, Lunch? A pack lunch fro everybody bought by Ayah. Sunday... when everybody else were enjoying time with the loved ones, I was preparing slides to be presented by the dean at the KPT, Putrajaya. Family, mind their own business as ibu was busy. Lunch? A kenduri for all ... (Alhamdulillah) All the plannings for a nice weekend spent together with the family is put aside. There goes the movie to watch too. Evening ... A nice dinner treat from Ayah for the family to make-up the lost moment together. Everybody was happy, the family bonding was tighten. ALHAMDULILLAH GRATEFUL TO ALLAH! THANK YOU TO AYAH! **psstt ... a typo on the photo '19122020' should be '19122010'. Mind me please ....

A short message (sms) came in one morning while I was getting ready to work reads, "Sapa nak ganti K.Yan lepas 21hb ni". It was from my elder sister who was now in kampung to take care after my parents. Ouch!! I don't have an answer for that. I did not immediately reply the message. Not because I was too busy to reply, but because I do not have an answer for that. Not until now. It took me sometime to have the courage to reply the mail, but, with shame, "???? Ina memang tak boleh cuti dah. Ada meeting 21hb, 22hb dan 23 hb. Bawa mak mai Shah Alam?". That was my answer. Shame. Why shame? Because I could not allocate a piece of time to go back and take care of them. I was too busy with my worldly task. The best I could offer is to bring them over to my house. Even with that, I will not be around during the day time to look after them. The saying like, "Ibu seorang mampu menjaga anak yang ramai, tapi anak yang ramai belum tentu dapat menjaga ibu yang seoran

Salam all, Argh ..... hmmm ..... that was an enjoying weekend that I had... What? Talking about about weekend when it is already Thursday??? Well, I had a long weekend ... a holiday actually. Beginning Friday. Friday-Sunday was the Central Spectrum's family day (it is where my husband earn our living, Alhamdulillah) in Malacca. A Famosa, Alor Gajah, to be exact. Co-incidentally I have a conference in Malacca too from Monday-Tuesday. Therefore, from Alor Gajah we moved to the Malacca town, Mahkota Hotel. It was our first time at the Mahkota Hotel (though many times in Malacca before). The place is nice. It has two large pools. The kids were up to the heel, enjoying their time there while ibu at the conference. Ayah? Bored to death watching the kids enjoying their time at the pool. They did not even bothered to visit the Malacca town as we had visited it quite recently. The family day was enjoying too. Upon arrrival, we join the 'Walk Hunt'. Phew!!!! What a walk! To

I am now at a conferences, International Conference on Mathematics Education Research, ICMER 2010. Jadi hari ni nak cakap akademik sikit. Maklum la sedang duduk dalam majlis akademik. It begins with a very enlightening speech by AP Dr Mat Rofa Ismail from UPSI. He talked about "Islamic Epistemology of Education". He talked about the Fibonacci set, as the Western call it. But it was originally defined by a Muslim, al-Biruni. Dr Mat Rofa discussed about the 'Golden Ratio'. The theory tells that everything is developed in series. Mathematically, its proven. Real life?? This theory is proven through many things that Allah has created. We can see the spiral shape of our fingerprints, the spiral shape of the Milky way, the spiral shape of the typhoon, the spiral shape of the tornado and also the spiral shape of the tawaf activity when pilgrims perform their hajj or umrah. Wow! Tak perasan pulak semua ni. Kesemua corak2 ini menunjukkan kebijaksanaan Allah dlam mencip

Salam. It's family day in Malacca. One of the stop is the SAFARI PARK, A Famosa. We enjoyed the train ride, passing through the animals (kita le pulak yg kt dlm sangkar). But of course the wild animals are the main attraction. Next we went on foot along the trails for more animals. Photos? Yes, we took lots of them. We stopped at the horses area. The horses looks tame. nuzzling as people touches them. So, we decided to shoot photo with a horse. 'Ok kids, stand closer to the horse. Don't be afraid', I told the kids. One, two, SMILE! .... But ... oh, Atikah's sweater attracted the horse. Ouch!!! With it's strong teeth, it get holds of Atikah's sweater. Terkejut besar Atikah jadinya ...... (photo will be uploaded later). Chiao!! Atikah belum perasan kuda dah nak mula menggigit wassalam

I had a late lunch yesterday, 3.30pm, therefore I stayed until Asar. As I have appointment that evening, I quickly rushed to the office after solat. On my way, I passed my husband. I am curious, 'awalnya ayah balik?', I uttered to myself. Curious, I checked my handphone. Yes, there's a message telling that Ustaz Hilmi has passed away. Innalillahi wainna ilaihi rajiun. Ustaz Hilmi adalah ustaz yang mengajar kami tafsir sebelum diganti oleh Ustaz Firdaus. Dia meninggalkan seorang balu dan seorang anak lelaki berumur 3 tahun. Allah menjemputnya kembali kepadaNya setelah diuji dengan penyakit kanser. Apabila aku ke surau petang itu, orang telah ramai di situ. Jenazah sedang dimandikan oleh suamiku. Kebanyakannya adalah anak didiknya, pelajar tahfiznya, saudara mara dan jiran. Jenazah disembahyangkan sebaik selepas solat maghrib. Jemaah begitu ramai. Di petang Jumaat itu, jenazah disemadikan diiringi berpuluh kenderaan. Menurut suamiku, mata arwah seakan-akan basah ketika

Salam all, I was going through my old digital photo collections and come across with these old photos --- flowers and plants on my used to be garden. Then I realized, many other photos has gone missing. i cannot remember where I saved it. That is what happen when you are unorganized. Nobody to be blamed my dear, it's your fault, 100% yours. I lost the photos of my used to be cactus collection huhuhu... It is a used-to-be garden as most of the garden area has to go for the expansion of the house (as the household expands .... in size ;-p). Let's just walk through the yesterdays .... I used to have a herbs garden at backyard where I normally pick my ingredients for the Nasi Ulam. But now, everything has to be picked at the market barter trade with some RM. Huhuhu... Well, people said, 'You have to give up something for something else'. Apa2pun aku amat bersyukur dengan kurniaan Illahi yang tidak ternilai ini. Sekarang, taman kecilku sudah

Salam all, Was very busy lately that I even forgotten my mother's birthday on the 1st of December. Happy belated birthday mak! You are the world (ini tiada kena mengena dengan World yang selalu disebut-sebut orang yang sorang tu yea!) . Saturday balik ke kampung. Reach Kg Pertama at about 2pm. Saw bapak lying on the bed, helplessly. It's not him. He was not like this before. He was full of smile always, but not today. He kept to himself. Very silent. A lazy smile came out at the corner of his mouth when he saw us. When told that I bought him a Nasi Arab, his smile widen. I am very happy to make him happy. At about 4pm, we left bapak to go to Sg Petani. Sunday, went for the engagement ceremony of my nephew in Kuala Nerang, Kedah. Late that evening, before leaving Sg Petani for Kg Pertama, we stopped at a Restoran to buy some murtabak. Reaching Kg Pertama, I saw bapak was still there, lying on the bed. Trying to get up into a sitting position with difficulty. When my

Salam all, 2 days off from blogging, but not my mind. I even managed to compose the sentences that I would want to type in my blog (in my mind), but I cannot accommodate the blogging activity within the 24hours a day given to me by the creator, Allah ya Rabb. So many, many things are going on. Rushing as always to complete a task, one after another. And my schedule for December is almost full, that is not including preparing the exam question before the semester begin yet. That Thursday, it was almost 4.45pm, I was rushing to the administration building. By hook or by crook I need to get the signature of the deputy dean by that day and send the letter off to the ministry early next morning. As I was crossing the road separating our building and the admin building, I saw Ust Firdaus parking his car. 'Subhanallah, it's tafsir class today. and Ustaz is already here', I said to myself. I rush to deputy dean's office. Breathlessly I explained the letter to him and a

Salam, Just came back from 'dinner' at the faculty. Husband not around, went for his regular badminton game. Kids are still in Sg Petani, missing me ... ye ke missing their mother???? Or perhaps they're enjoying their days there. One simple proof, Hakim will quickly say, 'bye ibu', when asked why, he will answer, 'Nak main game'. Huhuhu..... game lagi penting ke??? But I'm sure deep inside he loves me forever, InsyaAllah. Hmm.... alone again. I went upstairs, grab my netbook and turn it on from the TV area. The first application that I run was a recitation by al-Ghamidi. It's soothing to listen to the recitation of Quran. My main objective to turn on the netbook was to prepare for my tomorrow's presentation - result's presentation. But.... since blogging (lately), I will feel an emptiness if not clicking to the blogspot ....chewwah..... Makan-makan@dinner as the title implies ---- what's so special about it? I was at the dinne

Aku suka membaca surah al-Rahman. 'Maka nikmat tuhan yang manakah yang engkau dustai' dan ayat di atas paling menyentuh hati. Tidak terhitung nikmat yang Allah kurniakan kepada kita sehinggakan kita sendiri kadang-kadang lupa mensyukurinya. Berada ditepi pantai melihat malam berganti siang juga adalah anugerah Allah. Indahnya. Ya Allah ! Aku bersyukur dengan rezeki ini. this entry is uploaded using my htc while listening to the soothing sound of waves. Ya Allah forgive me for frequently fail to thank you for all the gifts of life that you've given me.

My husband came home a bit late last nite. He was home at almost 8.15pm, just as the Azan was heard from the Surau near my house. After the solat at the surau, he then head to the Community Hall for his weekly badminton game. Which means that I was left ALONE at home that night. Hmmm... nak buat apa ye??? Staying alone, I venture the internet for a while, then move on to my routine work, folding clothes, an overdue task (again). That was done while watching a not so interesting show on the TV (hmmm....I wonder when my husband will agree to subsrcribing Astro ... argh...). As it was quite quiet that nite, I can clearly listen to door squeking. Opening and closing. I said to myself, "kerap betul Makcik kat sebelah ni buka dan tutup pintu. dan betapalah tak 'sound proof'nya rumah ni sampaikan bunyi pintu pun boleh dengar". As the Makcik live there with her husband, grandchildren and a son, I thought the frequent sound of opening and closing of the door is normal. A

Ini first time dalam hidup aku untuk turut serta dengan bloggers lain untuk apa2 kempen. Walaupun selalu baca pasal benda2 ni, tapi hari ni terasa pulak macam nak join Kempen SAYA SUKA BLOG AWAK LA! oleh Ben Ashaari.com. (Sila klik link untuk ke laman asal). Yang tak tahannya sebab kena ikut arahan satu persatu ... maklum la, aku ni orang yang suka menderhaka (pinjam istilah yg Cik Mat Gebu selalu guna) pada arahan. Sebab tu kalau memasak pun selalu ikut sukatan sendiri (sebab tekak sendiri yang nak makan kan...) Okaylah, apa-apa pun, ini 5 blog yang aku suka ikut: 1. Dapur Tanpa Sempadan Blog ni, memang aku akan singgah setiap kali memulakan ekspedisi menziarah blog. Sebabnya blog ni memang di'update' tiap-tiap hari. Lagi satu aku suka dengan idea memasak yang diketengahkan. Walaupun siaran ulangan (pinjam istilah CMG lagi), tapi still nampak very refreshing. Thumbs up to the owner!!. 2. Pengembaraan Menuju Abadi Ini pun aku suka sebab banyak in

I clicked on the 'New Post' button to create a new entry just to inform the world that I was given a new post today. Look at the letter below: Alahai, kochik bonar la pulak scanned image ni!!!! Oooo the scanned image is too small!!!! Whatever it is, big or small, it's a new post which requires me to travel a lot. A post that requires me to assign the committee member to several places for the promotion and publicity of the faculty. So, what am I supposed to do? To be happy???? To jump up and down gladly for the new post???? Unfortunately, sadly ... I AM NOT HAPPY AT ALL!!!!!! It only adds up the pile of work to the current pile that I have. HUHUHU ..... I am still sad, sad, sad, not happy, unhappy, etc...... However, I will accept this as a give from Allah swt, an amanah for me to serve the Faculty and UiTM as a whole. Hopefully, whatever that I do will benefit the ummah. I will work my best for it and whatever that comes. As, whatever we do,

I was glued to my computer, yesterday at about 5.30pm. I was busy searching for more information about Chechnya, Chechen and what's going on down there. What motivates me was this book: Pahlwan Islam Kontemporari: Para Peminang Bidadari. I bought this book, yesterday afternoon, after my visit to my loyal bank.??? Uppsss ..... I am actually the loyal customer as I was with the bank for more than 15 years. My account with the bank is as long as my service to this organization - UiTM dihatiku. A U-turn to our original topic - the warriors in Islam - This book was written by Atriza Umar. According to the writer, she wrote what she believes, and she believes that the people in this book are the warriors and heroes for their people and religion for they are willing to sacrifice and die for their religion and beliefs - As-syahid . As-syahid is a name we called the Muslims who died in their due for Islam. They are the people who were promised Jannah , the heaven in the here

I've been blogging for almost two years but I admit that I've never explored the buttons and menus available on the dashboard, not until yesterday. Yesterday, before leaving the office at about 5.40pm, I clicked on the 'Stat' just to see what will it show. Since the internet connection was too slow, i left the office leaving my computer in a sleep mode. This morning, when I came, this is what i found out about the 'Stat' menu. It gives all the statistical information on your blog hit such as, where most of the referrals comes from, where are your audience from and total number of hits in a week, month etc. WOW! This is the screen capture of my blog hits. I have a total of only about 370+ hits. But that surprises me already as I thought nobody was reading it. I write for fun, just to throw out some thoughts that I have in my mind. Hmmmm .... it's good to blog. Cheerio..... SDSD

This morning, before leaving to office, while folding the clothes (an overdue task), I turned on the TV and watched the 'Tanyalah Ustaz' (which I like). There was the 'THE USTAZ ZAMRI' (yang mantop) talking about something like 'Pembersih Jiwa' and he talked about zikr. As it was already towards the end of the program, I was only able to listen to two questions. 1. First questions was about ladies in haidh, whether they can read the Quran. The answer was NO, if their intention is really to read the Quran. BUT, if they treat the reciting of the Quran as ZIKR, it is allowable especially with those regular verses like the three Quls. It was told that Sayyidatina Aishah (whom a hafizah) used to recite Quran during her menses so that she will not forget what she has memorized. Therefore, it is agreable among the ulama' (jumhur ulama') that the ladies in menses can recite Quran, BUT, not new verses, instead, only those that they had memorized earlier.

Sambungan dengan surah al-Baqarah dari post sebelum ni. Sering juga kita mendapati petikan-petikan surah ini yang digunakan sebagai doa harian kita. Ayat di bawah merupakan jaminan Allah bahawa ujian yang menimpa hambaNya itu adalah mengikut apa yang terdaya oleh mereka. Dan jika mereka sabar dan redha dengan ujian tersebut maka akan diberi pahala kebaikan, dan jika sebaliknya maka dosalah balasannya. لَا يُكَلِّفُ ٱللَّهُ نَفۡسًا إِلَّا وُسۡعَهَا‌ۚ لَهَا مَا كَسَبَتۡ وَعَلَيۡہَا مَا ٱكۡتَسَبَتۡ‌ۗ (285) Allah tidak memberati seseorang melainkan apa yang terdaya olehnya. Dia mendapat pahala kebaikan yang diusahakannya dan dia juga menanggung dosa kejahatan yang diusahakannya. Dan kita perlu ingat bahawa salah satu rukun iman adalah Percaya kepada Qadha' dan Qadar. Jadi bila kita berdoa, tetapi tidak memperolehi seperti apa yang kita idamkan maka percayalah pula pada qadha' dan qadar. Ini pula merupakan doa yang baik kita amalkan setiap hari selepas solat.

Assalamualaikum semua. Sunyi sepi ofis pagi ni. Ramai yang masih bercuti pada Eidhul Adha ke-3 ini kecuali aku. Pagi-pagi ni elok juga dengar bacaan al-Quran. Aku pun mulalah explore Quran Explorer ( my favourite website to listen to Quran while doing my work). This morning I choose to listen to surah al-Baqarah. BTW, this surah is good to get rid of the unwanted 'makhluk' ( other than 'insan') from our house. Therefore, it is recommended to recite the surah before entering a new house. Manalah tau, kalau-kalau sebelum kita masuk, dah ada yang masuk sebelum kita (meremang bulu tengkuk jadinya nanti). About reciting the surah, some says that we personally had to recite it, some says we can get other people to recite it, some says we have to complete reciting the surah in one go (tak boleh continue hari-yang berikutnya), and some says cannot just let the radio/CD/ VCD etc. to recite for you . Sampai ada yang kata, kalau setakat pasang kaset je, jin-jin tu ber

Salam Eidhul Adha. Allahu Akbar! Allahu Akbar! Allahu Akbar! La ilaha illallah wallahu akbar! Allahu Akbar walillahilhamd. Rasanya belum terlambat untuk bertakbir raya. Anyway it is the second day of Edihul Adha in Malaysia and a 3rd day for the rest of the world . Well, MALAYSIA BOLEH!!!!! Apo nak dikato, itu kato rukyahnyo .... Bukan nak cerito pasal rayo ... den tak rayo pun ... ni di opis nih. Nak cerito pasal opis la ni .... (bukan memonteng tau! tapi nak lepaskan tension japppp). Hari ni banyak betul yang tak terduga berlaku, 1. Pagi ni dengan semangat aku masuk opis nak siapkan menanda kertas dan masukkan markah ... tup, tup ... sistem down pulak. Sabar ..... 2. Dek kerana sistem down, buatlah kerja2 yang tak payah guna komputer ni. Aku pun mula memasukkan markah penilaian Final Year Project yang telah dinilai dan report-reportnya telah dibaca (speed reading je --- heh heh, tapi critical reading tau!! maklum lah ... dah pro --- maaf memuji diri sikit). Ba

Yes, what did our kids bring to school? Heavy bags ... sampai senget bahu ... damaged bags before year end ....have you ever wondered? I admit, it was my mistake that I seldom make a spot-check on what my kids have in their bag. I only check it once a while. Recently, I asked Hakim to take out his book and do some revision as exam is just round the corner. He kept on saying that there is no book in the bag. How can we believe it when it is obvious that the bag is heavy. Not satisfied with the answer, Hazirah make a move to the bag, and pull out everything that is in the bag, and found this ....... And .... the above is what we found. True there's no book to be used for revision. All are only storybooks and one text book. Oh! Anakku ... anakku.

Like a phenomena, the coming of Maher Zain to Malaysia has incites new love to Islamic song (at least to my kids). I am partly to be blamed for their lack of exposure to this kind of music - I seldom buy CDs and we do not own a radio either. However, Alhamdulillah they are now beginning to fell in love with the music. And I try to explain to them what the lyrics means. And they are all beautiful song. Here is one of his song:

I was browsing my 'My Pictures' and come across with these cute photos. How I missed the 'ol times, but I enjoy current moment as well. Alhamdulillah, Allah the Mighty has blessed me with happiness. May it last forever. Aminn.... Kata orang, kalau nak melentur bulu biarlah dari rebungnya. This is Sabrina, tengah khusyuk tu ... jangan main-main. Si adik pulak, Muhammad Ikmal Hakim, sibuk dengan kakak punya new toy set. (People said, "to educate, it must begin when they are young and fragile". This is Sabrina performing her solat, full concentration and devotion. Meanwhile, the little brother was busy with her sister's new toy set) Aduss ..... nak baca doa pun tak senang. Abis jahanam mainan k.Ngah nanti .... agaknya itu lah kata hatinya. (Gosh.... cannot concentrate on the praying. My toys will soon damage .... probably that was what Sabrina was thinking at that time) Cute candid photos. Photo taken in 2003 when Sabrina wa