Kisah Janda yang Dahaga

"Nama yang terdapat di dalam cerita ini adalah samaran semata-mata dan tiada kaitan dengan sesiapa yang masih hidup maupun yang telah tiada"

Maria, Janda Yang Dahaga...

Ini sebuah kisah mengenai seorang isteri yang baru sahaja diceraikan suami.

Maria seorang janda kaya yang baru sahaja diceraikan suaminya akibat nak berbini lain. Beliau masih muda lagi dan mempunyai potongan badan yang cantik.

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Sejak diceraikan suaminya, beliau sentiasa diusik oleh pemuda-pemuda kampung yang sudah lama memendam rasa kepadanya. Namun begitu, Maria tidak pernah melayan karenah pemuda-pemuda kampung tersebut, kerana hatinya masih lagi merindui bekas suaminya, walaupun hatinya berasa amat sepi ketika waktu ini.

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Lebih-lebih lagi di waktu malam... Rasa sepi hatinya tiada siapa yang tahu...

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Pada satu malam, kira-kira pukul 2 pagi.. beliau terbangun dari katilnya... badannya terasa panas.... tekaknya terasa haus....beliau terasa begitu dahaga sekali.

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Beliau bangun dan keluar dari bilik menuju ke dapur, sampai saja di dapur, beliau terus membuka peti ais dan mengambil sebotol air sejuk, beliau tuang ke dalam cawan dan meminumnya.

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Setelah meminum air tersebut.. beliau kembali ke dalam bilik dan tidur semula....

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Sekian... Terima Kasih.

Itulah kisah seorang janda yang dahaga.....




Wah, sepenuh hati korang membacanya yer.....heheheheheheheheeee ;-)

Tujuh Kalimah Suci

Sabda Rasulullah SAW, "Barangsiapa yang hafal dan mengamalkan tujuh kalimah ini akan dimuliakan oleh Allah dan malaikat dan akan diampuni dosa-dosanya walau sebanyak buih di lautan."

1. Bismillahhirrahmannirrahim - pada tiap-tiap hendak melakukan sesuatu.
2. Alhamdullillah - pada tiap-tiap habis melakukan sesuatu.
3. Astagfirrullah - jika tersilap mengatakan sesuatu yang buruk.
4. Insyaallah - jika ingin melakukan sesuatu pada masa akan datang.
5. Lahaula wala quwata illah billah - bila tidak dapat melakukan sesuatu yang agak berat atau melihat sesuatu yang buruk.
6. Innalillah wain na illahirajiun - jika menghadapi musibah atau melihat kematian.
7. La ila ha il lallah - bacalah sepanjang siang dan malam sebanyak-banyaknya.

Amalkanlah selalu moga-moga kita tergolong di kalangan orang yang terpilih oleh Allah.

Sebarkan @ forwardkan pada semua kenalan anda. Sabda Rasulullah SAW, "Siapa yang menyampaikan satu ilmu dan orang yang mengamalkannya maka dia akan beroleh pahala walaupun sudah tiada."

Allah won't ask about the color of your skin, He'll ask about the content of your character.

Karnival TM 2008 Taman Metropolitan

Dijemput datang beramai-ramai ke Karnival TM 2008 yang akan diadakan seperti berikut:

Tarikh : 1 Jun 2008, Ahad
Masa : 8.00 pagi hingga 7.00 malam
Lokasi : TAMAN METROPOLITAN KEPONG

Pelbagai tawaran menarik untuk produk dan perkhidmatan TM disediakan khusus untuk hari ini. Para pelanggan berpeluang untuk memenangi hadiah-hadiah dengan setiap langganan Talian Kediaman TM.

Di samping itu, pelbagai aktiviti dan hiburan turut diadakan seperti:

Pertandingan mewarna dan sand art untuk kanak-kanak tadika
Pertandingan karaoke
Pertandingan layang-layang
Pertandingan Teh Tarik
Quiz

serta beberapa aktiviti lagi yang bakal menjanjikan hadiah kepada para pesertanya.

Jangan lepaskan peluang untuk datang ke karnival ini.

Bawalah keluarga serta rakan-rakan anda dan jumpa anda di sana!

Have a laugh!

Teacher: History is a very interesting subject. It tells you about what had happened in the past.
Student: Please teacher, I don't think I want to study history.
Teacher: Why?
Student: There is no future in it.
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Teacher: Ted, if your father has $10 and you ask him for $6, how much would your father still have?
Ted: $10.
Teacher: You don't know maths.
Ted: You don't know my father!
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Mother: David, come here.
David: Yes, mum?
Mother: You really disappoint me. Your results are getting worse.
David: But I will only get my report book tomorrow.
Mother: I know that. But I am going to Hong Kong tomorrow, so I am scolding you now.
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Father: Why did you fail your mathematics test?
Son: On Monday, teacher said 3+5=8
Father: So?
Son: On Tuesday, she said 4+4=8 And on Wednesday, she said 6+2=8.
If she can't make up her mind, how do I know the right answer?
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A mother and son were doing dishes while the father and daughter were watching TV in the living room. Suddenly, there was a loud crash of breaking plates, then complete silence. The daughter turned to look at her father.
Daughter: It's mummy!
Father: How do you know?
Daughter: She didn't say anything.
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Girl: Do you love me?
Boy: Yes Dear
Girl: Would you die for me?
Boy: No, mine is undying love
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Man: How old is your father?
Boy: As old as me
Man: How can that be?
Boy: He became a father only when I was born
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Waiter: I've stewed liver, boiled tongue and frog's leg.
Customer: Don't tell me your problems. Give me the menu card.
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Teacher: Simon, your composition on "My Dog" is exactly the same as your brother's. Did u copy his?
Simon: No, teacher, it's the same dog!
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Father: Your teacher says she finds it impossible to teach you anything!
Son: That's why I say she's no good!
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Teacher: "Where were u born?"
Student: "Singapore, Sir."
Teacher: "Which part?"
Student: "All of me, Sir."
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A teacher was asking her class: "What is the difference between 'unlawful' and 'illegal'?"
Only one hand shot up.
"Ok, answer, Joan" said the teacher.
"'unlawful' is when u do something the law doesn't allow and 'illegal' is a sick eagle."
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Teacher: "How come you do not comb your hair?"
Ah Kow: "No comb, Sir."
Teacher: "Use your dad's then."
Ah Kow: "No hair, Sir."
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A boy came home from school with his exam results.
"What did u get?" asked his father.
"My marks are under water," said the boy.
"What do u mean 'under water'?"
"They are all below 'C' level"
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Wonderful Definitions

Atom Bomb: An invention to end all inventions.

Boss: Someone who is early when you are late and late when you are early.

Classic: Books, which people praise, but do not read.

Committee: Individuals who can do nothing individually and sit to decide that nothing can be done together.

Compromise: The art of dividing a cake in such a way that everybody believes he got the biggest piece.

Conference: The confusion of one man multiplied by the number present.

Conference Room: A place where everybody talks, nobody listens and everybody disagrees later on.

Criminal: A guy no different from the rest....except that he got caught.

Dictionary: A place where "success" comes before "work".

Divorce: Future tense of Marriage.

Doctor: A person who kills your ills by pills, and kills you by bills.

Etc.: A sign to make others believe that you know more than you actually do.

Experience: The name men give to their mistakes.

Father: A banker provided by nature.

Lecture: An art of transferring information from the notes of the Lecturer to the notes of the students without passing through "the minds of either".

Life Insurance: A contract that keeps you poor all your life so that you can die rich.

Marriage: It's an agreement in which a man loses his bachelor degree and a woman gains her masters.

Nurse: A person who wakes you up to give you sleeping pills.

Office: A place where you can relax after your strenuous home life.

Philosopher: A fool who torments himself during life, to be wise.

Politician: One who shakes your hand before elections and your confidence after.

School: A place where Papa pays and Son plays.

Smile: A curve that can set a lot of things straight.

Tears: The hydraulic force by which masculine will-power is defeated by feminine water-power.

Yawn: The only time some married men ever get to open their mouth.

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Someone emailed me this. TQ.

Lawak Guru dan Sin Chan

---Dialog Guru dan Sin Chan---

Guru: Kenapa awak lambat?
Sin Chan: Kerana sebuah papan tanda.
Guru: Papan tanda mana?
Sin Chan: Yang ada tulisan, "Sekolah di hadapan, jalan perlahan."

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Guru: Sin Chan, Macam mana awak eja perkataan "BUAYA"?
Sin Chan: "B-O-O-W-A-Y-A"
Guru: Bukan, salah tu.
Sin Chan: Mungkin itu salah, tapi Cikgu tanya saya macam mana saya mengejanya, itulah yang saya eja!

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Guru: Apakah formula untuk air?
Sin Chan: "HIJKLMNO"!!
Guru: Apa yang awak cakap tu?
Sin Chan: Kan kelmarin Cikgu kata H to O!

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Guru: Sin Chan, pergi ke Peta Dunia tu, cari dan tunjuk mana Amerika Utara.
Sin Chan: Di sini Cikgu.
Sin Chan menunjukkan tepat kat Peta dunia yang tergantung kat hadapan kelas!
Guru: Betul. Sekarang, Kelas, beritahu saya siapa yang jumpa Amerika Utara?
Kelas: Sin Chan Cikgu!

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Guru: Sin Chan, beritahu satu perkara penting yang kita tak ada 10 tahun dulu.
Sin Chan: Saya Cikgu!

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Guru: Bagaimana kita boleh mengelak penyakit yang disebabkan oleh gigitan serangga?
Sin Chan: Jangan kena gigit serangga.

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Guru: Boleh tak sesiapa beritahu saya perkara yang kamu tahu berlaku secara kebetulan?
Sin Chan: Cikgu, Ibu dan Bapa saya berkahwin pada hari yang sama, pada masa yang sama dan juga pada waktu yang sama.

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Guru: Sin Chan, aneh sungguh stokin yang awak pakai ni, satu warna hijau berbintik hitam dan satu lagi berwarna merah berbintik biru!
Sin Chan: Ya betul Cikgu, memang nampak aneh, saya pun hairan kerana terdapat sepasang lagi dengan warna yang sama kat rumah.

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Guru: Sekarang, Sin Chan, sebetulnya beritahu saya dengan jujur adakah awak berdoa sebelum makan?
Sin Chan: Tidak Cikgu, saya tak perlu buat begitu, kerana saya tahu ibu saya adalah seorang tukang masak yang bagus.

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Guru: Sin Chan, karangan awak "Anjing Saya" adalah sama seperti yang dikarang oleh adik awak. Adakah awak meniru kerja dia?
Sin Chan: Tidak Cikgu, ia hanyalah anjing yang sama!

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Guru: Siapakah orang yang kita panggil yang tak henti-henti bercakap tetapi orang tak berminat nak dengar?
Sin Chan: Seorang Guru, Cikgu!

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I got this from an email. TQ.

What CIA wrote about Malaysia

According to the site, the info was last updated on 15 May 2008.

Background:

During the late 18th and 19th centuries, Great Britain established colonies and protectorates in the area of current Malaysia; these were occupied by Japan from 1942 to 1945. In 1948, the British-ruled territories on the Malay Peninsula formed the Federation of Malaya, which became independent in 1957. Malaysia was formed in 1963 when the former British colonies of Singapore and the East Malaysian states of Sabah and Sarawak on the northern coast of Borneo joined the Federation. The first several years of the country's history were marred by a Communist insurgency, Indonesian confrontation with Malaysia, Philippine claims to Sabah, and Singapore's secession from the Federation in 1965. During the 22-year term of Prime Minister MAHATHIR bin Mohamad (1981-2003), Malaysia was successful in diversifying its economy from dependence on exports of raw materials to expansion in manufacturing, services, and tourism.

(Why no mention at all of the PM after Dr M in the Background section? Or all the PMs before him?)

Flag description:

14 equal horizontal stripes of red (top) alternating with white (bottom); there is a blue rectangle in the upper hoist-side corner bearing a yellow crescent and a yellow 14-pointed star; the crescent and the star are traditional symbols of Islam; the design was based on the flag of the US.




(Hmmm, our flag really does look like US' flag, but is the allegation that it was "based" on the US' flag true?)

Economy - overview:

Malaysia, a middle-income country, has transformed itself since the 1970s from a producer of raw materials into an emerging multi-sector economy. Since coming to office in 2003, Prime Minister ABDULLAH has tried to move the economy farther up the value-added production chain by attracting investments in high technology industries, medical technology, and pharmaceuticals. The Government of Malaysia is continuing efforts to boost domestic demand to wean the economy off of its dependence on exports. Nevertheless, exports - particularly of electronics - remain a significant driver of the economy. As an oil and gas exporter, Malaysia has profited from higher world energy prices, although the rising cost of domestic gasoline and diesel fuel forced Kuala Lumpur to reduce government subsidies. Malaysia "unpegged" the ringgit from the US dollar in 2005 and the currency appreciated 6% per year against the dollar in 2006-07. Although this has helped to hold down the price of imports, inflationary pressures began to build in 2007. Healthy foreign exchange reserves and a small external debt greatly reduce the risk that Malaysia will experience a financial crisis over the near term similar to the one in 1997. The government presented its five-year national development agenda in April 2006 through the Ninth Malaysia Plan, a comprehensive blueprint for the allocation of the national budget from 2006-10. With national elections expected within the year, ABDULLAH has unveiled a series of ambitious development schemes for several regions that have had trouble attracting business investment. Real GDP growth has averaged about 6% per year under ABDULLAH, but regions outside of Kuala Lumpur and the manufacturing hub Penang have not fared as well.

(Nonetheless, the current PM is mentioned extensively here)

Telephone system:

general assessment: modern system; international service excellent.
domestic: good intercity service provided on Peninsular Malaysia mainly by microwave radio relay; adequate intercity microwave radio relay network between Sabah and Sarawak via Brunei; domestic satellite system with 2 earth stations; combined fixed-line and mobile cellular teledensity approaching 100 per 100 persons.
international: country code - 60; landing point for several major international submarine cable networks that provide connectivity to Asia, Middle East, and Europe; satellite earth stations - 2 Intelsat (1 Indian Ocean, 1 Pacific Ocean) (2001).

(At least, they praised us for our excellent telephone system. So what is the company that provided all these excellent sytems since before independence? TM, of course!)

Trafficking in persons:

current situation: Malaysia is a destination and, to a lesser extent, a source and transit country for women and children trafficked for the purposes of sexual exploitation; foreign victims, mostly women and girls from Burma, Cambodia, China, Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam, are trafficked to Malaysia for commercial sexual exploitation; economic migrants from countries in the region who work as domestic servants or laborers in the construction and agricultural sectors face exploitative conditions in Malaysia that meet the definition of involuntary servitude; some Malaysian women, primarily of Chinese ethnicity, are trafficked abroad for sexual exploitation.
tier rating: Tier 3 - lack of satisfactory progress in combating trafficking in 2006; the government failed to prosecute traffickers arrested and detained under existing law and failed to provide adequate shelters and services to victims of trafficking.

(Phewww!! What an embarrassment to our beloved country if only all of these allegations were true)

You can read more here.

Lawak 18SX

• Wanita lebih sejuk dari peti ais kerana ada barang yang belum sempat dimasuk, sudahpun keras!
• Kajian mendapati bayi lelaki lebih manja dari bayi perempuan. Bayi perempuan paling lama menyusu hingga 2 tahun tapi bayi lelaki menyusu hingga ke tua.
• Petua untuk isteri, kalau mahu tahu suami dah curang dengan pompuan lain; bila suami balik rumah, rendam suami dalam bath tub. Kalau buahnya terapung, hukumnya sah 'air' sudah buang.
• Beza wanita & gajah - gajah ditembak dulu baru rebah, wanita rebah dulu baru ditembak.
• Beza lelaki & gajah - gajah kepalanya berbelalai, lelaki belalainya berkepala.
• Ramai tertanya-tanya kenapa anu lelaki berdiri tegak ketika melakukan hubungan kelamin. Setelah dikaji secara teliti, rupa-rupanya di dalam anu perempuan ada lagu "NEGARAKU".
• Inilah doa si isteri jika kemaluan suaminya disengat tebuan. "Ya Allah, hilangkanlah kesakitan yang ditanggung suamiku, tetapi kekalkanlah bengkaknya, Amin...."
• Sesungguhnya orang-orang yang bangun dan mandi di subuh-subuh hari adalah orang-orang yang mengerjakan bininya malam tadi.

Just 4 da sake of humor! Jgn marah saya ye, I just "copy-paste" this from an email someone sent me. TQ.

Malam Pertama

Malam itu ialah MALAM PERTAMA DI ALAM KUBUR!

Pernahkah engkau melihat kuburan?
Pernahkah engkau melihat gelapnya kuburan?
Pernahkah engkau melihat sempit dan dalamnya liang lahat?
Pernahkah engkau membayangkan kengerian dan kedahsyatan alam kubur?
Sedarkah engkau bahawa kuburan itu dipersiapkan untukmu dan untuk orang-orang selain darimu?
Bukankah telah silih berganti engkau melihat teman-teman, orang-orang tercinta dan keluarga terdekatmu diusung dari dunia fana ini ke kuburan?

Apakah Malam Pertama Kita di Alam Kubur Nanti Asyik dan Nikmat atau Penuh Derita dan Sengsara?

Wahai anak Adam, apa yang telah engkau persiapkan saat malam pertamamu nanti di alam kubur? Tidakkah engkau tahu, bahawa ia adalah malam yang sangat mengerikan. Malam yang kerananya para ulama’ serta orang-orang yang soleh menangis dan orang-orang bijak mengeluh. Apa tidaknya, kala itu kita sedang berada di dua persimpangan dan di dunia yang amat berbeza.

“Suatu hari pasti engkau akan tinggalkan tempat tidurmu (di dunia), dan ketenangan pun menghilang darimu. Bila engkau berada di kuburmu pada malam pertama, demi Allah, fikirkanlah untung nasibmu dan apa yang akan terjadi padamu di sana?”

Hari ini kita berada di dunia yang penuh keriangan dengan anak-anak, keluarga dan sahabat handai, dunia yang diterangi dengan lampu-lampu yang pelbagai warna dan sinaran, dunia yang dihidangkan dengan pelbagai makanan yang lazat-lazat serta minuman yang pelbagai, tetapi pada keesokannya kita berada di malam pertama di dalam dunia yang kelam gelap-gelita, lilin-lilin yang menerangi dunia adalah amalan-amalan yang kita lakukan, dunia sempit yang dikelilingi tanah dan bantalnya juga tanah.

Pada saat kita mula membuka mata di malam pertama kita di alam kubur, segala-galanya amat menyedihkan, tempik raung memenuhi ruang yang sempit tapi apakan daya semuanya telah berakhir. Itukah yang kita mahukan? Pastinya tidak bukan? Oleh itu beramallah dan ingatlah sentiasa betapa kita semua akan menempuhi MALAM PERTAMA DI ALAM KUBUR!

Di dalam usahanya mempersiapkan diri menghadapi malam pertama tersebut, adalah diceritakan bahawa Rabi’ bin Khutsaim menggali liang kubur di rumahnya. Bila ia mendapati hatinya keras, maka ia masuk ke liang kubur tersebut. Ia menganggap dirinya telah mati, lalu menyesal dan ingin kembali ke dunia, seraya membaca ayat:

“Ya Rabbku, kembalikanlah aku semula (ke dunia), agar aku dapat berbuat amal soleh terhadap apa yang telah kutinggalkan (dahulu).” (Surah Al-Mu’minun, ayat 99-100)

Kemudian ia menjawab sendiri; “Kini engkau telah dikembalikan ke dunia wahai Rabi’..” Dan disebabkan hal tersebut, Rabi’ bin Khutsaim didapati pada hari-hari sesudahnya sentiasa dalam keadaan beribadah dan bertaqwa kepada Allah!

Wahai saudaraku, tidakkah engkau menangis atas kematian dan sakaratul maut yang bakal menjemputmu?Wahai saudaraku, tidakkah engkau menangis atas kuburan dan kengerian yang ada di dalamnya? Wahai saudaraku, tidakkah engkau menangis kerana takut akan hausnya di hari penyesalan? Wahai saudaraku, tidakkah engkau menangis kerana takut kepada api Neraka di Hari Kiamat nanti?

Sesungguhnya kematian pasti menghancurkan kenikmatan para penikmatnya. Oleh itu, carilah (kenikmatan) hidup yang tidak ada kematian di dalamnya.

“Ya Allah, tolonglah kami ketika sakaratul maut!”

UEFA Champions League 2007/08 CHAMPIONS

Champions of Champions.

Crème de la Crème.

Kings of Europe.

SIMPLY THE BEST!!

Congratulations!!

Good Job Well Done MANCHESTER UNITED!!

Streamyx Carnival at Amcorp Mall

All are invited to the Streamyx Carnival, details as follow:

• Place: Amcorp Mall, Petaling Jaya
• Date: 24 - 25 May 2008 (Saturday & Sunday)
• Time: 11 am - 10 pm

Highlights:

• Streamyx Combo Promo
• Let's Talk Promo
• i-Talk/i-Talk Buddy Promo
• Lucky Draw
• Online Games Contest
• Coloring Contest
• e-browse
• Gamezone
• Hypp.TV
• B-Smart
• HyppFlixs

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P/s: Day 1 photos here. Day 2 photos here.

A Treasured Memory

When I was about to sign out tonight, I checked my Yahoo email first and very delighted to find out that one of my friends, Atox had sent me an email attached with a photo taken way back while we were in UK. Thanx Atox.



This photo was taken when my friends, Atox, Nan, Jemir and the one who took the picture (I can't remember who) came to visit three of us (Ali, Abu Sufian n me) in University of Essex, Colchester, UK. They were studying in University of Bristol (correct, correct, correct me if I'm wrong, guys) and were on UK tour when they came to our place.

From left: Ali, Atox, Nan, me (with black n red Planet Hollywood cap), Abu Sufian (white top) and Jemir (black jacket), posing in front of one of the uni's students' accommodations called Wivenhoe Tower. I think Abu stayed there, Ali in another tower I can't remember what, and I stayed in another tower called Bertrand Russell Tower, with British, Irish, Scottish, Welsh and Singaporean apartment mates.

Our batch consisted of 45 of us, sent to various universities all over UK and we were all Telekom Malaysia's sponsored students. I was the oldest among them, 5 years older. Why? That's another story for another day. In fact, that is one of the reasons why I wrote that I am forever indebted to Telekom Malaysia.

Unlike them who all graduated successfully from their respective universities, I unfortunately, due to certain circumstances, did not finish my engineering degree there but decided to come back to Malaysia and continue my study in Universiti Telekom (before they rebranded it to Multimedia University later), back in 1997 in Bukit Beruang, Melaka and ended up graduating with an IT degree from MMU, Cyberjaya in 2000, the year I joined TM as an employee.

Truth be told that Yayasan Telekom had asked me to finish my degree in UK and was ready to buy me another open ticket for me to go back to UK and prepare myself to resit the final exams. And the university itself, had literally "begged" me to fly back to UK too, up to the point that they had sent me the final exam questions to my house in my kampung in KT, the exact same questions for the 3 courses that I purposely flunked during the actual exams, for me to answer, or copy answers from wherever sources I like and send the answers back to them, which I was very, very sure, they would have passed me with no questions asked. The reason was simple, they made lots and lots of money from us, foreign students studying in UK, with exorbitant course fees etc. etc., and to lose one of the foreign students might have caused them to part with around 30K pounds (roughly RM210K at that time) per annum!

Nevertheless, after some deep-thinking, and evaluating my own capabilities who was facing some very very difficult situations at that time (and to cut another long story short), I decided to stay in Malaysia and finish my degree right here in Malaysia, albeit much later than all of them! Even some of them came back to become my tutors and lab engineers in MMU. What a life!!

As a matter of fact, two of them have become PhD holders. Congrats to Dr Hafizal and Dr Hezerul. Doctors at the tender age of 32!!

Drama in Real Life @ Taman Medan

Continue from Happy Wesak Day

Since dah takde apa nak makan kat situ, so aku pun start kereta balik, merayau-rayau la sekitar tu, tengok2 mana plak nak isi perut yg dah mula berceloteh yg bukan2 ni. So pusing2 la aku sehingga patah balik ke Tmn Medan. Masa kat PJS4 tu, tetiba aku ternampak kepulan asap hitam banyak datangnya dari area PJS2. So aku dgn lajunyalah pegi ke area tu, tengok2 memang betul ada kebakaran. Dah penuh dah org ramai berkerumun di tempat kejadian. Bomba tak nampak batang hidung pun lagi. Siren pun takdak dengar.

Rumah yg terbakar tu, rumah teres 2 tkt. Risau gak aku nengok sbb kalau korang familiar area Tmn Medan, Tmn Dato Harun tu, korang taulah camana rapatnya rumah2 teres kat situ. Btw, aku pun park Wira tepi jalan, dan turun pegi sedekat yg boleh armed with my N73. Aku pun tangkaplah beberapa kpg gambar yg aku siarkan di sini. Apapun, aku nak pay tribute to all the Bomba Sukarelawan PJS2 Taman Medan yg bertungkus-lumus cuba mengawal kebakaran dari merebak ke rumah sebelah kiri dan kanan. Dgn bantuan orgramai, termasuklah aku yg sekadar tarik2 hos air tu, mereka mencuba sedaya-upaya dan telah bertindak cemerlang sbg benteng pertama melawan api sebelum ketibaan bomba sebenar yg aku agak-agak sampai almost after half an hour later. I tell u, without those sukarelawans, the consequences would be far far more terrible!!

Can u see the black smokes?

It can be seen from miles away!

This pic shows the Bomba Sukarelawan PJS2 Taman Medan, equipped with a 4WD pick-up converted to be some kind of fire-engine, complete with sirens, water pumps and hoses. They were the first ones on the scene and they were indeed the real heroes on that day!

Do u have ur own Sukarelawan Bomba in ur area? It is worth ur life to bring it up to ur community leader and start planning to establish one.

Trying very hard to contain the fire!

Do u notice how close the houses are to each other?

Luckily, no one was hurt in the incident, and the house's owner and his family had managed to bring out large portions of their belongings before the fire grew bigger.

The fire apparently started at the upper level of the house. I heard someone said that the fire occured because the children in the house were playing with ... fire? Maybe they meant matchsticks, or lighter, or candles, or something else, I was not very sure.

Moral of the story: Never let our children play with fire, or any fire-inducing stuff. Api semasa kecil menjadi kawan, bila besar menjadi lawan yang tak mudah ditundukkan!!

Finally, the real Bomba dan Penyelamat arrived, rather late I might say.

Notwithstanding more than half of their job were already done by those brave Sukarelawans, they still have to further extinguish completely all the fire remnants and then conduct the follow-up investigation and for that, I would like to also pay tribute to these unsung heroes.

Actually, I did shoot a video using my N73 capturing the whole event, but in the commotion, I somehow adjusted the setting to be with no audio!! Damn!! So if I were to include it here, you would be watching a video without sounds!! What good is that? Damn!! Damn!! Damn!! Anyway, I left the scene and singgah at one of the kedais around there for nasi ayam as my long overdue lunch.

I felt sorry for the unfortunate family, my sympathies to them and I hope they have the strength to go through the bad experience and rebuild their lives after this. May Allah help them. Amin.

After finishing lunch, I drove back to my apt. Sebelum naik to my apt kat tkt 5 tu, singgah and lepak kejap kat gerai tomyam my friend located behind the apt blocks. Then I went to have a haircut in my favorite barber shop near the gerai tomyam, and guess what, I heard one customer in there was telling the barber that a gruesome murder had been committed at one of the many apartments near my place. He said that a female body of unknown race was just found with no head, no arms, and no legs. In other words, the head, both arms and both legs were chopped off from the body and the body parts were nowhere to be found! MasyaAllah! What is happening in our country now?? May Allah save us all. Amin.

In the end, pheewwwwwwww, what a Wesak Day!!

Happy Wesak Day

Semalam Isnin 19 Mei 2008, cuti Hari Wesak, so Selamat Hari Wesak to all yg menyambut Wesak Day. Lepas bangun tido di kala mentari dah tegak atas kepala, mandi-manda, hisap Dunhill sebatang dua dengan segelas nescafe ais yg aku dah buat siap2 malam tadi n simpan dlm peti ais, aku pun keluarlah nak gi makan. So, turunlah aku dari tkt lima apt aku yg takde lif tu, tension siot naik-turun tangga hari2, tu yg mantain slim sampai sekarang ni, menuju ke Wira kesayangan aku, and drive sorang2 ke restoran yg dihajati. Plan aku nak gi lunch nasi padang kat restoran Mega Ceria di Tmn Dato Harun. Aku siarkan di sini pic signboard restoran tu, member aku yang intro restoran ni kat aku dulu. Katanya, dulu pakcik towkey restoran ni meniaga gerai kecil2an jer tepi jalan, pastu baru bukak restoran. Pakcik tu orgnya alim aku tengok, asal negara jiran, dah Haji dah dan tak silap aku, setiap tahun gi umrah dgn anak-bini dan keluarganya. Rezeki sememangnya 9/10 datang dari berniaga.

Aku taklah gemar sangat nasi padang ni, tapi makan kat sini memang sedap la jugak lauk-pauknya, harga standardlah, nak wat camana, barang2 pun dah naik mendadak sekarang ni. Tapi nak jadikan cerita, aku sampai2 dalam kul 3 ptg tu, nasi dan semua lauk-pauk dah habis licin, yep! semuanya habis, memang takde rezeki la tu, tapi tak dinafikan restoran ni memang agak popular, memang selalu penuh dan apa yg dijual semuanya selalu habis, tak penah ada left-overs lah. Semua kaum, Melayu Cina India dll selalu jer memenuhi restoran. Pernah sekali aku makan dgn member2 aku kat sini, tetiba segerombolan Harley-Davidson riders datang singgah makan, menderum bunyi enjin2 motor depa, bergegar bumi sekejap, korang tahula camana bunyi HD kan? Sebatu dah dengar dah! Dalam 20 bijik la jugak HD berkumpul depan restoran tu. Semua riders berpakaian ala-ala, well, riders-lah!! Complete with HD leather jackets, leather gloves, leather boots dan macam2 leather lagilah. Puas jugak mata aku tengok pelbagai model HD yg berkilat berkemilau. Perghhhh, memang cun habis la HD diorang tu. And most of them are Malays, definitely Malays yg kaya-raya, kalau tak, jgn harap la nak pakai HD. Harga 2nd hand pun dah boleh beli Waja baru beb! So, bak kata Nabil Raja Lawak, Lu Orang Pikir Sendirilah!!

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A Donkey's Tale

One day a farmer's donkey fell down into a well. The animal cried piteously for hours as the farmer tried to figure out what to do. Finally, he decided the animal was old, and the well needed to be covered up anyway; it just wasn't worth it to retrieve the donkey.

He invited all his neighbors to come over and help him. They all grabbed a shovel and began to shovel dirt into the well. At first, the donkey realized what was happening and cried horribly. Then, to everyone's amazement he quieted down. A few shovel loads later, the farmer finally looked down the well. He was astonished at what he saw. With each shovel of dirt that hit his back, the donkey was doing something amazing: He would shake it off and take a step up!

As the farmer's neighbors continued to shovel dirt on top of the animal, he would shake it off and take a step up. Pretty soon, everyone was amazed as the donkey stepped up over the edge of the well and happily trotted off!

Life is going to shovel dirt on you, all kinds of dirt. The trick to getting out of the well is to shake it off and take a step up. Each of our troubles is a stepping stone. We can get out of the deepest wells just by not stopping, never giving up! Shake it off and take a step up.

Remember the five simple rules to be happy:

1. Free your heart from hatred - Forgive.
2. Free your mind from worries - Most never happen.
3. Live simply and appreciate what you have.
4. Give more.
5. Expect less

NOW......... enough of that crap... The donkey later came back, and bit the farmer who had tried to bury him. The gash from the bite got infected and the farmer eventually died in agony from septic shock.

MORAL FROM TODAY'S LESSON:

"When you do something wrong, and try to cover your ass, it always comes back to bite you."

You have two choices...smile and close this page, or pass this along to someone else to spread the fun.

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From an email I received. TQ.

It is YOU!

A thought-provoking email I received from someone.

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One day all the employees reached the office and they saw a big notice on the door on which it was written:

“Yesterday the person who has been hindering your growth in this company passed away. We invite you to join the funeral in the room that has been prepared in the gym”.

In the beginning, they all got sad for the death of one of their colleagues, but after a while they started getting curious to know, who was that man who hindered their growth of his colleagues and the company itself. The excitement in the gym was such that security agents were ordered to control the crowd within the room. The more people reached the coffin, the more the excitement heated up.

Everyone thought: “Who is this guy who was hindering my progress? Well, at least he died!”

One by one the thrilled employees got closer to the coffin, and when they looked inside it, they suddenly became speechless. They stood nearby the coffin, shocked and in silence, as if someone had touched the deepest part of their soul.

There was a mirror inside the coffin: everyone who looked inside it could see himself. There was also a sign next to the mirror that said:

“There is only one person, who is capable to set limits to your growth:

IT IS YOU.

You are the ONLY person who can revolutionize your life.

You are the only person, who can influence your happiness, your realization and your success.

You are the ONLY person who can help YOURSELF.

Your life does not change when your boss changes, when your friends change, when your parents change, when your partner changes, when your company changes.

Your life changes when YOU change, when you go beyond your limited beliefs, when you realize that you are the ONLY one responsible for your life.

THE MOST IMPORTANT RELATIONSHIP YOU CAN HAVE IS THE ONE YOU HAVE WITH YOURSELF!”.

The world is like a Mirror. It gives back to anyone the reflection of the thoughts in which one has strongly believed.

The world and your reality are like mirrors lying in a coffin, which show to any individual the death of his divine capability to imagine and create his happiness and his success.

It’s the way you face Life that makes the difference.

Have a NICE DAY!

4 Perkara untuk Sihat

4 PERKARA UNTUK SIHAT - Petua Imam Syafie:

Empat perkara menguatkan badan:

1. Makan daging
2. Memakai haruman
3. Kerap mandi
4. Berpakaian dari kapas

Empat perkara melemahkan badan:

1. Banyak berkelamin (bersetubuh)
2. Selalu cemas
3. Banyak minum air ketika makan
4. Banyak makan bahan yang masam

Empat perkara menajamkan mata:

1. Duduk mengadap kiblat
2. Bercelak sebelum tidur
3. Memandang yang hijau
4. Berpakaian bersih

Empat perkara merosakkan mata:

1. Memandang najis
2. Melihat orang dibunuh
3. Melihat kemaluan
4. Membelakangi kiblat

Empat perkara menajamkan fikiran:

1. Tidak banyak berbual kosong
2. Rajin bersugi (gosok gigi)
3. Bercakap dengan orang soleh
4. Bergaul dengan para ulama

4 CARA TIDUR:

1. TIDUR PARA NABI - Tidur terlentang sambil berfikir tentang kejadian langit dan bumi.
2. TIDUR PARA ULAMA' & AHLI IBADAH - Miring ke sebelah kanan untuk memudahkan terjaga untuk solat malam.
3. TIDUR PARA RAJA YANG HALOBA - Miring ke sebelah kiri untuk mencernakan makanan yang banyak dimakan.
4. TIDUR SYAITAN - Menelungkup/meniarap seperti tidurnya ahli neraka.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH TELEKOM MALAYSIA

I would like to dedicate my 2nd posting to my employer, Telekom Malaysia Bhd, for everything that you have done for me and for everything that you have given to me since I joined you almost 8 years ago.

Really, Telekom Malaysia had given me a "2nd life", and I am forever indebted to Telekom Malaysia for that. If not for Telekom Malaysia, I myself couldn't imagine where I could have ended up. To cut a long story short, Telekom Malaysia had, as I mentioned above, bestowed me a "new" life starting way back in 1994, long before I joined it as an employee in 2000.

I have, for a long time wanted to do this, but to whom should I say "Thank You" to? To the Chairman and CEO of Telekom Malaysia? To Yayasan Telekom? Or to the government who owns 35.04% of Telekom Malaysia, or to the other 64.96% shareholders of Telekom Malaysia? Well, I would like to say "Thank You" to all of them!!

Anyway, I think now is the right time and the right place to express my utmost gratitude, right here in my blog, for the whole wide world to read, or at least for those who happen to stumble into my blog, to bear witness to this:

THANK YOU VERY MUCH TELEKOM MALAYSIA!!

THANK YOU!!

THANK YOU from the bottom of my heart!!

TERIMA KASIH TELEKOM MALAYSIA!!

JASAMU AKAN KUKENANG SEHINGGA KE AKHIR HAYAT!!

TERIMA KASIH!!

THANK YOU VERY MUCH TELEKOM MALAYSIA!!

* Please note that after the rebranding exercise in 2005, Telekom Malaysia is now known simply as TM, after the new brand name complete with the new logo and corporate image was launched in 14 April 2005. For further information on TM, visit www.tm.com.my

The Rogue Warrior's Ten Commandments

The Rogue Warrior's Ten Commandments of SpecWar:

1. I am the War Lord and the wrathful God of Combat and I will always lead you from the front, not the rear.
   
2. I will treat you all alike - just like shit.
   
3. Thou shalt do nothing I will not do first, and thus will you be created Warriors in My deadly image.
   
4. I shall punish thy bodies because the more thou sweatest in training, the less thou bleedest in combat.
   
5. Indeed, if thou hurteth in thy efforts and thou suffer painful dings, then thou art Doing It Right.
   
6. Thou hast not to like it - thou hast just to do it.
   
7. Thou shalt Keep It Simple, Stupid.
   
8. Thou shalt never assume.
   
9. Verily, thou art not paid for thy methods, but for thy results, by which meaneth thou shalt kill thine enemy by any means available before he killeth you.
   
10. Thou shalt, in thy Warrior's Mind and Soul, always remember My ultimate and final Commandment: There Are No Rules - Thou Shalt Win at All Cost.

Richard Marcinko. http://www.dickmarcinko.com/

I don't know why, but somehow I really like these commandments, which I first encountered when I read "Rogue Warrior" by Richard Marcinko and John Weisman, the first novel in the Rogue Warrior series published in 1992. Now there are more than 10 novels already in the series. I haven't read all of them yet (I think I have only 4 of them), since it is rather hard to find them in any of those "low cost" book shops, unlike fictions by Sheldon, Clancy, Brown, Ludlum, King, Grisham etc. I'm sure I can easily find these books in MPH, Borders, Popular or Kinokuya stores, but I have to pay much higher price-lah!

I would like to mention that the language in the novels are "no holds barred" and very-very "colorful" (to put it mildly), which perhaps might influence the way I write in this blog. Hehe. You can read more about Marcinko and his work at embedded link above.

Mind you, these commandments are actually copyright protected and I publish this without permission whatsoever, so I hope Mr Dick Marcinko himself (an ex-Navy SEALS) would not hunt and kill me silently with his own big fucking hands!

Anyway, although the commandments above are specifically for SpecWar personnel (commandos, special forces operators etc.), if you notice, they are also very much applicable to our personal and work life. In fact, they should be the epitome of what leadership in any corporate world is all about, or leadership in our home, in our family, in our work place, in our community, in our society for that matter.

Refer to the very 1st commandment, "...I will always lead you from the front, not the rear", isn't it what a real leader should be? Does "Leadership by Example" come to mind? Don't we aspire to be leaders rather than followers? No matter whether we are leaders in our own home, family, work place or larger community or society, we should always lead from the front, not the rear.

Btw, Marcinko also wrote two books on leadership and management:

"Leadership Secrets of the Rogue Warrior" (1996)

"The Rogue Warriors Strategy for Success: A Commando's Principles of Winning" (1997)

After retiring from Navy SEALS, besides writing books, Mr Dick is now the Chairman of the Board of Red Cell International Corp., a private security consulting firm based in Washington, DC, and President of Richard Marcinko, Inc. and President of SOS Temps, Inc., a motivational and team-building company, with clients like General Motors, AT&T, Domino's Pizza, Motorola, BellSouth, and several other Fortune 500 companies.

In my future writings, I might come back to these commandments as and when appropriate, besides other guidelines, principles, knowledge etc. from other great minds in the world, and not forgetting the teachings of my religion Islam itself (I am a Muslim after all), which I will put as the first and foremost always.