Berita

Sudah 3 hari berturutan Israel membedil Gaza strip dan meragut nyawa hampir 300 rakyat Palestin. Kenapa kita kisah? Hadith: Dari Nu'man ibn Bashir (radiALlahu anhu), Rasulullah pernah bersabda: "Umat Islam adalah ibarat anggota badan seseorang, jika matanya sakit maka seluruh badan akan rasa kesakitannya dan jika kepalanya sakit, maka seluruh badan akan merasai kesakitannya." 

Berita lanjut mengenai bedilan Israel: NZHerald, The Star.

Jika anda berada di sekitar Kuala Lumpur pada 10-11 Januari 2009 (masa: 0800 - 2300), silalah luangkan masa menghadiri program "Untukmu Palestin" berlokasi di Taman Tasik Titiwangsa anjuran UKM dan KTSN. Antara program yang diaturkan adalah paintball, futsal, forum, gerai jualan dan gerai klinikal.

Artikel ringkas mengenai Muntazer Al-Zaidi (klik pada gambar):

Carnival

If you happen to be in Shah Alam this weekend, drop by at this carnival:

On another note, if you want to rip streaming videos from embedded players (ie YouTube, Veoh) you can go here & they list all known methods available.

Jantung

Sudah genap 3 minggu sejak ku pulang ke tanah air tercinta. Aku hanya hari ini kembali menulis untuk menggerakkan otak menulisku sebelum ia berkarat. Lagipun, aku ingin berkongsi pendapatku mengenai penswastaan IJN. Penswastaan ini secara prinsipnya dipersetujui oleh kerajaan dimana Sime Darby telah menawar untuk membeli 51% share IJN dari kerajaan. Aku tidak tahu kenapa kerajaan ingin menswastakan badan tersebut. Secara umumnya, penswastaan diharapkan dapat meningkatkan mutu servis dan kecekapan badan korporat tersebut. Namun, sejarah menunjukkan penswastaan dinegara kita tidaklah berhasil begitu baik seperti yang dinyatakan pada blog Anwar Ibrahim. Tambahan pula, menurut Dr Mahathir, IJN tidaklah mengalami masalah dalam mengendalikan servisnya dengan cekap. Beliau juga menyoal apakah keuntungannya pada dua-dua pihak (kerajaan & Sime Darby) jika penswastaan ini diteruskan. Malah ada yang membuat spekulasi bahawa penswastaan ini diutarakan kerana ada yang akan mendapat $$$ daripada proses ini. Wallahua'alam. Apa yang aku risaukan, jika penswastaan ini diteruskan, dan jika Sime Darby dibenarkan, mereka tentu akan meningkatkan kos rawatan untuk menebus kembali laburan mereka. Jadi disarankan agar kepada perokok-perokok, berhentilah. Kurangkan makanan banyak lemak, gula ringkas, dan garam. Bersenam selalu. 

tired

4 days ago I touched down in Malaysia after going through Sydney, Darwin & then Singapore. It wasn't fun dragging a huge luggage on Singapore's MRT & then public bus through the causeway link to JB. Nevertheless it was cheap & feasible, albeit barely, & I managed to get to Larkin at 15 minute to 1 am, just in time for the last bus to Shah Alam. Now, after days of shopping, I'm knackered & sitting idly at home. Terengganu's recent flood has receded at the moment but Malaysian meteorologists predicted that there will be a new flood over the weekend, so if the forecast remain as it is, my plan to go there will be postponed. On another note, interestingly Selangor MB held a talk on Palestine issue as part of an opening ceremony of a local hall here not far from my home. Impressive indeed. I tried going but as I got there, the talk started late, it was outside & with my failure to adapt to Malaysia's humidity & subsequent profuse perspiration, I just went back before it started. Maybe there was a hint of laziness. Maybe...      

Perkembangan perjalanan kepulanganku

Daripada berita yang aku baca, nampak gayanya lapangan terbang Suvarnabhumi akan lama dikepong oleh penunjuk perasaan. Jadi aku telefonlah Jetstar dan alhamdulillah aku boleh tukar destinasiku tanpa bayaran tambahan. Aku pilih Singapura kerana tiada penerbangan terus ke Kuala Lumpur. Tetapi itinerari agak memenatkan. Aku bertolak 6 pagi esok dan akan transit di Sydney dan kemudian di Darwin sebelum medarat di Changi pukul 9 malam. Kemudian, aku akan bergegas ke Larkin Johor untuk ambil mana-mana bas ke Shah Alam. Tempahan penginapanku di Bangkok dan juga tiket penerbangan BKK-KL ku telah pun dibatalkan dan akan ditampung kosnya oleh pihak insuran. Tidaklah aku rugi sangat melainkan masa dan perasaan pasrah lambat balik 2 hari. Alhamdulillah. Cuma keretaku rosak, pad brek kena ganti ($230!), yang menjadikan semalam hari gembira aku malap sedikit. Walaubagaimanapun, ramai orang lain di dunia kini sedang menimpa kesusahan yang mengerdilkan kesusahanku:

1. Beribu orang terperangkap di Bangkok kerana pengepongan lapangan terbang.

2. Beratus orang mati atau cedera kerana serangan di Mumbai. 

3. Puluhan hingga ratusan orang dan kapal mereka ditangkap oleh lanun Somali.

4. Rakyat Palestin yang masih ditindas oleh rejim zionis Israel.

5. Rakyat Iraq dan Afghanistan yang masih merana akibat kesan peperangan.  

!@#$%&^*

I eagerly anticipated the day. I cleared my food stock. I packed my stuffs away in boxes. I finally vacuum my room. I read the news. I got this funny feeling that it was not meant to be. I called the airlines, twice. I was told first "no policy have been in place, everything is as is". I was later told "only outgoing flights are cancelled. inward flights remain scheduled". I stayed up. I showered. I woke my co-driver. I drove to the airport. I walked to the counter. 

"Hi, how are you?"

"which way are you heading?"

"Bangkok? hmmm. I think theres changes to that route. It might be cancelled. Go to that counter at the end there, she's the one handling this flight"

"I'm sorry, but all inward and outgoing flights, not just our airline, has been cancelled. It only escalated overnight and now the airport is closed."

5h!t

My trip home to Malaysia has just been delayed for a further 2 days. Suvarnabhumi Airport, Bangkok International Airport was, on 26th November 2008, stormed and seized hold by anti-government protesters and disrupted all its services. Don Mueng airport was also blockaded. At the moment, the current government has declared state of emergency in these two places & will try to clear out the protesters by Saturday, the day my flight is resecheduled. More info:

NZ Herald: Bangkok explodes in violence.

Reuters: Main Bangkok airport to be shut until at least Saturday 

Rambang

Aku ingin meraikan hari kembalinya kelajuan jalur lebar Internet ku kepada kelajuan asalnya dengan berkongsi beberapa video dan gambar-gambar yang entah pape:

USB memory stick

Came across this article from NZHerald on some usage of USB pendrive. I haven't tried any but they sound pretty cool:

Stick tricks - USB memory magic: Snippets:

1. Speed up Windows Vista using ReadyBoost that lets the pendrive act as memory cache.

2. Store bootable Windows/Linux.

3. PC repair kit.

It is now only just over a week until I fly back to Malaysia for my last summer holiday & I finish this entry with: happy birthday sis.

Summer idle

On a totally different note, in overcoming my summer idleness, I tried watching/catching up on my vast collections of downloaded movies/documentaries. First 3 lined up were: BBC's Islamic history of Europe, Yvonne Project, and Fox's Conspiracy theory: Did we land on the moon? All these documentaries were old (downloaded 3 years ago) but their content, IMO, remain relevant today. Islamic history of Europe detailed the impact of Islam on Europe and how it shaped Europe today. It also showed brief history of Muslim settlement during Abbassid dynasty in Spain and Sicilly and the impact they have on Europe. Yvonne Project on the other hand is an hour-and-a-half lecture given by Yvonne Ridley, a British journalist captured by Taliban during American invasion of Afghanistan. She talked about her encounter with Taliban and how she ended up as a Muslim after the ordeal. I definitely recommend these 2 documentaries to broaden your perspective. The third documentaries is more sensationalism than exact documentary, IMO. It is Fox material anyway. It proposed that US never did made moon landings and arguements were made to prove this. They had a NASA spokeman, who did a crap job IMO, to counter these arguements. Whether he was trying to convince people of a lie or whether he was just crap at explaining, one thing for sure, he made the whole documentary more convincing of US never did land on the moon. 

Kerjaya dengan Kementerian Kesihatan Malaysia

Hujung minggu lepas, aku pulang ke Dunedin untuk: (1) menghadiri ceramah "Kerjaya dengan KKM", (2) pengiklanan PPIM NZ bab pelajar, dan (3) jumpa kawan-kawan lama. Secara ringkasnya, kandungan ceramah (1) adalah seperti berikut:

1. Latihan siswazah (housemanship) adalah 2 tahun. Gred gaji adalah UD44 (sekitar RM4k selepas elaun).

2. Khidmat negara: 3 tahun wajib berkhidmat dengan negara (samada KKM, K Pertahanan Malaysia, Universiti-universiti awam) sebagai pegawai perubatan (Medical Officer) setelah tamat latihan siswazah. Rasanya naik gred gaji pada tahap ini.

3. Setelah selesai khidmat negara, pegawai perubatan boleh memilih untuk samada kekal menjadi pegawai perubatan, atau menjalani latihan kepakaran untuk menjadi pakar klinikal ataupun menjadi pegawai pentadbir.

4. Latihan kepakaran: syarat-syarat untuk memasuki latihan kepakaran: (1) telah selesai khidmat negara, (2) telah berkhidmat dalam bidang pengkhususan sekurang-kurangnya 1 tahun, (3) umur kurang dari 46 tahun ketika diterima untuk mulakan latihan. Disebabkan syarat (2), penceramah mencadangkan agar kita membuat keputusan awal-awal untuk memilih kepakaran kita dan berkhidmat di dalam bidang yang berkenaan ketika menjalani khidmat negara.

5. Nasihat kepada bakal houseman: berbaik dengan pekerja-pekerja hospital dan jururawat kerana merekalah yang akan membantu/menyusahkan anda bergantung pada sikap anda pada mereka.

Berikut adalah link untuk Yahoo Group Persatuan Perubatan Islam Malaysia Bab Pelajar New Zealand kepada mereka yang berminat untuk menyertai persatuan ini.

Click to join ppimnzsc

   

Street Hoops

Old but good. Was on the telly the other day. I'm off to Dunedin today.

Dave Chapelle

Still on holiday

34. I am here languishing in this 5h*7h01e flat that is now quite warm actually (alhamdulillah). Sleepless nights from games and movies meant waking up late and missing out on job opportunities. No urgency from me though as I only wanted to take up a job to kill the time and to feel useful.

54. Malaysian government has recently tabled a RM7bil economy injection to counter the credit crunch and global economy meltdown. The briefing of the stimulus package was marred by walkout from the oppositions MP. Apparently, they were frustrated at not being given the opportunity to debate/clarify facts on the briefing. The opposition blames the government for lack of transparency while the government, as what I perceived from the reporting of The Stars, argued that the manner of the questioning was rude. Which is more important? And another walkout - the solution to parliament dispute? 

58. I added Anwar Ibrahim blog on the blog list. I would like to point out that I try to be impartial to politic but since I do have set of principles that I like to abide upon, they will always be a degree of bias.

90. US election today.

Cuti

74. Cuti musim panas terakhir aku telah pun bermula. Pada bulan pertama, aku merancang untuk kumpul duit sikit dengan berkerja. Aku perlukan duit untuk perjalananku sepanjang cuti ini. 

82. Susahnya tulis dalam Bahasa Melayu setelah sekian lama tidak menulis. Terasa kekok dan hampir setiap ayat aku perlu berhenti untuk menterjermah perkataan dari Bahasa Inggeris kepada Bahasa Melayu.

23. Aku telah kembali bermain Dota. Usaha untuk meninggalkan permainan komputer menemui kegagalan sekali lagi. Apa-apapun, sekarang tengah cuti, jadi sepatutnya tidak akan menganggu pelajaran aku. Sudah setahun tidak main dan kini Dota sudah versi 6.56 dengan peta baru (creep scourge tukar dan ada creep baru), watak baru (Admiral Proudmore dan Sylvias Windrunner),  barang baru (phase boot, magic stick, dan bole naikkan armour tower) dan arahan baru (boleh buang orang afk). Sesiapa yang belum berkecimpung dengan Dota, saya nasihatkan jangan cuba, nanti ketagih. lol. Bermain permainan komputer ini telah menjadi satu budaya dikalangan pelajar Malaysia tidak kira dimana. Menghabiskan 1 malam bertarung dalam alam maya merupakan satu kebiasaan dan ini 1 fenomena yang aku ada juga risau dengan masa yang terbuang tetapi tidak berdaya untuk berhenti atau nak menghentikan. Seronok. Eratkan silaturrahim. Kita menyesal kemudian.

41. Gambar dibawah merupakan satu papan tanda yang terdapat di Wales. Bahasa dibawah merupakan Bahasa Welsh dan bukan tafsiran sebenar ayat Bahasa Inggeris yang tertera di bahagian atas papan tanda tersebut. Tekan pada gambar tersebut untuk baca penjelasan lanjut.

50. Anda mungkin perasan yang bahawasanya aku cuba menulis dengan gramar yang betul dan bahasa yang teratur dan ejaan yang betul. Skema kata orang, tetapi seperti aku pernah tulis sebelum ini, rugi kalau kita tidak tulis betul-betul selepas meluangkan masa untuk menulis. Jika saya berjaya belajar Bahasa Arab, saya juga akan tulis dalam bahasa tersebut.  

saje

it was a good idea back then

This was on the newspaper today. Not that new. 

Al-Quran 2:275 - 280: Those who devour usury will not stand except as stand one whom the Evil one by his touch Hath driven to madness. That is because they say: "Trade is like usury," but Allah hath permitted trade and forbidden usury. Those who after receiving direction from their Lord, desist, shall be pardoned for the past; their case is for Allah (to judge); but those who repeat (The offence) are companions of the Fire: They will abide therein (for ever). Allah will deprive usury of all blessing, but will give increase for deeds of charity: For He loveth not creatures ungrateful and wicked. Those who believe, and do deeds of righteousness, and establish regular prayers and regular charity, will have their reward with their Lord: on them shall be no fear, nor shall they grieve. O ye who believe! Fear Allah, and give up what remains of your demand for usury, if ye are indeed believers. If ye do it not, Take notice of war from Allah and His Messenger: But if ye turn back, ye shall have your capital sums: Deal not unjustly, and ye shall not be dealt with unjustly. If the debtor is in a difficulty, grant him time Till it is easy for him to repay. But if ye remit it by way of charity, that is best for you if ye only knew. 

Taken from USC Quran database. 

What a save

People do stuffs that they know it's wrong or dangerous for them. Why? If you think that at the end of the day you'll get away with it, then why not. Usually, the dangerous and wrong stuffs are fun and gives you a quick dose of 'high' and is often easier than the alternatives that are commonly more laborious or demand perseverance and patience. Human are not built to experience easy 'high's and body builds up tolerance to such an experience. It is perhaps this mechanism is built into mankind so that they don't get complacent and to continue to strive for 'high's. It is a mechanism necessary for survival. But in modern lifestyle when survival is easy and obtaining 'high's is easy, the body & mind become corrupted & diseased chasing those 'high's & surviving & functioning in society become secondary to these. lalalalala...b***s***. All I wanted to say is, be patient & persevere.

evaluation

And do not follow (blindly) any information of which you have no (direct) knowledge. (Using your faculties of perception and conception, you must verify it for yourself. (In the Court of your Lord,) you will be held accountable for your hearing, sight, and the faculty of reasoning."[17:36]

I think from now onward, I should start writing in Malay as well, which will serve as a good practice for me. Just an opinion regarding blogging: it's easy to use everyday language and the intermingling of Malay & English (aka Manglish) as commonly used in Malays conversations & speech, but IMO, consorting to this meant you deprive yourself an opportunity to practice writing properly & improve your language/writing skill. As in everything, the more you practice, the easier things become & my recent flurry of blog entries is a culmination of getting the hang on writing + free time after finishing all assignments.

1337 & teh jihad

[Continued from previous post] The 1st habit is being pro-active. For more explanation, read the book :) but just a snippet here and my own addition from another tazkirah: Part of being pro-active is being aware of what you can actually change and do and this almost ultimately means that the only thing you can change is yourself. There are 3 types of people: people who controls/fight/jihad against himself, people who are slaves to themselves and their whims, and people who interchanges between controlling and slaving to their ownselves/whims. The first lot, also known as mujahid linafsi (fighter against ownselves/whims), have the following characteristics:
1. Knows that controlling his whim is key to success,

2. Is charitable and not greedy,

3. Is thankful of his providence, 

4. Totally depends on his Lord on all aspects of life,

5. Mind that is open to the truth and willing to embrace it.

The slaves of their whim are those who:

1. Is greedy,

2. Is never thankful of his providence and often lament his luck,

3. Does not think that he need his Lord,

4. befriend syaitan - indulge in sins.

The last lot - the people who interchanges between the two states - make up the majority of the people in the world. The degree of interchangability varies between individuals and it is prudent for one to achieve success to have a greater degree of control of one whims rather than slaving over them. 

If you click on the photo above, it'll take you to some photo of terrorist training us playing paintball. 

This is how you do it

The diagram should be self-explanatory and if you click on it, it will lead to more raya @ Chch 2008 photos. It doesn't seem to stop huh? Even with exams looming around the corner. This open house was preceded with Solat hajat in conjunction with the oncoming exam held primarily for Canterbury Uni students. I crashed in because of the free food. Tazkirah given that night by the usual person in Chch (Napi) was centered around the 1st habit of '7 habits of higly effective people' authored by Stephen Covey. That Covey chap is an interesting guy. He was (or still is) a Christian preacher who wanted to convey his messages and values. He realised that in this secular age, anything with religious connotation will have its market restricted or be negatively perceived. Hence, he repackages the information into a "secular" form and wrote what became a best-seller book. I've read the book and it doesn't contain any subliminal or frank messages on Christianity - the book is just on common and good senses written in a coherent, easily understood and well structured manner. To be continued ----- 

Everybody knows

Everybody knows it's you but let me give some idea to those who are still in oblivion of who is impersonating me on shoutbox.

Hisham @ 2332 16/10/2008 is a telstraclear Wellington Cable TelstraClear Wellington Cable Customers 24/7 TelstraClear NOC phone +64-9-91XXXXXXX

Hisham @ 1341 15/10/2008 is student-6.wnmeds.ac.nz imported inetnum object for UNIVER-164

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More raya @ chch 2008 photos (click on the poster below):