Picturesque 2 - Memorabilia of Al-Amin and DQ

This is just an effort to collect some pictures to keep the memories awake. Ha.. Tengok jelah ye. Credit to Amirul 'Arif, Al Hasan, Anas Asnawi, Amirul Aizat and Nidzam Yatimi, Ibnu Dan, Rashid - I collect all these pictures from their sites. Syukran..


Sekolah Rendah Islam Al-Amin (1998 - 2003)

When this picture (1 Zaid) was tagged, within a day the comments were unbelievable. All of us started reminiscing. In this picture was Muallimah Ruslina Mustafa - a great teacher. Until now, when I meet her, she always says her prayer to me. Alhamdulilah.

This picture is the only picture I can find online. I got some in my album. Physically.


Sekolah Menengah Islam Al-Amin (2004 - 2008)
This place had served as my memory pool. I learned and experienced all sort of feelings here more than I could describe. Ineffable.

In the middle was Ustaz Ayub. I miss him very much. This class have been through Cikgu Wasitah's torment (Jalan itik naik tangga empat tingkat) together-gether, and my hand was red and swell sebab kena rotan dalam bilik pengetua when I was in this class too.

In this picture, yang sama batch yang group tiga orang di kanan gambar - Amirul, Muhammad, dan Farhan. Yang berbaju merah Ustaz dan juga bapa angkat yang amat dirindui - Ustaz Idris.

One aspect that stays strong in my mind about Al-Amin - its camping. Lasak. It taught me a lot of things. Kalau masa tingkatan 1, hidupkan unggun api guna berketul-ketul lilin askar, bila tingkatan 5, 1/8 daripada ketulan atau tak ada langsung. Kalau masa tingkatan 1, bina khemah pasang siap je, tingkatan lima tinggal bawak kain kanvas, tali, parang - yang lain buat sendiri. Kalau masa tingkatan 1, masak boleh, roti pun boleh - tapi masa challenge tingkatan lima, semua raw, masak pakai buluh, dapur pun kene dari sumber-sumber hutan. Aha..banyak lagi. Abu Dzar sempat belajar buat perangkap lagi dengan ustaz. Cuma, agak menyesal tak hadam betul-betul macam mana nak ikat tali untuk abseiling dan jambatan tali tu..huh. Menyesal-nyesal. Banyak sangat main dulu..

Time ni dah jadi AJK dah..lagi best.

Perkara yang best masa camping - boleh gelak tengok gelagat peserta, kongsi ilmu, dan hantu!!! Haha.. Masa Uji Cekap ni, memang ada yang kena kacau - siap kena rasuk jin jadi macam harimau lagi. Masa dengan Anas tengah nak buat pagar - lampu tiba-tiba kelip-kelip dekat pokok besar, lepas tu ramai-ramai nampak lembaga putih jatuh dari pokok. Hoho.. Memori enak. Kalau Allah takdirkan satu hari nanti tersesat dalam hutan, dengan mereka nilah aku nak bersama.

Masa KONSIS Nasional dengan senior. Ni orang-orang sama dekat gambar atas. Dua belah kanan tu senior, sampai sekarang ada kem atau prog kitorang jumpa. Yang dua belah kiri, sebaya - Mirol dan Anas, masing-masing sekarang sibuk dengan pengajian.. Insya ALLAH ada masa dapat jumpa dan spend masa betul2.

Hormat dan respek pada orang-orang macam kat atas. Ada agama dan prinsip. Campak mana-mana derang jalan. Ada yang on the way ke Oxford boleh lead halaqah lagi - bila lah aku nak jadi macam tu ye? (Moga ALLAH mudahkan..).

Kawan-kawan - beberapa ketika sebelum nak menempuh SPM '08. Batch kebudak-budakan. Ada sindrom childish kot.

Fius dah putus dek kehangatan SPM.. dianggap udara sebagai air.. ha, rindu kelas Fizik malam.

EXPLORACE! Here we go..

Untuk pengetahuan pembaca, sekolah Al-Amin setiap tahun mengadakan program terakhir untuk tingkatan lima, Xplorace. Kami berlumba dari KL ke tempat-tempat tertentu, batch kami dapat Perlis. Kami mendapat tugasan untuk diselesaikan di samping berlumba dan menang - aha 1. Menjual buku di tempat awam macam KLCC. 2. Buat tugasan dan dapatkan sign macam bersihkan masjid. erk..banyak lagi. Tapi serius best dan penat.

Kami juara..alhamdulillah.

Abang Sarep tersayang.. sori, masa die buat halaqah dlu, kitorang kuat tido.. aku je kot. besor2 ni baru nak minta balik tajuk2 dlu..

Jutaan terima kasih buat guru-guru SRIAAG dan SMIAAG serta naqib tersayang kerna mendidik kami.. Barakallahu fiikum.


Darul Quran (2009 -2010)
Di sini - aku datang untuk menghafal Al Quran alhamdulillah 30 juz. Namun, di tempat ini jugalah, segala yang aku pelajari di Al Amin - di upscale kan platform pemikiran ku di sini. Aku melihatnya dengan kaca mata baru.. Mungkin berkat Quran, siapa tahu..

Halaqah Quran.. sepanjang tiga sem menghafal Quran ni, dengan diorang ni la.. Jamuan berpuluh2, prank bday byk2, dan menghafal-kalau-lupa-kena-sound-dengan-ustaz sama-sama. Ustaz Abu Bakar dan Ustaz Saiful Nizam. Ini jamuan second last kot.

Di Darul Quran, kami ada kelas Quran, English, Tajwid dan Understanding Islam.

Ini class English kami. Ini kelas nombor satu - tapi bukan nombor satu - as we strongly believed at that time, there are still many people kena masuk kelas tu - cuma mungkin rezeki masa exam, tak dapat.

Amazingly, these people are bright people (me to be excluded seriously..). Bukan sikit yang tolak tawaran biasiswa. Cara mereka present dan tulis essay - exceptional. IELTS punya silibus macam pejam mata bagi derang. Aha..Banat sure ada, tapi tak masuk dalam gambar. We even planned to build Transformers - which they initially appointed me as the energy division director (ada kaitan dengan fizik? haha..).

Lepas liga bola sepak.. macam biasa - ana penonton bola sepak, pemain bola keranjang.. cuma, basketball sana sikit sgt orang main.. :(

Jamuan halaqah Quran kami. Aha.. ramai dah khatam Quran - jadi kami buat sikit makan-makan.

Mana-mana pun di AL AMIN dan DQ, kami masih budak-budak yang serius(?)

Hari terakhir untuk semester 3. Kereta masing-masing dah bukak enjin dah kat bawah tu.. tinggal tuan badan je nak drive. Sohaib buat bola terapung. Akan rindu kawan-kawan.

Alhamdulillah.. konvo. Perhatian - gambar ditangkap semasa tengah berkhayal. Credit to Nidzam Yatimi.

DQians - I hope we will meet in the line of pejuang ALLAH one day. Most will be in the field of science, some in the special line of religion. Apa-apa pun, selamat berjuang. Darul Quran, tempat aku merevolusikan pemikiran aku.

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Mood 'girang'. Sebarang kepelikan dalam penceritaan harap abaikan. Antara usaha untuk menghidupkan memori - supaya dapat memotivasikan diri. Allahu Akbar. Di akhir hari, kita bertemu diri sendiri sebelum cahaya. Terima kasih..

Salam.

'Adil Adha

Salam.

Bismillah.

Selamat Hari Raya 'Eidul Adha saya ucapkan pada semua.

Buat semua kenalan, rakan-rakan, pembaca-pembaca yang dikenali, yang terhubung dengan ikatan 'aqidah, mahupun yang disatukan bangsa khalifah umat manusia.

Moga kita dapat sama-sama memperbanyakkan takbir, dan berusaha memahami hakikat tersurat dan tersirat di sebalik peristiwa ini, dan mengaplikasikannya dalam kehidupan.

Solat bersama family, dan melapah bersama family - apa lagi yang boleh kita harapkan selain redha Allah turun bersama bahagia dengan family.

Tiada lagi yang sempat saya kongsikan dek kehangatan suasana di rumah yang super seronok - angin sejuk, bau masakan 'mama' tersayang memenuhi ruang tamu, kebisingan adik-adik - melainkan ingin saya kongsikan sedikit kefahaman cetek saya mengenai peristiwa ini.

Ibrahim dan Ismail. Satu nilai yang dapat saya garap oleh kecetekan kefahaman saya.

Perjuangan tanpa pengorbanan merupakan perjuangan yang sia-sia.

Oleh itu, ikhwah dan akhawat - teruskan berkorban. Sememangnya ia tampak sukar, dan secara batiniyah lebih lagi - namun, Allah telah membekalkan kita sumber terhebat menjadi inspirasi. Khalilullah Ibrahim 'alaihissalam dan Isma'il - pengorbanan yang tiada tara. Moga kita dapat sama-sama ambil 'ibrah.

Alhamdulillah - lima ekor lembu tumpas di tangan tahun ini. Agak-agak lagi dua tiga tahun capai target untuk hadam proses 'Qurban' dari menjatuhkan dan mengikat lembu sehingga ke menimbang (?). Boleh lead Qurban satu hari nanti. Memasak biar kaum perempuan. Mereka lagi mahir. Pengkhususan kerja kan ciri-ciri tamadun. Tapi, kaum lelaki lagi terer kot masak - sebab dah tiga musim Top Chef lelaki yang menang :D

Okeh. Salam.

Fitrah dan 'rejection'

Salam.

Bismillah.

Mungkin kali ini ia akan menjadi titik pemula. Insya ALLAH. Kita terdiri daripada unsur-unsur tertentu. Ada unsur-unsur yang disepakati, ada juga yang tidak disepakati. Yang pastinya, unsur ruhani dan jasmani bersinar cerah di dalam diri. Dalam hidup, kedua-dua unsur ini memainkan peranan penting, berpotensi untuk menjadi petunjuk peribadi dalam kehidupan seharian. Kita Muslim, haruslah berusaha untuk mengoptimumkan pemerhatian dan mengambil pengajaran daripada keadaan sekeliling. Nilai yang amat berguna untuk kehidupan seharian, nilai yang bukan sahaja akan membuat diri kita 'tahu', namun lebih kepada penerapan iktibar daripada 'alam ke dalam diri kita. Pemindahan iktibar, panduan dan nilai-nilai.

Kita dicipta untuk mengenali, mencari, dan dengan pengisytiharan penuh rela dan tunduk, menjadi hamba kepada Maha Mencipta, Maha Mencintai.

Kehidupan, satu elemen yang misteri. Ciptaan Allah, disediakan untuk hambaNya sebagai platform mutlak untuk diuji.

الَّذِي خَلَقَ الْمَوْتَ وَالْحَيَاةَ لِيَبْلُوَكُمْ أَيُّكُمْ أَحْسَنُ عَمَلاً وَهُوَ الْعَزِيزُ الْغَفُورُ

Yang menjadikan mati dan hidup, supaya Dia menguji kamu, siapa di antara kamu yang lebih baik 

 amalnya. Dan Dia Maha Perkasa lagi Maha Pengampun. [Al-Mulk : 2]

Terlepas pandang?
Kadang-kadang, sewaktu diri berada di tahap kesedaran yang tinggi dan jernih terasa hidup ini terlalu bernilai untuk dibazirkan. Setiap pilihan dibuat dengan begitu teliti. Namun, selalu juga, hati dan jiwa kalah - mengharapkan ditunjukkan jalan. Alhamdulillah, Allah bukan sekadar mencipta dan meletakkan kita di sini. Ada bekal - di luar dan di dalam. Bekal dan panduan, untuk kita makhluq yang diberikan keistimewaan untuk 'MEMILIH'.

وَفِي الْأَرْضِ آيَاتٌ لِّلْمُوقِنِينَ * وَفِي أَنفُسِكُمْ أَفَلَا تُبْصِرُونَ

Dan di bumi itu terdapat tanda-tanda (kekuasaan Allah) bagi orang-orang yang yakin. dan (juga) pada dirimu sendiri. Maka apakah kamu tidak memperhatikan? [Az-Zaariyat : 20-21]
 

Selalu, kita melihat suatu hakikat - sama ada terlalu dalam atau cetek, terlalu dekat atau jauh. Sehingga kerapkali terlepas nilai-nilai yang penting dalam melihat sesuatu.

Ianya pernah terjadi kepada saya. Di saat pertama kali mendengar kata-kata "Man 'arafa nafsahu, 'arafa rabbahu". Barangsiapa mengenal dirinya, mengenal Tuhannya. Tak tahu berapa lama saya bergelut dalam gelanggang ini. Alhamdulillah, sememangnya membuahkan hasil walaupun tidak seperti yang diharapkan. Perjalanan yang agak mengejutkan. Di mana dalam perjalanan peribadi, saya temui beberapa mutiara yang boleh dikutip untuk panduan masa hadapan. Saya tidak bermaksud untuk bercerita lebih panjang, namun ada sesuatu yang ingin saya kongsikan.

Dalam saya berusaha untuk 'mengenali' diri - saya berjumpa malah berpeluang merasa dan mengamalkan apa yang dipanggil sebagai tenaga dalaman. Alhamdulillah, walaupun platformnya tidak ekstrem, terdapat yang masih ekstrem sehingga menganggap tenaga seperti itu berasal daripada Nur Muhammad. Ianya seperti mazhab atau school of thought. Terus saya berminat dan mencari, mengkaji dan berfikir. Di saat itu, pemikiran saya amat keliru. Saya bertanyakan beberapa ustaz dan orang-orang yang dihormati, namun masih tidak berjumpa dengan jawapan yang sesuai. Sehingga kini masih keliru. Dalil daripada kedua-dua belah pihak wujud - yang menolak dan yang menerima.

Nur Muhammad - suatu entiti yang dikatakan bersifat Qadim, dicipta sebelum segala sesuatu oleh Allah - ada juga yang mendakwa Allah mencipta segala sesuatu dengan Nur Muhammad. Dalam kisah kerasulan, Nur Muhammad dikatakan memasuki badan setiap nabi dan rasul dan akhir sekali Nabi Muhammad. Selepas kewafatan beliau, Nur Muhammad didakwa terus menerus menginspirasikan orang-orang Islam di seluruh dunia...

Sehingga pendedahan yang dibuat semasa Enrichment class di IIS mengenai falsafah. Masya Allah, masa itu terasa hati bagaikan dilepaskan daripada penjara. Pencarian yang sekian lama mengenai Nur Muhammad dan bagaimana sepatutnya kita 'deal' dengan isu tersebut membuka perspektif baru. Siapa sangka Nur Muhammad sangat dekat konsepnya dengan Triniti? Dalam hati masa itu hanya Allah yang tahu. Dengan mengutuk diri sendiri macam mana boleh terlepas pandang fakta dan konsep yang jelas. Nur Muhammad begitu mirip dengan Holy Spirit, permulaan kewujudannya juga dalam kurun yang sama, digunakan dengan cara yang sama, malah antara sebab yang sama yang menyebabkan kedua-dua autoriti jatuh. Alhamdulillah.. Namun, untuk sesiapa yang mahu mempercayainya, saya ambil pendekatan masing-masing ada pendapat dan perspektif sendiri. Jikalau bukan disebabkan saya sudah di'pahat' secara pahit konsep-konsep asas Kristian, berkemungkinan besar saya akan menentang pendapat ini.(Christology memang topik yang penat dan berat)

"Sometimes, what we think of that nothing can turn out to be the special something"

Perjalanan mengenali diri sendiri tidak akan pernah berhenti. End of something starts another something. 

[Source]

Dalam melayani rutin seharian membaca artikel-artikel menarik ( juga yang tidak menarik dan mengarut..hehe), terjumpa satu fenomena dalam perubatan. Lebih familiar dengan nama 'rejection' mungkin. Kali pertama saya berjumpa bahan mengenai konsep ini adalah semasa di Darul Quran, ketika Fa'iq membuat presentation beliau mengenai organ transplant. (So lame baru tahu masa tu.. =.=) Jadi, bila terbaca kali ini rasa macam 'deja vu' lepas itu revisited pula sebab memang kurang minat medic. Saya tahu medic interesting dan best cuma tengah berusaha nak buang mindset macam ini. Boleh ke?

'Rejection' merupakan satu fenomena di mana badan bertindak balas untuk menyingkirkan objek asing sama ada tisu, organ, mahupun bakteria dan subang (macam mana dengan susuk?).

Konsep dia macam ini. Bila kita masukkan sesuatu yang badan kita tak kenal atau sesuatu tanpa kita sedari masuk, badan kita akan cuba untuk menyingkirkan objek tersebut. Sistem imuniti digambarkan menyerang objek asing ini bagi melindungi badan kita daripada bahaya-bahaya yang mendatang. Masya Allah. Immunology.

Macam pemindahan organ, objek berbahaya masuk dalam badan, atau pun yang mudah dan biasa seperti subang dan sebagainya.


Transplant rejection occurs when a transplanted organ or tissue is not accepted by the body of the transplant recipient. This is explained by the concept that the immune system of the recipient attacks the transplanted organ or tissue. This is expected to happen, because the immune system's purpose is to distinguish foreign material within the body and attempt to destroy it, just as it attempts to destroy infecting organisms such as bacteria and viruses. - Wikipedia

Rejection
Simply put, rejection is a cause. Rejection happens when you place a foreign object in your body (i.e. body jewelry) and your body, for one reason or another, considers that foreign object a threat to your health and safety. In order to protect itself, your body slowly fights the object by pushing it and healing the skin behind it to eventually force the object completely out through the skin.- About.com

Mid-fight: Neutrophil immune cell engulfing anthrax bacteria [Source]

Fenomena yang secara automatik melindungi diri kita daripada bahaya yang berkemungkinan. Fitrah jasadiyah. Badan kita menjadi lebih kuat setelah sembuh daripada penyakit. Memory Lymphocyte. Wujudnya memori sebagai panduan menghadapi masa akan datang. 


Apa kata fitrah?
Fitrah diri kita mengenai fenomena 'rejection' amat berkait rapat dengan kehidupan seharian kita. Apabila kita menghadirkan elemen kotor dan tidak 'bersih' atau pun ianya dihadirkan, sistem imuniti fitrah akan bertindak.

Dosa yang hadir pada akan mencetuskan rasa kurang selesa pada diri. Tanda awal penentangan fitrah suci pada dosa. Rasulullah SAW telah menyatakan implikasi dosa dan kebaikan kepada manusia.

Di dalam hadis riwayat Ahmad dan al-Darimi, Rasulullah s. a. w. bersabda yang bermaksud: "Bertanyalah diri anda. Kebaikan itu ialah sesuatu yang hati anda berasa tenang kepadanya, manakala dosa pula ialah sesuatu amalan yang hati anda berasa bersalah dan teragak-agak padanya. Terimalah pandangan ini, walaupun orang ramai memberikan pandangan yang lain pada anda".

Moga hati terus bersih. Dosa sememangnya wujud, sebagaimana wujudnya ancaman berbahaya dalam kehidupan seharian kita. Namun, merupakan tugas kita untuk terus memastikan hati kita bersih supaya fitrah kita terus terjaga.

Seperti fitrah jasadiyah, memory lymphocyte - kita juga harus menjadikan 'kejatuhan' masa silam sebagai panduan masa hadapan. Malik bin Dinar berjaya setelah 'jatuh'. Mendapat tempat yang mulia di sisi Allah. Jatuh sekali bukan bererti jatuh selamanya. Tapi, kalau jatuh tak nak bangun-bangun?

Sempat saya menyoroti siri-siri temubual 'We The People'  di India melalui youtube.com. Ianya mengenai stereotype Islam di India, bersama ahli-ahli panel yang terkenal seperti Dr Zakir Naik dan Shah Rukh Khan. Kiranya dapat semua yang membaca menonton temubual tersebut, tertonjollah betapa kelirunya masyarakat mengenai Islam dan tuntutannya. Timbul terma menggelar diri 'moderate Muslim' yang mengaku tidak terlalu serius dalam mengamalkan Islam dan menjadi sederhana dalam mengamalkan Islam. Dikotomi 'Practicing Muslim' dan 'Non-practicing Muslim' sangat cantik diulas oleh Dr Zakir Naik. Moga kita semua termasuk dalam kategori 'practicing Muslim'.

Menjadi practicing Muslim, haruslah dimulakan dengan penyucian diri. Supaya fitrah terus suci dan kekal menjadi peringatan peribadi buat diri. Kisah Imam Syafi'e mencerahkan mengenai pentingnya kesucian hati dalam kehidupan seharian.

Imam Syafie pernah mengadu kepada gurunya Imam Waki'  iaitu dalam sebuah syair yang masyhur: Aku mengadu kepada guruku Waki' akan lemahnya hafalanku..Lalu guruku menasihatiku agar meninggalkan maksiat. Dia memberitahuku bahawa ilmu itu cahaya...dan cahaya Allah itu tidak akan masuk kepada ahli maksiat. [Sumber]


Arus dunia dan fitrah
Kita maklum dengan betapa kuatnya arus-arus yang melanda. Ianya bukan masalah secara dasarnya kerana kita perlu terus maju dan memacu ke hadapan agar dapat menyesuaikan diri. Dalam keselarian usaha menyesuaikan diri, prinsip-prinsip asas Islam haruslah dijaga dengan kuat. Ha.. Cakap memang senang. Buat itu yang susah.

Arus falsafah, arus budaya, arus akademik, malah arus hiburan. Arus teori konspirasi juga wajar dimasukkan. Maher Zain dan Sami Yusuf pun kena penangannya.

Semaju-maju kita pun, kepada asal-usul juga harus kita kembali. Kepada fitrah. Usah mencari solusi jauh-jauh. Al-Quran, hadith dan Sirah menjadi mutiara. Harus mula bertindak sebelum fitrah benar-benar tercemar.

God is “The one who created death and life to test you and to find out
which of you would behave best.” Death, life, experiences, ordeals, pain,
solitude, as well as joy and happiness, are so many lessons along the road
to reconciliation. Wounds, separations, tears, as well as smiles, “say” something:
if you live in unawareness, they touch you; with God, they guide
and lead you. Where to? Where to then? Toward Him, toward you, close
to Him in you. Such is the most beautiful and the most difficult lesson of
Islam: you find God only by rediscovering your own nature, and the essence
of your nature is the only thing that can free you from its appearance. . . .
“I” must set out to discover another “I”: such is the meaning of life. Ordeals
viii PREFACE
drive you not to your limits but to your origin, where “the need for Him”
has its root. Ordeals will lead you back, whether you like it or not, to what
you are, to the essence from which He has formed you. Exile will take you
home. - Western Muslim and the Future of Islam, Tariq Ramadhan

Amat menarik kata-kata yang beliau nukilkan. Perjalanan mencari diri akan membawa kita kembali ke dalam diri. Jauh di dalam. Moga kita sama-sama istiqamah.

Akhir kata

 إِنَّ الْأَبْرَارَ لَفِي نَعِيمٍ * وَإِنَّ الْفُجَّارَ لَفِي جَحِيمٍ

Sesungguhnya orang-orang yang banyak berbakti benar-benar berada dalam syurga yang penuh keni'matan, dan sesungguhnya orang-orang yang durhaka benar-benar berada dalam neraka [Al-infithaar : 13-14]

Wassalam.

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Footnote :

1. http://www.tokeikedai.net.my/alquran/

2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transplant_rejection

3. http://tattoo.about.com/cs/piercefaq/a/migration.htm

4. Western Muslim and the Future of Islam, page 11 - Tariq Ramadhan

5. http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=shah+rukh+khan+and+dr+zakr+naik&aq=f (Interview 'We The People')

Of Pokemon and Red Alert

Salam.

Bismillah.

Reminiscent. Lately, it happened quiet frequent. Maybe because I'm in holiday mood in a holiday. No programs, or any long-term-outside-of-my-house affair. Seems like I got a lot of time to do things that I want to do.

So, when I have the time to do things I want to do, another event happened. On my way, I stumbled upon with the worlds of my past. One by one. Ceh. Like Toy Story - of how relentless Woody and his friends try to do things to get back the attention of their owner. A grown up boy. Hee.So, I just thought, oh, it's ok, maybe the 'ghost's of my childhood worlds has come to me(?).

So, what are they? Who are they? Well, they have been here with me along my walk in this life. I guess it's normal. Some of them are still with me until today.

Pokemon and E-mail
I got decks of Pokemon trading cards. When my holiday started, I didn't even know where I had placed that cards. Hundreds of them. Until one day, Ayaz and Saif discovered the treasure. Not surprised, when we memorize something during our childhood, it stays firm. Just like me, my friends and Pokemon. Hundreds of them with different type and character, power and their forms of evolution, levels of evolving and many more specific details. I still remember them until now - with their songs. It's a happy world though. "Prepare for trouble. Make it double......" Team Rocket's.
I learned a lot of English vocabulary just by memorizing Pokemon's names.
Rapidash - rapid
Charmender - salamender
Charmeleon - cameleon
Articuno - arctic
and many more to be listed..

I still remember during Ramadhan few years back, NTV7 had a Pokemon series at 8.30 p.m. At that time, we were very happy when our dad worked in the night shift. My siblings and I will have our Isya' and tarawih prayer at home with maximum speed so that we won't miss our cartoon. So childish. I was still in the primary school that time.

I have watched all of their movies hitherto. And now, as a replacement for Tv, I let my brothers watch Pokemon in the computer. It's better I think, because Tv has too much aurat exposure.
Picture below is a Pokemon named Rayquaza. Sky Dragon.
 

Rayquaza. Its name was so cool, so I took the name for my e-mail. Still using the mail.

Red Alert and Nikola Tesla

This is a game. Which I guess still bring a 'nostalgic' value to most Malay gamer from my age. Perhaps, for today, it will be a bit boring game. As it isn't as challenging and 'cool' as today's game, but still it was a legendary game. This game had introduced my generations a new picture about wars and its vicinity. Or to me at least. I still remember, after I came back from Subuh prayer at mosque during Ramadhan, I sat for hours playing the campaign mode of this game. 

Last week, when I surfed the net - I found a surprising information. You know, in Red Alert, we got two sides. Allied and Soviet. On the soviet's side, we can find their main theme was Tesla. They got Tesla trooper, Tesla coil, and Tesla tank. Even Tesla walker.

[Source] Tesla Coil. Feared guard tower.

[Source] Tesla tank.

These two are the Soviet's identities - in the game. As I surfed, I found something about Tesla. At first, I thought, oh this must be another attempt to bring things in game into real life - but, as I schemed, it's real. And it's all about Tesla.

So, who's Tesla?

[Source] Nikola Tesla (1856 - 1943)

Click Here to read more. He's Nikola Tesla. "The genius who lit the world" - title of a book about him. If Einstein smashed this world with his theory of relativity, Tony Stark with his Iron Man suits, Stephen Hawking with his black hole breakthrough, and Rosmah with her Islamic Fashion Festival and First Lady Summit, Nikola Tesla stepped-up the voltage of technology with his alternating current electric power system.

"Tesla pointed out the inefficiency of Edison’s direct current electrical powerhouses  that have been build up and down the Atlantic seaboard. The secret, he felt, lay in the use of alternating current, because to him all energies were cyclic. Why not build generators that would send  electrical energy along distribution lines  first one way, than another, in multiple waves using the polyphase principle?" - Tesla Memorial Society of New York

"I know two great men and you are one of them; the other is this young man." said his former employer to Thomas Edison in Tesla's recommendation letter. Tesla worked his way from working with simple electrical engineering to improving Edison's machine. According to Wikipedia, he claimed he was supposed to receive a huge amount of money when he finished redesign the inefficient Edison's work. Yet, he didn't receive anything at all. He then resigned from Edison's company.

The International System of Units  unit measuring magnetic field B (also referred to as the magnetic flux density and magnetic induction), the tesla, was named in his honor (at the Conférence Générale des Poids et Mesures, Paris, 1960). - Wikipedia

Besides his contribution in electrical engineering, he was also claimed to be the original developer of radio, not Marconi which we heard of him as the father of radio. Years later Marconi's patents were deemed invalid, and the real hero appeared. Tesla introduced the concept of wireless energy transfer with his radio controlled robot-boat.

He contributed to the world. And there's a lot more to be known and discovered by the public. Although most of his contributions were not too known, he had a famous invention called Tesla coil. What is Tesla coil? Let the picture describes its coolness.

[Source] The original Tesla coil.

A perfect counter-attack for amaterasu.

Sediakan payung sebelum kilat. :)

Lastly, as most cool scientists would do, he had few 'last shot's for this world. In his late years, he had completed a ''dynamic theory of gravity'',  but it never came out. So did his famous 'death ray'.

Dynamic theory of gravity. (What is that? Uh.. I don't know. It never made it way to the publisher.. You guess?)
A nice quote from a brilliant man for another brilliant man. He said about Einstein's relativity theory.
"...[a] magnificent mathematical garb which fascinates, dazzles and makes people blind to the underlying errors. The theory is like a beggar clothed in purple whom ignorant people take for a king ... its exponents are brilliant men but they are metaphysicists rather than scientists .. "

He also stated
"I hold that space cannot be curved, for the simple reason that it can have no properties. It might as well be said that God has properties. He has not, but only attributes and these are of our own making. Of properties we can only speak when dealing with matter filling the space. To say that in the presence of large bodies space becomes curved is equivalent to stating that something can act upon nothing. I, for one, refuse to subscribe to such a view" - Wikipedia


'Death ray' or 'Peace ray'
For a worldly context, the terms aren't a bit contradicting, aren't they? Ok. So, what is this ray? Perhaps this polite title of pieces he wrote would explain better - "The Art of Projecting Concentrated Non-dispersive Energy through the Natural Media"

More details - a particle beam. Cool..

"[The nozzle would] send concentrated beams of particles through the free air, of such tremendous energy that they will bring down a fleet of 10,000 enemy airplanes at a distance of 200 miles from a defending nation's border and will cause armies to drop dead in their tracks.^{[88] -Wikipedia} 

The weapon also never made its way to this world. Until now people never know what had happened. Or, the public never know.

Ok. That's all for this time being. Just want to be thankful to Allah because I have parents that know the 'limit' of these kinds of things. I'm enjoying this kind of thing. Maybe I'm restricted to some thing, but that's how it works. We have limited freedom. Alhamdulillah - I'm growing up without having anything to regret with my childhood, or anyone to blame in this case :)

p/s 1 : Hunting for Starcraft.
p/s 2 : Got an email in FCR alumni YG - got a book to recommend. "A World without Islam". Interview

Ok. Salam.

Light and Life [Part 3]

Assalamu'alaikum

Bismillah.

*Starting from this section - the sharing is mostly derived from a program named Friendly Comparative Religion (Phase 1), a seminar "Does God Exist?" and reading of a book "The Elegant Universe" and also from few discussions and readings. Any misinformation or inaccuracy is highly appreciated to be corrected.

Insya Allah, in this part I will try to relate some of light's characteristics with Allah's attribute and how Quran is proven to be an unbeatable ancient book with a long line of continuous scientific accuracy. Not a single inaccuracy so far and will never be. We acknowledge that Allah is capable to bless some of His power to His creations - such as love of a mother, caring of a father, wisdom of a leader and many more. Starting from this section, I'll try to build a logical correlation that eventually will lead us to the fortification of our Iman. Insya Allah. As this knowledge had done this to me, I hope it will also do the same to you.

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Of Light and Its Curious Self-Introduction to the World

[Source] Hai!

Photons. These small packets of energy decorate electromagnetic waves. Various spectra. Before 17th century, most scientists thought light travels at any distance at no time at all. Before, it is the public view that light was emanated from our eyes. Like the laser ray of Cyclops of X-Men, or the Psybeam of Alakazam. Later, they thought light as a type of waves, and should be traveling in a medium. Thus, they postulated a medium called ether. See how light make itself known to the world. And it's just about its speed only.. Subhanallah.

Galileo Galilei -1667
Until 1667 Galileo succeeded in postulating with scientific proof the speed of light. Galileo was known for his brilliant scientific approach. His method was quite clear. He and his assistant used lamps. Can be covered and uncovered. With two lamps far from each other with calculated distance, Galileo uncovered the lamp on his side. When his assistant saw the light, he uncovered his lamp. By measuring the elapsed time and distance - in which speed is equal to distance traveled over time, he concluded that the light was 10 times faster than the sound at least. His conclusion: "If not instantaneous, it is extraordinarily rapid".

Ole Roemer - 1675
While observing Jupiter's moon, he realized that the moons' orbits appeared differently relative to the distance of Earth and Jupiter. If Earth was closer, the moons' orbits appeared to speed up, and vice versa. He thought, there was no way that the orbital velocity of the moons varied because the distance between Earth and Jupiter, the change must be because of the extra time taken by light - led him to induce a calculation including Jupiter's distance and accepted diameter of Earth that time to calculate the speed of light = 200,000 Km/sec.

James Bradley - 1728
This English physicist used stellar aberration to estimate the speed of light. How? Stellar aberration is the ratio of the speed that the earth orbits the sun to the speed of light. You see the light tonight -that point. Tomorrow - oopss already there, sort of. Change in apparent position of the stars due to the motion of Earth around the Sun. He knew the speed of Earth, he knew the angle of aberration - he calculated and this was what he got. 301,000 Km/s. Cool..

Hippolyte Louis Fizeau - 1849
I don't really understand his method. French. He used a rapidly rotating toothed wheel and a mirror 5 miles away. He shone a light between those teeth and measured the time the light reflected back in the tooth. With varying the speed of the wheel, he calculated the speed of light 313,000 Km/s.

Leon Foucault - 1862
French also, he used the same method as Fizeau, but he calculated more accurately. He included the difference of angle between the point where the light started to shine and the point it hit back. He got 299,796 Km/sec.

[Source] Who wins?

Today, the well-accepted speed of light is 299762.458 Km/sec. In the vacuum. So, what does Quran say about this? I mean. The speed of light - is a very important thing for us. For me, and human history I guess. Since we live, light is the first thing we see. And light had involved very deeply in human affairs spiritually, physically, psychologically, and biologically. Well, Alhamdulillah, my personal search went a bit well. Allah led me to some readings and discussions. Weee...

299762.485 Km/sec = c. That is the speed of light. There is something special about light. It's speed is constant, even relatively. For example - if I'm moving towards you 2 m/s, and you are stationary, you'll see that I'm moving 2 m/s towards you. And if I'm moving 4m/s but you move away from me 1m/s, you'll see me moving towards you 3m/s. But, light acts a little bit different. If you stay stationary, you'll have light moving to you with velocity c. If you move about 290000km/s, weirdly light will move relatively with the same c towards you. Suppose to be normal, light should appear to move around 1000km/sec towards you, just as the first example of me and you, but that is light. It is unique and special.

“The velocity c of light in vacuum is the same in all inertial frames of reference in all directions and depend neither on the velocity of the source nor on the velocity of the observer” Second Postulate of Special Relativity Theory, Einstein

Known, light is the fastest moving thing in this world, so far. But, there are some info which may interest you.
1. There is one more theoretical particle, known as tachyon which has the ability to move through warped dimension of space and time. Like star wars - the 'jump'. It moves faster than light, theoretically still.
2. In the early universe, the explosion and expansion also move faster than light.
3. Light only born around 400,000 years after the Big Bang. Nice shot heh?

So [Allah] decreed them as seven heavens (one above the other) in two days and revealed to each heaven its orders. And We [Allah] adorned the lowest heaven with lights, and protection. Such is the decree of the Exalted; the Knowledgeable. Quran, 41: 12

Light has been given the privilege to decorate our sky..  :)

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I have got some ideas lately. Just now, I'm reading, alone. Suddenly Jeng Jeng Jeng, I don't know if it was my granny's or foreign guests from Batu Caves. Haha. So, I got the ideas, to smooth my opinion in this matter. What matter? You know, I have read "The Lost Symbol" written by Dan Brown. I just think that perhaps the one he described in the book as soul, isn't soul at all. Quran said that soul is a matter of Allah, and I take it seriously. Days after I read the book, weeks though, I think and try to have other alternatives instead of believing that they actually managed to weigh a soul. There are so many mysteries in this world, why Allah chose soul as his affair? There must be some reasons. You can't weigh soul. Perhaps I deliberately close my eyes to science, as some people would call, but my faith in Quran is stronger. I've seen science facts been distorted. But, I'm not saying that this fact has been distorted. It's just, maybe the thing they weighed to the extent of using almost 200 hundreds ill-to-death persons isn't soul. I think it's something else. What is it?

[Source]

And whosoever turns away blindly from the remembrance of the Most Gracious (Allâh) (i.e. this Qur'ân and worship of Allâh), We appoint for him Shaitân (Satan devil) to be a Qarîn (an intimate companion) to him. Quran, 43:36

Every individual among the sons of Adam has a jinn who has been appointed to be his constant companion (qarin). Ibn Mas`ud reports that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) says: “The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) says: ‘There is not one of you who does not have a jinn appointed to be his constant companion.’ They said, ‘And you too, O Messenger of Allah?’ He said, ‘Me too, but Allah has helped me and he has submitted, so that he only helps me to do good.’” (Reported by Muslim) Source

So, what do you say? Haha.. Let us leave the soul matter to Allah, not to 'touch' anything. By the way, Dan Brown has been a bit careless lately. With the Apotheosis concept, and the pluralism of Freemasonry brotherhood, better be more careful. It sounds pretty obvious though. With some stress in noetic science. Hm. Wallahu A'lam. Anyone who has another alternative, tell me. Still, I don't want to believe the thing they weighed was the soul, I would rather believe it was qarin, a Djinn. Weight losses after the subjects died, were weight of Qarin leaving the bodies. I would like to believe that. No way I'm going to believe they actually manage to weigh a soul. Although this thing filled my mind few weeks. Heh. After all, it is just my opinion only.

Riki Langkawi..

Salam.
Ini gambar sedikit sebanyak ana dan Omar ke Langkawi untuk riki tempat Explorace. Bersama Ustaz Syukri, Cg Najmah dan Cg Sapinah. Alhamdulillah, seronok perjalanan walau penat..

Dalam feri, mengantuk. Langsung tak sedar cerita Predators yang ditayangkan.

Sebelum berlabuh, keluar kejap. Satu hari nanti, rasa nak pergi scuba diving. Jom.

De Baron Resort, cantik betul. Anak cg Sapinah sampai terlanggar cermin belakang tu, jernih sangat.

Perbincangan di Lembah Beringin dengan geng belia..

Ini kayak. Rindu kayak.. Batch dulu buat rakit, sekarang, akan berkayak 2km. Let see what you got.

Rusa ke kancil? Rusa la..

Kalau di KL, ikan bakar mahal. Sini, ha, free.. Ana dan Omar, bantai berekor2 ikan.. sedap sangat.

Siapa ada kolam kat rumah sila berlatih.. Kita tangkap keli nanti. P/s : tu bukan keli ye..sekadar hiasan

Jom tunggang..

Ini amat......... Tahu tak Batang Berjuntai dah tukar nama jadi Bintang Bestari tak silap.

Tunjukkanlah kami ke jalan yang lurus..

Ada kawan iras muka kambing ni..

Ha.. makanan kambing pun kene buat nanti.

Trio attack..haha.

Anak kambing baru lahir.. Bertuah dapat tengok kambing bersalin.

Alhamdulillah. OK. Untuk tingkatan lima, selamat berSPM. Perlumbaan yang menyeronokkan dan memenatkan menunggu anda di hujung tahun ini. Have fun!

Amirul Arif punya post pasal Explorace kami.. Click untuk cerita best! haha.. Pinjam ye mirol..  :) Ko tak free ke tarikh tu? 21-25 Dis

Dialog Si Tunas

Salam.

Dalam menikmati cuti-cuti yang datang berkunjung di hujung tahun, saya berkesempatan melakukan beberapa perkara yang tersekat masa tempoh belajar. Saya berpeluang memuaskan nafsu menonton Discovery terutama yang bertemakan "Universe" dan adik-beradiknya. Menjadi bibik sepenuh masa tanpa gaji, menjadi driver, menjadi tutor tak berbayar kepada adik-adik terutama yang sedang mendepani gelora SPM (oh.. for them, anything I would give..) hehehe, menjadi teman berbual dengan si kecil-kecil sudah tentu.

Apa yang saya baru hadapi sekarang, ke'tersekat'an untuk memahamkan adik-adik saya mengenai satu hakikat. Menunjukkan saya sendiri kurang faham, mungkin. Apabila mereka bertanyakan tentang Allah - hakikatNya, perbuatanNya, 'superpower' dan 'kuasa'Nya, makhlukNya, rahmahNya, dan sebagainya. Kadang-kadang terkejut, mengapa saya tidak pernah terfikirkan mengenai perkara sebegini? I mean, it's not as easy as what I thought. Kita tahu mengenai rahmah Allah dan keampunanNya lebih luas daripada kemurkaanNya. Kita tahu Allah akan mengampunkan kita walaupun sebesar gunung dosa yang kita pikul. Kita tahu dan kenal Allah, dari Al-Quran dan Hadith, penciptaan dan sains, halaqah-halaqah dan daurah, tarbiah si ibu dan bapa, guru-guru dan pembacaan. Cukup untuk kita menitiskan air mata hanya dengan mengenangkan betapa baiknya Allah pada kita. Namun, apabila tiba masa untuk kita menerangkan pada yang lebih kecil, tersekat.. Tanda ketidakprihatinan sendiri. Mungkin. Mungkin kerana terlalu ingin si kecil itu faham tentang siapa itu Allah.

Apabila ditanya, harus dilayan. Pada saya, minda si kecil tidak harus ditempelak, kelak minda akan membentuk dirinya sendiri tanpa dibantu dan dipandu. Rosak. Minda mereka harus dilayan dan dirai penuh-penuh. Mereka suci dan murni. Persepsi mereka ialah persepsi fitrah. Menangis apabila lapar, diam apabila tenang dan gembira. Sekiranya dahulu manusia umur mereka akan meminta gula-gula, bermain lecak, membaling batu terhadap ibu-ibu ayam sehingga dikejar dan menangis (aku lah tu..ehehe), memanjat pokok jambu dan membuat style kelawar pada dahan yang agak tinggi jatuh konpem mati dan naik basikal. Namun, kini sudah lain. Kini mereka sudah pandai menginginkan bateri baru untuk dipasang pada kipas mainan, belajar mengenai basikal, mereka-reka teori mengarut seperti memasang kipas pada kereta Hotwheel, meminta untuk menonton Hagemaru dan Geng Bas Sekolah, dan sebagainya. Maksud saya, zaman saya dan zaman mereka sudah cukup berbeza.

Contohnya, Ayaz sekarang bertadika di Tadika Amal. Tadika saya dahulu. Saya masih berjumpa dan berborak dengan guru-guru tadika dia, iaitu guru-guru saya juga kiranya saya terlewat menghantar Ayaz untuk vannya. Semasa kali pertama di rumah selepas tamat peperiksaan di DQ pertengahan tahun ini, ketika waktu makan malam saya dikejutkan oleh perbuatan Ayaz. Saya amat faham, kanak-kanak tadika akan membaca doa makan sebelum makan. Saya juga begitu dahulu. Tapi, TAPI! Hanya bahasa Arab. Namun Ayaz, dia membaca doa makan dalam bahasa Arab, Inggeris dan Melayu. Hampir mendapat 'cardiac arrest' (betul ke? Minat cerita CSI haha..). Walaupun pada permulaanya berasa agak seram tiba-tiba dengar bahasa yang amat asing serta dicampur mengantuk dan imaginasi tak terkawal nampak Ayaz seperti menyeru makhluk asing dengan mengangkat tangan penuh khusyuk - namun Alhamdulillah di akhir baru dengar "Jemput makan mama, jemput makan baba, jemput makan Abang Asif........... long list to go for another 5 siblings". Kemudian baru ingat itu bahasa Inggeris dan Arab yang di'pronounce' secara pelat. Nampak perbezaan? Dulu satu bahasa, sekarang tiga bahasa.

Left4Dead2. Thrilling game.

Jika dahulu permainan komputer mudah sahaja; Pacman, Doom, Aladdin, semuanya comel-comel. DoTA pun comel lagi. Tapi sekarang, balik-balik tengok dia main Left4Dead2. What the!? Lepas hide game itu (ni kerja abang-abang la ni cuai sangat) dia teruskan dengan Plant vs Zombies. (Still with the zombies =.=). Tak nak pengaruh 'violence' ada dalam diri dia. Biar dia pilih 'value' apa yang dia mahu besar nanti. Alhamdulillah. Dalam masa berbual dengan dia, menonton TV, mengaji Anakku, dan main game - dapat lihat potensi kanak-kanak zaman sekarang. Mereka begitu cepat belajar. Budaya banyak bertanya mereka tidak harus dibunuh dan dicacatkan. Saya melihat ramai kanak-kanak pada hari ini diperlakukan sebegitu. Budak-budak mahu bertanya sedikit, "Diam! Jangan menyibuk orang tua tengah berbual". Bukan tak mahu hormat, tapi saya rasa orang-orang dewasa boleh faham kalau si bapa melayan kerenah si anak. Jikalau tak tahu, tunjukkan sedikit usaha kita ingin membantunya. Sedikit usaha yang kita akan melakukan sedikit 'research' dan tolong carikan jawapan. Biar dilihat generasi dewasa mereka generasi yang tidak berputus asa sekiranya lompong ilmu-ilmu mereka. Jika dirasakan soalan itu melampau, ubah cara baik.. Soalan mereka ialah pencarian si tunas dan mencari air dan cahaya matahari, jangan halang perjalanan itu dengan segumpal awan kebodohan dan batuan keegoan. Bantu mereka membesar, sihat dari segi jasmani dan minda. Siapa tahu kitalah si matahari yang si tunas cari? Atau si air yang tunas dahagakan? Jawapan kita menentukan siapa kita.

The sunflower powers up the whole infantry to fight the evil side. Will we be their sunflowers?

"Allah kat mane? Kenapa kita tak boleh nampak Allah?"
"Allah lawan raksaksa siapa menang?" (Pengaruh Ultraman Cosmos. Masa ada movie masa raya haritu Ultraman Seven Brothers, memang masa tu ha keluar la belang abang-abang main cop-cop Ultraman... memang *pendulum bowl betul!)
"Allah kuat tak?"
"Allah sayang Ayaz tak?"
Macam-macam lagi. Pada hemat saya, jawapan haruslah berhikmah. Jangan bila dengar soalan macam itu, terus "Haish! Apa tanya soalan macam ni?" Bukan itu caranya. Pada pendapat saya saja. Harus terap persepsi awal dalam diri dia - hormat ibubapa dan orang lain Allah suka, selalu belajar Allah sayang, jangan tengok perempuan tak tutup aurat, dan macam-macam lagi. These days, we are battling our own wars, and we are the battlefield.. (Tak ada kaitan dengan game Battefield ye.. COD is better.. ;p)

Pada umur mereka, harus kita sebagai yang lebih dewasa menerapkan persepsi yang baik dan benar. Ikat pada persepsi yang diajar sebab-sebab dan rasional mengapa perspepsi sebegitu dibina. Ajar mereka berfikir secara kritis dan sistematik. Kita yang lebih dewasa, semestinya lebih banyak pengalaman. Didik dengan baik, bukan mengarah secara membuta tuli. Jika dilarang, larang dengan rasional dan sebab.

Masa ini masa yang sesuai. Untuk kita terap nilai yang kita rasa diri kita terlepas pandang masa muda pada mereka. Hormat orang tua, jaga mulut dan mata, rajin membaca, hadirkan rasa bertuhan dalam hidup, biar Allah itu jadi macam kawan. Rasa hormat pada agama. Pandang matlamat dengan objektif, cara mencapainya dengan subjektif. Saya rasa lebih molek dan sesuai jika Allah dihadirkan dalam hidup kita sebagai tuhan yang friendly, loving, keeping and even hiding secrets, forgiving, and supporting. Rather stern and strinct, like to punish and burn, unforgiving and other 'strong' and 'hard' attributes. Kita perlu hadirkan dua-dua, cuma hanya pada pendapat saya, lebih elok dihadirkan yang lebih positif. Hanya pendapat.

Kelak, bila mereka dewasa, merekalah yang akan menumbangkan idealisme yang mengarut. Jelas pemikiran dan fikrah. Memanah hujah-hujah yang mengelirukan. Digilap kembali konsep-konsep asli dalam agama dengan gilapan pembaharuan. Bukan disalut dengan liberalisme. Tidak bertakhta di hati persamaan agama. Percaya pada benarnya Islam. Mengasingkan kekotoran yang dicanangkan pihak penguasa. Islamic Fashion Festival? Pendapat Dr Maza. Heh. Serius jelas penghinaan terhadap Islam. Ya Allah.. I really hope to live to see Islam shines purely in my country :) And it's up to us, to change that. And it's our duty to make sure the supply continues.. Erk? Adik-adik, bukan anak. Belum lagi. Teruskan menjadi contoh kepada adik-adik dan keluarga. Allah dah janji dalam Quran satu hari nanti kita akan disatukan. :)

Well, that's all. Got to go. Huha... Masih berebut setiap malam dengan Ayaz. Dia nak tengok Ceria entah Hagemaru ke Fukuchan, I want to watch Top Chef! Haha.. My dad said, "karang tengok-tengok abang Asif masuk culinary Amru jadi physicist pulak.." Haha. Tak ada lah sampai macam itu. Minat je...

* Pendulum Bowl = Mangkuk Hayun. ==.==