Mencanai service quality ...

Assalamualaikum wbt ...

yes yes ... hari ni hari menyambut ulangtahun kita merdeka ...

apa pun pagi pagi lapar juga ... teringin keluar je ambil breakfast kat luar ... sempena hari merdeka lah tu ... so i said let's go makan roti canai kat kedai tu ...

kedai tu actually warung tepi jalan tu je ... sempena merdeka ni dengan rasa patriotik yang membara i said kita makan kedai orang kita tu je lah ... orang kita maksudnya macam saya lah ... suami tak langsunglah orang kita hehe ...

jalan kaki je tak jauh ... okay sampai warung tengok orang penuh ... nampaknya memang merdeka suri suri pagi ni ... kami carilah tempat jauh dari yang lain sebab dah penuh ... kami tumpang duduk warung sebelah yang tak buka hari ni ... suami pergi order roti canai but belum dia buka mulut , the owner cum tbr - tukang buat roti - siap cakap awal awal - hari ni orang ramai tak dapat garing - suami suka roti canainya garing sikit ... garing kuning on slower flame ... but tbr nak cepat hari ni so tak boleh layan lah garing garing ni ... okay suami kata ... duduk tunggu ... teh kurang manis sampai satu je - we share ... cawan teh mamak style tu kan besar and we are not into teh bersusu manis ni very much ... roti canai sampai ... nak makan belek tengok tepi tepi tu maaaaasih tepung uli mentah ... kan kalau tak ditebar sungguh sungguh the outer part of the roti canai tu kan tebal jadinya ... bila goreng pula on high heat the outer layer in the centre dah kuning ... separuh masak macam tu ... but kat hujung hujung nya tepung mentah ...

saya ni jaaaaaaarang keluar breakfast kat situ ... once a year kut ... last year tak ingat merdeka day juga ke i am not sure ... anyway setiap sunday suami beli roti canai kat dia tu ...and we would goreng semula di rumah to make it a bit garing ...

but pagi ni ... bukan tak garing but tepung mentah ... so i said please let me show this to him and ask him to goreng semula ... suami said no no no ... roti canai man tu nampak macam angry tadi ... tak tau apa kena hari ni ... and he didn't want to make it worse ...

don't worry i will cakap elok elok- si wanita patriotik satumalaysia ni insisted ... no no no leave it he said ... okay saya mengalah ... tak boleh bantah lah kannn ... kenapa saya pula yang sibuk ni ... sebab suami tu tak orang kita dan dia dah selalu kena hehe ... yang sebenarnya he also menahan marah because of the tbr initial interaction tu tadi ... because he said every week i come here to buy and today he ramai orang and he has gone rude ...

makan je lah kami outer layer mana yang boleh makan ... suami order 3 keping ... but the value of what we had was slightly less than a keping ... at least teh okay alhamduLillah ...

sudah - kami bangkit nak bayar - suami kata come let's go to that mamak shop ... haa tak cukup ye  i gelak ... okay i tunggu you bawa kereta ... haha so much for being patriotic and nak support orang kita ...

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kedai ni kedai mamak baru along seremban kuala pilah road tu ... pun ramai famili makan roti canai kat luar hari ni ... so hoping for the best sebab suami dah biasa dengan mereka ... order lagi 2 keping roti canai garing teh satu ... macam dah over lah pula ... 

roti canai sampai ... tengok samaaaaa juga kuning sikit putih lebih but at least tak ada tepung mentah ... colek colek sikit then suami minta garingkan sikit ... pelayan tak ada masalah elok je melayan and hantar semula kepada tukang buat roti ... bila sampai semula rupanya dia buat baru dan garingnya partially hitam hangus ...

apa amerika kata pasal syria crossing the "red line" tu?  ha macam tu lah suami haha ... dia panggil pelayan tu and  asked him what's this? saya pula nak sejuk kan sikit keadaan cakap pada pelayan tu sambil gelak - you bawa ni pada tukang buat roti tu minta dia makan ni ... sambil tunjuk yang hangus hangus hitam ... pelayan kata tak apa tak payah bayar ... no i said bukan pasal tak payah bayar kami nak makan ... tolong kira suami cakap ... sementara menghabiskan teh kami perhati supervisor kedai pergi kat tukang buat roti ... dari jauh nampak tukang buat roti ketepi and supervisor mencanai dan menebar roti ... suami cakap tengok dia ajar tukang buat roti tu how to do it properly ... kalau kita tak cakap they think they are okay suami said ... i said ye lah tengok semua plate customer lain semua licin je ... kita je yang fussy agaknya ... bila kita komen dia lagi buat tak elok ...

but the supervisor tu sudah faham adab ... 

bila terima maklumbalas dia perbaiki dan perelokkan bukan ditambahburukkan ...

 itulah sebenarnya orang yang sudah merdeka ... bukan sahaja tahu apa yang baik tetapi dapat melaksanakan yang baik baik ...

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 begitulah ...
two similar incidents but two different endings ... orang kita yang masih juga belum merdeka dari belenggu ketidakcelikan kualiti  ... dan bukan orang kita yang dah pandai terima maklumbalas dengan baik dan tidak malu menambaikbaik proses kerja mereka ...

roti canai hangus ... image source ... here

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yes ...
this is not about roti canai mentah dan hangus ... this is about kita yang masih kurang semangat mencanai perkhidmatan berkualiti ... despite laungan kemerdekaan ...

Dekat dekat ...

Assalamualaikum wbt ...

Surah Al-Kahfi and Translation

SadaqaLlahul 'Azim

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bila orang orang tua masuk sekolah semula ... macam macam hal yang buat lawak ... tetapi lawak orang tua ni is after the fact ... 

dalam group kami tu ada one principal ... he would always take the lead when we had to discuss something ... bila nak mula he would always start with these words ... 

... dekat dekat ...dekat dekat ...

always without fail he would start like that ...

in the group ada puan puan yang muda yang dah ada anak bujang dan dara ... dan puan puan yang lebih muda hehe ... sounds better than muda dan lebih tua kan ...

anyway ada sahabat yang muda ni tak suka betul dengan "dekat dekat ... dekat dekat" cikgu tu ... tension betul dia ... saya pun tak suka juga tetapi tak lah tension sebab buat tak dengar je bila dia suruh dekat dekat tu ... one day sahabat ni tak tahan sangat tak sukanya she cakap to another younger male member in the group "tolong cakap pada cikgu tu jangan suruh kami dekat dekat ... malu tau tak ... kami perempuan ... dia cakaplah kami boleh dengar ... suruh dekat dekat buat apa ..." she lepas geram ... the younger guy and us all gelak tengok sahabat tu marah ...

balik rumah i narrated the incident to suami who knew him and tanya suami why he was like that ... suami tak faham juga so he said he shouldn't have done that ...

then selepas senyap sebentar ... rupanya suami bersoal jawab dalam mindanya ... and tetiba dia cakap ... okay now i got it ... it is a habit ... dalam jemaah masa ta'alim it is usual for the leader to say to others "dekat dekat" bila nak mula ta'alim ...

ohhh okay barulah faham ... that principal is a Jamaat Tablighi person ...

... itu lah kan bila tak tahu "Mengapa" kita selalu tension dengan "Apa"...

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yang ini pula silaaa jauh jauh ... jangan ikut dekat dekat ye ...

image source ... self ... 

jalan senawang-paroi ... macam mana boleh lori balak ni ...

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hari ni bila tengok news macam ni ... minda laju bersoal jawab ... mengapa jadi begini ...

http://www.sinarharian.com.my/pesalah-minta-tambah-sebatan-1.196816

Give it time ...

Assalamualaikum wbt ...

yes ... give it time ... macam buah kelepong kata orang negeri sembilan ... dah masak dia timbul sendiri ... tak payah nak kacau kacau ...

a week or so ago ... i met someone who was out of my experience ... she was insisting on something and in the process i "kena" left and right ... butting into the tirade was not an option as she bombarded me with her collections of english cliche and idioms ... i kept my blood iced ... menikus je ... because i have learned to listen and one must listen well in order to mitigate the banjir of words both pleasant and unpleasant ... mostly in English ...

when she was done ... perlahan perlahan saya cakap ... what do you do actually ... 

and she jawab maaaacam puan yang sorang tu sini ... "i tak kerja ... menghabiskan duit laki je" ... haha

okay despite the earlier harshness ... she had good sense of humour ... 

you're a very lucky girl ... i responded ...

and feeling warmer i took a guess ... you must be a lawyer ...

ha ... do i look like one ... she was surprised ...

well you talked like one ... i said (based upon my experience with loyar buruk lah not real loyar hehe ...)

she said no i tak kerja ...

then you must be running your own business ... i pressed on ...

so ... cakap cakap cakap lagi ... finally ... dah habis conversation ... sambil saying goodbyes saya tanya lagi ... so what do you do actually ...

i am an undertaker ... mengurus jenazah ... she finally surprised me ...

ha ... that's very unique ... kenapa susah sangat nak cakap dari tadi ... i can inform others kalau ada keperluan ... mana you belajar ... i asked ...

 majlis agama Islam negeri ... she jawab ...

saying goodbye for real now ... i said bagi nombor and nama untuk contact kalau perlu ...

my name is very very unique itu sebab susah nak cakap ni ...

how unique can it be ... macam angelina jolie ke ... i said because she looked like an arab pun ada and punjabi pun ada with attire macam orang putih  ...

now real goodbye ... macam kuih manis sedap sangat kuih kelepong tu bila dah masak dia timbul ...

so finally our undertaker has a name and nombor ... nama memang sungguh lain dari yang lain ...

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this encounter stucked in my mind for awhile ... sampai menggugle gugle ... pengurusan jenazah ... 

sebab kalau di kampung, atau kalau berkariah orang kita sama sama menguruskan jenazah ... it is not a business it is fardu kifayah or so my ignorant mind bersoal jawab ... minda saya ni suka bersoal jawab ... banyak soal my adik said hehe ...

then teringat pula that this may be a necessity untuk mereka yang berada di negara bukan islam ...

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tetiba hari ini ... terbaca pula ini ... 

http://www.sinarharian.com.my/urus-jenazah-guna-my-kifayah-1.196485

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many things ... given sufficient time ... banyak persoalan di minda akan terjawab dengan sendirinya ...

image source ... here

Harta gono gini ... harta banjir ...

Assalamualaikum wbt ...

wah sweet nye ... saya menambah perbendaharaan kata hari ini ... alhamduLillah ...

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online paper cerita ibu menangisi anak yang meninggal hasil abuse sendiri ... menangis juga yang membaca melihat seseorang yang masih belas memeluk ibu itu dengan simpati ...

then a report about seorang isteri di negara yang penuh kasih sayang ini  yang membuat tuntutan kepada bekas suami ...  rupanya hal yang sama menjadi bual bicara saudara saudara seberang ... mengenai isteri menuntut "harta gono gini"

dan seseorang pula  berkata ...

"wuihhh ... tajir amattt"

saya yang tak faham maksud mereka maka teruslah ... apa lagi ... menggugle ...

ini lah hasilnya ... 

harta gono gini ... maksud sini

tajir ... maksud sini

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inilah harta gono gini kami ... image source ... here

 

harta banjir dalam tabung buluh hehe ... image source ... here

 creative tabung buluh ... sume boleh jadi punca rezeki kan ...

image source ... here

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grand news here ... better late than never ... yes di negeri sembilan ... !

al-azhar-university-to-open-in-malaysia

Al-Azhar University, Cairo, Egypt, 988 ...
image source ... the origin of universities ... here

Tetapkan dulu ... satu hala satu tujuan ...

Assalamualaikum wbt ...

image source ... self

jaraaang sekali saya nak ambil ambil picture di public area ni ... tetapi perkara ni selalu sangat berlaku macam tak apa apa je for some ...

masuk surau awam yang ini saya tengok balik balik hal ni ... i said to myself this is  too much ... saya minta maaf ambil juga gambar to illustrate the problem ...

bukan ke menghala kiblat tu salah satu perkara yang perlu kita pastikan sebelum mula solat ...

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ada sebabnya why this happened ... 

nampak carpet biru tu ... perhatikan garisan yang biru muda ... so originally the kiblat direction was perpendicular to the line ... 

then after the Majlis Agama checked dan perbetulkan ... kiblat direction adalah seperti arah sajadah warna merah tu ... 

arah kiblat yang diperbetulkan tu ada jelas diletakkan di ceiling oleh Majlis Agama Negeri ... pandang je lah ke atas ...

kalau masuk hotel mana mana tu kenapa pandai kita cari arah kiblat dulu dongak sana dongak sini ... selalunya kat negara yang faham tentang keperluan ini ada je arah kiblat ...

but kat surau awam ni jemaah take too much for granted ... 

kadang kadang macam mana sajadah tu terletak selamba je orang tu solat ikut arah tu ... 

saya lihat sorang dan lepas dia solat saya bagi salam kat dia elok elok ajak dia dongak ke atas tunjuk tanda arah kiblat ... 

laaa katanya tergamam and terus solat semula ... :)

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mungkin cara carpet asal tu di pasangkan yang membuat most jemaah confused but bila dah terang terang sorang solat arah sini sorang lagi arah situ apa hal pula ...

so please ... apa hal pun tetapkan dulu ... halatuju kita ye :)

image source ... here

Pucuk tua pucuk muda ...

Assalamualaikum wbt ...

tengahari keluar beli makan ... rasa nak makan gulai ikan hari ni ... alhamduliLLah ada ... so saya ambil ikan tenggiri masak kuning dengan pucuk ubi ...

nampak pula ayam kampong masak kuning dengan kentang ... tambah beli yang tidak dirancang sebab suami suka ayam kampong ... simpan untuk malam ...

customer sebelah minta juga 5 ketul gulai ikan tenggiri pucuk ubi tadi ... toke kira rm21 katanya ... rm 21? tanya customer ... wajah nya macam tak percaya ... toke kira semula ... 3ketul rm3 satu, 2 ketul rm4.00 satu ... lain bahagian tu ... customer pun bayar ...

mmm kalau untuk sefamili memang macam rasa patut masak sendiri kan ... but mungkin isteri ada hal so belikan untuk sesiapa yang ada kat rumah agaknya ... tambah lauk ...

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kalau kat kampung emak tanam pokok ubi ... cucuk cucuk je batang ubi tu tepi tepi tebing ... nak pucuknya ... bukan isinya

so kalau nak masak buat gulai petik pucuk pucuk muda yang very light green tu je ... hijau je sikit dengan batang merah dah tualah daun tu ... tak guna buat gulai dah ...

but ... luar dari kampong tak ada konsep pucuk muda pucuk tua ... asalkan nampak macam pucuk ubi boleh lah tu ...

thus ... i had my lunch gulai ikan tenggiri dengan pucuk ubi hari ni ... and pucuk ubi tu mmm keras kalau bagi kambing pun mungkin kambing tak sudi ... tak banyak choice kat pasar tu agaknya ...

begitulah ...

Manihot esculenta ... pokok ubi kayu ...

 image source ... here

and take a look at this site ... 

a very delicious way of preparing ubi kayu ...

source ... here

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Learning resources for anak anak ... more here

Epic fun toy ...

Assalamualaikum wbt ...

another epic bike ... another accident ...

more here ...

http://www.thestar.com.my/News/Nation/2013/08/25/Datuk-killed-accident-genting.aspx

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hanya pencinta memahami apa yang dicinta ...

and i like how it looks ... but that's all ... setiap kali nampak these bikes on the road mencelah situ sini kadang kadang i can only make doa for them ... selamat mudahan selamat ...

curious ... maka seperti biasa nya menggugle lah saya ... this particular superbike ... a Kawasaki GRT1400

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so here is the epic fun toy ... i am using the words of the biker in the video ...

 image source ... here

watch the ride ... here

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apa apa pun kalau dah cinta tak boleh nak larang ... but hati hati and banyak banyak doa when on the road ... both yang menunggang tu dan juga bagi yang memerhatikan ...

and ...
jaga adab ye jaga adab ... adab orang yang berseronok jangan buat orang marah ... adab orang yang marah bawa bersabar dan doakan mereka Allah SWT bagi hidayah ...

our own brother is a bike lover ... 

yang murah je dulu because that's all he can afford ... :)

Anak anak ...

Assalamualaikum wbt ...

we used to run an English medium kindergarten ... we had two branches ... due to various commitments we retired ourselves from this activity ...

many things i have learned from the children ... and managing a small team of human resource

but the children were awesome ... let me share some stories ...

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Farhan ... the caring ... 5 years old (3 years with us since 4)

he was second in a family of boys ... his older brother (6) was also with us ... 

something happened a day earlier in the kindergarten and i had a small cut on my lips ... quite obvious but healing and not too bad ...

the next day i visited the children again ... and while sitting and talking with the children Farhan came to me and touched my face ... Puan* sakit lagi ke ni he asked with such concern on his face that it was etched in my memory ... and thus my first story ...

suami wears white shirt most of the time ... shades of light yellow or blue sometimes ... but white 90% of the time ... 

so whenever he visited the kindergartens ... he would be in white ... 

one day this same Farhan came to him who was sitting on the floor, pegang pegang his shirt and dengan penuh kesiannya bertanya ...

dr ... dr ... dr tak ada baju lain ye ...

oh Farhan ... we love you very much ...

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Najibah ... 5 years old (2 years with us, 5 and 6)

she was the daughter of a teacher ... and the youngest in the family ... she was a fast learner and somehow could not tolerate the others too much ... because from her perspective they were lambat ... so she did not kawan with the children much ... only with the teacher ... she talked easily with the teachers ... like she was an adult herself ...

she understood quickly the teacher's instruction and could do things independently and quickly and could assist the teacher and other children when she wanted to ... a thinking girl, she was best at being the class manager ...

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Ali ... on the less side of 4 years old (3 years with us, 4, 5 & 6)

when we moved to Shah Alam, we left the management and running of the kindergartens to the teachers ... we did not have much time for the children ... but once in a while we would visit ... we sat and talked with the children ... 

part of our training ... teachers are to print names of the children on the colouring worksheets for the younger children who had not learned to write yet ...  

and that day somehow Ali's was not there ... a boy Nabil was absent ... so i said to the teacher to give him Nabil's worksheet instead so that he could start his activity ...

we gave Ali the worksheet ... and one look he said  ... 

tak ndak ... tak ndak ni ... ni bukan Ali punya he cried ... teacher jawab ni Ali punya ... 

membohong sikit thinking that anak tu belum pandai baca ...

tak ... bukan ... ini bukan Ali punya ... nama Ali pendek ... ini panjang ... he cried lagi ...

my goodness! ... i learned a major lesson that day ... 

never take short cut with children ...

they have their own methods of assessing and understanding ...

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... cukup ye ... 

tiga antara ramai anak-anak from whom we have learned so much ...

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* this was part of the children's training ... 

they addressed me as Puan, and Suami as Dr to give them confidence to interact with adults of the real world ... beyond home and school ...

Cute girl, mouse and gorilla ...

Assalamualaikum wbt ...

i have three favourite t-shirts for home ... with three different captions - printed loud across the chest ...

one blood red shirt says ... SUPER CUTE GIRL with a smiley

one pink shirt says ... GORILLA  ... original in no zent (back)

one white shirt says ... MOUSE ... forget me no (back)

kan senang je kalau ambil picture je kan ... uhhh dah lusuh dah ... namanya pun favourite ... basuh pakai basuh pakai hehe ...

... neither am i a girl (maksudnya i am a lady lah now and super cute yes haha jangan percaya) nor a mouse and definitely not a gorilla ... but those captions more or less sum up my real self ...

mostly calm and sweet ... sometimes macam tikus mondok je diam buat bodoh ... and very very rarely macam gorilla  kena cucuk ...

dan bila dia (tak mau terima kenyataan maka saya jadi dia) transform jadi gorilla ... baik pergi jauh jauh atau diam je jangan balas jangan inject pula lagi ...

i am only human kan ... and so is everybody ... 

dalam urusan saya hari-hari macam macam yang unik saya temui ... yang saya sikit pun tak terfikir ... i listen to them and all sorts of real life scenarios unfold ... 

so i have learned not to be too quick to sum up a judgement ... 

because the root i cannot see ... the many WHYs that lead to the WHAT ... 

some may be obvious ... some may not ...

and so please allow me to share this then ... my dad was not an angry man ... son says ...

more here

... sometimes the rope snaps ... 

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while searching for gorilla images i found this ... gorilla glass? am i out of date or what ...
more here ...

Bila orang marah ...

Assalamualaikum wbt ...

yes ... bila orang marah kita cari jalan to calm him or her down ...

tetapi kalau tak pandai macam mana nak tenangkan orang tu ... kita diam je lah ... jangan lah pula kita mencurah minyak ke api ...

kita mungkin menganggap that has nothing to do with me ... but here it is the tale of a stressed out driver ...

more here ... Genting crash

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kehidupan seseorang kita tak tahu ... apa masalahnya ... kenapa dia stress sangat ... life is so very demanding sekarang ... expenses tinggi ... income tak seberapa ... 

seperti halnya ... kena rotan sebab miskin tu ..

so what can we do ... we can help by not adding to the stress ... bak kata orang ... kalau tak boleh tolong janganlah menambah masalah pula ... 

especially on the road ... 

clearly most of the time we are all strangers among each other but kalau kita ingat yang destination tu satu je ... mungkin sabar dan insaf sikit agaknya ... 

itu lah antara adab seperti yang Prof Syed Muhammad Naquib cakap tu ...

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more here ...

1. Kena rotan kerana kemiskinan ... here    2. Adab ... Prof Syed Muhammad Naquib

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kalau stress stress ... let's transport ourselves to this cool beaches and stream ...

blue is my world di sebalik batu ... but my biru bukan untuk haru ..

a sway to chase the haru away ...

kita main kejar kejar dengan ombak ...

this has a story ... here ... the rest are just googled ... here

... good day all ...

Montel ...

Assalamualaikum wbt ...

hari sabtu ikat janji dengan suami ... 

esok kita ke port dickson ye ziarah cousin ...

suami jawab okay but we must get out early in the morning ... he sangatlah fobia jam kat jalan ... especially since kakinya sakit ... kita offer to drive tak mau pula ...

so early in the morning kami bertolak ... ikut highway seremban - port dickson tu laju je but jalan dah banyak berubah due to new roads and exits ... only after a few calls sebab sesat situ sesat sini ... baru sampai alhamduLillah ...

sampai je i was greeted by anak-anak cousin perempuan yang montel montel amat ... berpeluk salam saya pun terus menuju ke katil cousin (lelaki) ... sebenarnya hari raya ni dia dapat cuti dari hospital untuk bersama keluarga di rumah ... he has been in and out of the hospital for the past few months due to diabetic complication ...

... saya berdiri di sisi katil berlinang air mata dengan keadaannya ... berbicara dengannya yang sangat lemah but AlhamduliLLah sabar ... masih bujang in his forties syukur Alhamdulillah dia ada kakak yang devoted to his care ... semoga Allah SWT mengembalikan kesihatannya dan mengurniakan kesabaran padanya ...

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diabetic and heart issues run in my cousin's family ...

mother ... father ... first brother ... third brother semuanya telah kembali ke rahmatuLLAh (may Allah SWT forgive them all) ... mother and both the brothers in their fifties ...

presently ... second sister also in her fifties on daily insulin jabs ...

and this cousin ... in his forties ...

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and kemontelan also runs in the family ... main cause i believe was due to the kedai makan yang arwah mak cik dan pak cik usahakan ... maka the whole family macam makan kat restraurant hari-hari ... noodles, sugared drinks and all sort of gorengan being the main diet ...

and in those days montel is cute ... lagi montel lagi cute ...

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bila nak balik ... saya pesan dengan cousin cousin kurangkan karbohidrat untuk anak anak ye ...

kerana kesusahan dan kesibukan ibu ayah ... pelajaran terganggu ... cukup sampai setakat spm ... dan cukup jika mewah makan dan minum ... 

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tak pandai macam mana nak cakap anak anak tu kurang kan berat badan mereka supaya permasalahan yang sama tidak berulang ulang ...

cuma again and again saya cakap kurangkan carbohydrate ... kurangkan roti canai (sebab anak montel 5 tahun tu suka sangat roti canai ... 2 keping tak cukup kata emaknya) ... kurangkan mi ... kurangkan nasi ...kurangkan goreng goreng ... more veges ... more ikan okay i said ...

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it will take a while ... maybe a long while for our orang kita to understand yang ... montel is comel  ... but montel is not comel for health ...

kawan kawan yang montel tak usahlah terasa ... because kesedihan ini sangat berkaitan dengan keluarga yang sangat saya kasihi ...

 

Kena rotan kerana kemiskinan ...

Assalamualaikum wbt ...

hari ini rabu ... hari ketiga sejak sekolah dibuka selepas cuti panjang ... but i know one girl is not going to school.

she is in Form 4 ... 

i was talking to her the other day asking about this and that ...

 and she told me that she missed school on wednesdays ... i asked why ... 

tak ada baju ko-kurrikulum katanya ... 

i suggested that she just go for the academic session and miss the co-curriculum then ... 

she jawab kena pakai baju ko-kurrikulum dari pagi masa datang sekolah kalau tidak kena rotan ... 

ha? tingkatan 4 kena rotan? rotan kat mana i asked ... kat tapak tangan jawabnya ... 

sakit tak saya tanya lagi ... sakittt jawabnya ... 

macam mana tu ye ... 

sebab ko-kurrikulum she misses the entire day's academic session ... 

she's the daughter of a policeman ... step-daughter in fact because mother and father have different households now ... there are seven of them within her current family ... she is the third ... so i would think many more younger ones ...

... since i am not familiar with this kind of situation ... 

i asked someone who has a son in the same year and school ... 

yes they have to wear the baju the entire day ... 

but her son is in the afternoon session ... 

she thought the school is more  strict on the morning session ... 

i asked how much is this co-curriculum thing ... 

depends on which club ... 

over 100 rm for my son she said ...

... hmmm over a 100 ... kalau anak tujuh, abah polis biasa, emak tak kerja ... 

macam mana tu ye ...

... ini girl ...

 kalau boy bila dia ponteng ... apa dia buat ... ke mana dia pergi ... 

dengan siapa dia lepak ... 

apa pula ko-kurrikulum mereka di luar sekolah sana ...
one thing leads to another kan ...

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 teringat saya kena rotan kerana sebatang pensel ...

saya tak fikir yang perkara ini masih berlaku ... murid kena rotan kerana kemiskinan ...

 saya rasa macam nak masuk gua ...

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image source ... here

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saya kena rotan kat ... sini

and
here is an example of co-curriculum luar sekolah ... sini

Adab ...

Assalamualaikum wbt ...

Prof Syed Muhammad Naquib Al-Attas explains ...

Adab ... is acquisition of the good qualities and attributes of mind and soul; it is to perform the correct as against the erroneous action, of right as against wrong; it is the preserving from disgrace. (p.150)

and he says ...

The aim of education in Islam is ... to produce a good man. What is 'good' in our concept of 'good man'? The fundamental element inherent in the Islamic concept of education is the inculcation of adab, for it is adab in the all-inclusive sense here meant as encompassing the spiritual and material life of man that instills the quality of goodness that is sought after. Education is precisely what the Prophet, upon whom be peace, meant by adab when he said:

My Lord educated (addaba) me, and made my education (ta'dib) most excellent.

(p.151)

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Ref: Syed Muhammad Naquib Al-Attas (1978). Islam and secularism. Kuala Lumpur: International Institute Of Islamic Thought and Civilisation (ISTAC).

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today i opened his book again ... after a long long time ...it was among my companions when i was in Brunei ...

this loss of adab appears to be the cause of the many recent unfortunate incidents ... 

and accidents ...

maybe just maybe if we slow down a bit in this 'race' to somewhere ... and relearn the adab of the race ... things could be better ... insyaAllah, Allahu'alam.

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this thought is brought about by the following incidents and incidences ...

... surau sedili ...

... accident, accident and more accidents on our roads and highways ...

... our education and its focus  ...

... care of the elders ...

... child care and abuse ...

... our food and diet ...
... egypt palestine and syria ...

... ambiga ...
and look at this ... here 
whilst pondering this  ... here

 

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Accomplishment defined ...

Asslamualaikum wbt ...

yes ... back to serious work ... and let's start thinking about where we are now ...

source ... here

a good framework for an accomplishment analysis ...

like of ...

safety and security ...
racial integration ...
healthcare ...
education ...
employment ...
satumalaysia ...

Parang tumpul ...

Assalamualaikum wbt ...

melihat ibu tua dengan kayu semalam ... teringat saya arwah jiran (semoga Allah SWT ampunkan dan tempatkan arwah dalam kalangan hambaNya yang diredhai) ...

arwah nenek tu saya panggil uwan ... panggilan cara orang negeri sembilan ye ... zaman kanak kanak saya sentiasa lah dengan uwan jiran ni ... uwan pinjam macam tu sebab saya tak ada uwan ... emak piatu umur 4 tahun sementara abah pula piatunya dalam umur 10 tahun macam tu ...

satu hari uwan datang ke rumah kami yang memang banyak pokok kelapa ...
kelapa tu emak tak payah beli kekdahnya ...
uwan ambil sebiji kelapa nak kupas nak menggulai tengahari ...

saya pun menyangkunglah tepinya menelek ...
uwan pauk (faham tak apa pauk ni ... hit with parang) ... tak tembus ke kulit kelapa tu ... masa tu kami panggil nyior je ... kelapa ni kosa kata orang negeri sembilan yang dah pergi sekolah hehehe ...

so pauk sekali tak tembus ... dua kali ... tiga kali ...
uwan pun cakap ...
ni memauk laki sayang ni ...
haa ... apa makna tu wan ... saya yang banyak mulut bertanya ...
ni lah ha ... parang tumpul ... macam nak pauk laki sayang lah ni ...

... hahaha tak ada dalam senarai simpulan bahasa DBP ...

terima kasih uwan ...
banyak betul saya belajar dari uwan ... and nombor satu adab ... uwan berdua dengan atuk je ... tak ada teman lain ... so kesana kemari suka sangat dia mengajak saya temankan nya ... dari hujung kampung ke hujung kampung melawat teman teman sebayanya atau yang lebih berusia ... lebih lebih lagi musim hari raya ... jalan kaki je ... dan bila sentiasa bergaul dengan uwan uwan kita pun terikut cara dan adab uwan uwan tu ... begitulah ...

image source ... here

ni parang tumpul ... tetapi parang uwan lagi tumpul hujung parangnya tak tajam macam ni ... bulat sikit ...
tak hal pun parang tumpul ni ... belakang parang kalau diasah pun tajam ... kata orang tua ... belum lah pula cuba hehe ...

image source ... here

selain parang boleh juga kupas kelapa dengan benda atas tu ... invention siapalah agaknya ni ... inventor dulu dulu tak  pandai hal hal trade mark dan branding masa tu kan ... anyhow a simple understanding of lever bagi mudahhhh sangat kerja kan ... give me a lever long enough and i will move the world ... someone said ...

image source ... here

bila dah kupas kita kena belah pula kelapa ... sama seperti mengupas kelapa dengan parang, membelah kelapa ni is also a skill ... ada caranya supaya bila belah you should get a smooth cut ...

image source ... here

ni orang pandai belah kelapa ... cantik tepinya kan ... senang nak buat proses seterusnya

image source ... here

ni orang tak berapa pandai belah kelapa ... suruh dia sendiri kukur haha ...

image source ... here

dah belah kita kukur ... ni kukur zaman dulu ye ... sure ada lagi ni tetapi kat rumah emak tak ada dah ...

image source ... here
ni rupa mata kukur ...tajam mata tu ... kalau tersilap action masa mengukur mahu juga berdarah tangan ... silap silap ada yang jadi raja bersiong hehe ...
sekali sekala ambil besi kikir bagi tajam semula mata kukur tu ... besi kikir tu apa ...
cuba google ye ...

image source ... kore here
ni rupa kukur tu full length ... kita duduk bertimpuh atas kukur tu ... reti tak bertimpuh ni ... bukan bersila ye ... masa kecik duduk atas kukur ni tak berapa nak balance ... kalau duduk dekat centre of gravity nya tangan tak sampai ke mata kukur tu ... so kita ke depan sikit ... apa lagi terjongket jongketlah kukur tu ... apa nak buat ... panggil adik tolong duduk kat belakang bagi balance ... boleh bayangkan tak ni hehe ... macam naik kuda lah

image source ... here

sekarang boleh je beli kelapa yang sudah siap parut di kedai ... kat rumah emak pun pakai mesen ni je ... dah lama dah ... more or less semua kami pun dah mahir guna mesen tu ... walau pun ada juga kes kelapa terbang hehe ... punca emak beli nak kenduri kendara ... senang alhamduLillah

image source ... here
ni rupa kelapa siap dikukur atau diparut ... mmm sedapnya ... kalau dulu sambil mengukur ... sambil masuk mulut sikit ... kelapa parut sikit pun tak rasa nak masuk mulut ... kelapa kukur crunchy ... kelapa parut mushy ...

image source ... here
dah parut kita perah santan nya ... macam ni ... kuat kuat perah tau ... kalau tidak tak keluar lemaknya kata emak ... tengok tu urat kuat perah santan :)

image source ... maaf tercicir :)

ni rupa santan asal kat dapur ... dalam periuk real original ...

image source ... here

ni santan yang siap untuk dipinang ... siap pengiring :)

lemak manis putih melepak
adik menangis abang tak nampak
yeay :)

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beyond that hard shell ...
three steps forward and no more ...
 white milk and all ...

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... good day all :)

Beyond words ...

Assalamualaikum wbt ...

so let me just share the pictures ... a blood bath for eid ...

more here ... Egypt

anak muda dan seorang ibu tua ... sebatang kayu nak pukul apa ...

pukul hatinya pukul hatinya ... 

tidak dengan kayu bagi hati yang sudah beku ...  dengan iman kasih sayang ketika mereka masih dalam pangkuan mu ...

pandai mengenal pandai membeza ... yang mana saudara yang mana durjana

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