Kawan kawan ...

Assalamualaikum wbt ...

InnaliLillahi wainna ilaihi rajiuun ... kawan sedarjah di sekolah rendah yang juga saudara sekampung ... Rosli ... telah kembali ke rahmatuLLah ... innaLillahi wainna ilaihi raji'un ... insyaAllah arwah akan dikebumikan di hari yang penuh barakah hari ini ... Ya Allah Yang Maha Pengasih ... kasihanilah dan ampunkanlah dosa arwah Rosli, arwah ibu dan ayahnya dan kami semuanya yang masih di sini juga yang telah kembali kepadaMu ... al-Fatihah ...

14 ogos yang lalu saya bercerita tentangnya ... di sini

 arwah his father kalau mengikut style orang negeri sembilan ni walaupun sebaya emak tetapi pangkat sepupu saya (2pupu ... 3 pupu macam tulah) - maka panggil abang je ... well known as the chief cook in kenduri kendara di kampung ... dulu dulu gotong royong je no catering bagai ... my own abah sampai sekarang tak boleh accept the concept of  catering di kampung ni ... abah menyampah betul ... but terpaksa juga menerima keperluan tersebut di zaman di mana yang muda muda tiada lagi di kampung ... 

and cuti semua orang pun sangat terhad nak berkampung pelbagai bagi mengatur kerja ...

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ye di kampung bersawah padi pun dulu pakat bergotong royong ... best part for budak budak part makan makan tulah ... bubur kacang hijau was a favourite ... 

now sawah padi pun sudah diambil alih oleh kelapa sawit yang semuanya diusahakan oleh felcra ... a bit sad for the loss of sawah land generally ... but alhamduLillah emak maintains her own little piece of tanah padi tanam kelapa instead ... syukurlah sangat emak rajin berkebun ... masyaAllah she is more cergas than me ...

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i am also very happy to see that the Terachi area after Ulu Bendul tu is again vibrant with green padi fields ... AlhamduLillah

may Allah SWT keep our kampungs and nation aman damai dalam barakah sentiasa ... ameen

penyejuk hati dan mata ... image source ...rice field in korea here

Tomat ... and ... Indonesia ...

Assalamualaikum wbt ...

entah di mana saya mula jumpa perkataan ni pun dah lupa ... tomat ... which led me to sambal tomato dari jawa ...

sebelum cerita tentang sambal tomat saya cerita ni sikit ye ...

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first time ke Jakarta ... dari brunei nak balik kampung ... detour ke jakarta ... sebabnya ... rakan seperantauan di brunei telah berhijrah ke sana ... so saja nak ambil angin and also to visit her and family ... a surprise of course ...

zaman bujang AlhamduliLLah ... ada pasport, ada credit card will travel ... lenggang lenggang kangkung ... no hotel booking, no visa requirement - indonesia kan saudara kita :) so easy kan jalan (eh terbang) je lah ...

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dalam kapalterbang tu night flight ... dah merancang rancang dah nak tidur kat airport hotel je that night then baru contact sahabat tu ... takndak nyusah lah tu ... sure ada hotel kan ... atau to book a taxi (ingat macam kat KLIA tu kan ... senang je booking) to take me to the hotel ... first thing i noticed some bruneians were on the plane ... so saya pun tanya (kalau berani berjalan sendiri jangan malu bertanya) to confirm about the airport hotel ... i always assume airport hotel is the safest ... (dah terbiasa naik keretapi ... setiap stesen ada station hotel kan :)

... the bruneians were surprised and concerned that i was alone ... maksudnya macam unsafe je ... saya ni memang tawakkal saja ... niat nak lawat sahabat yang i missed tu je ... so rasa takut apa semua memang tak ada ... indonesia kan ... negara Islam kan ... macam sedara lagi kan ... in fact arwah datuk (May Allah SWT ampunkan dan rahmati ruhnya) sebelah emak born in what was then called Betawi ... jadi tak ada risau pun ...

pendekkan cerita ... the bruneians kata ikut kami, nanti kami hantar hotel yang selamat ... AlhamduLillah kebetulan mereka tu dari diplomatic service so keluar untuk immigresen check pun ikut lorong diplomatic saja AlhamduLillah di permudahkan Allah SWT ...

dan dengan baik hatinya mereka yang memang sudah ditunggui driver ... hantar lah kehotel di tengah bandar raya ... mereka berlalu and there i was having happy thoughts about this visit ... esok paginya baru called sahabat that i was in jakarta and in the hotel ... terus kena marah sayang lah kan ...

 thank you Norlin for a memorable visit ... among others makan di satu restoran ni yang setiap satu dish ada sambal tersendirinya yang sangat nyaman yum yum yum ... this is my memory of indonesia ... the land of sambal :)

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so bila terjumpa sambal tomat ni baru baru ni ... teringat semula that old bachelor way of life ... 

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mula tadi dari rumah Sham sini ... nampak tomato tuan rumahnya di Fiji Island ... sini ... ni belum nak puree ... but rather sambal tomat (tomato in bahasa indonesia sure semua orang tau kan ... saya je baru tau :) ...

i found this recipe ... Sambal Tomat ...sini ...  brought to me by google through this lady ... sini

saya adjust je resepi tu ... for the same amount of cili padi ... lebihh bawang (i prefer bawang besar) ... lebihhhh tomato ... no belacan ... no msg ... gula garaam adjust according to taste ... simpan dalam fridge guna sikit bila nak buat itu ini ... 

itu ini define sendiri ye hehe ...

AlhamduLillah such a simple tasty and useful sambal ...

yang ini heirloom tomatoes ... 

saje je ... tak de kat hypermarket sini ... image source ... here 

yang macam ini (takde tampuk dah) tengah banyak sekarang ... boleh cuba buat sambal tomat :) sambil potong potong nak tumbuk buat sambal ... sambil masuk mulut hehe ... 

image source ... here

 

Guru Quran saya ...

Assalamualaikum wbt ...

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... semasa di brunei saya belajar membaiki bacaan Al-Quran dengan Ustaz yang bertugas sebagai guru agama di kementerian pertahanan brunei di Tutong. Ustaz dari simpang rengam, johor dengan isteri kak Marti.

saya minta ustaz perhati bacaan saya sebagai persediaan saya menunaikan haji alhamduLillah. Mengaji di ruang tamu rumah Ustaz, Kak Marti sebelah kiri depan saya sebagai teman, Ustaz depan saya ...

saya baca ustaz dengar ... di tangan kanannya kayu halus macam rotan ... bila saya silap ustaz ketuk kayu tu ke carpet tu ... kadang kadang terperanjat saya sebab Ustaz ketuk keras ... Ustaz macam garang but the truth was he loved al Quran very very much ... then he would explain why i was wrong ... banyak lah silap saya ... which was very good ... because i would note with pencil by the margin all the corrections ...

... now many many years later ... setiap kali meneliti Al-Quran yang sama ... baca semula nota-nota masa belajar dengan Ustaz ... lepas baca ... saya ke almari simpan diary lama cari nombor telefon Ustaz ... 

AlhamduLillah baru je berbicara dengan Kak Marti ...

AlhamduLillah setiap Ramadhan saya akan cuba menghubunginya ...

Itulah guru Quran saya dan isterinya ... may Allah SWT tempatkan mereka, keluarganya dan kita semua dan keluarga kita dalam kalangan Pencinta dan Pengamal Al-Quran ... Ameen Ya Rabbal 'Alameen ...

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maka nya apabila buka diary lama ... belek belek pula contact yang lain lain ...

teringat pula kawan baik sama sama kerja di sana ...

jumpa no telephone rumahnya di sarikei and called  ...

dapat cakap dengan adik iparnya ... and got her contact pula ... she is now a resident of melbourne ...

tanpa mengira apa waktu kat sana ... terus je called ... first call reached her voice mail ...

then immediately she rang back ...

apa lagi main teka teka siapa ni lah sekejap hehe ...

what a pleasure to hear familiar voice ... my friend is a chinese girl from sarikei kota nenas ... my adik Kak Cik and i dah sampai sana and met her there masa kami traverse sarawak by car from brunei-kucing-brunei macam tak hengat muda muda dulu ...

in brunei, Felicia was alone and so was i ... sometimes i pi tidur tempatnya and sometimes she came to mine ... begitu lah bila dah merantau ... nampak ke kita asal kita ... no really no ... the only thing that we knew was that ... we were girls in a foreign situation and that we supported each other to get by ...

begitulah kehidupan ... 

insyaAllah will meet up with her when next she stops by in KL on her back and forth trip to sarikei ...

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My adik ... Acik

Breast Cancer ...

Assalamualaikum wbt ...

alhamduLillah ... another long day completed today ... scrub kaki ... foot bath lagi ...

done ... 

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and on breast cancer ...

sejak saya menemui tulisan tulisan Prof Hasanah  ... i have a better awareness of this condition and the people affected by it ... it is impossible to claim that one understands ... but the expressed words have enabled me to at least follow the logic (for lack of a better word ... because there is no logic to it ...) of this dis - ease ... that condition of not being at ease ...

a friend who has been afflicted by this, has gone through so many sessions of therapy and surgery and therapy ... yet i could not fathom the inner sense of this affliction and how she deals with it ... because she doesn't express her pain and how she manages her pain in words ...

 but at least now i can lead her and others to Prof Hasanah's world ... so that they may take comfort from her words ...AlhamduLillah ... when my own is so very limited ... 

AstaghfiruLLAH ...

besides the friend, i met a lady yesterday who recently had a lump removed ... and today another lady who also recently had one breast removed ...  lama berbicara about it with the both them ... resulting in me being so aware of the condition ... the reason for this posting ...

and to them all i said please read the writings of Prof Hasanah ... masyaAllah... siap bagi blog address ... dah sampai hafal AlhamduLillah ...

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itu saja yang boleh saya bantu ... because hanya yang mengalami, yang memahami ... and has the knowledge of what works, what does not work ... 

 may Allah SWT give sehat to all ... ameen

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My grandfather got the PhD ...

Assalamualaikum wbt ...

dah alang alang terkenang ... sambung je memori manis ... :)

one of my earliest memory in the states university was a phd student from jordan ... a sweet lady, blonde, complexion and feature more of orang putih than arab ... in fact i initially thought she was orang putih since she was not having any hijab on ... one day as we queued for lunch i heard a salam and i turned to find her behind me ...

and when she finally received her phd award it was addressed to Dr Yahaya ... her grandfather ...

look ... she said ... a phd for my grandfather ... 

her surname being that of her grandfather and her middle name her father ...

me ... binti is my middle name ... :)

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malaysia celebrates a person by her or his name ... so when citing references for malaysian authors ... we are required to cite by their first names (at least that is the standards in my present university ... other universities i am not sure) ... so sometimes one can expect different names cited for the same author ... sometimes nama sendiri and sometimes nama abah nya ...

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and one more sweet memory ... no more i promise ... for now that is ...

cycling was common in the university ... in fact separate cycling paths were constructed especially for them next to the pedestrian pavement ... we would see signs to be aware of cyclists  ... yang kalau bila menurun sikit menjunam junam je lajunya ... kalau tak berhati hati memang nahas je sipejalan kaki ...

we had one professor who cycled daily ... 

and one day he passed by as i was leaving the faculty building ... he stopped and offered me a ride on the bar ... bersungguh sungguh dia ...

remember i ni kocik je ... macam kuih koci kurus dulu tu ... so boleh je duduk kat depan dia tu ... and he was a very gentle elderly big professor ... so macam anak dia je kita ni ... but of course i said no thank you ... i'll walk ... the hall where i was staying was about 10mins walk ...

... and bila cerita kat Oghang Besar Dighumah ni zaman sweet muda muda ni  ... hai menyampahnya dia ... he's a man he commented ... he just wanted to hug you ... cisss ado ko :)

gambar asal besikal ni kat sini ...

The spams that were not ...

selama lama ni tak pernah pun ambil tahu apa ada kat SPAM tu ...

tetiba hari ni macam tak cukup kerja pula pergi klik Spam under Comments tu ...

laaaa ... banyak tak banyak adalah juga Spam Anonymous di situ ...

but it was a surprise to see two dear guests diverted there ...

why ...? ... i am not sure ...

i can only say ... very very sorry to 

Eliza and Kaktek :)

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And the Words ...

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 Ini kata mereka ...

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Hilang ...

Assalamualaikum wbt ... 

jalan ke rumah kawan dah hilang ...

Sham ...

kenapa ye ?

mulanya nak hantar komen ...

hilang ...

lepas tu cari semula ...

tak jumpa ...

dah pindah rumah ye ...

so antar surat ni dari sini saje lah ye ...

take care Sham ... sangat faham rindunye ... :)

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Ambuyat ...

Ambuyat

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teringat MP yang dikasihi masak-masak untuk kengkawan di Hari Raya Qurban hari tu ...

hari ini hidangkan Ambuyat untuk MP ...

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kengkawan silekan juge ...

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Love and Salam

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and tambah ...  wikipedia kate ambuyat to BREAD ... hehe

this is clear evident that ... kene pandai-pandai menilai maklumat dari wiki tu ...

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

Ambuyat

Origin
Place of origin	Brunei
Type	Bread

Ambuyat is a Bruneian (Jawi: امبويت) dish derived from the interior trunk of the sago palm. It is a starchy bland substance, similar to tapioca starch. The Ambuyat is also one of the famous delicacy for the indigenous people of Sabah and Sarawak.
Ambuyat is eaten with a bamboo fork called a chandas, by rolling the starch around the prongs and then dipping it into a sour fruit sauce.
There is a similar dish of eastern Indonesia called papeda.

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Troglodyte ...

Taunton

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sambung ... (macam minta connect tel pule ... he he )

nak balik dah ... but this time kite ikut jalan tengah balik ke liverpool ...

dalam route ade Bandar Taunton ...

ape sepesialnye ... nothing maybe to most ... 

but here resided the Walking Dictionary of Taunton ...

and 

he called me a TROGLODYTE

... a cave dweller ...

he he ... sebabnye?

kami share room ... 3 of us in the big office ...  (ni di brunei ye)

... my place was facing the window ... so it was a bit silau ...

so i kind of tutup window blind tu ...

beliau masuk ... pegi buke ...

and i said i like it tertutup sikit ... and he said ... you are a TROGLODYTE ...

this Englishman was as senior as my ayahande ... orang rumahnye dari Sarawak ... but he being English ... i did not need to open my dictionary too much ... he provided me with instant answers ...

he has already retired masa adik dan akak menghayau-menghayau ni ...

but i had his address ...

so akak sughuh adik caghi juge ghumah nye ... pusing-pusing sampai jumpe ...

hmmm ... jumpe dah ... ketuk-ketuk ... tak ade oghang

so i left a note ...

nahhh ... punyelah jauh kannn note tu datang ...

:)

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love and salam

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Troglodyte - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troglodyte

Troglodyte may refer to: Troglodytae or Troglodyti, an ancient group of people from the African Red Sea coast; Troglodites, a fictional tribe described in .


 Troglodyte - Merriam-Webster Online

www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/troglodyte

a member of any of various peoples (as in antiquity) who lived or were reputed to live chiefly in caves. 2. : a person characterized by reclusive habits or ...