Cikguku ...

Assalamualaikum wbt ...

Dr Cikguku ... my second supervisor baru je sms ... hajjah apa nama restaurant nasi arab kat jalan bukit bintang tu?

actually a couple of months back, saya and kawan sekuliah bawa cikgu kami ni makan kat lazeez senawang tu ... she was in seremban so kami belanja lah ...

then cerita cerita ... i mentioned about a favourite restaurant ... persian bukan arab pun hehe ... at Jln Bukit Bintang ...

without fail kalau ada tetamu dari jauh kat situlah kami jamu ...

actually ... nak menjamu selera saya yang lebih hahaha ...

yang suka sangat ghormeh sabzi mereka tu  (i know Sham tak suka ni hehehe) ...

so i sent her details ...

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The restaurant ... here

these are my favourites from this Naab Restaurant 

Dill rice

Ghormeh sabzi

Salad with lots of basil

Chelou Kebab suami suka

Lime juice mmmm marvellous

Persian Rice Pudding (Sheer Berenj) for desert  

end with tea in beautiful cute cups :)

sekali sekala okay ... berkali berkala pun okay hehe

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do listen to this lovely sound of ...

Dance of Leaves...

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the taste of persian food exactly ... soothing and pleasing ...

 

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about 

Ghormeh Sabzi ... 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

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 ...

Cikgu ku ...

hari ni

... terima message selamat hari guru dari rakan sekuliah - seorang guru yang sangat cemerlang ... i am not a cikgu but i appreciate all teachers ... teacher tu official name je ... but sesiapa je yang darinye saya mendapat ilmu dan kemahiran cikgu saya lah dia tu ...

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... snapshots of my fond and sedih memory of some teachers ...

Cikgu Maimon Darjah 3 

i love this one day yang teringat sangat ... CM bagi classwork ... kita semua pun diam diam buat ... tetiba CM panggil me ... 

m------- (nama penuh ku tu hehe) meh tolong tumbuk belakang cikgu ... darjah 3, 9 tahun masa tu bayangkan besar manalah penumbuk ku yang memang tak besar mana ni pun ...

but ... that warm feeling of tolong tumbuk belakang cikgu tu sampai sekarang masih terasa ...

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Mr Ng Form 1

Cikgu ni memang saya selalu kena ... cikgu sains ... masa tu belum ke asrama lagi ... me suka potpet tak habis-habis ... agaknye kan budak kecik memang suka celoteh ... kejap pusing kanan kejap pusing kiri kejap kejap pusing belakang ... entah apa-apa ... ada je

agaknya dah puas kena warning tak juga faham faham ... MN panggil nama T------- berdiri atas kerusi ... hehehe ... tak malu ke ... masa tu kat all girls school kawan kawan tolong gelak je ...

 but see this MN he called me by his particular special name for me ... so agaknye itu yang buat i always feel special in his class ... and sampai ter over pula ... ha kan dah kena berdiri atas kerusi ... 

padan muka (favourite phrase of my kecik niece Tina) :)

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Miss Kaur Form 2

Ni cikgu BI ... yang ini saya kena lagi ... kita tu dulu orang kampung ... sekolah kampung tu in BM. Bila masuk menengah Sekolah BI so we went through the Remove Class and mula everything in English here. And zaman dulu the streaming in the school was that sekolah kampung ulu ulu pergi ke Remove B, yang dekat bandar Remove A (what an expectation !) ... Remove A went on to F1C, Remove B to F1D. I was in Remove B so F1D. MK taught us English in Remove and F1. Form 2 i was in F2A (dah nampak pandai sikit kut hahaha) and no longer taught by MK.

satu hari tu waktu latih sukan petang she was in charge and she queried me... why didn't you come for practice yesterday ... and i ... saya budak baru belajar (BI) ni jawab biasa je ... I was lazy ...

and she chided me ... wah now you are in F2A, you think you are so clever ha! ...

terdiam diri ini because masa tu belum lah se articulate sekarang ber BI ... kununnn hehe ... kalau tidak mungkin bersambung juga perbicaraan tu ... :) tak ape MK i tak terasa pun ... what you didn't realise was i was practising my English hahaha ... thank you very much for your good BI training that set me to appreciate this language ...

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 Guru Besar Sekolah Rendah

  ni masa darjah 6 ... kan kita ada peperiksaan penilaian sekolah rendah tu ... kita kena beli pensel 2B kan ... nak hitamkan bulat bulat dalam kertas jawapan tu ... so i minta emak tolong beli ... masa tu sama lah dengan emak ke pekan KPilah yang sangat maju tu cuma ada 2-3 buah kedai buku dan alatulis ... so emak mintalah on my behalf ... and nyonya tu kata oh pensel 2B dah habis ... tapi 4B ada ... 4B lagi baik lagi hitam (read this macam nyonya cakap) ... so saya budak kampung yang ulu dan emak yang tak pernah pergi sekolah ni terimalah ... ha ah yelah tu kalau 2B tu hitam, 4B lagi hitam lagilah baik kan jelas bulatan ku dalam kertas jawapan ku nanti ...

maka pergi lah sekolah seperti biasa gembira ... bawa pensel kena confirm pagi tu dengan GB ... end of morning assembly GB tanya semua murid darjah 6 dah beli pensel 2B belum and tunjuk kat dia ... ada yang tak beli lagi (maklum jauh pekan tu and semua ni miskin-miskin belaka) ... dan kita pun confident je showed kita punya pensel ... nah terus kena marah sebab salah ... 2B bukan 4B ... so dia suruh beratur semua yang tak ada pensel lagi tu termasuk kita yang salah pensel ... then dia dengan pembaris panjang guru bagi satu satu hayunan pembarisnya kat kaki kita orang ... aduhh ... nak jadi cerita saya punya kena kat buku lali ... luka lah pula dan berdarah ... tapi GB tu tak perasan ... nangis tak? ... takkkk diam je ... (Sham nak nanges ... nanges lah :)

balik tengahari emak kat rumah dah balik dari noreh dah ... abah tak ada ... kita pun tunjuk kat mak buku lali yang luka kena sebat ... tak ingat lah apa reaksi emak masa tu ... meleleh agaknya air mata nya ... tapi kita pun meleleh air mata tak pula perasan tentang emak ... mak terus kata meh pergi Pilah beli ... and kami pun pergilah and got the right one ... itu je ... panjang nya cerita ... catharsis le ni hehehe ... terasa hiba sangat dengan cara GB tu ...

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banyak lagi but cukuplah takat ni ye ...

to all my teachers ... i love all and appreciate all ... yang sudah keRahmatuLLAH ... al-Fatihah

macam ni lebih kurang sekolah rendah kat kampung ulu tu ...

but this is in Mexico tak banyak beza except kita ber uniform tu nampak smart le sikit ... but this one looks more ceria

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Wanita ...

dear friends ...

hati sangat tersentuh ... dengan wanita ini

guruku ... professor ku

i attended the walimah of her anakande yesterday ... since the other two of three stooges have other family programs ... saye minte oghang besar dighumah temanlah ...

... di meja makan berbual-bual ...

and found out yang anakandenye ini telah kehilangan ayahandenye when he was 2 months old ...

... for the past 30 years she is both mother and father to her son ...

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antara guru dan pelajar ... pertemuan-pertemuan ... hanye berbicara tentang akademik

now ... bile pertemuan begini ... another perspective of my guru ...

perspective yang hanya hati boleh membicarakan ...

... hati penuh insaf dan kasih sayang ...

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Love and Salam :)

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