Saturday, May 11, 2013

Mengisi masa bagi cuti yang panjang



Aku dah seminggu bercuti. Tengah 'study leave' . Kena  're-sit paper' untuk program Certified Islamic Finance Professional (CIFP) di INCEIF. Last sem aku kantoi disebabkan lecturer tak terima assignment yang aku dah hantar. Silap aku jugak tak periksa dengan dia.

Hari ini bawa isteri ke Kompleks PKNS sebab dia nak cari buku untuk buat modul latihan untuk kem cuti sekolah nanti. Sampai di Kompleks PKNS, kami bersarapan sekejap di warung nasi lemak yang terletak dekat dengan Restoran FC. Warung ini best, sebab harga makanannya yang murah. Di zaman harga barang meningkat dari hari ke hari ini, tempat yang menawarkan harga murah untuk produk & perkhidmatan amatlah  dihargai.

 

Kami sampai pukul 10.00 pagi, suasana sekitar dah ramai orang. Parking dah penuh hinggakan ramai yang meletakkan kereta di bahu jalan. Mulanya risau tak dapat tempat untuk 'park' kereta, pergi ke bahagian basement, Alhamdulliah... banyak kosong. Rupanya ramai tak tahu yang hari minggu, kereta awam boleh letak kereta di bawah. 

Menu sarapan, nasi lemak paru, nasi lemak telur, air Horlick, air suam & tahu sumbat, semuanya RM8.10 tapi Taukeh bagi diskaun 10 sen. Pergi ke kedai Saba' Islamic di tingkat satu tapi malangnya kedai tak bukak lagi walau pun di pintu tercatat waktu operasi -Isnin ke Sabtu   pukul 10.00 hingga 8.30 malam. Isteri talifon pemilik kedai, dia kata bukak hari ini tapi mungkin budak dia keluar minum atau ke tandas. Kalau dah pukul 11.00 pagi takkan pergi keluar minum. 

Malas nak tunggu kami ke MPH di SACC mall. Suasana di luar bangunan amat panas, masuk ke dalam SACC Mall, hmmm nyaman... mula la terdetik dihati, "kalau kat rumah aku air-cond sebegini kuatkan bagus" ... tapi bila fikir bil elektrik melonjak akhir bulan nanti, tanam balik impian itu. 

Banyak buku-buku agama yang menarik di MPH. Rasa macam nak beli, tapi budget tak ada. Lagipun dirumah banyak lagi buku aku tak baca. Asyik menghadap facebook, mana nak bukak... Kena work out sikit dengan time management aku.

Dalam banyak-banyak buku itu, aku tertarik dengan satu buku - Syurga Yang Suram, Neraka Yang Indah... tajuk yang berunsur sindiran...

Belik isi kandungannya, satu ayat memetik hatiku yang aku kongsikan bersama isteri. 

"Di syurga nanti, ahli syurga akan diberi istana, di dalam istana tersebut terdapat 70 ribu rumah, di dalam rumah terdapat 70 ribu bilik, setiap bilik ada 70 kamar, setiap kamar ada 70 pelamin, Setiap pelamin ada 1000 tilam, setiap tilam akan ada seorang Bidadari .... 

Isteriku mula bersuara... "Hah, dah tau dah nak kata apa,  tapi takpe, bila di syurga kita jadi ketua semua bidadari... " 

Hahaha... baru nak susun ayat dia dah pangkah niat aku nak cakap apa.  Aku teringat akan suatu ceramah yang  aku hadiri, ustaz kata " kalau lelaki di Syurga akan dihadiahkan bidadari yang rupawan, wanita Syurga pula dihadiahkan dengan 70,000 persalinan dan 70,000 macam cadar katil. Itulah fitra manusia, kelihatan sama, tapi punyai impian dan hasrat berbeza. Maka kalau para suami diluar sana ada yang pasang impian untuk berbini dua atau lebih... Kalau agak-agak boleh bagi 70,000 persalinan itu, silakan. Kalau tak satu cukup lah... Yang paling penting, fokus kita untuk berusaha untuk mendapat ganjaran syurga kerana di dunia ini cuma nikmat yang sementara. 

Di dalam buku tersebut ada tercatat- Bau wangi bidadari boleh dibau pada jarak seribu tahun jauhnya. Namun begitu ada tujuh golongan akan tidak dapat menikmati bau tersebut iaitu:-
- Orang yang derhaka
- Orang yang memutus silaturahim
- Orang tua yang penzina
- Jaziyah (Orang yang tak merasa kenyang dengan nikmat dunia)
- Orang yang menabur fitnah

Lagi dua aku dah lupa... sebab sekarang dah pukul 3 pagi. Ok ni dah ngantuk dah ni. Otak dah jem maknanya aku kena tidur.. nanti subuh takut tak bangun.  Nanti kalau aku beli buku tersebut akan aku ulaskan isi kandungannya disini. Salam bahagia & mari kita berusaha menjadi ahli syurga. Amin... 


Thursday, May 2, 2013

Kembali ke dunia Blogger ?

Sudah lama dah aku tak menulis dalam blog ni. Banyak sangat kekangan yang melanda dan kesibukkan dunia yang perlu ditempuhi. 

Saat negara sedang dilanda peperangan pilihanraya ke 13, saat diriku tengah kepeningan untuk menempuh peperiksaan pada 9 Mei ini, saat kesibukan tugas2 di pejabat, saat aku merisaukan pelajar2 tuisyenku dan saat diriku teramat merindui anak2 yang tiada disisi, tak ku sangka blogku ini menjadi suatu 'escapism' buat diriku.

Saat masa menjangkau ke pukul 3 pagi... otak & mataku masih lagi segar. Macam manalah agaknya aku nak menahan mata agar tidak terkatup dipejabat nanti... hmmm... Isteriku sedang nyenyak tidur dibuai mimpi. Esok beliau akan keluar ke pejabatnya seawal 7.30 pagi. Tidur yang cukup amat penting kerana beliau akan berhadapan dengan karenah anak2 kecil 'Brainey Bunch' atau aku lebih suka gelarkan sebagai golongan ahli2 syurga hatta kerana jiwa mereka yang suci bersih. 

Politik, suatu benda yang aku tak berapa suka tapi perlu juga tahu. Terlalu banyak fitnah bertebaran, terlalu banyak penipuan dicanangkan dan terdapat banyak penindasan menyelubungi tindak-tanduk perjalanannya. Aku, sebagai insan yang kerdil hanya dapat memanjatkan doa agar Allah memberi kemenangan kepada pihak yang benar. Semoga Islam akan dapat ditinggikan dibumi Malaysia ini. Sesungguhnya kezaliman itu lemah. Semoga Allah memperbaiki segala urusan diriku dan semua kenalan2ku dan juga memperbaiki pegangan agama kami dan juga amal ibadat kami ...Ameen. 



Wednesday, May 2, 2012

Dinner Treat

My wife's friend from Sabah was in town recently. She came with her husband and stayed at Melia Hotel KL. Their names are Hamidon and Fida.

The reason they were here was because the husband had to attend training while the wife wanted to do  some shopping for her business in Sabah.

Melia Hotel Kuala Lumpur

Earlier that day, my wife accompanied her friend to shop in KL . They really shopped till they dropped. It was an absolute eye opener for her. Here's why :-

First, she gets to expand her knowledge about the roads in KL. Secondly, improve her driving skills, and brace the KL horrendous traffic and lastly and most importantly, she gets to explore all the shopping hot spots in KL.  This is heaven for her as she loves shopping!. Now, she's thinking of another project to support her training business during its off peak period.

That night, I had the opportunity to meet up with the couple at their hotel. They are really friendly and down to earth person. Very cheerful and loving couple.

From our conversation, I have learnt that they are not actually from Sabah. They are originally from Klang. They moved to Sabah in 2004 and fell in love with the place. They still maintain their house in Klang.  They did not rent it out though due to bad experiences and kept the house as in its original condition. They only brought some clothes and their car to Sabah. (And their kids of course!)

En Hamidon was sharing with me about the membership that they had with Melia hotel. The hotel apparently offers a very good programme for their membership. It includes a 2 night stay at the hotel, 2 free meals for 2 at the hotel restaurant, a myriad of discounts of up to 70% discounts. On top of that, a free usage of its gym and other facilities. And the best part is, all these only costs a mere RM588 per annum.
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The couple treated us to a buffet dinner at 'The Kitchen ' restaurant that night.


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The restaurant was nicely decorated in black and white décor. Unfortunately, I was wearing the exact colour scheme that night, and my wife kept teasing me how well I camouflaged into the surrounding. She seriously couldn't find me at one point of time!

The food was fantastic. As a  Muslim, it is good to know that the hotel restaurant has a halal status. So you could enjoy your food with absolute peace of mind.

Of course, I helped myself to the more exquisite and expensives dishes, such as:


Sushi ...



Lamb racks
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The dim sum
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Friday, April 27, 2012

Quality time with Wifey

Writing this blog has becoming very hard for me. Apart from the busy schedule, i also faced a writer's block.

I know that to achieve something, one must have a determination to accomplish it. Maybe it is something that i need to work on that more. 

Today, i had a lot of activities happening in my life which i would like to share. I started the day by going to work early at 6.50 am. I'm bringing my wife along as she is having some appointments arranged in KLCC and Maju Junction area. 

She normally drive to her appointments but i'm not allowed her to do so as KL currently hot with rumours going around about the 'Bersih' demonstration plan to be held in Dataran Merdeka. I just don't want her to be caught in bad situation if anything happend. 

Personally, I think all this demonstration is unnecessary and troublesome. Why pick Dataran Merdeka. If you sincere with your cause, held other arrears that are less busy such as  Putrajaya or something.  Enough about politics. Its not my cup of tea anyway.

My wife and I had breakfast of Nasi Lemak in one of the best place in Kampung Baru which is Nasi Lemak Wanjor

    

When we arrived, the owner just finish packing for an orders of more than 100 nasi lemak by a client there. Lucky for us, if not, we end up waiting so long for our order.

Work in the office as normal as it can be which is busy. I'm assisting my colleague to complete on 2 research papers which is about the property market in Malaysia and second about Malaysian trade with China. Cannot share about the finding here as it still under progress. 

My wife called me at 10am saying that she just managed to close another deal at KLCC. Alhamdulilah. 

Her second appointment also showed a positive feedback despite having to wait for the person that she set the appointment with for more than half and hours. She got really pissed off with the guy for making her to wait. What is the use for setting up appointment if you cannot agreed with the time set. She conveyed her dissatisfaction to the staff and was ready to walk out the office when the staff referred her to another person who was she later find out was the head of training of the company. What a blessing.   

Anyway, that is part and parcel about business. 

In the afternoon, my friend and I went for our Friday prayer at Masjid Negara. We anticipate for some incident to occurs at Masjid Negara in the heat of 'Bersih' demonstration planned for tomorrow, however, we are grateful that nothing happened. Things was normal there but the authorities (DBKL enforcer & Police) had started to close the road at Dataran Merdeka. Traffic started to become congested right after that. Lucky we travelled by motorbike.

Just for your info. The shortcut road in Dayabumi building is now under renovation. So you will not be able to make the shortcut from the road in Central Market to the railway station. 

After my office hour ended at 4.45pm, I fetched my wife at Promet building at Jalan Sultan Ismail and took her for a dinner treat at Restoran Beriani Asif at Jalan Padang Walter Grenier which is near Jalan Imbi. 

I have heard from all my friend that this restaurant serve the best Nasi Beriyani Lamb in this area.  That was why i had to try it. I ordered a plain Nasi Beriyani while my wife ordered a plain roti Nan for dinner. We add a lamb shank for both of us to share. 
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The taste was really marvellous!!. I highly recommended you guys to visit the place and find the taste for yourself. 

After dinner, we went to Pavillion for our movie treat. At first we wanted to see 'Battleship' as my friends all give 5 star rating for the movie. Unfortunately for us,  when we wanted to buy the tickets,  only front row seat are available. So we had to pick something else. 

Some people don't mind sitting in a front row seat in cinema,  but for a tall guy like myself... it really big deal. We would not be comfortable. 

Then there was 'The Avengers' showing to but it was selling like a hot cake and moreover, the show time was a bit late. At last we end-up buying movie tickets of  'Lockout' starring Guy Pearce (ex-husband of Madonna) as the main actor. 
Lockout Movie

At first, my wife and i were quite upset with our purchase. At that moment, we thought the right moved was to head home as our intention was not full filled but when the show started , we found out that there movie was quite fun to watch. We love the dialogue especially Guy Pearce dialogue. 

The movie is not suitable for children as it are full with violence but its still up to the parent discretion.  

Even though the movie is label as 18SG, we found out some parent still bring their children along.   

Sunday, March 18, 2012

The End of School holidays

In the name of Allah, the merciful. 

 
The 1 week school holidays ends today.

Schools in Selangor will be opening tomorrow.

The traffic will switch back to its original congested mode.

Riding down the road on my motorbike to work during school holidays was really enjoyable as there are few cars on the road.

This was because many people are already on holidays with their family. Mostly, outside of KL area.

For the state of Kelantan, Kedah and Terengganu, schools are open today. I didn't get a chance to call my son, Imran, to ask about how he was doing.  There has been a lot of work at my office lately.  A higher bar of expectation has been raised on our performance for this year. 

Before the school holidays, my company had given out bonuses to all staff for last year’s performance.  Alhamdulillah.  The amount was not as much as compared to last year’s, but as for me, the amount is what Allah has set for me and i'm very grateful to Him for that. A lot of people are getting lesser than me. 

Of course, during this time, issues about unfairness of the bonuses quantum or proportionality crop up. It is hard to effectively measure the level of one’s performance with the reward system. 

Is it fair for a manager earning RM50,000 a month to receive the same quantum of three months’ bonus as his  junior staff who earns RM2,500 a month.  The answer is up to the individual to judge.  I myself do not have the answer. 

I think the real issue here is about an individual dealing with his own expectations. As for me, my expectation is simple. The  amount that i received has been pre-determined  for me by Allah. As a Muslim, I believe that everything happens with Allah’s permission as stated as one of our Pillars of Faith called Qada' & Qadar.

Every day, in our prayers, we pray for goodness and happiness in our life. Sometimes goodness and happiness come in small packages. 

There is a sign on how you could identify whether your life is bless by Allah. First is having a good wife, second, a good home and lastly a good transportation for you to go around. This three things, if its bring headache or sorrow to you, then maybe something is wrong and you need to recheck again your relationship with Allah. Of course, this sign are not meant for bachelor kind of person. 
 


Speaking about expectation, today i had a maths class for standard 2 & standard 3 students which age group are at 9 and 10 years old. 

I got this expectation that this group of students is a type of naive person, an obedient, shyness, and sometime talkative. But never in my mind, i imagine this kind of group to instil sort of sarcastic, outspoken, bullying and harassment elements. 

Actually, i'm not referring to all the student in the group. It is only involving one or two person. The way they communicated i similar to the host of gossip shows. 

Some of her statement :

" Oh teacher, she is truly stupid because she is always lazy to memorise her calculation."

" Oh teacher, in this class, there is one girl different among the others. All of us is wearing veil, only "she" not wearing one"

" Oh teacher, you also strange as you are a man while all of us are girls"

"Oh teacher, i am the smartest among all as they are all lazy to do their school works"

I know this is just words coming from kids. To come across something like this is a first for me and it is beyond my imagination. It stun on my reflexes  to responses toward  the incident. 

I know that as a teacher and as an adult, i should reprimand the student for saying unaccepted words  toward other student by explaining what she had said is wrong. 

But as a man, we are a kind of a species which could not multi-task ... hihihi...:) (It is a fact or a statement...hmm)

As my focus is more towards the subject which i'm currently teaching, i  kinda forgot to add the elements of 'attitude' goodness in my teaching. 

I will improve this in my next class. I had a discussion with my wife on how we can overcome this situation if accounted in the future. Hopefully it will turn well. 

     
p/s : The benchmark of my teaching = I do not teaches my students in anger as anger is one of the attitude of the Satan. And i remember about what the prophet Muhammad pbuh saying that it is not complete the faith of a person who do not love children.


    

Wednesday, February 22, 2012

Ask the Teacher (Tanyalah Ustaz)



Every morning, before i go to work, i would watch this show called 'Tanyalah Ustaz" in channel 9. The show starts at 7 am and end at 8 am. My cut off time to be out from the house and starts heading to my office is 8am. I'm using a motorbike to go to work.  If i starts the journey beyond that time limit, i'm surely would not be able to reach my office in time. When i travel by car to go to work, i need to be out much earlier than that which is before 7.30am.

My office hour starts at 8.45am and i normally reached office around 8.30am or 8.40 am. Just nice!..

The distance from my house in Shah Alam to my office in Jalan Raja Chulan is about 40km. Hence, i travel 80km everyday to and fro. It is hard and painful especially to the butt. Sitting 40 minute on the motorbike travelling to work and back home can be really "pain in the butt'. But as time goes, you will get use to it.

It is very time and cost saving for me to travel to work by motorbike  than other mode of transportation. Furthermore, there is no problem in finding parking spot for a bike.

Anyway, I just want to share some of the info about today's preach. It is about getting rewarded by Allah by only watching.

The ustaz said

" There is 4 things that the action that we did by only watching, shall be rewarded by Allah with 'good deeds" (Pahala). Some ulama said 5 but i want to mention 4 only."

1. Watch the Prophet Muhammad S.A.W.                                                                  
        (We cannot do this anymore as the Prophet p.b.u.h, is no longer with us)


2. Watch the Ka'abah.                                                                     
       (Watching a picture of Ka'abah can be accounted too)



3. Watch the Quran.
      (But this does not mean we should stop by watching the Quran only, we should read it and the 
      rewards will be more as each of the arabic characters will be accounted as one good deed and 
      shall be multiplied by 10 good deeds. 




4. Watch your parents. 



As for the item no. 4, i'm telling myself to increase my effort to please my parents further. May Allah give me the strength and resources for me to achieve this. Sometimes, we are to caught up with work, personal problems and our own family affairs, we forget to ask about our parents conditions, their state of health, feeling and current life. 


When we were children, our parents care for us, feed us, love us and cherish us through our up and down. They do it out of love without thinking of any returns.

But when we grow up, we got our own life and set of family, we place them aside from our new life till they feel deserted and far apart from us.


May Allah forgive me of all my ignorant and my weaknesses in caring for my parents. My prayers to all my friends and relative for that too. 

Friday, February 17, 2012

Good Quote...

Syed al-Qutub said  


"Oppression even how strong it is, it will not last and;
 Good things even how weak it is, shall achieve victory. "





p/s : My doa goes out to all Muslims in the world who are currently being oppressed, may Allah grant you with patience and strength to face His obstacles and may He reward you with Jannah. Amin   
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Kata-kata Syed al-Qutub

Kezaliman itu walaupun ia sekuat mana sekalipun, ia tetap tidak akan berkekalan dan kebaikan walaupun lemah, ia pasti akan meraih kemenangan.





Exam preparation

Its already 1.26am yet I am still up, busily preparing for my tuition students' exam tomorrow. I'm doing some research on the net to find some maths questions for the topics which i have covered for my students. I am done preparing questions for standard 4. Now, i am preparing questions for standard 2,3,5,6 and form 2.

It seems like a lot things to do but with internet it is easy. As a Researcher in Affin Bank, finding information is like a walk in the park for me. I might need another hour or so to complete the task.

This is the good thing about internet, you have the choice to use it in a good way or in a harmful way. It depends on the intention of the user.  I  remembered about what was said by the ustaz during one of the daily sermons that was held at my office surau. 




The  Ustaz (religious teacher) was sharing about his son's doubt as to why the Majlis Ulama Indonesia (MUI) wanted to come out with a Fatwa (religious ruling) to ban the social media, especially Facebook, to the Muslims.



(Later MUI had denied that they wanted to impose the ban ruling. Instead, they only wanted to give advice to people to be careful when using the social media. The statement on the banning was being sensationalised by the press the increase the sale of their newspapers.)Read link here or here (for Malay version)


So the Ustaz was explaining to his son,  that it actually depends on who is using it and their purpose. Take a  a knife for an example. A person who holds the knife, if he is a cook, and his intention is to cut something for his cooking, then the ruling would be HARUS or HALAL (permissible) but if the person who holds it is a crazy man, then the ruling would be HARAM (forbidden) because a crazy person has the potential to cause injury to himself and other people.   

Even if the person is a sane man, but if his intention is to kill somebody, then the hukum (ruling) is also HARAM. So basically, in Islam, the intention of a person determines whether he/she is committing sins or good deed. Social media is only a tool. It all depends on the person who is using it to determine whether they use it for good or evil.

Wednesday, February 15, 2012

English writing journey


It seems that writing this blog in English has become a big burden for me. I find out that it is very difficult for me to express my mind by writing in English. The moment i wanted to start writing this blog, i feel like having a big block of rock being placed on top of my head. Pressing it hard until i become stress unnecessarily.

So, if you happen to stumble in this blog and got a time to read in any of the past or future entry, please excuse me for the long-winded sentences used or any grammatical errors mistakes that you might find.

Lucky for me, bloggers got a spell check system that could correct my spelling, if not my learning spirit toward learning the language surely will crushing down like a stock market black Monday.  

Anyway, i'm not trying to make any excuses. I won't stop writing in English either. I will strive writing this blog in English even if i have to take hours of time to complete it. 

In my country, Malaysia, there are some taboo among the people about a person who cannot master English language. They perceive them as stupid. Those who mastered the language sometime feel that they are  superiority over the others who done. Hence, some people like to use it when scolding somebody like "You bloody stupid" ... hahaha... just kidding...that is me saying. 

Some of this people when they speak English, they try to add  British/American  slang into it so that people could recognise he/she as a person who good in English. Like announcing 'hey look, i could speak better English than you all". Hahaha.. what a funny world we live in!  

Through out my working years in the banking arena for almost 12 years, i notice people that could write or communicate English better, could progress faster in their career even thought work wise they are not good with the job. Or maybe, some elements of suck up to somebody add inside which  i do not know of. 

But the fact is, mastering an additional language other than you mother tongue language give some advantages to an individuals. It give confident on oneself in expressing their thoughts in English especially when the need requires it. That is why when the government revert back their decision on teaching science and mathematics in English at school to Bahasa Melayu, I kinda sceptical and wonders why?

I'm a product of Malay educated system. And look what it created to my whole batch. Even thought there are some successfully one who manage to master the language, a majority of our batch do not. It is all due to lack of practises. After learning the language for 14 to 15 years, majority of us still struggle with the language and things back to square one. 

I have the opportunites to observe the Malay communities in Singapore which they are thought in English educated system. Their Malay language does not lost as some of the worries that Malay Language expert shared. They still communicate Malay with their families and friends. What is really interesting is that their ability to communicate English confidently with foreigners. Sometimes they use wrong choice of words and bad grammar but people still say that their English are good. It all just a matter of confident. 
    
Actually we must not care much about the people perception on us. The most important thing in life is about Allah's perceptions. As a vicegerent of Allah's in this world, we must know that our existent in this world is to submit to His desire and orders. That is to worship Allah as one and only God, to pray to him and to submit to all the do and don't that He have rule out for us to follow.   

Language is just a tools for communication. A person who master more language could preach about Allah's and the Messenger message to a wider crowd.

Learning English is a journey, it is one of Allah's knowledge. Therefore, Learning Allah's knowledge is like journey of doing a Jihad in the name of Allah.


Wallahua'lam...  Amin 

P/S : Its 2 am, and i need to wake up at 6 am tomorrow for morning prayers and work.

Monday, February 13, 2012

Teaching experience...

Since early this year, I have been teaching a group of standard 3, 4, 5, 6 and form 2 students mathematics. The class is held every Saturday and Sunday. It has been a very exciting experience for me since then. I think, the last time i teached was during my college years in UUM Matriculation in Sintok Kedah.

Those days i joined a club that did a lot of motivational camps to school students in Perlis, Langkawi and Kedah. So doing this kinda bring back the memories of teaching those student back then.

My wife also have a group of student of her own. She teaches English. So together, we both operate our small tuition centre together at our living room. Currently, we have about 20 student under us.

Our class is growing despite we do not do any marketing. Our marketing is mainly just based on word of mouth from the parents, aunt and friend which stays near our surrounding areas. Alhamdulillah...

A part from this children, my wife also teaches adult english class every Thursday night which i written in the previous entry.

Now, my wife and i seldom have the free time to spend during our weekends. The things that we enjoyed doing such as travelling, photography, etc, now had to be put on hold.

However, we don't miss much for not doing those things because we find teaching very interesting. Our students are very exciting as they are highly spirit, eager to learn and very competitive toward learning the topics that we covers. Their enjoyment towards learning provide us joy and spirit in our heart to teach our student the best that we can (with Allah's permission, Insya Allah).

My wife is not new in teaching world. She had teaches english since her teen years in Singapore doing tuition as part time job. Having her school years educated in English language makes her having less problem in teaching english to student.

The idea of setting up a tuition class comes from her. She started with teaching english to a bunch of primary students. At that time, she was having a luxury of time to be filled in so she take up part time in teaching english at our home.

When, she set up a training company for oil and gas training, she wanted to stop teaching but she doesn't have the heart to break the news to her students. So she decided to continue teaching until end of the year. How her joy and happiness shown every time she receive news that her student excellent in their english studies.

However, business can be up and down sometimes. Especially during early of the year as company had yet finalise their training budgets. So bad time requires for some sacrifices which i had to step in. As a man of the house, I know i had the obligation to provide for my family needs. I have been bless and thankful that my wife has help with some of the households expenses. Furthermore, i feel pity to see her exhausted every time she finished her class.

As we frequently travel to visit our sons in Kota Bharu, especially during school holidays, our resources can be drained quite fast.

Hence, we decided to expand our home tuition by adding mathematic for primary and secondary school with me as the teacher. After nearly 20 years leaving some of the subject away, a quick revision helped to refresh back the memory on how to solve problems in mathematics.

I got some request to teach form 4 student, but i had to decline as those level need some extra work to be done which i kinda not having the time to do it. Furthermore, form 4 involve not only mathematic subject but also additional mathematic subject. I need to do a lot of revising in order for me to teach both the subject.
Every time after class, my wife and i always discuss about our teaching methods and how our student response in class towards our teaching. We always worries whether our student can cope or not with our style or the most important thing is whether they understand the topic that we teaches or not?

Teaching is truly tiring and if compares with the returns that we get from doing this, it not that much but the experience we gain is beyond words.

We treat our work in this tuition business as our preparation for HereAfter. The is a hadith that says that after once we died, we still gain a reward from Allah if we got 3 things which one of its says teaches people of knowledge that can be useful to mankind.


The whole hadith mention like this :

Hadrat Abu Huraira (may Allah be pleased with him) reported Allah's Messenger (may Allah's blessings and peace be upon him) as saying, "Among the actions and good deads for which a believer will continue to receive reward after his death are knowledge which he taught and spread, a good son whom he left behind, or a copy of the Qur'an which he left as a legacy, or a mosque he built, or a house which he built for the traveller, or a stream which he caused to flow, or a sadaqa which he gave from his property when he was alive and well, for which he will continue to receive reward after his death."
(Ibn Majah and Baihaqi)

I hope Allah will accept my wife and I action in teaching this as our 'amal jariah' for our preparation in the HereAfter.

As a human being, we can never run or avoid from making any sins in the past or in coming future. We hope Allah could grand us our prayers to end our life as a muslim with 'takwa' and 'Iman'

Say, "Indeed, my prayer, my rites of sacrifice, my living and my dying are for Allah , Lord of the worlds. (Surah Al An'am:162)
Ayat 162 Surah Al-An'am yang bermaksud: "Katakanlah (wahai Muhammad) "Sesungguhnya solatku, ibadatku, hidup dan matiku hanya untuk Allah, Tuhan sekelian alam."

For those who read this, if maybe in the past, my wife and i had any wrong doing that could hurt your feeling, either noticed or unnoticed, kindly forgive us please. Our weaknesses shows that we just a human being. As a vicegerent of Allah, we tried our best to do what was being told by Allah for us to do and what is not. Amin...


Some of our standard 2 & 3 students


Thursday, February 9, 2012

New Year New Mission

It has been a while since i last updated my blog. My interest in writing blog has worn out. It is not because i'm busy with work but maybe the burning desire to write isn't there anymore.

Nevertheless, today, i'm back. The desire to write has started to ignite. And I have to give credit and thanks to the students of my wife's small English adult class.


Since last year, my wife has been teaching a small group of working adults English lessons. 2 men and a lady. They are all working at a factory which is situated near our house. Every Thursday, they will come to our house and learn English in our living room which we have turned into a small classroom.

While my wife is teaching, i will sit at the conner of our living room with my computer, surfing the internet quietly and try not to interrupt the class. I feel like a little boy watching his mommy at work. Just kidding dear! hahaha.

The truth is, i'm there just to show support to my wife as well as learn a few lessons that i could pick along the way.

What i love and kinda admire about the class is the passion that the students show in the class. Learning can be quite difficult for adults due to our responsibilities and hectic lifestyles.

Week after week , i saw them progress and improve in their English language. I feel so envious. I also dream in mastering the language because my work requires me to write a lot. Especially on the economy and the business sector.

After doing some thinking and self-reflection, i decided to start blogging again. Is that all? No this is just a start. The beginning ... other actions will follow. At least for now, i have a purpose to write. This is my journey to mastering English...


Islamic view in seeking knowledge
Our beloved prophet Muhammad (PBUH) said: The seeking of knowledge is obligatory for every Muslim (Al-Tirmidhi Hadith 218)

If anyone travels on a road in search of knowledge, Allah will cause him to travel on one of the roads of Paradise. The angels will lower their wings in their great pleasure with one who seeks knowledge, the inhabitants of the heavens and the Earth and the fish in the deep waters will ask forgiveness for the learned man. The superiority of the learned man over the devout is like that of the moon, on the night when it is full, over the rest of the stars. The learned are the heirs of the Prophets, and the Prophets leave neither dinar nor dirham (money), leaving only knowledge, and he who takes it takes an abundant portion. (Sunan of Abu-Dawood Hadith 3634).



Friday, September 30, 2011

Ku panjangkan doaku kepadamu Ya Allah...

Hari Jumaat , waktu kerja aku tamat pukul 4.45 ptg. Sampai rumah, isteri aku masih tak balik lagi. Beliau ke Pasaraya Mydin bersama sepupu aku, Alis membeli sedikit barang dapur.

Hari ini, isteri aku akan berpindah pejabat yang disewanya dari Menara Kenanga di Jalan Sultan Ismail ke sebuah pejabat baru di seksyen 26, Shah Alam. Selain kedudukannya yang dekat dengan rumah, kos sewanya juga agak murah. Cuma yang kurang adalah beberapa peralatan pejabat dan keadaan bau yang kurang menyenangkan yang boleh diperbaiki.

Jadi hari ini, abis semua barang dipejabat lama telah diangkutnya. Esok akan bermulanya operasi mencuci pejabat tersebut. Satu kontraktor telah dilantik untuk menguruskannya iaitu aku sebab perkhidmatan yang aku berikan adalah percuma. Sekadar bantuan kecil menyokong pekerjaan baik orang yang kita sayang, dan juga tanda kasih kita yang tidak berbelah bagi... Cheeaa wah.. .

Tak tahu sempat atau tidak nak bereskan kerja-kerja pembersihan tersebut memandangkan Alis menjemput kerumah pada sebelah malam sempena jamuan hari raya untuk rakan-rakannya walaupun bulan syawal sudah pun berakhir.

Dia suruh isteri dan aku hadir dan bagi memastikan kami berdua hadir, dia kirim isteri aku untuk belikan roti kirai untuk untuk majlis tersebut

27hb September yang lalu adalah harijadi isteri. Tapi usia tak leh lah aku nak nyatakan disini. Sensitif. Terima kasih kapada kawan-kawan yang memberi ucapan selamat hari jadi. Cuma sekarang nak mintak rakan-rakan doakan agar aku dan isteri dimurahkan rezeki nanti dengan dikurniakan zuriat untuk tahun ini.

Aku tak sambut sangat hari jadi isteri tahun ini sebab budget ada sedikit lari. Itu pun aku belanja dia pergi makan KFC guna kupon hot tiket yang bagi ayam free...Nasib baik isteri faham.

Sebenarnya, sekarang kami berdua memang tengah berusaha kuat untuk dapatkan anak. Setiap kali melawat rakan-rakan yang mendapat anak yang baru, aku tengok sayu aje isteri aku. Maklumlah usia ni kian meningkat. Padahal dia ini, sangat sukakan kanak-kanak dan amat pandai melayan mereka.

Pelbagai cara dah dilakukan, daripada jumpa doktor pakar terkenal di Bukit Antarabangsa, pergi buat operation untuk betulkan rahim, kemudian buat proses persenyawaan. Semuanya tak berhasil . Nak cerita proses-proses itu pun naik malu aku... Padahal doktor mengatakan kami berdua tiada masalah apa-apa. Ni semua nak buat duit aje... Nasib baik tak buat IVF.... pasti kering duit kocek kami nanti.

Apa-apa pun ini semua pengalaman. Aku boleh katakan bahawa aku dah merasai perjalanan didalam dua dunia. Dunia yang mudah mendapat zuriat dan dunia yang sukar untuk mendapat zuriat. Sekurang-kurangnya aku lebih memahami akan perasaan orang-orang yang melalui pengalaman sebegini.

Sekarang, aku dan isteri tengah berubat dengan seorang bidan di Singapura. Boleh katakan tiap-tiap hari Jumaat aku akan balik ke Singapura untuk berubat dengan beliau. Itu yang lari budget tu. Kena pulak musim raya. Tahun ini aku nak pergi beraya di rumah sedara mara di KL pun nak kena tengok dulu. Nak jaga budget punya pasal.

Masa isteri ceritakan pada mak bidan bahawa isteri ada buat pembedahan untuk betulkan rahim, beliau marah sebab beliau mengatakan itu semua tidak perlu. Itu cuma doktor nak buat duit jer. Urut sahaja sebenarnya jawapannya. Bila beliau urut beliau dapati kedudukan yang dibuat pun tidak berapa betul. Jadi sekarang ini beliau kena urut isteri untuk perbetulkan kedudukan rahim dan urat-urat di dalam badan.

Untuk aku, treatment dia senang jer... dia suruh aku minum air kopi bercampur dengan gula Melaka. Tapi ini bukan kopi dan gula Melaka sebarangan. Bahan-bahan itu sebelum itu telah dibacakan doa oleh makcik tersebut.

Selain itu, kami juga disuruh minuman air mineral yang telah dibacakan yasin & doa oleh anak-anak yatim tahfis disana. Ini memang betul-betul pengalaman berharga buat aku. Tak pernah terlintak difikiran akau untuk mengalami perjalan hidup sebegini.

Sebenarnya aku dan isteri redha dengan ketentuan kami. Sesungguhnya Allah mengetahui apa yang tidak kami ketahui. Cuma kali ini kami berdoa agar usaha kami kali ini berhasil.

Untuk anakku Imran dan Iman, jika suatu hari nanti, kalau Imran dan Iman membaca coretan ini, abah nak beritahu bahawa abah sentiasa rindukan kalian berdua. Mama juga begitu. Dulu masa bercerai dengan ummi, orang tanya kenapa abah taknak ambil hak penjagaan imran dan iman. Jawapannya kerana abah berpegang kepada hadis dan al quran yang mengatakan bahawa asuhan ibu itu adalah lebih baik. Imran dan Iman masa itu masih kecil. Kedua, abah tidak mahu memisahkan kamu berdua. Jadi kamu berdua kena mempunyai hubungan yang akrab.

Setiapkali abah talifon Imran, satu patah abah tanya, satu patah Imran jawab. Sedih jugak abah. Cuma kadang-kadang abah sedih sebab abah tak dapat nak berkongsi banyak ilmu yang abah ada pada Imran dan Iman.

Jadi kalau nanti ditakdirkan Imran dan Iman dapat adik lagi, abah harap Imran dan Iman akan menjaga adik kamu dan punyai hubungan yang akrab dengan mereka.





Wednesday, September 28, 2011

Persatuan penduduk Jalan Pangsun & Jalan Rinching

- Gambar selepas tamat majlis hari raya untuk penduduk pada 25 Sept 2011


Ini adalah sebahagian ahli didalam jawatankuasa penduduk untuk Jalan Pangsun & Jalan Rinching.

Persatuan penduduk ini mulanya ditubuhkan bagi membanteras kegiatan jenayah yang berlaku di kawasan kediaman kami. Selain menjalankan aktiviti-aktiviti bagi mengeratkan hubungan dikalangan jiran tetangga, persatuan penduduk ini juga ada membuat rondaan secara sukarela pada malam hari untuk mengekang aktiviti pecah rumah yang kerap berlaku dikawasan perumahan kami.

Sumbang mereka ini amat dihargai. Semoga Allah membalas jasa-jasa mereka dengan ganjaran pahala yang besar.

Ayah aku adalah salah seorang daripada jawatankuasa ini. Oleh itu secara tak langsung aku pun terbabit sama didalam menyumbang tenaga didalam perkara-perkara yang didalam kemampuan aku.

Perjuangan utama untuk tahun ini adalah untuk mendapatkan persetujuan daripada majoriti penduduk untuk mengadakan kutipan wang bagi membiayai kos pengawal keselamatan untuk menjaga keselamatan kawasan kediaman kami.

Seterusnya mengutip dana untuk membiayai kos pagar bagi menjadikan kawasan kami 'gated community'.

Ia adalah satu cabaran yang sukar kerana bukan semua penduduk disini sukakan idea tersebut memandangkan tidak semua mendiami rumah disini tetapi menyewakan pada orang lain. Lebih-lebih lagi ia melibatkan kos bayaran bulanan.

Namun, kami berdoa agar usaha kami ini akan berjaya supaya kami nanti akan dapat menikmati kemudahan kediaman kami dengan lebih selamat.

Sunday, August 7, 2011

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Sunday, June 12, 2011

Berblog kembali

Sudah lama aku tak update blog ini. Sebenarnya, aku dah semakin kurang hendak berblog. Maklumlah, kehidupan aku sekarang dah semakin sibuk. Dengan kerja dan tanggungjawab yang semakin bertambah, sokong pada isteri tercinta didalam memajukan lagi perniagaan lagi, dengan belajar dll.

Sekarang dah pukul satu, tapi mata aku masih segar lagi. Semalam aku baru balik dari Kelantan menghantar anak-anak aku kepada ex-wife. Sudah dua minggu mereka bersama aku disini. Bertolak awal pagi dalam pukul 5.30 pagi. Solat Subuh sekejap di Petronas di leburaya NKVE dan tiba disana dalam pukul 2.00 petang. Lambat jugak lah sampai, sebabnya aku bawa kereta rileks aje. Malas nak terkejar-kejar. Lagipun sepanjang perjalanan banyak kereta. Dan yang hairannya, setiap kali berselisih kereta yang menghala ke KL, semuanya mengibarkan bendera Kelantan.

Hairan juga aku, ada majlis apa? Kemudian teringatkan Kelantan masuk final bolasepak lawan Terengganu. Patut lah berderet-deret kereta menghala ke KL. Sungguh bersemangat ! Aku tak berapa minat sangat dengan bola. Jadi jarang aku ikut perkembangannya itu. Tapi sayang, tadi bapak aku cakap keputusan perlawanan bola dimenangi oleh Terengganu. Kesian pulak aku rasa.

Jadi bila sampai ke Kelantan terus hantak mereka kepada maknya. Tengok anak-anak pergi ikut mak nya ... rasa syahdu pulak. Isteri aku pun sama. Dia rapat dengan anak aku yang bongsu, Iman, sebab dia pandai ambil hati orang. Isteri bercerita, "Iman ingat 2 minggu itu masih lama lagi. Dia suruh Mama (panggil untuk isteri) beritahu pada Mama supaya beritahu Abah untuk hantar lambat-lambat sikit.

Tapi apa nak buat. Hidup memang begitu. Kita tak boleh nak sentiasa dapat apa yang kita inginkan. Teringat aku dengan ceramah agama yang berkumandang di radio semasa dalam perjalanan tadi.

Kata ustaz tersebut, "dunia ini tempat ujian. Orang yang banyak ketawa didunia, takut diakhirat dialah yang paling banyak menangis.

Dunia ini bukan tempat untuk bersenang-lenang. Dunia memang tempat penuh dengan keluh kesah dan masalah. Semuanya hanya kerana Allah mahukan kita untuk sentiasa ingat kepadaNya.

Anugerah Allah itu teramatlah banyak. Dia tak pernah mintak sebarang bayaran pun tapi hanya sekadar beribadat kepadaNya serta taat akan segala perintahnya. Kemudian jika Allah bagi kita kesenangan, dia mintak kita untuk membantu menyenangkan hamba-hambanya yang lain sebagai balas atas anugerah yang telah beliau berikan itu. "

Akan tetapi, aku percaya setiap sesuatu punyai hikmah tersendiri. Aku terbaca di dalam akhbar beberapa hari lalu mengenai isu warga tua yang dah pencen. Kebanyakkan mereka menghadapi kemurungan semasa mencapai usia tersebut. Kenangan yang paling mereka kerap fikirkan adalah semasa bersama anak-anak. Akan tetapi bila anak-anak sudah dewasa, mereka sudah mempunyai kehidupan sendiri dan ini menyebabkan ibubapa mereka rasa tersisih dan kesunyian.

Mungkin aku tidak akan terasa kehilangan dan tersisih sangat bila anak-anak sudah membesar nanti. Mungkin ujian aku lain. Sesungguhnya Allah hanya akan menguji seseorang itu dengan ujian yang mampu ditempuhinya sahaja. Allah tidak akan menguji seseorang diluar kemampuannya.

Selepas hantar anak, aku ke Rumah makcik Nah di Lundang untuk tumpang bermalam. Tapi malangnya beliau tiada dirumah. Kakak ipar beliau yang duduk selang satu rumah pun senyap sunyi. Jadi aku ambil keputusan untuk balik aje lah. Lagipun aku biasanya bila ambil anak-anak aku akan balik hari. Aku malas nak menumpang rumah orang sebab taknak menyusahkan mereka.

Aku pergi rumah mereka sebab mak aku kirimkan sedosen sos cili Thai yang dibuat sendiri oleh beliau untuk diberikan kepada Makcik Nah & kakak iparnya. Jadi kalau dah sampai rumah mesti kena tidur semalam kat situ. Kang tolak kecik hati pulak.

Memandangkan mereka tiada, aku tinggalkan botal didepan pintu rumah berserta nota sebagai makluman.

Bertolak pulang pukul 3 petang. Dah aku mengantuk sangat, aku mintak isteri untuk bawak kereta sampai ke R&R Gua Musang untuk bagi peluang aku untuk 'power nap' sekejap. Sampai R&R Gua Musang aku take over. Sampai rumah tepat pukul 11.30 malam.


Wednesday, April 6, 2011

Takkan pisang berbuah dua kali kot?


Senior Customs officer in graft probe falls to death at MACC building

KUALA LUMPUR: A senior Customs officer being investigated by the MACC for graft involving unpaid taxes is believed to have fallen to his death from the 3rd floor of the MACC Building in Jalan Cochrane on Wednesday morning.

The MACC has identified the officer as Selangor assistant director Ahmad Sarbani Mohamed, 56.

MACC director of investigations Datuk Mustafar Ali said Ahmad was among those detained on April 1 in a nationwide operation and released on bail the next day.

The side of the MACC building where Ahmad Sarbani's body was found.

He had arrived at the MACC building here alone on a motorbike at 8.26am and asked to see the investigating officer who, however, was at a meeting.

Ahmad waited at the lobby until 9.30am. Then, an officer took him to a room on the third floor and was with him until 10.15am.

The officer then left the room for a few minutes to call the investigating offier.

When he returned, he found Ahmad missing.

Ahmad's body was found lying on the first floor open-air badminton court at 10.20am, Mustafar said.

Meanwhile, Kuala Lumpur CPO Datuk Zulkifli Abdullah said a special task force has been set up to investigate the case, which has been classified as sudden death.

He said the body has been sent to Hospital Kuala Lumpur for a post mortem, and urged people not to speculate.

MACC'S STATEMENT ON THE INCIDENT

KUALA LUMPUR: Pada hari ini, 6 April 2011 diantara jam 10.15 pagi hingga jam 10.20 pagi satu kejadian telah berlaku di bangunan Suruhanjaya Pencegahan Rasuah Malaysia (SPRM) Wilayah Persekutuan Kuala Lumpur, Jalan Cochrane, Kuala Lumpur dimana seorang individu telah ditemui meninggal dunia.

Individu yang ditemui meninggal dunia ini dikenal pasti sebagai Ahmad Sarbani bin Mohamed, berumur 56 tahun, seorang Penolong Pengarah Kastam daripada Jabatan Kastam DiRaja Malaysia, Selangor.

SPRM mengesahkan bahawa penama berkenaan adalah diantara pegawai Kastam yang telah ditahan pada 1 April 2011 jam 1.00 tengahari di Pejabat Kastam Pelabuhan Utara, Pelabuhan Kelang. Penama tersebut setelah membantu dalam siasatan yang melibatkan operasi 3B iaitu satu siasatan berkaitan kesalahan di bawah Akta Suruhanjaya Pencegahan Rasuah Malaysia 2009, telah dilepaskan melalui jaminan pada hari Sabtu 2 April 2011 jam 12.30 tengahari. Penama tersebut telah pun meninggalkan pejabat SPRM Wilayah Persekutuan Kuala Lumpur selepas dilepaskan melalui jaminan tersebut.

Pada hari ini, Rabu 6 April 2011 jam 8.26 pagi, penama berkenaan telah datang ke Pejabat SPRM Wilayah Persekutuan Kuala Lumpur bersendirian dengan menunggang sebuah motorsikal. Penama ini telah meminta untuk berjumpa dengan pegawai penyiasat bagi berbincang mengenai kes terhadapnya. Oleh kerana pegawai-pegawai sedang bermesyuarat maka penama berkenaan telah menunggu di lobi pejabat sehingga jam 9.30 pagi.

Penama tersebut kemudian telah diiringi oleh seorang pegawai ke bilik pejabatnya untuk mendapatkan pegawai penyiasat menemui penama tersebut. Pegawai yang mengiringi penama tersebut telah berada bersamanya dalam bilik pejabat pegawai berkenaan.

Pada jam lebih kurang 10.15 pagi, pegawai yang mengiringi beliau telah meninggalkan penama tersebut di pejabatnya dan keluar sebentar pergi mendapatkan pegawai penyiasat. Dalam beberapa minit kemudian, pegawai tersebut telah kembali ke pejabatnya dan mendapati penama berkenaan tiada dalam bilik berkaitan.

Setelah mencari dalam kawasan pejabat, seorang pegawai telah terlihat satu tubuh manusia terlantar di tingkat 1 bangunan pejabat ini.

SPRM telah pun memaklumkan kejadian ini kepada keluarga simati dan pihak pengurusan jabatannya serta menyerahkan perkara ini kepada pihak Polis untuk mengambil sebarang tindakan.

Cara-cara nak buat telur tiruan. (disamping mengenalinya)

Dengan nama Allah yang Maha Pemurah Lagi Maha Mengasihani

Tadi terbaca didalam blog Azzeyatin tentang kes penipuan mengenai telur tiruan di Penang. Laman web Laman KL-Today.com turut menyiarkan artikel yang sama berserta gambar yang berikut :-


Mari kenal pasti ciri-ciri telur tiruan tersebut untuk mengelakkan diri menjadi mangsa.

"Telur palsu itu bersaiz lebih besar daripada telur ayam sebenar dan apabila dipecahkan ia tidak mempunyai pusat telur, tidak berbau, berkilat dan kasar."

Bila aku google berkaitan hal ini, rupanya memang senang sangat hendak membuat telur tersebut. Di laman blog ini ada mencatatkan cara-cara ia dibuat. (Sila klik)

Harap-harap nanti takde lar kenduri kahwin, orang pakai telur tiruan itu untuk bunga telur dek kerana nak 'save budget' nanti. Kalau nak buat jugak mungkin tak salah, tapi tolong sertakan notis amaran yer...

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