Lipat Kajang Raya 2010

Never had Raya shot & since everyone is around in LK, we'd do it.

Raya 2010

As you can see it was a good raya for us. Everyone was here except Ayah Ri.
Maybe we need a bigger space as everyone is growing, including sideways.

Boi & Wan caught a big carp at the tail end of empang simen. It was big by any standard.
Our plan for the boat was k.i.v due to short time frame. Maybe next school break, there will be boat to enjoy the paya.

Maybe next time we should organise some cooking competition for the girls and coconut climbing contest for the boys. The contest shall carry a few hundred ringgit prize money?
What say you?

Jumaat terakhir Ramadhan 2010.

Ya Allah
Kau rahmatilah kedua ibubapa ku
Ampunkan lah dosa2 mereka
Tempatkan mereka bersama org yg kau cintai

Ya Allah,
Terangilah kubur ibuku
Bagai bulan purnama, Ya Allah
Kau lapangkanlah ia
Selapang taman di shorga

Ya Allah
Kau halalkan setiap titik susu ibuku
Yg menghilangkan lapar & dahagaku
Setiap keringat yg dia tumpahkan
kerana membesarkan aku

Ya Allah
Aku berdosa
Kerana melebihkan diri, isteri dan anak
dari kedua orang tuaku
Ampunkan lah aku Ya Allah.

Tak maju?.

One time while we were in the car, on the way back from her hostel, Yaya suggested that I quit my present work, sell my company & apply for jobs in factories.
I asked her why?
She said her friends yg bapak mereka kerja di kilang semua drive kereta besar!

Auw, now I know where the discussion is going.
She was worried about my old Sentra. Now I remember she once told me not to pick her in my older van...
Ha ha my poor suffering daughter.

So I asked her did she know how our beloved Prophet lived.
She said no.
So I told her what I know about how Rasulullah lived 1400 something years ago.
Rasulullah could have asked for the hills around Mekah to be turned into gold, if he wanted to, but he didn't.
Allah maha kaya & Rasulullah adalah kekasihNya. He could have asked for anything.
Why?

I am not a religious man but I am her father & I know a little bit of halal & haram. I have tried my best to earn my keeps in ways that I see fit to feed us.
I told her rezeki manusia berbeza beza. Ada yg Allah swt bagi lebih dan ada yg dapat kurang.
Ada yg sedang sedang.

Does that mean I work less than I should?
Maybe yes? There are ways & means that I haven't tried & I prefer to keep it that way.
Kalu macam tu tak maju la!
Takpe lah. Tak maju pun ok.
My wife also think I should make more so that we can move to a bungalow somewhere. A lot of her friends dah upgrade to bungalows.
I just buat bodoh.
What do you think?

Cooking class

Nampak gaya Kak Long & Hasra tengah training masak tu.
Nanti bole kita singgah rumah dia & try masakan dia.

Antara kita & mereka.

Apakah beza antara kita, org Islam dan mereka, bukan Islam?

Hanya dari segi ibadat? Makan minum? Berpakaian?Pendidikan? Perniagaan? Mencari harta?

Ibarat malam dan siang sebenarnya. Islam ialah cara hidup. Konsep cara hidup kita tak sama dengan cara hidup mereka.
Antara falsapah hidup kita ialah ada Allah swt. Seluroh alam dan isinya dijadikan oleh Allah swt. Manusia bukan di jadikan Allah untuk bebas bersuka suka ikut kehendak hati di dunia ini.

Kita diberi point kalu buat ikut ajaran Allah swt. Kalu tak ikut, akan di denda, hilang point.
Target hidup kita org Islam ialah segala yg kita lakukan ialah untuk Allah swt. Agar Dia sayang pada kita & Dia jemput kita ke ShorgaNya.
Kalu jadi YB, engineer atau lawyer, jadi muslim YB, lawyer atau engineer to please him. Muslim first & ...... later.
Kalu dah jadi engineer yg bijak, idea yg brilliant, jujur, takut Allah, tentu ramai yg nak minta service engineer ni.
Mungkin juga tidak, oleh kerana dia lurus, tak tahu nak tumbuk rusuk, mungkin org penting tak suka nak bekerjasama dgn dia. Jadi mungkin dia tak jadi nak jadi kaya.
Insyaallah, percayalah pd janji Allah. Mungkin duit sedikit tapi berkat.
A little difficult to digest tthis one? Didn't sound like fun.
You can take ur time.

Bukan untuk wang banyak, kereta besar atau rumah besar. Hanya utk Allah swt.
Kita bole berniaga besar. Modal besar & ramai org tompang cari rezeki bersama kita.
Syarat, play & follow the rules.

Ahem, macamana kalu gaji tak naik2 dan niaga tak maju?
Anak & isteri minta tukar kasut, baju, kosen, kereta dan mcm2 lagi lah.
Macamana? Susah lah.
Itu cerita lain ok?

Mudahan kalu Allah sayang pada kita, kita dapat point lagi banyak.
Adakah kita akan punyai cukup point utk ke shorga?
Kita kena collect our daily points!

Ada tengok cerita Life is Beautiful?
Kisah pengembaraan seorg budak Yahudi di Italy bersama bapanya semasa perang dunia kedua di Italy.

Macamana nak bagi Allah swt sayang pada kita?
Kita kena belajar & faham apa yg Dia suka & benci.
Bacalah terjemahan Quran, Hadis Nabi dan buku2 yg di tulis oleh Ulamak.
Bincang bersama kawan, guru dan parents.

Kita kena faham the reason we do certain things & we don't do other things.
Umpamanya dalam soal mencari wang untuk bekalan kehidupan kita di dunia ini.
We have dos & don'ts.
Wang membolehkan kita membeli makanan, pakaian, rumah dan kenderaan.
Makan bole tapi jangan berlebih, itu membazir, nanti banyak masalah. Sakit perut,darah tinggi, jantung, kencing manis dan lain lain yg di sebabkan makan banyak.
Ahem, I should be able to reduce my tummy.
Beli pakaian wajib sebab nak tutup aurat.
Tapi beli branded bukan niatnya nak tutup aurat tapi nak tunjuk ....

"Mereka" akan berusaha mencari sebanyak yg bole tanpa mengira halal dan haram. Pada mereka wang adalah segala galanya.
Wang utk membeli kesenangan, hormat diri, cinta, kuasa. pengaroh, pengikut dan lain?
Mereka anggap wang itu hak mereka yg mutlak, mereka bole belanjakan wang itu ikut suka hati mereka.
Mereka kata"suka hati akulah, duit aku".

Ada umat Islam hari ini yg dapat untung, gaji, bonus dan apa apa lagi, bayar income tax tapi tak bayar zakat. Itu dah macam ikut mereka ha ha

Konsep harta dalam Islam : harta ialah milik Allah yg Allah pinjamkan kpd kita. Ia bukan hakmilik mutlak kita.
Kita tak bole gunakan wang tsbt untuk beli loteri kerana kita akan rugi point!
Adakah cara kita dapatkan wang di senangi Allah swt? Kalu "yes" dapat point.
Adakah cara kita habiskan wang tsbt di senangi Allah? Kalu "No", hilang point.
Adakah proses mencari dan menghabiskan wang ini mendekatkan kita kpd Allah?
Adakah Allah happy with us?

Bacalah...

Cucu Pompuan.

Yg dua di kanan ni sekali tengok dah tau tapi yg tiga d kiri tu tak berapa kenal. Ha ha

Ulu Sungai, Raub.

This is Kg Ulu Sungai in Batu Talam, Raub. I was here for some work in Pusat Diversity, Technology Park Malaysia.

This used to be a Kelah territory but no more.

We met this Tok Batin while we went exploring the river.

Menantu Hj Jantan

I was asked by my wife why I never feature the ladies in the blog. So I look around & found this photo. All are very sweet.

Syukur.

Ustaz bercerita;
Rasulullah sembahyang tahajjud sampai bengkak kaki baginda. Ini kerana baginda membaca surah yg panjang. Lalu isteri baginda, Aishah r.a bertanya kenapa sampai begitu sedangkan segala kesalahan baginda, baik yg lepas atau yg mendatang telah diampunkan Allah swt . Baginda menjawab; Salahkah aku menjadi hamba yg bersyukur?

Physically kita tahu kehidupan di zaman baginda bukanlah sesenang kehidupan kita sekarang. Zaman kita dah senang banyak. Kadangkala baginda berbuka hanya dengan kurma dan air zam zam. Naik kereta tak sama dengan naik kuda.

Adakah ini membuat kita lebih syukur?
Atau kita rasa apa yg kita dapat hari ini adalah hasil usaha kita tanpa kurnia Allah swt?

Apa argument nya?

Kita boleh berusaha sebab kita di berikan "kehendak" oleh Allah swt. Kalu dunia ini di terajui oleh malaikat nescaya dunia kita tak berubah dari dahulu sampai sekarang. Penuh dengan hutan dan binatang. Malaikat tiada kehendak dan nafsu. Malaikat hanya beribadat kpd Allah semata.

Kemudian manusia diberikan "keupayaan". Kita berupaya utk berfikir dan berusaha. Allah mengurniakan kita akal fikiran untuk capai kehendak dan menyelesaikan apa jua masalah kita.
Oleh kerana kita ada akal dan nafsu maka Allah swt berikan kita panduan hidup iaitu Quran dan Sunnah.

Nafsu dan akal adalah kombinasi yg sangat berkuasa dan berbahaya. Tambah lagi dengan adanya bisikan Syaitan. Syaitan akan bisik utk buat jahat. Dia kata takpe, sikit je, sekali je. Tapi sekali akan jadi dua dan seterusnya.

Kita pernah melihat insan yg tidak di kurniakan anugerah ini. Org gila adalah org yg Allah pilih utk menjadi contoh. Harus di ingat org gila tak de dosa. Ha ha :)

Janganlah kita sombong dan mengatakan apa yg kita dapat adalah hasil usaha dan pemikiran kita saja dan bukan kurniaan Allah swt.
Badan yg sihat, pemikiran yg sihat membolehkan kita berusaha. Jangan lupa pada nikmat Allah dan selalu syukur. Syukur jadikan kita org yg lebih baik.

Bagaimana nak syukur?

Selamat hari Merdeka Tok. Tanya lah Tok.

Selamat Hari Merdeka Tok.
Tanyalah Tok apa ertinya berjuang melawan bahaya Komunis sebelum dan selepas Merdeka.

Tok meninggalkan kampong semasa berumur 16tahun untuk mencari kehidupan yg lebih baik bagi dirinya dan keluarga. Dia, abang dia, Tok Teh dan beberapa lagi pemuda kampong dimasa itu telah menyertai Askar Melayu.

Tok tak tahu apa yg bakal yg akan ditempuh sepanjang careernya sebagai Askar Melayu dan kemudian sebagai Askar Wataniah.
Dia tak menjangka yg dia akan menggalas peluru & senjata, mendaki bukit dan menurun lembah, hujan dan panas utk menghapuskan ancaman komunis. Banyak kawan Tok yg terkorban oleh senjata komunis. Tapi Allah swt lindungi Tok & dapat jumpa kita semua.
Tanyalah Tok bagaimana kehidupan sebagai seorang Askar Melayu di tahun 50an dan 60an. (Nanti Hari Raya ucapkan terima kasih kpd Tok kerana memberikan kita kemerdekaan).

Di zaman selepas Perang Dunia ke 2, Komunis sedang hebat memperjuangkan sebuah perjuangan bersenjata menentang Malaya di bawah kerajaan British dan Malaysia selepas merdeka. Ada theory mengatakan mereka memperjuangkan kemerdekaan tapi ada juga Domino Theory.

Akibat perjuangan dan pengorbanan org org seperti Tok, kita hari ini mempunyai kebebasan. Kebebasan utk menentukan berugama, beribadat, belajar dimana, apa nak jadi bila dah besar nanti.
Hanya cita cita dan usaha yg perlu bagi menzahirkan apa yg di idamkan. Tak perlu dapat kebenaran komunis, org British atau org Amerika.
Berapa banyak kita nak makan malam nanti, kita tak perlu menyorok beras macam tok nenek kita di zaman Jepun atau seludup makanan dari Mesir macam sedara kita di Palestin.
Kita bole makan sebanyak mana asalkan kita boleh membeli apa yg kita idamkan itu.

Ertinya kita bole tentukan halatuju kehidupan kita sendiri. Kita lah the master of our destiny?
Jangan lupa the master of our destiny ialah Pencipta kita Allah swt. Hanya dia yg layak jadi master kita bukan British, Amerika atau Jepun dan lain lain nya.

Tapi penjajahan tetap akan berlaku. Ini ialah proses yg hanya berubah bentuk, bukan niat. Negara kuat akan cuba menjajah negara lemah. Mungkin bukan menggunakan senjata tapi dalam bentuk yg lain. Ibarat kata kata dalam filem Godfather, "finance is gun & politic is when to pull the trigger".
Apa yg kita bole buat?

En Manja

Manja of Bt 3 Segari. Dear friend from my years in Malayan Flour Mills. He was a full time boat pilot & part time fisherman then. Now he is fulltime fisherman & part time employee at the flour mill.

I didn't know that he is a sought after chef. Maybe one day we can sample his specialities.

Manja knows a few tukuns around Segari waters & Pangkor if u want to wet ur line.

Trip to Royal Blum

This is the luxury boat u take when u go to Royal Blum. Floating 4star resort.
4 rooms with double single beds is the lazy men idea of going into the wild. Shower & wc on board. Heated pools(believe me the water is warm early in the morning). All u have to do is strip & take ur plunge. Don't forget the float if u forget to swim.
If the fish is not biting u can sing along the Siamese songs at midnight karaoke. Endless round of coffee & tea on the house.

We were blessed when Zul & Bobo, magnificient chefs disguised as policemen joined us. Their steamed baung with tauchu were heaven. Even lowly toman rose to the occasion under their hands.

Fish? There were fishes alright. But the question if we're smart enough to fool them to take ur bait.

City slickers who go fishing according to the books(or magazine) are frustrated lot when fishes are around & none are taking the baits. Their shiny new reels still smelled of plastic.
Lucky the boatman who called his middle age & overweight guests as ayam daging, has few aces up his sleeves.

Suka2 Resort(somewhere in Cenderoh)

School breaks always bring the urge that you need to be somewhere.
City existence is tough on ur soul. U don't really relate to it like u relate to ur kampong. It's cold & impersonal. It's competitive enviroment. Ur in combat mood.
U just need the city to make a living & it's conveniences.

Enjoy it? Mostly no.

That's why you need to be somewhere to get in touch with ur inner self, to unwind, when & wherever u can.

Chance upon Suka2 in the newspaper.
Aznir Malik, self appointed PR guy for the resort wrote a fishy story about the resort & I swallow it hook, line & sinker. Diehard fisho always falls for fishy stories. Me no exception.

Somewhere deep in Cenderoh lake lies a magnificient resort for fisho. You can walk a few steps from your rooms & cast ur baits & have ur catch.

Hj Azlan Bank Muamalat

Sometime in 2003 I had the opportunity to visit Baitullah & Madinah.

I was blessed when Hj Azlan, a Muamalat bank officer, joined our stag party as our guide. He did his haji the previous season & he said he missed Mekah. I guessed it was no coincidence. I was a lost traveler & I need a guide. Allah was great to send someone as nice as Hj Azlan to be my free guide. He did voluntarily. He Offered his services without me asking.

My past

This is Pak Karim of Kg Bkt Tembok, Pasir Panjang, Port Dickson.

The year was 1983. I was an Airforce cadet officer in the nearby Kem Sebatang Karah.
And I was wondering why I was there.
After some soul searching, I packed my bags & left the camp on CNY eve with another cadet, Hamid Karim.

We went AWOL
Hamid also an exUTM. The obvious destination for us was his father house in Pasir Panjang. So I followed him bcos I had nowhere to go. We get to the house just b4 subuh after walking for about 10km.
Pak Karim didn't ask much why we're there early in that morning. Hardly a rest after some food. the MPs arrived with the CO. He told us he's willing to forget the incident if we get back into the truck & follow him back to camp. We declined his offer. He said he was coming back with proper warrant. That would be fine with us.

Pak Karim never asked me why I left the military life.
He didn't lecture me on what a complete ass I had made of myself.
He still didn't until the day I bid him goodbye to get on with my life.
I stayed in his house, eat his food & helped him in his paddy field for three month.
He never asked me why.

I did visit him sometime in 2006 with my family.
He was as happy as I ever saw him & he didn't ask me why I left.

Last week I visited him again on the way back from Melaka.
His eyesight is failing. He didn't recognize me.
Yet he still entertained me & borak with me & told me ada kawan Hamid, nama dia Azman, pernah datang bawa family, jumpa dia.
I was touched.

Thanks God. I met so many great people during my travel.

Maybe 7 years ago

This was sometimes in 2003, if I am not mistaken. Cheap camera does not give fancy pic. Well, we were ready for Aidil Fitri prayer

Tg Sepat beach

You can bring your big kite & do a showoff.
The beach is big enough for a football match.

The fatal Tg Sepat lunch.

We locate a stall by the road & stand in queue, to quell the hunger & thirst,after a day in Tg Sepat beach.

You can tell we are famished.

However, nightime, we spent most of the night, in the loo.