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Saturday, April 30, 2011

GORP 2011 - Day 5

5.00 am - Congregational solat Subuh & Recitation of  Ma’thurat      

6.30 am - Breakfast      

8.00 am - Health Screening      

12.00 pm - Lunch      

2.30 pm - Human Development      

6.30 pm - Solat Jama’ Maghrib & Isya’      

8.00 pm - Dinner+Briefing+Rest

    

Friday, April 29, 2011

GORP 2011 - Day 4

5.00am - Congregational solat Subuh & Recitation of  Ma’thurat      

6.30am - Breakfast      

7.00am - Depart to Madrasah Darul Ulum      

11.00am - Arrive at Madrasah Darul Ulum      

11.30am - Intro to the village   

1.00pm - Solat Jama’ taqdim (Jumaat and asar)      

3.00pm - Tour the village      

7.30pm - Solat Jama’ taqdim (maghrib and isyak)      

8.00pm - Dinner+Briefing+Rest     


Thursday, April 28, 2011

GORP 2011 - Day 3

5.00 am - Congregational solat Subuh & Recitation of  Ma’thurat      

7.00 am - Breakfast      

8.00am - Visit Angkor Wat, Angkor Thom, Taprom      

2.30 pm - Lunch      

3.00pm - Visit Cambodian Cultural Village      

8.00 pm - Dinner+Briefing+Rest   


Wednesday, April 27, 2011

GORP 2011 - Day 2

8.00am - Breakfast     

9.00am - Depart to Siem Reap      

1.00pm - Arrive at Hotel Smey Canriah      

3.00pm - Naik bot di Tasik Tonle Sap, Shopping Pasar Malam, Dinner   


Tuesday, April 26, 2011

Global Outreach Programme (GORP) 2011: Malaysia - Cambodia - Thailand, Day 1

7.05am - Depart to Phnom Phen from LCCT

7.50am - Arrive at Phnom Phen & Check in Hotel Bun Pav & Breakfast      

9.00am - Visit Toul Sleng, Killing Field Shopping Rosian Market      

1.00pm - Back to Hotel Lunch      

2.00pm - Visit Royal Palace, Naik Bot di Sungai Mekong, Central Market      

6.00pm - Visit to Malaysian Ambassador      

10.00pm - Back to Hotel    

Saturday, April 23, 2011

Belajar Bahasa Khmer (2)

  • I - K`nyom
  • You - Niak
  • We - Yeung
  • Yes - Batt (men)
  • Yes - Jah (women)
  • I can not speak Khmer - K`nyom Meun Ahj Ni Yia Khmer Bahn Teh
  • I do not understand - K`nyom Meun Yooul Teh
  • Thank you - Or-Kun
  • Sorry - Som Tohs
  • Good Bye - Lia Seun Haeay
  • What is your name? - Niak Chhmu Aiy


Belajar Bahasa Khmer

  • Good Morning - Ah Run Soou Sdei 
  • Good Afternoon - Ti Via Soou Sdei
  • Good Evening - Say Yaon Soou Sdei
  • Good Night - Reat Trei Soou Sdei
  • Hello - Joom Reab Soou
  • How do you do? - Joom Reap Soou


Passion: let me not beg for the stilling of my pain

“Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers,
but to be fearless in facing them.

Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain,
but for the heart to conquer it.

Let me not look for allies in life’s battlefield,
but to my own strength.

Let me not crave in anxious fear to be saved,
but hope for the patience to win my freedom.

Grant that I may not be a coward,
feeling Your mercy in my success alone;

But let me find the grasp of Your hand in my failure.”


by Rabindranath Tagore



Monday, April 18, 2011

Leryar

Terima ajakan ke Kampung Leryar, Cameron Highland bulan Julai ini. Leryar tak berapa jauh dari Kampung Rantau. Sama seperti anak-anak Kampung Rantau, kalau tak silap, anak-anak Leryar juga bersekolah di SK Menson.

Aku tak pasti lagi sama ada mahu ke sana. Yang pasti untuk seminggu ini, sambil menyiapkan tugasan DDS, masa yang ada diperuntukkan untuk membuat persiapan ke Kemboja dan Thailand. Insya' ALlah, 26 April ini, aku akan berangkat ke sana.


Thursday, April 14, 2011

Diponegoro


Pangeran Diponegoro (1785-1855)

Saat genting

Akhirnya fatrah sukar tiba jua. Tiga kertas dalam masa dua hari. Bermula dengan DDS, Physical Pharmacy 2 dan Business, semuanya berjumlah enam jam setengah. Dan untuk peperiksaan hari ini, hanya enam (atau lima calon) yang mengambilnya. Hanya enam (atau lima)!


Wednesday, April 13, 2011

Yang aneh-aneh

Ia datang lagi, menyerbu pada masa yang salah.

Saat menghampiri puncak keperitan fatrah imtihan, rusuh sekonyong-konyong datang menyerang.

Punah sudah segala kedamaian dan ketenangan jiwa yang dimiliki bila dirempuh ombak ganas rusuh.

Detik ini, pintaku jangan ditanya dari mana datangnya gelora ini.

Kerana aku tak punya jawapan untuk setiap segalanya.


Saturday, April 9, 2011

Wisel penamat

PEG-modified long circulating doxorubicin-containing immunoliposomes targeted with anti-HER-2/neu monoclonal antibody fragments

Ya, tamat sudah fasa kedua. Kini menanti fasa ketiga, terakhir dan yang paling mencabar sekali, terutamanya pada hari khamis, jumaat dan sabtu. Bertabah sebelum menanti wisel penamat.


Rabbi yassir wala tua'ssir ya Kareem. 

Thursday, April 7, 2011

Linglung

Linglung jika merujuk pada ertinya bermaksud hilang ingatan atau bingung.

Fenomena biasa yang zahir pada musim peperiksaan.

Selalunya menjadi-jadi natijah kurangnya waktu untuk tidur dan beristirehat kerana malam yang fitrahnya dijadikan untuk tujuan tersebut sudah bertukar menjadi medan kepada akal untuk menyerap segala fakta dan informasi.

Kehendak fisiologi yang tidak tertunai ditambah tekanan di dalam dewan peperiksaan, pakej lengkap untuk merangsang linglung.

Untuk dua minggu ini, janganlah hendaknya keluarga amnesia ini datang menziarahi.

Wednesday, April 6, 2011

Apa khabar Abang Mat?

Dalam mengharungi zaman fitnah yang menjadi-jadi kebelakangan ini, terkenanglah daku kepada Abang Mat dan penduduk Kampung Rantau, Cameron Highlands.

Beruntungnya mereka, orang Asli daripada suku Semai kerana tidak berhadapan dengan segelintir manusia yang entah di mana letaknya iman dan pertimbangan akal.

Cukup malang, kecanggihan teknologi yang sepatutnya menjadi medium memajukan minda dijadikan mereka sebagai wahana untuk mengaibkan dan menjatuhkan maruah individu.
 
Dan kita yang kononya lebih maju daripada mereka seperti Abang Mat sekali lagi dipaksa menelan segala sampah-sarap yang disajikan.

Ah, jika punya kekuatan, mahu sahaja aku 'berlari' ke sana, Kampung Rantau, meminggir diri daripada 1001 kegilaan dan kerakusan manusia-manusia ini.

Tuesday, April 5, 2011

Darmawisata ke Kota Singa


Ketidakupayaanku untuk mencoretkan kenangan ke Kota Singa baru-baru ini ditampung oleh tulisan yang baik daripada sahabatku Din bertajuk Journeys to the Other Shore; sedikit sebanyak mungkin boleh menggambarkan apa yang kami buat dan dapat sepanjang lawatan ke negara seberang tambak itu.

P/s: Journeys to the Other Shore , buku yang dibeli Din di Wardah Bookstores merupakan tulisan Roxanne L. Euben yang membuat perbandingan antara penulisan pengembaraan (travel writing) antara Dunia Islam dan Barat.

Sunday, April 3, 2011

Four Levels of Reading

Reading is an activity largely of the mind, but reading well is an exhausting effort of one’s mental faculties. One of my own teachers said that reading has four levels: 

  1. understanding the outline of the piece; 
  2. coming to terms with the author’s terms (meaning that one understands terms as the author intended);
  3. understanding the propositions, their arguments, and evidence supporting them; and finally, 
  4. responding with the appropriate etiquette. 

This last phase, which Mortimer Adler describes as “talking back” to the author, is the most difficult level of reading. It is the ability to criticize with understanding, giving your reasons for dissent, and supporting them with counter arguments, but this last and problematic phase of reading is entirely predicated upon the mastery of the first three. At this level, criticism means disagreeing with all or part of an author’s assumptions, logic, or conclusions based upon an accurate and contextual reading of his work.

Reference: Yusuf, H. (2011, March 26). The Sin Tax of Ignoring Syntax. Sandala Productions. Retrieved March 31, 2011, from http://www.sandalaproductions.com/Blog/26-the-sin-tax-of-ignorning-syntax.aspx

Saturday, April 2, 2011

Risale-i Nur

The reason that in the Twenty-Sixth Word, the thirty-three Words, thirty-three Letters, thirty-one Flashes, and thirteen Rays are called the Risale-i Nur is this: throughout my life the word 'Nur' (light) has everywhere confronted me. For instance, my village was Nurs, my late mother's name was Nuriye, my Naqshi master was Sayyid Nur Muhammad, one of my Qadiri masters was Nuruddin, one of my Qur'an masters was Nuri, and of my students those most attached to me have been those with Nur in their names. (But how strange it is that there is no one among the important Risale-i Nur students with the name Nuri.) And what elucidates and illumines my books most are the comparisons about light. And what has solved most of my difficulties related to the Divine truths is the luminous Name of Nur, out of the Most Beautiful Names. And my particular leader in my passionate enthusiasm for the Qur'an and my restricting my service to it, is 'Uthman Dhi'l-Nurayn (may God be pleased with him).

Reference: Nursi, B. S. (2006). The Rays Collection. (4th ed.). Istanbul: Sozler Nesriyat A.S.

Quantum

Quantum physics, however, revealed that an electron in an atom can be in one place, and then, as if by magic, reappear in another without ever being anywhere in between, by emitting or absorbing a quantum of energy.

Reference: Kumar, M. (2011, March 23). The Meeting of Minds . Soapbox Science. Retrieved March 30, 2011, from http://blogs.nature.com/soapbox_science/2011/03/23/the-meeting-of-minds

Friday, April 1, 2011

Nature

Rather than being like a married woman from whom a man benefits but also towards whom he is responsible, for modern man nature has become like prostitute - to be benefited from without any sense of obligation and responsibility toward her.

Reference: Nasr, S. H. (1976). Man and Nature: The Spiritual Crisis of Modern Man. (2nd ed.). Kuala Lumpur: Foundation for Traditional Studies.