<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-462964950647049354</id><updated>2012-01-16T11:29:32.323+08:00</updated><category term='Perkongsian'/><category term='Entri Bulan'/><category term='Entri tanpa motif'/><category term='Entri diari UK'/><category term='Entri puitis'/><category term='Learn English'/><category term='Entri pengalaman'/><category term='Entri diari'/><category term='Entri interpretasi'/><category term='Entri perah otak'/><category term='Entri pendapat'/><category term='Entri ilmiah'/><category term='Entri pemberitahuan'/><category term='Entri bola sepak'/><category term='Entri muda-mudi'/><category term='Entri tips melaratkan minda'/><category term='Entri serius'/><category term='Entri cerita rekaan'/><category term='Gigs in Europe'/><category term='Entri review movie'/><category term='Entri hari lahir'/><category term='Entri buka minda'/><category term='Entri budaya'/><category term='You'/><category term='Entri musika'/><category term='Entri emo'/><category term='Entri politik'/><category term='Entri makan-makan'/><category term='Entri famili'/><category term='Remaja Muslim Liberal'/><category term='Entri sinis'/><category term='Witticism'/><category term='Entri cinta'/><category term='Blwitter'/><category term='Wasiat Rasulullah untuk Generasi Islam'/><category term='Entri rakan'/><category term='Entri video musik'/><category term='Entri agama'/><category term='Melayu'/><category term='Entri pemerhatian'/><category term='Entri review tempat'/><category term='Entri diari Coventry'/><title type='text'>reverie malaya</title><subtitle type='html'>Reverie itu ialah mimpi di siang hari ataupun mengikut bahasa Inggeris diertikan sebagai 'day-dreaming'

Jadi disini, apakah reverie kamu hari ini?</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/462964950647049354/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><link rel='next' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/462964950647049354/posts/default?start-index=101&amp;max-results=100'/><author><name>reverie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13969396181991597145</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Kcq32haJy4c/TBhKgGS6KdI/AAAAAAAAAIw/ZxNqYWeNMuY/S220/DSC_8358.jpg'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>276</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-462964950647049354.post-36847535737682292</id><published>2011-12-21T18:09:00.001+08:00</published><updated>2011-12-21T18:09:15.188+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri puitis'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri agama'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri politik'/><title type='text'>Srebrenica: Foreword by Tun Mahathir</title><content type='html'>Salam. Good greetings to my fellow Malaysians. This is the foreword written by Tun M for the book 'The Story of Srebrenica' which portrayed the situations of the town of Srebrenica during the Bosnian War (1992 - 1995) It begins.&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Foreword.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;1. Srebrenica, the name of a town that I can hardly pronounce, is now etched deeply into my heart. We all remember 9/11, the eleventh of September, 2001 because on that day two aircrafts crashed into the twin towers of the New York World Trade Centre. 3000 people met horrifying death. But as Srebrenica more than 13,000 Bosnian Muslims were slaughtered by the Serbs virtually in the full view of the Dutch United Nations troops stationed there to protect them.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;2. The Serbs knew the horror of what they were doing, the Dutch soldiers knew the killings that were going on and the Bosniacs, the Bosnian Muslims knew they were going to to be slaughtered. It was not instantaneous death, for every one of the victims knew they would be taken out one by one for slaughter. It took time to murder individually 13,000 people, all males.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;3. The Serbs were intent upon wiping out the Bosnian Muslims, the last genuine European Muslims in Europe. They, the Serbs believe they were doing the other Europeans, all Christians, a favor. Europe must be freed from Muslims. To be freed, all male Bosniacs must be killed so they may reproduce no more. The women who were left alive were to be raped. Their children would not be Muslims, tainted as they were by non-Muslim Serbian blood.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;4. 13,000 Bosniacs were slaughtered at Srebrenica. Yet today the world hardly knows, and those who know hardly remember the systematic massacre in Srebrenica. The world has gone to war against the terrorists because of September 11. The world should have gone to war earlier for what the Serbs did must certainly be considered as acts of terror, deliberate and systematic acts of terror which were prolonged and sustained, acts which were carried out in full view of the world as ethnic cleansing. But the world was only mildly horrified. The world went back to making money, to watching football and to their minor bickering. And the world would have gone on this way had it not been for September 11.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;5. The deaths of people should not be compared as to which is more tragic, which is more brutal. All killings, all massacres are tragic and brutal. But one cannot help comparing the response of the world to September 11 and that to Srebrenica. Is it that the deliberate and methodical killing of eventually 200,000 Bosnian Muslims less horrifying than the equally deliberate destruction of an edifice which resulted in the death of 3000 people in New York? It cannot be. But the response seems to indicate differences.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;6. Certainly the response is different from the massacre of 6 million Jews almost 60 years ago. To this day the holocaust is remembered and the world is forced to atone for it by excusing all Jewish crimes against Arabs who are not guilty of even a single death in the holocaust.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;7. It would seems that the world response to horror and brutalities depends on who the victims are. Malaysia hanged numerous Asian drug traffickers but when two Australian trafficker were hanged, Australia and the European world kicked up a row and called Malaysians barbarians. It does not speak much of the caring society that we are to have in these days. The caring is selective, despite all the proceedings about equality, human rights, the rule of law and democracy.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;8. The story of Srebrenica needs to be told and told over and over again. For it is a story of human suffering in an age which is equipped with all the means to stop these sufferings. Nothing could have been done to stop September 11. The whole world, the authorities in the country attacked, knew nothing, certainly not precisely about the attack that was going to be launched. If they did not stop the attack, we can understand why.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;9. But the ethnic cleansing by the Serbs was known and the massacre at Srebrenica was known, was witnessed in fact by the very guardians of the victims. Yet nothing was done.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;10. Under ordinary criminal law, a witness to a murder, unless he is restrained, is an accessory to the crime. The world is witness to the massacre of the Bosniacs, to the slaughter of the male Bosniacs, and the world must be regarded as accessories to the crimes, that constitute ethnic cleansing by the Serbs. And because the Serbs to all intents and purposes, got away with mass murder, we are seeing mass murder as a daily feature of our modern civilisation. We are seeing in fact assassins and murderers being supplied with arms to kill people and to be protected after doing so. And the people who provide protection are being actually nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;11. Mr. Isnam Taljic (the author of the book) has decided not to condemn the murderers of his people. I hope the readers will appreciate his generosity of heart. It is noble. Although I hold a different view, I think this novel should be read by all, so we may appreciate that despite everything, there is still Bosniacs generous enough not to vent his anger through his writings. I salute Mr. Taljic for that and I will try to be as generous as he is.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/462964950647049354-36847535737682292?l=reveriemalaya.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/feeds/36847535737682292/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/2011/12/srebrenica-foreword-by-tun-mahathir.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/462964950647049354/posts/default/36847535737682292'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/462964950647049354/posts/default/36847535737682292'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/2011/12/srebrenica-foreword-by-tun-mahathir.html' title='Srebrenica: Foreword by Tun Mahathir'/><author><name>Faiez Ali</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09700662927927427081</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-462964950647049354.post-7621878408333216082</id><published>2011-12-21T02:50:00.001+08:00</published><updated>2011-12-21T02:52:23.795+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Hati</title><content type='html'>Hati. Kuat. Keras.Ego akan kekal.Selama ini.Lembut. Jujur. Setia.Hati. Lemah. Jatuh.Kesejukan mendengar kata-kata itu.Biarpun hati yang kuat.Akan jatuh bila kesejukan.Aku kejam dan angkuh.Tapi tanya hati, siapa aku sebenarnya?Aku tak mengerti.Kau tak mengerti.Aku masih begini.Kau berubah cara.Lalu apa kesudahan?Hati.Akan kekal mencari Ilahi.Ku harap hati itu juga.Siapa tahu?Ilahi itu.Yang kan menemukan hati ke hati.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/462964950647049354-7621878408333216082?l=reveriemalaya.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/feeds/7621878408333216082/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/2011/12/hati.html#comment-form' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/462964950647049354/posts/default/7621878408333216082'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/462964950647049354/posts/default/7621878408333216082'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/2011/12/hati.html' title='Hati'/><author><name>Faiez Ali</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09700662927927427081</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-462964950647049354.post-7742448318218175728</id><published>2011-12-15T08:41:00.001+08:00</published><updated>2011-12-15T08:41:11.821+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Croatia Trip - Zagreb to Rostoke</title><content type='html'>I've got the chance to go to Croatia and Bosnia Herzegovina last week. The trip lasted for 8 days or so. Went there with a friend of mine and we drove around starting from Zagreb to Sarajevo with many stops and then back to Zagreb for our flight back again. When we returned the car, i checked that we drove 1813.1 km. Was a marvellous trip. An awesome start to my first European holiday. I will update full details bits by bits as now am in Cordoba, Spain so will be quite hard to dedicate my time to writing as there are plenty of wonders and cultures to see around here. Here we go ;)Day OneWe arrived at Zagreb Airport and straight went to Europcar office to get our booked rental car. Apparently Afiq didn't bring his credit card so we can't get the car. It sucked cause the Europcar people wasn't friendly and not very helpful. Luckily we talked to this guy named Marko, and he let us settled for a car, paying via direct debit visa card. It was convenient and turned out it was cheaper than Europcar! So I learnt, if u want to rent a car, I believe you can settle for other better deals than Europcar.While Syafiq was settling our car thing, I talked to Tamara, the lady at tourist info office who is maybe in her mid twenties. Grabbed few maps and suggestions, we drove our car to our first stop, Rostoke. We didn't know what to do but since there is this magnificient waterfall and on water village in Rostoke, we decided to go and stop there. We didn't enter Zagreb city too.It was getting darker. Night comes faster in Winter as we drive in Croatia. Was a completely different scenery than other places I visited. Not many English speaking people. Lots of Zimmer (homestay, i guess) alongside the road. We stopped for a cup of honey &amp; lemon tea on the way to Rostoke. There was nice and small cabin besides the restoran (spelled the same as BM here), we tried asking for the rent and the lady told us it was around 100 kuna (Croatian cash, around 13 Euro) each. The cabin was lovely but it didn't has heating facility and to take bath we'll need to walk outside in the coldness to the main building. We asked for discounts but were offered free breakfast instead. If only the lady agreed to lesser prices, I would have opted to spend a night there.As we drove, we got hungry and stopped to look for bread. Stopped at a small grocery shop but no bread was found. With no English, surprisingly it was easy to ask the shopkeeper for some bread. Made a gesture (like putting some jem on a bread) and immediately he showed us a Pekara (bread shop) few shops away from his store. I bought a loaf of bread for less than a pound, homemade bread, fresh from oven, the size of a thigh. The bread lasted for quite some time.We had no idea where to sleep but we arrived at Rostoke and saw this eye-catching waterfall besides the village and straight away decided that we would sleep in our car there, besides it with the sounds of gushing waterfall becoming our lullaby for the night. And I'm glad we decided it that way. ;)*Pictures to come later too.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/462964950647049354-7742448318218175728?l=reveriemalaya.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/feeds/7742448318218175728/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/2011/12/croatia-trip-zagreb-to-rostoke.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/462964950647049354/posts/default/7742448318218175728'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/462964950647049354/posts/default/7742448318218175728'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/2011/12/croatia-trip-zagreb-to-rostoke.html' title='Croatia Trip - Zagreb to Rostoke'/><author><name>Faiez Ali</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09700662927927427081</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-462964950647049354.post-720241800229134142</id><published>2011-10-01T12:55:00.003+08:00</published><updated>2011-10-01T16:59:36.131+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Wasiat Rasulullah untuk Generasi Islam'/><title type='text'>Tujuan Menuntut Ilmu</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Salam.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;Memandangkan sesi pembelajaran bagi tahun 2011/ 2012 dah hampir tiba untuk aku dan rakan-rakan yang turut serta menyambung pelajaran di United Kingdom. Maka aku rasa artikel kali ini amat bersesuaian untuk ingatan bersama, semoga niat di hati dapat dibetulkan sepanjang setahun pembelajaran ini dan seterusnya.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;1. Hadith riwayat Abu Daud:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Rasulullah SAW bersabda: "&lt;i&gt;Barang siapa mempelajari suatu ilmu yang seharusnya dilakukan kerana Allah SWT, tetapi ia mempelajarinya hanya untuk memperoleh harta benda dunia, maka ia tak akan mendapatkan bau harum syurga pada hari kiamat.&lt;/i&gt;"&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;2. Nasihat Khusus&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;Dalam hadith ni terdapat perkara yang umum dan juga yang khusus. Yang khusus adalah ucapan Nabi SAW yang sangat jelas bahawa barang siapa mempelajari suatu ilmu tertentu, yang tujuan sebenarnya adalah untuk memperoleh pahala dari Allah SWT dengan menolong orang lain, namun dia mempelajarinya dengan tujuan untuk memperoleh harta keduniaan, maka Allah SWT mengharamkan atasnya harum bau syurga pada hari kiamat.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;3. Nasihat Umum&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;Perkara yang umum pula adalah tuntutan menuntut ilmu yang dikatakan penting untuk diri. Rasulullah SAW memberi petunjuk agar menjadikan ilmu yang dituntut sebagai untuk mencari kebajikan dengan pelbagai cara yang pastinya dengan niat kerana Allah SWT. Dengan ilmu ekonomi, kita dapat membantu memperbaiki ekonomi sekaligus menaikkan taraf hidup masyarakat semasa. Dengan ilmu juga kita dapat menghiasi budi pekerti, melapangkan jalan untuk menuju kehidupan mulia serta tidak akan menjadi jahil dan tidak pula menjadi penyakit bagi orang lain. Dengan ilmu, kita dapat membantu proses pembangunan bangsa dalam pelbagai bidang, pendidikan, politik, bahasa dan lain-lain lagi.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;4. Waspada dengan ilmu&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;Namun demikian jangan sampai jadikan ilmu sebagai alat memperdaya atau menguasai orang lain. Serta jangan pula sampai menjadi alat atau jalan untuk membanggakan diri sendiri seperti kisah berikut yang terjadi pada seorang yang berilmu:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Ketika berdiri di hadapan Allah SWT pada hari perhitungan dan ditanya, "Apa yang kamu amalkan dari ilmumu?"&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Dia menjawab, "Aku gunakan untuk ini dan ini." &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Lalu dijawab, "Tidak, kamu belajar agar dikatakan bahawa kamu adalah orang yang berilmu." &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Kemudian kamu diperintahkan untuk masuk ke dalam Neraka Jahanam dan diharamkan ke atasnya bau harum syurga. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;*Artikel ni diolah daripada buku 50 Wasiat Rasulullah SAW untuk generasi Islam karya Muhammad Ali Qutub&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/462964950647049354-720241800229134142?l=reveriemalaya.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/feeds/720241800229134142/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/2011/10/tujuan-menuntut-ilmu.html#comment-form' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/462964950647049354/posts/default/720241800229134142'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/462964950647049354/posts/default/720241800229134142'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/2011/10/tujuan-menuntut-ilmu.html' title='Tujuan Menuntut Ilmu'/><author><name>Faiez Ali</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09700662927927427081</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-462964950647049354.post-8320273366357167539</id><published>2011-09-24T15:08:00.009+08:00</published><updated>2011-09-24T16:58:22.081+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri buka minda'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri politik'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri pemerhatian'/><title type='text'>Undilah video banning &amp; perception</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-K0jH1HbQ3Wo/Tn2QBKXeiII/AAAAAAAAAGk/kTZxdnl7M5Q/s1600/Pete%2BTeo%2BUndilah.png"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 67px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-K0jH1HbQ3Wo/Tn2QBKXeiII/AAAAAAAAAGk/kTZxdnl7M5Q/s320/Pete%2BTeo%2BUndilah.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5655835056684304514" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Pete Teo twits saying they (Undilah team) haven't contact TV stations and apply for approval from Film Censorship Board [Saturday, 24-September 11, around 12pm]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" &gt;Opinion&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I believe Undilah video is a respectable effort made to encourage voting. At least the video is better than other stock-'voting'videos aired usually in our television in the sense of it being fun to watch, entertaining while at the same time able to educate us all. The fact that opposition leaders are in the video should not be an excuse to ban the video because the message is clear, for us to go out and exercise our rights during election.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" &gt;Approval and banning status&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As readers we should understand the status of the video. Moreover those who tend to criticise our government agencies upon reading news reported about the banning mostly by online newspapers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The video has yet to be submitted to FCB (Film Censorship Board) meaning the producer or person-in-charge of the project in this case Pete Teo has yet to submit the video for approval. Hence, it cannot be aired in the television companies officially.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That is why MCMC (Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission) gave out official order not to air the Undilah video. Hence we now understand that officially and superficially, MCMC made that decision because the video is not approved by FCB. Why is it not approved yet? Because Undilah team has yet to submit their video for approval.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" &gt;Media reporting: Don't believe everything you read&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As readers too, we need to be aware of the style of reporting by news-reporting medium. As for example in this article by &lt;a href="http://malaysiansmustknowthetruth.blogspot.com/2011/09/mcmc-defends-ban-on-undilah-video.html"&gt;malaysiansmustknowthetruth&lt;/a&gt; you can see there the highlight is "The censorship board has not cleared it says Khalid Ramli, MCMC-Chief" while the other side of the story being "Pete Teo has yet to submit the video for approval is not told in the news". If this is reported then viewers and readers will understand the situation thus making the reactions especially towards MCMC different.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Meanwhile if you read in this &lt;a href="http://www.themalaysianinsider.com/malaysia/article/undilah-video-taken-off-air-over-ku-li-speech-opposition-figures"&gt;themalaysianinsider&lt;/a&gt; article by its Editor, it's even biased and fail to report the news so that common people like you and I manage to understand the situation. In this article, you can read in its first paragraph how the statement is misleading when it said the video is banned "because it contains opposition figures and Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah's speech talking about Malaysia's problem". While as I've explained earlier, the video is banned due to other formality reason.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" &gt;Us, making conclusions&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hence, don't hate. I've been viewing comments from many of my online friends and reading some blogs who directly and indirectly &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;hantam&lt;/span&gt; MCMC because of this banning without understanding the reason behind it. This partly I believe is due to biased reporting by some of the online news-reporting medium that are currently very popular in Malaysia. Because while we can rightly ask MCMC why they made such decision, Pete Teo should be asked too as to why he did not ask for approval from FCB for the video to be aired in televisions.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So I would urge us to understand the issue and the reason behind it and at the same time keep pushing to tell the person in charge in this case MCMC, that the video is a very good effort and should be allowed to be aired.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" &gt;MCMC &amp;amp; Pete Teo - A different way to tackle the issue&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I too believe MCMC should have tackled the issue in another manner, less provoking and more accommodating manner. Since we know, Undilah has not been submitted for approval, MCMC can lead the way in approaching the video producer to get it submitted and approved by FCB. This way it can satisfy both sides and at the same time thousands and maybe millions of Malaysians watching television will be able to enjoy the message in the video.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;By handling the issue this way, chances for biased-reporting can be reduced too. However having said that, the damage is already done and most people are already expressing their discontentment towards the decision by MCMC.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yet we must admit too that should Pete Teo and his team make it easier and apply for approval from FCB, the issue can be resolved more easily. Only if upon application it is still refused due to 'having opposition leaders in it' then we should all go against the decision but since Undilah has not ask for approval, it is not right to blame MCMC on such decision.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" &gt;Undilah - Conclusion&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;and Direction&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Although it is admitted the video put forward more opposition leaders compared to government leaders (due to whatever reasons we can speculate), the fact that its message is to promote voting especially among youths should be appreciated. This should be looked upon as serious and healthy competition so government leaders (if they are not satisfied by the rate of opposition leaders promotion in the video) can come up with such method and idea when it comes to promoting voting during election especially among youths. After all, most youths are getting tired of the same, old, traditional, boring, orthodox and inefficient way of reminding us on our rights to vote when election comes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Undilah too can be good a start towards us realising and discussing our problems in Malaysia openly and for us to be more inclusive rather than exclusive when it comes to 'who can talk about Malaysia's problems'. More and more such video should be produced to further develop the idea of democracy however tolerance towards others feelings and customs should be put into consideration too.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And now there is this Undilah video, being able to entertain, educate and attract us to vote. So ask yourself this question, why make it hard for such video to be viewed and appreciated?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/462964950647049354-8320273366357167539?l=reveriemalaya.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/feeds/8320273366357167539/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/2011/09/undilah-video-banning.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/462964950647049354/posts/default/8320273366357167539'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/462964950647049354/posts/default/8320273366357167539'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/2011/09/undilah-video-banning.html' title='Undilah video banning &amp; perception'/><author><name>Faiez Ali</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09700662927927427081</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-K0jH1HbQ3Wo/Tn2QBKXeiII/AAAAAAAAAGk/kTZxdnl7M5Q/s72-c/Pete%2BTeo%2BUndilah.png' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-462964950647049354.post-6805937855953400496</id><published>2011-09-18T22:16:00.003+08:00</published><updated>2011-09-18T22:25:52.653+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri puitis'/><title type='text'>Keputusan, deria, merubah.</title><content type='html'>Kadang-kadang sesuatu keputusan menyentap deria kita sepantas itu sahaja.&lt;br /&gt;Tanpa sempat kita berkata apa-apa, kita dikelukan.&lt;br /&gt;Lalu merubah segala pengisian hati dan penghayatan hubungan.&lt;br /&gt;Cuma satu keputusan itu, sudah cukup untuk menimbulkan persoalan.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/462964950647049354-6805937855953400496?l=reveriemalaya.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/feeds/6805937855953400496/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/2011/09/keputusan-deria-merubah.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/462964950647049354/posts/default/6805937855953400496'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/462964950647049354/posts/default/6805937855953400496'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/2011/09/keputusan-deria-merubah.html' title='Keputusan, deria, merubah.'/><author><name>Faiez Ali</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09700662927927427081</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-462964950647049354.post-1568088186117251629</id><published>2011-09-16T14:42:00.001+08:00</published><updated>2011-09-16T14:44:34.013+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri pendapat'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri buka minda'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri politik'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri budaya'/><title type='text'>1 Malaysia: Favouring the poor</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;SEPT 16— We have lived with the concept of 1 Malaysia since its  initiation on September 16, 2010. The idea of 1 Malaysia was instilled  in an effort to unite Malaysians from all races. But really, have we  asked ourselves what is 1 Malaysia? What defines 1 Malaysia? I myself  can never really answer this practically, referring to current  situations in Malaysia. Is 1 Malaysia about multiracial Malaysians being  able to sit down and eat nasi lemak, yong tau foo or tosai together? Or  is it about us visiting the open houses of our friends from other races  during their festivals? One can interpret 1 Malaysia that way but is  that the only 1 Malaysia that we want?&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;Since her inception, people have been talking about unity and  harmony in Malaysia. The phrase “although we are multiracial, we can  still sit together harmoniously and united” is not new to us. We are  told to be thankful for the Malaysia that we have. Indeed, we are. It is  just that the concern here is what are the directions of 1 Malaysia?  What is expected of us, the citizens, to compliment our 1 Malaysia  concept? More importantly, what is expected from the government to walk  the 1 Malaysia talk? Although the government managed to &lt;span style="border-bottom: 4px double rgb(255, 102, 51); cursor: pointer; opacity: 1; text-decoration: none;" class="adfire_term"&gt;public&lt;/span&gt;ise  1 Malaysia successfully to every Malaysian, I am afraid they have yet  to explain their directions in accommodating the concept.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Government policies especially during Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad’s time  were said to favour the Malays and the Bumiputera Malaysians. I myself  am one of the beneficiaries to such policies and I am thankful to the  government. Without those policies it will be almost impossible for me  to afford a place in a reputable university in United Kingdom. I believe  many of us, Bumiputera Malaysians, too feel the same and are thankful.  The policies enforced during the era of Dr Mahathir were to help the  majority of the poor and at that time, it helped improve the lot of the  Bumiputeras. Indeed, the majority of the poor were Bumiputera  Malaysians.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;From such policies the number of middle-class Bumiputeras increased  and their socio-economic background improved too. However, in the spirit  of 1 Malaysia, this question needs to be asked: what about our fellow  Malaysians of other races who are financially restricted too? Not all  non-Bumiputera Malaysians are well off and not all Bumiputera Malaysians  are impecunious.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;When I was in school I have good and close Chinese and Indian  friends. We studied and “lepak-ed” together. Alhamdulillah, when our SPM  result came out we did well in and scored distinctions. We talked about  what we wanted to do after SPM and started applying for various  courses. While I got offers from a matriculation college and a public  university, some of them were only offered Sixth Form education, not  even a place in our public universities. May I remind you that these  friends of mine do not come from silk-stocking families. They, like me,  could not afford to pay for private universities, which left them no  choice but to continue in Form Six. On the other hand, we have too in  Malaysia the Malays and Bumiputera Malaysians who are rich enough to  afford private education but were offered places in our public  universities. This situation leaves the system abused by some people in  power, reaping the benefit provided in the name of being a Bumiputera  while those who really need the support do not get it.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;I praised a few of my Malay friends who despite being Bumiputeras  refused to apply for government scholarships. When asked why, they  simply said the scholarships are to help the poor and they can afford to  pay, so why should they apply for something not theirs in the first  place? Hence from there I realised that it is our responsibility as  citizens not to abuse the assistance we are getting from government  policies. Yet at the same time, it is the function of our government to  introduce policies to best help Malaysians who are in need regardless of  race, religion or whatever differences we have.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Poverty is colour blind is a reality anywhere in the world, not only  in Malaysia. It is a problem affecting people from any race and any  religion. A policy such as the NEP did help a majority of Bumiputeras,  giving us a break by assisting us financially and giving us hope to  achieve better lives. Yet, there are people who abuse and use their  Bumiputera status for their own personal advantage.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Hence, now under the concept of 1 Malaysia, this is the right moment  and time for the government to rethink and redesign government policies  to really include the poor non-Bumiputera Malaysians too. If our  policies can be designed to help the poor regardless of their race, I  believe everyone who is qualified can benefit. However the government  needs to be clear and firm in such a decision to reformulate its  administration in favour of the poor over the Bumiputera status. If this  can be done, it will be a new transformation and direction for our 1  Malaysia concept. After all, if this is achieved, the poor among the  Bumiputeras can still gain while giving the same fair chance to the  impoverished non-Bumiputera Malaysians too.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;This article came out in TheMalaysianInsider &lt;a href="http://www.themalaysianinsider.com/sideviews/article/1-malaysia-favouring-the-poor-mohd-faiez-mohd-ali/"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; as well.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Salam ;)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/462964950647049354-1568088186117251629?l=reveriemalaya.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/feeds/1568088186117251629/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/2011/09/1-malaysia-favouring-poor.html#comment-form' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/462964950647049354/posts/default/1568088186117251629'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/462964950647049354/posts/default/1568088186117251629'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/2011/09/1-malaysia-favouring-poor.html' title='1 Malaysia: Favouring the poor'/><author><name>Faiez Ali</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09700662927927427081</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-462964950647049354.post-3282797452389296161</id><published>2011-08-26T11:08:00.001+08:00</published><updated>2011-08-26T11:09:33.008+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri pendapat'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri buka minda'/><title type='text'>Teaching in Malaysia - Why is Teaching not a dream job in Malaysia</title><content type='html'>&lt;div id="article" class="article reset"&gt; 			 				 					 						&lt;p&gt;JUNE 14 — We realise that we live in a capitalistic world. The  same goes for Malaysia. Where almost everything is judged according to  its monetary value. If asked, not many will say they are doing or  studying what they want because they love it. Instead, they are studying  topics or subjects that can give them the assurance of a good life in  the future. And in a capitalistic society, a good life is commonly  measured according to its monetary value and worldly possessions.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;I am a simple youth, studying to become a teacher as how both of my  parents did in their time. However, if you were to ask me, how can we  make teaching a dream job in Malaysia? The answer is simple. Raise  teachers’ wages. Add up the monetary value of this profession and give  extra bonus for teachers. If this is done, the reputation of this  profession will rise too, thus making it the dream job of many students.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;However, please do not misunderstand my statement. I do not mean to  ask the government to raise the income of more than 300, 000 teachers in  Malaysia. Even now the government is already spending most of its  revenue on education. What I meant was to successfully raise the income  and give bonus to good teachers. In short, favour meritocracy in the  teaching profession and reward the teachers who are teaching wonderfully  despite of their age.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;The teaching profession has always favoured seniority. As time  passes, teachers will definitely get more salary. The percentage to be  promoted too will get higher as the teacher grows older. This, however,  does not attract the youths, especially those who are motivated and  willing to go the extra mile. What is the point of doing extra work when  you know you are not reaping any benefit? Well, you still need to wait  between three and five years before getting the ‘eligible’ status to  move up on the income ladder.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Hence, the youths with potential are deterred by this situation. So,  to prevent this, the teaching profession should favour meritocracy over  seniority to provide good, motivated and passionate young teachers the  chance to be promoted too. If this is the reality, then this profession  will be like a competition. A competition between teachers to be better  than others in their teaching style, thus producing more good and able  teachers who are committed to be the best. This will also prevent the  kind of teachers who prefer to be ‘content’ and ‘stagnant’ in doing  their jobs from getting a higher status. Such teachers cannot and should  not have a bright future in our education system.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Then the question arises, how do we know if the teacher is doing a  wonderful job? Please do not misunderstand a wonderful job with a score  of multiple As. If this is the case, then we are not in any way helping  our education system. I have experienced incidences where teachers are  rewarded according to their final class results. More As will get them  more bonus.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Oftentimes, such a system will either neglect the less-capable  students in the scoring exam or lead to a conspiracy between teachers  and students. How? It is easy. The teacher can always provide the  students with a glimpse of what is to come in their big examination.  After all, the teachers themselves set the questions. This will provide  leverage for teachers who are elected to become a member of the board  who set the questions.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;When I was in school, we had a few teachers who were members of such a  board and their classes always scored good marks in examinations. So I  realised measuring academic excellence should involve more than just a  score of straight As.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Thus measuring whether a teacher has done a good job should not only  include academic achievements but also students’ development of  soft-skills, intercultural understanding and their value of the world we  live in. So that we will realise our existence in this world is not to  gather more worldly possessions but instead to appreciate our family,  friends, the individuals who surround us, nature and also ourselves  more.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;In short, it is for us to make good of the life that we have.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;This is not an easy topic to debate. It is a matter of the future of  Malaysia. Almost everything lies in education. A good country must have  an excellent education system to be good. This article is also not a  criticism of senior teachers.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;As taught by my parents, I have always respected the importance of  senior teachers and their experience as well as the need for them to  guide young teachers by sharing their invaluable lessons with us.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;However, let our education system be one of a kind, where not only  seniority is valued but meritocracy is also celebrated indistinctively.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;* &lt;em&gt;Mohd Faiez Mohd Ali reads The Malaysian Insider.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;*&lt;em&gt; This is the personal opinion of the writer or publication. The Malaysian Insider does not endorse the view unless specified.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;(For this article at TheMalaysianInsider please visit this &lt;a href="http://www.themalaysianinsider.com/sideviews/article/teaching-in-malaysia-why-is-teaching-not-a-dream-job-faiez-ali/"&gt;dot&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt; 					 				 			 		&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/462964950647049354-3282797452389296161?l=reveriemalaya.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/feeds/3282797452389296161/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/2011/08/teaching-in-malaysia-why-is-teaching.html#comment-form' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/462964950647049354/posts/default/3282797452389296161'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/462964950647049354/posts/default/3282797452389296161'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/2011/08/teaching-in-malaysia-why-is-teaching.html' title='Teaching in Malaysia - Why is Teaching not a dream job in Malaysia'/><author><name>Faiez Ali</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09700662927927427081</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-462964950647049354.post-106389220828982593</id><published>2011-07-29T11:51:00.003+08:00</published><updated>2011-07-29T12:15:22.182+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri puitis'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri pengalaman'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri buka minda'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri budaya'/><title type='text'>Aku pernah menjadi anak reformasi</title><content type='html'>Salam.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Aku pernah menjadi seorang anak reformasi, malah siapa tidak? Diwaktu sekolah aku bermalam dikhemah-khemah merempuh hujan rintik dan embun bagi mendengar tutur kata Mat Sabu, Azmin Ali, Ezam Md Nor dan Badrul Amin, antara beberapa nama.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Aku pernah menjadi anak reformasi yang menyiulkan lagu kepayahan dan ombak perubahan menentang pemerintahan yang ku anggap zalim. Tatkala berbaju sekolah putih dan berseluar sekolah biru aku lantang menceritakan kisah yang aku pelajari daripada VCD berjudul reformasi.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pernah hampir setiap malam ayahku membawa ku ke tapak ceramah mendengar isi-isi yang disampaikan. Hikayat-hikayat yang diceritakan. Sorak-sorai penonton yang hanya berlapikkan kertas surat khabar dimana kami berkongsi duduk ditanah lapang hanya demi menyampaikan mesej kami tidak bersetuju Anwar Ibrahim dizalimi sedemikian rupa.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sebegitulah pada tahun 1998 dan diwaktu puncak reformasi itu juga menyaksikan kekalahan pemerintah di Terengganu.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Namun kini tahunnya 2011, sesudah 13 tahun dan aku telah pun berjaya menjejakkan kaki ke bumi luar. Dalam usaha mencapai ilmu dan pengalaman untuk disampaikan kepada anak bangsa kelak. Aku masih membuka telinga dan mendengar.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Masih aku dengari isi-isi yang sama. Hikayat-hikayat yang sama serta cacian dan maki yang diikuti sorak-sorai penonton. Sesudah 13 tahun aku melihat kes ditahun 1998 berulang kembali cuma dengan watak yang berlainan pula. Aku masih mendengar kutukan kepada polis yang dikatakan zalim pada awal reformasi sehinggalah kini, 13 tahun kemudiannya. Aku mendengar kutukan zalim buat sistem perundangan mahkamah serta suruhanjaya pencegah rasuah. Aku mula mendengar kutukan kotor buat suruhanjaya pilihanraya. Lalu aku terfikir. Dimanakah bukti? Yang ada hanya spekulasi!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Apakah kerajaan tidak belajar daripada kesilapan 1998 yang menyebabkan mereka kehilangan kepercayaan rakyat Terengganu atau sememangnya kerajaan tidak ada kepentingan didalam hal ini yang mahu dijaga? Apakah sesudah 13 tahun sistem perundangan mahkamah, polis, pencegah rasuah serta suruhanjaya pilihanraya semuanya korup, kotor dan penipu atau sekadar permainan persepsi? Aku kira jika benar kutukan mereka itu, maka siapa yang harus kita percayai lagi?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sampaikan laporan khas suruhanjaya diraja berkaitan kematian anak muda yang baru berkecimpung didalam arena politik bersama seorang pemimpin DAP juga tidak dipercayai. Sampaikan semua sistem dan badan dilanda krisis ketidak percayaan, maka siapa yang mahu aku percayai?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Jika dahulu aku hanya mendengar, kini aku mula melihat. Betapa semakin ramai yang dahulunya teguh dibelakangnya seperti Ezam sudahpun menjadi penentang yang keras. Aku lihat bagaimana pertuduhan Karpal Singh didalam parlimen 1997 yang menuduh Anwar Ibrahim sebagai pelaku liwat dimana Karpal menyatakan dia mempunyai bukti Anwar meliwat tetapi kini keduanya kelihatan rapat sekali. Juga sejak pembohongan 16 September, berbagai cara jalan belakang, tepi, kiri dan kanan dilaksanakan yang pengakhirannya hanyalah huru-hara, kekacauan dan perpecahan sesama kita. Aku melihat berapa ramai individu yang sanggup bersumpah laknat malah pergi menunaikan ibadat di tanah haram Mekah. Aku melihat dan menafsir.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lalu aku disini tetapi bukannya untuk mempertahankan kebatilan. Cuma aku mahukan transformasi dan membawa suara kami anak muda, membersihkan individu-individu yang menyebabkan kehilangan kepercayaan. Usah kerana nila setitik, rosak susu sebelanga. Lantas aku terus mahu mempertahankan masa depan anak-anakku daripada mereka yang membuat huru-hara semata-mata kerana mahu ke Putrajaya.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tidak salah untuk bermimpi!&lt;br /&gt;Reverie Malaya.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/462964950647049354-106389220828982593?l=reveriemalaya.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/feeds/106389220828982593/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/2011/07/aku-pernah-menjadi-anak-reformasi.html#comment-form' title='6 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/462964950647049354/posts/default/106389220828982593'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/462964950647049354/posts/default/106389220828982593'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/2011/07/aku-pernah-menjadi-anak-reformasi.html' title='Aku pernah menjadi anak reformasi'/><author><name>Faiez Ali</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09700662927927427081</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>6</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-462964950647049354.post-4474555202877125350</id><published>2011-07-18T10:23:00.004+08:00</published><updated>2011-07-18T10:48:37.244+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri buka minda'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri politik'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri budaya'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri pemberitahuan'/><title type='text'>Penjelasan SPR terhadap isu pilihanraya</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-efhBvKDuz6k/TiOZy6eeRxI/AAAAAAAAAGc/wku7Wv_RdT8/s1600/Buku%2BSPR%2B%2526%2BSam%2BAMK.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 238px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-efhBvKDuz6k/TiOZy6eeRxI/AAAAAAAAAGc/wku7Wv_RdT8/s320/Buku%2BSPR%2B%2526%2BSam%2BAMK.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5630513059112830738" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Salam&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1. Didalam gambar diatas adalah buku SPR yang berwarna kuning berkaitan 'penjelasan isu-isu pilihanraya' serta dengan gambar Shamsul Iskandar daripada AMK.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2. Dalam buku tu ada dijelaskan &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;20 ISU-ISU BERKAITAN PILIHANRAYA&lt;/span&gt;. Bukan saja yang berkaitan dengan tuntutan Bersih tetapi juga isu-isu lain secara terperinci. Aku akan senaraikan setiap satu isu.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3. Berikut adalah isu-isu yang dijelaskan didalam buku ini:&lt;br /&gt;a) Isu pendaftaran pemilih secara automatik&lt;br /&gt;b) Isu pemansuhan undi pos&lt;br /&gt;c) Isu isteri anggota tentera didaftarkan sebagai pengundi pos&lt;br /&gt;d) Isu anggota polis dan pasangan didaftarkan sebagai pengundi pos&lt;br /&gt;e) Isu semua rakyat diluar negara dibenarkan menjadi pengundi pos&lt;br /&gt;f) Isu pendatang asing cuba didaftarkan sebagai pengundi&lt;br /&gt;g) Isu penggunaan dakwat kekal&lt;br /&gt;h) Isu pemindahan pengundi&lt;br /&gt;i) Isu menurunkan usia sebagai pemilih berdaftar dari 21 tahun kepada 18 tahun&lt;br /&gt;j) Isu pembersihan daftar pemilih&lt;br /&gt;k) Isu persempadanan semula bahagian-bahagian pilihanraya&lt;br /&gt;l) Isu tempoh berkempen&lt;br /&gt;m) Isu rasuah pilihanraya&lt;br /&gt;n) Isu kawalan perbelanjaan semasa pilihanraya&lt;br /&gt;o) Isu akses media yang bebas dan adil&lt;br /&gt;p) Isu keadilan dalam petisyen pilihanraya&lt;br /&gt;q) Isu hak memantau pilihanraya&lt;br /&gt;r) Isu pilihanraya yang bebas dan adil&lt;br /&gt;s) Isu pilihanraya pihak berkuasa tempatan perlu diadakan semula oleh SPR&lt;br /&gt;t) Isu pengundi hantu&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;4. Buku ni setebal 19 mukasurat. Penjelasan secara terperinci boleh didapati berkaitan semua isu diatas. Kalau online version punya tebal sampai lebih 50 mukasurat.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;5. Untuk soft copy boleh dapat di &lt;a href="http://www.spr.gov.my/"&gt;laman web rasmi SPR&lt;/a&gt; di ruang informasi. Boleh download dan save untuk dihadamkan.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;6. Maka, yang berminat untuk ambil tahu silalah download dan baca.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;7. Cuma aku nak bertanya, yang dok hingaq turun Bersih 2.0 hari tu, dah baca penjelasan dan langkah-langkah alternatif yang diambil SPR dalam buku ni ke tak?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;8. Semoga sama-sama diberi kefahaman berkaitan sistem/ peraturan dan gerakerja pilihanraya di Malaysia secara lebih mendalam.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Selamat menghadam,&lt;br /&gt;Reverie Malaya&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;"Undang-undang dan pilihanraya adalah hak rakyat Malaysia, bukan milik kumpulan minoriti untuk menentukan peraturan apa yang mereka sukai dalam pilihanraya.&lt;br /&gt;Bertarung diperlawanan yang sebenar kelak!"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/462964950647049354-4474555202877125350?l=reveriemalaya.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/feeds/4474555202877125350/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/2011/07/penjelasan-spr-terhadap-isu-pilihanraya.html#comment-form' title='16 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/462964950647049354/posts/default/4474555202877125350'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/462964950647049354/posts/default/4474555202877125350'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/2011/07/penjelasan-spr-terhadap-isu-pilihanraya.html' title='Penjelasan SPR terhadap isu pilihanraya'/><author><name>Faiez Ali</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09700662927927427081</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-efhBvKDuz6k/TiOZy6eeRxI/AAAAAAAAAGc/wku7Wv_RdT8/s72-c/Buku%2BSPR%2B%2526%2BSam%2BAMK.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>16</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-462964950647049354.post-4788883193636058452</id><published>2011-07-15T01:49:00.004+08:00</published><updated>2011-07-15T02:22:40.336+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri pengalaman'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri buka minda'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri budaya'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri pemerhatian'/><title type='text'>Peranan Belia dan NGO dalam sistem pendidikan Malaysia</title><content type='html'>1. Sistem akademik di Malaysia berpandu kepada peperiksaan ataupun 'exam-oriented'&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2. Rata-rata kita terutamanya remaja dan anak muda tidak bersetuju dengan sistem yang sedia ada.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3. Mereka memberikan alasan pelajar ditekan untuk belajar dan hasilnya adalah pelajar umpama 'robot' yang hanya cemerlang dibidang akademik tetapi lemah dari segi lain.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;4. Ada juga yang mengatakan bahawa sistem yang ada tidak menguntungkan para pelajar yang lemah dari segi akademik lalu mereka terus tersisih.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;5. Saya setuju dengan kesemua kenyataan diatas tetapi bagi saya buat masa ini sistem yang sedia ada sudah cukup memadai untuk pendidikan dinegara kita.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;6. Tetapi peranan guru dan NGO perlu dipertingkat dan diperluaskan lagi.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;7. Selain daripada mengajar ilmu dikelas, para guru juga perlu memerhati, menilai dan cuba mencungkil bakat para pelajar serta mengarahkan perjalanan mereka kearah yang mereka mahir.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;8. Saya ambil contoh seorang rakan yang merupakan guru berpengalaman bercerita kisah pelajarnya yang pemalu didalam kelas tetapi setelah dinilai dan diperhati sebenarnya dia mempunyai bakat tersendiri dari segi penghasilan video, montaj dan media artwork. Lalu bakat pelajar tersebut dicungkil apabila dia diarah membantu produksi teater dari segi media, video dan montaj. Ternyata bakatnya hebat sehinggakan video montaj yang dihasilkannya masih digunakan di SMK Munshi Abdullah sehingga masa kini. Dia sekarang menuntut di universiti di bidang yang diminati dan dia mahir.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;9. Seterusnya peranan NGO terutamanya belia patut diperluaskan. Ambil contoh Projek Kalsom dan Teach for Malaysia.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;10. &lt;a href="http://www.projek-kalsom.com/"&gt;Projek Kalsom&lt;/a&gt; ataupun kem motivasi pelajar yang disertakan dengan bengkel kerjaya, maklumat bidang-bidang ijazah dan pemantapan bahasa inggeris diterapkan dikalangan pelajar-pelajar susah. Projek ini merupakan gerakan dan inisiatif daripada pelajar universiti sendiri.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;11. Begitu juga &lt;a href="http://www.teachformalaysia.org/"&gt;Teach for Malaysia&lt;/a&gt; dimana mahasiswa-mahasiswa dari luar negara pelbagai bidang boleh diserap masuk untuk program mengajar disekolah-sekolah kerajaan selama dua tahun.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;12. Selain itu, pemantapan dan bengkel kemahiran seperti silap mata, teater, seni lukis serta musik boleh dijalankan dan dibantu oleh mereka-mereka yang berkemahiran dan diberikan secara percuma buat adik-adik dari keluarga susah.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;13. Sekiranya NGO, belia dan guru-guru dapat memainkan peranan ini nescaya lompong-lompong didalam sistem pendidikan kita dapat diisi.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;14. Lalu anda bagaimana? Apakah yang telah anda lakukan untuk menyumbang kepada sistem pendidikan dan anak bangsa kita?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;15. Atau anda sekadar bercakap dan menuding jari tanpa melakukan apa-apa inisiatif secara sendiri?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;16. "Some people want it to happen, some people wish it would happen, &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;others make it happen&lt;/span&gt;" (Michael Jordan)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Salam dan selamat,&lt;br /&gt;Reverie Malaya ;)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(Tak salah kalau bermimpi)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/462964950647049354-4788883193636058452?l=reveriemalaya.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/feeds/4788883193636058452/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/2011/07/peranan-belia-dan-ngo-dalam-sistem.html#comment-form' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/462964950647049354/posts/default/4788883193636058452'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/462964950647049354/posts/default/4788883193636058452'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/2011/07/peranan-belia-dan-ngo-dalam-sistem.html' title='Peranan Belia dan NGO dalam sistem pendidikan Malaysia'/><author><name>Faiez Ali</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09700662927927427081</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-462964950647049354.post-5085473834955015314</id><published>2011-07-05T10:24:00.003+08:00</published><updated>2011-07-05T10:29:50.686+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri buka minda'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri politik'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri budaya'/><title type='text'>Apa itu kebajikan?</title><content type='html'>Salam.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1) Poin-poin kebajikan&lt;br /&gt;Bantuan ibu tunggal&lt;br /&gt;Mansa bencana&lt;br /&gt;Free education&lt;br /&gt;Subsidi minyak (harga minyak Malaysia antara terendah di Asia Tenggara)&lt;br /&gt;Program Permata seluruh Malaysia&lt;br /&gt;Program Juara Rakyat&lt;br /&gt;Bantuan OKU&lt;br /&gt;Bantuan Felda&lt;br /&gt;Pinjaman sana pinjaman sini&lt;br /&gt;Program-program oleh Kementerian untuk kebajikan&lt;br /&gt;Subsidi sehingga 20.58 billion setahun&lt;br /&gt;etc etc with long never ending list&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2) Jadi, bagi aku kalau setakat nakkan negara berkebajikan. BN dah lama, masih dan nampaknya akan terus laksanakan juga.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3) Tapi masih ramai yang celik-celik belaka tapi tetap tak nampak.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;4) So I guess, people decide what they want to see.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;*Kenaikan elaun guru KAFA di Kelantan juga yang orang nampak sebagai kebajikan.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;;)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/462964950647049354-5085473834955015314?l=reveriemalaya.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/feeds/5085473834955015314/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/2011/07/apa-itu-kebajikan.html#comment-form' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/462964950647049354/posts/default/5085473834955015314'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/462964950647049354/posts/default/5085473834955015314'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/2011/07/apa-itu-kebajikan.html' title='Apa itu kebajikan?'/><author><name>Faiez Ali</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09700662927927427081</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-462964950647049354.post-4123094924061983003</id><published>2011-06-30T02:46:00.005+08:00</published><updated>2011-06-30T03:59:43.736+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri buka minda'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri politik'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri budaya'/><title type='text'>Konsep politik di Malaysia</title><content type='html'>Salam.&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Daripada apa yang aku amati, politik di Malaysia kadang-kadangnya terlalu kearah kepartian. Yang mana terdapat golongan-golongan yang terlalu taksub terhadap parti masing-masing. Kalau tak, takkan lah sampai keluar isu masjid hijau dan masjid merah. Bagi yang hijau, ada yang mengatakan merah kafir. Bagi yang merah, ada yang mengatakan hijau sesat.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Daripada yang aku fahami, perselisihan pendapat dan salah faham adalah lumrah manusia. Boleh baca entri &lt;a href="http://ustabdullahzaik.wordpress.com/2009/05/29/jauhi-dari-menuduh-niat/"&gt;ini&lt;/a&gt;. Walaupun ada antara perkara lalu yang pernah disebutkan penulis yang mana aku tak setujui. Tetapi bagi aku entri yang ditulis ini amat bermakna dan berkesan.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Manusia tak boleh lari dari berselisih pendapat. Sedangkan antara sahabar besar Rasulullah saw, Ali as dan Muawiyah as juga pernah berselisih faham sehingga terjadinya episod peperangan yang diratapi oleh semua Muslim. Tetapi tetap tidak hilang hormat antara kedua sahabat besar Rasulullah itu.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Lalu apa yang boleh kita pelajari daripada peperangan antara Ali as dan Muawiyah as itu? Iaitu perbezaan pendapat adalah perkara lumrah tetapi ia juga merupakan ujian bagi kita. Sama ada kita mahu mengambil kebaikan ataupun keburukan daripada perselisihan pendapat itu. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Konflik dan berlainan pendapat merupakan satu petanda yang baik dimana idea yang ada mungkin dapat diperbaiki akibat daripada teguran orang lain. Hari ini, kita kena faham negara ditadbir oleh manusia dan manusia takkan lari daripada kesilapan. Justeru, memang terdapat kepincangan dalam pentadbiran negara. Dan disinilah terletaknya peranan parti-parti lain tak kiralah sama ada parti komponen atau perti pembangkang, untuk menasihati dan menunjukkan salah dan silap itu.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Tapi yang aku tengok lain, jika dia berbaju merah, cerita-cerita yang keluar pasti berkaitan keburukan hijau. Malah ada yang sampai keji mengkeji dan menghina ulama. Tak kurang juga yang berbaju hijau. Bila tengok ulama bercakap dipihak kerajaan terus dilabel ulama merah. Begitu juga ulama dan golongan professional. Kadang-kadang aku naik pening bila keluar statement-statement yang bercanggah antara satu sama lain daripada dua golongan yang tak kurang hebat ilmu agama masing-masing.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Bagi aku bila berpolitik biarlah berpaksi kepada keadilan dan perkara yang benar. Yang merah pasti ada kekurangan, tak kurang juga yang hijau. Maka baiki-memperbaiki antara satu sama lain.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Mungkin aku delusional, tetapi aku impikan satu keadaan dimana hijau dan merah boleh bekerjasama demi memartabatkan pelaksanaan Islam dan menaikkan reputasi Malaysia di peringkat dunia.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Dan janganlah kita lupa, syaitan selalu bersedia untuk mencari peluang membangkitkan permusuhan daripada salah faham sesama Muslim. Maka yang terbaik bagi aku ialah apabila kita dapat duduk sama berdebat berkenaan masalah dan sama-sama mencari penyelesaian. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Begitu juga dalam soal melabel puak masing-masing. Hari ini, janganlah kerana satu kelemahan, ditutup semua kebaikan yang dilaksanakan oleh sesuatu individu atau puak itu. Dan janganlah sentiasa beranggapan yang satu puak ni selalu betul saja. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Utamakan perpaduan, tolak ketaksuban politik kepartian. (Boleh jadi tagline political speech tak? ;p)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Selamat.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;*Nak promote dua bacaan ni yang mana aku rasa bermesej dan berkesan juga: &lt;a href="http://www.nazriawang.com/2011/06/ketepatan.html?utm_source=feedburner&amp;amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+NazriAwang+%28Nazri+Awang%29"&gt;Blog A&lt;/a&gt; dan &lt;a href="http://akmalamri.wordpress.com/2011/06/28/miskin-dan-kaya/#comment-319"&gt;Blog B&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/462964950647049354-4123094924061983003?l=reveriemalaya.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/feeds/4123094924061983003/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/2011/06/konsep-politik-di-malaysia.html#comment-form' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/462964950647049354/posts/default/4123094924061983003'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/462964950647049354/posts/default/4123094924061983003'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/2011/06/konsep-politik-di-malaysia.html' title='Konsep politik di Malaysia'/><author><name>Faiez Ali</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09700662927927427081</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-462964950647049354.post-6926191218540421051</id><published>2011-06-14T00:36:00.005+08:00</published><updated>2011-06-14T00:59:12.005+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri buka minda'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri politik'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri budaya'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri pemerhatian'/><title type='text'>BERSIH 2.0 Rally!</title><content type='html'>What's the point of the rally in the first place? Clean elections, right? I was in the middle of my studies, sebab esok nak exam, first paper when a status in my newsfeed caught my attention. It's about this video: &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8e0MC20AfYI&amp;amp;feature=feedu"&gt;HERE&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;I do not agree to everything that Pak Ibrahim Ali said. As we all know, this guy can really joke at times. However there is a small element of agreement with his stance that such rally is a waste of time. Yet the rally has proven to be good business too!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Well for many vendors, they can take this chance to open up an 'unofficial' pasar malam just for the Bersih 2.0 rally. All sorts of vendors, food, clothing, they can really catch fortunes if they know how to make use of the situation. If the organiser is business-minded, he can rent away &lt;i&gt;tapak &lt;/i&gt;to vendors and organise the pasar malam himself. Oh, already are business minded. The organiser is already selling Bersih 2.0 t-shirt for anyone who wants them. Can make extra cash for the nexxt election. Good strategy!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Yet, the real question I want to ask is, what is a clean election? Now, everyone wants a clean election be it a BN guy or a PR supporter. But who determine what is clean? When PR won many seats and deny BN 2/3 majority in 2008 election, was it a clean election? Because PR won many seats. If BN was cheating, they would never let PR win any seats, am I right? Now, even if the 2008 election was not clean, why the PR people did not hold another Bersih rally right after the 2008 election? Why now, only after PR's lost in Sarawak election did they decide to organise the Bersih 2.0 rally? Was it like, 2008 election was fairly clean but the Sarawak one was not a clean election.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;I don't really know if the election in Malaysia is considered as clean or not. However, I do know one thing. If I'm able to cheat, I won't even let my opponent beat me. What's the point of cheating if you still lose, right?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/462964950647049354-6926191218540421051?l=reveriemalaya.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/feeds/6926191218540421051/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/2011/06/bersih-20-rally.html#comment-form' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/462964950647049354/posts/default/6926191218540421051'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/462964950647049354/posts/default/6926191218540421051'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/2011/06/bersih-20-rally.html' title='BERSIH 2.0 Rally!'/><author><name>Faiez Ali</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09700662927927427081</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-462964950647049354.post-8200832546202081757</id><published>2011-06-06T04:28:00.005+08:00</published><updated>2011-06-06T04:54:09.810+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri pengalaman'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri diari UK'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri budaya'/><title type='text'>Bringing Spanish Culture out of Spain!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-PF8t6BRwub8/TevppLgbaNI/AAAAAAAAAGU/eibI_YWivWA/s1600/DSC00050.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-PF8t6BRwub8/TevppLgbaNI/AAAAAAAAAGU/eibI_YWivWA/s320/DSC00050.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5614838254120167634" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Spanish band performance&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-g6Rcrbx73J0/Tevpo2g7t8I/AAAAAAAAAGM/wjXe5xxo28c/s1600/DSC00054.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-g6Rcrbx73J0/Tevpo2g7t8I/AAAAAAAAAGM/wjXe5xxo28c/s320/DSC00054.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5614838248485140418" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Ibiza beaches style Lepak!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-haxOCb-BVbM/TevpoafIXzI/AAAAAAAAAGE/E_dfI8pHbdA/s1600/DSC00058.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-haxOCb-BVbM/TevpoafIXzI/AAAAAAAAAGE/E_dfI8pHbdA/s320/DSC00058.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5614838240961388338" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;F1 Store&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-srPJhWPjtWw/Tevpn7Q29lI/AAAAAAAAAF8/nNw-nCb8b5M/s1600/DSC00057.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-srPJhWPjtWw/Tevpn7Q29lI/AAAAAAAAAF8/nNw-nCb8b5M/s320/DSC00057.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5614838232580027986" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Sepak-sepak, dapat masuk nama dalam Top Scorer! haha&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ZoIgBLdYGbM/Tevpnn78E5I/AAAAAAAAAF0/dGvWwfZAJPo/s1600/DSC00051.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ZoIgBLdYGbM/Tevpnn78E5I/AAAAAAAAAF0/dGvWwfZAJPo/s320/DSC00051.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5614838227392009106" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Paella. Nasi goreng ala Spanish&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-CMNh-5JVUu0/TevoRIKWthI/AAAAAAAAAFs/Z0Cg5M1_3_g/s1600/DSC00048.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-CMNh-5JVUu0/TevoRIKWthI/AAAAAAAAAFs/Z0Cg5M1_3_g/s320/DSC00048.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5614836741393790482" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Orchestra main lagu Spanish&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-SsHFWvdTHBg/TevoQtDxm4I/AAAAAAAAAFk/X92SqRvi71g/s1600/DSC00047.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-SsHFWvdTHBg/TevoQtDxm4I/AAAAAAAAAFk/X92SqRvi71g/s320/DSC00047.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5614836734118435714" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;En. Amar Najib try score goal&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-95V-fyTYCTU/TevoQVOTuUI/AAAAAAAAAFc/dNOpkqL_Ovg/s1600/DSC00046.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-95V-fyTYCTU/TevoQVOTuUI/AAAAAAAAAFc/dNOpkqL_Ovg/s320/DSC00046.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5614836727720163650" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Cups: Spanish La Liga &amp;amp; European Champions League&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-2CUR-gb3bmE/TevoP9fg11I/AAAAAAAAAFU/1hz5xBnJszw/s1600/DSC00045.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-2CUR-gb3bmE/TevoP9fg11I/AAAAAAAAAFU/1hz5xBnJszw/s320/DSC00045.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5614836721349875538" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Cups: World Cup and Euro Cup 2008&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-UhseWwYAJ_w/TevoPuhSDII/AAAAAAAAAFM/lGapDuqEox8/s1600/DSC00044.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-UhseWwYAJ_w/TevoPuhSDII/AAAAAAAAAFM/lGapDuqEox8/s320/DSC00044.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5614836717330762882" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I managed to attend the Spanish fiesta just now at Regent Street, London. It's quite a famous street for shopping with many designer boutiques alongside the road, and they close the road for Spanish Fiesta. It's super awesome! ;)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The World Cup's Cup is there because Spain won the last World Cup. Dapat tengok World Cup, Champions League Cup, Euro Cup. Dapat try Spanish food, taster. Entah apa nama, aku tak tahu. Aku rembat je, asal halal, jeruk Jalapeno pun ada. Boleh ambil gambar with the World Cup sebenarnya, tapi nak beratur punya panjang. Aku pass je la. Ambil gambar dari jauh saja.&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Style karnival ini adalah street carnival. Sepanjang jalan, dia buka booth melambangkan tempat-tempat di Spain. Contoh tempat Real madrid they put Football Cups, Champions League and buat aktiviti shooting bola. Those yang dapat score more than 200 points dapat masuk top scorer. Nak score point byk, kena sepak bola kat penjuru gol. It's more or less like dart board game, dapat shoot tempat yang susah, dapat extra point. We tried twice and I managed to get into the scoreboard. Bangga, satu-satunya nama Melayu kat scoreboard. haha. ;p&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Ada tempat dia buat macam beach style, to symbolise Ibiza. Other activities like basketball shooting, persembahan kuda, orchestra and band performance pun ada. It was fun and a very new and refreshing idea for me. Biasanya orang buat karnival dekat tempat dia and ajak orang datang to their country. But for Spain, they brought out their interesting places out of Spain to Regent Street, London which is a very cool tourism promotion thing for me. And they give out free stuffs too, termasuk free food, drinks, Spanish beer and others. Berbaloi juga jalan hujan-hujan, dapat baju Spanish selai.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Apa rasanya if Malaysia buat benda yang sama. If tak dapat London, kat Indonesia dahulu pun boleh. ;)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/462964950647049354-8200832546202081757?l=reveriemalaya.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/feeds/8200832546202081757/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/2011/06/bringing-spanish-culture-out-of-spain.html#comment-form' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/462964950647049354/posts/default/8200832546202081757'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/462964950647049354/posts/default/8200832546202081757'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/2011/06/bringing-spanish-culture-out-of-spain.html' title='Bringing Spanish Culture out of Spain!'/><author><name>Faiez Ali</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09700662927927427081</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-PF8t6BRwub8/TevppLgbaNI/AAAAAAAAAGU/eibI_YWivWA/s72-c/DSC00050.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-462964950647049354.post-270254560194985567</id><published>2011-06-05T00:09:00.007+08:00</published><updated>2011-06-05T00:51:47.231+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri pendapat'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri perah otak'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri buka minda'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri agama'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri politik'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri budaya'/><title type='text'>Jenama Islam: Ayam KFC atau Ayam Radix?</title><content type='html'>Lupakan jenama. Aku naik muak dengan senario jemaah Islam di Malaysia termasuk bagi komuniti Malaysia di United Kingdom. Ilmu berkaitan Islam aku cetek, ya. Tapi secara rasionalnya apa yang berlaku boleh memberikan tanggapan buruk orang terhadap Islam itu sendiri.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Muslim mana yang tak mahukan pelaksanaan Negara Islam mengikut utopia idaman semua Muslim dimana keadilan, kebajikan terjaga. Serta mudah untuk menjaga iman. Itu yang paling dimahukan dengan sistem Islam kerana sistem yang ada sekarang ini amat sukar bagi seseorang Muslim untuk menjaga imannya. Tapi kita perlu realistik.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Baru aku terpanggil untuk membaca satu status berkaitan isu 'daurah islamiyah' di newsfeed facebook aku. Dan status itu telah menunjukkan aku kepada status asal oleh seorang pemimpin gerakan Islam diMalaysia, gerakan yang agak popular dikalangan mahasiswa UK juga. Antara artikel yang diisukan adalah artikel oleh Dr. Asri berkaitan isu terma Daulah islamiyah yang disiarkan di MalaysiaKini. Klik &lt;a href="http://www.malaysiakini.com/news/166003"&gt;sini&lt;/a&gt; untuk artikel.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Rasa terkilan pula bila tengok seorang Ustaz, pemimpin gerakan Islam diMalaysia mempertikaikan kewibawaan Dr Asri dengan ungkapan yang tak melambangkan tahap intellektual beliau. Ungkapan "Boleh pakai ke dia tu?" aku boleh bayang mana-mana Mat Rempit guna untuk chia-chia yang mereka bualkan bersama, tapi tak sangka seorang Ustaz, pemimpin besar macam tu pun turut sama mengistilahkan ungkapan sedemikian tanpa justifikasi yang memuaskan nafsu akal aku.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tak ada masalah dalam mempertikaikan kewibawaan seseorang. Kalau tak tahu, tak setuju, tanya dan pertikaikanlah. Tapi at least kena bagi justifikasi mengapa. Baru betul, baru adil. Tak boleh juga nak kritik masakan orang, kata tak sedap. Bila orang tanya kenapa tak sedap, cakap la, kurang gula ke, terlalu pedas ke, baru tukang masaknya boleh perbaiki. Setakat nak kondem, budak baru belajar cakap pun boleh, &lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;ye dok mung&lt;/span&gt;?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dan lepas tu perbalah soal istilah daurah islamiyah. Apa ke benda nya itu? Biar aku beri analogi, ayam KFC, biarpun ditukar nama menjadi Ayam Radix, bila orang rasa, mereka tetap tau itu Ayam KFC kerana rasanya. Begitu juga soal negara Islam. Letaklah Malaysia sebagai negara Islam contoh didunia contohnya, pasti akan ada orang mempertikaikan Malaysia kerana ciri-ciri yang ada di Malaysia langsung tak menunjukkan ciri Islamik.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Maka, daripada ustaz-ustaz dok berbalah soal terma daurah islamiyah atau negara Islam atau negara berkebajikan dihadapan khalayak ramai via facebook, perutusan rasmi, video dan lain-lain lagi sehingga mengelirukan golongan yang kurang arif tentang agama seperti aku ni sampaikan ada yang hilang kepercayaan dan berasa kecewa dengan kepimpinan ustaz-ustaz seperti ini, bukankah lebh baik diperdebatkan dan dihuraikan soal pelaksanaan negara Islam, ciri-ciri, contoh yang ada, kekurangan mana yang boleh diperbaiki dan seumpamanya. Seterusnya dikupaskan kepada orang muda seperti aku. Pasti ramai yang tertarik. Kemudian boleh juga buka soal jawab intelektual, baru bercambah ilmu. Jangan pula kata, kata-kata ustaz tak boleh dipersoalkan.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Janganlah sampai orang naik muak. Balik-balik golongan macam itu yang jadi pemimpin gerakan Islam di Malaysia. Siapa nak sokong kalau bukan yang berpemikiran ortodoks seperti mereka? &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bila buka TED, South Africa pun dah mula cakap soal investment in South Africa, Afghanistan sudah bercakap soal ekonomi di Afghanistan, isu-isu kemanusiaan, kebajikan, kemiskinan, development in technology dan macam-maca lagi. Tapi kat Malaysia, orang Islam dok berbalah soal nak buh nama produk ayam KFC atau ayam Radix?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mati akal,&lt;br /&gt;Reverie Malaya&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/462964950647049354-270254560194985567?l=reveriemalaya.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/feeds/270254560194985567/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/2011/06/jenama-islam-ayam-kfc-atau-ayam-radix.html#comment-form' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/462964950647049354/posts/default/270254560194985567'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/462964950647049354/posts/default/270254560194985567'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/2011/06/jenama-islam-ayam-kfc-atau-ayam-radix.html' title='Jenama Islam: Ayam KFC atau Ayam Radix?'/><author><name>Faiez Ali</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09700662927927427081</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-462964950647049354.post-448397041425347473</id><published>2011-06-01T07:09:00.008+08:00</published><updated>2011-06-01T07:29:01.143+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri buka minda'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri politik'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri pemerhatian'/><title type='text'>Talk Poem: What is the similarity between a 5-footed cow and the reason RON97 price keeps on increasing?</title><content type='html'>It is actually very hard to comprehend the reasons thrown to our faces by the popular media,&lt;br /&gt;although popular is now commonly and popularly misunderstood by as many people as the majority of citizens,&lt;br /&gt;Who would nod if he was told that a cow has 5 feet?&lt;br /&gt;Well, unless the person has never seen a cow before.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You see, there is this distinction of the old and young generation&lt;br /&gt;and the common philosophy of the young opposing the old, and being right in doing so&lt;br /&gt;We just need to realise who are we, if we can be defined with the word young or old?&lt;br /&gt;A lot of people measure oldness with the number of wrinkles,&lt;br /&gt;It can't be right, ain't it?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Many people are tiring, getting tired or already are,&lt;br /&gt;and this includes me&lt;br /&gt;There's not many things to go for, I mean what is the point of jumping in the competition,&lt;br /&gt;Where the best you can win is a toy candy?&lt;br /&gt;Not only it is a toy, but it's also a candy!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It does not matter which side we stand for, be it the right or the left side of the river bank.&lt;br /&gt;Because all they do is prevent water from flowing.&lt;br /&gt;But we know, at least those who learnt basic science,&lt;br /&gt;that water fulfill all shapes and thus will keep on flowing until they are stopped&lt;br /&gt;The question now is, how are they stopped?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Is it by throwing reasons all over again that we already know are artificial?&lt;br /&gt;Or maybe by making us addicted to the toy candy, by giving value to them.&lt;br /&gt;Perhaps we just stop being water?&lt;br /&gt;In the end, anyone can believe a cow has 5 feet,&lt;br /&gt;If he or she has a reason to believe in it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Honestly,&lt;br /&gt;Reverie Malaya&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/462964950647049354-448397041425347473?l=reveriemalaya.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/feeds/448397041425347473/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/2011/06/talk-poem-what-is-similarity-between-5.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/462964950647049354/posts/default/448397041425347473'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/462964950647049354/posts/default/448397041425347473'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/2011/06/talk-poem-what-is-similarity-between-5.html' title='Talk Poem: What is the similarity between a 5-footed cow and the reason RON97 price keeps on increasing?'/><author><name>Faiez Ali</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09700662927927427081</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-462964950647049354.post-1392533373964245202</id><published>2011-05-31T06:47:00.007+08:00</published><updated>2011-05-31T07:21:27.755+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='You'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri emo'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri budaya'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri pemerhatian'/><title type='text'>When I talked to my friends about girls, I seldom want to write this non-poetic poem</title><content type='html'>At many times, it's hard to really comprehend the way a girl think or feel.&lt;br /&gt;They can say they are feeling cold but it means they are getting hot.&lt;br /&gt;I mean a guy needs to really consider all options and answer possibilities when he has to answer a question as simple as "Do you want to eat a burger or a sausage?"&lt;br /&gt;Now you think, what more will it take for that guy to answer the question of "When do you want to marry me?"&lt;br /&gt;So, the point here is girl's thoughts and feelings are complicated.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But that's not the point. You see, the point can't always be about girls.&lt;br /&gt;It is about guys too... &lt;br /&gt;right?&lt;br /&gt;So, many guys do love their women, really.&lt;br /&gt;And as many guys want to see and make their women happy too.&lt;br /&gt;However, a girl usually cannot take this understanding and locate it into her common sense.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When a guy stays with his friend, it does not mean he ignores you because he hates you.&lt;br /&gt;And also please do not take it in a way that the guy likes to hang out with their friends more than hanging out with you.&lt;br /&gt;It is to be understood, that unfair is a very simple, plain and meaningless word to be used when a girl ask if the guy likes to hang out with their friends more than with her. Because guys can not answer such statement.&lt;br /&gt;You can not compare a cup of coffee to a can of coke.&lt;br /&gt;While a can of coke offers you the joy and thrill of coolness during a sunny day, the cup of coffee gives you the feeling of elegance and warmth in your morning sip.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hence people ask the question,&lt;br /&gt;And many tried to provide answer to 'THE' question.&lt;br /&gt;How to understand girls?&lt;br /&gt;You can not. Simply.&lt;br /&gt;How can you explain why the cloud is blue?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So what we can actually do is to write alphabets forming words.&lt;br /&gt;Words creating sentences, sentences constructing paragraphs.&lt;br /&gt;And paragraphs explaining nothing,&lt;br /&gt;like this one.&lt;br /&gt;Just to show that this nothing,&lt;br /&gt;actually means a thing.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And if you read this until you arrive to this last paragraph of non-poem,&lt;br /&gt;Could you please tell me, which one do you think symbolises a woman?&lt;br /&gt;A can of coke or a cup of coffee?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-Peace out-&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/462964950647049354-1392533373964245202?l=reveriemalaya.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/feeds/1392533373964245202/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/2011/05/when-i-talked-to-my-friends-about-girls.html#comment-form' title='7 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/462964950647049354/posts/default/1392533373964245202'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/462964950647049354/posts/default/1392533373964245202'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/2011/05/when-i-talked-to-my-friends-about-girls.html' title='When I talked to my friends about girls, I seldom want to write this non-poetic poem'/><author><name>Faiez Ali</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09700662927927427081</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>7</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-462964950647049354.post-3706105038106520762</id><published>2011-05-25T19:12:00.007+08:00</published><updated>2011-05-25T19:31:37.767+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri pengalaman'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri politik'/><title type='text'>Sketsa dunia politik</title><content type='html'>Kalau politik boleh dpentaskan, pasti akan ada:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Terlalu banyak konflik, hidup laju entah hendak ke mana, permusuhan tanpa pengakhiran, pembunuhan dan tikam belakang kawan.&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Terlalu banyak cium bontot, jadi puppet, dua muka, senyum plastik, hati hitam, masam muka, hidung tinggi dan besar kepala.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Sudah semakin susah untuk mencari kejujuran dalam politik.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Lagi baik kita hayati lagu ini. Salam!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;iframe width="460" height="279" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/XEKm5lw4_dk" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/462964950647049354-3706105038106520762?l=reveriemalaya.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/feeds/3706105038106520762/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/2011/05/dunia-politik.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/462964950647049354/posts/default/3706105038106520762'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/462964950647049354/posts/default/3706105038106520762'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/2011/05/dunia-politik.html' title='Sketsa dunia politik'/><author><name>Faiez Ali</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09700662927927427081</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://img.youtube.com/vi/XEKm5lw4_dk/default.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-462964950647049354.post-987997511862989043</id><published>2011-05-24T18:41:00.004+08:00</published><updated>2011-05-24T19:00:10.483+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri pendapat'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri buka minda'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri sinis'/><title type='text'>Berita Hairan - Rider fixed-gear bicycle menggadai nyawa</title><content type='html'>Rujuk link artikel ini ---&amp;gt; &lt;a href="http://www.bharian.com.my/bharian/articles/Riadahtakkenatempat_masa/Article"&gt;X&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Aku nak kupas sikit dari dua segi. Pertama segi penulisan, dan kedua segi pelaksanaan.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Untuk penulisan. Apa kata, daripada di kondem anak muda yang berbasikal didalam surat khabar nombor satu diMalaysia, kan lebih elok kalau ditulis dengan cara untuk create awareness of the new trend. So that government and local authorities will do something about it. Contohnya, kau tulis tentang sejarah, trend fixie sedikit and then give suggestion how can government help to make bicycle riding more safe in Kuala Lumpur. Or perhaps give some examples of cities yang ada implement such thing. Will be a much better article, ye dok?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Untuk pelaksanaan. Kan lebih elok daripada dikondem, dibiarkan masuk berita hairan dan rancangan 999, lebih baik dibuat projek circuit berbasikal seluruh bandar Kuala Lumpur ke, hari berbasikal sekuala lumpur ke. Atau apa-apa projek yang bicycle-related. Jadikan ianya bandar yang bicycle friendly. Bagi aku it's much better for them to cycle daripada merempit. A new trend that is to be celebrated and not condemned.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Make the city more community and socially friendly. Then reduce the number of vehicles on the road. Cuba ikut macam ex-mayor &lt;a href="http://www.pps.org/articles/epenalosa-2/"&gt;Enrique Penalosa&lt;/a&gt; ni. Macam mana dia boleh tukar his 'drug-city' into something different. Cerita about bandar Bogota, Colombia sepatutnya ditulis dan dikaitkan sekiranya journalist nak cakap pasal transportation sistem. Bukan quote cakap abang hampir langgar adik-adik berbasikal tengah malam sahaja.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;I know that the article written is true in many sense. Aku sendiri kadang-kadang menyumpah kalau jenis rider yang tak tengok kiri kanan, kita pula nak kena perhati dia. But the article that she wrote, doesn't offer any solution at all. It's an article to condemn and buat controversy. And I believe, there are much better way to write the article from another angle. But what to expect from Berita Hairan, kan?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Inilah akibatnya kalau jadi journalist tapi tak rajin membaca, aku rasa.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Salam&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/462964950647049354-987997511862989043?l=reveriemalaya.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/feeds/987997511862989043/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/2011/05/berita-hairan-rider-fixed-gear-bicycle.html#comment-form' title='8 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/462964950647049354/posts/default/987997511862989043'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/462964950647049354/posts/default/987997511862989043'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/2011/05/berita-hairan-rider-fixed-gear-bicycle.html' title='Berita Hairan - Rider fixed-gear bicycle menggadai nyawa'/><author><name>Faiez Ali</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09700662927927427081</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>8</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-462964950647049354.post-4214885711205670917</id><published>2011-05-09T14:59:00.004+08:00</published><updated>2011-05-09T15:04:22.725+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri pendapat'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri pemberitahuan'/><title type='text'>Projek Kalsom 17 - Pendaftaran dibuka!</title><content type='html'>Baru aku sedar yang kita selalunya perlukan suatu dunia yang lain supaya kita boleh terus kekal waras dan committed dalam dunia ini.&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;By the way, application to become facilitators for Projek Kalsom 17 has open. Please check out &lt;a href="www.projek-kalsom.com"&gt;www.projek-kalsom.com&lt;/a&gt; for information and to apply, pergi dekat 'information' and then click 'join us'.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Hope to see you there this summer in another wonderful and unforgetable chapter of Projek Kalsom - the 17th Edition.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;;)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/462964950647049354-4214885711205670917?l=reveriemalaya.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/feeds/4214885711205670917/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/2011/05/projek-kalsom-17-pendaftaran-dibuka.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/462964950647049354/posts/default/4214885711205670917'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/462964950647049354/posts/default/4214885711205670917'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/2011/05/projek-kalsom-17-pendaftaran-dibuka.html' title='Projek Kalsom 17 - Pendaftaran dibuka!'/><author><name>Faiez Ali</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09700662927927427081</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-462964950647049354.post-8262448975170470540</id><published>2011-04-29T02:02:00.006+08:00</published><updated>2011-04-29T02:07:18.444+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri puitis'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri Bulan'/><title type='text'>Pertemuan, perpisahan &amp; pengakhiran</title><content type='html'>Memang kita ditemukan untuk melalui perpisahan,&lt;div&gt;Kerna dengan perpisahan itu terasa manisnya pertemuan.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Memang perjalanan kita ini untuk ditemukan penghujungnya,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Kerna dengan penamatan itu terasa makna perjalanan.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Semoga kau dan aku saling melengkapi, mengingatkan,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Agar pengakhiran kita nanti hanya yang indah-indah belaka.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Sejujurnya milikmu,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Pemimpi disiang hari&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/462964950647049354-8262448975170470540?l=reveriemalaya.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/feeds/8262448975170470540/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/2011/04/pertemuan-perpisahan-pengakhiran.html#comment-form' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/462964950647049354/posts/default/8262448975170470540'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/462964950647049354/posts/default/8262448975170470540'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/2011/04/pertemuan-perpisahan-pengakhiran.html' title='Pertemuan, perpisahan &amp; pengakhiran'/><author><name>Faiez Ali</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09700662927927427081</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-462964950647049354.post-2855344053538562093</id><published>2011-04-11T17:31:00.005+08:00</published><updated>2011-04-11T17:45:20.572+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri pendapat'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri perah otak'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri buka minda'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri politik'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri budaya'/><title type='text'>Politik Malaysia dan kematangan!</title><content type='html'>a) Isu video seks memang tak sepatutnya menjadi agenda dan perkara highlight utama di Malaysia. Terdapat lebih banyak lagi isu-isu kebajikan, rakyat dan pendidikan yang lebih penting dan perlu dikehadapankan. Ini aku setuju.&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;b) Namun kita perlu faham dan lihat situasi ini daripada kedua-dua pihak. Bagi aku apabila pihak yang satu bermain soal isu moraliti, maka adalah adil apabila dia turut terkena isu moraliti. Tatkala kredibiliti kepimpinan PM Najib dipersoalkan kerana kes Atlantuya dan juga pemimpin-pemimpin BN lain, maka adalah tidak pelik apabila kes liwat, seks dan sebagainya turut dimainkan oleh BN untuk pembangkang.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;c) Soal moraliti tak layak disentuh pembangkang kerana mereka turut mempermainkan isu moraliti apabila mempunyai peluang. Jika berani meludah kelangit, kena sedia untuk terkena batang hidung sendiri.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;d) Bukan soal politik atau ahli politik. Politik satu dunia beraruskan seperti ini dimana isu moraliti dimainkan. Yang penting adalah pembaca, pengundi dan rakyat mematangkan fikiran, menapis hujah2 kedua pihak dan membuat pertimbangan melalui rasionaliti dan bukti-bukti yang ada. Politik tidak akan matang, tetapi kita perlu!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;e) Kredibiliti pihak polis dipersoalkan. Kredibiliti mahkamah direndahkan. Kredibiliti media dipijak-pijakkan. Jadi disini nak dengar cakap siapa? Cakap mereka saja?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;f) Media dibayar kerajaan pasti mengutamakan kerajaan. Begitu juga media dibiayai pembangkang pasti mengutamakan pembangkang. Ini lumrah! Siapa bayar, dia dapat nama. Akhbar keadilan, harakah dsbnya, pasti menyokong pembangkang dan menjalankan agenda pembangkang. Ini bukan perkara baru! Usah dijadikan isu.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;g) Yang lebih penting bagi aku adalah kemakmuran beragama dan keamanan berpenduduk. Dan ini masih ada didalam negara. Kepincangan rasuah, pengurusan yang teruk pasti perlu diperbaiki, jika tidak kerajaan akan jatuh lambat laun. Cuma buat masa ini, biarlah memilih yang dapat memberi keamanan dan kemakmuran beragama. Yang penting bukan racial chauvinist yang bersejarahkan parti diktator PAP!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;h) Jangan kerana lembu dan kambing bergaduh, babi dapat buat kandang!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Selamat.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/462964950647049354-2855344053538562093?l=reveriemalaya.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/feeds/2855344053538562093/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/2011/04/politik-malaysia-dan-kematangan.html#comment-form' title='7 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/462964950647049354/posts/default/2855344053538562093'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/462964950647049354/posts/default/2855344053538562093'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/2011/04/politik-malaysia-dan-kematangan.html' title='Politik Malaysia dan kematangan!'/><author><name>Faiez Ali</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09700662927927427081</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>7</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-462964950647049354.post-4208942291265065540</id><published>2011-04-06T12:58:00.004+08:00</published><updated>2011-04-06T13:23:37.472+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri perah otak'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri buka minda'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri agama'/><title type='text'>Mempersoalkan dunia.</title><content type='html'>Manusia dilahirkan dengan akal, nafsu dan emosi. Setiap satu melengkapi antara satu sama lain. Tanpa nafsu dan emosi tiada kegembiraan dan motivasi dalam kehidupan sehari-hari. Tanpa akal, maka manusia akan tiada daya untuk menjadi progresif dan kreatif dalam hidup.&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Semua ini ketentuan Allah, apa yang diberikan oleh Allah adalah berdasarkan apa yang terbaik untuk kita.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Banyak daripada kita sering mempersoalkan banyak perkara-perkara secara rambang. Ini tidak salah, memang akal dijadikan untuk menafsir kehidupan dan nafsu dijadikan untuk motivasi dan ghairah manusia dalam mencari kebenaran serta emosi untuk mendekatkan diri secara emosional dengan Allah.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Tapi kita perlu faham satu benda, apa yang kita sangkakan terbaik, tak semestinya terbaik untuk kita.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Pernah aku terdengar persoalan daripada seorang rakan yang agak rapat, mengapa tuhan menjadikan kita dengan emosi? Atau mengapa Islam membenarkan perang untuk menyebarkan ugama.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Jujur, aku gagal menemui jawapan yang memuaskan hati aku bagi persoalan-persoalan ini sejak beberapa lama berfikir. Bukan aku nak jawab kepada kawan aku, tidak. Sekadar untuk pemahaman dan kepuasan diri, betul juga apa yang ditanyanya.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Kemudian suatu hari aku menemui jawapan yang dicari-cari dan memuaskan hati aku. Seorang syeikh ketika program talk di Warwick University oleh Warwick ISOC berkata kepada aku setelah aku tanyakan kepadanya soalan mengenai perang dan islam itu. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Antara poin-poin penting dalam perbincangan aku dan dia adalah seperti berikut. Perang dijadikan oleh Allah sebagai satu naluri dalam ciri manusia. Sejak dahulu lagi manusia telah berperang dan sebagainya atas sebab penciptaan nafsu, emosi dan sebagainya. Antara perang terbanyak yang meragut nyawa manusia bukanlah peperangan disebabkan agama tetapi perang sekularisme iaitu Perang dunia pertama dan kedua, perang untuk kekuasaan, ekonomi dan dsbnya yang meragut beratus juta nyawa dalam siri peperangan yang hanya memakan masa beberapa tahun. Didalam Quran juga disebut oleh Allah untuk memerangi musuh-musuh yang menjatuhkan Islam, bukan memerangi orang bukan Islam tetapi memerangi 'musuh-musuh' Islam. Jadi hari ini, keputusan untuk membenarkan perang, adakah ianya milik manusia atau pun hak milik Pencipta manusia?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Apa yang aku dapat fahami ialah, terdapat perkara yang memang dijadikan oleh Allah untuk manusia sebagai ujian, sebagai peluang dan lain-lain. Tertakluk didalam tanggungjawab kita untuk menggunakannya berdasarkan keredhaan dan ketentuan Allah.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Sekiranya kita mahu mempersoalkan semua perkara didalam dunia, memang bermacam persoalan boleh diajukan. Tapi jawapan apakah yang kita harapkan untuk persoalan-persoalan kita? Lebih baik kita tanya, kenapa Adam diturunkan dari syurga sekaligus membawa seluruh bangsa manusia kemuka bumi ini? Kan lebih baik sekiranya manusia dicipta untuk hidup didalam syurga dan berzikir kepada Allah? Tetapi bagi aku, segala keputusan oleh Allah ada hikmahnya. Bukanlah untuk kita manusia mempersoalkan keputusan-keputusan sebegini sehingga ketahap ekstrim dan menggoyahkan akidah, kerana jika ia pun, tiada jawapan yang dapat kita harapkan selain dengan ilham daripada Allah.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Dan segala persoalan dan pemikiran ini sepatutnya akan lebih mendekatkan diri kita dengan Pencipta dan menyedarkan kita betapa kerdilnya pemahaman dan kekuatan yang ada dalam diri ini jika dibandingkan dengan kekuasaan Allah, insyAllah.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Wallah'ualam.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/462964950647049354-4208942291265065540?l=reveriemalaya.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/feeds/4208942291265065540/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/2011/04/mempersoalkan-dunia.html#comment-form' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/462964950647049354/posts/default/4208942291265065540'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/462964950647049354/posts/default/4208942291265065540'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/2011/04/mempersoalkan-dunia.html' title='Mempersoalkan dunia.'/><author><name>Faiez Ali</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09700662927927427081</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-462964950647049354.post-5492715714088058716</id><published>2011-04-04T08:07:00.004+08:00</published><updated>2011-04-04T08:28:12.716+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri pendapat'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri buka minda'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri politik'/><title type='text'>The danger of a welfare state!</title><content type='html'>1) Sejak beberapa tahun lepas, slogan negara kebajikan semakin didengari oleh pihak pembangkang.&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;2) Memang rata-rata atau ramai orang akan bersetuju dengan konsep negara kebajikan. Siapa tak mahu barang percuma atau barang murah ye dok?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;3) Jadi konsep negara kebajikan adalah merupakan satu konsep yang populis bagi meraih undi rata-rata masyarakat.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;4) Namun bagi yang melihat kepada perspektif yang lebih besar, kita akan sedar keburukan konsep negara kebajikan dimana bagi aku, keburukannya adalah lebih daripada kebaikan.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;5) Satu analogi yang aku boleh berikan, sekiranya ada 2 kedai menjual nasi lemak dikawasan yang sama tetapi gerai A jual dengan harga Rm1 sebungkus dan gerai B dengan harga Rm0.50 sebungkus. Apakah perbezaan yang kau dapat agak daripada kualiti, kuantiti atau servis kedua-dua kedai?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;6) Kawan aku kata, "Persoalkan kenapa barang itu murah dahulu daripada mempersoalkan barang yang mahal kerana kita faham mahal itu mungkin resources yang mahal, nak untung lebih dsbnya. Tetapi murah itu mungkin disebabkan kualiti yang teruk, side-effect yang lebih dan sebagainya."&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;7) Ambil contoh 'Great' Britain, negara yang kebajikannya agak kuat, namun masalah sosial seperti minum, teenage pregnancy, drugs abuse dan sebagainya disebabkan bantuan sosial yang diberikan oleh kerajaan mereka. Siapa nak kerja kerana bila kerja kau kena tax tinggi tapi kalau homeless, dapat duit setiap bulan, boleh buat beli booze. Buat sex, dapat anak dapat extra benefit lagi.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;8) Walaupun PLUS charge harga tol, tetapi kualiti servis yang diberikan adalah baik. Sekiranya kenderaan kau rosak, setiap beberapa km ada booth untuk telefon PLUS, sekiranya penat sepanjang perjalanan ada R&amp;amp;R yang beroperasi 24 jam. Kalau percuma, agak-agak boleh dapat? Servis di UK punya highway pun tak sebaik servis di Malaysia.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;9) Cuma kerajaan perlu bertindak kearah maintaining the current price of Tol dan janganlah melampau-lampau naikkan harga termasuk komoditi-komoditi keperluan rakyat yang lain. Biar adil.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;10) Subsidi minyak dimana Ron95 telah distabilkan harga adalah satu langkah permulaan oleh kerajaan kearah keputusan yang lebih bijak dan bermanfaat bagi kerajaan dan rakyat dimasa hadapan.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;11) Tak adil kita nak bandingkan Malaysia dengan negara-negara seperti di Timur Tengah, atau negara-negara dunia ketiga yang masih teruk pambangunannya. Di Malaysia, servis kesihatan kita cas minimum dan mampu diperolehi ramai rakyat. Kemudahan infrastruktur yang baik dan semakin menyeluruh. Masyarakat luar kampung sekarang pun sudah semakin diutamakan dari segi infrastruktur asasi kehidupan. Pembangunan sekolah-sekolah dan universiti juga semakin banyak. Bantuan pelajaran diberikan kepada semua yang mahu belajar.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;12) Kalau semua benda mahu free, habis telokop lah kerajaan. Nak masuk universiti untuk dapatkan ijazah kena hutang PTPTN pun bising. Habis bila kualiti universiti teruk, tak masuk list top dunia salahkan sistem pendidikan negara. Macam mana nak bangunkan universiti kalau bayar sikit pun tak mau.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;13) Benda percuma bawa banyak side-effect. Percuma = less quality. Percuma = bebanan hutang dan sebagainya. Percuma = poor maintenance.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;14) Our government is improving and starting to hear the voice of rakyat more and more. It's better this way daripada sekadar berkempen habis air liur setiap malam tapi apa hasil pembangunan, kemajuan pun tarak. Bercakap semua orang boleh. Tapi untuk perform, perlukan istiqamah dan kekuatan.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;15) Akhir sekali bagi aku, a good governance is not about giving free things to the rakyat but it's more about equipping the rakyat to be able to stand on their own feet and resist any challenges they'll face in the daily life. Esok dah asek sangat dengan benda free, masyarakat macam mana yang kau harapkan? Anak sendiri pun jangan biasakan diberi barang percuma, supaya dia tahu susah payah kehidupan dan belajar dari situ, kan?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/462964950647049354-5492715714088058716?l=reveriemalaya.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/feeds/5492715714088058716/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/2011/04/danger-of-welfare-state.html#comment-form' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/462964950647049354/posts/default/5492715714088058716'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/462964950647049354/posts/default/5492715714088058716'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/2011/04/danger-of-welfare-state.html' title='The danger of a welfare state!'/><author><name>Faiez Ali</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09700662927927427081</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-462964950647049354.post-203396359414292104</id><published>2011-03-21T06:32:00.003+08:00</published><updated>2011-03-21T06:58:21.047+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri buka minda'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri diari UK'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri agama'/><title type='text'>Forum Perdana Hal Ehwal Islam: Peranan Remaja oleh Dr. MAZA &amp; Dr. UZAR</title><content type='html'>Salam.&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Aku berkesempatan menyertai Forum Perdana Hal Ehwal Islam di UCL London. 2 topik disentuh oleh 4 orang speakers. Topik 1: Pemuda sebagai pemangkin kegemilangan ummah dari perspektif sejarah dan Topik 2: Islam and the global movement of the moderates.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Untuk kali ini biarlah aku berkongsi serba sedikit berkaitan topik pertama yang melibatkan Dr Zaharuddin (UZAR) dan Dr MAZA yang diterbangkan khas dari Malaysia. Moderator adalah ustaz kesayangan ramai siswa Malaysia di UK, iaitu Ustaz Erfino yang merupakan pegawai khas Menteri Pengajian Tinggi sekarang kalau tak silap aku.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Antara isu yang disentuh yang menarik adalah kupasan mengenai kelebihan pemuda dalam Al-Quran. Kedua-dua speakers menyentuh tentang pemuda seperti disebut dalam Al-Quran dan sejarah Islam.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Menurut Al-Quran, keunikan pemuda terletak pada kemampuan mereka untuk menetapkan pendirian mereka dalam sesuatu perkara tanpa dipengaruhi faktor-faktor lain. Maksudnya, sekali dah tetap pendirian maka susah nak diubah pendirian mereka kerana mereka tetap pendirian. Namun ini boleh menjadi perkara positif atau negatif dimana pendirian yang tetap sekiranya benar maka tiada masalah cuma sekiranya pendirian tetap yang dibuat itu adalah berdasarkan perkara-perkara yang tidak benar, atau tidak tepat maklumatnya. Justeru, pemuda perlu lebih matang dalam menilai sesuatu maklumat dalam menetapkan pendirian mereka.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Aku tersentuh dengan komen ini kerana bagi aku, ini kali pertama aku melihat pengertian pemuda atau anak muda secara begini dimana anak muda adalah tetap pendiriannya. Sepanjang penglibatan dengan organisasi-organisasi disini, aku mula refleks balik pengalaman aku. Rata-rata antara ramai-ramai anak muda yang aku temui dan bekerja bersama mereka, aku lihat pendirian berubah-berubah. Ada yang malah bersifat talam dua muka, depan kata lain dan belakang kata lain. Ada yang bersikap membodek orang-orang besar. Ini semua membuat aku terfikir, nilai anak muda itu tidak tertakluk kepada umur, kemudaan paras rupa atau organisasi yang melelongkan nama pelajar atau pemuda tetapi pada pendirian yang dibuat. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;UZAR dan MAZA juga menyentuh berkaitan tokoh-tokoh Islam yang muda-muda. Bagaimana Islam berkembang ditangan orang muda. Bagaimana Sultan Muhammad Al-Fateh membuka kota constantinople diusia yang muda. Bagaimana Ali bin Abi Talib membanggakan Islam disaat usia muda. Dan begitu juga tokoh-tokoh lain yang melakukan pelbagai perkara-perkara hebat disaat mereka muda. Kepentingan anak muda didalam Islam terlihat jelas daripada contoh-contoh yang diberikan. Dr MAZA turut menyentuh bagaimana sejarah berkaitan anak muda banyak yang dipadamkan dan betapa kita hidup didunia yang dikuasai oleh senioriti dan pengaruh golongan tua yang tidak melihat kepada meritokrasi. Justeru anak muda perlu sedar peranan mereka dan mengambil jalan dan peluang untuk menyampaikan pandangan dan pendapat mereka. Namun begitu, jelas seperti ditekankan oleh Rasulullah saw. Yang tua perlu dihormati dan yang muda pula dikasihi. Golongan tua yang berpengalaman perlu bersama dengan golongan muda dalam bermusyawarah dan membuat keputusan. Usah takabbur iaitu menolak yang hak dan menegakkan yang batil serta memperlekehkan orang lain. Ini adalah tanda-tanda takabbur. Maka begitu juga sekiranya orang tua memperlekehkan orang muda kerana usianya yang muda, maka itu adalah tanda-tanda takabbur. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Kedua-dua speakers merumuskan yang golongan tua dan muda sama pentingnya dan saling memerlukan antara satu sama lain dan memang terdapat perbezaan dalam pemikiran orang tua dan orang muda. Maka, orang tua perlu memahami dan mengikut nilai orang muda kerana itulah nilai semasa. Apa yang orang muda mahukan akan menjadi 'trend' untuk masa itu dan bukannya apa yang orang tua mahukan sewaktu mereka muda-muda dahulu. Usah ketinggalan zaman! &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Antara rumusan lain juga adalah, golongan muda perlu menjadikan diri sebagai ulul Albab iaitu golongan yang berpemikiran matang. Tidak hanya tertakluk kepada emosi. Membuat pertimbangan menyeluruh sebelum membuat keputusan. Jika ini dapat dicapai, nescaya masa depan sesuatu negara akan lebih cerah dan hebat. Namun, ini susah untuk dicapai tanpa bantuan dan galakan oleh orang tua. Maka, kerjasama antara kedua-dua golongan adalah amat penting dan diperlukan.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Itulah serba sedikit perkongsian berkaitan anak muda oleh Dr MAZA dan Dr UZAR. Harap bermanfaat.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Selamat. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/462964950647049354-203396359414292104?l=reveriemalaya.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/feeds/203396359414292104/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/2011/03/forum-perdana-hal-ehwal-islam-peranan.html#comment-form' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/462964950647049354/posts/default/203396359414292104'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/462964950647049354/posts/default/203396359414292104'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/2011/03/forum-perdana-hal-ehwal-islam-peranan.html' title='Forum Perdana Hal Ehwal Islam: Peranan Remaja oleh Dr. MAZA &amp; Dr. UZAR'/><author><name>Faiez Ali</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09700662927927427081</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-462964950647049354.post-5719625375110211022</id><published>2011-03-05T07:40:00.003+08:00</published><updated>2011-03-05T07:46:16.603+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri buka minda'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri politik'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri pemberitahuan'/><title type='text'>Interview with Khairy Jamaluddin</title><content type='html'>First of all I would like to praise the good work by UKEConnect to initiate the start of Connectwork team. Connectwork is a division aiming to interview professionals, academicians, politicians, young leaders and also get student opinion on issues that matters. It's a new way of approaching the students in public and get their voices heard.&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;As a start, we manage to interview YB Khairy Jamaluddin. The editorial team came up with questions ranging from brain-drain, student activism, AUKU until the personal question of is KJ leaving the arena of politics and why?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;So here's the new v=interview video on youtube: ---&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/UKECtv#p/u"&gt;An Interview with Khairy Jamaluddin&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Although KJ isn't favoured by many people including people in his own UMNO camp. We cannot deny the fact that his stance on the issues of meritocracy and justice is very important and true and we need to accept what he said about this matter.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;*Congratulations to the Connectwork team especially the editorial team, excellent questions we came up with. ;)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Selamat.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/462964950647049354-5719625375110211022?l=reveriemalaya.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/feeds/5719625375110211022/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/2011/03/interview-with-khairy-jamaluddin.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/462964950647049354/posts/default/5719625375110211022'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/462964950647049354/posts/default/5719625375110211022'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/2011/03/interview-with-khairy-jamaluddin.html' title='Interview with Khairy Jamaluddin'/><author><name>Faiez Ali</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09700662927927427081</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-462964950647049354.post-5044465075413867045</id><published>2011-02-28T23:26:00.004+08:00</published><updated>2011-03-01T00:03:45.933+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri buka minda'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri diari UK'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri politik'/><title type='text'>Diskusi: Trends Ahead of the 13th General Elections with YB Khairy Jamaluddin</title><content type='html'>Salam sejahtera.&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Sabtu yang lepas aku berkesempatan untuk turut serta dalam satu sesi diskusi bersama YB Khairy Jamaluddin di London. Topik yang diperbualkan adalah tentang perubahan landskap politik Malaysia selepas pilihanraya umum yang ke-13. Antara perkara yang kita sedia maklum, Pilihanraya Umum ke-12 yang lepas telah menandakan 'kekalahan' untuk Barisan Nasional apabila kali pertama hilang majoriti 2/3 undi. Khairy menyentuh tentang isu berkaitan pilihanraya umum ke-12 dalam mengupas tentang landskap pengundi dan politik diMalaysia.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Antara perkara yang disentuh oleh Khairy adalah, BN perlu menerima keputusan p/raya umum ke-12 sebagai satu tanda kekalahan dan perlu bekerja lebih keras dalam memastikan mereka masih relevan untuk kekal berkuasa diMalaysia. Selepas ditanya soalan oleh seorang penonton, "Bukankah lebih baik sekiranya BN kalah dalam p/raya seterusnya untuk membolehkan BN membuat revolusi besar-besaran dalam parti komponen mereka?", KJ memberi respon bahawa BN tidak perlu kalah dan tidak mahu kalah. Kehilangan majoriti 2/3 undi sudah cukup menunjukkan kekalahan dipihak mereka. Dan BN terutamanya UMNO sudah mula berevolusi dan melakukan reformasi dalam parti mereka sendiri dimana suara-suara muda mula diketengahkan dan meritokrasi mula dihargai.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Berkaitan tentang pengaruh BN atau UMNO diMalaysia sekarang ini, KJ memberi contoh bahawa BN masih berpengaruh hasil daripada beberapa p/raya kecil yang berlaku sejak p/raya umum yang lalu dimana BN telah menang kerusi-kerusi yang ditandingi dan juga menunjukkan peningkatan undi dibeberapa kerusi hangat yang mana sebelumnya dipegang oleh parti lawan. Namun KJ sedar, kawasan2 yang berlaku p/raya kecil semuanya adalah kawasan semi-urban dan merupakan antara kawasan2 yang tidak maju atau moden. Maka, pengaruh BN dikawasan bandar dan urban terutamanya seperti diSelangor, Kuala Lumpur, Pulau Pinang dan kawasan Kinta City, Ipoh masih belum diuji sejak p/raya umum yang lalu. KJ menyatakan kefahaman dan berpendapat BN perlu bekerja lebih keras untuk p/raya umum ke-13 kerana p/raya-p/raya yang akan datang tidak lagi mudah untuk BN seperti keadaan yang lalu dimana rakyat Malaysia cenderung kepada sistem 1-parti.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Pengundi dan rakyat Malaysia sedang menuju kearah kematangan dalam sistem p/raya dan demokrasi dimana kewujudan parti lawan semakin diterima dan sistem 2-parti telah semakin diterima oleh kebanyakan rakyat terutamanya mereka dikawasan bandar. Dengan ini, BN juga perlu keluar daripada kepompong lama dan zon selesa mereka. KJ berpendapat pemimpin BN perlu berdiri dan mempertahankan kebenaran dan bukannya agenda berdasarkan fahaman parti mereka. Apa yang benar, perlu dipertahankan. Dia memberi contoh, apabila gereja dibakar dan KJ mahu turun melawat tempat kejadian, dia mendapat panggilan mengatakan tindakan dia itu tidak digalakkan kerana kurang relevan dengan perjuangan parti yang disertainya. Namun dia berkeras dan tetap turun kerana KJ berpendapat yang benar tetap benar dan yang salah walaupun daripada pihak yang sama dengan kita akan tetap dikatakan salah.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Seterusnya KJ menyentuh juga tentang revolusi UMNO yang rata-rata mengamalkan warlordism. Dimana ketua-ketua bahagian yang akan diangkat menjadi calon. Calon-calon yang dicalonkan dalam p/raya selalunya mempunyai hubungan baik dengan 'orang-orang atas'. Keadaan ini mewujudkan situasi dimana meritokrasi ditolak ketepi dan kronisme serta senioriti digunapakai dan KJ berpendapat yang warlordism ini perlu dikikis daripada BN untuk terus kekal relevan dalam pemerintahan Malaysia. Anak muda perlu mengambil inisiatif melibatkan diri dan bersama mengubah struktur yang sedia ada kearah yang lebih demokratik dan pro-meritokrasi.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Selain daripada itu, KJ berkata soal 'bila p/raya baru nak turun bagi sekolah, padang, rumah, sumbangan dan sebagainya'. Dengan nada sinis dia melabel perlakuan itu sebagai 'BN-style'. Namun dia turut menekankan yang pihak lawan juga melakukan perkara yang sama dan apabila mereka melakukan perkara itu, tak pula orang cakap rasuah. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Antara kenyataan lain yang menarik minat aku adalah "Personally I think AUKU should be diminished because it's unfair and it doesn't show that BN is a party of change." Ini menunjukkan kematangan dan prinsip keadilan yang dibawa olehnya. Sayangnya, pendapat ini adalah pendapat peribadi. Antara pendapat peribadi yang lain adalah sekiranya Kelab UMNO dibenarkan diUnited Kingdom maka kelab-kelab lain juga perlu diberi kebenaran dan tidak wajar dibataskan pergerakan mereka.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Pada pendapat aku, KJ adalah satu simbol suara baru, generasi muda dalam UMNO dan BN yang melambangkan kematangan fikiran dan prinsip keadilan yang sejak kebelakangan ini jarang-jarang kita dapat lihat dalam gerakan BN atau UMNO itu sendiri. It's good to have such leaders in the government camp in order to get the voices of justice and youths supaya didengari oleh 'orang-orang lama' atau 'old-timers' yang kadang-kadang tak tau bila entah mereka ni nak bersara contohnya seperti manusia di Sarawak tu. Adakah nak sampai orang keluar berdemonstrasi baru terfikir untuk turun dan beri laluan kepada orang yang lebih layak?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Berkaitan ura-ura yang dia akan bersara sebentar daripada politik, KJ berkata itu adalah keputusan peribadi kerana bagi dia, terlalu lama dalam politik boleh menjadikan seseorang itu bodoh kerana sistem politik itu akan mempergunakan dia sehingga dia tiada masa untuk diri sendiri, membaca dan sebagainya. Justeru, sekali-sekala politician perlu keluar daripada politik dan buat perkara yang mereka mahukan supaya apabila masuk semula, mereka dapat masuk dengan visi yang baru dan lebih bersemangat.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;*Banyak lagi poin-poin yang dinyatakan tapi cukup lah setakat ni kerana ini antara yang menarik minat aku. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Salam semua.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/462964950647049354-5044465075413867045?l=reveriemalaya.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/feeds/5044465075413867045/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/2011/02/diskusi-trends-ahead-of-13th-general.html#comment-form' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/462964950647049354/posts/default/5044465075413867045'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/462964950647049354/posts/default/5044465075413867045'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/2011/02/diskusi-trends-ahead-of-13th-general.html' title='Diskusi: Trends Ahead of the 13th General Elections with YB Khairy Jamaluddin'/><author><name>Faiez Ali</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09700662927927427081</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-462964950647049354.post-918128851670348322</id><published>2011-02-22T11:59:00.009+08:00</published><updated>2011-02-22T22:35:56.711+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri puitis'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='You'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri interpretasi'/><title type='text'>You gave me the feeling of heart beats</title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;You make me feel my heart beats&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;and all the rush, vibrating conciousness&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;make my hefty breath heavier&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;sling me into a state of extreme apprehension&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;It is you, by the will of God&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;will I ever get through this&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;perhaps how is the question&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;God and His plannings&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;with us in His designs&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;and all destinies are His craft&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;And my feeling is as night&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;dark, quiet or calm?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;alone or together?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;prayers or lustful play?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Or merely lurching keel?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;with undefined ending&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;O you,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;you gave me the feeling of heart beats.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-O0zPmc5h6-s/TWM9d3zEObI/AAAAAAAAAEE/GjdkTz2r32k/s1600/Heart%2BAllah.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 250px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-O0zPmc5h6-s/TWM9d3zEObI/AAAAAAAAAEE/GjdkTz2r32k/s320/Heart%2BAllah.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5576368347018443186" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;The matter of hearts, in the hand of Allah&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/462964950647049354-918128851670348322?l=reveriemalaya.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/feeds/918128851670348322/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/2011/02/you-make-me-feel-my-heart-beats.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/462964950647049354/posts/default/918128851670348322'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/462964950647049354/posts/default/918128851670348322'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/2011/02/you-make-me-feel-my-heart-beats.html' title='You gave me the feeling of heart beats'/><author><name>Faiez Ali</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09700662927927427081</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-O0zPmc5h6-s/TWM9d3zEObI/AAAAAAAAAEE/GjdkTz2r32k/s72-c/Heart%2BAllah.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-462964950647049354.post-1960215421153257064</id><published>2011-02-21T09:12:00.003+08:00</published><updated>2011-02-21T09:30:40.651+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri pengalaman'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri buka minda'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri diari UK'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri politik'/><title type='text'>A meet with Dato' Shabery Cheek</title><content type='html'>Salam sejahtera to all fellow Malaysians.&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Alhamdulillah, I've gotten the chance to meet with Dato' Shabery Cheek with some of my friends and counterparts on the capacity of Projek Kalsom Deputy Director. I would like to say Alhamdulillah again as our proposal for Projek Kalsom 17 was endorsed by the Minister of Youth and Sports and he expressed full support and interest to assist us in ways he can. This is good news, and the Projek Kalsom 17 committee will commit to our level best to fulfill what we can achieve.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Now please allow me to share a bit of my experience with this leader of ours. My first unofficial 'meet' with him was when I saw him debating Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim in television and honestly from that point of view, I felt the debate got carried away in a very personal way by him which is not so professional. Hence, my first impression of him is not quite good.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;However now I can confirm that this humble minister of ours is quite a down to earth guy. He's very friendly, very nice and smiles a lot. He scooped food for us while we waited in a line for the buffet. He scooped until all the rice in the tray finishes. And he went to all the tables talking to us students. He invited students to join him in his table for dinner. And the best part is when we(the Projek Kalsom 17 committee) approach him to propose our Projek, he spent some of his time to understand our projek and straight away call his p.a to give instructions on how to help us with. A straight away endorsement! I find this very nice of him as a minister, although he can ask us to send the proposal to him and he'll look at it, but he took some time reading it and asking questions to understand it and straight away give things that we need.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Kata orang, tak kenal maka tak cinta. I feel he's a good person and my first impression of him is a total opposite impression as how I view him after today. I hope and will pray for his success and may many more leaders who are down to earth like him been born in Malaysia not caring whether they're from government or opposition. Good leaders are for us to respect and pledge full support.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;At least he's unlike some so-called people leaders who care about how many people will come to his event or talk, or berkira sangat penat nak jumpa student. This kind of leader, boleh bungkus nanti. I would want a leader who's approachable, friendly and open and now I can confirm, Dato' Shabery Cheek is one of them, as for now.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Will be meeting Datuk Seri Shahrizat Abdul Jalil and Khairy Jamaluddin next weekend, insyAllah. Is hoping to pitch another proposal for Projek Kalsom to Datuk Seri Shahrizat, please do pray for us. ;)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;* Hail to our national racer hero, Azizulhasni Awang who had an accident during race tragically but still managed to make us proud. I'm so touched by his spirit and patriotism! More of his story &lt;a href="http://article.wn.com/view/2011/02/20/Aziz_Awang_recovering_in_hospital_after_10inch_long_splinter/"&gt;HERE&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/462964950647049354-1960215421153257064?l=reveriemalaya.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/feeds/1960215421153257064/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/2011/02/meet-with-dato-shabery-cheek.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/462964950647049354/posts/default/1960215421153257064'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/462964950647049354/posts/default/1960215421153257064'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/2011/02/meet-with-dato-shabery-cheek.html' title='A meet with Dato&apos; Shabery Cheek'/><author><name>Faiez Ali</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09700662927927427081</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-462964950647049354.post-94541173091845105</id><published>2011-02-20T19:32:00.001+08:00</published><updated>2011-02-20T19:34:16.102+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri pemberitahuan'/><title type='text'>A good explanation on V-Day issue recently by Dr. MAZA.</title><content type='html'>Click this link for the youtube video ----&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYYDmTYND1c&amp;amp;feature=related"&gt;HERE&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/462964950647049354-94541173091845105?l=reveriemalaya.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/feeds/94541173091845105/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/2011/02/good-explanation-on-v-day-issue.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/462964950647049354/posts/default/94541173091845105'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/462964950647049354/posts/default/94541173091845105'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/2011/02/good-explanation-on-v-day-issue.html' title='A good explanation on V-Day issue recently by Dr. MAZA.'/><author><name>Faiez Ali</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09700662927927427081</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-462964950647049354.post-3818720980197649021</id><published>2011-02-20T06:19:00.003+08:00</published><updated>2011-02-20T06:27:28.599+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri puitis'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri emo'/><title type='text'>the unseen, can it be seen?</title><content type='html'>Smoke all over the room,&lt;div&gt;clothes, bags, shoes, books scattered&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;all these seen messiness&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;are as the feelings shattered.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Life's tough, good thing we can dream of a utopia.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/462964950647049354-3818720980197649021?l=reveriemalaya.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/feeds/3818720980197649021/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/2011/02/unseen-can-it-be-seen.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/462964950647049354/posts/default/3818720980197649021'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/462964950647049354/posts/default/3818720980197649021'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/2011/02/unseen-can-it-be-seen.html' title='the unseen, can it be seen?'/><author><name>Faiez Ali</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09700662927927427081</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-462964950647049354.post-4874274379079819955</id><published>2011-02-15T21:43:00.003+08:00</published><updated>2011-02-15T22:28:37.830+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri pendapat'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri buka minda'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri budaya'/><title type='text'>Discussion: Meaning of patriotism in Malaysia</title><content type='html'>Salam and hye to all.&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Are you familiar with such statements:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;"Ah, Kerajaan ke kera-jaan? Rasuah teruk!"&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;"All government servants only know how to procrastinate, everything they do take twice as long!"&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;"Why should I work in Malaysia? I'm treated as second-class citizen. Everything is Malay! Better if I work in other countries."&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;From the statements above I would like to raise the issue of patriotism in Malaysia. The question is, is criticising the same as being patriotic? When we listen to people who criticise and we ask them, why are you criticising? Kutuk saja tau! Most of the time, the response is "Because I care lah, I criticise! If not, I buat diam saja."&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;I would say, such people is patriotic but in a very negative way. I was once like that. Anti-establishment, anti-everything, rebellious, everything is not right. But joining Projek Kalsom last year made me realised that criticising alone is not and never enough. We'll need to start doing something to improve the condition in Malaysia. Talking and finding faults,everyone can do yet the truly patriotic and nationalist will find cure and solutions to the problems. I believe this is how we should act. It's okay to criticise but at the same time, do or suggest things to improve the situation. In simple words, walk the talk!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;The next question is, people who leave Malaysia because they feel they are being treated as a second-class citizen and not given equal opportunity in Malaysia, are they right? Or is it fair for them to criticise the government for their decision to move and work abroad and thus creating brain-drain problems in Malaysia?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;I feel such people are not patriotic and are putting the blame on others to try and justify things on their behalf. The argument is for such people who leave Malaysia to work abroad and at the same time, criticise the government and the system in Malaysia to justify their actions. I feel it's not right and by doing that it shows although they have the professional knowledge yet they lack patriotism and willingness to strive to improve the situation in Malaysia.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Brain drain is not a new problem for Malaysia. We should all work and try our best to come back to Malaysia and serve the country in however way we can. I can only find one justification in the actions of the people who move and work abroad, they are materialistic and want the extra cash they can get by working in other countries. Let's not just put the blame on the government but we ourselves don't do anything to improve things. Things won't improve if we don't take actions. I'm firm to a believe, "take a small step, it will lead to big changes in the future. So, start now!"&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;What's your take on this?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Together for a united Malaysians! ;)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/462964950647049354-4874274379079819955?l=reveriemalaya.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/feeds/4874274379079819955/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/2011/02/discussion-meaning-of-patriotism-in.html#comment-form' title='9 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/462964950647049354/posts/default/4874274379079819955'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/462964950647049354/posts/default/4874274379079819955'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/2011/02/discussion-meaning-of-patriotism-in.html' title='Discussion: Meaning of patriotism in Malaysia'/><author><name>Faiez Ali</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09700662927927427081</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>9</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-462964950647049354.post-7198448276567563019</id><published>2011-02-10T23:40:00.004+08:00</published><updated>2011-02-11T00:10:57.281+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri pendapat'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri buka minda'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri agama'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri politik'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri budaya'/><title type='text'>Strengthening the refutation</title><content type='html'>Salam and hye to all.&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;I believe the post before drew many attention, which is good. I hope it was able to educate some people to understand the Islamic principle on this matter.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;However, like according to 'clear conscience', who commented saying that the discussion has gone off topic and I agree to that. What I intend to do is to share understanding of Islamic principle on 'immoral activities' and for us to realise the existing of difference perspectives in interpreting 'immoral activities' due to our different beliefs. Yet, for Islam, that's how we interpret 'immoral activities' and none can force us to say no as that's how we see things.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Then, the core argument I intended to bring up is to show that Mr Tan is not right to criticise Ustaz Nasrudin's campaign because the campaign is for Muslims and doesn't involve the non-muslims. And the term 'immoral activities' is used from the point of view of Islam. Hence, due to the practice of democracy, it is unwise and rude for such politician like Mr Tan to use phrase like 'mind your own business' in his post to refute a campaign which he doesn't really understand the nature of it. Again let me kindly remind, that the campaign is for muslims and doesn't involve the non-muslims.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Now perhaps some people still doesn't get it, so I'll use an analogy. We know the Hindus don't eat cow meats because of its prohibited by their religion. Hence, if the hindus want to make a campaign to 'check the other hindu people and make sure that they don't slaughter cows and eat their meats', then it's their rights and I won't interfere because it's the matter of their religion. The same case and thing is happening right now with Ustaz Nasrudin campaign. The campaign is done by Muslims and for muslims according to Islamic principles. Hence, why must such non-muslim who doesn't understand the nature of the campaign criticise and say the campaign must be stopped? Furthermore, he accused the campaigner of extremism. As politician, his views may carry weight and it is worrying to have such person being a Malaysian politician. Can't even imagine if he's elected to become our high-profile ministers!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Keep in mind, I would like to bring your attention to this issue because I feel this isn't how we should do things in Malaysia, we need understanding between each other. Because from understanding then only will come tolerance.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;The same goes, if the chinese wants to start a campaign 'to make sure the other fellow chinese do not sweep the floor of their house during the first day of Chinese New Year', then people of other religion and beliefs do not have rights to stop this campaign.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;As long as the campaign doesn't go into extreme like for the V-Day campaign, if unmarried muslim couples caught kissing each other are killed or beaten like hell then we should stop such campaign. Otherwise, we shouldn't interfere as it's to help our fellow Muslims to avoid from sinning. A brother will take good care of his other brothers and sisters and this is what we are practicing, hence your understanding of this issue is needed to create a situation of tolerance between us although we have different beliefs.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;The differences between people should be celebrated yet people are using such things as reason to fight each other.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Selamat.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/462964950647049354-7198448276567563019?l=reveriemalaya.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/feeds/7198448276567563019/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/2011/02/strengthening-refutation.html#comment-form' title='12 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/462964950647049354/posts/default/7198448276567563019'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/462964950647049354/posts/default/7198448276567563019'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/2011/02/strengthening-refutation.html' title='Strengthening the refutation'/><author><name>Faiez Ali</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09700662927927427081</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>12</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-462964950647049354.post-7611935043105394880</id><published>2011-02-09T21:05:00.020+08:00</published><updated>2011-02-09T22:59:02.654+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri pendapat'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri buka minda'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri agama'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri politik'/><title type='text'>Valentine's Day: Refuting Tan Keng Liang</title><content type='html'>Referring to the post by Tan Keng Liang click --&gt; &lt;a href="http://tankengliang.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#000000;"&gt;here&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Stating my opinion, I would like to express disagreement towards the views expressed by Mr Tan in his post. I feel Mr Tan has poor understanding of Malaysian multiracial and multireligion society and thus leading him to produce such statement.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;b&gt;First argument:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Quoting his statement "&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="line-height: 20px; font-size:13px;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;I regret the statement by PAS Youth Chief that implied Valentine’s Day would be filled with sinful activities and immoral acts.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;", &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;followed by his other statement "&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="line-height: 20px; font-size:13px;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;i&gt;This is clearly a blatant insult to those who celebrate Valentine’s Day in Malaysia. It would indirectly cast doubt over the morality of all those who will celebrate Valentine’s Day.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;" &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;From these two statements it is clear that Mr Tan doesn't really understand the situation in our multireligion society in Malaysia. By saying that Valentines Day would be filled with sinful activities and immoral acts, PAS Youth Chief Nasruddin Hassan is generally viewing Valentine Day from the point of view of Islam. Mr Tan needs to understand that for Muslims, it is sinful even for unmarried couples to be alone together. Moreover in Valentines Day where most couples will take opportunity of this day to embrace each other in manners intolerable to Islam or in even worse condition leading to sexual intercourse between unmarried couples.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;The reason for this is because Islam respect the value of women and the right of men. Value of women where women are to take good care of their chastity and good morality. This is important to ensure the 'right' for her 'future' husband is fulfilled because it would be unfair for the man to find out that his 'future' wife is no longer chaste and had been 'enjoyed' by other men due to various reasons, one of it being the reason of 'love'.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;The second reason for this is to help prevent further social problems. All of us agree that abortion is immoral because it's the same as killing a soul with life. Having said this, we also agree to abandon newly born baby due to various factors is even worse. The problem is, Mr Tan, unmarried couples who get involve with sexual intercourse and then leading to the girl being pregnant, the result in most cases of unwanted pregnancy by unmarried couples is either abortion or the baby being born and abandoned. This leads to other social problems which will take another thousand of words to be discussed on so I'll leave it for now. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;b&gt;Second argument&lt;/b&gt;:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Quoting another sentence from the blog, "&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="line-height: 20px; font-size:13px;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;i&gt;PAS Youth must understand the nature of Valentine’s Day with an open mind and do not interpret the celebration with their “narrow mind”&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;"&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Reversely, I would want to plead Mr Tan to view the issue of Valentine's Day from a 'bigger' and not such narrow perspective of celebrating love. We should see the issue of Valentine's day from a wider perspective of morality, social problems, value of women and the rights of men rather than only talking from the point of view of love. There are bigger implications from Valentine's day towards social problems and issues of morality rather than just celebrating love. Should this issue not addressed, Malaysia is in danger of being in serious social dilemma like what the United Kingdom is facing. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Having the chance to study in the United Kingdom I come to understand, among biggest social problems faced by the UK Government are 'alcohol consumption' and 'teenage pregnancy'. Even modern and developed country like UK is facing problem with teenage pregnancy which impacted them not only socially but also in many other aspects. So, why should us, Malaysia, which is still a developing country, take the issue of 'teenage pregnancy' lightly? Hence, Valentine's day play quite a significant role in contributing to unwanted pregnancy and teenage pregnancy because the day itself is used as a 'formal' platform where most teenage lovers will find opportunities to embrace each other.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;b&gt;Third argument&lt;/b&gt;:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Quoting his statement in the post, "&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style=" line-height: 20px; font-size:13px;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#FFFFFF;"&gt;Malaysia, a multiracial and religion country, has long been a moderate country and free of extremism.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;" Being an active politician, Mr Tan should understand that a multiracial and religion country and society consist of people with different views and beliefs. Hence, in order to make decisions we will need to consider people of different beliefs. I would not say things on behalf of other group of people, instead I would refer to this issue from the point of view of Islam.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;As a nationalist in Malaysia, Mr Tan should understand more than 50 percent of Malaysians are Muslims. The nature and teaching of Islams are such where we prohibit sexual intercourse before getting married. Having said this, it also means all actions directing to sexual intercourse before marriage should be actively discourage. Hence this is why our good Malaysian, Ustaz Nasrudin Hasan Tantawi is initiating a campaign to discourage such activities which happen rampantly during Valentine's Day.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;I understand, being a non-muslim, Mr Tan might not comprehend fully the understanding and the preachings of Islam. However, there is no excuse for a politician like Mr Tan to disrespect the rights and beliefs of other group of people, in this case, the Muslims in Malaysia to discourage the celebration of Valentine's Day as this is our right.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;b&gt;Fourth argument&lt;/b&gt;:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Quoting another statement by Mr Tan: "&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="line-height: 20px; font-size:13px;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#FFFFFF;"&gt;This latest statement by PAS clearly signify more efforts by PAS (with the support of their partners in Pakatan Rakyat) to create their extreme version of Islamic State in Malaysia.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;"&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;In my defence of the action, I would like to call upon Mr Tan to understand that what is done by PAS Youth Chief, is not in any sense considered as extremism. Instead we are trying to defend the teachings of Islam and at the same time will be benefiting Malaysia and Malaysian society by helping to prevent social problems from increasing. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;On the other hand, I would like to point out that to disallow and disrespect others rights, in this case, the Muslims rights to practice the teaching of our religion which is to discourage the celebration of something detrimental to Islam and the society such as Valentine's Day among Muslims is a sign of extremism itself. So perhaps Mr Tan can reconsider the stance taken by yourself in this issue.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Lastly, quoting the last statement from Mr Tan: "&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="line-height: 20px; font-size:13px;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;PAS must learn to understand the culture of all Malaysians, comprising of various race and religion.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;". I would like to kindly urge Mr Tan to learn and try to understand the nature and culture of all Malaysians, comprising of various race and religion because if you do understand, then you'll know why are Muslims such as Ustaz Nasrudin actively discouraging the celebration of Valentine's Day. This is a friendly reminder to Mr Tan as it is important for yourself because if you want to develop your career and become successful politician, you will need to fully understand the context of pluralism in Malaysia.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;b&gt;Fifth argument&lt;/b&gt;:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Having done with my arguments rebutting Mr Tan's post, I would like to point out a statement from our Ustaz Nasrudin quoted from &lt;a href="http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2011/2/9/nation/8024821&amp;amp;sec=nation"&gt;thestar&lt;/a&gt; online: &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;"&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"   style="line-height: 21px; font-family:Arial;font-size:14px;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;In Penang, PAS youth is working closely with the Islamic Religious Department to check immoral activities among Muslims, he said.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;"&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Having said this, this activity of discouraging the celebration of Valentine's Day only involves the process to check immoral activities among 'Muslims'. Hence, if Mr Tan wants to celebrate Valentine's Day, feel free to celebrate. However, I would like to stress, the right to take care and monitor our own beloved brothers and sisters of Islam is still our right and I shall support this noble campaign as a Muslim.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;b&gt;Conclusion&lt;/b&gt;:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;The intention of this post is not to undermine any individual but to educate the people as to why do Muslims are against Valentine's Day. Furthermore, this post is to stress that we should have proper understanding of certain issue to make a fair judgement to it. And to our Muslim friends, we should start educating our non-Muslim friends as to why we discourage the celebration of Valentine's Day so all of us can have the same understanding. From understanding then only will come tolerance.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;This post is written and consist of personal opinion by,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Mohd Faiez Mohd Ali&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;A Malaysian undergraduate student.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/462964950647049354-7611935043105394880?l=reveriemalaya.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/feeds/7611935043105394880/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/2011/02/valentines-day-refuting-tan-keng-liang.html#comment-form' title='42 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/462964950647049354/posts/default/7611935043105394880'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/462964950647049354/posts/default/7611935043105394880'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/2011/02/valentines-day-refuting-tan-keng-liang.html' title='Valentine&apos;s Day: Refuting Tan Keng Liang'/><author><name>Faiez Ali</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09700662927927427081</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>42</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-462964950647049354.post-1953869623792006374</id><published>2011-02-05T07:51:00.002+08:00</published><updated>2011-02-05T08:17:44.493+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri pengalaman'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri buka minda'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri diari UK'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri politik'/><title type='text'>Talk: A Frank Discussion with Khalid Ibrahim</title><content type='html'>Didoakan semoga semua berada dalam keadaan sejahtera sentiasa.&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Atas kapasiti sebagai seorang junior executive untuk UKEC, aku berpeluang untuk menyertai talk bersama Menteri Besar Selangor sebentar tadi di Cass Business School, London. Walaupun berada disitu dengan tugas namun sempat mendengar pandangan dan pendapat yang diluahkan oleh YAB MB. Beliau hadir bersama dua lagi tokoh, seorang adalah Tricia Yeoh manakala seorang lagi aku lupa nama Tan Sri tu.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Pertamanya, aku bersetuju seperti apa yang dinyatakan oleh Pengerusi UKEC, Farquar Haqqani bahawa gaya penyampaian oleh YAB MB adalah ibarat pesanan daripada seorang ayah kepada anak-anaknya. Penyampaian yang tenang, berisi dan seperti mempunyai penyelitan harapan buat kami, pelajar yang menyertai. Namun kelajuan penyampaian yang agak perlahan kadang-kadang membuatkan aku sedikit terkhayal dan juga memakan masa sesi soal jawab.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Banyak isu yang disampaikan dan dikupas. Antara yang ditekankan adalah situasi politik baru di Malaysia dimana kehadiran PR membawa revolusi politik baru di Malaysia. Parti politik dan ahli parlimen serta ahli dewan undangan negeri terutama di Selangor dibawah pimpinan YB MB beranggapan &lt;i&gt;accountability&lt;/i&gt; terhadap rakyat adalah penting dan menjadi keutamaan. Oleh sebab ini, kerajaan PR di Selangor telah mengetengahkan beberapa langkah untuk memastikan &lt;i&gt;transparency&lt;/i&gt; menjadi kenyataan, contohnya memulakan SELCAT. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;YAB MB juga mengulas sedikit mengenai isu air di Selangor. Dimana diantara kerajaan Selangor dan sektor persendirian telah ada perjanjian untuk membenarkan kenaikan harga air sebanyak 15% setiap dua tahun. YAB MB kemudian memperkatakan, beliau telah mengira sendiri secara kasar dan berpendapat bahawa kerajaan negeri dapat menyediakan perkhidmatan yang sama dengan harga yang lebih murah lalu YAB MB mengambil keputusan untuk tidak menurut tuntutan oleh sektor persendirian untuk menaikkan harga minyak setiap dua tahun.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Disamping itu, YAB MB berkongsi satu peristiwa dimana beliau telah enggan merasmikan jalan berturap yang baru dibina sepanjang 30km dengan menyatakan bahawa, apabila ditanya berapa kos jalan itu, kontraktor menyatakan Rm900 juta. Namun beliau berkata bahawa sewaktu terlibat dalam usaha membina lebuhraya Guthrie sepanjang 32 km dahulu, kosnya hanyalah Rm320 juta. Atas sebab tidak bersetuju dengan kos dan menganggap terdapat salah guna kuasa maka YAB MB mengambil sikap enggan untuk merasmikan jalan itu. Beliau turut menekankan bahawa PR akan bersetuju dengan projek-projek yang membawa manfaat kepada rakyat tanpa mengira sama ada projek itu daripada BN atau PR.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Mengulas tentang isu Khusrin, YAB MB menceritakan perihal sejarah dimana kerajaan BN dibawah pimpinan Tun Mahathir telah meminda perlembagaan supaya kuasa Raja untuk menentukan pelantikan Setiausaha Kerajaan ditarik. Mengambil contoh daripada perkara ini, YAB MB berkata PR diSelangor cuba untuk menunda pindaan ini bagi memberikan semula kuasa melantik S/U Kerajaan Negeri kepada Sultan Selangor tetapi usul ini telah ditolak mentah-mentah oleh semua ADUN BN di Selangor. Maka tanpa majoriti 2/3, usul ini tidak dapat diteruskan. YAB MB seterusnya membuat penjelasan betapa UMNO yang selalunya memperjuangkan ketuanan Melayu sendiri telah menolak pindaan usul yang akan mengembalikan kuasa ketangan sultan Melayu. Beliau turut menambah bahawa perkara ini menunjukkan terdapat fahaman dan permainan politik yang tidak sihat berlaku diMalaysia dimana usul ditolak bukan kerana usul itu tidak baik tetapi kerana parti menyuruh untuk menolak usul tersebut.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Berkaitan dengan perkara diatas, YAB MB menekankan sekali lagi kepentingan politik baru dimana ahli politik bukan sahaja perlu lebih transparent kepada rakyat, tetapi juga mengambil keputusan berdasarkan kepentingan rakyat dan bukan kepentingan parti. Sekiranya sesuatu perkara itu baik untuk rakyat, maka lebih baik disokong biarpun datang daripada pembangkang ataupun kerajaan.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Seterusnya sesi soal jawab dibuka dengan 2 pusingan dimana persoalan mengenai sistem pengangkutan di Malaysia dan adakah pilihanraya negeri Selangor akan menuruti seruan YAB Perdana Menteri sekiranya YAB PM memanggil Pilihanraya umum tahun ini. Soalan mengenai keberkesanan dasar kerajaan Selangor memberikan subsidi dalam bentuk air kepada rakyat sama ada adakah dasar ini boleh diteruskan untuk jangka masa panjang tanpa menjejaskan ekonomi Selangor ataupun kerajaan Selangor sekadar mengambil dasar populis jangka masa pendek untuk memperoleh undi rakyat Selangor turut ditanya. Bagi aku jawapan yang diberikan oleh YAB MB Selangor adalah memuaskan dan menepati soalan-soalan yang diajukan kepada beliau.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Sekian. Selamat. ;)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/462964950647049354-1953869623792006374?l=reveriemalaya.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/feeds/1953869623792006374/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/2011/02/talk-frank-discussion-with-khalid.html#comment-form' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/462964950647049354/posts/default/1953869623792006374'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/462964950647049354/posts/default/1953869623792006374'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/2011/02/talk-frank-discussion-with-khalid.html' title='Talk: A Frank Discussion with Khalid Ibrahim'/><author><name>Faiez Ali</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09700662927927427081</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-462964950647049354.post-3181455044327431935</id><published>2011-02-02T10:06:00.002+08:00</published><updated>2011-02-02T10:10:59.779+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri pengalaman'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri buka minda'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri agama'/><title type='text'>How do we know if there is a God?</title><content type='html'>Muhammad saw once said,&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;The presence of a dung proves a camel was here.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;The footprint left in the sand proves a person was here.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;And the proofs of these world, sky, land and creations are evidences that something with bigger power(Allah) is here.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;*These sentences are partly taken from a talk by Bro. Khalid Yassin &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MWPLCUhxuk&amp;amp;playnext=1&amp;amp;list=PLE44D3C9297A82361"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/462964950647049354-3181455044327431935?l=reveriemalaya.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/feeds/3181455044327431935/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/2011/02/how-do-we-know-if-there-is-god.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/462964950647049354/posts/default/3181455044327431935'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/462964950647049354/posts/default/3181455044327431935'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/2011/02/how-do-we-know-if-there-is-god.html' title='How do we know if there is a God?'/><author><name>Faiez Ali</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09700662927927427081</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-462964950647049354.post-6284510747954023370</id><published>2011-01-27T03:31:00.002+08:00</published><updated>2011-01-27T03:57:36.324+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri pengalaman'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri diari UK'/><title type='text'>Luncheon: Datuk Mustapa Mohamed</title><content type='html'>Salam ;)&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Tahun lepas aku berkesempatan untuk menyertai rombongan (Datuk Mustapa Mohamed)Tok Pa di Birmingham yang mana seramai lebih kurang 30 pelajar Malaysia turut serta. Waktu itu rombongan Tok Pa bertemu dengan pelajar dibilik mesyuarat dimana Tok Pa memberikan ucapan dan kemudian diikuti dengan sesi soal jawab.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Baru sebentar tadi aku bersama seorang lagi rakan berkesempatan untuk hadir ke Luncheon bersama dengan Tok Pa yang sedang dalam perjalanan ke &lt;a href="http://www.weforum.org/events/world-economic-forum-annual-meeting-2011"&gt;World Economic Forum di Davos&lt;/a&gt;. Beliau mengambil kesempatan untuk bertemu dengan golongan pelajar, professional Malaysians yang bekerja diUK dan kesatuan pemilik restoran Malaysia diUK.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Pertemuan ini berkonsep 'sambil makan sambil borak'. Pertamanya Tok Pa telah datang duduk dimeja aku dan berborak secara kasual. Sembang tentang scholar mana, tentang siapa sponsor dan sebagainya. Dari satu meja pelajar ke meja yang lain.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Kemudian Tok Pa memberi sedikit ucapan berkaitan tujuan beliau datang, progress ekonomi Malaysia dan isu-isu lain. Ucapan yang agak general dan tidak spesifik, mungkin kerana tidak cukup masa. Setelah itu sesi soal jawab, beberapa orang bertanyakan soalan seperti bagaimana pelajar Malaysia boleh membantu mempromosi Malaysia dimata dunia? Apakah langkah utama kerajaan dalam menangani masalah brain drain golongan professionals Malaysians yang selepas habis belajar terus bekerja dinegara lain? Dan juga permintaan daripada golongan pemilik restoran Malaysia yang meminta bantuan kewangan daripada kerajaan dalam usaha mereka mempromosi Malaysia. Jawapan yang diberikan adalah agak general tetapi beberapa perkara seperti Pemandu dan TalentCorps dapat disentuh oleh Tok Pa.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Setelah itu Tok Pa berangkat untuk mengejar flight ke Davos dalam masa setengah jam lagi. Para pelajar semuanya keluar ke lobi dewan dan menunggu untuk bergambar beramai-ramai bersama Tok Pa. Setelah bergambar Tok Pa bersalaman dengan semua yang ada disitu. Aku ingat lagi bila ada pelajar perempuan nak salam dengan beliau, Tok Pa berkata,"Saya ada air sembahyang." sambil mengangguk tanda hormat kepada pelajar itu.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Lalu majlis tamat dan kami lepak kejap minum teh dan kopi sambil berborak dengan kawan-kawan daripada universiti lain. Dan pulang ke Warwick University.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;*Tak ada masalah pun jika tak mahu bersalaman dengan bukan Islam berlainan jantina. Beri sebab(educate) dan tunjuk rasa hormat kepada mereka. Pasti mereka faham. Itulah fungsi saudara-saudara Islam yang lain supaya mereka faham kenapa Muslim ada restrictions.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/462964950647049354-6284510747954023370?l=reveriemalaya.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/feeds/6284510747954023370/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/2011/01/luncheon-datuk-mustapa-mohamed.html#comment-form' title='8 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/462964950647049354/posts/default/6284510747954023370'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/462964950647049354/posts/default/6284510747954023370'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/2011/01/luncheon-datuk-mustapa-mohamed.html' title='Luncheon: Datuk Mustapa Mohamed'/><author><name>Faiez Ali</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09700662927927427081</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>8</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-462964950647049354.post-3001324205487382862</id><published>2011-01-24T23:32:00.003+08:00</published><updated>2011-01-24T23:47:03.877+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri puitis'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri buka minda'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri agama'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri budaya'/><title type='text'>Tanggungjawab Islam dibahu Muslimah</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;For the sake of Allah&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Bina dalam dirimu suatu semangat,&lt;div&gt;Kerana dengan azam itu kamu punyai peranan,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Sedari sejarah dan riwayat lampau,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Bahawa Islam turut tertegak melalui wanita.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Tidak lain melain Khadijah menenangkan Muhammad,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Tidak lain melain Fatimah mendidik Hasan dan Husin,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Tidak lain melain Nailah pertahankan Uthman,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Dan semuanya hanya kerana Allah.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Dari kelembutanmu menundukkan amarah,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Dan kepandaianmu mendidik hati,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Juga kasihmu yang membakar jiwa,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Bagi membina para mukmin muda.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Islam tidak tertegak hanya dengan pedang,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Tidak juga tegak dengan kekuasaan,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Tidak mampu berdiri selain pemantapan,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Yang bermula dari dalam rumah sendiri.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Saudari muslimah, andalah pencorak bakal generasi mukmin muda. Andalah yang akan mendidik Umar Al-Khattab yang seterusnya. Kepercayaan Abu Bakar dan kepandaian Ali KaramAllah dapat diterapkan melalui didikanmu buat anak-anak. Pencorak masa depan, sebahagian masa depan Islam terletak ditanganmu hai Muslimah.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Tekad azam perbaiki diri demi menjadi guru terbaik pendidik generasi Mukmin muda yang seterusnya. This one small step you take now will be a giant leap for Islam in the future.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;insyaAllah.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/462964950647049354-3001324205487382862?l=reveriemalaya.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/feeds/3001324205487382862/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/2011/01/tanggungjawab-islam-dibahu-muslimah.html#comment-form' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/462964950647049354/posts/default/3001324205487382862'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/462964950647049354/posts/default/3001324205487382862'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/2011/01/tanggungjawab-islam-dibahu-muslimah.html' title='Tanggungjawab Islam dibahu Muslimah'/><author><name>Faiez Ali</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09700662927927427081</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-462964950647049354.post-4246011463914872565</id><published>2011-01-19T14:17:00.004+08:00</published><updated>2011-01-19T16:07:36.452+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri agama'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri interpretasi'/><title type='text'>Dakwah Iman dan Dakwah Islam</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;For the sake of Allah.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Assalamualaikum.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Bila bercakap soal dakwah, selalunya yang hadir dalam pengertian dan kefahaman kita adalah dakwah untuk rakan bukan-Islam untuk mengajak mereka memahami Islam. Ini boleh dikategorikan sebagai dakwah Islam.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Namun kita selalunya lupa bahawa dakwah terhadap sesama saudara Islam juga adalah penting. Apa yang menyebabkan kita Islam? Kerana keimanan kita terhadap mengakui Allah sebagai satu-satu tuhan untuk disembah dan Muhammad saw sebagai rasul terakhir. Justeru, keimanan ini perlu kerap di&lt;i&gt;refresh&lt;/i&gt; untuk sentiasa ingat dan yakin akan keimanan kita ini. Maka, ini boleh dipanggil sebagai dakwah iman.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Pabila kita berkumpul antara rakan-rakan, apa yang selalu kita tanyakan? borakkan bersama mereka? Selalunya persoalan-persoalan seperti "Dah makan ke belum?" "Sihat?" "Macam mana dengan assignment?" "Cuti hari tu pergi mana?" dan sebagainya. Jarang-jarang kita nak tanya "Apa khabar iman kamu hari ni?"&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Begitu juga pabila kita bertemu dengan saudara Islam yang lain dan saudara itu mula berkata tentang keimanan Islam, kebesaran Allah, banyak daripada kita akan merasakan,&lt;i&gt; Kenapa la dia ni nak cakap dengan aku benda ni semua. Aku kan Islam dah, cakap lah pada orang bukan Islam&lt;/i&gt;. Sedangkan ternyata apabila kita selalu memperkatakan kebesaran Allah dan membicarakan keimanan sesama kita, maka kata-kata yang kita ucap akan lebih mudah bersemadi dalam diri kita.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Ambil contoh, kalau politik yang selalu disebut, maka politiklah yang akan lebih berada dalam minat dan hati kita. Kalau bola, atau fesyen yang selalu disebut, maka bola atau fesyen lah yang akan lebih kita minati. Begitu juga sekiranya kebesaran Allah itu selalu dibicarakan, keimanan sentiasa menjadi buahan mulut, insyaAllah Allah akan penuhi hati-hati kita dengan perbicaraan dan peringatan keimanan Allah dan Muhammad saw.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;b&gt;Pentingnya iman&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Telah disampaikan oleh Rasulullah saw bahawa akan datang daripada umatku 73 golongan. 72 akan masuk neraka dan hanya 1 yang memasuki syurga. Ini melihatkan betapa pentingnya keimanan yang kukuh terhadap penyaksian tiada tuhan selain Allah dan Muhammad saw adalah rasul yang terakhir. Kerana dengan berpegang kepada kalimah ini, insyaAllah kita akan ditunjuki jalan yang benar dan dipandu oleh Allah kejalan itu.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Betapa banyak organisasi perjuangan Islam pada  masa ini yang mempunyai matlamat yang sama pada dasarnya iaitu menegakkan Islam dimuka bumi. Cuma pelaksanaan berbeza-beza sehingga kadang-kadang menyebabkan perselisihan faham dan menidakkan usaha organisasi lain. Ini juga perlu diatasi dengan meningatkan diri masing-masing yang matlamat kita adalah sama iaitu untuk menegakkan penyaksian Allah sebagai satu-satunya tuhan dan Muhammad saw merupakan rasul terakhir. Sekiranya niat ini dapat diteguhkan dari masa ke semasa maka insyaAllah kita akan menyedari yang kita semua mempunyai risiko untuk digolongkan dalam 72 golongan neraka seperti yang disebut rasulullah saw. Maka belum tentu kita betul, jadi perlu selalu membetulkan niat dan meningkatkan keimanan kepada Allah dan Muhammad saw serta seterusnya memohon selalu supaya ditunjuk dan dipandukan ke jalan yang benar. InsyaAllah.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;b&gt;Kesimpulan&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Maka, mari bersama-sama mengambil iktibar semoga mulai saat ini pabila berborak bersama teman, kita akan menyelitkan kata-kata kebesaran Allah supaya masing-masing dapat &lt;i&gt;renew &lt;/i&gt;dan &lt;i&gt;refresh&lt;/i&gt; iman masing-masing. Saat kita berorganisasi, selalu balik kepada penyaksian keimanan Islam akan keesaan Allah dan kebenaran Rasulullah saw selaku rasul terakhir dan minta agar dipandukan jalan yang benar setiap kalinya. Sememangnya kita amat lemah terhadap fitnah Dajjal, hasutan syaitan dan bisikan nafsu jika tanpa Allah yang memberikan kita kekuatan.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;InsyaAllah.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/462964950647049354-4246011463914872565?l=reveriemalaya.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/feeds/4246011463914872565/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/2011/01/dakwah-iman-dan-dakwah-islam.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/462964950647049354/posts/default/4246011463914872565'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/462964950647049354/posts/default/4246011463914872565'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/2011/01/dakwah-iman-dan-dakwah-islam.html' title='Dakwah Iman dan Dakwah Islam'/><author><name>Faiez Ali</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09700662927927427081</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-462964950647049354.post-4160401704794880006</id><published>2011-01-14T08:18:00.011+08:00</published><updated>2011-01-14T18:04:26.412+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri buka minda'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Perkongsian'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri agama'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri budaya'/><title type='text'>Perkongsian Bro Jo: Masyarakat Islam Moden (Cabaran dan Penyelesaian)</title><content type='html'>&lt;!--StartFragment--&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;!--StartFragment--&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Entri ini dikisarkan daripada usrah oleh Saudara Johari Mohamad ataupun nama glamer beliau dalam dunia usrah, Bro Jo. Usrah ini anjuran komuniti ILuvWarwick yang walaupun tidak berdaftar tetapi mempunyai pergerakan yang tersusun. Semoga mendapat rahmat Allah atas segala usaha yang dijalankan dan semoga usaha akan diteruskan selagi pejuang Islam masih bernafas dibumi Warwick. Diharap semoga beroleh manfaat daripada ilmu yang disampaikan.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:large;"&gt;Topik: Masyarakat Islam moden - Cabaran dan Penyelesaian &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;b&gt;1.Perbezaan manusia dahulu dan sekarang. &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Kita sedari bahawa ada manusia diturunkan dalam keadaan Islam belum sampai kepada Muhammad SAW. Ada yang diturunkan dalam waktu Muhammad SAW membawa ajaran Islam keseluruh pelusuk dunia. Ada yang diturunkan diwaktu kegemilangan Islam sebagai pemerintah dunia. Persoalannya kenapa kita diturunkan diwaktu Islam kembali menjadi asing?Mengapa tidak dijadikan kita bersama Rasulullah supaya iman kita lebih kukuh berjihad disamping Rasulullah? Mengapa tidak dijadikan kita diwaktu pemerintahan Khalifah Umar Abd Aziz, bukankah lebih mudah menjaga iman pada ketika hukum Allah diterapkan didunia?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Sesungguhnya, kerana kita sebenarnya terpilih untuk turut serta dalam perjuangan menegakkan semula Islam. Sesungguhnya semua ini tertakluk didalam perancangan Allah bahawa Islam itu tidak memerintah sekarang dan kembali kedalam keadaan ghuraba’ (asing). Tanpa kita sedari, Allah memberi peluang jihad bagi kita untuk mengejar rahmatNya dan turut serta dalam perjuangan menegakkan daulah Islam, tetapi adalah inisiatif kita sendiri untuk merebut peluang ini dalam membantu perjuangan menegakkan semula daulah Islam. Sekiranya kita tidak, maka ternyata kita tergolong dalam golongan mereka yang rugi.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;b&gt;2.Faktor-faktor kelemahan umat Islam.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="mso-bidi-mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;font-family:Cambria;"&gt;&lt;span style="mso-list:Ignore"&gt;a)&lt;span style="font:7.0pt &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;"&gt;    &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;Bidaah. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Penambahan dalam ibadah ini perlu dijaga. Apa yang tidak disuruh oleh Allah dan tidak dilakukan oleh Rasulullah ataupun para sahabat tidaklah boleh kita laksanakan kerana bidaah ini sesuatu yang memecahbelahkan umat Islam dan tidak memberikan kekuatan kepada kita. Menyebabkan kekeliruan dan masyarakat memandang enteng terhadap ajaran Islam kerana tiada kesefahaman.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;span style="mso-bidi-mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;font-family:Cambria;"&gt;&lt;span style="mso-list:Ignore"&gt;b)&lt;span style="font:7.0pt &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;"&gt;   &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;Penjajahan oleh orang kafir. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"&gt;Negara-negara Islam yang pada mulanya disatukan bawah pentadbiran Khalifah Islam telah dimusuhi, diperangi dan dijajah oleh kuasa-kuasa penjajah seperti British, Perancis, Amerika, Sepanyol dan sebagainya. Lihat contoh Negara Arab yang pada awalnya bersatu atas panji Islam kini kembali kezaman assabiyah dan bersifat tempatan. Begitu juga contoh Malaysia dan Indonesia sendiri, bagaimana pada mulanya kita mengikuti pemerintahan Islam tetapi telah dijajah dan dikelirukan oleh penjajah dengan ideology nasionalisme. Berapa ramai daripada kita yang mencemuh saudara seislam kita dari Indonesia hanya kerana mereka berasal dari sana? Berapa tegang hubungan antara Indonesia dan Malaysia kerana factor percanggahan tempatan walhal sepatutnya kita bersatu dibawah panji Islam sepertimana sebelum kedatangan penjajah lagi.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;span style="mso-bidi-mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;font-family:Cambria;"&gt;&lt;span style="mso-list:Ignore"&gt;c)&lt;span style="font:7.0pt &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;"&gt;    &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;Strategi musuh Islam. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"&gt;Dasar sekularisme yang diterapkan mengasingkan Islam daripada cara hidup menyebabkan kefahaman terhadap Islam hanya terhad kepada dalam surau sahaja. Umat Islam terus lemah dan sama dengan masyarakat yang lain kerana tiadanya kelebihan kefahaman Islam dalam tamaduan dan pemikiran kita.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;b&gt;3.'Push factor' Bro Jo&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Sesungguhnya dalam mencari nur kefahaman Islam, setiap daripada kita memerlukan satu permulaan. Permulaan ini aku panggil sebagai 'push factor'. Bagi Bro Jo, beliau telah berkongsi pengalaman beliau ketika menuntut diuniversiti, disaat beliau berbelah bagi nak turut serta dalam Nadwah program (ajakan kakak beliau) atau pergi ke trip percutian di Pulau Tioman. Tetapi dihidayahkan oleh Allah untuk turut serta dalam Nadwah program dan disitu beliau menemui kefahaman Islam dan kefahaman betapa terpisahnya kehidupan kita daripada Islam selama ini. Disitulah berlakunya permulaan pengislahan diri dan proses mencari kefahaman Islam. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;b&gt;4.Cara Istiqamah Bro Jo&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Bagi menjaga iman, istiqamah adalah faktor yang penting. Bro Jo bermurah hati berkongsi cara beliau mencari istiqamah dan 'refresh' iman beliau. Beliau selalu mengingatkan hati dan memikirkan kasih sayang Allah kepada kita. Betapa sayangnya Allah kerana tidak membiarkan kita jahil dan lebih sesat. Beliau juga selalu berasa bimbang akan ketandusan hujah dihadapan Allah akan sebab kenapa kita patut dimasukkan kedalam syurga. Justeru perlu lebih berusaha mencari keredhaan Allah dalam apa jua untuk dijadikan hujah kita dihadapan Allah nanti.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;b&gt;5.Kisah dakwah Islam versus penagihan dadah diMalaysia&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Antara analogi menarik yang dikongsi Bro Jo adalah perbandingan Dakwah dan Penagihan dadah diMalaysia. DiMalaysia ada kira-kira lebih sejuta penagih dan setiap hari penagih-penagih baru tidak pernah gagal direkrut. Tetapi usaha dakwah Islamiyah pada hari ini adakah dapat menarik lebih ramai orang kearah kefahaman Islam setiap hari jika dibandingkan dengan statistik penagihan dadah? Sudah cukupkah usaha dakwah Islam dijalankan? Refleksi ini boleh dijadikan motivasi untuk kita terus menambah usaha dakwah Islam terutamanya bagi saudara kita diMalaysia.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;b&gt;6.Sirah banyak mengisahkan kehebatan dan keperluan pemuda dalam revolusi Islam!&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Bro Jo juga berkongsi kisah-kisah menarik tentang pemuda-pemuda Islam yang menegakkan Islam walaupun mereka muda. Ini menekankan keperluan anak muda dalam proses menegakkan Islam dan mengingatkan kita bahawa muda itu bukanlah kekangan daripada menjadi seorang pejuang Islam!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;a) Nabi Ibrahim a.s. adalah merupakan seorang pemuda disaat baginda mengambil keputusan untuk memecahkan patung berhala sembelahan kaumnya. Disaat baginda berhujah dengan Namrud, baginda adalah seorang lelaki yang masih muda.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;b) Kisah kesabaran pemuda Kahfi dalam usaha menjaga iman mereka daripada disesatkan. Mereka pada ketika mengambil keputusan untuk mengasingkan diri adalah merupakan golongan pemuda.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;c) Salehudin Al-Ayubi disaat menjadi panglima perang untuk Nur al-Din di Damsyik hanya berusia lewat belasan tahun. Begitu juga Sultan Muhammad Al-Fath yang memegang tampuk pemerintahan kekhalifahan disaat berusia 19 tahun.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;d) Nabi Muhammad saw juga merupakan pemuda yang tekad tidak diselimuti budaya jahilliyah disaat baginda masih belum mendapat wahyu daripada Allah SWT.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Kita perlu sedar bahawa pemuda merupakan masa depan negara. Cara untuk merosakkan sesuatu negara adalah dengan merosakkan pemuda mereka. Lihat disekeliling kita pada hari ini, negara-negara berteknologi tinggi tetapi ketiadaan sahsiah dan didikan baik untuk pemuda maka masyarakat yang dilahirkan dan generasi yang berganti-ganti hidup dalam cara hidup yang jahil. Masalah sosial meningkat dan sebagainya.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;b&gt;7.Persediaan Pemuda-Pemudi Islam&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="mso-bidi-mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;font-family:Cambria;"&gt;&lt;span style="mso-list:Ignore"&gt;a)&lt;span style="font:7.0pt &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;"&gt;    &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;Persediaan Pemikiran:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="mso-bidi-mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;font-family:Cambria;"&gt;&lt;span style="mso-list:Ignore"&gt;a.&lt;span style="font:7.0pt &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;"&gt;     &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;Mengambil tahu pengetahuan Islam. Perlu fahami hakikat fahaman sekular sekarang ini yang memisahkan Islam daripada cara hidup. Anak muda Islam perlu sedar dan yakin bahawa Allahlah yang meciptakan kita, kerana itu segala masalah perlulah dirujuk kepada hukum Allah SWT dahulu sebelum digunakan logik akal dan rasional. Ini adalah kerana selaku pencipta, Allahlah yang mengetahui apa yang baik dan apa yang buruk untuk kita. Logiknya pencipta sebuah mesin akan tahu apa yang perlu bagi mesin itu untuk beroperasi dengan baik dan apa yang patut dielakkan bagi membolehkan mesin itu beroperasi dengan baik. Begitu juga kita manusia, hamba ciptaan Allah.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="mso-bidi-mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;font-family:Cambria;"&gt;&lt;span style="mso-list:Ignore"&gt;b.&lt;span style="font:7.0pt &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;"&gt;     &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;Setelah mengetahui pengetahuan Islam, anak muda perlulah menjadi ahli-ahli bidang ilmu yang mereka pelajari. Ilmu dunia perlu dipelajari untuk membawa kegemilangan Islam dalam bidang-bidang yang dipelajari. Jika kita lihat pada hari ini bidang sains dan teknologi amat kurang dan mundur dinegara-negara Islam jika dibandingkan dengan negara-negara barat secular, kerana pemuda dan pemudi Islam memandang enteng dan tidak menjadi pakar dalam ilmu-ilmu sebegini. Islam bukan hanya untuk ajaran agama disurau-surau tetapi juga berkaitan ilmu dunia. Ambil contoh tokoh-tokoh Islam sewaktu zaman keemasan Islam dahulu.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="mso-bidi-mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;font-family:Cambria;"&gt;&lt;span style="mso-list:Ignore"&gt;b)&lt;span style="font:7.0pt &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;"&gt;   &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;Persediaan Jiwa:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="mso-bidi-mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;font-family:Cambria;"&gt;&lt;span style="mso-list:Ignore"&gt;a.&lt;span style="font:7.0pt &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;"&gt;     &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;Anak muda perlu mendekatkan jiwa dengan Allah. Perlu mempertingkatkan kebergantungan kepada Allah dan lebih menjaga hubungan hati dengan Allah. Ini adalah untuk ‘check and balance’ dalam kehidupan kita agar tidak jauh tersasar daripada apa yang diperintahkan Allah. Selalunya manusia lebih mengikut logik akal&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;daripada suruhan Allah kerana kita tidak menjaga hati dan hubungan dengan Allah. Maka kita gagal melihat perintah Allah sebagai ‘the ultimate call’ kerana kita telah dibutakan mata hati dengan logik akal kita sendiri.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="mso-bidi-mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;font-family:Cambria;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:Georgia, serif;"&gt;b&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="mso-list:Ignore"&gt;.&lt;span style="font:7.0pt &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;"&gt;     &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;Perlu kerap berjihad melawan nafsu sendiri. Cara praktikal yang disarankan adalah dengan memikirkan dan membuat list sebab kecenderungan kita melakukan nafsu. Contoh kita sering melakukan nafsu apabila bersendiri, maka sekiranya kita sedari perkara ini. Bagi menjaga dan memelihara diri, maka ambillah keputusan untuk selalu bersama dengan rakan-rakan lain agar diri lebih terpelihara. Contoh jika kita sering melakukan maksiat tatkala melewati laman facebook dengan memerhati profil-profil awek-awek, maka apa yang boleh kita lakukan sebagai langkah mencegah daripada terus melakukan maksiat ini? Kenalpasti masalah dan cari jalan penyelesaiannya secara praktikal.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="mso-bidi-mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;font-family:Cambria;"&gt;&lt;span style="mso-list:Ignore"&gt;c)&lt;span style="font:7.0pt &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;"&gt;    &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;Persediaan Organisasi&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="mso-bidi-mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;font-family:Cambria;"&gt;&lt;span style="mso-list:Ignore"&gt;a.&lt;span style="font:7.0pt &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;"&gt;     &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;Anak muda perlu sedar kepentingan berorganisasi terutamanya organisasi-organisasi Islam yang berjuang untuk menegakkan daulah Islamiyah. Setelah anak muda melengkapkan diri dengan ilmu kefahaman Islam dan kefahaman ilmu dunia, maka carilah jalan menyumbang dalam organisasi dan pergerakan yang mendaulahkan Islam dan nilai-nilai ajarannya.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;*&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;Begitulah sedikit sebanyak ilmu yang dikongsikan melalui pengisian oleh Bro Jo. Perlu diingatkan bahawa penyampaian oleh Bro Jo telah diadaptasikan oleh penulis dalam bentuk penulisan maka mungkin terdapat perbezaan dari segi susunan ayat. Sebarang kesilapan minta diberitahu supaya dapat diubah dengan segera.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre;"&gt;Selamat dan Semoga bertemu motivasi untuk menjadi Pejuang Islam!&lt;/span&gt; ;)&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;!--EndFragment--&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;!--EndFragment--&gt;   &lt;div&gt;  &lt;!--EndFragment--&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;!--EndFragment--&gt;   &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/462964950647049354-4160401704794880006?l=reveriemalaya.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/feeds/4160401704794880006/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/2011/01/perkongsian-bro-jo-masyarakat-islam.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/462964950647049354/posts/default/4160401704794880006'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/462964950647049354/posts/default/4160401704794880006'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/2011/01/perkongsian-bro-jo-masyarakat-islam.html' title='Perkongsian Bro Jo: Masyarakat Islam Moden (Cabaran dan Penyelesaian)'/><author><name>Faiez Ali</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09700662927927427081</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-462964950647049354.post-1123273197030830528</id><published>2011-01-12T14:35:00.003+08:00</published><updated>2011-01-12T15:22:00.019+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri pendapat'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri buka minda'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri agama'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri budaya'/><title type='text'>Malaysian Education in general and Islamic System</title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;Salam.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;The education system in Malaysia now is generally exampling from &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tripartite_System"&gt;UK Tripartite System&lt;/a&gt; which was the system used by British government in the 60s and 70s. UK Tripartite system is a system with boarding schools being the top schools, government schools being the schools for average-joe and technical schools for students who are seen as being more able in technical skills. Malaysia is however unique because we have some extra types of school, eg vernacular schools according to language &amp;amp; culture and also religious schools that implement Islamic teaching and way of life in the education system of the schools.&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Let's take Malaysia secondary school system in general. First question, what is the purpose of having an education system? We can generally say edu system aims to develop Malaysian human capital. However the question is what kind of human capital? Then we can assume the kind of human capital that will be useful in developing Malaysia. The next question, what kind of development for Malaysia? The general answers are economically, image development, Malaysian civilisation and so on.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;But let's consider the reality of our edu-system. What is the purpose 'in reality' of having this education system? I will answer the purpose of all these education in general is to create human capital that are equipped to become the next workforce for Malaysia. For excellent students who scored As in exam, they are 'fixed' to fill the next professional workfield eg doctors, lawyers, engineers etc. For those who scored lower in exams, they'll be sent into government schools which are generally 'less-privileged' than boarding schools. Then a group of the students are put into technical schools with the end result of the school creating people for technical jobs which are often labelled as the second class jobs.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;The schools are choosed by their prestige and what can they offer to the students. Parents will want their children to be sent into good schools because good schools eg boarding schools will give them the extra opportunities and privileged to have good jobs. What does it means with having a good job. I will safely assume that a good job = a high paying job. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Now, why are people into good job (=high paying jobs) that much? Because in Malaysia system, money is seen as the most valuable item needed not only to survive but to increase status. Hence when money is seen as everything, people will look forward to receiving more income because it means more cash = more status = more influence etc.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;This is why, people tend to choose better schools because better schools can offer good future by helping in equipping students with skills to get high paying jobs. This is also why, people tend not to choose other type of school as their first choice.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Now let's imagine a situation where among the best paying jobs is not being a doctor, lawyer or engineer so to speak. But the best paying job in Malaysia is actually being a teacher. Teacher can get paid up until nearly Rm10k in Malaysia. I will state that the general population of Malaysian students will be studying to become a teacher instead of doctors, lawyers or engineers. Now, if the best paying job is being a computer technician, people will be fighting to get a place into a good technical school because that school can help them to be a good computer technician. This is also one of the reasons why some fields are considered as 'less useful' eg art stream classes, because art people often get paid less. Less cash = less status = less preferred job generally.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Hence, the reality for Malaysian education system, is not merely to create good human capital but it is to create a specific human capital which is designed to fulfill the role of the society. And what kind of society are we living in right now? A society that is designed to view money as the most important tool of survival, success and status representation.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;On the other hand, the next core question: what is actually the 'ideal' education system? I would want to believe that the ideal education system is one that can educate people not only in term of skills needed for life-survival but also spiritually where people will adhere to good values without having to be forced. Eg without having the need to have all sort of regulations, people themselves understand alcohol doesn't actually bring much positive effects on them compared to the negative implications it has and other kind of examples. I would want this kind of education system or a system that is able to educate us to achieve this standard.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;This has happened before in Islamic history. During the ruling of Khulafa Ar-Rasyidin. However, I myself find it hard to come across a good article or writing that describes to us the kind of system being used during that time. There are less literature on the history of Islam describing the kind of system used during the golden age of Islam, the time when the west were the one searching for illumination from Islamic scholars and systems.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Perhaps the time has come for us, Muslim youths to search for this lost description and start compiling from history and researches, a thorough and complete framework of proven Islamic administration system that includes all field (judiciary, education, economy, etc). So that we ourselves can base our fight on something concrete. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;If not, we will be shouting and screaming for an Islamic system but what actually is Islamic System?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/462964950647049354-1123273197030830528?l=reveriemalaya.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/feeds/1123273197030830528/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/2011/01/malaysian-education-in-general-and.html#comment-form' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/462964950647049354/posts/default/1123273197030830528'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/462964950647049354/posts/default/1123273197030830528'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/2011/01/malaysian-education-in-general-and.html' title='Malaysian Education in general and Islamic System'/><author><name>Faiez Ali</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09700662927927427081</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-462964950647049354.post-1140556429080524848</id><published>2011-01-11T06:58:00.003+08:00</published><updated>2011-01-11T07:53:06.907+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Remaja Muslim Liberal'/><title type='text'>Revolusi Remaja Islam - Terdetiknya Hati</title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"   style="  color: rgb(255, 238, 221); line-height: 20px; font-family:Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;font-size:14px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center; "&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;Catitan pengalaman seorang remaja muslim didikan liberal tentang jauhnya diri daripada didikan Islam yang sebenar dan perjuangan kearah merevolusi dirinya. Semoga mendapat kekuatan istiqamah dan terus berubah kearah kebaikan.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style=" ;font-size:small;"&gt;Tiada lain yang diharap selain mendapat keredhaan Allah swt dan menyentuh hati-hati yang lain dengan penulisan ini. Perancangan menjauhkan Islam daripada kehidupan oleh musuh-musuh Islam perlu ditentang, agar lebih ramai anak muda Islam dapat keluar daripada fitnah ini. InsyaAllah.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Dengan nama Allah yang maha Pemurah lagi maha Mengasihani.&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Sesampai sahaja aku diUnited Kingdom, terdapat pelbagai pengalaman yang dialami. Pelbagai perkara ditemui. Jika diMalaysia pabila orang nak ke club, kena jaga-jaga takut kena 'rush', tapi diUK tak ada semua tu. 'Selamat' sepanjang masa. Tak ada narkotik, tak ada JAIM atau polis yang nak rush buat spot check. Di UK juga parti-parti bertema untuk pelajar universiti, cukup banyak. Setiap minggu lebih daripada 1 disekitar tempat aku belajar. Hiburan yang disajikan begitu banyak dan berlambak-lambak. Tinggal nak tak nak saja. Mudah kerana diUK tiada 'polis moral' yang akan memerhati. Kalau diMalaysia orang lebih risaukan 'polis moral' daripada janji azab Allah.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Kemudian disini, tiada laungan azan. Tiada team-team pak haji 'tabligh' ketuk mai singgah rumah untuk memberi tarbiyah percuma. Yang ada paderi-paderi dan mubaligh kristian yang ketuk adalah. Jika dulu waktu petang-petang, ada orang ketuk rumah. Bila selak tingkap nampak beberapa orang pak aji berserban menunggu diluar rumah, mulalah hati kata "&lt;i&gt;Dah mai dah diorang ni."&lt;/i&gt; Berat hati je bila buka pintu, kadang tak buka. Buat-buat macam tak ada dirumah.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Pendek kata, jika 'syurga' dunia yang mau dicari, hiburan yang diinginkan, diUK ini boleh didapati bermacam-macam jenis. Siap berpeluang berhibur dan mencari geng mat dan minah salleh baru. Semua ini boleh didapati di UK. Sebelum datang lagi ada yang dah pasang angan-angan nak bercampur gaul, berbudayakan hiburan bersama-sama. Kelab apa yang dimahukan? Namakan saja.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Tapi sampai saja diUK, kami semua ditempatkan bersama disatu student accommodation. "&lt;i&gt;Aiseyman, apa ni. Di Ipoh belajar sama, duduk sama. Di UK, pun duduk sama. Tak berkembang la macam ni!"&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Namun Alhamdulillah, mungkin berkat doa bonda yang tersayang, hati tak jauh terbiar oleh rahmat kasih sayang Allah, kaki tak selalu melangkah ketempat maksiat. Mungkin juga berkat tidak dipisah-pisahkan sesama kami, persahabatan yang ada kerap kali dikuatkan dengan membuat pertemuan dan makan-makan bersama-sama. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Adanya rakan disekeliling, amat memberikan pengaruh kepada bentuk peribadi diri kita. Alhamdulillah juga, rakan-rakan disekeliling aku balanced. Yang untuk berhibur ada, yang susah senang bersama ada, dan yang sering ingat-mengingatkan pun ada.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Kemudian datang musim sejuk, aku banyak habiskan masa berhibernasi waktu musim sejuk. Aku dengar ada rakan-rakan lain pergi PUISI, ada yang pergi FuIYO. Hati berkata dengan sendiri, &lt;i&gt;"Apa barang diorang ni, pergi kem-kem usrah waktu cuti!"&lt;/i&gt; Aku banyak habiskan masa online. Tengok movie, dan sebagainya. Usrah disekitar Liberty Park pun jarang-jarang disertai.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Dan satu hari, terdetik hati untuk menyelongkar 'youtube', lalu ditakdirkan oleh Allah bertemu dengan siri The Arrival. Satu dokumentari informal yang digerakkan oleh dua orang pemuda selaku penggerak utama. Tatkala kali pertama menonton episod The Arrival, bergetar jiwa pabila menyaksikan segala yang disusun dalam dokumentari itu. Ilmu-ilmu yang selama ini tidak pernah dikongsikan oleh ustaz-ustaz yang aku pernah ikuti kelas mereka. Lalu 51 episod The Arrival aku saksikan dalam masa selama beberapa hari.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Allah, betapa hati ini secara tiba-tiba rasa tersentuh dan tersedar daripada situasi seakan lamunan dan mimpi. Betapa hati kemudian terasa terlalu kerdil disebalik kekuasaan Allah dan rancangan-rancangan yang sedang berjalan dalam tamadun dunia masa ini.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Sungguh, Allahlah yang berkuasa membolak-balikkan hati hamba-hambanya. Memberikan petunjuk dan menyesatkan sesiapa yang dikehendaki. Dan aku bersyukur kerana dalam keadaan alpa dan leka, secara tiba-tiba hati terdetik untuk mencari dan bertemu dengan The Arrival.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Sungguh dalam apa jua usaha untuk berubah mejadi baik, mencari permulaan adalah proses yang amat sukar. Bagi aku, setiap orang akan perlukan satu 'push factor' untuk dijadikan motivasi utama pabila mahu mengubah paradigma diri sendiri dan Alhamdulillah, Allah bermurah hati untuk menyajikan aku dengan siri The Arrival.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Lalu diri yang naif, bermula dalam satu proses untuk berubah. Diri tanpa ilmu, tanpa bimbingan terus menerus dan tanpa pengertian tarbiyah Islamiyyah, cuba mencari nur kebenaran Islam. Aku terus mencari, berjumpa dan mengamati tulisan-tulisan, video-video ceramah dan kata-kata perangsang daripada tokoh-tokoh seperti Syeikh Imran Hosein, Ustaz Azhar Idrus. Kitab tentang solat, ma'thurat, Al-Quran yang dibekalkan oleh bonda sewaktu awal perjalanan mula dipegang semula secara perlahan-lahan. Dibekalkan dengan rakan rapat yang turut serta dalam proses mencari ilmu-ilmu dan nur Islam bagi makanan jiwa, kami bersama saling ingat-mengingatkan. Saling bertukar link video dan ceramah. Saling ajak-mengajak solat berjemaah.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Yang nyata aku alami dan akui, apabila diri disulami kemanisan iman, maka jasad akan berasa lebih ringan untuk melakukan ibadah. Segala yang dilaksanakan terasa manisnya ibadat untuk Allah swt. Terasa semacam ketenangan yang tak boleh digambarkan dengan kata-kata. Terasa seperti terjaga dengan keyakinan keatas kekuasaan Allah SWT.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Namun Allah maha Mengetahui, betapa lemahnya diri ini. Seperti sebuah sampan usang yang pabila dipukul ombak, boleh berkecai bila-bila masa. Sesungguhnya aku pelajari sekarang, untuk berubah itu memerlukan satu motivasi 'push factor' bagi kita, dan amatlah sukar sekiranya tiada bimbingan, tetapi yang lebih sukar adalah untuk mengekalkan perubahan.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Seperti sabdanya Rasulullah saw, "Tidak tetap iman seseorang hamba sehinggalah tetap pendiriannya." Iman itu adalah keyakinan kita, dan keyakinan kita berubah-ubah mengikut masa dan keadaan. Sungguh keyakinan hati aku ini amatlah rapuh sehinggakan pabila diuji dengan maksiat, terus luluh dan berkecai.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Sungguh baru aku sedar yang dunia ini adalah medan perang bagi kita, dan peperangan yang terbesar adalah perang melawan hawa nafsu yang mana pada ketika itu, aku telah gagal semula setelah didatangkan ujian. Baru ujian-ujian kecil yang datang, terus jatuh tersungkur diri ke waktu kenaifan dan kealpaan semula.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Mengapa kegagalan ini berlaku? InsyaAllah akan dikisahkan dalam entri yang akan datang.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Selamat. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/462964950647049354-1140556429080524848?l=reveriemalaya.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/feeds/1140556429080524848/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/2011/01/revolusi-remaja-islam-terdetiknya-hati.html#comment-form' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/462964950647049354/posts/default/1140556429080524848'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/462964950647049354/posts/default/1140556429080524848'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/2011/01/revolusi-remaja-islam-terdetiknya-hati.html' title='Revolusi Remaja Islam - Terdetiknya Hati'/><author><name>Faiez Ali</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09700662927927427081</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-462964950647049354.post-8570592388553102134</id><published>2011-01-09T06:52:00.005+08:00</published><updated>2011-01-09T07:15:37.982+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri buka minda'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri agama'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Melayu'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri budaya'/><title type='text'>Malay, Islam &amp; The other side of history</title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;Salam.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Sejak sesi penjajahan dijalankan oleh Kuasa Barat keseluruh dunia, dunia sebenarnya dilanda satu suasana yang berbeza. Jika sebelum itu, kekuasaan boleh dikatakan secara generalnya diletak pada agama. Selepas ekspedisi penjajahan seluruh dunia dan perang psikologi di sekitar Middle East, kekuasaan diletakkan kepada Nasionalisme.&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Jika diMiddle East, kejatuhan kerajaan Islam Turki Uthmaniyah berlaku sejajar dengan pemberontakan kabilah-kabilah Arab mengikut tempat masing-masing sehingga mewujudkan negara-negara Arab serpihan daripada kerajaan Khalifah Islam. Begitu juga apa didalam kitab-kitab sejarah Tanah Melayu tulisan 'mainstream' yang mana disurahkan kepada masyarakat majoriti bahawa penentangan Tokoh-tokoh waktu itu akibat daripada penentangan penjajah yang cuba menakluk 'tanah air' mereka.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Disini terdapat satu ilmu yang sungguh penting bagi kita. Apabila kita dibasuh bahawa tokoh-tokoh ini menentang penjajah kerana 'kedudukan' dan 'kuasa' mereka tergugat, maka kita akan mendapat pandangan yang berbeza daripada sekiranya sejarah mengisahkan bahawa tokoh-tokoh ini sebenarnya adalah barisan para Ulama' Islam yang menentang penjajah kerana tidak mahu daulat Islam dicabul.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Sedarkah kita bahawa terdapat satu lagi versi sejarah yang rapat mengaitkan penghuni 'Tanah Melayu' dengan Islam? Tahukah kita yang terdapat catitan-catitan sejarah lain yang menyatakan betapa tokoh-tokoh Islam ini berjuang bukan kerana 'kaum', 'tanah' atau 'kuasa setempat', tetapi kerana mempertahankan daulat Islam. Pernahkah kita terdengar surahan sejarah lama dimana migrasi penghuni dari nusantara ke 'Tanah Melayu' ini adalah kerana panggilan Jihad melawan tindasan Barat yang cuba memijak Islam?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Frasa-frasa 'Tanah Melayu', 'Tokoh Setempat', 'Semangat Nasionalisme' yang kerap diulang tayang didalam kelas-kelas sejarah seakan menjadi bekas kedalam minda-minda kita. Jika kita lihat situasi diMalaysia hari ini. Yang mana sering dilaungkan? Adakah perjuangan Islam ataupun perjuangan Melayu? Jika kita lihat simbol 'songkok', apakah kita akan terbayang melayu atau Islam? &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Penyatuan atas dasar nasionalisme adalah antara agenda untuk mematikan pergerakan kesatuan Islam kerana apabila masyarakat bersatu atas nama bangsa dan bersikap 'assabiyah', maka masyarakat tidak akan sedar akan kesatuan atas nama Islam yang lebih besar dan bermakna. Sedangkan antara cabang perjuangan Rasulullah adalah penyatuan puak-puak dan kabilah-kabilah atas nama Islam, tetapi kini kita pula lari daripada penyatuan Islam kepada penyatuan kaum?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Kerana bagi aku rata-rata puak Melayu hari ini tidak sedari, apakah sebenarnya nilai seorang Melayu? Jika melayu itu berdiri tanpa sisipan kemurnian Islam. Begitu juga persoalan apakah nilainya seorang Arab, sekiranya berdiri tanpa sisipan ilmu Islam? &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Tiadanya tamadun yang 'berjaya' tanpa arah tuju berlandaskan Islam. Kita perlu faham yang fahaman manusia ini berbeza-beza dan meluas. Ambil contoh definisi 'moden' itu akan berbeza daripada pandangan lain-lain. Moden mungkin apabila banyak bangunan tinggi. Moden mungkin bermaksud tiada orang susah. Moden mungkin bermaksud masyarakat berpendapatan tinggi. Moden juga mungkin bermaksud masyarakat yang kurang berlaku masalah sosial dan jenayah. Kerana sesuatu definisi itu gagal mendapat pengertian yang sebenar sekiranya tidak dilandaskan dengan pandangan Islam.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Yang nyata persoalan untuk hari ini, apakah melayu kita yang kian menebal ataupun Islam itu sendiri yang makin menipis?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Selamat.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/462964950647049354-8570592388553102134?l=reveriemalaya.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/feeds/8570592388553102134/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/2011/01/malay-islam-other-side-of-history.html#comment-form' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/462964950647049354/posts/default/8570592388553102134'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/462964950647049354/posts/default/8570592388553102134'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/2011/01/malay-islam-other-side-of-history.html' title='Malay, Islam &amp; The other side of history'/><author><name>Faiez Ali</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09700662927927427081</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-462964950647049354.post-4473911849364943015</id><published>2011-01-08T04:28:00.008+08:00</published><updated>2011-01-08T05:53:46.737+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Remaja Muslim Liberal'/><title type='text'>Remaja Muslim Liberal (Permulaan)</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;Catitan pengalaman seorang remaja muslim didikan liberal tentang jauhnya diri daripada didikan Islam yang sebenar dan perjuangan kearah merevolusi dirinya. Semoga mendapat kekuatan istiqamah dan terus berubah kearah kebaikan.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;Tiada lain yang diharap selain mendapat keredhaan Allah swt dan menyentuh hati-hati yang lain dengan penulisan ini. Perancangan menjauhkan Islam daripada kehidupan oleh musuh-musuh Islam perlu ditentang, agar lebih ramai anak muda Islam dapat keluar daripada fitnah ini. InsyaAllah.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Dengan nama Allah yang maha pemurah lagi maha mengasihani,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Aku adalah seorang anak muda yang mana lahir kedalam turutan keluarga yang mengamalkan Islam. Alhamdulillah, didikan Islam dari kecil yang diterapkan dalam diri oleh ahli keluarga terutamanya bonda tercinta dapat sedikit sebanyak menjadi pegangan dalam mengharungi kehidupan sehari-hari.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Tetapi harus diingat bahawa aku, dan juga ribuan anak muda lain diluar sana adalah hasil didikan sistem yang liberal. Sejak kecil aku diajar ilmu pendidikan disekolah dan ilmu-ilmu Islam hanya terbatas di sekolah petang agama, kelas pendidikan Islam, dan didikan-didikan informal yang diberikan oleh keluarga. Jadi sejak sekian lama tak salah sekiranya aku katakan yang aku di'basuh' untuk melihat dunia melalui dua kaca mata. Kaca mata sosial dunia dan kaca mata Islam. Dan yang penting, kaca mata Islam ini hanya tertakluk kepada kelas-kelas agama, surau dan sekolah agama petang yang aku ikuti.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Tak pernah aku menerima ajaran secara terus berkaitan dengan hukum perundangan Islam, apa yang aku tau selaku remaja muslim didikan liberal selama ini bahawa hukum hudud itu tertakluk kepada pencuri dipotong tangan dan penzina direjam.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Bagi aku kita hidup dalam dunia yang 'civilized', apa perlu potong tangan? Apa relevannya hukuman rejam? Ini semua ortodoks, ekstremis. Tak ada tempat bagi hukuman-hukuman seperti ini dalam dunia yang kian moden.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Lalu apabila orang bertanya kepada aku, apa itu moden? Pandangan liberal kemodenan adalah berkaitan ketinggian dan banyaknya bangunan pencakar langit, indeks GDP dan purata pendapatan. Apa ada erti lain bagi moden?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Seterusnya aku masih mengikuti kelas-kelas agama dimasjid-masjid dan surau-surau, mengikut keluarga. Aku diajar untuk mengamalkan bacaan yasin setiap malam jumaat. Membaca doa akhir tahun dan doa awal tahun pada setiap penghujung zulhijjah dan awal muharram. Aku diajar untuk mengaminkan doa-doa yang dibaca oleh tok-tok imam. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Didalam kelas-kelas agama aku disurahkan mengenai nikmat syurga dan azab neraka. Aku diajar cara-cara untuk solat. Apa itu rukun iman, dan kewajipan rukun Islam. Aku diajar berkaitan kewajipan puasa, zakat, dam bagi yang meninggalkan. Aku diajar mengenai hukum-hukum agama yang pada pandangan aku tidak boleh digunapakai dalam aplikasi kehidupan sehari-hari. Bagaimana kau nak masukkan ilmu-ilmu agama ini dengan matematik? Ekonomi? Bahasa? Atau Sains?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Lalu aku terus keluar daripada persekolahan dengan keputusan yang Alhamdulillah, separa cemerlang. Tanpa arah tuju, tanpa sebarang visi bagi masa depan. Sebelas tahun aku dididik dalam sistem pendidikan sekolah, sekeluarnya aku, aku masih tak tahu apa yang patut aku lakukan.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Alhamdulillah, mungkin hasil berkat doa bonda tercinta, aku diterima masuk kedalam kursus yang aku sedang ikuti, terus melanjutkan pelajaran diIpoh. Bertemu dengan lebih ramai manusia, bermacam ragam dan perangai.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Disitu aku didedahkan tentang usrah. "&lt;i&gt;Ah apa ini?&lt;/i&gt;" Dah habis sekolah, buat apa susah-susah lagi mau paksa diri ke surau? Kalau dulu disekolah bolehlah. Kalau tak pergi surau, ustaz bantai nanti. Tapi sekarang kan dah besar, apa guna usrah-usrah ni? Ceramah agama dimasjid tak cukup lagi? Lagipun dah 11 tahun ikuti pengajian Islam disekolah, 2 jam sekali matapelajaran. takkan tak cukup lagi?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Darah muda, mudah amarah. Waktu itu aku cukup pantang diajak ke surau secara paksa, lagi-lagi bila ada terdengar ura-ura mau diwajibkan turun ke surau. &lt;i&gt;Kacau betul, maghrib-maghrib ni masa untuk keluar makan, nanti pukul 10 pintu guard tutup. &lt;/i&gt;Bila mendapat sindiran-sindiran aku berontak, &lt;i&gt;Diorang ni macam alim sangat, apa kalau pakai tudung labuh dia saja masuk syurga?&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Cuma pernah sekali saja aku jejakkan kaki disurau untuk usrah, itupun sebab apa aku dah lupa. Selain daripada tu, tak pernah aku turut serta dengan islamic circle diIpoh. Solat berjemaah, jarang-jarang disurau. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Jangan salahkan aku, tak pernah aku diajar pengertian moden dalam Islam apabila aku menuntut ilmu agama dikelas-kelas agama. Tak pernah aku ditunjukkan aplikasi Islam dalam kehidupan sekarang ini. Ustaz-ustaz semua cerita berkaitan kisah-kisah para sahabat, tapi apa relevannya dalam kehidupan kita? Aku yang baru nak menjejak angka 20 waktu tu gagal melihat rasionalnya kisah-kisah ini. Tak pernah kelas agama menceritakan kisah kehebatan pemerintahan Khalifah Umar al-Khattab sehinggakan tiada orang susah sewaktu pemerintahan beliau. Yang ada sekadar cerita beliau yang lantang memusuhi Islam, menjadi orang yang lantang membela Islam. Dan kisah bagaimana beraninya Umar sehingga berhijrah disiang-siang hari.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Tak pernah syllabus pendidikan Islam disekolah mengisahkan tentang hadis Nabi berkaitan jenis-jenis pemerintahan yang akan datang selepas waktu Baginda sehinggalah tertubuhnya semula pemerintahan Khalifah pimpinan Imam Mahdi dan Nabi Isa A.S. Yang ada dalam buku pendidikan Islam adalah pengertian iman, pengertian riddah, 10 perkara yang membatalkan iman yang mana semuanya dihafal sebiji-biji dan diluahkan semula kedalam kertas peperiksaan untuk mendapat gred yang baik.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Jadi jangan salahkan aku! Atau ribuan anak muda lain yang rata-ratanya gagal melihat keindahan wanita apabila mereka menutup aurat. Tiada dalam pengajian Islam berkaitan perkara ini. Yang ada hanyalah, apa itu aurat, bagi lelaki dan wanita. Jangan salahkan aku apabila gagal mencontohi kehebatan para sahabat kerana yang ada dalam buku-buku yang disajikan hanyalah fakta-fakta sejarah mereka. Bagaimana dengan ulasan, pemahaman dan aplikasi dalam dunia realiti? 11 tahun menuntut mata pelajaran Islam bukanlah satu jangka masa yang pendek, tetapi apa kesan yang ada daripada sistem pendidikan sekular ini?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Sehinggalah aku menjejakkan kaki dibumi United Kingdom ini. Siapa sangka tanah yang apabila aku dikhabarkan berita gembira aku bakal melangkah ketanah ini untuk menimba ilmu, kata-kata yang aku terima daripada rakan-rakan aku adalah "Wah syoklah kau, kawan mat salleh. Boleh cari girlfriend seorang." "UK bebas, nak buat apa pun boleh. Tak ada JAIM. Dah lah semua kuat parti je.", siapa sangka tanah yang dipunyai oleh masyarakat kafir ini sebenarnya menjadi jejak pertama aku terhadap sebenar-benar kefahaman Islam.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Aku yang tak pernah memasang impian mau belajar &lt;i&gt;oversea&lt;/i&gt;. Aku yang tak pernah tahu wujudnya pengertian istilah ikhwanul muslimin, tarbiyah Islamiyyah. Aku yang selama ini, hanya sekadar mahukan segulung ijazah supaya nanti boleh bekerja makan gaji. Beli rumah, kereta, kahwin dan dapat 3 orang anak. Terus terpukul oleh pelbagai realiti dan ilmu sepanjang menjejakkan kaki dibumi United Kingdom ini.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Memang benar seperti kata-kata Allah,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;"... boleh jadi kamu membenci sesuatu, padahal ia amat baik bagimu, dan boleh jadi (pula) kamu menyukai sesuatu, padahal ia amat buruk bagimu; Allah mengetahui sedang kamu tidak mengetahui." Al-Baqarah (2/216)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;Tapi apa sebenarnya yang berlaku diUnited Kingdom ini? InsyaAllah akan dikisahkan dalam entri yang lain.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;...bersambung.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/462964950647049354-4473911849364943015?l=reveriemalaya.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/feeds/4473911849364943015/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/2011/01/remaja-muslim-liberal-permulaan.html#comment-form' title='12 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/462964950647049354/posts/default/4473911849364943015'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/462964950647049354/posts/default/4473911849364943015'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/2011/01/remaja-muslim-liberal-permulaan.html' title='Remaja Muslim Liberal (Permulaan)'/><author><name>Faiez Ali</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09700662927927427081</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>12</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-462964950647049354.post-7205431850302249021</id><published>2011-01-05T10:30:00.005+08:00</published><updated>2011-01-05T10:45:43.143+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri buka minda'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri agama'/><title type='text'>Aku banyak dosa, taubat aku diterima ke?</title><content type='html'>Salam.&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Antara persoalan berkaitan Islam yang selalu berlegar dikepala aku adalah, banyaknya dosa aku ni, macam mana nak bertaubat. Diterimakah taubat aku sedangkan aku mempunyai kesalahan yang banyak? Dan aku sangat khuatir yang setelah bertaubat aku mungkin akan mengulangi kesalahan aku semula menjadikan taubat aku ni seolah-olah permainan dengan Allah. Nauzubillah minta dijauhkan dan dipelihara Allah.&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Dan kemudian aku ditakdirkan bertemu denga video tazkirah di blog &lt;a href="http://peribadirasulullah.wordpress.com/2011/01/04/allah-swt-amat-bergembira-dengan-orang-yang-bertaubat/"&gt;ini&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Baru aku sedar. Yang selama ini, tatkala aku nak bertaubat, syaitan mendatangkan perasaan was-was dalam diri aku. Pemikiran negatif berkaitan sama ada taubat aku akan diterima oleh Allah atau tidak sering menjadi 'demotivator' untuk diri ini bertaubat. Walhal sudah disebut dengan jelas dan nyata dalam Al-Quran bahawa Allah menyukai hamba-hambaNya yang selalu bertaubat.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Mengambil contoh Rasulullah saw yang maksum. Walaupun mendapat perlindungan first class oleh Allah daripada melakukan dosa, maksiat dan kesalahan tetapi Rasulullah bertaubat lebih 70 kali sehari. Jadi aku ni, manusia biasa, yang sudah memang pasti akan melakukan banyak dosa dan kesalahan, mengapa susah sangat mahu bertaubat?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Sebenarnya aku rasa, rata-rata kita ada salah tanggapan berkaitan taubat, terutamanya aku. Aku selalu beranggap bahawa taubat ni untuk apabila aku dah buat dosa-dosa besar a.k.a. kesalahan ultimate. Tapi sekarang baru aku tahu dan Alhamdulillah dapat melihat taubat sebagai salah satu method ibadah untuk 1)Lebih dekatkan diri dengan Allah dan 2)Lebih menjaga diri sendiri daripada melakukan dosa-dosa lagi.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Jadi marilah kita sama-sama bertaubat kepada Allah setiap hari. Buangkan perasaan was-was dalam diri kerana kalau kita tak bertaubat sekarang, bila lagi kan? Kot mati kejap lagi, rugi kita.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Selamat.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/462964950647049354-7205431850302249021?l=reveriemalaya.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/feeds/7205431850302249021/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/2011/01/aku-banyak-dosa-taubat-aku-diterima-ke.html#comment-form' title='9 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/462964950647049354/posts/default/7205431850302249021'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/462964950647049354/posts/default/7205431850302249021'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/2011/01/aku-banyak-dosa-taubat-aku-diterima-ke.html' title='Aku banyak dosa, taubat aku diterima ke?'/><author><name>Faiez Ali</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09700662927927427081</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>9</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-462964950647049354.post-8044251772450013005</id><published>2011-01-03T22:33:00.012+08:00</published><updated>2011-01-07T04:43:15.796+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri buka minda'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri ilmiah'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Learn English'/><title type='text'>How to master English Language?</title><content type='html'>Salam.&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Since it's still winter break here, I want to be able to make use of it by sharing my knowledge on how to be able to master English Language. Being a candidate for TESL course here made me see and realize that lots of us back home have got issues with mastering English language especially the Muslims in Malaysia who generally have Malay Language as our mother tongue. This is normal, we tend not to strive out of our comfort zone when we are in one. Not until the reality hit us at our faces. Well guys, reality is to be able to become a proficient speaker, English language is needed for us to spread our messages. For example, without English language, da'wah in Malaysia can only be reached towards the malays but with English language, the effort of da'wah can be extended to friends of other races who do not really prefer to communicate in Malay. Here I'll share 3 simple steps to master English.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;b&gt;First step: Pre-process&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;a) This is called pre-process because before we even start the 'process' of mastering English, we'll need to understand why do we want to learn this language. Why? Because humans need motivation especially with things we are not really sincere with. Example, why do we want to learn how to recite the Quran? Because with reciting Quran will bring us more knowledge and tranquility. Examples of aims - to be able to write English articles for muslim magazines, or to understand the talk or forum by excellent Muslim speakers like Dr Zakir etc etc. So, find out and write down our aim as motivation for us right now.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;b) After knowing our aim(s), now we need to look at ourselves, what level are we in now. Write down these four skills (writing, speaking, reading, listening) and try to judge our capability. Give ourselves a rating from '1 until 10' with 10 being the best. Why do we do this? It's because if we know our capabilities, it'll be easier for us to work on area we are worst with and make us of skills we are good with. Example, if our reading skill is better than our speaking skill, then make us of reading skill to help improve speaking. Reading aloud a text is an example of this.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;b&gt;Second step: While-process&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;So now we've listed down our aim(s) and rating of our 4 skills in English. Here is where we can address our weak skills.  This phase is called while-process because we are enrolling ourselves in a process to better our skills. Usually the biggest weakness we have is in speaking. This is because speaking is a different skill that requires 'at the moment' thinking and doing at the same time. So my suggestion is, to master speaking, we'll need to reach the state when speaking in English is something natural for us and does not require hard thinking. How to achieve this? It's easy! &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;a) Improving speaking and reading skills: Read English stuffs. Books, newspaper, articles, songs etc. Choose your area of interest and read on it. And read it ALOUD! Example when we read the star newspaper, read aloud the articles and pronounce each words with effort. Why do we do this? Because English is about a set of grammars and a little bit about habit. How do we become a master of our mother tongue? Because when we're a kid, we read stuffs in Malay language again and again and the words become like a habit in our head. By doing this, indirectly we'll learn the grammar implicitly and add up our vocabs if when we come across a new words, look up for its meaning in a dictionary. Do this everyday. It's the same like trying to memorise the Quran, recite all over again and we'll memorise it. If we read aloud English articles everyday, our tongue will get used to English way of speaking, we'll implicitly rehearsed English grammar (so choose articles with less broken grammar) and we can learn more vocabs.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;b) Improving writing skills: Read good and well-structured articles. If we do this, we'll learn many examples of good articles. Example, reading a good speech, a good letter can give us an idea of examples of good articles we can follow. Read lots of well-composed stuffs. When we read articles written by good writer, we'll learn more phrases, sentences and way of writing too. So find interesting articles that are well composed, and read them, take notice of the way its written.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Secondly is to have many ideas. To become a good writer, we need many and many ideas so we know what to write at the right time. So reading again is the best way to gather more and more ideas. Iqra' is the first word revelated to Muhammad saw from Allah, hence this stress the importance of reading.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Thirdly, make use of a thesaurus when you're writing. Using same words again and again will make readers bored. Hence here comes the function of a thesaurus. Get a printed or an online version thesaurus. Everytime we write and come across difficulties to use the best word for the sentence, thesaurus can help a lot. I personally make use of thesaurus lots of time while writing any articles, moreover if I'm writing essays to be passed up. But make sure the use of word is in the right context by checking the meaning of the words first. This takes experience and time practicing.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;c) Improving listening skills: To improve this skill, listen to lots of English songs, movies (without subtitle), radio etc. Movies at first can use subtitle but then slowly try to not look at subtitles while watching and figure if you can understand the dialogue. When listening to songs, sing along. Get inspiring songs like the ones by Maher Zain etc and sing along. InsyaAllah our listening and speaking skills will be smoother.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Well all of these suggestions are informal ones, for us to learn English in a way that is fun to us. In a way that does not require much effort and time. We do not need to learn grammar in an orthodox way, do all of these and insyaAllah we'll be able to learn the grammar implicitly.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;b&gt;Third step: After process&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;For the after process, now we've known ways to improve our English. Start doing them and practicing. In the after process is for us to find more motivation to help motivate our learning process. For example, get a bunch of friends to communicate in English with. This is the best way to improve fast. Or we can start blogging in English. Write articles in English and communicate with other blogger in English when commenting them. Whatever it is, find ways to practice your skills in real life situation. This is to make sure we realize there are ways for us to practice in real life situation and help us not to get bored practicing on our own. If you're shy enough to talk in English with real friends, find cyber friends. Chat, blog, comments etc. Anyhow we can think off. Maybe ordering food in English? Or you can start commenting in this blog in English too, I welcome that! ;)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Don't get demotivated! What ever it is, the most important thing is don't give up! Remember why we are doing this, we are doing this to become competent speakers, writers and defenders of Islam. To be able to spread the messages of Islam to others. To show people Muslims are good and knowledgable people. To revive the golden age of Islam again, insyaAllah. If people laughs at our mistakes, take it as a challenge to better ourselves. And make Dua' to Allah to help us learn and master English language.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;I hope this helps us to get started learning and improving our English. I would like to quote Mehdi Hassan, a Muslim UK journalist who once said in his talk in Warwick that the muslim world lacks competent speakers. That's one of the biggest reason on why Islam is being 'demonised' and ridicule by the western in general. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;So folks, what we need is not just knowledge, but also communicating skills. Be it speaking to the public, or writing blogs and articles about Islam etc. Do what we are able to. Right now, English is the lingua franca of this world, hence make use of it to spread the love of Islam in even better ways.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Selamat. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/462964950647049354-8044251772450013005?l=reveriemalaya.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/feeds/8044251772450013005/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/2011/01/how-to-master-english-language.html#comment-form' title='15 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/462964950647049354/posts/default/8044251772450013005'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/462964950647049354/posts/default/8044251772450013005'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/2011/01/how-to-master-english-language.html' title='How to master English Language?'/><author><name>Faiez Ali</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09700662927927427081</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>15</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-462964950647049354.post-5279319729099449897</id><published>2011-01-02T21:13:00.005+08:00</published><updated>2011-01-03T02:49:51.731+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri puitis'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri cinta'/><title type='text'>Jasad itu hanya sementara,</title><content type='html'>Jasad duduk terkaku dipinggir sekelompok tanah yang membukit. Keresahan, berita yang didengari masih terngiang-ngiang ditelinga. Segala disekeliling dirasakan seperti tidak bernyawa. Betapa kejamnya takdir kepada aku. Mengapa ditarik saat aku masih memerlukan.&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Terus berjalan melalui denai kecil didalam taman ini. Disinilah tempat kami selalu bersama. Terlihat didepanku gelak tawa kami, gelak tawa ayah seperti ceria. Namun keceriaan yang suram. Seperti potret-potret tidak bewarna. Tiada jiwa-jiwa yang menemani kehidupan disekitarku ini.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Terasa panas dipipi kanan. Oh betapa lemahnya jiwa aku sehinggakan pabila takdir menguji dengan serentap kebahagiaan, aku telah berserah kepada kesedihan. Ayah, hadirlah kau semula bawakan senyum aku yang telah hilang.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;"Menangis anak abah?" Suara kasar menerjah dari belakang lantas aku menoleh. Susuk tubuh yang amat dikenali sedang berdiri melihat kearah aku, tersenyum.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;"Bah!" Hanya kalimah itu yang keluar seraya kaki aku pantas berlari untuk mendakap tubuh yang dirindui itu. Getar hati semakin laju tatkala lengan merangkul pinggang abah.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;"Kenapa anak abah menangis ni? Kan dah besar? Bakal pendidik anak bangsa." Tangan abah mengusap-usap aku. Amat menenangkan. Aku mendongak, mengamati wajah yang selama ini tak pernah gagal memberi aku kekuatan disaat aku lemah.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;"Saya rindu abah." Pelukan semakin erat seperti tidak mahu melepaskan. Abah ibarat memahami.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;"Semua yang jasad akan terlepas daripada genggaman kita. Kecuali kenangan." Jari ayah mencuit daguku, aku mendongak. Memandang wajah abah dengan penuh kekaguman. Tak pernah sekalipun lelaki ini gagal menyentuh hati aku dengan kalimat-kalimat yang dituturkannya.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;"Hari ini, kita lihat keliling kita, apa yang ada semua hanyalah bayangan. Udara, dedaunan yang jatuh berterbangan, air yang mengalir, hanyalah bayangan didunia yang disajikan untuk mata kita oleh Allah swt, sebagai ujian buat kita sama ada kita akan lebih melihat bayangan dunia ataupun apa yang lebih nyata diakhirat nanti." Ayah terus merangkul aku rapat sambil dia mula melangkah, begitu juga aku. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Jiwa yang tadi dilanda rintik kegundahan mula terasa nyaman. Angin yang menghembus bagai berkata padaku,usah risau semuanya kembali menjadi seperti biasa. Ketenangan menelusup masuk menenteramkan degup-degup jantung yang tadinya kencang.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Langkah abah kemudiannya berhenti dihadapan tasik. Angin yang bertiupan melalui atas tasik kelihatan seperti tangan pelukis yang membuat keindahan diatas kanvas air. Lukisan demi lukisan berganti aku saksikan.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;"Ingat anakku, kita adalah pinjaman sesama kita yang membuktikan kasih sayang Allah. Justeru kita harus redha dengan segala keputusan. Yang batil adalah dunia ini, dan yang nyata adalah akhirat. Teruslah anakku. Simpan semua kenangan bersama abah, manfaatkan yang baik. Seru abah sudah sampai, tamatnya tempoh tugas sebagai khalifah dimuka bumi." Suara ayah terhenti. Aku merasakan genggaman tangan ayah makin erat dikedua bahuku.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;"Teruskan tanggungjawab kita. Jadilah manusia yang baik. Dan berilah kalimat-kalimat yang baik untuk orang tuamu ni." Ayah mendongakkan kepalaku sekali lagi dan merapatkan mukanya. Aku menutup mata. Satu kucupan oleh ayah didahiku. Terasa kehangatan kucupan ayah disebalik kesejukan angin yang mengelilingi kami.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;"Abah selalu sayangkan kau." Serentak tamatnya kata-kata itu, satu deruan angin kuat menolakku sehingga jatuh. Aku tersentak, membuka mata tetapi jasad ayah telah hilang. Yang tetap hanya kelompok tanah yang masih merah dihadapanku. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Tangan mengenggam erat tanah merah itu sehingga terasa keperitan dicelahan tapak tangan. Nafas dilepaskan kuat dan balik tanganku digerakkan menggosok air mata. Esakan ini perlu dihentikan.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;"Abah, aku bersyukur kerana Allah telah meminjamkanmu kepada aku untuk tempoh masa ini atas kasih sayangNya. Perginya abah sekarang, aku pasti akan menyusul nanti. Ya Allah, berilah aku kekuatan untuk menjadi segagah ayahku demi menjalankan tanggungjawab yang telah engkau amanahkan kepada kami, umat manusia."&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Al-Fatihah.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;*Kisah ringkas dikarang buat dua orang rakan yang baru saja kehilangan orang tersayang mereka, begitu juga buat saudaraku yang telah dipanggil kepangkuan Allah setelah hampir setahun bernikah dengan isteri tersayang, dan buat rakanku yang kehilangan atuknya sewaktu masih belajar jauh diperantauan. Akhir sekali buat semua jasad-jasad tersayang yang selalu kita-kita sayangi tetapi telah pergi. Dengan harapan kita selalu ingat bahawa jasad itu hanya sementara, yang pasti adalah janji Allah diakhirat kelak.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Semoga tahun baru 2011 yang datang mengingatkan kita bahawa kematian kian menghampiri setiap detik.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Selamat.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/462964950647049354-5279319729099449897?l=reveriemalaya.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/feeds/5279319729099449897/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/2011/01/jasad-itu-hanya-sementara.html#comment-form' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/462964950647049354/posts/default/5279319729099449897'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/462964950647049354/posts/default/5279319729099449897'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/2011/01/jasad-itu-hanya-sementara.html' title='Jasad itu hanya sementara,'/><author><name>Faiez Ali</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09700662927927427081</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-462964950647049354.post-6031822625487520975</id><published>2011-01-01T03:19:00.003+08:00</published><updated>2011-01-01T05:15:55.122+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri pengalaman'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri buka minda'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri agama'/><title type='text'>Is Islam proud of us?</title><content type='html'>This entry is based on understanding of today's jumaat khutba at Coventry University Prayer Hall.&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;We can say, all of us Muslimin and Muslimat that we are proud of Islam. We can claim today we are Muslims, the ummah of Muhammad saw. Yet the real question is are Islam proud of us?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Many of us have lots of theoritical knowledge about Islam. We know many things because we read and attend lectures. Yet most of us fail to realize that practicality is better than any theory. What good is an engineer who memorise all engineering books but have never operate any engine before? The same applies to Muslims. What good are we if we can memorise lots of Surah and Hadith yet fail to realize and perform what were said in the Surah and Hadith.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;All Muslims, we should have 3 things. First is belief. Believe in Islam. In the words of Allah and his messengers. After belief, comes the importance of actions. Take actions based on what we were told. However all actions will only be counted if we can have the third element in them which is sincerity. Have these 3 elements, belief, action and sincerity, insyaAllah we will become good Muslims.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;And don't we expect to pass this life test easily. All Muslims who said 'We believe.', your belief shall be tested and assessed with test and trials by Allah. "And those who turned to my sunnah at times where his imaan is at the lowest, are the guided ones." Said Rasulullah saw.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;We muslims should be proud of our teachings. We should be dogmatic. Say what is right and prohibit what is wrong. Stand up for who you are or you'll stand up for anything and everything else.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;*A remembrance to oneself and to others.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Selamat.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/462964950647049354-6031822625487520975?l=reveriemalaya.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/feeds/6031822625487520975/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/2011/01/are-islam-proud-of-us.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/462964950647049354/posts/default/6031822625487520975'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/462964950647049354/posts/default/6031822625487520975'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/2011/01/are-islam-proud-of-us.html' title='Is Islam proud of us?'/><author><name>Faiez Ali</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09700662927927427081</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-462964950647049354.post-3442482956334830305</id><published>2010-12-31T02:42:00.005+08:00</published><updated>2010-12-31T03:06:17.057+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri pengalaman'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri diari'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri sinis'/><title type='text'>Mudahnya menjemput seorang pemimpin Ulama'</title><content type='html'>Sebelum ini, aku sebenarnya tidak pernah bertemu dengan Tuan Guru Haji Hadi Awang. Tidak juga pernah berimpian untuk bertemu dengan beliau. Dan tidak juga selalu mengikuti perkembangan tentang beliau dan PAS secara direct. Yang aku tahu, terdapat juga mereka-mereka yang mencemuh Tuan Guru Haji Hadi dalam pelbagai cara dan tentang pelbagai isu. Dalam entri ni aku nak berkongsi tentang bagaimana Diskusi: Politik.Islam &amp;amp; PAS dapat diadakan diWarwick semalam.&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Aku balik daripada FuIYO 2010, di Waddow Hall, Clithroe dan singgah diManchester beberapa hari yang lepas pada 26th December. Dan berkesempatan untuk menyertai ucapan perasmian PRC oleh Tuan Guru Haji Hadi di Manchester Conference Centre. Selesai ucapan itu, aku terfikir, bagus juga kalau dapat bawa Tuan Guru ke Warwick kerana daripada talknya di Manchester itu, aku rasa banyak ilmu yang beliau sampaikan. Lalu aku bertanyakan wakil beliau untuk menjemput Tuan Guru ke Warwick. Malam tu aku terima satu mesej, dikatakan Tuan Guru sudi untuk ke Warwick. Tapi boleh antara Selasa dan Rabu saja kerana Khamis(hari ni) sudah mau balik ke Malaysia untuk membantu kempen PAS di Tenang.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Jadi pendek kata aku setuju untuk buat talk hari Rabu, 29 Disember. Disebabkan masa yang singkat dan jemputan yang ad-hoc aku gagal untuk dapatkan bilik kuliah yang proper untuk talk. Kawan aku pesan, nak buat event untuk Tuan Guru biarlah proper sikit. Beliaukan Presiden PAS, antara calon Perdana Menteri sekiranya PR menang PRU akan datang. Aku usaha nak dapatkan bilik, tapi tak boleh booking sebab office university tutup kerana cuti New Year. Bilik2 pun penuh kerana ada Jew Conference di sekitar Warwick University. Maka hanya dapat buat diPrayer Hall.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Berkaitan dengan promosi, sekadar promosi menggunakan FB saja. Buat flyers dan tag beramai-ramai. Seterusnya bergantung kepada buah mulut rakan-rakan. Aku jangkakan dalam 30 orang yang akan hadir untuk talk ini. Lalu satu kali tu aku telefon wakil Tuan Guru dan berterus-terang, "Oleh kerana agak ad-hoc, saya hanya dapat Prayer Hall sebagai tempat. Tak ada mic, lcd projektor dsbnya. Jemputan pula saya anggarkan dalam 30 orang." Lalu aku diberitahu, tak mengapa. Tuan Guru tak kisah. Kalau beberapa orang pun beliau tak kisah. Lalu aku terfikir, betapa mudahnya nak jemput seorang ulama untuk diskusi bersama pelajar. Bukan calang-calang orang pula tu, antara ulama besar dunia.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Seterusnya aku bayangkan, kalaulah yang nak datang ni Menteri di kabinet Malaysia dan aku hanya dapat buat event di Prayer Hall. Anggaran dalam 30 orang. Tak boleh aku bayang apa kata menteri tu nanti. Sebab selalunya kalau event untuk menteri, mestilah 'grand', mesti ramai. Jika tak ramai pun, buat di hotel atau bilik kuliah yang proper dan sebagainya.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Kami di warwick pun pernah diberitahu oleh seorang pemimpin organisasi Malaysia di UK yang beliau nak buat event diwarwick. Lalu kami buatkan proposal, siapkan aturan event segalanya. Tinggal nak dapatkan 'yes' daripada pemimpin tu. Selepas hantar proposal tu kepada beliau, beliau kata "I'll contact you guys later about this." Lalu tunggu punya tunggu, sampai 10 minggu tak ada berita langsung. Pelik. Yang nak buat event, beliau sendiri. Siap proposal semuanya, hilang tanpa berita. Jadi disini aku boleh lihat dan buat kesimpulan sendiri, betapa berbezanya individu-individu berdasarkan dengan pegangan mereka. Ramai antara pemimpin yang apabila jadi pemimpin mereka merasakan mereka besar dan hebat walhal jika menurut Islam, memimpin itu adalah satu tanggungjawab dan bukannya kemegahan. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Aku cuma nak berkongsi pengalaman buat event untuk Presiden PAS yang sangat merendah diri dan bersifat redha. Sebenarnya aku amat risau tentang diskusi yang baru lepas ni. Aku risau takut ada yang tak bersetuju dengan venue di Prayer Hall. Aku risau takut tak ramai yang datang. Aku risau takut tak habis on time. Tapi Alhamdulillah, hampir 60 orang hadir, dan 40 orang tonton secara live diUstream. Event habis tepat-tepat jam 9.30pm dan tiada masalah dengan venue. Alhamdulillah kerana semuanya mendapat kemudahan daripada Allah S.W.T.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;InsyaAllah masa akan datang, lebih banyak event akan dibuat di Warwick. Dah ada yang kami bincangkan nak buat, mudah-mudahan mendapat kemudahan dan dapat dilaksanakan untuk manfaat semua.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Selamat.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/462964950647049354-3442482956334830305?l=reveriemalaya.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/feeds/3442482956334830305/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/2010/12/mudahnya-menjemput-seorang-pemimpin.html#comment-form' title='6 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/462964950647049354/posts/default/3442482956334830305'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/462964950647049354/posts/default/3442482956334830305'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/2010/12/mudahnya-menjemput-seorang-pemimpin.html' title='Mudahnya menjemput seorang pemimpin Ulama&apos;'/><author><name>Faiez Ali</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09700662927927427081</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>6</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-462964950647049354.post-4379326517774485323</id><published>2010-12-30T07:14:00.003+08:00</published><updated>2010-12-30T07:40:27.841+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri pengalaman'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri ilmiah'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri agama'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri politik'/><title type='text'>Islam,Politik&amp;PAS by Tuan Guru Haji Hadi Awang</title><content type='html'>Baru selesai sesi diskusi bersama Tuan Guru Haji Hadi Awang, selaku ulama dan Presiden PAS di Prayer Hall, Warwick Uni. Ucapan terima kasih untuk semua yang membantu documentation of event, organisation of event dan bantu hidang dan kemaskan jamuan. Begitu juga kepada semua yang berjaya menghadirkan diri dan yang mendengar dirumah atau bilik masing-masing melalui UStream. Dianggar seramai hampir 100 orang telah turut serta dengan 60 orang hadir dan 40 melalui Ustream. Alhamdulillah.&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Antara perkara yang dikongsi oleh Tuan Guru adalah, bagaimana ideologi2 dan sistem pemerintahan sekular sekarang yang semakin runtuh dan jatuh. Bagaimana jatuhnya komunisme bawaan Karl Marx, Engel, dan tokoh2 sosialis lain. Bagaimana kita lihat sistem ekonomi dunia yang berlandaskan kapitalisme semakin punah dan meleset. Tuan guru juga mengambil contoh masalah2 sosial yang berlaku didalam masyarakat sekarang. Menceritakan tentang keruntuhan akhlak masyarakat, terutamanya diMalaysia. Dan apakah penyelesaian untuk masalah dunia? Islam.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Tuan Guru menerangkan bagaimana Islam dapat membantu mengatasi masalah ekonomi, iaitu melalui penghapusan riba' dan pelaksanaan ekonomi Islam. Seterusnya penerangan tentang sistem hukum hudud dalam Islam, bagaimana salah tanggapan orang awam berkaitan hukum hudud kerana tiada ilmu dan pendedahan. Bahawa hukum hudud contoh potong tangan bukan sekadar memotong tangan, tetapi perlu ambil kira birokrasi atau syarat sebelum terjatuhnya hukum hudud itu sendiri. Proses ini tidak diterangkan. Lalu rata-rata masyarakat meng'cop' hukum hudud sebagai barbaric kerana kekurangan ilmu mengenai hukum hudud itu sendiri.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Seterusnya Tuan Guru berkongsi bahawa dalam sistem demokrasi, media adalah saksi dan rakyat adalah hakim. Tetapi akibat daripada berat sebelah dan laporan media yang tidak adil, maka rakyat gagal untuk menghakimi dengan adil. Jika kita lihat diMalaysia, laporan media utama Malaysia yang berat sebelah menyebabkan kecelaruan dalam pemahaman masyarakat. Isu2 dimainkan, dan menyebabkan salah faham.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Seterusnya Tuan Guru turut menerangkan serba sedikit hubungan dengan DAP dan PKR. dimana kollaborasi adalah bersifat longgar. PAS bekerjasama setakat mana yang mereka bersetuju. Isu-isu yang tidak mendapat persetujuan ramai, tidak dibangkitkan. Tetapi PAS tetap berpegang teguh kepada perjuangan Islam. Isu negara Islam, jika dulu Karpal Singh cakap 'langkah mayat saya dulu sebelum mau laksanakan negara Islam', sekarang Karpal Singh berkata pula "Isu negara Islam boleh dibincangkan lagi.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Antara persoalan yang ditimbulkan:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;1) Bagaimana jika didalam PAS sendiri ada korupsi?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Jawapan: PAS terbuka. Suruhanjaya Pencegah Rasuah bebas menyiasat kerana PAS sendiri tidak mau jika ada orang2 rasuah didalam PAS. Jika ada, biarlah ditangkap dan dibuang daripada parti.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;2) Bagaimana peranan NGO2 Islam yang lain seperti ABIM dll diMalaysia pada pandangan PAS?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Jawapan: Untuk mentadbir, tidak boleh melalui satu pihak saja. PAS faham dan sedar, untuk mentadbir dengan berjaya, kita perlukan teknokrat2 dan golongan2 professional lain. Jadi PAS mau semua bersama-sama menggunakan kepakaran yang ada untuk menjayakan pentadbiran selagi tidak bertentangan dengan perjuangan Islam.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;3) IR Nizar pernah berkata, dalam perlembagaan PAS tidak dinyatakan keinginan untuk melaksanakan negara Islam. Sila ulas.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Jawapan: Memang dalam perlembagaan PAS tidak disebut negara Islam. Istilah tidak penting. Kerana perjuangan PAS berdasarkan perlembagaan adalah untuk perjuangan yang bertepatan dengan Al-Quran, Sunnah, Khilaf Ulama. Bermakna selagi tidak lari daripada asas perjuangan ini, PAS akan menyokong dan terus berjuang.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;4) Bagaimana peranan kami sebagai pelajar untuk turut membantu perjuangan PAS dalam menegakkan syariah Islam dalam pada masa yang sama mahu akur dengan kehendak kerajaan dan tanggungjawab sebagai pelajar?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Jawapan: Sebagai pelajar, jadilah yang paling cemerlang dalam bidang masing-masing. Untuk memperjuangkan Islam bukan sebagai ahli politik sahaja. Tetapi boleh juga sebagai teknokrat, atau professional. Jadi yang cemerlang dalam bidang masing2 dan balik nanti berbaktilah dalam kemampuan anda untuk Islam.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Ada banyak lagi percakapan, isi-isi dan persoalan yang dihujahkan, ditanya dan dijawab, tapi berdasarkan catatan dan ingatan, yang ditulis ini antara yang penting. Tuan Guru juga ada bercerita tentang sejarah perjuangan PAS, ketika bersatu dengan UMNO. Apa yang PAS lakukan sewaktu bersatu. Tuan Guru juga ada berkongsi kisah Rasulullah bertemu dengan bani Amir, bani Syaiban dan Bani Aus &amp;amp; Khazraj ketika musim haji jahilliyah untuk menyebarkan Islam dan bagaimana reaksi mereka. InsyaAllah akan ditulis dalam entri yang lain.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Notis penting:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;a) Tulisan entri ini adalah gabungan daripada dua talk oleh Tuan Guru yang sempat dihadiri, yang pertama diManchester beberapa hari yang lepas dan kedua diWarwick Uni sebentar tadi. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;b)Ada rakaman video dan gambar-gambar yang diambil, akan diupload dan diupdate apabila siap editing nanti.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;c) Tulisan ini bukanlah sebiji-sebiji kata-kata yang keluar dari mulut Tuan Guru tapi telah diolah mengikut pemahaman saya.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;d) Sebarang kesalahan atau kekurangan minta jasa baik beritahu supaya boleh diubah dengan segera.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Terima kasih dan selamat! ;)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/462964950647049354-4379326517774485323?l=reveriemalaya.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/feeds/4379326517774485323/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/2010/12/islampolitik-by-tuan-guru-haji-hadi.html#comment-form' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/462964950647049354/posts/default/4379326517774485323'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/462964950647049354/posts/default/4379326517774485323'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/2010/12/islampolitik-by-tuan-guru-haji-hadi.html' title='Islam,Politik&amp;PAS by Tuan Guru Haji Hadi Awang'/><author><name>Faiez Ali</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09700662927927427081</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-462964950647049354.post-1124248701967564700</id><published>2010-12-29T22:32:00.005+08:00</published><updated>2010-12-29T22:47:50.251+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri politik'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri budaya'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri pemerhatian'/><title type='text'>HarimauMalaya, Ahli Politik dan Kebencian</title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;Skuad HarimauMalaya baru memenangi Piala AFF selepas menang aggregat menghadapi Indonesia.&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Twitter aku ada mengikuti tokoh-tokoh politik Malaysia dari kerajaan dan juga pembangkang. Mukhriz, KJ, Nik Nazmi, Chegubard dan lain-lain lagi. Sepanjang aku mengikuti twitter-twitter ini, selalunya setiap hari dapat membaca twitter-twitter cemuhan dari satu pihak ke pihak yang lain. Namun sepanjang perlawanan antara HarimauMalaya dengan Skuad Garuda, aku dapat lihat tak ada cemuhan-cemuhan dilontarkan oleh mana-mana pihak. Semua yang keluar adalah kata-kata sokongan buat HarimauMalaya.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Maka aku akan ingat, waktu dimana ahli-ahli politik kita berhenti seketika daripada mencemuh antara satu sama lain adalah bila HarimauMalaya memenangi Piala AFF. Cuma persoalannya, sampai bila?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Tak sampai beberapa minit selepas tu, aku nampak seorang tokoh politik pembangkang dah memulakan 'hate twit' semula. Dan kembali ke keadaan sediakala. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Sambil-sambil itu mau promosi event untuk malam ini di Warwick University. Seperti didalam flyers dibawah. ;)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_oVdt5tHNUUw/TRtJoyNROyI/AAAAAAAAADQ/mFi-hlVfSGQ/s1600/165253_1777308076204_1344421092_31951725_7524046_n.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 226px; height: 320px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_oVdt5tHNUUw/TRtJoyNROyI/AAAAAAAAADQ/mFi-hlVfSGQ/s320/165253_1777308076204_1344421092_31951725_7524046_n.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5556115530312661794" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Selamat.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/462964950647049354-1124248701967564700?l=reveriemalaya.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/feeds/1124248701967564700/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/2010/12/harimaumalaya-ahli-politik-dan.html#comment-form' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/462964950647049354/posts/default/1124248701967564700'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/462964950647049354/posts/default/1124248701967564700'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/2010/12/harimaumalaya-ahli-politik-dan.html' title='HarimauMalaya, Ahli Politik dan Kebencian'/><author><name>Faiez Ali</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09700662927927427081</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_oVdt5tHNUUw/TRtJoyNROyI/AAAAAAAAADQ/mFi-hlVfSGQ/s72-c/165253_1777308076204_1344421092_31951725_7524046_n.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-462964950647049354.post-5309414557944550514</id><published>2010-12-18T00:20:00.004+08:00</published><updated>2010-12-18T00:29:43.374+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri pengalaman'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri diari Coventry'/><title type='text'>Second Winter in Coventry</title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;It's my second winter here in the United Kingdom. Still this winter brings mesmerization to me as though it's my first ever winter. Like it's the first time when I met Mr snow. Here's are some pictures of the first drop of snow here in Coventry taken two weeks ago.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_oVdt5tHNUUw/TQuOpuOjK1I/AAAAAAAAADE/MwJGHQPupCc/s1600/Snow%2B1.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_oVdt5tHNUUw/TQuOpuOjK1I/AAAAAAAAADE/MwJGHQPupCc/s320/Snow%2B1.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5551687813099105106" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Hearsall Common. The common where the first jet were flew.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_oVdt5tHNUUw/TQuOpMlAYII/AAAAAAAAAC8/nZmLKIbjQgA/s1600/Snow%2B2.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_oVdt5tHNUUw/TQuOpMlAYII/AAAAAAAAAC8/nZmLKIbjQgA/s320/Snow%2B2.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5551687804066488450" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;The first few drops of snow&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_oVdt5tHNUUw/TQuOpGPHHPI/AAAAAAAAAC0/8KCOZW3Ezr0/s1600/Snow%2B4.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_oVdt5tHNUUw/TQuOpGPHHPI/AAAAAAAAAC0/8KCOZW3Ezr0/s320/Snow%2B4.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5551687802364042482" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Frost on plants&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_oVdt5tHNUUw/TQuOo1GxAnI/AAAAAAAAACs/pE0l7faDSwk/s1600/Snow%2B3.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_oVdt5tHNUUw/TQuOo1GxAnI/AAAAAAAAACs/pE0l7faDSwk/s320/Snow%2B3.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5551687797765636722" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Frosting grass&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_oVdt5tHNUUw/TQuOobROktI/AAAAAAAAACk/H7ETEaBwA4k/s1600/P061210_14.54%255B01%255D.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_oVdt5tHNUUw/TQuOobROktI/AAAAAAAAACk/H7ETEaBwA4k/s320/P061210_14.54%255B01%255D.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5551687790830195410" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Frost on plants&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;I have no proper plans to go on vacation this winter. But I do have a winter camp next week for around 4 days. And some paperworks to complete and an assignment due in January 2011. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;p/s: photos are taken by my phone camera. DSLR tinggal kat Malaysia, kerana diservis.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;Selamat! and Happy winter holiday! ;)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/462964950647049354-5309414557944550514?l=reveriemalaya.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/feeds/5309414557944550514/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/2010/12/second-winter-in-coventry.html#comment-form' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/462964950647049354/posts/default/5309414557944550514'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/462964950647049354/posts/default/5309414557944550514'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/2010/12/second-winter-in-coventry.html' title='Second Winter in Coventry'/><author><name>Faiez Ali</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09700662927927427081</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_oVdt5tHNUUw/TQuOpuOjK1I/AAAAAAAAADE/MwJGHQPupCc/s72-c/Snow%2B1.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-462964950647049354.post-9164599764938120715</id><published>2010-12-15T06:52:00.005+08:00</published><updated>2010-12-15T07:01:45.671+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri diari'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri pemberitahuan'/><title type='text'>Volunteering chances in Malaysia!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_oVdt5tHNUUw/TQf1dTfNjmI/AAAAAAAAACc/HXc-xXkv42M/s1600/69747_1762713233422_1406820544_1985249_1297915_n.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 248px; height: 320px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_oVdt5tHNUUw/TQf1dTfNjmI/AAAAAAAAACc/HXc-xXkv42M/s320/69747_1762713233422_1406820544_1985249_1297915_n.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5550674949553622626" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;In more or less 8 months we are going to launch our Projek Kalsom 17 in Melaka. For those in Malaysia who wants to contribute, you can donate through our online Rm5 campaign (refer to the flyers above). Or help spread this words to your family, relatives and friends.&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;We are looking for volunteers too for our 'Free Tuition Scheme' programme. It is highly experimental at the moment. We plan to conduct a free tuition for secondary school student at Seri Setia area at the moment. Who ever wants to volunteer and play a role in our Free Tuition Scheme to help give our youths any kind of useful knowledge, please do inform our guy Muhsin Hassan (Malaysian Regional Director) at muhsin.hassan@projek-kalsom.com&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Muhsin is also looking for willing volunteers in any Semenanjung state to help us run fundraising events for Projek Kalsom and be a part of our Malaysia Division committee team.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Any kind of help. Any kind of suggestions. and any kind of donation are very much appreciated and will be used to help build a decent now for a better future for our Malaysian youths.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Selamat! ;)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/462964950647049354-9164599764938120715?l=reveriemalaya.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/feeds/9164599764938120715/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/2010/12/volunteering-chances-in-malaysia.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/462964950647049354/posts/default/9164599764938120715'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/462964950647049354/posts/default/9164599764938120715'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/2010/12/volunteering-chances-in-malaysia.html' title='Volunteering chances in Malaysia!'/><author><name>Faiez Ali</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09700662927927427081</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_oVdt5tHNUUw/TQf1dTfNjmI/AAAAAAAAACc/HXc-xXkv42M/s72-c/69747_1762713233422_1406820544_1985249_1297915_n.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-462964950647049354.post-3875465842571141119</id><published>2010-12-14T20:07:00.003+08:00</published><updated>2010-12-14T20:27:51.153+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri budaya'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri pemerhatian'/><title type='text'>Wonders of facebook</title><content type='html'>Facebook telah membawa revolusi kepada dunia. Perubahan-perubahan major dari segi komunikasi, budaya, kesukanan, politik dan sebagainya.&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Kita boleh lihat facebook semakin digunapakai oleh pemimpin-pemimpin politik dalam menyebarkan propaganda mereka. Pemimpin yang tidak menggunakan facebook, twitter, blog secara efektif, aku anggap sebagai pemimpin yang bakal ditelan peredaran zaman danakan menjadi kurang relevan kepada kita. Begitu juga bagi pemimpin yang menggunapakai facebook sekadar medium untuk upload gambar-gambar 'turun padang' dan seterusnya twitter untuk memberitahu orang ramai berapa banyak gambar 'turun padang' yang diupload difacebooknya. Ini namanya, gagal menggunapakai dan utilise kekuatan medium online seperti facebook dan twitter.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Seterusnya kita boleh lihat perubahan budaya. Yang mana rata-rata ucapan perayaan, selamat, tahniah, takziah dsbnya dizahirkan difacebook. Cukup. Terutama ucapan selamat harijadi. Cukup dengan notifikasi facebook berkaitan harijadi kita, orang ramai akan mula mengucapkan harijadi difacebook, kadang-kadang kita tak kenal pun siapa. Aku pernah membuat eksperimen kecil-kecilan dengan menukar tarikh harijadi aku ke tarikh lain. Dan didapati banyak ucapan harijadi di wall aku di hari seterusnya. Yang lebih menarik, ada antara mereka yang rapat dengan aku pun turut mengucapkan selamat hari jadi. This is the power of facebook and what we see as going to the path of total reliance on technology.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Seterusnya kita boleh lihat komunikasi dipermudahkan dan dipercepatkan. Betapa kurangnya thrill belajar diluar negara apabila berkomunikasi bersama keluarga tersayang hanya dihujung jari. Bila bertemu dengan generasi lama yang belajar diluar negara tahun 70 dan 80an, mereka berkata, suasana lain dulu dan sekarang. Betullah tu, dulu tak ada facebook. Dengan facebook, segalanya menjadi lebih mudah dan percuma! Sehinggakan terlalu mudah sampai kadang-kadang kita alami situasi dimana apa sahaja yang kita buat, diketahui oleh keluarga dirumah. Malah informasi yang kita tak mahu tersebar. Maka oleh kerana itu ia boleh mengakibatkan dua perkara. Pertama, hubungan bersama keluarga menjadi lebih rapat dan 'there's no secret between us'. Ataupun, keluarga tidak dianggap keluarga difacebook dan tidak diapprove. Terutamanya makcik-makcik yang dianggap lebih suka menjaga tepi kain kita daripada tepi kain sendiri.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Seterusnya facebook juga menjadi medium kita mencanangkan propaganda dan aktiviti kita sesama kawan. Ironinya facebook diasaskan oleh yahudi dan diwar-warkan menjadi medium pengumpulan data manusia oleh CIA, namun pantas saja aku tengok rakan-rakan muslim membuat 'event' usrah atau talk online berkaitan Islam dan pantas lagi promosi menerusi 'spam inbox atau wall' rakan-rakan lain dan lebih pantas lagi setelah event itu berakhir, mereka meng'post' borang feedback untuk mendapat penilaian umum berkaitan event tadi agar untuk event masa depan dapat dibaik pulih sebarang kesilapan. Walaupun usaha millat facebook yang berwarna hijau itu gagal mendapat perhatian umum terutamanya umat Islam, bukan kerana kita mau sokong yahudi. Tetapi aku rasa adalah kerana faktor-faktor usia, sejarah dan kelebihan application yang ada pada facebook.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Seterusnya kita boleh lihat betapa beruntungnya orang sekarang. Kerana bagi manusia, tujuan utama berkomunikasi adalah untuk didengari. To get the message across. Namun dulu, tak aa medium yang memudahkan komunikasi serupa ini. Sekarang? Ada facebook. Apa saja yang mau diluahkan, dilepaskan, biarlah apa-apa berkaitan dengan emosi, amarah, sedih, gembira atau sebagainya boleh dilepaskan difacebook. Yang lebih menarik, apa yang kita luahkan pasti akan secara langsung (apabila rakan-rakan meng'like' atau komen pada status) didengari atau secara tidak langsung (apabila tiada orang like atau komen) turut didengari kerana sistem notifikasi facebook memudahkan proses penyampaian maklumat kepada rakan-rakan kita tanpa mereka mahu atau sedari. Dengan ini wujudlah golongan 'attention seeker' yang selalunya membicarakan hal-hal hati dan perasaan mereka tanpa orang lain ingin tahu.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Jadi dengan ini aku ingin memproklamasikan facebook sebagai salah satu 'new wonder of the world' setelah mengamati kekuatan medium facebook ini.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Selamat.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/462964950647049354-3875465842571141119?l=reveriemalaya.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/feeds/3875465842571141119/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/2010/12/wonders-of-facebook.html#comment-form' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/462964950647049354/posts/default/3875465842571141119'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/462964950647049354/posts/default/3875465842571141119'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/2010/12/wonders-of-facebook.html' title='Wonders of facebook'/><author><name>Faiez Ali</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09700662927927427081</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-462964950647049354.post-8710071412120933959</id><published>2010-12-13T19:50:00.006+08:00</published><updated>2010-12-13T20:08:16.775+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri buka minda'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri politik'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri pemberitahuan'/><title type='text'>Recent riot in London due to student fees increase</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_oVdt5tHNUUw/TQYLD8DKRGI/AAAAAAAAACU/ylCGqAiid_M/s1600/article-1337315-0C6BD37B000005DC-245_306x447.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 219px; height: 320px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_oVdt5tHNUUw/TQYLD8DKRGI/AAAAAAAAACU/ylCGqAiid_M/s320/article-1337315-0C6BD37B000005DC-245_306x447.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5550135753067611234" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Protesters at Trafalgar Square tried to lit up a Big Christmas tree&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_oVdt5tHNUUw/TQYLDlXoTOI/AAAAAAAAACM/8mR7PFQsxw8/s1600/article-1337315-0C6C0098000005DC-702_634x418.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 211px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_oVdt5tHNUUw/TQYLDlXoTOI/AAAAAAAAACM/8mR7PFQsxw8/s320/article-1337315-0C6C0098000005DC-702_634x418.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5550135746979450082" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Thugs jumping of burnt benches at Parliament Square&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_oVdt5tHNUUw/TQYLDJHWnQI/AAAAAAAAACE/RlM5Vy3bXoc/s1600/article-1337315-0C6B1E8E000005DC-522_634x582.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 294px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_oVdt5tHNUUw/TQYLDJHWnQI/AAAAAAAAACE/RlM5Vy3bXoc/s320/article-1337315-0C6B1E8E000005DC-522_634x582.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5550135739394989314" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;A girl disrespecting Britains' War Warriors&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_oVdt5tHNUUw/TQYLC5LtiGI/AAAAAAAAAB8/otkXUkphle8/s1600/article-1337315-0C6B034D000005DC-869_634x412.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 208px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_oVdt5tHNUUw/TQYLC5LtiGI/AAAAAAAAAB8/otkXUkphle8/s320/article-1337315-0C6B034D000005DC-869_634x412.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5550135735118301282" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Bulls' eye! A policeman hit with paintball&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_oVdt5tHNUUw/TQYJ4if2nUI/AAAAAAAAAB0/3RosTAngmAQ/s1600/c76616874c9a8c262a3b4b33940f.jpeg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 198px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_oVdt5tHNUUw/TQYJ4if2nUI/AAAAAAAAAB0/3RosTAngmAQ/s320/c76616874c9a8c262a3b4b33940f.jpeg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5550134457718447426" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Terrified Charles and Camilla, attacked in their cosy Rolls Royce&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_oVdt5tHNUUw/TQYJ4a_hQtI/AAAAAAAAABs/uLHFT1uo0S0/s1600/933-445Britain_Student_Protest_.sff.standalone.prod_affiliate.81.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 202px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_oVdt5tHNUUw/TQYJ4a_hQtI/AAAAAAAAABs/uLHFT1uo0S0/s320/933-445Britain_Student_Protest_.sff.standalone.prod_affiliate.81.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5550134455703782098" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Public, majority of students attended the 'peaceful' riot which turned bloody&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_oVdt5tHNUUw/TQYJ4E1Z1MI/AAAAAAAAABk/hUgn1dkzxu0/s1600/article-1337315-0C6AA08E000005DC-341_634x837.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 242px; height: 320px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_oVdt5tHNUUw/TQYJ4E1Z1MI/AAAAAAAAABk/hUgn1dkzxu0/s320/article-1337315-0C6AA08E000005DC-341_634x837.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5550134449755772098" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Student urinating at Britains' father, Churchills' statue&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_oVdt5tHNUUw/TQYJ3jm_jeI/AAAAAAAAABc/xG5lMRBQ9mM/s1600/security-hut-is-set-ablaze-in-parliament-square-pic-pa-357251120.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 210px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_oVdt5tHNUUw/TQYJ3jm_jeI/AAAAAAAAABc/xG5lMRBQ9mM/s320/security-hut-is-set-ablaze-in-parliament-square-pic-pa-357251120.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5550134440836959714" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Security Hut burnt at Parliament Square&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;I feel demonstration is a way of expressing views, opinions and concerns by the public when other measurements are not taken into consideration by the government. The question is, to what extend should we allow this kind of freedom of speech? as there will be people driven by their own motivation to turn such events into disasters to suit their interests.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;This reflects the current political situation in Malaysia too.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;Peace and out!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/462964950647049354-8710071412120933959?l=reveriemalaya.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/feeds/8710071412120933959/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/2010/12/recent-riot-in-london-due-to-student.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/462964950647049354/posts/default/8710071412120933959'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/462964950647049354/posts/default/8710071412120933959'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/2010/12/recent-riot-in-london-due-to-student.html' title='Recent riot in London due to student fees increase'/><author><name>Faiez Ali</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09700662927927427081</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_oVdt5tHNUUw/TQYLD8DKRGI/AAAAAAAAACU/ylCGqAiid_M/s72-c/article-1337315-0C6BD37B000005DC-245_306x447.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-462964950647049354.post-8243687372670561229</id><published>2010-12-12T06:00:00.003+08:00</published><updated>2010-12-12T06:11:03.310+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri pendapat'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri politik'/><title type='text'>One small deed can lead to a big change.</title><content type='html'>Aku baru balik dari London. Semalam aku bermalam di Arsenal, sekali lagi di tempat Khairul. Tujuan ke London kerana mau berbincang berkaitan tentang Projek Kalsom. Alhamdulillah perbincangan berjalan lancar dah satu konsensus dapat dicapai tentang arah tuju masa depan Projek Kalsom.&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Sungguh perkara-perkara kecil dapat memberikan impak besar kepada sesuatu perkara. Apa yang kita lakukan dalam skala kecil mungkin membawa lebih makna kepada diri kita. Betullah bila sasterawan negara, A. Samad Said cakap, perkara-perkara kecil yang dilakukan oleh orang besar untuk orang kecil adalah besar maknanya bagi orang kecil. Aku amat bersetuju. Sekiranya seseorang pemimpin membalas mesej twitter atau komen di blog oleh seorang rakyat pun adalah besar maknanya bagi rakyat itu. Terasa dihargai dan diberi perhatian oleh pemimpin.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Aku rasa, untuk masa depan politik yang lebih cerah, barisan pihak kerajaan Barisan Nasional perlu lebih berpegang kepada kata-kata sasterawan negara kita ini. Segala eksklusiviti perlu dibuang. Distinguishment antara pemimpin besar dan rakyat-rakyat semut perlu dilimitasikan sekecil-kecilnya dan dihapuskan seterusnya. Untuk terus berkuasa melakukan perubahan, perkara ini perlu diadaptasi. Pemimpin besar tidak sebesar mana tanpa sokongan rakyat marhaen sekalian. Jika perkara ini boleh diadaptasi oleh pasukan jentera kerajaan Barisan Nasional, nescaya akan lebih menyukarkan usaha pembangkang untuk mengambilalih Putrajaya.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/462964950647049354-8243687372670561229?l=reveriemalaya.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/feeds/8243687372670561229/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/2010/12/one-small-deed-can-lead-to-big-change.html#comment-form' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/462964950647049354/posts/default/8243687372670561229'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/462964950647049354/posts/default/8243687372670561229'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/2010/12/one-small-deed-can-lead-to-big-change.html' title='One small deed can lead to a big change.'/><author><name>Faiez Ali</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09700662927927427081</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-462964950647049354.post-4948294885550178107</id><published>2010-12-08T23:40:00.004+08:00</published><updated>2010-12-09T00:11:36.436+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri politik'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri pemberitahuan'/><title type='text'>Isu Air Syabas</title><content type='html'>Setelah puas berdemo bersama anak-anak kecil dan keluarga yang tersayang, aku ingin menyeru tuan-tuan dan puan-puan semua untuk mendengar penjelasan isu air oleh Pengarah Eksekutif Syabas, Abdul Halem Mat Som di &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-xDtw2OLNQ&amp;amp;feature=player_embedded"&gt;sini&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Wallahualam.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/462964950647049354-4948294885550178107?l=reveriemalaya.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/feeds/4948294885550178107/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/2010/12/isu-air-syabas.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/462964950647049354/posts/default/4948294885550178107'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/462964950647049354/posts/default/4948294885550178107'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/2010/12/isu-air-syabas.html' title='Isu Air Syabas'/><author><name>Faiez Ali</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09700662927927427081</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-462964950647049354.post-8468583823183724425</id><published>2010-12-05T05:44:00.007+08:00</published><updated>2010-12-05T06:24:54.159+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri pengalaman'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri budaya'/><title type='text'>Cartoons campaign</title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;As a campaign to stop child-violence, people change their fb profile picture to their favourite cartoon character. Well, I couldn't decide the one character I favour the most so I post ten here. Some of them are known to many, some are not. Some are international, while some are local. Enjoy, ;)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_oVdt5tHNUUw/TPq9gquo2lI/AAAAAAAAABU/j8oxQJMK-F0/s1600/Chibi-Maruko-Chan1851412631225191041.jpeg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 196px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_oVdt5tHNUUw/TPq9gquo2lI/AAAAAAAAABU/j8oxQJMK-F0/s320/Chibi-Maruko-Chan1851412631225191041.jpeg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5546954259983555154" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_oVdt5tHNUUw/TPq8gkv9PyI/AAAAAAAAABM/U47R9MV8Vwo/s1600/tomatoman.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 191px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_oVdt5tHNUUw/TPq8gkv9PyI/AAAAAAAAABM/U47R9MV8Vwo/s320/tomatoman.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5546953158866845474" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_oVdt5tHNUUw/TPq8gqFBmRI/AAAAAAAAABE/gI0FZ5B_07s/s1600/IMG1029A_640x480.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_oVdt5tHNUUw/TPq8gqFBmRI/AAAAAAAAABE/gI0FZ5B_07s/s320/IMG1029A_640x480.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5546953160297388306" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_oVdt5tHNUUw/TPq8gWgH3jI/AAAAAAAAAA8/zqYv2xowZ2o/s1600/1224077511426_f.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 288px; height: 320px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_oVdt5tHNUUw/TPq8gWgH3jI/AAAAAAAAAA8/zqYv2xowZ2o/s320/1224077511426_f.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5546953155042336306" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_oVdt5tHNUUw/TPq8gHeracI/AAAAAAAAAA0/Dc12M4Fj2ow/s1600/southpark_cartman.gif"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 278px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_oVdt5tHNUUw/TPq8gHeracI/AAAAAAAAAA0/Dc12M4Fj2ow/s320/southpark_cartman.gif" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5546953151009745346" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_oVdt5tHNUUw/TPq7sLCed2I/AAAAAAAAAAs/qPyW4nCCLnQ/s1600/0.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_oVdt5tHNUUw/TPq7sLCed2I/AAAAAAAAAAs/qPyW4nCCLnQ/s320/0.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5546952258612000610" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_oVdt5tHNUUw/TPq7r3drfSI/AAAAAAAAAAk/LJ2oeIgokJ8/s1600/0.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_oVdt5tHNUUw/TPq7r3drfSI/AAAAAAAAAAk/LJ2oeIgokJ8/s320/0.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5546952253357391138" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_oVdt5tHNUUw/TPq7rVk7jYI/AAAAAAAAAAc/ddOwPglUykw/s1600/Homer_Simpson.png"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 320px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_oVdt5tHNUUw/TPq7rVk7jYI/AAAAAAAAAAc/ddOwPglUykw/s320/Homer_Simpson.png" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5546952244260998530" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_oVdt5tHNUUw/TPq7q-rALrI/AAAAAAAAAAU/I19OYQXck-I/s1600/crayon%2Bshin-chan.png"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 309px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_oVdt5tHNUUw/TPq7q-rALrI/AAAAAAAAAAU/I19OYQXck-I/s320/crayon%2Bshin-chan.png" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5546952238112452274" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_oVdt5tHNUUw/TPq7qq09rTI/AAAAAAAAAAM/5Gc2a9RjxAI/s1600/oggycockroaches1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_oVdt5tHNUUw/TPq7qq09rTI/AAAAAAAAAAM/5Gc2a9RjxAI/s320/oggycockroaches1.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5546952232785521970" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'm a big fan of slapstick cartoons, especially the kind where no dialogues get involved. And I kind of love some cartoons because of their exceptional poor quality of production, scripts and voices used that they make me not want to miss them. And I also believe, cartoons with moral teachings should be lessen. It takes out the fun cause cartoons represent imagination. I for sure do not want imagination to be limited to only orthodox beliefs of the world being a nice place where people help and correct each other doings when it's not always the case. However to disclaim, I believe cartoons should not be misused to wrongly represent believes of ones culture and as a mean of provocation.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;At the end of the day, the purpose of this entry is to promote the case against child-violence. Now, what are your cartoon favourites?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Cheers ;)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/462964950647049354-8468583823183724425?l=reveriemalaya.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/feeds/8468583823183724425/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/2010/12/cartoons-campaign.html#comment-form' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/462964950647049354/posts/default/8468583823183724425'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/462964950647049354/posts/default/8468583823183724425'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/2010/12/cartoons-campaign.html' title='Cartoons campaign'/><author><name>Faiez Ali</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09700662927927427081</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_oVdt5tHNUUw/TPq9gquo2lI/AAAAAAAAABU/j8oxQJMK-F0/s72-c/Chibi-Maruko-Chan1851412631225191041.jpeg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-462964950647049354.post-6921337135345714523</id><published>2010-12-01T23:54:00.005+08:00</published><updated>2010-12-02T00:15:03.409+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri pendapat'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri politik'/><title type='text'>Zaid Ibrahim, after leaving PKR.</title><content type='html'>I don't think it's fair for Pakatan people to criticise him for his decision to leave PKR after the controversy in PKR's election. Party hopping or leaving has become quite a trend nowadays that it's a common culture until the word 'katak' has become sort of like an official political jargon in Malaysian political review.&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;In this case, Zaid should be respected for his firm decision. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;People criticised and said he should learn to work as a team member. I believe it's true but deciding to leave a party where he went to after he quitted his official minister position is something more than 'not being able to work as a team'. It is absurd for someone who were able to become a minister and senior political person in the oldest political party in Malaysia to not have teamwork spirit and ability. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Therefore I respect his decision and vision of politics in Malaysia and wish him all the success and good luck in the future. I hope his decision will be another turning point for Malaysia political direction which will give more balance and variety to our political scene.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;You can access his first interview with Free Malaysia Today after leaving PKR &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yuh9dQ4S8mY"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Selamat.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/462964950647049354-6921337135345714523?l=reveriemalaya.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/feeds/6921337135345714523/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/2010/12/zaid-ibrahim-after-leaving-pkr.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/462964950647049354/posts/default/6921337135345714523'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/462964950647049354/posts/default/6921337135345714523'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/2010/12/zaid-ibrahim-after-leaving-pkr.html' title='Zaid Ibrahim, after leaving PKR.'/><author><name>Faiez Ali</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09700662927927427081</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-462964950647049354.post-4435296031745804039</id><published>2010-11-25T14:14:00.006+08:00</published><updated>2010-11-26T04:32:29.341+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Witticism'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri politik'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri budaya'/><title type='text'>Political Ideologies explained in 15 minutes</title><content type='html'>&lt;b&gt;Feudalism&lt;/b&gt;&lt;div&gt;You herd your landlord's cow and get some milk in return.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;b&gt;Pure&lt;/b&gt; &lt;b&gt;Socialism&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;You have two cows, the government takes and manages all the cows and give you milk in return.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;b&gt;Bureaucratic&lt;/b&gt; &lt;b&gt;Socialism&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Your cows are cared for by ex-chicken farmers. You have to take care of the chickens the gov took from the farmers. You'll need to fill up 3 different coloured forms to request for chicken-feed, cows milk and meat. You'll be put into the waiting list and after a minimum period of 2 weeks or maximum period of God-knows-when, you'll get the reply saying, 'Please attach 2 passport size photos for identification and resend your application' and it goes on.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;b&gt;Fascism&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;You have two cows. The government takes all, hires you to take care of them and sell the milk to you.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;b&gt;Wrongly Interpreted Communism&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;You have two cows. The government demands your cows, if you said 'you don't have any' they'll make you their cows. If you give them your cows, they'll ask for more and you'll have to say 'you don't have any' and then they'll make you their cows.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;b&gt;Chinese Post-Communism&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;You can only have one cow in your whole insignificant life. If the cow died when you're old, suck it up and learn to live with it. it's just your fate.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;b&gt;Cambodian&lt;/b&gt; &lt;b&gt;Communism&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;You have two cows. The gov takes both and kills you.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;b&gt;Dictatorship&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;You have two cows. The gov takes both and drafts you.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;b&gt;Pure&lt;/b&gt; &lt;b&gt;Democracy&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;You have two cows. Your neighbours decide who gets the milk.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;b&gt;Capitalism&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;You have two cows. You hire someone to feed, herd, sell and make fortunes from your cows. You pay that someone a glass of milk every month and tax 25% of the milk.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;OR&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;you don't have cows. So you can't have cows as you have no cows to put up as collateral damage to get loans from the bank to buy cows. Hence in the end you only have one choice, to become that someone who got hired and paid a glass of milk that got taxed.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Tax money might be used to better the cow farm's environment so the cow owner get more profits and cow herder get better working conditions.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;b&gt;Pure Anarchy&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;You have two cows. Either you get to sell the cows at reasonable price or you get killed and your cows stolen by your neighbour.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;b&gt;Malaysian Style Democracy&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;You have two cows. Two things can happen. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;If you're a crony, you can get tax-exemption for having cows, you can get more cows, you can get to sell your cow milks or meats at fixed high price or you can get to build the highest and biggest cow farm project. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;If you're not a crony, you might be charged for trying to sodomise your cows or you get to start your 'anti mega cow farm' agenda.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;b&gt;UK&lt;/b&gt; &lt;b&gt;Style&lt;/b&gt; &lt;b&gt;Democracy&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;You have two cows. You have all the freedom and access to demand for more cows or better quality cows or better quality of cows feed and health treatment. But the government don't really care and aren't really listening to your opinions. They will still cut cow subsidisation and ask you to pay more to learn how to breed cows. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;And those who work like cows to earn two cows are asked to pay one and a half cows as tax while those who doesn't have cows, get free meat and drinks every day. It's called 'benefits'&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Cheers!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/462964950647049354-4435296031745804039?l=reveriemalaya.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/feeds/4435296031745804039/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/2010/11/ideologies-explained-with-cows.html#comment-form' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/462964950647049354/posts/default/4435296031745804039'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/462964950647049354/posts/default/4435296031745804039'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/2010/11/ideologies-explained-with-cows.html' title='Political Ideologies explained in 15 minutes'/><author><name>Faiez Ali</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09700662927927427081</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-462964950647049354.post-7927038023286501138</id><published>2010-11-23T08:11:00.002+08:00</published><updated>2010-11-23T08:16:15.208+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri pemberitahuan'/><title type='text'>Updates</title><content type='html'>Twitter Projek Kalsom: &lt;a href="http://twitter.com/#!/projekkalsom"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div&gt;Facebook Projek Kalsom: &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2248287059"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Website Projek Kalsom: &lt;a href="http://projek-kalsom.com/"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;We are looking for an honest webmaster whom are willing to help maintain our Projek Kalsom's website. If interested please contact me at: faiez.ali@projek-kalsom.com&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Things getting more hectic. Ain't this fun? ;)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/462964950647049354-7927038023286501138?l=reveriemalaya.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/feeds/7927038023286501138/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/2010/11/updates.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/462964950647049354/posts/default/7927038023286501138'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/462964950647049354/posts/default/7927038023286501138'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/2010/11/updates.html' title='Updates'/><author><name>Faiez Ali</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09700662927927427081</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-462964950647049354.post-118972488354246631</id><published>2010-11-19T06:50:00.005+08:00</published><updated>2010-11-19T07:17:45.421+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri agama'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri diari Coventry'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri pemberitahuan'/><title type='text'>Forum: Who is Muhammad?</title><content type='html'>Salam.&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;A talk was conducted by ISoc Warwick just now at Warwick Uni and the topic was 'Who is Muhammad?' I didn't know what to expect from this talk but I still went. The speakers were 2 ladies, Sister Myriam Francois Cerrah and Sister Kristiane Backer and a gentleman, Brother Salim. Brother Hamza Andreas Tzortzis was supposed to come but pulled out last minute due to some personal problems. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Some of the issues that can be highlighted are as such:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;a) Sister Myriam talked about rights. Human rights, legal rights and sacred rights. She criticised the current system of the law where human rights are not always right and lack morality. She mentioned human rights are supposed to come with morality values because law and human rights are as good as the people who implement them. Taking the example of Israelites phosphorus bombing in Palestines, she said the action is unjust but nothing has been done in this human made law system.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;b) Sister Myriam also said Islam is not only a religion or an ideology for the society. Islam brings about message of self reformation. Islam is about reforming oneself to become breathing and living individuals of Islam. Islam is not about changing societies but about changing oneself first. Islam is about pefecting oneself.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;c) Sister Myriam then brought up the issue of slavery saying slavery still exist in our society. The biggest of all is sex-slavery where children are forced to be sex slaves. Some examples and statistics are, a family sells their daughter for $500 and the girl needs to be sex slave to 2000 men before getting her freedom back. The girl is paid 20 cent for every man. Imagine what kind of future does the girl has? Sister Myriam mentioned too that in India (as an example) exists millions of sex slaves.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;d) Sister Kristiane talked in regards to environment. She quoted few quotes like 'Muhammad is sent as mercy to mankind'. Muhammad is also considered as role model to millions of people. She mentioned Rasulullah teachings and preachings about green living where we live by respecting the environment (trees, animals etc) All life are sacred, even ants life as in the Quran there is even a surah named 'The Ant'&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;e) Brother Salim started his speech with an interesting quotation. Ignorance in oneself can lead to fear which will then lead to confusion. What is the cure for ignorance? Knowledge! He mainly talked about living the example of the prophets rather than only talking about it. Brother Salim stressed that Muslims should be the living symbol of justice and rise above name-calling, prosecution and physical punishment towards people who are hateful to us. He quoted Muhammad saw, "He who abuse a non muslim citizen in a muslim country without justification will be my enemy during the day of judgement." Quoting this brother Salim said Muslims should learn to forgive and lead by examples. We must understand that the are people who fear Islam and Muslims because they do not understand Islamic teachings. Brother Salim urged us to understand this people and find ways to help them understand and not hate them for hating us. We should love everyone and show them that we care because that is what Muhammad saw did.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;The talk progresses towards Q and A session which will not be explained in details as the session basically covered the topic discussed above.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Event page for the talk can be found &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=104076902990153"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Salam ;)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/462964950647049354-118972488354246631?l=reveriemalaya.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/feeds/118972488354246631/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/2010/11/forum-who-is-muhammad.html#comment-form' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/462964950647049354/posts/default/118972488354246631'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/462964950647049354/posts/default/118972488354246631'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/2010/11/forum-who-is-muhammad.html' title='Forum: Who is Muhammad?'/><author><name>Faiez Ali</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09700662927927427081</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-462964950647049354.post-5710252590746226387</id><published>2010-11-17T08:25:00.003+08:00</published><updated>2010-11-17T09:24:03.779+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri diari'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri emo'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri diari Coventry'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri pemberitahuan'/><title type='text'>The day when we smile humourlessly,</title><content type='html'>Frosting grass upon the terrain,&lt;div&gt;murky haze and somber weather,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;accompanying blow of frigid wind,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;gives a chill and shrilling pressure,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Like an omen it's telling us,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;a great loss of such a loving heart,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;in a split second it just came,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;only another to destroy,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Oh this world and all the happening,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;it's hard to see them as plain just,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;but as it is to be obeyed,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;as nothing can amend faith,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;lest for one and that's we pray,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;for rest in peace we hope he may.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;EidulAdha came bringing history lessons of our two prophets to believers.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;EidulAdha came bringing mournful news to a friend of mine.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;This EidulAdha is the day when we smile humourlessly.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Al-Fatihah for Uncle Mohamad Rasidi, son of his mother Mek Stawar.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/462964950647049354-5710252590746226387?l=reveriemalaya.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/feeds/5710252590746226387/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/2010/11/day-when-we-smile-humourlessly.html#comment-form' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/462964950647049354/posts/default/5710252590746226387'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/462964950647049354/posts/default/5710252590746226387'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/2010/11/day-when-we-smile-humourlessly.html' title='The day when we smile humourlessly,'/><author><name>Faiez Ali</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09700662927927427081</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-462964950647049354.post-2127320009666205136</id><published>2010-11-15T07:11:00.004+08:00</published><updated>2010-11-15T07:39:09.786+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri pengalaman'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri diari UK'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri diari'/><title type='text'>A night at Khairul's in Highbury</title><content type='html'>I went to London last weekend to attend a UKEC interview for junior executive position which were described as being the internship process for UKEC. The role of junior exec were also described as being the 'balaci' for other higher execs in UKEC by one of my friends. Well, with being the 'balaci' then only you'll know the true nature of its execution right? ;) That's one of the reason why I decided to go for the post. I was asked, you already have PROJEK KALSOM in hands, why junior executive? Apart from wanting to learn how UKEC does things, I have personal reasons for this. Well I didn't know of UKEC in my first year. Had I known, I would have gone for it. So, this is to compensate for my 'sort of loss' in my first year. And this is basically like a challenge for myself. How far can I go. I believe, being a youth and ambitious, I might as well test myself in this manner. Having 3 organisations to juggle while at the same time to fulfill my responsibility as a scholar here is personal ambition I would say. I believe I can do it, this is the test to check my belief.&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;As the title suggests, I was welcomed by Khairul Ariffin and Yan. Khairul, a young lad, ambitious too and has all the positiveness to try and change this world to a better place. He's helping with PROJEK KALSOM's video and publicity voluntarily. Yan, a very unique lady. She's the kind of lady I would expect to meet in an 'Alice in the Wonderland' type of story. Now don't ask me why would I described her in such a way, I can't explain, I just do.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;They welcomed me with a meal, fish and chips, claimed to be 'the best in the world' by Yan. And after tasting it, I would say very much the same. At least the best fish and chips I've ever tasted. Then we went to Khairul's place, an awesome place in the old former Arsenal's Highbury stadium. Spent a night there where we talked about many stuffs ranging from Malaysian political scene until the reform in education as proposed by &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iG9CE55wbtY"&gt;Sir Ken Robinson&lt;/a&gt;. Which was a former lecturer in Warwick Unversity. Exchanged books ranging from 'A Rebel's guide to Marxism' to political economics books suggested by Yan i.e. Freakonomics which I have yet to be able to find and read. The awesome thing was, I received a copy of the Inception script written by Christopher Nolan himself. Khairul also taught me some tips in script-writing accompanied by the awesome 'Hummingbird Bakery Cupcake - Red Velvet' and 'Yan's Homemade Lasagne'. In the morning we ate breakfast and off I go for UKEC interview. There were a 'London Jazz Festival' that saturday evening which I missed. Entirely because I didn't know of it and had bought a fixed return ticket to Coventry at 5.43pm. Darn! Must try to go next year if I have the chance. Before boarding my train, I had another go on the fish and chips meal.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;All in all, arrived in Coventry at 6 something pm with a soar feet, the new pair of shoes is yet to fit in well with my feet, but satisfied. Had I decided not to go for UKEC interview, I can never know how the process looks like and didn't get the chance to learn the work of Sir Ken Robinson and other discreet stuffs which are not to be said here.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Cheers and Salam! ;)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/462964950647049354-2127320009666205136?l=reveriemalaya.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/feeds/2127320009666205136/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/2010/11/night-at-khairuls-in-highbury.html#comment-form' title='7 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/462964950647049354/posts/default/2127320009666205136'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/462964950647049354/posts/default/2127320009666205136'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/2010/11/night-at-khairuls-in-highbury.html' title='A night at Khairul&apos;s in Highbury'/><author><name>Faiez Ali</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09700662927927427081</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>7</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-462964950647049354.post-7353468193047797138</id><published>2010-11-14T04:12:00.003+08:00</published><updated>2010-11-14T04:42:00.736+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri pendapat'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri perah otak'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri diari Coventry'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri pemberitahuan'/><title type='text'>Talk and Dicussion: Revolutionary ideas of Karl Marx</title><content type='html'>I managed to take part in a one and a half hour discussion held by 'the socialist workers' movement in my university yesterday 12th of Nov 2011. They discussed Marx and Engel ideas of Socialist Revolution in the meet. &lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;To briefly share, the idea of Marxist revolution came about after the birth of the new capitalist system. Capitalist system being the market-driven economic system. Before capitalism, people lived in the era of Feudalism where the living conditions were hard. Only a small group of people managed to live good life by suppressing the majority 'peasants'. This lead to the revolution of Market-driven economic system which was thought as the saviour which can bring people out of their misery of being enslave. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;A large part of this system was written in 'Wealth of Nations' a book by Adam Smith. So at first, people thought capitalism can save them from the iron grip of feudalism. But Marx and Engel thought differently. They see capitalism as a new sign of oppression in a different way compared to Feudalism. Kings, barons were replaced by another line-up of oppressor who took opportunity of the new system to enslave the mass. People didn't have to work for the kings anymore but they had to 'cash in' their labour force, their sweats and energies in order to live. Everything is profit-driven. Production goes mass until it overcome the need. The market keeps expanding but the question is, to what extend? Marx said capitalism is a system that can only hold until a time before it exploded. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Therefore Marx suggested the idea of Communism and Proletarian Dictatorship which were largely misinterpreted. If we come across the word communist and dictatorship, we will think of the cruelty and mass killing in history. We will think of Stalin, communist in Malaya and etc. Whereares, Marx and Engels ideas are different. They believe that power to be in the hands of workers, the mass or as they call it, the proletariats. They said having someone to decide for the fate of the mass (current existing system of democracy) is not democracy at all.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;However to criticise the approach of Marxists, I would say that Marx and Engel did not offer solid foundation of Proletarian Dictatorship type of administration. By saying that people take charge and have the power, we can ask few questions that are oftenly failed to be answered clearly by the Marxists. What kind of power? Who's in charge? What kind of governance is proletarian dictatorship?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Marxists also said they believe in equal opportunity for all. Not that I don't. But to be realistic, the idea of equal opportunity is very idealistic in a sense that it is impossible to be realized. At least not until humans learn to not be selfish and put others first before ourselves.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;To add to the counter-arguments towards Marxism, I believe Communism and Proletarian Dictatorship lacks competition. If people get paid similarly. No extra effort is needed to better oneself. Hence we will lack healthy competition. Without healthy competition, motivation is killed. Therefore, what is the need to sacrifice our time to studying medicine for at least 6 years if what we get is the same as those who don't even put their effort to better themselves?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Lastly, it is believed human in nature is egoistic, selfish and individualistic, at least to some extent. With all these characteristics of humans, communism and proletarian dictatorship are impossible to be achieved as to achieve them, we will need a collectivist approach. And collectivist approach is often doomed by the existence of egosim, selfishness and individualism.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;To conclude, from the interesting discussion we had. I personally believed what we need in the system now is for Marxist and Socialist to fight and find ways to improvise Capitalism until the time where Capitalism and Socialism can co-exist side by side. It is proven now that we can't have a 100% capitalist system but we can never have a 100 socialism system too. Therefore what we need is a collaboration between the two so that by compromising, we can reach to a conclusion where a new and refresh market system is born.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;*Note: The discussion is done not from a religious point of view.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Selamat.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/462964950647049354-7353468193047797138?l=reveriemalaya.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/feeds/7353468193047797138/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/2010/11/talk-and-dicussion-revolutionary-ideas.html#comment-form' title='6 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/462964950647049354/posts/default/7353468193047797138'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/462964950647049354/posts/default/7353468193047797138'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/2010/11/talk-and-dicussion-revolutionary-ideas.html' title='Talk and Dicussion: Revolutionary ideas of Karl Marx'/><author><name>Faiez Ali</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09700662927927427081</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>6</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-462964950647049354.post-1742583011047198121</id><published>2010-11-10T20:17:00.002+08:00</published><updated>2010-11-10T20:47:32.860+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri politik'/><title type='text'>Talk by YB Nik Nazmi of Seri Setia at Warwick</title><content type='html'>A forum was co-hosted by Kelab UMNO West Midlands and Malaysia Student Association of Warwick involving 2 speakers, YB Nik Nazmi Nik Ahmad (PKR Communication Director) and Farquar Haqqani (UKEC Chairman)&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;The topic was budget 2011 by the government and there were lots of criticism towards the budget in general. One of issues about budget 2011 that was brought up was Menara Warisan. Nik Nazmi told us the problem with this is that government shouldn't announced the mega project in budget 2011 because it involves PNB and not the government. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;The talk however progresses in the Q and A session where students ask questions that are PKR-related as to the issue of Zaid Ibrahim, the status of Anwar Ibrahim, manipulation of voting system in PKR and etc.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;As for the issue of Zaid Ibrahim, Nik Nazmi defended the party by saying that Zaid shouldn't be acting like he is. Nik Nazmi mentioned that Zaid failed to attend many party meetings and he feels that every reports or suggestions to better the party should been done in the party meeting closely. He further criticises Zaid as being non-collective by resorting to extreme solution by giving up all his position and criticising the party in public. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;As to the issue of voting manipulation Nik Nazmi came to defend the party by saying that it could happen only in isolated cases. Mustaffa Kamil Ayub, candidate for deputy presidential said that there were cases where ballots were sold to other members and this manipulate the voting process. Nik Nazmi said the colour of the ballots are changed every week and this make it harder for people to sell and buy ballots.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Nik Nazmi also stressed that PKR fight is more than 'putting Anwar in Putrajaya', Anwar Ibrahim as he said is only a symbol of injustice done in Malaysia. "If such thing can happen to No. 2 person in Malaysia, imagine what can happen to the commoners?" as said by Nik Nazmi. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Nik Nazmi pointed out, when asked the question of what is the stance for Pakatan Rakyat coalition towards the issue of gambling and alcoholism, that gambling and alcoholism should not be looked upon as the issue of religion only. It involves the threat to social condition in Malaysia. YB emphasised alcoholism and gambling should be tackled widely as it threaten the social condition of Malaysia and the Pakatan Rakyat believes that these problems must be tackled. The problem is the power of authorisation remains in the hand of our Federal Government thus making it harder for the Pakatan Rakyat governed states to stop alcoholism and gambling in their respective states. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;The Communication Director for PKR however failed to give a clear answer in regards to the question of what is the status of Anwar Ibrahim in the party and why is he more influential than the president, Wan Azizah, herself.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Personally, I agree to the reform in voting system by PKR where '1 man 1 vote' is introduced as this might help lessen money politics during party election. The talk by YB Nik Nazmi is somewhat agreeable to many extent as an example the problem of gambling and alcoholism. I believe our government should put more effort in reducing the selling of alcohol and restricting illegal gambling operations that are harmful especially to our youths. However, let's hope that this view is similarly shared by all party components in PR because from what I see, not much have been done in Pulau Pinang (DAP) to control alcoholism and illegal gambling compared to what is done in Selangor (PKR).&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;It is also a good sign to see that Malaysia is going forward to having a two-party system in our political scene as this will ensure healthy competition and gives rakyat the chance to choose which one is the best. Public will benefit more because government will need to do more rakyat-friendly stuffs to win over the people during election.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Ont he other hand, Barisan Nasional, particularly UMNO should take the rising movement of PR, especially PKR very seriously and start to 'berpijak di bumi yang nyata'. It's time to actively engage the people with UMNO. Stop the exclusivity of UMNO and attract interest especially from potential youths cause PR is doing their best to get the best fresh brains of Malaysia into their team. If the exclusive mentality and arrogance in UMNO are not leave behind, it is not impossible to see that one day the public might decide to give a chance to Pakatan Rakyat to have their seats in Putrajaya.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/462964950647049354-1742583011047198121?l=reveriemalaya.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/feeds/1742583011047198121/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/2010/11/talk-by-yb-nik-nazmi-of-seri-setia-at.html#comment-form' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/462964950647049354/posts/default/1742583011047198121'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/462964950647049354/posts/default/1742583011047198121'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/2010/11/talk-by-yb-nik-nazmi-of-seri-setia-at.html' title='Talk by YB Nik Nazmi of Seri Setia at Warwick'/><author><name>Faiez Ali</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09700662927927427081</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-462964950647049354.post-7375623445752928071</id><published>2010-11-08T09:33:00.003+08:00</published><updated>2010-11-08T09:45:01.771+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri diari'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri pemerhatian'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri pemberitahuan'/><title type='text'>An appeal to fellow Malaysians in UK and Eire</title><content type='html'>Being among the states that offer a cheap range of food and greener scenery in my previous roadtrip, Kedah and Perlis were quite memorable to me. Being in this part of the world which is around 20 hours of flight back to Malaysia, it's heart-breaking to learn that my fellow Malaysians are suffering from flood. It is also heartening to see that technology can bring us benefits when I saw this facebook event created by people whom two of them are my friends &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=105097999558725"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Again it is up to us to determine what kind of outcome that we want from something. If it's disastrous intention, we'll end up doing dishonourable things. Yet if what we intent to is of greater good, we can end up being like the kind people who created the facebook group and their team of fellow Malaysians whom although being far away from home, are all willing to look back and find out what is happening. And to find ways to contribute in anyway they can to help solve problems.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;The least I can do is to promote this noble action and the least you can do is spare some cash into their accounts. Details are as such: &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#CCCCCC;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; border-collapse: collapse; line-height: 16px; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#CCCCCC;"&gt;Please donate towards GALAKSI's floods response.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;UK Bank account;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#CCCCCC;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Name: MSMR&lt;br /&gt;Account Number: 28095568&lt;br /&gt;Sort code: 30-96-91&lt;br /&gt;Reference: KFEA&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ireland Bank Account;&lt;br /&gt;Name: MRAM&lt;br /&gt;Account Number : 72508064&lt;br /&gt;Sort code : 930121&lt;br /&gt;Reference: KFEA&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; border-collapse: collapse; line-height: 16px; "&gt;&lt;span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#CCCCCC;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; border-collapse: collapse; line-height: 16px; "&gt;&lt;span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#CCCCCC;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;I have no information of their Malaysian account but I know for sure people in Malaysia must be aware of this. Do help out in anyway we can. InsyaAllah, God bless our doings regardless of our religion, race or status because in the end it is the 'niat' that counts.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; border-collapse: collapse; line-height: 16px; "&gt;&lt;span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#CCCCCC;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; border-collapse: collapse; line-height: 16px; "&gt;&lt;span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#CCCCCC;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;Selamat.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"   style="font-family:'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;color:#CCCCCC;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; line-height: 16px; font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"   style="font-family:'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;color:#CCCCCC;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; line-height: 16px; font-size: medium;"&gt;Anak muda Malaysia,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"   style="font-family:'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;color:#CCCCCC;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; line-height: 16px; font-size: medium;"&gt;Reverie Malaya&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/462964950647049354-7375623445752928071?l=reveriemalaya.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/feeds/7375623445752928071/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/2010/11/appeal-to-fellow-malaysians-in-uk-and.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/462964950647049354/posts/default/7375623445752928071'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/462964950647049354/posts/default/7375623445752928071'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/2010/11/appeal-to-fellow-malaysians-in-uk-and.html' title='An appeal to fellow Malaysians in UK and Eire'/><author><name>Faiez Ali</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09700662927927427081</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-462964950647049354.post-2382211374649459773</id><published>2010-11-02T23:28:00.005+08:00</published><updated>2010-11-02T23:54:26.264+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri agama'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri diari Coventry'/><title type='text'>Review: Are Muslim being demonized in the West? by Mehdi Hassan</title><content type='html'>Salam to all&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;This talk was conducted last 28th Oct 2010 at H0.52 in Uni of Warwick. To find out more about the speaker you can google it up or click the link here -&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=157120754301402"&gt;x&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Well Mehdi Hassan managed to deliver the talk in a very interesting and yet informative way. Cracking jokes from time to time, I didn't feel bored. The good part is, the jokes were all related to the topics we were discussing.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Now, is Muslim being demonised in the West? Mehdi conducted a survey in UK at few places. Some statistics mentioned involving words that are always associated with Muslim or Islam in the media in the West are, Islamophobic, terrorist, bombs and etc. All of these words bring negative meaning to Islam and Muslim. I failed to register the exact statistics mentioned but Mehdi did said out loud the statistics to all of the audiences.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Next he told us about another experiment he did with his friends. They took newspaper headlines or articles that are negative on Islam or Muslim and bring it out to the public. They then changed the word Islam with other 'minority group' words such as, Jews, Hindus, Blacks, Negros etc etc. They showed this to the public and watched and recorded how they responded and there were outraged and lots of angriness in the public when they showed this 'altered and changed' articles. After that, they show the original article with the word Islam/ Muslim on it to the enraged public and their response were like, "Oh really. this is normal." and suddenly all the outrage and anger were gone. This shows the double-standard and difference mentality of the public in the West towards negative stories about Islam and negative stories about other minority groups.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Mehdi Hassan also pointed out that almost all negative stories about islam printed by the media here were untrue and exaggerated. There were quite a number of summons won by Muslims when they fined the media for telling untrue stories. One interesting case was when the media reported "Muslim bus driver asks passengers to go out of his bus because he wants to pray." Well, the real situation behind this issue was the Muslim bus driver was told to stop as his manager wants to transfer the passenger in his bus to another bus because of some technical problems. While the transferring process goes on, the bus driver decided to perform solat on the bus as he has some free time and it is time to pray. This was then reported by a media saying that some sort of evil muslim tries to get rid of everyone, to pray.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;After his speeches, some Q and A session was opened up to the floor with many interesting questions asked. Mehdi was asked what should we do being Muslims to face this demonisation problem in the West? He gave quite a resonable answer. He said Muslims should train ourselves not only spiritually but also to become people who are academically and socially capable of facing the public and speaking on behalf of Islam. We need more scholars and people who can answer all the accusation being thrown to us by others. We need people who can educate the public about the real value of Islam. Hence I urge all of us to equip ourselves and improvise so that we can become soldiers of Allah and fight through the way of Islam. In this modernise world, words and letters are stronger than swords thus we need to be intelligent, wise and capable to efficiently fight for the cause of Islam.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Good thing about this talk is, there were quite a number of non-muslims attending the talk too. May all of us benefited from the talk and this review.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Selamat.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/462964950647049354-2382211374649459773?l=reveriemalaya.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/feeds/2382211374649459773/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/2010/11/review-are-muslim-being-demonized-in.html#comment-form' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/462964950647049354/posts/default/2382211374649459773'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/462964950647049354/posts/default/2382211374649459773'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/2010/11/review-are-muslim-being-demonized-in.html' title='Review: Are Muslim being demonized in the West? by Mehdi Hassan'/><author><name>reverie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13969396181991597145</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Kcq32haJy4c/TBhKgGS6KdI/AAAAAAAAAIw/ZxNqYWeNMuY/S220/DSC_8358.jpg'/></author><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-462964950647049354.post-8970363663379305244</id><published>2010-10-28T05:27:00.003+08:00</published><updated>2010-10-28T05:34:48.442+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri pemberitahuan'/><title type='text'>Projek Kalsom 17 "One Pound Drive"</title><content type='html'>&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"   style="font-family:'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#CCCCCC;"&gt;The Projek Kalsom "One Pound Donation Drive" (Online) has been launched! Please, we need generous people such as you to continue to support this charitable cause. Please make your donations to:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#CCCCCC;"&gt;Name : Projek Kalsom&lt;br /&gt;Sort Code : 40-18-17&lt;br /&gt;Account Number : 74048938&lt;br /&gt;HSBC Bank Plc, 55 Corporation Street, Coventry CV1 1GX&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#CCCCCC;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thank you so much for your kindness and generosity; and if you could spread the word to your family and friends to support this&lt;br /&gt;charitable cause, that would be AWESOME! :D&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"   style="font-family:'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#CCCCCC;"&gt;The paragraphs above were written by Projek Kalsom 17 Director, a young and ambitous Malaysian lady currently studying in Bristol. Well, One pound drive is a donation campaign for Projek Kalsom. Those of you who don't know what's Projek Kalsom, kindly refer to www.projek-kalsom.com ;)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"   style="font-family:'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#CCCCCC;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"   style="font-family:'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:13px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#CCCCCC;"&gt;We need all cents and coins you can spare for Projek Kalsom and you can help this noble cause through our One Pound Drive. All of the funds raised will be used for Projek Kalsom 17 and future Projek Kalsoms expenditure in terms of books, shirts, transportation and other fees. All of the money will benefit Malaysian youths involve in this project.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"   style="font-family:'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:13px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#CCCCCC;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"   style="font-family:'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:13px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#CCCCCC;"&gt;Folks, donating can never be easier! Donate Online now! ;)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"   style="font-family:'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:13px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#CCCCCC;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"   style="font-family:'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:13px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#CCCCCC;"&gt;Yours sincerely,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"   style="font-family:'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:13px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#CCCCCC;"&gt;Reverie Malaya&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/462964950647049354-8970363663379305244?l=reveriemalaya.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/feeds/8970363663379305244/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/2010/10/projek-kalsom-17-one-pound-drive.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/462964950647049354/posts/default/8970363663379305244'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/462964950647049354/posts/default/8970363663379305244'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/2010/10/projek-kalsom-17-one-pound-drive.html' title='Projek Kalsom 17 &quot;One Pound Drive&quot;'/><author><name>reverie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13969396181991597145</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Kcq32haJy4c/TBhKgGS6KdI/AAAAAAAAAIw/ZxNqYWeNMuY/S220/DSC_8358.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-462964950647049354.post-7992803778874217766</id><published>2010-10-24T01:52:00.003+08:00</published><updated>2010-10-24T01:53:57.038+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri pemberitahuan'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri musika'/><title type='text'>Belum mula lagi 'Demam Paramore' di Birmingham</title><content type='html'>Datang sudah cerita 'Mogwai' pada 24 Februari 2011 akan datang.&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;=)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/462964950647049354-7992803778874217766?l=reveriemalaya.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/feeds/7992803778874217766/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/2010/10/belum-mula-lagi-demam-paramore-di.html#comment-form' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/462964950647049354/posts/default/7992803778874217766'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/462964950647049354/posts/default/7992803778874217766'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/2010/10/belum-mula-lagi-demam-paramore-di.html' title='Belum mula lagi &apos;Demam Paramore&apos; di Birmingham'/><author><name>reverie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13969396181991597145</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Kcq32haJy4c/TBhKgGS6KdI/AAAAAAAAAIw/ZxNqYWeNMuY/S220/DSC_8358.jpg'/></author><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-462964950647049354.post-2537421884033833563</id><published>2010-10-19T02:55:00.005+08:00</published><updated>2010-10-19T03:30:24.058+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri buka minda'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri budaya'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri pemerhatian'/><title type='text'>Malaysians common ground</title><content type='html'>Salam.&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;To address the issue of unity among Malaysia's multi-racial community we need to be able to identify the differences in Malaysia. Malaysians are always bombarded with the ideology of differences in race in Malaysia. As for example there are Malays, Chinese, Indians and other races and each race has their own rights to protect. Always in the  newspaper the issue of Malay Special Rights and Privileges being played upon to enrage the Malay population. Not forgetting the historical Mei 1969 that can't never be forgotten. Other than these, the issue of religions are circulating from time to time as well to attract the attention of Malaysians that "Hey! You are a Malay and Muslim, and you are entirely different than a Chinese, Christian or an Indian Hindu." &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Well as for me, after identifying the root of all of these differences, we need to look further and deeper into a more serious issue other than our physical differences in which none of us can do anything about it! Like what the late Tun Razak said after the 13 Mei tragedy, "the main issue for this tragedy is economic differences." And guess what, it is still the issue of the century in regards to Malaysian unity. This issue never changes!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;After working out the 'fake' and 'can't do anything about it' differences between us Malaysians and learning the fact that since more than 50 years ago, economic differences have always been the root of the problem for us Malaysians to achieve unity, then we'll figure out what's our common ground. And it is simple, our common ground is economy.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Gathering as Malays won't do much difference because Malays are Malays. I respect Malays special privileges cause it's written in the constitution since the beginning of Malaysia. And I don't think the real issue is Malay privileges. If we want to talk about privileges, then let's do it openly and discuss on why should we have a number of different types of schools under our education ministry? What's the need to Chinese type school and Indian type school when we can all have one united Malaysian school and at the same time have Mandarin and Tamil taught as elective subjects? Why should we give privileges to these type of school? I don't really like talking about this but we shouldn't let our eyes and anger get focused on these 'small-small' issues but to set on the main, big and the only issue! The income gap between classes!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Income gap is across the race boundary, even if you're a Malay or Indian or of Iban ancestory, if you own more than 10k per month, all of you will still fall under the 'high income' class or the upper class. And even if you're a chinese or Indian, if you own only Rm500 per month then you falls into the low income or lower class. Hence what should we, as Malaysians talk about is this income gap. The need for our administration to concentrate more on bridging the income gap between our classes. This is because the larger the income gap gets, it means more trouble. Certainly we don't want only a small group of people or capitalist organisations getting richer and richer and let me tell you, this group of people don't even care whether they're Chinese, Malay or Indians. They will be satisfied as long as the money keeps coming in. At the end, it is us, the majority people that keep on fighting about races, colour differences, eating habits and stuffs. Well news for the Malay totok, if we address the issue from the income gap perspective, we will be doing the poor people a favour in helping them gain more income to go through daily lifes and let me ask you. In Malaysia, which race made up the majority of people from lower class? I bet even a primary school pupil can answer that.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Hence after all this discussion, will you still naively think that our problems are only caused by differences in races, skin colours and eating habits?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Selamat.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/462964950647049354-2537421884033833563?l=reveriemalaya.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/feeds/2537421884033833563/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/2010/10/malaysians-common-ground.html#comment-form' title='6 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/462964950647049354/posts/default/2537421884033833563'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/462964950647049354/posts/default/2537421884033833563'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/2010/10/malaysians-common-ground.html' title='Malaysians common ground'/><author><name>reverie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13969396181991597145</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Kcq32haJy4c/TBhKgGS6KdI/AAAAAAAAAIw/ZxNqYWeNMuY/S220/DSC_8358.jpg'/></author><thr:total>6</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-462964950647049354.post-8225324646171528634</id><published>2010-10-17T03:13:00.004+08:00</published><updated>2010-10-17T04:05:07.775+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri pendapat'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri perah otak'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri buka minda'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri budaya'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri pemerhatian'/><title type='text'>Jangan kekalkan budaya maktab!</title><content type='html'>Salam.&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Tersentuh aku untuk menulis permasalahan tentang pemikiran atau mentality pemikiran maktab terutamanya bagi mahasiswa-mahasiswi berkelulusan maktab. Dalam skop ini biar aku kupas budaya maktab berdasarkan pengalaman selama 2 tahun di Maktab atau namanya sekarang Institut Perguruan. Maktab yang mana sebelum ini selalunya dipandang lebih lekeh berbanding universiti kerana tidak berkelayakan untuk mengeluarkan kelulusan bertahap ijazah. Perkara ini sudah semakin berubah dengan rata-rata maktab-maktab mengalami transformasi dimana nama maktab diubah kepada Institut Perguruan dengan beberapa penambah-baikan yang positif antaranya seperti Institut Perguruan(IP) sudah berkelayakan untuk mengeluarkan kelulusan bertaraf ijazah. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Namun apa yang kita alami sekarang ni adalah masalah pemikiran dimana mentaliti pemikiran kebanyakan mahasiswa itu masih lagi ditahap maktab. Bergelar mahasiswa bermakna kita adalah contoh cemerlang didalam akademik, sosial, kepimpinan dan kerohanian kerana untuk bergelar seorang mahasiswa, pelajar perlu melepasi had-had minimum yang ditetapkan dalam penilaian ujian. Namun begitu antara masalah utama bagi pelajar maktab adalah dari segi pendidikan. Sebagai bakal pendidik yang akan melahirkan lebih ramai golongan berpendidikan dan bersosial tinggi, mahasiswa IP perlulah lebih berdaya saing dan sentiasa mencari peluang memperbaiki diri terutamanya dalam pembelajaran. Namun situasi yang kita alami sekarang adalah amat berbeza. Syllabus pembelajaran yang tidak terlalu menekan, sistem peperiksaan dan sistem penilaian kerja kursus yang longgar telah sedikit sebanyak mencacatkan kebolehan pelajar IP untuk menjadi seorang guru yang bukan saja lebih berilmu malah lebih berdisiplin. Apa nak kata sekiranya sebelum peperiksaan, ada bocor skema jawapan kepada pelajar-pelajar IP? Juga kerja kursus yang longgar dan selalu berlaku dimana pelajar setakat copy &amp;amp; paste kerja pelajar lama. Apakah imej guru yang kita cuba sampaikan disini? Bagaimana kita nak melahirkan guru yang matang dan berdisiplin sekiranya di peringkat pengajaran sebegini sudah tiada sistem untuk mendisiplinkan diri.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Seterusnya permasalahan dari segi sosial. Bagi aku IP adalah satu institusi yang besar kerana terdapat banyak IP di seluruh negara. Sama seperti UiTM. Namun kelebihan ini tidak berjaya dimanipulasi oleh rata-rata pemimpin IP yang cuma berfikir setakat untuk 'One term' atau berfikiran lokal dan tidak nasional. Tugas pemimpin IP Ipoh tidak tertakluk kepada hubungan dengan HEP atau masalah lokal seperti siapa bermain mercun dan melanggar peraturan didalam IP sahaja. Tetapi tugas ini perlu diperkembangkan kepada perhubungan yang proaktif bersama IP-IP lain, malahan agensi-agensi pendidikan dan kerajaan yang lain. Banyak yang kita mampu capai sekiranya pemimpin berjiwa besar dan berfikiran jauh. Hubungan antara semua IP berkebolehan untuk mewujudkan satu jawatankuasa penghubung antara semua IP dimana semua IP didalam Malaysia boleh melaksanakan lebih aktiviti bersama diperingkat nasional yang mampu memanfaatkan seluruh warga bakal pendidik. Lihat contoh Malaysian Student Leader Summit (MSLS) yang dianjurkan oleh United Kingdom Eire Council (UKEC) di Malaysia sewaktu cuti summer tempohari. Bagaimana berbezanya pelaksanaan aktiviti bagi organisasi pelajar UK dan organisasi pelajar IP walhal yang menghasilkan tetap pelajar dan diperingkat yang sama iaitu peringkat pembelajaran ijazah. Malah organisasi IP satu Malaysia jika dapat dihasilkan juga mampu menghasilkan satu newsletter dimana para mahasiswa IP boleh bersama turut terlibat untuk berbincang dan bertukar pendapat soal isu semasa terutamanya pendidikan didalam negara. Ini akan lebih melahirkan mahasiswa IP yang lebih kritikal dan mengikut perkembangan semasa pendidikan negara seterusnya mewujudkan platform penyatuan bagi semua mahasiswa IP dan disinilah baru kita dapat lihat semua bakat-bakat yang terpendam dalam mahasiswa-mahasiswi IP menonjol. Ini semua cadangan rasional dan plausible cuma memerlukan mereka yang lebih berwibawa untuk memrealisasikannya.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Nama Maktab atau Institut tidak memberikan apa-apa kelebihan sebenarnya. IP hanyalah satu perubahan kosmetik dan artificial tetapi perubahan sebenar datangnya dari dalam diri mahasiswa sekalian. Jika apa yang kita ingin capai adalah sesuatu yang besar dan memanfaatkan komuniti, kita pasti menjumpai laluan untuk merealisasikannya. Tetapi jika apa yang kita mahu adalah makan elaun setiap bulan selama 5 tahun dengan kaedah pembelajaran longgar yang penuh dengan plagiarism, peniruan dan fleksibiliti negatif yang membunuh reputasi, maka itu yang akan kita perolehi. Dan sudah pasti hasil akhir, produk guru yang terhasil juga berbeza, berdasarkan dengan apa yang kita lalui sepanjang tempoh pembelajaran.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Maka, apa yang aku nak seru adalah satu semangat dalam diri kita. Sudah lama maktab dipandang lekeh berbanding universiti dan ini semua terjadi adalah kerana ketidak efisiensi kita dalam bidang pembelajaran dan sosial. Sampai bila kita mahu bepegang kepada mentaliti senior dan junior? Sampai bila kita setakat mahu menyalak kepada sesuatu yang lain daripada norma walhal perkara itu merupakan sesuatu yang positif. Sampai bila kita mahu bermentaliti cikgu harus bersyukur dengan apa yang ada. We should demand what we need, and dismiss what is wrong! Semua ini untuk mencapai kemajuan diri. Sampai bila mahasiswa cuma bersuara didalam perkarangan maktab? Sudah sampai masa sekarang warga maktab bangkit, dan tunjukkan yang kita benar-benar layak digelar Institut Perguruan, layak berdiri sebaris dengan MPP Universiti-universiti diserata Malaysia. Tunjukkan dengan apa yang kita lakukan dan hasilkan daripada pemikiran yang lebih matang dan jauh. Tidak mustahil satu hari nanti organisasi IP seluruh Malaysia mampu mengadakan konferens dengan bakal-bakal pendidik dari negara-negara jiran untuk berbincang dan bertukar pendapat.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Dan yang pasti, akan ada golongan yang memandang artikel ini sebagai bersifat angkuh, memperlekehkannya, tapi apa yang aku nak sampaikan cuma penghayatan dan poin-poin yang aku rasakan relevan, tak lebih daripada itu. Yang baik kita belajar, yang buruk kita tolak tepi. Bagi yang menolak dan memperlekehkan, abaikan, dalam satu perjalanan pasti ada liku-liku dan batu-batu yang menghalang tetapi semuanya akan dilupakan sebaik saja kita sampai ke destinasi kita. Bak kata seorang pensyarah Institut Perguruan yang tak akan aku lupa, "Aim for the sky. If we fall, we'll fall among the stars." Jika tidak, tak usah melantun sekiranya orang melabel mahasiswa IP sebagai tidak berkualiti kerana itulah yang kita hasilkan selama ini didalam sistem yang tidak kompetitif. To earn something, we have to sacrifice. To reach our destination, we need to take our first step. If the step is not taken now, then when will we start?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Selamat.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Nota ringkas:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;* UKEC merupakan kesatuan yang terdiri daripada semua Malaysian Society di seluruh UK yang mana semua presiden Malaysian Society yang selalunya terdiri daripada pelajar-pelajar undergraduate berkumpul dibawah payung UKEC.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;** Antara aktiviti besar untuk UKEC adalah MSLS, Graduan Career Fair dan Projek Kalsom.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/462964950647049354-8225324646171528634?l=reveriemalaya.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/feeds/8225324646171528634/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/2010/10/jangan-kekalkan-budaya-maktab.html#comment-form' title='23 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/462964950647049354/posts/default/8225324646171528634'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/462964950647049354/posts/default/8225324646171528634'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/2010/10/jangan-kekalkan-budaya-maktab.html' title='Jangan kekalkan budaya maktab!'/><author><name>reverie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13969396181991597145</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Kcq32haJy4c/TBhKgGS6KdI/AAAAAAAAAIw/ZxNqYWeNMuY/S220/DSC_8358.jpg'/></author><thr:total>23</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-462964950647049354.post-8479582298122648878</id><published>2010-10-13T15:53:00.004+08:00</published><updated>2010-10-13T16:08:11.825+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri pendapat'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri buka minda'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri politik'/><title type='text'>Malays common ground</title><content type='html'>The malays have many differences. This is true. Differences in income gap, culture between those who lives in a traditional village and those living in big city, differences in terms of ideologies, in terms of political views and much more. However, what we must do to become a united group of people is find a common ground, a uniting platform between us. If we manage to find this, we should be able to create a compromising uniteness between all different groups that we have despite being in the same 'kind' of people. And this common platform that I can see as working is Islam. &lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Talking on a much general basis, Malays have always been associated with Islam, plainly speaking Malay is Islam. Although there are some exceptional cases where there are Malays who believes in other religions and beliefs system especially Christianity, the common conception of being Malay is being a Muslim. This argument however cannot put down the other distracting facts that not all 'Muslim' Malays are really practicing and embracing Islam. To put this in simpler words, Islam have grown to become only like a custom and traditional rituals to some Muslims (not all, there are quite a significant number of Muslims who really embrace and practice Islam as a way of life according to Al-Quran and Sunnah) This situation is really disturbing. Hence I believe if we can achieve this common ground together and believe in it, we should be able to set aside other differences and concentrate on one thing to work on as a united community. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;To achieve this is not easy. It involves participation and willingness from all kind of groups consisting Malays in Malaysia. But the most important thing I feel that needs to be addressed to realize this issue is for the Malay leaders to really preach and practice and understand the value of Islam and acknowledge it as having wider responsibility other than only being traditional customs and then for other Malays to help and provide guidance in order to establish this idea in a gradual process. Being separated and opposing each other will not work but uniting as one entity will help to preserve our value, belief system and lastly promote what's important to us all, and that is Islam.&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;*Now what's your take on this?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Selamat.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/462964950647049354-8479582298122648878?l=reveriemalaya.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/feeds/8479582298122648878/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/2010/10/malays-common-ground.html#comment-form' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/462964950647049354/posts/default/8479582298122648878'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/462964950647049354/posts/default/8479582298122648878'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/2010/10/malays-common-ground.html' title='Malays common ground'/><author><name>reverie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13969396181991597145</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Kcq32haJy4c/TBhKgGS6KdI/AAAAAAAAAIw/ZxNqYWeNMuY/S220/DSC_8358.jpg'/></author><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-462964950647049354.post-6917509399815982304</id><published>2010-10-09T04:10:00.003+08:00</published><updated>2010-10-09T04:24:39.717+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri buka minda'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri politik'/><title type='text'>Politik diMalaysia dan persoalan</title><content type='html'>Permainan politik diMalaysia masih tak surut-surut dengan pelbagai lagi isu yang dimainkan oleh kedua-dua pihak. Daripada isu wang ehsan bersumberkan hasil perjudian sehinggalah ke isu majlis jamuan hariraya diganggu polis. Sebagai anak muda, apa yang aku maukan adalah guarantee dari barisan yang akan memegang tampuk kepimpinan setelah pilihanraya akan datang. &lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Jika itu ialah Barisan Nasional ataupun UMNO, persoalannya adalah sejauh mana masalah rasuah akan terus cuba diatasi, sejauh mana implementasi dasar ekonomi yang efektif kearah merapatkan jurang pendapatan dapat dilaksanakan, sejauh manakah demokrasi terpimpin secara adil dan telus dapat dihasilkan serta sejauh manakah keberkesanan konsep 1Malaysia dan langkah yang diambil untuk menjayakan konsep itu?&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Jika itu ialah Pakatan Rakyat, persoalannya adalah sejauh mana pakatan boleh memastikan masalah rasuah tidak akan timbul sepertimana yang diperjuangkan oleh rata-rata ahli, sejauh mana kestabilan politik terutama dari segi perkauman dapat dibina dan dikekalkan, sejauh manakah kebebasan yang dilaung-laungkan oleh pakatan itu? adakah ianya sebebas-bebasnya atau masih tetap terkawal secara adil (adakah Malaysia sudah bersedia untuk kebebasan penuh?), sejauh manakah unity dapat diketengahkan dan dicapai melalui pelaksanaan polisi baru, sejauh mana bersedianya barisan kepimpinan pakatan rakyat untuk meneraju Malaysia, sejauh mana akan terkikisnya jurang pendapatan antara yang susah dengan yang senang serta persoalan yang aku anggap paling kritikal, sejauh manakah pengaruh 'funder' parti setelah pilihanraya akan mempengaruhi pembuatan polisi serta keterbukaan tender kerajaan, serta adakah kronisme akan tetap diamalkan?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Politics will be politics.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Selamat.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/462964950647049354-6917509399815982304?l=reveriemalaya.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/feeds/6917509399815982304/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/2010/10/politik-dimalaysia-dan-persoalan.html#comment-form' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/462964950647049354/posts/default/6917509399815982304'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/462964950647049354/posts/default/6917509399815982304'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/2010/10/politik-dimalaysia-dan-persoalan.html' title='Politik diMalaysia dan persoalan'/><author><name>reverie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13969396181991597145</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Kcq32haJy4c/TBhKgGS6KdI/AAAAAAAAAIw/ZxNqYWeNMuY/S220/DSC_8358.jpg'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-462964950647049354.post-8885409077361808364</id><published>2010-10-07T03:27:00.002+08:00</published><updated>2010-10-07T03:35:35.064+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri diari Coventry'/><title type='text'>Update dari Coventry</title><content type='html'>Cuaca yang baik-baik setakat ini dengan beberapa hari yang sunny dipayungi awan biru megah berarak. Biar aku nikmati hari panas ni sebelum kesejukan datang melanda menusuk sehingga ke tulang.&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Coventry masih coventry. Warwick masih lagi warwick. Dimeriahkan lagi dengan kehadiran lebih 50 orang pelajar baru dari Ipoh. Selamat datang dan selamat bergembira sepanjang seminggu cuti ini sebelum mula belajar. Jangan risau, tahun pertama tak masuk dalam keputusan akhir kelak.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Politik yang agak stabil di Warwick kecuali untuk beberapa hal yang sebenarnya agak menyedihkan. Berdoa supaya semua berjalan lancar dan yang terbaik dapat buat kami.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Mendapat berita baik untuk Projek Kalsom akan datang. Alhamdulillah.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Pemulaan pelajaran yang baik, cepat dan mudah difahami berserta para pensyarah yang baik-baik belaka. Semoga berterusan dan berkekalan.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Permulaan perancangan aktiviti-aktiviti tahunan yang boleh dikira berjalan lancar. Semoga lebih banyak idea hadir dan aktiviti yang lebih baik, besar dan bermanfaat dapat dilaksanakan.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;All is well. Permulaan yang baik untuk satu tahun pembelajaran yang baik. Semoga bersama mendapat manfaat dan sokong-menyokong antara satu sama lain. Tak rugi apa pun untuk berkawan.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Selamat. ;)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/462964950647049354-8885409077361808364?l=reveriemalaya.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/feeds/8885409077361808364/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/2010/10/update-dari-coventry.html#comment-form' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/462964950647049354/posts/default/8885409077361808364'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/462964950647049354/posts/default/8885409077361808364'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/2010/10/update-dari-coventry.html' title='Update dari Coventry'/><author><name>reverie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13969396181991597145</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Kcq32haJy4c/TBhKgGS6KdI/AAAAAAAAAIw/ZxNqYWeNMuY/S220/DSC_8358.jpg'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-462964950647049354.post-2176877334419448679</id><published>2010-10-03T06:20:00.004+08:00</published><updated>2010-10-03T06:28:48.924+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri pendapat'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri emo'/><title type='text'>A personal letter to Tun Dr. Mahathir.</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://agendadaily.com/cms/content.jsp?id=com.tms.cms.article.Article_6c3cfaa4-7f000010-1d956ad0-bca1f6ae"&gt;Tun Mahathir dimasukkan ke hospital di Melbourne kerana jangkitan kuman.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Upon hearing this news I was strucked by concern and fear. Fear of what? Of losing such a great mind and man which until now I believe, none in our beloved Malaysia is able surpass. I know that despite all the names they called you and all the slanders that have been circulating around, there are many more people who will be there to support you, as how you've been supporting Malaysia and especially the Malay community in all these years. You are a top class leader, a leader of your own class and we are lucky to have such a spirited leader like yourself. I pray for your fate and health. You are as what many describe you as the father of us, the Malaysians.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/462964950647049354-2176877334419448679?l=reveriemalaya.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/feeds/2176877334419448679/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/2010/10/personal-letter-to-tun-dr-mahathir.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/462964950647049354/posts/default/2176877334419448679'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/462964950647049354/posts/default/2176877334419448679'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/2010/10/personal-letter-to-tun-dr-mahathir.html' title='A personal letter to Tun Dr. Mahathir.'/><author><name>reverie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13969396181991597145</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Kcq32haJy4c/TBhKgGS6KdI/AAAAAAAAAIw/ZxNqYWeNMuY/S220/DSC_8358.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-462964950647049354.post-4950429465573442535</id><published>2010-10-02T23:35:00.005+08:00</published><updated>2010-10-02T23:47:20.108+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri pengalaman'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri pemerhatian'/><title type='text'>Paths, decisions and destiny</title><content type='html'>In this part of life's full journey, here is where we'll always meet the paths to our destiny. People said sometimes we are destined to do what we do. Yet, I'm more pleased to believe that it is us who choose our own paths to our own destiny.&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;From what I've learnt so far, I can see that many teenagers are actually not ready to face the fight they will have to one day. Life's a fight and yes it's true. It's just that not many people recognize life as a fight. At least when we're out of our comfort zone, it's like a battlefield for us, to create another comfort zone again. Yet, teens do not know of this. Do not know of the opportunities they're gonna miss if they do not engage themselves fully in this fight or if they're not ready.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;At the end of the day, it's gonna be just you and yourself at the end of the path. It is only you and your decision whether to take another step or to just stand there, watching or waiting for something, sort of a miracle to happen to you. But hey, in life, miracle seldom occurs.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Hence, why don't we start to gear up and be ready to engage in the fight, ourselves. After all, there's no one to turn to, when you're all alone. And believe me, life has taught me so much until now to believe that I'm gonna be all alone in the end. At least when I don't have my family around.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/462964950647049354-4950429465573442535?l=reveriemalaya.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/feeds/4950429465573442535/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/2010/10/paths-decisions-and-destiny.html#comment-form' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/462964950647049354/posts/default/4950429465573442535'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/462964950647049354/posts/default/4950429465573442535'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/2010/10/paths-decisions-and-destiny.html' title='Paths, decisions and destiny'/><author><name>reverie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13969396181991597145</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Kcq32haJy4c/TBhKgGS6KdI/AAAAAAAAAIw/ZxNqYWeNMuY/S220/DSC_8358.jpg'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-462964950647049354.post-7772876207512145215</id><published>2010-09-29T06:34:00.003+08:00</published><updated>2010-09-29T06:44:59.504+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri puitis'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri emo'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri cinta'/><title type='text'>Dari hati ke hati</title><content type='html'>Jap 11.30 malam di Coventry. Cuaca diantara 8 - 15 darjah celcius menyelubungi perjalanan. Setelah terbang selama lebih 14 jam dan perjalanan train lebih 2 jam, aku sampai diEarlsdon. Rumah baru. &lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Dalam pada mengemas barang-barang dan bilik, aku buka kedua luggage yang dibawa dari Malaysia. Terlihat semuanya tersusun rapi didalam luggage membuat aku haru teringatkan mama yang tolong mengemas barang-barang aku hari tu. Terlihatkan bekal makanan, kuih raya dipacking cantik, rempah-ratus dilabel rapi.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Terlihatkan kek coklat buatan kain yang dikirim dari Bulan serta patung khas dari New Zealand.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Hmm, kadang aku selfish. Sampailah aku tersentak melihat realiti. Jikalaulah semua dicipta indah didunia, perhubungan dicipta menyayangi dan pertemuan dicipta untuk pertemuan berikutnya tanpa adanya perpisahan, tetapi dunia seperti tu dalam cerita fantasi saja.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Dengan harapan tahun depan masih ada mereka yang aku sayangi, terutama Nenek yang menjangkau pertengahan 70. Tak akan aku lupa ciuman buat dan dari nenek tatkala berhenti dirumah nenek sebelum menuju Sepang semalam.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Baru sekejap, mula merindui. Memang hati manusia selalu lemah diwaktu sunyi. Baru aku mengerti perasaan baba.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Biar hari ini aku disini cuba mengejar apa yang mampu aku capaikan. Kau berilah aku kegembiraan sebaiknya kerana memang semua milik Kau.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Selamat.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/462964950647049354-7772876207512145215?l=reveriemalaya.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/feeds/7772876207512145215/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/2010/09/dari-hati-ke-hati.html#comment-form' title='7 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/462964950647049354/posts/default/7772876207512145215'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/462964950647049354/posts/default/7772876207512145215'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/2010/09/dari-hati-ke-hati.html' title='Dari hati ke hati'/><author><name>reverie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13969396181991597145</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Kcq32haJy4c/TBhKgGS6KdI/AAAAAAAAAIw/ZxNqYWeNMuY/S220/DSC_8358.jpg'/></author><thr:total>7</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-462964950647049354.post-867516989644923337</id><published>2010-09-24T15:32:00.003+08:00</published><updated>2010-09-24T15:40:34.873+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri buka minda'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri agama'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri pemerhatian'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri pemberitahuan'/><title type='text'>Interpretation of lifes interpretation and an announcement</title><content type='html'>Life has got many interpretations. By living my life i learn to understand that lives interpretation is always changing for me. If life is a book, it sure will have many chapters in it. Regarding economy, ideology, religion, humanity, cruelty and lots of other stuffs. We as plain humans always decide to only read a part of the whole book and wants to believe it as the whole idea of life which is not fair to me. Yet what can we do? If in school we'll have teachers to guide us through book reading process, in life lessons there are none. The so called teachers are themselves incomplete learners. Hence in the end the real meaning of life, can it ever be interpreted?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;*In regard to the last entry, i would like to add that if you guys want to change your travellers cheque, I would suggest not to go directly to the bank cause they charge high interest. Instead, be collective and go together to a money changer in Covs City Centre (there are a few money changer there) cause the higher value of travellers cheque you can get, the lower transaction value you can bargain with the seller. Good luck!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/462964950647049354-867516989644923337?l=reveriemalaya.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/feeds/867516989644923337/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/2010/09/interpretation-of-lifes-interpretation.html#comment-form' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/462964950647049354/posts/default/867516989644923337'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/462964950647049354/posts/default/867516989644923337'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/2010/09/interpretation-of-lifes-interpretation.html' title='Interpretation of lifes interpretation and an announcement'/><author><name>reverie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13969396181991597145</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Kcq32haJy4c/TBhKgGS6KdI/AAAAAAAAAIw/ZxNqYWeNMuY/S220/DSC_8358.jpg'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-462964950647049354.post-4521179130281661789</id><published>2010-09-23T13:18:00.003+08:00</published><updated>2010-09-23T13:38:13.436+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri diari Coventry'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri pemberitahuan'/><title type='text'>Extra infos in Warwick</title><content type='html'>First of all, I'd like to welcome again all the friends coming from ipoh to warwick. I sure hope you guys have a nice flight from klia to heathrow. Can't be there to hantar you all cause my flight's gonna be earlier a few days than you guys. Here are some extra infos for those who care:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1) You can check &lt;a href="http://warwicksu.com/"&gt;WarwickSU&lt;/a&gt; website for promotions, advertising, latest event but most importantly infos on sports, clubs and societies in warwick. There are tons of them so grab your chance now.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2) There will be a freshers fair in the opening first week and some societies will be there in booths to advertise their societies but not all! So, to have a good thorough look, it's better to go through the warwickSU website.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3) Upon arriving you will need to prepare for the upcoming winter and you might want to decorate your room and buy some essential stuffs for yourselves like duvet, mattress, toothbrush etc. So there will be a trip organize by friends from warwick to the town to brief you guys. If you miss the trip, feel free to ask me or my friends and we'll bring you guys around.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;4) Warwick do offer &lt;a href="http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/study/cll/open_courses/certs/"&gt;certificate education&lt;/a&gt; with lots of interesting 1 year courses with price ranging from 180 - 600 something pounds per course. So those interested to take up extra knowledge and lessons can try to visit the page and check out suitable courses for yourself. Don't worry, cash given should be enough.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;5) Do come to the first Warwick Malaysian Student Association gathering later yeah!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;6) Gig lovers boleh lepak dengan aku untuk info-info tempat gig berdekatan Coventry. ;)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Safe journey. Will see you soon there. Buat rumah terbuka nanti ajak-ajak lah aku yep. ;)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Selamat.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/462964950647049354-4521179130281661789?l=reveriemalaya.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/feeds/4521179130281661789/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/2010/09/extra-infos-in-warwick.html#comment-form' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/462964950647049354/posts/default/4521179130281661789'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/462964950647049354/posts/default/4521179130281661789'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/2010/09/extra-infos-in-warwick.html' title='Extra infos in Warwick'/><author><name>reverie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13969396181991597145</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Kcq32haJy4c/TBhKgGS6KdI/AAAAAAAAAIw/ZxNqYWeNMuY/S220/DSC_8358.jpg'/></author><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-462964950647049354.post-2797337071202043047</id><published>2010-09-10T03:36:00.003+08:00</published><updated>2010-09-10T03:40:40.609+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri pendapat'/><title type='text'>Pengertian raya,</title><content type='html'>Pengertian raya setelah berusia lebih 20 tahun,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;masa untuk bersama keluarga. bermakan-makanan, minum-minuman, maaf-maafan, gurau-gurauan, usik-usiakan, cium-ciuman, peluk-pelukan sebelum kemudiannya berpisah menjalar semula merata dunia mencari arah hidup sendiri. Entah masih berjodohkah kita tahun depan, orang tersayangku.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Selamat diucapkan kepada semua.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/462964950647049354-2797337071202043047?l=reveriemalaya.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/feeds/2797337071202043047/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/2010/09/pengertian-raya-setelah-berusia-lebih.html#comment-form' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/462964950647049354/posts/default/2797337071202043047'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/462964950647049354/posts/default/2797337071202043047'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/2010/09/pengertian-raya-setelah-berusia-lebih.html' title='Pengertian raya,'/><author><name>reverie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13969396181991597145</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Kcq32haJy4c/TBhKgGS6KdI/AAAAAAAAAIw/ZxNqYWeNMuY/S220/DSC_8358.jpg'/></author><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-462964950647049354.post-1852176691685388317</id><published>2010-09-08T14:13:00.002+08:00</published><updated>2010-09-08T14:16:08.483+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri pendapat'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri pengalaman'/><title type='text'>Short note 2</title><content type='html'>Sometimes I feel lonely, and that no one else can understand what I'm saying. You get what I mean?&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Respond: ;)?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Selamat.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/462964950647049354-1852176691685388317?l=reveriemalaya.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/feeds/1852176691685388317/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/2010/09/short-note-2.html#comment-form' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/462964950647049354/posts/default/1852176691685388317'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/462964950647049354/posts/default/1852176691685388317'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/2010/09/short-note-2.html' title='Short note 2'/><author><name>reverie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13969396181991597145</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Kcq32haJy4c/TBhKgGS6KdI/AAAAAAAAAIw/ZxNqYWeNMuY/S220/DSC_8358.jpg'/></author><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-462964950647049354.post-108230126612555584</id><published>2010-09-05T05:47:00.005+08:00</published><updated>2010-09-05T05:53:10.707+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri pendapat'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri pemerhatian'/><title type='text'>Short note</title><content type='html'>Many times, I am selfish. Asal tak menyusahkan orang lain.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;*Leave a smiley if you think you are too. You can be anon if you're shy to admit this publicly. ;)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/462964950647049354-108230126612555584?l=reveriemalaya.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/feeds/108230126612555584/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/2010/09/short-note.html#comment-form' title='15 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/462964950647049354/posts/default/108230126612555584'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/462964950647049354/posts/default/108230126612555584'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/2010/09/short-note.html' title='Short note'/><author><name>reverie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13969396181991597145</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Kcq32haJy4c/TBhKgGS6KdI/AAAAAAAAAIw/ZxNqYWeNMuY/S220/DSC_8358.jpg'/></author><thr:total>15</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-462964950647049354.post-1634753730428153479</id><published>2010-09-03T03:27:00.005+08:00</published><updated>2010-09-03T03:34:58.348+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri pengalaman'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri agama'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri budaya'/><title type='text'>Abang aku ajar,</title><content type='html'>Abang aku ajar, dalam hidup ada dua jenis dosa. Dosa pertama dengan tuhan yang mana dosa kita boleh meminta pengampunan. Boleh kaw-tim sendiri-sendiri. Ini ramai orang tahu masing-masing punya perbuatan. Kita buat yang wajib, sunat dan sebagainya untuk meminta pengampunan dosa kita. Tetapi orang melayu islam selalunya lupa dosa jenis kedua. Iaitu dosa dengan manusia. Dosa dengan manusia, macam mana kita mau kaw-tim nanti bro?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Selamat&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/462964950647049354-1634753730428153479?l=reveriemalaya.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/feeds/1634753730428153479/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/2010/09/abang-aku-ajar.html#comment-form' title='8 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/462964950647049354/posts/default/1634753730428153479'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/462964950647049354/posts/default/1634753730428153479'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/2010/09/abang-aku-ajar.html' title='Abang aku ajar,'/><author><name>reverie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13969396181991597145</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Kcq32haJy4c/TBhKgGS6KdI/AAAAAAAAAIw/ZxNqYWeNMuY/S220/DSC_8358.jpg'/></author><thr:total>8</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-462964950647049354.post-4293800717362534083</id><published>2010-09-01T08:35:00.004+08:00</published><updated>2010-09-01T08:40:33.032+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri buka minda'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri politik'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri budaya'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri pemerhatian'/><title type='text'>Merdeka kali ini</title><content type='html'>Ada yang tentang countdown.&lt;br /&gt;Ada yang tentang getting laid that night.&lt;br /&gt;Ada yang tentang berbasikal bersama bendera sehingga lewat malam.&lt;br /&gt;Ada yang tentang menang perlumbaan.&lt;br /&gt;Ada yang tentang perjuangan haluan kiri yang selalunya dikira sebagai lebih cool.&lt;br /&gt;Ada yang tentang berdansa sehingga 3, 4 pagi.&lt;br /&gt;Ada yang tentang berkonsert.&lt;br /&gt;Ada yang tentang terawih dan qiamullail sempena malam ke-21 Ramadhan.&lt;br /&gt;Ada yang lebih kepada tentang peluang kewangan.&lt;br /&gt;Ada yang lebih kepada tentang persiapan raya.&lt;br /&gt;Ada yang tentang kenangan-kenangan perjuangan lama.&lt;br /&gt;Ada yang tentang kisah silam perjuangan wira keluarga.&lt;br /&gt;Ada yang tentang menentang racism.&lt;br /&gt;Ada yang lebih kepada tentang perjuangan khalifah dan dinar emas.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Semua ini merdeka bagi aku. Apa pun malaysia, aku terima dan akan usaha untuk memberi dengan sendiri. Selamat Merdeka buat semua yang cool dan tidak cool.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;*Apapun ideologi, biarlah tetap sama-sama patriotik.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/462964950647049354-4293800717362534083?l=reveriemalaya.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/feeds/4293800717362534083/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/2010/09/merdeka-kali-ini.html#comment-form' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/462964950647049354/posts/default/4293800717362534083'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/462964950647049354/posts/default/4293800717362534083'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/2010/09/merdeka-kali-ini.html' title='Merdeka kali ini'/><author><name>reverie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13969396181991597145</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Kcq32haJy4c/TBhKgGS6KdI/AAAAAAAAAIw/ZxNqYWeNMuY/S220/DSC_8358.jpg'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-462964950647049354.post-3470270582645057479</id><published>2010-08-29T15:41:00.003+08:00</published><updated>2010-08-29T15:46:14.374+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri puitis'/><title type='text'>Lovers talk</title><content type='html'>That day I was standing and you kneeling,&lt;br /&gt;the usual quarrel we had,&lt;br /&gt;tears running down your eyes,&lt;br /&gt;while me, my heart.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It's then time we sit at the window,&lt;br /&gt;I'll get my guitar; and you can make me a cup of tea,&lt;br /&gt;We spend all evening swinging by the melody,&lt;br /&gt;watching the moon replacing resting sun.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I cannot be you, and you're not me,&lt;br /&gt;Let's stop trying,&lt;br /&gt;Cause we are puzzles,&lt;br /&gt;Different in shapes,&lt;br /&gt;but completing each other.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/462964950647049354-3470270582645057479?l=reveriemalaya.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/feeds/3470270582645057479/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/2010/08/lovers-talk.html#comment-form' title='12 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/462964950647049354/posts/default/3470270582645057479'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/462964950647049354/posts/default/3470270582645057479'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/2010/08/lovers-talk.html' title='Lovers talk'/><author><name>reverie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13969396181991597145</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Kcq32haJy4c/TBhKgGS6KdI/AAAAAAAAAIw/ZxNqYWeNMuY/S220/DSC_8358.jpg'/></author><thr:total>12</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-462964950647049354.post-7944491789718934988</id><published>2010-08-26T22:28:00.003+08:00</published><updated>2010-08-26T22:43:54.255+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri budaya'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri pemerhatian'/><title type='text'>Budaya mengangguk</title><content type='html'>Dalam berkawan kita seringkali mahukan rakan yang supportive. Tetapi satu masalah yang aku perhati dalam budaya masyarakat kita adalah apabila yang kita maukan hanyalah pak angguk. Budaya ini selalunya tertanam dari kecil lagi bila waktu kecil jika cakap kita dibantah oleh rakan maka kita akan take it personal walhal bantahan itu mungkin atas sebab2 yang bernas. Jika dilihat balik, perwatakan kita sewaktu kecil amat mempengaruhi sikap kita setelah dewasa tapi ini tak relevan untuk entri ini.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dalam berkawan aku selalunya bersikap kritis. Dalam berkeluarga pun aku selalu bersikap kritis. Jika apa yang disuarakan oleh orang dewasa dalam keluarga aku adalah sesuatu yang pincang pada mata aku, akan aku suarakan. Apa yang kita perlukan sebenarnya adalah kenalan yang bukan saja tau mengangguk tapi pada masa yang sama boleh membantu kita belajar dari kesilapan dan menunjukkan kesilapan-kesilapan kita. Namun dalam budaya orang melayu secara khususnya selalunya orang melayu akan kerap 'take it as personal' apabila ditegur kesilapan. Ini dah banyak kali aku hadapi dan perhatikan dalam situasi kehidupan.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Budaya ini sebenarnya amat menular dalam politik dimalaysia jika diperhatikan. Dan bagi aku budaya ini membunuh kreativiti. Siapa yang bersuara untuk membetulkan kesilapan dibunuh kariernya dan mereka yang sekadar mengangguk mempunyai potensi yang lebih tinggi untuk succeed dalam karier mereka. Jadi jika boleh, anak muda perlu faham, menyuarakan bantahan tak semestinya personal attack untuk kita. Kadang lebih elok kita diingatkan daripada jatuh terjelepuk akibat kesilapan.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;*Darn, macam karangan bahasa melayu sekolah pula rasa. I'm missing it!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/462964950647049354-7944491789718934988?l=reveriemalaya.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/feeds/7944491789718934988/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/2010/08/budaya-mengangguk.html#comment-form' title='9 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/462964950647049354/posts/default/7944491789718934988'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/462964950647049354/posts/default/7944491789718934988'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/2010/08/budaya-mengangguk.html' title='Budaya mengangguk'/><author><name>reverie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13969396181991597145</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Kcq32haJy4c/TBhKgGS6KdI/AAAAAAAAAIw/ZxNqYWeNMuY/S220/DSC_8358.jpg'/></author><thr:total>9</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-462964950647049354.post-6936635168625813632</id><published>2010-08-24T04:46:00.003+08:00</published><updated>2010-08-24T05:21:08.992+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri budaya'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri pemerhatian'/><title type='text'>Kelemahan peniaga kraftangan Melaka</title><content type='html'>Aku pernah kerja dikedai kraftangan sebagai part timer sales. Dari pagi pukul 10 aku buka kedai dan meniaga sampai ke malam 11pm. Upah, ye aku tak panggil gaji. Kerana terlalu sedikit nilai wang yang diberikan untuk digelar gaji, cuma Rm15 siap dengan duit makan Rm5. Maka total Rm20 untuk kerja selama 13 jam dibawah hujan, panas, matahari, mendung dan sebagainya. Aku bukannya peduli sangat duit tu tetapi aku bekerja kerana keseronokan berniaga dan tawar-menawar disamping melepak bersama kawan-kawan.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Waktu aku bekerja itu sekitar tahun 2006. Jika waktu itu ada set keychain Melaka yang baru aku dapat jual dengan harga Rm18, paling tidak pun Rm13-Rm15. Jika tourist asing akan aku ketuk kaw-kaw. Kerana aku tahu duit mereka besar nilainya.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Beberapa hari lepas aku bawa lecturer Korea aku berjalan diMelaka dan aku singgah di area kraftangan. keychain yang sama yang aku jual dengan harga Rm18 itu sekarang harga bukanya hanya Rm7. Perlu tahu beza harga buka dengan harga jual. Harga buka adalah harga yang kita mula-mula buka kepada pengunjung. Kerana kita tahu, kita buka Rm25, pengunjung akan tawar dan selalunya harga akan turun lalu kita jual dengan harga Rm15 paling rendah. Kiranya Rm15 itu adalah harga terakhir. Jika nak tawar lagi, boleh jalan cari kedai lain. Sesungguhnya aku amat hairan macam mana harga barang-barang lain makin lama makin menaik tetapi harga kraftangan makin lama makin menurun. Contoh set keychain ini, dari Rm18 ke Rm7, sudah jatuh Rm11. Ini lebih daripada 50%. Soalnya kenapa?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Jawapan aku senang saja. Tamak.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Market kraftangan melaka rata-rata mereka yang meniaga kenal antara satu sama lain. Tapi akibat tamak, bila barang baru masuk dibuka dengan harga Rm25, kedai sebelah akan buka dengan harga Rm23 pula, dan kemudian sebelah dengan harga Rm20 dan seterusnya harga makin merudum akibat persaingan yang bagi aku adalah persaingan yang bodoh.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Apabila berniaga paling penting adalah kesatuan. Ambil contoh peniaga-peniaga kraftangan melaka yang rata-ratanya berkaum melayu. Jika aku, aku akan mengadakan kesatuan peniaga kraftangan. Dan disemua tempat yang menjual kraftangan, aku akan mengadakan mesyuarat dan bersetuju bersama semua untuk bersama-sama memonopoli harga pasaran barangan kraftangan. Ini kerana pengunjung akan mahukan barangan kraftangan untuk kenangan. Dan peniaga ada barangan itu. Apabila harga sudah disetkan tahap minimumnya, maka dimana-mana pun pengunjung tak akan dapat yang lebih murah dari yang lain. Mahu atau tidak, nak beli kena beli juga. Jika ini ditetapkan dan diusahasamakan, set keychain yang harga modalnya lebih kurang Rm4 itu boleh dijual dengan harga Rm15 dan tak perlu dimurahkan sehingga Rm7 saja dengan keuntungan sekadar Rm3. Rm3 ini belum tolak duit minyak pergi ambil barang dari pengeluar dan duit sewa tapak meniaga dan bil api air. Jika ini diamalkan, maka tak perlu bimbang. Barang terjual, untung tetap tinggi walau barang terjual dalam kuantiti yang sedikit. Tetapi manusia, cemburu melihat kedai sebelah dapat lebih pelanggan maka harga pasaran dimainkan lebih rendah. Bagi aku ini adalah tanda kebodohan.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Berniaga perlukan kesatuan dan give and take. Hari ini aku dapat pelanggan, esok hari kau dapat pelanggan dan sama-sama untung. Baru sama-sama naik.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Selamat.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/462964950647049354-6936635168625813632?l=reveriemalaya.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/feeds/6936635168625813632/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/2010/08/kelemahan-peniaga-kraftangan-melaka.html#comment-form' title='6 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/462964950647049354/posts/default/6936635168625813632'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/462964950647049354/posts/default/6936635168625813632'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/2010/08/kelemahan-peniaga-kraftangan-melaka.html' title='Kelemahan peniaga kraftangan Melaka'/><author><name>reverie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13969396181991597145</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Kcq32haJy4c/TBhKgGS6KdI/AAAAAAAAAIw/ZxNqYWeNMuY/S220/DSC_8358.jpg'/></author><thr:total>6</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-462964950647049354.post-6334888381507648999</id><published>2010-08-17T03:06:00.004+08:00</published><updated>2010-08-17T03:11:00.317+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri buka minda'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri emo'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri agama'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri pemerhatian'/><title type='text'>Balancing: Dunia dan Akhirat</title><content type='html'>Adakalanya aku akan duduk termenung sendirian dan berfikir. Apa yang aku  ingin lakukan dalam hidup sebenarnya. Aku sukakan musik lalu aku ingin  bermain musik. Aku sukakan senikata lalu aku ingin berpuisi. Aku sukakan  cerita lalu aku ingin membuat filem. Aku suka membantu orang susah maka  pernah aku terfikir untuk menjadi seorang yang berkuasa. Aku juga suka  menulis lalu aku ingin menulis buku aku sendiri. Aku juga sayangkan keluarga dan rakan-rakan aku maka kerap kali aku ingin menjadi seorang yang selalu berdoa untuk mereka semuanya. Tetapi kerap kali aku  diingatkan dan teringat yang dalam dunia, manusia ini diciptakan untuk  beribadat kepada Allah swt. Ia macam berdiri ditengah-tengah jambatan  halus yang mana kanannya ais dan kirinya api. Susah untuk aku. Aku tidak  boleh menjadi sebaik ulama kerana ianya amat sukar bagi aku. Aku juga  tidak mahu menjadi sejahat syaitan kerana aku tidak suka menyusahkan  orang lain.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Maka hari ini aku berakad, aku mau berjaya didunia dan akhirat. Mungkin  susah untuk aku menjadi seorang yang cemerlang dikedua-duanya kerana  dunia dan akhirat saling berlawanan antara satu sama lain. Apa yang biru  didunia adalah merah diakhirat. Jadi biarlah aku menjadi seorang yang  diatas sederhana untuk kedua-dua alam. Melakukan apa yang aku suka di  dunia tanpa menyusahkan diri sendiri diakhirat kelak.  Memang susah bila aku punyai kepercayaan tentang akhirat. Tapi sekurang-kurangnya aku diberi peluang untuk percaya kepada sesuatu. Usah sampai peluang itu ditarik balik. Minta dijauhkan.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Aku mahu menulis buku. Sekadar untuk kepuasan agar nanti suatu hari  kelak aku boleh tersenyum kepada diri aku sendiri dan berkata, "Hey, kau  pernah menulis buku!" Dengan itu aku akan tersenyum didunia dan  berharap agar senyuman itu tak akan menyusahkan diri aku diakhirat  kelak.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;*Anyone who knows how to juggle these 2 different balls at the same time without damaging either one or most importantly yourself, please step up.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Selamat.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/462964950647049354-6334888381507648999?l=reveriemalaya.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/feeds/6334888381507648999/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/2010/08/balancing-dunia-dan-akhirat.html#comment-form' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/462964950647049354/posts/default/6334888381507648999'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/462964950647049354/posts/default/6334888381507648999'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/2010/08/balancing-dunia-dan-akhirat.html' title='Balancing: Dunia dan Akhirat'/><author><name>reverie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13969396181991597145</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Kcq32haJy4c/TBhKgGS6KdI/AAAAAAAAAIw/ZxNqYWeNMuY/S220/DSC_8358.jpg'/></author><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-462964950647049354.post-4381550323906321829</id><published>2010-08-16T04:05:00.005+08:00</published><updated>2010-08-16T04:28:14.770+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri puitis'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri pendapat'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri emo'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri cinta'/><title type='text'>Three random thoughts and One interpretation</title><content type='html'>1) It's funny to see that many of those who are great artists, writers who have the ability to put life in imagination and geniuses are if not emotionally unstable, are not as normal as how we defined normal in this life. Lots of stories I heard and read about all the suicides and murders. It's even more funny to discover how many of these many emotionally retarded people are not even known, at least not until after their death. Is it up to how they are accepted by the masses or how they want to be accepted? I mean, dying to be in the 27 club, the thought is cool but it's cooler to have lived and give back something to the people who loved you. The irony is did they die for the mass or did the mass killed them as entertainment?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2) If we're bright enough to notice, this world evolves around the same thing like before. In whatever businesses we have, we can learn to live out of the primitives age yet we can't ever take the primitives out of us. The saying is kind of truthful in its meaning.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3) These are ways to interpret life. To show to the mass, how they live life and how they see it. They're beautiful but sometimes scary. Meaningful yet sometimes dull. But the best thing about it is that no one has ever succeeded in showing people what is all about life. That's why it's becoming more of an item that catches interests.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;*Love is a word often misinterpreted. For some loving is about kissing, hugging and caressing each others private part tenderly, this is how the term make love was found. For some love is all about taking care of each other and being there for the better half in good and bad times, this is how we learn that men are from mars and women are from venus. I could never define how i understood love, perhaps I've never learn to understand it. The dumb part about this is it's harder for us to see, love is not for only two people.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Selamat.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/462964950647049354-4381550323906321829?l=reveriemalaya.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/feeds/4381550323906321829/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/2010/08/three-random-thoughts-and-one.html#comment-form' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/462964950647049354/posts/default/4381550323906321829'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/462964950647049354/posts/default/4381550323906321829'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/2010/08/three-random-thoughts-and-one.html' title='Three random thoughts and One interpretation'/><author><name>reverie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13969396181991597145</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Kcq32haJy4c/TBhKgGS6KdI/AAAAAAAAAIw/ZxNqYWeNMuY/S220/DSC_8358.jpg'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-462964950647049354.post-2073535389987442507</id><published>2010-08-12T22:47:00.003+08:00</published><updated>2010-08-12T23:12:14.658+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri pendapat'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri buka minda'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri politik'/><title type='text'>Ulasan: Mahasiswa tidak sesuai berpolitik</title><content type='html'>&lt;p style="font-style: italic;"&gt;KUALA LUMPUR: Cadangan membabitkan golongan mahasiswa di institut  pengajian tinggi awam (IPTA) dalam bidang politik mendapat reaksi  negatif daripada bekas Perdana Menteri, Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad. &lt;/p&gt;    &lt;!--Start Photo --&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;     Beliau berkata demikian ketika diminta mengulas mengenai hasrat  Kementerian Pengajian Tinggi (KPT) yang mahu mempertimbangkan untuk  membenarkan mahasiswa di IPTA  terbabit dalam parti politik.    Katanya,  kini masyarakat terutama ibu bapa perlu memperuntukkan dan membayar   wang bagi membolehkan mahasiswa menimba ilmu.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;p style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“Mereka  (mahasiswa) sepatutnya menggunakan kesempatan yang ada itu untuk  menuntut ilmu, sebaliknya jika terbabit dalam politik, itu boleh  dianggap perbuatan tidak bertanggungjawab.     “Malah, mereka akan  mempunyai banyak masa untuk terbabit dalam politik sebaik menamatkan  pengajian. Apabila mereka sudah bekerja dan mempunyai pendapatan  sendiri,  itulah masa yang sesuai,” katanya selepas Syarahan Umum  mengenai  Kesan Teknologi Kepada Masa Depan Pendidikan Tinggi anjuran  Open University Malaysia (OUM) di sini, semalam...&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Berita dipetik dari harian metro, secara jujurnya aku rasa artikel ini adalah tidak lengkap dan punyai argument yang tak kukuh. Kalau mahasiswa tak sesuai berpolitik, golongan mana yang sesuai? Mahasiswa membentuk purata besar daripada anak muda berkualiti negara. Jika semua anak muda negara berstatus mahasiswa tak boleh berpolitik, jadi mau biarkan siapa berpolitik? Pelapis mana yang kita mau cari? Aku percaya mahasiswa bakal mengganti tampuk kepimpinan negara. Kalau bukan anak muda mahasiswa yang kita harapkan, tak akan kita mau harapkan anak muda rempit? Atau anak muda yang hisap gam? atau mat dadah? Pelapis mana yang kita nak groom dan bentuk kalau bukan dari mahasiswa?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Jika benarpun mahasiswa tak sesuai berpolitik, atas sebab apa? Atas sebab ibu bapa dan kerajaan keluar banyak duit untuk kita belajar? maka adakah berpolitik merupakan perbuatan yang tak bertanggungjawab kerana banyak duit dikeluarkan untuk kita? Come on, you can give us better reason than this. Lagi banyak duit dikeluarkan, the more reasons there are for mahasiswa untuk menjadi mahasiswa bukan setakat belajar untuk ijazah but become a whole-rounder. Baik dari bermacam segi, salah satu politik. Dan belajar tentang politik diperingkat mahasiswa boleh mematangkan mahasiswa dan bersedia untuk cabaran sebenar bila mau bergerak secara serius dalam politik kelak.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Tetapi kita jangan lupa. Yang lebih penting bukan persoalan mahasiswa terlibat dalam politik atau tidak. Aku rasa yang lagi penting adalah what kind of examples are the politicians and adults showing to us. Apa contoh yang ada untuk mahasiswa ikuti? Kerana apa yang aku nampak rata-ratanya sekarang ni adalah political scene in malaysia dah hampir menjadi seperti majalah mastika. Polluted with many sensational stories and bad examples which in the end is not helping in developing the country at all. Cuba bayang p/raya keluar cerita pasal calon yb minum arak merata tempat. What kind of examples are shown? begitu juga pembangkang, kes hubungan sulit yang lebih dihighlightkan. What kind of good values are there for our mahasiswa to learn?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Terus-terusan begini nanti tak payah susah-susah nak interview dengan metro cakap yang mahasiswa tak sesuai berpolitik dah. Anak muda kita sendiri akan lose interest in our political scene because what we can see is adults and political people using all means to fight for place, power and money dan bukannya semata-mata untuk kesejahteraan bangsa malaysia. Sampai waktu tu, mahasiswa yang berkualiti sendiri tak akan berminat dengan politik diMalaysia.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;*Selagi hati suci, kita mahu percayakan malaysia mempunyai political scene yang sepatutnya suci dengan political figures yang memang berjiwa rakyat. In anyway I look I want to believe in that, purity and honesty have some place in our political scene.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Selamat.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/462964950647049354-2073535389987442507?l=reveriemalaya.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/feeds/2073535389987442507/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/2010/08/ulasan-mahasiswa-tidak-sesuai.html#comment-form' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/462964950647049354/posts/default/2073535389987442507'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/462964950647049354/posts/default/2073535389987442507'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/2010/08/ulasan-mahasiswa-tidak-sesuai.html' title='Ulasan: Mahasiswa tidak sesuai berpolitik'/><author><name>reverie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13969396181991597145</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Kcq32haJy4c/TBhKgGS6KdI/AAAAAAAAAIw/ZxNqYWeNMuY/S220/DSC_8358.jpg'/></author><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-462964950647049354.post-3231830010507319561</id><published>2010-08-11T23:46:00.004+08:00</published><updated>2010-08-11T23:56:40.427+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri puitis'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri pengalaman'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri diari'/><title type='text'>Puasa pertama dan tradisi</title><content type='html'>Setelah dua tahun berpuasa ditanah orang&lt;div&gt;hari ini aku berpuasa dirumah&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;dirumah aku ada tradisi&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;setiap kali puasa pertama akan ditanak&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;nasi ayam dan bandung aiskrim soda&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;istimewa hari ini&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;tangan muda ini yang menanak nasi dan melumur ayam&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;dijamu keseluruh keluarga&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;yang tersayang&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;tradisi ini entah akan kekal lagi entah tidak&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;kita manusia terlalu hidup dengan tradisi&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;yang pasti satu hari nanti akan perlu kita lepaskan&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;kerana yang merangkak akan berjalan&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;yang berjalan akan bertongkat&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;dan yang bertongkat akan baring sendirian&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;entah nyaman pembaringan kita, entah kalut menyumpah seranah&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;atau meminta peluang yang tak akan berkunjung&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;puasa pertama ini telah aku harungi&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;dengan harapan semua diredhai Ilahi&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;dimulai dengan semangat, dihabisi dengan doa&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;untuk melalui satu hari seterusnya&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;puasa kedua yang dengan angan-angan&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;akan terus berjaya aku harungi&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;dengan mereka yang aku sayang&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Selamat semua dunia akhirat.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/462964950647049354-3231830010507319561?l=reveriemalaya.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/feeds/3231830010507319561/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/2010/08/puasa-pertama.html#comment-form' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/462964950647049354/posts/default/3231830010507319561'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/462964950647049354/posts/default/3231830010507319561'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/2010/08/puasa-pertama.html' title='Puasa pertama dan tradisi'/><author><name>reverie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13969396181991597145</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Kcq32haJy4c/TBhKgGS6KdI/AAAAAAAAAIw/ZxNqYWeNMuY/S220/DSC_8358.jpg'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-462964950647049354.post-2496949459225390515</id><published>2010-08-11T14:42:00.005+08:00</published><updated>2010-08-11T14:58:00.932+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri pendapat'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri buka minda'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri agama'/><title type='text'>Aku sering lupa, Selamat Ramadhan bulan mulia.</title><content type='html'>Aku selalu melangkah atas dunia dengan senyuman dan fikiran tentang hari esok. Apa yang ingin aku lakukan lagi dalam dunia ini selagi nafas masih ada. Tapi aku sering terlupa yang kelak apabila dibangunkan sekali lagi, hanya amalan takwa yang dikira sebagai harta. Saham akhirat yang tetap bernilai harga dan segalanya tentang dunia hanya menjadi bahan tinggalan. Aku selalu juga lupa yang diwaktu Ramadhan segala amal dimudahkan dengan pintu neraka yang tertutup, syaitan dan iblis yang terikat. Hanya tinggal nafsu untuk dijinakkan. Aku sering terlupa juga dibulan ini terdapatnya hari raya para Malaikat, lailatulQadar yang telah dijanjikan pahala tak akan putus oleh Allah swt. Betapa aku kerap membaca tentang azab Allah dan siksaanNya sehinggakan aku lupa yang syafaat, pengampunan dan kasih sayangNya melebihi segala amarah Allah swt.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Semoga dengan hadirnya Ramadhan ini aku belajar menjinakkan nafsu dan menjadi seorang manusia yang lebih ikhlas dalam beribadat kerana pada akhir hari semuanya akan tertakluk pada kalimah Lillahita'ala. Entah esok lusa kita padam siapa yang tau. Mati mengejar tak mengira tua atau muda.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Puasa usah dijadikan adat,&lt;br /&gt;biar dijadikan amal,&lt;br /&gt;puasa usah sekadar berlapar perut,&lt;br /&gt;biar berlapar nafsu,&lt;br /&gt;puasa usah kerana kesihatan,&lt;br /&gt;biar diperbetulkan niat,&lt;br /&gt;puasa usah ditangguh-tangguh,&lt;br /&gt;entah tahun depan menjenguk lagi.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Selamat berpuasa, berterawih, beribadah sunat dan mengejar Lailatulqadar.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Salam,&lt;br /&gt;ReverieMalaya&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/462964950647049354-2496949459225390515?l=reveriemalaya.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/feeds/2496949459225390515/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/2010/08/aku-sering-lupa-selamat-ramadhan-bulan.html#comment-form' title='6 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/462964950647049354/posts/default/2496949459225390515'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/462964950647049354/posts/default/2496949459225390515'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/2010/08/aku-sering-lupa-selamat-ramadhan-bulan.html' title='Aku sering lupa, Selamat Ramadhan bulan mulia.'/><author><name>reverie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13969396181991597145</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Kcq32haJy4c/TBhKgGS6KdI/AAAAAAAAAIw/ZxNqYWeNMuY/S220/DSC_8358.jpg'/></author><thr:total>6</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-462964950647049354.post-6979740804600614760</id><published>2010-08-10T15:04:00.005+08:00</published><updated>2010-08-10T22:45:08.242+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri pengalaman'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri buka minda'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri diari'/><title type='text'>Projek Kalsom 16</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Kcq32haJy4c/TGD9BN9y4iI/AAAAAAAAAN4/CZ0WVHV4N4A/s1600/kalsom+5.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 268px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Kcq32haJy4c/TGD9BN9y4iI/AAAAAAAAAN4/CZ0WVHV4N4A/s400/kalsom+5.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5503676942017290786" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Projek Kalsom 16 dan Dokong tak dapat dipisahkan&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Kcq32haJy4c/TGD9AlFZpkI/AAAAAAAAANw/KByyY4fwfxw/s1600/kalsom+4.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 268px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Kcq32haJy4c/TGD9AlFZpkI/AAAAAAAAANw/KByyY4fwfxw/s400/kalsom+4.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5503676931043337794" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Some of the Student-Volunteers&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Kcq32haJy4c/TGD9AIom1jI/AAAAAAAAANo/nOVui3X71aY/s1600/kalsom+3.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 268px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Kcq32haJy4c/TGD9AIom1jI/AAAAAAAAANo/nOVui3X71aY/s400/kalsom+3.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5503676923406374450" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Silat Pulut - Tari&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Kcq32haJy4c/TGD8_qX4P6I/AAAAAAAAANg/EAh-YUAyxwc/s1600/kalsom+2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 268px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Kcq32haJy4c/TGD8_qX4P6I/AAAAAAAAANg/EAh-YUAyxwc/s400/kalsom+2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5503676915283148706" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Menumbuk emping&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Kcq32haJy4c/TGD8_bhLEGI/AAAAAAAAANY/axE4fVlMCXw/s1600/kalsom+1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Kcq32haJy4c/TGD8_bhLEGI/AAAAAAAAANY/axE4fVlMCXw/s400/kalsom+1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5503676911295598690" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Masjid Terapung after Subuh&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;Fakta Projek Kalsom 16:&lt;br /&gt;1) Diberi keluarga angkat di Kampung Langkap&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2) Bertujuan memotivasikan seramai lebih 200 pelajar sederhana sekitar Daerah Setiu, Terengganu agar berkeyakinan untuk menjadi whole-rounded students&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3) Tak akan lapar kerana kerap disogok makanan oleh keluarga angkat yang ramah-tamah dan baik-hati.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;4) Kg. Langkap adalah kawasan Barisan Nasional&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;5) Volunteer terdiri daripada 63 pelajar Malaysia yang belajar di UK atau Ireland&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ramai antara kita yang selalu bercakap tentang permasalahan negara. Tentang kepincangan anak bangsa dan mengapa mereka sukar untuk berjaya. Tak kurang juga yang bukan saja membincangkan malah mengutuk dasar-dasar yang dilaksanakan kerajaan kerana dikatakan sebagai short-sighted dan membazir. Aku juga merupakan salah seorang yang sering mempertikaikan banyak perkara yang aku pandang sebagai tidak betul dan salah. Untuk apa pun sebab, kita sering menggelengkan kepala kepada satu-satu perkara yang diusul. Ini adalah perlu kerana membolehkan kita berfikir dan muhasabah diri. Yang mana betul dan yang mana salah. Di mana kelebihan sesuatu keputusan dan dimana kepincangan.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tetapi projek kalsom telah mengajar aku sesuatu yang lebih dari itu. Melihatkan dan bercampur gaul dengan golongan rakyat marhaen susah dari Kg. Langkap yang mana rata-rata mereka bekerja sebagai penoreh getah dan pengangkut kelapa sawit. Mak angkat aku sendiri adalah seorang penoreh getah. Bercampur dan berbual dengan mereka telah menyebabkan aku faham sesuatu perkara. Ramai kita bercakap tentang kesusahan rakyat marhaen, keperitan mereka tapi sejauh mana kita sebenarnya faham dan apa yang kita lakukan untuk menghulurkan tangan meringankan beban selain daripada sekadar bercakap dan menyalahkan segala-galanya dibahu kerajaan. Aku menulis sebagai neutral.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pengalaman bercampur gaul bersama pelajar melayu ting. 4 yang ayah-ayah mereka ramai yang bekerja susah, dengan pergaulan sekeliling yang tidak memotivasikan mereka untuk menjadi berjaya telah membuka mata aku untuk sedar, banyak lagi yang perlu kita lakukan selain daripada hanya bercakap. Aku belajar dari Projek Kalsom, yang anak-anak muda ini ramai yang lemah dalam bahasa inggeris dan malu untuk bercakap dalam bi kerana sebaik saja mereka membuka mulut, kawan mereka akan mengejek, "tangan bau budu, ada hati nak cakap English." mentaliti masyarakat kita terutama mereka dikampung masih tertutup dan perlu dikembangkan.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Projek Kalsom ini adalah projek yang pertama untuk aku, dan aku hampir2 untuk tak hadir kerana tengah-tengah roadtrip aku terpaksa membatalkan projek jalan-jalan aku untuk ke Terengganu berprojek Kalsom. Namun aku akan amat menyesali jika aku tidak hadir ke projek kalsom kerana pengalaman yang dialami begitu berharga. Makanan kampung darat, ikan masak singgang. Buah-buahan yang tak pernah putus dengan keramahan oleh seluruh penduduk kampung amat menyentuh hati. Ini semua dapat aku saksikan disaat perpisahan dimana ramai daripada kami dan orang kampung yang bergenang air mata. Betapa tersentuh hati aku bila pakcik yang selalu sama-sama bermakmum dengan aku dimasjid pada hari itu melagukan selawat mengiringi pemergian kami dengan suara yang tersekat-sekat dan mata yang kian merah. Siapa sangka pertemuan selama 4 hari mampu menyentuh hati sebegini?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Untuk menceritakan projek kalsom tidak akan lengkap bagaimanapun tanpa kau alami sendiri. Perkenalan dengan muka baru yang walau sejenak perkenalan, terasa seperti keluarga yang sering mengusik dan menjaga satu sama lain. Paling aku tidak akan lupa, sakit aku diziarahi oleh seluruh kampung dan dihantar keklinik yang agak jauh ke luar kampung. Dijaga dengan baik sebaik mungkin. Semua ini jagaan dari mereka-mereka yang bukannya orang-orang senang. Semua ini menunjukkan, tidak perlu menjadi senang untuk menjadi seorang manusia. hatiperut tidak memerlukan harta.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Semua aktiviti yang kami jalankan untuk anak-anak muda terengganu diKalsom, dengan harapan membuat mereka sedar akan realiti hidup yang memang tidak adil. Seperti yang aku katakan kepada mereka, hidup ini tidak adil. Siapa yang bijak akan diutamakan, yang tidak akan tersisih. Hidup ini tidak adil, mereka yang bekerja dengan keringat menitis dibayar sedikit tetapi mereka yang bekerja dengan berfikir yang terus diraih. Aku ingatkan satu-persatu, betapa hidup tidak adil. Tapi selain daripada terus mencemuh sistem yang tidak adil, aku belajar untuk menjadi sesuatu yang dapat memberikan balik kepada masyarakat dan aku belajar ini di projek Kalsom.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yang menyedihkan aku belajar disini, terdapat dua masjid. Satu masjid kampung dan satu lagi masjid untuk PAS. Ini semua adalah kebodohan. Politik tak perlu memisahkan kita. Pembangkan bukan untuk berperang dengan kerajaan dan sebaliknya. Biar kita berpolitik tetapi sebaik tamat p/raya biar kita sama-sama bekerja untuk negara dan untuk masyarakat. Untuk berpisah kerana politik akan memudahkan negara untuk runtuh. Perbalahan sesama kita tak akan memanfaatkan mana-mana pihak pun. Sudah cukup aku rasa, politik tak perlu menjadi seperti majalah mastika yang menceritakan perkara sensasi saja. Biar anak muda sekarang dapat belajar daripada senario politik sekarang agar kelak bila kita mengganti mereka yang ada sekarang masalah yang sama tidak berulang.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;InsyaAllah projek Kalsom dijadikan pengalaman dan tempat pertama aku untuk menjadi seseorang yang berguna dan memberi kembali kepada masyarakat. Kerana diprojek kalsom juga aku sedar, betapa anak muda Malaysia adalah harapan kita dimasa hadapan kelak.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;*Credits for photos go to volunteer photographers Muhsin and Cindy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Selamat.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/462964950647049354-6979740804600614760?l=reveriemalaya.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/feeds/6979740804600614760/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/2010/08/projek-kalsom-16.html#comment-form' title='9 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/462964950647049354/posts/default/6979740804600614760'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/462964950647049354/posts/default/6979740804600614760'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/2010/08/projek-kalsom-16.html' title='Projek Kalsom 16'/><author><name>reverie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13969396181991597145</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Kcq32haJy4c/TBhKgGS6KdI/AAAAAAAAAIw/ZxNqYWeNMuY/S220/DSC_8358.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Kcq32haJy4c/TGD9BN9y4iI/AAAAAAAAAN4/CZ0WVHV4N4A/s72-c/kalsom+5.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>9</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-462964950647049354.post-4791516068755006716</id><published>2010-08-09T18:20:00.004+08:00</published><updated>2010-08-09T21:09:26.746+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri pengalaman'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri buka minda'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri diari'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri budaya'/><title type='text'>28/7/10 - Kedah to Perlis ke Kelantan</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Kcq32haJy4c/TF_9TnAZm_I/AAAAAAAAANQ/ECkr5FozJek/s1600/DSC00483.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 268px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Kcq32haJy4c/TF_9TnAZm_I/AAAAAAAAANQ/ECkr5FozJek/s400/DSC00483.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5503395783000038386" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Jeram Linang 1&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Kcq32haJy4c/TF_9TFwQenI/AAAAAAAAANI/X-sfLsJElYE/s1600/DSC00470.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 268px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Kcq32haJy4c/TF_9TFwQenI/AAAAAAAAANI/X-sfLsJElYE/s400/DSC00470.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5503395774073961074" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Jeram Linang 2&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Kcq32haJy4c/TF_9S0S9XhI/AAAAAAAAANA/4lyoQw76Y9w/s1600/DSC00362.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 268px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Kcq32haJy4c/TF_9S0S9XhI/AAAAAAAAANA/4lyoQw76Y9w/s400/DSC00362.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5503395769387671058" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Bulan malam di pantai&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Kcq32haJy4c/TF_9SfBQUFI/AAAAAAAAAM4/HhDWeG-WBdo/s1600/DSC00315.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 268px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Kcq32haJy4c/TF_9SfBQUFI/AAAAAAAAAM4/HhDWeG-WBdo/s400/DSC00315.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5503395763676270674" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Abe Afiq bermesra dengan ketam&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Kcq32haJy4c/TF_9SJM-lfI/AAAAAAAAAMw/jFdxfKxXeSY/s1600/DSC00253.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 268px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Kcq32haJy4c/TF_9SJM-lfI/AAAAAAAAAMw/jFdxfKxXeSY/s400/DSC00253.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5503395757819860466" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Pantai Sudara Beach Resort&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Salam.&lt;br /&gt;Telah berhenti seketika dari 4 ogos ke 8 ogos kerana mengikuti Projek Kalsom 2010 di Terengganu. Maka sekarang aku sambung update pasal Perlis and then Kelantan and then Kalsom.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Perlis was a fine state. Lacking in places of interest other than the famous padang besar, once one of the largest snake farm in southeast asia, we decided to give this tiny state a one day go and ate nasi ayam, pulut ayam, kuih terang bulan (semenanjungers call em apambalik) and kuey teow. That night we went back to Alor Janggus, Alor Setar and prepare to drive to Kelantan.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Kelantan. Negeri budak jahat. Ramai orang kata, budak kelantan bermasalah. Kelantan, negeri mundur, pernah juga aku dengar, kelantan negeri kotor. Sampah bersepah. Dan cakap dialek kelantan adalah busuk dan diprejudiskan oleh ramai orang. Maka dengan ini setelah melepak dikelantan selama 3 hari dibawa oleh tour guide Abe Afiq Misai aku ingin membuat beberapa proclamation.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1. Budak jahat, budak nakal setiap negeri ada. Kalau mata dah prejudis pada orang kelantan, akan sentiasa nampak jahat orang kelantan.&lt;br /&gt;2. Negeri Kelantan memang agak kotor tetapi tidak sekotor Klang yang dipenuhi dengan gagak.&lt;br /&gt;3. Dialek Kelantan adalah culture, tradisi dan simbolism yang penting. Jika tak faham, belajar. Bukan susah pun.&lt;br /&gt;4. Semangat assabiyah kelantan dikatakan lebih kuat dibanding dengan negeri lain dan aku agak bersetuju. Cuma walau begitu mereka tetap sempoi dan rakan-rakan kelantan aku semua ok-ok belaka.&lt;br /&gt;5. Kelantan adalah salah satu negeri yang lengkap dalam malaysia bagi aku kerana ada semua keindahan alam semulajadi cuma kurang satu saja iaitu cinema.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3 hari dikelantan aku telah pergi mandi di air terjun Jeram Linang, laut. Aku telah makan pelbagai makanan. BBQ di Sudara beach resort. nasi haikal. ns kerabu, ns dagang, ns berlauk, buah-buahan dokong, durian, binjai. Antara satu benda yang best tentang wakaf che yeh adalah ada kedai cd dan dikedai cd itu ada televisyen dan vcd player untuk test cd. Setiap kali kitorang lalu pas kedai itu dia akan memainkan cd berupa gadis-gadis yang entah siam entah kelantanese berpakaian dress seksi dan berjoget serta kemudian bernyanyi dalam dialek kelantan. hahaha. Attention seeker habis.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Di Kelantan, kota bharu juga ada satu kedai tepi sungai melepak untuk hisap shisha dan 2 hari berturut kami lepak di situ kerana suasana yang relaxing. Aku juga rasakan yang gadis-gadis kelantan ramai yang comel-comel belaka dan rata-rata pakcik makcik kelantan jika senyum kepada mereka, mereka akan membalas dan mereka juga ramah dan murah senyuman.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Setelah pergi ke kelantan, yang mana satu-satunya negeri yang aku pernah lihat papan tanda bertulisan jawi serta papan disebelah jalanraya bertulis dengan tulisan memuji kebesaran Allah, aku merasakan kelantan telah diberi ketidakadilan dalam liputan-liputan yang mengatakan kelantan itu kotor, mundur dan sebagainya. We need to give it a chance ourselves to know the true nature of it. Dan bagi aku, aku akan kembali ke kelantan jika mendapat peluang. Mungkin selepas ini untuk turut serta belajar sekolah pondok dengan Abe Afiq kerana kali ini tak berjaya akibat drpd kesuntukan masa. Sekadar untuk merasakan pengalaman menjadi pelajar sekolah pondok dan turut mendalami ilmu ugama, insyaAllah.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;*Next update is gonna be about Projek Kalsom (motivational programme for form 4 students and also foster family) which has brought big impacts on the way i think.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Selamat.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/462964950647049354-4791516068755006716?l=reveriemalaya.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/feeds/4791516068755006716/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/2010/08/28710-kedah-to-perlis-ke-kelantan.html#comment-form' title='7 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/462964950647049354/posts/default/4791516068755006716'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/462964950647049354/posts/default/4791516068755006716'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/2010/08/28710-kedah-to-perlis-ke-kelantan.html' title='28/7/10 - Kedah to Perlis ke Kelantan'/><author><name>reverie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13969396181991597145</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Kcq32haJy4c/TBhKgGS6KdI/AAAAAAAAAIw/ZxNqYWeNMuY/S220/DSC_8358.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Kcq32haJy4c/TF_9TnAZm_I/AAAAAAAAANQ/ECkr5FozJek/s72-c/DSC00483.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>7</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-462964950647049354.post-4009562303094731608</id><published>2010-08-01T05:37:00.005+08:00</published><updated>2010-08-01T20:25:31.960+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri pengalaman'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri diari'/><title type='text'>26/7/09: Perak ke Kedah</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Kcq32haJy4c/TFSkphslHuI/AAAAAAAAAMo/3Bjk4f_bLqg/s1600/Roadtrip+Semenanjung+810.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 268px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Kcq32haJy4c/TFSkphslHuI/AAAAAAAAAMo/3Bjk4f_bLqg/s400/Roadtrip+Semenanjung+810.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5500202078253162210" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Anak arnab susuan&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Kcq32haJy4c/TFSkpHc5oYI/AAAAAAAAAMg/yB_iIe8DYzM/s1600/Roadtrip+Semenanjung+790.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 268px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Kcq32haJy4c/TFSkpHc5oYI/AAAAAAAAAMg/yB_iIe8DYzM/s400/Roadtrip+Semenanjung+790.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5500202071208075650" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Nasi Kandar Beratur (jam:12.30 pagi)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Kcq32haJy4c/TFSko2IaMSI/AAAAAAAAAMY/hCJbKlKgDJ0/s1600/Roadtrip+Semenanjung+607.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 268px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Kcq32haJy4c/TFSko2IaMSI/AAAAAAAAAMY/hCJbKlKgDJ0/s400/Roadtrip+Semenanjung+607.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5500202066558726434" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Air terjun Sedim&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Kcq32haJy4c/TFSkoRGUbvI/AAAAAAAAAMQ/hJBeAkOThZQ/s1600/Roadtrip+Semenanjung+430.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 268px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Kcq32haJy4c/TFSkoRGUbvI/AAAAAAAAAMQ/hJBeAkOThZQ/s400/Roadtrip+Semenanjung+430.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5500202056617848562" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Baek punya!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Kcq32haJy4c/TFSkn4BckhI/AAAAAAAAAMI/P4c5_drryYI/s1600/Roadtrip+Semenanjung+385.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 268px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Kcq32haJy4c/TFSkn4BckhI/AAAAAAAAAMI/P4c5_drryYI/s400/Roadtrip+Semenanjung+385.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5500202049886523922" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Masjid Zahir Aloq Setaq&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Savvy kuat meluncur laju dilebuhraya Utara-Selatan mengarah ke exit Sungai Petani selatan. Di SP seorang member sedang menanti. Dadanya bidang-bidang dan tatkala tiba di Nasmir sebelah Central Square yang merupakan satu-satunya tempat lepak diSP, rakan itu tiba. He tried to fake smiles but his eyes told us that he's a broken man. Aku ajak dia join roadtrip ke Kelantan, parahnya hati hanya dapat diubati dengan kegembiraan disulam masa yang berlalu membuatkan akal agar lebih merajai hati kerana kita semua patut tahu, hati selalunya membunuh. Kerna hati itu selalunya nafsu.&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Maka rakan ini membawa kami menuju ke gerai tepi jalan berpapan tanda, Nasi Tomato Ayam Rempah (lebih kurang la, aku lupa) yang mana sajian utama adalah nasi tomato dan ayam goreng rempah. Sebelah itu ada stall Char Kuay Teow. Melepak dan berborak sambil-sambil azan berkumandang. Berbagai perkara yang kami borakkan dari racism ke isu-isu menyeronokkan juga menyedihkan. Sambil-sambil itu hati aku mempengaruhi akal untuk mengingatkan memori yang menceriakan di SP di tahun-tahun lepas, tatkala bulan masih belum mengambang diNew Zealand. Semua tu aku sembunyi, layan sorang-sorang sudah. Rakan kami yang patah hati memulakan cerita sedihnya yang memang aku sudah lama jangkakan. Perempuan, amat mudah untuk membunuh semangat lelaki sebagaimana senangnya laki-laki membunuh kepercayaan perempuan. Ini semua lumrah, siapa yang bodoh, dia akan diguna-gunakan. Tapi tabah hai rakan, ini adalah pelajaran yang mahal untuk kau pelajari dan tekadkan dalam hati. Tak semua gadis itu baik, tak semua cinta itu indah dan tak semua hati itu merah. Adakalanya, hati-hati lebih hitam dirajai material-material tangible yang membunuh rohani. Jangan kita layankan hai lelaki jika masih belum punya kita. Dan perempuan, jangan kau layankan lelaki, selagi kau belum punya dia. Aku seorang rakan, tidak aku sanggup untuk memberi berdas-das kata-kata harapan tipu untuk menyedapkan hati kau. Lagi baik aku punahkan hati kau, biar kau menangis sekarang kerana bak apa yang aku kata pada kau, biar kita menangis hari ini agar esoknya kita akan dapat merancang untuk tidak menangis lagi. Setelah bertukar kata-kata dan janji yang entah didengari atau tidak, rakan itu kami tinggalkan dengan harapan agar dia menjadi lelaki yang lebih lelaki dan memiliki kejujuran bertempat.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Sungai Petani yang sekejap, aku lalu dihadapan pondok makan kelapa muda berbumbung hijau, warung dimana hati pertama kali bertemu hati, walau malam tu makanan memang tak sedap tapi ajaibnya cinta mencukupkan segala rasa yang kurang. Ini semua kenangan, yang aku pasang dengan harapan agar dapat terus dikongsi dengan hati yang sama setelah bertahun hidup akan datang. Jika ada ajal, tak salah berangan bukan?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Savvy kuat kemudian terus melajak, meter menyatakan angka lebih 500km yang dilalui. PEN hebat milik ayie nampaknya sudah ketemu seteru. hahaha. Exit ke Alor Setar, kami bersiap sedia untuk mengambil seorang lagi bakal ahli roadtrip yang telah lama berjanji, Shidi di Alor Janggus. Beliau ni merupakan bekas pemain rugby bawah berapa belas tah untuk Malaysia dan kadang-kadang bermain part-time untuk kelab di Kedah. Berbadan tough tetapi dengan hati yang puitis. Baru-baru berjumpa dia, dia sedang menyusukan anak arnab baru lahir yang masih belum boleh buka mata. Petua menjaga arnab menurut beliau adalah untuk asingkan mak dari anak kerana jika tak, anak arnab akan sering mati dipijak oleh ibu arnab yang memang jarang kisah pasal anak mereka. Lebih kurang juga dengan chia-chia murah yang jenis stok pakai buang, bila mengandung buang anak merata-rata. Cuma bezanya arnab tiada akal maka tak dihisab tapi kita manusia diberikan akal maka akan dihisab kelak. Sambil-sambil itu kami singgah bertemu dengan rakan baru yang terasa lama kerana serasi. Berpusing-pusing malam tu selepas makan mi bandung disediakan mak rakan kami. Alor Setar bandar mati dimalam hari cuma dibeberapa tempat dan pasti a200 aku setia mengambil foto detik-detik yang dilalui. Selepas bernyanyi sakan, kami balik untuk bersedia ke destinasi esok hari, Sedim!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Pagi tu singgah makan Nasi Kandar Royale yang ada umph! Dalam ke Sedim singgah sekejap dirumah kelahiran Tun Mahathir Mohammad, alang-alang ternampak papantanda, singgah lah sekejap. Rumah yang biasa-biasa dan tak ada apa-apa yang betul-betul menarik aku berfoto sakan dengan rakan lalu terus ke Sedim. Sedim dekat dengan Kulim, maka kami telefon member yang duduk Kulim, kebetulan dia ada lalu lepak melayan air Mata Kucing ditengah panas dekat dengan UniKL, Kulim. Selepas bergerak, singgah membeli asam dan sampai ke Sedim yang jauhnya suam-suam kuku. Air terjun Sedim yang waktu tu kosong tak ada pengunjung lain memang menyamankan. Puas mandi bergerak ke Kg Pelet untuk Char Kuay Teow spesial disana. Diura-urakan istimewa dan terkenal char kuay teow kg Pelet. Dan aku akui memang menggiurkan. Lepas char kuay teow kami yang dalam perjalanan ke Pulau Pinang lalu didepan restoran Mi Udang Selere Sri Tambang berpakat untuk singgah kejap merasa mi udang yang pernah masuk jalan-jalan cari makan. Udang besar beb, dengan harga modal yang boleh tahan juga. Mi Udangnya biasa-biasa aja bagi aku cuma mungkin istimewa pasal udangnya yang besar. Mi Udang sungai sepetang dalam majalah 3 nampak lagi mengghairahkan bagi aku. Naik ferry ke Penang Island, kami shoot ke Batu Feringghi mencuci mata. Bermacam jualan, makanan dan ragam orang. Yang bawa beca dijalan sempit batu feringghi sampai sesak jalan pun ada. Sekali lagi batu feringghi menggamit kenangan bersiar-siar yang kedua hati pasti ingin ulangi jika mendapat keizinan. Betapa hidup yang singkat selalunya dibazirkan untuk benda yang bukan prioriti. Ah, prioriti kita masing-masing lain bukan? Singgah membeli rantai batu untuk kedua hati dan melepak di Sunset bistro diteman deruan ombak selaku lagu yang setia dengan temponya. Setelah puas melepak kami shoot ke Nasi Kandar Beratur yang buka pukul 9 malam. Waktu itu jam 12.30 am, dan masih ramai yang beratur. Memang kental taukenya buat nama nasi kandar Beratur. Tapi aku lagi rasa yang ramai orang beratur pasal mamak cedok lauk tu sorang ja dan bekerja dengan speed yang agak slow jika dibanding dengan mamak-mamak lain contoh subaidah dan nasmir. Namun kuah kari pekat beraroma rempah menyentap ulu perut memang tak dinafi mampu membuat aku berpeluh ketika makan. Mantap! Sudah selesai kami ke Seberang untuk bernyanyi sakan, menjerit sampai keluar suara bersama rakan. Lalu hari yang memenatkan berakhir, malam itu semua tidur bersedia untuk hari esok dimana Perlis bakal menyusul! Kau nantikan kami, Perlis!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Selamat.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/462964950647049354-4009562303094731608?l=reveriemalaya.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/feeds/4009562303094731608/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/2010/08/26709-perak-ke-kedah.html#comment-form' title='10 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/462964950647049354/posts/default/4009562303094731608'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/462964950647049354/posts/default/4009562303094731608'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://reveriemalaya.blogspot.com/2010/08/26709-perak-ke-kedah.html' title='26/7/09: Perak ke Kedah'/><author><name>reverie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13969396181991597145</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Kcq32haJy4c/TBhKgGS6KdI/AAAAAAAAAIw/ZxNqYWeNMuY/S220/DSC_8358.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Kcq32haJy4c/TFSkphslHuI/AAAAAAAAAMo/3Bjk4f_bLqg/s72-c/Roadtrip+Semenanjung+810.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>10</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-462964950647049354.post-2457514673051599337</id><published>2010-07-30T03:49:00.005+08:00</published><updated>2010-07-30T05:20:20.196+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri pengalaman'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entri diari'/><title type='text'>24/7/09 : Melaka to Perak.</title><content type='html'>It started off in Bukit Baru, Melaka. With a green savvy, few stuffs in my backpack and blessings from beloved parents and the only granny, I started my long unplanned journey to Teluk Intan, Perak. From Ayer Keroh to Bidor using the charged PLUS highway the road seemed long, boring and uninviting. Yet, the thought of starting a journey to discover what this little peninsular have to offer was exciting. Stopped at Rawang for a break and off to Bidor's exit. Then using the signboard with 'Pandu Lalu Mc'Donald's Teluk Intan', the green savvy cruised through the old luckily straight road, skipping past lorries and rubber trees. Without a handphone as an important mean to communicate in this lazy technological world, I stopped at few places to use the public phones and contact a friend that's waiting in Teluk Intan. It was however disappointing to find some of the phone without cables, and not working. Straight into the humble town of Teluk Intan I managed to call a friend and few minutes later he came to guide my way to his home.&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Teluk Intan or once called Teluk Anson was a small town getting bigger with many new buildings in the new town area a few kilometers away from the city centre. Spent a night in the city walking about the famous 'menara condong' which I believe is the heart of Teluk Intan. Went to a pasar malam and spend a few malaysian quids on some sticks of fried prawn balls. I spent the rest of the night reading half of a 200 pages novel after taking some photos of Teluk Intan.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;The next morning, woke up with some durians as breakfast. Ate the famous Ayam Goreng Rempah in teluk intan. Then we set up to the next location, an hour away from us, Ipoh. On our way to Ipoh I saw a board with 'Kellie's castle' written on and decided to stop by to say hi to the infamous, said to be wandering ghost of Lord Kellie. He's the owner of the castle which is actually more like a mansion. The mansion is unfinished because the lord died before he had the chance to live in it. The scenery was somehow unique and relaxing with winds and warm clouds accompanying us while we took our steps around the unfinished mansion. Came after a newly wed chinese couple taking their wedding photos there. It was an okay experience but I'd not spent another Rm4 to come to the castle again.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Then we set off again to Ipoh as it began to drizzle. We arrived in Ipoh in a friend's rented house. Meet up some old Ipoh friends and chatted for quite sometime before we played football together. That night, we ate the long awaited Ikan Pari Bakar of sarini tersorok, near Kinta, Perak. It tasted exactly the same as the last time I tried it early last year. Delicious and satisfying. I slept satisfied that night.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;When the sun rises, we prepared to go out to eat and decided to stop at Rahman's Nasi Kandar. Well known for students of ip ipoh. I gobbled a crispy tosai with parpu and after finishing continued our sight-seeing journey into the town of Ipoh. Some places changed with few new buildings erected. The sight-seeing is then completed with a nice plate of Nasi Ayam Merah or more known as Nasi Ganja in the town of Ipoh. On our way back to my friend's house we stopped to buy some cekodok and cucur udang in front of IP ipoh. These were all places we've been through countless times when we studied in Ipoh. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Then I continued my paths to the next stop, Sungai Petani. Till next update.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;*Some pictures of Perak can be found &lt;a href="http://fakeoriginality.blogspot.com/2010/07/little-
