Tempayan yang retak!

Seorang tukang air di India memiliki dua tempayan besar; masing-masing bergantung pada kedua hujung sebuah pikulan, yang dibawanya menyilang pada bahunya. Salah satu dari tempayan itu retak, sedangkan tempayan yang satu lagi tidak. Jika tempayan yang tidak retak itu selalu dapat membawa air penuh setelah perjalanan panjang dari mata air ke rumah majikannya, tempayan retak itu hanya dapat membawa air setengah penuh.

Selama dua tahun, hal ini terjadi setiap hari. Si tukang air hanya dapat membawa satu setengah tempayan air ke rumah majikannya. Tentu saja si tempayan yang tidak retak merasa bangga akan prestasinya, kerana dapat menunaikan tugasnya dengan sempurna. Namun si tempayan retak yang malang itu merasa malu sekali akan ketidaksempurnaannya dan merasa sedih sebab ia hanya dapat memberikan setengah dari paras yang seharusnya dapat diberikannya.

Setelah dua tahun tertekan oleh kegagalan pahit ini, tempayan retak itu berkata kepada si tukang air, "Saya sungguh malu pada diri saya sendiri, dan saya ingin mohon maaf kepadamu."

"Kenapa?" tanya si tukang air.

"Kenapa kamu merasa malu?"

"Saya hanya mampu, selama dua tahun ini, membawa setengah paras air dari yang seharusnya dapat saya bawa kerana adanya retakan pada sisi saya telah membuat air yang saya bawa bocor sepanjang jalan menuju rumah majikan kita. Kerana cacatku itu, saya telah membuatmu rugi," kata tempayan itu.

Si tukang air merasa kasihan pada si tempayan retak, dan dalam belas kasihannya, ia berkata, "Jika kita kembali ke rumah majikan besok, aku ingin kamu memperhatikan bunga-bunga indah di sepanjang jalan."

Benar, ketika mereka naik ke bukit, si tempayan retak memperhatikan dan baru menyedari bahawa ada bunga-bunga indah di sepanjang sisi jalan, dan itu membuatnya sedikit terhibur. Namun pada akhir perjalanan, ia kembali sedih kerana separuh air yang dibawanya telah bocor, dan kembali tempayan retak itu meminta maaf pada si tukang air atas kegagalannya.

Si tukang air berkata kepada tempayan itu, "Apakah kamu memperhatikan adanya bunga-bunga di sepanjang jalan di sisimu tapi tidak ada bunga di sepanjang jalan di sisi tempayan yang lain yang tidak retak itu? Itu kerana aku selalu menyedari akan cacatmu dan aku memanfaatkannya.

Aku telah menanam benih-benih bunga di sepanjang jalan di sisimu, dan setiap hari jika kita berjalan pulang dari mata air, kamu mengairi benih-benih itu. Selama dua tahun ini aku telah dapat memetik bunga-bunga indah itu untuk menghias meja majikan kita. Tanpa kamu sebagaimana kamu ada, majikan kita tak akan dapat menghias rumahnya seindah sekarang."

Setiap dari kita memiliki cacat dan kekurangan kita sendiri. Kita semua adalah tempayan retak. Tuhan maha bijaksana, tak ada yang terbuang percuma. Jangan takut akan kekuranganmu. Kenalilah kelemahanmu dan Ketahuilah, di dalam kelemahan kita, kita menemukan kekuatan kita.

jom jalan-jalan

Gambar di atas ialah di jambatan gantung kat Air Terjun Chamang. Yang terletak di Bentong, Pahang Darul Makmur. Jaraknya dari Kuala Lumpur ialah dalam sejam lebih sahaja. Jemputlah ke sana untuk beriadah bersama keluarga tercinta. Bagi yang belum berkeluarga silalah menumpang keluarga orang lain ataupun pergi bersama rakan-rakan anda. Untuk lihat lebih banyak gambar klik sini Memang best la g sana...walau pun tak mandi, cuma main-main air sambil menangkap lepas anak-anak ikan. Tak mandi sebab menjaga dua orang anak yang masih kecil dan perlukan perhatian. Apapun, keindahan alam ini perlu dijaga. Lihat keindahan alam, secara tak langsung membuktikan kebesaran Allah!!!

Nota: jom jalan-jalan !!!

Beauty of Maths!!!

1 x 8 + 1 = 9
12 x 8 + 2 = 98
123 x 8 + 3 = 987
1234 x 8 + 4 = 9876
12345 x 8 + 5 = 98765
123456 x 8 + 6 = 987654
1234567 x 8 + 7 = 9876543
12345678 x 8 + 8 = 98765432
123456789 x 8 + 9 = 987654321




1 x 9 + 2 = 11
12 x 9 + 3 = 111
123 x 9 + 4 = 1111
1234 x 9 + 5 = 11111
12345 x 9 + 6 = 111111
123456 x 9 + 7 = 1111111
1234567 x 9 + 8 = 11111111
12345678 x 9 + 9 = 111111111
123456789 x 9 +10= 1111111111


9 x 9 + 7 = 88
98 x 9 + 6 = 888
987 x 9 + 5 = 8888
9876 x 9 + 4 = 88888
98765 x 9 + 3 = 888888
987654 x 9 + 2 = 8888888
9876543 x 9 + 1 = 88888888
98765432 x 9 + 0 = 888888888


Brilliant, isn't it?


And finally, take a look at this symmetry:


1 x 1 = 1
11 x 11 = 121
111 x 111 = 12321
1111 x 1111 = 1234321
11111 x 11111 = 123454321
111111 x 111111 = 12345654321
1111111 x 1111111 = 1234567654321
11111111 x 11111111 = 123456787654321
111111111 x 111111111=12345678987654321




So Amazing!!!!

Cerita dan cerita..

Alhamdulillah...dalam masa dua tiga hari banyak sangat perkara berlaku. Semuanya dalam tempoh masa yang cepat. Dan sedar tak sedar dah nak masuk bulan 8. Lagi dua hari je pulak tu.Usia pun dah makin meningkat tak lama lagi. Last week dapat sms dr editor minta saya submit artikel dan cerpen. Wa..sedihnya tak sempat nak siapkan lagi. Tengokla cuba disiapkan secepat mungkin dan hantar juga secepat mungkin.

Tgk gambar tu, gambar hotel penginapan sepanjang saya kat JB.Pendek kata memang best la...dapat jalan-jalan cari makan, dapat gunakan segala kemudahan kat hotel secara percuma. Jangan jeles!!!

Last weekend duk subang, dapat lepaskan rindu kat budak2 dua orang tu. Rindu kat mak ayah je tak lepas2 lagi. Sibuk duk suruh saya balik perak..bukan tak nak balik, cuma 'tangan' ni je tak sampai. Lagipun, mak ayah dah nak dtg sini nyah konvo 13 Ogos ni.

Apapun, ada banyak perkara kena selesaikan walau tangan ni tak sampai. Banyak perkara juga kena fikirkan. Dan banyak perkara juga kena siapkan. Semoga Allah permudahkan segala urusan..ameen ya rabb!!


Note : tlg doakan ye!!!

Minggu Sains Teknologi dan ICT Negeri Johor..

Alhamdulillah..sekarang dah kat KL. Penat? Memang penat..tp alhamdulillah..banyak berjalan jauh pengalaman. Sepanjang 7 hari kat JB memang best..dapat banyak ilmu, dapat ramai kawan, dapat peminat eh silap taip hehehe Terima kasih diucapkan kepada semua...!!

Note : Rasa macam naik je berat badan sekilo dua hehehehe

MISTI at Persada, JB

Salam...

I'm now at MISTI (Minggu Sains Teknologi dan ICT) Negeri Johor di Persada, JB. (19-25 July 2007).

Segelas air.

Suatu pagi, seorang Guru berdiri di hadapan kelas sambil mengangkat segelas air. Dia bertanya Kepada murid-muridnya: " Cuba teka , berapa berat gelas ini?"

Jawab murid-murid yang duduk di hadapan kelas, "50 gram."
"saya rasa mungkin 100 gram," jawab seorang pelajar perempuan. Bangun pula seorang pelajar lelaki di tengah-tengah kelas, "Jawapannya mesti 150 gram, Cik Gu!" Beberapa orang pelajar lagi bangun untuuk memberi jawapan, jawapan mereka berkisar antara 50 ke 150 gram.

Siapakah yang berjaya memberi jawapan yang betul? Adakah berat gelas itu 200 gram? 300 gram, atau 410 gram?

Jawab Guru, "Jawapan kamu mungkin betul dan mungkin juga salah! Sebenarnya, berat segelas air tidak begitu penting sebab ianya bergantung kepada beberapa lama kamu memegangnya. Jika kamu pegang gelas ini satu minit , tak jadi masaalah, kalau satu jam, tanhgan kamu akan sakit. Sehari! kamu perlu di usung ke ambulans."Ketawa murid-muridnya mendengar kata-katan Guru mereka.

Sambung Guru tersebut, "Murid-murid sekelian, berat gelas air ini tidak akan berubah tapi semakin lama kamu memegangnya ia akan menjadi semakin berat. Apa yang patut kamu lakukan ialah letakkan gelas tadi kebawah, rehat beberapa minit dan sambungnya kembali.

"Begitu juga dengan kehidupan seharian kita, jika kita ada masaalah, selesaikannya secepat mungkin. Kalau kita masih gagal menyelesaikannya, rehat sebentar. Lupakan masaalah ini untuk seketika. Jangan terlalu memikirkan kerana ia akan menyebabkan fikiran kita tidak tenang dan terganggu. Ketenangan amat penting sebelum kita memikirkan masaalah sendiri."

Moga mendapat manfaat bersama ....

i'm not available...

sorry cant update...
I quite bz rite now...want to finish all my task/job before going to honeymoon ops...vacation...ops correction again.I'm going to south.for a week!!! 19th-25th of july!!


Note : anybody from south want to meet me??? :D

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Entrance Fee - RM2

Pakaian - Swimming suit with tights

Waktu2 Ladies / Ladies Session

a. Monday ( 12pm-2pm), (8pm-10pm)

b. Tuesday (5pm-7pm)

c. Wednesday (12pm-2pm), (8pm-10pm)

d. Thursday (5pm-7pm)

e. Friday (5pm-7pm)

f. Saturday (5pm-7pm)

g. Sunday (2pm-4pm)

Note : let's go to swim....!!

Why Not Dating Dulu Baru Kahwin?

here is a glossary at the end of this article on certain scientific terms and Malay terms which may help the reader to understand the article better.

When you hear about “kahwin dulu, baru dating“, probably in your mind you will be thinking about a guy with a kopiah 24 hours on his head marrying a girl who wear the tudung labuh or even a niqaab, better known as purdah at Malaysia. Your first instinct will also probably be, “I pray, I fast, I wear tudung, but I am not these extreme ‘alim people. I need to get to know my partner for life inside out. So, I need to date him, to know whether we are serasi or not.” I perfectly understand your concern. I understand that you are not ‘crazy’ enough to just jump into a marriage without knowing who your partner really is. So in the end, this kahwin dulu baru dating trend becomes an exclusive thing among people who are active in dakwah and jemaah, while the muslim masses are walking together holding hands or ‘hanging out’ at restaurants at KLCC, Mid Valley, etc. Some of these people are perhaps incurable, but I believe some just don’t get how kahwin dulu baru dating can actually work. I will try my best to show you that kahwin dulu baru dating actually works, and romantic love is hogwash in supposedly spotting the ideal partner for a long-lasting marriage.

Firstly, I have heard about people mocking about those who had successful marriage through matchmake as just being ‘lucky’. To set the record straight, according to National Geographic, the divorce rate of the Western world which embraces total romantic love is around 50 to 60% - a healthy percentage indeed! So, even if you start your marriage with romantic love, the probability for it to last untill death-do-you-apart is less than half. I would like to call upon those ardent defender of romantic love to pause for awhile and enjoy this statistics before proceeding to conjure some pseudo theories about the advantages of having romantic love - you can’t fool the figures. I would say that the western society has 1001 flaws in keeping a safe household and those ‘other factors’ surely contribute to the statistics, but the fact still remain that romantic love fails to spot these people’s partner for life. According to a study done by Utusan Malaysia, our country also has a divorce rate of 54% and our society is practically westernised with majority embracing romantic love - although maybe not the type that ends up on the bed. So it’s the same old story, statistics wise.

Some people say we need to know whether we have ‘chemistry’ through countless dates, hang outs, and spending a lot of time together. Going through a person’s ‘CV’, peer opinion or recommendation, observing her/him in public, and a brief get-to-know session are just not enough. We know that during this courting period, everyone pijak semut pon tak mati, and you will always forgive your partner’s shortcoming no matter how big they are, simply because you are madly in love. How many times have we heard about glitch-free Pakwe 1.0 who eventually turned into Husband 1.0 with lots of viruses and trojan horses? Also note that I am not saying go into a marriage with someone you know you don’t like, but I am saying you don’t need these romantic craps to know a person through and through. The fact is you won’t really know a person unless you live, eat, and sleep with him or her.

I wonder how Amazon.com can make big bucks, if everyone really insist in browsing through a book before buying it. Worst still, this book has a lot of pages written in magic invisible ink that will only show up after you buy it! So you never really know what you are buying. What if good reviews, high-praise critics, and best sellers are not enough for one to make a decision to buy a book? I admit that drawing an analogy between life partner with a book just doesn’t make sense at all. Let’s get scientific. So what really is this thing called love? Anthropologist Helen Fisher, a professor at Rutgers University, has conducted an extensive research on the biochemical pathways of love in all its manifestations: lust, romance, attachment, the way they start and wane, etc. Here is part of what her research is about:-

“After doing MRI on the brain of two lovers - they had been ‘madly in love’ for seven months during that time - she found out that parts of brain linked up to reward and pleasure - the ventral tegnmental area and the caudate nucleus- lit up. What excited Fisher most was not so much finding a location, an address, for love as tracing its specific chemical pathways. Love lights up the caudate nucleus because it is home to a dense spread of receptors for a neurotransmitter called dopamine, which Fisher came to think of as part of our own endogenous love potion. In the right proportions, dopamine creates intense energy, exhilaration, focused attention, and motivation to win rewards. It is why, when you are newly in love, you can stay up all night, watch the sun rise, run a race, ski fast down a slope ordinarily too steep for your skill. Love makes you bold, makes you bright, makes you run real risks, which you sometimes survive, and sometimes you don’t.” [The Chemistry of Love, National Geographic]

Sounds familiar? Mind you that mentally-ill people also shows high amount of dopamine in their brain, and scientists cannot tell apart one who is mentally-ill and one who is ‘madly in love’ by just MRIing their brains. Cool, right? The meaning of ‘madly in love’ is more real than what we think of, as the brain chemistry of infatuation is indeed akin to mental illness. Tak heran la, pijak semut pon tak mati, lautan api pon akan ku redah, dan gunung tinggi mana pon akan ku daki. Do you think an orang gila can make a sound judgement? The fact is, when you are in deep romantic obsession, you just want to win rewards from your partner due to the excessive dopamines, not objectively finding faults in him or her as you claim. Of course nobody is perfect, there is no point in finding every faults in your partner, and supposedly marriage is about reconciling differences and accepting the fact that your partner is another human being, inescapable from making mistakes. What I am stressing here is that dating and hanging out are for mere pleasures, not finding the right partner. How can something that is similar to mental-illness becomes a reliable way to make your decision of a lifetime? So am I still not convincing? Let’s hear further what Dr. Helen Fischer has to say about the chemistry of love:-

“Most scientist who studied love, divide it into three segments: lust, romantic obsession, and attachment. The first stage of it which is lust which is actually the sex drive. One of the things that men like about women is their waist to hip ratio, which according to scientists, the desirable waist to hip ratio is point seven. woman are attracted to man with broad shoulders and rugged features, all showing a great deal of testosterone. The second stage of love is romantic passion, and the same chemcals are involved when a person is in love is when they are high on Amphetamine [dopamine stimulus] , and the scientists are speculating that it ends after about four years, and that’s because that is the amount of time that it takes for a human baby to become ‘viable’. And two things happen, either the couple separate or they stay together in long term relationship. That third stage is called attachment and there is a different chemical in brain that is involved in a long-term relationship, which is called oxytocin, and that causes one to feel very calm and soothe. Emily and Brian of Ohio had been married for 60 years and have twenty children. They were to me sort of perfect example of this long-term relationship attachment.” [The Chemistry of Love, National Geographic]

So, according to scientists, this romantic passion can only last at maximum for four years, but they don’t quite know why yet - biology is always vague. Some say that the human body just can’t stand the state of high in dopamine for so long because it deteriorates the body, while some gave the theory that four years is the maximum time span for a couple to have their first baby, so they need to get ’serious’. Whatever it is, no wonder a lot of people complain that their once glitch-free Pakwe 1.0 turned into Husband 1.0 with lots of viruses and trojan horses. Another thing to point out is that couples who are in long-term relationship show high amount of oxytocin in their brains, which is a totally different chemical from dopamine. Oxytocin is also present when you have good relationships with your parents, brothers, sisters, and friends. So what makes a relationship last long is this feeling of attachment to your partner like you have for your parents, friends, and family, not the romantic passion during courtship. It is interesting to note that oxytocin causes one to feel very calm and soothe, while dopamine creates intense energy, exhilaration, focused attention, and motivation to win rewards. There is no similarity at all between these two chemicals; in fact, their purposes are actually the opposite to each other. So only a fool would think that romantic passion is the mechanism that should be used to find a suitable partner. It is like trying to use a hammer to cut your finger nail.

“And those who say: “Our Lord! Bestow on us from our wives and our offspring the comfort of our eyes, and make us leaders of those who have Taqwa.'’ [Qur’an 25:74]

Is qurrota a’yun (comfort of our eyes) mentioned in the Qur’an, the feeling of calm and soothe (triggered by oxytocin) that is presence when a relationship is based on attachment? Finally, let’s listen to what Jody Cobb, the photographer of National Geographic magazine who wrote the article The Chemistry of Love, has to say about her impossible task: Photographing love:-

“I didn’t want to just photograph weddings, that I think is what is expected. I didn’t want to do a valentine, I didn’t want to do a hallmark card. The notion of love because anyone who has ever really been in love knows that, that’s not the reality. So I was very much interested to show real life and cultures all over the world. And women are becoming educated and wanting to make their own choices in mate selection, things are changing really fast. And just like in the West, where we trully believe in love and romance and happily ever after, we still have a 50-60% divorce rate.” [The Chemistry of Love, National Geographic]

It is pretty clear now that dating dulu baru kahwin doesn’t come even close to ensure a happily-ever-after relationship. Ironically, those ‘extreme ‘alim people’ are the ones who understand real love and real life, not those Casanovas. Do note that I am not saying if you kahwin baru baru dating then your marriage will last forever, but if you dating dulu baru kahwin then you are doom to failure. I am simply pointing out that romantic passion has nothing to do about spoting the ‘right person’ in your life. It is also true that incompatibility may happen between two persons, like there is just no chemistry between the two of you. The point is, you don’t need to go on countless hang outs to spot that. You don’t need to overload your neuropathways with excessive dopamine to find the supposedly elusive chemistry. It is common sense: You sit down and talk with a person for 15 minutes and you’ll know whether you can get along with that person or not. I am talking in general, meaning even with a stranger who you want to make him as your friend, not just your life partner. As for the opposite gender, more than that, it is the evil desire from your nafs. Of course, if you are still in doubt, go through the person’s ‘CV’, find peer opinion or recommendation about that person, observe her/him in public, and so on and so forth, as long as it is according to the syariah. Whatever you do, don’t get mentally-ill. In the end, you still have to ride all the gelora after the romantic passion dies out and you dah kahwin - Husband 1.0 and Wife 1.0. Last piece of advice: Ride them with oxytocin, not dopamine, ok? Above all, bring along taqwa, inshaAllah it will be pretty smooth sailing.

“I love you because of your religion. If you let go of your religion, then I have to let go of my love for you” Imam Nawawi.

Glossary:

Scientific terms:

Neurotransmitters - are chemicals that are used to relay, amplify and modulate electrical signals between a neuron (brain/nervous system cells) and another cell.

Dopamine - Dopamine is a neurotrasmitter and it has many functions in the brain. Most importantly, dopamine is central to the reward system. Dopamine is commonly associated with the pleasure system of the brain, providing feelings of enjoyment and reinforcement to motivate a person proactively to perform certain activities. Dopamine is released by naturally rewarding experiences such as food and sex. Disruption to the dopamine system has also been strongly linked to psychosis and schizoprenia, with abnormally high dopamine action apparently leading to these conditions. Now you can see the link between sex/romantic passion and psychosis.

Oxytocin - Oxytocin is a mamalian hormone that also acts as a neurotransmitter in the brain. In the brain, oxytocin is involved in social recognition and bonding, and might be involved in the formation of trust between people. Oxytocin is also an important hormone for women for various reasons, but in this article I am focusing on the function of oxytocin in the brain.

MRI - MRI stands for Magnetic resonance imaging, which is a non-invasive method used to render images of the inside of an object. In this particular case, it is used to render images inside of the brain.

Malay terms:

kahwin dulu baru dating - A loose translation would be: Marriage first, only then comes dating.

dating dulu baru kawhin - A loose translation would be: Dating first, only then comes marriage

tudung - hijab

serasi - compatible

pijak semut pon tak mati - Literally it means: Even if you step on an ant, the ant won’t die. What it actually means is someone who control his behavior to give a false, good impression during dating.

pakwe - boyfriend

Tak heran la, pijak semut pon tak mati, lautan api pon akan ku redah, dan gunung tingga mana pon akan ku daki - Literally it means: No wonder he steps on an ant, the ant won’t die, and he will say, “I will cross a fiery ocean for your sake, I will climb the tallest mountain for your sake.” I guess you get the meaning already

References:

1. Slater, Lauren. The Chemistry of Love. National Geographic Magazine, February 2006
2. Fisher, Helen. Why We Love: The Nature and Chemistry of Romantic Love. Henry Holt and Company, 2004.

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You are always there..!!

You are Allah..
You are always there..
When I need u to cry and share..

Musim Durian...!!!

Awal2 pagi sampai pejabat tadi ayah dah telefon, tanya khabar. Dan tanyakan kepada saya adakah saya balik minggu ni. Jawapannya TIDAK. InsyaAllah mungkin minggu depan saya balik itupun kalau tiada aral melintang.

Saya sedar, agak jarang menelefon mereka seminggu dua ni. Keadaan ini memaksa mereka yg menelefon saya. Timbul rasa bersalah kat hati ni. Maaf mak ayah...!!!

Cerita pasal durian, sekarang memang musim durian kat perak tu. Ikut kata ayah ada la dalam 19 batang pokok yang berbuah kat dusun di Chenderiang tu. Banyak durian, boleh la buat tempoyak hehehe

Dijemput kepada sesapa teman rapat yang nak merasa durian perak boleh la singgah ke KD. Tp kena bgtau dulu...senang nak inform kepada orang yang jaga dusun tu.


Note : makan durian tak penting sangat...jumpa mak ayah tu yg lagi penting..rindu kat diorang!!!

Tear of the mother..!

How do u feel when apart from someone that you love most...?? Like your sweetheart, your parents, your brother or sister, or anyone that always in your heart...!!

belajar rerajin...

Nur,
We're always praying the best for u...May Allah will always guide you and in His bless always...ameen!!

Nur,
We're right here waiting for u...!!!

Nur,
Take care always...and remember Allah always...!!



Note : --->UMS on last 30 June 2007!

Life must go on..

Yesterday...070707..what a wonderful date..maybe its become a unforgetable date for someone where the day of full of meaningful. Am I rite?

For me...everyday was the same...nothing special for me...unless its very special..such as...birthday, anniversary, etc..

Life must go on...yup life must go on..either we are happy..sad...

Today, tazwat was register at Politeknik Behrang..I'm forget the full name of the poli...sorry!!!
InsyaALlah...i'll upload all the photo soon..

Note: nak g subang ni..

Wealth, Success And Love

A woman came out of her house and saw 3 old men with long white beards sitting in her front yard. She did not recognize them.

She said "I don't think I know you, but you must be hungry. Please come in and have something to eat."

"Is the man of the house home?", they asked.

"No", she said. "He's out."

"Then we cannot come in," they replied.

In the evening when her husband came home, she told him what had happened.

"Go tell them I am home and invite them in!"

The woman went out and invited the men in.

"We do not go into a House together" they replied.

"Why is that?" she wanted to know.

One of the old men explained: "His name is Wealth," he said pointing to one of his friends, and then pointed to another one, "He is Success, and I am Love."

Then he added, "Now go in and discuss with your husband which one of us you want in your home."

The woman went in and told her husband what was said. Her husband was overjoyed.

"How nice!!," he said.

"Since that is the case, let us invite Wealth. Let him come and fill our home with wealth!"

His wife disagreed. "My dear, why don't we invite Success?"

Their daughter-in-law was listening from the other corner of the house.

She jumped in with her own suggestion: "Would it not be better to invite Love? Our home will then be filled with love!"

"Let us heed our daughter-in-law's advice," said the husband to his wife.

"Go out and invite Love to be our guest."

The woman went out and asked the 3 old men, "Which one of you is Love? Please come in and be our guest."

Love got up and started walking toward the house. The other 2 also got up and followed him.

Surprised, the lady asked Wealth and Success: "I only invited Love, Why are you coming in?"

The old men replied together: "If you had invited Wealth or Success, the other two of us would've stayed out, but since you invited Love, wherever He goes, we go with him. Wherever there is Love, there is also Wealth and Success!!!!!!"

My wish for you...

Where there is pain, I wish you peace and mercy. Where there is self-doubting, I wish you a renewed confidence in Your Ability to work through them.

Where there is tiredness, or exhaustion, I wish you understanding, patience, and renewed strength.

Where there is fear, I wish you love, and courage.

Muslim in UK Shadow Cabinet

The UK Tory leadership appointed a Muslim woman as a minister in its shadow cabinet.

CAIRO — A few days after Prime Minister Gordon Brown named two Muslim ministers in his new cabinet, the UK Tory leadership appointed a Muslim woman as a minister in its shadow cabinet, The Daily Telegraph reported on Tuesday, July 3.

"These changes strengthen the shadow cab team and harness new talent within the party," Conservatives Party leader David Cameron said.

He reshuffled his top team to include Sayeeda Warsi, who has Pakistani background, as community cohesion minister.

Cameron stressed that the decision aims at enhancing the opposition's cohesion drive.

"Two of the big challenges facing this country today are security and community cohesion."

Brown has named two British Muslims in his diverse cabinet.

Labour MP Shahid Malik was named as a minister serving under Secretary of State for the Department for International Development (DFID).

MP Sadiq Khan was also appointed to be a government assistant responsible for parliamentary affairs.

Britain is home to a sizable Muslim minority of nearly 2 million.

The majority of the multi-ethnic minority has Indian, Pakistani and Bengali backgrounds.

• Tory's first

Warsi is the first Muslim minister to join the Conservatives shadow cabinet.

Although not well known to the public, she has a high profile in the opposition party.

Warsi has been Vice Chairman of the Conservative Party with responsibility for Cities since 2005.

She had served as a special adviser on community relations to former Tory leader Michael Howard.

At the 2005 election, she was the first Muslim woman to be selected by the Tories to fight a parliamentary seat.

She lost in her home town of Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, to Labour's Malik.

Warsi, married with a daughter, will now be given a peerage to enable her to enter the shadow cab.

A solicitor by profession, she has worked for the Home Office and the Crown Prosecution Service.

Warsi has also worked overseas for the Ministry of Law in Pakistan, on a forced marriage project with the Foreign Office, and in Kashmir as Chair of the Savayra Foundation, a women's empowerment charity.

"There has been a terrible myth created that it's an Asian issue, worse still, a Muslim issue," she told the BBC.

"There is no place for it, certainly in Islam."

Warsi is fluent in Punjabi, Urdu and Gujarati, which would help her to reach out to the large Asian community.

The 36-year-old mother was dubbed by BBC Radio London "as the most influential Asian woman in British politics today."

Info : IslamOnline

Life Returns by Dawud Wharnsby Ali

The earth is hard

Soil is cracked
Bleached and blistered
Trees bend wilt and weary
Ground gets dusty and dry

Allah hears and the rain comes
Wetting and washing the world
Flushing and flooding the clay
Spilling and splashing
Life returns

Allahu Akbar

We are the cracked earth
The thirsty dirty spirit of man
If we gasp we will be heard
Forgiveness falls like rain on our hands

Allah hears and the rain comes
Wetting and washing the world
Flushing and flooding the clay
Spilling and splashing
Life returns

Allahu Akbar

40 FACTS ABOUT SLEEP YOU PROBABLY DIDN'T KNOW...

(OR WERE TOO TIRED TO THINK ABOUT)

-The record for the longest period without sleep is 18 days, 21 hours, 40 minutes during a rocking chair marathon. The record holder reported hallucinations, paranoia, blurred vision, slurred speech and memory and concentration lapses.

- It's impossible to tell if someone is really awake without close medical supervision. People can take cat naps with their eyes open without even being aware of it.

- Anything less than five minutes to fall asleep at night means you're sleep deprived. The ideal is between 10 and 15 minutes, meaning you're still tired enough to sleep deeply, but not so exhausted you feel sleepy by day.

- A new baby typically results in 400-750 hours lost sleep for parents in the first year

- One of the best predictors of insomnia later in life is the development of bad habits from having sleep disturbed by young children.

- The continuous brain recordings that led to the discovery of REM (rapid eye-movement) sleep were not done until 1953, partly because the scientists involved were concerned about wasting paper.

- REM sleep occurs in bursts totalling about 2 hours a night, usually beginning about 90 minutes after falling asleep.

- Dreams, once thought to occur only during REM sleep, also occur (but to a lesser extent) in non-REM sleep phases. It's possible there may not be a single moment of our sleep when we are actually dreamless.

- REM dreams are characterised by bizarre plots, but non-REM dreams are repetitive and thought-like, with little imagery - obsessively returning to a suspicion you left your mobile phone somewhere, for example.

- Certain types of eye movements during REM sleep correspond to specific movements in dreams, suggesting at least part of the dreaming process is analagous to watching a film

- No-one knows for sure if other species dream but some do have sleep cycles similar to humans.

- Elephants sleep standing up during non-REM sleep, but lie down for REM sleep.

- Some scientists believe we dream to fix experiences in long-term memory, that is, we dream about things worth remembering. Others reckon we dream about things worth forgetting - to eliminate overlapping memories that would otherwise clog up our brains.

- Dreams may not serve any purpose at all but be merely a meaningless byproduct of two evolutionary adaptations - sleep and consciousness.

- REM sleep may help developing brains mature. Premature babies have 75 per cent REM sleep, 10 per cent more than full-term bubs. Similarly, a newborn kitten puppy rat or hampster experiences only REM sleep, while a newborn guinea pig (which is much more developed at birth) has almost no REM sleep at all.

- Scientists have not been able to explain a 1998 study showing a bright light shone on the backs of human knees can reset the brain's sleep-wake clock.

- British Ministry of Defence researchers have been able to reset soldiers' body clocks so they can go without sleep for up to 36 hrs. Tiny optical fibres embedded in special spectacles project a ring of bright white light (with a spectrum identical to a sunrise) around the edge of soldiers' retinas, fooling them into thinking they have just woken up. The system was first used on US pilots during the bombing of Kosovo.

- Seventeen hours of sustained wakefulness leads to a decrease in performance equivalent to a blood alcohol-level of 0.05%.

- The 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill off Alaska, the Challenger space shuttle disaster and the Chernobyl nuclear accident have all been attributed to human errors in which sleep-deprivation played a role.

- The NRMA estimates fatigue is involved in one in 6 fatal road accidents.

- Exposure to noise at night can suppress immune function even if the sleeper doesn’t wake. Unfamiliar noise, and noise during the first and last two hours of sleep, has the greatest disruptive effect on the sleep cycle.

- The "natural alarm clock" which enables some people to wake up more or less when they want to is caused by a burst of the stress hormone adrenocorticotropin. Researchers say this reflects an unconscious anticipation of the stress of waking up.

- Some sleeping tablets, such as barbiturates suppress REM sleep, which can be harmful over a long period.

- In insomnia following bereavement, sleeping pills can disrupt grieving.

- Tiny luminous rays from a digital alarm clock can be enough to disrupt the sleep cycle even if you do not fully wake. The light turns off a "neural switch" in the brain, causing levels of a key sleep chemical to decline within minutes.

- To drop off we must cool off; body temperature and the brain's sleep-wake cycle are closely linked. That's why hot summer nights can cause a restless sleep. The blood flow mechanism that transfers core body heat to the skin works best between 18 and 30 degrees. But later in life, the comfort zone shrinks to between 23 and 25 degrees - one reason why older people have more sleep disorders.

- A night on the grog will help you get to sleep but it will be a light slumber and you won't dream much.

- After five nights of partial sleep deprivation, three drinks will have the same effect on your body as six would when you've slept enough.

- Humans sleep on average around three hours less than other primates like chimps, rhesus monkeys, squirrel monkeys and baboons, all of whom sleep for 10 hours.

- Ducks at risk of attack by predators are able to balance the need for sleep and survival, keeping one half of the brain awake while the other slips into sleep mode.

- Ten per cent of snorers have sleep apnoea, a disorder which causes sufferers to stop breathing up to 300 times a night and significantly increases the risk of suffering a heart attack or stroke.

- Snoring occurs only in non-REM sleep

- Teenagers need as much sleep as small children (about 10 hrs) while those over 65 need the least of all (about six hours). For the average adult aged 25-55, eight hours is considered optimal

- Some studies suggest women need up to an hour's extra sleep a night compared to men, and not getting it may be one reason women are much more susceptible to depression than men.

- Feeling tired can feel normal after a short time. Those deliberately deprived of sleep for research initially noticed greatly the effects on their alertness, mood and physical performance, but the awareness dropped off after the first few days.

- Diaries from the pre-electric-light-globe Victorian era show adults slept nine to 10 hours a night with periods of rest changing with the seasons in line with sunrise and sunsets.

- Most of what we know about sleep we've learned in the past 25 years.

- As a group, 18 to 24 year-olds deprived of sleep suffer more from impaired performance than older adults.

- Experts say one of the most alluring sleep distractions is the 24-hour accessibility of the internet.

- The extra-hour of sleep received when clocks are put back at the start of daylight in Canada has been found to coincide with a fall in the number of road accidents.

So hard..

So hard to believe..
So hard...while I'm tring to believe it's not true..
So hard...to love someone not love you..
So hard to hate someone do love you very much...
So hard to be a good muslim....when have a lots of 'godaan' outside...
So hard to be a good daughter..
So hard to be a good sister..
So hard to be a good friend of a friend...
its so hard...and very hard...

General Knowledge!!

1. A cockroach will live nine days without its head, before it starves to death.

2. A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.

3. A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.

4. A snail can sleep for three years.

5. All Polar bears are left-handed.

6. American Airlines saved $40,000 in
1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class.

7. Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.

8. An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

9. Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2 to 6 years of age.

10. Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.

11. Butterflies taste with their feet.

12. Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, dogs only have about ten.

13. Cat's urine glows under a black light.

14. China has more English speakers than the United States.

15. Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because he doesn't wear pants.

16. Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.

17. Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.

18. Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.

19. February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.

20. Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure.

21. I am. is the shortest complete sentence in the English language

22. If Barbie were life-size, her measurements would be 39-23-33. She would stand seven feet, two inches tall and have a neck twice the length of a normal human's neck.

23. If the population of China walked past you in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.

24. If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.

25. If you keep a goldfish in a dark room, it will eventually turn white.

26. If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.

27. In ancient Egypt, priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.

28. In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.

29. It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.

30. Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.

31. Marilyn Monroe had six toes.

32. Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.

33. More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane crashes.

34. No word in the English language rhymes with month.

35. Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.

36. On average, people fear spiders more than they do death.

37. One of the reasons marijuana is illegal today is because cotton growers in the '30s lobbied against hemp farmers, they saw it as competition.

38. Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.

40. Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.

41. Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left- handed people do.

42. Shakespeare invented the word "assassination" and "bump."

43. Some lions mate over 50 times a day.

44. Starfish haven't got brains.

45. Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand.

46. The ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.

47. The average human eats eight spiders in their lifetime at night.

48. The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds.

49. The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth
2, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.

50. The electric chair was invented by a dentist.

51. The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.

52. The male praying mantis cannot copulate while its head is attached to its body. The female initiates sex by ripping the male's head off.

53. The most common name in the world is Mohammed.

54. The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with.

55. The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter Pan."

56. The Pentagon, in Arlington, Virginia, has twice as many bathrooms as is necessary. When it was built in the 1940s, the state of Virginia still had segregation laws requiring separate toilet facilities for blacks and whites.

57. The sentence, "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter in the English language.

58. The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar and England in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes.

59. The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.

60. The word "lethologica" describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want.

61. The word racecar and kayak are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left.

62. There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.

63. TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters on only one row of the keyboard.

64. Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

65. You are more likely to be killed by a Champagne cork than by a poisonous spider.

66. You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.

67. You share your birthday with at least nine million other people in the world

Selamat Hari Lahir M!!

Hari ini merupakan hari lahir kepada M...atau Cik M..atau nama sebenarnya...Murni binti Ibrahim, 26 tahun, perempuan, Tanjung Malim, Upsi, sulong dari 3 beradik, single but not available. Cukup kot penerangan tu..hehehe karang cerita pepanjang saya kena marah pulak oleh Cik M!.

Dua tiga hari lepas saya dah ingat tarikh 2 July ni, kebetulan semalam...mengantuk sangat saya tertido awal...cadang-cadangnya nak hantar sms Seawal jam menjengah 12am, tetapi apakan daya saya terlupa dan tertidur. Bangun pagi tadi, seingat selepas subuh nak wish...dan terlupa juga. Akhirnya sewaktu di traffic light baru berkesempatan wish kat Cik M kita...maaf ye M!

Diucapkan semoga...

1. Beroleh keampunan dan keredhaan oleh Allah..
2. Bertambah matang menempuh hari-hari yang mendatang..
3. Beroleh kejayaan di dalam apa jua yang diceburi...
4. Diberkati usia dan hidupmu..
5. Semakin bertambah iman dan amal kepadaNya....
   
6. Segala yang terbaik adalah milik kita semua...

ameen ya rabbbal 'alamin...


Nota : semua orang mempunyai azam pada hari pentingnya...semoga ianya sebagai pemangkin untuk kita menjadi lebih baik...ameen ya rabb!!