Thursday, April 21, 2011

Crib


Afiq is moving to his new crib and he is definitely happy and grateful *smiley excited face* Unlike his previous house which was half an hour from his faculty, small, located at the 8th floor with a constant out of service despicable elevator and super annoying + disturbing landlord, his new crib is just a stone throw away from his faculty, spacious, located at the 2nd floor with a nice elevator ( who needs elevator by the way when you can exercise using the stairs to reach the 2nd floor ) and an amiable landlord. Perrghhh dah macam pamphlet nak jual rumah la pulak description kau! Anywayssss, that shows how excited Afiq is regarding his new precious crib in Egypt.

the hall, terdapat NUR di situ !

The pink curtain is actually a mini toilet. How sexy is that?!!!

Sneak peak of the room. Mengada

Dont worry mom, I can still have a good night sleep here in Egypt.
Padahal time kelas pun kau ber-good night sleep kan?!!

sebelah tu katil and colourful wonderful almari housemate

there's another door which leads to the store.
Sealed the door! Segala khazanah mesir ade dlm stor tu


The view from the balcony.
Yeah, berdiri dekat balcony and pusing belakang, this is what you will get.

dining and the hall. again terdapat NUR di situ

Mind you that some renovations in this house memang x masuk akal langsung. I mean, who would think to do this zig-zag pattern dekat dapur. Konon kreatif lagi berseni lettew and one more thing, a jamban without a door??!!! Ko pikir apa, nak tayang dekat orang proses penyahtinjaan kau tu? -___-'

this is the main bathroom :)

dont worry mom, I can also enjoy my very precious shower here in Egypt.

So there you go, MTV CRIBS afiq's edition. Well, this house might be typical for those who live in Malaysia but try to live in Egypt, you might want to buat kenduri kesyukuran for getting this kind of house. With that, I thank God :)

Sunday, April 17, 2011

Ya Habibi Ya Maulana


Namaste -_'_-


I have met a bunch of new friends here in Alex and they are Egyptians *wink wink* Al-kisah, it all started when all of us (ok not all of us actually, SOME of us) the Malaysian students scored badly in Language test last semester. LOL. So the dean and the vice dean came up with an idea to help us the Malaysian students to learn Arabic language.

Dean: Prof Dr. Maha Abdel Salam
Vice Dean: Prof Dr. Maha El-Tantawi
(No, they're not siblings)

It is very important for us to master the Arabic because later on we will have to communicate with our patients and they will definitely not going to speak english with us. Imagine there's one handsome english dentist who needs to work at Perkampungan Orang Asli somewhere deep in the jungle of Malaysia where the people at that place have no idea on what is English and what is even Malay ? Would the dentist still speak in English ? The answer would be YES because he always have an educated Orang Asli by his side who will be translating his English and the Orang Asli language. Contrary to the English dentist ladies and gentleman, we don't have any translator that is willingly to translate english and arabic here in Egypt especially in the clinic. I mean who would? So by any chance the Arabic is very important beside the dental studies.

* we have reached EVEREST, siap solat lagi tu *

Back to the Egyptian friends, the dean and the vice dean came up with the idea of Egyptian-Malaysian Interaction program where we were having our ice-breaking party on the rooftop at the Faculty of Dentistry. Jyeahhh.. there were many activities and the most important thing is FOOOOOOOOOOOD!

malaysian food

Egyptian food

the hall (well this is Egypt! )

During the event, we sing the Negaraku. Touching doh! The feeling isn't the same as what I used to sing back in my school day. This is something different. Tiba-tiba mcm bangga gila-gila jadi rakyat Malaysia. Goosebumps :") Rase nak balik Malaysia pun ada T.T Then the Egyptian sing their national anthem called 'Billadi' if i'm not mistaken followed by this 'voice of freedom' a revolution video. The Egyptians were really amazing. They're wonderful, friendly, awesome, sociable, easy going, and any other good words you could have ever imagine. 4 thumbs up to them :D

she's Ola


cheers to new friends

The Romeos

The Juliets

meet Tamer

Ha, yg ni bukan orang Arab

We even played some games and fashion shows. Both Egypt and Malaysian traditional games. As for Malaysia, we show them Batu Seremban, Gasing, and Congkak. The egyptian games are more to "tampar-menampar" games. Gila kentang! Keghoje nye asyik nak menampor je... Then we have this introduction to Malay language and the Egyptians were really enthusiast to know more and more. Lol, what's the main objective once again ???

SAPA NAMA ? like seriouslyyy???

They were also karaoke session right after the party. Damn, I was lucky enough to represent or should I say to humiliate the Malaysian for reading the lyrics instead of singing. *Fainted* Luckily there were only few Malaysians left and the rest were Egyptians. What a 'nice' first impression to the Egyptians. *Fainted lagi sekali* But after all, they still clap, cheers, and support me. Hahahaha... Terima kasih lah ye my new friends :")

It's FRIDAY, FRIDAY, gonna get down on FRIDAY!
(Rebbeca Nur Al-Black must be proud of meh)

Well the thing is, THAT DAY WAS REALLY A FRIDAY! *facepalm* but here's the good thing, we performed our Asar prayer together :) that's how Muslim role

Alhamdulillah, anak sapa la ni.

this is my lovely vice dean, Dr Maha El-Tantawi
She said 'I will come and smile' and that's what she did :')

Friday, March 25, 2011

AL-FATIHAH


25 MARCH 2011

Timah Hj Harun

Onyang telah sampai serunya
Perginya di dalam lena
Pada pagi jumaat yang mulia
Semoga rohnya dicucuri rahmat oleh yang maha esa

I was so shocked to hear the news. After subuh prayers, I realized that I have received some bbm messages from my mum, sis and aunts 2 or 3 hours before that. I was in deep grief since I was away from my family in this Anbia land. 4 days before that, she was very determined to send me off to KLIA and she kissed and hugged me 3 times at KLIA. She had never done that before. Allah knows better. I will always remember her wish which is pray the best for her and Insyaallah, she will always be in my prayers. Along sayang onyang. AL-FATIHAH

Wednesday, March 9, 2011

BORG EL-ARAB

waktu kecik-kecik, saya memang sangat suka pergi airport. Tak tahu lah kenapa, but bila ada je chance nak pergi airport (selalunya sebab nak hantar ayah depart outstation la) mest excited semacam. Kerana apa ? Kerana saya boleh feeling2 nak naik flight. Tolak-tolak troli dekat KLIA tu sememangnya meningkatkan ke-feeling-an untuk naik flight. Skrip dalam kepala time tu (sambil tolak troli) lebih kurang mcm ni la, "bye bye Malaysia, Hello London" x pun "in a few hours time, I'll be in Paris main salji. Selamat tinggal Malaysia yang panas" or " kejap lagi dapat tgk pramugari MAS yg cun, excitednye" bile dah sampai boarding gate, sentap sorang-sorang sebab yg naik flight ayah je pun. Yang kau lebih-lebih ape kes ? -..-

ULTRASENTAP: Bi Bi Bi padan muka! sapa suruh berangan

Oh and one more thing yg membuatkan saya excited nak pergi KLIA adalah dulu time kecik-kecik, dekat KLIA ade playground yg bentuk mcm kapal terbang but sekarang tak tahu pulak ade lagi ke x playground ni, so time tu memang high gila bila dapat main dekat playground ni. main sampai x ingat dunia. x pikir dah flight orang tu nak berlepas ke, dah sampai ke, yg penting main sampai puas. HAR HAR HAR....

wooooo... best! best!

Haa, itu waktu kecik-kecik, waktu sedang-sedang sekarang ni (sedang ke godang?!), saya masih tetap sangat suka pergi airport. Kali ni advance sikit, bukan excited nak pergi KLIA je (but airport2 around the world) hahaha.. style x ? baru lah org ckp international. LOL! My horizon is widen this time (pandang ke luar tingkap ala2 berpikiran jauh). I don't go for feeling2 or cari playground yang best this time but instead I observe the technology, architecture, and the hospitality of the airport. Up till now, I'm still proud of Malaysia because we have KLIA yg seriously lawa, high tech and customer friendly kot! Nak kata I've been around the world memang x lah, but so far KLIA airport lah yg paling lawa.

Sebenarnye bukan nak cerita pasal KLIA, nak cerita pasal airport satu lagi. Tu ha.. tu.. tu.. airport yg dekat tgh2 padang pasir tu. Name airport ni BORG EL-ARAB hahaha.. that's why la, terkejut jugak time first2 nampak name airport ni. exotic sangat. kaaaaaaaaan ?

name ni mesti derive from belly dancer ni

I have to wait for 25 HOURS dekat airport ni before depart. ni semua pasal rusuhan tu la, menyusahkan betul. selamat airport ni lawa. walaupun x besar mana, but this airport is just nice for tourist yg terpaksa overnight dekat sini. Airport hotel ni pun ada, but time kitorang nak fly hari tu, dia cakap hotel dia tutup. Boleh pulak main tutup bukak tu.

time tengah excited sebab airport lawaaaa *shink* *shink*

after 8 jam, gila apa nak excited lagi ! khatam semua episodes korea -..-

Bila dekat airport, sudah semestinya makanan and minuman punya harga "tersangat murah", selamat some of us dah prepared untuk tidak boros sempena jualan murah di airport. TerimaKasih kepada :

mini croissant : sedap dimakan ketika kebuluq

chicken rendang: siap berendang bagai time darurat.
inilah darurat zaman sekarang. Gune jari pun boleh , x payah pakai sudu.

Maggi Asli Pedas: adakah mereka cuba menyatakan bahawa "Orang Asli Hot!"

tingtongtengtung (bunyi speaker airport):
panggilan terakhir untuk penumpang Gulf Air ke Kuala Lumpur, sila check in sekarang.
ok bye! Nak check in and fly to KL. Bye Alex!

Thursday, February 17, 2011

Pengalaman Pelajar Mesir ketika rusuhan #2

Date: 30 January 2011

Time: 6.46 pm ( Egypt ) , 12.46 am ( Malaysia )

Venue: Home, Cleopatra Sughra, Alexandria , Egypt

Temperature : approximately 12 degree, very windy

Received a call early this morning from my mom. She asked me the situations on Alex. After I told her what’s happening, I received a call from Malaysia every two hours. Hahhaha… Every two consecutive hours without fail. Lol. Anyhow, today tersangat-amat-paling-sangat bosan. Blerrrghhhh… The family didn’t allowed me to go out so I simply obeyed them. My phone kept on ringing today, phewww mcm perdana menteri lah pulak. Alex student who was stranded outside Alex have ask me whether or not it is safe to go back to Alex. Then dapat tahu yg TIADA Tramco akan ke Cairo from Alex. One of the seniors who suppose to catch a flight to Paris have cancelled her flight since there is no available transport to cairo. The train rail has been disassemble as well. So I can concluded that I AM NOW ISOLATED FROM THE OUTSIDE WORLD! No internet services, no transport, no TV, no radio. Just the phone line. Curious to know, I make a phone call to the travel agent and he confidently said that the trip is on and the flight is not delayed. That mean the only option I have to get out from Alexandria is by joining the trip. It might be risky but I hope I was wrong. So harapan ke Turki berputik kembali. Hehehehehe…


x dapat pergi Turki, makan ayam Turki pun jadi lah kot -__-

Pengalaman Pelajar Mesir ketika rusuhan #1


hahahaha... best x tajuk ? mcm gila suspen dan skema ala-ala tajuk berita dekat Berita Harian. hohoho... biarlah, bukan selalu pun kan dapat chance to update pasal bende2 macam ni. Imma post some of the days I spent in Alexandria during the riot. I'm sure semua orang tahu sangat pasal rusuhan besar-besaran dekat Egypt tu kan, kalau x tahu ambik senapang tembak diri sendiri sekarang jugak! I'm doing it like a journal, podaah! so kene lah baca panjang menjela-jela.


Date : 29 January 2011

Time : 11.40 pm ( Egypt ) , 5.40 am (Malaysia )

Venue: Home, Cleopatra Sughra, Alexandria, Egypt

Temperature : approximately 14 degree, wind

It’s night and dark. The curfew starts on 4 pm onwards this afternoon and should end by 8 am tomorrow. For today’s record, there’s no riot or demonstration happens in Alex ( as far as I’m concern ). I never felt worse then today and at this moment. Lets start with early in the morning. Woke up at 10 am. The sun shines and brighten my day ecehh… Looked out the window and the scenery was just the same as before. Nothing much. Then received a call from Kak Kuya, regarding her plan with other 7 girls from Moscow. She asked me to be her mushrif a.k.a tour guide since I’ve been travelling all over Alex. She said that if the phone line is being disconnected tonight, then the plan might be cancel.

2 of my housemates (Ikri and Khalil) went to gym but eventually it’s closed. So they headed to their friends house near the gym just to discover that the curfew for today was 4 pm (yesterdays curfew was 6 pm). While having lunch, received a call from Ikri at 3.15pm and he asked me to buy the groceries. Yes we are running out of rice, sugar, and the cooking oil. At 3.45 pm I went down and there’s only 2 and ½ shops open. Each shop was full of peoples. The street was empty, unlike previous days, packed with cars honking one another. The shopkeeper seems rushed when I asked for 2 packs of rice and a bottle of oil. Oh, he even said that he didn’t sell the oil just because the oil was located at the top most of the shelf. So he kinda reluctant and malas to grab that oil. Ngeng! So I had to use my specialty in begging. Hewhewhew.. merayu punya merayu dapat gak minyak. Then the customers after me mintak something, semua dia kata x da. Hahaha.. cuak nak tutup kedai punya pasal.

7.00 pm when I was about to prepare the dinner, heard a noise from next door. Kalut gilaaaaa and clumsy gila-gilaaaa. Peeping through the hole on the door and I saw the owner of the house was talking to my neighbours and the corridor was dark. Usha punya usha, curious pulak nak tahu coz bile curik-curik dengar tak paham sepatah haram pun apa yg depa dok habaq. So bukak la pintu buat2 mcm “ eh what happen ni ? “ punya expression. Then x sempat nak bukak mulut pun, the makcik-makciks next door ni berebut-rebut nak bercakap dengan aku. -____-‘ cakap dalam arab lak tu. Bukan main lagi tangan diorang dok gerak atas and bawah show the direction of “close the door and tarik selak pintu” Luckily one of the makciks knows English. So she’s the one who translate everything. Bagus kan. Dia ckp tutup pintu and lock the door. I was about to ask why but my instantaneous action is always faster than the mouth. Tak sempat nak bukak mulut lagi nak tanya why, tangan dah gatal pegi tutup pintu. -__-‘’’ Then usha through window pulak to look at others house and at that moment I came out to realize that Alexandria was literally SHUT DOWN! Most of the houses were dark and the window has been shut. Without knowing why on earth everything is dark, we switch off the light as well. Then received a call from one of my friends asking us to switch off the light and lock the door for a reason and I certainly despise the idea of knowing the reason. Yes a bitter truth. Penjara di Cairo sudah runtuh and the prisoners were OUT! The prisoners were out there and rumours spread they have reach Alex. Dammmnnnn! Dah mengigil-gigil satu badan kecuakan. I never felt this cuak and seriously this cuak is something I can’t really describe. I rather being hit with Mr.Sam’s (discipline teacher) crocs then facing this. Seriously cuak T.T Semua lampu rumah tutup and all 6 of us duduk in one room ala-ala campfire tu just that the fire came out from the laptop. In my mind memang x dak benda lain dah.. pikir nak balik Malaysia je. Tak pikir Turky dah Y.Y Then I received and making numerous calls from and to friends and embassy. Right now angan-angan ke Turki which will be in 2 days time terpaksa lah dibatalkan for temporary. But I still hope and pray that I could go though to Turkey then baru balik Malaysia. Eheeee. OK dah malam and there are pemuda-pemudi arab patrolling our neighbourhood. So I guess I could sleep well. Insyaallah.

gambar ini diambil time bergelap dalam rumah. haaaa.. nampak x ? nampak x ?

Sunday, January 23, 2011

Jom Bersyukur !

*Skip the lama tak update blog part* exam month la katakan.

First thing first, let us recite Alhamdulillah. ha cakap... cakap..... Alhamdulillah.
Ye Alhamdulillah sebagai tanda syukur diatas nikmat yg tuhan telah kurniakan. You see, Alhamdulillah is such a simple word to express our gratitude to our one and only God, Allah S.W.T. Mari kite muhasabah diri, berapa banyak nikmat yang tuhan telah kurniakan kepada kita ? Cuba kita kira satu per satu nikmat yang telah dikurniakan, mampukah kita ? Nikmat penglihatan, pendengaran, Islam, ibu bapa, ahli keluarga, hidup, kesihatan, rezeki, rakan-rakan, akal fikiran etc. Tersangat banyak and we will never be able to count each and every nikmat that God has given to us and Allah pun tidak menyuruh kita mengira nikmatNya kerana memang kita tidak akan mampu. Up till now, when you read this post and when I'm writing this entry, nikmat Allah tidak pernah putus. Again, Alhamdulillah. Tuhan itu maha pengasih lagi maha penyayang.

HOW TO ?

Allah telah memerintahkan kita untuk bersyukur and Allah juga telah menggariskan beberapa cara yg TERSANGAT mudah untuk dilakukan hambanya sebagai tanda bersyukur. I believe everybody knows on how to be grateful but tak salah kalau kita saling ingat mengingati kan ? Manusia mudah lupa. So imma list down some ways on how to be grateful :
  • Recite Alhamdulillah
  • Sujud syukur
  • Solat sunat syukur
  • Sedekah
dan banyak lagi sebenarnya. [ sebenarnya x tahu and running out of idea! sila share :) ] actually those two that have been bold are the easiest amalan yang kita boleh buat. Reciting Alhamdulillah, most people selalu buat but what I want to stress here is that when is the time that we recite this Alhamdulillah ? Adakah hanya selepas kita mendapatkan sesuatu yang kita mahu ? Bagaimana pula apabila kurang mencapai apa yang kita hajati ? For example, if we score A in exams, for sure we would say Alhamdulillah. But what if we get B or C ? adakah carutan yang akan keluar ? or kalimah-kalimah Allah masih dibibir kita ? If we think again, getting B and C is not as worse as D and E. So kalimah Alhamdulillah masih dan sentiasa relevant. X pun, ucaplah Lahaulawalakuwataillabillah... Dapat pahala, allah pun redha. Kalau mencarut dapat apa ? haa.. fikirkan. Lagi satu sujud syukur. Rajin-rajin lah mendisiplinkan diri kita untuk melakukan sujud syukur setiap kali lepas solat. Bukan susah pun, setelah selesai memberi salam, sujud lah sekejap dan ucap lah

subhanallahwalhamdulillahwalailahaillallahwallahuakbar

ini berdasarkan ape yang ustazah saya cakap, Ustazah Sabibah namanya. Sangat best dan happening! Garang juga but memang saya suka sangat-sangat ustazah ni :) and for the bacaan sujud syukur tu, I'm not sure myself sama ada memang ada exact bacaan or just simply kalimah2 suci memuji kebesaran Illahi. again, please share if you know. Insyaallah, hati kita akan sentiasa ingat akan Allah apabila kita bersyukur. Walaupun musibah melanda, tapi dengan melakukan sujud syukur selepas solat, at least kita masih sedar bahawa Allah masih memberi peluang dan memberi hidayah serta kesedaran kepada kita untuk melakukan tanggungjawab yang diamanahkan kepada kita sebagai khalifah. Tak gitu ? Jom tambah amalan.

BERSYUKURKAH KITA ?

Tingkah laku dan tutur kata kita pun sebenarnya mencerminkan tahap kesyukuran kita. Tahap kesyukuran ? Apakah ? Ye lah, some peoples can say, Alhamdulillah syukur in front of other person but do they really mean it or is it just a tag line or some compulsory word just to make sure that we are decent type of people so that people can say "eh baguslah dia ni, walaupun pencapaian dah sampai langit ke 8 die tetap ingat tuhan dan tak lupa daratan" ( ini contoh yang direka! tidak ditujukan kepada mana-mana politician ) because sometimes, kelakuan orang tu x mencerminkan pun yg die ni seorang yg bersyukur. Some peoples are just so greed mengejar duniawi sampai sanggup mengambil jalan pintas yg sudah pastinya salah dan menyeleweng berlandaskan hukum syara' then at the end of the day ucap ALHAMDULILLAH. padahal harta atau kenikmatan yang dia dapat tu based on FRAUD. adakah itu juga dikira bersyukur ? yelah, memang lah dapat rezeki. but HALAL dan HARAM mcm mana pula ? Nauzubillah...

WHY DO WE HAVE TO BE GRATEFUL ?

Lah lagi mau tanya ka... Tuhan dah suruh meh, ikut je la. Firman Allah :

Hai orang-orang beriman, makanlah diantara rezeki yang baik yang kami berikan kepadamu. Dan bersyukurlah kepada Allah jika memang hanya dia saja yang kamu sembah. (Al-Baqarah:172 )

Plus this is the way to express our thank to god. Allah juga berfirman :

jika kamu bersyukur nescaya akan ku tambah nikmatku kepadamu, sebaliknya jika kamu mengingkari nikmat itu, tentu siksaan ku akan lebih dashat. (Ibrahim : 7 )

You see, Allah maha pemurah. Kalau kita ingat kepada Allah dan bersyukur diatas segala nikmat yg dikurniakan, Allah akan memberi lagi nikmat. Isn't it simple ? Just be grateful and you will get more and more. Islam itu indah and Allah itu maha adil.

this entry may not informative but I believe I've share what I know. yang mane salah tolong betulkan and yang mane betul sila amalkan. So ape lagi

JOM BERSYUKUR!