anak2 patung, anak kucing

assalamualaikum warahmatullah dan salam sejahtera

Intro 1

"dari suara hati
ingin kami sembahkan
hiburan baru Islam
agar semua terhibur
semoga mendapat keredhaan Tuhan..."

- ... am not sure what will the Nada Murni members think if the following news is considered "Hiburan Baru Islam"... na'uzubillahi min zalika...


Intro 2

"nak joget tiap "HARI" ada "HAD"-nya,
melainkan mereka yang tidak menge-"HAD"kan "HARI"-nya,
yang penting Islam kita Islam "HAD-HARI"..."

- ...dengan 'ironi'-nya saya merasakan tak ada belia muslim yang datang tengok konsert ni...

- ...even the top story on BBC News today was "Dozens killed in Lebanon air raid", and who cares if they're Sunnis or Shi'as, they're human beings after all!!!

- ...but still Hotlink (and all the other sponsors) carried on with this show... malu siyutt saper2 pakai maxis... (seb baik aku pakai maxis line, bukan prepaid; ... huh, macam ada beza jer...)

Main 1

1. Utusan Malaysia "Siapa lepaskan gaya seksi Pussycat Dolls?"

2. The Star "Tainted love for the Dolls" (with photo)

Main 2

- ...just wondering, which one of these 10 Islam Hadhari principles warranted the concert to be carried out after all? Principle III maybe? can be VI or VII as well, right? Oh yeah, of course, it must be principle number VIII !!!!!


Islam Hadhari akan memastikan pencapaian sepuluh prinsip utama:

I. Keimanan dan ketakwaan kepada ILAHI
II. Kerajaan adil dan beramanah
III. Rakyat berjiwa merdeka
IV. Penguasaan ilmu pengetahuan
V. Pembangunan ekonomi seimbang dan komprehensif
VI. Kehidupan berkualiti
VII. Pembelaan hak kumpulan minoriti dan wanita
VIII. Keutuhan budaya dan moral
IX. Pemeliharaan alam semula jadi
X. Kekuatan pertahanan



Conclusion

- ...dunno what else to write, better pen-off straight-away... not much of a conclusion can be drawn from this, I think... (ironic again? wallahu a'lam...)

wassalamualaikum warahmatullah


OP Md Ariff Md Yusof 96-99B
arip vasco abdussalam
Year 4 MBChB (just finished year 4, alhamdulillah)
The University of Manchester

- antara "HAD-HARI" dengan "HA-DHA-RI"...

summer break

assalamualaikum warahmatullah... hello...

hopefully everyone is ok, with their Imaan well-restored by Allah... its the first day of summer break for us year 4 medics (ex-year 4s???) in manchester... i just woke up, and its 0855 BST at the moment... will go out later to draw money to pay Hisham's rent, he just transferred the £110 online into my bank account yesterday evening... he's in scarborough now staying at his sister's house and will only be back next week... our landlord is coming this afternoon, so its only Imran, Zuri & myself at home... Ebak has already left last month, and i'll be leaving insha allah next month... so there will be 2 rooms available for people to move in to stay for the next academic year... (ermmm, 1 room is already available...)

will shoot-off to Puyu's at 11am for the wallabies v all blacks game, live on sky sports 2... should be back in time to entertain Mr Saleem, the landlord... Puyu's place is only 3 minutes walk away! (5 mins malaysian pace, of course...)

yesterday was my 1st time giving a friday sermon at the infirmary (MRI)... Anuar called me at about 8.30am, asked me to replace him because he's doing nights yesterday, and so couldn't be in hospital... he offered help in finding suitable khutbahs, but i've already got one, or two actually... luckily i've done it once (giving khutbah) in hope hospital last year, and nearly did it one more time in oldham earlier this year, so the formalities wasn't that distant away from my head...

alhamdulillah, everything went well, from the first salaam before the azan, up until the salaam after the prayer proper... the only problem occured when i was leaving, one of the brother asked me (or rather scolded me) why did i allow a shi'a doctor to pray jum'ah with the others?... well, i might not be well-versed in this sunni-shi'a relationship, esp. here in the West, but this shi'a doctor (can't remember his name) was a frequent user of the prayer room... and there was never a problem before as far as i can remember... luckily i didn't have to answer this guy back because i was ushered away by this other doctor (Dr. Ahmed, consultant ophthalmologist at the Royal Eye Hospital), who was actually in charge of the Friday prayer setting-up week in and week out... even Dr. Ahmed was accused as a member of "al-Ikhwan" by that angry guy... i knew instantly he was referring to the Muslim Brotherhood who some people say is much more lenient towards shi'a (in terms of Islamic universality), if compared to the wahhabis... well, i might be totally wrong, but insha allah i'll be going to look into this matter further...

and alhamdulillah, before i forget, all Praises to Allah... He let me through the project option presentation on thursday quite efficiently... had lunch in Pizza Co. Manchester (as usual, spicy wings & chips...) straight away with Fahmi... and then went to his place later that afternoon for a "makan2 session"... Sze Ern, another year 4 student @ Fahmi's housemate is going back to malaysia on saturday, plus few more malaysian medics who'll be doing their electives in block 1... the main menu was "Hainanese chicken rice" and the chilli sauce was superb!!! stayed at Fahmi's for the night trying to finish reading "The Last Templar" (by Raymond Khoury), while Fahmi and Sze Ern were laughing freely watching Stephen Chow's "From Beijing With Love" which i brought with me via my huge external hard disk (well, it's actually an internal hard drive covered with an external enclosure, both bought separately on eBay...)

i'm stopping now... will try to update sooner rather than later, but solely depending on my summer mood... just can't wait to go back home to KL this december... all the best to all of us, and May Allah continues the Showering of His Mercy and Guidance on everyone... let us make du'a for our brothers and sisters in need all over the world... and do "lighten our hands" to help them out with sincere and generous donations... till then, take care all!!! wassalamualaikum warahmatullah...

Pause... think... write (err... type, maybe...)

assalamualaikum warahmatullah and hello...

it's been a month now since my last entry... quite a lot of things happen since the past 30 or so days... i'm now approaching the end of week 9 of my Project Option... 2 more weeks to go... however, i need to hand in the final report by thursday next week (week 10)... and considering my current pace of 'report-writing', it will be magic if the report can be submitted on time... and on the last thursday (week 11) i'll be doing a presentation on my option... anyway, i'm doing a systematic review with a consultant surgeon, who is currently on annual leave... but personally speaking, he's very helpful and supportive... my option's title is 'criteria used for selection of patients to undergo elective surgery for chronic pancreatitis: a systematic review'... nice, huh?

my exam results came out earlier this month... alhamdulillah, the results were magnificent (in relation to the tiny effort being put in pre-exams)... can now concentrate solely on the november osce (mind + movement), and then off for my electives in the beautiful land far, far away... where else, malaysia lah, of course!!! again this project option sprang to mind... need to finish it satisfactorily before i can officially say goodbye to my penultimate year...

one more year to go as a medical undergraduate student, insha allah... may Allah gives me strength... will kick off year 5 on monday, 21st august in oldham, 8 weeks district placement... a 1-week study period follows, and will then continue with my community placement further north in preston... friday, 15th december will be my final day for community, and at any day from that friday until new year 2007, i will insha allah set my 2 feet back on malaysian soil... electives start on january the 2nd, for 8 weeks, up until february the 23rd... and then another 1-week study period before the teaching placement begins... this time back in the manchester royal infirmary... another 8 weeks, before the most 'dreaded' week of all... the FINALS!!! 14th-18th may 2007 insha allah...

still yet to finalise whether to do my foundations here in the UK, or go back home straightaway for housemanship... i might opt to stay for 2 more years, working 'work-permit free' as a foundation officer somewhere in the northwest... if i do stay, will try to get on a research posting sometime during F2 (2nd year foundation)... should look good in the cv... and maybe join any malaysian universities after that, or if my current interest doesn't change, i will apply for a job with the army medical corps... anyway, may Allah Guides me in everything i do...

lately i've been involved with lots of books... sounds good to people, but actually its not, at least for me... have been buying quite a number of books, but hardly read them... amazon, simplyislam.com, the history guild, etc... you name it, i've bought books from virtually all the online bookstores... and i've also received free books from my ex-housemate... at present, i've just finished 're-reading' Angels & Demons and am now looking forward to finish off the english version of Fiqh Sirah by dr s.r. al-buti...

another thing i've been busy doing recently was downloading + watching movies... i've accidentally watched '10 things i hate about you' on tv about a week ago... the last and only time i watched it was during my final year in sungai besi (as usual, via a pirated vcd)... and i've forgotten everything about the film... except that julia stiles was in it, and 2 scenes which i couldn't forget... scene 1:- heath ledger sang on the terrace by the school field (with assistance from the school brass band, and yes, for 7 years i couldn't recall who the hero was and what song he was singing), and scene 2:- julia reciting the '10 things' poem... downloaded it straight away via utorrent after that... other movies i've been watching from my 4-year old laptop's small screen since the past week were; chicken run, the last samurai, save the last dance (another j.stiles classic), mighty ducks (1 & 3; still waiting for D2), jurassic park, plus, surprisingly, 2 malay movies = p.ramlee's 'nujum pak belalang' & aziz m osman's 'pemburu emas yamashita'...

at the moment, this obsolete machine is downloading morgan freeman's 'lean on me' + tom cruise's 'jerry maguire'... watched bits of the former during my banting years, but yet to watch JM (maybe i've seen it before, and i didn't remember, just like most of the films out there)...

i've also just received dvds of transformers (generation 1, 98 episodes) and M.A.S.K (my peers should have heard of it, 75 episodes in all)... am awaiting 'blue blink' dvds now from the states... this might be an unknown anime series, but it was on malaysian tv in either '92 or '93... it's about a boy on a quest to find his kidnapped father, went on a weird bus-ride with a small pony-like creature call 'blink', made friends with all the passengers... i think i only missed one episode last time, due to a 'nation-wide' power failure... but, anyway...

some people might find it incredible not to come across anything referring to Germany 2006 up until this point... the world cup matches was good at times (esp. when the host is involved; p.s:- i'm a germany supporter since italia 90), but otherwise largely forgettable... have to control everything i write about my 'host'-nation i.e. engl*nd, or else... but from the way they played in germany, i think MY-Team is far better... did i tell you guys that i've played against MY-Team 2 months ago when they came here to manchester? it came out on majalah tiga twice, i think... you can find the "MY-Team vs MM-Team" clip via youtube... just key in the phrase above and you'll be able to watch it...

need to pen-off now (or is it keyboard-off???)... will continue later (within this century, hopefully)... may Allah gave strength to all of us, especially to our brothers and sisters in palestine & lebanon... still can't believe the lebanese road which i've travelled on 2 years ago have been turned to dust by the israeli shellings... wassalamualaikum warahmatullah...