Wednesday, December 31, 2008

Lord Hosni Tidak Bertanding

Kuala Terengganu, 1 Januari – Lord Hosni telah mengesahkan kepada para wartawan semalam bahawa beliau tidak akan bertanding dalam pilihanraya kecil Kuala Terengganu yang dijadualkan berlangsung Januari nanti. Beliau juga enggan mengulas pendirian beliau mengenai calon-calon yang terpilih seraya memberitahu, bahawa beliau hanya akan menjadi pemerhati bebas pada kali ini. Beliau yang merupakan ketua kumpulan pemerhati Suruhanjaya Keadilan Persatuan Bangsa-bangsa Bersatu pada pilihanraya umum ke-12 Mac lalu menyatakan; bahawa beliau terkilan dengan sikap penyokong yang tidak mematuhi etika berkempen.

“Mereka ini kadang-kadang memang langsung tidak ada adab. Mereka ingat tiang pagar saya itu mereka yang punya, mereka pun suka-suka hati mengikat bendera dan menampal poster. Rumah saya dah macam ada hari sukan! ” beliau bercakap di satu sidang media khas yang diadakan di perkarangan rumahnya semalam.

Lord Hosni juga turut mengumukan bahawa beliau akan mula berangkat ke Kuantan dan bermalam disana pada 3hb Januari untuk satu sesi bertemu peminat beliau di sana, sebelum bermalam di sekitar Kuala Lumpur keesokannya. Beliau enggan mengulas lanjut tentang tempat yang bakal beliau diami di sana, kerana khuatir beliau diganggu peminat. Sebaliknya, beliau menegaskan bahawa beliau dijadualkan sampai di Seremban pada tengahari 5hb Jan.

“Saya memang lah sedih jugak nak meninggalkan rumah ni, maklumlah, dah lama cuti. Tapi perjuangan harus diteruskan dan matlamat kita harus apa nama…….. diteruskan.” Beliau bercakap dengan nada serius.

Apabila diminta untuk mengulas mengenai tindakan tergempar biadab seorang blogger yang menghina Nabi Muhammad, beliau hanya mengatakan bahawa masyarakat tidak harus melayannya.

“Orang2 macam ni tak pakai otak. Mereka kata sahaja mereka ini kununnya………………. open minded, tapi merekalah yang paling sempit akalnya. Mereka terus-terusan menghina nabi tanpa sebab yang munasabah. Mereka kata Muhammad itu babi, padahal semua orang tahu Muhammad itu manusia. Mereka cuma pandai menghina dan mengejek, macam budak darjah satu. Jadi tidak ada sebab untuk kita layan budak darjah satu macam dia. Kalau betul Islam itu tidak benar, maka buktikanlah. Jangan dok apa nama…….main ejek sahaja..”

Lord Hosni juga mengulas mengenai keganasan terbaru rejim Zionis, dengan menyifatkan rejim itu sebagai binatang. Selain mengecam tindakan Israel, beliau turut mengecam semua pemimpin Arab dan Islam yang hanya tahu mengecam dan mengeesa sahaja, sebaliknya bersembunyi bagaikan pondan yang takutkan lipas.

“Mereka ini hanya tahu bercakap sahaja, sebaliknya mereka sepatutnya bertindak. Mereka seharusnya memboikot segala urusan dengan Israel dan Amerika. Mereka ini ada minyak, ada duit, tapi mereka tak ada otak. Israel sudah jelas2 kejam dan tidak berperi kemanusiaan tetapi dunia seolah-olah tunduk padanya. Hanya kerana beberapa orang askar mereka mati, maka mereka bunuh beratus-ratus rakyat tidak berdosa dan menghancurkan beratus-ratus bangunan. Hamas pun satu, sudah tahu roket mereka hanya akan membunuh beberapa orang Yahudi dan mengorbankan ratusan orang mereka sendiri, mereka masih meneruskan provokasi yang tidak berguna itu. Itu bagi saya hanyalah membazir peluru. Sebaliknya mereka harus apa nama……………bertindak bijak dalam merancang serangan bagi membunuh seramai mungkin musuh-musuh Allah.” Kata beliau dengan penuh berang.

Beliau juga, menyeru kepada sekalian orang Islam, supaya bersatu demi mengembalikan kegemilangan Islam dan mengambil semula Baitulmaqdis yang dicemari.

Dalam akhir sidang medianya, beliau sempat mengucapkan salam Maal Hijrah dan Salam Tahun Baru pada semua pengunjung blog beliau. Lord Hosni juga memohon maaf jika ada salah dan silap sepanjang tahun lepas, baik Masihi ataupun Hijriah. Beliau juga mendoakan semoga azam tahun baru para pembaca akan dapat dilaksanakan.- AFP

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Attention to IB students!!!!!

In conjunction with Semester Break 08/09, MALAYSIAN STUDENT ASSOSIATION, MANGALORE (MSA) and PERSATUAN PERUBATAN ISLAM MALAYSIA- INDIAN CHAPTER (IMAM) with co-operation with PERSATUAN PERUBATAN ISLAM MALAYSIA (PPIM) will organize a program ;

HEALTH AND BASIC MEDICINE CAMP

Venue: Aborigine Village and Cameron Highland

Date: 16 - 18 January 2009.

Participant: Opened to all medic and pre-medic students

due date of confirming ; 5th jan


do spread the news. more info; visit

http://sferalotus.blogspot.com/2008/12/health-and-basic-medicine-camp.html

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Tuesday, December 30, 2008

The Phonebook

In the darkness of night, without any single interesting programme on the TV, with the boredom of the computer games, without any movies or dramas to be watched, without any books to read, and without any mood to do anything that could vanish the boredom that had been overwhelming the mind and heart, often lead us to our very own bed, lying and staring at the ceiling in our light-off room.

Without any limb moving, our body stay still like those girls who wear no Kotex while sleeping during their menstruation phase. However, our mind started to be hyperactive, flashing all those old memories back, and sometimes, altering those events with our own creative imagination, due to the word “IF”. Our hyperactive mind also, sometimes, began to reflect our future plans and dreams; mine would be wearing size 30 pants and scoring every exam.

Our hand then began to reach for our cell phone, unlocking the keypad. If the word “1 new message” or perhaps, “1 missed call” appeared on the screen, this entry would end here. But, if not, this story proceeds, telling the readers about how our eyes began to stare at the screen, while our head were trying to figure out, what brings this involuntary act? Why does my hand reach for my cell phone?

Alas, our thumb is way faster than out brain, pressing those buttons, until the list of contacts in our phonebook appears on the screen. Involuntarily, our thumb began to press the “down” button, revealing all the contacts; their names and their phone numbers. As those names appears, our mind keep flashing memories, merely voices and pictures, up to a certain point, where a line finally forms in our brain – “Nak mesej sape eh?” , or “Pe cite la bebudak ni” or else.

Then we began to check our credit balance, whether it is sufficient enough to make a Talk SuperSaver. If our credit is not enough, the story ends here, but if it is enough, we might be pressing the “down” button again, while asking ourselves – Who should I ring?

Ringing our friends of the same sex would only make us uncomfortable no matter how much we miss them, as such act will be considered as gay and irregular. A phone call to friends of the other gender would only result a prejudice in our mind, fearing that those opposite sex friends will think that we like them. Moreover, we always feared to be greeted by the most irritating line – “Ai...Rindu ke?”

The confusion always exhausts our mind, enabling us to finally do the thing that every doctors advised us to do at nights – SLEEP.

This is the story of a pathetic group in the community, by the name of “TEENAGERS”. Do you ever experienced the same story? I do.

p/s;
I use the word "WE" in this story as I have no doubt, that there are somebody out there, who will read this story, and reply "I do" to the very last question in this entry.

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Monday, December 29, 2008

Thousands of Faces With One Faith

Being a part of the delegation to send my cousin to his bride’s house in Pasir Mas, we were stranded in a guesthouse in Wakaf Che Yeh, waiting for the groom to be ready, together with her family and relatives from her mother’s side, from Perlis. As the Zuhur athan was being called, my father suggested to perform our prayer first, which was well agreed by several relatives from Kuala Terengganu.

Heading to the mosque which was a stone throw away from the guesthouse, we perform our ablution first, before waiting for the local peoples, to pray in their jamaah, as we are going to perform our prayer in jama’(combination/plural). As soon as the local peoples began their Zuhur prayer, the Kuala Terengganu delegation also started to pray, in another jamaah led by my father.

While praying with our full hearted devotion to God Almighty, I heard one of a man passing by our jamaah and said;

“Hoh! Wano maye duo ime?” (How come there are two imams?)

Ignoring the voice, I precede my prayer, again, with full hearted devotion. The prayer went smoothly without any Islamaphobia harassment. Back to the guesthouse, again, waiting for the other delegation members, my father’s cousin, by the name of Ayah Long, began the conversation;

Hoh! Mu tahu Li, sakni mu maye duo ime takdi geger di atah sejik nu! Aku maye nge puok ime sini la mugo dok cukuk marhalah, doh aku mari dari Besu. Abih maye takdi geger skali sek-sek tu bunyi; bakpo maye duo ime. Aku pung toleh palo ke oghe beloh aku, aku pung tubek la kcek Klate;

[(addressing my father) Li, do you know there had been a bit chaos in the mosque just now because you form another jamaah! I pray with those local people as I came from Besut, which do not exceed the two marhalah distances. They were all talking about you being the second Imam at the same time. Looking to the next person besides me, I spoke to him in Kelantanese; ]

“Gapo?” (What is the problem?)

“Dok, puok tu, wano maye duo ime?” (Nothing, those people, they form another jamaah!)

“Demo tahu yo mari mano?” (Do you know where they all came from?)

“Bakpo ?” (Why?)

“Doh wak yo musafir, wak yo maye jamok gano?” (What if they are travellers? What if they perform prayers in jama’?)

Hoh! Tu die, kene skali nge aku. Tunduk lalu palo! Oloh! Panda sangak nok letok hukung teh,oghe biar jelah dulu! Geger skali atah sejik nu puok mu maye duo ime. Oghe Klate ni tahu mende pasa hukung! (there he go! Its a big punch on his face! huh! Acting smart to say about the law, he should look upon the case clearly first! They were havoc in the mosque, just because you form another jamaah! What does Kelantanese knows bout islmic law! )


He spoke furiously in his deep Besut accent, well greeted with roar of laughter from the rest who stood there. It is prohibited to form two jamaah at the same time in the same prayer place (mosque), only if it is a compulsory prayer (Fardhu prayers). However, the travellers were allowed two perform their Fardhu prayers, in jama’, with fulfilled conditions, and one of the conditions is they cannot be led by the Imam who pray in the regular way, allowing them to form another jamaah in the same mosque at the same time.

My Ayah Long to preach, cursing and firing the Kelantan and all the Kelantanese, for many reasons. Politic is one of them. Being a fanatic Orang Dacing (BN supporters), he cannot accept the fact that the Kelantanese rejected Awang Adek for Nik Aziz.

Geography is also another reason for him to curse the Kelantanese. It has been a long history of fighting, quarrelling, and prejudice between the Terengganumen and Kelantanese. Whose accent is better, whose batik is better, whose songket is better, whose gold is better and so on.

Ayah Long once said;

“Batik ko, mah ko, setere ko, songkek ko, hok ganu blako hok muroh lagi, hok molek lagi! Klate tadok gapo! Nasik kabu jah!” (Batik or gold or silk cloth or songket, ours are cheaper and better! The Kelantanese have nothing! They only have their Nasi Kerabu! )

The Terengganumen and the Kelantanese are always fighting among themselves over political view. Here in the east coast, families were separating, cold war within the neighbourhood, cold war within the families and relatives, even cold war within the two best of friends due to the difference in political view!

These Puak Dacing and Puak Bulan were fighting and quarrelling for decades! Day by day, month by month, year by year, election by election.

An Orang Dacing, will not visit the funeral of Orang Bulan although they were in the same village. The same goes for Orang Bulan. The prejudice is worse amongst the elders. A Kelantanese is not very keen to have a child-in-law from Terengganu. Same goes for Terengganumen.

Which side am I?

I am a Malaysian who was raised in Kuantan, currently living in Terengganu, well assimilated with the Kelantanese, and able to converse in those three accents properly.

Moreover,

I AM MUSLIM,

WE ARE MUSLIM,

THEY ARE MUSLIM

ALL OF US ARE MUSLIM!

The words of God in the 64th verse of the third chapter of Koran were lingering in my heart as I wrote this entry.


p/s ;

Say: O followers of the Book! come to an equitable proposition between us and you that we shall not serve any but Allah and (that) we shall not associate aught with Him, and (that) some of us shall not take others for lords besides Allah; but if they turn back, then say: Bear witness that we are Muslims.


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Kemuncup Dalam Perjuangan


“Dalam tulisan, buku Nik Abdul Aziz Nik Mat ini terus beranalogi tentang halangan-halangan dalam perjuangan. Islam yang penuh ranjau ini telah dipadankan dengan sifat kemuncup yang sentiasa boleh mengganggu perjalanan. Jika tidak cermat, pejuang boleh kehilangan fokus. Jemaah boleh berhenti menghabiskan masa melayan karenah kemuncup yang miang di kaki. Jika tidak hati-hati, pemimpin dan penyokong boleh terbawa-bawa untuk asyik melayan gangguan. Secara unproduktif, gerakan Islam boleh terbantut di situ; boleh berada dalam satu tempoh tanpa kegiatan yang merugikan justeru asyik melayan kemuncup yang sememangnya ada di mana-mana, sengaja ditaburkan oleh musuh pun kadangkala di segenap medan tempur dan kesempatan.”



“PAS akan turut kekal sampai kiamat sekekalnya al-Quran dan Hadis, InsyaAllah. Tetapi kalau PAS menyeleweng, tulis al-Quran menjadi dasarnya, sedangkan amalannya berlainan dari al-Quran, berlainannya bermula dari cawangan sampai kepada kawasan, sampai ke peringkat negeri dan sampai ke peringkat pusat, ataupun penyelewengan bermula dari pusat sampai ke negeri dan seterusnya sampai kepada kawasan dan cawangan. Maka tidak ada sebarang unsur untuk kekalnya PAS. PAS boleh kekal dengan berkat dan tuah al-Quran; tetapi ia tidak akan kekal kalau pada namanya sahaja didasarkan pada al-Quran.”



“Kebetulan makhluk bernama PAS ini lahir selepas apa yang disebut sebagai politik Islam ini langsung tidak wujud di duinia ini seluruhnya. Kita pergi ke Timur Tengah, kita dapati sebutan politik islam baharu sahaja ada, selepas berates-ratus tahun ia dinafikan dan dimusnahkan oleh penjajah. ”



“Semasa penjajahan ini mencemarkan cerpunya ke atas seluruh dunia Islam, mereka turut melenyapkan politik Islam. Mereka hanya menghidupkan ibadat Islam, bahkan kalau boleh ibadat itupun hendak dilenyapkannya. Tetapi kerana usaha menlenyapkan Islam di peringkat ibadat tidak berjaya, maka mereka biarkan ibadat itu hidup, tetapi politik Islam mereka lenyapkan secara habis-habisan.”



“Kita tahu bahawa kita sedang berdepan dengan orang yang berduit dan berharta, juga orang yana luas pengaruhnya dan ramai sahabatnya. Tetapi yang benar akan tetap benar dan ia mesti disokong, yang salah akan kekal salah dan wajib ditentang. Kita sebagai muslim tidak pernah diajar Allah supaya berpihak kepada siapa yang gagah dan berharta banyak. Lebih-lebih lagi kalau sekali-sekala menyokong dasar parti dan sekali-sekala menyokong peribadi seseorang.”


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Long Winding Road

Just back from a long tiring journey. Three kenduris altoghether! damn..I hate this wedding seasons. This tiring long journey just made my ass cramp! just imagine;

Kuala Terengganu-Pasir Mas-Ipoh-Kuantan-Kuala Terengganu!!

This 4th Jan, I'm off to Seremban, the holiday come to its end. Time to get ready for another adventure.

p/s; Salam Awal Muharram to all visitors!~~

Friday, December 19, 2008