finally, search engine for this site :D

Berjaya juga...hehehe... can you see the widget??

....senyum sampai ke telinga nie :p....

Yummy and easy Banana cake

Banana cake is one of my favourite cake since I was small (susah kalau citer dengan orang yang suka makan nie, almost everything I like and my favourite :D). I can eat one small loaf of banana cake (yup, a loaf, about the size of 2 Gardenia's vanilla bread sit side by side) in one sitting, and I can eat it for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. But that was a long time ago. La nie, am watching what I am eating.

Though it was my fav cake, I have never try to bake it. Mak did baked banana cake, once or twice, but have never share the recipe with me (well, I didnt' really want to know how to bake it before). A couple of months ago, a friend of my, Kak Su, shared banana cake with us (the research student) at the office. It was so delicious. So I made a point to ask her for the recipe. And she gave me this website for the recipe. The recipe is so simple, it took me just 15 minutes to prepare.



Ingredients:

4 ripe bananas (I used 5, have actually mashed 4 bananas and I thought it was not enough)
3 eggs
1 3/4 cups of self-rising flour
1/4 cup of corn flour
1 cup of sugar
1 cup of oil (I used canola oil)
1 tsp of sodium bicarbonate (I omit this one, didn't have any in the kitchen)
a pinch of salt


Method:

1. Beat the egg and sugar until soft and light
2. Mix in the mashed bananas
3. Then mix in flour, stir and later mix in the oil
4. Put the mixture in a baking tray
5. Bake the cake for 45 - 60 minutes, or until a skewer inserted and came out clean






Try it...

p.s. To date, I have baked this cake twice, because atang love it so much :D

A tag about my first-born experience

I received a tag from a friend in the facebook. And since I have nothing interesting to write, I copying the tag into this blog, to share with you my first-born experienced, delivering Yaya, my eldest princess.

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It's all about your first (or only) born! If I sent it to you, it means I want to hear your story...

1. WAS YOUR FIRST PREGNANCY PLANNED? Yes, I think for about 4 months after the marriage. we kinda plan to settle down first, before having a baby. but alhamdullillah, something knocked our senses that things will come gradually...

2. WHAT WAS UR OPPOSITE GENDER NAME? None, I had the instinct it's gonna be a gurl :D

3. WHAT WERE YOUR REACTIONS? I felt I am "On top of the world", but worried at the same time

4. HOW OLD WERE YOU? 25-yr-old when I found out I was pregnant, and was 26-yr-old when I gave birth to my eldest

5. HOW DID YOU FIND OUT YOU WERE PREGNANT? I was 4 days late, which is unusual. so we bought UPT, and the result was positive. then we went to see a GP, and confirmed the pregnancy. Yea...

6. WHO DID YOU TELL FIRST? dearest husband of coz ... well he was there during the test, so I didn't actually tell him, he saw the kit and was told by the GP :D

7. DID YOU WANT TO FIND OUT THE SEX? nope :D ... wanted it to be suprise

8. DUE DATE? 3rd Oct 2002

9. DID YOU HAVE MORNING SICKNESS? yes, for the whole 1st trimester, can't stand bau wap nasik and cooking oil. so I have to stay away from the kitchen for the whole trimester, luckily we were living with my parents at that time. manja ooooo, 1st class treatment :D

10. WHAT DID YOU CRAVE? hmmmm....mango, corn-in-the-cup, cendol and telur asin

11. WHO/WHAT IRRITATED YOU THE MOST? when I was hungry, I can't control my temper grrrr

12. WHAT WAS YOUR FIRST CHILD'S SEX? a Girl, like my instinct told me :D

13. DID YOU WISH YOU HAD THE OPPOSITE SEX? nope, always wanted a girl for the first child

14. HOW MANY KG DID YOU GAIN THROUGHOUT THE PREGNANCY? aaaaa.... can't remember, definately >10kilos

15. DID YOU HAVE A BABY SHOWER? what is a baby shower?? a baby in the shower??? duh this is not our customary, and to some people this is taboo

16. WAS IT A SURPRISE OR DID YOU KNOW? of what???

17. DID YOU HAVE ANY COMPLICATIONS DURING YOUR PREGNANCY? none..wait did suffered from oedema, due to the nature of my job and driving about 60km everyday to and from work

18. WHERE DID YOU GIVE BIRTH? the place where I was born :D, Seremban General Hospital (now known as Tuanku Jaafar Hospital)

19. HOW MANY HOURS WERE YOU IN LABOR? wooohhh 5 hours in pain huhu (oppss that's not much rite?!)

20. WHO DROVE YOU TO THE HOSPITAL? my beloved husband laa

21. WHO WATCHED YOU GIVE BIRTH? a gynae, 2 midwives and a number of nursing students (yup I was the centre of attention kahkahkah)

22. WAS IT NATURAL OR C-SECTION? normal with ventouse aid

23. DID YOU TAKE MEDICINE TO EASE THE PAIN? nope, nobody asked me if I wanted one. besides it was too late for epidural

24. HOW MUCH DID YOUR CHILD WEIGH? 3.4 kilos

25. WHEN WAS YOUR CHILD ACTUALLY BORN ? 21st September 2002 (a day after my bro's birthday)

26. WHAT DID YOU NAME HIM/HER? Nur Seri Aleeya (Seri after my mom, Aleeya sounds like my dad's name :D)

27. HOW OLD IS YOUR FIRST BORN TODAY? she is 6 years and 5 months now

28. WOULD YOU DO IT AGAIN? definately yes :D



I think it is one valuable experience right, delivering your first child. So, I would like to know about your experience. Am tagging everybody who willing to share, and don't forget to leave me a message after you have publish your experience ya, so that I can read yours :D.

Lunch @ Makanan Indonesia

This week we did our normal groceries shopping at Coles. It has been a routine for us to go somewhere every Saturday, be it doing the groceries, window shopping or visiting friends. When the kids were around last year, we will take them to the park in the evening. Anywhere, for relaxing. It is a therapy that I find works for me all the time. Keeps me away from the work, seeing other things, appreciating things around me, for we don't know when the time will come. Experience is life, and life is experience.

So talking about experience, after the groceries shopping, we had lunch at an Indonesian restaurant, located at Hardgrave Rd, West End. This is our 2nd experience, tasting and eating at the restaurant. Makanan Indonesia is the name of the restaurant. They have a wide spread of Indo cooking, and it is so difficult to decide on what, luckily I have a friend who I met at the university, recommended a few dishes (and coincidently she was there at the restaurant when we arrived). So we ordered Dendeng kentang belado, Gado-gado and Cumi goreng. Do you know what cumi is? Cumi is an Indonesian word for squid.

[Inside the restaurant]




The Gado-gado, marvelous, wish they put more peanut sauce, and would be twice marvelous.




I forgot to snap pictures of Dendeng kentang berlado and cumi goreng. The plates are all empty when I finally realised my mistake :D. Everybody who works in the restaurant is friendly. They make sure their customer are satisfied with the food. Through my friend I was introduced to Tante Mimi who cooked our perfect Dendeng kentang berlado and Tante Yenni who made sure everything is hot before serving us :D.

This is our 2nd time visit, and will definately come again to try other dish. Atang has already decided what he is going to have for the next visit.

Phewww lega rasanya... but my eyes is giving up on me...

I am satisfied with last week week outcome. I finally managed to complete the 1st draft of the paper, and sent it to my sifoo for his review and comment. I now have 1 week until due date.

My team mate and I have been working with this paper for 2 weeks. Hours of discussion, preparing the structure, analyse data, observation, writing, rewrite, sending the document to and fro between us, and plus other research things. I tell you it was so exhausting, but worth it. Hope the payoff is great too.

Came friday, I felt sooo drained out, and I decided to work from home. I can even feel my eyes tiring, my fault actually. My left-eye's contact lense has tore, so for the whole week last week, I've been wearing glasses to work. You see, I have prescription for my lenses because of astigmatism problem, so I have to wear toric lense for my left-eye, and normal lense for my right-eye. My glasses are normal lenses, because most of the time I am wearing contact lenses. So I told my optometrist to just use normal lenses for my glasses, and prescribe toric contact lense for my left eye.

Ahahha what's the big deal ya... Well actually, I have 4 more pairs left, but am saving it for the raining days. Buying contact lense in Brisbane is never an option for me, because it is too damn expensive, sorry for that, but I want to emphasis how expensive it is. So I will only get supply from home. I was unable to get supply the last time I went home because for toric lenses, you have to wait for 2 weeks to get the lense. Aiyah and I was there in Malaysia for only 2 weeks. At that time, I was calculating whether I managed to go back (again, for research purpose) before I am out of stock. Seems feasible, but I didn't accounted for any accident to happen.

Anyway, I have ordered a new stock, just waiting whether there is anybody who is flying out to Brisbane soon. Or else, have to deal with these tired eyes with other solution. Anyone?? Owhh... my friend told me about this product, Toner Mata, and she wants to try it. Has anyone try this product and care to share a bit. If it is good, I may want to buy it someday.

Or maybe it is not my tiring eyes, maybe it is the sign of aging. Ohhh and I experiencing short-term memory lost lately.

Helping newcomer and kuih Cara berlauk

Last week, we were incharged of looking after a family who just arrived from Malaysia. I actually knew them, for the husband was my coursemate when I was doing bachelor degree at one of the local universities in Malaysia. I knew they were coming to Brisbane from a good friend of my in Malaysia. Both of them are futhering their study. And for the past few months (before they came here), they have been contacting me for information.

Last weekends, we were busy showing them around. And I made this for the family, and also for some friends. Kuih cara berlauk, using the mini muffin tray.



Resepi...hmmmm... orang noghori cakap, "sonang baitu" . Just make the filling like curry puff filling, and for the batter, mix flour, coconut milk, salt and eggs... kira agak-agak aje... macam buat kuih cucur, and then spooned the batter into the muffin tray, add the filling and bake for more or less 15 minutes. Kot dah teringin sangat nak makan kuih cara kat sini kan, boleh la cuba

(kalau nak buat yang manis tu, ala yang warna ijau tu, lotak gulo yo, gantikan filling ayam tu :D)

my Eyes play Trick on me

aha.... I did say that am restricting myself for grabbing a new book right. But I can't help it. Books are cheaper here (in AUD), so I can easily be tempted. I was at a book store, looking for some children books that I can give to a friend's daughter for her birthday. I spent about half and hour in the book store, and 3/4 of the time I spent not for the present, but reading back cover of some books, for me...hehehe... And I decided to buy this one (and the present of course) with that little bookmark.





But I haven't started reading it, at least yet, at least for a couple of months, maybe until I am so depressed with the work, or maybe sooner. I don't know... hmmmm

Bon Voyage to Feeza and family

Another family went home for good. Time passing without notice. Almost everybody I know, when I first came here to Brisbane is going back. And I realised that soon my time will come, but feeling anxious on what will happened then.

We sent feeza at the airport on the 5th February. Feeza came here to do her masters degree. She and her family came a few months after we came here, and we were appointed by the committee to help her settle down in Brisbane. We have a Malaysian Student society, almost all Malaysian student (Malays) is a member of the society. This society will organise social gathering, and also help new comers to settle down for the first week. What we usually do, for example, find temporary accommodation, prepare meals (depending on the situation), show newcomer around the city, get important things done, like opening up bank account, mobile phone registration and buying groceries and stuff. And also showing the new students around the campus.

All member will take turn in doing this, more like, hmm how to put this in words, Ok... hmmm... like this. Say when we first arrived, the committee has selected several families to help us settling down. Later, after we have settled down, we were then assigned to help newcomer with the same thing. And when feeza arrived in 2007, we were one of the families who look after them for the first few days, until they found a permanent resident. When they first came to Brisbane, feeza has just finished her confinement (berpantang) and adam, her son, was just over 2 months.





And adam was almost 2 years when they left Brisbane for good.







Bon Voyage, nice knowing you guys. I know feeza reads my blog occasionally, so, all the best feeza. Hope to see feeza and family in Malaysia in the near future.

A tag about Romantic movies

Last 2 weeks, I was busy with some reading and writing about my research, until I couldn't find time to review and finalised already created entries for publication (owwwhhh mentang2 la tengah tulis paper, ayat skema). All I managed to do was, forwarding information from my mailbox, that I found it is important for me to share with my friends. Ok enough said. My mission for this week (I was doing this reviewing job on Saturday, hence I made a promise) is to publish all the entries (that I have so far), starting with this particular entry (takut ada yang merajuk nanti, *wink wink*)

I was tag by ms iszan from JB (tukar tag pada "sep" la, macam main kejar2 tu, ko kena sep, ko kena berhenti kan). Thank you la cik iszan oiii... saje kan, tau aku tak tengok citer2 romantik nie sangat.... sib baik mintak 5 yo. Dan 5 nie jugak la, kalau suh atang tengok sekali, boleh la dia duduk kejap, sebab bukan romantik yang tangkap leleh, kalau tak...jgn harap la dia nak tengok citer2 nie.

Ok... nie kerja rumah yang ms iszan kasi....
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Please copy the following rules in your post (as usual)
1. You have to point out 5 romantic movies that you would love to share with your loved ones..
2. It doesn't have to be in order.. as long as you love the movies, it will be fine..
3. You have to tag another 5 person to answer this tag

In no particular order.

OK....so here is my so called romantic movies list....

1. Wicker park



(have watch this movie several time, and every time I will cry at the same scenes. atang did watch this movie, and he said, "apa la mamat tu...")

2. Pretty woman



hmmmm.... can watch this many time too


3. Excess baggage



watch this with atang once....


4. Dirty dancing (nobody put baby in the corner)





don't know whether atang will like to watch this....

5. You've got mail



our favorite.... because of tom hanks, and meg ryan....

Oooo do I need to elaborate futher? It didn't say in the instruction...so tak payah la ekk.....

OK...so I would like to tag this to these unlucky lucky:

1. The supermom Liza
2. The entrepreneur lady Iza
3. The talking ladybird Ms Taj
4. The roaring lady Ms Tigris
5. The malay girl at jipang who is finishing her thesis Ms Jas

am Flat-out, nothing is new

Been super busy, am writing a paper for a conference, which the due date is around the corner. Have some entries that yet to be published, but have no enough time to review them. This including a homework that was given by Ms IsZan last week (jangan marah babe). Wait aaaa...

What I can say about this week is, it has been an enjoyable week, lot of happy and satisfying things happened, but many other things to complete before end of this week. Stressful indeed, but in a positive way that keeps me moving and evolving. Met new people. Was demotivated at the beginning of the week, felt like in a black-hole, with unsettling issues circling around you.

But yesterday received ensuring remark, seeing things in other perspective, and realised, there is always a way, as long as you have the will to find/do it.

Keywords: confidence, never give up, intelligence and tawakal to Allah

Renungan: Membaca horoskop walaupun suka-suka maka solatnya tidak diterima selama 40 hari

From the Malaysian Student's mailing list again.
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SOLAT mereka yang membaca ramalan bintang sama ada di akhbar, majalah atau di internet tidak akan diterima Allah selama 40 hari, tidak kira mereka percaya atau sebaliknya kerana perbuatan itu sama seperti berjumpa dengan tukang ramal.
Pensyarah fakulti Syariah dan Undang-undang Universiti Sains Islam Malaysia (USIM), Nik Salida Suhaila Nik Saleh, menjelaskan perkara itu berdasarkan ulasan ulama terkenal Yusuf al-Qardawi mengenai hukum membaca ramalan bintang.
Katanya, walau seseorang itu tidak membenarkan apa yang dibaca, solatnya tetap tidak diterima selama 40 hari dan jika membaca serta membenarkan pula ramalan itu, maka orang itu dikatakan kufur kepada ajaran Muhammad.

Bagaimanapun katanya, jika membaca dengan tujuan untuk membantah, menjelaskan dan mengingkari amalan syirik, hukumnya dituntut malah menjadi wajib kerana tujuan memberi pengajaran kepada orang lain.

"Jelas amalan meramal, membaca dan menaruh sikit rasa yakin apa dikatakan ramalan bintang itu perlu dijauhi mulai hari ini. Ini bukan perkara main-main atau seronok-seronok kerana ia bercanggah dengan hukum Islam," katanya.

Katanya, perkara itu juga jelas daripada hadis riwayat Muslim bahawa Rasulullah SAW bersabda yang bermaksud: "Sesiapa yang datang kepada dukun kemudian dia membenarkan terhadap apa yang dikatakan olehnya, maka solat orang itu tidak diterima Allah selama 40 hari."
Perbahasan mengenai minat masyarakat hari ini terhadap ilmu ramalan termasuk membaca horoskop dibincangkan Nik Salida bersama Al-Fadhil Kadi Daerah Temerloh, Badli Shah Alauddin, dalam program Halaqah terbitan TV9 yang disiarkan malam Ahad lalu dengan tajuk Bintang 12.

Program yang mengulas mengenai ayat 105, surah an-Nahl, mengajak penonton menghindari perbuatan berjumpa atau mempercayai tulang tilik dan tukang ramal kerana Allah memberi amaran mengenai golongan pembohong itu.

Nik Salida berkata, tidak dinafikan ramai yang mengatakan tujuan mereka membaca ramalan bintang adalah suka-suka tetapi amalan bermula daripada suka-suka itu akhirnya menyebabkan mereka menjadi obses seterusnya terpengaruh dengan apa yang dibaca.

Katanya, ada kalangan masyarakat hari ini yang melanggan ramalan bintang melalui khidmat pesanan ringkas (SMS) untuk mengetahui apa yang diperkatakan mengenai nasib mereka atau perkara bakal dilalui mereka setiap hari, minggu atau bulan.
Sedangkan, perbuatan itu bukan saja merosakkan akidah malah menyebabkan hidup mereka tidak keruan kerana pengaruh ramalan itu sedikit sebanyak memberi kesan kepada aktiviti atau perancangan mereka pada hari itu.

"Jika tidak percaya atau untuk suka-suka kenapa hingga melanggan SMS horoskop. Maknanya bangun pagi kita mahu tengok apa yang diramalkan untuk kita hari itu. Begitu juga dengan membaca di akhbar dan majalah, kenapa kita hendak tahu ramalan.

"Jika katanya dalam bab rezeki apa yang diperoleh tidak setanding kerja dilakukan, maka akan timbul perasaan malas buat kerja sebab rezeki yang dapat sikit saja. Kesan ramalan ini bukan saja pada akidah, juga aspek psikologi.

"Daripada suka-suka itu juga apabila kebetulan perkara diramalkan itu benar berlaku ia mula menerbitkan kepercayaan yang akhirnya menyebabkan mereka jatuh ke lembah kepercayaan perkara karut-marut ini," katanya.
Badli Shah berkata, golongan yang percaya kepada Bintang 12 atau ramalan tukang tilik mengenai untung nasib atau hari baik dan tidak adalah mereka yang tidak percaya ketentuan Allah serta ciptaannya.

Beliau berkata, Allah sudah memberi amaran mengenai golongan itu di dalam al-Quran di mana Allah murka dan mengatakan mereka sebagai golongan pembohongan serta penipu kerana mendahului takdir Allah.

Katanya, apa yang dikhuatiri ialah disebabkan ramalan itu umat Islam lupa bahawa setiap sesuatu yang terjadi itu adalah dengan izin Allah dan ini memberi kesan daripada sudut akidah mereka.
"Jika Allah tidak izinkan perkara itu berlaku, ia tidak akan jadi. Tukang ramal pusinglah daun terup atau biarlah burung dia bercakap tetapi tanpa izin Allah tidak akan berlaku. Malangnya kita tengok, zaman moden ramai yang kembali percaya dan mencari petunjuk daripada zodiak," katanya.

Katanya, kepercayaan kepada ramalan terutama tukang tilik dan ahli nujum boleh mendatangkan kesan negatif seperti menyebabkan pergaduhan antara suami isteri, permusuhan sesama jiran atau sahabat karib.

Contohnya, isteri yang diberitahu mengenai sikap suami atau ramalan bahawa suami akan berkahwin lagi pastinya menyebabkan berlaku perbalahan dan paling malang lagi jika perkara itu tidak benar sama sekali.

Rasulullah SAW turut berdepan dengan kelompok masyarakat Arab yang taksub dengan ramalan dan kiraan bintang hingga Baginda menyebut akan tiga golongan itu terdiri daripada mereka yang mampu meramal bintang, meramal barang hilang dan melakukan ramalan berdasarkan pergerakan bintang di langit.
Malah, Baginda SAW pernah didatangi beberapa orang yang meminta Baginda meramal masa depan orang Arab tetapi Baginda memberitahu, jika diketahui perkara ghaib nescaya dirinya sudah mendapat kemewahan serta terlepas dari musibah.
Mengulas mengenai sejarah Bintang 12, Badli Shah berkata, kepercayaan itu berasal dari Mesopotania, daerah asal orang Babylon terletak antara sungai Tigris dan Euphrates dan kini terletak di tenggara Iraq.

Ilmu itu berkembang sejak Babylon kuno 200 tahun sebelum masihi dan secara bertahap. Amalan dan kepercayaan itu semakin berkembang hingga tahap yang dikenali sebagai horoskop atau Bintang 12 yang mengaitkan keperibadian dengan tarikh lahir berpandukan bintang.

"Contohnya bintang Capricorn untuk mereka yang lahir 22 Disember hingga 20 Januari ikut mitos Yunani ialah lambang kambing. Kambing itu bernama Almateus dan pernah beri air pada Dewa Zeus iaitu dewa tertinggi bagi bangsa kuno ketika kecil.
"Oleh itu, bagi mengenang jasa kambing itu ia dijadikan bintang dan bercahaya di langit. Kesimpulannya, Capricorn itu kambing saja. Di sini pun banyak kambing, tidak perlu tengok ke langit. Umat Islam perlu renung sejenak adakah bintang ini sesuai dengan peribadi Muslim.

"Sesuai ke jika umat Islam percaya kepada bintang kambing biri-biri atau lambang orang lelaki gagah tuang air dalam tempayan besar sedangkan banyak perkara lain lebih bermanfaat yang boleh kita fikirkan," katanya.

Justeru, beliau menasihati kepada umat Islam supaya menjauhi amalan membaca ramalan bintang atau tulang tilik walaupun untuk suka-suka kerana boleh memberi kesan kepada akidah serta amalan solat yang dilaksanakan.

Mungkinkah kita terpedaya...

Thank you all, for your comment about yesterday's entry. We have a Malaysian Student's mailing list here in Brisbane as a means of communication, and recently a member has forwarded that yahudi article thru the mailing list. Soon, a student replied the email with some interesting remarks. Kudos to him for sharing the information.
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1. Ada artikel yang berkaitan dengan artikel ini: http://bedtimestori e.blogspot. com/2009/ 02/who-fish- is-dr-stephen- carr-leon. html

2. Pada mulanya saya macam nak percaya juga artikel ini, tapi tangan ni dah macam automatic pulak gatal nak melakukan verification maklumat. Maka di-google-kan apa2 yang boleh di-google-kan. Sangat sukar untuk mencari thesis itu dan tuan punya diri Stephen Leon Carr. Mungkin ada, cuma tak jumpa lagi.

3. I also found someone named Reuben Stephen Carr. He's a rabbi (Jewish priest). Yes, he wrote many books on how to raise a child for jewish people. It's good to learn how different nations raise their children - Jewish, Arabs, German, Jepun, Singapore, Australia, American, etc. Setiap bangsa ada kelebihannya. Hikmat itu seperti barang yang hilang bagi mukmin. i.e wherever you find hikmah, that's yours. However, I think it would be better to study what Islam says first. There is a nice book by Abdullah Nasih Ulwan titled "Pendidikan Anak-anak dalam Islam." It covers from before the birth till adult life. You'll be surprise how detail it is to produce a warrior. It is the parent who will be tired, not the child.

4. Ada beberapa artikel pendek. Antaranya, artikel ni dari Pejabat Mufti Brunei. http://www.brunet. bn/gov/mufti/ alhadaf/sept98/ h_medan.htm Dan satu lagi dari http://www.ismaweb. net/v2/Article22 0.html .

5. Treat this as another training for us to identify hoax information in the information highways. Use google to check, and if you are still not satisfied, go make telephone calls to the physical authority (if it is possible to do that). Do not fully trust this virtual world, full of lies and some truth (or may be the other way around?). It's a storage and a medium used by all type of people to transmit what they know and also what they don't really know, with various intent and goals. Happy Internet-ting.
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Sape lagi bijak? Sape makin lalai?

Akhir-akhir nie, sering nampak artikel "Mengapa Yahudi Bijak" merata-rata, sama ada kat blog, orang forward email atau nota kat facebook. Rasa kurang selesa, kenapa kite nak ambil tahu amalan Yahudi, walhal amalan Islam, yang lagi benar, tidak pulak nak ambil tahu. Oh, mungkin kita tak tahu. Takpe, dah jadi tanggungjawab kita kan, sampai2 kan ilmu pada kengkawan, boleh tambah ilmu pengetahuan.

Jadi pada sapa2 yang belum baca artikel ni, sila la pergi kat sini ya... saya tak mau paste kat sini sebab rasa kurang selesa dengan research tu (kalau benar la ada research sebegini kan)...dah baca kang, patah sini balik, sebab ada benda saya nak komen laa....

haaa dah baca....Saya nak komen bahagian pemakanan tu laaa. Sebenarnya amalan makan buah sebelum makan tu sunnah nabi saw. Ya, mungkin ramai tak tahu kan, sebab kita dok ikut orang barat makan buah lepas makan (tapi kat sini, oz tak makan buah lepas makan, tapi makan kuih2 manis, dessert tu...hmmmm). Ok, makan kurma dan susu pun sunnah nabi juga. Nabi saw buka puasa dengan makan sebiji tamar dan minum air susu (menurut kawan arab, air itu seumpama susu dan yogurt, tapi rasanya manis). Lagi nak komen tentang amalan ketika mengandung, kan di dalam Islam, digalakkan ibu mengandung mengaji al Quran serta jaga pemakanan. Surah yang patut diamalkan, surah maryam, surah yusuf dan satu lagi surah yang saya pun lupe (ibrahim rasanya, minta kawan betul2kan kalau salah ya). Jadi apa la sangat dengan amalan yahudi tu kan, dah asalnya nabi junjungan kita yang buat. Cuma mungkin kita yang lalai.....

OK... lagi satu pasal geleng kepala tu.... saya ada baca artikel di mana ia membincangkan kelebihan bersolat dari segi saintifik (tak de dlm simpanan, mohon kengkawan yang tahu pasal artikel nie forward kepada saya ya), di mana kajian tersebut menunjukkan kelakuan sujud itu dapat mengembalikan kewarasan kepada kita, saya lupa sama ada disebabkan peredaran darah kembali ke otak, atau disebabkan oksigen. Tapi jelas di sini, bukan yahudi yang hebat kan....

ok..skrang baca pulak artikel nie...saya ambil dari sini .. ini pun dapat dari blog kak red diva merah..... ok renungkan lah....
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Assalamualaikum.

Saya rasa perlu juga berkongsi pendapat dgn rakan pembaca beberapa pandangan.

1. Dalam suasana Yahudi mencengkam umat Islam Palestin sekarang tak perlulah dipuji dan dipuja golongan yang dilaknat oleh Allah SWT tersebut. Dalam Fatihah hari-hari kita baca “….bukan golongan yang dimurkai Allah ….(iaiatu Yahudi)…”

2. Tak salah untuk kita melihat nilai baik yang universal yang ada pada orang Yahudi. tapi hati-hati supaya kita tidak termasuk dalam perangkap Yahudi. Sebab itu Rasulullah SAW pernah bersabda: (bermaksud) ” kamu (nanti) akan menjadi pengikut golongan sebelum kamu (Yahudi) sejengkal, sehasta, akhirnya kelubang biawak ….”. Oleh itu kita kena bezakan diantara nilai universal yang baik dengan dakyah Yahudi untuk menyesatkan umat Islam.

3. Umat Islam mempunyai Kitab al-Qur’an dan al-Sunnah untuk dijadikan sumber rujukan dalam semua perkara. Terlalu banyak ayat dan Hadis yang menyuruh kita mengikut petunjuk al-Qur’an dan al-Sunnah yang kita dah tahu. Dizaman Nabi SAW dulupun baginda pernah melarang Umar al-Khattab menelaah Taurat ! Allahpun dah kata contoh tauladan yang terbaik ialah Rasulullah , dalam semua hal.

4. Ulama dan cerdikpandai Islam juga telah meninggalkan tradisi dan budaya atau carahidup yang cukup kaya dan terbukti berjaya untuk menjadi orang yang bijak dan cemerlang dalam semua bidang keilmuan. Malas nak sebut sebab terlalu ramai, dulu sampai sekarang. Cuma yang mendapat pengiktirafan itu Yahudi yang ramai. Tak hairan kerana dunia dikuasai oleh Yahudi. Mustahil Yahudi akan memberi pengiktirafan kepada tokoh dikalangan umat Islam. Kadang-kadang kita umat Islam sendiri yang ada rasa inferior bila berdepan dengan golongan Yahudi.

5. Tidak dinafikan sejarah umat Islam semakin hari semakin suram. Dulu, umat Islam hebat. Persoalannya, mahukah kita terus suram ?. Bila kita nak kembali kuat, apakah kita nak jadikan Yahudi sebagai model atau umat Islam yang kuat satu masu dulu sebagai model kita ?

6. Yahudi menggunakan apa jua wasilah (means) untuk membolot kuasa, ekonomi dsb. Bagi mereka tujuan menghalalkan cara. Salah satunya mereka mempunyai rangkaian untuk melobi kuasa dunia yang cukup efisen. jadi tak mustahil orang mereka naik bila bersaing dengan bangsa lain.

7. Bezakan juga antara barakah dengan semata-mata kejayaan dunia. Selain nak mengejar kejayaan dunia kita juga nak kejar kejayaan akhirat. Oleh itu masa, tenaga, wang ringgit kita tidak hanya untuk kejar dunia sepertimana Yahudi.

8. Walaupun ramai Yahudi yang berjaya, namun apakah mereka telah membawa keamanan dan kesejahteraan kepada dunia. Fikir-fikirkanlah.

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OK saya nak tambah. Ramai saintis pada zaman dahulu terdiri daripada orang Islam, contoh, Ibn Sina, Alkwarizmi, Ibn Kaldun, Al Farabi, yang mana saya ingat laaa... Malah mereka ini telah diiktiraf oleh saintis barat, serta dibincangkan dan ditulis di dalam pelbagai buku, seperti buku, History of Science oleh George Sarton (buku ini ada 10 jilid, cube nak khatam 1 jilid aritu, tapi tidak kesampaian).

Ok nie saya nak cari link kat wiki, bukti ramai para saintis Islam suatu ketika dulu....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_science

Persoalan: Adakah kita yang lalai???

Kalau ada kekurangan, mohon kongsi ya. Kita sama-sama belajar kan. Mempelajari ilmu satu tuntutan Islam.

Gloria Gaynor "I will survive"

This is one of my fav song. I can't never sing this song, too fast for me, short breath. I remember Farhan (AF) sang this song, and she did it so damn well.

Book review: "Lisey's story"

Finally I managed to finish this book....phewwwww.....sooooo difficult to finish 1 book lately. Have to constraint myself from spending hours reading the book, coz I should be concentrating on my research. However, I do need a break ya. So been reading Lisey's story for a couple of months (yup....slow like a tortoise I am). Most of the pages, was done on the bus, on the way to the office. And half of the book onboard AirAsia enroute Malaysia-Brisbane.

Try to find the cover of the book that I have, but couldn't found any. Anyway, here is the review.


For a start, I would like to give an introductions of how I came to know Stephen King's books, been a collector till now, and still an avid reader of his book. All this began with my sistah, buying and giving me Salem's Lot. Vampire movie was an-in-thing during that year. And Salem's Lot did catch my attention, and I have read it more than twice. Hehehhh... and since then I have been the collector and reader of King. Either I bought the book or got it as presents. Until now I am trying my best to keep updated with King's latest book, however, I have missed a number of his books. A few weeks after I bought Lisey's Story, Duma Key was then released. Satu ari nak ajak atang gi Carrara market la, carik second hand book. You can get 1 book at $3.

Ok here is the review (am still not good at doing this). Lisey's Story is a story about a widow (named Lisey, obviously) who has just lost her husband, and couldn't let go of her memory of her late husband, until she felt she has no reason to live anymore and keeps blaming her husband for leaving her. Eventually her memories have save her life from a blackmailer. At start, the story was pretty slow, and I did skip some pages because it was kinda dragging. But after the third chapter, when she is recollecting her memories, the best part begins.

I like the book, but talking about a similar King's book, I like Rose Madder even better. More suspense and scarier. So I end this review with an interesting abbreviation I got from Lisey's (King likes to create abbreviation).

SOWISA (strap on whenever it seems appropriate)

A must try : Marble Chocolate Cheese Cake (Kak Hanieliza recipe)

I believe "cooking is the best therapy". Often during weekend, feeling lonely at home, I will get emotional easily. So I decided, why not try a new recipe to pass the time. I have a long list of wanna-try recipes from the web. I normally visit Kak Liza's fotopages (but it is no longer available for public, and kak Liza has created a blog to publish her recipes), Kak Ida's fotopages and MamaFami's fotopages. I have tried some of their recipes (there is an entry on how I baked a cheesecake in this blog), simple recipes but the outcome is sooo satisfying.

Last week I baked Marble Chocolate Cheese Cake (from Kak Liza's fotopages). I just found the same recipe on MamaFami's fotopages. And believe me, it is a must try recipe.


Here are the ingredients (am so lazy, so I just copy and paste the recipe from MamaFami's) :





Ingredients A :

180 g butter
20 g cocoa powder (I used 2 heaps of tablespoon)
170 g castor sugar
3 eggs
120 g self-raising flour
1 teaspoon baking powder

Ingredients B :

250 g cream cheese
60 g castor sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla essence
1 egg

Method :

1. Sift self-raising flour, baking powder and cocoa. Set aside.
2. Cream butter and sugar.
3. Add in eggs (ingredient A), one at a time.
4. Add in the sifted ingredients and mix well.
5. In another bowl, beat all ingredients in B till light.
6. Prepare a 7" tray, line with grease-proof paper (I used a medium size round springform pan). Pour in one part of ingredient A's mixture into the tin. Spread evenly. Then pour the whole ingredient B's mixture on top and spread evenly. Finally pour the balance of ingredient A's mixture on top and spread nicely to cover the whole area.
7. Bake in a pre-heated oven at 160 C for 1 hour.



Yummy :p

Wake up and smell Jasmine

Yesterday, for some reason I feel wonderful, happy, and sooo relieve. I can't explain why, can't even isolate the main reason I felt sooo happy. Too many things contributed to that, entwined. Anyway, yesterday I woke up, and after getting ready to go to the office, I went out the balcony, to take a deep breath (for it is going to be a long day) and inhaling a lovely and sweet smell of Jasmine. It was raining early in the morning, and the Jasmines were starting to bloom. Just 2 days back, I took some pictures of the buds.



There are loads of them, and the smell....soooo refreshing, in addition to the after-rain smell.


I then plucked a bunch of them, and put them into a container (the only container that I can grab), and placed them in the middle of the coffee table.

Alhamdullillah, am able to smell and to see wonderful thing created by Allah.

[a special dedication to my dearest friend Gee, for her birthday. The jasmines were blooming yesterday, to commemorate your birthday.]

Thirah in action : pushing the walker

Enjoy watching thirah in action, pushing the walker, on her birthday.

"The A-Z of the Unusual Jobs"

I have just finished reading Stephen King's Lisey Story (wait for my review this week) and am restraining myself from grabbing a new book at the moment. So, to accompany me on the bus every morning, I keep Reader's Digest Asia edition in my tote bag. This morning an article about Unusual Job attracted me. Was imagining of shifting to some of the jobs listed in the digest.

"The A-Z of the Unusual Jobs (ref: Reader's Digest Asia (January 2009))"
Autopsy assistant
Bartender at the Liberace mansion
Cat nanny (I can do this job, I loves cat)
Donkey trainer
Elf at Santa's workshop
FBI fingerprint examiner (they actually have a post for this? sure have a lot of fingerprints to analyse nowadays)
Grave digger (ini dari dulu dah ada kan)
Hurricane hunter (yup... Twister the movie)
Ice sculpture carver (must be very efficient and fast to work in this line)
Junk mail machine operator
Kitty litter box decorator (nice... I can be creative too :P)
Laser tag referee
Magician's assistant (aaaa...do they have pay scheme for this?)
Nuclear electrician on a submarine (pergghhhh I wonder what is the qualification?)
Opera singer (pavarotti)
Parachute tester
Quality control taster for a chocolate factory (I want...I want... Is there an opening at Hershey's?)
Romance specialitst (ahaks... not good at this area)
Scratcher (scratching backs of patients) (wooo... )
Turkey wrangler (ganas nie...)
Undercover vice decoy
Video game tester (yup...I know a website/game provider that offer this, wish I can apply for that, but I can easily get frustrated when am not making any progress with the game. that's why am not good at most computer games (especially a single player game))
Wallpaper peeler (ohh this is easy, just can't stand the sweeping job)
X-ray technician for zoo animals
Yawn counter at a sleep clinic (am afraid the patient is the one counting my yawn ahahhaha)
Zamboni (ice resurfacer driver) (Zamboni?? Is it the name of the ice vehicle)

So...what do you think??

They are back....

Desperate Housewives season 5.

Premier tonight on Channel 7

best....best....ari senin, 8.30 mlm melekat depan tv la jawab nye :D