Ya Qalb...

Hati...

Terkadang riang

Terkadang hiba

Terkadang lesu

Terkadang lemah

Kalbu...

Kekalutan yang sendiri ku tanya

Kebahagiaan bak bintang bercahaya

Adakalanya bersinar

Tanpa bicara bermuram durja

Sukma...

Tiada titik noktah rasa gejolak

Kusutku biarlah terlerai

Bukti halusnya jiwa yang longlai

Ramadhan...

Sinarilah hati, kalbu dan sukma

Untuk ku kenal erti permata

Terangilah diri yang kerdil di mataNya

Agar tenang, kuat dan tabah

Ramadhan...

Kuatkan hati ini menempuh mehnahMu

Adakah ku mampu, sendiri tiada tahu

Lagu dah irama malamku sungguh syahdu

Hanya Kau, jelas dengan apa ku mahu

Bertautlah kebenaran di hatiku

Hanya pada pancaran warna

Dendangkan rinduku pada yang Satu

Iringi ku yang hilang menuju jalanMu

* * *

Kadangkala diri ini benci pada hati

Yang kadang tenang kadang berombak

Mengapa mudah dipukul ombak

Hanya kerananya?

Ketahanan tidak perlu rapuh

Sedangkan besi kian karat

Apatah hati selembut ini

Dibiar hanyut kian larat

Sahutku, teriakku, pohonku

Tunjukkanlah...

Here we go for the special month!

GET READY!
Dragons' team had a recharging session after a long break. Although there was minute attendance, it was still a good refresher session for us. The descending wall differed from the previous one because of the shelters albeit it being just a 3-storey floor. I did some hillarious 360 degree stunt while dragging myself down. Lucky this time round, no video-taking! In the first place, I thought it was easier than the 5-storey building I had back in Aljunied. But I had difficulty climbing over. Maybe due to the slanting shelter.

Then, prussick just to remember the coordination. Soon after it ended, showers of blessings from the rain. Hopefully, I will be able to do a good job for the sharing session before the actual event on the 30th. So what's HOT coming this fasting month?

Come this fasting month, Saff Perdaus is organising the event above to coincide with the Ramadhan Youth Challenge 2006. Highlights include sports climbing and abseiling . So...

Are you between 13 and 22 years of age?
Brave enough to take up a challenge?
If so... Take up our challenge!!
More info here

And me, I gotta prepare myself before I belay them on the 30th,

The family gathering

Family members are the best when it comes to birthdays. A weekend well spent which united us. A time almost lost as the growing up years continue and precious memories still vivid in our minds and hearts. Most of yours truly's maternal cousins' birthdays are in the pix above; one new cousin in-law's birthday too - Kak Lia. Welcome to the family :) In fact, our birthdays are just a few days away from each other.

Oh well, yours truly's paternal side too has a birthday which falls on the same day as mine. Happy b'lated birthday, kak Erlis. In fact, both paternal and maternal side has a cousin each sharing the same birthdate as me. Weehoo =)

Thank you all - for the food&drinks, the venue and of course, the comfort. <3

Self Development

People have different ways of interpretating success. To each is his own. To achieve any success is a moment appreciated. Success is not measured in its length, but to be done progressively with consistence and determination.

Sir Winston Churchill once said,

'Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.'

Success, which I almost lost if it hadn't be for the motivation by abah to continue after failing twice. I remembered back then, an online conversation when I discussed with a sahabat about failure breeds success. This, is one of the simplest examples. Alhamdulillah, I have received my plate of orange and yellow pie stuck with me for a year. One of the goals which I have been waiting and now, the gain. My best advanced birthday gift so far.

Truvy (Dolly Parton) in "Steel Magnolias" ,

Smile, it enhances your face value.

So smile, when the video's on you. The knowledge for the intensive video production workshop held at Substation & MOE was undescribable. It seemed impossible to create a storyboard and direct a short film, but the experience was a roller coaster ride. Not only does yours truly learnt to video edit in depth, but produce and direct films. Hoping to utilise this knowledge in the education line which was the initial reason as well as for outreach purposes, insyaaAllah. Thanx Li.oneL C.h.ok for the intensive and productive but super tiring 2-days ride.

Ralph Parlette quoted,

Real birthdays are not annual affairs. Real birthdays are the days when we have a new birth.

How true. A new birth, a new step towards betterment in life. To be under the umbrella of His blessings and approaching the gates of life's ending. Thank you to the people I love, my best buddies, my good friends and virtual ones for your well-wishes and du'a. A special touch for it's the day of Nisfu Sha'ban as well... :)

A Chinese proverb states,

The journey is the reward.

Excruciating it may seem, but the journey as an undergrad at the same time enlightens the pain when satisfaction is achieved. If you really work smart and try your best, insyaAllah good returns will come. You can't turn back the time when you took campus life for granted. Doubling roles and taking a longer journey can make you stronger or even wiser. Alas, last sem's results: 3 A- and 1 B (G.P.A : 3.5) Much tougher for the following sem, I can only try to do the best I could. I might not do better than last sem but I believe, all these are phases of life to test your beliefs, your Eeman and your strength on the journey of the truth.

And this path of self development will never end. That's the beauty of life.

In the path of our happiness shall we find the learning for which we have chosen this lifetime.~ Richard Bach (Illusions)

And I am learning, for the future garden that awaits the entrance of carers to bloom it well. Thank you Allah for this ni'mah. Aameen.

* Gems of Knowledge *

Be It Yourself Day - ACES Day - Teachers' Day
My role : Videographer / Photographer
Dolling up as : Martial Artist

Then said a teacher, "Speak to us of Teaching."

And he said:
No man can reveal to you aught but that which already lies half asleep in the dawning of our knowledge.

The teacher who walks in the shadow of the temple, among his followers, gives not of his wisdom but rather of his faith and his lovingness.

If he is indeed wise he does not bid you enter the house of wisdom, but rather leads you to the threshold of your own mind.

The astronomer may speak to you of his understanding of space, but he cannot give you his understanding.

The musician may sing to you of the rhythm which is in all space, but he cannot give you the ear which arrests the rhythm nor the voice that echoes it.

And he who is versed in the science of numbers can tell of the regions of weight and measure, but he cannot conduct you thither.

For the vision of one man lends not its wings to another man.

And even as each one of you stands alone in God's knowledge, so must each one of you be alone in his knowledge of God and in his understanding of the earth.

Selamat Hari Guru!

The prezzies are all left in the staffroom. Too heavy to bring home. Till school reopens!