Why U should dump FRIENDSTER and switch to FACEBOOK

1. Friendster is just plain boring
2. Friendster always have this kind of maintenance, where it gets "bengong" or retarded sometimes
3. U can tag people in photo with Facebook, but Friendster cant
4. U can keep the photos u've been tagged in ur page even u dont own the photos with Facebook, but with Friendster u can only grab photos u dont own
5. U can have many applications in Facebook (as long u keep ur page tidy) but with Friendster, only certain application available and I dont even know how to manage them
6. U get clear notification if there's any update with ur Facebook, but with Friendster, U have to search 4 urself if there is any new comment in 1 of your loads of photos
7. Many people are switching to Facebook, and begin to neglect their Friendster, which means they no longer active in Friendster.
8. U can join a lot of groups, create event and so on with Facebook, but U cant do it with Friendster, unless u shout with ur Bulletin Boards, which is juz bored to be read
9. Most people tend to use Friendster as 'Facester' by posting their photos of gedik, hensem or lawa, cambagus... I dunno why they use Friendster as a medium utk 'perasan'. Instead, most Facebookers use Fb as 'Friendbook', where they keep in touch with friends by this medium, n more than friends, such as idols, celebs, anwar ke, mahathir ke kan..
10. I think with Facebook u can be more professional n organized. Friendster probably for beginners now, but Facebook is not bad for beginners either.



Why U should not create any FACEBOOK account

1. Addiction to it is not something easy to control
2. Addiction to open facebook everytime u online
3. Addiction to tag people the way u like
4. The font used in Facebook is quite small.. 0_O
probably size 4 or 6 of normal type. I would prefer bigger one, which is more convenient to my eyes, even tho i'm not short-sighted
5. U will lose the sense and touch of having real relationship with people around u, coz all u do is juz click n type. U don even get face 2 face with people. Probably good 4 ASBO (anti-social behaviour) / kera sumbang


I've deleted my old FS account, since I already hav FB. But I created a new account, so that I can still keep in touch with my friends who still don hav FB. So does Syiqin my sister, when r u goin 2 dump that lousy FS n switch 2 FB??

A reflection 4 a while

How lonely are you?

Just finished watching Sepi. I didn't get the chance to watch it back in Msia, so there it goes...in youtube.

My first thought was this must be a normal, touching movie. Since it's a continuation from Cinta (there are all 3, so the 3rd will be coming soon), I bet it wouldn't be more than typical Malay movie. Coz it seems like most people like Cinta, but after I watched it, I juz felt normal, nothing extraordinary. It's juz that I must give compliment to the cinematography. I dunno if Im using the correct term, but I mean the way camera shot every angle of acting. Great n impressive, the same goes to Sepi.


Sepi, not as lonely as it sounds, coz it fulls of great background musics, comforting you with every heartbeat. About 3 people, Adam (Afdlin), Sufi (Tony) and Imaan (Baizura).

Afdlin, lonely bcoz he hasnt met her soulmate. Sick of attending wedding ceremonies n being seated at 'the singles', table for single people. When he met Ilyana and getting close to her, it was too late, since Ilyana was actually ready for her wedding day. Then she cancelled it, bcoz she wanted Adam... poor ex-boyfren of Ilyana, had his wedding to be cancelled by a wedding planner-girlfriend.

Sufi accidentally hit Imaan when was driving his car with wife. n got his wife crashed by a big vehicle (truck, Storm-like) and dead, after he went out of car to look for Imaan's condition. He felt so lonely n guilty, that he had to run (as for jogging) until he started to know Marya, n learned that Marya was also lonely, longing for a child. Eventually she got pregnant, n Tony ended up waiting for her until his death.

Imaan... I guess she's kinda psycothic, since she coped with her shock of losing her bf, by having her bf still alive. Being chased by Ean, Imaan was comma for quite a time, n finally letting his Pierre bf go and rest-in-piece. ops peace.. So Imaan finally recovered her loneliness, by having Ean by her side..

Well, much better than Cinta, I would say, personally. Cinta is quite typical to me, n Sepi much better coz it knows how to touch ur heart, n mine as well, that it made my eyes wet 4 a while.


We do feel lonely. Longing. For somebody. So that we know how to appreciate the people around us. That sometimes we dunno that they chase away our loneliness. Even with a smile...


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Aku lari ke hutan, kemudian menyanyiku
Aku lari ke pantai, kemudian teriakku
Sepi… Sepi dan sendiri aku benci
Aku ingin bingar. Aku mau di pasar

Bosan aku dengan penat,
dan enyah saja kau, pekat!

Seperti berjelaga jika aku sendiri
Pecahkan saja gelasnya biar ramai
Biar mengaduh sampai gaduh

Ahh.. ada malaikat menyulam jaring laba-laba belang
di tembok keraton putih
Kenapa tak goyangkan saja loncengnya?
Biar terderah,
atau… aku harus lari ke hutan belok ke pantai?

raya! raya! raya!

I’m done with raya now. Eventually, this raya is not that bad at all. I was in gloom during Ramadhan, looking forward for my warm Eid celebration, each year overseas. Even though there are always people around you to celebrate eid, it will never be the same, celebrating raya with ur family, to get to kiss ur parents’ hand, to visit ur relatives’ houses, to try all range of biskut raya at people’s cribs, and... I better stop talking bout it, otherwise the sense of missing home will grow wilder n uncontrollable.

After all, true meaning of having Eid is to celebrate our success of fasting for whole Ramadhan.

“Saban tahun apabila berlalunya Ramadan, kita akan meraikan Aidilfitri. Kita raikan ia dengan Takbir, Tasbih dan Tahmid. Tetapi pernahkah kita dikunjungi tanda tanya, apakah sebenarnya yang kita raikan?

Sesungguhnya, yang kita raikan adalah hakikat diri kita sebagai seorang Muslim. Kita raikan anugerah terbesar pemberian Allah ini. Islam yang telah memuliakan kita, meletakkan harga diri kita yang tinggi dan Islam yang memelihara martabat kemanusiaan kita. Islam itu adalah Islam yang telah disempurnakan oleh Allah, Islam yang menjadi penyempurna nikmat Allah kepada kita dan Islam yang telah diredhaiNya sebagai jalan hidup. Pujilah Allah di atas nikmat ini.

“Segala puji bagi Allah yang telah memberi petunjuk kepada kami ke arah ini, yang tidaklah kami ini beroleh panduan hidayat jika tidak diberi petunjuk oleh Allah” (Al-A’raaf: 43)” – quoted from http://saifulislam.com/?p=315

Absence makes heart grow fonder. Hmm... I wonder how fond my family now of waiting 4 me to be there with them, to celebrate Eid together. Hahaaa... but the missing of having celebrating Eid with them, has left Eid happiness in my heart to empty. Which will be filled and redeemed some other time. Well, having celebrating Eid each year without variation will permit boredom to accompany u, yeah?

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1^st day Eid – Eid prayer at nearer mosque in Bradford, then headed to class as usual. Beraya to kak Ee’s crib

2^nd day – open houses in Bradford

4^th day – Eid in Dublin, Alisa’ new crib

5^th day – Eid celebration at Malaysia Hall in Dublin. At nite, Eid party in RCSI

*****


6^th day – Back to Bradford, another Eid celebration with all Malaysians of Bradford resident.


Will be to other open houses, if any ;) bet this my final year to celebrate Eid in Bradford. Hmm...

Erti raya kali ini

I'm still waiting for announcement. For Eid confirmation.

Either tomorrow or the day after tomorrow.

3rd Eid, overseas.

Sob sob.


*tensyen*

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Happy Eid Mubarak to all.


Maaf zahir batin. Please forgive me.

forensic = forenSICK + forenSEEK

My classes for first week, for final year, has started. New subjects. New lecturers. Some new friends. And new home as well.

It seems like everyone here is still settling down. No wonder my friends' blog are not updated, probably not all. Plus facebook is not that loud now. Maybe after Eid... Some still got their boxes unpacked, some still coping with new timetable, and some still internet-less, n being a parasit to someone else's wireless connection, like me! (well we don't do any harm really rite?)

Not forgetting some of them who are still in Malaysia to celebrate RAYA! Buwekk! :p

The challenge for new subjects, forensic archaeology & forensic anthropology. Gila ke ape. I never had any interest in those subjects, and never had any intention of learning into such depth about it. But now I have no choice, since I tried to change subjects but that is not possible anymore. Nevermind, they seem interesting though.

Excavations. Skeletons. Skulls. Basically bones. TULANG.And there gonna be a practical where we gonna handle real skeletal remains...uuuu sounds creepy yet exhilarating..

People keep assuming that I gonna involve with dead bodies, n those bloody things since I'm doing forensic course. The truth is I never had involved with those stuffs, probably not yet. Probably none. Possibly yes, when I have to handle real case. But most of my friends who are doing Medic, yes they've handled dead bodies.

Well, I guess this year gonna be tougher. Studying forensic does make me SICK sometimes, coz I have to SEEK for many things; truths, facts, probabilities, and of course, produce ESSAYSSSSSZZZZzzzzz......


*my core textbook. Cool...

Berjemaah.. tapi mana saf?

Seperti biasa Ramadhan, saya akan ikut papa berjemaah di Masjid Raja, Bukit Besar untuk solat terawih. Belum masuk Ramadhan lagi, tapi mcm x sabar untuk berjemaah di sana. Maklumlah jarang dapat peluang untuk berjemaah dalam keadaan sekarang. Nanti dah balik UK, peluang tu lagi ditipiskan dengan sesetengah halangan, maka ketika itu sembahyang di bilik adalah lebih baik untuk seseorang perempuan..

Jemaah di Surrey, Musim Bunga 2007

Bila dah mula berjemaah kat sana, barulah saya teringat pengalaman berjemaah semasa tahun-tahun lepas di masjid yang sama. Soal merapatkan saf masih ditakuk lama. Sampai kadang-kadang rasa nak terawih kat rumah je, tapi rugi pula kalau tak dapat pahala berjemaah.

The thing is, kebanyakan muslimat akan bawa sejadah sendiri. Sejadah tu pulak, ada saiz kecik, yang kiut sgt pon ada. Yang masalahnya, apabila sejadah tu besar gaban. Maka biasanya hanya seorang muslimah saja yang dapat sembahyang di ‘wilayah’ dia tu. Komfem la tak bersentuh bahu, boleh la tahan besarnya gap dengan jemaah di sebelah-sebelahnya.. Kalau dulu mase kat surau sekolah, boleh la jugak ditarik membe2 satu sekolah supaya rapat-rapat, supaya saf tu sempurna. Ni di masjid, susah juga sbb kebanyakannya makcik-makcik, dan perempuan dewasa. Taknak la ada salah faham pulak sebelum sembahyang.

Kecewa juga, apabila imam jarang sekali mengingatkan makmum supaya membetulkan saf. Jadi, mereka ni pon buatla saf sesuka hati, padahal bila dah tak bersambung saf tu, macam dah takde makna sembahyang berjemaah, lebih kurang sembahyang seorang diri je. Yang lagi tensyen, apabila dah mula sembahyang, then ada ruang kosong. Susah betul nak berganjak supaya diisi ruang kosong tu, melainkan diselamatkan dengan orang yang baru datang untuk mengisi saf. Worst come to worst, muslimat pun akan meneruskan jugak sembahyang dengan ruang kosong macam tu… sedih sebab mereka ni nak jugak sembahyang di sejadah sendiri.

Tak tahu lah macam mana nak diselesaikan kebimbangan ini. Lurusnya saf tu melambangkan lurusnya perpaduan umat Islam. Kalaulah saya boleh jadi pengawas kat masjid tu, mahu jugak tarik aje sape2 yang degil tu supaya rapat dengan orang sebelah. And nak haramkan bawa sejadah ke masjid. Jadi semua orang tak perlu tanda sempadan masing-masing, yang penting saf tu rapat dan sempurna. Karpet dah ada, cukuplah.

Ingatkan saya seorang saja dalam dilema macam ni, rupa-rupanya kat masjid-masjid lain pun sama.. lagi la sedih. Baru dapat tahu bila baca blog Ummusaif semalam, isteri Ustaz Hasrizal. Hebat dibincangkan di sini.

*Syukur sangat solat berjemaah amat ditekankan dan dijaga masa kat SMSD dulu. Kalau bukan kerana tinggal di asrama, susahnya nak selalu berjemaah dalam usia remaja mcm tu. Semua orang tahu cara yang betul untuk mulakan saf dan menjaga saf ketika sembahyang berjemaah telah dimulakan. Alhamdulillah. Unforgettable moment, bila Faiz Fahmi jadi imam, mengalunkan bacaan dengan penuh syahdu. Kalau kat KMB, I respect so much dengan Hanafi, lagi2 bila time baca doa, sampai menangis-nangis. Sangat menginsafkan. Walaupun jemaah ramai, namun ego tu dah ditolak jauh2.

-kumengharapkan ramadhan kali ini penuh makna-