The Aidil Fitri wishes and greetings...

My phone have had uneasy time since 12midnight.... of course from dearest friends and family. Here are some messages that I received... anyway, thanks everybody, SELAMAT HARI RAYA AIDILFITRI to you all too...

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Selamat Hari Raya, Maaf Zahir dan Batin Semoga di rahmati Allah hendaknya.
Dari, Osman dan Keluarga.

Assalamualaikum wbt.
Kalau dilipek sebosar kuku... Kalau dibontang sebosar alam...
Kok hilang dicaghi... kok hanyut dipinteh...
kok tonggolam di solam... Datang biarlah nampak muko...
Kok poei biarlah nampak belakang...
Jauh diimbau... dokek digamit...
Seuntai salam, sejambak kato...
Dogup bicagho... meghisik ghaso...
Salam Aidilfitri Maaf Zahir dan Batin buat seisi keluargo...
Ikhlas dari Meor, Linda, Ifan, Fatin dan Fazlen.

Meredah hutan di pagi hari,
Hajat mencari si daun palas,
Tersusun rapi sepuluh jari,
Kemaafan dipohon dengan ikhlas...
Dari, Faisal dan Yane

SMS pengganti diri. Bukan lupakan tradisi,
Tapi ikut teknologi di hujung jari...
Salam Aidilfitri Maaf Zahir dan Batin
Dari Faquan sekeluarga

SELAMAT HARI RAYA to you and your loved ones.
Maaf Zahir dan Batin.
From Selvakumar, SMK Convent, Butterworth

SELAMAT HARI RAYA AIDILFITRI.
Jika langkah membekas lara, Jika kata merangkai dusta,
Jika tingkah menoreh luka, Jika suara menikam rasa,
Ampun maaf dipinta...
Dari mustafa, azwa, danial haziq & qaisara irdina.

Di Aidilfitri mulia, maaf dipinta jika:
Terkasar bahasa, Tersilap bicara, Termarah tiba2,
Tertanya x tentu hala, Tersasul yang x sengaja,
Terpinjam harta benda, Termoody x semena2,
Terumpat bila-bila dan mcm2 lagi yang ada.
Selamat Hari Raya Aidilfitri.
Dari Zainab dan keluarga.

Andai ku tahu ya Allah kemaafan itu maha agung di sisiMu,
Akan ku jaga setiap kata yang diucap dan tingkahlaku yang boleh
mengguris hati saudara seIslamku,
Ya Allah kau lembutkanlah hati-hati saudaraku untuk menerima keampunan
dari hambamu ini,
Allahuakbar Walillahilhamd..
SELAMAT AIDILFITRI ku MOHON MAAF ZAHIR BATIN
Dari: Osman dan keluarga

Dalam kelembutan lidah ada juga keterlanjuran kata,
Dalam gurau dan senda tentu ada khilaf dan dosa,
MOHON MAAF ATAS SEGALANYA,
MAAF ZAHIR DAN BATIN,
SELAMAT HARI AIDILFITRI...
Dari: Adam Rafik dan sekeluarga

For things I did wrong,
For words which might hurt,
For jokes you can't take,
and for advise you can't accept, 1001 apologies,
SELAMAT HARI RAYA AIDILFITRI
From: Ruziah Ahmad

Adat manusia tidak sempurna,
Tersilap kata terlanjur bahasa,
Salam dihulur maaf dipinta,
Semoga lebaran berkat dirasa,
Hubungan terjalin bertambah mesra.
SALAM AIDILFITRI, MAAF ZAHIR DAN BATIN
Daripada: Aisyah, Syamsuri, Syukri dan Samihah

Gemersik Takbir memuji Ilahi,
Bermula Syawwal, berlalu Ramadhan,
Sembah salam tulus di hati,
Mohon Maaf sempena lebaran.
Dari: Azniwati Ishak

Enough of politics... it's time to work

It is not my intention to change this blog into a political blog. It is just an expression towards the political turmoil happened in our country recently. I am tired of all these finger pointing, non-stop political predictions, power crazy and tendency of manipulating racial issues. Being dissatisfied and fed up made me took my camera and chess set to create some photo works. Just guest what political issue each picture represents.... (click each photo for bigger view)

Photo o1: Seeds of Tension

Photo 02: Play racism

Photo 03: The Popular Unwanted Detention Act

Photo 04: I wanna be Premier

Photo 05: Foreign Interference

The unexpected response...

Being a teacher is not as easy as non-teacher thought. A teacher has to deal with many things; the most important is his/her patience. Teachers’ ability to control emotion is beyond any instructional theories. It is easy to say about controlling emotion theoretically, but sometimes it is harder than what we thought. 

Today, in class I didn’t know why I couldn’t control my emotion. I felt being ignored by my students even though what I shared with them was really important and related to the examination which is just around the corner. The pictures below speak what had happened in the class. 

(click on the picture for bigger view so that you all can read what is written there)

The unpleasant sensation...

FROM HEARTBURN TO GERD...

I was diagnosed for having GERD (Gastroesophageal reflux disease). So, yesterday I went to hospital for a 'simple procedure' (as the doctor described) to know anything serious in my stomach. True, it was simple procedure yet it gave me very unpleasant sensation. It was not easy to get the optical equipment getting through my mouth then throat then esophagus and then deep into the stomach. If you feel that I am wrong, try to insert your finger into your throat... How'd it feel?... 

THE UNPLEASANT SENSATION...

During the procedure, at the time the 'thing' getting through my throat,  spontaneously I burst out everything inside my stomach. It was like congested pipe line being cleared from blocking wastes. My goodness! At first I felt like I had lost my ability to breath. Lucky it was only panic. The surgeon asked me to calm down and breath through nose only. Everything like gasses, undigested food, fluid etc.. came out one after another as the 'camera' was inside my stomach. The unpleasant sensation occurred again when the surgeon pulled the camera out.... BLUEKK... finally a relief... It's over but the whole day I still felt the pain and feeling like the camera tube was moving happily in my stomach. At night I couldn't sleep because still felt the pain.

'TRIVIA'

After the procedure, the surgeon complained to the nurses that he had lost his pen. Huh! Hey doc! Don't tell me that you left the pen inside!...

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Photo: The 'alien' which went inside my digestion system... BLueekk..

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Flexibles_Endoskop.jpg

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p/s: There went my second day of Ramadhan. What do you expect? What else... I have to replace the undone fasting of the day...

The continuation of Malay culture: A friend's wedding

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Singapura negeri baharu,
Tuan Raffles menjadi raja,
Ku ucapkan selamat pengantin baru,
Moga bahagia selama-lama.

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Starting this post with a Malay 'pantun' is just the expression of my gratitude to the invitation I received from my friend Muhammad Faisal bin Abdul Jalal (I also wanted to try my 'pantun' skill actually :-)). I attended the wedding ceremony with my friend Selvakumar who came all the way from Kulim. So. Mr. Faisal a.k.a Jinggo, the 'pantun' above says thank you and the photos below are captured for our friends who couldn't come to your wedding to see.

Photo 01: The couple walk to the dais.

Photo02: The bride and bridegroom depict their felicity on the dais.

Photo 03: Who else... Farish and Selva, the two special guests :-)

Photo 04: Their smiles describe their... (fill in the blank)

Photo 05: The V.I.P's car

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Kalau merendam biji selasih,
Minum mari dalam cawan,
Sudah jodoh bertemu kasih,
Laksana paku lekat di papan.

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Quick Info:

PANTUN (PANTOUM), a form of verse of Malay origin. An imitation of the form has been adopted in French and also in English verse, where it is known as "pantoum." The Malay pantun is a quatrain, the first and third and the second and fourth lines of which rhyme.>> read more...

My Artocarpus Altilis has got a baby!

Finally, after long periods of waiting, my only one bread fruit (buah sukun in Malay) has produced its first fruit. I planted the tree in year 2004 and at that time she was a cute skinny little tree. Now she has grown up... Ohh... so touching...

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Knowledge Bite:
Breadfruit (Artocarpus altilis) is a tree and fruit native to the Malay Peninsula and western Pacific islands. It has also been widely planted in tropical regions elsewhere. It was collected and distributed by Lieutenant William Bligh as one of the botanical samples collected by HMS BountyBritish slaves in the West Indies. in the late 18th century, on a quest for cheap, high-energy food sources for British slaves in the West Indies. ( Read more )
(Source: Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)

Can you see the 'egg-shaped' green little baby?

Looking at 'the baby' from beneath...

The second baby that only I realised when I was zooming in the lens.. so, she has two babies actually.

Another achievement...

Here is another one after the one I received from NRIC 2007 at USM last year.

Award: Guru Inovatif, Daerah Hulu Selangor.
Occasion: Hari Guru Peringkat Daerah Hulu Selangor.
Date: 18.06.2008 (Wednesday)
Category: Individual
Title of Innovation: (rahsia/secret)