Better than none....

Semangat patriotik sentiasa ada walaupun hanya dengan bendera kecil ini.... dah bunga tak mahu tumbuh dalam pasu ni baiklah tanam bendera sempena Hari Kemerdekaan Yang Ke-55...this is a brainwave of hubby after all and we will soon be leaving on a jetplane in the early morning of 1 Zulkaedah 1433 to a place where all Muslims yearn to go...Alhamdulillah!

             SELAMAT MENYAMBUT HARI KEMERDEKAAN YANG KE-55

 

Breakfast 5 Syawal 1433

Aidilfitri has come and gone and I am back in office since yesterday.  Office looks deserted when most of the staff opted to take leave for the rest of the week.  I was all alone here yesterday...

This morning after punching in, went off in search for some breakfast with hubby outside and landed here ...

 

 

A happy note to add to  this Aidilfitri... after 6 long years....at last!!!!

My eldest 'Sunshine' ...Alhamdulillah!

Salam Aidilfitri

Nok tra tulih ko loghat kelatae skali ni...

Takdi lepah smaye zohor jemaah di opih, ustad di opih (kito ado ustad di opih ni...pegawai tadbir sebenanyo tp ado kelulusan dr Universiti Azhar pahtu dr  skoloh tahfiz hok ssohor di Pulai Chondong) bui tazkiroh sikit nok nok gak kito ni di fasa akhir bulae Ramadhae doh ni hok mano kito mitok nga Allah  jjauhlah api nerako tu dr kito ssemo.  Ustad kato loni agok-agoknyo lah kito ni boleh doh nilai sikap kito, beruboh ko dok akhir-akhir poso kito...holah mugo nok masuk syurgo blako kalu boleh gak...jange duk seko buruk ko oghe, ke'cek nnawok etc..bendo-bendo negatif pendek gak....

Pahtu ustad ssapa sor riwayat Rasululloh SAW kito.... maso di masjid (masjid mano ustad tok sebut), Rasulluloh kato ko sahabat-sahabat hok ado ssitu... nok kenal ko sapo ahli syurgo hok akae masuk kut pitu masjid tu?  Mestilah sahabat-sahabat nok tau...kito pun nok tau jugok dok?  Masukla Saad Abi Waqqas kut pitu tu.... sapa tigo hari turut-turut Rasululloh tanyo gitu ko sahabat-sahabat, pah turut-turut tigo ari tu jugok hok masuk di pitu tu Saad Abi Waqqas.  Adolah soghe sahabat tu nok tau amalae gapo Saad Abi Waqqas ni buat sapa boleh jadi ahli syurgo.  Dio pun gi lah ko rumoh Saad ni...dio oyak ko Saad dio bbaloh nga ayoh dio pah kalu boleh nok tupae tido/duduk di rumoh Saad.  Saad builah izin dio tupae duduk/tido ssitu.  Sahabat ni pun perhatilah gapo Saad buat maso dio duk dhumoh tu tapi tak dok lah dio  napok Saad ni duk tadarrus quran ko, smaye tahajjud ko.  Sapa tigo hari dio duk di rumah Saad....last-last dio pun oyak ko Saad... dio buat lolok (bohong) ko Saad yae dio bbaloh nga ayoh sebenanyo dio nok tahu amalae gapo Saad buat sapa boleh jadi ahli syurgo supo kato Rasululloh SAW.  Saad Abi Waqqas pun oyaklah sebenanyo dio ni tok ghajin seko buruk ko oghe lain....seko baik sokmo.  

Molek benalah kito ssemo ikut cagho Saad Abi Waqqas ni...sokmo-sokmo seko baik ko oghe lain... banyok pengajaran dari riwayat ni.  

Nabi SAW bersabda, mafhumnya:

"Kalian tidak akan masuk syurga sehingga kalian beriman

dan kalian tidak akan beriman sehingga kalian saling mencintai

Mahukah kalian aku tunjukkan sebuah amalan yang apabila kalian melakukannya, nescaya kalian akan saling mencintai?

Sebarkanlah salam di antara kalian "

(Hadith Sahih, Riwayat Imam Muslim)

SALAM AIDILFITRI  

Maaf Zahir & Batin

A Reason To Smile

I have a reason to smile yesterday ... the second 'Sunshine In My Life' made the Dean's List for his final semester's degree result in Graphic Design (he majored in Multimedia). The results came out yesterday.

Remember....Mama dedicated this poem to you last year when you were worried with what the semester ahead was offering with a weird and scary syllabus and Alhamdulillah you made it albeit some difficulties that all degree students in a course such as yours had to go through in accomplishing their projects and tasks in order to attain good credits....and you have successfully managed to jump over the first hurdle but remember there are still more hurdles in your life for you to clear; we will always be behind you supporting because we believe in you...

Yahoooo............ I made it!!!!!

Tanda-Tanda Hati Kotor

Sama-sama kita mahasabah dan menjauhkan diri daripada perkara-perkara ini di bulan Ramadhan Al-Mubaraq ini...

** Gelisah walaupun tiada masalah.

** Selalu berbangga dengan diri sendiri

** Angkuh dengan memandang hina terhadap semua orang.

** Sombong dan bongkak.

** Selalu mengintai keaiban orang dan menyebarkannya.

** Suka mengumpat dan membuka aib orang lain.

** Gembira melihat orang lain susah atau rendah daripada dirinya.

** Lidah yang tajam atau laser.

** Suka menyakiti hati orang dengan sindiran.

** Berlagak alim semata-mata untuk dipuji orang.

** Menyampaikan ilmu dengan riak.

** Menganggap diri lebih hebat daripada orang lain.

** Berpakaian elok untuk dipuji.

** Derhaka kepada kedua ibubapa.

** Talam dua muka (manis di depan tapi jahat di belakang).

** Suka menjatuhkan dan memijak orang dengan kuasa yang ada.

** Solat yang tidak boleh khusyuk.

**  Kagum terhadap diri.

** Selalu mencari salah orang.

** Cinta kepada duniawi.

** Materialistik.

** Mudah bersangka buruk terhadap orang.

** Membesar-besarkan perkara yang kecil.

** Suka mendengar gosip.

** Suka menabur fitnah.

** Menggunakan agama demi kepentingan peribadi.

** Dengki kerana kepentingan duniawi.

*** Kongsi daripada emel... Terima kasih AFM.

Nestle @ Brickfields

Blogger Al-Manar was reminiscing about how Brickfields (now known as Little India) played an important role in the early days for him as well as for his family and I on the other hand upon reading Al-Manar's post  recalled the times when I was employed by Nestle Products (Head Office) at Jalan Brickfields in the late Seventies. 

I was thrust into a working world dominated by expatriates with a majority of non-Malay employees after freshly graduating from ITM (now UiTM).  If I remember correctly (it was 35 years ago anyway...), I was called up for  interviews while still in my final semester in two places on the same date and time ie Nestle and Petronas  (masa tu Petronas tidak gah lagi macam sekarang!).  To cut a long story short I chose to go for the Nestle interview because of the familiarity of the word NESTLE and MILO!  While still studying in college I used to travel along Jalan Brickfields and saw this big red letters NESTLE on a long rectangle building and thinking how nice if I can work there one day.  Alhamdulillah, after being shortlisted after the first interview and called up for a second interview I got the job as a Stenographer (are there stenographers nowadays????), well it was a step up to become a secretary back in those days.  I remember the secretary to the big boss (the General Manager) then drove a sports car to work...woweeee!  With big sunglasses and a scarf tied around her head (glamer habis!), she was a reminiscence of Grace Kelly in a movie..hahaha.  I was just a kampung girl from the east coast with no working experience except for a six weeks practical training and that was in my hometown in a government office.. and boy was I nervous and timid on my first day.  The personnel manager (an elderly Tuan Haji) was kind enough to explain to me that the management recruited more  Malay staff so as not to make us feel like 'Rusa Masuk Kampung' ( I must have looked so 'kampung like' throughout the interviews...hahaha) but then now I can look back on those times as all sweet memories.  

Now who would this be in the pictures below?  

He joined Nestle after a year I was there if I am not mistaken...thanks to my failing memories!  He was very attached to me and my circle of friends in the office and would tagged along with us for lunch, played pranks (a lot) on us and very popular with the staff at HO.  The first pic was when we threw him a surprise birthday party, tu nampak tersengih satu macam aje.. Second pic he personally gave me this pic of him when I left Nestle forever....sedih! 

With his versatile personality I am not at all surprise to see what he has achieved today....a Celebrity Chef with the famous restaurant and lately a title was bestowed upon him joining thousands and thousands with that title.  Baguslah dah jadi orang famous kan.... am happy for you :) 

Old faded photographs of yours truly with very close friends in Nestle...

My very best friends...Kai Sim and Suzanne Nani on either side of me....I miss u girls!!!!!!!!!!!!!! What wide grins we had...I think Mail was cracking jokes when this pic was taken. 

What I missed about Nestle?   I missed buying discounted Nestle products which cost a bit more outside..my siblings in KL really took advantage of this.  I missed the delicious Nasi Lemak with the overpouring of the 'gulai daging' sold by a Malay couple  on the corner of the Brickfields Parcel Post Office just opposite Nestle HO.  I missed not helping the blind cross the road (MAB is in Brickfields), you got the opportunity of helping them if you are working in this vicinity.  I don't missed the burden of work there (which is a lot!) but I missed my very nice boss CKH and I missed the atmosphere when the department (Distribution Dept.) where I was working turned into a fish market in the afternoons (around 3 or 4 pm) with three or more officers shouting  on the phones speaking with the forwarding agents at Port Kelang because that was the time when the imported bulk material for beverages/milk arrived on the cargo ships and oh... I missed the forever thick cup of hot Milo prepared by Angela, the tea lady on my table every morning :).  

 Nestle @ Brickfields is no longer there....only fond memories remain.

Selamat Datang Ramadhan 1433H