One of the last pictures together before catching train - surrounded by lots of bags! I miss my lil friends so much...they sometimes are more fun to be with than 'big' friends. From left; Johan, Amel and Elia.
Everyone carries bags even Little Amel. Believe it or not, 4 of us couldn't manage to carry those...hmm just imagine if you're moving out of country, how many bags you must take with you?
Elia and aunty cried, Johan running towards train and Amel looking blankly leaving tears in me. Ahh...this place left too many wonderful memories in us!
Note 1: Don't take flight in early morning anymore, you got to wake up very early to check in. This is not including arranging bags, a long queue and settling unpredictable additional payments. Mann...so sleepy zzzz~~ Note 2: Don't leave your stuff in the aeroplane!!! Especially the one you loved.
Gulf Air arrived at 9.46am
9/11/2010
KLIA,
Kl Malaysia.The awkward feeling raised was when coming out of the plane and seeing around the airport that most people are Malaysians and speak Malay - you feel like you belong to it!
The funny thing was when we were about to land, the stewards and stewardess gave out a little card for visa matter to everyone to fill it in and give to border force later...just like what we did when crossing UK border everytime we travel outside UK. I was like "Oh yeah we got to fill that in", but turned out that the stewardess didn't hand us one. Wondering why...
Obviously, its my country! I've got Malaysia citizenship! Don't need visa! Ayoyo..
Love is always around~
Presents to my teachers. I just realized that all my subject teachers are male! LOL
The place that keeps 1001 memories of me either happiness or sadness. It was a very strange place when I first came in (with an additional hatred) but it changed dramatically - I just love the teachers, collegaues, friends and Bishop Gore community. I started in Year 9 then Year 10, Year 11, Year 12 and senior, Year 13! I chose to do A-levels in school as well as college but school remains the best.
Spending a quatre of a day in school, it is clearly a big influence to oneself. You don’t only learn in a classroom, you learn a whole lot things outside classrooms through socializing and working. Some of my Malaysia friends wish that they’d be in my place without bearing in mind the challenge they’d face. I was, in fact, in that place before I came.
It was challenging to practise Islam in a western school – trying to fit prayer times in school timetable, finding way to take ablution (wudu’), saying No when boy friends want a high-5 (skin contact), keeping the barrier, avoiding from being influenced by swearing people, matching school uniforms with aurah (coverings) etc etc et cetera. But alhamdulillah luckily, I happened to have such good best friends, friends that are well-mannered though some of them are not of the same faith. Furthermore, I can’t thank God enough for putting me in a school where the admin is concerned about the 5-times prayers. We had a prayer room fitted with carpet and a toilet to take ablution (wudu')..how awesome is that? The period of time to pray is obviously not compulsory on school timetable as in evening-school-session in Malaysia – thus, it depends on the students whether they want to perform the prayer or not.
Despite the challenge, I regard that as a course of learning and building confidence and strength. Learning to adapt, to socialize and to be grateful. I met many wonderful people throughout my years of whom are my close friends – Carol, Emma, Claire, Rachel, Jasmin, Celina, Mette, Lianne and others…too long to be listed!
(continued on Thursday 28/10. Rome)
Community
I am not sure whether there are no many opportunities for young people to get involved in the community during my times in Malaysia or age factor that made me less involved with my community. Wider opportunities let myself to socialize with bigger range of people with various social strata and background – from park caretakers, halaqah sisters, Red cross, Swansea Uni students/society, asylum seekers and refugees, Socialists, Islamic NGO’s volunteers to Malaysian community and a lot more.
Swansea is not quite a big city leaving the spirit of unity high. I once read on a magazine about the ranking of the most friendly UK city and Swansea was ranked 2nd after York and 1st in Wales! Ain’t easy to get that. It says that you still can see many people saying Hello and smile to each other eventhough they have no idea who they are when bumping in the park, along the road side, cycling and so on. This is true. Sometimes they even stop and talk to you about random things like weather, travelling and future/past events. This is certainly what I'll miss about Swansea...its beautiful people and content.
(continued on Friday 29/10. Mu'tah, Jordan)
Jemaah
There are quite many different jemaah's in the UK and being part of a jemaah is such an experience. You'd be able to expand your contacts, to help meet the jemaah's goal as well as to do it for the sake of Allah as the main reason. There are times when you think its not gonna make much difference but then when you think again, you've been chosen by Allah to be there and only few people got the chance. So why not making the most of it? I met a number of jemaah people ranging from undergraduates, postgraduates and professionals which let me socialize with them and take what is good, leave what is the otherwise.
Dulu uniform hijau untuk pengawas, putih untuk pelajar lain. Baju melayu dan jubah untuk hari Jumaat. Sekarang hijau untuk pelajar lain, merah jambu untuk pengawas dan ada kat matrik lagi tuh. Makin berwarena-wareni!

Saya; "You know what, my parents discourage me to go to crowded places especially town, that's why I don't go out much this summer."- Gunakan tisu untuk tutup hidung dan mulut ketika batuk atau bersin, dan lepastu basuh tangan.
- Jangan guna sapu tangan atau tisu yang telah digunakan, ia berisiko contaminating other stuff.
- Basuh tangan selalu terutamanya selepas batuk, bersin dan guna tisu. Bagus dengan sabun dan air atau hand rubs.- Kurangkan menyentuh hidung, mulut, mata kecuali jika anda baru bersihkan tangan.
- Detergen biasa dan air perlu digunakan untuk bersihkan permukaan apa2 yang selalu tangan sentuh.- Bersihkan tangan sejurus memulakan kerja dan sampai rumah.
Hampir semua langkah2 diatas berkait rapat dengan kebersihan. Kebersihan itu kan separuh daripada iman. Moga sinar iman kita makin terik cahayanya di bulan2 mulia ini, inshaAllah!
Selamat berjuang di bulan Ramadhan, para pejuang semua. Barakallahu feekum :)
"Sesungguhnya Allah menyuruh kamu supaya menyerahkan segala jenis amanah kepada ahlinya (yang berhak menerimanya), dan apabila kamu menjalankan hukum di antara manusia, (Allah menyuruh) kamu menghukum dengan adil. Sesungguhnya Allah dengan (suruhanNya) itu memberi pengajaran yang sebaik-baiknya kepada kamu. Sesungguhnya Allah sentiasa Mendengar, lagi sentiasa Melihat"[An-Nisaa:58]
1) Ketika pilihanraya kecil hampir, Tup tup
Media alternatif pembangkang (Harakah, Suara Keadilan) digantung tiga bulan oleh KDN. Alasan; menghasut rakyat.
2) Ketika ada laporan kes rasuah terhadap pemimpin Pakatan Rakyat, MB Selangor Tan Sri Khalid Ibrahim oleh Pemuda Umno tidak lama dulu, cepat sungguh Suruhanjaya Pencegahan Rasuah Malaysia (SPRM) bertindak. Sampai sekarang, senyap kesnya. Apa cerita?
Bila Ketua Menteri Melaka, Datuk Seri Mohd Ali Rustam tidak layak bertanding dalam Pemilihan Agung Umno kerana dibuktikan menggunakan Politik wang = Rasuah,
3) Perhimpunan yang dianjurkan pembangkang seringkali dilabel HARAM oleh media. Sebagai contoh, BERSIH (Nov 07) yang berjaya menghimpunkan hampir 100,000 orang atas tujuan mendesak kerajaan mengadakan Pilihanraya yang bersih. Bak kata KJ:
Tapi kan, bila ahli BN/UMNO berdemonstrasi, tidak kiralah atas sebab apa, sekelip mata ia dilihat HALAL oleh media. Masuk TV tu, tak payah cakaplah. Tidak pula dilabel 'beruk' oleh KJ ya.
Kalian, tolonglah faham!
“Dan jangan sekali kebencian kamu terhadap sesuatu kaum itu mendorong kamu kepada tidak melakukan keadilan. Hendaklah kamu berlaku adil(kepada sesiapa jua) kerana sikap adil itu lebih hampir kepada taqwa. Dan bertaqwalah kepada Allah, sesungguhnya Allah maha mengetahui dengan mendalam akan apa yang kamu lakukan”.
Al-Fatihah untuk Almarhum YB Roslan Shaharom. Terkedu saya bila ayah inform pemergian beliau. Sampai kat sekolah pun terfikir-fikir.Rasulullah saw bersabda:
المؤمن للمؤمن كالبنيان يشد بعضه بعضا وشبك بين أصابعه
Maksudnya: “Orang-orang beriman seumpama bangunan, saling menguatkan sesama mereka.” Baginda menggenggam di antara jari-jemarinya.


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