“sehr sub”

"The Catalina Island is twenty-one miles away from the
coast of California, and many people have taken the
challenge to swim across it. On July 4th 1952, Florence
Chadwick stepped into the water off Catalina Island to
swim across to the California coast. She started well
and on course, but later fatigue set in, and the
weather became cold.  She persisted, but fifteen hours
later, numb and cold, she asked to be taken out of the
water.

She went back to her rigorous training. And two months
later she swam that same channel. The same thing
happened. The fatigue set in, and the fog obscured her
view, but this time she swam with faith and vision of
the land in her mind. She knew that somewhere behind
the fog was land. She succeeded and became the first
woman to swim the Catalina Channel. She even broke the
men’s record by two hours."

When you set your goal, keep pressing on even when you
are tired, physically and mentally, and even though
there are many challenges ahead. Keep the vision of
your goal crystal clear before you and never, never,
never. give up! See the reaching, commit to it, and you
will surely see your goal realized.

I’ve met students and had talked to them about having goals and putting extra effort to achieve them. God! This is the ONE of few things that I really hold on to - TO HAVE GOALS. Having goals meaning I have something to look forward to. Having something to look forward to, meaning I have to have plans, so to achieve it. Having plans mean, I have to take action, so that I can actually reach the goal. Action means, I have to put SO MUCH effort to move my butt away from my comfort zone. I would be lying if I said that I have achieved some of my goals without much trouble. I went through a lot of obstacles, that affect relationship, my other plans and eventually, me.

Creating a goal is easy. It’s the part where I have to reach it - the journey - it has not only change me, it change a whole lot of things, too. In the process of reaching the goal, there are times when I have to wheel away a bit, from the course I have chosen. I had once planned to do my masters as soon as I finished my degree. But I ended up working as a clerk at the organisation where I did my internship. Still not forgetting my ultimate goal, I applied for the masters and quit my job. Then, I took the time to chill at home (sometimes feeling sad, for not having a job, bla bla bla - such a kiddy thoughts cos I saw that most of my friends were doing great having a job and somehow the feeling of melepak kat rumah menambah beban mak bapak suffocated me. hehe..). Opportunity knocked when I got the call from where I’m working now. I got the job - after a hell-of-a-time being interviewed. Gosh! THAT was the HARDEST interview I’ve been to. I was on the verge of crying at the moment. Ha-ha! But I ended up having a good time here - that I post-poned my study till next year. I longed for that moment when I’ll be a student again, but after full and thorough consideration (plus advices from the wise people I knew), this working experience will be a plus for me.

Sometimes, I thought that I was so close to getting to where I want, but when opportunity greets me, I can’t just let it pass me by. I know that by taking its hand, I may have to alter my course of journey. But I can’t help it. Curiousity got the best of me, I don’t want that later in my life- if I let it pass- I looked back and wonder "what would happen if I took it? will I be different from now?". What I have learned that, there is no easy way to get to the top, and along the way, I might have to stop once, or twice, to attend to other matters, but I will not take my eyes of my goal. I used to think of my age. Age increases and yet, I haven’t done anything. But I was told that age does not matter. Why make age as a reason for us to set limits? emm…

English - I love you
Afrikaans - Ek het jou lief
Albanian - Te dua
Arabic - Ana behibak (to male)
Arabic - Ana behibek (to female)
Armenian - Yes kez sirumen
Bambara - M’bi fe
Bangla - Aamee tuma ke bhalo aashi
Belarusian - Ya tabe kahayu
Bisaya - Nahigugma ako kanimo
Bulgarian - Obicham te
Cambodian - Soro lahn nhee ah
Cantonese Chinese - Ngo oiy ney a
Catalan - T’estimo

Cheyenne

unnai kathalikaraen
Telugu - Nenu ninnu premistunnanu
Thai - Chan rak khun (to male)
Thai - Phom rak khun (to female)
Turkish - Seni Seviyorum
Ukrainian - Ya tebe kahayu
Urdu - mai aap say pyaar karta hoo
Vietnamese - Anh ye^u em (to female)
Vietnamese - Em ye^u anh (to male)
Welsh - ‘Rwy’n dy garu
Yiddish - Ikh hob dikh
Yoruba - Mo ni fe

Sometimes when you have said the words too many times too much, it seems like the magic has gone. The solution is not to stop saying it, but to find other alternatives of saying it. These might help a bit.

L is for the way you look at me,

O is for the only one I see,

V is very, very extraordinary

E is even more than anyone that you adore.

Love is all
That I can give to you
Love is more
Than just a game for two
Two in love can make it
Take my heart
And please don’t break it
Love was made
For me and you"

Nat King Cole

Love! and everything will be fine…

Sabda Nabi s.a.w.: Hendaklah kamu memuliakan bulan
Rejab,nescaya Allah muliakan kamu dengan seribu
kemuliaan di hari kiamat.
Sabda Nabi s.a.w.:
Bulan Rejab Bulan Allah, Bulan Sya’aban bulanku &
bulan Ramadhan bulan umatku.

Kemuliaan Rejab dengan malam ISRAK MIKRAJnya, Sya’aban
dengan malam NISFUnya Ramadhan dengan
LAILATUL-QADARnya.

Malam awal Rejab mustajab do’anya.(Dalam Kitab Raudhoh
Iman Nawawi)

* Puasa sehari pada bulan Rejab mendapat syurga
tertinggi (Firdaus).

* Puasa dua hari dilipatgandakan pahalanya.

* Puasa tiga hari pada bulan Rejab dijadikan parit
yang panjang, yang menghalangkan dia keneraka
(panjangnya setahun perjalanan).

* Puasa empat hari pada bulan Rejab diafiatkan
daripada bala dan daripada penyakit yang besar-besar
dan daripada fitnah Dajal di hari kiamat.

* Puasa lima hari pada bulan Rejab, aman daripada azab
kubur.

* Puasa enam hari pada bulan Rejab, keluar kubur
bercahaya muka.

* Puasa tujuh hari pada bulan Rejab, ditutup daripada
tujuh pintu neraka.

* Puasa lapan hari pada bulan Rejab, dibuka baginya
lapan pintu syurga.

* Puasa sembilan hari pada bulan Rejab keluar dari
kuburnya lalu, MENGUCAP DUA KALIMAH SHAHADAH tidak
ditolak dia masuk syurga.

* Puasa 10 hari pada bulan Rejab Allah jadikan baginya
hamparan perhentian di Titi Sirotolmustaqim pada
tiap-tiap satu batu di hari kiamat.

* Puasa 16 belas hari pada bulan Rejab akan dapat
melihat wajah Allah di dalam syurga dan orang yang
pertama menziarahi Allah di dalam syurga.

* Puasa 19 belas hari pada bulan Rejab, dibina baginya
sebuah mahligai di hadapan mahligai Nabi Allah Ibrahim
a.s dan Nabi Allah Adam a.s.

* Puasa 20 hari pada bulan Rejab, diampunkan segala
dosanya yang telah lalu. Maka mulailah beramal barang
yang tinggi daripada umurnya (pembaharuan umur).
Berkata Saidina Ali:

* Puasa Rejab 13 hari seperti puasa tiga ribu tahun.
* Puasa Rejab 14 hari seperti puasa sepuluh ribu
tahun.
* Puasa Rejab 15 hari seperti puasa seratus ribu
tahun.

Kelebihan bulan Rejab dari segala bulan seperti
kelebihan Qur’an atas segala Qalam.

Puasa sehari pada bulan Rejab seperti puasa empat
puluh tahun dan diberi minum air dari Syurga.

Puasa 10 hari pada bulan Rejab dijadikan dua sayap,
terbang seperti kilat di atas Titi Sirotalmustaqim
di hari kiamat.

Puasa sehari pada bulan Rejab seperti mengerjakan
ibadat seumurnya.

Puasa pada awal Rejab, pertengahannya dan akhirnya
seperti puasa sebulan pahalanya.

Bulan Rejab Syahrullah (Bulan Allah), diampunkan dosa
orang-orang yang meminta ampun dan bertaubat kepada
Allah. Puasa Bulan Rejab wajib baginya:

* Diampunkan dosanya yang lalu.
* Dipeliharakan Allah umurnya yang tinggal.
* Terlepas dari dahaga di hari kiamat.

Orang yang lemah dari berpuasa pada bulan Rejab
hendaklah bersedekah tiap-tiap hari sekurang-kurangnya
sebiji roti. Sasiapa bersedekah pada
bulan Rejab seperti sedekah seribu dinar, dituliskan
kepadanya tiap sehelai bulu ruma jasadnya seribu
kebajikan, diangkat seribu darjat, dihapus seribu
kejahatan.

Tiap sehari puasanya pada bulan Rejab dan sedekahnya
pada bulan Rejab seperti ibadat seribu Haji dan Umrah.
Dibina mahligai seribu bilik dan seribu bidadari,
lebih cantik daripada atahari seribu kali.

Bulan Rejab bulan Allah. Bersedekah pada bulan Rejab
dijauhkan Allah daripada api neraka kerana kemuliaan
bulan Rejab, Bulan Allah. Allah jadikan di belakang
bukit Jabal Qar bumi, yang putih yang penuh dengan
Malaikat dengan panji-panji berhimpun pada tiap malam
Rejab meminta ampun oleh mereka kepada Umat Muhammad.
Allah menjawap: Telah aku ampunkan mereka! Barangsiapa
meminta ampun (bersitighfar) kepada Allah
pagi dan petang 70 kali atau 100 kali, pada bulan
Rejab di haramkan tubuhnya daripada api neraka.

Sesiapa berpuasa sebulan pada bulan Rejab, Allah
berseru kepadanya:
"Telah wajib hakmu atasKu, maka mintalah olehmu
kepadaKu. Demi ketinggian Ku dankebesaranKu, tidak Aku
tolakkan hajatmu. Engkau adalah jiranKu dibawah
`arasyKu, engkau kekasihKu daripada segala makhlukKu,
engkau terlebih mulia atasKu. Sukakanlah kamu, tiada
dinding antaraKu dan antarakau".(dari kitabRaudatul
Ifkar)

Puasa pada 27 bulan Rejab seperti berpuasa enam puluh
bulan pahalanya. Jika disertai dengan sedekah seperti
puasa seribu tahun, kerana kebesaran hari
ISRAK-MIKRAJ.

Siapa melapangkan kekeruhan, kesusahan, kesempitan
orang mukmin pada bulan Rejab dikurniakan Allah
kepadanya Mahligai yang besar di dalam syurga Firdaus.

Siapa berpuasa tiga hari pada bulan Rejab dan
beribadat pada malamnya(berjaga), seperti dia berpuasa
tiga ribu tahun.

Diampunkan baginya 70 dosa-dosa besar tiap-tiap hari,
ditunaikan 70 hajat ketika keluar nyawanya daripada
jasadnya, 70 hajatnya di dalam kuburnya, 70 hajat
ketika terbang suhuf (ketika Qur’an dinaik ketika
berlalu di Titi Sirotalmustaqim.

Rejab ertinya ta’zim (kebesaran, keagungan,
kemuliaan). (Rahmat, pemurah, kebajikan). Kerana
kebesaran, keagungan dan kemuliaan bulan Rejab itu
maka Allah limpahkan rahmatNya, kemurahanNya dan
terhadap hamba-hambaNya yang beriman dan beramal solih
pada bulan Rejab, dengan berpuasa pada siangnya dan
beribadat pada malamnya.

Demikianlah peri keistimewaannya keagungan bulan Rejab
itu yang dinamakan dengan BULAN ALLAH.

REJAB bulan menabur benih.
SYA’ABAN bulan menyiram tanaman.
RAMADHAN bulan menuai.

REJAB menyucikan badannya.
SYA’ABAN menyucikan hatinya.
RAMADHAN menyucikan rohnya.

REJAB bulan taubat.
SYA’ABAN bulan muhibbah.
RAMADHAN dilimpahi pahala amalan.

This morning, I woke up pretty early. It has been like that for the past few days. I seemed to wake even before the alarm goes off. I even got time to prepare & eat breakfast at home. While driving, I sang along the songs on the radio (out of tune as usual). But I seemed to laze around at work. My mind wanders and I don’t feel like giving my best in everything I do.

It’s a weird feeling, and my instinct told me to go home to my family. Earlier this month, that was my plan. But, with work and all, I cancelled it. But then again, this is MY FAMILY. I’m going home!! After all those weekends sacrificed for my career, going back to BP is something I really look forward to.

Arfah, your little black dress is a V-Neck

 

When you’re out and about, enjoying all that life has to offer, you know how to let your style shine through without being overly flashy. That’s why the perfect little black dress for you should be just as timeless and grounded as you are.

Down-to-earth and genuine, you seem to be one of those rare individuals who understands that it’s what’s on the inside that really counts. By keeping your style simple and pretty, people focus on you, not the clothes. And that’s nothing short of fabulous.

If you guys are interested, go to tickle.com

Oh, I think the lady did protest too much
She wouldn’t take the flower from my hand
She only saw the shadow of my circumstance
Perception can describe what makes a man

I didn’t mean to interrupt your stride
But a rose was all I had to give
Sometimes beauty isn’t recognised
When it contrasts with what you feel inside

Who’s to say the darkened clouds must lead to rain
Who’s to say the problems should just go away
Who’s to point a finger at what’s not understood

Because, we’re all mad in our own way
Colours fade the grey away
Different people all the same
Each reveals the meaning
We’re all mad in our own way
Fill the sky with different shades
Read the story on each page
Each reveals the meaning

Each reveals the meaning

Sometimes I think I over analyse
As if I cant control the time and place
Life isn’t something you try on for size
You can’t love without the give and take

Who’s to say the darkened clouds must lead to rain
Who’s to say the problems should just go away
Who’s to point a finger at what’s not understood

Because, we’re all mad in our own way
Colours fade the grey away
Different people all the same
Each reveals the meaning
We’re all mad in our own way
Fill the sky with different shades
Read the story on each page
Each reveals the meaning

We’re all mad in our own way
Colours fade the grey away
Different people all the same
Each reveals the meaning
We’re all mad in our own way
Fill the sky with different shades
Read the story on each page
Each reveals the meaning

Oh, each reveals the meaning
Oh oh oh yeah, oh

We’re all mad in our own way
Colours fade the grey away
Different people all the same
Each reveals the meaning
We’re all mad in our own way
Fill the sky with different shades
Read the story on each page
Each reveals the meaning

We’re all mad in our own way
Colours fade the grey away
Different people all the same
Each reveals the meaning
We’re all mad in our own way
Fill the sky with different shades
Read the story on each page
Each reveals the meaning

We’re all mad

Everyone has their own story to tell. We are not the ones to judge over their stories. Them having different stories from you do not necessarily mean they are wrong or abnormal. Each chapter of the book does not have the same plot. You having different story from them does not make you a weirdo. Let’s just learn about each other and accept everyone as he / she is.

Ke hadapan Cik Zaiti,

(I know you will read this) Lain orang lain pandangan. I do think Superman Returns as something watchable, and is worth watching tau! Regardless what people say (ape? B-O-R-I-N-G? hero mcm pondan?), this version has more quality than it used to be. The plot was predictable - but that has always been like that kan… But ada jugak yang lain.. Tak kesahla apa yang orang kata..tu pada mata orang tu. Tak salah pun..My eyes see different thing. Sometimes, even cerita yang cam tak logic tu pun ada yang kita boleh belajar dari cerita tu. Even chick flick yang bodo2 tu pun, ada pengajarannya.  No matter what people say, I’ve watched Superman Returns and I left with a good feeling.

It’s FRIDAY! Esok boleh bermalas-malasan..Baru ingat nak kemas2 umah, tapi bila dapat tahu I have to come to work on Sunday, hilang mood nak kemas umah. Hmmm…Cuti raya nanti nak amek panjang2. Balas dendam.

Happy Weekends!

It was quite a while ago that he has gone. No news about him at all. There were some speculations that he will return, but no one knows for sure when.

And then, he returns.

I remember watching him back when I was still in school. I stayed up late, just for a glimpse of him (usually end up watching him to the end). It was a magnificent feeling, to see him soar above the sky, to see him be there at crucial moments, to see the nerd in disguise. Then I grew up, the era changed. Watching him flying around in his red cape and that used-to-be sexy "jambul" on his forehead seems corky. Watching Teri Hatcher as the talkative Lois in the serial show has become not so interesting as it used to be. Then few years back, swept by the season of doing a backward storyline popularised by Star Wars, Smallville was created. Clark was in high school again. It was quite fun - still is - watching the new improved Superman (but of course, without a costume, yet) and his love interest, Lana Lang. Also to see how the friendship between Lex and Clark slowly turn acidic. Which reminds me, all that are bad, were once good; but because of something that happened along the time of growing up, change them.

And just when the world seems satisfied with the slow story of how Clark Kent owns a costume, the movie maker give it’s best. It was Superman all right, but it was a modern one. With real emotion, that I think, make it closer to people’s hearts. Plus a promising ‘never-ending’ chapter of the hero - I love the piano collaboration between the kid (Jason was it?) and the bald guy that was smashed by the piano. Of course, the script. "How did you get here?" Lois to "Cyclop" of X-men. "I flew.." What a coincidence. Both men she loves can fly! Only with different medium. Both are heroes - in their own unic way. Lucky Lois. Loved by 3 heroes.

When he returns, he brought the message of humane. That even heroes have weaknesses. That even heroes need love, and that even the man of steel can be kicked around until he bleeds. But the most important of all, even the strongest man on earth needs a woman to save him sometimes. Cool, isn’t it, girls?

The message continues when even a normal person, without the strength of batalions of army, can be a hero - provided that he has the advantage of facilities. That love - is the best inspirational motivation to go a little further than one could actually go.

He returns, with big messages. I love the movie! =)   

WASHINGTON - When "say," "they" and "weigh" rhyme, but "bomb," "comb" and "tomb" don’t, wuudn’t it maek mor sens to spel wurdz the wae thae sound?

Those in favor of simplified spelling say children would learn faster and illiteracy rates would drop. Opponents say a new system would make spelling even more confusing.

Eether wae, the consept has yet to capcher th publix imajinaeshun.

It’s been 100 years since Andrew Carnegie helped create the Simplified Spelling Board to promote a retooling of written English and President Theodore Roosevelt tried to force the government to use simplified spelling in its publications. But advocates aren’t giving up.

They even picket the national spelling bee finals, held every year in Washington, costumed as bumble bees and hoisting signs that say "Enuf is enuf but enough is too much" or "I’m thru with through."

Thae sae th bee selebraets th ability of a fue stoodents to master a dificult sistem that stumps meny utherz hoo cuud do just as wel if speling were simpler.

"It’s a very difficult thing to get something accepted like this," says Alan Mole, president of the American Literacy Council, which favors an end to "illogical spelling." The group says English has 42 sounds spelled in a bewildering 400 ways.

Americans doen’t aulwaez go for whut’s eezy — witnes th faeluer of th metric sistem to cach on. But propoenents of simpler speling noet that a smatering of aulterd spelingz hav maed th leep into evrydae ues.

Doughnut also is donut; colour, honour and labour long ago lost the British "u" and the similarly derived theatre and centre have been replaced by the easier-to-sound-out theater and center.

"The kinds of progress that we’re seeing are that someone will spell night ‘nite’ and someone will spell through ‘thru,’" Mole said. "We try to show where these spellings are used and to show dictionary makers that they are used so they will include them as alternate spellings."

"Great changes have been made in the past. Systems can change," a hopeful Mole said.

Lurning English reqierz roet memory rather than lojic, he sed.

In languages with phonetically spelled words, like German or Spanish, children learn to spell in weeks instead of months or years as is sometimes the case with English, Mole said.

But education professor Donald Bear said to simplify spelling would probably make it more difficult because words get meaning from their prefixes, suffixes and roots.

"Students come to understand how meaning is preserved in the way words are spelled," said Bear, director of the E.L. Cord Foundation Center for Learning and Literacy at the University of Nevada, Reno.

Th cuntry’s larjest teecherz uennyon, wuns a suporter, aulso objects.

Michael Marks, a member of the National Education Association’s executive committee, said learning would be disrupted if children had to switch to a different spelling system. "It may be more trouble than it’s worth," said Marks, a debate and theater teacher at Hattiesburg High School in Mississippi.

E-mail and text messages are exerting a similar tug on the language, sharing some elements with the simplified spelling movement while differing in other ways. Electronic communications stress shortcuts like "u" more than phonetics. Simplified spelling is not always shorter than regular spelling — sistem instead of system, hoep instead of hope.

Carnegie tried to moov thingz along in 1906 when he helpt establish and fund th speling bord. He aulso uezd simplified speling in his correspondens, and askt enywun hoo reported to him to do the saem.

A filanthropist, he becaem pashunet about th ishoo after speeking with Melvil Dewey, a speling reform activist and Dewey Desimal sistem inventor hoo simplified his furst naem bi droping "le" frum Melville.

Roosevelt tried to get the government to adopt simpler spellings for 300 words but Congress blocked him. He used simple spellings in all White House memos, pressing forward his effort to "make our spelling a little less foolish and fantastic."

The Chicago Tribune aulso got into th act, uezing simpler spelingz in th nuezpaeper for about 40 years, ending in 1975. Plae-riet George Bernard Shaw, hoo roet moest of his mateerial in shorthand, left muny in his wil for th development of a nue English alfabet.

Carnegie, Dewey, Roosevelt and Shaw’s work followed attempts by Benjamin Franklin, Daniel Webster and Mark Twain to advance simpler spelling. Twain lobbied The Associated Press at its 1906 annual meeting to "adopt and use our simplified forms and spread them to the ends of the earth." AP declined.

But for aul th hi-proefiel and skolarly eforts, the iedeea of funy-luuking but simpler spelingz didn’t captivaet the masez then — or now.

"I think that the average person simply did not see this as a needed change or a necessary change or something that was … going to change their lives for the better," said Marilyn Cocchiola Holt, manager of the Pennsylvania department of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh.

Carnegie, hoo embraest teknolojy, died in 1919, wel befor sel foenz. Had he livd, he probably wuud hav bin pleezd to no that milyonz of peepl send text and instant mesejez evry dae uezing thair oen formz of simplified speling: "Hav a gr8 day!"