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Salam Edifil Fitri

Gambar Sendiri
Originally uploaded by Adibi

To all my relatives,friends and readers of my blog,may I wish you all Eid Mubarak / Selamat Hari Hari Eidil Fitri.

Let's celebrate our victory and insyaAllah we du'a so that Allah grant us many,many more Ramadhan Al-Mubarak in the future.May the barakah of Ramadhan remains with us forever and to Ramadhan,illal liqaq..

Izinkan saya menyusun sepuluh jari memohon ampun dan maaf diatas apa jua ksilapan saya dalam tulisan,tutur kata,perbuatan dan gerak hati kepada anda semua.

Selamat Hari Raya.
To my relatives/friends in UK,Happy Eid Mubarak today:-)

NB:I will be away from blogsphere for the next few days.

Note on the above ecard:The above Hari raya card was designed by Hilmi Ramlan.Thank you Hilmi for giving permission to use it for this posting.

P Ramlee-Dendang Perantau

Balik kampung

Family on bicycles..

Lately ,I am a bit obsessed with bicycle when I managed to participate in Putrajaya Critical Mass cycling event on 22nd August,2008.To make matters worse,I write a few postings about it and met my younger schoolmate who rides his Ducati bicycle that cost him RM7,000!He told me this while I was having ice kacang at his restaurant.My jaws dropped and I was speechless and dumbfounded!When I become sober again from a lapse of insanity,I called him to my side and wispered to him."Do your wife know about this expensive bicycle?".He replied,"Yes!"."What was her response?".My friend replied,"She could not say anything because a week before I bought my bicycle,I bought her an expensive 10k necklace."My comments: Itu satu tindakan yang bijak! To make thing getting from bad to worse,a few days ago my friend Dr Azmi bought a brand new Proton carbon fibre Proton Bike.The original price was RM2700 and now it is selling around RM850.It is really a cool bike.I invited my wife to join me cycling but she refused so I don't have an excuse to buy it.When I asked my sons, they don't want mountain bikes and asked me not to waste money.I must think of a way so that I could get this bicycle and without my family knowing about it.Since one of my sons always read my blog,I will not reveal my plan here;-) By the way, the photo on the right is a snapshot of my moleskine notebook.The cartoon strips were cut from Adam@Home.

Postmen on bicycles

Posmen Berbasikal
Originally uploaded by Adibi

When was the last time you saw a postman on a bicycle?From the report in the Harian Metro(21/9/08),only four of them left working in KL.I think they are dying species but I love to see more of them.

Today,I got three letters for my neighbour whose house is no 31 and mine is no 37.Postmen on motor-cycles are always in a big hurry to deliver the letters.They don't enough time to read the addresses.

Note on photo: I snapped the photo from Harian Metro 21/9/08

Sabar Ikut Perintah

Reading Qur'an after terawih
Originally uploaded by Adibi

Tarikh: 26 Ramadhan,1429

Sudah 25 hari genap kita menjalankan ibahat puasa dan lain-lain ibadat sunat sempena bulan Ramadhan Al-Mubarak.Alhamdulilah,saya memanjat syukur kepada Allah swt kerana dengan izinNya dapat saya dan kita semua masih diberi waktu dan peluang keemasan untuk beribadat kepada Allahu Rabul 'Alamin.Mudah-mudahn,semua ibadat kita(yang wajib dan yang sunat) di terima oleh Allah dan kita semua mendapat keampunan dan keredhaanNya,insyaAllah.

Semasa waktu menunggu solat di surau kami semalam, saya sempat bertanya rakan-rakan sebaya saya berkaitan pengalaman berpuasa tahun.Mereka menyatakan yang kita amat perlu sabar dalam menangani pelbagai godaan hawa nafsu dan bila badan terasa letih kita mesti melawan nafsu malas untuk menjalankna ibadat sunat ,khususnya di malam hari.Pada kami, berpuasa sudah biasa tapi lain-lain ibadat sunat amat menuntut kesabaran.Sabar menjalankan perintah Allah dan mengikut sunnah Rasullulah amat dituntut dan ganjaran amat besar.

Dari pemerhatian saya sepanjang bulan ini,saya amat terasa malu apabila orang yang lebih tua dari saya tidak penat-penat mendirikan solat terawih hingga 20 rakaat dan anak-anak muda yang membaca Qur'an selepas solat terawih setiap malam.Contoh-contoh yang baik sebegini amat memberi motivasi kepada saya.

Surah Al-'Asr

[1] Demi Masa!

[2] Sesungguhnya manusia itu dalam kerugian;

[3] Kecuali orang-orang yang beriman dan beramal soleh dan mereka pula berpesan-pesan dengan kebenaran serta berpesan-pesan dengan sabar.

Trains collide on LRT line

Here is the story.

I am very disappointed that this had happened.As usual,the minister in charge of transport will say or had said:"Tee Keat meminta pihak RapidKL menyiasat insiden tersebut dan memastikannya tidak berulang lagi."I have heard that many times before,and honestly I don't believe it won't happen again.And the CEO was reported to say this,"RapidKL chief executive officer Suffian Baharuddin said the accident could have been caused by a technical problem."
To the CEO,please get your 'technicals' right!My ears and eyes are telling me that something is still wrong out there!

I have blogged before about the noise generated from the moving train.That is technical!Only deaf people could not hear the noise,and my fellow engineers must have heard about it.And what have they done about it?

The next time I board LRT or Putra trains,I will act like a blind and deaf old engineer.I see nothing and I hear nothing.It is better for me to bring my camera and take photos of people in the train(see the photo above).The photo on the left showed empty ERL.It is more interesting...

By the way,I have set up a Flickr group about Malaysian trains some time ago.You are welcome to see some interesting shots from our fellow members.Here is the link.

A colourful notebook

While I was browsing at MPH Bookshop to buy a birthday card for my wife,I saw this A6,192L notebook.Its covers are made of soft fabric and about one inch thick(~25mm)Considering its good binding and paper quality, to pay it for RM15.20 is a good buy! However,it is not pocket size like my moleskine classic notebook.

Notebooks are just like us.We come in many colours and many sizes,buy everyone of us are special in our own ways...

For those lovers of journals/notebooks,I suggest for you to have a look at this product.It is beautiful to have one;-)

Note: This product comes from PaperLuxe and I donot have any commercial interests in the products/company.

A week to go..

What is the most dominant thought on your mind now about Ramadhan?

Most of us can have either one  or a mix of these thoughts

         1. Just could not be bothered

         2. Seven days more to suffer the hunger and thirst of fasting.

         3. Looking forward to celebrate Eidil Fitri with new clothings,good foods etc.

         4. Happy and complacent with whatever we have been doing like we did last  Ramadhan.

         5. Worried and unhappy with what we had done in the last three weeks and plan to do better in the next seven days.

        6. Checking on their ibadah everyday and keep on doing more with better quality daily

        7.Feeling very sad that Ramadhan will end soon and looking forward to return to their fitrah on 1st of Shawal. 

As good muslims and muslimahs,let's strive to be at our best(or better than last year's Ramadhan) in our ubudiyyah to seek the pleasure of our Lord,Allahu Rabbul 'Alamin and to beg for His Rahmah and Maghfirah.Our beloved Rasullulllah had shown the way.Let's become his real followers..

Imam Bukhari dan Muslim meriwayatkan maksudnya: Aisyah r.a meriwayatkan bahawa Nabi Muhammad SAW apabila masuknya sepuluh malam terakhir (Ramadan) baginda menghidupkan malam, baginda mengemaskan kainnya dan baginda mengejutkan isterinya (yakni tidak bersama dengan isteri).

Oh Ramadhan...

Fridge deco?

Magnetic artistic pieces..
Originally uploaded by Adibi

This 'work of art' must be the work of my wife and my son.Whenever I go for something in the fridge,i seldom look at the fridge door.But lately these little metallic objects are staring at me.May there are too many of them.

I used to buy these stuff when I travelled overseas many,many years ago.Nowadays,I prefer real artwork and good books.Our taste changes with time...

Any of you collect these magnetic 'artworks'?