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The propeller

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Originally uploaded by Adibi

This boat is about to go fishing in the open South China Sea yesterday morning.I was shocked to see how small was the propeller compared to the boat!When I asked the fisherman,he told me the it is good enough for him to go fishing.May be the rpm matters more?

Have a good weekend to all my readers:-)

Zuhud

Dua dekad yang lalu saya mendapat rezeki lebih sedikit dan mampu membeli sebuah kereta Merz 280SE.Sebagai orang muda,saya tidak dapat mengelak dari perasaan yang saya memandu Merz di waktu itu(dan bukan hanya sebuah kereta).Pesanan ayahnda saya supaya saya tidak rasa bergantung/mencintai harta dunia sentiasa berdering di teliga saya.Ini kerja hati yang amat susah untuk kita mengawalnya.Kemewahan dunia,jika tidak dikawal, amatlah melalai dan membuat kita bangga/sombong diri.Mohon dijauhkan Allah.

Dari saat itu ,saya mula mendekati ilmu tasawuf.Buku yang pertama saya baca ialah Tasawuf Moden karangan Pak Hamka.Dan hingga kini saya masih seorang mureed dalam pengajian yang tiada titik khatamnya...

Zuhud adalah sifat yang mulia yang kita semua perlu mencapainya untik mendapat kasih Allah swt.Pelbagai pengertian/makna dan amalan yang kita baca dan lihat.Sebagaimana yang kita sedia ketahui,hati itu sifatnya berolak-alik;sebab itu disebut sebagai qalbun!Macam air laut-ada beralun dan ada tenang.

Mengikut satu syair Arab:

Dikatakan insan itu manusia,kerana sifat lupanya.Dikatakan hati itu qalbun,kerana keadannya tidak tetap(berolak-alik).

 

Untuk mengetahui makna zuhud,sila baca dan faham artikel ini.Jika tidak faham ,bertanya kepada guru.

July,2010 walk..Alhamdulilah:-)

Alhamdulilah,my gratitude to Allah swt that I still can walk.A few of my peers are too sick to walk and I was blessed with good health and time to walk almost every other day and managed to log in 80km to date for this month. 

In general,walking is easy to most people.They took it for granted until they have injuries,fall sick or too old to walk.My 76-year old mother can walk only for about 100 metres ;after that she needs help.When I was on a hospital bed a year ago,I got jealous to see people walking around.Don't mention about running.

Now I walk when I still can and at times,I do short run for old time sake!

How about you?Don't wait,it may be too late..

A flower...

A flower blooms beautifully even though it grows in dirty water.Just like the fish in the sea-its meat remains not salty...

 

I can't say no!

 When it comes to a nice cafe and good coffee and pastries,many a time I can't say no.Great ambience and F&B will surely uplift good conversations to greater height!

I can't remember the date when my schoolmate invited me to visit dr. CAFE at Solaris Mont Kiara a few weeks ago.I accepted his invitation{macam orang mengantuk disurungkan bantal).We had  great coffee and Mediterranean sandwiches made of panini bread. I hope to go there again before the coming Ramadhan.By the way,I am sorry I could not post any photos of dr. CAFE sandwiches and pastries because we finished them off before it came to mind to snap the photo.

Just to seduce you,let me post a photo of dessert I had in Cameron Highland a few years ago..

 

Pocket-sized portability

When I am on the move-going back to my kampung and going outstations for my business/pleasure,I prefer to bring my things that I can put in my pockets.They are lighter,easy to pack and to carry around.Here is a photo i took of what i carried on one of my trip.

 

Reporting from FRIM from 7:30am,25th July,2010

May I wish you all a happy and active weekend!

For today,may I redirect you to my The Mobile Reader blog-my other blog that I will be using to upload photos and short notes during my participation in the Jacob's Walk of Life at FRIM.Flag off is at 8am.

Kindly click here for my latest updates.

Cafe with food and drinks but no culture?

As I was moving up on the escalator,I saw this nice view of a group of men having drinks at 0'Briens-my favourite cafe.I got nothing against Starbuck if someone would take me  and pay for my drink but given the choice I prefer O'Briens for the coffee and the sandwiches. 

My first encounter with high cost kedaikopi(coffe shop) was at Delifrance located next to The Tangs Orchard Rd ,Singapore in late 80's. In the 90's, the cafe phenomena invaded Kuala lumpur and today you can see them every where, including kopitiam.

As a frequent visitor to cafes and kopitiam,I have yet to see the cafe culture.What I saw was the nicely decorated places where people who have more money to spend come for a snack and casual chat and business discussion,then off they go.With the local wifi, I saw more and more people are working online or just surfing the Internet with their laptops.And that is our Malaysian cafe culture!

By the way I hosted a Deep Conversation session in march,2004.

You can read more about World Cafe here.I tried to take do something similar but it failed to take off.Now, my priority has changed as I am approaching my golden age.

Below is what I wrote more than 10 years ago in my alumni mailinglist list.

Date:	Sat, 05 Jun 1999 23:15:34 +0100
From:	"a.d.i.b" <adib@pc.jaring.my>  Add to Address Book
To:	sdara@egroups.com
Subject:	[sdar] Best Cafe in Town

ASM sdara,

Most of us  frequent a few TT(teh tarik) stalls and some who have more money to
spend will frequent a few coffee houses at a few hotels or cafe/tea
outlets.In Melawati,we used to go to Restoran Nora;in Desa Pandan we
used to have TT at D'Taj and a few months back a sdara gathering
arranged by Ampangbear,we have coffee at San Francisco coffee outlet at
Ampang Points.Lately,Bond told me Starbuck coffee has opened an outlet
at KL Plaza.It is observed that the cafe culture is invading us in all
major and small towns all over Malaysia.And Teh Tarik is now our
national pastime?

Please give your views on this cafe culture and at the same time please
also suggest the best cafe/TT stalls just in case some of us happen to
visit your place or the places you have been-local or overseas.




Best regards,
-/a.d.i.b/-
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
Only when the last tree has died and the last river been poisoned and
the last fish been caught,will we realise that we can not eat
money".-Cree Indian saying.

Jual beli yang amat menguntungkan!

Dari Surah At-Taubah:

 [111] Sesungguhnya Allah telah membeli dari orang-orang yang beriman akan jiwa mereka dan harta benda mereka dengan (balasan) bahawa mereka akan beroleh Syurga, (disebabkan) mereka berjuang pada jalan Allah maka (di antara) mereka ada yang membunuh dan terbunuh. (Balasan Syurga yang demikian ialah) sebagai janji yang benar yang ditetapkan oleh Allah di dalam (Kitab-kitab) Taurat dan Injil serta Al-Quran dan siapakah lagi yang lebih menyempurnakan janjinya daripada Allah? Oleh itu, bergembiralah dengan jualan yang kamu jalankan jual belinya itu dan (ketahuilah bahawa) jual beli (yang seperti itu) ialah kemenangan yang besar.

[112] (Mereka itu ialah): Orang-orang yang bertaubat, yang beribadat, yang memuji Allah, yang mengembara (untuk menuntut ilmu dan mengembangkan Islam), yang rukuk, yang sujud, yang menyuruh berbuat kebaikan dan yang melarang daripada kejahatan, serta yang menjaga batas-batas hukum Allah dan gembirakanlah orang-orang yang beriman (yang bersifat demikian).

 

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