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From Gaza: Suffering In Stories, Features, Articles and Photos

From Gaza: Suffering In Stories, Features, Articles and Photos

Last night,my wife confided in me that she cried a few times watching the documentary on the suffering of people in Gaza last week.She was very sad and amazed at how the women of Gaza live their daily lives in those conditions and she was very grateful to Allah for whatever we have and living in peaceful Malaysia.

Personally,I was sad and angry...How could we called ourselves caring human beings but not doing anything about it?This is a manifestation of our modern world moral decadence.What have you heard and seen being done by world leaders and their super power nations to protect the weak again the cruel and yet powerful?

Wednesday:Midweek break

Nowadays,I don't work every weekdays but my weekend days are full of personal/family activities.To give some rest to my aging body and mind,I chose Wednesday as my break away day where I don't get  engage in business.It is a breather for my body and mind to recover.

When I clocked 50 years old,I stopped watching TV everyday and I got engaged in more hobby activities that I enjoy like reading,cycling and travelling.Lately,I also spend more of my leisure time taking photos,sketching and walking with my wife and cycling with my friends.These creative and physical exercises do a lot of good for my body and mental wellness-especially if you are 50++..

Let me share a sketch I did last night at a restaurant in Bangi.The lady owner loves flowers so much that I saw at least ten flowers pots on a cupboard next to the entrance.I just managed to draw six only before my wife pulled me up to leave the restaurant:

Keretapi Sarong 2013 | RandomAlphabets

3pm Saturday 23 February 2013

Kuala Lumpur + Inviting Other Cities Around the World. Location for Gathering Point, is secret (see below). It will be announced at 2pm on Wednesday 20 February.

Click here for  FB event page for – Kuala Lumpur – London – Melbourne - Washington DC - New York City - Boston - Morgantown, Philadelphia, more? If your city would like to join, please email keretapisarong [at] randomalphabets [dot] com.

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OMG,how could I have missed this event?I love to wear sarong...I thing this is a very unique invention for mean and women.Imagine everyone will stare at me going to KL wearing sarong and went shopping at KLCC!

BREAKING: Blackout and Fire at One Utama, New Wing

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Reading these twitter reports from people around the place where the incident occurred,it scared the hell out of me at the level of safety maintenance of our Malaysian shopping complexes.If the electricity fails,at least there should be emergency lights being immediately activated!If all these reports were true,it spoke volume of what needs to be done by the shopping complexes owners and the authorities.

Malaysian has a few big and beautiful shopping complexes.I suggest the authorities must do safety audits on their operations.

On Facilities Management.

My continuing education..

Last night,I attended the lecture by the eminent scholar Tan Sri Prof Dr Syed Naquib Al-Attas.Coming along with me were my wife and son.Before I went to CASIS,UTM,KL I went through my earlier notes when I first attended Tan Sri's lectures way back in 2006!

Let me share a short note taken by Syed Muhd Khairudin Aljunied:

"Attended a talk by Prof. Syed Naquib Al-Attas. During dinner, I dictated to him salient points that he raised which are as follows: The central purpose of Justice is to ensure that the True Potential of Man is fully realized, that he is in harmony with his environment and that he submits himself to the demands of the divine revelation. True Justice can only be achieved when man knows his proper place in the whole Scheme of God's Creation. With that realization, he would use his virtues and his character in the path to achieve personal and social happiness, to uphold order in society and to maintain harmony between himself and other persons around him. When men forgets the true purpose of Justice as defined by revelation, chaos will dominate. He will be concerned with petty issues rather to engage in bigger problems that affect all mankind. That state of forgetting the true purpose of Justice is usually borne out of nothing but man's own arrogance, ignorance and heedlessness."

Harnessing the Fibonacci Sequence

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Remember Fibonacci Sequence ?I learnt this numerical series in my mathematics class in 1970.A few years later,I read about the its history that was related to how some branches of trees followed the Fibonacci Series!At that time,I only saw the beauty of Allah's creations manifested in an elegant mathematical series.

Last night,some forty years later,I read this attached article of a young man 13 years old who could find a relationship of this significance and applied it to incorporate this Fibonacci arrangement to improve the solar power generation of Photo Voltaic cells.That was ingenious!

A pattern does not exist for its own sake but it was created by a designer for a reason.Just ponder ..who might be The Master Designer?

Info on Fibonacci Series here.

Dakwah on Youtube

Lately I am spending more time watching and listening to great Islamic scholars and da'i on Youtube.Some of them are really world class and I hope to see more Malaysian da'i doing this to reach more young people in my country.Not many youngsters go to masjid to learn about Islam but most of them watch youtube in their smart phones and computers.

Islam is the world fastest growing religion and more Europeans are embracing Islam,Alhamdulilah.Herewith I attach the CNN's video.

Talking about da'i,it reminds me of one day I was having my lunch at a restaurant next to Masjidil Haraam in Makkah,Saudi Arabia.While having lunch I was browsing a book I just bought from a bookshop nearby.Then came an Arab gentleman and asked me whether I am a student.I told him I am a Haj pilgrim.He asked me about the book I was reading and I told him that I love to read and wanted to learn more about my religion Islam.Before he left me,he told me that he is going to Masjidil Haraam to du'a for me to become a da'i.I thanked him-jazakallahu khairan.This short conversation really motivated to do something on dakwah.Since then,I kept writing tazkirah every week at my blog,insyaAllah.Thank you Allah.Alhamudulilah.

All of us have different ability and capacity to do dakwah;let us spread the words of Allah even with one ayat.

Some restaurants..

Eating out is normal nowadays.Working singles or couples are too tired to cook or  they just don't have time to cook.For older couples like me with one son left staying at home,we sometimes just go out for dinners/lunches for a change from our daily home cookings.Or at times,it is cheaper to eat outside.

Last night,when we went out to at at a restaurant inside the Taman Warisan Pertanian food court complex,we were badly served with beehun soups!What I got was beehun in hot water with some vegetables!Luckily the satay was good!

I live in Bandar Baru Bangi with so many restaurants but only few are worth going for my dinners.They spent a few hundreds of thousand for renovation works but they don't have the good cooks!I honestly don't know-are we short of good cooks or our restaurant owners don't pay them well?One of my favourite restaurant in KL is Cozy House in GE Mall along Jalan Ampang.They have six cooks and they never fail once on me!

After my weekly cycling,I alway stop by at Umai Cafe by the lake,Presint 2 Putrajaya for my snacks.Yesterday,I asked for my favourite mee basah or mee goreng.Sadly,they are not available in the morning.Why?I guess they don't have enough cooks around!Here, I can have good food with reasonable price but it is always delayed!I hope the management really make the effort to improve their service because now it is getting popular especially during weekends.By the way,the location is quite nice,next to Masjid Sultan Mizan and by the lake..

Alamanda has a few very good restaurants but I cannot afford at some of them.However,I do go on special occasions.My usual is The Rasa Food Court.Here,at least 50% of them serve good food at reasonable price.

When people talk about properties, they say location,location and location..When it come to restaurants,in my humble opinions,good food+good service are all that matters.A few of my cycling buddies will cycle 35km for a good nasi lemak/nasi dagang;-)

Playing with lines..

I am not an artist but enjoy doing simple sketches using minimum 'artwork'.Here is one of them that I like..as they say,simplicity is beauty.

Kedai Beris..

Kedai Beris di waktu pagi..Jalan menghala ke Perupok,Bachok.Teringat nak makan nasi belauk Cik Gayah..Lauk gulai ikan kering.