Brisbane at night

Brisbane at night, 2014

'Why use BW?'

'BW enhances the emotion by ignoring the colour. The colour distracts the emotion'

New city, it just like home

Zoo-ing time!

In every breath, there is reason why Allah makes us alive

The previous visit to Long Pine Koala Sanctuary peels my ego layer by layer. I'm not that perfect neither cute because there will always something more cute and adorable than you. hahaha. 

Australia thingy....#1

Assalamualaikum wbt

Hey fellas, a few days coming will be very meaningful and quite hectic because I’m preparing and starting to pack up my goods as I will further my study in Australia, specifically in University of Queensland.

So I’m going to share the processes of enquiring for Visa, accepting offer letter and so on.

The first thing that you should wait is offer letter. The offer letter will be in tour hand depends on the university, certain universities are very quick on sending those letters. The letters will be sent probably in January.  The offer letter is not going to be in your mailbox in front of your house but it would be sent via email, so check your email frequent after done with your application.

In the offer letter usually will guide you the ways to accept the offer, so here it is, accept your offer asap. Then, the sponsor will able to send you financial statement that would state that you are under their sponsor and every detail about your finance in Australia.

After a few days, you should receive certificate of enrolment (CoE) from particular university. Every CoE would have its own serial number and that serial number would be important for your visa application soon.

The next step is applying visa. Australia visa application is easier compare to New Zealand’s because the applicant can do it online. The website for visa application is www.immi.gov.aus (if I’m not mistaken). The student visa is under subclass 573 or you can search higher education student visa. One important thing, you can’t apply visa unless you have registered with the website, so do register in the website. Once you’ve reached all the blank forms, fill with the correct informations and do recheck for any corrections. After finish filling the forms, it is time for payment. Australia visa would cost 535AUD, and it has several ways to pay like credit card and debit card. However my friend insists that credit card would be better.

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Blogging of bloggers

Assalamualaikum warahmatullah wabarakatuh

Peace be upon you

In the several days ago, I got realized that I loved to blog-visit. Yeah, one of the reasons I did that was for searching ideas and one more thing, I did it for finding the missing of myself especially when I felt down. 

There are two types of blogs that I loved. 

The first one is motivational and islamic blog. Of course in this world, life is not a bed of roses ( actually I think roses on a bed might harmful because of the thorns ). We have our own cycle of life, sometime we feel happy, excited, sad and even hlovate ( hate and love ). We laugh, cry, jaw drop and sometime we do nothing in life. To put the life into happier situation, advices are needed from our surrounding. It might come from our family, friends or even strangers. Insyallah it helps curing a bit our heart. Okay, the reason I love reading blog because people tend to write a blog with their heart. They don't have editor, manager, producer, business and etc to take care of their writings. So, whatsoever written in the blog is basically from the people's mind and heart. No filter. Furthermore, the contents are sometime very interesting and very rare to be found from ordinary magazines or articles eg. angelwearsgucci.blogspot.com, fadhilahwahidah.com and I believe there are plenty other blogs with the same genre. 

The second type is design blog.

When people talk about art, design, or something related to those things, they believe that there is no chance at all to get job when involving in this sector. But eventually, I'm not sure they know or not that almost everything they see in daily life like banners besides the highway, flyover banners at the middle of KL, buntings under the road lamps, ads at on buses body and etc are designed with very detail. I also believe that humans love to see beautiful things and in term to make beautiful things, designing process is compulsory. Therefore, what I can say here is that humans and design cant be separated. Huhuhu. So, what I search in these design blogs are ideas in order to make more beautiful things. 

One other thing that attracts me to these design stuffs is the lack competency of islamic designers and maybe some of the islamic activists do not feel that beautiful poster or well-organized banners are very important in attracting people to do good deeds. Please dont make such beautiful and important messages looks dull. Lets beautify for the sake of Allah. Insyallah, Allah will give you the rewards. 

 

Southern Gathering

Assalamualaikum warahmatullah wabarakatuh

Peace be upon you o readers

Before I start posting the new post, there's something that I would like to share. In my religion, Islam, we are taught to convey islam as our wish for our brothers and sisters. As a what? As a wish that spreads peace and calmness on the earth so that the world will have the same peace and calmness.

Maybe this post will not relate to all people outside there, but I will try my best to relate what happened in the gathering with our life although the gathering is only for the pre-australia students. In Quran itself, the stories were specific but the lessons are general, thus the future generation can obtain the lessons although Quran was revealed thousand years ago.

The gathering purposely was to gather all the pre-australia students in a place. The participants were shared infos and stories by the seniors from australia especially about financial management, house rental, 'compulsory' places to go, internship, winter, summer and kangaroos, eh!

Basically, what I could say here, the gathering was very helpful. But frankly speaking, it was getting boring when the questions from participants had the same patterns. 

Ok, done with the event. Lets talk about the people, I mean the organizer, seniors and org yang lebih tua.

I guess I can summarize all the long points inside my head into one word, friendly. 

Yup, when I say friendly, they are truly friendly. Indeed, they love to see the later generations could make up to have a seat in Australia university. I don't know the reason, but maybe because when we are not in our beloved country, we tend to feel happy to see people of our own race and religion. 

Anyway, the gathering was amazing! Thank you so much guys!

See you in Australia

*insyallah I will update this post with photos afterwards. Stay tune coz insyallah I will start to write my journey around Malaysia in short while from now. 

Twins of Faith 2013, #thesunnahthebetter

Assalamualaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh,

Peace be upon you 

I think I would like to share a content that I obtained not as a participant in the Twins Of Faith event, but as a volunteer. From the first meeting, Syeikh Daood Butt has advised something very crucial to be remembered as a muslim. 

Every volunteer has a job to do as well as position to be taken care of. Although the volunteer will not has the chance listening to the sheikh's lecture and joining workshops, the volunteer has different ability to get ajr. 

By showing the right direction to the participants, taking care of the children, promoting the event and etc, the volunteers can even make bigger good deed than the speakers. Because the participant that has been helped might be the syeikhulkabir in the future, or the participant may have turned to change his attitude and one day be an islamic prime minister, or he be a CEO of an international company, and all the good deeds done by the participant as he learns it from the event, all these ajr will go back to the volunteer who has helped him during the event. Plus, these ajr will continue if the participant teaches the lessons to his children, friends, grandchildren and etc. Subhanallah.

Although, it is like a simple action, but insyallah it will lead to a huge impact in our life.

Last but not least, what ever we do in our life, even for the small or big action, we have to do it sicerely only for allah. 

=D

Notebook Twins of Faith

One of the shop during the event

#TheSunnahTheBetter

Palestine wall

Cerita tentang cinta

Hello sayang, sayang kat mana? (message)

‘Eh, takkan la hantar sms macam ni kot kat dia? Ni tak cukup beradab lagi nih, kalau tak nanti macam mana nak ambil hati dia’, getus hati Sall.

Hello sayang, sayang sihat? Boleh sayang tahu sayang di mana?

‘yang ni lagi ok kot’

Message sent

Seulas senyuman beserta lesung pipit menghiasi wajah kacak Sall.

‘andai indahnya jika aku dapat bersamanya sepanjang masa’

Tiba – tiba

‘oiiiii broooooo’, satu jeritan dari sisi kanan Sall.

Dosh kelihatan berlari anak kearahnya.

‘haiihhh, potong stim betul la, baru nak layan perasaan sorang – sorang’, Sall cuba 

untuk mengatur langkah dari tempat itu.

‘aihhh, nak pergi mana tu? Jom la sini aku belanja kau. Aku ad benda nak Tanya kt kau nih?’

‘belanja? Hahaha, no problem. Member baik punya hal, aku sanggup dengar bro’

‘cepat la, kau nak order apa? Aku belanja minum je, lagi pun kau baru makan kan?’

‘hmmm, ala, kau buat tak faham pulak air feveret aku’

‘sory la bro, aku lupa la’

‘air tembikai laici. Air ni kau kena ingat, entah – entah kau nak belanja aku lagi ke, senang sikit kau nak beli. Hahahaha’

‘aku pun nak sama dengan kau la, nak cuba cita rasa baru’

Waiter kedai tersebut menulis order dua sahabat tersebut.

‘ha! Apa yang kau nak cerita tadi, gaya macam penting je’

‘huh, mestilah penting kalau tak aku tak cari kau untuk discuss benda nih. Sebenarnya hubungan aku dengan awek aku makin tegang la’

‘ouh, tentang awek kau Dini tu ke, nape dengan dia? Dia mintak clash ke?’

‘tak la, tapi aku yang nak mintak clash sebenarnya’

‘eh, asal plak? Aku rasa Dini tu dah cukup perfect dah untuk kau. Bukan senang tau nak cari orang macam dia. Rupa ada, akademik ada, senang cerita semua benda complete 

la, tak de cacat cela. Cube kau cerita sikit kenapa’

‘hmm. Kelmarin lepas habis kelas Thermodynamics, aku macam terfikir satu benda la. Aku terfikir kenapa aku minat, suka dan jatuh cinta kat Dini tu. Yela kan, kalau dalam dunia ni kan semua benda ada sebab sesuatu benda tu berlaku, macam kt dalam Thermodynamics, suhu boleh berubah dengan ada nya compressor. Pastu orang letak valve untuk turunkan tekanan kat dalam satu system tu’

‘ala kau ni, buat pe kau pening – pening fikir tentang benda macam tu. Kau minat dia mestilah sebab dia cantik pastu sebab dia pandai dan dia kaya. Ala takkan la tu pun aku nak ajar kot’

‘memang la dia cantik, dia pandai, dia kaya, tapi kau tak rasa pelik ke, kalau aku suka dia sebab benda tu, kenapa aku tak minat orang lain atas sebab yang sama? Kalau nak cakap cantik, aku rasa semua perempuan lawa, tapi kalau nak cakap perempuan tu lawa, pandai and kaya, ada je perempuan lain yang lagi kaya, lagi pandai dan lagi lawa daripada Dini tu. Tapi kenapa Dini? Lagi satu, kau tak rasa kau ni narrow - minded ke?’

‘narrow – minded?’

‘yela, cuba kau fikir balik, kalau aku rasa awek aku lawa, kat uni kita ni ada beribu – ribu lagi perempuan lain. Itu tak masuk lagi uni kat tempat lain. Pastu nanti waktu aku dah graduate nanti, pastu kerja. Waktu kerja nanti, entah - entah nanti ada perempuan yang lagi lawa, pandai dan kaya. Kau tak rasa camtu ke? Lagi – lagi nanti kalau kita dapat fly pegi oversea, entah – entah dapat kahwin dengan minah salleh, perghhh. Tak pun kalau awek kita pergi oversea, for sure la mata biru mat salleh tu lagi memikau daripada mata hitam kita yang biasa ni. Tak ke nanti kita sendiri yang jeles tak tentu pasal. Kadang – kadang aku rasa macam aku minat awek aku tu tanpa sebab yang kukuh. Baru aku sedar’

‘haah kan…’

‘then, aku rasa coupling ni satu pembaziran la. Cuba kau bayang kan, kalau setiap hari aku nak kena call awek aku, pastu bila call, bukan kejap je. Mau dekat 2 – 3 jam. Pokai bak ang. Lepas tu, bila dating, takkan la aku nak mintak dia yang belanja aku, jatuh la standard aku nanti, for sure la aku yang belanja dia. Pastu time lunch waktu dating tu, takkan la aku nak makan kat food court kot, kalau food court, baik makan kat rumah je, paling cikai pun nak kena bawak pegi KFC. Cuba kalau aku pergi makan sorang – sorang tapi dengan kos yang sama aku pergi dating dengan awek aku, mau aku jadi sihat macam bob tu. Hahahah’

‘ala, sekarang kan banyak dah pelan calling yang murah, kau amek jela yang tu’

‘kemudian, kau rasa kalau kau nak awek kan, kau nak jenis pengemas ke jenis yang serabai tak teratur?’

‘confirm – confirm la aku nak yang jenis pengemas, so nanti time aku dah kahwin nanti tak de la sepah sangat rumah aku walaupun aku ni jenis yang pengemas sangat’

‘tapi cuba kau fikir balik, kalau dia dah spent masa dia 2 -3 jam calling dengan kau, pastu dengan assignment berlambak lagi, celah masa mana dia kemas barang dia? Pelik tak? Benda yang sama la kalau kau nak cek dia pandai masak ke tak. Kenapa waktu time dating dia tak pernah bawak bekal dengan dia? Kenapa dia nak tarik kau masuk dalam kedai makan? Aku rasa jawapan dia satu je; tak pandai masak. Pendapat aku jela’

‘ye tak ye jugak kan’, angguk Sall

‘dari segi rasional nya la, aku yang final year ni, assignment berlambak, pastu dengan persatuan sana – sini lagi dengan final year project lagi siap dengan presentation lagi, benda – benda dah cukup memeningkan aku. Pastu kalau aku ada awek, mestilah dia nak cerita masalah dia kat aku, kalau masalah dia, masalah simple tak pe, ni tak. Aku rasa macam masalah dia tu dah macam dua kali ganda lagi payah nak diselesaikan dari assignment aku. Pastu bila masalah dia dah setel, nanti start la aku dah penat tak de tenaga nak buat segala benda alah assignment dengan project aku tu. Belum sempat nak on kalkulator aku dah tidur dah. Memenatkan. Lagi senang kalau aku clash je’

‘ala aku tengok budak – budak tu ada je yang score tapi couple. Siap dua – dua naik pentas lagi. Pastu kau tak nak ke rasa dihargai or rasa disayangi oleh insan lain?’

‘naik pentas tu aku tak kisah, diorang lain. Yela, kalau sorang bawak Nissan Fairlady pastu lagi sorang bawak Audi TT, memang aku tak kisah la. Anak orang kaya. Kalau fail kat uni pun, diorang still boleh gadai kete tu buat modal bisnes. Tapi, kalau aku gagal, siapa nak bayar PTPTN aku nanti? Aku rasa ada je cara lain untuk rasa dihargai tapi dengan modal yang lebih rendah. Kau tak rasa ke family kau sayang sangat kat kau. Aku rasa rasa kalau dia tak sayang kau, kau tak de kat sini. Plus, parent kau ada mintak kau belanje diorang tak? Aku rasa kalau kau yang mintak belanja mungkin ada la kebarangkalian di situ. Hahahaha’

‘amboi, perli nampak. Hahaha’, Sall tepuk belakang badan Dosh

‘ala, sekali sekala gurau member. hahaha’

Waiter datang membawa dua air tembikai laici. Kemerahan dan terdapat warna putih laici yang tidak beberapa jelas pada cawan.

‘terima kasih’, ucap Dosh dan Sall pada waiter tersebut.