Maarraaaaatthhhoonn....??!!

aku, harvey and daniel

LP 145

aku, dia dan medal - berbaloi lari 10km

menyibuk betul... hahahahaha!! tapi, dia lah yang paling disayangi...

berehat lepas lari....

Oh, wow..!! Dah lama aku tak update my blog. Macam-macam dah berlaku..tak tahu nak update yang mana dulu..

Baru-baru ni, aku join Marathon. Putrajaya Night Marathon. Run for 10km for the first time. First time join marathon with budak2 consti Bar Council - 5km jer. itu pun naik semput sebab tak gi training. So, this time, aku bertekad nak habiskan marathon for 10km. fuh! nasib baik cik abang dgn besfren cik abang aku pun join sekali.. tak de laa boring kan? malam2 pulak tu.. tapi, memang happening dan best sekali. budak2 asiawork - LP145 pun join sekali, tapi, dorang lari untuk 5km jer. ada dua orang yang lari untuk half marathon. pergghh.. tabik!

Anyway, masa mula2 nak run for the marathon tu punyalah semangat. Really, rasa macam hebat giler nak lari for 10km tapi, bila time dah sampai.. adoyai.. belasah jer laaa.. mak aih.. punyalah ramai orang kat Putrajaya.. aku pun rasa excited tapi, cik abang aku tu byk pulak bunyinya tapi, aku diamkan jer laa.. kang kalau aku kutuk2, half way aku "pancit", dorang gelakkan aku plak..

Anyway, nasib baik ada daniel.. ceria sikit laa marathon malam tu.. dia ni berat orangnya tapi, aku tahu dia boleh habiskan marathon saje dia buat ngada-ngada nak teh tarik laa.. rokok laa.. tapi, baguslah dia ada nak buat lawak.. usik2 awek2 dan kakak2 yang berusaha sungguh nak habiskan marathon.

So, sekarang ni dah jadi giler marathon.. ehehehe.. this week ada marathon eh.. walkathon kat the Curve. Awareness untuk orang utan. Support the cause laa sambil2 menderma.. hurm.. menarik gak dapat join activiti2 yang menyihatkan macam ni.. tak de lah asyik melepak depan tv dan membesarkan badan.. hahaha.. :)

Baru2 ni, ada member ajak gi marathon kat dataran merdeka. itu pun mesti syok... hehehe.. tengah bersemangat.. bolehlah join.. nnt kalau dah malas.. adoyaiii.. ish! tak boleh malas! I need to keep fit and stay fit.. lalala..

Sayonara!!!

Merdeka!! Or Merdeka??!

Tanggal 31 Ogos 2011, Malaysia menyambut hari kemerdekaannya yang ke-54. I don't really keen about it because of hari raya celebration. Lagipun, there is nothing to celebrate if we don't really understand why independent during 1957 is very important to the Malaysian and to the youth especially to the next generation? Or, is it just another public holiday. Lagi satu public holiday yang bakal disambut ialah 16 September 2011. Hari Malaysia.

Pada tahun 16 September 1963, Tanah Melayu, Sabah, Sarawak, Singapore telah bergabung menjadi Malaysia. Sebelum itu, pelbagai drama yang berlaku. Brunei tak jadi be part of Malaysia. Singapore pula dah keluar dari Malaysia. So, yang tinggal Semenanjung Malaysia, Sabah, Sarawak jelah. Hurm, sepanjang aku hidup ni, tak pernah lagi aku kunjungi Malaysia Timur lagi. Insyaallah.

Sejak kebelakangan ni, banyak suara-suara politik yang membangkitkan isu nasionalis. Salah satu isu yang hangat membahang ialah pasal PKM, Parti Komunis Malaya. Aku suka sejarah masa zaman persekolahan dulu dan aku gemarkan subjek itu bukan semata-mata kerana SPM tetapi, aku rasa inilah bangsa aku. Aku bangsa Malaysia yang berketurunan Melayu dan sejarah memberitahu asal usul dan di mana titik permulaan bagaimana bangsa aku dibentuk.

Aku tak peduli dari mana keturunan nenek moyang kita berasal. Bak kata pepatah Melayu, di mana bumi dipijak, di situ langit dijunjung. Menurut bapa aku, nenak moyang aku berasal dari Jawa. Jawa tu terletak dalam rumpun Melayu. Dari penghijrahan nenek moyang dari kepulauan Jawa datang ke Tanah Melayu, lantas membina kehidupan baru dan mencorak sejarah mereka sendiri dengan membawa budaya dan cara hidup sehingga memberi pengaruh terhadap generasi masa sekarang.. dan masa depan.

So, aku bercakap melalui pengalaman dan pengamatan menerusi kanta mata aku dan menilai melalui pemahaman aku sebagai seorang yang dilahirkan dan dibesarkan dalam keluarga berbangsa Melayu dan hidup bermasyarakat dengan pelbagai kaum dan bangsa. Dan, aku bangga jadi rakyat Malaysia. Merdeka kita bagi aku ialah bebas dari perintah dan penjajahan Inggeris.

Namun, soalnya kini.. bebas lagikah kita dari kemelut sebenar yang sentiasa menghantui kita? Bebaskah kita dalam mencari kebenaran? Bebaskah kita dalam mencapai apa yang kita impikan untuk kita dan bangsa kita?

Aku tidak ada jawapan yang konkrit untuk soalan yang diutarakan. Aku masih mencari apa yang benar bagi aku. Apa yang aku tahu, hanya orang yang berani menghadapi kebenaran akan menjumpai apa yang diingini. Hanya orang yang tabah dan cekal mengharungi dan berusaha mendapatkan apa yang diimpikan.

Semakin besar harapan kita, semakin besar cabaran yang datang... Soalnya, apa yang kita mahukan secara keseluruhannya. What is our common goal as Malaysian? Merdeka?!! (garu kepala) or Merdeka!!!

Salam Lebaran 2011

Bulan Syawal bakal menjelma dan Ramadhan bulan barakah akan berlalu..

Sekejap betul masa berlalu.. Minggu depan dah nak raya.. Persiapan hari raya satu apa pun tak buat lagi. Aku rasa macam baru sekejap jer puasa bulan Ramadhan ni, tak puas rasanya nak solat Terawih. Bazar Ramadhan pun tak kunjung selalu. Makan jer apa yang mak masak. Kadang-kadang, bila teringin barulah pergi beli murtabak ataupun ayam percik.. Bila jalan-jalan Bazar pun, tak rasa terliur mana pun sebab, dah namanya "on diet".. :P

Bila cakap pasal nak raya ni, aku rasa sebak sikit sebab, tahun ni raya tanpa arwah atuk di Gopeng. Tiap-tiap tahun, mesti balik ke kampung. Sekarang ni.. entahlah.. suasana tentu tak semacam dulu lagi.. Biar pun sambutan hari raya sentiasa sederhana tetapi, perasaan kasih sayang antara sanak saudara sangat terasa..

Tertanya juga aku, kalau misalnya beraya di luar negara, apa laa perasaannya? Mesti lagi sayu kan? Adoyai... Aku tak pernah lagi beraya jauh dari keluarga kecuali Raya Haji. Sebab, cutinya pendek. Tak balik kampung. Tahun ni, cuti raya seminggu. Ofis aku pun tutup kedai seminggu. So, pendek kata, memang beraya sakan laa..

Tapi, aku tak rasa apa excited sangat pun tahun ni, baju raya pun pakai yang dah dulu-dulu punya sebab.. hahahaha.. baju 2 tahun lepas dah boleh pakai.. syiookknyaa.. dah lose weight ni kan, baju yang baru beli dah longgar. So, boleh dah pakai baju saiz M yang dari zaman dulu-dulu. Hahaha.. Anyway, tak boleh riak sangat kan sebab nantinya bila dah raya nanti, pergi open house sana-sini, dah kembali ke saiz L. Ish! Ish! Ish!

Buat haru biru jer.. Alahai.. duit raya laa.. Hurm.. nak kena located a sum of money for my anak buah and mak-mak sedara yang lain. Hehe.. moga-moga murah rezeki.. Erm.. dah besar panjang cam ni mana nak dapat duit raya lagi ek?

Kuih raya semua main tunjuk-tunjuk dan order. Mana lah ada masa nak duduk uli tepung bagai juadah tu.. Semua nak cepat jer.. Oredi made! Memang tak de hati laa nak buat.. Kalau rajin pun, maybe nak buat biskut cornfleks dgn madu. Tu jer! :P

Kad Raya? Huhu.. baru dapat sekeping. Itupun, dari SIS. So, cam ner? Aku pun tak teringat nak pos kat kawan-kawan.. Cam ner beb, semua pakai facebook, digital and SMS jer, kan? Hurm.. entahlah.. Raya dulu dah lain dengan raya sekarang ni.. Adakah kerana faktor umur? And dah tak dapat duit raya lagi? Tak jugak aku rasa.. Tapi, if it's to be, it's up to me what?

Anyway, kemeriahan hari raya tu bagi aku adalah terpulang kepada individu itu tersebut. Raya tahun ni, bagi aku lebih menjurus kepada keinsafan. Bila aku kenang semula, aku rasa bersyukur kerana aku ada ibu bapa yang masih lagi hidup dan aku masih boleh berjasa kepada mereka. Adik beradik yang aku boleh harap. Anak-anak buah yang menjadi penyambung harapan.

Maaf. Sekiranya ada terkasar bahasa atau tak berbahasa yang bisa menyinggung perasaan para sahabat. Maaf dari hati yang tulus ikhlas. Aku hanya insan biasa. Semoga lebaran ini membawa seribu makna kepada semua..

Salam Sayang,

Sufi.

What's Next?

After 3 months journey of uplifting and breakdown, most probably we wonder what's next for us? What's next for me?

Through this journey, I have found so many miracles and obstacles. I learned by doing and I'm doing by being.. A lot of things has come to me and I felt overwhelm by the experience that I have gone through..

Forever I shall remembered friends and loves one come together and be as One Heart, One World with Boundless Possibility.

Those who gives and receives play an important role for each one of us to win and achieve what we aiming for. This journey has reminded me how excited my life is. Every minute counts and every love has cherished and shared.

This last three months has make me realize that if it's to be, it's up to me. If I want to play safe without empower myself to work extra harder, my level of comfort zone shall remain the same. Where is the streach on that?

The bigger my streach is, the powerful I may become. And power is something that I create and I have experience the moment where I have been focus in where, it's all about me, me, me and I have not move forward. And the moment I focus out to the sky, to reach out to my surrounding, I am flying.. and flying high!

The feeling is so good! I felt awesome everytime I have reach my breakthrough.. All I need to do is to be grounded and be focus in what I wish to create. most of the time, I create love, love, and so much love.. The more I give love, the more I received.

Thank you so much for this opportunity, Sufi. So, what's next for you, dear?

I am flying off to overseas, to learn, to discover, to live, to establish, to love, to earn, to bless, to care, to connect, to teach, to trust, to give, to receives, to dream..

Love,

Sufi GLP145.

Knowing Your Sexuality and Live Happily Ever After ~

Recent news about lesbian chinese couple married at Batu Pahat cought me by surprise however, I really happy for them. Both of them surely know who they were and what do they want which most of us, (straight people) often get confused.



Anyway, I am totally open about LBGT community, although not much about them I knew except for the myth and my observation. However, I do find that they also have feelings. So what if there have different taste from "normal" people, what matter is of course the intention and their pure desire.



Who can choose love? When someone decided that he is in love with someone regardless of race, religion or sex, he knew it's coming from a true heart. Taking that big step to acknowledge how important their feelings are at the same time, we respect each other.



I know that I do attracted to beautiful girl but, to be in love and to have relationship with girls I doubt it because, I am bleassed to have the most increadeble man and I adore him every second. But, hey.. things might be different one day, I might turn out to be biseksual and he is okey with it or vice-versa. Oops!



Anyway, sex and sexuality is two different things. Having sex and making love is also in between one thin line. Sex is unpredictable. The thing about us, (Malaysian) we have not be open to discuss about sex because sex is always misinterpreted as being immoral, and this is because of the human act itself.



Doing Sex and Being Sex.. Uuuhhh.. interesting thought!! What about it?! Should I go further about it? Curiousity kill the cat. However, have a look and be sensible about people who choose to love same sex. What are they thinking when they decide that? Is it because of the hormone?



Honestly, at first I do have a goosebumb and uneasy feeling especially when I have witness some PDA thingy by the LGBT among themselves. My believe said, this is SIN! Not normal! Against natural law!! However, I opened up. I stop having that believe, I look at the situation and the possibility of having mutual understanding and respect, I choose to have that understanding and respect their being and I vote, I stand by LGBT community.



I have a situation before this, where my friend come to me and said, her husband left her because of one hot transgender. I was shocked that the husband prefer a trans over a woman but then, I stop and be aware of what was I'm thinking. So, should I reacted differently if the third person is a natural born woman? Of course not so, I should not over reacted about who is the third person is right? The doing is matter not the gender. So what if the husband finally decided that he is a gay, and if the third person is a HE, still the same. My advise to the woman, do the necessary things of what the Family Law has provided in getting her right, divorce or maintenance and blessed him that he is finally live happily ever after!



Love,

Sufi.

Time Like These...

I am a one way motorway
I’m the one that drives away
Then follows you back home
I am a street light shining
I’m a wild light blinding bright
Burning off alone

It’s times like these you learn to live again
It’s times like these you give and give again
It’s times like these you learn to love again
It’s times like these time and time again

I am a new day rising
I’m a brand new sky
To hang the stars upon tonight
I am a little divided
Do I stay or run away
And leave it all behind?

It’s times like these you learn to live again
It’s times like these you give and give again
It’s times like these you learn to love again
It’s times like these time and time again

Friends and beloved,

How do you measure A Year In The Life with Five Hundred Twenty-Five Thousand Six Hundred Minutes? How you plan the journey of your life?

Do you measure by the money you making? Or, the good that you contribute to other people?

How About Love? Did you measure a year in Love? How Do You Measure The Life, regardless of your sex, a Woman Or A Man? The truths that She Learned Or In Times That He Cried..? How about the Bridges that he or she Burned? Or The Way That She or he Died?

In time like this, have you ever ask yourself how powerful you are? Have the ability to dance, to laugh, to cry, to respond, to love and to do many wonderful things in life.. If you have 1000 friends now, why don't go further to have millions of friends all over the world. Be open and vulnerable doesn't mean that you are weak. Be determine in what we believe, what we stand for is way far from being stubborn.

Life a miracle. Regardless for who you are. You are precious and live your life to give, to love, to learn and times like these time and time again!! Imagine that you only have 3 months to live, how would you want to live your life?

Embrace every moment with it! Enough with the victim story because it ain't bringing you anywhere you want. Love yourself is different from being selfish. Your life is depend on how you see things around you..

Thank you for your time and making a stand for you!

Dogs have feelings too~

Pets! I I love pets. I am a cat person. I prefer cats rather than dogs because it's easy to take care of cats and I love the ppuuurrrrr sound that they make and 'massage'. Cats are sexy creature, they have attitude that, 'hey, don't mess with my fur' kinda thing.

Anyway, last Saturday I attended one event organized by my beloved friends, Sandy. She is a dog person as I experience her, she really loves dogs!! This event was called "Dog - walk-a-thon" It was held at Bandar Utama Central Park at 8.00am-11.00am. I was thrilled and so axcited about this event, so I borrow my friend's dog. Her name is Manja. Actually, I named her Manja because she is so adorable and cute, very loving to!! She is 7 years old 'virgin'..

Anyway, the clarification question that was asked regularly to me on the event was, "Aren't Muslim not suppose to touch the dogs? It's haram, right?" "Muslim can't keep dogs as a pet right? They say it's najis,"

Let me clarify a few myths and make a few points:

1. It is NOT haraam to own a dog, though it is not hygienic to keep a dog in the house.

2. It is NOT haraam to touch a dog or any other animal. If the saliva of a dog touches you or any part of your clothing, then it is required of you to wash the body part touched and the item of clothing touched by the dog’s mouth or snout.

3. It is incumbent upon all Muslims who own animals, whether for farming or work purposes or as pets, to provide adequate shelter, food, water, and, when needed, veterinary care for their animals. Arrangements must be made, if one is going to be away from home, to have one’s animals taken care of as well.

4. It is haraam to keep a dog or any other animal on a short lead for long periods without food, water, and shelter. Dogs need exercise and are social creatures who form organized “family” structures in nature. Dog owners therefore need to spend time daily with their dogs.

5. It is cruel, and therefore haraam, to keep any animal in a cage so small that it cannot behave in a natural way.

6. Fireworks cause untold suffering to most domestic animals because of their acute sense of hearing.

7. It is haraam to participate in any blood “sport,” like dog fighting and trophy hunting.

No animal has been cursed in any way. Animals are referred to in many instances in the Qu’ran. In Surah Kahf, mention is made of the companions of the Cave and their dog. (S18: 18-22). In the Holy Qur’aan (S4:36) we are advised to do good to “… what your right hands own …” According to the commentator Imaam Faghruddin al-Rhazi, this refers to all those who have no civil rights, including animals. Thus, the verse lays down the duty of being good toward animals.

All things “…have been created for you ...” for our benefit (S2:29). It thus becomes our duty to protect, employ with dignity, and promote the well-being of any animal in our care. In this way, we are expressing our thankfulness to Allah (swt) for His blessings in a practical manner. (Qur’anic Foundations and Structure of Muslim Society, Mawlana F.R. Ansari, vol. 2, pp. 125-126) Every animal has been created for a purpose. It is a duty upon every human being to respect Allah’s creation.Sayyidina ’Umar (ra) was very concerned about the animals during his rule as Amir or head of the Islamic empire.

Many assumption or misunderstanding about dogs. I myself was being told that way and never to see the reason behind every things that they informed. It's haram because God say so and I obey. However, as I experience Manja, I fall in love with her. Once of twice when I saw her owner, scolded her, I was being uneasy about it. Dogs are like baby, they love to play and love the attention. They can be reliable creature too, they loyal and they remember you.

There is a story about a dog that take my heart a way, named Hachiko. He was an Akita dog born on a farm near the city of Ōdate, Akita Prefecture,^[1] remembered for his remarkable loyalty to his owner, even many years after his owner's death. In 1924, Hidesaburō Ueno, a professor in the agriculture department at the University of Tokyo, took in Hachikō as a pet. During his owner's life, Hachikō greeted him at the end of each day at the nearby Shibuya Station. The pair continued their daily routine until May 1925, when Professor Ueno did not return. The professor had suffered from a cerebral hemorrhage and died, never returning to the train station where Hachikō was waiting. Every day for the next nine years the golden brown Akita waited at Shibuya station.

My point of sharing this is to invite you who have issue with dogs, to have a look on that and see how you can make a different to you and to this creature. Why stopping us from us from loving them and worst, judging them without really understand to what extend do we are not allowed to. God created the best animals for us to love and to care.

Why stop when it come to dogs? I stand for animal rights and yes, vote against animal cruelty!

Kudos to http://www.myanimalcare.org/2011/08/dog-walk-thon-event-at-bandar-utama.html

for making a stand for animal right!