.umynahaniamu.

Ring, Attire, Bedding

2010-12-25T09:19:00.002+08:00

Found 3 items that really caught my eye and heart. Just for the love of sharing. Kudos~

Boundaries

2010-12-25T09:04:00.001+08:00

"Moreover, I have boundary issues with men. Or maybe that's not fair to say. To have issues with boundaries, one must have boundaries in the first place, right? But I disappear into the person I love. I am the permeable membrane. If I love you, you can have everything. You can have my time, my devotion, my ass, my money, my family, my dog, my dog's money, my dog's time - everything. If I love you, I wil carry for you all your pain, I will assume for you all your debts (in every definition of the word), I will protect you from your own insecurity, I will project upon you all sorts of good qualities that you have never actually cultivated in yourself and I will buy Christmas presents for your entire family. I will give you the sun and the rain, and if they are not available, I will give you a sun check and a rain check. I will give you all this and more, until I get so exhausted and depleted that the only way I can recover my energy is by becoming infatuated with someone else."
Elizabeth Gilbert.

I've bought the Eat Pray Love bestseller by Elizabeth Gilbert way months ago. Just recently when work had come into it's low season, I've got the chance to start reading the book. Not even half way through it, somehow this biography seems to be bit by bit match it's pattern with mine. At this point you might wanna say - "oh, it's that typical thing when you felt other's rundowns as your own just to escape the moment" - blah.

I love how she goes into it leisurely. Her story opens up a bit of her situation right before she decided to leave and travel to Italy, India and Indonesia for a whole year. Slowly she reveals her history of relationships and how it push her to take the big step. Personally, I prefer the Italian part of the book. Simply because I'm a foodie and how I love learning languages - was.

Well, I watched the movie first before grabbing the book. So I kind of have a slight idea of how the story goes. As much as the movie try to interpret the biography, you can see some events happen in different situation; such as the above quote. It was translated into a play performed by David - Gilbert's lover after her divorce - from a short story written by her.

It would be unfair for me to say this book is good as it gets since I haven't run the other two part yet. But you can say sometimes you can be expected for surprises. Which would develop into something even more interesting. Let say it makes you think.

It's a light book yet it can be quite disturbing depending on the individual - and their past life. Ehem. Told you. Tyh-pee-coll. Yeah, whatever. Get the book. Obviously read it. Don't even think of putting it down on the shelf - for awhile. Duh! Then we might have some sort of discussion about it. Kudos~

Safe Cosmetics

2010-07-25T17:53:00.004+08:00

New Blogger Function - DESIGN?

2010-06-12T10:51:00.002+08:00

Is it just me or have everyone realized the new option in blogger where you can totally design your blog with easier pre-functions where the layout has been determined. Well you can juggle around and change how it looks from template to the arrangement of your sidebars, footer, header bla bla bla. But yeah it still limited to several points where advanced doesn't seem to be advanced at all. Huhu.

Lets have a look!

That's the new thing *ehem*

You can take a peek before doing the total change.

I kind of like this one *chop duluuu - hehehe*

Boleh tukar the color palette & image desired for the b/g. I guess boleh insert your own. Kot? Ntah :P

Dah pilih b/g yang cantik, lets structurize the positions of sidebars & main post; how wide you want them to be; plus your footer can be added with more gadgets - sort of Wordpress je neh. Hahaha~

Advanced part takde lah sangat pun. Go around and jungle up the font & the colors yada yada yada.

Anyway I'm such a crappy for this kind of thing. Suka main tukar-tukar layout and whatnot. Even in my HDD, I have a special folder just for my blog theme with a total of more than 100 layouts. Hehe. Call that for an obsession. And dalam banyak-banyak tu, layout ni jugak yang I ambil kan? Why? Simply because it has cute logos for twitter and rss <-- super noob! Tapi entry tak pernah consistent. Yeah, I'm very well aware of that. No mojo :D But I guess I'll just stay with the current one. Haha.

So, you'll figure out the rest of it. Toggle la all the button. Have fun. I did! Selamat pagi Malaysia~ And yeah, these paragraphs just need to be justified :P azdbfvkhfk!

Yakinlah Dengan JanjiNya!

2010-06-12T07:42:00.002+08:00

Berdoalah kepadaKu, nescaya akan Ku perkenankan bagimu.

(Al-Mu'minun:60)

p/s: dah lama cari doa ni.akhirnya jumpa :)

Result

2010-06-11T03:23:00.001+08:00

Bismillah.

Around 10.30pm tadi dapat semak keputusan final last semester. Alhamdulillah. Walau tak segempak perangkul anugerah dekan apatah lagi anugerah canselori, saya amat bersyukur ke hadrat Allah s.w.t. So, that marks the end of my journey in UiTM for the past 5 years. Gratefully, very much indeed that I successfully obtained the numbers that hopefully enough to satisfy and make my parents proud.

Kalau

2010-06-04T04:39:00.002+08:00

Daripada Abu Hurairah r.a bahawa Rasulullah s.a.w pernah bersabda:

”Mukmin yang kuat lebih disukai oleh Allah daripada mukmin yang lemah. Namun pada kedua-duanya ada kebaikan. Berjaga-jagalah terhadap perkara yang boleh mendatangkan kebaikan kepada engkau, pintalah pertolongan daripada Allah. Sekiranya engkau ditimpa sesuatu musibah, maka jangan engkau berkata:”KALAULAH aku lakukan begini maka sudah pasti lain yang berlaku. Tetapi katakanlah:”Itu merupakan takdir Allah dan Dia melakukan apa yang dikehendaki-Nya, sesungguhnya ‘KALAU’ akan membukakan pintu amalan syaitan.”

(Riwayat Muslim)

Maka,

Jikalau tidak aku ke sana saat ini,

Adakah lebih baik pula aku di situ?

Maka,

Jikalau aku tidak bahagia di sana nanti,

Apakah lebih tenteram aku di situ?

Maka,

Jikalau aku tidak selamat sewaktu di sana,

Apakah lebih terjamin aku di situ?

Astaghfirullah hal azim..

Sesungguhnya rezeki Allah ada dimana-mana,

Dan nescaya Dia kurniakan kepada siapa yang dikehendakiNya.

Maka,

Bersyukurlah apa adanya,

Dengan rezeki yang telah Dia kurniakan di saat ini,

Dengan sebaik-baik kesyukuran,

Alhamdulillahi rabbil alamin~

Amal

2010-06-03T23:31:00.007+08:00

"Bagaimana mungkin kita menyentuh hati-hati mereka jika kata-kata kita tidak terjelma dalam amalan kita? Bagaimana kita mengajak orang kembali kepada Allah jika kita sendiri tidak hidup seolah-olah kita sentiasa melihat Allah di sisi kita?"

- Syanaz - (baca cerpen)

Firman Allah s.w.t mafhumNya :

"Demi malam apabila ia menyelubungi segala-galanya (dengan gelap-gelitanya).Dan siang apabila ia lahir terang-benderang; Demi Yang menciptakan (makhluk-makhlukNya) lelaki dan perempuan, (jantan dan betina); Sesungguhnya amal usaha kamu adalah berbagai-bagai keadaannya. Jelasnya: adapun orang yang memberikan apa yang ada padanya ke jalan kebaikan dan bertaqwa (mengerjakan suruhan Allah dan meninggalkan segala laranganNya). Serta ia mengakui dengan yakin akan perkara yang baik. Maka sesungguhnya Kami akan memberikannya kemudahan untuk mendapat kesenangan (Syurga). Sebaliknya: orang yang bakhil (daripada berbuat kebajikan) dan merasa cukup dengan kekayaan dan kemewahannya. Serta ia mendustakan perkara yang baik. Maka sesungguhnya Kami akan memberikannya kemudahan untuk mendapat kesusahan dan kesengsaraan."

(Al-Lail : 1 - 10)

Sebab itu Allah sebutkan, orang yang ‘memberi’ dan bertaqwa akan dimudahkan jalannya. Bukan hanya iman yang dilafaz di mulut sahaja. Amal juga adalah senjata dakwah yang terkuat. Hanya dengan amal yang selari dengan teori yang diajarkan akan dapat menyentuh hati manusia dengan jitu dan padu. Hanya dengan pembuktian melalui tingkah laku kita dapat kita yakinkan manusia untuk sama-sama berubah.

Jazakillah Iman & Akak :)

New Beginning

2010-06-03T08:20:00.003+08:00

Bismillah~

Wow. It's been one heck of a time I didn't write up. Lost my writing-mojo in between my research paper and classes *excuses boo!* Well anyway, decided to start over somehow yet again. Bit by bit. Nothing promising. Don't expect everyday, every hour and every minute that something's gonna pop up on this blog. I'm not such a writing goddess. Haha. If that's what you call the ones who did. But insyAllah things that matters would get thru tho.

Just not-so-recently I've done with my final semester for my study in B.Sc (Hons) Foodservice Management & the HACCP course. Gladly! You don't know *or maybe you do* how much I strive to overcome those ~~urgency to sleep~~ hurdles to write up my research paper. Thanks to Allah it's done! Hehe. With extra effort *kind of* and helping hands. The results would be up by next Monday *hopefully* That will decide whether I'm an actual graduate or not.

Heard-read-knew that several peeps are offered by the university for an interview to further their studies in Master @ Phd. I'm happy to congratulate them for such success. You know that kind of thing doesn't fall off the sky everyday. It also indicates that they have made such an extraordinary performance during the recent semester. Alhamdulillah.

Though I did felt a bit of a hit at the back. Feeling rather incapacitate for a moment. Yeah I wish I've been there somewhere somehow. Sobs. Huhu. To think of it, why should I even bother to be since I am quite uninterested to teach. Tho, I do aspire to be a kitchen lecturer someday. But right now, I just want to take a break *in my own way* I want to go and see the world. I don't want to be held captivate and bound by more books.

I want to fly.

And speaking of which. Me and few of my close friends are currently on to a small project. Will update with that later on another post *you better pray there would be one* For now, I think I'm gonna ditch the cereal into the sink and get some sleep. Dreaming away of Tiffany & Co. Morning world!

Inai

2009-11-24T00:45:00.003+08:00

.gambar hiasan semata-mata.

Mazhab Hanbali berpendapat bahawa penggunaan inai diharuskan untuk mewarnakan pada mana-mana bahagian anggota badan kecuali di kepala sama ada kepada lelaki ataupun perempuan.

Manakala mazhab Syafie pula berpendapat bahawa lelaki diharuskan memakai inai pada mana-mana bahagian tubuh badan kecuali tangan dan kakinya. Walaubagaimanapun ia dibenarkan sekiranya melibatkan hal-hal perubatan atau darurat. Perempuan yang berada di dalam iddah kerana kematian suaminya juga dilarang memakai inai.

Imam An-Nawawi dalam fatwa al-majmu’ berkata lelaki diharamkan memakai inai pada tangan dan kaki kecuali pada rambut mereka. Wanita bersuami diharuskan memakai henna di tangan dan kaki mereka.

Manakala mazhab Hanafi dan Maliki pula, lelaki dan perempuan diharamkan ke atas mana-mana tubuh anggota kerana ia adalah sama seperti memakai wangian.

Ini diriwayatkan daripada Khawlah Bint Hakim daripada ibunya bahawa Rasulullah s.a.w memberitahu kepada Umm Salamah, “Jangan memakai sebarang wangian ketika kamu berada dalam ihram. Juga pada henna kerana ia juga adalah wangian.” (Diriwayatkan oleh At-Tabarani dalam Al-Kabir, Al-Baihaqi dalam Al-Ma’rifah, dan Ibn Abdil Barr di dalam At-Tamheed)

Diriwayatkan dari Aishah r.a bahawa seorang wanita mengisyaratkan di belakang tabir bahawa dia ingin menyampaikan surat kepada baginda s.a.w lalu baginda melihat tangan itu seraya baginda bersabda: “Aku tidak tahu sama ada ini tangan lelaki atau perempuan.” Perempuan itu menjawab: “Aku adalah seorang wanita.” Baginda bersabda: “Sekiranya kamu seorang perempuan, berbezalah dengan memakai inai dijarimu.” (Hadith riwayat abu dawud)

Abu Hurairah r.a meriwayatkan bahawa seorang mukhannath (khunsa) yang mewarnakan tangannya dengan inai dibawa ke hadapan rasulullah. Dikatakan kepada Rasulullah s.a.w : "Wahai Rasulullah. Lelaki ini cuba menyerupai wanita." Lalu lelaki itu dihalau dari al-baqi' (sebagai hukuman, dihantar ke tempat yang terpencil supaya dijauhi dari orang ramai). Lalu mereka bertanya kepada rasulullah S.a.w: "Kenapa dia tidak dibunuh?" Lalu baginda s.a.w bersabda: "Aku dilarang membunuh mereka yang bersembahyang." (Diriwayatkan oleh Abu Dawud, Sahih Al-Jaami', 2502)

3 hadith di dalam hal ini, wanita diharuskan memakai inai pada tangan dan kaki mereka tetapi berwaspada sekiranya tujuan pemakaiannya adalah untuk seperti memakai wangian dengan tujuan tabarruj, maka ia adalah haram.

Hadith yang kedua dan ketiga, bahawa galakan Rasulullah s.a.w menyuruh kaum wanita untuk memakai inai pada tangan adalah untuk berbeza antara lelaki dan perempuan. Di sini datang pula hadith S.A.W bahawa Allah melaknat lelaki yang menyerupai perempuan dan perempuan yang menyerupai lelaki.

Namun begitu, ulama berpandangan mengharamkan inai/hayeena menyalahi sunnah (syed sabiq). Ini berdasarkan hadis nabi menyuruh kaum wanita Muslim berbeza dengan bukan Islam yang tidak berinai dan beberapa hadis yang lain. Mengenai perkara ini seperti yang diutarakan di atas, ia adalah khilaf ulama.

Menurut kawan aku Rey, kita ikut la salah satu dari 4 mazhab ni. Dari segi konteks pemakaian inai bagi pengantin-pengantin perempuan, itu dah dikira tabarruj. Tabarruj bermaksud berhias. Sama macam dalam salah satu hadis di atas yang mana pemakaian inai tu disamakan seperti memakai wangian untuk menarik perhatian.

Tapi kalau macam tu kan, (bak kata Rey la ni) baju pengantin tu pun da tabarruj. So camane tuh? Bab pakaian nih nanti aku kupas lain kali pulak (according to segmen Dr.Asri - Bahtera Perubahan di Astro Oasis). Then, senior aku Akhi pulak kate, selagi tak melampaui batas pakailah. Tak melampaui batas yang macam mana tu? Yang tak bertujuan untuk menunjuk-nunjuk. Hmmm. Jadi berbalik kepada innamal a'malu binniat~

Hols Baking Project #2 : Chocolate Moist Cake

2009-11-23T02:03:00.007+08:00

The best ever! And yet to come. Haha. This chocolate cake I've been making just the past few hours - 10pm exactly - is to die for. The moistness of the cake. The chocolatey taste that it gives. The aroma of the butter. The nutty flavor of the walnut. Woohoo! Just simply a bomb that will definitely blow you away. Alright. I am exaggerating :P

But it's true. Well, to prove it. I have been making them for the past 10 years - more or less. You got that. And I've have never - just once or maybe twice - failed to produce this lovely recipe. Gituuu~ Again, I swear it is undeniably delicious. My family members could never get enough of this. Even my uncles whom I seldomly met except on festive occasions miss them terribly. If not for my aunt who who had volunteered to make one for his (Pak Andak) engagement this coming Saturday, I would have deliberately make it for him and dress them up gorgeously.

It's actually more like an opportunity for me to practice and showcase my ~~talent~~ ability in gateaux making. Nevertheless, I still have make up cakes for my family, siblings and H to be done. But it kind of ~~bad~~ sad you know. I have bought the ingredients just now. Yeah, barely few hours ago. That costly butter and double cream. All for that dreamy coffee buttercream and milk chocolate ganache. Heuheuheu (T_T) There goes another fraction of my savings.

Astaghfirullahal azim. Tu la pasal tak dapat order. Niat tak betul. Ish ish ish umynah~ Huhu. I've been imagining to decorate the piece resembling a strawberry charlotte cake but more of the chocolate version. Ikhlas umynah, ikhlas! Nyaha.. And to tell me that it was cancel through my mom who came back all the way from Mersing! Isk isk isk. Whatever. I got this fluffy brown moist nutty creamy delicious thingy right here. And you don't! Muahahaha~ Err.. Alright. Onto the recipe please.

Chocolate Moist Cake (Bake with Yen)

Yield : 1 whole cake @ 3 layers of cake @ 36pc muffin

190gm butter
330gm sugar
3nos eggs
1½tsp vanilla extract @ 1stalk vanilla bean
220gm self-raising flour
50gm cocoa powder
1tsp baking powder
¼tsp salt
250ml cold water @ milk

*butter + cocoa powder = grease + line the pan

1. Preheat the oven to 200°C.

2. Cream the butter and sugar until pale and fluffy. Add in the eggs one by one (or you could simply stir them together and chuck it in bit by bit = less split). Pour in the vanilla.

3. Sift all the dry ingredients together. Mix it in alternately with the cold water. Start off first with the dry ingredients and end with it too.

4. Pour it into an 8" round cake pan or muffin pan that has been greased and lined. Bake at 180°C for 30-45 minutes (depends on your oven - mine took an hour). Cool them on the rack before dressing.

Chocolate Ganache

Yield : 1 small tub (enough just to cover the cake)

200gm bittersweet chocolate
200gm double cream
20gm (2/3tbsp) butter

1. Chop the chocolate into small pieces. Put in a heat proof bowl together with the butter.

2. Bring the cream to a boil in a saucepan (here where you want to put the flavor - orange rind, cinnamon, chilli pepper, coffee, black pepper etc.).

3. Turn off the heat and pour the cream directly onto the chocolate and butter. Cover with a cling film @ plastic wrap and leave to steep for 5 minutes.

4. Uncover and stir the mixture from inwards to outwards. Continue until the mixture is homogenous.

*If you want the ganache to seep into your cake, you can pour it directly onto the cake while it's hot and leave for a night.

*If you want to dress the cake by covering and piping the ganache, you might want to leave it in the chiller for a night before use. Or if you need it right away, simply stir the ganache over a bowl of iced water bath with added salt until it come to a consistency that's pipable.

Voila! That's the very valuable piece of recipe you got there. I've got a simple rule of thumb when you're making the ganache from Aran's post sometime ago. For dark @ bittersweet chocolate ganache, it's a 1:1 ratio of chocolate and cream. While both milk and white chocolate ganache would use 2:1 ratio of chocolate and cream. This maybe due to the cocoa mass content. And if you notice, the butter is a tenth of the chocolate amount and it always should be. That will make your ganache shiny enough without splitting it into fat and chocolate. This cake perfectly goes with a milk chocolate ganache to balance out the overwhelming cocoa powder.

Before this, I always thought that giving away this tantalizing secret recipe would cut off the opportunity of me to make business then and in the future. But I read someone's note the long ago, that you can simply give a recipe to anyone. But not just simply anyone can make it best. Most importantly, the fact that Allah has lotted our own rezeki somewhere, it shouldn't make us timid and stingy to share with others. So, why not go ahead and try one - well, not now :) Bon appetit et bonne chance!

.non. that's not any kind of shit. my mistake - thin slice of cake & a little too large quanelle of ganache. pardonnez-moi.

p/s:I'm going to use my mother's extra digital scale as my new weighing scale for baking ingredients :P

p/p/s:I'll update the picture later. Yang kat atas tu motivator for H je XD~

Hols Baking Project #1 : Churros

2009-11-21T06:35:00.004+08:00

Churros is...?

Spanish doughnuts, are fried-dough pastry-based snacks, sometimes made from potato dough, that originated in Madrid, capital of Spain. They are also popular in Latin America, France, Portugal, the United States, and Spanish-speaking Caribbean islands. The snack gets its name from its shape, which resembles the horns of the Churro - a breed of sheep reared in the Spanish grasslands of Castile. There are two types of churros in Spain. One is thin (and usually knotted) and the other, especially popular in Madrid, is long and thick. They both are normally eaten for breakfast dipped in hot chocolate (Wikipedia, 2009).

The dough is much similar to pate a choux. Its acclaimed twin I supposed. Haha. Truly, you can use exactly the same dough to make cream puff, eclairs, profiteroles etc. I first experienced having this particular snack at Molten Lava, One Utama (opposite Cold Storage). A sudden crave earlier this week had me on the move to make my own. Luckily enough, one of my favourite food blog coincidently posted up on her creation of the same item a week ago. There goes my pathway. I just pick up her recipe and try it instantly.

Churros (Aran Goyoaga, Cannelle et Vanille)

Yield : 20+ (depends on your nozzle)

125ml water

125ml whole milk

110gm butter

1/2tsp salt

1tbsp sugar

150gm all-purpose flour

3nos eggs

oil for frying

100gm caster sugar

1tsp cinnamon powder

1.Bring the water, milk, salt and sugar to boil in a medium saucepan. Mix in the flour and stir constantly to prevent lumps. Cook the dough until it leaves the sides of the pan.
2.Spread on a tray to cool or straightly beat into a mixer fitted with paddle attachment or a food processor.
3.Mix it until most of the heat evaporates and become warm. Add in the eggs one at a time and mix into a smooth paste. Transfer it into a piping bag with star nozzle #5.
4.Heat oil in a deep fryer. Pipe the dough into the oil and cut with an oiled scissor. Fry until golden brown and roll them into the cinnamon sugar. Serve and consume immediately.

I had used a food processor since my old Kenwood mixer broke down sometime ago. It works the same if not better. This dough amazingly soft and pipable. Unlikely of the original pate a choux. Maybe due to egg content of the recipe. Aran had served this with a chocolate bisque similar like the one I had at Molten Lava, a hot chocolate or chocolate sauce. I however was rather surprisingly hungry chose to pipe them with the largest star tip I had and just roll them into cinnamon sugar. Haha. It perfectly goes with a black coffee (without sugar certainly).

I love this recipe. It certainly is a keeper and I would definitely make it sometime soon. Maybe today? Huhuhu. I have to save it anyway for H's next week. Hope you'll try it. It's just as simple as un-deux-trois! You can find Aran's link at my blog list on the side. She had captured it beautifully. Unlike mine. Huhu. Bonne chance et bon weekend~

13

2009-11-21T06:04:00.005+08:00

Found this among old folders and files. Something to ponder upon. The secret behind the 13 pillars of prayer. Wallahu alam bi sawab.

1 - Niat Sembahyang : Sebenarnya memeliharakan taubat kita dari dunia dan akhirat.

2 - Berdiri Betul : Ketika mati dapat meluaskan tempat kita di dalam kubur.

3 - Takbirratul Ihram : Sebagai pelita yang menerangi kita di dalam kubur.

4 - Al-Fatihah : Sebagai pakaian yang indah-indah di dalam kubur.

5 - Ruqu' : Sebagai tikar kita di dalam kubur.

6 - I'tidal : Akan memberi minuman air dari telaga al-kautsar ketika didalam kubur.

7 - Sujud : Memagar kita ketika menyeberangi titian SIRATUL-MUSTAQIM.

8 - Duduk antara 2 Sujud : Akan menaung panji-panji nabi kita didalam kubur.

9 - Duduk antara 2 Sujud (akhir) : Menjadi kenderaan ketika kita dipadang Mahsyar.

10 - Tahhiyat Akhir : Sebagai penjawab bagi soalan yang dikemukakan oleh Munkar & Nankir di dalam kubur.

11 - Selawat Nabi : Sebagai pendinding api neraka di dalam kubur.

12 - Salam : Memelihara kita di dalam kubur.

13 - Tertib : Akan pertemuan kita dengan Allah S. W. T.

Movie Catch-up

2009-11-20T02:35:00.004+08:00

Regardless of whatever that stopped me and made me stuck for the past 6 days consecutively - I'm gonna write this very minute. What exactly am I going to write about anyway. Huhu. Pathethique~

Nevertheless, I had fun watching 2-not-so-new movies. I had Cloudy with A Chance of Meatball with H one Friday afternoon during the exam week *so called de-stress-ing session* and the other was The Time Traveler's Wife. I watched the later twice, one with H and another with my besties during a girls day out.

Cloudy with A Chance of Meatball : This movie is fun except the part where me & H missed the first 10 minutes which basically narrates the childhood of Flint - the rather obsessed inventor - his creations of walking tv and bird-rat *haha* among others. Fret not, the rest of the story does however worth the price of a ticket. Depends. Huhu.

I don't know whether I was tired or what, but it seems the plot of the story bit boring. But the scenes were amazing - you know that ice cream morning, jello house, pancake fell upon the school. Even when the story seems to build at each moment, it somehow lack of attractions to grab the audiences *me for sure*

Only towards the end, do I seemed to be more focus on the movie - where the disasters of food ~~beignet~~ begins. The cat chase between the pizza 'army jets' and Flint and his gang of Steve (the monkey pet), Sam Sparks (the weather girl), Baby Brent (the spoilt town mascot) and that cameraman cum doctor cum pilot *I seem to slip his name somewhere - Manny maybe* Anyway, you can check more trailer here, here and info here. It's a good watch by the way. Fun to recap and laugh again all the way.

The Time Traveller's Wife : Like any other movies made out of novels, this one seems to have its own charm. By not being on the scientific part of the time traveling so much, it simply tells the tale of husband, Henry (Eric Bana) and wife, Clare (Rachel McAdams) triumph and tribulation. How the unknowingly inheritance of genes of the ability to travel through period of times - which rather uncontrollable - of Henry seems to affect his life and others around him.

This is a romance movie. So no question why it is packed with lovey dovey scenes. It rather suitable watched by married couple for us Muslims - no doubt you'll have the opportunity to snuggle to each other and feel the story even more. Haha. Pardon me. But it's a good story how it shows the perseverance of a wife to handle with the situation at unpredictable times *even on their wedding day!*

And how reality hits you beyond the love that you have. You indeed must have something to hold to, to backup any hurdles - child, Alba (Hailey McCann). I love how the story depicts the emotions of both the main characters. Making it realistic however unrealistic it may be. It's a good movie to go with anyone. Did I told you how good it was? Yeah. That's why I don't mind watching it twice. Trailer just over here and the info is right here.

Nail in the Heart

2009-11-14T03:36:00.002+08:00

Alhamdulillah..

Thanks to Him, my ever dread-est final has successfully *heh* been through. Said and done with. Although there are still so many things that I haven't been able to put off from my mind. Yes. I'm not at peace at all. Arghhh. Just thinking of it *again* make my mind congested with depression.

They say there is always a first in everything. Apparently it became an irony when my ~~stupid~~ simple English language course graded with B-. Redha as Ummi told to be. Trying my best to do so *helplessly* (T T)
My Research Method subject could barely breathe on its own with a carry mark of 38/60. Don't bother to even ask about the final paper. It burnt into ashes.
Other subjects? Let's just hope it will gloriously succeed in covering every nick and holes.

2009-11-09T15:50:00.001+08:00

“Sesungguhnya perumpamaan di antara dunia dan akhirat adalah seperti timur dan barat. Apabila kamu semakin hampir kepada salah satunya bererti kamu semakin jauh dari akhirat. Dunia merupakan suatu tempat di mana pada peringkat awalnya adalah kepenatan dan penghujungnya adalah kebinasaan. Perkara halalnya mengandungi perhitungan manakala perkara haramnya pula mengandungi pembalasan seksa. Sesiapa yang merasakan dirinya telah mencukupi dengan apa yang ada di dalamnya bererti dia telah tertipu dan sesiapa yang merasakan dirinya sangat memerlukan kepada apa yang ada di dalamnya dia akan bersedih.”

-Hasan Al Basri-

Future Options

2009-10-29T18:39:00.002+08:00

Alright. I shouldn't even being online the fact that early tomorrow morning I'll be sitting for my final paper. A statistic for that one! I don't care. Pffft. Hmm. While I was in the shower, I've been wondering what I'm gonna do after all this study. Going for masters or get a job. A proper job. I've been looking around asking people and searching the ads *call that for a complicated thinker*

Seriously I'm blurred. I'm kind of tired with books and assignment *academically* But I'm afraid of the outside world where I have no experience of. Yeah, sadly not even a part-time job except those in-house's one. You can say I'll be out empty handed. My family and some of my long-term thinker friend suggest *or pushing was it* for me to further my studies. After what I've gone through with Research Methods subject this semester, I am thinking hundredth times *haha* It's a good prospect and a guarantee of any position you desire of.

I would love to work *and get married - hahaha* But the options that I'm familiar with now is either managerial posts at restaurants or chopping up away in the kitchens. So I'm sort of hope if there are other interesting works out there viable for me, I would love to do. You tell me. Suggest me with something. Insya-Allah by middle of next year I'll be done with my BSc. in Foodservice Management *I can't believe I made it through* :D

2009-10-27T01:28:00.000+08:00

Bismillahi Rahmani Rahim :)

Today, mark the journal of my blog which I left for more than a month. Yep, I'm posting up something. But first of all, my apologies if it gonna be that irony *even to myself - well it is for me actually* shot-in-the-head, offensive, judging or whatnot. I'm just trying to calculate all possibilities. Opinions are welcome. Be that an encouraging one rather than destructive.

So, words have gone around saying that love is painful, love is disappointing, love is depressing, love is obligating and all sorts of definitions tied into one - negative development of emotional quotient. We go to all sorts of measure why does it have to be such. We questioning this and that. We eventually ignoring one irony - we *I*didn't start it off the right and proper way.

How do we define and narrow what is exactly the right and proper way? First, let's take our religion into the measurement. I'm a Muslim. Therefore, my religion is Islam and I'm abide to my creator - Allah s.w.t and his rules. Now, the second part. If I'm a Muslim, how should I even begin my love story? Yeah, everyone knows that. Get married! There's no such thing as committing into a love relationship a.k.a couple other than marriage.

Now, this is the thing. Where almost ALMOST all people stuck at. It's difficult to get married when you're living in a typical Malay community where no money, no job, no proper house means no marriage mentality. Yes, there are some of us who are *I don't know how* manage to get married at such a young age *mine specifically* I get to know some who nailing some of their scholars to do so. Thankfully they have parents who are very supportive in their decisions.

It is not such a horrible idea after all that our parents would obstruct a marriage without proper financial, shelter and transportation. They meant the best for us by thinking in advanced for our future without those attributes in hands. However, being so, people *like me* tends to establish *haha* a non legitimate relationship. Ye lah. Bercouple bukannya berkahwin. Bab-bab ni memang pandai. In Islam, there is no such thing of doing so in the means of getting to know each other since there is taaruf session before marriage. And the term matlamat tak menghalalkan cara applies.

Being a couple, it's as if an already preconceived idea within the youngsters that PDA is a must and unavoidable. You have to hold hands, you have to caress her hair, you have to hold her waist and vice versa, plus more *Allah knows what - astaghfirullah al azim* If you don't do so, your love for him/her couldn't be expressed. Why must we make these actions as an excuse to display our passion for each other where we not supposed to.

We might as well just show our care and concern for each other - without those lovey dovey and maybe lurid words. We even defend those acts which we thought if we don't would hurt our other half's feelings. Didn't we even consider the fact that we are compromising Allah's feelings *literally*? I mean, how can we even say that.

Did we realized that most of the times we claim that it is out of love, we actually make way to lust. We said that we love him/her, so we caress the hair, hand, cheeks bla bla bla. But what makes us do that in truth *I suppose* mostly because we attracted to that particular area. Be it platonic or not. It doesn't give you the licence. Preet!!~ Other result of this helplessness is also to make love before marriage *nauzubillahi min zalik*

Sometimes it makes me wonder, in the past, our parents *while they were overseas* would go to the extent to match make their friends in order to survive living there. Can't that be applied here. Just because we are at our homeland, things are much easier to survive with? Didn't it cross their mind before, that if their friend would turn out to quit their study, would they eventually hands the bride over? Or they just positively assured that they won't. Confusion.

I know you guys coming over to my blog would be bored at the thought of another love issue? For God sake! Yeah, because somehow in other fields of my life I'm able to strive any way I could. But love just keep holding and strangling me back and forth into unknown consequences. I hate doing the things that I love with the knowledge of doing it is wrong. I despise being in guilt.

I once said to him (in particular), I can survive if you died, you can survive if I died, but can we survive without Him? We couldn't even been lived without Him.

Ihdinas sirat'al mustaqim~

"Sifat sabar sedikit berbeza.
Ujian yang menimpa sakit dirasa,
Tapi dapat ditahan perasaannya,
Hanya bermain didalam sahaja,
Diluar tidak nampak terang nyata"
Sifat Mahmudah - Hijjaz

Sehampar Ambal Tabriz

2009-09-07T09:24:00.003+08:00

“Bersedia sahaja, ya Wina. Siapa tahu rencana Allah di sebalik rencana kita?" Begitu pesannya sebelum melangkah meninggalkanku di kubikel. Bibir tipisnya mengorak senyum paling manis sejak empat bulan kami saling melontar idea dan kritikan di medan latihan debat.

Najibah A. Bakar (baca cerpen)

2009-09-02T07:45:00.006+08:00