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Monday, September 22, 2008

Why Read Al Quran When We Cant Understand Arabic?

Why do we read Quraan, even if we can't understand a single Arabic word????
An old American Muslim lived on a farm in the mountains of eastern Kentucky with his young grandson.

Each morning Grandpa wakeup early sitting at the kitchen table reading his Quran.
His grandson wanted to be just like him and tried to imitate him in every way he could.
One day the grandson asked, "Grandpa! I try to read the Qur'an just like you but I don't understand it, and what I do understand I forget as soon as I close the book. What good does reading the Qur'an do?"

The Grandfather quietly turned from putting coal in the stove and replied, "Take this coal basket down to the river and bring me back a basket of water." The boy did as he was told, but all the water leaked out before he got back to the house.

The grandfather laughed and said, "You'll have to move a little faster next time," and sent him back to the river with the basket to try again.

This time the boy ran faster, but again the bas ket was empty before he returned home. Out of breath, he told his grandfather that it was impossible to carry water in a basket, and he
went to get a bucket instead.

The old man said, "I don't want a bucket of water; I want a basket of water. You're just not trying hard enough," and he went out the door to watch the boy try again. At this point, the boy knew it was impossible, but he wanted to show his grandfather that even if he ran as fast as he could, the water would leak out before he got back to the house.

The boy again dipped the basket into river and ran hard, but when he reached his grandfather the basket was again empty. Out of breathe, he said, "See Grandpa, it's useless!" "So you think it is useless?" The old man said, "Look at the basket." The boy looked at the basket and for the first time realized that the basket was different. It had been transformed from a dirty old coal basket and was now clean, inside and out.

"Son, that's what happens when you read the Qur'an. You mi ght not understand or remember everything, but when you read it, you will be changed, inside and out. That is the work of
Allah in our lives.

" If you feel this email is worth reading, please forward to your contacts/friends. Prophet Muhammad ( p.b.u.h) says: "The one who guides to good will be rewarded equally"

Tuesday, September 16, 2008

Memories during attachment~

Brunei River Cruise: A River Cruise of Discovery

Migratory birds spotted during sunset
Jong Batu, a small island on the Brunei River

Proboscis monkeys high up on a mangrove tree

Nepenthes rafflesiana, a species of the pitcher plant

Enjoying our cruise along the river


Photos courtesy of and Copyright to NYL and
Brunei Press Sdn Bhd.


By NYL

One of the more popular local tours, the Brunei River Cruise provides tourists hours of wondrous eco-tourism experience among the lush mangrove forests. During one such cruise last week, I met Julia and her two daughters, Fiona and Georgia from Australia. We were accompanied by Danny and Hajah Rina from Mona Florafauna Tours Enterprise.

The first part of our cruise was spent admiring and enjoying a pleasant view of Kampong Ayer and the capital from an open traditional boat. We caught a glimpse of Istana Nurul Iman, the Royal Palace and Jong Batu, a small island on the Brunei River that resembles the keel of a ship.

The most awesome sight to behold as one cruises along this river are hectares of mangroves, one of the most fascinating resources of Brunei. Many species of animals need the mangroves in periods of their life. Ducks, geese and other wild birds stop over at these mangroves during migration. The mangroves offer nursery and breeding grounds for freshwater and marine life, especially crabs and shrimps.

On that bright sunny afternoon, we spotted wildlife such as white egrets, sea eagles, kingfishers, monitor lizards and long tail macaques.

Danny signalled the boatman to slow down. To my surprise, he showed us two species of pitcher plants, Nepenthes ampullaria and Nepenthes rafflesiana, growing near the fringe of the river.

"We only discovered these pitcher plants about a month ago," he informed us.

The N ampullaria has an oval shape, with a wide peristome and a narrow lid turned backwards that never covers the pitcher's mouth while the N rafflesiana with lower and upper pitchers is an unusually variable plant. The only similarities are the shape of the lid and the peristome, which ends in a long neck at the back and is largest just below the lid. In upper pitchers it is characteristically raised in the front part.

Further up the river, a group of proboscis monkeys (Nasalis larvatus), led by a dominant male, was quietly enjoying their meal of fruits and young shoots from a mangrove tree. Upon hearing the sound of our boat engine, he quickly climbed up the tree bringing along with him the rest of the troop, mums with babies, young females and males.

My Australian friends got excited, never had they seen any creature like the proboscis monkey before. They moved to the front of the boat and stared up at the trees. Our boatman, Makim, made a honking sound to attract the monkeys' attention but they chose to camouflage themselves high up on the mangroves, watching us from their vantage point.

Yellowish-brown in colour with a white long tail, the proboscis monkey is a most striking creature. It has a curiously developed long nose, on which account it is sometimes called, Orang Belanda (Dutchman). This appendage, which is almost a caricature of a nose, is only fully developed in the males of the species. Among the females it is shorter, while in the young it is squat and turned up.

We waited patiently for them to come down but they refused to budge. The dominant male monkey whom Makim called "Boss" ignored us completely. We spent some time watching the antics of the younger monkeys as they swung from tree to tree showing off their acrobatic skills.

Sunset and nightfall on the river are almost simultaneous, heralded with extraordinary punctuality by an insect orchestra of cicadas.

With the insects appear numbers of bats of all kinds, among them the " flying fox", a large fruit eating bat, whole companies of which may be observed hanging down from the branches of trees and looking like a collection of half-open umbrellas.

An interesting feature of the river cruise at night is the lightning bugs or fireflies. These are actually beetles and part of a scientific family that contains the largest order of living things. These beetles spangled the dark background with countless fairy lights, some stationary, some moving in graceful curves and some flashing out for the space of a second and then dying.

We caught some of these fireflies and placed them inside a bottle, marvelling at the luminous blue light emitting from their bodies.

The light given off by fireflies during their abdominal flashes is called bioluminescence. Light production in fireflies is due to a chemical reaction that occurs in specialized light-emitting organs, usually on the lower abdomen. The enzyme luciferase acts on luciferin in this organ to stimulate light emission. For adult beetles, it is primarily used to locate other individuals of the same species for reproduction.

Although other insects can produce light, fireflies are the only insects that can flash their light on and off in distinct signals.

All too soon, our cruise along the river came to an end. We were ravenously hungry. We rounded off the evening with a barbecue dinner of chicken and fish at Hjh Faridah & Anak-anak, a local restaurant in Kampong Ayer.

Courtesy of Borneo Bulletin Sunday

Monday, September 15, 2008

Sungkai with cuzzies..

Last Friday i went for sungkai with my cousins at Millennium Restaurant..hehehe we enjoyed it..its fun! nada parents ikut kami ganya bgauk..haha oops~ nadalah..

below are few pictures during the Sungkai sessions..hee




me n my cuz..



Lai..sampat g posing tym minum 2..haha




Mz.R n Mz.H




Nampak??bulan syawal ah??hehe




nah..sapa punya ni??hahaha

well ni saja dulu k??enjoy it..

c ya~!!

Sunday, September 7, 2008

Last day hangout before the Fasting month..

assalamualaikum~

hello people~ nah..my blog after everyone request me to update my blog..hehe walaupun ahir p atleast adakan..hehe

its happened at d end of August..before d fasting month..me n nz went to Serasa beach after o i cut my hair..hehe well..its really fun walaupun last minit kami planning..menjadi jualah.. den sampai sana bli mamam ckit..hehe lapar~ alum mamam..hehe

den as usual cari spot tuk relax..den kami liat tempat pets corner..lain kan kai liat lain yg cnz liat..atrracted bah ada few shemale~ hahaha esp yg sorg 2..oopps~ sorry guys..nada kami ngambar...;p p dun worry gambar kami ada..hehe nah..



nah~ gambar kami..hehe



again~ being vein at Serasa beach..hehe


haha cali~


ok deyh~ ini saja dulu ye..kan mandi dulu..nanti g up date..

c u no more~ hehehe