EID Mubarak

From Home to home, and heart to heart,

From one place to another

The warmth and joy of EID,

Brings us closer to each other.

Eid Mubarak!

* Image and wishes are from Alhabib's Blog 

Iklan Puasa BERNAS

Masa bulan Puasa ni banyak syarikat yang buat iklan kat TV. Ada yang ucap selamat berpuasa, ada yang bagi mesej membina macam yang Petronas selalu buat. Ada juga yang 2+1 - ucap selamat campur promo produk dan syarikat sekali, memang cost effective.

Pernah tak tengok iklan BERNAS yang ada budak laki selalu kena buli, masa makan nasi dah habis tu? Kesian kan? Kat hujung ikla tu ada pula ayat " setiap 10kg beras yang anda beli, 25gm akan didermakan pada anak yatim". Lepas ni beli la beras keluaran BERNAS - beli untuk keperluan + beramal.

Konsep ni dah lama United Nations World Food Programme buat. Empat tahun lepas saya dah buat entri - ada kat sini. Kalau nak beramal sambil belajar vocab English secara percuma, boleh buat kat web ni:

Free Rice

Ada ke lelaki kaki novel?

Sebagai pembukaan, entri ni bukan nak buat provokasi. Nak buat macam mana, tu la tajuk yang terlintas dalam kepala. Tiba-tiba je hari ni nak buat entri pasal membaca dan lelaki. Dalam Bahasa Melayu pula tu. Sebab? Tiada sebab utama, terasa nak memartabatkan Bahasa Melayu - walaupun bukan dalam bahasa yang 'betul' dan tatabahasa yang sempurna. Sebab? Bak kata Edward de Bono, hari ni saya tengah pakai topi warna merah (feelings and emotion) ~ Rujukan: Six Thinking Hats by Edward de Bono


Topik ni muncul sebab ayat seorang kawan lelaki masa tengah "mengulangkaji" novel Versus oleh Hlovate : "Rajinnye awak ni membaca, saya tak de la nak membaca, lagi-lagi novel, tengok tv lagi best". Lelaki memang macm ni ke? Agaknya la, membaca kan sinonim ngan perempuan je. Tapi... tak semua lelaki 'malas' membaca, walaupun sebahagian besarnya memang malas nak membaca. Yang rajin tu termasuk dalam pembaca tegar ataupun pembaca santai.


Biasanya perempuan je yang kena label kaki novel ni. Sekarang ni lelaki pun boleh dilabel kaki novel tau. Tak tipu... kalau tak caya, cuba tengok keratan akhbar Penangan Chiklit (<= klick saya) yang disiarkan oleh Berita Harian. Betul kan? Lelaki pun dah mula baca novel, cam Fairuz yang baca karya Kang Abik yang sarat dan Ramlee Awang Murshid yang suspens. Lagi? Budu Masin yang baca novel Hlovate  ngan Syud yang popular dikalangan wanita. Tak kisah la... Hlovate tu cintan-cintun Islamik siap ada terjemahan Quran lagi. Bagus kan? Lagi? Ben Ashaari - cam dia confess: dulu baca cerita seram, sekarang baca novel jiwang. Selain diorang bertiga tu, pembaca tegar yang saya kenal - Azwan Ismail (yang ada skandal hari tu..). Dia ni boleh layan buku Hamka ngan sastera melayu.

Alang-alang cerita pasal membaca ni, siapa yang suka buku free boleh jenguk Bookcrossing atau post pasal Running Book ni. Nak cerita juga pengalaman dapat satu kotak besar penuh ngan buku dari US. Terkejut sangat-sangat, rezeki yang tak disangka, semua buku best, ada Sandra Brown, Jack Higgins, Grisham, yang ingat tajuk je - Do you hear me when you cry? Orang yang hantar tu minta alamat konon nak RABCK (Random Act of Bookcrossing Kindness) - ingatkan sebuah je, rupanya sekotak!

SELAMAT MEMBACA!

It's Rates PG-13

What a coincidence! I've posted about film rating yesterday, and I found a "creative" article uses film rating terminology and brownie. Interesting I say. A little excerpt:

Two teenagers asked their father if they could go to the theater to watch a movie that all their friends had seen. After reading some reviews about the movie on the Internet, he denied their request.

“Ah dad, why not?” they complained. “It’s rated PG-13, and we’re both older than thirteen!

“Dad replied: “Because that movie contains nudity and portrays immorality as being normal and acceptable behavior.”

“But dad, those are just very small parts of the movie! That’s what our friends who’ve seen it have told us. The movie is two hours long and those scenes are just a few minutes of the total film! It’s based on a true story and good triumphs over evil, and there are other redeeming themes like courage and self-sacrifice. Even the movie review websites say that!” 

Click here => It's Rated PG-13! for the full article. Hope you enjoy it, I did very much.

Film rating??

Film rating is not my thing. Maybe its due to I don't bother about rating or simply because I am not a movie lunatic. Rating of G and PG are familiar to me, but PG-13, R, NC-17 its gives me a bit frown on the forehead (ouch! bad for my complexion!). A little sharing today, for more info. on film rating - it can be found in Motion Picture Association of America <= click me  T__T

Ramadhan Kareem

May this Ramadhan be a month of blessings, 

a month full of forgiveness and guidances 

for you and your family

Selamat melaknasakan ibadah puasa, semoga kebaikan dan keberkatan Ramadhan bersama kita. Artikel tentang Ramadhan ada di sini:

I LUV ISLAM


Mungkin kita sudah sudah tahu dan acapkali membacanya, tidak rugi untuk membaca lagi sebagai peringatan pada kita, manusia yang selalu lupa.

Dapatkan Mesej Bergambar di Sini

For the better

Alhamdulilah, a sister has started her journey to be a god muslimah, wife and mom. May 4LL1 always be with her. Barakallahfik. This one of the best heart pouring entries I ever read:

Every girl wants to be a beauty.  Every girls loves beauty things. Same goes to me. I always want to look good in everything that I do, everything that I wear and everywhere that I go. I want people to see me with words of "Wow, she's gorgeous!" or "Wow, she's beautiful!". Since that, I try to grab every single opportunity that comes into my life. As I love photography, I take a first step to be a talent. I love being the subjects for each photo that had been taken. Then I start to adore this field so much. I move from title of the talent to become the one who walk on the stage for several awesome fashion shows where people stare at me with an amazing looks and keep asking me 'Can I get your numbers please?". Oh I love to be a part of the stories behind the show and the photo shoot as well. It is such a great memories which I will never forget until my last breathe.

To read more, please click HERE

Show us the straight way. The way of those on whom You bestowed Your Grace, those whose (portion) is not wrath, and who go not astray (1: 6 and 7)-(Al-Fatihah: 6 and 7). For this entry, and for the first time since I'm blogging, I am offering a copy of:

Title: The Meaning of The Holy Quran - Complete Translation with selected notes
By: Abdullah Yusuf Ali.
Publisher: The Islamic Foundation, UK
ISBN: 0-86037-371-1

Kindly post a comment for me to contact for your mailing address.

Feature Article: The Ultimate Technique To Getting Organized And Staying that Way!

Lets look into this situation: You are going to work on a project, patterns, fabrics, colors... you can even picture  how the final product going to look like. Sewing machine, fabrics, thread and needles and notions are available, works started. Oooppsssss!!! Where is the measuring tape? Searching... searching... not in box 1, maybe in container 2, none.. hope in bag 3... Ever been in this situation? I did.

Its time to get organized. We knew organization is important, we knew its basic common sense. Yet, it is not practiced.  Its a wonder I kept my office desk unclustered, my dressing table unscattered. Maybe its just me, lack of discipline. I found this interesting article   The Ultimate Technique To Getting Organized And Staying that Way!,  need to work more on item 5 - SUSTAIN in my sewing or crafty life!

Have a fabulous weekend. I definitely will with Harvest public holiday on Monday and Tuesday, an extended weekend. Yeay!!

Bertudung vs Tak Bertudung

As Salam. Dah dekat seahun tak update blog ni. Bukan sebab tiada topik untuk entri tapi malas nak menulis, lebih suka browsing dan baca blog orang. Hasil dari 'jalan-jalan' tengok 'pemandangan', terjumpa blog The Best Side of Me yang saya rasa agak dangkal dengan entri Carutan untuk Minah Bertudung Urban. 

Sekadar pendapat, bukan niat untuk mengutuk:

• Lovesuks a.k.a. penulis blog tidak perlu merendahkan semua wanita bertudung secara am. Kesimpulan selepas membaca entri tersebut, it seems like Lovesuks marahkan sesorang. Jangan sebab nyamuk seekor, kelambu dibakar. 
• Para komentar tu tak perlu nak back-up penulis tu dengan alasan kalau nak menegur biar berhemah. Awal-awal lagi penulis tu dah kata "aku nak kutuk, bukan nak nasihat, bukan nak ceramah agama, aku memang nak KUTUK"
• Bangganya penulis ni tempah tiket nak masuk neraka. A'uzubillah. Kalau nak marah, nak menulis,biar berlapik, timbang buruk baik, jangan main sebut je. Takut masa kita sebut "see you in hell" tu terbuka pintu langit, termakbul apa yg disebut

Dalam beratus-ratus komen bagi "Carutan untuk Minah Bertusung Urban", saya suka yang kat bawah ni.

ururulesmungkin ade pahala untuk effort kot.. pahala untuk niat nak tutup aurat. heheheheh!
mcm aku dgr tazkirah zohor semalam.. "semayang jemaah ngn semayang sorang2 kat mesjid. pahala jemaah 27:1 kepade yg semayang sorang. 

tapi effort nak pegi masjid tuh pun ade pahale jugak. effort amik air semayang. pahala niat"
pastuh ustaz tu pandang kat saf pompuan dan dia sambung
"same la ngn effort ngn niat nak tutup aurat" (mutter mutter) "tapi kan bagus tutup aurat je terus.. dapat semua pahala.. campur effort skali"

ngeh ngeh ngeh! terase tak kau?

Sekurang-kurangnya, yang pakai tudung urban tu berusaha untuk tutup separuh dari aurat yg ada. Lama-lama insya'allah boleh tutup semuanya.

 May Allah bless.