Saya bukanlah seorang yang mudah mengalirkan airmata. Mungkin kerana saya seorang yang sangat keras hati dan ego barangkali. Tetapi apabila saya melangkah masuk ke ICU Pusrawi awal pagi semalam (3.00AM), bersalaman dengan mba Winda, dan terlihat jenazah Allahyarham Prof. Wahyudi yang telah siap diuruskan untuk dibawa ke HKL untuk dimandikan airmata saya mencurah-curah! Lantas saya terus mengalihkan pandangan saya kearah lain. Bimbang jika tangisan saya membebankan perasaan mba Winda. Saya sebak…

Saya bukanlah pelajar yang rapat dengan Allahyarham, mahupun pelajar yang selalu skor subject yang diajar oleh Allahyarham. Dari awal majoring saya di dalam Mechatronic saya selalu memerhatikan beliau sehinggalah saya berkesempatan menjadi anak didiknya untuk subject System Dynamic dan seterusnya Control System. Jujur saya katakan, saya paham apa yang Allahyarham ajarkan didalam kuliah walaupun saya kurang perform di atas kertas perperiksaan. Cara penyampaiannya yang santai dan lebih memfocuskan apa yang penting sangat sesuai untuk orang yang kurang bijak seperti saya. Dan kesempatan untuk menjadi anak buah Allahyarham untuk Final Year Project 1 (FYP1) untuk semester ini merupakan satu kesempatan yang saya akan kenang selama hayat saya biarpun saya hanya berpeluang bersama Allahyarham buat beberapa ketika sahaja. Kesalnya kerana tidak benar-benar bertanya apa yang kurang difahami tentang FYP1 semasa hayat Allahyarham.

Pernah suatu ketika, saya hilang motivasi diri. Dikala saya beranggapan bahawa berjaya dan gagalnya kita telah ditetapkan awal-awal oleh Allah. Cuma kita hanya perlu menjalani laluan kehidupan sahaja. Iaitu kehidupan yang perlu kita lalui untuk menuju kearah takdir (gagal atau berjaya) tersebut. Tetapi Allahyarham telah menyedarkan saya di dalam bicaranya semasa di dalam kelas “Allah will not change the condition of a people until they change what is in themselves” Kata-kata tersebut adalah kata-kata Allah di dalam surah Ar-Ra’d ayat 11! Ya Allah, betapa saya terlupa tentang itu. Betapa saya terlalu mudah mengalah!

Allahyarham juga menyedarkan saya untuk tidak takut untuk gagal dan juga meyakinkan saya tentang adanya rezeki daripada Allah. Apa yang penting, kita ada initiatives untuk mencuba. Dan percaya bahawa, tiada apa yang mustahil dengan izin Allah. Menurut Allahyarham, beliau bukan pelajar yang cemerlang. Beliau juga pernah gagal 4 kali untuk subject yang sama semasa pengajian ijazah beliau. Punya banyak C juga satu perkara yang biasa. Tetapi beliau berkata, “Even though I failed many times but I still can get my Master. And I still can get my PhD.” Allahyarham percaya dengan rezeki Allah… Betapa saya kagum dan bersemangat mendengar cerita Allahyarham tika itu. ;’)

Malah Allahyarham telah berjaya meraih gelaran Prof 2 minggu lepas – gelaran yang diusahakannya selama 2 tahun tanpa jemu.

Mungkin ada yang beranggapan Allahyarham saja membuat cerita tentang itu. Tetapi apabila saya melawat Friendster & Facebook Allahyarham, kebanyakan rakan-rakan Allahyarham tidak menyangka dengan kejayaan Allahyarham.

Beliau ini temen seangkatan waktu di ITB dulu (angkatan 89 Mesin ITB…..) Yang saya tahu, teman yang satu ini dulu termasuk student yang jarang kuliah, jarang ketemu di kampus, ehhh,,,,herannnya, kok dia duluan lulus,,,,,aneh kan??? Padahal dia bukan termasuk student yang pinter ,……ha,..hah.a. heran nya lagi, dia lulus Doktor dari Perguruan Tinggi Terkenal di dunia, Tokyo Institute of Technology…kok bisa ???? Aneh memang….
Tapi mungkin juga, sholat tahajud dia yg getol yg membuat semua urusannya lancar

Benar bukan? ;)
Sesungguhnya saya akan rindu pada kamu Prof Wahyudi! Melihat kamu sampai ke Engin pada awal pagi, sambil menyandang beg. Melihat kamu menuju ke kelas tanpa membawa apa-apa dengan sempoinya! Walaupun saya sering menyorok dari terserempak dengan kamu! Jujurnya, saya akan rindukan semua itu..

Moga rohmu dicucuri rahmat, dan ditempatkan dikalangan orang-orang yang beriman. Terima kasih dengan kenangan selama kita bersama.

Seandainya aku bisa memilih, aku hanya ingin jadi dosen biasa saja. Aku
masih punya keinginan untuk mengajar dengan baik, bersama dengan
mahasiswaku meneliti dan menulis, dan juga aku masih pengin menulis
buku.

Seandainya aku bisa memilih. – Prof Wahyudi Martono.

Moga kamu tenang di sana Sir! Al-Fatihah.

Whenever Allah wills a thing to happen, it is enough for Him just to say, be. As we are told in Surah Ya Sin (ayah 82), when Allah says kun fa yakun, and thus it becomes.

I’m losing my words at the moment. I am sorry. But may be you can read Kak Sri’s entry here:  Luahan Seorang Pelajar Tentang Gurunya..

Dear Prof. My dua’ will always be with you. Hope to see you soon in UIA!

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Alhamdulillah, even without an external flash I’ve successfully managed to capture a lot of okay pictures during the  solemnization of Habibah & Haniff a month ago. Yes, a month ago since I haven’t blogged for quite some times – and since I’ve drafted it more than some times too… Hehehe. But seriously people, I have so many things need to be done and yet, I have so little time to settle it. Life is so damn hectic right now. It is sooooo tiring!

Anyway, enough about my oh-not-interesting rants.

Lemme show you some of the pictures that I took during the solemnization of Habibah and Haniff on the last February 14th at Kampar, Perak Darul Ridzuan. I am using Sony Alpha A300 and SAL 18-70mm with available light to capture all these pictures. It’s quite challenging.. LOL! But as I said before, Alhamdulillah most of the pictures came out good. I am happy :)

I am going to write about Habibah & Haniff’s wedding reception in my next entry. I am signing off to sleep now. It’s 5.12AM people!

Good night…

Thanks for the Estee Lauder mascara .

Thanks for the gigantic Toblerone White Chocolate.

Thanks for the pashmina shawl.

Thanks for the Dubai keychains.

Thanks for the gorgeous Indonesian’s beads purse.

Thanks for coming to KL to visit me and yea.., thanks for everything! ;D

I’ve been knowing her for about 4 years (or was it 5 I couldnt really remember).  She stumbled upon one of my entry about how I started wearing hijab. At that time I was using free wordpress as my blogging platform.. We were good friends since then. So, people this is Novy .. Friendly, Naughty, Pretty, Witty Novvy ..

Anyway, I am kinda busy at the moment that is why there’s no update here. But I know that there are some people (kindhearted one I might say) willing to check on this blog coherently. Thanks , people… :)) I really appreciate it very very much. ;) Once again, thank you!

Last but not least, this is Novy’s blog: Novy!

Al Bukhari, Volume 1, Book 12, Number 814:
Narrated Jabir bin ‘Abdullah:
The Prophet said, “Whoever eats garlic or onion should keep away from our mosque or should remain in his house.” (Jabir bin ‘Abdullah, in another narration said, “Once a big pot containing cooked vegetables was brought. On finding unpleasant smell coming from it, the Prophet asked, ‘What is in it?’ He was told all the names of the vegetables that were in it. The Prophet ordered that it should be brought near to some of his companions who were with him. When the Prophet saw it he disliked to eat it and said, ‘Eat. (I don’t eat) for I converse with those whom you don’t converse with (i.e. the angels).”

Dear Muslims! :)

Alright… May be, there are some of you might think that the picture above isn’t really related with the hadith that I am quoting (below the picture). But both are the same thing actually you know -  both are distraction.

Last time, a friend of mine used to complaint about those people yang sendawa dengan semangatnya masa solat berjemaah especially during Friday’s prayer. Mestilah kawan ter-distracted kowttt.. He told me mau muntah pun ada. Oh itu sangat ewww… Hey Mister, cud you please try to sendawa moderately-slowly-silently and quietly? And most importantly, tutup mulut and jangan buka besar besar? No one is interested with that aromatherapy because it is holly EWW you know! Especially when you ate union before that. Urggghh ..

Another popular form of distraction yang always happen masa jamaah prayer is your ringtone. Just imagine Bad Romance from Lady Gaga berkumandang when the Imam is reciting ayah during the congregational prayer..! Rah-rah-ah-ah-ah! Roma-Roma-ma-ah! Ga-ga-ooh-la-la! Oh no…! Maha dasyat okayh… So please people make sure you turn it off or put your phone in silent mode okay? :)

P.s: 1 Bulan 1 Adab! I am in Baby!

P.s.s: I hope Bro Maza, and Kak Tie will join this campaign too. Or may be you too, hopefully.. :P

P.s.s.s: Thanks Epah! :)

I just realized that I havent write or share any behind the scene pictures of Conquering Broga to all of you. May be I was so excited to show the beauty of Broga and also the beauty of my dearest model which I named as Anggun (lol) sampai lupa nak share gambar-gambar mereka-mereka yang buat saya gembira tempoh hari.

Oh before that, dengan sedihnya I wanna inform you that I accidentally deleted my Conquering Broga’s pictures, the one whole folder. Bodoh gila kan aku nie? Hm… Yang terselamat cuma edited version of Broga’s yang hanya beberapa gambar sahaja. Do not ask me why, cus I didnt realize what I am doing. Huhu. :’(

Forget about it. Let’s talk about the pictures that I am going to share with all of you here. Dengan sukacita dimaklumkan bahawasanya all the pictures are the courtesy of Faiza, Epah, Bad, Yot, and Mutt. So Enjoy! Oh before that, mestilah mahu tayang muka sepuas-puasnya ;) Hehehe.. Mestilah jarang kowttt :P

The picture above was taken masa on the way nak ke 2nd top of Broga. Mestilah tak larat okay.. Tapi tetap dijajahi jua… Alhamdulillah. Although we didnt reach to the very top of Broga, sampai puncak kedua pun jadilah…

These two people Arif (left) and Fauzan (right), were so baik. They waited for me whenever I pancit (lol)… They both stopped at the first top of Broga. Pasal sudah pancit gilas. :P Kan? Kan? I hope I am right people.. :P

Yot, he was so bersemangat okah. Knowing him from Flickr at first and later terjumpa somewhere in UIA itself. Photography sangat-sangat membuka dan meluaskan friendship. Terima kasih Tuhan! :)

I dont have to introduce this girl I guess. Semestinya she was excited and extremely ecstatic throughout the day dalam demam-demam. Huhu… But it worth it! Ngeeee..

From left to right: Faiza, Shud, Me and Anggun (lol). Faiza & Shud are both orang kuat saya when it comes to photography… These two wonderful girls are the people yang banyak mempengaruhi my journey. Sangat terharu with the friendship. *hugs*

Oh, this is Pjey (the one with the shades) and her two friends. I am so sorry I forgot their names. And the guy on the right side is Ubi. He was so lucky that day sebab tiba-tiba jadi model. Below are some of his pictures taken by Mutt and Bad:

Not to forget, my so called tulang belakang… Cukup la mereka ada, then I will be sangat kuat and bersemangat. Jutaan terima kasih buat kamu encik Keycha dan Cik Mizah.. *friendship hugs*

Kami. Tak semua masuk gambar cus ada yang terpaksa mengambil gambar.. :) Sangat kenangan terindah! :) Sekali lagi, terima kasih Tuhan! ;))

Kolaborasi mantap from Bad, Muttaqee and Hafiz Shah. They were playing with strobe and their activity memang sangat-sangat caught people’s attentions!

Gaya-gaya and aksi-aksi photogs from UIA Kuantan and UIA Gombak. Well there were also photogs from BMI – Momo and the gangs, Lomo’s geng from UPM and few of pro photogs like M Rizal, Syed Tahir, Liang Lahad and a lot more joined this outing. Even Chot pun ada actually. But he brought his own model to Broga. :) I even met a lot of my Flickr’s friends too.

I am glad, this outing pun made people’s day tau. Alhamdulillah… Yang left dalam hati semua orang semua happiness je. Ya Allah, saya benar-bena terharu. :)

This shot is so damn cool. Macam mau perang… Dont you think? The coordination was so damn cool.. Well at least to me lah. :P

The picture above was taken semasa mahu pulang. Seriously sangat berbaloi-baloi, I tell you. I have came out with this entry untuk menyatakan betapa bestnya outing ke Broga nie. So, may be this is going to be the last entry about Broga. Ye, tak akan adanya lagi. ;D

Akhir sekali, kepada kawan-kawan Broga-ku. Trillions of TQ buat kamu… :)

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This is just a trial theme. Tell me which one is better, was it the previous theme (the white one) suits my website best, or this new black theme? Heeee…

Got this from Facebook:

Whatever you give a woman, she will make it greater. Give her sperm, she will give you a baby. Give her a house, she will give you a home. Give her groceries, she will give you a meal. Give her a smile and she will give you her heart. She multiplies and enlarges what she is given. So if you give her crap, be ready to receive a ton of shits…

True isnt it? But still, it sounds funny. ;D

I went to the Metropolitan Garden or famously known as Taman Layang-Layang with a bunch of cool people two weeks ago – wanted to play layang-layang at first but ended up with not-so-portraiture’s session modeled by a friend of mine, Keycha.

So, enjoy the pictures below! ;D

Last but not least, have you read: A struggle worth taking? ;)

Born as a Muslim doesn’t make you a real Muslim, and it doesn’t guarantee you to know everything about Islam either (or even to have real sense of belonging to Islam). This is because there are a lot of us (the Muslims) wear the title of Muslim but in practical life we don’t really practice Islam. Some of us even do not practice it at all. I know I am not qualified enough to discuss all these but this is how I see it – based on what had happened and what is happening around me.

I’ve been introduced with The Arrival by a sweet friend of mine, Novvy and later was introduced for the second time by another sweet friend of mine (too), Anis. All I can say is, after watching The Arrival I’ve experienced something that is indescribable inside me (I am serious), which I think and feel is kind of a turning point to me.

We’ve been sleeping for a very long time, and may be it is time to wake up.

We’ve been busy beautifying our physical appearance, and may be it is time to beautifying the inner appearance (the soul).

I hope you can spend your 10 minutes time to watch the video below. Do allow the video to be fully loaded first so that you can watch the video smoothly, and most importantly “peace-fully’. Watch it with your open heart and mind and do share it with others too. God bless!

Last but not least, “We are like the bricks of a building, each strengthening the other. Our building is so weak and needs strengthened. I think it can start with our own small circles. We can come together more and talk more about ways of improving when we come together. It’s not always easy to be the first to bring it up when people don’t seem to care but it’s a struggle worth taking.” (The Muslimah)

P.s: There are 50 episodes of The Arrival and some of the video has been deleted from YouTube. But Alhamdulillah I’ve watched all the complete 50 episodes.

P.s.s: I will share few of interesting part of The Arrival to all of you again next time, insha Allah.