A NEW YEAR...

      I've never been good at making new year's resolutions. Maybe because I know I won't be good at keeping them. And I hate not being able to keep promises. Especially when I know I made them to myself...I gave my word and what good would those words be if I don't keep them. So I always figured it would be best not to make any commitments for the new year.
     But it's different this year. Weeks prior to the year end, I was bombarded with thoughts. I suddenly had lots to talk about...with hers truly. "Talking to myself and feeling old" as the song goes...reflecting...being talked to...reflecting again...asking...talked to myself even more.
     And yea...I ended up making resolutions...I took tiny baby steps toward keeping them...well before new year's eve...I figured I needed a lot of practice since I've never had new year's resolutions before...what better time to start if not immediately.
      Wish me well please...I'll need lots of your "doa"...A better and more enlightening 2012 to all.....  :)

"CIVIL WAR"

Look at your young men fighting

Look at your women crying

Look at your young men dying

The way they've always done before

Look at the hate we're breeding

Look at the fear we're feeding

Look at the lives we're leading

The way we've always done before

Look at the shoes you’re  filling

Look at the blood we're spilling

Look at the world we're killing

The way we've always done before

Look in the doubt we've wallowed

Look at the leaders we've followed

Look at the lies we've swallowed

And I don't want to hear no more………

[ GUNS & ROSES ]

MELAYU

     I was looking for info in the internet when I came across a couple of blogs written in BM. Nothing wrong with the language of the authors. But the language used by the those who commented was something else! And this coming from Malays - a people who is supposedly "berbudi bahasa, bersopan santun tinggi". Who, according to Usman Awang in his poem "Melayu", 

Melayu itu orang yang bijaksana

Nakalnya bersulam jenaka

Budi bahasanya tidak terkira

Kurang ajarnya tetap santun

Jika menipu pun masih bersopan

Bila mengampu bijak beralas tangan

    Apa dah jadi dengan ramai Melayu sekarang?? Budi bahasa, sopan santun ditolak tepi bila tak bersependapat. "Aku caci kau...kau caci aku" macam dah jadi lumrah. Macam dah tak reti nak berdialog tanpa menghina, merendahkan, mengaibkan mereka yang bercanggah pendapatnya dari kita. Tak boleh sangat berdebat tanpa "getting personal". 


    Bijaksanakah kita ni? Dah tak cukup sangat ke perkataan yang elok2 dalam bahasa Melayu kita sampai kita terpaksa menggunakan perkataan2 yang "seram, meremang bulu roma" bila didengar dibaca? Dimana ciri "Kurang ajarnya tetap santun"??


   Di negara kita ni Melayu tu sinonim dengan Islam. Lagi haru bila ini diambil kira...... 

my TAGGED friends...

       Kamu

       familiku

       di alam maya

       tiada

       darah keluarga

       namun

       tetap mesra

       bersaudara…..

      

TAK PERLU KITA MENJADI KHALIFAH

Bila wanita ingin

menjadi khalifah

maka timbullah sifat-sifat “keras”…

keras bicaranya, adabnya…

keras hatinya, jiwanya…

Mana mungkin kita

menakluki hati manusia

bila sebegini rupa?

Mana mampu kita menjadi lelaki

ciri mutlak untuk “khalifah”

Walaupun kita Islamnya teguh

walau beriman dan bertaqwa

walau mentadbir dengan sempurna

walau tiada cacat celanya jasad, hati dan jiwa

walau akalnya, hatinya, jiwanya

SATU!

Wanita…

dijadikan “ibu”

semulia-mulia manusia

Wajib ditaati selepas Allah

Yang makamnya sebelum bapa

INILAH darjat wanita!

yang ditaati sang khalifah

tanpa perlu kita menjadiNYA…

Kita sudah dijadikan

begitu kuat

dalam “kelembutan”

Apa perlu kuasa dunia?

bila syurga di bawah tapak kaki kita

yang bernaung sang khalifah

mencari redha…

TIDAK PERLU MENJADI KHALIFAH!

TQ ya Allah... :)

TQ ya Allah for...

*the gift of life you have given me

*giving me everything I have ever truly needed

*the opportunity to experience this beautiful body & this wonderful mind

*living inside me with all your love, with your pure & boundless spirit, with your warm & radiant light

TQ for using my words, for using my eyes, for using my heart to share your love wherever I go. I love you just the way you are, & because I am your creation, I love myself just the way I am.

Help me to keep the love & peace in my heart & to make that love a new way of life, that I may live in love the rest of my life.

AMEN...

HOTTER THAN HADES

The following is an actual question given on a University of Washington chemistry mid-term exam for his graduate students. The answer was so "profound" that the professor shared it with colleagues, which is why we now have the pleasure of enjoying it as well. 

It had one question: "Is Hell exothermic (gives off heat) or endothermic (absorbs heat)? Support your answer with proof "

Most of the students wrote proofs of their beliefs using Boyle's Law (gas cools off when it expands and heats up when it is compressed) or some variant.

One student, however, wrote the following:
First, we need to know how the mass of Hell is changing in time. So, we need to know the rate that souls are moving into Hell and the rate they are leaving. I think that we can safely assume that once a soul gets to Hell, it will not leave. Therefore, no souls are leaving.

As for how many souls are entering Hell, let's look at the different religions that exist in the world today. Some of these religions state that if you are not a member of their religion, you will go to Hell. Since there are more than one of these religions and since people do not belong to more than one religion, we can project that all people and all souls go to Hell. With birth and death rates as they are, we can expect the number of souls in Hell to increase exponentially. 

Now, we look at the rate of change of the volume in Hell because Boyle's Law states that in order for the temperature and pressure in Hell to stay the same, the volume of Hell has to expand as souls are added. This gives two possibilities.

If Hell is expanding at a slower rate than the rate at which souls enter Hell, then the temperature and pressure in Hell will increase until all Hell breaks loose. Of course, if Hell is expanding at a rate faster than the increase of souls in Hell, then the temperature and pressure will drop until Hell freezes over. So which is it?

If we accept the postulate given to me by Ms. Laura Turner during my Freshman year, "that it will be a cold night in Hell before I sleep with you," and take into account the fact that I still have not succeeded in having sexual relations with her, then #2 cannot be true.

Therefore, Hell is exothermic.

The student got the only A……………