Berbasa-Basi

Discussions had and is still going on about the new flexible timetable we are doing now. I am not against it, but have some improvisation, if that can be called, to the system. For example, add 5 minutes break at each of the hour between the subjects.

For example, if the subject is two hours straight, there will be 5 minutes break between the two hours, so that the students can relax a bit before going on to the next hour. Penat juga kalau dalam satu jam sebelumnya penuh dengan lectures, kan?
And the 5 minutes break can be used for the students to proceed to the next class without taking the time of the next subject. Effective jugalah.

But starting next week, about half of the students will go out for their practicum. So, there will be more empty rooms and flexible timetable is just timetable on paper only.

And in this week, there were already two days off lectures. And we got a hell lot of classes to be relieved. (betul ke ha ayat aku ni?)

And I am now have successfully read. Recently, I already read two novels, which I found out very interesting. First one is Manikam Kalbu by Faisal Tehrani which I think is very brilliant, even the story is light, the message is somewhat touches us very much in our life. Next novel is Panggil Aku Melaju by Rahmat Haroun Hashim which is quite heavy in terms of linguistic and history. The plot is boring and slow, but as you finished the whole book, you'll find out that the story is quite interesting and open your mind in certain aspects of history and the effects of what happened in past to us.

Currently, I am reading The Spiral Staircase by Karen Armstrong, which is quite controversial but in some sense waking up our sense of thinking rather than accepting a system like we are an idiot. But as I read up her book, I quickly thought of another book entitled Cogito Allah Sum by Lalu Mohammad Zaenudin about how a man being an unbeliever and how he then starts to believe in God once again. The tagline used is 'semakin aku berfikir, semakin aku yakin bahawa Allah ada.' We have been brought up in a religion which is true, so we are in no doubt about the existence of God when we really dig in the religion. But for someone who has been brought up in Christianity for example, there are too much flaws in the religion which really makes an intellectual an atheist.

Okay, I have class in 20 minutes time. Guess I have to stop typing now.

Akidah II

Dalam sebulan dua ini, hidup aku rasa macam agak terkontang-kanting, macam tak berpegangan. Solat entah ke mana, kepala fikir merata-rata, kepala kusut, berserabut, kerja bertimbun terkejar-kejar nak buat itu ini; di mana aku?

Pernah aku baca disatu artikel, pada zaman akhir ini, manusia disibukkan dengan banyak perkara, sehingga kesempatan untuk menghadap Allah itu tiada. Tak sempat nak ingat Tuhan, kerja melampau sangat.

Dan aku lihat sekeliling; pada diri aku, mak abah, abang, saudara-mara. Benar sangat. Sekarang sudah jadi normal, seseorang pasti ada kerja sampingan sekurang-kurangnya satu. Semuanya sebab nak menampung kos kehidupan keluarga. Dan akibat yang jelas, Tuhan tak sempat nak ingat. Pernah aku buat kerja, sampai tak sempat nak solat dek mengejar deadline. Sampai begitu sekali.

Sami

Sami means, orang-orang alim di tokong-tokong cina, atau di wat. Sami dilihat sebagai seorang yang sabar, penuh ilmu, alim dan tenang. Ada yang melihatnya sebagai petapa. Dan antara 'sami' yang menjadi idola termasuklah Gautama Buddha sendiri, juga Dalai Lama.

Baik, apa motifnya aku bercerita berkenaan sami ni. Well, ianya merupakan antara nama panggilan aku di sekolah dulu. Ini disebabkan aku pernah tidur dalam keadaan badan yang tegak, seperti seorang sami sedang bertapa. Itu masa tingkatan 5 dulu, dan masih lekat nama tu pada aku sampai sekarang ni.

Kita kupas dengan lebih dalam. Aku pernah membaca banyak bahan bacaan berkenaan Gautama Buddha, dan terlalu banyak persoalan yang timbul dalam fikiran aku. Soalan-soalan itu, sama ada berkisar berkenaan sejarah, berkenaan filosofi YANG SEBENAR berkenaan agama ini (atau ada yang mengatakan ianya adalah satu falsafah hidup sahaja, yang mana itu yang aku percaya berdasarkan sejarahnya), juga berkenaan ketuhanan agama itu sendiri. Ya, andai punya peluang aku ingin mengupas dengan lebih dalam dan menambahkan kefahaman aku berkenaan Gautama Buddha dan agama Buddha itu sendiri.

I Don't Know What The Title Should Be~~

Kita cenderung melihat di sudut-sudut tertentu yang kita sendiri punya kepentingan. Al Hasil, sering kali kita dapati dorongan memakan makanan sunah lebih hebat diuar-uarkan berbanding dengan mengajak melaksanakan sunah-sunah yang lebih besar dan afdal.

“Ayah, jika minum susu kambing kita boleh jadi baik. Ini minuman sunah.”

“Tapi jangan hanya ikut sunah minum susu kambing sahaja, ikut sunah yang lebih utama daripada itu, “ balas saya.

“Apa dia?”

“Bangun solat Subuh, tinggalkan perkara yang sia-sia.”

“Makan kismis ini yang didoakan ini bagus ayah. Fikiran kita jadi tajam. Ini juga makanan sunah.”

Constant

I really envy people who can do something which I want but I can't. For example, praying. How is that someone can constantly want to pray, and be faithful about religion etc?

Should never give up eh?

The Dialog

I love things related to religion and belief. And I went to the great hall after Maghrib, just to listen to the inter-religion dialog, and the contents are just about brief explanation of concept of God according to Islam, Buddha and Hindu. I just hope they add up Christian's point of view. Well, they might want to but maybe got some problems.

I hate to say this, but most people don't speak clearly when they are on stage. So, there will be difficulties in understanding what is going on on there, and surely buat orang rasa bosan dan tak nak dengar.

And in another aspect, some people tend to touch the authenticity of certain religion. Different believers belief differently. That is one of the sensitivity that I believe should be avoided. The forum is to know each other; what's the basis of the religion, what's the concept, the laws etc. Not to ask for proves whether your religion is true or not.

The world right now, full of people who believe there is God and that's that, and another population that is increasing right now is the ones who don't believe God at all. Plus, we live in a colourful community. And I found so many prejudices among people with different religion and believes, especially. Itu belum campur dengan kefahaman politik lagi.

Tapi so far, forum tu memang sambutannya agak menggalakkan. Tadi ramai lagi yang menanti nak tanya soalan. Means, orang tak tidur dan pay attention masa penceramah sedang bercakap lagi.

Dan harapannya, akan ada lagi siri inter-religion forum ni nanti.