Happy New Year - 2008!

Salam Tahun Baru … kepada semua umat manusia yang tinggal di dalam dunia ini. Semoga tahun 2008 ini membawa berkat & lebih baik daripada tahun-tahun yang sebelumnya. Gembiranya hati tidak terkata apabila tahun baru menjelma lagi buat kali yang ke 2008 dan untuk diri ini buat kali ke 36.

2007 bukanlah tahun yang menyeronokkan malah tahun malapetaka buat diri ini. Masih ingat dipermulaan tahun 2007, ingatkan itulah tahun yang akan memberi ‘a biG break’ buat ku. Betul ‘it was a breaking year’ tapi bukan ‘the kind of break’ yang ditunggu.

Walauapapun kuterima segala musibah atau malapetaka yang melanda sebagai satu cabaran & pengajaran. Teringat kepada sabda Rasulullah (SAW) di dalam sepotong hadith : -

Setiap kali orang Islam mendapat malapetaka, Allah akan mengampuni dosanya itu kerana malapetaka itu, bahkan disebabkan terkena duri.
(Sahih Bukhari)

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As for me, the year 2007 has been a very rough ride. Still the effect of it is still lingering on. But the truth is, I just can’t wait for 2008 to come by … and it did … last night as the clock struck 12 times at midnight, I was wide awake relishing the moment.

No, I don’t have any new resolutions. Had enough of those in the younger days. Those times when everything seemed to go to the right direction. So, I thought. Anyway, I don’t have any regrets for those days. I have taken those mistakes as lessons to be learnt. Ok enough of reminiscing the past, .. on with the present and look forward for the future.

As in my last posting I did say I was planning to leave the country and fly off to somewhere.. but at the end I was left out not intentionally but economically. My group of associates felt that by leaving me behind would save costs, which I totally & absolutely agree and accepted. It was Amsterdam. Yup. I was suppose to go to Armsterdam. But as the Malay saying goes ‘no rezki lah tu’. But still something is being planned in just a couple of days. I will post about it once I get there.

OK. For this new year, of course I wish I could keep writing in this bloG on a daily basis. So, I will keep it short and simple but most of all I will try my best to do it on a regular basis.

Now let’s see where to start & what to start for this new year?

I was thinking probably for all of us Muslims we should start our year by appreciating how great our life has been thus far. We should be grateful to Allah for all the blessings, which are countless by the way, He has given us in the past and still keep giving.

Anyway for us Muslims our actual new year, Awal Muharram is also around the corner, so I suppose we could start early to change ourselves from within and maximise and optimise our strength, talent and most importantly to me our creativeness in life.

My dear brothers & sisters in Islam, I wish to share this piece of thought which I received from an email which to me entitled ACKNOWLEDGING OUR BLESSINGS for us to ponder: -

If you have food in the refrigerator, clothes on your back, a roof overhead and a place to sleep you are richer than 75% of this world.

If you have money in the bank, in your wallet, and spare change in a dish, you are among the top 8% of the world's wealthy.

And if you on your own computer right now, you are part of the 1% in the world who has that opportunity.

ALSO .....

If you woke up this morning with more health than illness .... You are more blessed than the many who will not even survive this day.

If you have never experienced the fear in battle, the loneliness of imprisonment, the agony of torture, or the pangs of starvation .. You are ahead of 700 million people in the world.

If you can attend a mosque meeting without the fear of harassment, arrest, torture or death you are envied by, and more blessed than, three billion people in the world.

If your parents are still alive and still married .. You are very rare.

If you can hold your head up and smile, you are not the norm, you're unique to all those in doubt and despair.

AND LAST BUT CERTAINLY NOT LEAST…

If you can read whatever is being written here then you are more blessed than over two billion people in the world who cannot read at all!

So ya all! Have a good day and syukur and count your blessings every minute of the day.

BY THE WAY….

I was quite amazed with our news in our nation nowadays. It seems like a soap opera is being shown when you watch the news. Firstly with the demonstration and all that.. and now to start the New Year with a Big BANG… a hot story about a top politician believed to be from Johor and belonging to an MCA party has his sex acts with a young lady caught on tape!!

Wow! I wouldn’t dare to guess who but according to the news from the internet, he might even be a minister. Mmmm…. A Minister.. MCA Party… from Johor.. As far as I know there only 2.

Well, to me I am so glad that this time around it wasn’t a Malay politician as Malay politicians in the past have always been aligned to this kind of scandals. Not that I am happy it happened to the other race and I am sure that that race does not condone this kind of activity.

If Malay means he could always claim that the other person being his legitimate wife, the 2nd , the 3rd or even the 4th. But if you are Chinese and not a Muslim, what would be the excuse? I do wonder.

Anyway, this is a proof that the next general election is just around the corner and it’s a signal that the GAME has just begun and watch out you all aspiring candidates out there. Clean up your act now before they are being dug out. Till next time.

@ Office