Final Countdown

Final countdown is finally begin. I'll be having a hectic month in this coming three weeks and after that I'll be home, HOME SWEET HOME. I just can't wait for that. Looking at the pictures my father had put on his blog, rather make me even more exited to be home. Everybody I am coming, feels like screaming to the whole wolrd (heheh am I exaggerating??)

But before that, we have to face the final sem 2 exam. My first exam is my Economics paper that will be on 3rd November and followed by Maths 253 thaught by the most interesting lecturer I have ever meet (hope to give him the best marks I could) on 5th November and after three days gap which the longest gap I will have for this final exam I'll sit for my STATS 201 exam and my last paper would be on 10th November, an applied math paper I assume MATHS 260 and thats it. and 10 days after that, I'l be home.

Thursday 20 Nov departed from Auckland International Airport at 05:15am and will arrived at Bandar Seri Begawan 09:30am and two hours later I'll be in Royal Brunei airlines again for my final destination Kuala LUmpur and expected to arrive around 13:55, 20 Nov 2008. That is only I'll reach my homeland after about 13 hours journey. But it is worth it, I sure=) Then my journey will continue from Kuala Lumpur to Kota Bharu at 6:30pm by Malaysia Airlines (MAS). See you there Umi Abah Fadhil and Ijah since Nana and Eti wont be home yet at that moment.

So I'l try my best for my final exam and hoping I will get the best result, regardless what I got on my mid term. To all my friends as well, lets do our best since our flight ticket is already in our hand and we dont have to worry about it, so lets just focus on our FINAL exam and let it be the best present before we go back home.

"Ya Allah permudahkanlah urusan kami menuntut ilmu kerana sesunnguhnya ilmu itu adalah milikmu dan hanya kepada Mu lah kami memohon di permudah kan segala urusan. Bantu kami untuk memahami, menghafal dan menjawab soalan dengan sebaik mungkin" amin

Minna san-gambatte

HSM3

High School has become the phenomena of the world. Every persons in this world I assume will know about this great movie. Now for the first time, High School MUsical was made into a movie since it has gain its popularity. This new movie I believe is full of energetic dance and peachy songs that makes you wanna sings. For me, High School Mosical is just like Grease starring John Travolta and Olivia Newton (hope I spell it right) which famous on the 80's. They bring the same concept, musical movie with high school life plot.

HSM2

I am one of their millions fans around the world. I love to see any story related to wonderful school life's including Japanese drama. It just like what other people are saying, school life is the best part of your lifetime. That sounds so true. Somehow it makes you wanna turn back time and be among your friends, acting childishly, laugh to all your heart content and make unmatured decission. It is great to be at the young age.

Nice HSM3 Poster

That is what High School Musical make me feels like. It makes you believe that you can do anything you want. Eventhough it might sounds weird to other people and they might laugh at you, but think back. A true friends wont laugh at you, and they wont look down on you. A true friends will always believe and support your back in everything you do. That is what happen between Vanessa and Troy. His basketball team has synical view about Troy joining theater but it is not for Vanessa who at last become His Girl. They also thaught us that everything will be fine "if we're all in this together"; the last song in the HSM1.

I really cant wait to watch the movie when I go back home. I hope the CD will be on sale at that moment.

Kendama

Kendama_05

I currently addicted playing one of Japanese Traditional game. I first saw it in Hana Yori Dango 1 i watched mothes before. It was so exciting, how to focus on the ball, dont give to much energy on it and dont over swing it, then it cup it to the right plate. It is called Yosegi Kendama in Japanese.

A visit to someone's house

I forgot to write about it last weeks. Last Sunday I went to a friend of my friend house in Avondale. She knew her from Muhammad store where we normally purchase our monthly stock for chicken and meat. She met her last months and invite her to her house for Aidilfitri. But since we were busy, we postponed it till last week and here we are during lunch hour at her beautiful house. She has a moderate house but with a very interesting design inside. She painted it with soft purple which make you feel comfortable inside it. We have some appetizer first and we thought that was it. But we are wrong when she mentioned this is just the beginning. We have lots of foods for you. We were surprised, and our mouth wide open=O

So performed our solat first before we have our real lunch. We took our wudu and I just love the bathroom itself. I remembered Umi once said, "if you want to measure whether the house is clean or not, just check the bathroom" and yup at this moment I have to agree. Remind me of a 23rd hadith in Hadith Arbain which I loved so much.

Dari Abu Malik Al-Hariths bin Asyim berkata, Rasulallah bersabda, "membersihkan diri adalah separuh dari keimanan, ucapan Alhamdulillah akan memberatkan timbangan kebaikan, Subhanallah Walhamdulillah akan memenuhi ruang langit dan bumi, solat akan menjadi cahaya, sedekah itu merupakan bukti, kesabaran itu merupakn sinar dan Al Quran itu merupakan hujah yang akan membelamu atau menuntutmu. Setiap jiwa manusia melakukan amal untuk menjual diriny, maka sebahagian mereka ada yang membebaskannya dari siksa Allah dan sebahagian yg lain menjerumuskannya dalam siksaNya" (HR Muslim)

Then we were served with variety of food. From delicious Beriani, western Pizza and Pasta, Punjabi Tikka Chicken that I couldnt stop consume it, refreshing Salads. She gave us about 10 persons dish that 5 of us cant finish them all. All are delicious foods that we dont want to stop. But, we have to stop before our stomach going to explode. We keep on praising her and apologize for stopping early. Then she said, "I am sorry for over feeding you" That was the first time ever I heard someone told me that, and I laughed slowly. They just knew how to celebrate their tetamu and they really do. Rasulallah once mentioned in 15 Hadtith

Dari Abu Hurairah ra, bahawa Rasulallah saw bersabda, "Barangsiapa beriman kpd Allah dan hari akhir, hendaklah ia berkata baik atau diam, barangsiapa beriman kepada Allah dan hari akhir, maka hendaklah ia menghormati tetangganya dan barangsiapa beriman kepada Allah dan hari akhir, maka hendaklah ia menghormati tamunya" (HR Bukhari dan MUslim)

Thank you auntie for all those delicious food. And one more thing, I forgot to mention she is an Indian Fiji. So at the end, knowing that one of us love Hindi movie, she even gave us sets of latest hindi movies. I am so glad to meet someone who kind like you. And thank you Allah for the rezeki you gave us on that wonderful day.

Diwali Celebration

Diwali is coming and from what I heard in the television, New Zealand has the second world's largest diwali celebration after India and followed by UK. So I couldn't wait to be there and witness it with my own eyes. So several my friend and I went there at 8 since the celebration will end en at 10.00. We got lost even the place is just nearby. The celebration were held at the Viaduct Harbour. But we lost for good since we are able to see a big cruise. I was mesmerized by it and how could a big ship like that didn't sink in the water. Even if we drop a little a small stone in the river it will sink but why a huge ship made of metal didn't sink after all? Subhanallah. No wonder Allah mention a lot about it in the Quran.

Tidakkah engkau memperhatikan bahawa Allah menundukkan bagimu apa yg ada dbumi, dan kapal-kapal berlayar dengan di lautan dengan perintahNya...[Al-Hajj,22:65]

"MilikNyalah kapal-kapal yang berlayar di lautan bagaikan gunung-gunung"[Ar-Rahman,55:24]

afraid that the celebration will end soon, we didn't take any picture of it and save it on our journey back home. So we rush to the habour. I was surprised to see lots of stall, in fact food stall. It was exactly the same situation like what we have, bazar ramadhan. There are four rows of stall with lots of Indian food, Masala Dosa, Plain Dosa, Naan, Samosa, MAngo Lassee and the list goes on. But I tried none of it, afraid that it might not be halal. SO we just pass by and enjoy the smell and their good looks. [sounds pathetics huhuhu]

Elephant, Light feat Diwali

As we walk a hear, I could hear Banghra songs played. Now I feel like I am in Bollywood. Whenever I here an Indian songs, it makes me feel good, feel like dancing maybe. It is so much fun. I am shoched once again to see ots of people in front of my eyes reacting to the dance performed on the stage. It was like what I normally see in the TV; people dancing on the beat. Now I am convinced that they realy love music and dancing, it is not only in the movie and it is for real.

I praised the organizer for handling the celebration, even they are not in their motherland. Even they are far away form India, they still celebrate it with pride, they are proud to be Indian and they are proud to be New Zealanders as well. Great isnt it? Eidilfitri was only celebrated among us and not formally. It is good if we celebrate it openly (i mean besar-besar an), then people will know about Islam and I think it is one of the way of dakwah.

But reflecting it back, what if we played our Hari Raya songs or maybe our Takbir, and to people who didn't know it dancing upon it. It is a sad thing isnt it? But maybe it is not appropriate now and it will takes time for New Zealandrs accept Islam as whole.

Price List

After all celebration finished, we walked back home and planned to stop by the big cruise again. But when we arrive there, it is not there anymore and looking in the ocean, we can still see that it still rippled aroud. And when we look ahead, the ship is on its way and we are just late by 5 minutes maybe. hahahahha. Pengajaran of the day, "never procastinate what you want to do"

MATHS again

Now things are getting more complicated. I took 2 maths paper; 260 and 253 and both of them are interesting.

I like the idea of 260 where I could see how it is applied in the world. Sometimes I have no idea that a simple system like bycycle movement is actually do have connection with equilibrium point and the eigenvectors. And what I love most of 253 is the lecturer himself. I adore the way he teach us. I could see how enthusiastic he is towards the subject he thought and how deep he understand a certain thing. That is why he could relate everything he learn with the real world, like the application of Fourier series in the heat convection and in music even they are in different field. That is the attitude when we really want to learn something, we will search for it just for the sake of knowledge itself and not for the sake of the exam like what most of the student are doing right now. Maybe that is where we could measure the quality of the knowledge. I cant afford to sleep in his class since what he usually said is not in the text book. He is just so fantastic.

Eventhough 260 and 253 are two different papers, but somehow we are talking about the same thing. Both Alastair and Powell are talking bout max and min point. eigenvalues, eigenvectors and Jacobian. But it is only how they see things and how they interpret them differently. How strange isnt it? In this world people are seeing the same thing but we will interpret things differently. Both you and I might see the same tree and feel the same wind, but you may think that "wow how refreshing and how this cool air will make you feel good" and the other person might think "It is going to rain". It all depends on our knowledge and our heart. That is world. Now I wish I could combine both 253 and 260, digest them well so that I could find the common thing between them and at the same time explain both of them well, Then I wont be confused anymore.

Gambarre

Our Eid celebration

It has been a while since I updated here. So many things happen in my life that I want to share especially about our raya celebration here, but just an overview about it. Not in so much detail.

Even we are far from home, but we still prepared some home dishes, or should I say lots of home dishes in order to celebrate Eid Fitri. All of them are prepared by my kind Bio and Chemistry friends since Math students have a test that afternoon. All of them patiently wait till we finished our battle in the exam hall. One of the war that we have to face, maybe we don’t raise up our swords or ‘pertumpahan darah’ like Rasulallah did in Badar War. But it reminded me of the same thing. Then we celebrated it together in 3D, like a big family of mine. Thank you my fellow friends. How much I appreciated your presence in my life, Thank You

Bermaaf-maafan in action

Our weekend shedule also full with the open houses invitation. kalah raya dekat Malaysia. If I was in Malaysia, we oncelebrated it for a week and thats it. Whats more in Kelantan, where we celebrated AidilAdha much longer and more joyous then EidFitri. But I wonder how this AidilAdha will feel like? With no Tok Ayah and nenek around? Will I feel the same?

Dapur Team

That was last 3 weeks occasion. The latest event is our IB open houses held at I-Space; an international lounge on the third floor of the Kate Edger building. Everybody was surprised how on earth we could book such a place without establishing a formal club. All thanks to our manager and the organizer, with their good public relation we are able to book that exclusive place. At first, I was afraid, how are we gonna host an occasion for around 200 guests? And how are we going to cook 17 chickens in this small kitchen with limited pan size? And what are we going to do if we don’t provide enough food for the guest? But alhamdulillah, the occasion went smoothly with no problem at all. Alhamdulillah, how thankful I am I cant say. With everyone help, we are able to make it through and everybody was satisfied with the food and happy about the occasion. As a host, what else could we say? We are more than happy than you. Thank you Allah.

My lecturer once said

My favourite lecturer told us something that makes me think of something today

"Mathematician handle things in two ways. First use the theorem strictly and trying their best to prove them while the other group will use their imagination / intuition to help them understand bout a specific problem. They dont bother much bout the theorem"

which side am I belong? I wonder. But what I am sure is I envy of people who are in the second group like the lecturer and the tutor here. I admire the way they handle the math problem. I remembered asking one tutor in the Science Space here, without using any formula he helped me solving the problem. The way he describe the situation and how he visualize the plane and described the situation vividly really mesmerized me.

But I dont think I am on the right path now. Now we are more focussing on the problem and try our best to settle them, following step by step given by the lecture without bothering much the mathematical image of it. Feel like a human calculator actually and it doest suppose to be like that. I want to be in the second group, who purely love mathematics and could settle the problem because I understand it not because I memorize the step. One day I'll be one, Insya ALlah

Everyone are special in their own way

"Everyone is special in their own way,

we make each other strong

we are not the same

we are different in a good way

together's where we belong"

"we are all in this together,

once we know that we are,

we're all stars,

and we see that,

we're all in this together,

when we stand, hand in hand make our dream come true

I was finishing my assignments with some of my friends. some of were chit chatting while holding their pen on and some are eating to keep them awake. Then one of my friend suddenly mention, "I want a be like you, sitting wuietely and focussing on the work rather than talking here and there like me". But I replied, what a boring world it would be if everyone is like me. It reminded me of a Barney song I watched years ago with my little Izzah, and I smile alone.

I wonder what does it feel like if everyone is the same. Everyone is quiete, would rather do his or her wrk rather than socializing, have the some likes and dislikes. Boring isnt i? Dont want to imagine it somehow=) Everyone is unique in their own way. Each and everyone of us have our own preference and way how we did our way, how we carry on living. And that is why you are special.

we are bound with our strength and our weaknesses. We live in the society so that we could learn from others and improve ourself to be a better person. If everyone is the same, how is it possible for us to change? It is the imperection we have that could complete others. For example, 'A' might be good at cooking but rather have a small appetite and 'B', a person with a big appetite might think that he or she has a bad attitude. But without realizing, it is you (B) who have completed A. What a perfect match and see, both A and B are special in their own way.

So dont feel bad about yourself. Keep your head high cause you are SPECIAL in you OWN WAY. Just like what the video said.