Thursday, February 10, 2011

Come Back to HIM (can't be performed...sob.sob)

Assalamualaikum...hmhmhmhmhmhmhm.....feel dissapointed, very dissapointed...i never feel like this before.......arrghhhhh.....(the following words are my upcoming song and it is just the first verse of it ...that can't be performed and appreciated....I just sing to my heart....
any suggestion on what should I do with my songs




Can't resist to say you are a hero,
Showing proudly to mankind,
Intending to be the greatest man,
You forget His existence,


Thursday, September 30, 2010

My very first lagu puisi (Cinta Yang Kudamba)

Tercari-cari cinta yang hakiki,
Selami jiwa ini, mendasari hati,
Aku kebingungan dalam kegelapan,
Bilaku kecewa, dilanda keresahan,

Ternanti-nanti cinta yang sejati,
Menanti nur Illahi, terang kehidupan,
Benarlah penantian, suatu penyeksaan,
Akhirnya kuterus dalam kegundahan,

Chorus#

Tanpa keimanan, pada Maha Mencipta,
Tanpa kesantunan, syukuri anugerahNya,
Tanpa kegerunan, mungkiri janji terpatri,
Manakan berputiknya cinta yang kudamba?

Tanpa ketakwaan, sujud merendah diri,
Tanpa kesungguhan , sucikan jiwa tersisa,
Tanpa ketabahan , dengan mehnah dan dugaan,
Takkan pernah bersemi cinta yang kudamba,

Memperhalusi diri, kurenung sedalamnya,
masih adakah lagi sekelumit kesalahan,
Menjadi penghalang pada cinta abadi,
Kian menutup hijab di depan mata hati,

Ulang Chorus#

Tersemat di kalbuku, moga jadi bekalan,
Carilah cinta agung milik Allah yang Esa,
Pintu taubat terbuka, mencari pendambanya,
Allah Maha Pengampun Maha Penyayang,
DiKaulah cinta yang kudamba,

Song and lyric: Bro.Bayu (inspired by Allah)

Sunday, September 5, 2010

Speaking Test 2: Open Debate

Assalamualaikum my brothers and sisters from PIP 5 and 6. Sorry for a late posting. Some of your friends texted me, asking about the topics that we are going to be debated right after Raya Holiday.They are so enthusiastic....(It sounds that you got something to research...this holiday). These are the topics of our open debate.

a) Maths and Science in English: It should not be taught in our primary and secondary school.

b) Men is more creative than women.

c) 1 Malaysia concept is good for Malaysian.

d) Rules and regulation of Kolej Profesional MARA Bandar Penawar prepares students to well-disciplined people.

e) Female students are better than male students in term of academic achievement in varsities/colleges

f) Local products have low quality and not competitive globally.

You are free to be government (to support) or opposition (to oppose) to each notion. Please make sure you do research and be provided with facts, figure or anything related to these topics. Marks will be given for those who join actively in this open debate. Thank you and wassalam

Sunday, August 29, 2010

Merdeka: Hati Malaya 1957

This film is very exclusive because it is published and fully supported by govt..so do not dream to get a pirated version of this film. Directed by Shuhaimi Baba and known as the most touching film in 2007. Touching? yes, because it succeeded to show to the audience how was hard Tunku wanted British to free Malaya. In other side, the film also showed the major conflict between Tunku and Dato' Onn Jaafar. Well, now I realised why Tunku was awarded "Bapa Kemerdekaan"....I'm bit dissapointed because it just showed that Tunku is the only leader who was struggle for Indepence of Malaya. What about the rest, Dato' Onn, Burhanuddin Helmy, Ibrahim Yaacob and other leaders who categorised as "left wings" leader....

I just view it as part of propaganda to deny some leaders' deeds in our country. It is not professional and intellectual. Some facts of our history need to be corrected so that the new generation know about the real things happaened in this country. The fights between Cikgu Rozhan and Azhari sometimes "menggelikan hati" for it's not natural, failed to show their honesty to get Independent. It's just the struggle to win the girl acted by Maya Karin...then the diffrence of their favuorite leader to gain independence (between Tunku and Dato' Onn) made them to fight in front of warung, showing who's the hero...uwweks..

Saturday, August 14, 2010

Thanks.. Prof. Edwin Malachi Vethamani


He said about me and "Enlightment" in his blog at http://edwinvethamani.posterous.com/joys-of-being-a-teacher....
This is the best moment I ever had being appreciated by my lecturer, Prof. Malachi Edwin Vethamani who taught me the real meaning of becoming a learning educator.....Thanks, Prof!

Friday, August 13, 2010

Lagu Puisi?

After my so called patriotic song "Merdekakah Kita?"won for the first place in "Sambutan Kemerdekaan KPM-KM", now i got a new job for minggu bahasa....preparing singer and song for that event in this October. The thing is I never compose any "puisi" song..can anyone help me, figuring out what is puisi song? because I am too 'alien' to this genre...UJ mesti kene tolong I coz die banyak buat puisi..takpun Kak Fida..hmhm khairi takleh kaco coz die sibuk ngan novel Adamariam nyer..hehe

Friday, July 30, 2010

Merdekakah Kita?

Bak unggas dewata yang terbang bebas,
Itulah kata-kata pujangga,
Tidak terjajah hati dan minda,
Bersuara sang pendeta,

Patuh syariatNya dan bersederhana,
Tuan guru, ulama berfatwa,
Maruah dijaga, rafakkan agama,
Itu pesanan...ayah bonda,
Buat pedoman...sepanjang usia,

Merdekakah kita di dunia fana?
Tika dibelenggu, nafsu yang durjana,
Bebaskah kita dari segala durja?
Pabila kita terus ternista,
Cahaya yang terang akan sirna,

Petahnya ketua bila berbicara,
Katannya perpaduan harus dicakna,
Kadangkala mereka acapkali terlupa,
Golongan murba...yang menderita,
Dipimpin mereka....yang tidak ahlinya,

Merdekakah kita di dunia fana,
Tika dibelenggu oleh dosa dan noda,
Bebaskah kita dari segala durja?
Dicela olehNya yang berkuasa,
Meski disirami, rezeki berada,

Ampuhkan doa, bila kita meminta?
Tika diri dicemar dosa dan noda,
Tegarkah kita, dari segala goda,
Yang tidak terbalas dengan sempurna,

(ulang chorus 1)

Merdekakah kita?
Bebaskah kita?
Merdekakah kita?

Lirik: Bro.Bayu
Lagu: Ikhmal Nasabandi & Bro. Bayu

Wednesday, July 28, 2010

Independence..independence

Like previous years, I will be assigned to conduct singers team of my college. Last year we won a second place, but at that time, they sang in a group of choir; ten people...Pahlawanku and One Malaysia (the song that I composed)...but this year, we need to a solo and duet acoustic songs....no ideas, no new talent yet and no excitement...However, Fiesta Pujangga Akustika really helped me..thanks to members of Kelab Kebudayaan for organizing that event. so, that night, I've found new talent in singing and also to play acoustic guitar. I also asked helps from the student, ikhmal nasabandi to help me compose the sonmg while I write the lyric..have just finished the verses of the song...huhu...just a week remains before the competition...

Tuesday, July 6, 2010

Noisy Silence: Non-Verbally Stubborn

I used to meet two different kinds of people when they wanted to show their stubborness. One would react verbally where he or she would state their disagreement about something. However another one would keep silent but they still showing their stubborness by using body language, gestures, eye contact and others. It might give problems because not all people are able to understand non-verbal language...usually misunderstanding would happen.

I don't want to discuss about the first type of stubborn people but the other one. Why there are people who remain silent even though they don't disagree?
Why there are people who don't use the opportunity given by them to speak up but they don't do it?
What are the factors which affect them? emotionally or spiritually?
In what condition we should/can be silent when we are not asked to do so?
However they would discuss it with others, speculate and gossip, analyzing the issue, predicting the outcome and justifying something that they shouldn't justify at the back.

These questions become so "noisy" in my mind...in silence...

Sunday, June 27, 2010

Tahaluf Siyasi

The phrase "tahaluf siyasi" is very famous among Muslims who are involved actively in Muslim's Body or Movement in various field; politics, education, economy and others. Well, tahaluf siyasi from my understanding is a mutual understanding made by Muslims and others including non-muslims to face same enemies or hoes...

Muslim scholars viewed differently about this issue. For example, Sheikh Muhammad Qutb dan al-Syeikh al-Imam Abu Nasr Muhammad bin Abdullah said that we are not allowed to cooperate with non-muslims with any reasons, while Yusuf al-Qaradhawi , Dr Mustoffa al-Tohhan , al-Syeikh Muhammad Ahmad al-Rasyid , Doktor Solah al-Showi dan Doktor Munir Ghahdban said as a muslim, we can do some sort of agreement, or build cooperation with non-muslims by using evidences from Seerah of our Prophet Muhammad (pbuh.A very good example is the cooperation and unique relationship betweeen Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) and his non-muslim uncle, Abu Thalib. Abu Thalib took care of him after Abdul Mutalib died. He never compromises with other non-muslims who wanted to kill our Prophet though he was offered with lots of things. Next, we can see many agreements made by Rasulullah with Jewish, Bani Khazaah, King Najasyi, Bani Hashim and so on.

In my opinion, it is not wrong to cooperate with non-muslims. However, we should use and optimize well the benefits that we get from that cooperation, assuring everything is done because of Allah. Currently, in our country, we can see again that kind of cooperation especially made by political parties. For instant, PAS (parti Islam semalaysia) cooperate with DAP and PKR which are dominated by non-muslims and secular muslim. Next, PAS also opens its membership to non-Muslims called Dewan Penyokong PAS mostly joined by non-muslims. UMNO (known as pure malay political party) combined with MCA, MIC, and other non-muslim political parties.

The questions are, which party (UMNO or PAS) fully utilised the conditions that Islam wanted when they do Tahaluf Siyasi....wallahualam

Budak Sekolah Aku...

Aku ni lepas jer UPSR, telah sayugianya diterima masuk untuk belajar di Sekolah Menengah Agama Izzuddin Shah, berlokasi di Jalan Sultan Azlan Shah, Ipoh. Nak kata tersohor tu, takler, tapi kat Perak kira terkenal gak. Memang bila mula2 masuk sekolah nih, agak terkejut jugak coz tarbiah kat situ memang lain macam skit. bukan lain macam yang tak baik, tapi amat2 le bagus keadaannya. Mana taknyer, subuh pukul 5.30 mesti ader orang kejut sama ader warden atau abg2 senior yang pada aku boleh pangil ustaz sesetengahnya. Ader yang ketuk katil, ader yang ketuk pintu, yang spike ala2 bola tampar. Pengalaman aku plak pernah kena pkul ngan kayu ngan ustaz..memang sakit tapi berbaloi coz dia wat cam tuh coz nak buat aku sedar bahawa solat tu penting dan tidur waktu melalaikan. Then solat jemaah wajib 5 waktu tuh, kalau ader yang masbuq atau imam kedua alamat kena denda la (terutama junior la). Waktu makan lak, punyer la berbaris panjang..bukan setakat barisan bentuk L..bentuk U, bentuk Q pun boleh jadi kalau tak kena time....kalau bulan puaser plak, memang tension..kita dah le letih plus lapar..kenele plak beratur panjang...keadaan tu memang mengajar erti kesabaran. Sesetengah senior plak waktu tu ader yang selambe badak memotong barisan camtuh jer..kami yang junior ni terkulat2 jer la (tarbiah di musolla tu tak dibawa ke dewan makan..huhu). Tapi tak semua la, yang jenis2 tak dapat hidayah Allah jer wat cam tuh, ramai lagi senior yang baik dan bersopan ketika di dewan makan.

Hmm..kat asrama lak memang best coz duduk ramai..katil double decker..aku ingat lagi waktu first2 masuk kene pakai kelambu..wajib tuh...tak tau aper rasionalnyer..nak kata banyak nyamuk..takle pun...sebenarnya aku malas waktuh pagi esoknyer..kadang2 mengelat gak tak pakai kelambu..then Ketua Pelajar yang jaga dorm tu mesti tegur, so kene le pasang camner pun...katil kalau tak kemas, alamat kene denda la...macam2 denda..ader yang kene pumping, (ini memang aku tak suka dan tak boleh..hehe), hafal surah2, bersih tandas, kene kejut orang subuh, wajib wat solat2 sunat dan sebagai nyer..kesimpulannye, denda2 ni semua mendidik dan mentarbiah kita agar mejadi muslim yang oleh..insyallah...

Senang cerita, banyak le bende best yang aku dapat masa aku jadi pelajr kat sekolah ni. Hairannye dan terkejutnya aku...bila ader budak sekolah aku yang lepas habis pengajiannya di sekolah ni jadi yang bukan2.....huhuh

Ader diantaranya yang aku tahu jadi artis, masuk realiti Tv (Bukan nak kutuk jadi artis tak halal kerjanya, tapi banyak perkara yang memudhkan mereka terjebak dalam maksiat)...ader yang jadi model (tak kisahlah kalau model yang elok menutup aurat dan menjaga batas pergaulan lelaki dan wanita..tapi..nama model ni..memang benda2 yang dilarang Islam lah yang nak dibuatnye..nauzubillah dan yang paling sedih adalah bila ader yang masuk agama lain dan menjadi pendakyah agama tuh..harap2 die dan bertaubat dan kembali ke agama yang diredhai Allah

Yang menjadi persoalan ini, adakah sistem tarbiyyah yang dijalankan kat sekolah aku tuh tidak benar2 berkesan atau apa? di mana silapnya?
Aku rasa disebabkan environment yang baguih cam tuh le yang wat aku jadi insan muslim, insyallah..tapi kenapa ader gak yang jadi nhtah apa2 per

Allhu Rabbi

Sunday, June 13, 2010

Published or Not?

This dilemma has encompassed myself since last month (May)..is how should I published my short stories..contacting several publisher who refused to work with me coz I know my short stories are not marketable in Malaysia..or maybe they do not achieve the standard quality publishers want...

I have called my lecturer, Dr. Jayakaran Mukundan, asking to get his advice...he still keep on revising my short story and will email me in a shortwhile. Prof. Edwin gives a full support upon this work eventhough it is very difficult for us to use our own literary works in class that we teach.

I can actually self-published it but I want to do it by using proper channel; through publisher. Silverfish Books, Ammeen Bookstore, Saba Islamic Media are the publisher that I tried to use their service and for the sake of the copywright of my works but some of them refused totally my works, and some still didn't reply my email.

However I really appreciate the comment I got from Zaipa Ibrahim, a Malaysian Writer who is now established in US and she's known with her famous novel based on Malaysia ..- The Gift-..she gave a very positive comment when replying my email...really inspiring and aspiring, motivating and full of sincerity

"If you write, then you are a writer Just waiting for the right time to get published in the literary world, insyaAllah. I only managed to read through one of your short stories – the serban. You are doing a good job. It reminded me of when I first penned down a short story back in high school. Keep polishing your writings and who knows you’ll become a published writer one day."Zaipah Ibrahim
Auhor of “The Gift”

Friday, June 4, 2010

Soul of Wind (Your comments are appreciated)

1) Are you frustated with your naughty students? Read and give comment this post.

http://brobayu.wordpress.com/2010/06/02/story-1/

2) Need an inspiration. This your must-read short story. Go to

http://brobayu.wordpress.com/2010/06/02/story-2/

3) I know most of you are in dilemma to find your soulmate. Read this and comment

http://brobayu.wordpress.com/2010/story-3-a-winning-nasi-kerabu/

4) Fans of Tiz Zaqyah and Remy Ishak. You will regret neglecting this post!
http://brobayu.wordpress.com/2010/story-4-light-of-love-nur-kasih/

Rating and comment these stories are appreciated...

Monday, May 17, 2010

when will they realise?

I always say to my students "Wemust always realise about ourselves; our stupidity, our mistakes, our wrongdoings, our weaknesses and anything negatives about us"

Dare to say that "Aku ni bodoh" for example. So what must we do to not become stupid because stupidity is a negative element yet it can be used to change to better one; positive. In this case, stupid to become smart.

My friend used to say to me that sometimes my words are so harsh. In my point of view, harshness might be the best solution if it can change ourselves positively.

The word "bodoh" definitely is considered so rude in Malay culture. However, do you read Seerah of our Prophet (Peace be upon him)? The moment Gibrail came to him and tried to teach him the first verse of Al-Furqan, Surah Al-Alaq. Gibrail asked him to read that verse three times and what did he say?. He said " I'm stupid and cant read the verse" stupid in arabic could be translated as "Ummi". Our prophet in this situation was willingly to admit that he can't read and he asked Gibrail to teach him.

What is the moral of the story? For me, we should..no..we must admit our weaknesses and prepare ourselves to improve. Muhammad (Peace be upon him) showed us the best way to become a good Moslem. Masyallah...

In the other hand, people especially Malay moslem do not take this as a good example (perhaps some of them do not or do not want to read seerah of our prophet (Peace be upon him)).

Some of them claimed that they are the smartest, cleverest, all-knowing and so on without noticing that they just a little on what they have learnt.

Once they gain a good grade or maybe just pass an exam for example, they boast that it is the best indicator to say 'I'm the best', "Without teacher, I still can pass my exam", "Nobody cannot object my opinion coz I got doctorate before I said it"

Nauzubillah...

Monday, May 3, 2010

The title of short stories

All these titles of short story are planned to be my next semester project. Besides reading activities, I will use this compilation as part of our drama presentation for Preparatory Intensive Programme (PIP). I wish I could finish producing them in the end of this June, 2010. Insyallah...

1) They Do Not Belong Here

2) The Journey to Dungun

3) His Pure Serban

4) For His Nasi Kerabu

5) Black or White

6) Markonah

7) Her puppy love

8) As Fisherman at Kuala Sepetang

9) Addicted

10) My Dear Blog

Tuesday, March 16, 2010

My Journey to Dungun

Since 9 pm, UJ kept calling me. Her wife was in a condition to give birth their first baby. I actually slept at that time...really really tired because I can't sleep last night as usual...insomniac...Luckily Ustaz Nizam woke me up and I replied UJ's call instantly...
Before this, UJ had asked help from me to take him to Kota Tinggi. His car was broken down (actually he wanted to trade in his Kembara).

Around 10 pm, we moved from Bandar Penawar to Kota Tinggi and hoped there is still a bus that can take UJ to Dungun...My heart said that no bus at all because it is quite late at that time..When we arrived at Kota Tinggi, (of course by my cute Kancil) my assumption was true. I have to help UJ and take him to Dungun. His wife did not give birth yet...perhaps the first baby may take longer time..huhu.....to be continue

Monday, February 22, 2010

We never

That's the title of my song in 2010, but unfortunately God says that I wouldn't win for NAdwah by using this song...Alhamdulillah, perhaps it will make me reflect myself...always do the best in everything I do, don't be dissapointed so fast and everthing was fated to my life and I must accept it by saying Alhamdulillah...take a look to the lyrics of this song...


Chorus

Please don't fight among each other,
Trying to prove you are the winner,
For Islam brings a peaceful life,
Moslems never cheer violence,
We never kill, we never hurt,
we never hit people of the world,
We never beat, we never avenge,
We never hate people of the world,

Verse

When you saw a smiling face,
For we have been, we have been blessed,
By the God who really want to give it to us,

We hardly breath in happy space,
That lead us to unanimity,
Later bring us serene days..

Repeat Chorus

Verse / bridge

When you say we are the killers,
You're killing us with no reasons,
Destroying with no hearty sympathy,

You blame us build terrorism,
You've done it to our brothers,
take away the happiness of their families,

Repeat chorus

Friday, January 1, 2010

Why don't you want to be called "budak sekolah agama"?

I'm proud because I was a student of SMA Izzuddin Shah though some of my friends are not. When I asked them why they did not want to admit that they are the product of the Sekolah Agama called "SIS", they just simply said that because the title of "budak sekolah agama" would make them difficult to socialize with girls, some said it would make other people called them "ustaz" and asked them to lead solah. Besides, some friends claimed that they did not want to be labelled as too "religious" person. My question is "what's wrong with that?" and "Is it the title a misery in your life and make your life abnormal?



After I finished my study at Izzuddin in 2001, I felt like I must to tell people that I'm the product of that school which really taught me what is tarbiyyah,usrah,jemaah and etc. when I entered Matriculation at Kuala Nerang, i missed the environment in Izzuddin like crazy. Teachers in Izzuddin educate us to be "insan" and not only human, "mukmin" rather than "muslim". The motto of the school itself reflects what I'm saying; "to grab the highest honourable achievement" . Islamic environment that i got only in Izzuddin throughout my life so far makes me think "Will I experience this kind of life again?".

Every journey that we start must be ended either well or badly. It is same like myself. My journey as a teenager in this school started in 1997 and ended in 2001. Praise be to Him because I ended my life there with ordinary result in SPM, good rapport with the teachers and friends, and the everlasting good memory although some of my friends and I were not recognised as school prefect for doing right thing...we are fired because we reported about wrongdoings done by our junior; he drank liquor...but our principal got angry because he thought that we might give a bad reputation to our school, religious school...huh

Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Drama Presentation: My experience with my beloved students.

In that evening, when I saw college schedule which shows all activities that we should do throughout the year, my eyes was focusing to one activity that PIP lecturers who teach English must do; DRAMA FEST. It sounds grand and seems great. For me, it depends on how you interpret it. Perhaps it is just a role play, some lecturers say it is a short theatre, but most PIP students need this activity to get 10% of their carry marks. Hmm...in this post, I want to share my experience altogether with my students from two classes; PIP 1 and PIP 5 who performed their drama on October 19 and 20 2009.
For the first phase, we started the project on week 10 where I gave the compilation of fairy tales. Cinderella, Beauty and The Beast, Rapunzel, Goldilocks and Three Bears, Thumbellina, Jack and The Beanstalk, Little Red Riding Hood and so forth. When I gave these stories without giving them the authorities to choose, some of them moaned and some of them accepted it without excuses. But, hey...I wasn't close minded and let the students felt upset about it, so I discussed with them. "Those who want to change the fairy tale that I gave you, please see me after the class". Like what I expected, there were some groups of student who wanted to change the given short story. THE SHINE felt uneasy with "Goldilocks and Three Bears". Their reasons was they don't like the bears character. (Even though I think the bears in this short story is cute and not too wild...hehehe). I suggested to them. "What about The Beauty and The Beast?". It seemed that they like it or maybe they are familiar with this story. I wasn't sure. Other groups like ARAMAITIE and LUCKY LAKI didn't like the stories that I suggested to them at first but I guessed they got no choice so they had to choose "Rapunzel" and "Jack and The Beanstalk". I tried to give different short stories to different groups. (It is to make sure that we will watch the same drama presentation every night...huhu). This is because I don't want them to copy to each other when they want to do the drama documentation. When I gave the short stories to all groups, this is the time for them to start READING. Reading means understanding. When it went to this process, some students moaned again. "Why this text is difficult to read?". Well, reading is a process and of course it takes time. One of the factor that I thought made them difficult to read is because the words used in those text are not familiar for them. Plus, the culture which exist in most of short stories is Medieval English not Modern English or Malay or at least Malaysian setting. (I just laughed when they tried to figure out the meaning of certain words like "RAMPION", "ENCHANTRESS", " MERCHANT", "SWALLOW", "COTTAGE" and so forth). At least they learnt new words and learn new culture. For me, this process will involve students with the reading abilities and enrich their vocabularies.
The reading skills need students to analyze few aspects or elements in short stories which brought them to the next phase . Yet, they should know what should they analyze ? Definitely they have to go through elements like character, characterization, plot, setting, message and theme. Perhaps my students would grumble "Why there are lots of things to do in drama?"hmmm, and I answered "It is because to have a very good drama performance, you should undergo many processes before you get the best product." I would use a delicious plate of Fried Rice as a illustration of it; to produce the best fried rice, you must have good ingredients, kitchen utensil, experience, knowledge, skills and maybe luck. I asked again to myself "What should my students analyze?"hmm...of course they should know first about character and characterization in those stories. What on earth is character? What are the differences between character and characterization? They seems similar. I explained confidently to my students "Character refers to a person, people, animal or anything that are very important and play certain roles in short stories". I hope they understood. Hehehe...Actually I had just simplified the term from "Eight Edition: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry and Drama" by X.J Kennedy and Dana Gioia. "What about characterization?" I asked them again. Nobody answer my question. So again, I have to answer my own question like a stupid man. "Characterization can be categorised with two; character traits (attitudes) and physical traits." "Can you give examples from the fairy tales that you gave to us, sir?" asked one of my students trickily, trying to get the answers from me. "Start reading now!" ordered me to ensure that they would apply the knowledge that they had learnt on that day.
Climax? It sounded so "alien" to my students but they need to know to continue to the next phase. I tried to give hint to them. "Plot..., Do you know what is plot?". Again, they showed a blurred face while shrugging innocently. This was to show that they never heard that word before? Then as usual, I explained wholeheartedly to my students "Plot is a storyline that consist Beginning, Rising Action, Climax, Falling Action and Ending,". Suddenly they reacted "Oooohhhhh....I used to hear to those words."What the old trick?" I whispered. Actually they tried to say that they knew but had forgotten about it. Of course I was not trapped with their reasons. I challenged them again "If you know what is plot, can you tell me what is climax and how do you identify it in short story?". This time they showed their mimic face, pretending that they understood and knew the answers...(To be continued)

Monday, August 3, 2009

Viruses or the reminder from Allah?

Every 5 years, world will be attacked with new diseases, viruses or 'disasters' that can make people feel panic, shocked, prepared, and frustrated. H1N1 is the most "popular" now. Believe it or not, until August 3rd, there are 8 people has died because of it in Malaysia. Most of them come from Malacca, Selangor and Sarawak. Several schools, colleges and varsities are closed because of its attack. Who did plan this attack?
Terrorist? Politician? Doctors? Entrepeneurs? None of them. The experts say it comes from pig and because of that the symptom is known as swine flu.
Should we blame pigs? They are just a creature that most of people (except Muslims and some people) eat . They give lots of benefits to the country which trade them to other countries (including Malaysia). There must something that can be explained? There must be reasons why the viruses should exist? There must be logical causes why it comes from pig? There must be at least a good opinion why the symptoms only attack human? not to plants, not to other animals. I let the questions to be answered by you because you are human.
I hope that the title of this post might give you some clues or hints, ideas and wisdom, fact and opinion...happy blogging...

Wassalam