Al-Fatihah untuk Pak Syed

When i was dressing up to go to work on Thu, 26/10, i received a call from Mak's fren to inform me that Mak's immediate neighbour, Pak Syed, passed away on 2nd raya night. Tears dwelled down coz i can still remember very clearly how Pak Syed helped me out at the time Abah passed away 4 and 1/2 months ago. Masih terngiang-ngiang kat telinga Pak Syed's advise on what to do and all. Can still picture his smile and hear his laughter... Input i got from Khairul, his son, Pak Syed passed away due to heart failure. He was 59 and left behind a wife and 7 children [kalau tak salah kira la]. Innalillah hiwainna ilaihirajiun..

Marilah kita bersama-sama sedekahkan Al-Fatihah kepada Allahyarham Pak Syed. Semoga Allah SWT mengurniakan rahmat dan ketenangan kepada roh Allahyarham, serta menempatkan Allahyarham di kalangan hamba-hambaNya yang soleh. AMIN YA RABBAL 'ALAMIN

Raya mood :)

So far i think i made all the necessary "ala kadar" preparations for the coming Raya. Let's see:
- baju kurung for the gals ~ checked
- baju melayu for the boys ~ checked
- new baju for kids ~ checked
- kuih Raya sejenis dua ~ checked
- gantung langsir Raya tahun lepas ~ checked
- tukar sofa cover ~ will do esok

Throughout these 27 days of fasting, Simba baru tinggal puasa 3 hari. He did request from me a few times to break fast earlier at 3 or 4pm. I told him "no way", and being the obedient son, he just continued to fast till Maghrib. At times kesian gak tengok dia penat dan haus, but i think it's for his own good that he practise at early age. Yesterday i bought him some Raya cards as he wanted to give his frens. Gelihati tengok dia tulis kad Raya.. ialah, budak2. Cute je his sentences :) After he wrote all, he asked Papa's help to drive around putting all the cards in mailboxes. I just hope he'll continue to do that in years to come.

Today will be the last day in ofis before Raya. Ofis will be closed Mon to Wed, and i'll come back to work on Thu. I didn't apply for any leave eventho the kids and C will be off for the whole of next week. My guess, during my absence they can spend some time at MIL's. Kids love to go over to Embah's house coz their uncle suka layan kerenah diaorang. I'm sure Simba will want to have one or two sessions of playing PS2. Else, they can watch Cartoon Network or Playhouse Disney all day long without having me to 'membebel' this and that, hehehe.

Other than that, i'm still very busy in the ofis.. so many new ways of doing things to learn, so many things to update the new boss, so many unfinished biz still open ended, etc, etc. The new boss is OK so far. His mission is somewhat different than my previous boss but i'm not going to talk abt it here as i'm somehow in my Raya mood oredi.

On my Raya cookies story, i managed to complete all orders this year. Last minute banyak gak request for more cookies but i can't take any more orders as my fren dah tak menang tangan nak siapkan the rest of the cookies. I still have a few deliveries to do and will try to finish off this Sun. Banyak betul kerenah client yang nak di layan actually. Yg marah2 sebab i lambat deliver pun ada. Bukan la lambat sampai lepas Raya baru nak dapat cookies.. cuma lambat by a few days and a few hours dah mengamuk bagai nak rak. For me, this kinda person memang susah orang nak buat biz dengan dia. Asyik nak mintak hers to be delivered first, mana aci kan.. Nevermind, i'll just hope she'll find peace within herself and Allah will show her the right path on how to deal with people later.. amin! Other than her, the rest of clients are very helpful and understanding.. alhamdulillah.

Anyhow, me, C, kids and Mak will be going back to KK on Raya morning. We'll try to visit as many relatives as possible before coming back to KL on the same day. We'll meet Ziela and family kat kampung. Mak will follow Ziela back to AOR and stay there till the end of week. After than Mak will go back to kampung to stay with her mom for another week or so.

To all frens out there, SELAMAT HARI RAYA and MAAF ZAHIR BATIN. Pls forgive all our wrong doings and do come over for visit during this festive month :)

Promo for a fren :)

Article is from Berita Harian 7/10/06. Adrian, who is also known as TAd among the Arietans and close frens, was the scriptwriter. I think it's almost 2 years ago when he told me abt the making of this film. Hope this film will be a success and TAd will continue to write more good films in future :)
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Filem Bilut angkat martabat peneroka
Oleh Rozdan Mazalan

Hasil karya Tengku Adrian dengan kerjasama Felda temui penonton 24 Oktober

BILUT dihasilkan bagi menyelami sedalam-dalamnya perit getir kehidupan sebenar awal penubuhan Felda di mana dengan berbekalkan jiwa yang kental, kehijauan bumi diteroka untuk menikmati sebuah kehidupan yang sempurna.

Penyediaan sempurna skrip yang dihasilkan Tengku Adrian Tuan Ismail dan mendapat kerjasama Felda dalam kajian serta maklumat penting digarap kemas oleh pengarahnya Badaruddin Azmi atau Bade.

Bilut yang menelan belanja sebanyak RM3.6 juta adalah filem sulung terbitan Mega Waja Sdn Bhd yang menjalani penggambaran selama dua bulan sekitar Felda Perasu, Gua Musang, Felda Serting, Bahau, Putrajaya dan Brussels, Belgium sempena sambutan ulang tahun ke-50 penubuhan Felda.

Diilhamkan Tan Sri Dr Yusof Nor, Bilut menonjolkan kejayaan peneroka dalam mendidik anak sehingga mampu melanjutkan pelajaran ke luar negara biarpun sebelum ini pelbagai rintangan dilalui peneroka awal seperti kejadian banjir besar di penempatan mereka disebabkan penerokaan tanah, anak peneroka dibaham harimau, tanaman dimusnahkan gajah dan pergolakan hidup antara mereka.

Filem ini membariskan 20 pelakon terkenal seperti Rosyam Nor, Eja, Que Haidar, Rusdi Ramli, Ezlynn, Adlin Aman Ramlie serta penampilan istimewa pelakon Filipina, Jericho Rosales, selain mendapat kerjasama 300 peneroka Felda.

Bagi Rosyam Nor yang menerajui tunjang utama filem itu sebagai Yazid, bukan senang untuk merealisasikan ilham Dr Yusof yang mahukan suasana seperti mana keadaan sebenar di Felda.

“Antara aksi yang paling mencabar bagi saya ialah ketika melakukan adegan ketika banjir yang menggunakan teknik tambak di sekeliling tempat bagi mewujudkan satu keadaan yang nampak benar-benar nyata.

“Biarpun saya hanya melakonkan watak sebagai peneroka Felda yang begitu tekun dalam usahanya membina jati dirinya, namun di sebalik itu saya dapat menyelami betapa perit dan cekalnya peneroka awal dulu memerah keringat dan filem ini seharusnya ditonton generasi Felda hari ini,” katanya.

Bilut yang akan ditayangkan di seluruh pawagam tanah air pada 24 Oktober depan sempena Aidilfitri turut mengeluarkan album runut bunyi yang mendapat kerjasama EMI Music Malaysia dan Mega Waja Sdn Bhd.

Ia menampilkan Mawi sebagai penyanyi lagu tema filem ini berjudul Semalam Hari Iniku.

Sinopsis:
PADA tahun 2006, pembuat filem dokumentari dari Australia, Gabriel tiba di Malaysia dalam usahanya mengumpul maklumat sambil melihat dan menyelami sendiri perkembangan serta kemajuan yang dilakukan Felda sejak penubuhannya 50 tahun lalu.
Kisah kejayaan Felda sebagai pemangkin ekonomi negara memberikan inspirasi kepadanya untuk menerbitkan filem dokumentari.
Di Kuala Lumpur, Gabriel bertemu sahabat lamanya Yusof seorang anak jati kelahiran Felda Bilut yang belajar di universiti Brussels pada tahun 1976. Yusof kini berjaya menjadi seorang eksekutif kanan Felda.
Maka bermulalah kisah peneroka awal tahun 1960 bernama Yazid, juga bapa Yusof. Pelbagai peristiwa pahit dihadapi Yazid. Rosli sahabatnya mati dihempap pokok ketika kerja membersihkan hutan, rumah mereka dilanda ribut dan banjir besar disebabkan kerja meratakan hutan untuk penempatan mereka, manakala kejadian yang penuh menyayat hati Yazid apabila anak bongsunya Yamin mati dibaham harimau di hadapan matanya dan isteri kesayangannya Aishah turut mati disebabkan keguguran semasa ketiadaan Yazid di rumah kerana membatu penduduk kampung memunggah baja pada malam hari.
Tetapi segala-galanya dilalui Yazid dengan penuh sabar dan cekal sehingga mampu membesarkan anak-anaknya serta berjaya memberi pendidikan sempurna sehinggakan anaknya Yusof berpeluang melanjutkan pelajarannya ke universiti Brussels.
Gabriel melihat Yazid dan Yusof sebagai simbol dua era permulaan dan perkembangan yang penting dalam sejarah penubuhan Felda di mata dunia. Felda adalah perintis segala-galanya yang lahir daripada perancangan dan wawasan serta wajar dijadikan teladan generasi akan datang.

What did I miss?

The answer is, so many things!! :-/ To name a few, i missed blog-hopping, shopping, updating this blog, sms-ing frens, surfing the net, etc, etc :-? These few weeks i've been busy in the ofis, at home, outside the ofis, outside the house dan entah apa lagi entah. Since i've been so busy, i missed Mint's birthday :( Felt so terrible when CK reminded me last Wed. I thot i did mark on my calendar. Tapi, sebab tak sempat tengok calendar on Tue, tak teringat la jawabnya. To Mint, Happy Belated Birthday. So glad to know that your celebration was a blast :) Rose doakan agar Mint dikurniakan kesihatan yang baik, ditetapkan iman, dimurahkan rezeki dan di dalam lindungan Allah sentiasa.. amin!!

Sheessshh, i missed Ajab's birthday too :-/ Bought card for him and that card is still in my drawer.. uwaaaaa!! To Ajab, same Happy Belated Birthday as Aunty Mint's goes to you. Aunty will always pray for you to grow up as a good son, who will make your parents proud. Hope you'll have all the great things in life Ajab. In short, blue skies and everything nice. Jangan nakal2 dan jangan gaduh2 ngan Syaheed eh :) Pls remind Daddy or Mummy to keep on checking the mailbox coz insyaAllah Aunty will mail the card soon..

Luckily i didn't miss hubby's birthday, which was celebrated at the smallest scale, i.e with kids and inlaws only. SIL was so sweet to help me with the birthday cupcakes. She made some 30 something choc raisin cupcakes, inspired by Simba's cute cupcakes from CK :) But since MIL doesn't really fancy the butter cream or icing, SIL didn't put any. Instead those cakes were decorated with delicious jelly gummies in shapes of cars, planes, bears and berries. Kids gave C a lovely shirt from M&S, which unfortunately was a bit small. So C took the opportunity to change it to another shirt, which is just as lovely. To C, may all the best things in life come your way and you'll stay in good health for many many many more years to come. I'll keep on praying that Allah will bless our family till the end.. amin :)

Other than that, my boss for abt 2 and a half years has been transferred to another dept. A guy replaced her. For almost 14 years i worked there, in the same dept doing the same thing, this is the first time we have a male boss. Entah macam mana la agaknya he runs the dept nanti. I'll just hope for the best so will continue to keep my fingers crossed, hehe. For now he hasn't disturb us so much as he's so busy digesting whatever he needs to know from SP. It's still too early to tell whether he'll be a nice boss or not, eventho he looks knowledgeable.

Anyways, i was so glad that Ramadhan started on Sunday. First Ramadhan was spent with Mak. She was so happy that we're all there to break fast with her. Me, C and Mak surely miss Abah a lot. One thing for sure, Mak will not make cucur udang daily as she used too in the previous years. Mak said "..dulu masa Abah ada, belum puasa lagi dah siap kuah kacang dan kuah cili cucur udang untuk sebulan.." Abah used to make sure Mak had enough prawns for his cucur udang and Mak will make cucur udang for him everyday without fail. Mak's cucur udang is surely the best. The ones people sell outside will have a lot of whatever bahan penaik so that cucur udang depa gebu. Tapi cucur udang Mak cuma ada tepung, kucai, bawang, cili, taugeh dan of course seekor udang. Kalau udang tu kecik, Mak letak la 2 ekor so that bila dah potong 4, semua bahagian ada udang. So memang boleh bayangkan macam mana cucur udang Mak nampak sedap sesangat. Agaknya ada la 10 tahun kot Mak buat cucur udang setiap kali bulan Ramadhan untuk Abah. From now on, i don't think Mak and i akan teringin nak makan cucur udang. Kalaupun teringin, sure tak lalu nak telan bila dah ada depan mata. Apa2 pun, diharapkan kita akan mendapat keberkatan di bulan Ramadhan Al-Mubarak ini.. amin!!

Guess what? Simba started fasting this year.. yeaayyy!! We persuaded him to try fasting this year and he said "OK". Eventho cara persuade tu mungkin salah, i.e "malu la kat kawan kalau tak puasa" but to me, he just need to practise sooner or later. So far he only missed one day, itupun sebab dia dah haus sangat. We're so proud of him coz he never managed to puasa even for one day in the previous years. Sekerat hari pun tak sampai. With his determination to continue, kembang hati Mama dia, hehehe.

As we have been fasting for 8 days, Raya is abt 3 weeks away. We have planned with Mak to drive back to kampung after Raya prayers. I don't plan to take long leave coz Mak plans to go to AOR to spend some time with Ziela and family. After that Mak may wanna stay with Tok for abt a week before she comes back to KL. Kalau nak cuti pun lepas Mak dah balik KL la kot. Anyhow, kalau ada sesiapa yang still nak order Raya cookies, i still have some stocks available. All cookies are packed in 45 pcs, except for Samperit, Sunflower Seeds cookies [aka biskut kuaci] and tarts which are packed in 50 pcs. All are priced ar RM24 per container. Delivery or pick up will be during the week of 16th October. Do let me know if you're interested.