IIUM MEDICAL CONFERENCE

Alhamdulillah and praise be to Allah because without his consent, the 1^st IIUM Medical Conference will not be a successful event. I would like to take this opportunity to congratulate all the committee members involved. I can see that all you had worked tirelessly in order to make sure that the event will be a successful one. Together, with the help of our All Mighty God, you and I had managed to get thru with success all the obstacles that we had to face during the process of organizing this programme. I am sure that all the obstacles had made us a better person as well as prepared us to face the “real world” out there.

Honestly speaking, I have to admit that it was a great pleasure to be able to work with all of you. It gave the opportunity to mix along and get to know all of you better. Indeed, the Programme Manager has done a great job to keep us unite throughout the whole period. As mention in our post mortem meeting, we managed to achieve one of the programme’s objectives i.e. to strengthen the Islamic brotherhood between committee members. For your information, before this I had become the Programme Manager for various events. I have to admit that many times at the end of the programme, I still failed to memorize all the names of my committees. But this time, I can proudly say that I have memorized all your names. I hope that this friendships and bonds will not end here.

Finally, I would like to take this opportunity to thank all of you for your co-operation towards Mus, Shahir and I as the programme coordinator. There is nothing that we can do to pay you guys back except to pray to Allah to grant all of us with pahala and barakah. Sorry if I by any means caused unease to anyone of you. I am sure that it was not my intention.

THANK YOU and TERIMA KASIH.

Another reason to hate him

As of today i have another reason to hate my twin. Hehehe. For your information, my twin just finished his exam and had about less than a week holiday. He decided to spend his holiday by going for a road trip to Illinois which is 3 hours drive with his friends. They decided to go for shopping there before coming back next month. This is not the reason I hate him because I have ordered some stuffs from him. What I hate is that he went to a concert. Jason Mraz's concert. I am not a fanatic fan of Jason Mraz nor am I a concert guy. I am not interested to go to any concert as a matter of fact. The problem is when he comes back next month I am sure that we'll be updating ourselves a lot and definitely we'll be having "berlaggak antara satu sama lain" session and I can predict that he will proudly says he have an experience going to a concert. He said never to tell our mother. Tau takut! Hahahaha.

But the weird thing is when I asked for pictures, he said that camera was not allowed during the concert. So, I wonder did he really go to the concert.

CRIMES

The crime rates are increasing day by day. Everyone has potential of becoming crime victims. Last few days, an elderly man was thrown into a fire after he was robbed. He suffered serious injuries in his face and hands. Where is the value of sympathy? A NGO also revealed that number of raped cases doubled in 4 years. The latest crime that has caught my attention is 2 pregnant ladies were killed by snatch theft within the last 24 hours. What is happening to our community? What went wrong?

The economy meltdown that has affected the whole world has contributed to the increase in crime rates nowadays. Many companies have to close their businesses resulting many have lost their source of income. With the current economic crisis, they are unable to search for new jobs. At the same time, these people still have dependents to support. Their only way to get some money to support their dependents is none other than to be involved in criminal practice. I understand their problems but what I disagree is that why do they have attack elderly and pregnant ladies? Perhaps because they are easy target but I don’t think there a need to throw the poor man into a fire. Enough by taking his money. I also don’t think one should forcefully grab the handbags from the pregnant ladies until they dropped and die.

I stand on my belief that the government is to be blamed entirely for the increase in crime rates. The government has failed to provide a safe society for the people. The government has failed to use their available powers curb crimes and as I mentioned above the government has failed to provide sufficient jobs for their people. This is not because I am anti-government. But, I do believe that this is the job of the government of the day regardless of which political party they belong to. The job of a leader is very hard. Each leader will be questioned in front of Allah on what they have done to their people. Supposedly, we should try to avoid as far as possible to become a leader as it is very hard job. As what we can see today in Perak is the other way round. Power struggle. Everyone wants to be the leader. Sigh

Move on to the religious side of view. The problem is due to our practice to implement only just part of The Quran and at the same time reject most part. We only take what suits us best. In Surah Al-Baqarah verse 85,

“Then is it only a part of the Book that you believe in, and you reject the rest? But what is the reward for those among you who behave like this but disgrace in this life? – and on the Day of Judgement they shall be consigned to the most grievous penalty”

Try to recall and look on what was our communities’ reaction when the idea of implementing hudud was brought to our attention. I can understand if the non Muslim rejected the idea. But what happens was the other way round. Muslims rejected the idea. Their excuse is in Hudud we have to provide 4 witnesses which for them hard to find. They claimed that it is ineffective. My question to them is how effective the man made law to prevent crimes? The answer is obvious, right? What is happening around us is the price that we have to pay when we rejected Allah’s commands. Allah never lies. Whatever He says is going to be a reality.

In this posting, after saying what I want to say, I have 2 messages for all of us to ponder.

1. For leaders and leaders-to-be, STOP POLITICS and START WORKING. Being leaders is not an easy job. You have huge responsibility on your shoulder. Do justice to your people.

2. Who is the best to decide what is good and what is bad for us? Ourselves or our creator?

JANGAN GOPOH

From this picture, you wont really see anything wrong, but take a look at this one.

Yup... there's a crack!

It all happens exactly one month ago in front of CF Bro, IIUM Kuantan. I was on my way to attend Halaqah session at KOM. While I was reversing my car, suddenly I heard "BOOM~". Then only I realized that there was a car blocking my way. Initially, I did not see the car as it was raining heavily. I tried to remain calm. Grabbed my umbrella and got out of the car to evaluate the situation. Alhamdulillah. Nothing happen to the car that I hit but my car... there's a crack at my plate number as what you can see.

This is not my first time I hit another car. The first was back in Kajang. I still remember how nervous I was at that time as I was all alone and the driver of the other car looked like a very fierce man. It turned out that he was really a nice guy. We both admitted our own mistakes. There's only minor scratch at our car so we decided to settle just like that. Alhamdulillah.

What upset me the most this time is that the day before this took place, I actually had hitted another car. So, within 24 hours I actually hit 2 cars. Because of that, I had to sit back and cermin diri. Finally, I came to the conclusion that I was gopoh. Nak cepat everytime. So, lessons learned here

1. Jangan gopoh
2. Read doa' before your journey

Laptop ku

Alhamdulillah, after nearly 2 weeks being apart from my laptop, I finally got back my laptop. It is in perfect conditions. Thank you very much to my sister, Adlin who had gone all the trouble to pick up the laptop for me at the service center. Thank you also to my friend Anis who had brought back the laptop to me. THANK YOU! THANK YOU! and THANK YOU! Jasa kalian tetapku hargai. Cewah...

Now, that I have my laptop back with me, I can actually spent time to update my blog. I do have many ideas on what to write. But, time does not permit me to do so. Moreover, though my first year block 4 just started last week, I am going to have my Minitest next week. However, InsyaAllah, I'll be updating my blog soon.