Friday, February 1, 2013

Sumber Kekuatan

Peace Be Upon You...

Masa dan air pasang surut tak tunggu siapa2. (Direct Translation :)

Kadang-kadang dalam masa suka-suka riang-riang, akan datang masa yang agak menyesakkan. Kadang-kadang kelas penuh jadual sampai makan pon tak meyempat dan tidur pon ayam-ayam sahaja. Dan kadang-kadang datang masa jadual kosong memang tak tahu nak buat apa dekat rumah tapi datang pula kerja-kerja menulis yang berlambak-lambak yang nak kena hantar setiap minggu dan perlu menghadap supervisor yang sama setiap minggu sehinggalah rasa nak muntah kaler-kaler yang menjijikkkan.

Sekarang ni, jadual kelas sehari-hari saya kat sini adalah sangat lapang cuma ade 3 jamkelas dalam seminggu. Bunyi macam heaven giler sbb boleh lah bersuka riang ria sembang sana sini,spend masa tengok muvie ke drama ke dengar lagu ke hape ke. Hakikatnya masa jadual kosong nilah yang menjadikan saya rasa sangat tertekan dengan rutin harian sekarang. Jadual kosong tak bermakna kerja tak ade. Sebabkan ini ialah tahun terakhir saya mengaji di sini,makanya untuk menamatkan pengajian yang makan masa berzaman ni, makanya kenalah hantar sesuatu yang melayakkan saya bergraduasi nanti. Dalam tempoh meyiapkan dissertation yang nampaknya tak berapa nak berkesudahan nilah datang ujian perasaan yang agak berat. Tiap-tiap minggu kene hantar completed chapter dan dua-tiga hari lepas tu kene pergi mengadap supervisor dengar komen dan saranannya. Most of the time supervisor sangat2 lah membantu dengan idea yang bernas lagi jitu untuk mempastikan kerja penulisan saya tak nampak dan kedengaran bodoh dan tidak berbatu asas. Tapi kadang2 bila mood swing datang, apa yang diperkatakan beliau akan mendatangkan lubang besar dihati dimana bila balik2 jumpa beliau mesti tak bersemangat dan rasa malas yang amat sangat nk teruskan menulis. Sekarang ni saya dalam proses nk siapkan chapter 3 dimana banyak informasi dan pembacaan perlu dialakukan untuk mampu menulis dan mengomen atas kertas nanti.Disebabkan saya ini sangatlah pemals tahap teratas bilamasuk bab2 membaca, makanya proses menulis ni jadi sangat2 sukar dan tersangkut disetiap level.

Dan malang sekali, sepatutnya, hari ni saya kena hantar completed version of chapter 3 tp saya duduk sibuk melayan perasaan stress sbb taksiap tulis lagi. Last2 sekali hantar email dekat supervisor supaya postpone meeting sbb tak siap menulis. Aghh rasa sangat tak bertanggungjawab dan rasa bersalah amat dekat lecturer yang sorang ni. 

Hari hari pon saya rasa hilang kekuatan nk menulis lagi dan lagi. Disebabkan proses menulis ni takkan habis selagi saya tak hantar satu dissertation yang dah siap, makanya ia akan berterusan sampailah penghujung bulan 3 nanti. Rasa bosan yang teramat bila perlu mengadap benda yang sama hari-hari, minggu-minggu sampai berbulan lamanya.MasyaAllah rasa seksa yang amat kadang-kadang tu. Rasa malas nak pikir dah dan nak main guli je kat bilik. Dan ditambah pulak saya tinggal sorang2 tanpa ada housemate Malaysia yang lain atau jiran2 Melayu yang boleh saya panggil sesuka hati bila hati gundah gulana lagilah menambah stress sehari-hari. Tak boleh nak menyembang dengan orang menambahkan rasa isolated yang amat. Nak telefon mak hari-hari nanti mak dekat rumah risau pulak, nak call adik dekat india, dia pon tengah sibuk pereksa hari-hari. Kakak2 pulak kerja dan sibuk dengan hal dan tugasan masing yang lebih penting perlu dilangsaikan. Makanya saya selalu rasa hilang arah mana nak berpaling. Makin lama saya biarkan makin rasa hanyut dalam arah yang tak betul. Hari-hari dok depan laptop tapi langsung tak bukak Microsoft Word. Yang selalu bukak ialah youtube, facebook,twitter dan macam2 benda tak berilmiah yang lain. Rasa looser gila rutin harian tapi memang escapism memegang saya sekarang ni. Bila bukak word tulis 20 patah  perkataan, rasa bosan lepas tu terus bukak benda tak berfaedah. Bilalah kerja nak siap.

Dan hari ni saya bangun lewat sbb semalam tak boleh nak lena sbb risau supervisor marah tak hantar chapter 3. Bangun sahaja tidur saya terpikir yang memang apa yang saya buat ni tak betul. Kalau saya nk memohon sesuatu, memang dah tak ade tempat lain nk mintak kecuali dari Allah. Memang itu sahajalah tempat yang paling bagus paling mujarab untuk mintak petolongan. Saya selalu lupa untuk niatkan perbuatan harian saya kepada Allah. Saya lupa untuk niatkan yang penulisan saya ni kpd Allah. Saya buat dengan hati yang tak ikhlas dan maran-marah. Sebab itulah rasa tak tenang datang menjengah selalu dan rasa benci dan malas adalah sahabah yang berkepit dengan saya hari-hari. Teringat pula pesan kawan saya yang katanya, 'Buat dissy ni niat kerana Allah. Sbbnya kita memang akan rasa susah dan penat nk kene baca,fikir dan tulis serat perah idea untuk jadikan penulisan kite menarik. Kalau niat itu kerana Allah S.W.T maka susah kita itu dapat penghargaan nanti. Kita bukan sahaja buat dissy semata2 untuk tamat mengaji tapi dalam pada masa yang sama dapat pahala. InsyaAllah'


Friday, December 28, 2012

New Year is Coming

Peace Be Upon You...

 Photo credit
Less than 4 days, the number on the calender year will hit 2013. I just can't make up my mind what resolutions to choose. Hmm I have never had new year resolution I guess, or even if I have had one, I never really accomplish them haha. Many people back home in Malaysia are planning where to celebrate new year. Another thing, I have never celebrate new year's eve may it be back in Malaysia or here in the UK. I spent most o of the time at home or travelling away from home when it is new year time. And this year too, I will be spending most of my leftover holidays at home finishing assignment and writing the endless dissertation.

Speaking of writing academic thing really wears me out. My brain just feel like it has been drained and squeezed to the extent that it has no juice left..grrr. And sometimes came the idea of quitting learning somehow.I am really scared about this because I have already had the experience of moving into various institutions and it really gives me goosebumps. I just want to finish this one and be free to start my next stage of life. And when I was down with the negative statement of wanting to quit learning I found this;

'Bila kamu tak tahan lelahnya belajar,
maka kamu akan menanggung peritnya kebodohan.
-Imam Syafie- 

When I read this quote, it struct me hard in the face and in the hard. This is super true and plus it was narrated by Imam Syafie some more. Yeah at time we will have this giving up phase in studying but we just need to remember the reason for us studying hard and it is none other than for the sake of Allah.

Wednesday, December 26, 2012

Have You Ever Feel Scared that You Killed?

Peace Be Upon You...

I was once very scared that made me killed. I was too scared of a chicken and killed it to get rid my fear of it. It's not funny to me at that time that I killed that poor chicken, but now when I reminisce the incidence it was quite a hillarious story. I can't remember the exact year that incident happen but it might be when I reached 10. The poor chicken to me at that time was very cruel. It looks nasty with it's near bald head, evil eyes glaring at me every time our eyes met and chased me every time I happened to be near him (lets give him a gender and pronoun him :)) I just couldn't figure out what was interesting in this 10 years old girl that he chose to chase me around the compound. He was so annoying and scary at the same time that I took the courage to take a firewood that my mom used to boil water and swung it at him hard. 

 The chicken was ugly with baldy head and fewer feather...hukhuk . Not this types of chicken Photo credit
At that very moment I hit him hard with the wood, I ran away to the house and hide. Because I scared he will come back to life and haunt me again with his sharp claw and ugly baldy head. For five minute I hid behind my bed  I took the courage to go and check upon him. It was fortunate for me that he lied there motionless and his eyes were wide shut!! I thought to myself for two seconds...'He is dead'. I was glad for only 7 seconds before I realised that I need to face a bigger problem which was ... My MUM. Fortunately for me the evil 'spirit' living in the chicken was killed by me but unfortunate event for my mum that she lost a chicken.

For the next 2 minutes I felt restless not knowing what to do with the dead chicken. I cannot process the chicken as dinner as I was only 10 and have no idea how on earth to do that either. The voice in me told me to throw it away into the neighbour's land, the place with many bushes and tall thatches. It was the best idea I could think of. With all the guts in me and the courage brought by fear of mum, I carried the chicken by the leg and swung it two times before he landed in between the tall thatches without trace. I was doomed if any of the families found out.

Around two days after the unfortunate incident of the chicken, mum started to realised that one of her chicken went missing without trace. I was having cold sweat but control my face reaction in front of them and pretending not knowing anything and in fact mum would never suspected me in relation to her missing chicken as I have never showed interest in live chicken anyway. But I could not contain my guilty and slightly confessed that I have some little thing to do with the dissapearance of the chicken. That was how it goes. I confess and shockingly mum said she had already thinking of that thing happening. Mum instinct of her daughter and a chicken affair..Awesome.

This post is not actually to talk about the chicken incident but some awful situation I'm facing right now. The chicken incident is a true story by the way :) ermm. The difference between these two situation is that I'm not in the right place to kill anymore. I have been dealing with dissertation blues which mean final year blues as well. I couldn't kill the dissertation as it is not a living thing and I can't kill my lecturers as well as they are not the one who set the rule to graduate with degree I have to write a dissertation, its the institution that I have to kill. But how? If I'm to kill those people then I have to kill everybody..and of course in this foreign land killing is what err...oh god. Give me strength to go through this thing.

I already realised that in order for me to have fear free life I just need to face the thing that scared me the most but yeahh that is not easy man. Not easy, it required a lot of courage and hard work. Not the type that take a firewood and fire the target like I did to the chicken. It is more than that...ohh life is 

This is actually my rambling as I'm in the process of writing my dissertation which I haven't continue writing for almost three weeks. I lost my inspiration already and keep doing escapism and deviate from doing what I supposed to do. In a week or so, I will have the second meeting with my supervisor and I'm feeling like my inside is grumbling like there is earthquake and tremor inside there.
I really need to find that missing shoes again and keep walking the bumpy road in order to reach the end and ting the bell...arghhhhh

Christmas Sale

Peace Be Upon You...

Better known as boxing day, Christmas Sale is today the 26th of December. My second year spending it here in Plymouth. With pouring rain ad wet atmosphere,nothing really attracted me today. Plymouth has been wet and breezy for hmm I 'm not sure how long. It is been like this like forever. I started my day with a light cycle to a friend's house to send back his bicycle I borrowed yesterday. The borrowing is essential as I don't have any bicycle to ride neither extra money to buy one heheh but still I have the intention to ride bicycle..hmm. Well we need to have determination in order to do things right. Other than educational yeahh I'm all boost up with power and determination..Psy sighh.

Christmas shopping this year is the lamest thing I guess. I didn't buy many things and it is shocking even to myself. I went out of the house at 9.30 all geared up with backpack and bank card thinking if I would spend alot but fortunately ended up only buying 2 things. A non stick pot worth 7, a shirt and an essential wear. Thats all. I'm glad I'm not be friend with syaitan today. Alhamdulillah. 

Sunday, December 23, 2012

Winter Break

Peace Be Upon You...


Winter Break has gone for a week now. I am...unfortunately stuck here the student village alone...again. This I have no plans whatsoever of going anywhere outside Plymouth. Basically not because I don't want to but rather things has gotten me tied at the leg. Hmmm ... its financial thing hahhahaaa huhu :( If not I would be happily walking and jumping around my way to Egypt, that was the initial plan for the break. Well then what to do, it is just sth that keep my life sweet isn't it? 

Most of my friends have gone to their places all around the world, Iceland, Jordan, Ireland, Italy and many many more. May it be for travelling or attending winter gathering, I'm not very sure of the reasons, just that I wish them take care and have fun yeahh. 

Ermmm so here I am spending my other two weeks at home not knowing yet what to do. Definitely not studying I guess..Ohh a bad students I am and lazy as hell too. Err...but since I have assignment due a week after the break that worth 3000 words and a chapter of my dissertation to be handed in a week earlier, then like it or not, I will have to work my lazy bum and start thinking about that though T_T

Argghh I hate the fact that I'm alone here in the house and in foreign and and I miss my mum and my niece ans twin nephews huhu. But can't really get in touch with them at this very moment. 

Lets end here before the rain start pouring hhooohoo. Literally :(

Will It Snow For Christmas

Peace Be Upon You...

Winter has been emmm... not so generous to us here in Plymouth I guess. I don't kinda remember how was the exact situation like for the previous 2 years but as I can recall, it is nothing like this. It is wet and not to mention gloomy almost every day since...not just winter but since Spring. Psy Sigh.. Today is the 22nd of December and it has been raining for 3 continuous days non-stop. On top of that it has also been warning of another flood hitting Devon for the second or countless times I don't know. The weather is not that extreme though. The recorded temperature for today is 14 degree average in day and 9 at night.

My wish for the last winter in the UK is to be able to feel the snow for maybe probably the last time as I don't dream of coming back here again in the coming future hahhaha. Feel like moving back to home country immediately or perhaps residing in any Asian country and not Caucasian country anymore. I only manage to experience snow in my first year. Plymouth is actually not a famous spot to receive snow anyway. It is located near the sea so obviously the location is not the right thing to be receiving that much snow. 2010 recorded light snow in most Devon but several places did got affected by the snow since small numbers of road were closed to traffic.Well, I didn't exactly played much snow in Devon. To experience extreme white snowy feel, I travelled to Scotland and Germany and I say you, it was blast all over. Freezing was the thing to explain. Hmmm so that was the first and seems like the last time I met with snow. Inside me right, I really yearn to see snow again right in front of my eyes maybe for the last time before I left the UK next summer :(


Home Alone

Peace Be Upon You...


I watched Home Alone like many many years ago, when I was small. I have forgotten how the plot goes like and how the annoyingly adorable kid did to the old man. Many think it was hillarious but for me it was more of a nasty maughty kid torturing the life of his neighbour. Oohh pity that old man really.

I'm not actually going to write about the movie in this post but rather describing what I am going through right. Sighh. Home alone. All my housemates had gone home for the holiday. Obviously Christmas is a day ahead and I'm stuck in the house not knowing what to do for the next two weeks of the holiday. It is like reminiscing the days I had back home where we will celebrating Raya but this time this is not my raya T__T But I'm not annoying and not naughty at all as I have no neighbours right now hohoho

Since the village in the new semester are occupied by 90% local so most of the students had gone home. And adding to my loneliness, most of my Malaysian friends also have gone away to lala land of their choice. Oh God, the village is so quiet come day come night. And when it rained, the sound of rain and strong winds be my friends. Ooohh. I don't even have the mood to go out of the house yet as the rain has not stop for three consecutive days. Give me patience Ya Allah. Huuuu

The only thing that keep me alive right now is my laptop and the speakers. That are the things that reminds me that there are more than empty houses around me. Arghh cannot wait to visit friends at the city center soon....*cricket sounds. But thank God I've never feel afraid to be alone at home, heheh really have father's gene in me..the blood of a brave strong man runs in me indeed :)

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