Monday, December 31, 2012

DECADES AGO...



Literacy - I drew 2 circles "one on top, the other below, to form number 8" my first week in school! 

MASYAALLAH! 




"We grew up with Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck."  My childhood days were "fun" days until late sixties, when I finished College.  I enjoyed working and earning for a living. Retired one month before I turned 55 years old.

I thank Allah for the good life!  ALHAMDULILLAH!



Thursday, December 27, 2012

FACEBOOK: LIKES...




Websites I follow:

I Need Allah In My Life

ILoveAllaah.com

MuslimNetwork.com

KURAN.gen.tr

Islamic Reflections

Jureni Yussoff



Tuesday, December 25, 2012

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2013


Dear Friends and Relatives,

Thank you very much for sparing precious time viewing and reading this site. Alhamdulillah, Praise to Allah, my 'Pageviews' exceeded 19,200 todate.  Sincerely,

"WISHING ALL A HAPPY AND PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR 2013"


HIRMAN - FIFTH GENERATION



Entitled: 'THERAPAUTIK'



Hirman: PAINTING AS A HOBBY
His First Love: WRITING POEMS, SONGWRITING AND WRITING
Hirman is: BILINGUAL, GIFTED AND PRODUCED AN ALBUM ENTITLED: 'KU CINTA'



Friday, December 21, 2012

GREETINGS...GREETINGS...


CONTRIBUTOR: ELENA GROZA



CONTRIBUTOR:  ELENA GROZA, ROMANIAN FRIEND 



CONTRIBUTOR:  MARIANNE RANKIN,  LONG-TIME  FRIEND FROM UK.


WISHING ALL 'A VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS AND  A HAPPY  AND PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR 2013'


THE CLEVEREST PEOPLE IN SCHOOL ARE NOT THOSE WHO MAKE IT IN LIFE?



WHAT you learn at school are facts.

Your job at school is to accumulate and remember facts.  The more you can remember, the better you do.

Those who fail at school are not interested in facts; or maybe the facts are not put to them in a way they find interesting.  

Some people simply don't have a great faculty for memory.

It doesn't mean they are stupid. It means their imagination hasn't been fired up by academic tuition.

People who are conventionally clever get jobs on their qualifications (the past), not on their desire to succeed (the future).

Very simply they get overtaken by those who continually strive to be better than they are.

As long as the goal is there, there is no limit to  anyone's achievement.

A CONTRIBUTED ARTICLE - MOTIVATIONAL



DO NOT SEEK PRAISE. SEEK CRITICISM.




IT IS quite easy to get approval if we ask enough people, or if we ask those who are likely to tell us what we want to hear.

The likelihood is that they will say nice things rather than be too critical.  Also, we tend to edit out the bad so that we hear only what we want to hear.

So if you have produced a pleasantly acceptable piece of work, you will have proved to yourself that it's good simply because others have said so.*

It is probably ok.  But then it's probably not great either.

If, instead of seeking approval, you ask, 'What's wrong with it? How can I make it better?', you are more likely to get a truthful, critical answer.

You may even get an improvement on your idea.

And you are still in a position to reject the criticism, if you think it is wrong.

A contributed article.
* My personal view is: one must have a certain level of understanding to accept positive criticism.



Thursday, December 20, 2012

FRIDAY 21/12/12 I AM EXPERIENCING A BEAUTIFUL AND PEACEFUL DAY TODAY



CULLED FROM FACEBOOK: MY NIECES

Picture 1:  Wani Kecik:  Quote from our Prophet Muhammad s.a.w. 'EVEN A SMILE IS CHARITY'

Picture 2:  Raihan Ismail:  Spring flowers on Hillside, Hokkaidao, JAPAN
My Comment: How I see:  Innovative: GARDEN ART - AWESOME!
3 years back a cousin posted me a picture of 'PADDY FIELD ART': a Samurai on black colour paddy and on luscious green paddy field. AWESOME




Saturday, December 15, 2012

AUSPICIOUS ...12/12/12


To:  Arianna: 1 year old, 6th generation (I am her grandaunt)
To:  Shaika Nadia: 5th generation (her mum is my cousin and sister-in-law)
To:  Rohaya: 4th generation (she is my cousin and sister-in-law) 
By way of marriage: my sister Faridah Said married to cousin Zainal Ibrahim - ALHAMDULILLAH






FIND ME IF YOU CAN....la..la.la...

Photo taken on our Grandfather's 90th Birthday, Hj Mohammad Yusof Bin Hj Abdul Samad at: 20 Jalan Ismail, 1970s.  You can view all of us in my earlier postings in year 2009.   




I found most of my 5th generation are in Facebook.  Glad to say that they are doing well.  More than 50 percent are graduates from local and foreign universities. More than 50 percent are graduate teachers.  ALHAMDULILLAH

MESSAGE TO ALL:  ALLAH IS WATCHING US:  DO YOUR BEST FOR TODAY!  IN SYAA ALLAH.

MY BIRTHDAY: 12/12/12.



Wednesday, December 12, 2012

WILL YOU FEED ME ...WHEN I'M SIXTY FOUR...


Contributed by Egyptian Netlog friend: does not communicate in English but posted beautiful pictures and photographs as a means of communication.




From a beautiful Romanian Muslim Netlog friend



'A Beautiful Thought' from Netlog friend, Ankara, Turkey



From 'A Secret Admirer' - not telling from whom and where...ha..ha..ha NEVER A DAY BORING!

12/12/12 CALENDAR YEAR, 64 YEARS OLD!

ALHAMDULILLAH!  PRAISE TO ALLAH FOR GIVING ME GOOD HEALTH, HAPPINESS, BEAUTIFUL AND  KIND FRIENDS, ALL OVER THE WORLD.  THANK YOU ALSO MY LOVED ONES FOR YOUR 'DOA', PRAYERS AND KIND WISHES.  MAY GOD BLESS ALL OF YOU AND I SHARE ALL THE BLESSINGS ALLAH HAVE GIVEN ME TO ALL OF YOU TOO. IN SYAA ALLAH


Tuesday, December 11, 2012

JASA WIRA ..SIXTH GENERATION


Source picture - MAHATMA GANDHI


Art Work by JASA WIRA, age 10 then

"HAPPINESS IS WHEN WHAT YOU THINK, WHAT YOU SAY, AND WHAT YOU DO" - Mahatma Gandhi




SWEET DREAMS...



FACEBOOK CONTRIBUTOR:  LOVE THIS BEDROOM - SOOTHING COLOURS



MY MASTER BEDROOM FOR MY HOUSE GUESTS 

LEFT:  MUHAMMAD AL-IMRAN (6 yrs) AND MUHAMMAD IRFAN (10 yrs), ERNIE'S SONS - PRETENDING TO SLEEP 



Thursday, December 6, 2012

CAUGHT MESMERISED!


Contributor:  IHSAN ACAR 



JUMAAT 23 MUHARAM - 1434 HIJRAH


THE ESSENCE OF KNOWLEDGE IS, HAVING IT, TO APPLY IT; NOT HAVING IT TO CONFESS YOUR IGNORANCE - Confucius



KNOWLEDGE IS THE EYE OF DESIRE AND CAN BECOME THE PILOT OF THE SOUL - Will Durant



Monday, December 3, 2012

OUR YOUNG GENERATION MADE NEWS ...LAH!.



Aidan Bakti, 14 years old, youngest participant in the Standchart Marathon 2012 


Raihan (extreme right) a meet with PM Lee Hsien Loong 


 

Father Zaidi  waited 14 years for this auspicious run..(uuu gugu gaga).. Aidan was a toddler.  MasyaAllah!


Mother Raihan  (above) at World Flower Exhibition June 2012, Singapore

An Ordinary day - Aidan Bakti 14 years, Jasa Wira 11 years, Budi Hayat 4 years old