Friday, October 31, 2008

.:: Jack-o'-linterna ::.

Halloween!

Halloween (or Hallowe’en) is a mostly national holiday celebrated on the evening of October 31; today it is often celebrated in the morning and afternoon as well. Halloween activities include trick-or-treating, ghost tours, bonfires, costume parties, visiting haunted attractions, carving jack-o'-lanterns, reading scary stories, and watching horror movies. Irish and Scottish immigrants carried versions of the traditions to North America in the nineteenth century. Other western countries embraced the holiday in the late twentieth century. Halloween is celebrated in several countries of the Western world, most commonly in the United States, Canada, Ireland, Puerto Rico, Japan, Australia, the United Kingdom, and at times in parts of New Zealand. In Sweden, the All saint's official holiday takes place on the first Saturday of November.


Trick-or-treating
Trick-or-treating, is a custom for children on Halloween in which they proceed from house to house in costumes, asking for treats such as confectionery or sometimes money with the question, "Trick or treat?" The "trick" part of "trick or treat" is an idle threat to play a trick on the homeowners or their property if no treat is given. Trick-or-treating is one of the main traditions of Halloween. It has become socially expected that if one lives in a neighborhood with children one should purchase treats in preparation for trick-or-treaters. The National Confectioners Association reported in 2005 that 80 percent of adults in the United States planned to give out confectionery to trick-or-treaters, and that 93 percent of children planned to go trick-or-treating.
In modern Ireland there is neither the Scottish party-piece nor the American jocular threat, just "treats" — in the form of apples or nuts given out to the children. However, in 19th and early 20th century Ireland it was often much more extravagant — for example, slates were placed over the chimney-pots of houses filling the rooms with smoke and field gates were lifted off their hinges and hung from high tree branches.
Until the 1990s, Irish children said "Help the Halloween Party," but are now more inclined to use the American "Trick or treat" due to the influence of American popular culture, movies, and television. In Waterfold, the phrase "attin far Halloween" is still commonly used, being the vernacular pronunciation of "anything for Halloween".
In Qubec, Canada, children also go door to door on Halloween. However, in French speaking neighbourhoods, instead of "Trick or treat?", they will simply say "Halloween", though in tradition it used to be La charité s'il-vous-plaît (Charity, please).
In Ohio, Iowa, and Massachusetts, the night designated for Trick-or-treating is referred to as Beggars Night since moving the date from Halloween in a successful effort to end the vandalism that had often accompanied Halloween activities



thats enough for ur infomation, want some more? go surfing ur self!

happy spoooooooooky!!

Thursday, October 30, 2008

30102008

-30102008-

Happy Birthday to you dad!

well its only a song, but it is a birthday song..

Wednesday, October 29, 2008

the big title is 'customer service'

A customer is the most important visitor on our premises.
he is not dependent on us, but we ar dependent on him.
he is not interruption of our work,
but he is the purpose of it.
he is not an outsider to our business,
but he is part of it.
we ar not doing him a favour by serving him, instead,
he is doing a favour by giving us the opportunity to do so.

one of the rules from one of the super market from one of the episodes in,
'The Apprentice: Martha Stewart' said that...
-RULE-
1 : Customer is always right,
2 : If the customer is not right, look at rules no 1.
*****

For one of all~

For one of nail,
the horseshoe war loose,
For one of horseshoe,
the steed was lost,
For one of steed,
the message not delivered,
For one of undelivered message,
the war was lost..
*it was taken from 2 Fast 2 Furious movie

kita & jambatan


"hari ini kita selamat menyeberangi jambatan dunia,
kerana sempurna ciptaan manusia,
suatu hari kita gagal menyeberangi jambatan akhirat,
kerana tidak menyempurnakan tuntutan dan kewajipan"


Apabila kita menilai kekuatan sesebuah negara , pastinya kita akan kagum dengan nilaian material seperti hebatnya bangunan- bangunan yang di bina, cantiknya permandangan bandaraya dan canggih kenderaan yang dicipta. Pandangan ini sentiasa mengkaburi hakikat yang sebenar . Kekuatan yg sebenarnya di ukur dengan quality generasi pemuda yang akan mewarisi perbendaharaan negara. Generasi pemuda adalah aset terbesar dan paling berharga kepada sesebuah negara.

Jatuh bangun sesebuah tamadun bergantung kepada kekuatan manusia, bukannya kehebatan dunia material. Tunjang kepada kekuatan manusia terletak kepada generasi pemuda.

Sejarah telah membuktikan kehebatan pemuda dalam menggerakkan sesuatu perubahan. Apabila pemuda bangun bertindak , maka sesuatu yang diluar jangkaan akan berlaku. Golongan ini mempunyai semangat yang kental , kehendak yang tinggi, dan berani lagi tangkas . Mereka juga mampu menggarap kefahaman baru dengan budaya fikir yang mantap dan mampan.

Al Quran menukilkan kisah Ashabul Ukhdud juga Ashabul Kahfi . Rasul-rasul yang mulia juga bermula pada usia yang muda Daud, Ismail, Isa dan ramai lagi telah mengerakkan dakwah mereka pada usia yang muda. Sahabat Rasulullah SAW juga terdiri dari golongan pemuda. Khalifah- khalifah awal Islam bersama dengan dakwah Islam pada usia yang muda - Abu bakar ra masuk Islam pada usia 32 tahun, Umar ra 35 tahun, Ali ra 9 tahun, Uthman ra 30 tahun.



إِنَّهُمْ فِتْيَةٌ آمَنُوا بِرَبِّهِمْ وَزِدْنَاهُمْ هُدًى (Kahfi:13)

Sesungguhnya mereka itu adalah pemuda-pemuda yangberiman dengan Tuhan mereka; dan Kami tambahkan petunjuk kepada mereka.



Kehebatan dunia barat pada kurun 15 hingga 19 juga didokong oleh semangat golongan pemuda. Mereka mengkaji, mencipta dan meneroka ke seluruh alam. Mereka mendabit dada keseluruh alam agar manusia tunduk kepada kehebatan mereka dan mengikut cara kehidupan mereka. Kesungguhan mereka telah membuka jalan kepada generasi seterusnya untuk menjajah bumi juga hati umat Islam.
Masa berlalu, Generasi silih berganti. Generasi yang baru mula leka dan seronok menikmati hasil kerja generasi terdahulu. Budaya hendonisme menjadi tarikkan golongan pemuda hari ini.

Budaya hendonisme ini mula meresap masuk sampai ke peringkat pimpinan. Kuasa-kuasa besar dunia semakin hari semakin hilang kekuatannya. Keruntuhan kerajaan Komunis Soviet Union dan kerajaan-kerajaan komunis yang lain merupakan satu petanda bahawa kekuasaan kekuatan musuh tidak akan selama-lamanya. Amerika Syarikat pada ketika ini telah mengalami masalah dalaman negara yang begitu teruk. Golongan remajanya yang bakal menjadi teraju kepemimpinan negara telah mengalami keruntuhan moral yang amat dahsyat. Amerika Syarikat yang mendabik dada kekuatan mereka sebenarnya merupakan negara yang menunggu saat-saat kehancuran seperti mana runtuhnya kerajaan komunis.

Siapakah barisan manusia yang akan mengambil tampuk kepimpinan umat manusia setelah barat tidak mampu lagi membendung masalah dalaman yang parah? Kita beriman dengan aqidah bahawa Islam adalah deen penyelamat kepada umat manusia. Islam pasti akan kembali memimpin umat manusia. Siapakah yang akan membawa panji Islam ini? Siapakah yang berani tampil dengan imej Islam dan menyeru manusia untuk kembali kepada Islam?

Wahai pembaca yang sedang membaca, sedarkah kalian bahawa tugas kita amat besar. Tidak pernahkah kalian melihat sahabat-sahabat kalian di Palestin yang memperjuangkan tanah palestin. Tidak pernahkah kalian melihat sahabat kalian di Perancis yang memperjuangkan pemakaian tudung. Lihatlah dan bukalah mata kalian seluas-luasnya. Janganlah kalian sibuk dengan kehidupan hedonism kerana sejarah banyak membuktikan sifat inilah menjadi punca tumbangnya satu kuasa besar. Janganlah kalian menjadi hamba kepada mekanisme barat seperti games, fesyen, dan hiburan (blog mungkin boleh dipertimbangkn. games boleh gak la.. ^^). Janganlah mengagung-agungkan cara hidup barat. Kembalilah dengan cara hidup Islam yang syumul. Cara hidup yang jika kalian ikut, sudah mampu melahirkan insan luar biasa seperti Salahuddin Al-Ayubbi, Sultan Muhammad Al-Fateh, Zainab Al-Ghazali dan lain-lain.

Bila kau bergelar daie.. Kau wajib sedar bahawa jiwa kau tak boleh lama menjadi REMAJA.. Bak kata AL BANNA.. ‘Tanggungjawab melebihi masa yang ada’ dan tarbiyyah yang bersalutkan ilmu dan cabaran lah yang dapat mendewasakan kau.. Tapi cukupkah jika sekadar menerima tarbiyyah? Sampaikanlah pada yang lain.. Sedarlah bahawa perjuangan belum selesai.. Kalian bukan memulakan perjuangan.. Tapi kalian adalah mata-mata yang menyambung rantai perjuangan.. Bangkitlah wahai sahabatku dari kerusi yang kau sedang duduki utk membaca coretan ini.. Bertindaklah mengikut arahan dan semoga usaha kalian diberkati Yang Maha Esa..


*Yang dah bangun tu, jgn hangat-hangat tahi ayam, kerusi tu baru nak sejuk.


Tuesday, October 28, 2008

Lets talk bout it.


=The Road To Guantanamo (2006)=

Part drama, part documentary, The Road to Guantánamo focuses on the Tipton Three, a trio of British Muslims who were held in Guantanamo Bay for two years until they were released without charge.

In 2001, four Pakistani Britons, Ruhal Ahmed, Asif Iqbal and Shafiq Rasul and another friend, Monir, travel to Pakistan for a wedding and in a urge of idealism, decide to see the situation of war torn Afganistan which is being bombed by the American forces in retaliation for the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Once there, with the loss of Monir in the wartime chaos, they are captured by Northern Alliance fighters. They are then handed them over the American forces who transport them to the prison camps at the Guantanamo Bay base in Cuba. What follows is three years of relentless imprisonment, interrogations and torture to make them submit to blatantly wrong confessions to being terrorists. In the midst of this abuse, the three struggle to keep their spirits up in that face of this grave injustice.

Two of the actors (Riz Ahmed and Farhad Harun) and two of the ex-detainees were detained temporary and interrogated at the airport by the British police when they returned from the Berlinale-festival where the movie got the Silver Bear. According to BBC-news Ahmed said he was asked if he intended to make any more political films.

IMDB review - paul2001sw, UK - Clowns and Monsters:

The Tipton Three were there Britons of south Asian origin, mixed up in petty crime. Sufficiently Paskistani in identity to visit that country and feel reasonably at home, they were also sufficiently British to imagine it would be a good idea to extend their trip to Afghanistan, just to see what they would find. What they did find, of course, was war, the of death a friend, and then, just when they might have thought they were safe, torture and imprisonment at the hands of the Americans, first in Afghanistan and then in Guantanamo Bay.

Michael Winterbottom's film is shot in many of the original locations, reconstructing their story: the reconstruction is accompanied by interviews with the men (in which they describe what happened, with little embellishment) and clippings from news stories at the time (a minority of which display what in retrospect seems outrageous bias in favour of the agreed western spin on the war). There's an element of black comedy in the way a group of uppity British lads somehow find themselves at war; but when the torture begins, it's hard not to get angry at the systematic disregard for the human rights of men who had been convicted of no crime. Also hard to escape is the sheer bone-headedness of their interrogators: convinced that their suspects work for "Al-Quaeda", which they seem to conceive of as some kind of unitary and institutional organisation, the Americans have no effective idea of what to do except to put this proposition to their suspects ad nauseam until they agree, with intermittent torture to ram home the point. That a confession in these circumstances would have means precisely nothing does not seem to have occurred to them. In fact, the men didn't break, which was presumably easier because they had no idea of the sort of information the Americans wanted from them. But (except at the very end), there were heroic acts of defiance in the fashion of the Hollywood prison movie either; against overwhelming force, such behaviour isn't really on.

I would have liked to see the suspects called to explain themselves a little further when they say they went to Afghansistan to "help", but overall, their stories make a grim kind of sense, and they lost three years of their lives for a foolish expedition. Now they are Muslims in a way they never were before, having gained strength through their religion in their darkest hour. This is an important and absorbing film, which as with the same director's 'In This World', reminds you of how large the world is. And also makes you want to scream: "Not in My Name!".

IMDB Rating - 7.6/10 - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0468094/

Interesting also to note the shocking use of faked photographs and other media portrayed in this film, showing how interregators will happily use forged materials to try to get detainees to admit they are terrorists or to blackmail them into going to work for the intelligence services.

Many hundreads of thousands of people worldwide have called for the Guantanamo Bay prison facility to be closed, many politicians including Presidents and Prime Ministers have concluded that it should close. Now close it!


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p/s : nice story to watch, but just lost the movie, and trying to download it again. Hope to get it a sooon as pos.

happy watching! *kpd yg adala.


Saturday, October 25, 2008

si les jeunes

jika orang muda cintakan ilmu,
nescaya negara makmur dan maju.

jika orang muda berakhlak mulia,
negara aman dan terpelihara.

jika orang muda menjaga ibadat,
negara terhindar dari maksiat.

jika orang muda lalai & leka,
tanda negara akan celaka.

jika orang muda lemah & lesu,
senang musuh menyerang kubu.

jika orang muda malas bekerja,
pendatang asing yang kaya raya.

cheers!!

laughing is a give from God,
if you feel you want to laugh,
so go ahead and be happy,
because laughing is a beautiful and uniq,
that not all people can feel it,
laugh even you were call insane,
because insane is awkward characteristic,
that not all people have them,
and you know that you arent insane.

laugh when you sad,
laugh when you happy,
laugh when you want to,
its a give,so..
enjoy it!

but dont laugh when he or she is no more beside you..
you are really insane,
happy laughing!

salud!!


es una risa que de Dios,
si usted siente que quiere reír,
a fin de seguir adelante y ser feliz,
riendo porque es un hermoso y uniq,
que no todas las personas pueden sentir que,
incluso la risa que se llame loco,
porque es una locura incómoda característica,
que no todas las personas tienen ellos,
y usted sabe que usted arent loco.

reír cuando triste,
reír cuando se feliz,
reír cuando lo desea,
su dar una, por lo que ..
disfrútala!

pero no reírse cuando él o ella no es más junto a ti ..
usted está realmente loco,
riendo feliz!

what?


Hari Raya Aidilfitri (also Hari Raya Puasa, literally "Celebration Day of Fasting") is the Malay term for the Muslim festival of Eid ul-Fitr. Hari Raya is also known as Lebaran. Muslims in Brunei, Indonesia,Malaysia and Singapore celebrate Eid like other Muslims throughout the world. The term "Hari Raya" literally means "Day of Celebration" — it is also occasionally used to refer to Eid ul-Adha in the form of "Hari Raya Aidiladha". The main greeting used by Muslims in Malaysia and Singapore is "Selamat Hari Raya" which means "Happy Eid" in Malay. Another greeting is "maaf zahir dan batin" which translates loosely to "I seek forgiveness (from you) physically and spiritually", for Hari Raya is a time to reconcile and renew relationships with others.

Fasting
During the Muslim month of Ramadan leading up to Hari Raya, it is mandatory for Muslims to fast from dawn to dusk. All Muslims except the young, old or infirm must fast. Many Muslims also abstain from pleasures such as cigarettes and sexual activities during the daylight of the fasting month.

Widely, markets, or 'Ramadan bazaars' are held in many areas around the country, where all sorts of food and kuih — traditional Malay delicacies — are sold for breaking fast or buka puasa. Hotels and restaurants have also exploited this situation to offer exorbitant Ramadan buffet. This practice of overindulging has been criticised by Muslim clerics, notably the mufti of the state of Kelantan.

Preparation
On the eve of Hari Raya, Muslims will recite the takbir, which is held in mosques and surau (smaller place of worship). In some communities, there will be congregations reciting the takbir from house to house.

In big cities and towns, shopping malls and commercial centres will hold big promotions and price discounts for festive shoppers as people purchase clothes and supplies. Decorations are hung in public areas and Hari Raya songs will be played in shopping complexes. The media, such as the television will host various programs in conjunction with the celebrations.

Many people also traditionally return to their hometown generally from big metropolitan cities to rural areas. This is known as balik kampung — literally going back to one's home town to celebrate Hari Raya with family and friends. At many times, the flux of vehicles on the roads nationwide increased the number of car accidents, including deadly ones, occurring during the festive season. Road safety campaigns are often launched by the authorities ahead of the festivities in the effort of lowering the discomforting number of accidents.

Celebrating
Usually on the eve of the celebrations, family members, especially mothers and housewives, will be busy preparing food, cakes, sweets, biscuits and various delicacies to be served on the day of Hari Raya. Delicacies such as ketupat or rice cake and a meat cuisine called rendang are among the most famous cuisines that are served during this day. Other family members will help in other chores such as decorating and cleaning up the house.

Days before Hari Raya, house compounds, particularly those in the countryside will be lit up with oil lamps known as pelita or panjut. This display of oil lamps will reach its height on the 27th night of Ramadan, called the Tujuh Likur night. 'Likur' literally meaning a figure between 20 and 30, hence 'tujuh likur' means twenty seven. Originally during the early days of the arrival of Islam among the Malays, the purpose of lighting the oil lamps was to attract spirit of passed relatives and angels to descend to people's homes during the night of Lailatulqadar. However after ages has passed, such misconception is regarded counterfactual as much understanding of Islam were obtained. Nowadays the oil lamps are lit solely for decorative purposes.

It is customary for Malays to wear traditional Malay costumes. The dress for men is called baju Melayu while the women's are known as baju kurung and baju kebaya. Traditional textiles such as songket and batik are worn favourably during this day.

Muslims will attend Eid prayer in the morning and consecrate together harmoniously while taking the chance to meet and greet each other. Once the prayer is done, it is also common for Muslims in Malaysia to visit the grave of their loved ones. During this visit, they will clean the grave, perform the recital of the Yasin — a chapter (surah) from the Qur'an and also the tahlil or prayers for the deceased. All these are done in hope that their loved ones are blessed by God and they are spared from the punishment in the grave.

The rest of the day is spent visiting relatives or serving visitors. Hari Raya is a very joyous day for children for this is the day where adults are extra generous. Children will be given token sums of money, also known as duit raya from their parents and elders.

During the night, there are often celebrations with sparklers and firecrackers, albeit restrictions on playing firecrackers enforced by the authorities. Most firecracker stocks are purchased and smuggled illegally from black markets. Safety issues, especially among children are raised and alarming cases relating to injuries caused by playing firecrackers are often reported, which initially led to the banning of playing firecrackers. Despite of the enforcement of banning firecrackers, more Malay children turn to home-made firecrackers such as meriam buluh (bamboo cannon) as alternatives to commercial fireworks. Usually the lighting of firecrackers begins a few days before the end of Ramadan, and continues for about a week afterwards.

Happy Hari Raya!

Thursday, October 16, 2008

its a memories..




LONDON – Millvina Dean was only 2 months old when she was wrapped in a sack and lowered into a lifeboat from the doomed Titanic. Now 96, the last survivor of the tragic sinking is selling mementos of the disaster to help pay her nursing home fees.

Rescued from the bitterly cold Atlantic on that April 1912 night, Dean, her 2-year-old brother and her mother were taken to New York with nothing but the clothes on their backs. Before returning home to England, they were given a small wicker suitcase of donated clothing, a gift from New Yorkers to help them rebuild their lives.

Now, Dean is selling the suitcase and other Titanic mementos to help pay her nursing home fees. They are expected to go for $5,200 at an auction of Titanic memorabilia Saturday in Devizes in western England.

Among the items are rare prints of the Titanic and letters from the Titanic Relief Fund offering her mother one pound, seven shillings and sixpence a week in compensation.

But the key item in the sale is the suitcase, said auctioneer Andrew Aldridge. "They would have carried their little world in this suitcase," he said Thursday.

Dean has lived at Woodlands Ridge, a private nursing home in the southern city of Southampton — Titanic's home port — since she broke her hip two years ago.

"I am not able to live in my home anymore," Dean was quoted as telling the Southern Daily Echo newspaper. "I am selling it all now because I have to pay these nursing home fees and am selling anything that I think might fetch some money."

A spokeswoman for Woodlands Ridge said Dean was too tired Thursday to speak to The Associated Press.

She said rooms at the nursing home cost between $1,000 and $1,550 a week, depending on the level of care the resident needs, but declined to discuss Dean's situation, saying it was a private matter.

Although Britain has a free health care system, private providers offer more comprehensive services for a fee. In the case of nursing homes, state-run facilities are available and cost much less than private ones. But they are more spartan and offer fewer amenities, such as shared rooms and no private TVs.

Local authorities often pay a portion of the costs of private nursing home care based on an individual's assets; anyone with more than $39,000 in assets has to pay their own fees.

In 1912, baby Elizabeth Gladys "Millvina" Dean and her family were steerage passengers emigrating to Kansas City, Mo., aboard the Titanic.

Four days out of port, on the night of April 14, 1912, it hit an iceberg and sank. Billed as "practically unsinkable" by the publicity magazines of the period, the Titanic did not have enough lifeboats for all 2,200 passengers and crew.

Dean, her mother Georgetta and brother Bertram Jr. were among 706 people — mostly women and children — who were rescued by the steamship Carpathia and survived. Her father, Bertram Dean, was among more than 1,500 who died.

Dean did not know she had been aboard the Titanic until she was 8 years old, when her mother, who was about to remarry, told her about her father's death.

She has no memories of the sinking and said she preferred it that way.

"I wouldn't want to remember, really," she told The Associated Press in a 1997 interview.

Dean said she had seen the 1958 film, "A Night to Remember," with other survivors, but found it so upsetting that she declined to watch any other movies about the disaster, including the 1997 blockbuster "Titanic," starring Leonardo Di Caprio and Kate Winslet.

Dean began to take part in Titanic-related activities in the 1980s, and was active well into her 90s. She visited Belfast, Northern Ireland, to see where the ship was built, attended Titanic conventions around the world — where she was mobbed by autograph-seekers — and participated in radio and television documentaries about the sinking.

The last American survivor of the disaster, Lillian Asplund, died in 2006 at the age of 99. Another British survivor, Barbara Joyce West Dainton, died last November at 96.

Aldridge said the "massive interest" in Titanic memorabilia shows no signs of abating. Last year, a collection of items belonging to Asplund sold for more than $175,000.

"It's the people, the human angle," Aldridge said. "You had over 2,200 men, women and children on that ship, from John Jacob Astor, the richest person in the world at the time, to a poor Scandinavian family emigrating to the States to start a new life. There were 2,200 stories."

Thursday, October 9, 2008

10102008 - Part ii


~Happy Birthday~

*From me, i pay that company to do it, tp dy lupe nk letak my name. q--p

10102008

oh,ada apa dgn 10.10?
hahahahahaha!

happy birthday to you,but.....
i dun have any present to gv,
so i sewakn ruangan di blog joehari utk mengucapkan...


*+*selamat hari jadi!*+*,


yg ke....
x tau,
so u better hargainye,
hauhauhau~

Saturday, October 4, 2008

iman sebok

hahahahahaha!
oh tanx for the kenny rogers..
but i think,that hdisk is 10 times the price of the food.
so....u need to blanje me 9x more!