raya holiday!

I will be going back to Malaysia for raya holiday in ten days, on 17th of august to be exact.

To be honest I did not really have any plan for this. Even though ever since I started studying here in Indonesia, never have I went back home for raya. But this time it will be different. After celebrated raya (wasn’t really celebrating in here haha) for three times in the row, finally this year, I’m heading for my hometown.

I’ve told my mother that I’m coming back home this raya, but it seems like she wasn’t really excited about it. Haha.

Actually I’m kind of ‘have to’ go back since I have been told by the immigration department here to renew my passport as soon as I can.

My passport will expires on august 2011 but since I’m renewing my KITTAS or temporary residence card for another two year, the expiry date is not in the ‘save’ range haha. So I need to renew my passport.

And the nearest holiday is this coming raya holiday. Yeay. Finally I’m going back for raya! Yeay.

I am so glad. I missed celebrating raya in my hometown so much. I missed all those raya delicacies, raya songs, and exciting TV programs. Even though I don’t really enjoy visiting relatives much haha.


I’ll be going back by ferry (or more like a speed boat I think) from Belawan to Penang which will takes 5-6 hours. And I don’t mind. It’s the cheapest. Hahaha.

Si Tua

Setelah aku selesai menoleh ke kanan dan ke kiri memberi salam, mata aku tertumpu pada seorang tua yang sedang kusyuk beribadat. Aku tersedar akan kehadiran dia di dalam masjid ini sejak beberapa malam sebelum ini. Entah kenapa tanpa sebab yang pasti, hati aku luluh ketika terlihat kelibat si tua ini yang terbongkok berdiri di hadapan Tuhannya.

Rukuk dan berdirinya si hamba Allah ini sudah tiada banyak bezanya lagi. Hatiku sedih bercampur terharu. Dengan keadaannya yang serba lemah dan tua, si tua ini tetap istiqamah dalam ibadatnya kepada Yang Satu.

Setiap kali sesudah selesai bacaan doa selepas solat witir, si tua ini akan bersusah-payah, sedaya-upaya berusaha untuk bangun dan bersalam dengan jemaah yang lain. Kadang, oleh kerana pergerakannya yang sangat lambat, dia hanya mampu berjabat tangan dengan dua atau tiga orang sahaja.

Mulai semalam aku cuba untuk duduk dekat dengannya, entah kenapa, aku tak pasti.

Pernah suatu ketika, selepas pulang dari masjid, aku menukar pakaian dan bersiap-siap untuk keluar rumah. Dalam perjalananku keluar aku terlihat susuk tubuh yang sangat aku kenal, si tua itu, masih dalam perjalanannya pulang dari masjid, bergerak perlahan setapak demi setapak dengan wajah yang hampir menyembah tanah.

Aduh, lagi hatiku remuk. Betapa kudrat si dia yang satu ini tak pernah menjadi halangan untuk ke rumah Allah.

Malam pertama Ramadhan aku pernah berfikir, adakah aku mahu ke masjid ataupun tidak. Di hati berasa malas tak semena-mena. Cukuplah solatku cuma seorang-seorang di bilik tidur, berkata aku dibenakku.

Apakah jadahnya? Aku yang muda ni malas. Padahal si tua dgn keadaannya yang tak mengizinkan, tekad ke sana.

Nasibku baik. Status facebookku dibalas dengan nasihat daripada teman-teman:






Mohd Uda
I am thinking whether want to go to the mosque for tarawih or not. it's 1st of Ramadan tonight.


21 August at 18:33 via Twitter ·
comments:



don think...juz go



g je uda..



must go!!!!!!



isk2...nak jmpa awek xyah pikir nak p ke xnak...tp nak p solat tarawih pun nak kena pikir byk mcm ni...xkan la nak tggu umur 50 bru xyah pikir kot 2pun kalu sempat...beribadatlah kamu seperti itu adalah ibadat terakhir kamu...



gi r...pemalas...cube r jd mcm aku



hehe insaf plak dgr murshikidal bg ceramah. alar ingat nak wat kat rumah jer 1st night. kat masjid ramai org sgt la awal2 ni.. =p



bagos la jemaah ramai..ape la uda ni...



btol2.g jemaah tau ude.klau blh g jd imam trus.lg bgus..



baiklah kawan2 ku. trima kasih atas nasihat. td memang cam 75% malas nak gi, skrg da tggl 10%. jom gi masjid! :)


Alhamdulillah~ =p

no driving licence

I am as old as 23 years old but yet I’m still cannot drive a car. I don’t know how to drive, never really got the chance to learn how to drive, and off course I don’t have a driving licence.

If you ask me one thing in my life that I’m not so happy about is this.

And sometimes I feel like I am not a normal person. Or simply feel like I am not even a human if we look at the definition of what human is by what they or majority of them are doing.

Thinking why I am like this, I always blaming all those hindrances such as money, availability of a car to learn to drive or time constrains.

But how come everybody else could do it except me. Why.

That’s the reason why I said that I am no human. And I am 23 years old for God sake.

new topic for my research?

Now I’m busy working on the new research proposal. Sigh!

Few days ago I went to the hospital to proceed with my intended research titled pregnancy and the risk of breast cancer in women in one of the hospital in Medan. Unfortunately when I was just an inch from getting the medical records needed, the consultant suggested that I change my research. This means I have to change everything that I’ve done or simply do it all over again.

He said that the outcome would not going to be like what I expected, that pregnancy lowers the risk of breast cancer, because there are a lot of others factor affected the possibility getting the lethal disease. My interest is only to study the relationship of those two things. But since the medical records available are not that many, and to exclude other factors that might have caused the disease is impossible, I agreed to think about his suggestion and later I met my tutor and a CRP lecture. They allowed me to change my topic.

I am confused. Thinking about whether I should stick with my previous title or go ahead with a new one.

Still thinking about this. I already began doing the literature review for the new proposal.

The consultant is really knowledgeable, and I won’t let go the chance of working with him. But, the main problem is time constraint!! With the classes, practicals and exams and also the clinical semester starting next year and I am so not ready for it. Argh!!

colourful Malaysia

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There are a lot of foreigners in Malaysia. Just get on any of the public transportation e.g. bus, light transit, etc and you may hear quite a number of different languages being spoken. Where some of them are tourists coming from euro or Middle East or just anywhere in the world, quite a large number of them are workers working in Malaysia.

Sometimes I feel like asking myself, where am I? But that’s not necessarily a bad thing. I love seeing people coming from many parts of the world. Different colours, looks, styles and languages. All of them are coming here to experience Malaysian culture, lifestyle or places of interest.

When you see somebody that looks like a Malay or a Malaysian Chinese, or even Malaysian Indian, think again. Listen carefully to their language. Just now I saw a couple with a son sitting between them in the train. The husband looked like a Malay and her wife more like a (Malaysian) Chinese. Then when I heard them talking, to my surprise that they were talking a foreign language. It sounded like Thai, but not it. Maybe Cambodian or Vietnamese. Then there were another couple sitting beside me. I thought they’re Malays. But suddenly one of them took out a camera to capture a photo and they talked to each other in Indonesian. So they must be tourists from Indonesia. Then right in front of me were Arabs. Not far away were Caucasians not talking in English but in other European  language.

There were once I was asked by an Indian for direction. I thought that he was a Malaysian Indian that I gave the instruction in Manglish mixed with Malay. Then he looked confused and told me that he just arrived in Malaysia few days before that.

And nowadays you can simply see Africans everywhere. And most of them are students studying in Malaysia.

Without all those tourists and workers from outside, Malaysia is already a multicultural country consisting Malay, Chinese, Indians and a lot more other native tribes. We live next to each other, doing things together and sharing and visiting each other houses during major celebrations.

Being home for holiday (and being away during the rest of the time) really makes me appreciate more and thankful for living in such beautiful and colourful country. A country called Malaysia.

broke but happy

--> --> As I’m writing this, most of my friends are already back to Malaysia. It’s only three of us now left. Both are my housemates.

We’re all going to fly back this Friday. But I’ll be flying back a few hours earlier because I’m heading for Penang whereas they are going to Kuala Lumpur.

I don’t know how to type here what is exactly that I have in mind. I am very excited about going back to my homeland but I’m not going to write about that now.

Maybe I should just start by saying that I am so glad and thankful just for everything. Or in this case, for everyone. Staying my few last days here in Medan is great, especially with great friends. We do great things together, get bored together, just hanging around together or watch a movie together. Or simply get in the car and just wandering somewhere.

Few days ago we went to Brastagi highland, simply just to breath the cool air there (Medan is so hot), and then to Sipisopiso waterfall. They said it is the highest waterfall in Southeast Asia. We went there by motorcycle. And I love the breeze and the wind. And when it was too cold we just stopped at the food stall by the road side and had a sip of hot drink. Ah, nice!

I’m broke. I’m so damn broke right now. All the money I have in my wallet is just a few ‘thousands’ of Indonesia Rupiah, just enough to pay for the airport tax.


(from left: amir, syaf, and me)

Yes, I’m broke. But I’m happy. Thanks to my friends. They are not only being there for me and cheering me up, and turning everything into remarkably wonderful stuffs, but also paying for my food. God, I don’t know how to say how thankful I am. And hope that I’ll get rich soon enough, and I’ll be paying them back more than what they have spent on me! Haha.

malaysia, i'm coming!

Yay (many of my posts are started with yays. haha)

This time I'm saying yay because I am going back to Malaysia soon!! Yeeha! I have already bought the ticket Medan -> Penang on 12th of June.

I've been staying here in Medan for 1 year and a half. Didn’t go back even though during the semester breaks due to insufficient money haha.

But now I’m going back. I just can’t wait. I was still single when I was home during the last time I went back which was somewhere in May 2007. And now I will be going back as somebody’s boyfriend. big deal. haha

Wow. I miss my home so much. I already forgot how does the fresh Malaysia's air smell like. I can say bye bye to the dusty Medan~ even though just for few weeks.

And I am so excited that I started to watch the visit Malaysia commercials on youtube haha


And, the excitement - it makes me somehow not yet realized that exams are actually around the corner. I’ve got to sit for lots of exam before flying back to wonderful Malaysia.

Malaysia. I’m coming back!

yay. research proposal accepted

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Yay. I'm so happy because my research proposal is accepted.

My intended research is about pregnancy and the risk of getting breast cancer in women. The proposal presentation went really well.

I was asked to explain how do I think that pregnancy can actually offers any protection from breast cancer. I gave two reasons to support my hypothesis. One is that pregnancy will decrease the time of oestrogen exposure in women by decreasing the number of total menstrual cycle a woman can have. And the other one is that hmm.. the breast is immature from 1st menstrual cycle to the 1st pregnancy (even though complete development accurs during puberty.

Then one of the examiners asked how can I say so. Then i said, this is because the function of the breast itself. It is not just as an accessory to attract sexual partner (which these days we could safely say could be of either gender). But also to produce milk for the baby. ( i wrongly translated accessory as hiasan in Indonesian which caused everyone to laugh)

Then the examiner cracked a joke. By asking me, so it’s for the baby not for the husband then? And I said, well to be honest it’s for both. Because without the husband, i don't think the mother will be able to get pregnant by herself. Haha. And everybody laughed.

the best birthday present ever!

Now I am 23 years old. One year older than a week ago.

And it was my best birthday ever. My first time celebrating birthday as a someone's boyfriend. :)

Actually my friends already celebrated my birthday 1 week earlier, together with my other two friends who were also born in this month. We went karaoke. It was so much fun!

Me and her, we sang the titanic song~

A few days ago, on my birthday, my girlfriend and I went out to Sun Plaza for dinner. Even though it was raining, she didn't mine of sticking to the plan. I was so happy. And what made me even more happier is the fact that she didn't go to her aikido class that night. It makes me feel special and also stupid for thinking thinking that she cares more about her aikido than me. haha

And she gave me the best present ever. It's a book.

To be honest, I already got my bestest birthday's present ever. ever! and it's her herself~

I love her!

this is funny

A few days ago after I posted my previous post, my girlfriend and I, we went to see a movie. Then on our way to get there, when we're actually on a beca, I asked her what she thinks about my blog.

And she said: "lots of grammatical mistakes".

haha!!

she's my girlfriend now!

Guys guys, I have  good news to tell. At least for me haha.

Last night, I told the girl, which I have been crazy over for the last few months, about this blog.



And I had to tell her about this blog that because.. wait for it, she is officially my girlfriend now :)

After have been very close to her for quite sometimes, we’re finally officially (?) in a special relationship, starting 22nd of March 2009. And I was the happiest man that evening to learn that she said yes to my question whether she would like to be my girlfriend. And still am happy till now. I am glad and thankful and humbled by this. And I am so lucky too.

Lucky indeed! To have her as my girlfriend. She is my first girlfriend and my last. Hopefully we will spend the rest of our life together.

Thanks to God!

ah! perfect.

I am so happy.

Haha. the first time when I started blogging, I did it because I was frustrated and sad. And this site will be the place where I throw out everything.

But now, I blog about how happy I am right now. yes, me is happy.

I just got back from a date, with her. It was like the best outing ever in my life, really. She's perfect. We ate Korean food at her favourite restaurant. I never enjoy eating so much like I did just now. The food was really, really really nice.

Then we had ice cream. I know, this might sound like I'm exaggerating it, but I loved the ice cream so much that I was thinking to buy another one haha.

Then we watched a movie. It was great, the story is about three journalists trying to catch the Bosnia war criminal.

And the highlight of the night was.. she herself. hehe. Her presence was really something that make me so glad and happy. =p

ah! perfect evening~

i am crazy. am i not?

Hmm I don't know how to begin with haha. Okay, remember the girl that I was talking about? The one that me and me friends celebrated her birthday? Ala... the one that I blogged about under title of 'kind of'

Okay if you remember now then good.

Me and her. we are getting closer now. And I just can't help but to tell the world that I like her a lot! Yes, a lot!!! :)

I'm dating her now. We went out together. Sitting in class next to each other. And talk on the phone, texting. Wow. I just don't know how to describe how I feel right now. I am so glad that she is my friend. I want her to be my best friend, ..or more!

It's just nice to just to look at her. or to listen to her voice.

Haha. I'm crazy. Okay lah! Enough for now.