February 27, 2010

totally unexpected

my winter trip firstly is unexpected...never crossed my mind to spend 5 days wif my mom n dad 5 month earlier than expected...and also, my visit to cambridge...i never expect to get strolling around this -


dat mornin (feb 20, 2010), my dad went for his conference while we were brought around cambridge by kak azlin...she's a cambridge Phd student in bioscience...
we started here


marveling the art of trees on building suddenly we saw dis


oooohhh...wut a splendid view!!!
i absentmindedly walk into dis corridor to get a closer look...n suddenly came here -


me - erk, mama!...kat sini macam dlm harry potter kn?
mama - a aa la...


kak azlin - yup!...kat sini la derang shoot some of the scene in harry potter...two colleges was chosen, cambridge and another one in oxford...


me - wutt??? (i staggered) how on earth did i end up here??? (i jz can't believe my eyes n kept spinning around n taking pictures...)


kak azlin - in here is the dining hall...kecik je actually tp angle care dy shoot tu nmpk besar...


(still amazed on how i suddenly came here unplanned) - shud've studied wut cambridge has b4 visiting it...huhu


so der stuck my happy face...lol


thnx mama n ayah!!!...thnx for having a conference der ayah!...lol
to those who dun fancy harry potter...sorry, i jz can't get rid of my childish obsession... tho of course i've stopped reading it nowadays (only bcoz my set is in malaysia...huhu)

but who knows wut is in store for our future ryte?
i jz can't imagine y i never knew they did the shooting der, or not it wud b nice to study first n stroll around more~
nway,...am jz so glad..hee-

February 26, 2010

salam maulidurrasul

a nice story from a book entitled "HEALING BODY & SOUL" by Amira Ayad i got from the last maarad
dis is in it's epilogue (but i havnt actually finished the whole book yet)



I want to end with a little story happened long ago when the Muslim army was fighting against the Persian Empire. The Muslims were defeated in the first few rounds of battle, so their commander, Sa'd ibn Abi Waqqas (r.a) gathered his men to reevaluate their resources and position. All seemed under control: the Muslim army had a great number of fighters and a good resources; so what was the problem then? Sa'd concluded that this defeat must be a punishment from Allah for their sins, so he ordered each of them to repent and ask Allah for forgiveness and check for any misdeed that he had committed or any act of worship he had forgotten to perform. All the men were good Muslims, with sincere intentions and the true will and power to fight the enemies. Still, he insisted, they must have neglected some of Allah or His Prophet's orders. They wen through the obligatory and the non-obligatory acts of worship, and then through the entire Sunnah of the Prophet to find their weak point. Finally, Sa'd realised that they had been neglecting the Sunnah of siwak. They were not using siwak as our Prophet used to do before prayer. How strange it seems: men at the battlefront who thought that their weak point was that they were not brushing their teeth five times a day!

Sa'd ordered for the siwak sticks to be distributed to each Muslim in the army and asked them all to follow our Prophet's Sunnah. No one argued, no one questioned his commander's reasoning; no one asked what siwak had to do with winning or loosing the battle against the strongest army on the face of the earth.

Meanwhile, the Persian army had sent spies to check on the Muslim's camp. The Persians at that time looked upon the Arabs as primitive, uncivilized nation, so when the spies reached the Arabs' camp and saw them rubbing their teeth with sticks, they failed to understand what was going on, until one of them shouted: "they are sharpening their teeth to eat us alive; they are cannibals!"

The Persian spies ran back to their camp and the news spread like wildfire. The whole army panicked, and most of the Persian fortresses were abandoned and fell easily into the Muslim's hands.

Do you see the moral of the story? Do not underestimate even seemingly insignificant orders form Allah and His Messenger (s.a.w) (the Qur'an and the Sunnah), even if you do not understand the wisdom behind it.



der...funny n wise isnt it?
i copied word by word from the book n overall the book is very interesting to spent ur free time...:)
salam Maulidurrasul - uhibbu ya Rasulullah~

February 25, 2010

how i got rid of my ceraunophobia

haha
can't resist today's weather!
need to voice out my view...lol (tho i do have a very important thing to finish...erk) x pe sempat2


so, wut is ceraunophobia?


keraunophobia, ceraunophobia
an abnormal fear of thunder and lightning.
See also: Lightning
-Ologies & -Isms. Copyright 2008 The Gale Group, Inc. All rights reserved.



i used to be very afraid of the lightning...extremely terrified!!!...n sumhow i found it kind of embarrassing...(rase cam penakut sngt...thunder pon cuak...lol)


one of my classmates used to force me out into the corridor evrytime it's raining cats n dogs..."You must learn to overcome your fear!!"...haha...but i jz cant...due to certain unpleasant events involving the lightning...


but today!
hurm...
i dunno why...listening to the thunder makes me recall the moments of thunder fearing in Malaysia...n i realized...I AM NOT AFRAID OF ITS SOUND ANYMORE!!!!


this calls for a celebration!!!
LOL


-but i dare say dis method does not work to get rid of spectrophobia
spectrophobia
an abnormal fear of specters or phantoms.
See also: Ghosts
-Ologies & -Isms. Copyright 2008 The Gale Group, Inc. All rights reserved.


#upcoming...harry potter???
# it's hard to focus when i kept recalling my moments wif my parents...hehe

February 16, 2010

genius = dobby ???

rmmbr alicia key's song
"wut goes around comes around wut goes up must come down..."


the statement up there, i believe is describing dat we anticipate failure, we fear it wud happen...
well, u see~ 
we are not just tested with difficulties n hardship...pleasure and happiness is also a test

In the Name of Allah the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.

Everyone is going to taste death, and We shall make a trial of you with evil and with good. And to Us you will be returned.

(surah al anbiya' verse 35)

elizabeth gilbert here describes how a success is not actually quite welcoming to these "geniuses"



i pardon for the "oley oley" info at the end of this speech...i also jz knew it the moment she mentioned it... but what is important is to take what is beneficial for us ryte?
so another lesson...history of evrything is crucial to be studied (but i dunno how to b interested in studying history..huhu)

what i conclude here...we humans can't run from the fact that we believe in God...we need to believe that there is a higher power that controls us...means we need a religion!...so, why need to make up assumptions or imagine a dobby if truth has been told since 1400 yrs ago?
ryte?

# i truthfully intended no offense against anybody...jz a tot i think worth sharing~
# congratulations to the newly weds - kak qilah n isa
# happy bday to my dearest jiejie - iqa and also to cuna n mr president - saini~

a lovely blessed february i am experiencing ryte now...:D (full of happy endings n beginnings...hehe)

February 05, 2010

names

last Thursday was our last ENT(1) class b4 holiday...
d'dr dat day, during discussing the complications of otitis media(2) gave me a very intriguing statement (which made me google it up) - he said:


"did you know why temporal(3) bone is called temporal?
bcoz it comes from a latin word named tempus meaning time
those people noticed from the temporal bone came the first sign of aging. which is the grey hair, therefor it indicates time...
and mastoid(4), because it looks like the nipple of breast."


hmm...so they r named because of their character then...okay, frontalis(5) is logic becoz it is the front most situated...occipital(6) becoz it is the furthest...wut about parietal(7)?


so i start googling...here's the anatomy of skull for those who havnt learn them yet or already forget our 2nd yr's anatomy lectures



i found it helps me to imagine n in ENT intro also..
so, the result of my diction's google =


temporal1
adj
1. of or relating to time
2. of or relating to secular as opposed to spiritual or religious affairs the lords spiritual and temporal
3. lasting for a relatively short time
4. (Linguistics / Grammar) Grammar of or relating to tense or the linguistic expression of time in general a temporal adverb
[from Latin temporālis, from tempus time]
temporally  adv
temporalness  n

temporal2
adj
(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Anatomy) Anatomy of, relating to, or near the temple or temples
[from Late Latin temporālis belonging to the temples; see temple2]
Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 6th Edition 2003. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003

mastoid [ˈmæstɔɪd]
adj
1. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Anatomy) shaped like a nipple or breast
2. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Anatomy) designating or relating to a nipple-like process of the temporal bone behind the ear
n
1. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Anatomy) the mastoid process
2. (Medicine / Pathology) Informal mastoiditis
Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 6th Edition 2003. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003

parietal [pəˈraɪɪtəl]
adj
1. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Anatomy) (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Biology) Anatomy Biology of, relating to, or forming the walls or part of the walls of a bodily cavity or similar structure the parietal bones of the skull
2. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Anatomy) of or relating to the side of the skull
3. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Botany) (of plant ovaries) having ovules attached to the walls
4. (Social Science / Education) US living or having authority within a college
n
(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Anatomy) a parietal bone
[from Late Latin parietālis, from Latin pariēs wall]
Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 6th Edition 2003. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003


therefor the parietal bone is named parietal because of its character of being a wall to the brain...well, technically all the skull bones are walls of the brain ...hehe...mayb bcoz it didnt have any other peculiar character (angkat bahu...)


interesting ryte how stuffs are named?
wut about ourselves?...why are we named like wut our names are?
when people call out our names evryday...it acts like a du'a...so dat we become like wut we are called...
so the moral of the story - find a meaningfully nice nickname~
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(1) ENT - ear, nose and throat
(2) otitis media - inflammation in the middle ear
(3)(4)(5)(6)(7) - bones in the skull
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in one of my full n hectic week-