I followed with great interest on the International Conference
on Global Movement of Moderates held in Kuala Lumpur on 17-19th January 2012.
The Global Movement of Moderates has once again shown that Malaysia is still a visible actor in the global stage.
In a world that has become highly polarised, a clarion call for moderation is timely and wise.
The world has skewed to such extremism that was not even seen in the darkest days of the Cold War.
Never did during the Cold War the passenger of a plane was denied boarding just because his name has a Muslim name in it. Even with a superstar status, Shah Rukh Khan did not escape the wrath of a paranoid authority when he was detained for questioning because his name was in the security alert list, presumably because it was a Muslim name.
Many feared that with the collapse of the Soviet Union, the world has lost a balancing player in order to moderate the global superpowers. It would not be a far reaching conlusion that the idea to invade and start a war by America in Iraq, in Afghanistan would have been thought more carefully if there was a Soviet threat looming in their landscape.
Malaysia has always played the third force neutrality role. This is a natural evolution from the role Malaysia had played from the Non Aligned Movement (NAM) days. The NAM stance of neutrality, respect for sovereignty, mutual respect has now developed into a call for moderation to the world.
Quoting Datuk Seri Najib “At this critical juncture of our material progress, although conflicts and clashes persist, the room for dialogue and peaceful co-existence had grown even broader.Hence it is imperative that we incorporate a vision of mutual trust based on a mixture of methodical arguments and normative aspirations”
This is a sound call for all in Malaysia. I have always believed that as Malaysians, we are likened to be in the same boat together, regardless of race, colour and creed.
Differences will always occur given our diverse background but with moderation and a call for understanding and empathy we can always find a way that will make us grow together.
Dan Dia lah yang menjadikan kamu khalifah di bumi dan meninggikan setengah kamu atas setengahnya yang lain beberapa darjat, kerana Ia hendak menguji kamu pada apa yang telah dikurniakanNya kepada kamu. Sesungguhnya Tuhanmu amatlah cepat azab seksaNya, dan sesungguhnya Ia Maha Pengampun, lagi Maha Mengasihani.
Warning: The following contains unedited,unabridged and most extensive use of the Northern Dialect of the Malay Language, neither Google nor BabelFish will have the translation for the text below.
I appreciate if the readers will take the following text with a bit of humour and salt with it, i dont intend to put down anyone nor does the following represent my character.
Dahla sket sket disclaimer abang woii….sampai pagi esok sebelum subuh ka hang baru nak start cherita nih…..
okeh.. moving on…
Background Story.
3 SEPTEMBER 2011 BERSAMAAN 5 SYAWAL 1432 HIJRAH, Aku lapaq, dan seperti mana manusia normal yang dicipta oleh Allah S.W.T aku pi la cari makanan. Aku tgk ada pa kat fridge. paih tu (selepas itu) aku pi la masak. time aku baru nak masak nak cucuh api , mercun berbunyi dung dang dung dang. stress CEK! .pastu time aku tgh dok syok syok goreng burger, aku dengaq ada orang nangis meraung raung.
Haih, Mula la Gabra perut aku, aku dok pikiaq dah, la, baru raya 5 hari dah mula keluaq dah segala hantu pontianak polong bergumbira sebab ramadhan dah habih. abehla abehla….
dok sat paih tu (soon after that),aku teringat cherita hantu kat youtube aku tgk petang tadi. link dia ada kat bawah ni utk hangpa. baik tak cek ?
utk depa yang berat pungkuq nak tekan buton aku bagi summary kat hangpa
clip tu pasai ada awek ni telefon pak aji tu, ( apa depa cakap aku taktau, time tu aku tak pay attention dan sememangnya aku ni shot atention span)
paih tu tiba tiba time awek (awek la kot, suara pompuan, lawa x lawa aku x gerenti, kalo mak orang anak 8 cek tak tau la). tu tgh syok cakap ngan pak aji tu, suara dia bertukaq jadi lain woo…. dia camni camni…cam ko tgh syok dok layan siti norhaliza (jap aku nak google title lagu raya dia sbb semmangnya aku fail dalam bab irama lagu malaysia nih.) ….anugerah hari raya
link cek siti
paih tu tiba tiba je suara tu bertukaq kepada suara serak garau cam black metal group yang hangpa dok dengaq kat stesen baih(bas) sungai petani (taktau la ada lagi ke tak, ni time tahun 2000 dulu masa aku seorang jejaka kacak dok belajaq kat sana)
link black metal tuh kepada depa depa yang tak pernah dengaq apa tu black metal,
Anyways,(eh silap, cek speake no english todaih,today speaketh (cheh shakespeare plak, penampaq kang) loghatt(double tt tuh means dengung dia lebih pekat sket, cam cappucino triple shot) uttaraa…
err… Anyways (sebab Selain Dari Itu bunyi cam pelik dan tak kena je)…what interest me the most was how the pak aji exorcised the demon (OIIIIIIII BAHAASA UTARA!!!!!!!)…sori sori..
hangpa nak tau tak camana pak aji tu stop jin tu dari merasuk pompuan tu (HINT, kalo hangpa tengok dah klip kat ataih tadi, takyah la aku cerita, tapi aku nak assume korang semua malaih cam malaun (malaun is a northern word for penyangak….see you do learn something when u read my blog)
taiko gak a cara Pak Aji tu exorcise demon/ Jin tu, Cuba ko banding kan betapa susahnya diaorang di bawah ni nak exorcise demon tu berbanding Pak Aji kita yang relaks je exorcise demon from a TELEPHONE.
Banding ngan Constantine.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-adSWeiuzY
Banding ngan The Rite.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fO0u_fBePNw
Banding ngan Buffy …… err well… its not REALLY an exorcism.. but hey… you get to watch Sarah Michelle Gellar KICK BUTT !!!
Pak Aji tu relax je exorcise (err…is there a northern slang word for exorcise)…ehh.. ada!!!!…HALAU…hehe. Pak Aji tu dengan se relax relax nyer dan TANPA perlu flying kick cam Buffy, lompat sana sini cam Keanu Reeves dan terkumat kamit cam Colin O’Donoughue halau the Jin by asking him repeatedly.
“what are you going to answer to Allah later, when you are asked why did you possess this person.”
“what are you going to answer to Allah later, when you are asked why did you possess this person.”
“what are you going to answer to Allah later, when you are asked why did you possess this person.”
“surely you are going to die, correct?”
tekejut gabra aku, bila aku dengaq Jin tu jawab “Yes”, Pastu Pak Aji tu tanya “You Muslim or Non Muslim?” (Bila aku pikiaq balik baru aku teringat dulu ustaz aku memang pernah cerita pasal Jin Islam dan Jin Non Islam” (iye, aku memang shot atention span.)
Jin ” Non Muslim”
Pak Aji “”what are you going to answer to Allah later, when you are asked why did you possess this person.”"
Jin “………………………………….” you can actually hear the silence stretch and almost can feel the Jin thinking of a way to evade what he knows to be a natural truth. That
1) we are going to die.
2) we are going to be answerable for our actions.
PENANG SLANG DAMMIT !, AKU HANTAQ HANG BALIK TANJUNG BARU TAU.
Paih tu, aku ter overheard people were talking about the current political situation,
mula la angan angan aku maih, kan best kan Lan kalo hang jadi PM…..bole dok kat Putrajaya, ada chaffeur driven car, bole potong2 lane kat MRR2 pada pagi Isnin jam 8.00 pagi time semua orang tgh stress jam nak hantaq anak pi skolah paihtu nak gi kerja ngadap muka boss yang menyampah, ada outriders escort, ada Airforce One (tak caya gi la link kat bawah tu…tgk under VIP transport)
tapi dok terngiang kat telinga aku jerkahan pak aji tadi
“what are you going to answer to Allah later, when you are asked why did you possess this person.”
or in the case of PM Azlan Roni.
“what are you going to answer to Allah later, when you are asked how did you govern the country”
Mantan PM Azlan “err ok i guess”.
Even a 2 year old could sense the unsureness of the answer. Inikah lagi Malaikat Kubur.
Teringat aku time aku kecik kecik, Arwah Tok Siti Maryam yang slalu dok jaga aku penah habaq kat aku, Malaikat Kubur ni dia ada kuku yang panjang, kalo hang silap jawab ngan dia, dia akan tibai hang sampai masuk ke dalam kerak bumi dan paihtu dia akan cungkil hang balik utk jawab soalan dia sampai boleh or hari kiamat.
Pasrah n Parah….
Teringat lagi cerita Ustaz aku pasal Khalifah Umar yang tidak akan tidur malam selagi dia tidak pastikan semua rakyatnya tak lapaq malam itu,
link is here
http://www.ustsarwat.com/search.php?id=1203982187
Kalolah tu standard yang di expect oleh Islam, adakah mampu kita pikul tanggungjawab sebagai seorang pemimpin ?
hangpa mungkin boleh, tapi jujur hati aku cakap, aku rasa aku x mampu.
sebab tu la aku rasa jadi PM ni amatlah MERBAHAYA,
yer la…
Cuba kalo Malaikat tu tanya
“Lan, Squatters kat Pangkalan Weld Penang tu ko dah make sure cukup makan”
“Err….”
Kaposshh (imagine rantai besi dalam Ghost Rider Nicholas Cage tu tibai aku)
Untuk sapa sapa yang nak tau lebih lanjut pasal squatters kat Pangkalan Weld link is below.
p/s: Poverty i believe is not a RACE issue, it happens across the race, it is an economic issue.
(Tambah Ayat Racist Sket nak defend diri dari Malaikat Kubur, apa yang boleh capai utk defend pun jadilah)
“Tapi diaorang bukannya Melayu, bukannya Muslim pun !”
Kaposhh Kapooshh Kaposshh….. ( Malaikat Kubur akan syok tibai sambil give me that ”ada aku kesah look”
Malaikat Kubur will probably say.
” Your Country, Your Responsibility, Regardless of Race,Religion,Creed”
(Uih..Malaikat ni study American Declaration of Independence ke ?)
“Lan, Anak anak yatim kat Malaysia hang dah make sure semua cukup makan?”
“Dah!!!!, (aku menjawab ngan penuh konfiden sbb memang kalo aku jadi PM bab bab anak yatim ni aku stress sgt sgt !) Saya ada buat program 6R 3P , 1 Malaysia, Rukun Tetangga Rakan Sukan, Rakan Surau, Majulah Sukan Untuk Negara dan 18.39 Asrama untuk anak anak yatim di Malaysia…Whewww.. selamat”
“Salah!!!!… You termiss 3 orang!!!!”
Kaposshh Kapossh Kaposshhh,…….
“Lan, Negara ko tu selamat tak dari ancaman musuh ?”
“Selamat !!!!, Semenjak saya masuk, saya dah make sure national service kompulsori kat semua, takde exception exception utk anak anak bukit tunku, bukit bandaraya, bukit antarabangsa dan kawasan kawasan sewaktu dengannya…gaji army saya dah triplekan dan diaorang tak perlu nak menagih peruntukan semata mata nak membuat uniform
“Salah!!!… Your Subs cant Sink and your Airplanes cant fire missiles!!!”
2. Most people work to get money. This is the
acceptable level of work. You need the money. You go to workYou do what you gotta do in order to get the money. The job may be boring, wont challenge your brains or may even diminish your intellectual capacity. You’ll most probably) won’t like your work if this is not something you’re interested in.
3.There’s 2 ways overcoming this, either you accept n love your work.
4. Or you follow your heart and try your passion. Columbus said no pessimist has ever found new stars, charted new oceans, explored new lands.
Note ; whatever your passion is, you must make it a financially acceptable
5. The best if you work on your passion. You will feel the spring in your
steps rushing to work instead of the lead in your shoes trying to
get to work.
Arini aku tinggal umah. Been awhile since I enjoyed a night at home. Most of the time am away doing something. Kicking it back at home is something i should do more.
Went to watch Lat the Musical the other day, like I said, I came to watch a musical, I learnt about life instead
I learn that life does not follow what you want, life is like swimming against the current. Others and events will always try to pull you in their sway and if youre not careful, you’ll get sucked in, for life. Always keep your dreams alive. You’ll never know if that big break youre waiting for is just around the corner next day.
Gotta keep the dream alive.
WORK ?
Oh don’t even get me started on that one. Mrs Hew on Lat the musical succinctly put that we should do what we love and love what we do. If that is the case then I am doing neither.
I read PT Barnum the other day, on the topic of work, he also says that it is best that one’s do what they love or otherwise they’ll evade their work for life. I know the feeling Barnum….
So kids, if you’re reading this, stop what you are doing, stop right there, stop playing guitar hero, stop doing your add maths calculations, stop eating, stop fbing…and take a moment, for yourself, and ask yourself, what do I want to do in life…….. it is probably the most important question you’ll ever gonna ask yourself in life. … seriously… bar none.
