The Surprise of The Year

Assalammualaikum!
I turned 21 yesterday...

But, 4 days before my real birthday, I received a surprise!
It was a normal Saturday, and my youngest brother went for his extra curricular activity in school. Aisyah, my sister has been busy baking since the night before, for a reason she will not tell me (in fact, she rarely tell anyone anything so I weren't really frustrated when she did not answer my question)
Wasil, another younger brother said he was on evening shift so he will start working at 6.30pm, instead of 1.30pm like usual.
And I studied muscles of lower limb, attentively.

The day before, my mother said she's planning to bring me out on Saturday, to help her choose a gold bracelet for Aisyah's 16th birthday this April. At 3.30pm, I was ready to go out, my mum stopped me at the door. She said I wore "too simple" and ordered me to change into a "more beautiful" suit; according to her it's unfair that I wear nicely to campus, but very casual to go out with her. So, I obediently changed my attire.

Throughout the shopping process, I sensed something. I sensed and started imagining a surprise birthday party for me arranged at home. Meanwhile, my mother's phone rang every 20mins. That made me even more suspicious. But I played along. At 6pm, we went back home.
I noticed my house has became very clean, tidied up.

30 seconds after I entered my house, suddenly a lot of people appeared from the kitchen, and when I say "a lot", I really meant "a lot".
I saw Hui Fong, Louis, Siew Huan, Radhi, Nani, August, Shin Yun, Lii Chyuan, Slyvester, my cousins, uncles and even Aunt Denise.
Louis came up and popped the birthday popper (I dont know what is it called, but it gives out colourful ribbons and a very loud "pop!" sound), and Hui Fong started spraying white snow on me.
I was really surprised, and speechless.
Then I saw a couple, not so young but not old nevertheless. I couldn't recognise them so I smiled and continued smiling to other people. They then started singing "Happy Birthday", with me standing near the door. *that awkward moment when everyone is singing Happpy Birthday to you, and you do not know what to do...*

Although I sensed and imagined something like this, I did not imagine it will be attended by that many people. And guess what, the couple I did not recognise was Louis' parents!
And a cake was brought forward, specially baked and decorated by Aisyah!
And when I walked to the kitchen, I saw that our backyard was already ready with barbeque and steamboat sets. Awesome!

I thanked everyone for coming (no, I did not give a speech, I talked to them personally), and ate with friends.

Then Wasil and my other siblings came bringing packets of presents and gifts.
With that, I opened the presents one by one.

The first was from Hui Fong and friends, a pink winter cap.
Then from Aisyah and Amran, a winter scarf.
Then from all family members, a custom made tshirt! Haha..
The tshirt had our pictures on it, and a "Happy 21st Birthday!"
Wasil made me promise to bring that tshirt oversea, so that I won't forget to come back home. :)

Then Wasil gave his most expensive present; a necklace with key locket. More shockingly, it was a silver necklace, coated with white gold! And he wasn't kidding, my mum saw the receipt. But all of them refused to tell me how much it has cost him. *so touched!*
He said the promoter selling the necklace was shocked that he said he's buying the necklace for his sister, not his girlfriend. =D

Aunt Denise gave a globe with geography quiz (what a cool and appropriate present for me, since my geography is very bad!)

After Maghrib, we started playing card games, Lii Chyuan teaching us new games.
It was fun and lovely.

And the night was ended with a beautiful prayer led by my uncle, praying for our safety and success.

Of course, there were photoshoot sessions throughout the whole event.
Credit to Lii Chyuan who has used his new superb Canon camera for that night! :)

THANK YOU TO WASIL FOR CONTACTING MY FRIENDS, AND ORGANISING SUCH A TERRIFIC PARTY, AND SUCH A COOL NECKLACE! :)
-AkMaR-
http://nur-akmar.blogspot.com

Malware Detected!

Malware Detecte!
That's the warning I received since yesterday when I tried to access my own blog.
Funny leh... And the malware, apparently came from Tun Mahathir's blog (chedet.co.cc)
That's really surprising...

How come his blog can be infiltrated with malware?
Pessimistically, the first thing that came into my mind was "sabotage".
Could it be that someone is trying to sabotage him, due to his style of speaking (and writing).

I waited for one day, thinking Dr M (and I suppose, his IT assistant) might be able to overcome this malware problem but till today, the problem was still there.

And when googled, quite a lot other bloggers are facing the same problem with me, their blogs announced as a security threat, due to the link to chedet.co.cc on the blog.
So yeah, I have just removed the chedet.co.cc link from my blog and my blog can be accessed like normal and you, can read it now. =p

Come to think of it, now since I do not have his link on my blog, I won't be reading his latest posts anymore, because the feed will not come to me.
And if everyone did what I did, means the reader of chedet.co.cc will reduce substantially.
If this is a sabotage, the sabotage succeeded in reducing the amount of readers and thus, the influences of Dr M's writings.

But of course, as time passes, I'll re-visit chedet.co.cc and when there is no more malware problem with the site, I'll re-link it here. =]

p/s: I wanted to put a hyperlink to chedet.co.cc but can't because if I do that, google chrome will detect the malware again.

-AkMaR-
http://nur-akmar.blogspot.com

Crazy Semester 5

Hahah! No laa.. It's not that crazy yet. We are still in Musculoskeletal (MSK) System, and it's ending next week. Then Central Nervous System will start.

I've just finished memorising the muscles of upper limb, eh no, the muscles of the shoulder, not yet the whole upper limb. And I'm still kicking!

Well, life has been hectic for me the past few weeks, with a lot of PMS matching forms to be handed in, research write up, survey report, article to be written, studies to be done, and on top of all that, an IELTS to prepare for!

Yup yup, I did my IELTS in my A Level years, before entering IMU. And since then, more than 2 yrs have passed, and my IELTS result, no matter how good it was, is already invalid.
To get into UK, I have to have a valid IELTS result (as told by the univ to us).
For that, I registered to take IELTS and paid RM570! And the exam will be one week from now.
Haizz..

I am now quite relaxed actually.
Despite having a lot of things to do, I somehow managed to do them peacefully and happily. Thank God for that blessing.

Honestly speaking, 4 weeks have passed since MSK started, and I am still revising first week's notes, and have been sleeping through all other lectures. So it is actually the time for me to freak out now, but I have not.
I think I have the hormones to be blamed again. Excessive endorphin in the circulation, perhaps due to the bars of chocolates I've been stuffing myself with lately? :D

Anyway, it's almost 1am, and I gotta sleep now (even though I don't really feel sleepy but, I pity myself, staying up so late till 1am).

Goodnight!
Assalammualaikum. =)

-AkMaR-
http://nur-akmar.blogspot.com

MACMA Selangor 2011 Youth Camp

Assalammualaikum!

My blog has been dormant for quite some time.
After that emotionally unstable post, my mood got better 2 days later and has been good until now, Alhamdulillah!

Anyway, this post is specially to talk about the youth camp I organised for Malaysian Chinese Muslim Association (MACMA) Selangor branch. And of course I did not organise it alone, I organised it with my IMU friends! They were Radhi, Atieqa Inani, Louis and Kevin. And of course, my mother and brother. Although Radhi could not join us for the camp itself, but she has been of great help in organising the camp!

The camp was held during the second (last) weekend of the school holiday (18th to 20th March 2011) and a total of 39 students participated.

Being "kakak" and "abang" throughout the camp really taught me a lot, and I believe my friends felt the same.

The activities were:

1) Telematch

Only me and Louis were there at that time. And honestly, both of us could not control those kids! They actually cheated during the telematch! =.="

2) Talk; "Our Role as Khalifah"

This was a beneficial talk delivered by Cikgu Mahadzir, the operator of the campsite. It was on the 4 worlds we live in, World of the Womb, World We Live In, World of Death, and World of Qiamat. Many of the girls cried after the talk, touched and scared.

3) Talk: "Heroes of The World"

Kevin was the speaker for this one while Radhi and Nani were the slide preparer. The talk emphasised on the successes of Sultan Salahuddin Al Ayyubi, Sultan Muhammad Al Fateh and Admiral Cheng Ho. Most of them did not know that Cheng Ho is actually a Muslim!

Fun fact: Cheng Ho's voyage around the world consisted of 200 large ships while Colombus' ships were minute compared to Cheng Ho's. And 1000 yrs after Cheng Ho's voyage, Columbus claimed to be the first man who discovered America.

4) Jungle Trekking

We started trekking at about 10 in the morning into the forest of Hulu Langat. I dared not look at my legs and ankles, fearing the leeches. I would not feel any leeches on the skin, but once I saw them, I'll start screaming. So I only dared looking at my ankle when we reach the river, an hour later. And I found one leech half the length of my ring finger! And later when I reached home, I noticed there were 3 other wounds. So I guess the other 3 leeches were already full that they fell off on their own will. Now, these 4 wounds are very itchy!


5) Obstacle Course

Solely conducted by the campsite people. Me and friends were just the spectator and cameramen. Oh, except for Kevin who joined some of the obstacles.

6) Movie Show and Discussion; "Children of Heaven"

This movie truly is a good, full of morale movie. Eventhough the subtitle was in English, the kids watched it attentively and were even able to participate well in the discussion after the movie. They presented the good values they observed in the movie and clearly enjoyed it.

7) Treasure Hunt

Louis was the coordinator for this game and he truly did a terrific job. The flow of the treasure hunt was really smooth, with all difficult challenges. It was the biggest event in the whole camp, the game with the highest mark.

The marks for each group for the whole 3 days were recorded and the champion received a super tall hamper. Of course, we gave hampers to all the groups, even the last one.

All in all, I truly enjoyed this 3 day camp, despite the fact that I did not touch any of my lecture notes for 3 days. And having 2 other batchmates in the same camp, enabled us to revise our subjects, superficially. Haha...

Anyway, let the pictures do the talking from here!

The telematch. The students have to pass rubber band to their team members using a straw in their mouths.

Urgghhh.. Why is this boy so short? I had to bend a lot just to pass this rubber band to him.. Heh...

Kakak Atieqa is explaining about our heroes. This happens when Abg Kevin got stucked. :p

At last, we reached the river after the jungle trekking! At this point of time, I was still ignorant of that leech on my ankle!

ALMEC in our hearts. =) Post jungle trekking.

No no, this is not a controversial picture (ahem ahem) of Louis and Atieqa.

Kevin, me and Louis.

Obstacle Course. Go Adib Go! He was the biggest sized participant, and he won the Best Participant due to his jolliness and enthusiasm.

Another obstacle course. They had to dance while standing on the bricks, trying to balance themselves.

Kevin joining the participants in the obstacle course

Muddy muddy...

Kevin pun nak join skali.. He's famous amongst the participants

Louis, enjoying tai chi lesson by Tai Chi master from China

Yes, let us all Tai Chi!

One of the challenges in the Treasure Hunt

Smile ppl, smile!

We, the facis had to stay back to clean the hall after all the participants went back. But of course, we did it enjoyably!

Barisan fasilitator yang berwibawa, berkarisma dan berjaya!

=)

-AkMaR-
http://nur-akmar.blogspot.com

Hari Yang Cari Gaduh

Tak tau la kenapa.
Hari ni emosi saya asyik terganggu, asyik nk cari gaduh je.

Macam semua orang ada buat salah.
PMS ke?

Dapat mesej 3 ayat pun, boleh cari byk point untuk gaduh, just from that message. So, baik jangan reply, lagi teruk keadaan nanti.

Hari ni pkai kasut yang berbunyi2, jadi jalan bunyi macam garang.
Kadang2 tu, sbb mmg tgh geram dengan orang, maka saya jalan laju, maka lagi kuat la bunyi heels kasut, jadi la bunyi mcm cikgu disiplin, cuma bezanya sy pegang botol air, bukan rotan.

Pagi2 lagi dah ada orang mcm nak cari pasal, sedih sangat.
Hari ni sy banyak belanja, beli makanan dan minuman.
Sebab nak menggembirakan diri sndiri.

Beli cappucino mahal la, beli NIPS la, beli cheese tart la, beli susu la... Nasib baik x beli coklat lebih2 kt EMO.

Sekarang dh lewat malam, sy kena tido.
Esok ada lecture muscles of lower limb, oh! Gler punya lecture..
Pagi tadi muscles of upper limb, mcm bomb! Dengan mengantuk lagi...banyak hamba2 Allah yg bergayut kt kelopak mata. Bila tampar pipi, sendiri sakit, bukannya diorg yg sakit.

Okay, jom tido...
Harap2 mlm ni x mimpi gaduh dengan orang.
Kak Ra kata sy pernah mengigau gaduh dengan org, bila dia tnya sy tengah gaduh dgn siapa, boleh pulak tengah mengigau tu sy jwb dia sy tgh gaduh dengan ___*ada la*_________.

Esok sy nak bangun happy, walaupun kerja yang menanti boleh kalahkan ketinggian KLCC.
Sy tetap, mesti dan kena bangun dengan happy.
InsyaAllah...

-Kerana hidup adalah ujian-


-AkMaR-
sedang merapu dalam Bahasa Malaysia

http://nur-akmar.blogspot.com

Great Commitment by Great Committee!

Assalammualaikum.

Even though the "Gaza, We Care!" week in IMU has ended, I still can't get it out of my head.
All of us have been thinking and working for it since last year so, there is no way we can dismiss that much memories of effort and time in just a day or two. :)

So, while pondering over it again, and recalling all the planning effort we made, I found myself very amused with all the committee members, and the commitment shown by them.
I've never worked with such terrific group of people before.
Even while organising the Grand Dinner in my A Level years, I know some of the committee members were not really working, neither did they put their hearts in the project. But of course, the whole dinner pulled through beautifully, since we have a lot other responsible people in the organising team.

But this time, I admit I'm touched by the sincerity and responsibility shown by the whole team.
Everyone worked so hard...

We are the best team I can ever imagine, in organising this event.
Alhamdulillah...

And despite all the hardships we went through, I can't be happier being in this team.
I honestly, am happy and proud to work with them.

With that, this post is a personal tribute to these great people.

1) Mukhlis Rahimi - secretary + opening and closing ceremonies event manager
2) Diana Rizal - treasurer and MSOC fund-raiser.
3) Nabilah Zakaria - Exhibition Bureau and MSRI stall boss
4) Farahin Ruslan - VPM stall boss and money keeper
5) Hisham Hasan - publicity, the ticket-man, the fund-raising man
6) Khomeini - Speech Bureau, food-man and doughnut caretaker
7) Louis Pung - MERCY stall boss and MC.

Thank you friends!
:)

May we meet again.... for a good cause.
:)

Monday 10.31pm
4 days after GWC finale night.

-AkMaR-
http://nur-akmar.blogspot.com