Coretan Hidup

Sudah lebih sebulan aku pulang ke Malaysia. Dan selama itu juga blog ini tidak ber’update’. Kebosanan di rumah dan tahap kelajuan internet yang amat mengecewakan membuatkan aku rindu akan West Lafayette.
Selepas hampir dua tahun tidak pulang, memang begitu banyak perubahan yang berlaku secara fizikal yang dialami oleh negeriku, daerahku, kampungku dan keluargaku.
Terengganu sendiri mengalami pembangunan [...]

Malu dan kagum. Dua perkataan ini sahaja yang dapat menggambarkan perasaan aku bila membaca kisah seorang pendaki gunung, Greg Mortenson yang berusaha dalam misi keamanannya tersendiri di Pakistan dan Afghanistan menerusi Central Asia Institute.
Kisah perjuangan beliau bemula setelah beliau gagal dalam pendakiannya menuju puncak K2. Setelah terselamat dari pendakian yang hampir meragut nyawanya, beliau [...]

Ketika aku sedang nyenyak tidur….
5.4 earthquake rocks US Midwest, no early reports of damage or injuries
WEST SALEM, Illinois: A 5.4-magnitude earthquake that appeared to rival the strongest recorded in this area of the Midwest rocked people hundreds of miles away early Friday, surprising residents unaccustomed to such a powerful temblor.
The quake shook skyscrapers in Chicago’s [...]

Taken from the second chapter of The Audacity of Hope entitled ‘Values’.
It’s not a question we ask ourselves enough, I think; as a country, we seem to be suffering from an empathy deficit. We wouldn’t tolerate school that don’ teach, that are chronically underfunded and understaffed and underinspired, if we thought that the children [...]

This one is from Lance Armstrong’s Every Second Counts on his failure in both road race and time trial during 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. Let’s read his say.
She was right, and I knew it. I apologized, and gave some thought to winning and losing, and how to handle each. When you win, you don’t [...]

Assalamualaikum
Hujung minggu ini aku nak tulis sedikit coretan ringkas tentang apa yang aku pelajari dari kelas ekonomi minggu lepas mengenai tarif import. Jika dilihat dari perspektif pengguna, tarif import ni memang menyusahkan.
Coretan ini hanya menyentuh pada situasi yang mirip Malaysia sebagai sebuah negara ‘kecil’. Negara kecil dalam konteks penguatkuasaan tarif adalah tarif yang dikenakan oleh [...]

Have Malaysian politicians (either from BN or PR) reached the level of politics that Obama mentioned in the second last paragraph of the first chapter (Republicans and Democrats) of The Audacity of Hope? Got the message embedded in it?
I imagine they are waiting for a politics with the maturity to balance idealism and realism, to [...]

Assalamualaikum.

http://www.alwahy.com
Hari ini sekadar mahu berkongsi satu mesin carian Islamik Alwahy. Ianya mirip google. Lengkap dengan carian gambar, video, berita, dan audio. Juga lengkap dengan messenger, akaun email dan laman membeli-belah.
Yang penting, laman ini mengandungi video-video kuliah, artikel-artikel Islam dan siaran lansung TV Islam dari seluruh dunia.
Memandangkan ianya baru sahaja dimulakan pada Ramadan yang [...]

2 interesting points brought up by Olivier Roy in the last part (Conclusion) of The Failure of Political Islam.
First, on our disability to move beyond nationalism and ethnicity.
Islamism has been unable to move beyond either nationalism or even ethnicity, and this inability has also been blamed on a Western plot. In Sudan, where a [...]

Assalamualaikum.
Just wanna share a quote from Tun Dr Mahathir’s The Way Forward. It’s the last paragraph from the second chapter of the book, ‘The Political Dimension’. Hopefully, Tun’s prediction in this paragraph will turn into a reality.
Sensitivity is necessary at all times and by everybody when dealing with relations and disparities. The day may come [...]