Tuah Pribumi

A lady came into my office today.
"Assalamualaikum, boleh saya jumpa Cik M?"
"Maaf Cik M masih belum balik lagi. Ada apa tu?" balas saya.
"Saya kira, Puan juga boleh bantu..." balas wanita baya kakak ku.
"Begini......" maka dia memulakan ceritanya. Mengenai anaknya yang sedang menuntut di universiti di Jepun dengan biayaan sendiri. Tanpa sebarang bantuan kewangan daripada mana-mana pihak. Dan kini anaknya dalam proses memohon biasiswa setelah hampir 5 tahun self-sustaining (2 yrs kursus persediaan + 3 yrs diploma) and now dia melanjutkan ke pringkat ijazah. Saya terkedu. Wanita ini dan suaminya adalah pemegang kad pengenalan merah.
Saya kagum. Kagum dengan semangat kental wanita ini. Bukan mudah menghantar anak melanjutkan pelajaran ke Jepun dengan biayaan sendiri. Yuran pengajian sahaja puluhan ribu ringgit setahun, belum termasuk lain-lain keperluan. Masya-Allah besar sungguh pengorbanan ibu ini. Masya-Allah hebat sungguh anak wanita ini. Saya bantu sekadar yang termampu dengan harapan usaha wanita dan anak ini dirahmati Allah dan dipermudahkan urusannya.
ps* I can't stop comparing the situation with my current students...how lucky they are...."

New Home

Today's entry is about our new home. Scheduled to be done in early August this year. Insya-Allah. Currently we are living in our double storey terrace house, bought almost 10 years ago. We were still in Japan when we bought this house. At that moment, we were pretty satisfied with the house. I guess the Japan's "sarang burung" apartment educated us in honouring space more, that our current home seems huge enuff to acomodate the 4 of us. However, things changed when family member increased and having a full-time helper in the house, we started to look for a more spacious home. But, the price, the house and the location never get along well. After a rather long searchs, we finally founded Karisma. The best thing about this new home, is that it's still in the same area. I've fall in love with this area indeed. Today, I'd be glad to introduce my new home.

Overall Town-ship Concept by Developer

Our House Type - Karisma

Some of the inside-view

*Above photoes taken from I-Property.com

If everything work out as expected, this year Ramadhan & Syawal will be celebrated in this new home. There come another issue, how to decorate this home with our very very tiny limited budget???ahahahahah

SOULMATE

According to my Wikipedia search, a soulmate is: somebody with whom one has a feeling of deep and natural affinity, love, intimacy, sexuality, spirituality, and/or compatibility. A related concept is that of the twin flame or twin soul – which is thought to be the ultimate soulmate, the one and only other half of one's soul, for which all souls are driven to find and join. One theory of soulmates, presented by Aristophanes in Plato's Symposium, is that humans originally consisted of four arms, four legs, and a single head made of two faces, but Zeus feared their power and split them all in half, condemning them to spend their lives searching for the other half to complete them.

In Islam, Adam is made as what we are today and from his left ribs Eve has been made as his life partner. My meeting with an old friend who is a psychologist draw my attention on this matter. Looking at my life partner, I questioned myself, "Is he my soulmate?". To have an intimate relation, affection, or even body relation with other human being is common as long we are called human i.e. in Science classified in animal family. When two people (animal) meet, testing one another, confirming each needs may led them to an agreement of sharing. Sharing their life, tie up in a commitment, so called "marriage". Sometimes the partner's compatibility only at the early phase of marriage. If marriage knot is between two people, I guess the two must grow up together, evolve together, connecting and updating together....never leave one of you behind or stop when one of you is still running. We may not run together all the time, but we may take turn like the baton touch in a marathon, so the other half can support more and prepare the next step when the other half need a pit-stop.

I sometimes worry if I've given too much (emotionally) in my relation. But, here is my psychologist friends words "Enjoy the previllage when he is around you. Deal with the problem when it comes. Don't worry about what is not happening....live the best.." . At least I know, I have somewhere to turn when I need to do that. And for now, I am so blessed and thank Allah for having a partner who is compatible in our needs. Perhaps, he is the other half of me, my soulmate......