Epilog: Buta Ma'arof

• Seronok hidup kalau kita boleh berbicara pelbagai bahasa. Serious, dunia ini luas, kaya dengan budaya dan tradisi yang unik dan menarik.

• Sampaikan ada orang yang kata kalau kita dapat jadi seorang 'polyglot', kita bagai jutawan kaya, bahasa itu bagaikan harta yang bebas nilai. Tiada akan jatuh nilainya biarpun runtuh foundation dunia. 

• Hari ni aku boleh berbahasa Arab Mesir serba serbi sedikit. beza sedikit Arab loghat Ammiya' (Mesir) jika dibanding dengan dengan Arab Fushah'.

• Teringat hujung tahun lepas masa naik Tremco (mikro-bas a.k.a Van) untuk kembali ke Rumah dari Pasar. Berpeluang berborak dengan seorang pemuda Arab Mesir dan seorang lagi warga Syria. Rancak aku bersembang dengan grammar aku yang bersepah merata, tiba si pemuda Syria tu tanya aku boleh tak aku menulis since aku dah agak boleh berbicara serba serbi. 

• Aku pun kata tak sangat, dia pun kata "oh jadi kau ni macam orang-orang buta huruf kat Mesir ni la *gelak* dan dia cakap dia melawak. Aku tau, lawak yang mengguris ego, haha. Ya bagai orang buta huruf kat Mesir la aku ni. Boleh berkata-kata, tapi tak pandai baca, tak mahir tulis, apa cerita? Banyak lagi nak kena belajaq ni.

• Rahim maarop dah ada, lani kita kira jadi buta maarop la pulak. Aduh

N.B
Polyglot = Kebolehan menguasai pelbagai bahasa; multi-linguist 

p/s: 2 posts in 2 days,yeah!

Epilog: Trauma

• Civilization are tested with crisis just as individuals are tried with adversity. It is these critical moments that brings out the character of a civilization, just as individual tests bring out the character of an individual. 

• Great civilizations measure up to their challenges and grow more resilient with each crisis, turning each adversity faced into an opportunity, much of it also applies to individuals.

• Critical moments in history of our lives, will test our mettle as strong human beings.

Trau·ma

  [trou-muh, traw-]

noun, plural trau·mas, trau·ma·ta  [trou-muh-tuh]

1.

Pathology .

a.

a body wound or shock produced by sudden physical injury, as from violence or accident.

b.

the condition produced by this; traumatism.

2.

Psychiatry.

a.

an experience that produces psychological injury or pain.

b.

the psychological injury so caused.

Origin: 
1685–95;  < Greek traûma  wound

• Last week's incident really took the stuffing out of my pants. Literally was shaking afterwards. Somehow it kept on playing on the back of my mind, what I should've done, how I should've reacted yada yada. 

• Now, everytime I see a bloody police truck I make a humongous distance, leaps and bounds. Hope no one will ever have to go through what I went through. 

p/s: I actually completed a post, albeit dry and arbitrary, haha, this place is so rusty. 

Elegi : Menjelang Subuh

Kumandang sudah memecah kesunyian, 

Masih terpadam jasad bersemayam, 

Ruhnya sukar mencari jalan pulang, 

Kisah Subuh yang sudah hilang.

Pulanglah, wahai Ruh yang berkeliaran,

Agar dapatku berdepan bersama Tuhan!

Soliloquies of Ramadhan [1]

[1]
Entering Ramadhan is like being enrolled in a Gym with FREE ENTRY for a whole month. All the tools, barbells,treadmills, weights and every single thing made available for FREE.

If you make use of all these equipments, work hard and combine it with proper time-management of your one month worth of FREE MEMBERSHIP, you might come out of this "gym" having built the strongest muscles of taqwa and iman, also having relentless stamina for ibadah and a determination to always improve in the way of your Creator.

So lets all grab this exciting offer and work-hard to make this Ramadhan our BEST ever to date!

Ramadhan Kareem.

p/s: Ramadhan in Egypt, believe me you, is definitely something else, breathtaking and spiritually uplifting. 

Ramadhan in Egypt [photo via TIME.com]

Epilog: The Peculiar Petrichor

• Have you ever wondered what that incredible scent teasing your olfactory nerves right before the rain falls down?

• Slightly giving you the notion that you are in possession of a mysterious clairvoyant power that you can predict the weather,that you are the ultimate weather forecaster, well at least as far as them rainy days are concerned. 

• The elusive scent my friends,I present to you Petrichor! 

• Petrichor, is caused mainly by many organisms in the soil, one of them called Actinomycetes which produces Geosmin, in which our noses are designed, SubhanAllah!, to be sensitive towards.

• Geosmin is manufactured into a rampaging volatile compound that kicks up right into the deep trenches of our noses when soil is disturbed, by either gardening, plowing or a hard-rain fall. So when a storm is brewing, a few molecules of Geosmin finds their way into your noses, its high time you move on, or you'll be dancing in the rain, which by the way is no harm at all is there now?

• It's funny how with all this technology lying around,with all this information flawlessly floating about the Internet we never bother to seek, and have the slightest of desire to be hungry, to have the thirst of knowing. It's fulfilling if channelled into the right pathways, mind you. 

O geosmin! O earth-smell! A Elbereth Gilthoniel!

source: HowStuffWorks, TheStraightDope