Antara Tun Mahathir and Anwar Ibrahim

Someone wrote an open letter to Haji Hadi over his remarks on AI's mata lebam. Betul kata penulis itu: antara Tun M and AI, mereka sama but situasi yang berbeza. We have less than 11 days to debate and discuss over what is going on in this country and decide which way we want to go (if our election is not stolen) but harapan is as harapan does. We hope for the best.

And the best is I bought many indoor plants for my home and office today. Feng Shui. Haha.

Positive vibes

It's Friday. Thank God. And I met old and new friends at my first journal meeting today. Rasa mcm ringleader la pulak on the issue of budget tak cukup. Haha. But dah jumpa ramai geng baru hari ni. The best is Dr AA yang offered nak bantu I. Weii..I must have done something good that Allah sent me someone kind today.Alhamdulillah. Settled satu masalah besar I.

Family WA berdegang dengung pasal PRU14. I think someone took offense when I said Pahang ni susah nak berubah. Kaya tapi tak makmur. Dan jgn salahkan mrk yang kerja di luar Pahang. We offered to help..no one took up the offer,Nak bagi khidmat percuma some more.

I think we are all ready to vote. Whoever we like. End of story.

Earth Day Celebrations

We celebrate it for the whole year and it intensifies in April. We did Save Our River Run on 22/4 plus more tree planting at Tasik Mariam. Then picnic mcm biasa. My watermelons were gone sekelip mata. It's so good being out in open space.

Then we were busy for our big event on 24/4.Rector changed her mind about joining us. Maybe the Istac talk with Esposito.A bit of a rush. I tried Deputy Rector Prof Rahmah who initially said OK then found out that she too had a long line of meetings that day. Then we thought just let it belah. takkan kita mcm begging pulak. Any other orgs' CEOs would have at least come down and support anak buah mereka kan but then again, I guess they were really tight. Dato Wan Helmi came so we asked him je to officiate. Afterall, he's the Chairman of the uni's Green Initiatives. So he lepaskan anak2 puyu tu (Prof Fauzan pun had a set and gave me as the SoR Director  another set to lepaskan.Kita ajak our guests join sekali. Everyone had fun).

Then we planted pokok gombak to strengthen the riverbanks before the kids terjun sungai kutip sampah. Lepas tu we went to see Dr Gee's river competition and bdk2 canoe did their 'don't litter in the river' stunts. My songwriting competition started at 12 at Richiamo Cafe. 14 entries - semua mmg pandai nyanyi and the winner deserved that RM1K win. Alhamdulillah, I think things went well cos'we were set to have fun regardless of any setbacks (bdk canoe were delayed 1 hour cos' kereta yang angkut canoe mrk tayarnya pecah tengah jalan.My sound system team terpaksa terkejar sana-sini cos' alat tu ran out of batteries. Pasal lah techie tu tak bagi extension letrik).

Adam who teaches music composition at UiTM came all the way to be our Chief Judge. I'm ever grateful to him and Prof Tazul for their kindness.

Ir Azman of LA21 Sungai Bunus came and what a big help he was..inspiring both our students and colleagues. And also to En. Mohamad who stayed back and helped give away the songwriting prizes.I hope KoE people will work with him on his upcoming projects. Dia ni pun very resourceful.Glad he and Ir Azman came.

We keep doing this yearly despite financial constraints cos' it's fun. I'm grateful that we have more people who have expressed their willingness to join us next year. I'd like to take a backseat now.

literally mencuci sungai

Pitch Your river product

Canoe Club

sponsored drinks from Mamma Mia

Suhaila, lead of songwriting competition comm 

songwriting competition

breakfast by the river

menanam pokok gombak

won by a lady

First prize winner for the run

 (under 12)

 My team dah terjun sungai

Proud of our sampah

Diniyyah Puteri's Visit to ISTAC

The prestigious school is here to learn English (for 3 weeks) and today they visit ISTAC and I was asked to give a motivational talk to them. Wow, the day before I was at UM, talking to TESL students on my writings. Today, motivation talk pulak.But I was happy to do it and we spoke.

Tan Sri Aishah Ghani, Shamsiah Fakeh all went to this school and became pejuang wanita in their own way. Diniyyah had produced many great female leaders too and I told the girls to keep true to this tradition and heritage. It's amazing that IIUM has so many foreign students too who mentor these girls while they are here.There is one from Peru, another from South Africa, a lot from Djibouti. Wow..didn't know that.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bc1uJiLwl-0

Pagi lagi Datin S ajak I pi high tea next Wedn.Ada orang dia nak introduce for one of my projects.Busy wei bulan ni.

Nantian Saka

That was his pseudonym. Puas saya mencari sama ada dia ada kuburnya di Semantan, Dong atau Temau. Dalam buku Dt Amran ada disebut dia turut berjuang di dalam Perang Paderi. Waktu itu kembang rasa hati saya.Muyang saya seorang pejuang.Seorang ulema.Menentang Belanda. Dia dan Tujuan Saka yang ada warisnya di Dong bersaudara. Hari ini saya tanya Zafuan..adakah dia datang ke Raub sebab Dt Amran kata dia berjuang dlm Perang Paderi (dirakamkan namanya di dalam buku Raonya itu). Kata Zafuan, anaknya Lunggah ada datang ke Raub (bapa Tupin Aishah). Petang ini ketika Zohor tiba-tiba saya hiba. Menitis airmata di sejadah. Muyang telah meninggal di dalam Perang Paderi. Jika kuburnya tidak di sini, di mana lagi?Anaknya lari ke Tanah Melayu. Ke Pahang.Kuburnya pun tidak kami tahu.Lunggah adalah ayah kpd moyang saya Tupin Aishah yang kisahnya sedang saya novelkan.Hanya ilusi sebab saya tidak kenal dia.

Semoga Nantian Saka - apa jua namanya yang sebenar diredhoi Allah dan cucu cuit cacatnya terus memegang obor-obor itu.

Satu pengorbanan. Al fatihah.