Ellie chronicles

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So let us cherish this day by sharing our rezki and spending our valuable time with others especially the family members, children, parents, the needy, the orphans..

Credit to Aman Palestine fb

It is just  a meager contribution from me, as compared to as-syabab (youngsters) from Egypt who have  entered Gaza as volunteers. Ya Allah, please give them strength physically and mentally. We can do our part of course by donating (check Aman Palestine fb or Islamic Relief Malaysia fb/twitter) for more information, share  in  your blog or fb, continously  pray and let us seriously boycott the products, please click this link .

"Verily, the help of Allah is near".

        (2:214)

Credit to IKIM (fb)

Am looking forward for a smooth ride in 1434, I pray for a blessing, rahmat, guidance, enormous knowledge, sabr, success, adequate rezk, istiqamah or be steadfast to do good deeds to ummah and be the best mankind to other Muslims. Ya Allah, Ya Hannan, Ya Rahman..am begging you please accept my prayer..

Concomitantly, I am begging for Allah's forgiveness on all of my misdeeds which I have done in 1433. There were things that I wish I have not done, words which I should not utter, actions which I have stupidly done and the decisions which I should or should not take. Certainly those horrendous actions were the priceless lessons to groom myself as a matured adult and slowly to make me as  an abid or a servant of Allah. I believe that nothing happens in vain and Allah certainly speaks or teaches me on certain values to be inculcated  in order to be close to His way...

On another note, hijrah requires me to sacrifice to gain a path leads to Allah and a path of success, continuous hard work and a tested perseverance and a jihad to leave a wrongdoing, a wrong path...

Talking about jihad and sacrifice, those are inseparable elements in hijrah, let us sacrifice some of our fortune and time to help and pray to our Muslims brothers and sisters all around the world, especially to those brothers and sisters in Palestine....May Allah grant our doa and please Allah helps them....

Waalahualam 

credit to FB Dr.ZainalRashid

I always love football since I was in primary school. I used to stay back after school just to be with a few boys friends in the school yard to play football or ping-pong. Yes, I enjoyed kicking the ball around and once a while listened to their tactical discussion. Don’t be surprise if I say I know 4-4-2 formation, 5-3-2 hehehe..from them when I was 9-10 years of age.. I have known the positions well, full back, left back, winger, stopper, playmaker …hihihi and I can read the rules in the game well….corner kick, offside, free kick..

I used to have a football scrap book…yes…I cut photos of few favourite players and put them in the scrap books. Well, I did  not have enough money to buy the so called a player card and put them nicely inside the collector album at that time ....so I had a scrap book.  Few Man United players dominated the pages, the likes of Ryan Giggs, Roy Keane, Robbo, Sparky, George Best,   also  from Azzuri team such as Alessandro Del Piero (my all time Italian player), Gatusso, Pirlo,  fewer from other countries such as  Pavel Nedvek, Cambiasso, etc…For the local heroes, I only have Mokhtar Dahari, Akmal Rizal (following him since his stint in Hagenau) and Fandi Ahmad (opsss...Singaporean rite)...

My interest towards Man United seriously started with a legend hailed from France, a stubborn but genius player who Sir Alex brought from Leeds United and had a flying kick towards fan at the Selhurt Park..hihihii and I  was also amazed with the Welsh wizard Mr Ryan Joseph Wilson or Giggs..These 2 players chained me to Man United until at the present time…

So obviously am not a bandwagon..People always said that women fans are bandwagon, a glory hunter, looking only at handsome guy running sweat on the pitch… I would definitely laugh at this accusation… I watched Euro matches at wee hours together with my partner in crime G in the univ common room..hehehe.. I was a regular visitor of Man United club house in section 17 when I was at UIA matric centre…  I have a team which I managed in Fantasy Premier League Manager ….hahahhha …and Yes, I did not play football myself….and I never will....not even futsal.   Am not crazy over Beckham, Ronaldo, etc..but I admire their talent and attitude. Beckham always arrived early for a training and always be the last to leave the training ground just want to practice his passing and free kick. So no wonder he is the dead-ball specialist…ermm…In fact, he was away from home (his home in London) since he was 10 years old..stay in Manchester with a care taker, to be with United academy and his sacrifice indeed a worth. Every success need to work hard, commitment and discipline…a reminder to me…

This entry is about football so…this coming Saturday is a final match Kelantan vs ATM.. Kelate is looking for a treble and ATM definitely wants to put their name on the trophy and a place in the Malaysian Cup history. What I like about Kelate fans is their attitude..I mean the good one not the one who create a chaos on the pitch and outside stadium.. I like  their spirit to support the team..driving a long way from kelate to the stadium, wearing either a white or red jersey on the match day,  car decorated with Kelate flag and this similar  scenario I have seen in England during a  World cup tournament. On the match day, I can see them wearing the England jersey everywhere on the roads or in the post office or shops. I was astonished to see the post-office officer wearing the jersey at work… that's the spirit. The shops closed early as they either rush home to watch the telly or be a the local pubs to cheer the team on live telecast. Not only that, their houses, shops, buildings are decorated with flags…
Can you see these in Malaysia when the Harimau Malaya team in action on that day? Yes you may find them on the street wearing jersey on the ways to the stadium but not while working..ermm..and the Malaysian flag only display on the National day celebration... smirk!

To The Red Warrior Team "Gomo Kelate Gomo". Be nice and steady inside the stadium regardless of what happen on the pitch. Hoping that the referee will be at their best…Those friends all the way from Kelate …safe journey yaa… Me? I will be at home only entertain myself with a live telecast on telly, praying that TRW will win (regardless of what the rumours said)…

I always feel that I am not good enough to write about TRW..so  I just leave this to the expert to say their thoughts....

By the way…Jom Puasa bulan Zulhijjah...

Yeah people it is already October …ermm...

How time flies so fast. It is irony how dreadful time would be for different people and how anxious they can be or how happy they can be when the word time is mentioned. Some might be counting days on the big day…ermm, some might be counting hours to switch off the computer to be home after long hours at work, some might pray the time will stop as to capture the joyful moment, some would wish the clock will strike slow, so that many tasks can be done in a day, some would hope time will heal the pain and grief of losing the beloved one, some may pray for extra time at the dying minute so there is a slim chance of winning the game,  some would be counting days, second, to pack the bag and travel, to complete the study, to meet the supervisor (hehehe), to be reunited with the loved one, family, a nervous time waiting for a result after viva voce, some pray harder to have more time to live and repent, and of course at the time of writing I am waiting for my rice (using rice cooker tapi)...hehehe

Yes….T.I.M.E is the centre of Allah's creation…look at how  time brings an individual from one stages to another, from infant to toddler to kid to youth to adult to old age and eventually died or the process of dying can be somewhere in between.  Everything works in a prescribed time. There is a precise time for solat, for fasting, hajj and zakah. .. There is a  specific  time when Allah granted our doa easily.   There is an exact time for fruit to ripe, a flower to blossom,  a butterfly leaves the cocoon, the 4 seasons to come, detail time to get the mixture become fluffy and etc etc....All I can say that nothing works without time, yes even to the experiment in the lab requires time and perseverance, time for a research maturity, saturation of data, time to do transcribing ….bla..bla…all I can say that everything revolves around time.  So time is the precious gift in this world.

The time that I have as PhD student, really make me realizes that time is at every nook and cranny of our life. I agree that one of the precious lesson in doing PhD is I have a time on my own...to plan my work, to gain more knowledge, to be close to Allah, to do a lot of reflective thinking, more time to perform extra solat...ermm.. In fact,   Allah  continuously reminds us the significant of time…He puts it in the special place...Surah Al-Asr…. Time is precious…too precious that nothing in this world can buy time….the billionaire may delay the flight schedule, may get shorter time to move from one place to another  using superjet...but no one can stop whenever the time comes for you to lose your life. Only Allah knows when is the best time for everything that we do and we face, marriage, success, fortune, trial, tribulation and death are all works in the miracle of time…..So if you people out there having a rough time, a fail plan…trust Allah, the TIME will come....trust me His plan is the best and His TIME is the best...

Certainly this entry is a gentle reminder to me….reminder to repent, to do good deeds, to give a lot of donation, to do charity, to forgive bad people in my life, to spend more time with my family, to take care of my health, to finish my work, to……..the list is endless….

Ermm tetiba teringat pertanyaan Iman Syafie apa yg makin jauh dan dekat dengan kita…

Mati adalah semakin  dekat

Masa adalah semakin jauh...

Waalahualam….

 So what is the connection of this entry title with Green Day? Simple answer is nothing... I just love the sentence sounds....Yes I bought Green Day album called "Dookie" long time ago...and my fav song is 'When I come around'...but I think I have lost the CD...

Ok time is up..periuk dah berbunyi...nasi dah masak...Jom Lunch!

anyway.... I think one person really  appreciates the values of  time is Usain Bolt (hehehehe)