Mechatronics Girlfriends.

Yesterday was amazing. Eating way too much and laughing much too. I’m grateful for the rezki and the open house invitations. Thanks for the inviters. It’s really tiring, yet I’m having real fun with the girlfriends. We are from the same department, from the same class, and we even have the same brain cords. You girls are real friends, I would say. Even Blair and Serena in Gossip Girls don’t ‘gossip’ and share things like we do.

Hoping that this friendship will lasts till we met again in the Jannah. InshaAllah. Please don’t forget me even some of you girls have married and have kids in the future. As for me, no worries cause I love you girls more than I love food. People said things change and friends leave. Hope we are not like that. We are one in a million and we are cool like that. Thanks for the memories!

p.s: don’t be touched :’(

Untuk Kawan Dari Kawam

This is specially for you, whose name is not mentioned, but you’ll know this is for you. To you sis, friend, university mate, course mate, classmate, sahabat, kawan, teman, I would say “Congratulation in advance!” Last nite conversation was ruined. Well, you know my phone’s behaviour. Always running out of battery. Tanpa mengira orang tu tengah excited nak dengar cerita ke apa. Main mati je tanpa toleransi. Sigh. Btw I know this news is inevitably coming, but it never fails to catch me by surprise. Somehow I reminiscing our conversation with one of our respected lecturer’s student, yang foreigner tu, mesti ingat kan? Yang siap bagi advice lagi kat kita dua orang on the way back to campus. Alhamdulillah finally it’s really comes true. I’m pretty much sure that you will change your status before me. Hehe... I’m pleased and glad and contented and happy and yang sewaktu dengannya. Like seriously. I am excited for you. Cewah, orang lain yang nak ehem ehem... kita pulak yang nak excited. So what kan? ;)

Waiting for real good news soooon... when everything is plan and fix. Pada waktu tu baru boleh share dengan semua geng kita. Baru seronok. Again terlebih excited. Maafkan. Last but by no means least, barakallahu fik! Rasa nak nyanyi lagu Maher Zain pulak, yang tajuk dia Barakallah.

p.s: Semuanya generally written kan? I don’t think anyone can tell. The secret is safe. This post is written last night right after our last conversation yang unexpectedly stopped. Tapi pagi ni baru nak publish. During office hour lagi. Selamba je. ;)

Us With The Kites Fly High

I was looking at my table watch, its 27.8 degree celsius, 10.29 am. Alhamdulillah I'm still breathing. By the way, I'm just ended packing things, cleaning the room, sweeping and cleaning some more. It's the end of the semester, one week holiday before the internship. Ahh, intern! What a headache. Let's forget that for a while. Well, I'm reminiscing the memories of five days ago, it was Tuesday, 12th April 2011.

All five of us, the roommates and ex-roommate are going out. Somehow, we plan to play the kites at Taman Layang-layang despite the cloudy weather. The clouds are getting darker, but it's not raining. I mean, not yet. Then we arrive at the park around 6 pm and getting excited because it's not raining there. So happily we are running, and falling, and running again on the beautiful wide garden with the kite flies high. But of course, happiness doesn't last forever. In life, there are times at which we are put into situations against our favor. And on that particular evening, it's one of the case. It's raining, heavily!

Experiences teaches us that though it may not be possible to change the tides, we can always learn how to swim. So it's not like we can play the kites in that kind of weather, though I see one guy at the park that don't even get bothered with the rain, so he kept playing. Well of course we back off, after all, we don't want to get fever as the exam is still around the corner. It's a little melancholy since it was so much fun playing the kites, who knows it could be that amazing once you see the kite is flying higher and higher up into the sky. It was a pleasure. Still haven't gave up on getting some fun before the end of the semester, as some of us are graduating and some will be working, so we end up eating together. Eating! such a favorite word!

So an hour passed by with talking, gossiping, story-telling, and gossiping again, and not to forget cooking. Well, we just throw everything in the pot and waiting for it to cook. Simple, but with much patient we are waiting, waiting and waiting some more, until everything is fully cooked. Alhamdulillah, done with the eating! The waitress is just asking if we want to add some more soup, but to her surprised, we already finished everything in the pot, nothing left. Of course we ate with our maximum speed since the Maghrib period is not long. So after prayer, doing some grocery shopping and back to UIA. But before that, something happened at the parking lot. There are lot of people exactly beside my roommate's car. They are shooting. Well, the veteran actor Jalaluddin Hassan was right beside me, but I was too busy eating ice-cream and of course I don't wear my spec at that time, I don't even notice him until my friends told me. Comes to think of it again, it's too funny.

So that is how we end this semester. We don't want to say goodbye. It's just a separation. As this one familiar quote that I frequently read and ended up remembering it saying that "A memory lasts forever, never does it die. True friends stay together and never say goodbye". We are indeed true friends. May Allah bless this friendship forever, always.

Kita kawan??

Written with a pen
Sealed with a kiss
If you’re my friend
Please answer this:

Are we friends
Or are we not?
You told me before
But I forgot;

So tell me now
And tell me true
So I can say
I’m here for you

Of all the friends
I’ll ever get
You’re the ones
I won’t forget

And if I die
Before you do
I’ll go to heaven
And wait for you!!

Adik Alia Balqis.

Selasa, 28 April 2009.

Hari yang cuacanya seperti hari-hari yang lepas. Segalanya berjalan seperti biasa, begitu normal dan tak banyak bezanya. Tapi pagi ni, Nurul mendatangkan khabar yang begitu melelahkan jiwa. Adik Nurul, Alia Balqis masuk ICU kanak-kanak, Hospital Kota Bharu, Kelantan. Alia masuk hospital sejak hari isnin. Nurul minta doakan semuanya selamat. Malam hari, saya telefon Nurul tanyakan khabar. Dalam nada yang tenang, Nurul menceritakan semuanya. Tapi saya tahu, dalam tenang Nurul, ada kerisauan yang tak dapat diungkap. Alia Balqis buat masa ni tak sedarkan diri. Terlalu banyak wire yang disambungkan ke badan. Saya diam tanpa bicara, cuma sesekali bersuara tanda respon. Tak terlintas difikiran apa-apa kata semangat untuk Nurul, semuanya hilang entah ke mana dalam redha saya menerima berita ni. Alia yang saya kenal seorang yang sangat sangat aktif. Nurul cakap, Alia ni terlebih aktif, banyak cakap, cakap pun macam orang dewasa. Apa yang pasti, Allah menguji hamba-hambaNya yang Dia kehendaki. Semua kerana sayangnya Allah pada kita. Allah sedang berbicara dengan kita, mengajar kita erti kesabaran dan keikhlasan, semua dengan pelbagai cara yang tak pernah kita duga. Tapi semuanya pasti ada hikmah. Hikmah yang pasti kita akan tahu dengan berlalunya waktu.

Khamis, 30 April 2009.

Khabar Nurul tentang Alia Balqis sekali lagi menyentuh jiwa dan naluri saya sebagai seorang kawan. Hati dan buah pinggang Alia tak berfungsi dengan sempurna. Kuman seperti telah menjangkiti kedua-dua organ yang begitu penting itu. Dan hari ini juga, Alia masih tak sedarkan diri. Doktor dalam proses periksa air tulang belakang dan buat brain scanning. Doktor kata, ubat yang terbaik adalah doa. Kuasa Allah tentukan segalanya. Jangan pernah putus harapan dengan Allah. Saya seperti merasai kesedihan dan kebimbangan Nurul, kerana Alia juga seperti adik saya, nama juga hampir sama dengan anak saudara, Ayuni Balqis. Tapi, apa yang pasti, kita semua layak diuji. Dan sudah pasti kita tidak boleh mempersoalkan kewajaran diri untuk diuji.


Buat Nurul yang begitu saya hormati sebagai seorang kawan, buat diri saya juga yang selalu lupa yang diri sebagai seorang hamba, segala apa yang berlaku ada tujuannya. Agar keikhlasan itu dapat dirasa, datang segala ujian untuk berbicara, dalam bentuk yang di luar bayangan dan jangkaan. Kerana kita manusia yang lupa, bahawa kita adalah hamba. Dalam redha saya menerima berita tentang adik Alia Balqis, dalam saya sendiri sedang menghadapi ujian hidup yang entah macam mana hendak saya selesaikan, dalam apapun situasi hidup yang terlalu mencabar ini, semoga kita semua sentiasa dalam kasih dan sayang Allah.

Buat sahabat-sahabat UIA, yang pastinya ramai kenal Nurul Zulaikha (Manufacturing Engineering), diharap kita semua dapat sama-sama berdoa, minta Allah tunjukkan jalan, minta Allah limpahkan kasih sayang, minta Allah berikan ketabahan, kesabaran buat Nurul dan keluarga, juga agar Allah memberi kesembuhan buat adik Alia Balqis, permudahkan segala urusan rawatan, disegerakan adik Alia untuk sembuh. InsyaAllah. Ameen.

“And there are, certainly, among the People of the Book, those who believe in Allah, in the revelation to you, and in the revelation to them, bowing in humility to Allah: they will not sell the Signs of Allah for a miserable gain! For them is a reward with their lord, and Allah is swift in account. O you who believe! Persevere in patience and constancy; vie in such perseverance; strengthen each other; and fear Allah; that you may prosper”.

Surah Ali-Imran: 199-200

p/s: to Nurul, thanks for the permission to publish this post. And like you said, the more people praying for Alia Balqis, the faster your little sister might recover and be the Alia Balqis as the way she is before, which is hyper active and full of energy, talkative and lovely. InsyaAllah. Whatever happen, your friends will always be by your side, and most importantly, Allah will never leave you. InsyaAllah. Looking forward to meet you this coming Sunday at UIA, but I know it’s just impossible. May Allah bless us all. Pray for the best. Ameen. Wassalam.

Kita kawan selama-lamanya...InsyaAllah~

Dedicated to sahabat-sahabat yang banyak berjasa :

Each and every one of us has our own commitments and responsibilities. But still, when sadness fills your heart, and tears well up in your eyes, friends will always be by your side. In sickness and in health, in despair and happiness. They will always care. How will I be able to pay their kindness? Question that I’m not be able to answer. But as long as I can breath, as long as my mind can remember, as long life this, I will always pray for them. Because, that is what friends are made for, to remember, to care, and to pray for good. Definitely. InsyaAllah.

" Antara 2 cinta yang ingin kumiliki,
cinta insan dan cinta Ilahi...
pasti yang utama cinta Ilahi,
kerana cintaNya cinta hakiki.
Antara 2 insan yang ingin kumiliki,
kekasih hati dan sahabat sejati...
pasti yang utama sahabat sejati,
kerana keluhurannya bisa mengubat hati yang luka.
Persahabatan remains 'abadan 'abada."

InsyaAllah~

till then, lots of luv, Wassalam,
Siti Farihan Mansor.