70: Sky is the limit

Assalamualaykum warahmatullah wabarakatuh :)

Alhamdulillah. I've safely reached Melbourne around 2 pm on Wednesday. Oh semalam eh? Kenapa rasa sangat lama dah? It's summer. Day time is longer.

I'm missing home already. Not so much for the rumah. But, home. Home.

The above picture was taken today at the Shrine of Rememberance (ambik from shrine mengadap ke city). Sempat jugak pusing2 city dengan free tourist shuttle bus and singgah the shrine (one of the stop for the shuttle.. kalau ingat, dekat my house ada one stop;uni.. and also ada satu lagi di REB.. I mentioned about it in some post before). Saje bawa juniors tengok2 city.

Hazy jugak la city kalau tengok dari atas shrine tu. Tapi masa in the city itself, tak perasan sgt.

Kepada juniors and new students of 2009, welcome to Melbourne! (if any baca this blog.. huhu.. perasan ni). You'll love Melbourne as much as I do :) or maybe more.

What doesn't kill you will only make you stronger, kan?
Fasbir.. :)

69: A Land Called Paradise

Sungguh menyejukkan hati.

A funnier one:



Tak tahan ketawa part orang tu bumping. Boleh terfikir gitu eh.
Teringat masa mula-mula kena solat di khalayak ramai, open-air, memang rasa sangat ralat when everyone is staring at you, taking your pictures even. Memang rasa macam nak stop masa tu jugak. But life is a learning process. Tajuk video tu pun 'Bassem is trying'. Mesti sangat ramai (or I can say all of us) are struggling to make the change that we really want, but are constantly facing the cabaran, especially macam dalam video tu la, the local muslims, dengan macam-macam isunya. Being a foreigner in your own land. But insyaAllah, slowly but surely

Tadi bergaduh-gaduh juga dengan adik, kenapa baru sekarang terjumpa video ni! All these videos are posted like a year ago.



We may have a very long way to go. A tiring and painful journey.
But, akhirnya pasti. Janji-Nya.

Dan harapan-harapan melambai-lambai. Sangat ada dan memang ada. Banyak sangat cerita-cerita mereka yang senang sangat buat kita menangis terharu. Kadangkala sangat tak sangka "Oh, this is really happening?!"

I'm just tired of people saying dengan lemahnya.. oh, masih ada harapan.. macam sangat sikitlah harapan dengar dari nadanya. Tak tahulah samaada tak mengikuti perkembangan kebangkitan,tajdid etc2 diseluruh dunia atau memang dia lihat dan merasakan dari pengalamannya sendiri yang sangat sikit harapan yang ada..hanya secebis cahaya ke? Muslims all over the world are doing this work together. We are rising. We are moving to that point.

But He doesn't promise that it will be easy.

So, hold on tight!

Ya Yahya khuzil kitaba bi quwwah.. (Somewhere in surah Maryam.. cari jgn tak cari)

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One point,

Sangat terkejut dan gembira bila balik Malaysia, t-shirt labuh muslimah sangat berleluasa dijual di mana-mana.

I never imagined or even thought that it will be a norm for malay girls to wear the t-shirt.

Masih segar di ingatan kenangan 6 years ago (gosh suddenly I feel so old) masa mewakili sekolah ke MSSD bola jaring. Our school team of course pakai tshirt labuh tu. "Pakai baju nak mop lantai ke ustazah". And my friend pernah kena tegur dengan kawan matriknya bila derang nak keluar makan "Kenapa awak turun pakai baju tidur ni??". And design2 tshirt yang available at that time limited only to our tshirt sekolah or customly tempah. Hmm.



(suddenly ada gambo2 emoticon kecik kan? heh.. computer umah yang dah diinstalled macam-macam oleh adikku)

68: Syukur

Sometimes you can just feel it.

Alhamdulillah. Alhamdulillah.

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Kita tahu apa yang ada dihadapan adalah 100% misteri. Lalu, kita pasrah, expect nothing (or expect the unexpected, euphemism) and ready for anything. Itu yang kita katakan pada diri.

Sebelum kaki menjejak kembali bumi Malaysia tersayang, sudah aku katakan pada diri. Aku sudah penat dengan kejutan. I'm tired of being surprised. The unexpected things that happened. Aku suka je apa-apa yang berlaku, bukannya being emotionless, just that I feel like I won't be surprised if anything unexpected ever happen again.

Redha, serahkan segala pada Allah, percaya segala yang berlaku adalah yang terbaik.

That's what I gained (sebahagiannye) from the one month that I stayed back last December.

I thought I'm okay dah, I'm ready for anything. Tahu yang perjalanan akan lebih susah, tapi rasa hati sudah hadam dengan teori itu lalu aku yakin aku akan ok. Come what may, I think I can handle it.

Egonya aku. Egonya aku.

Dan sungguh Allah Maha Penyayang. Maha Memberi Petunjuk.

Lantas Dia uji aku lagi.

Terus diri ini terdiam. Terduduk. Terdiam. Numb.
Wept.

Won't be suprised konon. Ego sangat. Tengoklah sekarang macammana.

Apa-apapun,

Bersyukurlah.. Bersyukurlah dan rasailah kesyukuran itu...
Alhamdulillah, Rabbil Alamin...

RASAILAH

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One.
Week.
Left.

I.am.mere.human.that.will.feel.this.

Alaaaa..sekejapnye dah sebulan setengah kat umah.

But.. people say, don't cry because it ends, smile because it happens.

Yes, bersyukur. RASAILAH MAIMUNAH!

Sebulan setengah penuh makna. Sangat.

Syukur, Alhamdulillah.

The future,
semoga setiap langkah dibawah didikan Ilahi.

I have a long way to go, a long journey ahead, banyak sangat kena belajar lagi!!!

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Ape kabo la agaknye Melbourne.
I'm quite nervous. Honestly.