Tuesday, May 29, 2012

Kamera Paling Canggih Ambil Gambar Semula?

Lama tak share pictures... sekadar suka-suka nak berkongsi dengan semua. Cuma kali ni kombinasi koleksi gambar lama dan baru.







p/s - Kamera paling canggih bukanlah DSLR atau yang seangkatan dengannya. Tapi mata dan memori terindah kurniaan Allah.

"Jom Jadi Duta"

Qatar, Kuwait, Arab Saudi, Denmark, United States, Belgium, Australia, Canada, Netherland, Ireland.

Ini senarai negara penghasil carbon footprint tertinggi di dunia dikeluarkan National Geographic. Apa itu carbon footprint? Sedikit gambaran tentang carbon footprint di sini.

Sayangnya, tiga tangga pertama didominasi oleh negara Islam. Teringat yang pada tahun 2011, Qatar adalah negara yang mengeluarkan sisa makanan tak berusik tertinggi di dunia. Dan hal ini berlaku semasa bulan Ramadhan.

Apa kata, sebagai Muslim, kita giatkan usaha hidup bersederhana.

Makan apa yang perlu sahaja.
Buka lampu dan kipas bila mana nak digunakan sahaja.
Gunakan komputer pada waktu perlu sahaja.
Ke kedai, kalau jaraknya dekat, memadai berjalan kaki tak perlu hidupkan enjin kereta.
Maksimumkan basuhan kain dalam mesin untuk setiap kali cucian.
Minimumkan pengeluaran sampah individu, banykkan guna barangan kitar semula seadanya.
Lebihkan memelihara wudu'.

Macam-macam lagi....

Bukan apa, kita boleh jadi duta Islam terbaik.

Tuesday, May 22, 2012

Disebalik Hal itu

Kes penulis yang mengetengahkan ideologi tak terima hadith akan tetapi menerima pula alQuran memang mendapat liputan meluas. Saya tak mahu sebutkan langsung siapa namanya, kerana akan memberikan publisiti yang lebih lagi. Lebih-lebih, saya sendiri tak punya banyak ilmu untuk mengulas secara terperinci tentang apa yang dia perjuangkan.

Senjata saya cuma yaqin dengan syahadah saya.

Ok, enough.

Saya lebih menumpukan perhatian pada ulasan-ulasan mereka yang arif lagi bijaksana dalam semua laman media sosial.

Semua menunjukkan pandai.
Semua menunjukkan punya ilmu.
Semua menunjukkan mampu berfikir dan berhujah.

Eloklah semua menunjukkan pendirian, tapi pendirian itu cukup berisi dan berilmu kah?

Berdegar-degar ketengahkan hujah bersumberkan hadith dan ayat alQuran, tapi diselit pula dengan kata cacian dan makian, kata-kata kesat. Tak tertinggal bilamana dipersalahkan orang lain pula, disalahkan pemimpin negara, disalahkan parti itu dan ini. Yang kelakarnya, isu agama ini dijadikan modal pula isu politik. Bagaimana kita memandu gaya pemikiran dan hala tuju keputusan kita dalam berhujah? Kita biarkan sentimen emosi dan taksub, obsesi sebagai driver. Dan kita biarkan kepuasan peribadi sebagai hala tuju debat dan hujah. Benarkah jalan ini?

Akhirnya kita memalukan diri kita sendiri.

Kepada media sosial di luar sana, jangan terlalu memberi liputan sangat tanpa mengkaji demografik pembaca anda. Rata-rata daripada kita masih belum matang.

Aduhai... sayangnya bila perubahan yang baik itu, hanya akan menjadi baik bilamana kita rasakan ia baik, bukan kerana hakikinya baik.

Monday, May 21, 2012

Bijak?

Kata Syed Naqiub al-Attas, lambakan maklumat itu bukan semestinya baik.

Kerana belum tentu dalam yang banyak itu, semunya benar. Dukacita lagi jika bukan sekadar tidak benar, bahkan memandu orang kepada destini yang salah.

Kebijakan manusia menterjemah maklumat itu menjadi adunan ilmu bermanfaat sangat mustahak.

Cuma di mana taraf kebijakan kita era ini?

Pada buku?

Tafsir Quran?

Blog, Facebook?

Malaysiakini?

Dewan kuliah?

Mungkin juga pada hati, yang sentiasa diteman yakin.

Moga bijak kita itu bijak hakiki, bijak yang membimbing kita meniti liku hidup, cabaran dan dugaan, bukan bijak seperti dikehendaki orang lain.

Semuanya Milik Dia

Setiap apa yang kita rancang, hasilnya belum tentu menjadi seperti apa yang kita jangka.

Setiap apa yang kita persiapkan untuk menghadapi hari mendatang, belum tentu ia benar-benar cukup untuk berdepan semuanya.

Semua yang kita laburkan untuk kesenangan akan datang, mungkin memberi susah pula pada kita.

Siapa tahu, apa yang akan berlaku esok hari.

Baru tadi kita melihat langit membiru, baru tadi kita terpesona dengan kicauan burung.

Siapa tahu, esok mata kita tak mampu melihat lagi. Siapa tahu telinga kita tak upaya mendengar lagi.

Kita cuma mampu berusaha, dan berserah padaNya.

Monday, May 14, 2012

GRE Analytical Writing Exercise ke dua

"Ni antara koleksi exercise yang saya buat sebagai persediaan menduduki GRE. Memang banyak silap dan salah. Boleh tegur dan komen, sangatlah dialu-alukan. Dah namanya pun latihan. Practice make perfect, even though nothing perfect, I just like to pronounce it."

Universities should require every student to take a variety of courses outside the student's field of study.

Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the claim. In developing and supporting your position, be sure to address the most compelling reasons and/or examples that could be used to challenge your position.

In this modern day, people are depending on every skill that they have in order to survive. As a metaphor, a salesman not only depends on persuasion skill but in psychology as well.

The statement explains that university should play it role as an academic entity to produce an excellent student with added value. Today engineering students must have business knowledge. Or maybe forestry graduated should be equipped with landscaping knowledge. To do so, university should require every student to take a variety of courses outside the student’s field of study.

There is lot of benefit of this effort. Firstly, this effort can produce versatile students. As market demand is always increases, fresh graduates who walk in for job interview need something unique and different about themselves just to be acknowledges than other candidates. His/her knowledge and experience outside his/her field of study would assist him to do so. Secondly, the university will be recognized as a good academic entity. Employer must have realized that graduate from particular university is always can be trusted to be his employee.

However, not every skills equipped for students by it universities can help them excel in future. As we all know, the formula for success is always depend on positive attitude. Universities should put more effort to involved their students participate in extra-curricular activities such as social activities and sports. The objective is to provide students with positive human capital, soft skills and better attitude. On top of that, if university require their students to have more subject out of their fields of study, it will cost the students the time they neede to focus on the priority subject.

Preparing students with several knowledge outside of their filed of study is good. But as mentioned earlier, the formula of success is not solely dependent on knowledge and skill. From all the reason gives above, I disagree with the statement. As a conclusion, university to be mentioned is not a place for studying academic but also a place for students to find his true potential in everything they do.

GRE Analytical Writing Exercise 1

"Just my thought. This is one of the best sample of questions that I have for my GRE preparation."

Nations should pass laws to preserve any remaining wilderness areas in their natural state, even if these areas could be developed for economic gain.

Write a response in which you discuss your views on the policy and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and supporting your position, you should consider the possible consequences of implementing the policy and explain how these consequences shape your position.

Conflict of interest is one of the main issues in recent days. Sometimes decision makers face difficulties to decide what is more important to the benefit of all in aspect of law enforcement. This problem are also encompass in environmental aspect. Specifically, some group wants to preserve wilderness area and some prefer the area to be converted into economic corridor for the benefit of the nation. The statement try to highlight which one is more important in aspect of law enforcement between preservation of wilderness area and conversion of the area for an economic land use purposes.

I would rather say that I am agree with the statement. Preservation of wilderness area is very important for future benefit. Not that I am not agree with the importance of developing an area for economic purposes, but the wilderness area provide more value than how it appears. As we all know, most of forest area in the world have been exploited and converted into urban and industrial region. The establishment and the expand of urban region are not just negatively affected the perimeter of the region but it also affect the surrounding. This term are called ‘ecological footprint’. If the exploitation continues, we worried that the earth can no longer sustained for the importance of future benefit.

I do accept that economically, if the law entrust the wilderness area to be develop for economic gain it is for sure will assist the development of a state or nation. Issues such as unemployment, investment and industry can be avoided. For instance, an effort to convert of 15 hectare land area in Gebeng, Pahang, Malaysia for the purpose of industrial have benefit at least 1500 local people in aspect of employment rate. The industry has also positively take interest for international investment.

However, my decision is ultimately will not change. Converting wilderness area for economic land use purposes can assist a nation development, but the enforcement should be strictly implemented. On top of that, not only factory and industry can assist a state or nation economic gain. Wilderness area can also play the role of an important economic play maker. The area can play it part as a two main actors. Firstly, it can be a biodiversity region with conservation program where thousand or may be billion of genetic stored in it. Secondly, it can offer sustainable eco-tourism for local, national and international tourists. With a lot of business can be created, preserved wilderness area can also provide job to people and finally assist the economic stability.

On top of that, wilderness area are widely known as resources tank because it natural ability where it can capture water and carbon dioxide. The outstanding ability of natural environment is believed can help the economic stability of state or nation for a longer period of time. To explain this, let us imagine that the state needs to allocate more money in their annual budget for water treatment, to overcome unhealthy weather issues and to provide more psychologists to treat local people due to stress and pressure of not having natural setting in their region.

Finally, I would like to express my clear thought that nations should pass laws to preserve any remaining wilderness areas in their natural state for the benefit of future generations. Human greedy should put aside as it will only deteriorate human lifestyles.

Wednesday, May 9, 2012

Lapor pada Polis

Kecoh di internet video Ira pukul bayi. Tak tahu nak kata apa, cuma harap pihak berkuasa ambil tindakan.

Thursday, May 3, 2012

Dua-dua tidak Betul

Berhimpun atau mengedar gambar orang berperlakuan tidak senonoh, kedua-duanya tidak betul. Apa boleh dikata, semuanya sudah tidak betul di sini. Baik biru, merah, hijau atau kuning. Masih banyak masalah yang perlu diselesai daripada berbuat yang bukan-bukan. Sayangnya kita tak ambil berat perkara yang lebih penting.