Dinner, is served.

Assalamualaikum...

Alas! The writer's block phenomenon once again has casted it's spell on me. Needless to say, my mind now is all in jumbles with equations, drug recipes, nerve pathways, all meddled up in a huge pile. Huhu~

The past couple o' weeks flew by with lotsa activities squashed in through the weekends. Princess Day Out to begin with, next came in Sepak Takraw Tournament and Family Day, and coming ahead in queue will be the Sisterhood Gathering and 'Jelajah Benua' event (me elected as the secretary). And, like just a couple o' weeks after that, would be the dreaded exam week. Ouch.

So you can simply presume how the writer's block hit itself in.

Enough said. A stack of Hygiene Q&A's are neatly laid in front of me, and that guilty feeling keeps biting in every second I lay my hands off them. Another, big, ouch!

note: by scrolling down the below-displayed photo's, you'd understand how the title click's in with this post. Beware for any gastric juice and hydrochloric acid hypersecretion :P Owh dear tummy, please don't rumble too much..

A snap of an i'm-not-sure-what-is-the-name flower I took weeks ago at the park. Among all pictures taken, I love this one the most.

Kak Masyi, Tira and me at the outdoor stadium. What are we staring at you ask..?

Why, we spotted a paintball tournament in all of a sudden! Haha. A first watch for me~

Grilled meat, chicken and french fries, barbequed. Deliciously mouth-watering. Nie yang nak mintak lagi nie. Hehe

Dishes below were the menu of our usrah's picnic potluck. Don't blame me if suddenly your sublingual and submandibular glands hypersalivate.

Kak Mas Sham's veggie salad

Kak Mas Hamzah's fried mee

Atique's curry puff

My honeydew, coconut-milk jelly pudding

Kak Aimul's bubur kacang

Kak Afid's caramel pudding (specifically requested from me..haha :P)

Kak Ifa's karipap pusing

The crew. Ow yeah we usrah-mates rock!! Hehe~

Spotted this tarzan-jump at the park, and dared myself to have a shot. Luckily no vomit masses spilled out afterwards! Haha. Though i did feel nauseous..


Family Day..the 'bola-beracun' crew. We came in as 1st runner-up (I think).

I seeeriously want this book!! Will be snatching it the very first moment I enter any bookstores once back home..

ps: Happy Birthday to mama..and happy anniversary to abah and mama!! The whole lot are spending a night at the Palace Of The Golden Horses, leaving me alone alongside humps of books. *_*

Praise be upon Him

Alhamdulillah..the Princess Day Out event was a success!! Will be uploading the pics a.s.a.p, insyaAllah. For the timebeing..menghadap buku sajer lagik seperti biase..huhu.

Kudos to the guys for preparing those yummylicious cheese cake, bread pudding, and caramel pudding..seeeriously menjilat jari.

Gambar..cepatlah sampaii..huhu.

Me at the park, photo-snapping with tira

Mixed emotions...

Assalamualaikum...

The first event of me being the Ketua Puteri is just around the corner. Norms have it that I should be feeling all nervous and anxious by now. However, the feelings haven't yet creeped in.

Lebih kurang pukul 8 pagi tadi, saya menerima sms daripada mak. Panjang smsnya, memakan 4 sms. Panjang sms mak, membawa seribu satu mesej, yang meninggalkan kesan dalam di hati..

"...frankly speaking, bukan senang mama n abah nak melepaskan akak. Kami dah biasa bagi n ikut kemahuan anak-anak. Akak n adik-adik pun tak pernah susah n akak pun tahu bagaimana abah sayangkan akak.."

Waaaa!! Hati anak mana yang tak terharu dan menangis andai mendapat mesej sebegitu..huhu.


Mama, Abah, selagi jantung ini masih berdegup, akak akan ikut cakap mama abah.

Mama, abah, (walaupun akak tahu mama abah tak bace blog nie) janganla risau..insyaAllah akak akan pandai jage diri nanti. Kalaupun dah jadi milik orang, abah n mama akan sentiasa dekat di hati..takkan ke mana punya akak :)

Baru saya tahu, betapa sukarnya bagi ibu bapa saya melepaskan permata sulung mereka kepada orang lain. T_T

Hiba hati saya tatkala pagi, rupanya berulang tatkala tengahari. Sesuatu terjadi, juga meninggalkan kesan yang dalam di lubuk hati. Kejadian yang mana tak siapa pun bersalah, atau patut disalahkan..tapi hiba tetap datang, dek mainan perasaan.

Kata cikgu psychology, "every person has his own dark side, which inevitably will sometimes backstab yourself from within".

If I had a most prevalent dark side, it would be jealousy.

Saya memang kuat cemburu. Sangaattt kuat. Cuba ditepis perasaan itu, tapi memang sukar. Lalu dipendam, menjadi nanah yang memakan diri sendiri...
Sye tidak pernah pun terniat untuk marah, apatah lagi salah anggap, tapi perasaan itu tetap datang. Sye juge insan biasa yang punya perasaan sendiri. Nak buat macamane..? ;(

Dan sememangnya seandainya perasaan itu tidak dapat dikawal, sayalah yang bersalah. Bersalah kerana membiarkan diri bergejolak dengan emosi seribu satu macam. Tatkala itu, tahulah saya, segalanya ujian dari Allah untuk menguji kekuatan iman hambaNya. Lalu tangan ini pun cepat-cepat menadah...

Ya Rabbi, kurniakanlah hambaMu ini kesabaran yang tinggi...

Princess Day Out

My first ever event as Ketua Puteri...Poster Hari Wanita 2008

Perasaan cuak dan takut, Allah saje yang tahu. Kawan-kawan, doakan majlis ini berjalan lancar, fun dan bilhikmah ye!! :)

Beyond Words...

Ameen ya Rabbal 'alameen..

Bring it on!! ^0^

Assalamualaikum...

Alhamdulillah, after months of anticipation, the scholar pocket money was banked in yesterday..and i have finally bought my ticket back home!!yeay!!

Depart: 7th June

Return: 4th September

Route: Simferopol-Kiev-DUBAI-KL via Aerosvit and Malaysia Airlines

weeeeeee~~~just could wait no more.

...which makes us, like, two months closer to the dreaded date.

(pic of 2006..bace smpai x nmpk muke..kekeke)

EXAMS. Hohoho. Just a few tips that might come in handy (for the author to be exact) :

1. FAHAM jgn HAFAL.
2. the best is to REPEAT five TIMES.
3. get the BASICS strong before going WAY DEEP.
4. imagine you are already a DOC treating/prescribing your patient some DRUGS
5. ooo yess..sarah jgn silap DOSE
6. read lotsa books..esp Kumar n Clark..don't just depend merely on LECTURE NOTES
7. concentrate n FOCUS mase study (tempat n mase mesti sesuai)
8. perbaiki niat + doa belajar + jage IBADAH sentiase
9. begin NOW
10. ingat nanti balik abah mama tanye RESULT (erkkk)

Think win-win and begin with the end in mind. Study SMART, not HARD.

..kalo nak jadik hantu stadi pun bole jugak. hehehe

Kawan-kawan semue...ganbatte lahhh!!

ps: uni-chan..bring it onn!! seryes tau..sye tgu niee!! :P

Mencintaimu Ya Rasulullah..

credits to some Egypt students

Khas buatmu Kekasih Allah...

Menyintaimu Ya Rasulullah
Takkan cukup hanya amalkan Sunnahmu
Basah lidah selawat keatasmu
Teladani kisah hidupmu
Dalami susur sirahmu
Pakai baju akhlakmu
Pelajari hadith riwayatmu

Menyayangimu Ya Rasulullah
Hanya hati suci saja benar-benar mampu
Bersih, tiada hitam cacat-cela
Noda setitik dua
Kami?
Masih terkebil-kebil cari identiti
Hala tuju hidup dunia ukhrawi

Merinduimu Ya Rasulullah
Kau pemberi syafaat umat tercinta
umat kau sayang
umat terakhir
Kamilah itu Ya Nabi Allah
Biar zaman pisahkan kita
Biar lughahnya lain
Biar adat tak sama
Kami tetap umatmu

Moga kami punya rasa manisnya cinta
Buatmu Ya Rasulullah...

20/3/08 Simferopol

Pemergianmu - Inteam

Kau masih tersenyum mengubat lara
Selindung derita yang kau rasa
Senyuman yang mententeramkan
Setiap insan yang kebimbangan
Hakikatnya, tak tertanggung lagi derita
Di pangkuan isterimu Humaira
Menunggu saat ketikanya
Diangkat rohmu bertemu Yang Esa
Tangan dicelup di bejana air
Kau sapu di muka mengurangkan pedih
Beralun zikir menutur kasih
Pada umat dan akhirat
Dan tibalah waktu ajal bertamu
Penuh ketenangan jiwamu berlalu
Linangan air mata syahdu
Iringi pemergianmu
Oh sukarnya untuk umat menerima
Bahkan payah untuk Umar mempercaya
Tetapi iman merelakan jua
Bahawa manusia kan mati akhirnya
Tak terlafaz kata mengungkap hiba
Gerhanalah seluruh semesta
Walaupun kau telah tiada
Bersemarak cintamu selamanya
Ya Rasulullah
Kau tinggalkan kami warisan yang abadi
Dan bersaksilah sesungguhnya
Kami merinduimu...

Salam Maulidurrasul to all Muslims...
May we obtain his Syafaat
InsyaAllah

Buat CSMUians : Sambutan Maulid Nabi

Jom meh jom!!


TenTatif ProgRam

Aturcara Majlis Utama Sambutan Maulidur Rasul 1428H

Masa Program

1810 Solat maghrib berjemaah

1840 Tayangan Sempena Maulid-Nabi 1429

1930 Solat Isya’ berjemaah

1950 Pembukaan Majlis

Bacaan ayat-ayat suci Al-Quran (Saudara Ismail Hamzah)

Ucapan Pengarah program (Saudara Azmi Ghazali)

Bacaan Selawat beramai-ramai

2000 Diskusi Minda - Sirahmu Kebanggaanku -

2100 Persembahan Nasyid (HIZBULLAH), Berzanji

2110 Santapan Jasmani

Moga Jannah milik kita =)

Antara GE dan adat...

Salam...

Today, I have just passed my endocrinology exam. Due to some diet miscalculations, the examiner gave me a 4@5, and asked me to do a report regarding insulin pump to obtain 5!! Alhamdulillah.. =)

The General Election's results are still being the big chit-chat of nearly all local offices and mamak stalls. PRU12: History Encrypted. For it shows how we Malaysians do have the power to speak out our thoughts. And yes, the local mass media are just sooooo discriminative. Thumbs up to all bloggers who dare scribble for justice!!

Saya juga melihat ia sebagai perjuangan sebuah keluarga untuk menegakkan hak dan keadilan yang lama sudah diekspoitasi oleh pihak-pihak tidak bertanggungjawab. Yes, Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim, Dr Wan Azizah, and Nurul Izzah. They deserve this win..and I pray that everything'd be smooth sailing for them. Allah Ta'ala nampak dan tahu apa yang orang lain tak nampak dan tak tahu. Alhamdulillah =)

DSAI and his daughter, Nurul Izzah

Dr. Shattri Mansor and his daughter, Sarah Shazwani (ade same tak??hehe)

We also had our own elections (that of the Malay Student's Society of Ukraine) and I had been officially elected as the Head Girl 'Ketua Puteri' of the organization. An indeed, very big and challenging post. Doakan saya dapat menjalankan amanah sebaik mungkin ye...

Pepatah melayu mengatakan: Biar mati anak; jangan mati adat. Adat warisan turun-temurun, namun kadangkala tidak diambil berat atau langsung tak diambil kisah oleh generasi muda masa kini. Terkena kat batang hidung sendiri. Hehe. Tahukah anda apakah itu adat merisik..?

Host:

Sungai Buluh panjang berbatu
Ada Patin, kelisa dan haruan;
Ramai sungguh datang bertamu,
Apa niat, apakah tujuan?

Guest: Kembang di taman berbau harum,
Bau semerbak seluruh desa;
Ditaman tuan bunga sekuntum,
Kami bertanya sudahkah berpunya?

Adat Merisik is a pre-engagement ceremony where the groom's delegation visit the bride's home to ask for the bride's hand in marriage. A 'merisik' ring/'cincin merisik' (normally being the 'cincin belah rotan') would be handed by the parents of the groom to the parents of the bride. Andainya cincin diterima dan disimpan, bermakna pihak perempuan bersetuju menerima pinangan tersebut. Ketika ini jugalah keluarga di kedua-dua belah pihak berkesempatan untuk berkenalan secara lebih dekat, dan beramah mesra. Lazimnya tarikh pertunangan akan ditetapkan pada saat ini. Si dara dan teruna juga tidak semestinya perlu ada ketika itu seandainya mereka sedang belajar atau bekerja di perantauan.

Haaaa...dah tau dah ape tu adat merisik? Saye pun baru paham sebenarnye..hehehe.

...countdown 3 months to go for the flight back HOMMEEE!!!!! yippee!!!

InsyaAllah =)

*wink*wink* =)

In the name of ALLAH, the Most Gracious, Most Merciful..

They say that a picture's worth a thousand words. I say that it emblems eternal happiness.

Entah macamana, tatkala sedang mem'browse' beberapa laman menarik, tangan secara tak sengaja terklik link ini.

Warning: the pictures that you are about to view have no correlation whatsoever with the blogger, nor any other of her 2nd parties.

Saje-saje tengok. Out of own curiosity. Serious tau.

[please view at your own risk.]

Satu shot yang sangat unique and best. Nak jugak!!hehehe~

Haa macamnila cara ciuman dahi yang saye nak. Sang Putera meletakkan tangan di kepala sambil menarik dengan penuh kasih sayang. Takmo tarik bahu or tak pegang pape. Cium MESTI/WAJIB kena dahi. Tak kisahla tudung kemik ke tak. Takmo macam sesetangah orang yang cium langsung tak kena dahi. Kalau saye..saye suruh repeat balik tau!! :P :P

Another one of the 100 reasons to get myself a DSLR. Or, better yet, ask a friend who's good enough to jiggle with it. Ade sesape nak volunteer kan diri kee?

Serious ni tau. Kekeke..~

Saye dan atique yang sengal. Hikhikhik~

ps: saye memang sangat suke bergambar =)

'Post-stress' post.

Salam...

The clock shows 2:09am. At norm, my eyes would be all drooling by now, but circumstances refrain them from being so.

Past two days ago, I got scolded by my neurology lecturer. "Very bad..you know nothing about this method!". Dahla she is the HOD (you can say that her position is that as of Dr. House's..being the Head Consultant n all). Turned out that I mis-wrote the notes (was in a rush, and couldn't care less to double check). Everything were in jumbles. 'course, I blame myself for the mere carelessness.

Back at home, I felt so upset. Upset due to the fact that I had done something so silly, and 'free-free kena marah dgn cekgu'. My mood doomed - zero.

I remembered some of our lecturers' popular sarcasms, which'd be uttered if a student fails to satisfy their demands...

"Ooo..so you're gonna deal with your patients with books in your hands??".

"You'd need bundles of books stuffed in your clinic then. What a shame".

"Your job is NOT to KILL a patient. But if THIS is how you work, you might as well WILL".

(Gulp...)

I am NOT gonna let another lecturer blow me. Ever. Again.

...and up to this point, the tasks just keep coming in bundles. Poster Hygiene + Olympiad Therapy + Neuro presentation + class notes ..... uhuk uhuk.

Tapi bak kate kwn saye, Allah takkan kasi sesuatu ujian kat hambaNya melainkan hambaNya boleh menghadapinya. Marah2 cekgu pun, untuk mase depan saye jugak. Kan kan?
Maka saye mestilah tabah menghadapinye... :)

Kalau kat Malaysia skrg demam pilihan raya, kat sini pula demam belajar. Sampai betul-betul demam pulak tu. Berjangkit-jangkit. Takpelah, kifarah dosa-dosa kecil :)

Tinggal lagi 2 tahun (kalau umur panjang) sebelum saye bergelar doctor. Ouch! Some changes needed pleassse...

* less sleep
* less food
* less internet
* less outing
* less daydreaming (ngehehe)

...semuenye less. Ape nak jadik nie. Marks kena 'more' la kan.

Pesanan buat diri sendiri...

stadik

stadik

stadik

...dan stadik lagi.

Pesanan buat awk jugee... ^_^



Pendek kate, pesanan buat semue orglah..arasso?

Hehehe.

That's more like it.

Ps: Ya Rabbi, jangan Kau tarik nikmat Iman dan Islam yang telah Kau kurniakan buat kami. Dan bukakanlah pintu hidayah buat sahabat-sahabat terdekat kami..mudah-mudahan mereka beroleh petunjukMu...

[hati kecil tersenyum gembire... :)]

Sajak Ummu Saif [saifulislam.com]

Sajak ini hampir membuatkan saya menitiskan airmata...

[click here to view original webpage]

Suamiku

Maaf di atas keluh dan resah

Aku tewas di medan jiwa ku

Kerna aku baru belajar

Belajar menjadi seorang mujahidah

Namun gagalku sementara cuma

Itulah iman dengan seribu gelombangnya

Kugagahi segala dengan doa dan cita

Kata-kataku mungkin hambar

Ia sekadar cerita hidupku

Isteri sepi menagih simpati

Agar dunia tahu dan restu

Pesan dari teman yang dikenali

”Wanita itu rusuknya bengkok

Luruskan..berhati-hati

Bertegas..jangan keras

Berlembut..jangan sampai reput”

Itulah hakikat seorang isteri

Suamiku

Suka duka, tangis ria

Resepi hidup kita selamanya

Suamiku

Kupohon sabar darimu

Agar aku redup di bawah payungmu

Agar aku terang di bawah sinarmu

Agar aku mekar di dalam cintamu

Pergilah suamiku

Medan itu lebar dan luas

Engkau mujahid untuk semua

Kan kuiringkan doa dan cinta

Agar syurga Allah diberi balas

Tenang dirimu dalam doaku

Tenang diriku dalam cintamu..

Ummu Saif

9 Februari 2008

Mampukah saya menjadi sekuat itu...?

Hantaran Calculator

Assalamualaikum..

After some random blog reading, I somehow got myself stumbled upon this bride-to-be's blog. Pretty much awed her sense of beauty-consciousness, and I did spot some diet supplements that I reckon would be worth trying (she lost 11kg's in 6-7 months - wahhh!!). Most of them were Herbalife products, and it so seems that my debate teacher, Pn. Husna is one of the dealers.
Nampaknye saye pasti akan ke rumah cikgu la balik summer nanti. Hehe.

Anyways. What made me go all oohs-n-aahs was actually this link:
Hantaran Calculator

Thought of giving it a try (sajer-sajer menggedik..hehe).

And here were the results...

Thank You for using this calculator.

Based on the matrimonial information you have supplied and considering prevailing economic conditions, your Hantaran would be $11,000

.....................................

(dunno how to react)

I had a look up at the website , just to see how the author justifies his modus operandi. Regardless everything, I like the way he puts his full stop:

"Note: Islam frowns upon wastage and preaches moderation, even when holding weddings. So take the calculator with a pinch of salt :) " - Ridzwan.com
That's more like it. Kan kan kan? ;)

Eurotrip 2008

In the name of Allah, the most Gracious, Most Merciful...

The date was 16-28 January 2008.

The route was Simferopol-Kyiv-Rome-Venice-Barcelona-Basel-Zurich-Meilen-Lucern.

For more spectacular pictures, do peek in at my flickr http://flickr.com/photos/sarahshattri

Gambar kat blog saye upload sket saje. Sudah letihlaa mengupload gambarrr di flickr hukhuk~

KLM Royal Dutch Airlines

Schiphol Amsterdam Airport

Night - Venice

Saw this Swatch in Venice

D faces of d crew

DHL by sea? erk~

Touristic Bus

Gondola-ing

Venice

Grand Canal, Venice - night

Clone of Hobnob's..kot.

Lake Meilen - Dawn

Safira's (Kak Nana's 1st daughter) touch of art

Lunchpack

Kak Nana's glass house at the banks of Meilen Lake

Intercity train, Swiss

Lucern, Swiss

Barcelona FC Store

Swiss Alps

Paella

ZARA mode

Barcelona at night

Centric Point International Youth Hostel

Barcelona FC Stadium

Rome at night

With the Disney PIXAR guy

Roman Rings

Colosseum, Rome

The Swatch that I bought at Swiss..hehe (mcm yg saye nmpk kt Venice :P)

Pasta + Serunding..nyum nyum

A keychain per destination

KLM breakfast on the way back

One word to describe them all: Subhanallah..

And so, the best honeymoon spot goes to..

MALAYSIA!!!

sebab die ade banyak makanan murah2, halal dan senang dicariiiii.....
hikhikhik :P