Congrats Sofi & Diba!

Barakallahulakuma :)

another awesome vandy-vandy couple wehuuuuu

A daughter may outgrow your lap, but she will never outgrow your heart

Nashville Pancake Pantry, Summer 2010

Haishh counting days and mixed feelings

Selamat Pengantin Baru Nik!

Atlanta GA, Spring 2010

Nak jugak letak gambar tak senonoh kan? Hahaha cuk3. She was my weekend-roomate, DSP classmate, advisor, youtube mate, tempat mintak tolong mahupun nasihat etc etc etc and I adore her to the extend that I somehow set her as my gold standard. Eh? cam eksperimen la pulak.. 

Nik nik nik dah nak kawin in few hours insyaAllah. Congratulationssss Nik dengan Hasan. Kalau orang kahwin kita kena wish apa? Haha tatau. Emmmm semoga bahagia hingga ke syurgaaa. Hasan sila jaga Nik yang extra baik tu elok elok! (cam hasan baca je haha)


Barakallahulakuma :)

All time favorite #2

Came across this picture and sukaaa somehow. the feeling you get when a friend tagged you in a picture, and you know exactly what they were trying to say. our minds got vummiv wireless one lah tihtihtih.

What do you have to offer?

I secretly adore people who use their skills for Islam. 

Bayangkan kalau ada seorang manusia yang termove dengan tgk video ni, pastu pegi kelas almaghrib tu, pastu dalam kelas almaghrib tu de dapat byk2 ilmu and he turns out to be a teacher who teaches ilmu tu kpd ramai orang and who turns out to be blablablabla (sila ulang kisah sama). You see how it propagates? 

and it starts out with a simple act of sharing what you have (time, ideas, skills, etc)

I bleed black and gold. Okay tak abes2 lagi kew?

p/s: kalau pahala camtu, sins pon samalah jugak kan kot?
Hati hati makan hati kawan kawan tih3.

All time favorite #1

Highland Quad BBQ, 2010

how geniuses work

Lame #1

Lame #2

Lame #3

Thats basically sum up my day. and I miss my friends.

Al Maghrib is here, in Malaysia!

Al Maghrib is just phenomenal. I mean, when I was in US, I just couldn't get enough of Al Maghrib. Everytime pergi, balik akan rasa awesome. Macam "hoh awesomenya Al-Maghrib kali ni!" Lepas tu, pergi next, eh yang ni pon awesome jugak! 

Kawan kawan di Malaysia, please make time for the event. Bawak kaum kerabat sanak sauudara adik beradik rakan taulan jiran tetangga segala. Kalau tak boleh pergi both weekends, go for just one but I guarantee that you sooo gonna come back for the next one.

because we did come back again and again back then. 

Touched by an Angel - Shaykh Shpendem Nadzaku

Echoes of a Cave - Shaykh AbdulBary Yahya

We drove hundreds miles over the weekends, we worked extra hours to have enough money for the trip, we studied in between the lunch break for the exams/homeworks/projects, we basically did everything we could not to miss the class. because we just love al-maghrib.

Gazillion thanks to Qabeelat Ihsaan, for their tremendous effort bringing Al-Maghrib to Malaysia. 

You guys rock!! 

More info here, here and here.

eh oi, al maghrib bukan waktu semayang, ni nama organisation tau! Aaaahh I wanna go! Lets bring al maghrib to Germany maybe? Hahaha

Makanan org malas

Remind me of Vandy so much 

Rand Hall to be exact

It tastes the same, with cheese and sliced mushrooms

The only difference is that now I am in a new place, thousand miles away

Hoi new ke dah dekat lima bulan kot?

I wonder how's everybody doing

and I'm fine, still connecting the dots  ;)

Antara benua #3

Parthenon, Nashville

Kalau korang visit Nashville, Parthenon ni jadi a must go punya tempat walaupon cam tade apa apa pon. and saya tak pernah masuk pon museum dalam tu cuk3. Sayang duit ke haha padahal $6 je? hahaha

Holstentor, Luebeck

and ni pulak tempat yang wajib pergi amek gambar kalau korang visit Luebeck. Ada museum gak atas tu but we'll see kalau ada rezki hahaha gaya cam mmg tanak masuk sbb museummm = bosan.

Me-re[View] 2010

Kalau kat Malaysia, new year agak best sebab newspaper akan buat recap apa jadi tahun tu. ni the best part ah kot. (but that was five years ago?) hahaha maybe skarang diorang dah ada strategi baru cuk3 budak ni je ketinggalan zaman haha.

Penting gak benda ni so that kita tahu bergerak ke tak kita tahun tu, and what to improve and what not. Saya cam lagi suka part tgk apa yang best jadi, dari pikir part apa yang patut improve and buat for the next year. PLAN plan ni doesnt go well with me, most of the time it didnt work! so chillex and simpan dalam hati je lah nak apa and doa non stop ala ala nagging gituh haha semoga Allah juga bersetuju :)

2010 has been a great year for me. Kemuncak hidup orang kata. HAHA tipu! but it is like when you look back, you quietly say to yourself, wow it has been a year! and ada rasa a little satisfaction dengan diri sendiri di situ.

Final Semester
I started 2010 with enthusiasm because of  RIS and knowledge retreat in Canada yang saya dok ulang ulang sebut sampai ada orang cakap "heh tak abes2 RIS". It is definitely more than "just RIS" lah! Ni zaman bertemu Yusuf Islam, Hamza Yusuf, Maher Zain dan semua buah hati pengarang jantung acewaaah. okay okay dah kalau nak cerita pasal RIS memang tak abes. freak!

Yusuf Islam 

Wow time tu saya still dekat Vandy haha saje je nak letak wow dalam ayat. Zaman kegembiraan dan kegemilangan orang cakap haha. Final semester was like no other, I got this opportunity to squeeze in an hip replacement surgery. It was really an experience sebab sampai sekarang pon hip replacement surgery contoh terhebat dalam kelas kelas master because of the implant they use. ah apa apa pon saya excited sebab dapat pakai scrub macam orang orang Greys anatomy je kah3.

muka excited cuk3

Spring Break(kot) in Atlanta

Missing Watep yang tgh amek gambar, Oya and Min still dalam Geogia Aquarium kat blakang tu

My hopefully not the very last Al Maghrib class. 

Shaykh Abdulbary Yahya, Echoes of the cave.

and one of my team mates for final year project just get married! Sorang dah ada baby girl, sorang dah kawin now I'm waiting for the next lucky one! Ehem Azni and Zul ehemmm. Cey macam ah diorang baca cuk3

Senior Design Project - Modular Retractor

May
Craziest month of all. (Alhamdulillah)
Commencement. A minute of fame on stage, shaking hands with I barely know who, hah ameklah degree ni. I want to celebrate MORE! hahahahahaha helo 4 tahun kot nak dapat kertas keras sekeping ni hahhaa.

yay akhirnya boleh cakap saya major bme/ee hihihi

smiles all over, everywhere

The batch.
Four years of susah senang gembira sedih jatuh bangun main belajar berjalan selok segala!

Part bestnya jugak, my parents came to my graduation! It was their first trip overseas, thanks to Aliaa's family for being such a huge help. Since diorang touch down dekat LA, I brought them around LA and also San Francisco. I was actually nervous sebab, banyak sebab haha. Biasalah, you get nervous when you are trying to give the best for the loved ones. Kot. Outcome trip ni, bila balik malaysia, I can drive around freely because I've gain the trust from them (rasanya la kot HAHA). Siap boleh bawak kereta Abah tuu cuk3 tak percayaa haha. 

Walk of Fame, LA

Lombard Street, SF

21st birthday - Thanks to everyone. Pengakhiran birthday celebration agaknya ni haha. makcik dah tuaa

Kek biru paling cantik. dan sedap!

Midwest in Purdue. Last US road trip with awesome carmates and vandy-an.

how much secrets the black car can hold?

June 

Flight back to Malaysia for good :( :( :(

kena masukkan dalam azam thn baru ni: kurangkan bercakap boleh tak?

KLIA and all the dramas

Aisha Maisarah seeing the world! First time teman orang dekat wad, motherhood is indeed wonderful yet painful. 

 May you, my three little sweethearts, 

be the qurratu a'yun for your parents and everyone

July

Oya's first time in Kelantan, went to Pantai Irama, Taufiq's wedding, and tudungs shopping. 

VIP-will-be's visit, everything went well. Alhamdulillah. 

August 

Scholarships hunting: FAILED.  merayau rayau di UM and decided to come to Luebeck.

September

Raya in Malaysia after four years. It is still the same routine, tapi kali ni sebab dah besar, boleh pegi raya rumah kawan sendiri and boleh decide theme untuk family jugak haha. Gambar raya still tak complete sebab Abeje is still in Luebeck. 

Raya rumah Watip's Tok We

Fly to Germany with Abah and Ma. 

dont know where, Berlin

Registered at FH Luebeck/Uni Luebeck. Dulu rasa da nak muntah belajar, tiba tiba macam pegi belajar lagi. Manusia sungguh!

Buah hati pengarang jantung 2011 

October, November and December

Nothing much, zaman mendiam dan menggemuk.

2010 indeed taught me a lot of life lessons.

I learnt how to let go some of my dreams for what is real, knowing that I cannot have everything.
I learnt how to prove something that I almost carelessly wish. and I learnt, saying is far easier than doing. 

Family always comes first. 

People can only judge you so much, but they will never feel. It will always wound up between you and Allah, He is indeed there through the ride when you feel like you are on top of the world or even when you feel like crap, wishing to disappear.

2011 should be relaxing as almost everything pretty much already laid out nicely.

My aim:  SPIRITUAL LIFE. 
preparing for what will come in 2012, insyaAllah :)

O Allah! Do not leave me to myself even for the twinkling of an eye and do not take away from me the good which You have bestowed on me.

wohooo saya juga nak jadi tough  macam power rangers! Allahumma ameen. 

Antara benua #2

Pencil Case.

I dont really know how is it back in Malaysia but it should be the same. and I'm quite sure that most of the "cool guys" in The States doesn't have a pencil case. Pen sebatang and a piece a paper sudah cukup untuk ke kelas, no?

but here in Germany, it amazed me a whole lot as it is kind of wajib for them to have a pencil case. And it is not just that, siap ada Stabillo macam macam color lagi. Mantap. It actually takes me few weeks stalking the Deutsche and betuul, semua orang ada pencil case lengkap ada pencil, ruler, eraser, pen semua warna tak kiralah anda lelaki hensem cool bergaya, atau nerd spec tebal hahaha.

It is really new to me seeing a cool guy, taking out yellow Stabillo pen from his poket-doremon-pencil case. Really new. in a good way of course, a redefinition of macho perhaps? Haha

FAT straw jual bubble tea

Facebook might dissapear bila dah tua nanti haha but this blog will not (kot). So I better put this nostalgic pics up here. 

Bubble tea. One of the comfort food drinks that will quench your heart. Takde unsur exaggerate langsung di situ ye. Walaupun boleh la be specific there, Taro will quench your heart. Sebab ada orang ni, dia tak penah ubah try different things, nak taro je cuk3 tak adventurous langsung hidup. Best nya tempat ni dulu, bila kad yang dia cop cop tu dah penuh, we get a free bubble tea, and also boleh ambil gambar free. Haha sape tak excited boleh ambik gambar haa sapee? Kalau spuluh orang serbu bubble tea, spuluh orang jugak la himpit nak masuk sekeping gambar tu haha

Ni time Islamic Spring Retreat dekat Vandy. They had this session called "Sesi Riadah" and haha a very fit riadah we got there indeed! (nasib baik 9 orang je dalam gambar ni)

Six of us, budak budak suite. "Take a breath" as what Azni called it, sebab time ni kalat nak kemas untuk pindah from Suite. Ahhh janji, suite is the best place i ever lived in. Eh chaffin pon kot? Eh 

Last one ni special sbb nama saya huruf besar HAHA. and wow summer 2008? mudanya mudanya mudanyaaa

Sukanya bubble tea sampai time maa abah datang Nashville pon saya bawak pegi situ, tapi, tade rezki sbb tutup ish ish ish. kecewa walaupon yakin je maa abah tade la suka kot bubble tea haha.

But on top of everything, I believe it is not bubble tea itself that makes that place super special, it is the people. will always be the people.  

Ps:Credit goes to Cik Fadhe for the pictures.  ♥ you!
Ps: Hm ada gambar yang tak tercapai macam gambar nak ambik dengan ashwaq tapi pakai kad baly. ish ish lesson, buatlah semua benda awal awal. 

Masa gumbira akan tiba. Pasti!

Salam anda! eh baik pulak arini bagi salam haha.

ni cam post yang nak menyerlahkan ciri ciri tak boleh get over vandy je? eh tak tak, ni post nak tunjuk gambar ajaib. ceh ajaib la sangat haha. 

nak dijadikan cerita, masa saya kat vandy dulu, batch saya ada 30 orang. dalam 30 orang tu, three of us decided to major in something yang tade org lain nak. Dengan slumber badaknya, kitorang pon belagak la macam lone ranger. Eh ke saya je yang belagak?  Hafiz amek Civil Engineering, Muhaimin amek Computer Engineering dan saya amek Biomedical Engineering. Ni cam bidang bidang pupus la haha sbb jarang melayu amek. 

yang tekanannya bukan apa, obvious la kan saya tekanan belajar sbb kurang pandai macam Min ngn Hafiz yang memang budak otai batch sbb genius, tapi paling tekanan bila ada apa apa event mesti la 27 orang budak batch yang lain ni nak amek gambar major sama. ChemE ada geng, EE ada geng, MechE ada geng, tapi kitorang bertiga ni haaa mana nak cari geng? Iskk

Gambar atas ni time raya junior year kot. Konon konon buat sedih la bukan sebab beraya di perantauan acewahh,  tapi sebab tade geng. Tapi budak EE selalu buat baik ngn saya mesti cam buat buat ajak "Jiha meh la amek gambar sekali kau kan EE gak" Haha I really appreciate that :') tapi jawapan biasa saya "ehh aku BME laaa" haha BME inside out okay.

Junior year was tough though(I mean it), I was counting days bila la nak grad. Time tu pressure memang takleh cakap la, dalam jiwa raga selalu persoalkan ke"BME"an diri haha. 

Tapi bak kata sape ntah, setiap benda tu akan tiba masanya. Buah akan masak bila tiba masa, students Vandy pon akan grad bila cukup 8 semester memerah keringat, insyaAllah. Hepp so kena sentiasa sabar sebab masa gembira matahari menyinar pelangi segala pasti akan datang acewahh. (Kalau tak di dunia, akhirat kan lagi bagus?)

So haa tengok la senyuman paling manis kitorang bagi. and perasan tak diorang ada Tau Beta Pi punya rantai. tu untuk budak budak awesome. Eh saya awesome gak, ada bungaaa haa diorang mana ada hahaha boo!

Now, I'm waiting for my second graduation(padahal lambat gila lagi haha). Hepp haruslah menghitung hari!

yeah bme rules!  q(^o^)p

Vitagen

Allah listens. 

Sila digest dua perkataan tersebut menggunakan akal fikiran anda dan bukanlah digestive tract yang mungkin akan menjadi awesome jika mengamalkan Vitagen. dan semoga cepat sembuh setelah memahami dua perkataan itu secara mental dan fizikal. Sekian terima kasih.

May 14th, 2010

Alhamdulillah :) :) :)

it is hard. just so you know. kah3 emo. 

hujan?

Exams in ALL schools are canceled for Monday, not just VUSE exams. -Overholser

This year's weather turned out to be weird. Tak penah2 snow sampai classes canceled, but it did happen this year. Now it is the pouring rain since yesterday sampai finals on Monday canceled(atau posponed? cakap biar terang haha). Dah 8 orang meninggal setakat ni due to the flash flood. Nama lagi flash flood kan, so sekelip mata je la. Harap2 tersedarlah hati2 kita semua, kalau Allah nak buat tu, semua boleh jadi. I mean.. SEMUA. 

If Allah destined it because of our own countless sins, we seek forgiveness from Him, the merciful, sementara masih ada waktu ni. 

Now I ask Allah that He will not make it rain on May 14. Crossing fingers praying hard!

and.. GOOD LUCK with your finals everyone! Ada extra day untuk study mungkin?

ps: caneee nak g amek nad ngn watep kat airport nehhhh. 

April 27, 2010

A day to be remembered =)