Hari Raya is the best gift
Eat, drink and ask forgiveness – those are the aims of many on the first day of Hari Raya. Which is why it is not recommended for women to wear tight-fitting kebayas or sheer baju kurungs, as it wouldn’t be as flattering after all that feasting. Plus, with so many scrumptious food to eat and houses to visit, would one be able to suppress the temptations for the sake of maintaining a slim silhouette?
In Bahasa Malaysia, Hari Raya means the "Day of Celebration". A public holiday in Malaysia, it is celebrated by all Malaysians regardless their races or religions. Sometimes the events and activities leading to the day itself, like driving home to the kampung or scrubbing the house clean inside and out, mean more to some.
But for most people, nothing beats the moment when it is time to seek forgiveness from parents and the elderly on the morning of Hari Raya. I have seen grown men reduced to tears, ladies sobbing and children crying - which just tear one’s heart out when seeking for forgiveness from family, friends and relatives over the wrongdoings that had been done over the past year. After all, forgiving is much better than holding a grudge for a year.
Adorning colorful, often new Raya attire like Baju Kurung, Baju Kebaya, Baju Melayu and all sorts is something that most are looking forward to. After a small breakfast just to line the stomach after a month of not having it, an annual “Solat Sunat Hari Raya” is performed at the mosque, and a visit to the graveyard to pray for the dearly departed ones is followed.
While the tradition differs from one family to another, the subsequent events usually involve family gatherings and photo taking sessions, whereby families would flock to the photography studio to get their photos taken and get them processed there. However in modern times there is probably someone in the family who’s an inspiring photographer, so the whole clan would just pose for a family photo in the family home.But, as the Japanese proverb goes “It is easier to rule a kingdom than to regulate a family” Hari Raya is full of surprises, events and happenings, especially when siblings and relatives gather under one roof after a long while, and there’s no telling on what can be anticipated on the day itself.
One thing's for sure, nobody can complain of being hungry on Hari Raya day. Food is aplenty; and with so many choices, so many ‘open houses’ to go to, it is indeed hard to say no to second (and third) helpings. From ketupat, lemang and rendang to cakes and kuih rayas there’s no mention of the word “diet” on the day of celebration, everybody’s out to have a great time in the presence of good food and greater company.
Not to be forgotten, programmed on TV have been quite a hit with guests and hosts alike. Although there are indeed a lot of Hari Raya-based shows on offer, circus acts never fail to make their appearances over the years. Those who are on visits to the open houses, especially the young ones, would sometimes be glued to the idiot box for hours. It somehow defeats the main goal for the visits – which was to tighten relationships among each other over yummy delicacies.
At the risk of sounding rather corny, the concept of Hari Raya open house really does bring people from all sorts of races and social backgrounds together. Where else can we see a mix of Malays, Chinese, Indians, Sikhs, Caucasians and others congregating happily, eating, drinking and socialising? Only happen on Hari Raya.
Tuesday, September 28, 2010
My parent is my heart
The person that I loved the most in this world is my parent. They face all the difficulty and obstacles around to raise me up. For the whole life my mother and my father spends their time working to gain money for me and my brother. In our life’s, we need to respect and give full of love to our parent. Without their blessing, our life must feel incomplete. All religions and all societies have given parents an honorable status. From a purely material viewpoint, we find ourselves indebted to our parents, particularly our mother. She not only nourished us in her womb, but went through pain and suffering. She loved us even before we were born. She toiled when we were totally helpless infants. She spent sleepless nights caring for us. Our parents as a team provided for all our needs: physical, educational, psychological, and in many instances, religious, moral, and spiritual.
In Islam, however, respecting, honoring and appreciating parents are not just for a single day of the year, but rather for each and every day. A Muslim child should respect and appreciate his or her parents on a daily basis. Allah mentions that human beings must recognize their parents and that this is second only to the recognition of Allah Himself. Throughout the Quran, we notice that parents are mentioned with appreciation and respect, even if they are senile. In the Quran, there is a very beautiful description of how parents are to be treated; Allah Says (what means): "And your Lord has decreed that you not worship except Him, and to parents, good treatment. Whether one or both of them reach old age [while] with you, say not to them [so much as] 'uff' [i.e., an expression of irritation or disapproval] and do not repel them but speak to them a noble word. And lower to them the wing of humility out of mercy and say: 'My Lord! Have mercy upon them as they brought me up [when I was] small.'" [Quran 17:23-24]
I am very sad when I see many children don’t want to take a responsibility and take care of their parent when they getting older. At that time, we should realize that our parent really needs us to take care and love them. They don’t want our money, but they just want some attention from us. We as children should be sensitive with our parent feeling. Moreover, when they getting older.
We should realize that we just have one mother and one father, when they gone, we don’t have anything else in this world. We will feel empty in our heart, moreover when we not have a chance to do our responsibility and take care of them same just like they taking care of us when we born until become adult. You will become happier if you can make your parent happy. We must thankful if we still have our parent. How lucky are we compared to other person who don’t have parent anymore. We must love our parent and respect them from now on until forever. As long as they life, you should take care of them. This is called karma, when you treat your parent well, your children also will treat you with kindly and love you the same as the way you love your parent. This is Allah promises.
The person that I loved the most in this world is my parent. They face all the difficulty and obstacles around to raise me up. For the whole life my mother and my father spends their time working to gain money for me and my brother. In our life’s, we need to respect and give full of love to our parent. Without their blessing, our life must feel incomplete. All religions and all societies have given parents an honorable status. From a purely material viewpoint, we find ourselves indebted to our parents, particularly our mother. She not only nourished us in her womb, but went through pain and suffering. She loved us even before we were born. She toiled when we were totally helpless infants. She spent sleepless nights caring for us. Our parents as a team provided for all our needs: physical, educational, psychological, and in many instances, religious, moral, and spiritual.
In Islam, however, respecting, honoring and appreciating parents are not just for a single day of the year, but rather for each and every day. A Muslim child should respect and appreciate his or her parents on a daily basis. Allah mentions that human beings must recognize their parents and that this is second only to the recognition of Allah Himself. Throughout the Quran, we notice that parents are mentioned with appreciation and respect, even if they are senile. In the Quran, there is a very beautiful description of how parents are to be treated; Allah Says (what means): "And your Lord has decreed that you not worship except Him, and to parents, good treatment. Whether one or both of them reach old age [while] with you, say not to them [so much as] 'uff' [i.e., an expression of irritation or disapproval] and do not repel them but speak to them a noble word. And lower to them the wing of humility out of mercy and say: 'My Lord! Have mercy upon them as they brought me up [when I was] small.'" [Quran 17:23-24]
I am very sad when I see many children don’t want to take a responsibility and take care of their parent when they getting older. At that time, we should realize that our parent really needs us to take care and love them. They don’t want our money, but they just want some attention from us. We as children should be sensitive with our parent feeling. Moreover, when they getting older.
We should realize that we just have one mother and one father, when they gone, we don’t have anything else in this world. We will feel empty in our heart, moreover when we not have a chance to do our responsibility and take care of them same just like they taking care of us when we born until become adult. You will become happier if you can make your parent happy. We must thankful if we still have our parent. How lucky are we compared to other person who don’t have parent anymore. We must love our parent and respect them from now on until forever. As long as they life, you should take care of them. This is called karma, when you treat your parent well, your children also will treat you with kindly and love you the same as the way you love your parent. This is Allah promises.
Being fat, healthy or unhealthy?
We can not measure the size of people body with their healthy or unhealthy. We can not discriminate and says that people who have a big size or fat is unhealthy and people who have small size or thin is healthy. In short, it's very difficult to tell. Filtering out what is real risk or benefit from the over-exaggeration and prejudice is tough. Being fat does not automatically mean that one is unhealthy. If they practices good and healthy lifestyle, they will be escaped from many kind of diseases. Sometimes, the fat people are healthier than people who have normal size of body.
Recent studies have shown that the type of fat may be much more important than the amount of fat. Certain types of fats are unhealthy and the right amounts of some fats actually can be healthy. In fact, fat people live longer than thin people and are more likely to survive cardiac events, and some studies have shown that fat can protect against diabetes. Now, I’m not saying we should all go out and get fat for our health which we wouldn’t be able to do anyway, because no one knows how to make a naturally thin person fat any more than they know how to make a naturally fat person thin.
There are some research want to explain and tell other people that being a fat does not mean that they are unhealthy. Poor nutrition and a sedentary lifestyle do cause health problems, in people of all sizes. There are thin people who eat crap and don’t exercise and are thus putting their health at risk and there are fat people who treat their bodies very well but remain fat. This is really true. The society always keeps thinking negative toward fat people according to their health. Human beings deserve to be treated with dignity and respect. Fat people are human beings. Even fat people who are unhealthy still deserve dignity and respect.
If we always do an exercise, and practicing good and healthy lifestyle, does not matter if we are fat, because we still can be healthy because we take care of our self. Nobody wants to be fat, as a human being, all people want to looks perfect, want to get an ideal shape of body especially for a woman. Everybody want to be healthy, even though you are fat people, you still can be healthy. Sometimes, the fat people looks and healthier that the thin people. They must continue their life as usual, and keep thinking positive to their self. Being fat is good as long as you can take care of your self and keep healthy.
We can not measure the size of people body with their healthy or unhealthy. We can not discriminate and says that people who have a big size or fat is unhealthy and people who have small size or thin is healthy. In short, it's very difficult to tell. Filtering out what is real risk or benefit from the over-exaggeration and prejudice is tough. Being fat does not automatically mean that one is unhealthy. If they practices good and healthy lifestyle, they will be escaped from many kind of diseases. Sometimes, the fat people are healthier than people who have normal size of body.
Recent studies have shown that the type of fat may be much more important than the amount of fat. Certain types of fats are unhealthy and the right amounts of some fats actually can be healthy. In fact, fat people live longer than thin people and are more likely to survive cardiac events, and some studies have shown that fat can protect against diabetes. Now, I’m not saying we should all go out and get fat for our health which we wouldn’t be able to do anyway, because no one knows how to make a naturally thin person fat any more than they know how to make a naturally fat person thin.
There are some research want to explain and tell other people that being a fat does not mean that they are unhealthy. Poor nutrition and a sedentary lifestyle do cause health problems, in people of all sizes. There are thin people who eat crap and don’t exercise and are thus putting their health at risk and there are fat people who treat their bodies very well but remain fat. This is really true. The society always keeps thinking negative toward fat people according to their health. Human beings deserve to be treated with dignity and respect. Fat people are human beings. Even fat people who are unhealthy still deserve dignity and respect.
If we always do an exercise, and practicing good and healthy lifestyle, does not matter if we are fat, because we still can be healthy because we take care of our self. Nobody wants to be fat, as a human being, all people want to looks perfect, want to get an ideal shape of body especially for a woman. Everybody want to be healthy, even though you are fat people, you still can be healthy. Sometimes, the fat people looks and healthier that the thin people. They must continue their life as usual, and keep thinking positive to their self. Being fat is good as long as you can take care of your self and keep healthy.
Pendidikan teras kepada perpaduan kaum
Menurut sumber dari akhbar utusan Malaysia bertarikh 27 Dis 2009, pendidikan merupakan teras utama dalam pembentukan dan perpaduan kaum. Faktor pendidikan menjadi faktor yang paling penting untuk menyatupadukan kaum di Malaysia ini. Bagaimanapun, tiada siapa yang berani untuk tampil kehadapan dan memberi cadangan supaya sekolah satu aliran diwujudkan. Masing-masing tidak berani memecahkan tradisi penjajah setelah 53 tahun kita telah mencapai kemerdekaan. Tetapi, apabila difikirkan semula, ada baiknya jika mewujudkan sistem pendidikan vernakular kerana hanya dengan perkara ini sahaja dapat menutup mulut terhadap tuntutan kaum-kaum tertentu.
Pengalaman yang didapati apabila menyertai khidmat Negara adalah pengalaman yang paling tidak dapat dilupakan, seperti yang kita ketahui, khidmat negara adalah salah satu cara lagi untuk menyatupadukan kaum kerana ketiga-tiga kaum utama dikehendaki menyertainya, daripada program ini saya telah memahami budaya kaum-kaum lain dan berkawan rapat dengan mereka. Saya juga banyak berkongsi pendapat, bagi saya ini adalah satu perkara yang sangat baik. Saya terfikir,jikalau dari kecil lagi kita didedahkan dengan budaya kaum-kaum lain, sudah tentu kita akan lebih bersatupadu tanpa berfikir negatif tentang kaum-kaum lain dan begitu juga sebaliknya.
Salah satu peristiwa penting yang melibatkan kaum yang terjadi di negara kita ialah peristiwa 13 Mei 1969, dimana berlakunya rusuhan kaum yang mengancam keselamatan negara. Oleh itu langkah awal perlu diambil untuk mengelakkan berlakunya peristiwa seperti itu sekali lagi. Kerajaan menyedari bahawa pendidikan menjadi alat perpaduan untuk membina rakyat yang bersatu padu dan merapatkan jurang kemiskinan. Pembangunan pendidikan mestilah selaras dengan ideologi dan hasrat negara untuk mencapai perpaduan kaum supaya menjadi satu kesatuan nilai untuk menyatupadukan rakyat dan mewujudkan integrasi nasional. Oleh itu, pendidikan adalah sangat sesuai dan penting dalam menyatupadukan kaum. Kerajaan seharusnya mengambil langkah-langkah dan tindakan yang sepatutnya untuk memastikan sekolah satu aliran dapat diwujudkan, dan daripada itu semua kaum akan lebih bersatu padu.
Dari sudut lain, pendidikan satu aliran adalah sangat penting untuk jangka masa akan datang. Ini adalah satu-satunya cara yang paling baik untuk mewujudkan perpaduan kaum berlandaskan pendidikan. Jikalau anak-anak kecil dihantar bersekolah disekolah kebangsaan dan bercampur dengan kaum-kaum lain dari kecil lagi sudah tentu perkara ini membawa kebaikan kepada mereka kerana mereka akan saling memahami budaya masing-masing sejak dari kecil lagi, dan daripada itu perpaduan antara kaum akan lebih erat berbanding sekarang.
Menurut sumber dari akhbar utusan Malaysia bertarikh 27 Dis 2009, pendidikan merupakan teras utama dalam pembentukan dan perpaduan kaum. Faktor pendidikan menjadi faktor yang paling penting untuk menyatupadukan kaum di Malaysia ini. Bagaimanapun, tiada siapa yang berani untuk tampil kehadapan dan memberi cadangan supaya sekolah satu aliran diwujudkan. Masing-masing tidak berani memecahkan tradisi penjajah setelah 53 tahun kita telah mencapai kemerdekaan. Tetapi, apabila difikirkan semula, ada baiknya jika mewujudkan sistem pendidikan vernakular kerana hanya dengan perkara ini sahaja dapat menutup mulut terhadap tuntutan kaum-kaum tertentu.
Pengalaman yang didapati apabila menyertai khidmat Negara adalah pengalaman yang paling tidak dapat dilupakan, seperti yang kita ketahui, khidmat negara adalah salah satu cara lagi untuk menyatupadukan kaum kerana ketiga-tiga kaum utama dikehendaki menyertainya, daripada program ini saya telah memahami budaya kaum-kaum lain dan berkawan rapat dengan mereka. Saya juga banyak berkongsi pendapat, bagi saya ini adalah satu perkara yang sangat baik. Saya terfikir,jikalau dari kecil lagi kita didedahkan dengan budaya kaum-kaum lain, sudah tentu kita akan lebih bersatupadu tanpa berfikir negatif tentang kaum-kaum lain dan begitu juga sebaliknya.
Salah satu peristiwa penting yang melibatkan kaum yang terjadi di negara kita ialah peristiwa 13 Mei 1969, dimana berlakunya rusuhan kaum yang mengancam keselamatan negara. Oleh itu langkah awal perlu diambil untuk mengelakkan berlakunya peristiwa seperti itu sekali lagi. Kerajaan menyedari bahawa pendidikan menjadi alat perpaduan untuk membina rakyat yang bersatu padu dan merapatkan jurang kemiskinan. Pembangunan pendidikan mestilah selaras dengan ideologi dan hasrat negara untuk mencapai perpaduan kaum supaya menjadi satu kesatuan nilai untuk menyatupadukan rakyat dan mewujudkan integrasi nasional. Oleh itu, pendidikan adalah sangat sesuai dan penting dalam menyatupadukan kaum. Kerajaan seharusnya mengambil langkah-langkah dan tindakan yang sepatutnya untuk memastikan sekolah satu aliran dapat diwujudkan, dan daripada itu semua kaum akan lebih bersatu padu.
Dari sudut lain, pendidikan satu aliran adalah sangat penting untuk jangka masa akan datang. Ini adalah satu-satunya cara yang paling baik untuk mewujudkan perpaduan kaum berlandaskan pendidikan. Jikalau anak-anak kecil dihantar bersekolah disekolah kebangsaan dan bercampur dengan kaum-kaum lain dari kecil lagi sudah tentu perkara ini membawa kebaikan kepada mereka kerana mereka akan saling memahami budaya masing-masing sejak dari kecil lagi, dan daripada itu perpaduan antara kaum akan lebih erat berbanding sekarang.
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