Manor Park, East Ham, London..15-22 Jan 07

January 28th, 2007 by sarahss

Salam…

   It’s been a week since we said goodbye to the Big Ben of London, Thames River, the Embankment and all its companion. Not to forget those irresistible food..Hobnob’s and Mark&Spencer’s mouth-watering caramel dessert. Who can forget the 7am marathon to catch up the Megabus that would be leaving for Cardiff? And also the winds and waves of Canary Wharf that sent someone away on the same day we were capturing freaky snapshots.

   For more information and beautiful pictures log on to www.sarahss.blogspot.com hehe :)

Byebye London..I’m looking forward to see you again someday…

abah & mira..me proud of both of u!!

December 29th, 2006 by sarahss

as i was browsing through utusan’s "Dalam Negeri" section, i spotted my dad’s name!!waaa..congrats abah!!u worked a lot n deserve nothing but the best..akak bangge!!

n congrats also for my sis who finally got her PMR results..9a’s!!told ya u cld make it…taniah mira!!

UPM menang anugerah antarabangsa

Oleh: MOHD KHUZAIRI ISMAIL

SERDANG 29 Dis. – Sekumpulan saintis Fakulti Kejuruteraan Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM) yang berjaya membangunkan perisian dan cakera keras untuk mengawal pergerakan satelit mengharumkan nama negara apabila dianugerahkan pingat emas pada Pameran Inovasi, Penyelidikan dan Teknologi Baru (Eureka) di Brussels, Belgium yang berlangsung dari 23 hingga 27 November lalu.

Timbalan Naib Canselor, Bahagian Penyelidikan dan Inovasi UPM, Prof. Dr. Abu Bakar Salleh berkata, penyelidikan yang diketuai oleh Prof. Dr. Renuganth Varatharajoo itu turut mencatat sejarah tersendiri apabila terpilih menerima anugerah khas kerajaan Ukraine pada pameran yang sama.

Beliau berkata, penyelidikan itu merupakan salah satu hasil kajian penyelidik universiti berkenaan yang menyertai pameran penyelidikan peringkat antarabangsa sepanjang tahun ini.

Para penyelidik UPM juga menyertai dua lagi pameran penyelidikan berprestij iaitu British Invention Show (BIS) 2006 yang diadakan di Alexandra Place, London dari 18 hingga 21 Oktober lalu dan Pameran Antarabangsa Idea-Penemuan-Produk Baru (IENA) 2006 dari 2 hingga 5 November di Nuremberg, Jerman.

‘‘Pada ketiga-tiga pameran ini, penyelidik UPM berjaya memenangi lima pingat emas dan tiga perak serta anugerah khas daripada Pertubuhan Pencipta Kenderaan bagi projek penyelidikan kenderaan dengan enjin CNG/DI yang dijalankan oleh Prof. Dr. Barkawi Sahari,” katanya.

Beliau berkata demikian ketika berucap pada majlis pengumuman kecemerlangan penyelidik UPM di universiti itu di sini semalam.

Menurut Abu Bakar, kejayaan itu juga membuktikan kecemerlangan UPM sebagai sebuah pusat akademik yang aktif menjalankan aktiviti penyelidikan dan pembangunan (R&D) dalam pelbagai bidang.

Tambahnya, aktiviti R&D yang pesat di UPM juga membolehkan universiti berkenaan menerima geran tertinggi berbanding pusat penyelidikan lain di bawah Rancangan Malaysia Kesembilan (RMK-9) iaitu berjumlah RM65 juta.

Jumlah itu, ujar beliau, termasuk RM17 juta yang diperoleh daripada Geran Penyelidikan Asas pusingan pertama manakala RM48 juta lagi merupakan Dana Sains pusingan pertama yang diberikan oleh Kementerian Sains, Teknologi dan Inovasi (Mosti).

‘‘Geran penyelidikan ini akan digunakan oleh kira-kira 1,400 penyelidik pelbagai bidang di UPM. Dalam membudayakan aktiviti R&D ini, pihak universiti menetapkan setiap penyelidik perlu menggunakan sekurang-kurangnya RM40,000 setahun untuk tujuan itu,” jelas beliau.

Penyelidik lain yang memenangi pingat emas pada pameran Eureka, BIS dan IENA ialah Prof. Madya Dr. Wong Shaw Voon menerusi penyelidikan bertajuk Composite for Anti Ballistic Threat Armour; Prof. Fatimah Md. Yusof (Natural Booster Kit for High Quality Microalgal Production) dan Dr. Tey Beng Ti (Efficient Mechanical Cell Distruptor for the released of HbcAg from E.coli).

Prof. Madya Megat Johari Megat Mohd. Noor menerusi penyelidikannya yang bertajuk Eco-Polymer Coagulant; Prof. Dr. Shattri Mansor (A New Robust Data Compressor for GIS Data) dan Dr. Ahmad Bustaman Abdul (A Natural Drug from Malaysia Herbal) pula masing-masing memenangi pingat perak.

I’m sorry…

September 11th, 2006 by sarahss

Tomorrow, i’ll be flying off to ukraine. Try as my best, i dare not blink a tear n let it be ‘exposed’ to my parents, grandparents n siblings. But it’s hard. Really hard. They’ve been living with us for ages, and they could easily discover what’s hidden under a best-attempted-fake smile. And what’s more, those tears have nothing to do with them. They’ve made me had the grandest holiday ever, so i’d like them to see me flying off happily. But just because of you, all of this is happening. You made me do this. My eyes are welling because of you. Why did you do this to me? Why do you have to make feel sad, when all what i wanted was to depart with ease?

To that someone…i’m sorry. It’s not even your fault. You didn’t even know that I was crying yesterday…you never did. And I couldn’t even blame you for what had happened. You had your own options, and you chose them. Unfortunately, i wasn’t there. I wasn’t there to warn you, and to stop that incident from happening. All i could do was here your friends telling me what had happened..and they also had no choice. Did they let you go? Did they? If i was there…i’d do anything to stop the incident.

But it happened. I’m speechless, thoughtless. Only Allah knows what awaits for us in the future. And I’ll always pray that one day, when you wake up, you’d realize that deep down..every single thing of this had happened for a reason. And what I told you was always right.

I’m sorry if I have to let you go. I do not wish this to be the last goodbye, but if it does…Wallahua’lam. It’s really nice to have been a part in your life, but i guess I could never be the best.

Asbabulhidayah…only Allah the AlMighty knows where, when and how. And we can never predict even the simplest bit. Treasure the people around us, because we never know when what we do actually means a lot to some people, who have been waiting for that precious moment to happen. And it could happen, just in a sudden.

ps: sorry friends…blame the friendster ppl for allowing us to blog. I guess blogging is a good art of healing lumps in the heart…

di sini kau dan aku*
terbiasa bersama*
menjalani kasih sayang*
bahagia ku denganmu*

pernahkah kau menguntai*
hari-hari paling indah*
terukir nama kita berdua*
di sini surga kita*

bila kita mencintai yg lain*
mungkinkah hati ini akan tegar*
sebisa mungkin tak akan pernah*
sayangku akan hilang*

if you love somebody could we be this strong*
i willl fight to win, our love will conquer all*
wouldn’t risk my love even just one night*
our love will stay in my heart*

pernahkah kau menguntai*
hari paling indah*
ku ukir nama kita berdua*
di sini surga kita*

bilakah kita mencintai yg lain*
mungkinkah hati ini akan tegar*
sebisa mungkin tak akan pernah*
sayangku akan hilang*

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the days uncountable…of pari asam pedas+mee bandung muar

August 29th, 2006 by sarahss

assalamualaikum…4/9/06 marks the end of my 2nd mth at home…for the timebeing i’m not pretty sure whether i’d be boarding the 12th or 19th sept ticket…but a week’s atrabotka or rework does make a difference…so count that to be 2 weeks…WOW…as much as i hate to admit it, i don’t wanna go back to ukraine!!!waaa…leaving my home sweet home is unbearable…seriously, andai pnjg umur, i can’t wait for the coming 4 yrs to end in a zwoooshhh…

okay…so what hv i been doing lately?well, frankly speaking, this yrs summer hols are much more ‘of high quality’ than last yrs…checklist?here it goes:

*jogging with aishah*

*already got the nerve to drive alone (thanks to aishah again)*

*tutoring my 12th yr old upsr candidate sis(goodluck sis)*

*weekend visits to amira’s skul(9a’s PMR okay!!!=)*

*past-midnite chitchats wif hani(a-level kid bz eh)*

*made my 1st ever ‘buat sorang2′ cake*

*hangout wif d best tcers ever(tcerzu & hus)n also wif rai n muhaimin*

*hangout at ct sarah’s…thanks for those lovely palestinian movies…really,other ppl shd watch them…a beautiful art of dakwah, beholding the truth n justice*

*babysitting iman*

*outing wif my small n big family at melaka…n also d trip to muar…mee bandung muar manyak sedap!!! =)*

*of course,balik kg….although sehari jerk *

*outing wif my cousins n siblings*

*meeting the ppl i want to meet*

*the family day…it wuz fabulous!seeriously…i’d love to hv some more…*

*attended abg ali n k.yetti’s wedding*

*also those rides wif my SUK gurls n d house tour*

*the chitchats tht i had wif esah…miss ya sweetie!!cpt2la buat usrah tuu =)*

aiyak…i think there’s much more…but guess i already forgotlah…

owh yeah…i have done strictly NO diets during my stay…i mean, c’mon…u only get to devour mum’s cooking once a yr…so why resist that???

which explains why regardless of all the joggings n walkings, my double chin can never turn single…heheh

n did i mention i’ve been wearing contact lenses?but of course not always…hari2 tertentu jek when i feel like not wearing specs…

n sol has a new baby!!which,i’m proud to say,has d same initial name as mine…SARAH…hehee

of course, being home means tht i get to watch more news…we hv worldcup,the west-Asia conflict (may Allah bless the mujahids…ameeen)mawina breakup, n siti’s massive wedding…others?hangpa cekla suratkabaq sniri…

k laa…guess this is  it…ppl,plz pray tht i’d study harder the coming sem…may Allah guide all of us in our future steps…study niat ibadah,okay???

Imam Al-Ghazali:3 perkara y dpt meningkatkan iman kite :

*berkwn dgn org2 baik

*mnghadiri majlis ilmu

*menjage care kte bpakaian (kwn2 klau ade flaw bgtau yek…coz i heard this frm a ceramah…takut tsilap dgr/tlupe…)Wallahua’lam

ps:my mum like wants me to go back this coming winter hols…shd i???

-sygsnowhite-

KLIA-we meet again + maktok’s great Q

July 6th, 2006 by sarahss

assalamualaikum…

today marks d 2nd day of my +-2 mths hols at home…ive passed all my 2nd yr exams, n for d next sem it’ll be me as a 3rd yr student..hoho..sounds so scary..congrats to all my seniors whom have n will get married…ramai giller…from what ive heard dah 3 consequently in a row..may Allah bless them fiddunya wal aakhirah…

on my 1st day at home mum has cooked me all my favourite dishes..that includes ikan pari asam pedas kcg bendi,top ranking!!hehe..n other dishes yg byk giller..luv u sooo much mum..maktok n pakwan’s ere too,n they also waited for my arrival at d airport..

of course,everytime when maktok comes she’ll ask me all those deadly "soalan cepu emas"…

’sarah dah ada kwn special ke blom?org mana?lagu mana?gheja apa?dok jauh ka?umoq bghapa?kenai lagu mana?biaq harta takdak,ghupa x elok takpa,asaikan hati budi mulia n ada iman…tu yg penting’…

though sometimes the questions unease me,it’s those questions that would actually deter how your next chapters of life would seem…maktok has been through lots of asams n garams,n since i’m the 2nd eldest (after kakyong) of her grandchildren, it’s no surprise if she’s till that curious..

of course,every time she poses the questions,my answers would go like…

"…wallahua’lam…(smile)…kalau ade jodoh adelaa…(shrug my shoulders)…sarah kecik lagila maktok…(grin)…kalau dah ade insyaAllah sarah bagitau…"

n then maktok will stare me in d eyes…"nanti maktok nak buatkan sireh utk sarah tau"…

irrefutably (chewah mcm debate plak..miss those old capap days…) maktok is d best hantaran maker i’ve ever seen…to the extent that the hantarans for my mum’s siblings (note:maktok is my dad’s mum)pun are mostly done by her…you should look at her handpiece…for all i know she could turn a telekung simply into a handbag at any time…wish i could inherit her sense of art one day…

n for all i know i’m already 20…at the peak of age when those questions are actually a norm (though i still don’t believe i’m 20….i already have a ‘2′ at d front of my age…ouch…that’s spooky)…n then mum told me that at my age i should be wearing compact powders n stuff to class…that sends chills along my spine too…my talcum powder can last for like one bottle for 3 years…so how can i be wearing makeup…?huhu…

well,mum has a point…u know when in some korean dramas the hero will tell his best friend "when i first saw her, she was a kid…now, she’s not a kid anymore…she’s transformed into a girl…"

these are the emblems signifying a kid-to-girl transformation (i think):

*she starts to learn how to wear makeup

*built her own signature catwalk (not the one concerning models of course…i meant the walks where you don’t walk huyung-hayang anymore…)

*new style of dressing…also includes sandals,(hand)bags,n d way of wearing tudung(like wearing tudung d wardina/waheeda way)

*speaks more softly,more mature n delicate

*everytime she see’s kids,she’ll go like "comelnye budak nieee"n pinch d kids chubby cheeks

*starts to be more concerned about recipes of fabulous dishes

*owh n yeah,starts to have a strict diet (which is like soooo unlikably to be me)

hmmm…well those are norms,so to you girls out there who think that they’ve been into this, don’t worry…you’re all normal…hehe

actually i was planning to blog about my future plans dor dis hols, seeriously didn’t plan that my blog would end up like this…

so don’t blame me if my blog always seems so "ehem-ehem-oriented"…hehe

to all my gurlfrens…"jomla kte kuar hangout together-gether!!!" =)

orange is d best!! =)

May 17th, 2006 by sarahss

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abah…i’m proud of you!!!

May 17th, 2006 by sarahss

UPM cipta sistem pemampatan data guna wavelet

data-data yang besar seperti data dari satelit dan sistem radar LIDAR (Pengesan Jarak dan Imej Laser) tidak dapat dilakukan dengan sempurna tanpa perisian-perisian yang canggih.

Malah data-data besar terutama data tinjauan rupa bentuk bumi biasanya memerlukan ruang yang besar apabila dihantar dari satu destinasi ke destinasi lain.

Buat masa ini terdapat beberapa perisian yang boleh digunakan bagi memampatkan data tetapi tidak banyak yang berupaya memastikan data yang telah dimampatkan itu mampu nyahmampat (decompress) dan mengekalkan kualiti asalnya.

Perisian yang canggih diperlukan bagi memampatkan dan kemudian nyahmampat kembali atau membukanya kembali kepada saiz asal tanpa mengganggu atau merosakkan ciri-cirinya.

Perkara ini menyebabkan data yang dihantar untuk dianalisis oleh pihak ketiga kurang tepat untuk digunakan.

Perkara berkenaan telah menarik perhatian profesor di Makmal Model Spatial dan Numerikal, Institut Teknologi Termaju, Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM), Dr. Shattri Mansor dan pelajar Ijazah Doktor Falsafah Biswajeet Pradhan dari India. Mereka menjalankan penyelidikan membina perisian yang dapat membantu jurutera dan saintis menyimpan dan menghantar data-data mereka dengan mudah serta ringkas.

Kajian mereka dibantu oleh Prof. Madya Dr. Abdul Rahman Ramli, Prof. Madya Dr. Abdul Rashid Mohd Shariff dan Normalina Jamaludin.

“Produk yang kami hasilkan merupakan sistem pemampatan data spatial berasaskan kepada wavelet generasi kedua,” kata Shattri semasa ditemui di pejabatnya baru-baru ini.

Penggunaan teknik wavelet membenarkan maklumat pada paras resolusi berlainan digunakan bagi menyelesaikan masalah penghantaran data-data bersaiz besar.

Malah dengan teknik berkenaan data-data besar yang dihantar boleh dipaparkan semula pada saiz yang sama tanpa menjejaskan kualitinya.

Kehebatan produk berkenaan terletak pada kebolehan Shattri membangunkan formula pengiraan bagi memampatkan data dan mengembalikannya kepada saiz asal.

“Dengan menggunakan algoritma khusus, kedudukan titik-titik tertentu bagi mewakili gambaran bumi sebenar dalam bentuk tiga dimensi dapat dianggarkan,” jelasnya.

Projek yang dimulakan pada 1997 di bawah Geran Penyelidikan Dalam Bidang-Bidang Keutamaan (IRPA) itu merupakan projek bagi digital bumi tetapi mula memberi penekanan terhadap pemampatan data sejak tahun 2003.

Shattri berkata, keputusan yang didapati apabila dibandingkan dengan teknik pemampatan tradisional menggunakan perisian seperti JPEG 2000, MrSID, ECW menunjukkan kaedah berkenaan boleh digunakan dengan lebih berkesan bagi set data seperti LIDAR dan GIS tiga dimensi.

“Produk ini dibina bagi memampatkan data GIS dan sangat mesra pengguna kerana ia amat mudah digunakan.

“Biasanya pengguna GIS atas talian menggunakan algoritma ini bagi visualisasi pada pelbagai resolusi dengan tepat,” jelasnya.

Produk ini juga amat berkesan untuk memampatkan data-data LIDAR pada resolusi berbeza.

Shattri menambah, produk yang dihasilkan dapat memampatkan data-data pada paras yang dikehendaki sama ada 20, 50 atau 120 peratus yang diperlukan oleh pengguna.

Kod pengkomputeran bagi Triangulated Irregular Network (TIN) dijana menggunakan teknik Delaunay Triangulation bagi mendapatkan rupa bentuk permukaan bumi daripada data mentah.

Kaedah yang menggunakan wavelet generasi kedua akan memilih dan menyingkirkan data-data tertentu bagi memberikan persembahan permukaan yang jelas tanpa mengenepikan kualiti.

Sisipan penapis wavelet baru menggunakan dua langkah iaitu memisahkan serta meningkatkan kualiti sesuatu data yang dimampatkan.

Kualiti paparan rupa bentuk muka bumi selepas menggunakan teknik berkenaan adalah realistik sebagaimana dengan paparan asli.

Hasil penyelidikan dan produk yang dihasilkan oleh Shattri dan penuntutnya itu telah mendapat pengiktirafan banyak badan antarabangsa dan diterbitkan dalam jurnal saintifik.

Antaranya International Journal of Applied & Numerical Harmonic Analysis, KMITL Science Journal, Journal of Institution of Surveyors Malaysia, Korean Journal of Remote Sensing dan International Journal of the Computer, the Internet and Management.

Shattri menambah, pihaknya dan UPM sedang dalam usaha untuk mengkomersialkan produk berkenaan selepas proses mempatenkan dan hak cipta selesai.

“Sekarang pihak UPM sedang dalam proses pembungkusan dan mencari antaramuka yang baik sebelum ia dipasarkan,” katanya sambil menambah dana yang mencukupi diperlukan untuk proses pengkomersialan.

hats off for abah!! =)

the day i nearly fainted…

March 23rd, 2006 by sarahss

assalamualaikum

i remember the date. 19.03.2006. The day i nearly fainted. I stepped into my room, collapsed onto the floor, tears running non-endlessly, n both of my roommates ran to catch me. My sobs were loud n ‘painful’. I felt like was a 3 yr old who just lost her way home. One of my roommates thought that someone had passed away. The other thought that i ‘terkena buatan orang’. But the fact is, none of the guesses were true…

Betapa Allah telah mengira bilangan titisan airmatamu…

On 21.03.2006, i did what i thought i could never have done. Next, i saw myself smiling again…=)

We were strangers


Starting out on a journey


Never dreaming what we'd have to go through


Now here we are


And I'm suddenly standing


At the beginning with you





No one told me I was going to find you


Unexpected, what you did to my heart


When I lost hope


You were there to remind me


This is the start





Life is a road, and I want to keep going


Love is a river I want to keep flowing


Life is a road, now and forever


Wonderful journey


I'll be there when the world stops turning


I'll be there when the storm is through


At the end I want to be standing at the beginning


With you





We were strangers


On a crazy adventure


Never dreaming how are dreams could come true


Now here we stand


Unafraid of the future


At the beginning with you





And life is a road, and I want to keep going


Love is a river I want to keep flowing


Life is a road, now and forever


Wonderful journey


I'll be there when the world stops turning


I'll be there when the storm is through


At the end I want to be standing at the beginning


With you





I knew there was somebody somewhere


Like me alone in the dark


Now I know my dream will live on


I've been waiting so long


Nothing's going to tear us apart





And life is a road and I want to going


Love is a river I want to keep flowing


Life is a road, now and forever


Wonderful journey


I'll be there when the world stops turning


I'll be there when the storm is through


In the end I want to be standing at the beginning


With you





And life is a road, and I want to keep going


Love is a river I want to keep going on


Starting out on a journey


Life is a road and I want to keep going


Love is a river I want to keep flowing


In the end I want to be standing at the beginning


With you


The end of a beginning (part 1)

March 4th, 2006 by sarahss

   Tickles of perspiration ran all over my hands. My fingers fidgeted over the little polka-dotted paper bag time and again, turning it upside down nearly every 2 minutes.Sometimes i’d take a peak in the bag, just to ensure that the cross-stitch was constantly neatly folded, and at nearly every 10th minute i’d take it out, lay it on my laps, and finger the edgings of the cross-stitch.

   It was the most precious artwork i had ever done, I did it all by myself, and it took me 2 months to make the last notch of the whole picture. At the right lower corner I had stitched our I.C’s together in red and blue, an emblem signifying my hand’s touch of art. I had kept it for a year, bearng all my thoughts and feelings, and i guess the time had finally come for me to hand it to the right person.

  My eyes darted searching for any friendly eyes that may be of good help. My stomach, as always, could not stop grumbling for more of that tempting delicacy. Speaking of which, of course, emerges in sight only once an hour.

   Finally, there came that beautiful, skinny, 175cm tall, model-like-figured lady, swifting her footsteps ever so delicate like a ballerina skating on ice. Her small, soft hands were neatly balancing a tray that had glasses of orange juice standing on it, and though slight shivers xephyred the moment, it could never unleash her firm grips, almost as if they were glued.

  "It would be now, or never," my heart whispered, courage flaming in me, like this would mark the final fate of my preexisting memory. I squeezed my hands tightly, trying not to express that timid feeling that almost dominated my mind.

   Her footsteps were near. She bent her solid figure. Her face was 20 cm apart from mine. Politely, the question went…

   "Miss, would you like some orange juice?".

"Yes, " I answered. I wanted to ask her that question. But somehow, my tongue was tied into a knot, and the words did not appear.

   She noticed the change. "Is there anything else I could help?".

   "No,". The reply stopped there. No more words came after it. Why didn’t the real words come out?

   I felt like throwing the gift there and then.

                                              *       *      *

  " Ladies and gentlemen, we have just landed at the Langkawi International Airport. The temperature outside is 27 celcius. I,"…… the typical announcement from the captain marked the end of our non-stop 55 minutes flight from Kuala Lumpur to Langkawi….." we wish you a pleasant stay in Langkawi and thank you for travelling with Malaysia Airlines,".

  Slowly, every passenger unfastened their seatbelts and took out their dumpels from the cabin box. Before you could say Lizzie McGuire, a queu was formed, and everyone was eager to head to the exit door first.

  " I just can’t go like this, " I said to myself. " I just can’t. It’s just not fair,".

  My footsteps were nearing the exit door. I couldn’t leave everything unsettled. I eyed over to that lovely stewardess who just half an our ago had given me the sweetest smile of gesture. Maybe she’s the one. Maybe she could help.

   " Excuse me miss, could you please help me?" I asked, curving the most friendly smile I could ever curve.

   " Why, sure, dear. What seems to be the matter?".

   " Could you please give this to the captain for me?".

   " Of course dear, not a problem at all,".

  " Thank you,".

  I turned my head left, and proceeded down the long case of stairs, that somehow seemed to take forever to reach the ground.

    The entrance towards the airport was 10 meters ahead of me. I guess this is the end. I really did.

But not then.

   "Sofia…!!!!!".

The voice was loud and clear, banging into my ears. My bag thudded to the ground. I felt my feet aching and suddenly glued to earth. My mind urged me to proceed my steps. But my heart didn’t. And I dared not turn around to look back.

   Except that I did.   

A journey back through memory lane…

December 15th, 2005 by sarahss

     Flipping through the pages of my diary one by one, a lot of thoughts came running into mind, of what had happened in the past, and what may be the jottings of the future. Looking back, u may never predict what had happened in the past is actually happening, and how the unknown future is like a special gift packed in a huge parcel, where one may have many thoughts n predictions of what it may be, and some will have their own wishes n desires of what they want it to be.

    Sometimes when you ponder back, you’d suddenly realize of how beautiful Allah has planned our route to be, of how splendid our life would end up like, and those teeny weeny triftling details that actually implicitly yield big tremendous changes of our life.

    During those good old happy nursery days, (okay, cut that one out, sometimes you hardly even remember those kiddoes at that moment)say, primary school. Yeah, their our lousy, dull schoolmates - so what?little do we realize that these schoolmates are the ones that are actually decorating the early pages of our life.

    Next, their’s high school.Now, don’t get me wrong, but it’s this teenage period where ‘crush lists’ will appear, popular cute girls and handsome tough boys will be ranked, special deliveries n secret admirers will be the ‘hushes’ of the crowd, and then these so-called ’sweet couples’ will be the envy of each eye. One may be sad knowing that her crush is actually having n affair with someone else, n later there’d be news about two guys fighting over a cute, innocent girl, n then someone will be crying knowing that her ‘love’ is actually being fooled.

    Yeah…sob sob sob…but when you think about it, it’s these sweet little happenings that will give us smiles and laughter everytime we think about it in the future.

   Now we’re nearly grownups, and regardless of the fact of how young we still want to be, we still can’t run from those typical lousy questions, "nie dah bpunye ke blom nie?".N then we’d suddenly realize that our seniors are actually planning about being hitched, some already engaged, and those talks about how to be "isteri solehah n suami soleh" will be the big talks of the week.

   Talking about relationships, believe me, there are many kinds of "ships" out there, some that end up good, some with a few ‘wobbles’ in the middle, but of course all will end up being paired. Want me to list a few…?

1. Far distance relationship. For me this is kinda safe coz u can prevent yourself from doing those "not-good-habits-you-know-what-i-mean" things. Of course sometimes you’d feel insecure n have those nasty feelings that perhaps something bad is happening out of your sight. But, in a way, this actually testifies your partners loyalty and sincereness, and if you really end up with that person after years of "jauh di mata dekat di hati" feelings, your heart will be blooming till it can bloom no more.

2.Short distance relationship. Hmmm…nothing much to talk about this one, except that there’d be dates n movies n dinner together…some couples do this nearly EVERY day or weekend…owh, n yeah not to forget those long, daily gayuts of "ape awak buat hari nie…?" repeated topics.

According to sms?

3.Some sms nearly every hour, some daily…they make it as a routine to ask every single thing that they do, n act of showing that they care.

4.Some, in the other hand, sms weekly, monthly, or on big occassionsusually these people are those that feel they are comfortable n confident with their partner, and some of them only give messages with tazkirah, hadith…a way of showing that they really mean what they mean, as in "saye x main2 dgn awk…".

N then there’s this guys stuff (as what my senior said - no offence guys, hehe).

5.There’s this groups of guys who are really mature, they are only jiwang at the moment of "ngorating the gurl" n then they’d really be silent, concentrate on their work n studies, n only start being jiwang after getting wedded. During those years, even if a queu is waiting to "masuk line", they’d say no n remember their "setia pada yg satu" ppl at heart.

6.There’s also a group which can never live without a girl clinging by their side or smsing n calling them everyday - these people are usually physically sweet, but usually they already have "ex’s" in their past. But don’t get me wrong, not all of them are like that. N of course it also goes to gurls who change boyfriends every 3 months.

7.owh…n yeah, not to forget, their are also those sweet couples who "saya cop awak…saya tunggu awak" kind, who don’t meet or contact, n wait till the real time comes. Usually this kind is always the "ana uhibbuki/ka lillah" type…speaking of which, makes me ask….does cinta before kahwin kerana Allah really exist…?

8.And that leads us to the last one…cinta after kahwin…usually due to matchmakings from parents, friends…or intai senyap2 n terus kahwin cepat2hehe….

All in all, we’ll just pray to Allah and du’a that everything will go smooth sailing and end up good with barakah from Allah.

…"lelaki yang baik adalah untuk perempuan yang baik"…itu janji Allah.

So…which type of relationship do you prefer…?