Sweet Love Story! AWW

I found an auuwwww-soooo-too-cuuuutttteeeeeeeeee of an article to not share! So here I am, gigihly typing so you could awww yourselves out! haha!

No Blind Love


By VIJENTHI NAIR
vijenthi@thestar.com.my


(Sorry, I'm gonna just skip to the best part, rather, I'm lazy, hehe) Basically the couple won the contest by Sunway Pyramid 'The Day We Met' with prizes worth over RM 15,000. Lui then brought his wife to Sunway Pyramid where they were surprised with a flash mob and then presented with their prizes :)

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I love chuuu ~ hikhik

....Lui then expressed his love for his wife in public and said he was blessed to have such a wonderful wife by his side, before kissing her on the cheek as the crowd cheered on.

"I met her sometime in 1975, while I was walking along a street in Klang town. I chanced upon a blind man who was left helpless after being hit by a motorcycle. I immediately called the ambulance and was by his side to make sure he was in safe hands.

"Just as the ambulance took off, I realised that I forgot to give the blind man his white cane. So I continued to walk holding the white cane and reached a busy T-junction. Then suddenly, a woman came and grabbed my hand and quickly offered to help me get across, thinking I was blind.

"After we crossed over, she had a good look at me and found out that I was not blind. She let go of my hand, laughed it off and walked away. Since that incident, she was always on my mind and I regretted not asking for her contact number.

"However, a couple of days later while I was at a restaurant having lunch, I heard a familiar voice serving me coffee. When I turned to look, I was surprised to find the same woman who helped me cross the road now dressed as a waitress in the coffee shop.

"I never thought I would see her again. Since we had some time, we talked and exchanged our house telephone numbers and never looked back," he said.

 Awwwwwwwww right? They so seriously deserved to win! And beside the article there's a picture of them, a seriously gorgeous couple even though they are both already 58 years old! Could it be the power of luurrveee? Lui also added that he doesn't mind spending money on his wife but not for flowers as it only lasts weeks, he'd rather buy her jewellery  and good quality watches that she loves. Third wave of awww-ing! I mean, can I have him? Haha, kidding, I'm so touched I would never want to spoil their happiness (as if I have the chance anyway,pfft) .

But the sweetest love story is of course of our beloved Prophet Muhammad's :)  (SAW)

Ee, nak sweet love story gak! kbai. Assalamualaikum! :)

 

 

 

The full sea roars and thunders..and calms. PART I

Weird title for a post huh? Actually to come up with that I had googled 'describing stormy seas'..Why stormy seas you might ask? Well, I picture life as the sea. Sometimes calm, sometimes stormy. Always changing. Uncertain. Below is a short story I found in Hami Asraff's blog. The difference is that I have translated it to English (forgive my errors). Credits anyway, here.

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One day a well-known speaker started the seminar in a unique way.
While holding the RM100 note, he asked the audience,

"Who wants this RM100 note?".

Many raised their hands, showing that many was interested.

"I will give this to one of you, but before I do let me do this first."

He stood near the audience. He scrunched up the note with his hands until it was all crumpled.
So he asked again,

"Who still wants this money?"

The amount of raised hands did not change.

"Well," he replied,

"What will happen when I do this?"

he said, while dropping the money onto the floor & stepping it with his shoes. Though still intact, now the money was so very dirty, worn-out and crumpled.

"OK, now,are there those who are still interested?".

There was still a lot of raised hands.

Ladies and gentlemen, you have just learned an important lesson. Whatever happens with this money, you are still interested because my doings to it will not reduce its value.

Despite the crumpled, worn-out and dirty, this money is still well worth RM100.

In life, we had several times fallen, torn, and filled with dirt as a result of our decision-making & situations that hit us in a situation before.

In such cases, we find ourselves unworthy, unmeaning.
But anything that had & will happen, you never will lose value in the eyes of those who loves you, even more so in the eyes of God.

So no matter how dirty you are, we still have a distinctive value. Love yourself, repent if you have sinned and keep trying even though you have failed because we are actually very valuable.

And don't we forget, we are all the same in the eyes of Allah, only eeman and piety differs us. 

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Before I continue, forgive my grammar errors, wrong use of vocab etc. 

Let the quotes below speak my thoughts (pffft as if I have enough wisdom to think the same, but the least I do agree,very much) :

“When we least expect it, life sets us a challenge to test our courage and willingness to change; at such a moment, there is no point in pretending that nothing has happened or in saying that we are not yet ready. The challenge will not wait. Life does not look back. A week is more than enough time for us to decide whether or not to accept our destiny.” 

― Paulo Coelho, The Devil and Miss Prym

“Sometimes we bring to a struggle or cause the gifts we see most clearly, a courage, a strength, or a charm others have told us we have. But often we find more is asked of us than that, more than we intended or thought we possessed. We are asked to offer that which we thought dearest, to forgive what seemed unpardonable, to face what we feared the most and endure it. Sometimes we have to travel to the last step a path that was not of our own choosing. But I promise you this ... it will lead to a greater joy in the end. The difficulty is that the end is beyond our sight, it is a matter of faith, not of knowledge.”  

― Anne Perry, A Christmas Visitor 

and my possible favourite..

“I have realized; it is during the times I am far outside my element that I experience myself the most. That I see and feel who I really am, the most! I think that's what a comet is like, you see, a comet is born in the outer realms of the universe! But it's only when it ventures too close to our sun or to other stars that it releases the blazing "tail" behind it and shoots brazen through the heavens! And meteors become sucked into our atmosphere before they burst like firecrackers and realize that they're shooting stars! That's why I enjoy taking myself out of my own element, my own comfort zone, and hurling myself out into the unknown. Because it's during those scary moments, those unsure steps taken, that I am able to see that I'm like a comet hitting a new atmosphere: suddenly I illuminate magnificently and fire dusts begin to fall off of me! I discover a smile I didn't know I had, I uncover a feeling that I didn't know existed in me... I see myself. I'm a shooting star. A meteor shower. But I'm not going to die out. I guess I'm more like a comet then. I'm just going to keep on coming back.”  

― C. JoyBell C. 

Wee! To think myself as a comet! Sometimes people choose to be a comet, sometimes people don't want to, or rather, not knowing that they are capable of being one. I watched a movie called 'Three Wishes'. There was this scene that I particularly liked. I can't remember much but I'm trying my best :') (Rather, I invented a whole new dialogue)

(Jeanne, facing a hard time. With news her husband dead in war, having to raise two children on her own, and  starting her new business)

Jeanne: I wish I have the answers.
Jack: The answers to what?
Jeanne: Everything. What I should do, if my business will come through, am I being a good enough mother to my children.
Jack: You are. You're facing it. Christopher Columbus. When he first traveled, he didn't know what he was doing. He didn't intend to find a new world, just a faster way to India.
Jeanne: Like an explorer?
Jack: Yeah like an explorer..

Ok that was totally made-up. Kinda obvious how it was so totally crappy crap crap.I only remember a bit about the Columbus bit but the message was clear, we are all like explorers. We mights have hitches and bumps along the way, but the journey will always be rewarding. Maybe we won't have something as visual as Columbus, with a big fat America and his name down in history as a reward, but there will always something. Maybe something a bit more deep, life lessons, a new outlook on life, and insyaallah, strengthened faith :')

More to come ...

When 'Small Matter' Becomes Big

Assalamualaikum..

  Hendak dijadikan cerita haritu aku bersama Abah dan Adik pergi ke kedai makan. Dekat kedai tu ada TV, waktu tu tengah tayang music video oleh kumpulan popular Korea, SNSD.  Maka terjadilah perbualan seperti dibawah:

Aku: Eh,itu SNSD lah!

Adik: Ada ditanya dalam kubur ke?

Aku: Hekeleh kau, kalau kau cakap 'Aku sedang makan ikan keli' , itu ada ditanya dalam kubur? *Dia pilih nasi with ikan keli*

Adik: Sebab tak akan ditanya lah aku tak sebut. Per lah.

Abah: *laughs*. Ish, semua ditanya dalam kubur *So Dad launched into a story* 

Dulu ada pembawa kayu balak ni. Lepas duduk makan, kenyang, ada benda celah gigi dia jadi dia ambil sedikit bahagian dari kayu balak itu nak dijadikan pencungkil gigi. Dari sebesar-besar kayu balak itu, dia ambil sikit je. Apalah lah sangat pencungkil gigi tu. Agak-agak kalau dia tanya boss dia boleh ke tak ambil, rasa-rasa boleh tak?

Aku:* nods* boleh.

Abah: Haa, itu pon disoal..

*Sebarang ketidaktepatan perbualan harap dimaafkan*

As you can zee from ze idezeous illuzztrahtions ze tooth peeeccckkk iz only a smaaall bit of ze  wood.

Aku waktu tu gaya macam relax, cool, tenang, berkarisma lagi berwibawa tapi dalam hati, takut weh! Bila difikir-fikirkan, Ya Allah banyak sangat. Aku ni memang gaya peminjam tak pulang. :'(

So dengan pantas kilat kalah Sonic the Hedgehog aku pi search dekat google "balak dan pencungkil gigi disoal di akhirat".. Tak banyak yang keluar, two pages je, and banyak tak kena pun, but Alhamdulillah, jumpa juga 'the complete story'. Credit here

Nabi Isa AS adalah seorang nabi yang dikurniakan oleh Allah SWT mukjizat untuk menghidupkan orang mati dan juga boleh berbicara dengan mayat. Pernah pada suatu hari beliau melalui satu tanah perkuburan dan terdengar suara yang amat mengerikan berserta dengan raungan yang begitu kuat sekali dari dalam kubur. Bila diamati ia suara seorang lelaki yang menjerit kepanasan dan meminta tolong dari liang lahad. Nabi Isa amat terkejut dan memohon izin dari Allah SWT agar dapat bercakap dengan mayat tersebut untuk mengetahui apa yang berlaku.
Dengan seizin Allah SWT, Nabi Isa AS dibenarkan untuk berbicara dengan jenazah yang sedang menjerit kepanasan dan meminta tolong. Nabi Isa AS mendapati lelaki itu adalah seorang ahli kebaikan namun kenapa dia kepanasan dan meminta tolong dari dalam kubur.
Jenazah itu berbicara sesungguhnya dia diazabkan di dalam kubur  dengan kepanasan api neraka oleh kerana ada sesuatu yang beliau lakukan semasa hidupnya. Jenazah itu memberitahu bahawa dulu beliau merupakan seorang pemotong kayu dan menyara hidup dengan mengambil upah memotong kayu di hutan dan diserahkan kepada pembelinya.
Pada suatu ketika, setelah penat menebang dan mengikat kayu-kayu, beliau mengambil kesempatan untuk berehat dan makan. Setelah makan terdapat makanan yang tersisa dan melekat di celah-celah giginya. Beliau cubamengorek dengan jarinya tapi tak dapat dikeluarkan sisa makanan itu. Tanpa berfikir panjang beliau melihat timbunan kayu yang dipotong dan terus mengambil sikit bahagian tepi kayu sekecil pencungkil gigi. Dia terus gunakan untuk membuang sisa makanan yang terlekat.
Kemudian dia bawa ke pasar dan menjual kepada orang yang mengupahnya tanpa memberitahu apa yang berlaku. Setelah itu beliau meninggal dunia dan oleh kerana dia telah mengambil sedikit kayu sekecil pencungkil gigi tanpa meminta izin orang yang memberi upah kepadanya, maka dia diazab di dalam siksa api neraka selama 500 tahun lamanya…

Takut amat aku. Lepas ni berazam nak minta halal semua benda, harap depa maafkan :')   Actually banyak kisah ala-ala ni. Ramai pandang ringan sebab to them, small matter je lah. 


For instance, satu story ni, seorang lelaki meminjam satu sen,REPEAT satu sen dan terlupa membayarnya. Apa jadi? Anak dia mimpikan dia diseksa padahal lelaki itu dikenali sebagai seorang yang baik dan warak.

HA! itu satu sen. Kita ni, dok hutang nga membe, bape juta? Fikir-fikirkan dan selamat beramal okeh!! ;)

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P.S Sorry, aku dok pandai ngat bercerita. Ingat nak lukis kartun untuk entry ni, nanti lah aku upload :)
P.P.S About the conversation above, bukanlah maksud aku (or my Dad) nanti di dalam kubur kita ditayangkan music video Korea lepastu disuruh identify itu group mana? No, it is just Dad's way to try and implant  islamic teachings into his children in every way possible. Thanks Dad :')

Being Understanding

Here is a particularly favourite line of mine in the Korean Drama 'The Last Scandal of My Life'.  It is Sun Hee's reply when she was scolded by Dong Hwa on how she's being lax with her job, leaving the kids with a guest (Na Yoon) while going out on personal business (though an important one)


Sun Hee: “I know I’ve made many mistakes during this time and been lacking. But in your words, as a woman with a child, I have done nothing I’m ashamed of. Because I’m human, I’ve lied and made mistakes involuntarily. But that was because I was so desperate, and didn’t know it was a crime. It’s not something I did with evil intent or purposely. Because you’re perfect, my words may sound like excuses, but hearing this from you is so unjust I couldn’t hold back. To you, my work may seem worthless, but in all my life, if there’s one job I’ve done well, it’s holding my family together. You might ask what’s so great about that since everyone does it, but sometimes something that seems so easy to one person can be, to another person, excruciatingly difficult. So, apologize.”


Here, she talked about on holding the family together. But it could be just anything. We tend to look down on people, never thinking that perhaps they are trying their hardest? Sometimes we just can't understand how some people just can't do something so simple, but turns out that it is not all that simple to them. Hey it doesn't mean we are letting them off the hook, but scolding and finding them more inferior than you, how is that going to help? Place yourself in their shoes. 


This, is a reminder to me. ME. You would be surprised on how forgiving you could be if you just stop to think.Think. They need a little guidance, but making mistakes is all part of the learning process. Till later, chou and reflect ;)