Sheffield banjir lagi...

Semalam hujan sgt lebat di Sheffield, biasanya hujan lebat camni akan menyebabkan banjir...pastu tgk news, sah, beberapa tempat di Sheffield mengalami banjir..bagi org Malaysia, mesti duk ingat hujan sehebat di Malaysia yg turun nonstop beberapa hari mengakibatkan banjir.... sini hujan yg sebab kan banjir ni cuma cam hujan lebat kat mesia, baru 12 jam non stop menyebabkan banjir...mereka kat sini tak biasa ngan banjir until lately...sbb global warming jadi weather pun huru hara, uk yg x penah hujan lebat, pun dah jadi hujan lebat...hebat betul la kuasa Allah tu..

Ni antara petanda tak best...summer tahun ni maybe jadi cam tahun lepas, asyik hujan je...tak dpt nk menikmati alam sekitar sgt....al maklum org takde kete, susah sket kalau hujan2 ni...harap2 bbq ahad/sabtu ni tak hujan...ameen...



Demikian sahaja laporan drp bilik study, broomwalk, sheffield... :)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/mid/8093683.stm

Flash floods after stormy weather

Flash flooding has hit parts of north and mid Wales causing damage to properties and traffic disruption

Severe weather has led to flash flooding in parts of Wales and warnings have been been made by the Met Office that more rain is expected.

The A483 road in Newtown, Powys, leading to the town centre has been closed and six fire crews are dealing with the effects of heavy rain.

Mid and West Wales Fire and Rescue Service said its fire fighters were alerted shortly before 1400 BST.

Meanwhile, fire crews were called to deal with floods in homes in Wrexham.

North Wales fire service said at least three houses in Galaxy Grove were flooded and crews have been called to three other areas near the town.

In Newtown, a blocked culvert led to the closure of the A483 road in the afternoon, while Frolic Street, Park Street and Back Lane were still flooded at 1730 BST.

Workers at the two main office blocks in the town were trapped as water levels rose rapidly.

Special pumps were brought in by firefighters to unblock drains on the main roads.

The roads affected by the severe weather are home to commercial and residential properties.

Six fire appliances were still at the scene at 1730 BST.

Firefighter David Davies from Mid and West Wales Fire Service said: "We had a severe cloudburst in the area. It started about one o'clock in the Caersws region then it's moved about six miles down to Newtown.

"It had the town centre overwhelmed, all the gutters, and we have had a severe problem."

Driving instructor Phil Robinson was taking a student on a pre-test lesson when the rain hit.

"All of a sudden we couldn't see the kerb doing a left reverse," he said.

"As we've been driving around town getting practice before the test, my student is getting lots of experience doing turns in the road because we keep coming to flooded areas and it's 'turn the car around and back again'."

A road was closed after the downpour caused flooding

May Allah blesses their souls....ameen

Beita hari ini di berita harian.....

'Saya hanya ingat mati'

Daripada Ismail Mat
ismailmat@bharian.com.my

ANGGOTA keluarga mangsa serangan di Masjid al-Furqan, Kampung Air Tempayan Narathiwat kelmarin, melihat jemaah yang mati ditembak penyerang bersenjata raifal ketika solat Isyak. - Foto Reuters

12 jemaah ditembak mati ketika imam baca al-Fatihah pada rakaat kedua solat Isyak

NARATHIWAT (Selatan Thailand): "Ketika itu saya hanya terfikir saat kematian dan tidak mampu berpaling melihat siapa menembak kami," kata Nasir Ibrahim, salah seorang jemaah yang terselamat dalam serangan ketika solat Isyak di Masjid al-Furqan, Kampung Air Tempayan, dekat sini malam kelmarin.

Nasir, 42, yang juga penghulu kampung itu berkata, imam Wan Abdullah Wan Latif, 62, sedang membaca surah al-Fatihah pada rakaat kedua apabila mereka diserang dua lelaki bersenjatakan raifel kira-kira jam 9 malam waktu Malaysia itu.

Dua penyerang itu, yang berpakaian serba hitam, masing-masing berada di pintu utama dan sebelah kanan masjid berkenaan, melepaskan tembakan dari jarak kurang tiga meter ke arah jemaah, menyebabkan kebanyakan mangsa mati akibat terkena tembakan di kepala dan tubuh badan masing-masing.

Serangan kejam itu, yang dianggap paling buruk di selatan Thailand, menyebabkan 10 jemaah termasuk Wan Abdullah mati serta-merta, manakala dua lagi jemaah meninggal dunia ketika dalam rawatan kecemasan di Hospital Narathiwat.

Sebelas lagi mangsa cedera parah dan dirawat di hospital itu. Hanya Nasir dan seorang lagi jemaah terselamat dalam serangan itu, tetapi terpaksa dirawat di Klinik Cho Airong dekat sini, ekoran trauma dan serangan jantung kerana terkejut.

PENDUDUK Islam Thai melihat jenazah mangsa serangan di masjid dikebumikan dalam satu liang lahad di tanah perkuburan Cho Airong, Narathiwat, semalam. - Foto Reuters

Nasir berkata, tembakan bertalu-talu dari dari arah belakang dan tepi berlaku hampir 10 minit, menyebabkan ramai jemaah tumbang.

"Saya yang berada di hujung saf di sebelah kanan, turut merebahkan badan. Ketika kelam-kabut itu, saya merangkak di celah jemaah yang cedera dan berlumuran darah, menuju ke stor di sebelah tempat imam. Saya duduk di situ sehingga penyerang melarikan diri," katanya ketika ditemui semalam.

Walaupun bersyukur kerana terselamat dalam serangan itu, Nasir amat bersedih mengenangkan ramai jemaah termasuk Wan Abdullah yang menjadi korban serangan kejam itu.

Isteri Wan Abdullah, Yah Che Kob, 58, berkata ketika kejadian beliau berada di rumahnya, kira-kira 50 meter di hadapan masjid berkenaan.

ORANG ramai melihat mayat mangsa serangan di Masjid al-Furqan, Kampung Air Tempayan, malam kelmarin. - Foto Reuters

"Secara tiba-tiba, saya terdengar bunyi tembakan bertalu-talu macam bertih goreng dari arah masjid. Saya terus berlindung di sebalik pintu rumah dan sejurus selepas itu, terdengar jeritan penduduk kampung menyatakan masjid diserang.

"Saya hanya mampu mendoakan keselamatan suami kerana saya tahu dia mengimamkan solat Isyak. Secara kebetulan anak lain keluar, jika tidak mereka juga berjemaah di masjid," katanya.

Yah berkata, jenazah suaminya hanya dapat dikeluarkan dari masjid itu kira-kira jam 7 pagi semalam.

"Serangan ini amat kejam. Mereka tergamak menyerang dan membunuh umat Islam yang sedang solat," katanya dengan nada sedih mengenangkan kematian suaminya yang sudah 15 tahun menjadi imam masjid itu.

Adik Wan Abdullah, juga seorang imam, Wan Ismail Wan Latif, 58, berkata selain abangnya, turut terkorban ialah lapan ahli kumpulan tabligh yang berkunjung ke masjid itu sejak tiga hari lalu.

Jenazah semua mangsa disemadikan dalam satu liang lahad di tanah perkuburan kampung itu kira-kira 11 pagi semalam dengan dihadiri kira-kira 2,000 penduduk termasuk kumpulan pelajar pondok sekitar Narathiwat.

Yang Dipertua Majlis Agama Islam Narathiwat, Abdul Razak Ali, yang meninjau tempat kejadian pagi semalam, mengutuk serangan kejam itu.

"Serangan kejam ini didalangi pihak yang tidak mahu melihat keamanan dinikmati semua penduduk di selatan Thailand. Mereka yang berbuat begini sebenarnya mahu melihat selatan Thailand terus berada dalam pergolakan," katanya.

Tinjauan Berita Harian mendapati, dinding depan masjid dan cermin pintu turut mempunyai kesan peluru, dipercayai akibat tembakan yang tersasar, manakala sebahagian besar lantai dipenuhi darah jemaah yang terkorban. Kesan itu hanya dibersihkan kira-kira 2 petang semalam dengan sebuah lori tangki air yang dihantar pihak berkuasa tempatan.

Ya Allah...Lindungilah daku dari kejahatan, yang menipuku daripada kemanisan iman...bawalah daku kepada cinta suciMu, berikan daku keredhaan dan SyurgaMu...

Dua beranak curi pakaian

Oleh Noor Hastikah Hassan
am@hmetro.com.my

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DITAHAN ...anggota polis membawa dua beranak yang dicekup orang ramai, semalam.

BUKIT MERTAJAM: Bagaikan tiada pedoman hidup. Seorang bapa sanggup melatih anaknya sendiri menjadi pencuri semata-mata mahu mendapatkan wang mudah bagi membeli dadah.

Dengan menaiki sebuah motosikal, pencuri dua beranak itu berlegar-legar mencari sasaran sesuai sebelum bertindak apabila mempunyai ruang dan peluang.

Bagaimanapun, sepandai-pandai tupai melompat akhirnya jatuh ke tanah jua.

Dua beranak itu terperangkap selepas mencuri beberapa helai pakaian wanita dan lelaki di sebuah butik di Bandar Perda, di sini, semalam.

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Sedihnya baca berita camni.... tak patut betul...dapat anak ajar anak buat benda2 haram...walhal bukan semua org di anugerahkan Allah utk memiliki anak sendiri...

Kesian kat anak tu...kesian kat anak2 sedunia yg mungkin nasibnya serupa atau lebih teruk lagi...ni seme kes dadah...org Islam lak tu yg hisap dadah...sakit jiwa betul memikirkan masalah2 negara..

Research Group Trip - Longshaw

Last Thursday (yes, Thursday, during weekdays), our research group went for a walk in the peak district.. You might asked, what??! Well, some of them have this idea to bond between the researchers by walking together and have a good fresh air. Obviously, in the group, lots of tension in the air...so, they (well, actually Andy) have chosen a place called Longshaw. We went there by car.

I followed Jenny and Siew Li in John's car. All together, four girls went for this walk. You might ask, why did i bother to join? Firstly because i've skipped a bowling trip last time, and this time they insisted that I go...i kinda not have any more excuses, plus walking in the open air is good...not an enclosed place... well, why I didnt join the bowling before? I dont like to bend over in front of these people while playing bowling...Mixing in a closed space, i will try to avoid as much as i can...plus john wasnt there before, so, i didnt have to go...

In the picture above, John, Peter and Shankar were walking towards our aim, the peak.. (not the highest peak there, but quite high la)...but i have to say, the view along the path is very nice and refreshing...alhamdulillah...

At last, we are at the peak! Breath taking view, subhanallah...


Of course, John did not forget about work...still have time to talk about research in the peak district....


Along our way back to the car, we walked alongside a small river...subhanallah very beautiful...i immediately thought of bringing my husband there (he was working at that time, that's why he couldn't join us)... Anyhow, it came across my mind at that time, how great is Allah to create the gushing sound of water down the river relieving any stress and makes our heart in serenity...I was thinking, the rivers, the grass, the cows and sheeps there were all doing zikrullah, and perhaps they were happy coz there were muslims who walk on the same ground while remembering Allah ... seperti dalam kitab Fi zilalil Quran...Kita dan alam buana dalam harmoni..Kita, as in, we muslims :)

Obama di Mesir

Yesterday, Barack Obama went to Egypt and gave a speech. I've listened to part of the speech on BBC news and it seems ok. Dia cuba 'ambil hati' orang2 Islam dgn mengatakan bahawa mmg tak patut Palestinians di treat macam tu... tapi dia kata bond US dan Israel tak dapat dipisahkan...

I dont know what he will do in the future about Palestin and Israel situation. I suspect he will be less brutal compared to the Bush era, but you never know these american presidents... kita tak leh berharap sangat pada depa ni, oleh itu kene berusaha, fikir strategi, camne nak do it our way, inshaAllah...

Here are the comments of Robert Fisk, a journalist from the independence newspaper (original version)

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Robert Fisk: Words that could heal wounds of centuries

President Obama reaches out to the Islamic world in a landmark speech

Friday, 5 June 2009

President Obama's speach reached out to the Islamic world



Preacher, historian, economist, moralist, schoolteacher, critic, warrior, imam, emperor. Sometimes you even forgot Barack Obama was the President of the United States of America.

Will his lecture to a carefully chosen audience at Cairo University "re-imagine the world" and heal the wounds of centuries between Muslims and Christians? Will it resolve the Arab-Israeli tragedy after more than 60 years? If words could do the job, perhaps...

It was a clever speech we heard from Obama yesterday, as gentle and as ruthless as any audience could wish for – and we were all his audience. He praised Islam. He loved Islam. He admired Islam. He loved Christianity. And he admired America. Did we know that there were seven million Muslims in America, that there were mosques in every state of the Union, that Morocco was the first nation to recognise the United States and that our duty is to fight against stereotypes of Muslims just as Muslims must fight against stereotypes of America?

But much of the truth was there, albeit softened to avoid hurting feelings in Israel. To deny the facts of the Jewish Holocaust was "baseless, ignorant and hateful", he said, a remark obviously aimed at Iran. And Israel deserved security and "Palestinians must abandon violence..."

The United States demanded a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. He told the Israelis there had to be a total end to their colonisation in the West Bank. "The United States does not accept the legitimacy of continued Israeli settlements."

The Palestinians had suffered without a homeland. "The situation for the Palestinian people is intolerable," Obama said and the US would not turn its back on the "legitimate Palestinian aspiration for a state of their own". Israel had to take "concrete steps" to give the Palestinians progress in their daily lives as part of a road to peace. Israel needed to acknowledge Palestinian suffering and the Palestinian right to exist. Wow. Not for a generation has Israel had to take this kind of criticism from a US President. It sounded like the end of the Zionist dream. Did George Bush ever exist?

Alas, he did. Indeed, at times, the Obama address sounded like the Bush General Repair Company, visiting the Muslim world to sweep up mountains of broken chandeliers and shredded flesh. The President of the United States – and this was awesome – admitted his country's failures, its over-reaction to 9/11, its creation of Guantanamo which, Obama reminded us all again, he is closing down. Not bad, Obama...

We got to Iran. One state trying to acquire nuclear weapons would lead to a "dangerous path" for all of us, especially in the Middle East. We must prevent a nuclear arms race. But Iran as a nation must be treated with dignity. More extraordinarily, Obama reminded us that the US had connived to overthrow the democratically elected Mossadeq government of Iran in the Fifties. It was "hard to overcome decades of distrust".

There was more; democracy, women's rights, the economy, a few good quotes from the Koran ("Whoever kills an innocent, it is as if he has killed all mankind".) Governments must respect "all their people" and their minorities. He mentioned the Christian Copts of Egypt; even the Christian Maronites of Lebanon got a look in.

And when Obama said that some governments, "once in power, are ruthless in suppressing the rights of others", there was a roar of applause from the supposedly obedient audience. No wonder the Egyptian government wanted to select which bits of Obama's speech would be suitable for the Egyptian people. They were clearly very, very unhappy with the police-state regime of Hosni Mubarak. Indeed, Obama did not once mention Mubarak's name.

Over and again, one kept saying to oneself: Obama hasn't mentioned Iraq – and then he did ("a war of choice... our combat brigades will be leaving"). But he hasn't mentioned Afghanistan – and then he did ("we do not want to keep our troops in Afghanistan... we will gladly bring every one of our troops home"). When he started talking about the "coalition of 46 countries" in Afghanistan – a very dodgy statistic – he began to sound like his predecessor. And here, of course, we encountered an inevitable problem. As the Palestinian intellectual Marwan Bishara pointed out yesterday, it is easy to be "dazzled" by presidents. This was a dazzling performance. But if one searched the text, there were things missing.

There was no mention – during or after his kindly excoriation of Iran – of Israel's estimated 264 nuclear warheads. He admonished the Palestinians for their violence – for "shooting rockets at sleeping children or blowing up old women in a bus". But there was no mention of Israel's violence in Gaza, just of the "continuing humanitarian crisis in Gaza". Nor was there a mention of Israel's bombing of civilians in Lebanon, of its repeated invasions of Lebanon (17,500 dead in the 1982 invasion alone). Obama told Muslims not to live in the past, but cut the Israelis out of this. The Holocaust loomed out of his speech and he reminded us that he was going to the site of the Buchenwald concentration camp today.

For a man who is sending thousands more US troops into Afghanistan – a certain disaster-to-come in the eyes of Arabs and Westerners – there was something brazen about all this. When he talked about the debt that all Westerners owed to Islam – the "light of learning" in Andalusia, algebra, the magnetic compass, religious tolerance, it was like a cat being gently stroked before a visit to the vet. And the vet, of course, lectured the Muslims on the dangers of extremism, on "cycles of suspicion and discord" – even if America and Islam shared "common principles" which turned out to be "justice, progress and the dignity of all human beings".

There was one merciful omission: a speech of nearly 6,000 words did not include the lethal word "terror". "Terror" or "terrorism" have become punctuation marks for every Israeli government and became part of the obscene grammar of the Bush era.

An intelligent guy, then, Obama. Not exactly Gettysburg. Not exactly Churchill, but not bad. One could only remember Churchill's observations: "Words are easy and many, while great deeds are difficult and rare."

Balik Malaysia..

Tadi ada seorang sahabat lama call...dia kat airport tengah tunggu nak balik malaysia...aduhh, jelesnya terasa....moga urusannya di Malaysia di mudahkan Allah...

beginilah perasaan hidup di perantauan...asyik rindukan kampung halaman..memang hebat orang tua2 dulu buat kata pepatah, hujan emas di negeri orang, hujan batu di negeri sendiri, lebih baik negeri sendiri....memang sangat tepat sekali...

ada orang kata, kat mana2 pun bumi Allah...jadi apa nak sibuk...ermm... ye, bumi Allah, tapi mereka yg dekat di hati kita di tanahair kita...sanak saudara...seperti Nabi Muhammad s.a.w selepas berhijrah...baginda masih lagi merindui tanah suci Mekah...mmg itu adalah fitrah manusia...

Alaa, awak tu baru duk perantauan sekejap je, ada org islam yg terpaksa lari drp negara sendiri dan di ban drp masuk balik ke negara tersebut utk berjumpa sanak saudara, even mak ayah mrk! Yg tu mesti lagi sayu...saya penah jumpa pakcik Tunisia ni masa A-levels..masa tu ada daurah, jadi naqib/ah menjemput brother Tunisia ni bagi talk....mmg terkejut habis time tu dgr keadaan di Tunisia, mmg tak sangka langsung... dia lak jadi asylum seeker kat UK ni...tak leh balik Tunisia dh utk tgk mak ayah...tahu tak kenapa dia di ban? Just because he wants to be a practising muslim and invite people to practise islam...

Jadi, toksah sedih sangatlah... bersyukurlah di atas segala nikmat yg Allah berikan ni... Masukkan sifat qanaah didalam hati2 kita....ameen ya Robb!




ps: lagu ni mmg sesuai dgn perasaan ketika ini..

Cycling to Grave's Park

Last Sunday, we (me and my husband) went cycling to Grave's Park..saja nak jalan2 + exercise...abang yusof kata tak jauh...iskk...above is the map and our trail from B (our house) to the Park (5). It took us from 9.45 am till 1 pm to go there and back home again, of course thats including time for rest, take pictures, and we stop by a retail outlet as well...All together, we cycled around 11 kms (up and down hill)!! But it is well worth it, very satisfying when you arrived there with all that efforts, alhamdulillah...

Here are some photos's of the park and abang yusof...







Alhamdulillah....would like to cycle there again...tapi bila banyak masa sket and not rushing! Now, get back to work!!