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Dah lama betolll tak dengar lagu ni, tiba2 berkumandang wekend baru2 ni. Ahahaha! My eldest daughter used to love wastching this show. Back then, dia tak bagi kitaorg nyanyi lagu ni. She would be upset and tolak2 kitaorg. Hmm..sampai sekarang masih menjadi misteri kenapa dia tak bagi kitaorg nyanyi lagu ni. Sekarang dah besar kut, tak main la Wonder Pets nih.

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Natural disasters end of year

Yesterday, I read the terjemahan of Surah Maryam and I came across ayat 88-92.
What is so special about these verses ? When I flew back to KL from Lyon last year (it was around mid of Dec), I sat beside a medical doctor who loves to do voluntary works. Based on his many voluntary work experiences, he observed that natural disasters usually occurred around end of year. He said there is a Surah relevant to this.
That was the Surah and ayat2 which I read yesterday. The gist of the verses - about the langit nyaris pecah, bumi nyaris terbelah, gunung2 nyaris runtuh disebabkan kenyataan2 yg mengatakan Allah itu mempunyai anak. Christmast (celebrating son of god) at the end of year, fahimtum?
Maybe I should make a list of natural disasters, but too lazy, warrgghh.

Kay Poh road in Singapore

Saw this road sign  :D when we were holidaying in Singapore during CNY2013

Eating and Drinking them Hot

Had a breakfast with a colleague this morning in the office building food court. I had a kopitiam style roti (benggali) bakar and tea. My tea sloshed into the saucer when I picked up the tray. Feeling tak nak merugikan air teh yang sedap itu, I simply poured the tea back into the cup.

Simple but Sedap oooOOO  \(^_^)/

Teringat waktu kecik2 dulu, when my mom used to pour hot drinks into the saucer and we kids would sip straight from the saucer. Then my colleague remarked, 'selalulah tengok orang2 alim yang buat macam tu.' Come to think of it, I was thought in my sekolah agama, that blowing hot food or hot drink is not good. Konon2 nya menyemarakkan api neraka gitu..(wuih..). Being ignorant back then, but now I decided to do some digging. Breakfast done & once I settled into my cubicle, I searched for the hadith or whatever that says as such. Tak jumpa punnnnn...hmmphh. But what I found was list of hadiths relevant to this topic.

1. Tidak Bernafas Ke Dalam Bekas Makanan atau Minuman

- Rasulullah Shallallahu ‘alaihi wa Sallam bersabda: “Apabila salah seorang di antara kamu minum, maka janganlah dia menghembuskan nafasnya ke dalam bekas. Dan apabila salah seorang di antara kamu kencing, maka janganlah dia membasuh (menyentuh) kemaluannya dengan tangan kanannya. Dan apabila dia beristinja’, maka janganlah dia beristinja’ dengan tangan kanannya.” (Shahih al-Bukhari, no. 5630)
- Abu Sa’id al-Khudri radhiyallahu ‘anhu berkata: “Rasulullah Shallallahu ‘alaihi wa Sallam melarang perbuatan minum dari bahagian bekas yang retak, dan beliau juga melarang meniup ke dalam minuman.” (Sunan Abu Daud, no. 3722. Dinilai sahih oleh al-Albani)

2. Tidak Makan Makanan Yang Terlalu Panas

- 'Urwah B. Az-Zubair radhiyallahu ‘anhuma berkata: “Bahawasanya pernah beliau (Asma’ B. Abi Bakr) membuat tsarid, beliau menutupnya sehinggalah asap panasnya hilang. Kemudian beliau berkata: “Sesungguhnya aku mendengar Rasulullah Shallallahu ‘alaihi wa Sallam berkata: “Sesungguhnya itu menambahkan barakah.” (Musnad Ahmad, no. 26958. Dinilai sahih oleh al-Albani dan hasan oleh Syu’aib al-Arnauth)
Tsarid adalah makanan berupa campuran potongan-potongan roti dengan kuah daging.

Seee? Nothing about 'menyemarakkan api neraka' at all. I also could not find ayat alQuran or hadith yang menyatakan makruh ke atau haram ke perkara ni. And surprisingly, there is a hadith dhaif/ lemah with regards to this topic : 'Rasulullah s.a.w melarang dari memakan makanan yang masih panas hingga sejuk.' Lihat: Silsilah Ahadith Ad-Dhaifah, Al-Albani, 5230, hadis terlalu lemah.

Bottom line, it is sunnah not to blow into drinks and adalah berkat untuk makan bila asap panasnya hilang. Another thing, jangan lupa to check the validity of hadiths. Don't go around citing the hadiths yang palsu/ lemah/ dhaif. Wallahu'alam.
(source : Adab-adab Makan & Minum Yang Sering Dilupakan, Abu Numair Nawawi B. Subandi. 4 Oct 2012. http://www.ilmusunnah.com/ )

Abih dahh...happy, happy :)

Subak Restaurant at night

I really need to come back here...at day time ! I liiiike it there. I went to this place during fasting month last year. Just like its advert - Dining with nature. Going there itself was a bit adventureous. We took a wrong turn and ended up in a dead end road - small road mind you with almost non-existent spot to do triple point turn. Otherwise we had to reverse all the way back to the pangkal jalan.


Lower serambi



But the restaurant itself..*sigh* I wish I had a DSLR. Could not really capture the lush tropical ambience of the place. We ate at the lower serambi, just beside the fish pond. There was another serambi on a higher ground - almost pick that one but somebody warned about mosquito.




Way up to the upper serambi

 


Kids hanging out at the fish pond

 



Upper Serambi



ATV Adventure - 2nd one !

Last year, our (me & hubby) first ATV was to the Sofea Jane water fall and the whole journey took us about 1.5-2hrs. Yea, there were 2-3 moments of panicking while riding the ATV. Waterfall was, cute. Good for dipping, I think the deepest was around mid thigh?
The 2nd trip..hohohoHOHO. Much, much more challenging I tell YOU! Moments of panicking? Countless lol! The slopes were full of stones, what a bumpy ride. The panicking moment was when I got stuck or my ATV simply failed to pass over some of the small boulders, and I got stuck many times tau. I had to revved the engine so that the ATV would shot/ surged forward and prayed when suddenly the ATV did shot forward (my heart surged too hokay!) that the ATV will not hit bigger boulder and tilt over (with me trapped underneath). Huhuhu! The ATV did do some tilting, thank god never tilted over. Oh yes, other panicking moments was when going down the slopes and the ATV slid, lost traction. The instructor taught us to grip the handbrakes hard when going down slopes and releasing the front break a bit if the wheels started to slide. Either you keep on sliding uncontrollable, or release the front brake a bit and be prepared to storm down the slope. Tak laju mana pun, but in a panicking mode, I did felt like sprinting down the slope (...teeth chatter..).


Short stop half-way thru

 Everytime that happened, I had to recite the mantra 'still your feet, still your feet'. Luckily, I was never a motorcyclist (bonceng ada laa..). Those who ride motorcyles will have the tendency to stick out their legs to 'stabilize' the bike. Very dangerous thing to do, sticking out your leg while riding an ATV. Your leg/feet might be wedged between the boulders and the heavy ATV. You surely would not want your feet to be hurtfully wedged between these two hard places.

We had a short break at Klang gate dam and Bukit Tabur look-out point. I skipped the Bukit Tabur trip, sakit lulut nye pasal :P The dam was beautiful and blue and so serene. See the photo? Mirror image of the banjaran & trees on the water surface. The guide told us that Owen Wilson made this trip and his entourage swam to the other side of the dam. Gilaaa. 
I truly felt the RM200 paid for this package is berbaloi, unlike the RM150 for the Sofea Jane waterfall package. There is another package, for 3hrs plus trip, more challenging. Amacam, ada bran?

Group photo

Ramadhan buffet tonite - Subak restaurant

It's going to be in Subak restaurant. I really look forward to it. The pix in the Subak website looks good. Dine with nature or something like that.