when harimau soared higher than garuda

assalamualaikum wbt.

it has been quite a long duration since i went to any stadium. the last would be a football match between pahang vs etc2 at stadium darulmakmur, kuantan.

yesterday, after grouping quite a number of people (quite is not a good term, but exaggeration is needed), bukit jalil stadium (not the concert ye) is the place to spend your night with friends watching the first leg of the AFF Suzuki Cup final. needless to say bout the match, being there was fantastic, great match, great and fanatic fans (as expected) with 'high' techies (read laser beam).

overall, jst see the picts. i think there hv been countless of good report bout yesterday's match. its the best match that i have seen malaysian played so far. good job guys!

some say, we even need to wear helmet to stay alive

before the match, at lrt station, fans start chanting songs and negaraku
(kuar dr lrt, and fans shouting hooooo!, mmg cool)

to bukit jalil

nek tangga penat beb, mmg tak fit

malaysia, tanah tumpahnya darahku

negaraku (they rolled up it the wrongly, no bad intention)

the 22 players and 4 refs

a group hug :P

malaysian and awesome fireworks

and the memorable night, begins

the fans (untung siapa jual bendera smlm)


who wished


who hoped

who shouted

who enjoyed

who just plainly watched the game

who can't have his seat caused by adrenaline rush

or fan who wished we can have the last penalty

but, we have our night, great night, great game, not because of the score, but because malaysia showed our true colour, and fans showed that the players have our full support

because we are malaysian

thanks to God and this man, Rajagopal (i think he played some tactics that showed malaysia is weak, but who know the truth except him and Him).

lets keep our head together and pray hard that malaysia will prevail during the second leg.

p/s: i have to say no to laser. on behalf of malaysian fan, apologize to indonesian team and their fans. may second leg be better than the first leg.
p/s: i dun hv laser, i jst hv my 450d with no flashlite :P

my first photobook is here!

assalamualaikum!

i feel great for completing this photobook. it's my first photobook and i really look forward to see the completion of it. hopefully the client would be impressed with it.

thanks for believing in me, the first is the hardest and surely i have learnt alot from this book.

(look forward for next one! i wish!)

fiuh~

^^v

farhan iqbal m yusof

kaki pukol gamba

hancur pecah

assalamualaikum wbt...

hiruk pikuk laungan manusia

tatkala berdetap mereka melangkah

menuruti menyusuri jalan2 konkrit keras

mungkin mereka biasa sahaja tersenyum

gembira dengan perihal mereka

akan tiadanya masalah yang menimpa

akan tiada kusut yang melanda

akan tiada kesempitan yang dihadapi

kusut

pusing

letih

keluh

namun mungkin tiada yang mengetahui

mungkin tiada yang mahu mengetahui

diberantakan sahaja

dibiarkan sahaja

dipinggirkan sahaja

pecah

hancur

seperti ombak pecah

menghempas pantai

setelah tiba tujuannya

walau diadu dipinta

tatkala diperlukan

IKHLAS

mungkin itu jwpan buatku

tidak perlu sentiasa

diadu

dipinta

dihibur

kerna aku ikhlas

kerna Tuhan aku disini

biarpun hancur

tiada yang mengetahui

kerna aku ikhlas

*picture taken during TQA show at Lorong Seni Putrajaya

p/s: lama siut tak gerakkan otak seni. wiuwiu.

lesson 22 - limitation(s)

why do we limit our very own imagination and solely based on the guidelines?

the guideline is there to guide, not to limit.

literature is there, for us to understand, not to limit.

as the world is full of uncertainties, possibilities, and oppurtunities,

why bother to limit, as we can go much further, extra miles, i would say.

as long as we know, the true meaning behind it, whether or not it meant to be or not meant to be, than going extra mile would be possible.

imagination, should have no bounds, as this world created by Al-Mighty have none.

and for us, to seek and understand His power, for us to obey, for us to be amazed,

we, above all, as His servant, should not be limited by our very own limitations.

cause He is indeed Allah the Al-Mighty.

Perhatian!

assalamualaikum and good day.

adalah dengan ini, saya bagi pihak Ensemble in G (EiG) ingin mengemukakan pertanyaan kepada sesiapa sahaja yang membaca post ini untuk memberikan sedikit maklumat mahupun pertolongan bagi menjayakan rancangan kami untuk terus bergiat dalam mempertahankan tradisi dan juga seni iaitu gamelan.

kami sekarang mencari sumber2 yang mana kami boleh bermain/menyewa alat gamelan yang berscalekan pentatonik (1 2 3 5 6) dan mempunyai alat seminimum seperti berikut:-

1. gendang
2. gambang
3. bonang baron (kromong)
4. bonang penerus
5. saron baron
6. saron demong
7. saron peking
8. 1 set gong

kepada yang mengetahui, diharap agar dapat memberikan sedikit maklumat kepada kami. Sudah tiba masanya untuk kami kembali bergiat setelah mengucapkan selamat tinggal (sebentar) kepada UTP Gamelan Group (Sanggar Kirana).

The time has come!

rehat!

assalamualaikum...

in some part of our life, a decision needs to be made, as to focus what seems to be important for future. not to worry much, the time will come for us to be normal again.

^^v

broga revisit 1

assalamualaikum and good day!...

on previous post about broga, i have not put lots of picture in it, but rather asked you to see it on fb. this time around, i went with my colleagues at the office, climbing the broga by 545am, reaching the tops by 615am and straight away perform solah, atas bukit beb, feelings is there.

again, broga never disappoint me with her scenery but not so much picture this time around, battery flat after a while (and few others can be seen again, at fb). lalala~ and hope to be there again, with this time around, having tea or coffee at the high grounds with wind blowing through, it should be great and complete condition of having tea or coffee. it blends well, having a comfort of nature and coffee.

while waiting for the sun to wake up

and yes, this supposed to be aired up well before puasa, but yeah. well, u know me.
hahaha.

p/s: kali ni try guna different kind of editing skit. cam quite inspired with other people punya tone.

lesson 20 - the weight

assalamualaikum...

in certain part or time, all the things that you knew, you felt, you understood, has been piled up, taken up the storage loading, filled up most of your time, and at that point of time, you might have think, that's time for you to tidy up, clean up or archive it.

for the things to be cleared, for new things and all kind of new, to be given a space in certain part or time. but, would it be appropriate, to clean up and archive it? would the clean up give you the things that you really need, or it just, maybe, provide you the surface of what you really need? would it be, by cleaning up, the weight can be less on your shoulder to carry, but at the end, after a while, you miss the weight that you have been carrying all these time?

the storage, along with the time and things it had, may or may not grew, proportionate to the allocation that it had been allocated, but it is possible, where managed properly. and all kind of new subject, can fit into the exisiting storage.

again, its merely an option.

and not an excuse. nah, its not.

cause i would rather be filling, carrying and managing it now, before later. cleaning is possible, but not archiving nor cutting loose end. that weight, the weight is what and somehow taught and teach you sooner or later.

probably and currently the best generation

assalamualaikum and good day..

out of respect for my seniors, you are still the best and i sincerely would like to thank you for the contribution, passion, knowledge, guidance and space for the current gamelan utp now are at. because without you, the current team may not be as they are now.

thank you and thank you.

nevertheless, i have seen so many gamelan players coming in and out from the team, although undeniably there are possibility of previous players who might have higher passion, skills and creativity, however, i would personally say that this is probably and currently the best generation i have seen so far. and close to my ideal case of gamelan utp, which i had in mind few years back.

reason being?

i have never seen such a huge number of dedicated seniors at one time. their highly contribution, attitude in voicing out, discussing out their feelings, opinion shows that how deep is their concern and love towards the team. each of the section (if i may call), have their own section 'head' in which take care of their juniors. these number of people at one time, i should say thank you to nazmi, for taking up these number of people at the first place, though causing me problem after that to turn, cut, trench them up.

the seniors who come up to training earlier from the juniors, eventhough literally they can not to come to training, as they know their training earlier on are suffice.

the seniors who discuss, brainstorm and argue on the way forward.

the seniors who take care of the juniors.

the seniors whom i can say, cut to bear the title of dewa.

the seniors who strike an instrument without a doubt, yet no mistake was done.

and its a no longer one man show.

its a good investment, yeah it was. and thank you Allah, for simply showing a bit of your nikmat for us to see how great our investment are.

though it seems that all of you might have take quite a time to come at this level, however taking example from the log tree, the longer time the log take before cutting down, the higher the value can be. it has been justified.

thank you org2 tua sekarang, for being a great tree, as such the juniors can easily fit and rest underneath you. dun rest yet, that would be my main advise. you may want to slow down, but totally rest. eventhough some of you might have grad afterwards, it is indeed important to remain contacts with the current team.

as i was saying the important of seniors, the same goes for alumni. indeed the seniors can handle the team, but there are reasons why older people live and needed to guide the young ones. we might not be directly involve, but staying besides the line will help and ease off when the emergency button were pressed. or in order words, it can also help us to gather again, and do some little jamming, though our level might be shaken off by the rust, but yeah, we are still x-gamelan utp. our level should be more than gamelan 2 people right?

so what next?

the main challenge that i can see as of now, whether the kanak2 riang, kanak2 and orang2 muda can step up and fill up the spot left by orang2 tua. it is indeed a challenge, as proven by the previous and current orang2 tua before. however i do wish that the current progress doesnt give the negative slope by year end but, at least provide a m=0 slope where y=mx+c.

as a conclusion to that, the pressure is all left to the juniors (kanak2 riang, kanak2 and orang2 muda) to succeed as the gamelan utp. to perform as par or exceed it, to maintain the level, the legacy, the credibility. what at stake is huge. it not something to be played with.

hence the next simple question is, what should the juniors do?

for long explanation, you may want to browse through previous post. but to make the loading free and etc, lets us talk here and then.

1. you should, above all, utilize these seniors (by either pleading, crawling to transfer their knowledge)
2. self discipline and attitude, is not a new topic, and these are the thing that you yourself should know and master, eventhough there is no written laws and guide on that. and trust me, with only these two thing, excluding talent, will make you go far.
3. self-training eventhough there were no seniors to help and guide
4. mix around with the team, you are now siblings of many, not only 3-4 people
5. as much as possible, be a dewa :)

lastly, what should avoided?

the reason why i opted for democracies (proxy of four, five etc) rather than monarchy (kukubesi, which is my era) is that you can not consume everything within a man. it gave them lots of burden. i know, done that. how i can do it? its another topic.

the function of democracies or 'management' is to handle the players. the well being of players. players is our main assets. the numbers of hours, numbers of countless effort to develop, trench, cut them, is huge and intolerable. and i had caused me a great pain, when a player wanted to quite, even after few weeks joining the team, and you can imagine what doest it felt if one senior were to left the team. (this doesnt include graduation of course). hence, please take care of the players.

this however, doesnt make a players a king. be a modest and keep the right attitude. we may accept a polyps, but not a cancer. :)

secondly, avoid internal struggle, dats why we created a proxy. we may opt for separate management like others group, but i do like the idea that non-art people doesnt know how art people operate. hahaha. it a selfish mind, but yeah, it does call for a strike. everything, should be discuss, as we are a half adult, and forever a kid.

my regret?

do i have one? last nite i did. last nite i was thinking to myself, why i have been in a wrong generation (sorry seniors and friends), not be able to perform in big occasion outside utp (yeah, been able to play at convocation, is a huge honour, and 4 times performing at convocation, for 4 years in the team is a huge achievement ok). but i consulted myself in saying, there is a reason behind it, maybe and maybe because you were few years earlier on, the team is current at this level.

i can go now. EiG should be next. yeah, lets do some crazy stuff with EiG.
thanks kids.
like i was smiling all the time while you are performing, thank you.

p/s: please do give your support here UTP Gamelan Group

thank you

thank you Allah and thank you.
:)


p/s: post paling pendek penah wat.

lesson 19 - analogi pemancing si tukang masak

tersebutlah kisah hikayat seorang pemancing yang juga si tukang masak yang merasakan suda tiba masanya pada hari tersebut, untuk dia ke laut. ke laut untuk menunaikan dan melaksanakan apa yang diperlukan untuk dia terus hidup.

sudah diketahui dan sudah diteliti kenapakah harus dia pergi ke laut untuk memancing dan kemana dan apa yang harus dilakukan untuk pergi memancing. lubuk2 ikan selar, ikan parang, ikan bawal semua sudah didalam otaknya cuma hatinya harus memilih, yang mana satu yang harus dipancingnya.

maka tiba masanya untuk bergerak ke laut, akan tetapi dia tahu, ke laut banyak caranya. melalui bot besar, sampan kecil mahupun hanya menumpang bot org lain ke laut. apapun caranya, duit harus dikeluarkan untuk menampung kepemergiannya ke laut. banyak atau sedikit hasilnya, dia juga tahu, ia bergantung kepada caranya ke laut. akan tetapi, sesetengah pemancing berpendapat, ikan tidak melihat cara, akan tetapi melihat umpan yang dipasangkan pada mata joran. asalkan ikan itu tidak materialisitik, sudah pasti dengan sampan milik orang lain pun mampu diangkat juga ikan tersebut.

setelah malam menjelma, bertemankan langit yang tidak berbulan, gelap akan tetapi cahaya bintang yang malap mampu memberikan petunjuk kepada sesiapa yang memahami dan melihat dengan sebenar-benar melihat, si pemancing itu bergerak menaiki cara yang dipilihnya. mungkin kali ini, hanya sampan yang dia mampu. berdayung dan mencari lubuk yang difikirnya selamat untuk memancing, dan dengan itu, dia pasang dan dilontarkan umpan ke dalam laut. mungkin boleh saja dia melontarkan jala, tp adakah dia pasti, sampan itu mampu menyimpan hasil jalaannya?

setelah lama menunggu, mungkin seperti sebelum ini, hasilnya tiada. mungkin sudah tiada ikan yang merasakan umpan itu layak dimakan. atau mungkin rezekinya adalah pada ikan yang sebelumnya kecil, akan tetapi sudah membesar tatkala dia memancing.

malam bergerak, dan akhirnya disentap jua tali pancing itu.

pemancing itu kaget. berdebar, adakah mungkin ikan itu tidak mampu ditewaskan? maka satu pertarungan, apa yang harus dilakukan. kalau ditarik sekuat2nya, maka mungkin tali itu akan putus, dan ikan itu akan pergi. mungkin kalau dilepas tali, cangkuk itu pun terlepas dan ikan itu berenang kembali. walau ikan itu berenang, luka dimulut tetap ada, dan luka pasti meninggalkan parut.

maka pemancing itu menarik dan melepaskan tali, diharap supaya ikan itu mengikut rentaknya dan akhirnya tewas. tarik dan lepas.

tarik dan lepas. dan ia semakin dekat.

tarik.

tarik.

lepas.

tarik.

tatkala ikan itu sudah dirasakan sudah dekat, difkirkan pula, selepas sahaja ia diangkat naik, maka ikan itu akan cepat untuk tidak segar. diingatkan pula, adakah dia sudah menyediakan persediaan dirumah untuk memasak ikan itu. sudah adakah garamnya? gula? bawang putih? kunyit mahupun halia? apakah yang ingin dimasak dengan ikan itu? kenakah resepi dengan ikan tersebut? siakap, bawal atau parang, ada masakannya tersendiri.

dan dia tahu, jika persediaan memasak belum ada, maka lebih masa akan diperlukan untuk memasak, dan lebih masa bermakna keadaan ikan itu akan kurang elok berbanding yang asalnya. berbelah bagi si pemancing itu, adakah harus diangkat ikan itu? kerana didalam hati, dia mahukan ikan yang segar, kerana isi yang segar, manis rasanya. lembut keadaanya. dan licin kulitnya.

bukankah elok jika dia menyiapkan semuanya sebelum dia pergi memancing? alangkah eloknya.

mungkin hanya yang ada dirumah boleh digunakan untuk memasak, tp kenakah pada resepinya? ikannya? mahupun kehendak si pemancing atau ikan itu sendiri? kepusingan di situ.

dilepaskan ikan itu, mungkin satu yang boleh dilakukan, kerana dia tidak bersedia, tp adakah akan ada lagi ikan yang akan memakan umpannya? adakah dia pasti, yang ikan itu akan kembali berenang riang, tanpa dirasakan luka dibibir setiap kali ingin ia makan? kenapa tidak diangkat terus ikan itu, kerana itulah takdir dan rezeki kita.

diangkat, dan terus di bawa pulang.

hasil ketekunan dan kesabaran.

tidak jua lupa, kekuatan.

maka pulanglah sudah sipemancing dan ikannya. cukup satu untuk ketika ini. tiada peti untuk menyimpan ikan yang lain, kerana ikan yang dipancing hanya untuk dirinya shj.

disegerakan api itu menyala, sambil pisau2 menari memotong dan menyiang ikan. jika tidak cekap pemancing si tukang masak itu, mungkin ikan itu hilang ekornya bersama kepala tatkala sirip mahu dibuang.

pemancing si tukang masak cemas. cekap dan hebatkah dia untuk memasak ikan yang licin, lembut dan manis itu? cukupkah ilmu didada? alangkah bagus jika memasak mahupun menyiang, menyediakkan persediaan, dipenuhkan dlu didada dan diotak.sebelum memancing.

alangkah bagus.

alangkah.

ya.

bagus.

assalamualaikum wbt.

for all that i know

assalamualaikum...

one of my close frens asked me whether or not i would available and can make a cut for her pre-wedding shots in this month, so along the way i have been doing some thinking on what should we have for this pre-wedding shots.

for all i know, somehow these had come out

so long, they have

walked together,

yet, future holds another distance,

for her, and for him,

for they, to walk

to experience,

to enjoy

for all she know,

and also he know,

they have each other

side by side,

along the path,

the blessed path, always

they walk

if they, maybe, probably

can be, slip away

from the path,

each other they have,

to remind

together, shall

they walk,

and remain in that path

unshakable

and for all,

he know

she know

she have him, and

he have her,

to walk on the path

together

thank you, and

thank you

God

for the meeting,

and letting,

them to walk together

(amin)

and hopefully, the pre-weds and their marriage life shall be as awesome as this. insyaAllah.

may God bless both of you, my friends.

p/s: thank you God for such a lovely idea. i dun know why, but all i can say, is thank you.

^^v

broga phase 1

assalamualaikum...

i have been updating my fb on this broga (pictures only) and thought, i should put some of the pictures here. what can i say about broga is that, the tiredness and efforts that u put to get into the top, seriously worth it..being close to nature, its like imagining in your mind, partly what would be heaven looked like, since this world, is merely a heavenly earth...

i will definitely revisit broga again, in the near future eventhough i nearly killed myself with the overloaded bag..hahaha..jst put 1 pictures as of today, will update more during weekend insyaAllah...

sejauh mana pon, bak direntas oleh jurang yang tidak terlihat,
kita tetap berpijak pada bumi yang sama. :)

p/s: mari kita melaksankan broga revisit, soon!

^____^b

gamelan after graduation, comes a new life

assalamualaikum...

it has been a year and 6 months or so since i graduated, which also officially graduated from gamelan utp. in my last year in utp, i had always been thinking, what it would be for me and gamelan, after graduating from utp. gamelan had been a dream for me since form 2 and eventually that dream of playing gamelan comes true at utp.

lucky i would say that i have been offered a position at KLCC whereby i can continue playing gamelan under PPAG supervision (not to say that i'm a part of PPAG, their level is totally crazy). it has been a tough since i never thought of playing gamelan again especially after convocation, and first time playing gamelan at KLCC, its rather awkward, it doesn't feel right, as if i were a gamelan 1 student. soooo nubs! time pass by (ceh) and i would say under their supervision, my playing skills is almost at par during my final year time or even better. i think~

the good part is that, almost of seniors from gamelan utp are at KLCC now and it would be not to let our passion, legacy, love, and tradition to go to waste. hence, with Bismillahirrahmannirrahim i as the founder, proudly presents you, Ensemble in G!

Ensemble in G had successfully undertake their first event last week for Bangsawan Tuah Hang Jebat and insyaAllah would be performing their second event during a wedding next month. with that, we, as the x-clan (ok i miss the word x-clan) of gamelan utp, would like to extend our hands for your support for this group. We might not be at par as RiB nor PPAG as of now, but surely, we will be at that level soon.

may our legacy, loves, passion, commitment, skills, assabiyah(brother/sisterhood :P) remain intact and increasingly in the future. amin~

p/s: i would like to extend my utmost gratitude to khairul ariffin for the lovely logo, aira amira for the idea for the group names.

lesson 18 - may i know your destination pls?

assalamualaikum and good day!

at a certain age of life, you may started to look on where you are going to head. some of you, did not even think on where are your final destination. some might end up that eventhough they have something in mind, they are stuck at some path that most of the time, may not provide the happiness that they are looking for.

the first question is now, are you clear where is your destination? if you are taking flight, you are sure where is your destination, even there might be some transit at the middle of the flight. why are u sure? because the destination is written both at the ticket and at your head. and this, can be applicable to your life too..by starting to chart out your life i.e. final and intermediate transit, you may and may not lost your way, which will be challenge later.


now, the second question is that, would you current path, leads to your final destination? some may say, no and lots of F words together with long and long list of words. true, i would be that same person too, well before that I noe that there are meaning in every work that you did. IF and only IF, you are smart and think enough to understand the meaning. the more you understand the meanings or the other words is, reading between the lines, the more happier you can be...


so, i just leave these two question to you and hopefully, you may get the answer!
good day~

^^

p/s: the picture is taken during a MAS flight to Bintulu.

zafran dan denggi

assalamualaikum...

si anak buah telah dimasukkan ke hospital akibat denggi...namun pada hari sabtu, 9/1/2010, dia telah selamat kuar dari hospital dan kini sedang riang bermain di rumahnya..
alhamdulillah, terima kasih kpd rakan2 yg mendoakan dan setinggi2 terima kasih kepada Ya Muhaimin, yang Maha Memelihara...

(and gamba ni aku amik time g melawat dia kat hospital)

tp bile kitaorg nk balik, zafran pon bgn, so inilah zafran yg agak sihat berumur 10 bulan!and yes, dia bersama neneknya.


semoga cepat sihat, dan grown up to be a great man...
amin~

^^v