andai kau tahu ini Ramadhan terakhir
tentu siangnya engkau sibuk berzikir
tentu engkau tak akan jemu melagukan syair rindu
mendayu..merayu. ..kepada- NYA Tuhan yang satu
andai kau tahu ini Ramadhan terakhir
tentu solatmu kau kerjakan di awal waktu
solat yang dikerjakan.. .sungguh khusyuk lagi tawadhu'
tubuh dan qalbu...bersatu memperhamba diri menghadap Rabbul Jalil...
menangisi kecurangan janji "innasolati wanusuki wamahyaya wamamati lillahirabbil 'alamin"[sesungguhnya solatku, ibadahku, hidupku dan matiku...
ku serahkan hanya kepada Allah Tuhan sekalian alam]
andai kau tahu ini Ramadhan terakhir
tidak akan kau sia siakan walau sesaat yang berlalu
setiap masa tak akan dibiarkan begitu saja
di setiap kesempatan juga masa yang terluang alunan Al-Quran bakal kau dendang...
bakal kau syairkan
andai kau tahu ini Ramadhan terakhir
tentu malammu engkau sibukkan dengan bertarawih.. .berqiamullail. ..bertahajjud. ..mengadu...merintih. ..meminta belas kasih
"sesungguhnya aku tidak layak untuk ke syurga-MU tapi...aku juga tidak sanggup untuk ke neraka-MU"
andai kau tahu ini Ramadhan terakhir
tentu dirimu tak akan melupakan mereka yang tersayang
mari kita meriahkan Ramadhan
kita buru...kita cari...suatu malam idaman yang lebih baik dari seribu bulan
andai kau tahu ini Ramadhan terakhir
tentu engkau bakal menyediakan batin dan zahir
mempersiap diri...rohani dan jasmani
menanti-nanti jemputan Izrail di kiri dan kanan ...
lorong-lorong redha Ar-Rahman
Duhai Ilahi....andai ini Ramadhan terakhir buat kami
jadikanlah ia Ramadhan paling berarti...paling berseri...
menerangi kegelapan hati kami
menyeru ke jalan menuju ridho serta kasih sayangMu Ya Ilahi
semoga bakal mewarnai kehidupan kami di sana nanti
Namun teman...tak akan ada manusia yang bakal mengetahui apakah Ramadhan ini merupakan yang terakhir kali bagi dirinya
yang mampu bagi seorang hamba itu hanyalah berusaha...bersedia ...meminta belas-NYA
andai benar ini Ramadhan terakhir buat kita
MAAFKAN SEGALA KESALAHAN YANG PERNAH DILAKUKAN
WSC
p/s this is a Ramadhan thot from my good buddy Hyree wurryfree (you know who you are)
SALAM RAMADHAN AL MUBARAK
on Sunday, August 31, 2008
I am Crying on Merdeka (Independence) Day
SELF APPRAISAL
on Monday, August 11, 2008A little boy went into a drug store, reached for a soda carton and pulled
it over to the telephone. He climbed onto the carton so that he could reach
the buttons on the phone and proceeded to punch in ten-digits (phone
numbers).
The store-owner observed and listened to the conversation:
Boy: 'Lady, Can you give me the job of cutting your lawn?
Woman: (at the other end of the phone line): 'I already have someone to cut
my lawn.'
Boy: 'Lady, I will cut your lawn for half the price of the person who cuts
your lawn now.'
Woman: I'm very satisfied with the person who is presently cutting my lawn.
Boy: (with more perseverance): 'I'll even sweep your curb and your sidewalk,
so on Sunday you will have the prettiest lawn in all of Palm beach,
Florida.'
Woman: No, thank you.
With a smile on his face, the little boy replaced the receiver.
The store-owner, who was listening to all this, walked over to the boy.
Store Owner: 'Son... I like your attitude; I like that positive spirit and
would like to offer you a job.'
Boy: 'No thanks'.
Store Owner: But you were really pleading for one.
Boy: No Sir, I was just checking my performance at the job I already have. I
am the one who is working for that lady, I was talking to ... !!!
This is what we call 'Self Appraisal' ... !!
Hiring maids by the hour
on Monday, August 4, 2008
Tuesday July 1, 2008
By NG SU-ANN and LOOI SUE-CHERN
MORE people in Penang are opting to hire maids by the hour since the fees for full-time ones skyrocketed.
Housewife Quah Lean Hong, 49, said she used to have a full-time maid for five years.
“However, when the maid returned to Indonesia in July last year, we decided that a cheaper option was to hire a part-time maid.
“We arrange for her to come in every Saturday since she’s already familiar with our house and general cleaning chores,” said the mother of three.
Quah said she was now paying the agent RM40 for four hours per visit, adding that she would hire the maid for a whole day (eight hours) for spring-cleaning before Chinese New Year.
Retired restaurant operator Rebecca Tan, 56, also said an hourly-paid maid was a wiser alternative as it was simply too costly to hire a full-time housemaid nowadays.
“Although my agent has increased the charge for four-hour maid service from RM40 to RM42, I don't mind paying the extra money.
“When I was running the restaurant years ago, I had a full-time maid to help me out. However, I had to bring with me everywhere. I also had to buy food, clothes and other necessities for her,” added the grandmother who is staying in an apartment in Island Park.
Last week, Association of Foreign Housemaids Agencies (Papa) president Datuk Raja Zulkepley Dahalan warned that employers might soon have to fork out up to RM8,000 to hire an Indonesian maid.
Maid agencies currently charge RM7,500 for each maid brought in from Indonesia compa-red with the RM6,000 fee charged early last year.
Businessman Desmond Fernandez said he paid about RM4,000 for a housemaid in 2000.
“Although she’s not perfect, I have learnt to live with her faults. I can’t afford to hire a new one these days,” he said.
An agent who wanted to be identified as Lim said she had been supplying part-time maids for nine years and she paid more than RM9,000 to hire Indonesian maids from the agents there.
“The ones benefiting from the fee increase are the agents. They take advantage of not only their customers but also of Indonesians seeking a better life in Malaysia,” he said.
Sunday August 3, 2008
By PAUL GABRIEL
KUALA LUMPUR: Indonesia will propose amended terms for the recruitment of its domestic helpers, who form the largest number of foreign maids in the country.
Topping the list will be higher wages and time off for them. A proper mechanism will also be sought to resolve disputes between the helpers and their employers.
The amendments to a labour memorandum of understanding signed between both countries in 2006 involving domestic helpers will be presented at a coming consultation between both sides that Malaysia will host.
The Indonesians wanted to set a minimum wage of RM500 for their domestic helpers then, but agreed to back down after this condition was rejected by Malaysia.
Indonesian domestic helpers, who number about 300,000 here, are mostly being paid between RM400 and RM500 monthly.
An Indonesian embassy official said the latest wage increase being sought would likely be between RM50 and RM100.
Indonesian ambassador to Malaysia Da’i Bachtiar, who confirmed the amendments, said the rising cost of living had also affected Indonesians working in Malaysia.
“If costs are rising here due to higher fuel prices and food prices are going up, then our workers too should be entitled to what is deemed fit by the Malaysian Government,” he told The Star in an interview.
Bachtiar, the republic's former national police chief who was posted here in May, said time off was also being sought.
“We also want a system in place whereby if an employer accuses workers of any wrongdoing the issue will be handled with fairness,” he added.
On the high fees being paid to agents by employers seeking Indonesian domestic helpers, despite Malaysia capping recruiting and processing fees for such workers at RM2, 415 in 2006, Bachtiar said he agreed that Indonesian agents were “asking too much.”
He said many Indonesian agents also did not train domestic helpers for the chores they were expected to do here.
“What I am going to do to such agents is to get Jakarta to blacklist them. We will ask Malaysian agents for feedback as to who the errant agents on our side are. We will pass this information to the authorities in Jakarta,” he added.
