Pediatric's Day

Assalamualaikum.

28 April haritu aku ada join satu program ni yang dinamakan Pediatric's Day di Pediatrics Hospital, Shatby. Organized by Yayasan Yalla (dan LIFE), aku datang dengan lenggang kangkung, untuk memeriahkan lagi majlis, dan kalau ada chance, dapat jumpa pesakit dan tolong agihkan mainan dan ubat. Well, aku dapat buat semua tu sebenarnya walaupun datang lambat.:P

Setahu aku, program macam ni baru kali kedua diadakan. yang pertama kali haritu (tahun lepas) aku tak join sebab takda gang. heheh

Apa yang kita buat di program ni, kita derma ubat-ubat, makanan, mainan, personal care products dan menghiburkan pesakit kanak-kanak ni.

Dan sebelum program ni diadakan, macam-macam lagi aktiviti telah dijalankan untuk mengutip dana untuk beli semua benda-benda kat atas tu. Yayasan Yalla dah anjurkan Marathon 1.0 & 2.0, Jumble sales, bukak booth untuk sesiapa derma ubat dan gerakkan tabung kutipan di setiap lecture hall.

Percaya cakap aku, ubat-ubat dia sangat mahal! beratus harga dia sebab untuk penyakit leukemia. dan disebabkan taraf hidup rakyat mesir ni rendah dan ramai berpendapatan rendah, diorang tak mampu untuk beli ubat. sebab tu charity program macamni diadakan.

Ni gambar-gambar yang aku sempat tangkap.

Yang ni, gambar di khemah besar. Kanak-kanak dan sesiapa je boleh join untuk melukis di kertas ni dan tulis apa-apa mesej. di pentas (kat hujung depan tu), ada kanak-kanak yang menyanyi, bercerita dan baca surah-surah apa yang diorang hafal. Ada jugak face-painting.

Kanak-kanak yang ada ni, ada antaranya ialah pesakit tu sendiri. Diorang dapat pelepasan sekejap, dibenarkan untuk keluar dari wad sekejap untuk join aktiviti kat bawah. 

Yang pakai shirt biru tu ahli sukarelawan LIFE (yayasan yalla versi mesir).

antara ubat yang diderma

daripada pagi sampai 3 petang duduk di khemah, aktiviti seterusnya kita agihkan mainan, buku dan personal products, personally and directly kepada pesakit dan keluarga.

Yang ni best sebab aku memang teringin sangat nak naik wad, jumpa keluarga pesakit. Aku kiranya bertuah sebab kawan-kawan aku yang datang awal dapat duduk kat khemah je, tak dapat naik wad.

bangunan wad pediatrik
* Is'af (ambulans) tu baru je sampai

Ni gambar dalam wad, waktu agihkan barang-barang.

Sebab aku tak pandai cakap Arab sangat, jadi setiap kali tu aku dok cakap "Ismuha eh? Ismuh eh?"(nama dia siapa). kalau tak pun cakap "Shafakallah"(semoga cepat sembuh). Rasa macam loser gila sebab tak reti cakap.

Budak kecik atas katil tu nama dia Muadz.

Yang ni Umar.
Dia tengah nak pilih buku.

Yang ni nama dia Jannah.
Dia dapat hadiah tu.

Ada pesakit yang family dia macam sangat friendly, siap macam hulur lagi baby tu pada aku untuk dukung. Tapi sebab ni first time, dan takda siapa brief aku samada boleh dukung atau tak, aku jadi takut samada nak dukung atau tak. Jadi aku cuma pegang pipi dan kepala dia je. Sangat awkward.

Kalau family ni, aku tak tahu siapa yang sakit sebab semua
nampak excited jumpa kitorang Malizi ni.

Yang ni pulak, aku tak ingat nama dia apa. Tapi adik lelaki ni, dia patient yang paling friendly, dan reaction dia yang paling priceless!. Bila dia dapat hadiah tu, kau akan dapat nampak betapa gembiranya muka dia, betapa bersyukurnya dia dapat hadiah tu. Aku pulak yang rasa terharu tengok reaksi dia. Sebab pada aku, tu mainan murah je, dan kita kat Malaysia tu bila-bila je oleh dapat. Tapi bagi diorang, mainan yang murah tu macam satu nikmat besar.

Dia sangat excited. Dapat je hadiah tu, dia senyum dan tunjuk kat mak dia
dan aku agak dia mesti cakap
"mak tengok ni. Adik dapat ni.."

Ni pulak rupa wad tu sendiri.

ni entrance dan hallway

ni ruangan katil dalam wad tu sendiri

Jujur aku cakap, keadaan hospital tu memang tak selesa. Ruang setiap katil sangat sempit, tak ada kipas atau air cond., cuma tingkap je tu pun kat hujung. Bayangkan kalau musim panas, macamana keadaan diorang.

Kawan aku cakap tahun lepas lagi teruk sebab wad ni dalam pembinaan. Katil-katil kat situ, tepi-tepi dia pasir, simen sebab tengah nak bina. Kesian kan?

Ada kawasan yang kami tak boleh masuk sebab tu kawasan pesakit leukemia, sebab takut diorang terkena jangkitan. Ada pesakit tu rambut dah gugur sebab chemotherapy, ada yang tak pernah pergi sekolah sebab sejak kecil lagi dah sakit.

Bila tengok keadaan pesakit dan keluarga dia, rasa insaf sangat. Boleh nampak betapa susahnya hidup diorang kalau nak banding dengan kita di Malaysia.

Aku nak pesan, kalau kita ada peluang untuk sertai program kebajikan atau aktiviti sukarelawan macam ni, jangan teragak-agak untuk pergi. Walaupun sedikit penat, kita tak rugi sikit pun. Sebab perasaan yang kita dapat tu lagi hebat, lagi tak ternilai.

Aku tak tahu nak cakap apa lagi, tapi kalau nak tengok gambar lagi, boleh tengak di page Yayasan Yalla.

Tahun depan aku nak jadi Yalla Ranger atau Yalla Volunteers, nak ikut pergi rumah anak yatim, pergi tolong kat kampung-kampung. Nak sangat-sangat.



*  Jangan lupa cakap Alhamdulillah sebab hidup kita sangat selesa sekarang ni. Kan?

Insomnia & fotografi lagi

Assalamualaikum.

Sesungguhnya, aku tak boleh tidur. jam dah pukul 2.45 malam, 3.15 azan subuh, pukul 8-12 ada kelas. lepas tu ada group taddarus, lepas tu ada usrah. 

macamana niii

*ni gambar-gambar aku hantar sebagai wakil untuk group SC aku. harap-harap menang..

gambar-gambar ni semua tangkap tahun lepas. aku takda masa nak keluar pergi tangkap gambar untuk pertandingan dengan short notice "tarikh tutupnya ialah esok" <---- kisah benar.


sapa-sapa boleh bagi tunjuk ajar macamana nak edit gambar dengan baik/betul. steps/cara/teknik untuk beginner macam aku ni. sangat-sangat dihargai. :)

Resipi : Chocolate Banana Cupcake (senang)

Assalamualaikum.

Nampak sedap kan?

Ni Chocolate Banana Cupcake. Meh aku bagi resipi. Senang je nak buatnya..

Bahan A:

Gula - 2  cawan (400g)

Tepung - 3/4 cawan (245g)

Serbuk koko - 3/4 cawan (75g)

serbuk penaik(baking powder) - 1 1/2 sudu teh

sodium bicarbonate - 1 1/2 sudu teh

garam - 1/2 sudu

Bahan B:

Telur - 2 biji

Pisang - 2 biji dan dihancurkan (setengah cawan)

air suam - 1 cawan (240ml)

susu - 1/2 cawan (120ml)

minyak - 1/2 cawan (120ml)

esen vanila - 1 1/2 sudu teh

cara-cara:

campurkan bahan A dan B, kacau hingga sebati.

* adunan yang kita akan dapat memang cair. jadi, JANGAN tambah tepung lagi. nanti keras tak sedap.

kemudian bakar. aku tak tahu berapa suhu atau nak panaskan berapa lama. yang pasti, sebelum mula membancuh adunan lagi aku dah panaskan oven, sebab nak pastikan oven tu boleh guna.

tempoh masa bakar: 

- kalau buat dalam loyang besar, mungkin 30-40 minit. aku tak pasti sebab kalau aku, cukup je 30 minit, memang tengok dan cucuk kek tu nak pastikan dia masak. kalau tak masak(ada adunan melekat pada penyucuk), aku akan bukak oven tu chech every 5 minutes(paranoid).

-kalau buat dalam bentuk cupcakes macam ni, dalam 7 - 15 minit kot. boleh dapat 24 - 30 biji cupcakes.

aku baru perasan bila bakar lagi lama, lagi tinggi kek ni naik.

first time buat tu sebab nak menghabiskan susu dan pisang je. sekali housemates aku kata sedap dan dia pulak dengan excited cakap "sedapla. jual lah!". maka sekarang ni, aku jual dah cupcakes ni. baru 2 kali. Alhamdulillah, untung sebab modal sikit je. Dan orang yang beli pun ada yang siap mintak resipi lagi.

Resipi ni sangat senang. Ni pertama kali aku buat kek pisang, terus jadi. Lebih-lebih pisang yang dah jemu nak makan tu (dua biji je pun), boleh guna buat kek.

Selamat mencuba!





Alang-alang dah cakap pasal banana, meh aku nak share video paling comel aku pernah tengok.
Bananana 
=)

my story: the accidents

Assalamualaikum.

Aku masih ingat lagi macamana rasanya naik kereta atau motosikal dengan ayah aku. Macamana cara dia memandu, his attitude towards other drivers and people on the road.

Trust me, though sometimes he is filled with anger, he never forget to care about other people. No matter how late he is, how he is fighting racing against the time, he always drive safely. To make sure that we are safe; not only our family, but everyone else on the road.

for him, it's better to be late than sorry. we're okay; whenever he just stay on the left side of the road; not wanting to cut cross another car. though sometimes we just want him to speed up a little, but we understand. and its okay.

whenever we're driving at night, he makes sure that the lights are on, and properly adjusted to not disturb the up coming cars and drivers in front. he'll say "malam-malam jangan pasang lampu tinggi. silau. bahaya pada driver lain". and we shall have our informal driving etiquette lesson there.

He never forget to turn on the signal whenever he tries to turn to another side of the road. But whenever he accidentally forget to; which is very infrequent,  he would spontaneously says "terlupa nak bagi signal. nasib baik takda kereta kat belakang/nasib baik tak jadi apa-apa..".

if a motorcyclist rides crazily on the road feeling valentino rossi, he tries his best to protect that cyclist to not bump into him. to make sure that that guy, that stranger is safe too. he cares about them. when its rain, he'll be extra careful. especially when there is a sight of motorcyclist. you wanna know why? because he knows how does it feel to ride a motorcycle in a rain. soak in wet, that slippery road with potholes here and there, some stupid drivers which all are damn dangerous to them. he knows and he cares..

but you know, my father did tell me this. no matter how good we drive, how we tried so hard to ride/drive safely, someone irresponsible could always hit you and knock you down. there is.

this is entirely true when my father got hit by cars for how many times i don't know because he never always tell us everything that happened to him. he just dont want any of us to get so worried about him. As far as i know, he might've been hit 4 times when he rides a motorcycle. be it with my mother or just him alone.

you know that feeling when YOUR PARENTS got hit by somebody? you just cant stay calm. you just cant. thousands of thoughts would fill your mind and you just cant help to get worried. you cant help it.

the first accident that i know is when i was in form 1. i was at home at that time alone because it was the first week of ramadhan while my brother and sister were with the babysitter. nenek called me informing me that my parents got into an accident; hit by a car that morning when my father was riding my mother to work. a car hit them from the back near the petronas station in jalan ulu klang (i supposed) near by the junction to UIAM Gombak campus.

following that accident my mother was unconscious i dont know maybe a day or two? she was admitted to hospital selayang and then transferred to Gleneagles Hospital when her colleagues arrived seeing that her condition was not good. no proper treatment was given except the stitches on the side of her right eye(temple) and she was left on the bed soaked with her own blood since 8 am till 4 pm. My father was in a better condition, he was conscious but with some injuries on his face, knees and hands. That night when he got home, he looked terrible. His face was swollen with some black areas and he couldnt even talked and move his hands properly. when i asked him is there anything that i could help, he shooked his head and trying to speak as loud as he can asking me to just go to sleep. he cleaned his cuts but himself, putting the medications on his own. he didnt allow any of us to help.

the next afternoon, he drove us to ampang, visiting my mother and later that evening to Gombak police station lodging a police report regarding the accident. He's in pain, but he had to. His friend; pak cik aziz came and escorted us all the way from ampang till selayang, watching my father drove us. on the next day, we did the same thing and my mother had to undergo a surgery because her face was swollen badly, even some people couldn't recognized her. There was a piece of her broken glasses inside her temple which the previous hospital failed to identify.

what's more terrifying was when the police officer informed us that the area where the accident took place is a 'black area'; a famous spot where many fatal accidents have occurred.  We were lucky enough because there were witnesses who helped my parents(carrying my parents to the side of the road since they were unconscious) and fortunately there were police patrolling that area. Alhamdulillah..

that's the first.

the second and the third one, i didn't know it at the same day of the accident. both happened when i was in my high school years in kuantan. i accidentally came to know it when my siblings or my mother accidentally slipped it during our conversation, months later. Seemed like everybody just know it but me. When i asked, they said "saja tak nak bagi kau risau". hmm..

and this the forth one, i just knew it today; by sms. My father told me that he's home, got 2 days leave because he's not feeling so well. fyi, my father doesn't always on a leave unless if he has a prolonged fever until it's hard for him to get up. and then only he'll see a doctor and get an MC. so when he told me that he's on leave, it must be something serious. i asked him and it took him a while to reply. he said, he got into an accident last monday(6th of may) at 9pm(malaysia) in front of the IJN Jalan Tun Razak. it was raining, he must had been waiting for the rain to stop somewhere because he sms-ed me at 7pm(malaysia) that it was raining heavily. a car hit him from the back and it caused him some injuries on his hands, legs and back. My mother wasn't with him, she's at home on a-day leave after the election. at 11pm that night he sms-ed me again that he just got home, wet. not even a slight information that he has just got into an accident. He repeated "jangan risau tentang ayah" two times!

i'm not sure whether my sister in negeri sembilan knows about this. surely, i'm not gonna tell her anytime soon. if i would, it might be some other time next week or until she tells me first. i'm sure she'll cry far more worse than me.

you know, at time like this, it makes me think that it was such a stupid decision to even wanting to come here(egypt), for six years some more.

i cry as i write this. i'm not looking for any sympathy, nor donations. i just want to tell you my story.

i want you to know that whenever you are on the road, holding the steering, or on a bike, or even as a passenger, please do not forget to care about other people who are on the road too. put yourself in my situation, be in my shoe, how do i feel? and how would you feel?

don't let yourself to be the cause for other people to be put in this grave circumstances. people might hate you or even curse you for 'accidentally' doing this to them.

you are unintentionally being careless and selfish, yet someone else has to take the consequences. this is unfair and cruel at the same time.

* please pray for our safety anytime, anywhere and that everything will be fine. Amiinn..

Fotografi pulak?

Assalamualaikum.

Dua tiga hari lepas aku ada hantar gambar-gambar untuk pertandingan Lensa of the month. Pertandingan ni dianjurkan oleh Alex Photographer Community setiap bulan diadakan dengan tema yang berbeza. Untuk bulan April, tema dia "Transport". Pemenang tak ada dapat apa-apa hadiah pun, tapi gambar yang menang akan di publish di page Perubatan Cawangan Iskandariah (rasanya).

Aku mula-mula bersemangat nak submit gambar-gambar aku bila kakak SC aku menang untuk bulan Mac; tema Landskap.

Tapi bila aku tengok gambar-gambar yang orang lain hantar, tiba-tiba jadi rasa macam 

"tak nak hantar la... Gambar aku tak cantik. Orang lain semua pakai DSLR, confirm2 la senang nak menang sebab gambar cantik..". 

Bila aku tunjuk gambar-gambar aku pada housemate, dia kata hantar je la.. Mana tahu menang ke.. 

Well, itu pun tak cukup untuk meningkatkan keyakinan diri aku.

Tapi aku still try edit2 gambar-gambar ni. 

Bila dah siap edit, terfikir pulak

"buat penat je kau edit tapi tak hantar".

Jadi aku pun hantar je laa...

Aku pulak sangat penat. 

Ada peluang nak edit gambar pun selepas pukul 10 atau 11 malam. 

Penat dan mengantuk. 

Tapi rasanya aku dah cuba sehabis baik dah ni.

Tolonglah doa sama supaya aku menang ek. 

Sebab perasaan menjadi pemenang tu sangat best (walaupun tak dapat hadiah).

*first time meng-edit gambar, jadi keyakinan diri tu sangat-sangatlah rendah. Cuma boleh doa je supaya  menang.

Gambar-gambar ni semua ditangkap tahun 2011 atau 2012.

Gambar di Stanley Bridge

(winter 2011/2012)

Laut depan Bibliotheca Alexandria

(winter 2011/2012)

 Stesen Keretapi Ramsis, Cairo

(winter break, 2012)

*first time pergi Cairo sendiri naik train

Jalan laut dekat dengan Stanley bridge

(winter 2011-2012)

Doakan aku menang ya?

Amiinn

=)

UPDATE: TAK MENANG :(