the beginning is here : part 1

Assalamualaikum semua~! dan hai pembaca sekalian heeee.

Esok saya ada kelas dan sekarang jam sudah 11.40 malam tapi excited nak update blog heeee. Alhamdulillah sudah hampir sebulan lebih kami adik-beradik bertungkus lumus mengerah tenaga dan kudrat untuk mengubahsuai dan mendeko interior and exterior of the new house for becoming a cute little kindergarten~! :D 

Setelah memerah segala idea yang ada, alhamdulillah we managed to start everything from zero. Mula dengan isi berbagai-bagai borang dari JPN (Jabatan Pendidikan Negeri), then pergi ke SSM (Suruhanjaya Syarikat Malaysia) untuk mendaftar tadika secara rasmi. Time ni la macam-macam nama tadika dah diusulkan tetapi terpaksa direject sebab dah wujud nama-nama tadika yang macam kami nak tu..at the end, punya lama sangat dah kat pejabat SSM tu..kami decide untuk beri nama tadika kami sempena nama taman perumahan lokasi tadika tu sendiri iaitu Taman Teratai Permai, muncul akhirnya Tadika Teratai Permai. Even mula-mula rasa tak setuju sebab macam cliche sangat je..konservatif je bunyiknya kan..

abang : ok ape nama tu

eli : apa simboliknya? kaitan ngan kanak-kanak

abang : kanak-kanak ni kan ibarat kain putih. bunga teratai kan warna putih..ada kaitan la tu

eli : owh macam tu je. ok la 

Begitulah asal usul nama tadika ni..hahaha. sebab tak mau dah nak ulang alik SSM banyak kali. setuju je la dengan nama tu walau dengan agak berat hati. tapi lama-lama emm.. ok la jugak. insyaAllah we gonna using our own program which is called as Muslim Generation, our future big dream to compete with the Little Caliph program. heee. insyaAllah. or maybe berdiri kukuh setanding like them one day. pray for us. :) 

Selepas dah hantar semua borang ke JPN dan diterima sepenuhnya oleh JPN (JPN dah tengok kawasan tadika tu dan approved), maka seterusnya ada 2 pihak utama lagi yang akan datang membuat tinjauan ke tadika yang didaftarkan tu, iaitu pihak KKM (Kementerian Kesihatan Malaysia) untuk kebersihan dan Bomba untuk keselamatan. dah settle semua yang tu, insyaAllah dapatlah jadi a registered kindergarten officially and happily~~ heee.

Untuk decoration, tak susah sangat rupanya nak lukis mural kat dinding tu. selalu tengok orang buat ja kan, tak pernah buat sendiri. di sinilah kami tumpahkan dan curahkan segala bakat-bakat kreatif yang terpendam selama ni. hahaha. sebelum nak design kat dinding untuk buat draft kosong kami akan survey-survey tengok contoh design orang lain. ada banyakkkkkk sangat kat internet. comel-comel dan cantikkkk sangat decorations untuk sesuatu ruang tu. lepas tu, design kat atas kertas after that terus lukis kat dinding. guna pensel jeeee. haha. mudah. tapi yang leceh bila tersilap nak padam tu yaaa ampunnn capek banget lengan gue. hahaha. lepas dah habis lukis kat dinding guna scale yang besar, kami akan cat guna cat minyak. a washable one. which means when ada budak-budak yang semangat nak tonjolkan kreativiti dorang dengan conteng dinding tadika, boleh la kami lap je guna kain buruk and hilang. heee. sangat suka guna cat ni. jenama TOA; thailand no 1 brand. harga pun sangat berpatutan kalau nak dibandingkan dengan jenama cat minyak yang lain. disebabkan ianya cat minyak, veryyyy easy to deal with this paint. bila terkena kat tangan dan nak basuh, dia jadi macam lekang dengan sendirinya daripada kulit kita. mudah nak basuh. bila nak cat straight dari pagi sampai petang pun semangat ja sebab within waktu nak solat tu sangat senang nak basuh tangan ambik wudhu. bagusss sangat. very recommended to all! :D cuma cat untuk luar rumah berbeza dengan dalam rumah. harga pun agak mahal sedikit sebab yang luar rumah perlu yang tahan dengan weather suma. tapi yang untuk exterior ni boleh guna untuk cat besi sekali. kalau yang cat interior tak boleh guna untuk cat besi, boleh lekang balik cat tu nanti. 

Part yang agak susah bila nak final touch up tu. agak rumit dan memenatkan sebab kena lebih teliti. dan satu lagi, kami hanya beli warna cat asas. makanya banyak warna lain kami hanya mix and try. haha. combine kaler yang tu dengan yang ni, haaa jadi tak warna yang cun tuuu. gitu je. saving and sooo affordable! challenge your creativity too!

 Exterior 

Interior

before

after 

 

before : step 1, draft dinding

before : step 2, painting like crazyyy, panjat sana sini haha

before : step 3, mix up colour & cat bagi siap

after : tadaaaaa~! this is after 3 days hard work 

teaching materials for basic arabic

part of the interior design (nak buat ala-ala wallpaper haha)

this is a snow reading corner. muncul olaf di situ.

penangan frozen. lettt it gooo sangat. hahaha

eh ni bahagian exterior sebelum nak masuk main door.

yang ni dari draft, paint suma, im doing it. kekeee.

anak zebra so kecik. anak singa pulak obes. haha

so here you go~!

so excited for the coming student enrollment!

insyaAllah.

dear students, teacher waits for all of you.

:)

it is our tagline : "the beginning is here"

kecomelan. sukaaa. heee.

nusaibah & safiyya : ni sekolah sape? untuk kakak ngan adik?

me : aah untuk kakak ngan adik laa

them : nama apa sekolah ni?

me : tadika teratai permai. TTP.

them : cip cip pi

me : pun bolehh haha

them : macam bunyi burung je cik kinah. cip cip pi!!

me : ce tengok white board ni, pilih mana satu yang kakak adik paling suka.

ada 3 logo yang we are voting on at the first place. confuse nak pilih yang mana satu. so we asked for their opinions! heeee. nak bagi dorang rasa valuable this school for them. semangat bukan main lagi. first tu gamba anak pokok, second gamba cendawan, third gamba anak burung.

nusaibah : kak babah suka cendawan dengan burung tuuu (tunjuk kat whiteboard)

safiyya : kakak suka yang pokok dengan burung

me : okay. kita undi dulu yang mana banyak orang pilih.

at the end of the day, kami suma decide pilih logo yang gamba burung. 

eli : emm apa simboliknya burung ni

me : emm.. ala-ala baru nak belajar terbang. macam budak-budak ni laa

mayah : kannn. kita la nak teach depa bagi boleh fly high. cewahh haha

lebih kurang macam tu la asal usul logo ni muncul. haha. do check out our page on facebook! https://www.facebook.com/ttpkindergarten. sempat lagi tu. 

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berharga.

all the experiences and new knowledge.

sangat.

banyak belajar.

penat tapi best :'))

alhamdulillah. hee.

ok dah dah la tu sakinah. tido.

blind

Assalamualaikum semua :)

lama tak jenguk sini. rinduuu. hee. lama sangat tak online. blog pun berhabuk-habukkk. notifications facebook berpuluh puluhhhh. banyak cerita dan berita kawan kawan dah terlepas pandang. sori sangat tak sempat nak catch on. oh my. how time flies. too fast. kalau dulu masa belajar degree everyday akan depan laptop, mana taknya habis kelas, balik rumah masuk bilik laptop je yang ada depan mata. everything info thru fb group, nak keep in touch dengan family guna skype. mana taknya almost everyday in font of this laptop. dah habis zaman macam tu. now, dah laptop ke mana, saya ke mana. haha. busy sangat. dengan komitmen kerja dan belajar. penatnya~~ maaf sangat yang contact thru inbox fb tu lambat reply.. insyaAllah lepas ni akan rajinkan diri cek inbox :) sebab dah masuk balik zon as a student ni baru kalut balik cari laptop. heee. nak kena settle assignment semua. nak cari bahan bagai. database, ebook, jurnal semua nak kena cari memang kena online la -__-" which online using laptop quite leceh. anything important contact my whatsapp je okay. hee. dok tengah melilau online, so here i end up. heeee. teringat khabar blog. and i have something to share with all of you. a high impact video. you should watch it. 

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tears rolled down.. :') 

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that's why people, there is much more truth that you are blind to.
a truth that you never know before. even until now.
so stop judging people.
stop be prejudice towards others.
you never know.
you never know.
you never know.

someday, once the truth is revealed..
perhaps, you the one, who will be regret.
wholeheartedly. 

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as reminder to myself first,
to those yang mudah bersangka buruk dengan orang lain, 
menghasut orang untuk saling membenci,
mengumpat dan mengeji, 
membuat andaian sendiri dengan persepsi negatif,
salah faham dan tak usul periksa hal sebenar, 
hope so you realize, that person you hated had got nothing to deal with you.
she/he had no idea about what you are misunderstanding about.
so much truth that you are blind to..
in fact, maybe she/he is praying for your happiness in this dunya and akhirah.
maybe she/he is protecting you in front of others in term of tutup aib you.
maybe she/he is loving and caring so much about you but dont want to show it.
maybe she/he always want to talk heart to heart with you but no chance to do so.
maybe she/he is the person who is lebih dekat di sisi Allah. lebih Allah kasih.
and many other presumptions could happen without you know it.

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above all, in this dunya, you could do as many mistakes and wrongdoings as you want, because here the only place where we can always turn back to the right track. we can repent and say sorry to. there is always an opportunity and hope. because this is dunya, a place where every each of us are being tested. no matter how harsh, bitter and pain the test is, there is a reward for it as we passes by. either pahala or dosa. either syurga or neraka in a final result. tempat kutip amal. bukan tempat sebenar-benar pembalasan. masih ada masa untuk patah balik dan perbetulkan kesilapan. masih ada ruang untuk baiki compang camping diri. masih ada kesempatan untuk kembali dekat dengan Tuhan. masih ada celah-celah keburukan dan kesalahan untuk tutup tampal dengan taubat. masih ada waktu untuk pandang setiap orang dengan kasih sayang dan berlumba kejar kebaikan. because why? because we are still alive. Allah still gives us time to breath and lead the way of our life. dan kita hidup dalam bilangan hari yang bersilih ganti. setiap hari satu per satu hari mendekati tarikh kematian kita. that's it. all about time. time is life. we live this life just for once.. for the only life in this dunya, so live it in a way that we will never regret in akhirah. that's the most crucial goal. 

and today, i came cross this verse : "Dan orang yang sabar kerana mengharap keredhaan Tuhannya, melaksanakan solat dan menginfakkan sebahagian rezeki yang Kami berikan kepada mereka, secara sembunyi atau terang-terangan serta menolak kejahatan dengan kebaikan; orang itulah yang mendapat kesudahan (yang baik)." Ar-ra'd : 22


that are 2 points really strike on me like halilintar. huua.

1. sabar
2. menolak kejahatan dengan kebaikan

sebab apa? sebab paling susah nak buat kan. tapi boleh. percayalah. kita boleh buat. kita kena usaha buat. sebab towards the end (ayat Izyan suka guna. haha) hadiahnya tersangat bestttt. 


s y u r g a .


siapa tak nak. 

jadi, susah sikit. sakit sikit. letih sikit.
takpe lah. kan? 

:')

heee. selak punya selak. random selak je. then bump into this verse pulak : "Dan bersegeralah kamu mencari keampunan dari Tuhanmu dan mendapatkan syurga yang luas seluas langit dan bumi yang disediakan bagi orang yang bertakwa iaitu

orang yang berinfak baik waktu lapang mahupun sempit
dan
orang yang menahan amarahnya
dan
orang yang memaafkan orang lain.

Dan Allah mencintai orang yang berbuat kebaikan." Ali Imran:133-134


memang saja nak emphasis lebih kat word segera tu. huu. bukan nanti nanti. bukan kejap lagi la. hold on dulu la. bukan boleh nak procrastinate tunggu bila bila entah bila baru nak usaha buat tapi on the dot. right away. now. immediately. start on. hurry up people, lets work on together! syurga Allah kan luas. tak best la masuk sorang sorang. kita mesti nak masuk dengan semua orang yang kita sayang, dengan semua orang yang pernah bawa kita ke arah kebaikan dan dengan seeeeemuaaa orang yang kita pernah jumpa dan kenal. to the max, rasa macam nak semua orang yang wujud kat muka bumi dunia ni, jom laaa masukkk sama sama. touch and go together. how beautiful isn't? :'D

and when Allah loves us, there is no other things that more worth to sacrifice for than this. endure la sikit ep. hang it there. hang on okay? :') ...even there are lots of things i had gave up on, but up to this one, i still struggle on. every now and then. so lets show our biceps people! hee. hiyeahh. stay strong peeps! 

are we in love with Love?

The more I read and talk to people, the more I think we are in love with love. Now don’t get me wrong – love is nice. Love is beautiful. Love is sweet.

And I love a cute love story just as much as other people. Girl wants to marry guy but he’s not interested. She’s heartbroken but then she realizes he wasn’t the right one for her and she marries someone better. Happily ever after, right?

I told a friend that it seems that people put so much energy, time, and effort into the wedding but not the marriage, and they focus on having the babies but not raising them. There’s this desire to have the wonderful wedding, the wonderful guy, and the wonderful family, but then what? And where does God fit in?

Sooner or later in marriage, most likely during those times when you feel like you’ve had more downs than ups, you start to feel like love isn’t enough.

Love doesn’t equal dreamy happiness and love doesn’t solve all the problems.

Love can be directed to different things and different people. We can do a lot in the name of love. But when we do things purely for the sake of love itself, and not out of love for Allah and trying to earn His pleasure, there will be many problems.

We should be getting married for the sake of Allah, and if things get to the point of divorce, we should separate for the sake of Allah. Not marry and divorce solely for the sake of love, or lack of it. And since we are on the topic of love and marriage, where in Islam does it say that being in love is a requirement?

Allah says,

"And of His signs is that He created for you from yourselves mates that you may find tranquility in them; and He placed between you affection and mercy. Indeed in that are signs for a people who give thought."(Qur’an, 30:21)

This isn’t the same as the obsessive, consuming desire we see or read about. This isn’t the “crazy in love” stuff or the “I’ll do anything for you” love. This is a calm, moderate, purposeful love.

Have you ever had your spouse do something so nice, so extra loving? And then it seems like all the sadness, anger, or resentment and disappointment fades away? And everything seems okay after all?  Or even with your kids…all of a sudden they will clean up without being asked, listen without having to be told twice, or show unexpected affection, and it seems like the world is great.

On the other hand, when your spouse makes you furious, when the kids are on their worst behavior, and when the house is a mess...how quickly everything seems to go wrong. When everything is based on love, and then something happens when it’s taken out of the equation, you are left with nothing.

This happens when we become too attached to “love” and “good times”, when our world seems to turn upside down when we don’t have either one. It hurts.

And I think this is because we love “love and happiness” and fairy tale ideals. But then again who doesn’t love these things? We all enjoy good times and ease. No one wants hardship or a cold marriage. But I think this focus on romance is a distraction from Shaitan. We get so caught up with being in love that when things go wrong (and they will because this is the dunya), couples want to separate or divorce. Couples want to give up. They think the relationship is hopeless because “the love isn’t there anymore”.

Some people think that love makes the marriage. They think if they aren’t holding hands while taking long walks in the park or staring at each other over candlelight and roses, something is wrong. I knew a young woman who felt that something was missing because her husband hadn’t fallen head over heels for her.

I read a question online recently. “What if God designed Marriage to make us Holy instead of Happy?”

This is something to consider. Perhaps Allah gave us marriage as a means to draw closer to Him, not to the dunya.

Your spouse is supposed to help you get closer to Allah, and marriage teaches you things about yourself you otherwise would not have learned. And that’s what marriage is about.

Marriage isn’t supposed to be this super relationship where you love your spouse more than you love yourself. Sometimes we think our spouse is supposed to do anything and everything for us, because they “love” us. And vice versa… we feel so “in love” that we would do almost anything to keep our spouse pleased. And we feel upset when we don’t get that level of devotion in return. But the only One we need to love unconditionally is Allah, and then His messenger (peace be upon him). Not yourself or your desires. Not your spouse, and not even your children.

Allah says,

“Say [O Muhammad, peace be upon him], if your fathers, your sons, your brothers, your wives, your relatives, wealth which you have obtained, commerce wherein you fear decline, and dwellings with which you are pleased are more beloved to you than Allah and His Messenger and Jihaad [i.e., fighting] in His cause, then wait until Allah executes His command.” (Qur'an, 9:24)

Allah also says,

“Yet, there are those who chose to worship others beside Allah as rivals to Him, loving them as they should love Allah, but the believers have greater love for Allah." (Qur'an 2:165)  

And ‘Abdullah Ibn Hishaam, may Allah be pleased with him, said: "We were with the Prophet (sallallaahu ‘alaihi wa sallam) as he was holding ‘Umar ibn Al-Khattaab, may Allah be pleased with him, by his hand. ‘Umar, may Allah be pleased with him, said to the Prophet (sallallaahu ‘alaihi wa sallam): "You are more beloved to me than everything except myself." The Prophet (sallallaahu ‘alaihi wa sallam) replied: "No O 'Umar! I swear by Him in whose hand is my soul, [you will not truly believe] until I become more beloved to you than your own self." Thereupon, 'Umar, may Allah be pleased with him, said: "I swear by Allah that you are now more beloved to me than myself." The Prophet (sallallaahu ‘alaihi wa sallam) replied: "Now! O ‘Umar (i.e., now your faith is complete)." (Al-Bukhari).

Allah says, 

“The Prophet is more worthy of the believers than themselves.” (Qur’an, 33: 6).

Look what happens when we love Allah and His messenger (peace be upon him) – Anas bin Malik, may Allah be pleased with him, said that a man asked the Prophet (sallallaahu ‘alaihi wa sallam): "When will the (last) hour come?" He (sallallaahu ‘alaihi wa sallam) replied: “What have you done to prepare for it?” The man replied: "Nothing, except the love I have for Allah and His Messenger." The Prophet (sallallaahu ‘alaihi wa sallam) replied: “You will be (on the Day of Judgment) with those whom you love.” (Al-Bukhari).

Anas Ibn Malik, may Allah be pleased with him, narrated that the Prophet (sallallaahu ‘alaihi wa sallam) said: “One who attains the following three things will taste the sweetness of faith: to make Allah and His Messenger more beloved to himself than anything else, to love a person for no other reason except for the sake of Allah, and to hate to return to disbelief just as much as he would hate to be thrown into fire.” (Al-Bukhari, Muslim and others).

So when we do things out of love, let’s do it because we love Allah and His messenger (peace be upon him)—and because our love for each other stems from this greater love. Let our love for Allah be the base and the reason for our actions and In-sha-Allah we will earn Allah’s reward and mercy.

In this way, we will attain a greater happiness—in this world and the Hereafter—than could be gained through “loving love.”

by Andrea Umm Abdullah