P/S Mengikut wasiat Rasullullah, menuntut ilmu adalah sesuatu yang WAJIB dalam kalangan ummahnya. Ta'allamu, Ta'allamu, Ta'allamu (Berilmulah, Berilmulah, Berilmulah)
Wednesday, March 3, 2010
Acquiring Knowledge
March 3 2010
On a trip to Guangzhou, China, organised by PUSPANITA last week (Feb 24-28), I observed that our Malaysian Palm Oil made its prescence significantly. China is one of the bigger traditional markets for our Golden Oil, importing thousands of tonnes of palm olein to feed millions of her population. Kentucky Fried Chicken(KFC) is using palm oil mainly to fry the French fries and the finger lickin'' good chicken. PUSPANITA, the Association of ladies and wives of the Malaysian Civil Service, made a social visit to the Malaysian Consulate General, located at Citic Plaza in Guangzhou. Other places of interest is Makam Abi Wakas, Sahabat Rasullullah(S.A.W.), which we visited during Maulidur Rasul (Prophet Mohamed's Birthday). The group of 20 members also made a shopping trip to Shenzen (about 2 hours drive from Guangzhou) at the Louhou Shopping Complex - everything under the sun is sold there. Overall, we have had a wonderful time in Guangzhou, reminding me again of our beloved Prophet Mohamed's statement, " Tuntutlah ilmu sehingga ke negeri China". It is wonderful to know that Islam is still very strong and still enjoy a very big following in certain parts of China.
P/S Mengikut wasiat Rasullullah, menuntut ilmu adalah sesuatu yang WAJIB dalam kalangan ummahnya. Ta'allamu, Ta'allamu, Ta'allamu (Berilmulah, Berilmulah, Berilmulah)
P/S Mengikut wasiat Rasullullah, menuntut ilmu adalah sesuatu yang WAJIB dalam kalangan ummahnya. Ta'allamu, Ta'allamu, Ta'allamu (Berilmulah, Berilmulah, Berilmulah)
Monday, March 1, 2010
Acquiring Knowledge
March 1 2010
Just following up on my hopes for my son, Ammar Zaid, whom we left on our last trip to London in July 2009. (Please refer to my earlier blog published in July). Syukur Alhamdullilah...he got a job with MOFAZ UK in February 2010. And he should be working hard to remain and fend for himself in London.
Just to recap, Ammar has always been interested to venture out on his own even in his younger days. At the tender age of 5, we sent him on a trip to spend 10 days on a farm tour in Australia. Then in his early teens, he had already told us of his plan to work in Singapore when he finished school. Singapore, because on our visits to Singapore to look up his grandmother there, he was already attracted to the modern way of city life. In 1996, when his father was the Director-General of Department of Standards Malaysia(DSM), we went on a family holiday to UK and Paris for 2 weeks. After his secondary education, we sent him to work with a Malaysian businessman who had developed a fishing industry in Thailand. In 2006, upon my retirement from the Malaysian Palm Oil Board(MPOB), I brought him and my whole family to perform the Umrah(small Haj) to Mecca and Madinah. Then he entered college to do a twinning programme with Middlesex University, doing Marketing Management, a discipline of his choice. When he was in his second year at University, we encouraged him to join his brother-in-law Abang Faly, who was manning the Selangor Tourism Booth at the International Travel Fair in Germany in April-May 2009. These early exposures to the outside world has opened up his outlook in life.
Times have changed for the better now, I hope. When I was a student overseas wayback in mid 1970s, nobody encouraged us to spread our wings especially working overseas . In general, after graduation, the scholars were required to go back home and serve the country. Maybe, the bondage that tied us down as spelt out in the scholarship agreement has prevented us from venturing out.
I hope the present graduates will be more adventurous in building their life. It is advisable for them to work and gain as much experience as possible overseas in foreign lands before coming back to serve our mother country. As our beloved Rasullullah(S.A.W.) once said 1400 years ago, 'Tuntutlah ilmu sehingga ke negeri China".
Just to recap, Ammar has always been interested to venture out on his own even in his younger days. At the tender age of 5, we sent him on a trip to spend 10 days on a farm tour in Australia. Then in his early teens, he had already told us of his plan to work in Singapore when he finished school. Singapore, because on our visits to Singapore to look up his grandmother there, he was already attracted to the modern way of city life. In 1996, when his father was the Director-General of Department of Standards Malaysia(DSM), we went on a family holiday to UK and Paris for 2 weeks. After his secondary education, we sent him to work with a Malaysian businessman who had developed a fishing industry in Thailand. In 2006, upon my retirement from the Malaysian Palm Oil Board(MPOB), I brought him and my whole family to perform the Umrah(small Haj) to Mecca and Madinah. Then he entered college to do a twinning programme with Middlesex University, doing Marketing Management, a discipline of his choice. When he was in his second year at University, we encouraged him to join his brother-in-law Abang Faly, who was manning the Selangor Tourism Booth at the International Travel Fair in Germany in April-May 2009. These early exposures to the outside world has opened up his outlook in life.
Times have changed for the better now, I hope. When I was a student overseas wayback in mid 1970s, nobody encouraged us to spread our wings especially working overseas . In general, after graduation, the scholars were required to go back home and serve the country. Maybe, the bondage that tied us down as spelt out in the scholarship agreement has prevented us from venturing out.
I hope the present graduates will be more adventurous in building their life. It is advisable for them to work and gain as much experience as possible overseas in foreign lands before coming back to serve our mother country. As our beloved Rasullullah(S.A.W.) once said 1400 years ago, 'Tuntutlah ilmu sehingga ke negeri China".
Loughborough Alumni Dec 2009
3 January 2010
The Loughborough Alumni had a reunion dinner on Dec 9 2009 at the Shangri-La, Kuala Lumpur. What a wonderful time we had that nite!. Lufbrans from several Asian countries especially came for one of the bigger gatherings ever had by former graduates of Loughborough University outside the United Kingdom, so said Sue Sargent from Loughborough University who flew in with her beloved husband just for that occassion. Kudos to Ir Visayan (Civil Eng 1984) for the wonderful job of reuniting all of us from the 1960's to the 2000 era. Young and old joined in the fun with the MSU Band of mid 1980's making the music again on stage.
The 1Malaysia theme definitely rekindled that auspicious nite!
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