Read Because of Curiosity

Iqra or the translation is 'read' quoted from Verse 96 of Al-Quran: Surah al-'Alaq which told human to read for knowledge as only knowledge can guide you to the right path. As my last post, I described US' reading culture and the importance to read books. Since then, i try at least for every week to read multiple books for knowledge which it is guided by my curiosity.

I was given a chance by Allah to study in United States which i believed is one of the heavens for readers. This is because for only a few dollars i could subscribe any book that i want for a year. In addition, with the boom of e-readers technology in US i could get any books for low price. This in turn, i'm able to buy any books that i want for only few dollars.

I started to nurture my readings habit by start to read any light material such as magazines. As for now i subscribed multiple magazines such as Times, Economics and Popular science. When there is any free time i will try to read all of the magazines. I subscribed the magazines that discussed the things that i like most so that it will help to nurture my reading habits. In return, it helps me to improve my knowledge and fill up my my free time and my curiosity. So for now i determine to further nurture my reading habit by read more heavy materials. So i made up a list of books that i need to read by 2013. So below are my list of books that i decided to read.

Philosopher

Incoherence of philosopher by al-Ghazali

On the soul by Aristotle

History

Disrupted destiny by Tamim Ansary

Hasan al-Banna (Makers Of The Muslim World) by Gudrun Kraemer

Economy

The wealth of nations by adam smith

An Introduction to Islamic Finance by Usmani, M. Taqi

Biography

Einstein: His life and universe by Walter Isaacton

Steve jobs by Walter Isaacton

Politics

The arts of war by sun tzu

The Fight for Jerusalem: Radical Islam, The West, and The Future of the Holy City by Dore Gold

As you noticed i divided the types of book into five categories. all of this categories is based on my own curiosity. Most of the books mentioned above are the must read book for all human. dont believe me? try google it and you may find out which one is the must read book. I'll try to complete read all of these book before 2013. As for 2013, maybe you guys could recommend me any book that may become one of my interest in the future.

Just for information, the reading habit for Malaysian is still low compare to any developed country. I believed in order Malaysia to achieve status of developed country by 2020, we at least, need to improve our reading habit because knowledge is the most powerful tool in the world and only with knowledge we can achieve anything we want.

i share that list of books because i would like to encourage you guys to read this kind of book and i want you guys to share with me your list of must read books. So PLEASE SHARE and RECOMMEND me any book that may be interesting.

The Great Escape 1

Alhamdulillah, i survived another hectic week and the whether is being pretty nice too.So It was another great week as i achieved what i'm supposed to do and i'm be able to see all of the flowers on the streets started to bloom this week. It makes me smile while i was riding my bicycle to and from my campus whenever i see all of the beautiful flowers that Allah created. Maybe i'll post more spring pictures on my facebook wall as one of my friends did(u know who you are..haha )

This kind of thing is one of my reasons why i love to travel and since i was kid, it has been my goals to travel all around the world. In order to see, experience and learn everything as one of the Muslim great traveler ibn Battutah

So, after 22 years old of my life i got a chance(Insyallah) to see another small part of the world as i'm planning to go to Europe this summer. It was decided that i'll be going there from 28th mei to 4th julai. to make this trip will be one of my Great Escape, i need thoroughly plan for the trip. So, pictures below are my first step of planning and there will be a a lot more to go to complete this planning. it is really satisfying to see these pictures, at least for me :)

This dam* styrofoam keep falling down and i hate it when it did

11/12 countries in 1 month trip

Hopefully i can gain a lot of experience and knowledge from this trip. So family and friends do pray for my safety. And for anyone who wanna give me tips or any knowledge about your trip in Europe please do so because i love to hear from ya.

ps:i can't wait for summer to come :)))

Spring is coming

It's wonderful to see all the trees start to produce buds on their branches. Although this year's weather is quite weird with a warm winter and sometimes nice weather comes between hot and cold weather. Hopefully, this spring will be wonderful as the last year. I can't wait to see all the beautiful flowers bloom all over the places.

Unfortunately, there is no more holiday for me because the spring break is over today :((((.. what is waiting for me in the futures are more homework, presentations, papers and exams. Hopefully, i will be alive after going thru all of this things...haha..so guys do pray for me okay..

I can't wait for the spring and summer because there are a lot of things i wanna do. But one for sure are Eurotrip and Skydiving..and if i have time and money, i would like to go to National Cherry Blossom Festival in Washington in this march/april, DC to see this with my own eyes. So who wanna go too?

Ketaksuban berpolitik

Assalamualaikum,

Aku tertarik sama sekali dengan kisah perjuangan seorang imam Hoslan untuk menegakkan kebenaran dan keadilan dengan mendedahkan penyelewengan. Ianya bukan mudah untuk dilakukan. Sedangkan kita kalau member buat salah contohnya meniru di dalam exam sekalipun susah untuk bagitau pengawas peperiksaan, inikan nak dedahkan sesuatu yang lebih besar dari itu. iya ke tidak?. Semoga Allah sentiasa disamping imam ini dalam menegakkan keadilan dan perkuatkan keimanan ustaz ini.

But then, tiba-tiba aku lihat satu post kawan aku yang seperti gambar bawah ini.

Amatlah terkejut sama sekali dengan ketaksuban berpolitik sesetengah masyarakat Malaysia ini dimana semua perkara ingin dipolitikkan eventhough kalau kita fikirkan sebabnya adalah ketidakadilan seorang hakim dalam menentukan kesalahan. Ya aku setuju skali dengan perbandingan yang dipaparkan untuk menunjukkan ketidakadilan kes ini diadili oleh para hakim, tetapi aku tidak stuju sama sekali sesetengah perkara yang tidak berkenaan dengan politik tapi dipolitikkan. Kemungkinan besar kes menteri besar Selangor itu memang ada unsur2 politik. Tetapi aku rase yang kes ustaz ini kemungkinannya adalah sedikit. Mungkin lebih kepada perception and rasuah?by the way, aku xnak speculate..nanti ade orang politikkan pulak ape yang ak speculate neh..haha..

Dan yang paling tidak best skali tu komen bawah gambar gambar. Dalam dunia neh tidak akan ada benda yang perfect. So adakah kita yakin Semua keadialan akan ditegakkan oleh hanya sebelah pihak?btw, I’m not against mane-mane pihak. Just want to emphasize on reality. Tepuk dada Tanya selera.

So, to make my point, cuba korang tengok video dibawah ini. Ade imam tu sebut pasal politik kah? Lansung xde komen politik tetapi smuanya disebabkan seorang hakim yang tidak menegakkan keadilan. So fikir-fikirkanlah

ps: No wonder University aku kene attack..haha

Make Joseph Kony Famous

Hi Guys,

I would like to show you a very inspiring video how to make the world is a better place to live. So please watch this video and spread the words.

I believe if we work together in the name of humanity, there will be no more suffering for anyone. Greed, power,lust etc only corrupt the world's society. What i admire most about this video is on how people as a group work together to make a better world for the next generation. I believe this is what we supposed to do; think and do for others without any prejudice. I wish to do something for the next generation, so this post is my first step. It is still long way to go but enough with waiting guys,we should act now. Below is an article from Ugandan, about this cause.

http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/03/07/stop-kony-yes-but-dont-stop-asking-questions/