Ibnu Hashim
Pengorbanan adalah satu patah perkataan yang mudah diucap, senang ditulis tetapi payah untuk dilaksanakan. Kalau dilihat natijahnya kehidupan ini, setiap kejayaan yang dicapai hasil daripada pengorbanan adalah terlalu manis dan amat bermakna berbanding dengan kejayaan yang dicapai tanpa usaha.

Islam yang sampai kepada kita pun adalah hasil pengorbanan, darah keringat dan airmata ummat yang terdahulu. Sungguh suci pengorbanan yang telah mereka lakukan..tak dapat hendak dibalas hatta dengan kata-kata sekalipun...aneh sungguh bila kedengaran ke telinga kita ummat ummat terkebelakang daripada mereka, mengkritik hasil kerja dan fatwa mereka kononnya ummat terdahulu tidak tahu berbanding dengan ummat kini. Ya..memanglah ada diantara perkara-perkara ilmu pengetahuan yang baru ini sahaja yang kita temui yang mana pada suatu masa dahulu tidak diketahui..

Tapi..ingatlah..suatu ketika nanti, hasil penemuan kita masa kini yang kononnya 'paling terkini' pula akan diketawakan dan dikatakan sebagai kuno oleh ummat yang akan datang...Sesungguhnya ilmu itu adalah nur Allah, dan Nur Allah amat Maha luas sekali mencakupi segalanya. Segala apa yang kita ketahui adalah dalam Ilmu Allah jua dan segala ilmu pengetahuan yang kita tahu sekarang ini, asasnya telah diletakkan oleh ummat yang terdahulu..wallahu'alam.
Ibnu Hashim

Baru baru ini kelihatan iklan atau promosi di TV3 tentang Bulan Kesihatan Oral..Yang nyatanya ianya adalah berkaitan kempen oleh COLGATE, syarikat yang sombong dan tidak memperdulikan keperluan umat Islam.

Sehingga kini (blog ini ditulis) Colgate tidak melayan langsung pertanyaan pihak PPIM berkenaan status halalnya. Colgate ni dah bertapak lebih 40 tahun namun sampai sekrang tak ada tanda halal. Mengikut apa yang saya tahu, memang dia tak pernah mohon pun.

Apa yang saya tahu, untuk bahan kalsium dalam ubat gigi ni ada tiga sumber iaitu Tulang, Cengkerang dan Batu kapur. Kalsium dari tulang ini adalah yang paling murah, umum kita tahu Colgate ni mendapatkan bahan ubat giginya dari Thailand...Lembu ke banyak, Babi ke yang banyak kat sana? Kalau pun Lembu, sembelih camana?

Itu pasa ubat gigi yang tak pakai Tulang nih, harganya mahal sebab kos bahan Kalsium tu lebih tinggi (tak pakai yang berasas tulang). Selain itu, ia pulak dengan Bangganya tanpa was was mempromosikan akan FLUORIDA nya... Tapi kita tak kisah pun...Flourida ni menghakis gigi menjadikan gigi haus dan makin nipis lapisan enamelnya. Flourida ni adalah salah satu bahan dalam cecair pencuci lantai dalam erti kata lain, Fluorida ni ubat cuci lantai, untuk tenyeh lantai bukannya tenyeh gigi kita..

Kini dia buat kempen, ye lah syarikat ni banyak duit (kita la yang bagi) dia boleh buat kempen kat TV lagi untuk promosi. TV3 peduli apa, janji hangpa bayar, dia siarkanlah. Kalau tengok iklan tu, tak nampak bangsa lain yang ditunjukan (Kecuali seorang amoi, tapi dia nampak macam dentist bukan pelanggan). Ada ditunjukan sorang mamat berkopiah. Apa mesejnya? Entahlah, pada saya, ini menunjukkan berjayanya iklan ubat gigi Mukmin, Halal gel dan yang seumpamanya. Iklan iklan tu dok menerangkan betapa kita kena pakai ubat gigi yang HALAL, BERSIH...Tentunya ditujukan kepada orang Islam. Agaknya jualan COLGATE kpd umat Islam ni dah kurang, tu dia buat kempen tu, tu yang dalam TV tunjuk orang Islam jer...

Amacam? SAya dah tak pakai dah Colgate...dah lama dahhh....
Ibnu Hashim
Nampaknya pembinaan Jambatan Indah sudah ditamatkan... Ada suara supaya diadakan pungutan suara rakyat...depa kata tak payah pasal ni keputusan Kabinet (kabinet dapur ka?)

Tapi yang sedihnya..apa la kaputnya kita nih..nak buat jambatan kat tempat sendiri punnn kena tanya orang..mana dia Kedaulatannya? Apsal dah buat baru sedar ada komplikasi undang undang? Menteri Undang undang tak buat kerja ke? Ke sibuk terima undangan jalan jalan cari makan?

Depa mintak Pasir? Mintak airspace sebagai syarat? Syarat kebendanya kalau dah mende tu dibuat kat tanah sendiri...Depa buat rumah api kat Pulau Batu Putih, Pulau kita sendiri..tak ada pulak mintak izin..hapah pun tak bagi kat kita...mengaku dia punya lagi ada...
Dia tambak pulau dia, kasi besak sikit pasal 'anak' dah ramai, rumah makin sempit..kita komplen kata kapal TLDM kita payah nak berlayar sebab laluan jadi sempit, arus makin laju..Selamba rock je depa sound kata yang depa tambak tu di kawasan depa...tak ada kena mengenanya dgn kita..

Nampaknya depa lagi berdaulat daripada kita..walaupun Raja Berdaulat ada ramai kat tempat kita...
Ibnu Hashim
SmallVille..yeah, a famous tv series now being screened on every Sunday nite at TV3. What I'm going to write tonite is not the snapshot of the series...but just 'something' of that tv series that got something to do with my previous life as a student... read on..

I studied in ITM (now UITM) in 1989 - 1991..I joined the Reserve Officers Training Unit aka ROTU.. Lots of things happened...i mean LOTS LOTS LOTS things happened during the three years time...ehehehe..and that lots lots lots things, mostly were of the good one laaa... ;)

When I was at the intermediate rank, there was a rumour of 'orang minyak' stalking on the female students. They were terrified and most of them stayed in the hostel at nite. It was so quiet at nite as everybody was scared (the girls). To add worst, it was the final's season! EXAM!!

To cut short, we ROTU took the responsibility to work together with the ITM's security personnels to stand guard the Girl hostels at nite. They were lacking of man power, I took together with me my pocket knife that was given to me by my father and also my notes! I'm not trying to tell the whole story or the whole experience that we all gone thru those scary nites. Just one thing that is related to the subject matter today...yeap! Smallville!

On one nite, it was me and two others were guarding the Chempaka Hostels, if not mistaken it was almost dawn..we were tired (we were running around that nite because the orang minyak attack) we sat back to back with each other at the corridor. Everyone kept our eyes opened on one direction. By sitting in this position gave us a 360 degree surveilence..But finally it was only me that still awoke. Both of them fell asleep, but I have to admit that that nite my eyes were too heavy and it was really hard for me to stay awake.

I was left alone to fight with my sleepiness...suddenly, I saw a silhouette of a man, a naked man and he was seen as though was just about to start to run. I saw his movements with my own eyes and he was about 10 meter away from the place we were, on his third steps, he was just whooossh!!! Gone! So fast and dissapeared...Just like CLARK KENT in SMALLVILLE!!!

No kidding...This is my real experience..and I really did see it with my own eyes!! Just one thing for sure, that guy (or Jin) I'm surely confident that he was not from Krypton!!
Ibnu Hashim
If people from Poland are called Poles, why aren't people from Holland called Holes?

Why do we say something is out of whack? What's a whack?

If a pig loses its voice, is it disgruntled?

If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?

When someone asks you, A penny for your thoughts, and you put your two cents in, what happens to the other penny? Or do you get change?

Why is the man (or woman) who invests all your money called a broker?

Why do croutons come in airtight packages? It's just stale bread to begin with.

Why is a person who plays the piano called a pianist but a person drives a race car not called a racist?

Why are a wise man and a wise guy opposites?

Why do overlook and oversee mean opposite things?

Why isn't 11 pronounced onety one?

If lawyers are disbarred and clergymen defrocked, doesn'tit follow that electricians can be delighted, musicians denoted, cowboys deranged, models deposed, tree surgeons debarked, and dry cleaners depressed?

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Ibnu Hashim
If Fed Ex and UPS were to merge, would they call it Fed UP?

Do Lipton Tea employees take coffee breaks?

If it's true that we are here to help others, then what exactly are the others here for?

You never really learn to swear until you learn to drive.

No one ever says, "It's only a game," when their team is winning.

Ever wonder what the speed of lightning would be if it didn't zigzag?

If a cow laughed, would milk come out her nose?

If olive oil comes from olives, where does baby oil come from?

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