Trip to Tokyo

" Morioka ??? Mano tompat ea tu... corok ulu mano diam ea umah ko nih...."

Script that usually be heard when talking about my current place of study. "corok" it was, Morioka located far far away from Tokyo. To drive from Morioka to Tokyo, it will take you about 8 hours driving and if in Malaysia it would be like driving from Johor to Kedah, never ever gone through it and will be going to, soon.

1. First Hari Raya after marriage in foreign country. Which do I prefer, abroad or local ? I cannot tell. As for now I think it will be the same all the way. Although less preparation needed when you are abroad, the feeling of Hari Raya is much more enjoyable in Malaysia which I think is a good thing for your emotional and stress relief.
2. And of course at the end it depends on how you spend your Hari Raya. Visiting relatives have been an obligation in my family and maybe most of us. My parent especially my father will be the most excited person when it comes to relatives visit. He will try not to stay at home during the Hari Raya holiday as he try to pay a visit to every single reachable house of our relatives.
3. I myself  have a big family from both my father and mother side. The wide-spread relatives of mine is one thing that my father like us to acknowledge at. I recall that one of my grandmother (cousin of my grandmother) is a college of my wife. She is actually at the same age as me and yet we addressed her as a grandmother.
4. As for my wife, you don't have to go as far as her grandmother. Her herself already having 13 siblings, from one mother. Productive ???, that's my mother in law (MIL). To gathered all the siblings at my MIL's house already require the man to sleep at the outside of the house. With a genetic pattern pass on by their mother, all of my wife sisters have at least four children and the average number of children that all her siblings will have is five. Count it yourself... it already like a "kenduri".
5. All the excitements make Hari Raya worth of what have been spend for its preparation. And all this, you would not be able to find it abroad... be grateful of what we have although it look like something unworthy to be appreciated...
6. To dampen down the sadness during Hari Raya, I will be traveling to Tokyo and join the gathering hosted by Malaysian Embassy. Hopefully it will give some relieve for us may Allah make our journey save and joyful...   

Ads by TV3

The Hari Raya ads by TV3 has become a big issue in Malaysia for the last few days. The involvement of other religion elements (i.e: amitabha flower, flying tricycles and the inverse jawi/arabic script) in the ads claimed to touch sensitivity of the muslim community.

1. I have been made to understand that FINAS is the govern body that responsible to filter all kind of the ads, movies and everything before they goes up on the air. If my understanding is right, I think it is proper to blame FINAS instead of TV3 on the matter.
2. As for the world of celebrity and electronics media, I don't think that they will ever stick to the religious point of view. For example, even it is globally know that the voice of a woman is an "aurat", I don't think they give it a damn on it. I also recall watching an artist said a really really bad things about our prophet wife "Siti Khadijah" in a forum broadcast all over the nation, and guess what, the audience just laugh on the statement.
3. One of the main issues raise up upon the ads by TV3 was that it will get the children confuse on their own religion. I am all behind this as TV3 should be responsible for their action as it may affect their audience. But should our children provided with a proper Islamic education, the confusion should be able to be avoided. As we are arguing should a proper sex education offered to our children, there should not be such argument on the Islamic education.
4. Saying this, we should not only be concern on TV3. In today's world our children will be having much much more information sources instead of TV3; the magazines, newspapers, blog, foreign TV channel, websites, etc. It is absolute crucial for our children to have proper understanding of our religion or they will be end up as people who accepting everything offered to them by the media not because they want to, but because they don't know why they should not to.
5. Back to the issues of TV3, they should make a public apology and be more caution in the future. I don't think that  it is the first time neither the second time. As for FINAS, the background of the inspectors should be widen-up. Involvement of people who can represent the overall community in Malaysia should be gather to prevent any miss-judgment in the future.
6. Let us not to be too ex-stream on any issues because one of the character of a "munafiqin" is when they arguing, they will go beyond the limit. May Allah give us the strength to be always on the right path of His, insyaAllah.

gnuplot II

I have introduced gnuplot previously and for those who are interested to create a contour-plot from a 3D data can try to used the following command through gnuplot. The final result of provided command will be the same as previous posted picture  by me on gnuplot.

#start from here
set parametric
set "Times-Roman"
set xlabel "x"
set ylabel "y"
set zlabel "u [m/s]"
set grid lc 1 lw 1
set view 0,0
set palette rgbformulae 22,13,-31
set pm3d at b 
set pm3d map
set pm3d interpolate 5,10
unset key
unset surface
splot "filename.dat"
#finish

Gud luck !!!