Saturday, August 30, 2008

Terkini: Projek Perpustakaan Yayasan An-Nur Maisarah Chemor









Alhamdulillah, kutipan dana perpustakaan sudah melebihi RM13,000.Sudah cukup untuk membeli buku-buku yang diperlukan.

Lebihan dana yang terkumpul akan disalurkan untuk projek perpustakaan di rumah anak yatim yang lain pula.

Buat masa ini saya masih tunggu (dalam 1-2 hari) kalau-kalau saya boleh dapat diskaun 'last minute' untuk pembelian 1-2 set ensiklopedia.Kalau dapat, maka beruntung lah anak-anak itu!

Saya kira projek seterusnya akan dapat dilaksanakan selepas Hari Raya Aidil Fitri. Sekurang-kurangnya, ada masa sedikit untuk mengamati 'learning curve' yang boleh dipelajari daripada projek perpustakaan di Chemor ini. Apa yang kurang dipertingkatkan dan yang baik pula dikekalkan.

Priceless!















Sabtu, 30 Ogos 2008: Beli buku di DBP-Ribuan ringgit.

Sabtu,30 Ogos 2008: Beli buku di MPH Great Eastern Mall -Ratusan ringgit.

Sabtu, 30 Ogos 2008:Beli buku di Popular Ampang Point -Puluhan ringgit.

Ahad,31 Ogos 208: Terima sumbangan 8 naskhah antologi puisi yang bertanda tangan penulisnya sendiri dari Sasterawan Negara, Pak A.Samad Said - Tiada Ternilai Harganya!

Selamat Hari Merdeka Malaysiaku!

Padamu negri
kami berjanji
Padamu negri
kami berbakti
Padamu negri
kami mengabdi
Bagimu negri
jiwa raga kami

(Song written by: Kusbini)

Thursday, August 28, 2008

Seronok beli buku!

Hendak tahu bab mana yang paling menyeronokkan dalam mengusahakan projek-projek perpustakaan selama ini?

Bab membeli buku.

Hari ini saya seronok kerana dua penerbit buku iaitu, PTS dan Utusan Publications Sdn Bhd sudi beramal jariah memberikan diskaun paling baik dan sungguh bererti sekali kepada projek ini.Dan urusan pembelian dengan kedua-dua penerbitan itu amat mudah dan profesional sekali.

Terima kasih PTS!Terima kasih Utusan Publications!

Terkini, jumlah dana perpustakaan di Chemor begitu hampir untuk mencecah RM13,000.

Insya Allah pada 6 September ini, hajat anak-anak di Chemor itu membelek dan membaca buku-buku yang baik mutunya akan tercapai juga akhirnya!

Monday, August 25, 2008

Projek Perpustakaan Yayasan An-Nur Maisarah Chemor: Terkini























Kutipan dana untuk projek perpustakaan Rumah Anak Yatim Yayasan An-Nur Maisarah,Chemor sudah mencecahi RM11950.00. Hanya tinggal lagi RM1050 untuk mencapai dana sasaran sebanyak RM13,000. Jumlah ini mencukupi untuk membeli purata 1000 buku dan satu set ensiklopedia edisi pelajar.

Syukur Alhamdulillah!Anak-anak di rumah itu pasti akan tersenyum lebar apabila satu set buku Harry Porter terjemahan Bahasa Melayu dikeluarkan daripada kotak dan disusun di rak buku nanti.


Wednesday, August 20, 2008

Orphanage Library Project: Online Donations

You can contribute to the orphanage library project online by clicking here.

This is an option for people who has Maybank account.We have yet to have Maybank2u.com facilities as of today and we are still waiting for its approval (last stage it seems).

The link provided is our payment gateway and you can still contribute maybank2u,credit card payment there. I hope the arrangement is not too troublesome for some of you who wants to contribute.

Oh!And if you have CIMB account, you can use CIMB Clicks.

If you have any problem, please email me.Be glad to help you.

Friday, August 15, 2008

Orphanage Library Project: Update 1

Raised RM4300 in donation and pledges by today.Another RM8700 to go.

Most likely the installation of library will take place on the 6th September 2008, (Saturday) during Ramadhan.I shall confirm it as soon as possible.

Thursday, August 14, 2008

Orphanage Library Project: Yayasan Ain Maisarah, Chemor

Come, let us build another orphanage library!

This time let us do it for Rumah Anak Yatim Yayasan Ain Maisarah, Chemor, Perak.

Let us aim to give them 1000 books by mid-Ramadhan!

Having said that, let me brief you a little bit on the orphanage. 3 weeks ago, Bro Faizal Pot and me visited the orphanage after our oldboys weekend in STAR Ipoh. Thanks to Pak Manap, the Nurul Hidayah Orphanage in Bukit Gantang (we did the library at Nurul Hidayah few months back) who directed us to the home and told us to meet the orphanage manager, Ustaz Yuzrim.

Based on the directions given by Pak Manap and some phone calls to Ustaz Yuzrim, we had no problem to reach the home; located along the main road towards Ipoh right after Pekan Chemor.
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The home housed some 40 plus boys ranging from age of 7 up to 17 years old and governed by board of trustees. Ustaz Yuzrim, a young chap (in his 30s) is the secretary of the yayasan cum manager of the home.
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Ustaz Yuzrim told us that the old wooden house cum hostel is also known as "Rumah Ilmu" because the children's of the late owner of the house all went to universities and become respected figures in their career. That was long time ago as I was told that the youngest son who is a doctor and already 70 years of age.
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What struck me most was the peaceful environment of the home.Come on, boys home supposed to be opposite - "war zones". Not the case of this home though.It is in great order. The lawn is clean. The boys are behaving well. We saw a group of boys studied for UPSR exams quietly in one corner of the surau.
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As we talked, I saw bags of laundry lined up in the office and presumably it belongs to the boys and I asked Ustaz Yuzrim what's is the rationale of sending the boys clothings for 'dobi'?

And this is his answer,

" You see, we have calculated the cost of having washing machines together with electricity and water bills for the home and if you compare it to the cost of sending it to the laundry, it is almost the same", he explained.

"Plus, the home looks nice to the visitors with no 'ampaian' around; the boys will have nice clean shirts everyday and of course look nice and handsome and they will have more time to focus on their study"

Man, Bro Faizal and me agreed silently that this young ustaz was talking about something 'deep' here.

And he pointed out to the "mini-zoo" they have in the courtyard. The boys keep a squirrel, chicken and birds and he revealed it to us why.

"You see, by having this animals around we want to instill love for god's creatures in their heart".


"And, the animals will make this place calmer to the boys and visitors alike".


And he brought us to one section of the home where we see a fish pond 'under construction'.
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"It is all done by the boys lead by an elder boy who is in Form 4".

"It was all their idea to have fish pond and they did it themselves".

I thought the pond was done by professional,seriously.

As we go along that afternoon over cup of tea and a plate of cempedak goreng, your conversation went back to what we supposed to do; to create a library for the home. Happened to be, they were also looking into having a library for the boys.

And they just bought a stack of books costing some RM400 and Ustaz Yuzrim related to us on their recent courtesy visit to Pak Manap's Nurul Hidayah orphanage (right after we built the library at Nurul Hidayah) and one of the boys asked to borrow Harry Potter's books from Nurul Hidayah's library to read at home. And he told us that they really devoured it when they returned to Chemor!

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The story really touched my heart! Imagine how a book can change their life.

So we decided immediately, the next library will be at this very home.

Our target is 1000 books plus a set of encyclopedia. We are going to raise RM13,000 at least by the end of this month.

And I have a good news for this.

For greater transparency, the funds to be raised this time will be channeled through Islamic Relief Malaysia's Orphanage Library Project. So no more funds going through my personal account as per previous library project we have done.
Here is the account number:
  • Maybank: 5621 4270 8704
  • CIMB : 1259 0000 804 058
All you have to do is to mail of fax the bank-in slip to us:

Islamic Relief Malaysia
31-7 Jalan SP2/1, Taman Serdang Perdana,
43300 Seri Kembangan,
Selangor.
Tel: 03-8948 6334
Fax:03-89487339

(If you fax or mail the slip appreciate your help to attention it for: "Islamic Relief's Orphanage Library Project")

For further info on this project : you can email me at : iskandar@irm.org.my or Tel: 03- 8948 6334

As I mentioned many times before and will mention it again and again, we are going to buy new and good books for the orphans. No secondhand books,please. Despite good intentions, it won't do justice for the orphans. Let us give something 'valuable' as a gifts to the orphans. I am not against utilising secondhand books but for this project, it is going to be like that. (I am still OK if you want to buy good and new books and channeled it to this project, though)

As for the books, out of 1000 books, 90% would be in Bahasa Melayu Tinggi and 10% would be in English. That's our pledge to support Bahasa Melayu. (Ah, you must be wondering why I write this entry in English then).
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We also hope we can deliver the books by Ramadhan. Perhaps we can set up the library in the afternoon and have breaking fast together with the boys in the evening. For now let us work together to raise RM13,000 for the library at Yayasan Ain Maisarah's home.

Tuesday, August 12, 2008

Friendship


















I have always believe that friendship is all about giving it away and expects no returns from it.

It is not about you.

Again I repeat,

it is not about you.

It is always about others.

It is selfless.

It is about letting it go.

You can't control it otherwise, it will fly away.

If you understand this, you will be alright.

Sunday, August 03, 2008

Ramadhan's Feed The Fasting 2008









It is just for RM50.

For that, you can ease the burden of a poor family of five during this Ramadhan.You give, Islamic Relief Malaysia buy and deliver the food package containing rice,flour,sugar,tea,canned food,salt and dates to them.

Not only you can feed the poor in Malaysia,we can also deliver it to the poor in 25 countries where we currently work to help them.

Can you do me a favour?

  • Tell your friends.
  • Link it in your blog and perhaps you can write about it or if your are too busy just copy paste whatever I have written above.
  • Contribute.

Go to our website for details.