Believers, succeed!

Monday, 10th August 2009.

My AS results came out.

i was super nervous.

what should i expect?

i've been sleeping in class and i've been busy with Student's Representative Council and also in The Islamic Students Tie.

lecturers might expect my results to fall. well, even i thought so!

i still remember, that time i atlked to kak farah.

i told her how i felt i never faced any challenges in life.

how my life ahs always been easy flowing.

i got 5A in UPSR, 8A1B in PMR and 10A1B in SPM.

i was thinking, is this what people call istidraj?

(good things Allah gives as a challenge to see whether we are thankful)

it's like, i'm the type who need not struggle much, i study last minute, and still score.

i was starting to feel worried. what if i felt too comfortable that i end up leaving all on fate/luck?

since i joined the Islamic Students Tie, i've been quite busy with da'wah etc.

(though i know i've not done enough for the comunity).

still, all these works did take my time.

i only hold onto one line: Allah helps those who help His religion.

i believe that i am helping Islam, and i beleived deeply taht Allah is and will help me.

i kept praying that Allah makes it easy for me regarding life related things cause i want to work for Islam.

as i went to take my results...

my heart beats faster and faster.

my classmates said to me: aishah, congrats!

i went blur....

as i had a look, alhamdulillah! i got 15 points!

i didn't want 'me being busy with da'wah' became the reason for me to not score.

or to be as a blame that people will put on.

i still remember what abah texted me before the exam:

"don't let the extra things that you do

become a hindrace for you to succeed academically.

show people that you can suceed in both!

love, abah"

thank you allah, abah, mak, kak yam, and all!

the economic system that keeps bugging me...

"demand and supply".

that's the basic of today's economic system.
meaning when demand for a product is high, the price rise.
and when the demand for a product is low, the price will fall.

and this concept also applies to the currency exchange.
when more people wants the currency of country A, the currency price rises.
and when the demand for country A's currency is low, the currency price falls.


How does a country's demand of currency rise?

this happens when the country produce something good that other country wants.
so, when people want to buy the product, they must buy the currency (to pay for the product of course).
so, when more people demand for a country's product, the demand for the currency will rise.
and when the demand for the currency rise, the currency price rise.
so, before this, the exchange rate is A$1.00=B$1.00 (A: your country, B: the producer country)
now, it will become A$1.00=B$0.50 (see how you can need more A$ money to buy B$1.00)

so what? why does this matter?

OK, now the amount you need to pay for the same product is higher compared to before, right?
the next basic thing you need to know bout the economic system is:

"when the price is high, demand for it will fall"
that's because a normal human usually opt for something cheaper.

now back to the currency issue.
when the currency price rise, people will start to demand less for it.
right? correct me if I'm wrong.

when people demand less for it, the currency price will drop again.
(it's like, when no one wants your product, you make a sale/ price deduction,
same goes to currency)

and the circle goes round and round again.
it's like there's a barrier that no one sees, but it's there and making a country can't go further up from the level they are at.
weird?

this is all the effect of the "demand and supply" concept and the currency exchanging system. when you use a piece of paper and print value on it, the value on the paper is not the same between countries eventhough the material value they tie the money with is the same (gold).

that's why I've been thinking....
why don't people use gold as currency for all country.
instead of printed paper with value printed on it.

can't believe i gave a lecture on currency today.
well, hope you all understood. any unclear doubts, just hit me back.
I'd be glad to answer.

The war has ended, for now...

salam friends.

at last the war has ended.

and now i am in a 3 weeks 'peace of mind'

so many things i would like to do in this 3 weeks.

oh yeah, yesterday, i went to a wedding.

and somehow, i feel so at ease, and peaceful.

the results are out

my oh my!
it's been long since i get this feeling again.
the feeling you get when your result is not very good and your parents are questioning it.

hmmm....
it does feel sad to let your parents down.
i got A-B-C for my final sem exam. (the minimum is A-B-B)
unless you score that much, MARA won't send you abroad,
what more with the economy downturn right now.

you know what....
i think i live a terrible life- the type of life where you don't have this big thing that makes you really motivated.

since i was a kid, i always think that...
I WILL GET WHAT I WANT
....terrible isn't it?

you know why i have this thought?
i score in my exams (not as best student. just a good result),
i get elected as prefect when i was 10 (even though i'm not really working for it),
and the path i live in life, is somewhat easy and in flow.

until i failed some papers in my last year of high school.
and i was actually sent out of class.
being scolded by teachers, my parents actually questioned my degrading grade.
but even with that, i still passed high school and got scholarship to study in a good college.

alhamdulillah, i am thankful to Allah.
for letting me live this path till now.
for giving me success in the things that i do.
for making the path of my life easy for me.

anyway, you know how some people have this personal motivation?
like, 'to be succesful in life to change his hard past',
'to be the best doctor because he wants to heal a certain someone',
'to be a good teacher so that he can change the life of the kids in his hometown'.
i don't have any of those.

i don't have this personal motivator that will drive me to achieve my goal.
my life has always been in flow.
i don't even know what i want, sometimes.
am i just following the rush of life?
or am i just not clear of why i exist yet?
'khalifah'.....


'khalifah'. yeah that's right.
i just realized. dat's why i exist.
to be a khalifah on this earth.
everyone is.

i just have to take the first step.

ALLAH DOES NOT LOOK AT THE RESULTS,
HE LOOKS AT HOW HARD YOU TRY TO ACHIEVE IT.

desperate teenagers

You know how teenagers these days are?
couple: simple, normal, isuue.

hmmm....
i understand it well enough when ppl say that 'love is blind'.

"when you're in love, there's no right or wrong,"

Karena Kapoor from Jab We Met.

aiyo!

guys! girls! think la for a bit...
where will coupling actually take you?
zinaa. sorry if it sound harsh.
but before u realize it, it just happens.
u dun know what satan is capable of.

Allah said, "la taqrabu zinaa"
don't go close to zinaa.
have you ever wondered why He said 'don't go close to zinaa' instead of 'don't do zinaa'
subhanallah, literature is wonderful!

when He said don't go close to zinaa, it includes all the small small things such as, dating, holding hands, kissing, excessive drooling, etc. cause all of these might lead us to doing zinaa. na'uzubillah.

as for girls, ladies, and women,

don't you feel like it's such a waste to let your real husband get the leftovers?
well, you've touched hands with other men before, propbabaly kissed.
isn't it better to let your husband to feel your gentle touch instead of other men?
and share the first kiss? not some guy you don't even know how your future with him is.
and as highschoolers, you don't even know if he can support you in the future, let alone have a future with him.

maybe i said too much?
hmmm... well, i'm not exactly that pious.
i do have little crush on japanese and hindi stars.
but i have my stand; i will never couple.

the other day, when i was in my driving class,

my tutor asked: "don't you have a bf (boyfriend)?"
just to joke around, i answered: "yup, bestfriend (bf)"
he just laughed and he said: "most girls your age have boyfriends"
and i thought, 'alhamdulillah, i'm not most girls'
i told him my stand, i'm anti couple.
he asked: is it because of past heartbrake?
me: nope. i just dun wanna get involved in it.
i actually do despise ppl who couple, but i dun actually show it to them.
i just tell myself, 'dear, don't be like them.'

my junior the other day mentioned how his parents were couple since highschool.
but, it's not like many reltionship ends like that. who knows how it'll end?
we plan, Allah decide. if he really is the right person, Allah will get the two person together in the end anyway.

my aunt gave this dua' to me:

" Ya Allah, if he is not the right guy from me, please separate us and give me a peace of mind. but if he is the best guy destined for me, please separate us now, give me a peace of mind and let us meet again when the time has come."

my aunt used this dua' and her dua' was granted, now she's happily married to that person. alhamdulillah. may Allah bless their marriage.

so, in the end, it all depend on us.
we decide our life.
but if you give it a thought,
when a woman and man is together, satan accompanies them.
and it is already clearly mentioned in Koran.

"La Taqrabu Zinaa"