Warkah Buat Bonda

Ahmad Bin Abdullah,

Syurga Firdaus,

Taman Wahyu,

Arasy Allah S.W.T

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27 Rabiul Akhir 1431

Kehadapan bonda, ayahanda dan saudara-saudari Islam yang adik cintai sekalian,

Assalamualaikum semua, apa khabar? Adik harap sihat-sihat sejahtera semuanya. Adik di sini juga sihat, semua luka-luka akibat digigit semut dan serangga kemarin sudah sembuh, para bidadari syurga yang merawat luka-luka adik. Adik sudah kembali pulih seperti biasa dan adik sudah boleh berjalan. Mungkin sebab minuman dan makanan yang dihidangkan di syurga ini yang buat adik cepat sembuh. Mereka semua di sini baik-baik belaka.

Bonda, Ayahanda, dan saudara-saudari Islam sekalian,

Pertama sekali adik ingin mengucapkan jutaan terima kasih yang tidak terhingga kepada bonda dan ayahanda kerana telah memelihara adik selama sembilan bulan sepuluh hari di dalam kandungan bonda. Sepanjang tempoh itu, adik merasa sungguh bahagia dan selama sembilan bulan sepuluh hari inilah juga adik dapat merasakan kasih sayang daripada bonda, walaupun sekejap, cukup untuk adik kenang buat selama-lamanya. Kemuncak tanda kasih sayang bonda adalah apabila bonda membuat keputusan untuk meninggalkan adik di tepi tong sampah. Masihkah bonda ingat? Adik harap adik sudah menjadi anak yang baik sebab semasa bonda tinggalkan adik di tempat yang dipenuhi dengan serangga mencari makanan, adik tidak menangis sedikit pun. Belum sempat adik ingin menangis, malaikat Izrail datang menjemput adik dan membawa adik ke syurga bertemu Allah Azzawajalla.

Bonda, Ayahanda, dan saudara-saudari Islam sekalian,

Jangan risau tentang keadaan adik, di sini ramai kawan yang senasib dan redha dengan perbuataan bonda dan ayahanda mereka. Tidak kira bangsa mahupun warna kulit mereka senasib seperti adik. Setelah ditinggalkan, mereka lantas dijemput ke syurga, kehadiran mereka di sambut oleh para nabi, syuhada, dan para bidadari syurga. Semalam ada yang mengatakan, kini, sudah menjangkau lebih daripada 90 bayi-bayi yang senasib dengan adik. Memang kami sedih, memang kami pilu kerana ditinggal oleh bonda dan ayahanda masing-masing, tapi tak mengapa, perbuatan ayahanda dan bonda menyebabkan adik dan rakan-rakan sekalian kini berada di syurga.

Bonda dan Ayahanda,

Adik tahu, mungkin bonda tidak mengerti dan tidak memahami kepentingan seorang anak dalam keluarga dan adik tahu bonda akan berasa malu dan keberatan untuk menjaga adik. Mungkin bonda fikir walaupun adik masih hidup dan dijaga, tetapi masyarakat sudah tentu tidak akan menerima adik dan akan membenci dan menghina adik. Sebab itulah bonda membuang adik kan?? Hati bonda suci tapi sucikah sifat bonda yang sanggup membuang adik? Adik tahu kini, mungkin ayahanda sudah pergi meninggalkan bonda keseorangan.

Bonda,

Bonda berseronok dengan keseronokan dunia tetapi tahukah bonda bahawa adik lagi seronok dan bahagia bersama ahli-ahli syurga dan para malaikat yang tidak putus-putus mendidik dan menjaga adik. Adik faham bonda tertekan apabila ayahanda mula melarikan diri dan berjauhan serta tidak mengaku bahawa kandungan itu adalah hak dan tanggungannya. Mungkin salah adik yang membebankan jiwa dan perasaan bonda. Seperti marahkan nyamuk seekor tetapi kelambu dibakar. Adik bukan nyamuk bonda, adik bukan binatang, adik manusia yang dahagakan kasih sayang dan belaian manja seorang bonda dan ayahanda tercinta.

Adik takut, adik gerun, adik sedih mendengar segala jeritan yang datangnya dari neraka jahanam, setiap hari mereka di seksa oleh malaikat. Adik bertanya apakah kesalahan mereka, para bidadari menjawab itulah balasan dosa mereka. Para bidadari juga ada berkata, Allah S.W.T berfirman dalam surah an-nisa ayat 93, “Dan barang siapa membunuh seorang yang beriman dengan sengaja, maka balasannya ialah neraka Jahanam, dia kekal di dalamnya. Allah murka kepadanya, dan melaknatnya serta menyediakan azab yang berat baginya”. Tambah para bidadari lagi, hukuman di dunia juga akan diberatkan kepada pesalah seperti bonda. Tetapi adik tidak risau kerana adik tahu bonda mungkin sedang bersembunyi di rumah dan tidak akan ditangkap oleh pihak berkuasa. Cuma yang adik takutkan, semua hukuman yang menanti bonda di akhirat kelak. Tetapi usah gusar bonda, adik sentiasa mendoakan agar bonda diampunkan oleh Allah dan Allah akan sentiasa menerima taubat nasuha bonda.

Bonda,

Adik cinta bonda, tetapi cinta bonda pada perkara yang membuat bonda sendiri merana dan terseksa. Bonda sedarlah! Bonda boleh menjadi seorang ibu yang baik. Bonda dilahirkan dengan hati yang bersih. Janganlah bonda kotorkan dengan perkara yang memudaratkan diri bonda. Hukuman yang bakal bonda hadapi tidak memadai dengan apa yang bakal bonda rasai di ukhrawi. Adik sayang bonda. Adik harap bonda akan menyesal dengan apa yang telah bonda lakukan. Bonda, jalinkanlah ikatan yang sah dengan orang yang boleh menjaga dan membimbing bonda ke jalan yang benar. Mudah-mudahan bonda akan memperoleh kehidupan baru bersama zuriat yang halal. Adik berharap bonda akan menjaga zuriat bonda nanti dengan sebaik mungkin, sehingga dia menjadi anak yang berguna kepada bonda.

Yang benar,

Ahmad bin Abdullah

(Ahli Syurga)

Be friend or not to be friend??

Where do I begin? As a reader, you ought to come across hundreds and hundreds of writing about friendship. Many of which will discuss the importance of making friends, reasons why one needs a friends and how getting the right friend can make a change you, perhaps to a better person. Many of these writing have made me realize of how my life has change with tremendously with the existence of my best and closest friend. I am more than glad to “brag” all about my friends and our friendship. Yes, these seven people (Heiry, Idham, Su, Pian, Hana, Nuzul and Berd) have changed my life with or without their knowing but in this entry I’m going to do a lit twist; instead of just talk about my friend and how I’ve known them, I’m going to talk about all the my favorite friendship movies and how, we, my friend and I has something similar to this movie.


First movie or rather TV series that has done impact to me is “Sex and The City”, casting of Sarah Jessica Parker as Carrie Bradshow, Cynthia Nixon as Mirrada Hobbes, Kim Cattrall as Samantha Jones and last but not least Kristin Davis as Charlotte York. These four women who live in New York, at the beginning of the series have long known each other. Throughout the series, these women have become more and more knit together as they claim themselves as soul mates. Throughout this series also, I’ve learned that no matter what happened to you and your loved ones, your true friends will always be with you. In the movie sequence, produced after the hit TV series, Carrie was so devastated over her break up with Mr. Big, like always turned to her friends for support. It’s amazing how this women still come together without any prejudice even after Miranda told Carrie that she has might suggested to Mr. Big that he should reconsider of marriage after what happened between her and Steve. One of the culture in the film that my friend and I practice that we might have been influenced by the film is that we always made time for each other to ritually meet up over the weekend despite many of us have partner to entertain too.

The next movie is my all time favorite; My Best Friend’s Wedding. Acted by the infamous Julia Roberts, I watched this movie for the first time when I was 14years old. At the beginning of this movie, Julianne Potter a food critic for New York famous food magazine, acted by Miss Roberts, feels intimidated, jealous and furious, after her best friend, played by Dermot Mulroney (Michael O’Neil announced that he will be marrying a girl he has just known over the weekend. Jules then flies to Chicago with the intention of ruin the marriage in three days time. This is because she and Michael had promised each other that they will marry each other if none of them are married by the age of 35. Through the weekend, Jules discovered that, the real reason of why she wants the marriage to fail is because she is afraid of losing her friend not because of previous reason. Throughout the weekend Jules realize, true friendship mean that you are happy for whatever happiness afraid awaits for your friends and yes, jealousy, envious, angriness will stand in the way. It’s hard to except the changes in your friends because you need them to be exactly the way they were when you first met them.


Recent incident remind me of this two films. Hanna, my closest friend among my best friend fell in love with a new guy. This guys whom I barely knew took away my closest best friend and yes, I felt intimidated of losing her. F.I.Y, Hanna and I had gone through many up and downs in our life and we have been there for each other. After the incident we didn’t talk to each other for two months, the longest time ever. She was afraid to talk to me since and I was waiting for her to make the first move. For the past two months, I felt like some parts of me are missing and I knew it was my friendship with her. We had a long chat last Friday and that was the time we eventually straighten things up. I was so glad that we had the chat because now, even though we need to adjust few things, but we will remain as close friend as ever thanks to the rest for having the effort to clear the air.


Writing about friends without being cliché is not easy for me but one thing for sure, I’ll love being with them. For me, friendship is harder to maintain especially when you are talking about best friends since friendship is not a “force relationship” as for your siblings, mother and relatives. However one can be closer to the previous rather than later. To my other best friend, if you were to read this, I just want you guys to know that my life will be empty without all of you. I know I might have said it over and over again, your friendship will be much treasured till the end of my life.

Second Home

Have you ever come across a place which you can reclaim as your second home? A place where you would go to and do almost everything? A place where you've become so familiar that your mum will nag whenever you told her that you are at that particular place instead of home? I'm not sure about you but I certainly do, and the place that I've called my second home is Starbucks.

Located in the hypermarket, Carrefour, this Starbucks outlet is one of its many kinds in Subang Jaya. My initial reason of why I choose this outlet in particular was because it is the nearest to my home - I stayed in KTM Quarters which is just behind Carrefour Subang Jaya, so to get here, I just need to walk for approximately 5 minutes from my house. Starbucks in Carrefour started its business in the year 1998. It is the first Starbucks outlet in Subang Jaya. Initially, it consist only half of the present compound.

I forgot all about my first visit to this Starbucks outlet but what I can remember was the first treatment that I've received from the friendly and knowledgeable Starbucks' Baristas (Barista, refers to someone who works in any Starbucks outlet besides allt he managerial personnel). The first time you were to enter the shop, these barista will never failed to greet you with a smile. During your first visit here, you don't to feel inferior or scared on what to order, just ask what's in store and the baristar on duty will, nourish you with the beverage menus that suits your taste bud.

Besides friendly and informative treat that you'll get from the store's baristas, the vast variety of beverages is also one of reason why Starbucks outlets are my first selection of hangout place. Even though the price range can be considered as pricey to some, the coffee beverages' quality is among the best compared to any other coffee brand. You can choose from expresso beverages, freshly brewed coffee, frappuccino - a blended beverages, chocolates and a vast selection of tea and fruit juice. There are also ample of flavor that you can choose to go with your desired coffee, for those who like their coffee to be sweet, there are four types of syrups that you can namely, classic, vanilla, hazelnut and caramel. Your pick doesn’t stop there, you can also choose your milk to be either skimmed, low-fat, with or without foam, steamed extra hot or even soy milk; the choice is yours. For those who are more adventurous, you can even ask for extra expresso shot for your favorite beverage and for those who are afraid of caffeine, they even have decaf coffee to feed your hunger and wild imagination for coffee.

Apart from drinks, there are also variety of cakes, pastries, and sandwiches if you want to enjoy your drink with some food. Through many innovative and creative inventions, Starbucks Malaysia has come out with many types of beverages that suit our local celebration, beverage such as "iced-passion shaken" tea is one of my favorite drinks on a hot sunny day.

Going to Starbucks for me is more than just to enjoys the vast selection of the beverages, but also the ambiance there. The Starbucks outlet in Carrefour might undergone several changes, especially its infrastructure, but the feeling every time I walk into it has never changed that is why, despite our busy schedule, my friend and I would make an effort to hang around there at least once in two weeks. The atmosphere in Starbucks also made it possible not only for friends to hang around together, through time, I found many come to Starbucks to meet client, study, and also to work. Working in Starbucks will give you the different nature of completing your task, outside your office and for someone who worked from home like me, working in Starbucks refrain me from fall into slumber land. The cozy lighting and comfortable couch and sofas catalyzed the good time you'll spend with friend, business client or your loved ones, along with soothing jazz music play list, aired on the background.

I called many of my friends to share their experience about going to Starbucks and their response are as such:

Nuzul, 26 - "What I remember about Starbucks, Carrefour is when I brought my
boyfriend to meet my friend for the first time. It was such an experience"

Lola, 34 - "When I first started my Event Management Company, was in Starbucks most
of the time, this is also where I met many of my clients. Many of the barista has
become great friend and even though I seldom go to Starbucks anymore we
still meet each other.

Musa, 25 - "As someone who works here, Starbucks in Carrefours has many regular
customers. Here, we practice a strong baristas-customer relationship because
it's not like any other Starbucks where people come and go.

I myself have great experience with people that work for Starbucks; people like Shah, Musa, Asraf, Aida and Lin are few names that have been the front face, still serve their best in Starbucks Carrefour. People like Ika, Irene, Azril, Shaq, Jo, EJ, Ryan, Miza, and many others that has left Starbucks Carrefour or Starbucks itself, has turn from merely acquaintance to friendship.

Being in Starbucks can be such a wonderful experience, especially for those who love coffee like myself, the nice nonchalant service that I've experienced from Starbucks outlet in Carrefour, has given my friend and I a good impression toward Starbucks as a whole. Whenever I travel, the first thing I'm looking forward is to get my iced venti latte and yes, it must be from Starbucks.

Working In Starbucks

The empty posting area and the half-empty coffee

showed that working in Starbucks isn't as promising as it suppose to be.

Yes, the title of my post had nothing to do with the assignment given by Miss Mimi, but after few hours staring at the empty posting area in my room, I finally decide to get out of the house and go somewhere that I could work productively. So I bathed, put on clothes and drove to Carrefour and got myself a coffee and started working in Starbucks.

I would be telling a lie if I said that I started working instantly when I arrived here, (my half-empty coffee proved it) after facebooking and other unrelated-internet browsing, I still have no clue on how I'm going to complete this assignment (and I have promised my friend that I would accompany her for dinner and my lap top clock is showing 8:54)

This is the place that I seldom come to do my job whenever I don't feel like working from home and no, the American family has nothing to do with this post but they are rather in they way when i want to take this picture.

Honestly, the title isn't that hard, I don't need encyclopedia nor a reference books from the library but to write about myself, but I prefer if someone would ask you what he/she wants to know about you and go from there. The question that lingered in my head whenever I'm asked to tell some one, be it a lecturer, an superior or a friend is, how do you know that you have spilled too much about yourself and don't make your reader falls asleep out of boredom? So if you fall asleep in the middle of this post, go and do something else and come again later.

Here are my basic information, people call me Sidek even though my real name is Mohd Siddek Arif Saleh. I'm 27 years old this year and I come from a family of seven including my brother-in-law. This year, my family is expecting a new another member; my sister's baby. I'm the second sons of four siblings; my elder sister, Hanim is 2 years older than me. My younger sister, Suraya, is one year younger than me and Suffian, the youngest of all is 25 years old this year. My father, Saleh is an ex-KTMB staff and my mother is a full-time housewife and part time business women. She has a nasi lemak stall near my house and after my father's retirement, he helps her with her stall.

My family's picture during Hanim's Wedding.
(L - R)Standing : My Father and My Mum
Sitting : Arif & Hanim
Sitting on the pelamin: Suffian, Suraya & Me

I spent my childhood in Subang Jaya, attending my primary school in Sekolah Rendah Kebangsaan Sri Subang Jaya and later in Sekolah Menengah Kebangsaan Subang Jaya. After my SPM, I was offered a place in UiTM to further my study in Diploma in Science. I completed my Diploma in Science back in 2003.

After my Diploma, I managed to get a place in the same Faculty (Faculty of Applied Science UiTM) to pursue my first degree in Applied Chemistry, to be honest, the only reason why I took the course is simply because all of my friend was going to further their studies. I wasn't the kind that easily influence usually but I think, I was having a quarter life crisis. I was tormented between pleasing myself and my parents who always wanted me to at least graduated with Bachelor's Degree.

Because I didn't really want to do Applied Chem, I applied for place in UM and decided to take Biotechnology; yet another Science Course which I later realize, that I'm not a science type of guy. After attending UM's Science School for two semesters, I couldn't wait any longer than to quit my study until I find out what I really want to do.

I have learned that in live, there are time when you made the wrong decision and what more important is, you are never to late to make it to what ever wrong move that you had made.

In Subang Jaya, I have discovered a group of friend who has become really close to each other. Two of them are my own siblings; Suraya and Suffian. During my free time, I love hanging out with my friends over some coffee; yes Starbucks and also some local mamak's place. Besides that, whenever we have free time, we do go for karaoke, movies, makan,


My close friends during some Hari Raya Outing

(L-R)
Standing Front Row: Suffian, Suraya, Hanna, Nuzul
Standing Back Row: Me, Idham, Berd





I started working since I departed from UM. Through my working experience, I discover my personal liking and what I'm best at; I love working with people and learn more about their behavior, therefore, after thinking over and over again, I decided to continue my study in Public Relation. This is simply because, if I were to work, I wanted to influence the Public with good course that I will represent.

When I was offered a place in Interpersonal Communication, I was reluctant to pursue my degree simply because I always wanted to do Public Relation but I still remember my promise I made to myself. "No matter how old I am, I will never stop learning." and that's why this blog is named, Warga Kelas Ke-2.

According to Wikipedia, Second-class citizen is an informal term used to describe a person who is systematically discriminated against within a state or other political jurisdiction, despite their nominal status as a citizen or legal resident there.

Warga Kelas Ke-2 (The second class citizen) it currently my alter ego. I want to instill that phrase in me because I want to be always reminded that I'm not on the first class. For me, if you always made realize of where you are and where you come from, one can never diverted from the right path. Warga Kelas Ke-2 is simply my conscience to be a better me.

I think I've written a lot about myself, therefore I'm going to end here and hope to write more in future.

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