The Flowers are Blooming

(This was written to my RMC Old Putera yahoogroup.)

This morning, when i woke up, i looked outside my bedroom window.
Not many, i belief have my priviledge of having rare flowers blooming outside their windows, only once or twice a year.
Well it is the time of year when these flowers shows their full views and clouded the skinny and unpresentable trees that bore them.
I never did like the type of trees that were planted along my road,because they were skinny and did not provide much shade.
Somehow on count back, i have realised that, you cannot judge a tree by it's size of the trunk or bushy leaves, until you see the flowers!!

On looking back at my verbal diorhea in the last few days, i hope i have not been misjudged by the many as to my true intentions.
I know i have crossed the thin line and hit under the belt.
I know i have exposed and super-imposed certain personalities.
Like i said, i am only a mere mortal not devoid of sins.
To Forgive is Divine, as to Err is Human.
So i rest my case.
Please spend a few seconds to look out of your window and look at the flowers that are GOD send free of charge....with no strings attached.
Like i have said, I am truly Blessed.

OP Azudin O Fuad

Another year have gone by....18th June 2009.

I have entered my 53rd year.
How many more years will i have?
Only God knows.
One thing i know is that for every moment that i will have is always a moment to cherish for.
These need not be happy moments or memorable moments.
They need not be moments that i dream of or dread off...
For every moment that has passed, there is not a moment that i can recover..
My only wish is that when the moment comes for me to leave, it will be a happy moment,
InsyaAllah

Friday Morning Thoughts-12th June 2009

Pictures of Muhammad Ali Mahdi bin Anuar on his Second Born Day after 8th June 2009
Welcome to the World.






I did not managed to jot down last Friday morning thoughts due to some bad time management.
There are many things that i want to share but i need some time to put them into proper sentences.

This morning, i would like to share my thoughts on breast feeding.
I know everybody agrees that mother's milk is the best.
I also know that not many mother can match their thoughts with their deeds.
There are many valid excuses given.

Well this thought came to my mind last Monday,8th June when my niece delivered a 3.05kg boy at Pantai Medical Centre at about 1405 hrs, by Ceasarian method.

Muhammad Ali Mahdi bin Anuar came into the world with eyes wide open(see photos)to my niece Tahera Zahra binti Shorbaini Abdul Ghani/Zainun Othman Fuad.
This is my First Cucu menakan albeit not from my lineage...
Tahera was my second anak menakan to get married and the first,her elder sister Fatimahtul Zahra is due in August.

Our Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessing be upon him),managed to be breast feeded by his mother for a short period because she passed away soon after leaving him as an orphan.
As much as there were plenty of goat's milk and even camel's milk, it was destined that he was breastfed by his 'milking mother'.
I could not trace any write ups that says that he was given non humans milk.
Surely there must be a lesson here somewhere!!!!

During one of my 'one to one' occasions with Tun Dr Mahathir i did mentioned to him that the social ills of todays youth are attributed to cow's milk!.
He brushed me off and says that 'nak salah lembu pulak!!!!'
Well i told him that kalau salahkan mak pak mereka, nanti mereka marah, so better to marah kan lembu....
I even said that when i had susu lembu dulu, it was high quality milk powder, Dumex from Holland or New Zealand, whereas now it might be the cows from India or maybe China!!!!and hence the quality might be low..
I was equating this in jest with no substantive rationale!!!

And since i just did this connection with the examples by our beloved Prophet, i think there is a connection some where, where it attests to the superiority of mother's milk and hence placed all mothers as the determinant to ensure our ultimate ticket for entrance to Heaven, InsyaAllah.....

Just another Musings again.
Azudin O Fuad

Just Sharing the last Training-June 2009

Pagiii.

I am truly blessed that i managed to be on site, (albeit some unavoidable absence) during the last Training at Putrajaya International Convention Centre from 5th to 7th June 2009.

It was truly a historic occasion. I hope there will be another occasion in the near future, when such a mammoth training can be done, InsyaAllah.

What did i get from the last Recharge?
In relations to my first training in April 2006, there was only a few additions and modifications, which were done to suit the time.

Pak Ary is still superb and i hope and pray that he remains so.
The new second liners too have been well trained by Pak Ary, and i must say i do miss Pak Aminul performing together with Pak Ary upfront.
This Pak Legisan? he is good too...
As much as we have our own Malaysians as cadre trainers, it will take a while for them to reach the proper level..
I hope that we should have our own home grown trainers that has the the same quality as Pak Ary's second liners soon....
I too hope that we can also realise the dream of having our own Graha 165 in Malaysia.....
I will also try to pay a visit there soonest.

I am impressed that the number of volunteers as ATS was oversubscribed.
My application was kindly rejected.
Anyway i hope to be of service in future training if time permits, if only just to re-arrange the chairs and hamparkan the kain tempat duduk....

I hope to attend the MCB Series and all the others, including attending the kids and teenage series, just so that my knowlege can be further enhanced....
I remember attending the teenage training in Bandung in end April 2006 for a short while and i was given the opportunity to give a small pep talk/sharing with them.

I learnt too that the ESQ spirit is indeed powerfull and almost everybody i met have that big smile on their face. You can see from the pictures in my blog.

One thing i do know is that in just a short span of 3 years ESQ is here to stay and we are a lucky lot to have been amongst the first to have experienced it.

Like i always say to my friends, that i would like to share the ESQ experience with them because i do not have that much extra money to share with them, and that sharing this ESQ experience is a life time sharing whereas if it is material sharing it will only last a few seconds.....

Unluckily i did not meet Fakhrul our moderator, because i wanted to discuss with him on some ways of enhancing our communications on this Alumni ESQ165 yahoogroups.

Actually this communication channel should rightly be called "Forum Komunikasi Alumni" or " Alumni Communication Forum".

I think saudara Fakhrul can get the official consensus from ESQ LC and get the guidelines and blessing from Saudara Razib and Ahmad Yani.

Then we can devise certain guidelines and the do's and don't and ensure that our communication lines are open all the time and we do not have any little hiccups here and there....

Let us lead the way and truly use the latest God sent technology to communicate rationally and truly prove that TOTAL ACTION is everywhere and anywhere using anything and everything......
I have written some time back on the proposed guidelines and i hope somebody can tabulate all the other points and comments and put it in simple language as our Guidelines on the FKA or ACF......

Lastly, the song Demi Matahari is still ringing in my ears...till now...
I know that it can be the top song in due time and might even win the juara lagu.....
Allah hu Akbar.......

I told Pak Ary that luckily he gave the green light for the song to be reinstated..
If not i would have sung the lagu Demi Bulan...........!!!!!!!!!!!!he..he..
Anybody can send the song so that i can download....
I bought the SNADA CD...
Cukup lah setakat ini.
Will try to put some captions to all the photos on my blog..
I hope the ESQ LC do not saman me for taking so many pictures during the training.
I tried very hard not to take the pictures in a disturbing manner and i did not use the flash.
There was an occasion when somebody was taking pictures with the flash on and Saudara Rosile was searching high and low up in the Interpreter room to see whether it was me!!!!
Sorry bro, it wasn't me...i know when and where to take and i also know why they do not allow recordings of the training sessions by individuals.
Some might misuse it and use the normal "cut and paste" and try to use it in their
Most of the pictures of individuals that i displayed were done in good faith and i informed them beforehand of my intention.
I also tried to get the best shot of them so that they look nice!!!
You can see a very bubbly Puan Marhaini and a youngish Saudara Razib......and all of them were giving the 3 cm smile...
To Satria ESQ 165 who made their mark in getting the Petition, i salute you.
I am ashamed that i was a bit slow in this sense, being a military guy and should have been as a Panglima to lead all the Satria...
Minta ampun dan maaf banyak banyak Saudara Rosile plus wife and Sheh and others....
I am deeply and truly humbled at your Satria/Fighting spirit.....

I know we have been told that ESQ is like Oxygen.
Well since i like to Muse around on Second Thoughts, i would like to differ on that.
Please correct me if i am wrong.

Actually ESQ is like "Ajinomoto or Kicap ABC", which is a taste enhancer or penyedap rasa/selera...

The Real Oxygen is ISLAM..
Nothing can replace ISLAM and in this life of ours we do need some time 'Ajinomoto" to enhance our taste...

I know there are many that do not use Ajinomoto...
Well, my favourite food is Maggi Mee and i know many says that it is not good.
But to me it is my food saviour and the Maggi Mee Curry flavour taste has not changed since i first ate it way back in 1970's...
Contrary to what they say, my hair is still intact and bushy not botak and luruh rambut and my overall health Alhamdullillah is stable with no major known common ailment thus far.
I am a bit overweight, yes, but i do cycle regularly, both on mtb and road bikes, covering easily 30 km without feeling any fatigue....
I know that we are encouraged to berenang, memanah and naik kuda.
Well i regard cycling as an alternative to menuggang kuda, albeit kuda besi or aluminium or carbon....!!!!!!!!!
I am awaiting Sheh and Jahid my Putrajaya neighbours plus Shahrin to join me

Saudara Muhammad Ary Ginanjar Agustian-

For those who are reading my blog and do not have any info on the ESQ Way 165 please excuse me for not giving a short info on it before posting the pictures and the write ups on the 3 days training at PICC Putrajaya which are meant for my ESQ Alumni.
I do not know how to load the pictures on the Alumni Communication Forum and the only choice for me to show the pictures is to load on to my blog.
Well Dr Ary Ginanjar Agustian is the guy who came out with this training methodology on the Islamic Guide to Developing the Emotional and Spiritual Quotient.
His training methodology has garnered more than 700,000 participants and it is gtowing every day.

I accidentally attended the First Training in Malaysia held at the Palace of the Golden Horses, Seri Kembangan on 6th to 8th April 2006.
It has definitely left an impact on my personal self and i am glad that the accidental chance to stumble upon this training then was the best that could have happened to me. I owe Saudara Razib and Jamal Nasir a lifetime gratitude.

It was then that i gave Pak Ary the name Muhammad Ary Ginanjar, because i told him that his stature needs to have our beloved Prophet's name up front.

Well today, on the last day of the biggest ESQ Training in Malaysia, Dr Muhammad Ary came out at the closing of the training in a Black Baju Melayu complete with Sampin Songket and Songkok.
He said that he wore the Baju Melayu at his own behest, to show that his affiliations with us here in Malaysia has already been imbued since Parameswara days....(i will write on Parameswara, my version some other time as opposed to Pak Ary's version!!!),...or rather he considers himself as one of us, which is obviously true brecause we are from the same rumpun or serumpun and our langguage too is the same...sometimes we can understand Indonesians better than Kelantanese!!!!

I have posted his pictures in Baju Melayu and also him together with his father and mother celebrating their wedding anniversary....i did not get what number...

Will keep on posting more pictures of the 3 days event

View of the 6 screens for ESQ 165