Rice Dumpling Festival aka Dragon Boat Festival

Today is Dumpling Festival for chinese...aka Dragon Boat Festival...Okay...i have no idea what Dragon Boat Festival is and all i know is there is a Dragon Boat Festival / Competition going on at Putrajaya every year..

So today everyone and everywhere is talking about Dragon Boat Festival and indirectly linking it with " rice dumpling festival " , instead of the Dragon Boat Festival in Putrajaya :-)

Anyway, back to glutinous rice dumpling, for me its very delicous..for someone with big appetite like me, one dumpling is never enough..As the saying goes, two is better than one :-).

My rice dumpling after boil....:-)

Two is better than one..

A home made glutinous rice dumpling is always good because of the generous amount of fillings..This one was done by my friend's popo...instead of the usual pork meat and lard and mushroom, generous amount of chicken meat and floss and lots of shrimps is used..this one his popo made special for me because i cant eat pork..so my dumpling ingredients is very special (chicken, salted egg, gingko nut, lotus seeds, barley, green beans, mushroom, black eye bean and chect nut) rich with ingredients rite...It's pretty good for me huhu( my first dumpling)..:-)

Here i want to story about this dumpling..The story of the Rice Dumplings came about when a ageneral got accused and was framed. He then ran away and jump off a river and die to prove his innocence. Villagers who believed in him helps him by throwing rice dumplings into the river even though he is dead. It is to avoid fishes from feasting on him..:-) this is what i heard from my friends popo..thanks popo for the story and the dumpling...love you very much..:-)...

So after join my friends family gathering, i search at wiki..Here a bit facts about dragon boat history...

Tuen Ng commemorates the life and death of the famous Chinese scholar Qu Yuan..He was a loyal minister serving the King of Chu during the Warring States Period in the third century BCE..
Initially his sovereign favored Qu Yuan, but over time, his wisdom and erudite ways antagonized other court officials..

As a result Qu Yuan was accused of trumped-up charges of conspiracy and ejected by his sovereign..During his exile, Qu Yuan composed many poems to express his anger and sorrow towards his sovereign and people..

In the year 278 BCE, at the age of 37, Qu Yuan, drowned himself in the Milo River..He clasped a heavy stone to his chest and leaped into the water..

Knowing that Qu Yuan was a righteous man, the people of Chu rushed to the river to try to save him..The people desperately searched the waters in their boats looking for Qu Yuan but were unsuccessful in their attempt to rescue him..

Every year the Dragon Boat Festival is celebrated to commemorate this attempt at rescuing Qu Yuan..
When it was known that Qu Yuan had been lost forever, the local people began the tradition of throwing sacrificial cooked rice into the river for their lost hero..

Here's the full page of Duanwu Festival (Tuen Ng Jit)..

Have a great dumpling festival aka dragon boat festival everyone :-)!!!

Kelebihan Bulan Rejab

Nabi S.A.W telah bersabda " Sesungguhnya di dalam syurga itu terdapat sebuah sungai yang disebut sebagai Sungai Rejab, airnya lebih putih daripada susu dan lebih manis daripada madu. Barangsiapa yang berpuasa satu hari pada bulan Rejab Allah akan memberinya minum dari sungai itu. " Riwayat Baihaqi.

Baginda Nabi S.A.W bersabda : " Puasa pada 27 haribulan Rejab seperti berpuasa 60 bulan pahalanya. Jika disertai dengan sedekah seperti berpuasa 1,000 tahun kerana kebesaran hari Israk-Mikraj." Nabi s.a.w bersabda lagi " Siapa yang mengunjungi orang sakit, maka dia sentiasa berada dalam sebuah taman syurga penuh dengan buah-buahan yang daripada dipetik smapai dia kembali. " - Riwayat Tirmidzi


Sama samalah kita ingat mengingati amalan amalan mulia yang penuh berkat ini.
BULAN REJAB

Pada 3 June 2011 (Jumaat) kita memasuki bulan Rejab. Bulan Rejab adalah bulan Allah swt. Let’s overview ada apa di sebalik bulan Rejab itu. Diriwayatkan bahwa Rasulullah saw telah bersabda, “Ketahuilah bahwa bln Rejab itu adalah bulan ALLAH swt, maka:”

1. Barang siapa yang berpuasa 1 hari dalam bulan ini dengan ikhlas, maka pasti ia mendapat keredhaan yang besar dari ALLAH SWT.

2. Dan barang siapa berpuasa pada tanggal 27 Rejab 1432h/Isra Mi’raj [Rabu, 29 June 2011] akan mendapat pahala seperti 5 tahun berpuasa.

3. Barang siapa yang berpuasa 2 hari di bulan Rejab akan mendapat kemuliaan di sisi ALLAH SWT.

4. Barang siapa yang berpuasa 3 hari yaitu pada tanggal 1, 2, dan 3 Rejab [3, 4, 5 June 2011], maka ALLAH SWT akan memberikan pahala seperti 900 tahun berpuasa dan menyelamatkannya dari bahaya dunia dan seksa akhirat.

5. Barang siapa berpuasa 5 hari dalam bulan ini, insyaallah permintaannya akan dimakbulkan Allah SWT. InsyaAllah.

6. Barang siapa berpuasa 7 hari dalam bulan ini, maka ditutupkan 7 pintu neraka Jahanam dan barang siapa berpuasa delapan hari maka akan dibukakan 8 pintu syurga.

7. Barang siapa berpuasa 15 hari dalam bulan ini, maka ALLAH SWT akan mengampuni dosa-dosanya yang telah lalu dan menggantikan kesemua kejahatannya dengan kebaikan, dan barang siapa yang menambah (hari-hari puasa) maka ALLAH swt akan menambahkan pahalanya.”

Sabda Rasulullah saw lagi : “Pada malam Mi’raj, saya melihat sebuah sungai yang airnya lebih manis dari madu, lebih sejuk dari air batu dan lebih harum dari minyak wangi, lalu saya bertanya pada Jibril A.S “Wahai Jibril untuk siapakah sungai ini?”

Maka berkata Jibrilb as “Ya Muhammad sungai ini adalah untuk orang yang membaca selawat untuk engkau dibulan Rejab ini.”

Dalam sebuah riwayat Tsauban bercerita :”Ketika kami berjalan bersama-sama Rasulullah saw ke sebuah kubur, lalu Rasulullah saw berhenti dan beliau menangis dengan amat sedih, kemudian beliau berdoa kepada ALLAH swt. Lalu saya bertanya kepada beliau “Ya Rasulullah, mengapakah engkau menangis?” Lalu beliau bersabda “Wahai Tsauban, mereka itu sedang diseksa dalam kuburnya dan saya berdoa kepada ALLAH swt, lalu ALLAH swt meringankan atas mereka.”

Sabda beliau lagi “Wahai Tsauban, kalaulah sekiranya mereka ini mahu berpuasa satu hari dan beribadah satu malam saja di bulan Rejab nescaya mereka tidak akan disiksa di dalam kubur.” Tsauban bertanya “Ya Rasulullah, apakah hanya berpuasa satu hari dan beribadah satu malam dalam bulan Rejab sudah dapat mengelakkan dari seksa kubur?”

Sabda beliau “Wahai Tsauban, demi ALLAH Zat yang telah mengutus saya sebagai nabi, tiada seorang muslim lelaki dan perempuan yang berpuasa satu hari dan mengerjakan solat malam sekali dalam bulan Rejab dengan niat karena ALLAH swt, kecuali ALLAH swt mencatatkan baginya seperti berpuasa satu tahun dan mengerjakan solat malam satu tahun.”

p:s Rebutlah 5 perkara sblm dtg 5 perkara

Drama Queen

All i want right now is a foot massage. 

William Shakespeare - To be, or not to be (from Hamlet 3/1)

Hamlet in william shakespeare theatre

 

To be, or not to be: that is the question:

Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer

The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,

Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,

And by opposing end them? To die: to sleep;

No more; and by a sleep to say we end

The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks

That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation

Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep;

To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub;

For in that sleep of death what dreams may come

When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,

Must give us pause: there's the respect

That makes calamity of so long life;

For who would bear the whips and scorns of time,

The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely,

The pangs of despised love, the law's delay,

The insolence of office and the spurns

That patient merit of the unworthy takes,

When he himself might his quietus make

With a bare bodkin? who would fardels bear,

To grunt and sweat under a weary life,

But that the dread of something after death,

The undiscover'd country from whose bourn

No traveller returns, puzzles the will

And makes us rather bear those ills we have

Than fly to others that we know not of?

Thus conscience does make cowards of us all;

And thus the native hue of resolution

Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought,

And enterprises of great pith and moment

With this regard their currents turn awry,

And lose the name of action. - Soft you now!

The fair Ophelia! Nymph, in thy orisons

Be all my sins remember'd.

30 Random Things About Me

30 Random things about me : 


1. I chew my ice-cream.
2. Cold shower freaks me out.
3. I love my year..(^-^)..
4. I think i'm funny, but unfortunately lots of people agree that my sense of humor is rather dry.
5. I'm not eager to treat people well unless they treat me well first.
6. Sometimes is till write songs and poems.
7. I like to eat and write stuff.
8. I'm a bit disorganized.
9. I start eating unnecessary food whenever i'm under a lot of stress.
10. I dont like being lectured by people who don't even know me well.
11. I hate people who think they know me more than i know myself.
12. I can be very defensive.
13. Katherine used to be my imaginary friend only. Now she's real.
14. I always like to celebrate my birthday a day after.
15. I'm very ambitious person.
16. Most people mistook my low self-esteem for pride.
17. I keep reminding myself to stay positive every time i feel down.
18. When people offends me, I tell them straight to their face.
19. I don't like pretending, with me what you see is what you get.
20. My way of thinking can be very weird, random and jumpy sometimes.
21. My diet won't last more than a month. I love to eat yummy food too much.
22. I love my family more than everthg.
23. Beware when my moody come...
24. My mouth more dangerous than M-16 when i'm angry.
25. I'm easily touch when it comes to love movies.
26. I slack off a lot at work, but i'll get things done on time and accurate, most at the time.
27. I take full responsibility for every my decision i make.
28. I learn a lot good things ( from friends, relatives, strangers, enemy, email, books) and i'm serious about keeping it up in the way i lead my life so i can be a better person.
29. I won't tag all 30 people for this. I think it's just ridiculous!!!
30. THE END

Monday ~ Lunch Time

Today eat alone like an alien..hohoho..so i prefer my lunch at KFC...with my sony vaio laptop and start blogging...everyday i'm blogging to fulfill my day before i start my new business..wht my new business???JUST WAIT...^.^

My Sony Vaio Lappy - my best friend always accompany me

Lunch for today - actually i really bored with KFC but no choice. ambik saja la huhu

So U all guys enjoy your lunch and happy blogging...^.^

MONDAY BLUES...BORED AND BURDEN ^..^

Hello monday guys..why i said blues bored and burden????

Monday Blues ----its happen when you sick and you are always having a bad day on monday. example today i'm sick not feeling well and feel want stay on my comfy bed and sleep...(always think bagusnya kalau tak bekerja) hehehe..

Bored Monday...yeah i'm really bored..too bored stuck here more than 3 years...feel like in cell..hehehe..stuck being at same site, doing the unpromising work repeatedly sometime makes oneself bored. At the moment, there's nothing much that I can do except counting the days. I'm not the kind of person who likes to go out patrolling the streets without any purpose. Maybe because of the hot weather or there are not many interesting places to hop around. Meantime, all of my friends are not back yet, so semua activities terbantut. and the most worst having my morning coffe alone..feel like an alien if u walk alone..(sigh)

At the meantime while waiting for everything to get back us usual, I always channelled Youtube searching for the latest Korean Drama. Apalagi untuk menghilangkan rasa boring ni tengok wayanglah cerita Hotelier. One of the top heat Korean drama series at the moment. (feel want take hotel management course)

Monday Burden????why burden??hahaha..i think its not burden just because of the laziness of me thats why i think its burden..burden burden like a big stone i carry on my shoulder...

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