The visual impact and the memory of...

Any where you go and see new things , do not let it go , if you have time write immediately on what you have seen, if not do sketches on whatever things that you could remember in future. i have recorded some into pictures, after a period of time you might not remember the name of a place but you by the recorded visual in your mind will help you ,sometimes, events and your experienced on a place you will remember very well. Simple small notes also will help us a lot on remembering a place or anythings that happened in your lifetime will not be easily forgotten .
By creating recorded events into another form of visual will be more satisfaction to you as well as to others who loves to see new creation of visual as a form of communication .

American Marine named Ridzuan.

Saya dan temen yang lain berkumpul di lobby hotel Sharaton , baru sahaja sampai ke Baghdad.Menunggu urusan check in,Saya terjumpa sekumpulan marine america yang membuat kawalan di sekitar lobby , Dalam kumpulan tersebut ada seorang muda yang senyum shaja pada kami lalu kami didekatinya dan bertanyakan sesuatu agak jauh juga saya dan kawan-kawan yang masih keletihan perjalanan.Saya lihat dia mengatakan sesuatu pada salah seorang dari kami.
Urusan mendapat bilik hotel berjalan baik setelah membuat bayaran lebih kurang 1,700 USD .Semuanya wang ketika ini mau tidur pun kena bayar lebih dari biasa , maklumlah semua mau guna wang .
Tingkat 17, presidential suit . hanya layak untuk pembesar negara yang ke Baghdad sahaja . Apa bolih buat itulah hotel yang ada dan dijangka selamat.
Petang itu kami di datangi tetamu .Ridzuan disertai kawan-kawannya, seramai tiga orang semuanya. Ridzuan memberi salam ,terkejut juga saya ketika itu melihat wajah mat salleh memberi salam kerana saya tak kenal siapa lagi Ridzuan sebelum ini.Setelah memperkenalakn diri dan rombongan nya dia duduk dan berbual menggunakan bahasa melayu dan sedikit bahasa inggeris.
Ridzuan ialah cucu kepada Datuk Harris Salleh bekas ketua menteri Sabah sekitar 80an . Beliau berpindah ke California mengikut ibunya yang telah berpisah dengan ayahnya Abd.Razak.Sejak berumur 12 tahun dia telah berada disana belajar dan sekarang menyertai marine.
Peramah dan suka berbual . sambil berbual dia juga rindukan masakan Malaysia yang kami bawa . Serunding daging , sambal dalam bungkusan , habis , hingga menjilat jari .
Dalam kesempatan yang sedikit itu Ridzuan sempat juga bertanya kabar tentang Malaysia dan Sabah yang ditinggalkannya. ada juga sikit cerita mengenai peperangan yang dilaluinya, sambil mengeluarkan alat pencegahan chimecal-weapon beliau sempat memberi sedikit penerangan tentang penggunaannya sekiranya berlaku . Zaini dan Kamaruddin sempat juga menggayakan senjata yang digunakan olih Ridzuan dalam masa yang singkat itu.
Ridzuan meninggalkan kami setelah lebih satu jam berborak sambil melepaskan rindu pada masakan dan orang yang datang dari Malaysia.

At-Taura,12 Apr 07.

RTM sekali lagi menayang kembali insiden 12 apr 07 semasa kami kumpulan JMTM dan Mercy di serang dengan tembakan bertubi-tubi ketika balik dari menyampaikan bantuan ubatan di hospital Al-Qudsiah.Memory yang mati dan hampir kepada mati segar kembali dalam ingatan . Sebagai jurugambar saya omar ,fernandez dan kawan yang lain takkan lupa peristiwa ini insyaallah sampai mati.Selama 24 tahun mengharungi kerjaya ini itulah yang akan tertulis dalam ingatan sepanjang hidup.Saya tak ada maklumat tentang driver yang memandu van kami,dia meninggalkan lima anak mati dalam serangan itu . Ghafran kalau tak salah , saya hanya sempat menyapu mukanya ketika darah masih lagi keluar dari hidung dan mulut , dia mati di pangkuan Dr Shukur , dan Khalid satu lagi pamandu jalan dari iraq cuba mengambil alih tapi kenderaan tak berjaya di gerakkan,tembakan bertambah menyebabkan kami terhenti di tengah kekalutan.
Terima Kasih la RTM kerana geleri perdananya sudi memuatkan cerita yang telah mati,tidak pada kami yang mengalami.Kenangan yang akan segar ,cuma fakta saja yang mungkin lupa sana dan sini.

Akar akur.

akar akur
pegang tebing kukuh
jangan sampai runtuh,
air melimpah angin pemusnah
datanglah
aku tetap bersetia bersama tebing
Selagi ada hayat tebing tak bonkar.

another piece from me is an extraction from Ahmad art& craft collection.
combination of colors on this piece to show the strength of the roots.based from the items collected by Ahmad.

New format for Ahmad's Khat.

Ahmad may not be angry with the kind of transformation of his work , or he may be angry because his original piece had been manipulated into another form with colors added and it is now becoming more dynamic in its presentation. I try to do it my own way adjusting here and there by the basic way of using my hand and little knowledge of using the computer at home . Ahmad may use another blasting technique to have varieties of colors rendering on its new Khat.

Natural arrangements.

A combination of natural flower or artificial flower on a piece of natural wood in it's original art form and place it on any corner of your room or on your table will create new attraction to you and your guest. Try it with your artistic ability on arrangement.Then you see how is the respond from your guest.

Ahmad and the natural art.

He left Iraq when Sadam was in power. He was a teacher at that time,young man with new teaching carrier , he decided to go far from his mother and family .He don't want to be disturbed.So he made a move ,leaving his family behind.
He made a good living in the foreign land . One day he came to Malaysia for a holiday, nice and beautiful Malaysia attracted him to have a second visit.This time he met someone that made him decided to be here for along time and started his family here, now he has five loving children to look after.
Ahmad loves for art made him busy, traveling every corner looking for something which was different .things that left underneath the soil and sometimes on the river bed ,he brought back all those ,clean it ,and maintained it's natural artistic form . He was so patient on this.Now he has collections of all kinds of wood in their natural formed

No disturbance at this point .

A few yard away you will be in Thai land . River ride to Thai so easy i saw them doing as easy as no one stop you if there is please .. jump into the river than you will be on the other side also . Very close. Small kids also ,school children and so many they have their way , small hut with no proper flooring will do , then jump onto the boat pedal by a man next step will be in Thailand. About an hour we were there .many activities happened in front of us. On the way back then only we met two uniformed men on their way down to the small hut at the river bank. That day full of good taste,a pulut durian of Pengkalan Kubur.

condolence to Zahari Razak.

Afiq has to go , will never be back Pa. Sad day for you Pa and Ma.Last day for him. Afiq passed away on the 9th june 07.
a passenger to his friend after a session of riding lesson for that day . He has to part with his friend and his family that day after a car hit his friend's motorbike from behind while his friend to make a turn towards a smaller passage leading to his family house. As a result of the hitting he was pushed away from the bike and stop by the cable of the phone line -pole nearby.He was sent to HUSM and died there.A nineteen yrs old Afiq suppose to get ready for UITM in Kuala Pilah .He has done some preparation for that.Al-Fatihah for Afiq and Takziah for Zahari's family.
I Thanks Dtk. Ahmad Talib for his kindness to help people who are in needs especially for his friends.I will never forget it Zahari and myself will never forget it InsyaAllah.

the day i will never forget.

April 12 2003. i will never forget this date . At- taura . A place full of life history
As soon as we left Al_qudsiah hospital after spending few hours over there . We moved out to be back to our hotel, less than 10 minutes i heard sound of gunfire . i saw Dr. Jamilah's van who was in front been shot at the van which moved very fast .Firing sound continues from all side left right and i also could see people running in front of our van and suddenly i felt our van was moving slowly after speeding so fast i heard our doctor Shukur cried for help . Tabib...Tabib in arabic . meaning doctor. Our driver was hit by one of the bullet . He fell down onto Dr. Shukur who was in the front seats. the chaotic situation became bigger when our members cried uncontrollably ....

Yasmin at Al-Qudsiah.

The morning .12 Apr 03 . i met her at Al-Qudsiah hospital .Quiet. moving slowly ,at your age you should not be burden by the cause of this stupid war.I am so sorry for you . you can hate them as long as your life given to you . You have the right to hate them .

April 12 ,03. a date will not be forgotten , i was in Iraq with a group of friends from the media and one NGO . We make a move early morning from our 17th floor of Sharaton to another hospital to deliver medical goods for the war victims. Al-Khindi was the first hospital visited by us.About an hour in Al-khindi then we went to another hospital Al-Qudsiah in at-Taura.We spent about 3 hours in this hospital looking at their equipments and facilities which they had in time of war lots of patients ,mostly old men .women and children all in need of treatment , not enough drugs to relief their pains and no choice they had to suffer . I met Yasmin in one of the children's ward , both her legs gone . a cute girl at her age knew nothing about the fighting ,she was quiet and may be a lot of pain killer given to her ,she was with her mother at the side. with that kind of injuries ,and not enough medical-care the only cure was waiting for the time to come where she will say goodbye as she had said to her brother on the night of the incident. Her brother gone ,another brother critically injured.
Yasmin was in Malaysia less than a month, after i met her in Al-Qudsiah , she was with the father Waadi came and received treatment for her injuries under the malaysian hospitality and donation. She might me here again .

Experiences count.

Experiences is gold .Pengalaman adalah emas . ungkapan yang terdetik ketika ini keluar dari minda ketika mau memulakan menulis untuk blog baru ini .Pengalaman yang lepas banyak pelajaran yang bolih di ambil untuk panduan menghadapi hari yang akan dilalui , tapi berapa sangat yang kita buat pedoman ketika kita dihantui olih nafsu yang mengarahkan kepada sesuatu yang belum jadi kenyataan tapi di ulit olih setan yang sentiasa main peranan mewarnakan terlebih dulu apa yang menjadi impian kita selama ini . pelbagai warna dan kata manis yang mengindahkan . lalu setan menang dan kita pun tertipu , aduh untuk merosakkan sedikit kekecewaan lalu di hentam bertubi -tubi kiri kanan tentang kobodohan yang sedikit dibanyakkan lagi dengan berbagai-bagai, makanya yang kecewa bertambah kecewa, rasa seperti tak ada ubat untuk mengubati kebodohan tadi .tiada yang memujuk atau membetulkan kesilapan lalu soranglah yang menghadapi kekusutan dan kesulitan . ada yang tak dapat bertahan dan hancurlah badan . Sedang bernafas ikan lalu dipukul ombak besar dan tenggelamlah kelemasan didasar lautan .

pertamakali.

4.june 07. Pertamakali setelah sekian lama mengintai untuk menulis dan memaparkan idea yang kadang datang kadang tenggelam itu supaya tidak terjerumus kearah kerugian lalu saya pun cuba berjinak dan mengubah cara secara mendadak dengan menghempaskan pada blog sendiri . Mungkin disini akan jadi satu tinggalan yang akan kekal . Mana yang baik akan dikuti susulan . Yang baik jadi amalan dan ikutan yang buruk dari saya buatkan sempadan .Banyak cerita perlu di ceritakan selama melangkah usia pertengahan dan masih lagi ada kudrat . Sebelum semuanya menjadi karat baiklah di muatkan dalam blog sendiri . mungkin ada terjumpa olih orang yang lalu lalang kan terbaca . semuga mendapat manafaat yang baik dari saya .