The Aftermath

Saturday, April 5h, March, 2008
It's exactly a month after Malaysia's 12 th General Election today and I have not yet posted any comments on the important issue to be shared with fellow Malysians.

The result of the election, as some coined it as political tsunami, has brought tremndous or gargantuan tranformations of the political scenario to the country. Thanks God, the National Front is still in power.

This blog is share my perception on how and why the National Front, headed by UMNO, fared badly during the election. I will express my analysis on how and why the ruling party failed to garner 2/3 majority in 3 words: over confident, complacent and arrogant.

The party having ruled this beautiful country for 1/2 a century, have practised accomodation and solidarity in their ideologies. Unfortunately, this time around the party has made gross errors in choosing their candidates in the the 12h election.

Hence the problem of not winning 2/3 majority started from here. So I classify this problem as intra adnd inter party problems in the National Front. Firstly, the memebrs of the ruling party have forwarded their respective choices and forwarded them to the Presidents of the coilition paries. Somestimes their nominees were disregaded by their presidents. Thus the nominees who were not chosen to stand during the election were the first stumbling blog to the success of the party. This issues did not stop in UMNO, it happened to the others in the collition; MCA, MIC, GERAKAN, PPP and the other Sarak and Sabah parties too.

The dropped nominees were the thorn in the flesh to the campaign machineries. By right, the rejeced candidates must serve the party rather than their personal commitments. At the peak of the campaign, these trouble makers did not contribute to campaign to help the running candidate, but they were abstaining themselves from the pary's machineries and worst still some of them had fed the opposition parties candidates wth the weaknesses of the candidates or he party itself. This did happened among the NF where, son-in-law, brothers, nephews and kins were chosen over the well deserved and experienced stalwarts.

Meanwhile I catogerise the other issue as interparty issues among the NF. All parties were trying to put their candidates at favoured constituencies based on racial composition, mutual agreement aand historical record. We could hear that UMNO wanted MCA's seat and vice versa amongsed the the parties. This issue had caused NF its 2/3 majority.

Monday October 8, 2012
Yesterday, Oct. 7th, was my eldest daughter's birthday, means I have been married to my Beloved Wife, Azizah, for 42 years. I am now 64_year_old retired Associate Professor, blessed with one daughter  two sons, My youngest, 30-year-old Adik, is single and is working as communication engineer in OSK Bank, Kuala Lumpur.

We are blessed with 7 grandchildren, 4 boys and 3 girls, the eldest, Fathin Alia, 9, and the youngest Sarah Khadeeja, 1 year 9 months. Our daughter, Julianaa,  stays in Kajang, our second son, Datuk Shafik and Adik reside in Damanasara.

I pray to Allah to enrich our faith,  be in good health, to prosper always and to live a peaceful life.

Au Revoir
Assalamualaikum
Today, Friday Sept. 28, 2012, is Malaysian Budget Presentatipn Day. Why must it ben on a Friday? Perhaps it is a day when Mr Prime Minister cum Finance Minister would not have to wear two dresses in a day.

what di I expect from this budet?  As promised earlier, this budget would be Election Budget. Hence it must be people friedly, My expectations are:
1.0: For  Children below 14
1.1: Milk and supplentary diet should be cheaper
1.2.: Clothings, shoes, toys must be affordable
1.3: Text Books and Megazines must be cheap
1.4: Computers, CDs, DVD, Video Games must be cheap
1.5: School Transportation must be fee

2.0: For Teenagers 15 - 21
2.1: Books and megazines must be cheaper
2.2: Clothings, Shoes, Sports Wear must be cheap
2.3: Fields and gymnasiums must be available everywhere

That's all for now
Monday Sept. 3, 201dding in Tar We2.........0830 hrs
Today, 16 Syawal 1435, is like ny other days. My 3 grandchildren left for their normal scooling days by Ana's car at 0645 hrs, while my beloved Sarah is still in her dreams. My daughter Julianaa left for Kajang at around 0600 hrs.

Yesterday, Sunday Sept. 2, was quite busy in mys schedule. At 9 am I had breakfast at Nafi with Abang. By noon I attended Azman Yacob's Daughter's edding. I performed my Zuhr Prayer by 1400 hrs. At around 1445 hrs my sister Hasnah and her family from Sungai Buluh came over. We srved them lunch with Ikan Asam Pedas, Ayam Cilik Api and Sambal Belacan. They left at around 1700 hrs. Soon after I went to Tailor to collect my shirts. Upon reaching home I performed my Asr Prayer. At 1920 I hrs I performed my Maghrib prayer at home and I performed my Isya' prayer at around 2040 hrs.

At around 2115 Din MARA dropped b. We had a lengthy discusion on politics and religion.Finally he left at around 0045 Monday morning.I lay  to rest at 0100.

By 0315 I woke up tp performed my supplementary prayers and i read Surah Yassin. I collapsed at 0500 hrs. My grandson woke me up at 0610 hrs and humbily performed my Subuh prayer.

Now I am still up to continue my daily chors.

Camosta.

Adil Fitri

Saturday September, 2012......2058 hrs
Alhamdulillah, we have managed to celebrate the 14th day of Syawal. The glorious moments and time of  1 Syawal, Sunday August 19, was forgotten.

My children grand children andson and daughter-i n- law went back  to celebrate the great day. The saddent moment was wen my Fathin and Aiman, children of Dato' S with his first marriage were not present to share the great moments.

Now that Aidilfitri is fading away, the norm has been bacc. For th first time my grandchildren, children of Julianq, are staying with. Life has really changed my ife. My wife and I hope to bring them up academically and spiritually.

Till then. Bye

Happy Times

Tuesday November 27, 2007
My beloved wife, Azizah, patted my arm to signal the dawn of a new day, Tuesday, Nov,27th was here at around 0615. I grabbed my towel and headed for the bathroom brushed my teeth and had my shower.

Hindraf Hagemony

Malaysian were shocked when Indian Malaysian planned to submit a memorandum to the British government claiming compensation fo the mistakes of the latter to bring their forefathers to Malaya back in the 19th century. The front claimed that the British government had caused hardship and misery to the Indians from the day they landed in Malya till the present day. They also claimed that were illy treated by the British as well as the present National Front.
What has  become to Hindaf? Well, history  wi;; tell.

Two Days before Victory

The Very Last Day of Ramadan


Tuesday Sept. 30, 2008

Ramadan, the Holy Month in the Islamic Calendar, will be over in less than twelve hours from now, 0640 hrs.

Looking back for the past 29 days, let us ponder on what have we achieved physically and spiritually.Physically some of us may have shed about 8 to 10 kg of our fats and we may feel a bit thinner whereby we could clothe ourselves with the once tight shirts, jeans and trousers. Well, that's good for our health isn't it? To a diabetic like me, my blood sugar level has been maintained beautifully because I managed to consume less sugar for the past 29 days. The only negative point in performing my fast was that I spent longer hours on the bed in order to recoup my strengths and stamina.

What then have we acheived spritually? To some extent, quite a number of Muslims who have always been shying away from the suraus have visited them frequently to perform Terawih prayers. That's well and good and this good deeds must be prolonged beyond the month of Ramadan. Fasting is not a culture but it is a religious ritual and which is also the Third Commandment in the Islamic Faith. We are supposed to stage the food and beverage embargo for slighty more than 13 hours daily apart from sustaining our daily obligatory resposibilities as a servant of Allah i.e to do our daily routine and and to enrich our submission to Him. On top of that, Fasting is also to encroach us to the harships of the deprived and poor souls on the planet earth. Hence, after completing and performing the art of fasting, we are expected to be more concerned to the needies by contributing some alms to them.

Thirty days has gone by and it's now for us to recoup our strength and our spiritual obligations. By tomorrow, Wednesday, Oct. 1, 2008, we should be a new individual who is healthy and pious, aren't we not. Hopefully we do and hope the cycle would be practised again next year.

To my beloved wife, children, grandchildren, siblings, relatives, neighbours and students - Happy Idilfitri and hope to celebrate it again in 2009.

Dr Bano

Last Day of Eid

Thursday 30 October 2008

Today being last day of Eid leaves sweet an dbitter memories of the long month of Syawal.
On this great month many expected and unexpected things happened amongst families and friends.

A long lost member of a family  has reappeared to rejuvenate the family ties on one of the days in Syawal. Sometimes a  family member left us through sickness or accidental deaths. Sometines a member of a family ends his bachelorhood or spinsterhood in this month.On the other hand a family may get an addition of a new member of the family through the birth of a child.

Unfortunately not all good things last forever. Some family may become smaller throuh the demise of their loved ones and some fathers may leave thier families to start new lives with other women. Sometimes families lost their properties through thefts or fire or business failures.

Bye bye Syawal and may I live to see the Syawal of 2009.

Dr Bano

P.S.: To my students, Md Khairi, Aqira, Nur Hadi, Aina, Ben Yusof, Rahimah, Md Muzrofee, Siti Khatijah, Nor Jamilah, Md Ka,aruddin, Azizah, Asraf, Lizawati, Md Khairil .......Good Luck in you Final Examination
Thursday August 9,2010
It has been 19 days, dedicated and strongly committed Muslims on this planet have been abstaining from food and beverages, tobacco, bad mouthing,, ill feeling towards others and doing other negative deeds in order to get  the blessing from Allah swt. Fasting is one of the five pillars of Islam. A true Muslim must stay hungry from sunrise to sundown in the whole month of  Ramadhan. Muslims perform this religious obligations to experience the practice of the earliest Muslims who fasted in order to experience the hardship of the hard core poor who survived on minimum food. Hopefully by fasting Muslims would be generous and helpful to the needies.

For the first time in 15 years my four grandchildren have added fun and happiness to my wife and I. We, my wife and I ,have been living together when youngest child, Mohammad  Asshad, enrolled as a student in Sekolah Menengah Teknik, Bukit Katil, Melaka. The house would be empty from 9 to 5 as both of us were still working working then. We would only meet, dine and exchange few lines of dialogue before going to bed. I would leave to UiTM Lendu as early as 6.30 in the  morning and would only  be  homed  around 630 or 7.00 in the evening..This has been going on for the past 26 years. In fact I spent  more than half of my professional career on the road travelling from Muar to Melaka.

July 25, 2012, has brought new light and life into our home and family when my beloved kiddos moved from Kajang to Muar. To make this happen, we have added a new room to our house to be a five-bedroom semi-detached house. The  presence of our blood, has transformed the serenity. The scenario is never dull and quiet. It is always hectic and noisy. At  what price di we have to pay> The 9-tear-old male twins have broken the bed, one of them have broken the writing chair ad many numerouss mischiefs.

My daily routine has become busy and hectic.The day statred after the  Subuh Prayer On reabbbching home from yhe surau, I would make sure the three kids are reading for school. All must brush their teen, take their bath and put on thier uniforms  We must groom their hair and upkeep their smartness. They left at around 6.45 am leaving the youngest, aged 1 1/2 years, behind, I then would picked the laundry and washed them in the  washing mashine. The washing process would last for about an hour. Meanwhile, I would be collecting and disimbursing the  rubbish. Once the machine stopped, I would hang them to dry.

Thn I would be able to relaxed for an hour  or show. By 10. I headed to the sundry shop to buy newspapers and some grocery. From 11 to noon I spent my time  reading the newspaper. At 1.20 I perform my Zuhr prayer. Sometimes I snoozed till 4 pm. At 4.34 pm I would performed Asr prayer. Then I would offer my hand to my wife in the kitchen. At around 6, mytwin grandson, Farhan, would accompany to buy goodies at the Ramadhan Market. Usually  we spebt between RM 10- rn 15.00. The breakfast time is around 7.23 pm. Thix is the best  moment of our life. Everyone iis enjoying his meals untill he is satiated. The eating gala would end at around 7,50. Everyone would perform Maghtrib prayerqbefore  performing Isa' prayer.I headed to surau to perform Isy. and Tarawih prayer which ended around 10 pm. Usually I reached home at 10.14.

After resting by watching TV and I resigned myself at around 1.00 am and I would be again at around 4 am to have my sahur before perfrming my Subuh prayer again.

There goes my dsily routine. Till we meet again,Au Revoir.
Sunday 19 July 2012
Assalamualaikum
After  performing Subuh prayer at  the local surau, I headed home to perform the daily house chores to enlighten my wife's heavy burden of upbringing our 4 grandchildren who have joined us since SaturdayJuly 27th, 2012.

The quartet consists of 2 intelligent 9-year-old male twin, their 7=year-old sister and their youngest 1 1/2 years-old sister. The trio were transferred from Sekolah Kebangsaan Saujana Impiann, Kajang,  Selangor to Sekolah Kebangsaan Bandar Maharani, Muar, Johor. They moved to the new school because they would be attending Religious Education in the state of Johor. The idea of spending their primary education in Johor bore from me. I want all my grandchildren to be all round individual who are balanced in their academic and religious endeavours.

Their first day in their new school was on Wednesday, 19 July 2012, Our eldest grandchild,  9-year-old, Muhammad Harith Farhat Mohd Latif, also well known as Abang, his twin brother, Muhammad Harith Farhan, also known as Anand, their 7-year-old sister, Maryam Khadeeja Bt Mohd Latif , also known as Kak Yam, had their first breath of Sekolah Kebangsaan Bandar Maharani, Muar, Johor at 7.00 am, Wednesday, 18 July 2012. Our beloved Abang was emplaced in Year Three Mawar, while our awsome Anand and beautiful Kak Yam were emplaced in Year Three  and Year Two Raya respectively.

As a legal guardian to our three school-going grandchildren, we have to sacrifice  our privacy. time, effort, committment and preserverance in order to transform  them to be successful in their spiritual, emotional and intellectual endeavours. The success of an individual child does not depend solely from their hereditary, he or she depends on the upbringing and environment too. The parents play the biggest role in providing the basic needs of food,clothing, education and recreation.  Parents need the expertise and dedication of other professionals such as teachers, councellors, coaches and doctors to help them achieve their dreams and aspirations to produce a successful child. Success could only be achieved through a sound cooperation of all people around us. Hence students, parents, teachers, councellors, religious teachers, doctors, etc, must be willing to work together in producing a well balanced individual.

SK Bandar  Maharani, Muar, Johor has the Form, but does it have the Substance? Something that has the form does not necessarily has the substance which is usually being run and operated by human..Human play the vital and critical role in making mission and vision a success. One negative feedback I received from an iota of negative substance from the staff of this school was on Wednesday, July 18, 2012 at around noon when I received an uninteresting and irrelevant response from the staff of  the school on enquiring about the school hours when lady was unsure of the hours and without execusing herself she passed the line to another staff who provided the hours I wanted. The school  has displayed a good and informative environment, unfortunately the form is being tainted by  a substance that is  not condusive to this kind of beautiful environment. On the whole the teachers are courteous and friendly. May I suggest that students be allowed to put their bags at the back of the assembly rather that to shoulder them to their classes first and then walk back to the Dataran Ilmu. I assume the teachers would want to walk directly to the Daaran Ilmu rather than putting their bags first and then walking back to Dataran Ilmu.

My wife, my daughter, a Bank Officer, my son-in-law, a TNB employee, and  I, surrender four precious jewels to the  Headmaster, Teachers and Staffs to offer intellectual, spiritual and emotional guidance. Insy' Allah, with the will of Allah, we will be able to produce multi-talentef Malaysians of the future.

Sincerely

Sa'aban Salim
37 Jalan Rajawali 1
Taman Berkat Tg Agas
84000 Ledang Johor
012-3630698 Email:drbano@streamyx.com

Penegerusi
Persatuan Bekas Pegawai Perkhidmatan Pendidikan Malaysia
Cawangan Johor Daerah Muar
Assalamualaikum
My followers, especially UiTM Melaka students, must be  wondering where have I been since my contract expired in October 2010. Well, officially my tenure as an associate professor in the university ended on 31 Dec.201o.

Before my last day as a government servant fo 41 years, fate was jealous with me. God had given me germ poisoning on my left arm where I was operated and I was warded for 8 days in the 1st  Class A, Muar Hospital. This was not my  first experience of staying in a hospital ward as  was warded for a few times  for my stone in kidney cases, but I was never operated on. That was my first experience of entering an Operation Theatre. I sincerely thanked Dr Rahman and his team for carrying out the two=hour operation awsomely.

The agony of the whole ordeal did not start before and during the operation, but started after the operation. I was fully sedated  to underago the  operation. Immediately after the operation, I was pushed to the medical ward. The horror of operation cmmenced. Affter about half an hour, the sedative power extinguished. For about 5 - 6  hours I had the bear the painful experience of operation. My wife and visitors cold bear to see me struggling to relieve my pain. Finally after 6 gruelling hours I finally regain my composure.

The next unforgettable experience was the recovery stage. Everyday my wound must be cleaned. The process  would last for about 30 minutes. The nurse or doctor would clean the wound, applied medication and bandaged the wund. The recovery process took about 20 visit to the clinic. I should say that this one of the horrifying pains that I had gone through in life. During my 8 - Day stay in the ward, I was deprived of my favourite food and my tobacco.  I missed the sweetness in my food and drink. The one blessing that I I received from Allah  was that I was able to perform Tahajjud, Taubat  and Hajjat Prayers  every night until now.

It has  been 1 year and 8 months that the most forgetable experience had gone by, my health is never the same again because Allah tested my preserveance through freak accide nts in 2011. I will share my accidents in my next writing.

Till we meet again, Selamat Berpuasa.

Dr Bano
012-3630698