Alhamdulillah.. Thank you Allah for the family and friends I have :) Really thankful to receive so much love when I haven't done anything good to them. Such lovely people, masyaAllah. May Allah bless them always..
Yesterday, after our quiz in the morning, my group worked on our device from 2-1030 pm. It was very stressful and mentally draining. Tensions were running high and everyone was tired and shagged. Time wasn't on our side as our prototype demonstration was next thursday and it didnt help that we have an assignment due on Monday and a quiz on Tuesday.
A prototype, by the way, is just an object that shows the professor that the principle which your device is working on actually works. Our prototype had the wrong dimensions and that affected the readings for our voltage.
I really hope this thing works out, insyaAllah!
Testing the LED and the photodiode
The structure of our prototype
Electronics toolkit!
Using the multimeter :)
Op-amp circuit (Mum thinks that the op-amp is one of the best inventions ever. Haha I would have thought so if not for its formulas which I can never be able to memorise)
I've learnt from engineering that nothing is easy when it comes to making something. There's so many variables to take into consideration! And as Murphy Law states, 'Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong'.
It isnarrated from Mis’ar ibn Kidam (d. 155): “One night I entered the masjid and I saw a man praying, and I found his recitation pleasing. He recited a seventh (of the Qur’an) and I thought he would bow down. Then he recited a third and then half and he continued to recite until he completed it all in one rak‘ah. I looked, and behold, it was Abu Hanifah.”
(Tarikh Baghdad 487-8) Dr Bashshar comments that it has a hasan chain with all the narrators being trustworthy (thiqah) except Hafs ibn Abd al-Rahman who is reliable (saduq). Mis’ar ibn Kidam was a contemporary of Abu Hanifah, and he is a narrator found in the six famous collections of hadith, and was known for his worship and piety.
Mum and me were talking abt palestine just now. How they were turned into slaves in their own land. It's really sad. And then we talked about facing obstacles in life. She reminded me that even though I am facing stresses with school, it's something I can overcome. I'm way better off than people who dont have enough food, land or water and it's something that they can't do anything about. She say must yakin bila hadapi cubaan. Yakin yang Allah akan naikkan darjat kita dengan setiap cubaan tersebut. InsyaAllah :) Thanks mum for the advice...
"Jangan pikat wanita kalau anda tak bersedia cintakan dia. Jangan buat wanita jatuh cinta kalau anda tak cintakan dia. Jangan memberi wanita harapan kalau anda tak pasti. Jangan sakiti hati wanita kalau anda tiada hati untuknya. Jangan mainkan perasaan wanita kalau anda tiada perasaan untuknya. Haram jika jadikan wanita kekasih tetapi tiada niat untuk menikahinya."
"Chinese investments in Africa are mainly about oil and gas exploration, mining, hydropower and timber extraction. Such sectors have a high environmental sensitivity, which makes it a risky mining venture. A trend that is even more worrying is the developing of projects in remote, ecologically fragile regions that has thus far been protected as national parks. This is especially so in countries with a weak governmental structure."
The first thing that came to my mind was Ream National Park in Cambodia :) That's exactly the type of problem they are experiencing there.
Imagine that the news reported that a huge storm was coming. Imagine that we were told that unless we seek shelter, we and our families would be destroyed. What would we do? If we really believed that a storm was coming, we would run to shelter, right? Only a person who didn’t believe the forecast, would continue playing and ignore the countless warnings. Only if you thought it was a lie. Only if you didn’t really believe. But how could someone KNOW–really know–that a storm was about to hit, and do absolutely nothing to protect themselves and those they loved? Would anyone say, “I’m too busy hanging out”, “I’m too busy on my phone or facebook to run to shelter”, “I’d rather check out this guys’s profile than protect myself from this storm”? No one would say that. And yet, every single time, we put off our prayers, put off wearing hijab, put off giving up dating, put off leaving our poisonous bad company, put off abandoning alcohol…that is exactly what we’re saying.
The fact that we cannot leave these haram things, the fact that we insist: “I will never leave alcoholic drinks,’ ‘I will never give up illegal sexual intercourse.’ ‘I will never give up smoking hooka or pot, or pornography. I will never give up dating and all the so called pleasures associated with it.” That fact that our worship has become only a burden, is a sign that there’s a problem internally. There a problem with our sight. We don’t really see the Storm coming. We don’t really see the Day of Judgment. We haven’t purified and rectified that lump of flesh the Prophet (pbuh) spoke about. And as a result, the rest of our bodies, the rest of our actions, the rest of our lives have become corrupted.
Often times, there are things that people do which make me unhappy or rather uncomfortable. I have to learn to let go of that feeling and tell myself that just maybe, for this time, I have to learn to be quiet and accept things the way they are :) I shouldn't get too affected by others. This reminds me of what a brother told me during night cycling, "Kita nanti masuk kubur pun seorang kan."
Okay, so here's the plan. Build a wall around my heart and reserve it for no one in the whole world except for Allah, Rasulullah, my family, my sisters and myself. Sounds good.
Confidence is a valuable commodity for any country. But when a nation starts to think it enjoys the mandate of heaven and becomes convinced that it cannot fail or be led astray by scoundrels or incompetents, then reality is likely to deliver a swift rebuke. Ancient Athens, Napoleonic France, imperial Japan, and countless other countries have succumbed to this sort of hubris, and nearly always with catastrophic results.
Despite America's many successes, the country is hardly immune from setbacks, follies, and boneheaded blunders. If you have any doubts about that, just reflect on how a decade of ill-advised tax cuts, two costly and unsuccessful wars, and a financial meltdown driven mostly by greed and corruption have managed to squander the privileged position the United States enjoyed at the end of the 20th century. Instead of assuming that God is on their side, perhaps Americans should heed Abraham Lincoln's admonition that our greatest concern should be "whether we are on God's side."
I was doing my engineering ethics tutorial just now and it TOTALLY MADE MY BLOOD BOIL. I was reading on the case study of Ford Pinto where a bad design for a car fuel tank caused the deaths of three teenage girls. Investigations were carried out and it was found that the management knew of the defects in the design yet they still went ahead with it because apparently the costs of improving the design outweighed the social benefit. What made me so angry was that during their cost-benefit analysis, a human death was calculated to be worth $200,000 and a serious burn injury was estimated at $67,000! Like seriously?!?!?! What were they thinking?! There is absolutely no cost to be placed for a human life! Like if a human life was at stake, there shouldn't even be a cost-benefit analysis! The design should have been scraped straightaway. Okay bersabar Haslina. Haiz. The things people do for money. Inappropriate at all. The least comfort I got was that they had a lot of lawsuits to fight and negative public perception to handle after that. They totally asked for it.
O Allah, and whatever harm has touched them from me, detested thing has reached them from me, or right of theirs which has been neglected from me, allow it to alleviate their sins, raise them in their degrees, and add to their good deeds! O He who changes evil deeds into manifold good deeds!
O Allah, whatever word through which they have transgressed against me, act through which they have been immoderate with me, right of mine which they have left neglected, or obligation toward me which they have fallen short I grant it to them and bestow it upon them, and I beseech You to remove from them its ill consequence , for I do not accuse them concerning myself.
Thank you Ustazah Mariam for sharing this dua. It's really powerful. She said that on the Day of Judgement, everyone will be so desperate that they will go around claiming their rights from other people. And Sayyidina Ali does not wish himself to be a burden to his parents in that way. Thus, in the second part of his dua, he pleaded to Allah to absolve all his rights over his parents. He's filial to his parents not only in this world but also in the next. MasyaAllah..
We have, as human beings, a storytelling problem. We're a bit too quick to come up with explanations for things we don't really have an explanation for.
Testing the LED and the photodiode
The structure of our prototype
Electronics toolkit!
Using the multimeter :)
Op-amp circuit (Mum thinks that the op-amp is one of the best inventions ever. Haha I would have thought so if not for its formulas which I can never be able to memorise)
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awesome reminder bro! :)
Eco-Tourism Group! And I brought STAR to Cambodia with me as well :)