There Is No Another

Sejak menjelangnya 1 Ramadhan tempoh hari, banyak je majlis iftar itu la, ini la kat CFS ni. Semua society sibuk nak buat majlis iftar. Nak mencari keberkatan Ramadhanlah kan. Bulan baik macam ni, sape yang sia-siakan memang rugilah. Maka, bertambahlah poster itu dan ini ditampal di merata-rata tempat sekeliling CFS. (Mind you, memang banyak poster kat sini. Tak cukup dengan notice board je. :D )

 

Aku pun semalam sempat la jugak menghadirkan diri di majlis iftar Creative Multimedia Club yang berlangsung di Al-Malek Faisal Hall. (Tapi aku tak join pun kelab ni. Haha) Sempena majlis iftar tu, saudara Hilal Asyraf dijemput untuk memberikan talk kepada para peserta yang lebih kurang 100 orang tu. (Tazkirah Maghrib la. Eheh) Tazkirahnya berkait dengan al-Quran. Yalah, esoknya (hari ni) kan 17 Ramadhan. Semua dah ready nak bercuti. Eh tak, bukan bercuti, sambut Hari Nuzul Quran. Hehe. Ada jugak satu booth dibuka untuk jualan buku-buku saudara Hilal Asyraf dan beberapa penulis lain.

Sebelum majlis iftar tu, aku ternampak la sorang sister ni sedang memegang erat sebuah buku berwarna oren-kekuningan (buku VT kot) dekat pintu masuk dewan. Ku dapat agak mesti dia nak minta autograf  Tapi apakan daya, dia tengok je booth tersebut yang penuh dikelilingi oleh brothers. Cam kesian pulak rasa, haha. Tapi selepas tu ada sorang brother beritahu sesi autograf akan ada nanti, maka tertangguhlah plannya.

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Usai sesi iftar dan solat maghrib, talk sempena menjelangnya Nuzul Quran pun bermula serta merta. Tapi kata saudara Hilal Asyraf, di Jordan takde pun sambutan Nuzul Quran. Sebabnya dalam al-Quran, tak dinyatakan pun bahwa al-Quran diturunkan pada 17 Ramadhan, bahkan ia sebenarnya diturunkan pada malam Lailatul Qadar. Betul jugak. Eheh. Di awal talk tersebut, dua hadiah disampaikan oleh saudara Hilal Asyraf. Satu untuk sisters, satu untuk brothers.

Untuk sisters :

Dan janganlah kamu berkahwin dengan perempuan-perempuan kafir musyrik sebelum mereka beriman (memeluk agama Islam); dan sesungguhnya seorang hamba perempuan yang beriman itu lebih baik daripada perempuan kafir musyrik sekalipun keadaannya menarik hati kamu. (Al-Baqarah: 221)

Dan untuk brothers :

Dan janganlah kamu (kahwinkan perempuan-perempuan Islam) dengan lelaki-lelaki kafir musyrik sebelum mereka beriman (memeluk agama Islam) dan sesungguhnya seorang hamba lelaki yang beriman lebih baik daripada seorang lelaki musyrik, sekalipun keadaannya menarik hati kamu. (Yang demikian ialah kerana orang-orang kafir itu mengajak ke neraka sedang Allah mengajak ke Syurga dan memberi keampunan dengan izin-Nya. Dan Allah menjelaskan ayat-ayat-Nya (keterangan-keterangan hukum-Nya) kepada umat manusia, supaya mereka dapat mengambil pelajaran (daripadanya). (Al-Baqarah: 221)

Update 3.0 : Huraian lebih lanjut mengenai hadiah tersebut oleh saudara Hilal Asyraf di sini.

Talk pada malam tu agak bestlah. Berisi. Jadi, jangan jadikan al-Quran hiasan atau simpanan semata-mata kerna ianya satu perlembagaan hidup untuk diikuti. :D

Habis je talk dan solat isyak + terawih yang diimami oleh saudara Hilal Asyraf, ada pulak sesi penyampaian hadiah untuk pemenang-pemenang pertandingan poster dan short movie yang bertema "Bercinta di Musim Bunga". (Aku difahamkan tema tersebut mengibaratkan Ramadhan ni sebagai musim bunga yang penuh indah dan warna-warni. Bercinta di musim bunga, mestilah romantis kan? Eheh )

Path of Spring by SLJones at DeviantArt

Bagi pertandingan short movie tu, ada submission yang terang-terang diedit oleh satu video lain bertajuk Counter Strike CFS IIUM. Korang boleh tengok video tersebut kat sini. Tapi entah kenapa, aku takleh pulak nak view melalui YouTube dan YouTube pulak dengan penuh selamba bagi mesej ni :

This video contains content from Sony Music Entertainment, who has blocked it in your country on copyright grounds.

Jadi, terpaksalah aku view kat sini. (Jangan tanya aku apa sume maksud buttons dan links kat laman web tu sebab aku sendiri tak faham. Tanyalah Encik Google Translate) Apa-apapun, harapnya takde pencabulan hakcipta modal insan yang berlaku disebabkan video tersebut. Husnuzonn ye sekalian manusia. Hehe.

Dah nak habis pos ni baru lak aku teringat bahawa Creative Multimedia Club ni baru je 2 tahun berjalan setelah digabungkan dua kelab (Creative Club dan Computer Club) menjadi satu. Aku tak pasti pulak sekiranya skop creativity tu jadi semakin terbatas lebih kepada yang berkaitan dengan komputer sebabnya kreativiti ni begitu luas dan mungkin tiada akhirnya. Aku pun orang seni jugak, ada la tahu serba sedikit. Cewah. Haha. Apa-apapun, it was a good night. 

Give me some sunshine, give me some rain
Give me another chance, I wanna grow up once again

Familiar? Yeah, I've just watched it last night. And mind you, there is no another chance. Face it.

Last Chance by Mandrunited at DeviantArt

p.s : Laju la pulak internet bila sume orang balik cuti ni. Tapi takde la super laju. Lajunya biasa-biasa aja.
p.s.s : Poster Ramadhan kat pos terdahulu dapat 1st place. Okay la jugak, even aku reg masuk pun pada 3 hari terakhir sedangkan orang lain 2 minggu lebih awal. And, aku orang keenam time tu. Sikitnyee.

Pacing on

Life, it's meant to be colourful, isn't it? With the people, things that happens and, everything!

Everyone's started posting goodbye messages through the  blogs, yahoo messenger and facebook. Leaving home, family, friends and go on for a new life. Geez. I'm wondering when is the time for me, and how would it be. They even stated those things they're missing. Home, family, friends, schools, facebooks, staying up late, being on the lappy for the whole day and the list goes on and on. Yeah, gonna miss them for sure.

Hoping for something scary, I don't know how to describe it eheh. After all, it's all about the future. My mom was going through some pictures of Kolej Matrikulasi Melaka when a few pictures attracted her attention and she said...

Jangan berkenan kat girls macam ni, jangan

She said so, addressing to their way of dressing that it should already struck you how was actually their dressing as she blurted that out. Haiz. Don't worry mom, I won't ever. Not those types eheh. Thinking of going is a thing, but thinking of living is another, surviving or not, is another, i guess.

Photo by Pitrisek at Deviantart

A few days back, there were quite a lot activities that are worth updating for this blog. As ever, though, they were secure in the idea box of mind before POOFFF!!! gone. I did felt like updating about the BBQ but Atikah, Hani, Ain and Afiqah had done that so I just read theirs, putting away mine eheh.

Some of the friends are already leaving. Goodbye peeps and goodluck in everything.

p.s : Sewaktu menaip post ni, lagu The Click Five - Empty sedang dipusingkan. Buka blog Afiqah kejap, dengar pula lagu Kiroro - Best Friend haha. Apesal dengan mood lagu hari ni, aku pun tak tahu. Tapi memang kena la kot eheh.

Selamat Datang Syawal 1430H

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Akhirnya, Ramadan kali ini telah pun berlalu pergi. Harapnya ianya tidaklah sia-sia. Haih.

Jadi, seperti biasa, di kesempatan ini, ingin saya ucapkan Selamat Hari Raya AidilFitri kepada semua yang membaca post ini, khususnya buat keluarga dan kaum kerabat, kawan², rakan², teman², sahabat², jiran² serta semua umat Islam masa kini. Maaf zahir dan batin andai ada salah dan silap. Janganlah dipendam lama-lama, nanti jadi masam kalau tak diawet.

Buat ibu dan ayah di Kelantan, anakanda pohon maaf dari hujung rambut sampai ke hujung kaki atas dosa dan salah sejak anakanda dilahirkan dan dibesarkan selama ini.Maaflah, tak dapat anakanda pulang beraya bersama kalian tahun ni. Pilu sekali hati ini mengenangkan suasana raya di kampung. Sayu. Beraya di perantauan tak akan pernah sama dengan di rumah. Sungguh.

Saya berharap agar kita semua diberikan peluang untuk menikmati Ramadan yang akan datang dengan sebaiknya. InsyaALLAH.

Salam Eid Mubarak.

Farhan Mohamed
Lokasi terakhir : Bukan di tanah air tumpahnya darahku

p.s : pelik semacam je post kali ni haha
p.s.s : argh. aku tak dapat lari dari style lama

Happy Birthday Malaysia!

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Today is 31st August 2009. (heck yes,what a statement haha) By the way, I don't think that it's quite late to wish Happy 52nd Independence Day Malaysia though the clock just struck 11pm some moment ago, right? Aku pun dah design entah apa sempena hari bersejarah ini hehe. Well, it was actually a contenst entry of mine at Sifoo.com. Apart from that, Google doesn't even miss to wish Malaysians.

Geez, esok da sekolah balik buat sekali lagi. Students kementerian pula baru nak start trial spm. Nasib baiklah aku da habis haha. Uh oh...

It's Getting Nearer...

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The school is about getting reopened in a few days. But no enough preparations so far. Silly me.

Ahlan Wasahlan Ramadhan!

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السلام عليكم It's been the 3rd Ramadhan today. Still, I don't think that it's quite late to welcome it, isn't it? I was going through Abduzeedo.com's pages after not visiting there for a long time. There has been too much new things to discover indeed. Furthermore, they add up two or three posts per day there. I don't even think of getting finished checking through the pages haha.

Well, as I was there, a glimpse of a preview of a tutorial on creating folded typo. (heck?) You can view it here, on Abduzeedo (It's an Italian, or Spanish, or whatsoever that I forgot which means Abducted in english). Consequently, that inspires me to open up Adobe Photoshop CS3 hehe. Regarding those splasy effect, you can view the tutorial by Nik Ainley, one of the coolest photoshop master, here. Be that as it may, I couldn't stick to it really well. That's the reason why this another tutorial exists. You can have better explanations there, step by step. Good luck~

untunglah kamu andainya ramadhan kali ini lebih baik berbanding sebelumnya
rugilah kamu andainya ramadhan kali ini sama sahaja seperti sebelumnya
celakalah kamu andainya ramadhan kali ini kurang baik berbanding sebelumnya

Happy Fasting! Ni baru tiga hari, banyak lagi perlu ditempuhi. Banyak-banyakkan baca al-Quran. Sembahyang terawih sekali. Jangan ponteng puasa sudeee~

Tutorial : Photoshop Typography Masking

السلام عليكم Finally, I'm here again, typing new things heh. The only different thing this time is that this is not a mere post like before ones. I'll be writing a photoshop tutorial. It's just a remake though. Nothing to be proud of. Nevertheless, it's my very first one to be published. Actually, this is the consequence when one of those peaceful days of my life have been destroyed by Leo haha.

He buzzed me on YM, urging me to show him the true path of doing one of the tutorials on Abduzzedo XD. Maybe it wasn't clear enough for him. Nevermind. It was an Abduzeedo's reader's tutorial. Some kind of typography. Credits to them. By the moment I write this, I haven't yet asked for their permission. Should I? Heh. Without much ado, let's begin. Leo, I hope this is clear enough for you.

Step 1

Create a new canvas with a black BG colour. In a much simpler language, create a new project. (CTRL + N). In the original tutorial, he says the size of 1200 x 800 pixels. Well, that's a wallpaper resolution, I suppose. Nevertheless, I won't be doing this with that or I will ended up having my system working a bit slower. (Yeah, dummy oldy buddy) Hence, I choose 600 x 500 pixels.

Then, you should have a shape for your design in your canvas. I'll just use a simple one, AF, due to the laziness of creating a complex one XD. It's up to you though. Be creative.

Step 2

Now, hide that by clicking on the EYE thing which is the next to your layer in the layer pallete. Then, create a text box and start typing your text in it, filling all empty spaces. In this case, I just typed my name hehe. For the text setting, I use Segoe UI Bold 9pt #404040.

That's not enough yet. You now need to resize the text box using text tool until it's bigger than your canvas size.

Step 3

Allright. The next thing to do is rotate the text box. About 45 degree will do just fine. However, this step is optional. If you don't feel like having the text slanting, don't do this then.

Step 4

Next, unhide your smart object (the shape that mentioned on the 1st step). Then, make a selection by pressing CTRL and click on the thumbnail of your smart object. It's in you layer pallete. Marching ants (or something) of the selection will then appear around the edges your object.

Step 5

To see your object's selection clearer, hide the object layer again. Then, remember to rasterize your text layer.

Step 6

Select your marquee selection tool . Make sure your text layer is selected. Right click and then select layer via cut. You'll now have a new layer, with your text cut via the shape you just selected.

Step 7

You now can apply some layer style for the new layer. Colour overlay or something. Or you might want to refer to the original tutorial.

Okay, that's it. For the complete tutorial, why don't you view it here? I'll just stop here hehe. I added some elements for the final result. And it turns out like this.

p.s : I don't think that this is quite helpful -.-"
p.s.s : I've downloaded Dark Knight's OST. Suspense music, all of them! Bose
p.s.s.s : I made up the title of this post