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.

The holy Quran by ~Federer4ever at DeviantArt

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.

What An Acquaintance...

I was on Facebook, wandering around when I had somehow got into a Celcom U.O.X fanpage (I didn't really know if it was a fanpage or else, but it was something such, that's all I can say), reading people's comments, requesting bonuses that I did not have the faintest idea what were they really are. I kept on reading that I got into another U.O.X fanpage, which was claimed to be official one, when I found something. Guess what?

BEARS!!!
Polar bear by Castor Lycan at DeviantArt

Well, okay, they shouldn't be that scary though for they're not those bears you're bumping into while having a walk by the seashore through the forest or jungle for, idk, maybe filling some of your leisure time in the evening. But, hey! The picture above is not even scary, at all! I meant to find the ones with frightening faces but ended up having the one with that cute babyface (not quite a baby, though). Geez, nevermind. And also, they are not the bears that you're hugging so tightly before sleeping, which are then kicked off the bed during your sleep, hard onto the cold floor. (sedikit kekejaman. pity, pity bears)

Anyhow, here they are, as seen on the YouTube.


Bet that, if they manage to make a drama having those bears as the main characters, it will beat Adamaya down the ranking. Wahaha.

OMG. Did I just write about bears? BEARS???

Gloomy Bear by p!ng at Flickr

Devil May Cry 4 - The Ending (Hols Mode, Still)

The 1st part of the holiday is just about ending. How fast it is.
*sigh* and at the same time, *yezza*
I've not been doing nothing much and that worries me. Geez.
Pacing the way of doom...

Currently listening to "Shall Never Surrender", Devil May Cry 4 ending song.
The ending was truly a "WOW". (Not that my gameplay though. I was just too lazy to push harder after beating Sanctus for a few times, again and again. [It got harder each time he was defeated])



Shall Never Surrender by Jason Shyboy
Devil May Cry 4 Ending Song

The time has come and so have I
I’ll laugh last cause you came to die
The damage done~the pain subsides
And I can see the fear clear when I look in your eye.

I never kneel and I’ll never rest
You can tear the heart from my chest
I’ll make you see what I do best,
I’ll succeed as you breathe your very last breath.

Now I know how the angel fell [just kneel]
I know the tale and I know it too well [just bow]
I’ll make you wish you had a soul to sell [soul to sell]
When I strike you down and send you straight to hell

My army comes from deep within
Beneath my soul–beneath my skin
As you’re ending, I’m about to begin
My strength~His bane~and I will never give in.
I’ll tell you now I’m the one to survive
You never break my faith or my stride
I’ll have you choke on your own demise
I make the angel scream, and the devil cry

My honored brethren
My honored brethren

We come together
We come together

To unite as one
To unite as one

Against those that are damned
Against those that are damned

We show no mercy
We show no mercy

For we have none
For we have none

Our enemy shall fall
Our enemy shall fall

As we apprise
As we apprise

To claim our fate
To claim our fate

Now and forever
Now and forever

We’ll be together
We’ll be together

In love and in hate
In love and in hate

They will see. We’ll fight until eternity
Come with me We’ll stand and fight together
Through our strength we’ll make a better day
Tomorrow we shall never surrender. [X4]

[Whisper] We shall never surrender [X2]

p.s : "It's okay. I'll wait"

Video Review : Magic Flashlight

Do you like snowboard? I do! Since last 3 years, I've been snowboarding seriously. Very serioulsy. It's not easy to impress the viewers especially when we're doing the same stunts or something. Tricky, it is. Then, Mike Benson was born. He comes up with one of the greatest snowboard movies that I've ever watched. It's entitled "Magic Flashlight". What's the relation with either snow or board? You'll see.

Okay, the first two sentences above was such a lie. This Mike Benson impresses the viewers not by hovering for minutes, or rotating in the air relentlessly. He only adds some motion work in his video and that's done it. After Effects is used to achive the great result. The technique he uses is a modified version af Andrew Kramer's After Effects Light Streak Tutorial which needs Particular Plugin. Nice. Even I haven't yet managed to have a good command of it. Messing with settings and also scripting. D'oh. Enjoy.

Knife Show Inc and friends uncover a strange phenomenon at Timberline Lodge at Mt Hood. Snowboarding video takes place in and out of High Cascade Summer Camp. Shot and edited by Mike Benson. Starring Brendan Hayes, Eli weiner, Scott Stevens, Chris Beresford, Matty Mo, Jesse Burtner, and Casey Wrightsman.

Magic Flashlights from Mike Benson on Vimeo.

p.s:After watching this, my lil bro asked, "Do these things really exist?" LOL
p.s.s:I've actually stumbled this upon here

Video Review : Sigg Jones

You know what, I came across this video when I was straying on the Internet. The screenshots that I saw had somehow managed to attract me watch it. Haha. For sure. Who wouldn't be tempted when looking at beautifully designed 3D characters.

Sigg Jones is actually a short non-commercial 3D animation created by 3 students from France who loves sneakers (Puma, Adidas, Nike and whatsoever). The characters in this animation are neatly created. The part that I like the most is that Pink Nike shoes. They're cool man! The fighting scene was really nice too. Besides, this Sigg Jones had won some awards. I can't remember what though. Just log on to the website to find that out. Watch it here or below.




Sigg Jones from Asterokid on Vimeo.


p.s : What'd happen to Saladin?