GEMOKS

"A Family Stitched Together With Love Seldom Unravels"


Theres a story behind a group of people who called themselves as 'Gemoks'. 
If you are offended with that terms, then you are not worthy to be in the group. Gemoks as in flabby, mostly refers to someone who are fat or overweight, but what do this group of people understood was that, gemoks is for people who are unfit. So, its just widen the scope of the terms 'Gemoks' to be used for slim individual, or even someone who suffer aneroxia. Special isn't it? :D

Well, the truth is... 'Gemoks' means more than anything, for me... But, you must be in the gang of "Gemoks" to endure that kind of insult. I would call them mentally strong individual who are able to accept themselves. Its not about you are big in size or shape, it is the matter of how you can accept people calling you the worst nickname, but still you can put a smile on your face. When you get used to people calling you "Gemoks" , then slowly, gradually you will be able to fight with the feeling that you already lose the weight, yet people keep calling you gemoks.

In terms of loitering, you will feel more comfortable sharing stories with them. Them who I called 2nd family here in IIUM. Building the perception between ourselves takes times. We can't blame a person of being too 'manja' or dad's princess and all that, they have been brought up that way. We are not entitled to change how they mingle with others. It comes to the point that you just accept who they are, the background of their family. The person that inspired them, that help them through tough times. Then you will know their strong and weak points in life, together finding a way to comfort each other in 'unfriendly way', just to make sure boys don't go beyond their egos, its just how boys deal with this kind of situation. 

Crazy stuff. Its a turning point of being too 'step baik' most of the time. Researches said that nice people tend to do bad things, and vice versa. I have a different thought about this, there's a different in being 'nakal' and 'jahat'. You can be both at the same time, but its okay to be 'nakal' as long as you practice Islam. That was my thinking. About being naughty, you tend to breaks laws, not islamic law, but human law and codes. Such laws are not meant to be enacted. People are afraid to do what is beyond human creativity. Some laws are being kept to uphold the company's honour name, corporate company for example. Thus limit peoples hidden capability. It is not the free country, but it all goes back to Islamic Law. Whether, you are able to restrain syaiton's temptation to do mungkar. 

Okay, whats with the crazy stuff? it involves crazy activities that were normally planned adhoc-ly. How did the adhoc plan contributes to best of any friendships? Haha. Simple, planned activites set our minds of doing future things. From our childhood, we've been taught to think about the futures, construct the plan from the beginning, if it all goes well, then people assumes they were successful, not entirely true, but for the sake of saving our future, lets assume it is true. 

Surprisingly, if its all have been planned, it is not a surprise anymore. Dr. Gregory Berns mentioned in his findings, "the brain finds unexpected pleasure more rewarding than expected ones". So, we may subconsciously desire the unpredictable experience over the experience that we consciously believe we prefer. Be truth to your feelings. If you had a crazy idea, doing that idea will make you a happy man. Life's too short to wait for a perfect moment. Sometimes being truthful is all what you need to do.



It feels good when you have someone to open up to. Theres a time when you want to share something, a nice and cozy place is all that you need to tell stories over coffee. Great time huh? it makes amazing memories, it can get you attached to one another. Being close to someone doesn't mean that you are in special relationship or whatsoever, they are your buddies for a lifetime. Be grateful for what you have now infront of your eyes, you have someone who can run to when you face any difficulties in life. 

There's a point where I felt like I want to share everything with this group of "Gemoks". The feels of acceptance from them makes it more comfortable for me and for everyone else. I learn how to take advantage of the confidence that was built within me, to build new skills that eventually help me in my life. 

That is it.
Allah, free Palestine and all muslims that were oppressed. Save Gaza during this holy month of Ramadhan. Grant them their du'a. 

Allah, jagalah mereka yang ku kasihi. Permudahkanlah jalan mereka, pandulah mereka ke arah cahaya hidayahMu. Hindarkanlah mereka dari niat khianat jin dan manusia. 

Amin. 

Gemoks,
Nazrul Arif.

Help them ya Allah.

World Cup is just a delusion.

A mind trap in a way that make people think, others don't matter.

Cold blooded way or strategy to stoned people's mind.

Dari dulu sudah berlangsungnya Piala Dunia 2014. Liputan luas seolah-olah menyambut ketibaan tuhan. Sengaja pula dibuat 4 tahun sekali supaya disambut dengan pujaan. 

Sedang manusia menahan sakit mata dan penat badan untuk terus jaga dari tidur semata-mata untuk menyaksikan Brazil lawan Germany, atau Belanda lawan Argentina, seolah-olah penduduk Israel menyaksikan bom-bom mereka menghujani Gaza. Palestin diserang. Ya, dari berkurun lamanya, kesedaran tiada mengapa? kerana kita sentiasa dahulukan dunia atas segala. Solat dibuat atas syarat semata. McDonalds yang dulunya konon-konon diboikot sewaktu tumpahnya darah Palestin di muka bumi di makan kembali, kemudian tengah scroll-scroll facebook, terserempak dengan gambar-gambar yang menyayat hati, bayi yang masih kecil mati syahid, belum sempat dia mendapat nikmat dunia, kasih sayang ibu bapa, telah pun dia menemui Allah. Sehingga visual keganasan Israel kelihatan, baru la masyarakat kembali memboikot barangan Israel, why? because we don't experience any hardship yang Palestin lalui, atau mungkin kita hanya mementingkan diri sendiri. Kita solat lima waktu, mengaku yang diri ini beriman, walhal semuanya atas kertas. Seperti rakyat Palestin, tidak sempat membuka mulut, jasad mereka secara otomatik berjihad, mengharapkan Allah, meletakkan nasib mereka di tangan Allah, mati di jalan Allah. Allahu.

Sadis, disaat penganut Islam di serata muka bumi, menikmati malam yang tenang di bulan Ramadhan, Gaza diserang teruk. Sahur mereka di dunia, dan boleh jadi Iftar mereka di syurga. Begitu pengecutnya Israel pabila Hamas menggertak akan menyerang mereka, walhal dari kacamata dunia, mereka nak memperlihatkan bahawa kaum mereka yang terhebat, berani, gagah semua ada. Penipuan apakah? Di mana pemimpin negara yang bersuara berani untuk menghalang kekejaman ini di bulan mulia ini ya Allah. This is not about religion anymore, this is about the humanity.

Namun, terdapat juga puak-puak Yahudi yang menipu, dikatakan gambar-gambar di facebook semunya gambar lama. Thats not important, its about humanity. How you treat others in a same manner as how you treat your own kind. Kita manusia, darah sama warna. What makes you superior that the others? Tiada tempat Zionis di atas peta muka bumi.

Boikot barangan Israel, tolong. 

Sedikit luahan kerana hati tak tahan. :')

Yang lemah,

Nazrul Arif.

Learn through experience.

Sukar. Benar. Memang susah untuk mengajar seseorang erti kehidupan, melainkan membiarkan mereka sendiri yang menempuhi asam garam dlm hidup harian. Tapi generasi sekarang suka disuap. Source of information ada dihujung jari. Nak pergi baca newspaper, online. Ke mana pula zaman dulu, setiap kali nak keluar, beli newspaper, dibelinya sarapan sekali. Duduk di ruangan dapur makan dan berbincang sekali isu semasa dengan keluarga. Dari situ, secara tak langsung didik anak-anak untuk peka terhadap isu semasa. Dan sekaligus melahirkan satu generasi yang peka terhadap isu semasa, it helps them to learn and appreciate things too. Bukan nak kata dengan keluar beli newspaper, dapat mengubah generasi. Melampauuu. Satu analogi, bahawasanya usaha semakin sedikit untuk generasi sekarang yakni "Generation Y", yang sangat manja, sukar untuk menerima teguran dan mengharapkan satu kejayaan dengan usaha yang minima. Tidak keterlaluan bila bercakap begini, kerana 'research' telah dilaksanakan, dan the issues has been debated a lot in international level. Kalau di Taiwan, mereka menamakan 'Strawberry Generation", kerana strawberri zaman sekarang di tanam tempat yang selesa berbanding sebelumnya, yang juga refleks kepada generasi manusia zaman sekarang. 

Ya ampun bila melihat kanak-kanak yang sudah moden, di'equip'kan dengan gadget serta phone yang tak kena dengan usia. Tahukah bilamana ada kedai yang menyediakan khidmat 'Free Wi-Fi', budak-budak dengan effortless boleh surfing pelbagai jenis website. Kalau website islamic, alhamdulillah. But what if it is porn or any 18+ rated websites ?

Hidup biar mcm orang dahulu. Kerja keras untuk dapat sesuatu. 

Berbalik kepada topik, mengajar seseorang bukan sekadar teori, kerana teori hanya menggunakan minda memaham dan menghafal sahaja, tidak untuk berfikir secara teknikal. Dan selalunya true lessons are not written in the text book. The textbook only written to be understood. If you want to be good in communication, you need to expose yourself in an english surrounding that requires you to only speak in english not just reading and understand the english books. Involve yourself and you will learn. Try to adapt with surrounding and you will be good in making friends. Try not to judge people, so they will not judge you. Potray a good example and people will respect you. Don't be judgemental about something. Some are bad, but not forever bad, maybe you are worst than them. 

Haha. Tak tahu kenapa hati nak tulis entri ni. Mungkin as peringatan kepada diri in the future. Selamat berbuka! :) 

Masih mencari,

Nazrul Arif.

Stump.

Dah terhantuk baru terngadah. That’s the parable.

Haish, I guess… I never learn the lesson. Living on the comfort zone all this while. Then, when it becomes worst, no one to blame but me.

Result sem lepas sangat menginsafkan. Sudah expect lama dah, but still…rasa sedih. Ada baiknya I set the expectation low, takdelah kecewa extreme sangat. Time ni lah nak arrange study plan for the remaining semester, everytime dah buat camtu, the question is whether you want to follow it or not. If you like that subject, you will put your heart into it, I always remind myself though. Haish  -___-;; But, somehow last semester my priority is on the ‘amanah’ to lead an awesome team. I do not regret but that is the sacrifice that I must make. If there is a choice between exams and tournament, ofcourse I would go for the tournament. HAHA.

My parents have given a sign, expecting me to finish my degree with high academic achievements, after being active in sports all this while. It is not a compulsion, but I do understand what they are trying to tell me. It means, keep the priority into studies, things that I have failed to do in this fourth year in IIUM. Knowing the disappointment of people that are concern about you is very heartbroken. I don’t care about myself, my achievements, to where I would finish after my degree. I hold onto the prinsip that as long as I earn something, pray and tawakkal, success will come, that’s what Allah has promised.

I may not know, where I will finish in this dunya. But I do promise that, for the first timer in everything, I will give my very best, and expect nothing out of it. Because that’s life. Keeping the performance high and being humble, not to please or impress anyone around you, but simply put a good sample for others. Being good is subjective. You might good in academics but lack in communication skills or vice versa. Too much to be learned though. Being pefect is impossible but its at least what we can do is to follow someone near to perfection, it is Rasulullah, follow his sunnah in the best way possible. As a human, we live in a community in which has been ruled by people’s choice, to be yourself without being influenced by others is complicated. Crimes, evil, cruel intentions are everywhere… that is life, currently.

So, right now. Dengan segala jenis musibah yang terjadi, harapnya Allah tenangkan hati. Supaya fikir jauh, redha dengan apa yang diaturkan. InshaAllah. Allah is the best planner. 

Hidup gagah berani. Gigih. Hu-ha. ^^

Sentap.

Arif Aliasa.

Vita (Kehidupan)

Another second crawling by

Another moment finding me

Head tilted to the sky

Deciphering the language of nature

Telling me the secret of life

It doesn't even know how to lie

The whispers told me

I'm just another passerby

The signs are everywhere

But many failed to survive

What marks life for you?

Is it the Armani suit and shoes?

Or simply the scent of morning dew?

Is it the beachfront villa all brand-new?

Or simply the splash of sunset's glory hues?

"Hidup ini perlu dirancang".

Satu slot dalam buku tulisan hlovate berkisar tentang mencari hala tuju dalam kehidupan, apa destinasi kita di dalam kehidupan. Sangat recommend buku-buku tulisan hlovate. Misteri penulisnya sendiri telah membuat pembaca tertanya-tanya. Manusia menganggap, apa yang dibuat sekarang sudah memadai, sedangkan puak yahudi merancang masa depan mereka jauh ke hadapan. Mereka berasa pencapaian mereka cukup sampai di sini, walhal setiap manusia punyai ‘potential’ untuk berada di tempat yang lebih tinggi.

Contengan Jalanan - Hlovate

Edited: 1054 , 24/6/2014

Perceptions

Alhamdulillah.
Hari ni memang sakit.
Everything that I thought was okey, is definitely not okay.
Banyak yang belajar hari ini.
I recognize this feeling.
The feeling of hardship.
Rasa ni memang akan mengubah aku seluruhnya.
I just need to bear with it.

Bab kerja inshaAllah cepat pickup. Tapi bila sentuh bab untuk mengubah sikap atau tingkahlaku, it takes time. I need to adjust myself to where I am standing right now. Corporate company operates very professional. With that professionalism, comes people's perception. Your body languages speaks a thousand more than your mouth. My SV often reminded me to brush up my communication skills, which is a good thing.

Today, without any clue, I make myself sound like I'm the best infront of the GM and SM. How awful was that. Too sad.

Ada benda yang kita boleh kawal, iaitu satu pilihan. Pilihan di mana kita boleh mengawal untuk melayan orang baik atau buruk. Ofcourse, the world is a better place when human do a good deed. Tapi satu yang kita tak boleh kawal, dalam konteks ini, layanan orang terhadap diri kita sendiri. If you dont want people to treat you bad, treat others good. That is like a precaution to ourselves.

Banyak lagi yang harus dipelajari. Moga Allah didik hati ini untuk sentiasa bersabar.
Good things will come. Just fight3x.

Insan yang menyesal,
Arif.

Be a runner, it's for you own life.

Run. Lari. Jogging. Workout?

Disini nak highlightkan betapa pentingnya cardio yakni jogging @ lari untuk badan.
Media memainkan peranan yang penting sebenarnya untuk menabur minat terhadap seseorang especially golongan muda. Kenapa golongan muda sahaja? bukan yang tua. It is because golongan muda ni lah yang akan menjadi teladan generasi-generasi yang akan datang.

Betapa "EPIC" nya iklan 'M.X.T Strong' for example. "API Fatburner" and yang seangkatan dengannya. All of the article for building muscles for short amount of time. Is it good? Ada yang elok, ada yang tak elok. Eloknya bila kita jangan lupa hal yang berkaitan dengan cardio, which is the mooost importaaant thing.

It can't be denied that even ikon fitness Kevin Zahri selalu mention bab-bab how to lose weight, gaining muscles, eat healthy and so on. You guys can look up to his website. A lots of information related to health are there to be read. So back to the topic. Actually I have stories, a meaningful story that maybe people can think about.

Okay, here we go. I met this close buddy of mine, know him since the first year of my university life here in IIUM. He are really into fitness stuff, and he brought me in this physical activties. Thanks to him. He got a group of tricking. So normally, their training is held on the football field at Sayyidina Hamzah Stadium. There is a new boy come into the team, he decided to try the backflip. His physical is not so bad, which is okaylah. He got muscle here and there. Don't need to mention the name lah. :D What happened is that im not sure how many attempts that he make, he fell and thankfully my friend noticed him lying on the ground helplessly enduring the pain. Then he tried to move the hand clockwise and anticlockwise and it seems that his shoulder is perfectly fine, same with his wrist and arm. But the boy keep groaning in pain. Then he flick the shirt to find out what is happening. Surprispingly the boy's collar bone is broken. They catch the attention of others and quickly call the ambulance. End.

So we can learn that,
If you are new to it, learn it slowly.
No need to rush to learn things, because the knowledge is going nowhere.
Learn it with pro, don't feel overconfident, but being overconfident do help you sometimes.

So, tiada guna fizikal yang nampak kuat, tapi tidak fit.
Seseorang yang skip cardio and do only the workout routine mostly endup like a tin. Kosong inside.
Ape yang dimaksudkan kosong is that luar nampak kuat, but actually dalam tiada apa.
Maybe it a little harsh, but it is sad truth.
Bukan nak cakap cardio itulah segalanya.
Tapi somehow, muscle lebih tak guna juga bila jantung tak di pam selalu.

I'll always remind myself, that the muscle will grow big and shrink, but the lungs will remain the same.
So, why don't you start focus on your inner organ than the thing that can be changed instantaneously.
Lower body is so much important than the upper body, so start focus on the legs first.
After all, legs has so much fats in it than body.
Squatting is proven to be the best fat loser workout by professional.

Jadikan fitness idola macam Greg Plitt, Brandon Carter and seangkatan dengannya.
Dunia moden beb, video cardio diorang boleh dapat merata.
Follow instagram diorang.
Amik yang elok, buang yang teruk.

Ikut suka hati korang nak enjoy fitness macam mane sebenarnye,
Entri ni dibuat atas pengalaman, bukan zero research.
So if you are obsessly want to bulking up your body, rethink this entry.
Orang yang berjalan lebih baik dari yang duduk diam.
Orang yang berlari lebih baik dari berjalan.
Walau slow mana pun jogging, don't skip it.
Run for your lungs, run for your life.
Itu jantung korang, sampai ke tua kot pakai.

Harapnye lah, this entry will be useful for those who are not sweating at all.
Sweating cleans our body from toxin. It also releases the endorphin that can destress you.
Be a runner, it's for you own life.

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Stamina cam haroom,
Arif.