Jalan-jalan is good

"The only thing bad about a holiday is it is followed by a non-holiday"

-Anon-

Assalamualaikum...


It's holiday season for the teachers and students again. 2 weeks punya cuti yang sepatutnya refreshing the intentions and motivation. Harap2 macam tu la. Where have i been?

Sandakan

Aku nak cerita pasal percutian dekat Sandakan, Sabah sebelum cuti sekolah. Masa tu ada cuti hari Isnin... pasal apa ek? 17 - 19 Mei 2008. So, I went there with my dad and my mom. We take the Proton's ride. I drove it all the way Tawau-Sandakan-Tawau. Best jugak drive jauh2 ni. Gian pasal drive kat Tawau, 2 minit dah sampai satu tempat. It's been so long i didn't have the chance to see the beautiful scenic terrain of The Land Below The Wind and this trip is the one I'm really looking into.

Antara objektif berkunjung ke Sandakan adalah untuk menemui keluarga yang ada kat sana la. Kak Mini's family especially. OMG she has a really cute daughter. My mom said that her daughter is just look like her when she was a baby. Undeniable, both of them are cute. Heheheh.

My second objective is to go to Sepilok (Orang Utan Rehabilitation Centre).... kasi promo sikit. Sepilok is the largest rehabilitation centre for orang utan in the world. Wow! Sandakan has something great. Apa yang special kat Sepilok ni? Tentulah Orang Hutan (O-reng U-ten). Binatang yang mempunyai kaitan rapat dengan manusia ini sekarang berada dalam keadaan kepupusan dan dalam dunia ni hanya tinggal beberapa sahaja (Statistik sebenar sila rujuk kat website Sepilok). So, Sepilok ini merupakan salah sebuah Pusat Pemeliharaan yang menjaga welfare Orang Utan yang ada dekat hutan Sepilok ni. Orang Utan ni special pasal dia macam manusia dan kaler dia warna jingga kehitaman. Mana ada binatang mamalia lain yang ada bulu warna macam tu (melainkan sesetengah orang yang pergi salon warnakan rambut dia jadi kuning macam tu jugak). So, dengan struktur badan yang menghampiri manusia dan sikap dan tabiat yang begitu sensitif, make this orang utans so special.

Tetapi malangnya, my second objective ni tak kesampaian pasal aku sampai kat Sepilok tu dah lewat. Aku sampai sahaja kat platform bagi makan tu, orang utan ni semua dah habis makan dan dah balik semula ke dalam hutan. Sempat ambik gambar bontot orang utan saja la. Alih-alih I switch my lens focus to the gang of Beruk which took place on the feeding platform. Hahahah.

Itu lah... percutian selama 3 hari 2 malam kat Sandakan yang menghiburkan. Ada lagi sebenarnya tempat yang best kalau nak ambil gambar tapi with the time constraint, tak sempat nak pi. So, lain kali saja lah.

Spastic Rhyme Photography

Pengumuman penting.... Spastic Rhyme Photography (SRP) is registered officially on 28 Mei 2008 in the ROC (Registrar of Company). So, lepas ni SRP beroperasi dengan di bawah syarikat yang sah mengikut undang-undang. Sebelum ni? Itu cerita dulu.....

Sepanjang 2 minggu percutian dekat Semenanjung Malaysia, SRP had 2 wedding photography jobs. Satu dekat Sg. Buloph + Bahau, satu lagi dekat Temerloh. Sesi kali ni memang best dan menyeronokkan esp. kat Temerloh tu. Cantik jugak bandar Temerloh tu kan... tepi sungai Pahang yang besar sangat tu. Macam romantik-romantik gitu.... Kalau dibangunkan... mesti cantik macam kota Venice kat Itali tu kan (Venice kat Itali? Betul ker? Hentam jer tu). So, here is a sneak preview on the photograph from those photography sessions. Tada....

That's some outdoor photography session photos. Nantikan koleksi gambar dari kedua-dua pengantin tersebut dalam masa yang terdekat ini. Koleksi gambar ada dekat http://www.picasaweb.google.com/rafiza83. Insya-Allah, SRP juga akan melancarkan laman web rasmi dalam masa beberapa bulan daripada sekarang. For couples out there planning for having a photographer for their wedding, i would say, "Treasure Your Moment With Us". Hehehe.

Kekalahan

Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.
Sun-tzu(~400 BC), The Art of War

Assalamualaikum...

Peribahasa di atas menyebabkan aku tersedar tentang erti sebenar perjuangan.

KRC Stallion

Hari Sabtu yang lalu, 3 May 2008, menyaksikan sekali lagi kekalahan ke atas pasukan KRC Stallion dalam Pertandingan Ragbi Kinabutan 10's. Kekalahan tersebut boleh dianggap teruk kerana dengan menghantar 2 buah pasukan, KRC Stallion 'A' yang dianggotai oleh pelajar dan KRC Stallion 'B' yang hampir semuanya dianggotai oleh x-students, masih belum dapat menunjukkan prestasi yang baik.

KRC Stallion 'A' seperti kehilangan arah tuju dalam padang dan seperti baru mengenali sukan ragbi. Diperbudak-budakkan sewenang-wenangnya oleh pasukan-pasukan lawan dan dijinak-jinakkan seperti cacing yang cuba menggali tanah ketika si pemancing menariknya keluar untuk dijadikan umpan di hujung mata kail. Waduh!

Perubahan ke atas bentuk latihan akan berlaku sekali lagi dan aku harap perubahan kali ini akan membawa kepada kemenangan yang berikutnya. Seperti peribahasa di atas, kami perlu menang terlebih dahulu untuk bersedia menghadapi pertandingan-pertandingan selanjutnya. Kemenangan dari segi mental dan fizikal pada diri sendiri, kemenangan setiakawan dan kepercayaan dalam pasukan dan kemenangan mencari sasaran secara keseluruhannya. Ini lah yang patut aku capai terlebih dahulu sebelum menghadapi pertandingan selanjutnya. Insya-Allah.

Nasib

Assalamualaikum,

Sewaktu matahari semakin hilang daripada pandangan mata, dan bulan semakin mengambang di ufuk barat.

Sekali-sekala hidup manusia ini sering ditakdirkan oleh nasib. Good Luck! Ucapan yang selalu kita dengar dan ucapkan untuk sahabat handai, rakan taulan. Perjuangan hari-hari berikutnya selalu dipulangkan kepada ketentuan nasib.

KRC Stallion

Tanpa diduga, nasib tidak begitu menyebelahi pasukan KRC Stallion dalam kejohanan ragbi MSSGT. Kekalahan dalam tiga perlawan menyebabkan KRC Stallion berada di tangga ke-empat. Keputusan sepanjang perlawanan yang diadakan pada 24 - 26 Mac yang lalu:

SM Teknik 3 - 1 KRC Stallion

SMK Kinabutan 7 - 0 KRC Stallion

SMK Merotai 2 - 1 KRC Stallion

KRC Stallion 5 - 0 SM St. Patrick

Kejohanan telah diungguli oleh pasukan SM Teknik yang pada tahun ini telah menunjukkan prestasi yang sangat meningkat mengikut pandangan jurulatih-jurulatih yang lain. Aku kan baru lagi dalam arena ni di Tawau. So, pengetahuan aku tentang kejohanan-kejohanan yang lepas amatlah tipis.

Walaupun demikian, semangat perjuangan KRC Stallion masih unggul dan utuh untuk mempersediakan pasukan ini ke arah kejuaraan pada kejohanan yang lain. Nasib yang tidak begitu menyebelahi pasukan semasa kejohanan tersebut tidak di tangisi. Pasukan ini percaya dengan Good Luck yang diberikan oleh pasukan lain setiap habis perlawanan sebagai penyerahan tuah yang lebih bagus untuk kejohanan pada masa akan datang.

Dalam kekalahan tersebut, seorang pemain KRC Stallion telah terpilih untuk mewakili daerah Tawau untuk kejohanan ragbi MSSS yang berlangsung di Keningau pada 21 - 24 April akan datang. Pemilihan tersebut sedikit sebanyak meniup api perjuangan di dalam pasukan. Ternyata persiapan yang lebih rapi membolehkan impian jadi kenyataan. Hidup KRC Stallion!

Sketsa Kerjaya

New task! Sketsa kerjaya yang akan berlansung dalam bulan Mei. Aku kena jadi jurulatih. Skrip dah taip dan pelakon telah pun dipilih. Aku dah sediakan skrip untuk sketsa lebih kurang 15 minit. Tajuk: Ahmad Tukang Sapu Millennium. Hahaha. Macam lucu jer bunyi dia. Memang lebih kurang lucu jugak la. Apapun, perjalanan baru bermula untuk pasukan sketsa ni dan perkiraan nasib masih belum boleh ditentukan. Bagi aku, nasib perkara terakhir selepas usaha dan doa. Nasib datangnya dari tawakal kepada yang Esa. Sehabis baik! itulah moto yang paling bagus buat masa ni dan semoga doa kawan-kawan mengiringinya. Amiin....

Spastic Rhyme Photography

Pengumuman! Spastic Rhyme Photography akan beraksi dalam bulan Mei ini. Alhamdulillah, ada beberapa tempahan untuk gambar perkahwinan sepanjang cuti sekolah nanti dan SPR akan memastikan yang terbaik untuk pelanggan.

Insya-Allah juga akhirnya SPR akan didaftarkan secara rasminya pada bulan tersebut. Tidak lagi secara sambilan, tetapi jurufoto-jurufoto SPR akan berkerja secara amatur dan menuju ke arah professional. Tempahan masih lagi dibuka untuk bulan Mei dan juga selepas itu. Cepat! Cepat! Tempahan awal membolehkan anda mendapat tawaran harga yang hebat! Dah macam iklan kat pasaraya la pulak. Tapi takper, SPR akan memastikan yang terbaik untuk anda. Treasure Your Moments With Us

Let's Take a Break

Assalamualaikum,

8 - 16 Mac 2008 yang lalu merupakan cuti persekolahan pertengahan semester pertama bagi seluruh sekolah di Malaysia dan bermakna cuti jugalah untuk para pendidik seanteronya. Oleh yang demikian, bercuti juga lah aku gamaknya.

Perkembangan Kuhara Stallion

Aku tak nak cerita banyak pasal cuti aku tetapi nak cerita pasal perkembangan pasukan Kuhara Stallion. Sebelum cuti bermula, perlawanan persahabatan di antara Kuhara Stallion dan Kuhara Old Boys telah berlangsung dan keputusannya ialah....Kuhara Stallion 1 - 10 Kuhara Old Boys

berdasarkan kepada jumlah "try" yang telah dilakukan. Namun kekalahan yang teruk ini tidak sedikit pun melunturkan semangat pemain malah ia telah menjadi pengajaran kepada mereka untuk berlatih lebih bersungguh-sungguh. Pada 6 Mac 2008, satu kursus asas ragbi telah diadakan di sekolah dan semua ahli Kuhara Stallion telah turun untuk mendapat ilmu secara teori tentang permainan ragbi. Semoga hasil kerjasama semua pihak ini akan memberikan pengetahuan dan seterusnya memangkinkan performance pemain di atas padang.

Cukup! Itu cerita sebelum cuti. Semasa cuti aku harapkan agar budak-budak Stallion akan sentiasa berusaha untuk mengekalkan stamina mereka di samping menggilap skill yang ada. Pemilihan akan diadakan selepas cuti ini dan mereka pastinya tahu kehendak pasukan yang memerlukan pemain yang mempunyai daya tahan fizikal dan mental yang tinggi. Jadual latihan dan fokus latihan akan lebih dimantapkan dan sesi-sesi ujian kemahiran dan stamina serta semangat dan kerjasama pasukan akan diadakan untuk memastikan para pemain berada on-form.Semasa cuti ni jugak aku telah fly back to KL untuk jumpa isteri tercinta. Yang tu kita cerita kemudian. Sambil-sambil berada di KL, aku telah membuat survey barangan ragbi untuk Kuhara Stallion. Insya-Allah, kalau tidak ada aral melintang, pasukan ni akan mempunyai jersi baru rekaan sendiri beserta seluar dan stoking sekali. Doa-doa semoga dapat. Kicking Tee pun baru beli pakai akaun sendiri pasal memang dah berniat nak beli untuk kegunaan Stallion dan juga diri sendiri. Harap-harap sedikit pembaharuan (dari perspektif materialistik) ini akan memberikan pemain semangat yang lebih untuk maju.

Cuti

Seperti orang lain jugak, aku gunakan kesempatan ini untuk berjumpa dengan isteri yang tercinta setelah dekat 3 bulan aku tinggalkan demi kerja. "Sayang, abang nak ucapkan banyak-banyak terima kasih pasal luangkan masa untuk abang sepanjang seminggu. Terima kasih kerana masih menyayangi dan mencintai abang walaupun abang ni adakalanya melakukan kesilapan yang mengguris hati dan emosimu. Terima kasih kerana masih setia menyokong abang dalam kerja-kerja abang. Minta maaf sekiranya banyak salah yang abang lakukan. Satu perkara yang pasti, kau masih utuh bidadari dalam hatiku."

Kami habiskan masa bersama-sama, jalan-jalan cari barang ragbi, makan angin (sikit-sikitla) dan juga balik kampung jumpa mak ayah mertua aku. Seronok rasanya dapat tengok wajah orang-orang yang kita kasihi dan rindui. Tapi yang paling best sekali ialah dapat satu projek ambik gambar orang tunang kat Palong. Rezeki jangan ditolak. Lama dah tak ambik gambar orang ni. Lepas gian lah jugak. Walaupun tunang je... pose pun tak banyak sangat... ok jugak la. Gambar-gambar tu ada kat http://picasaweb.google.com/rafiza83. Boleh tengok kat sana ek!

Akhir sekali, semoga selepas cuti ni, semangat aku untuk meneruskan perjuangan akan membuak-buak dan meningkatkan lagi motivasi aku. Doakan yang terbaik untuk perjuangan itu, kerana doa keluarga dan kawan-kawan sekalian pasti akan membawa seribu makna dan membantu aku mencapai cita-cita itu akhirnya. Amiin.........

Change taste good!

Assalamualaikum....

Yes! Change does taste good. Why?

This is the latest update about my rugby team. We've change the name and also the logo. Here it is... Tada......

How bout that? Look more commercial is it? Heheh.... I designed this one. The team's name is also change. Before this we'd decide to have "Wild Horse" but after a few days of thinking, it is just sound so weird. Then i decided to change it to "Stallion". Now, we're Kuhara Stallion everybody......

On, 25 January 2008, Last Monday, the Kuhara Stallion got its first friendly match with SM Teknik, Tawau (SMT). That school was having a very good training for past few months by 5 Fijian ruggers. So, the students are more fit and skill. We took all the rumour as a challenge and asked for a frinedly match.

During the first half, the SMT team put their junior team (Form 4 students) to face the Stallion. We manage to get the 22 line but, no try was done. It could be said a one sided game when we have most of the possession during the first half. But still, my team just can't get through the SMT line and it ended with 0-0 in the first half.

When the second half whistle blew, we put the same team member up to the field while the SMT put up their Senior team (Form 5) students which most of them were the students that gone through the training with the Fijian coach and also, most of their players are made of steely muscle. While my players were trying to get their breath, SMT was already on the attack. 2 minutes after the blow, 1 try was conceided. Until the end of the match, my team was trying hard to defence their side and push it to the SMT side of field. Just unlucky, the SMT senior team was so good for the Stallion boys but they manage to defence their side after the first try and no try was concieded after that.

They Stallion boys learnt their lesson. There is still a lot of things to be done. They knew now that they have to really listen to me during training. I got them straight at their face and not stumble any mistakes, making all my comments perfectly to the target. Name by name.

On Tuesday, we begin the training on different level. I became more strict and cunningly cruel. Guess what? The boys can addapt to it and it seems like they are getting new spirit. Furthermore, on the same day, the PTA president, turn up and saw us trained. He get me and asked me the progress of the team. I said we need to do a lot still. What shocked me is that he also loves the game and being really supportive. He talked to the boys after the training and promised tha the will support the team.

First, he said that he will try to get the team new training t-shirt which already in my plan. I showed him my design and he agreed. One down! Then he said about the team jersey. I said we already proposed to have the new jersey to the management but still no answer. He asked me to put up a proposal and he will approve it. Two down! Again he asked. What about the scrum machine? I just couldn't believe it. Scrum machine? That was new. Not in my plan. Then he said, make another proposal for the scrum machine and he'll see about it. I was just couldn't agree more and say "yes, sir."

Therefore, there are so much of changes and I believe that all this come from the effort the team had shown so far. We must progress and the boys also work really hard with high spirit. Training shirt, new jersey and a scrum machine is on the way boys! Let's do this!

Today,we have gathered the junior boys who are interested in rugby and asked them to come for a introduction to the game. About 70 students turn up and that was a big number which is more then I expected. This is also a good news for the team morale. We got the handling drill and I asked the seniors to guide their junior. They love it.

Tomorrow, we'll have another friendly match. This time it will be differ because the Stallion will be facing the Kuhara Old Boys Team (X-Kuhara Rugby Team). It's just a defferent level for the Stallion Boys. But, we're ready! This weak training showed so much improvement in the team's performance. I'm quite sure tomorrow will a tough game and both team will have to struggle to score. Wish us the best and I'll let you know the result soon. Thanks!

What can you do besides teaching?

Assalamualaikum...

Despite busy with my life as a teacher (you know... lesson plan, meeting, class, students' attendance chart, ect.) i'm putting myself into one more thing that i like the most about being a teacher... co-curriculum. Hence, i joined a sea scout's (pengakap laut) camping last two weeks eventhought i was assigned to be the fire brigade cadet's (kadet bomba) teacher supervisor. It was great since it's been ages i didn't attend a camping. Seem so long after a programme in Gombak.

I had a great time at the camping. Joined the 'Rovers A' scout from Tawau to prepare the tracking, taught the students to sing the 'Lai Chi Kang' song, set-up the night walk trail with the comittee and the most unforgetful was the feeling of not sleeping for two days which i've left this activity almost 6 years ago. All of these just makes me felt younger (Whoa!). I've tried my best not to intercept the comittee members arrangements for the camping activities but i can't denied it that i really like to be a leader and to run the whole camping. For the camping committee, I'm very sorry.

The School Rugby Team's Logo

That was 2 weeks ago. This week, I've been busy with a responsible i've never dreamed of that is to coach the school's rugby team. In the other hand, I think that this was a great chance for me to get involved with this sports. What scares me is that, the team was the runner-up for last year tournament. Trying my best to be a coach, and preparing the team with a very high level of fitness and skills which a essential requirements for rugby players. All training sessions this week was focused on the fitness aspect of the players and some basic skills that the player need to know. Me and few alumnis of the team still searching for the best 20 players to be brought to the tournaments. I was just lucky that some of the alumnis are really helpful and handy. Thanks to azree, allen and some more alumnis.

For next week, my agenda and focus will also into the rugby team and my class management(which I don't want to talk about it now). I think i'll try to put up a new approach into the school's rugby team to coach them and bring them to glorious victory. Fitness and teamwork will be my main focus for next week and hopefully we can have a friendly match by next weekend. That friendly match will be the milestone of me and the team effort of training.

For all the readers that might have experience(s) in rugby, I need your support, ideas and knowledge about rugby. I'm still collecting data on coaching rugby and materials that i can used (which can be found easily) to train the team. Wish me luck next week and i'll report the progress of the team via this blog. See ya!

Too long!

Taken during the New Year's Celebration in Putrajaya

photo taken by me

It's been too long! That's the word that can describe this blog. Long enough until i've missed out so many things happen inside the blogger and how it is now linked to the google.com. Anyway, i think this could be the fresh start for me again for this challenging 2008. Ha! Ha! Ha!

There were a lot of things happened in 2007. This might be the complete list of those:

1. I was called to be enrolled into the DPLI programme in UiTM, Shah Alam - January.

2. My wife was transferred to Putrajaya.

3. I've started my career serously in photography - January.

4. The launch of spastic rhyme photography.

5. The launch of http://picasaweb.google.com/rafiza83 website ny my wife.

6. I'd completed my Diploma in Education in November.

7. I'd taught as a practical teacher for about 12 weeks in SMK PP9(2), Putrajaya.

8. Got posted to my hometown to be a teacher.

2008 is still waiting to be fulfilled. My calendar for this year is still empty except for my schedule being a teacher. I'm looking forward for more great development of my life especially my career as a teacher and also a part-time photographer. This year plan is probably be focusing into the Rugby Team of my school. Go! Go! Go! Wild Horse! And also the establishment of spastic rhyme photography.

Hope that this year will bring so much luck and happiness not only for me but for my family, friends and readers. I've been always believed that "Fail to Plan is Planning to Fail!". Hardwork, patience, guts are all I pray to Allah to bless us for the challenging 2008.

Wassalam.