For the first time ever, I felt that I would probably know what to do, with a fair bit of efficiency, if a patient goes into arrest - including the shocking bit, like in TV :) The ILS course definitely felt like some sort of turning point in my budding medical career, one worth remembering. Insha Allah.
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On a more important note, Recep Tayyip Erdogan stormed off one of the forums in World Economic Forums in Davos, Switzerland. I remember the forums to be rather tame proceedings in the past, I definitely didn't see this one coming.
Then he was given a hero welcome in Turkey, at 200am.
P3r3S (do I have to soil my blog with his name?) shouted first and it was Erdogan who loses his temper? No complains CNN, just small print stuff :)
What's his true intentions are, wallahua'lam. As a matter of personal satisfaction, I don't care - almost.
Although we are living in a morally corrupt political era stripped of world leaders who are not driven by monetary-gains or any other self-satisfying ambitions, I would like to cautiously trust him - just be a little husnuzon to politicians for once :) It is probably needed, otherwise there would be no signs of any sort of worthy saviour around hence depriving myself of much needed optimism.
At least man enough to storm off, unlike the pussy bunch of leaders whom are the Arab politicians... and Malaysia included. It's true and you know it.
"It is not possible to be a secular and a Muslim at the same time. They are continuously saying, "Secularism is in danger." It will be, if this nation demands it. You can not prevent it. The Islamic nation is waiting for the rise of the Muslim Turkish nation. We will. This rebellion will start."
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Opening ceremony of the RP İstanbul Ümraniye District Organization,
before he stepped up to become PM of Turkey.
before he stepped up to become PM of Turkey.
"Mosques are our barracks,
domes our helmets,
minarets our bayonets,
believers our soldiers.
This holy army guards my religion.
Almighty our journey is our destiny,
the end is martyrdom.
.....
....."
domes our helmets,
minarets our bayonets,
believers our soldiers.
This holy army guards my religion.
Almighty our journey is our destiny,
the end is martyrdom.
.....
....."
An Erdogan's modified intro to Ziya Gökalp's poem - Prayer of the Soldier -
one which landed Erdogan a 10 months imprisonment sentence on charges of "religious hatred" in 1998.
one which landed Erdogan a 10 months imprisonment sentence on charges of "religious hatred" in 1998.
Staunchly secular indeed.
Erdogan once identified Turkey as having "two fundamentally different camps" - those who follow the Attaturk Reforms and the Muslims who unite Islam with Sharia. As a matter of fact, what he said apply to the rest of the Muslim world - one just have to identify oneself which side of the fence one belongs to.
Sitting on the fence? Not an option I'm afraid :)
Sitting on the fence? Not an option I'm afraid :)
Is he all great and sincere? wallahua'lam.
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Chinese New Year; internet-called Kluang, wished Gong Xi Fa Cai then got asked (again), "Dah ada amoi?"
Adoi, lemah :)
Can't keep avoiding the same question for much longer...
2 comments:
insyaAllah ade amoi... :P. but a great respond from nko. Turkey is changing of course. when i was there in winter, i saw a poster showing that they are changing back to turkish lira from yeni turk lirasi(new turkish lira). The new banknotes are having new faces, still maintaining Attarturk portraiture. But at the back, also featured other turkish figures. wallahualam.
change is an element that usually needs to be instilled, not installed i.e. it tends to come rather slowly, drop by drop, especially at a national/world level... i'm sure even obama agrees with that... unless you are the great prophet S.A.W who time and again, with the grace of Allah, change the landscape of a whole village, city and quite relatively quickly, the world...
but insya Allah it will happen one day :)
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