The Cost Of Balik Kampung

I'm still in the middle of the exam. I told my father and others I will only come back three days before raya. Yup, I will still have my exam three days before Raya. If I'm the only student* who take will sit for this prelim exam that time, I will ask the invigilator to play lagu Raya during the exam (It will be 5 hours exam, should get some entertainment and hari raya mood. Ha3x). However, the urge feeling of going back to kampung and iftar with my father and my brother ( The two most eligible bachelors) made me to have a quick decision. After I had finished my first paper I went back without much thinking. However, being a student in economics I will definitely cannot run away from calculating the cost and the benefit. So, this is the cost incurred for me to go back just for two days;

The costs
1. Petrol RM50 x 2 = RM100
2. Toll Tickets RM 51.70 x 2 = RM103.40
3. Fine for Speeding RM300 (get 50% discount) = RM150
4. Traveling time cost 3 1/2 hours x 2 = 7 hours ( opportunity cost of studying)

the benefit part,

1. See my father's and brother's smiles and had iftar with them = PRICELESS

So, does it worth for me going back to kampung in the middle of my exam?

* I'm the only student who sat for the prelim exam for Mcroeconomics last semester

In Memory......

" His command, When He intends anything, is only to say to it: Be, so it is. Therefore Glory be to Him in Whose hand is the kingdom of all things, and to Him you shall be brought back -Surah Yassin, 82-83"

I always afraid of a late night call from my family. They never call late at night unless something is really important and usually it will be a bad news. I got a phobia getting late night call after the death of my mom. But, I got it again. This time I expected who was going to leave us after I heard the tone of my sister’s voice. My 10 years old nephew left us after a year suffering with bone cancer. The boy who was a bit “straight’ boy left his parents who adore him very much. A boy who amazed me the most left us in his young age. A gifted boy who recited and khatam his Quran in just a month of Ramadhan and put me in shame because I have no determination like him is no longer with us. A boy who told his Ma that he wanted to be rich like me (He thought I’m rich because I gave him money everytime I got my salary) was already invited by Allah the Al Mighty. A boy who asked me what was the feeling of going to Mecca and told me some day he will be there too will never fulfill his dream. A boy who innocently asked me what the angel looks like after learning in kelas Agama may be has got the answer and seen the angels. A boy who strongly fighting with his cancer and suffering through the process of chemotherapy already lost in his battle. But Insyallah, a boy without a sin will be in a better place.

His death is a great lost for us. It is always not really easy to know those who were elder than us being invited by Allah but it's even harder and greater to witness that those who are younger than us left earlier.

Al Fatihah – Muhammad Shafiq Aiman

Ilmu Adalah Milik Allah

One is not likely to achieve understanding from the explanation of another. Understanding is achieved by solving problems. - Michael Weetzstein

When I'm working with problem, i never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong (Buckminster Fuller)

Never, never, never give up (Winston Churchill)

I'm studying. Still studying for my coming comprehensive exam. I've been working with one example of comprehensive exam question for the last two weeks. I took two days trying to solve it but still couldn't find the solution. I think I've tried every single formulas and theories before I gave up and started to ask my friends. None of them can help and have a clue to solve it.

I gave up with that problem but sometimes my mind keep wondering about the question's solution. It was until tonight while I was having a break and playing with my facebook, in a second, it was like a bulb in my head with the filament of the bulb started to function, I got the idea to solve it. Yes, the idea came in a split second and I don't even force your brain to think about the problem's solution. I did the calculation again and Voila! got the answer.

I do believe in what my friend who is in the process of writing thesiss said, "Ilmu adalah milik Allah, Kalau Dia nak bagi, kita akan dapat dengan mudahnya dan dalam sekelip mata tapi kadang - kadang ilmu kita cari susah nak jumpa atau dapat, then we have to pray to Allah to smooth our path in seeking His knowledge and we have to strive harder to look for it.

Alhamdulillah, got it at last and I'm really happy.