January 23, 2012

Thoughts that kept popping

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GRE?
Resume?
Grad school?
tock
Funding?
Project?
Home?
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Assignments?
Lunch?
Laundry?
tock
Decisions
Decisions
Decisions
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Work?
Wait.. Let me think.
I need guidance.
ticking-and-tocking to infinity

Oh and hello, meet The Invisible person.

I need you

Now, you're the bulb and the tungsten is your heart.
You'll still light, even if you hold on for a fragment.
Never let go off completely, nobody wants to lurk in the darkness.
Keep it close, hold on tight.

Hold on tight, to Quran & Sunnah and to the ummah.

Static Electricity


Fine, she's a woman.
In her defense, she's quick and calm; Did a clever thing back there.

p/s girls, don't go rubbing your sweater on the car seat in the mean time, you'll accidentally discharge yourself cos you're not grounded.

Yup, I didn't know this before but I never did it.
Stay safe.

January 17, 2012

ECE480

Team 5:          An interactive radar demonstrator for children
Sponsor:         MIT Lincoln Laboratory

Radio detection and ranging (radar) is a fascinating field of study at the intersection of physics and engineering.  Unfortunately it is complicated, requiring in-depth prerequisite knowledge of numerous abstract concepts.  We have shown at Lincoln Laboratory that when presented in a creative way, much of the radar concept is straight forward, especially when compared to experiences in everyday life.  

Radar engineering is a dying art because students are becoming less interested in applied electromagnetics. For this reason it is important to teach today’s youth about radar to maintain our nation’s competitiveness both economically and militarily.  This will be achieved by fostering involvement in radar engineering through hands-on and interactive experiments.

In this project, a team of students will improve an existing low cost radar system developed for instructional use [1] by adding a data acquisition and processing chain to provide an interactive radar demonstrator for children.   The sponsor will work to aid the team in selection of components that are appropriate for a museum deployment of the radar system.  The team will develop concepts and integrate the components with the existing radar system to build an operational prototype capable of producing meaningful radar displays (range vs. time intensity and Doppler vs. time intensity) to help educate tomorrows’ radar engineers.

Real-time processing of radar data will be required to provide the displays, therefore a team consisting of Computer Science, Computer Engineering and Electrical Engineering students is desired.  Interests in signal processing, electronics, and electromagnetics are important to ensure successful completion of this project.

January 13, 2012

Wake up & save the world!

بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم

I am in tears. I am so touched. For some reason, it slipped my mind that the American troops are just normal people, normal citizen. Some saw the truth and I'm grateful that they're sharing this with the whole world. We need more people to wake up! To actually care about the life of others. Every human is the same and thus none is any less valuable than you are. Forget about your minuscule discrepancies for a second. Somebody's land is being robbed, fathers are being shot, mothers are being murdered, kids are being hurt and left in cold dust. Somebody is dying; physically and emotionally. We need to care. It is in our nature to care and love each other. We need to see beyond what the media is feeding us. This video brought me to tears and hope.


January 11, 2012

6 orang yang mendapat doa para malaikat

Allah SWT berfirman, “Sebenarnya (malaikat-malaikat itu) adalah hamba-hamba yang dimuliakan, mereka tidak mendahului-Nya dengan perkataan dan mereka mengerjakan perintah-perintah-Nya. Allah mengetahui segala sesuatu yang di hadapan mereka dan yang di belakang mereka, dan mereka tidak memberikan syafa’at melainkan kepada orang – orang yang diredhai Allah, dan mereka selalu berhati-hati kerana takut kepada-Nya”
*(QS Al Anbiyaa’ 26-28)

Berikut adalah senarai orang-orang yang mendapat doa oleh para malaikat:

1. ORANG YANG TIDUR DALAM KEADAAN BERSUCI.
Imam Ibnu Hibban meriwayatkan dari Abdullah bin Umar ra., bahawa Rasulullah SAW bersabda, “Barangsiapa yang tidur dalam keadaan suci, maka malaikat akan bersamanya di dalam pakaiannya. Dia tidak akan bangun hingga malaikat berdoa ‘Ya Allah, ampunilah hambamu si fulan kerana tidur dalam keadaan suci‘”
*(Hadith ini disahihkan oleh Syaikh Al Albani dalam Sahih At Targhib wat Tarhib I/37)

2. ORANG YANG MENUNGGU SOLAT.
Imam Muslim meriwayatkan dari Abu Hurairah ra., bahawa Rasulullah SAW bersabda, “Tidaklah salah seorang di antara kamu yang duduk menunggu solat, selama ia berada dalam keadaan suci, kecuali para malaikat akan mendoakannya ‘Ya Allah, ampunilah ia. Ya Allah sayangilah ia”
* (Sahih Muslim no. 469)

3. ORANG YANG BERADA DI SAF HADAPAN KETIKA SOLAT.
Imam Abu Dawud dan Ibnu Khuzaimah dari Barra’ bin ‘Azib ra., bahawa Rasulullah SAW telah bersabda, “Sesungguhnya Allah dan para malaikat-Nya berselawat kepada orang-orang yang berada pada saf-saf terhadapan”
*(Hadith ini disahihkan oleh Syaikh Al Albani dalam Sahih Sunan Abi Dawud I/130)

4. ORANG YANG MENYAMBUNG SAF (tidak membiarkan kekosongan di dalam saf).
Para Imam iaitu Ahmad, Ibnu Majah, Ibnu Khuzaimah, Ibnu Hibban dan Al Hakim meriwayatkan dari Aisyah ra., bahawa Rasulullah SAW bersabda, “Sesungguhnya Allah dan para malaikat selalu berselawat kepada orang-orang yang menyambung saf-saf”
*(Hadith ini disahihkan oleh Syaikh Al Albani dalam Sahih At Targhib wat Tarhib I/272)

5. KETIKA SEORANG IMAM SELESAI MEMBACA AL FATIHAH.
Imam Bukhari meriwayatkan dari Abu Hurairah ra., bahawa Rasulullah SAW bersabda, “Jika seorang Imam membaca ‘ghairil maghdhuubi ‘alaihim waladh dhaalinn’, maka ucapkanlah oleh kalian ‘aamiin’, kerana barangsiapa ucapannya itu bertepatan dengan ucapan malaikat, maka ia akan diampuni dosanya yang lalu”
*(Sahih Bukhari no. 782)

6. ORANG YANG DUDUK DI TEMPAT SOLATNYA SETELAH MELAKUKAN SOLAT.
Imam Ahmad meriwayatkan dari Abu Hurairah, bahawa Rasulullah SAW bersabda, “Para malaikat akan selalu berselawat kepada salah satu di antara kalian selama ia ada di tempat solat di mana ia melakukan solat, selama ia belum batal wudhu’nya, (para malaikat) berkata, ‘Ya Allah ampunilah dan sayangilah ia‘”
*(Al Musnad no. 8106, Syaikh Ahmad Syakir mensahihkan hadith ini)

- ohislam.com