They were just finished their school session I guess. I tried to listen to them, what they were talking about. but couldn't understand any. Guess my Arabic language has rusted. Should I take again the Arabic class ?hurmm...
Friday 16 May 2014
That calmness...
Am listening to the adzan in the mosque. Waiting for my friends. After a hectic day, sitting on this bench hearing adzan has really makes me calm.
I see a group of Arabs girl wearing a school uniform buying drinks at the vending machine. A group of Arabs boy playing around with their friends.
They were just finished their school session I guess. I tried to listen to them, what they were talking about. but couldn't understand any. Guess my Arabic language has rusted. Should I take again the Arabic class ?hurmm...
They were just finished their school session I guess. I tried to listen to them, what they were talking about. but couldn't understand any. Guess my Arabic language has rusted. Should I take again the Arabic class ?hurmm...
1 Malaysia
Assalamualaikum,
Especially today I feel really glad to live in Malaysiaヽ(*´∀｀)ノ
Was talking with my Chinese friend about pursuing my studies.
Will it be Japan or UK. Then,he said I should choose UK. Why?
This is what he said: The muslims in the UK are now increasing and you can easily find halal food there. I think that is better for you la.
It is not the country that matters actually but rather it is how he concerns about me being a muslim and living in foreign country.
It really touched me.
I am so happy today.
Who says Malaysia now is all about racism?heh
Especially today I feel really glad to live in Malaysiaヽ(*´∀｀)ノ
Was talking with my Chinese friend about pursuing my studies.
Will it be Japan or UK. Then,he said I should choose UK. Why?
This is what he said: The muslims in the UK are now increasing and you can easily find halal food there. I think that is better for you la.
It is not the country that matters actually but rather it is how he concerns about me being a muslim and living in foreign country.
It really touched me.
I am so happy today.
Who says Malaysia now is all about racism?heh
I love my Japanese class :)
Assalamualaikum and こんにちは！
Today is the day of our video screening.We had this project for our minor called as War Project : Memories of war. At least that is what it sounds. Lately, i've been forgetting things. So much stress I think.
Rika-san,our Japanese teacher said to us today:
'Thanks for your hard work everyone.（みんなおつかれさまでした！). Even though there are maybe wrong spelling or grammatical errors in your video,but truly I appreciate your hard work on making this video. To be precise, it is my treasures actually. Even though I can't publicize your video to the public but I will try to find a way to show these videos to the Japanese audience. "
We kind of speechless at that time.Touched. I didn't even know that that video meant a lot to her.Anyway we gave a big applause to her.As her student and a Malaysian we really appreciated that.Because you know, these all videos are all about the situations during World War 2 which are obviously showing about how cruel the Japanese was during their time. All the horror things that they have been doing to our ancestors at that time and how the memory of it will never be erased from the memories of the survivors.
Despite that facts,she wanted us to interview a few of the survivors of World War 2. You don't even know how hard was that during that time for us to find the survivors. Because many of them who survived the war at that time were already passed away. But at the end we managed to find a few of them. Most of them that we interviewed was just a little kid during the war.
My friend told me just now that last night she cried in front of the class. I wonder why was that so?
She told me that one of the visitors who is her Japanese friend ( she actually invited them for the video screening at that night. They are all her friends and they are teachers ) started to cry and he bowed to us all apologizing on the behalf of the Japanese for doing such a cruel thing to our ancestors during that war time.
I kind of understand what he feels at that time. Yup,you know they are Japanese so when they saw our video precisely there was this one part saying "We can forgive, but we will never forget" thing. Maybe that hit him hard that he burst out into tears. Seeing that our sensei can't hold up her emotion that she ended up crying too.We have this kind of mixed feeling at that time.It was a very emotional moment for everyone of us in the room at that night.
It is ironic,isn't it?
They were the different person who did all the cruel things to our ancestors during that war time but they're the one who ended up apologizing to us. but yup, as our interviewee said we can forgive,but we'll never forget. But the real thing is even we forgive them ,the one who really deserves the forgiveness was our ancestors, isn't it? We as the young generation can easily forgive them but the one who really suffer at that time weren't actually us, so to say things like 'it's okay' or 'it was all in the past,let bygone be bygone' is not actually ours to begin with. It is hard to accept but this is the reality. History can't be changed.It will forever be carved in the mind of those who survived. But I truly believe that even in the smallest place in their heart, they (survivors) have forgiven you (Japanese). ^__^
History can't be changed but future can.
Smile always. :)
Today is the day of our video screening.We had this project for our minor called as War Project : Memories of war. At least that is what it sounds. Lately, i've been forgetting things. So much stress I think.
Rika-san,our Japanese teacher said to us today:
'Thanks for your hard work everyone.（みんなおつかれさまでした！). Even though there are maybe wrong spelling or grammatical errors in your video,but truly I appreciate your hard work on making this video. To be precise, it is my treasures actually. Even though I can't publicize your video to the public but I will try to find a way to show these videos to the Japanese audience. "
We kind of speechless at that time.Touched. I didn't even know that that video meant a lot to her.Anyway we gave a big applause to her.As her student and a Malaysian we really appreciated that.Because you know, these all videos are all about the situations during World War 2 which are obviously showing about how cruel the Japanese was during their time. All the horror things that they have been doing to our ancestors at that time and how the memory of it will never be erased from the memories of the survivors.
Despite that facts,she wanted us to interview a few of the survivors of World War 2. You don't even know how hard was that during that time for us to find the survivors. Because many of them who survived the war at that time were already passed away. But at the end we managed to find a few of them. Most of them that we interviewed was just a little kid during the war.
My friend told me just now that last night she cried in front of the class. I wonder why was that so?
She told me that one of the visitors who is her Japanese friend ( she actually invited them for the video screening at that night. They are all her friends and they are teachers ) started to cry and he bowed to us all apologizing on the behalf of the Japanese for doing such a cruel thing to our ancestors during that war time.
I kind of understand what he feels at that time. Yup,you know they are Japanese so when they saw our video precisely there was this one part saying "We can forgive, but we will never forget" thing. Maybe that hit him hard that he burst out into tears. Seeing that our sensei can't hold up her emotion that she ended up crying too.We have this kind of mixed feeling at that time.It was a very emotional moment for everyone of us in the room at that night.
It is ironic,isn't it?
They were the different person who did all the cruel things to our ancestors during that war time but they're the one who ended up apologizing to us. but yup, as our interviewee said we can forgive,but we'll never forget. But the real thing is even we forgive them ,the one who really deserves the forgiveness was our ancestors, isn't it? We as the young generation can easily forgive them but the one who really suffer at that time weren't actually us, so to say things like 'it's okay' or 'it was all in the past,let bygone be bygone' is not actually ours to begin with. It is hard to accept but this is the reality. History can't be changed.It will forever be carved in the mind of those who survived. But I truly believe that even in the smallest place in their heart, they (survivors) have forgiven you (Japanese). ^__^
History can't be changed but future can.
Smile always. :)
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