Wani Ardy

Foto-foto oleh Adi Wafi,
Omar Bahrin & Carlos Nizam

Alhamdulillah, Boco #6 + GB Raya telah berjalan dengan lancar! Terima kasih, para peniaga, para pengunjung, para penulis, para penerbit, rakan-rakan penganjur, wartawan media cetak (Berita Harian, Utusan Malaysia, dan Kosmo), serta semua yang cukup sporting mengikut tema JALUR / STRIPEY pada hari tersebut. Segala kekurangan dan kesilapan harap dimaafi. Doa-doa moga kita berjumpa lagi di Boco #7 pada Januari 2013. Insyaallah! Sudilah terus menyokong dan mewar-warkan pasar buku kami. :)

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Thank you, InTrend Magazine.
Thank you, beauty writer Fiza.
Thank you, Kak Saidatulnisa.
Thank you, husband for driving me to the photo shoot.
Thank you, Junera Julkipli for instagramming it first.

Diri saya biasanya menolak peluang-peluang gini. Segan. Risau. Takut nampak buruk. Atau takut diubah jadi cantik sangat tahap tak logik dan orang ingat kita cantik gitu sentiasa. But when this opportunity came in, it got me thinking… Kenapa takut sangat? Cuba je lah. Suka-suka. Bukan mati pun. Maybe this could be one of your things to do before turning 30. I asked my husband and he said go for it! He knew how many offers I’ve said no to, dari bujang sampailah dah kahwin. Seronok juga jadi lab rat. Dieksperimen dan ditonyoh. Syarat saya; janji tak ada seksi-meksi. Saya tak biasa bersorban tapi stylist nak juga. Gasaklah. Alhamdulillah hari itu kulit saya dalam mood yang baik. Tak ada apa sangat yang perlu diedit oleh jurugambar. Sebenarnya saya bukanlah jenis yang bersolek pun. Selalunya pucat saja. Tapi tak kisahlah. Esok-esok tua juga, berkedut juga. Rupa tak kekal, pesan Ayah. Alhamdulillah dipinjamkan Allah buat masa sekarang. :)

*InTrend Magazine: September 2012 Issue

I did everything I wanted to do when I was single. I don’t miss being single and I hope I won’t. Marriage is not a prison to me; it’s quite the opposite, really. If I feel it’s a prison, I don’t deserve to have a partner for life. When I was single, I too secretly complained about the married people around me. I thought marriage chained them to ground and they had turned into a bunch of boring people. But I never said that out loud. Because I knew I wasn’t in those shoes yet, and I didn’t understand what it was actually like to be them. Today, I believe getting married was and is the best decision I’ve ever made in 28 years. I had fun when I was single and I’m having so much fun now as my husband’s wife. My definition of fun and my fun activities have changed; I still need to have fun because married people are humans too! Don’t get upset if your single friends or siblings don’t understand your new status. One day they will. And they’ll love it. And you’ll be happy for them the way they’ll be happy for you. Everyone was made for someone.

Love for all! :)

Photos by Muhammad Imran,
Sari Nashikim Radin Iskandar,
and Omar Bahrin

1 year, 11 months, 1 week. Bestfriends and partners for life. Amin ya rabbal alamin. ♥

23rd of August was my younger sister Ira’s birthday. She flew back to USM Kelantan that day to finish off her final 6-months before graduating. Rise and fall and rise, sis.

On that very same day, that fifth of Syawal, my Tok Mak, our only grandparent left, passed away. I was on my way to visit her for Raya when she let out her last breath. :’(

27th of August was Ummi’s birthday. Selamat Hari Jadi, Wanita Jiwa Besi. I love you. If you ask me, I want Ummi and Ayah to be happy, healthy, blessed, and alive forever…

On tenth of Syawal, Ibu, Ummi’s sister, went through an operation for her cancer. She lost a lot of weight and hair and the strength to go on with chemo, hence the operation. Alhamdulillah, she survived.

It has been… without a doubt… the most moving, challenging, enlightening, testing, and altogether eye-opening Syawal for me. I’ll write more later and I’ll continue smiling. Sometimes we forget how strong we are. Sometimes we’re strong but we just don’t know it yet. I’m thankful to Allah for I’m able to breathe, pray, and eat among everything else. Allahuakbar, He knows best and He decides best. Salam Syawal. Maaf Zahir dan Batin. :)

via King Saud University

Kenapa ya, orang sebut iftar, hijab, jazakallah pun diejek? The Arabization of Malays lah, Muslim Hipsters lah, Urban Muslims lah, “they think a few Arabic phrases will make them better Muslim” lah… Biarlah. Bukannya dia mencarut. Tak kurangnya Melayu dia. Muka Jawa, makan nasi juga. Lagipun semua bahasa di muka bumi ini milik Allah. Biarlah kalau macam *wannabe pun. Mana tahu, mungkin si penutur akan tergerak hati untuk belajar Bahasa Arab. Nanti bila dia tahu Bahasa Arab, kan lagi mudah dia nak hayati Al-Quran. Mungkin juga si penutur akan ubah “Oh my God” dan “Thank God” -nya kepada Ya Allah, Subhanallah, Alhamdulillah, MasyaAllah, etc. Kan senang-senang dapat pahala dekat situ. Jadi saya kurang faham kenapa perlu perbesarkan. Kalau perkataan-perkataan yang entah apa-apa, laju saja kita terimaguna. Tak persoalkan berjela-jela pun. Pada saya tak salah kalau dah ter-jadi trend, no matter how small it may seem. Whether it comes and go or not, itu belakang kira. Dalam banyak-banyak yang “go”, InsyaAllah ada yang melekat. Cabaran untuk kita berbaik sangka. Wallahu’alam. :)

*Saya sebut “wannabe” instead of “hypocrites” and “pretentious” sebab pada saya, dua perkataan itu agak kasar. Pada saya, kita tak akan betul-betul tahu sama ada seseorang itu hipokrit ataupun tidak kerana isi hati sebenar manusia cuma Allah yang nampak. Walaupun kita kenal dia bertahun-tahun atau dia darah daging kita, itu tak menjanjikan bahawa dia yang kita kenal selama ini adalah dia yang sebenar. Sama seperti soal personaliti seseorang di alam maya (internet) dan di dunia sebenar (face-to-face). Hanya kerana di alam maya dia berpersonaliti berbeza, bukan mesti dia bermuka-muka. Bagaimana kalau selama ini dia berpura-pura di dunia sebenar, dan akhirnya di alam maya dia berpeluang menjadi diri sendiri? Atau berpeluang menjadi versi diri dia yang dia mahukan selama ini (versi lebih baik) cuma belum cukup berani? Social networking websites are opportunities for people to recreate themselves. Harus diingat juga bahawa manusia bersikap berbeza mengikut situasi. Personaliti kita bila bersama ibu bapa, kawan-kawan, rakan sekerja, semuanya lain-lain. Takkan nak dikata hipokrit juga? Ini semua pendapat sayalah. Sekali lagi; cabaran untuk kita berbaik sangka. Wallahu’alam. :)

The influence of Arabic has also been profound in many other countries whose cultures have been influenced by Islam. Arabic was a major source of vocabulary for languages as diverse as Berber, spoken Indonesian, Kurdish, Malay, Maltese, Persian, Portuguese, Sindhi, Punjabi, Somali, Spanish, Swahili, Turkish, Urdu, as well as other languages in countries where these languages are spoken; a process that reached its high point in the 10th to the 14th centuries, the high point of Arabic culture, and although many of these words have fallen out of use since then, many remain. For example the Arabic word for book /kita:b/ is used in all the languages listed, apart from Malay and Indonesian (where it specifically means “religious book”) and Portuguese and Spanish (which use the Latin-derived “livro” and “libro”, respectively).

via en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabization

Not so urban and hipster and new, eh?

Gambar hanyalah hiasan semata-mata.
via quickmeme