Happy Birthday Nizhama2

Nizhama2 is one year old today. I just realize it. Thanks for all visitors to nizhama2. I'm very happy to be in this no border world, blogosphere. I met very nice people, make a lot of friends, and got the loyal readers too. For the whole year I got 10599 hits, to small in the blogosphere, but that is not my reason to blog, so nothing to worry about it.

Early October, I started to monetize this blog and earned USD350 in three months, not bad for a beginner. I think I did great in my prime goal : to write in English. I feel more confident in this language after this amazing year with nizhama2.

I have a lot of dreams for 2009, especially for nizhama2. I hope I will have my own domain before the end of this year... A full report for nizhama2 in the next posting, IN SYA ALLAH.

Stay Sharp

(from islamway.com)

Once upon a time a very strong woodcutter asked for a job in a timber merchant, and he got it. The pay was really good and so were the work conditions. For that reason, the woodcutter was determined to do his best.

His boss gave him an axe and showed him the area where he was supposed to work. The first day, the woodcutter brought 18 trees.

"Congratulations," the boss said. "Go on that way!" Very motivated for the boss' words, the woodcutter try harder the next day,but he only could bring 15 trees. The third day he try even harder, but he only could bring 10 trees. Day after day he was bringing less and less trees.

"I must be losing my strength", the woodcutter thought. He went to the boss and apologized, saying that he could not understand what was going on.

"When was the last time you sharpened your axe?" the boss asked. "Sharpen? I had no time to sharpen my axe. I have been very busy trying to cut trees."

Our lives are like that. We sometimes get so busy that we don't take time to sharpen the axe." In today's world, it seems that everyone is busier than ever, but less happy than ever. Why is that? Could it be that we have forgotten how to stay sharp?

There's nothing wrong with activity and hard work. But God doesn't want us to get so busy that we neglect the truly important things in life, like taking time to pray, to read. We all need time to relax, to think and meditate, to learn and grow.

If we don't take time to sharpen the axe, we will become dull and lose our effectiveness. So start today. Think about the ways by which you could do your job more effectively and add a lot of value to it.

No Passion To Blog

Israel started to attack Gazza since nine days ago. Everyday the only thing that make my tear drop is seeing what happen to Palestinian but not much that I can do. I have no passion to blog for now. I'm still on line, but with the hearth broken and without happiness. The life is unfair, but we have to live this life and believe what God promise us :

[and it was due (to them) upon Us to help the believers.] [Ar-Rum 30:47].

I believe that with all my hearth. I believe if this not happen in this world, it will happen in another world. For my brotherhood at Palestine, my DOA is always with all of you, and for all the mankind too.

YES FOR PEACE...

Palestine...

مقترحات مهمة في نصرة أهلنا في غزة

قد يصاب بعض الناس من أهل الغيرة والحمية ، وخاصة الشباب بنوع من الإحباط أو اليأس وهم يشهدون ما يجري في غزة من حرب صهيوينة ومتصهينة قذرة ، وحق لهم أن يتألموا .. ولكن ربما تصرف بعضهم تصرفاتٍ غير مشروعة ، لا يرجعون فيها لعالم معتبر ، ولا سياسي حاذق . ولهؤلاء يقال : السكينة السكينة .. يمكنكم أن تصنعوا شيئا في نصرة المسلمين بطرق مشروعة مرجوة النفع مأمونة العواقب ، إزاء ما يجري من حرب وحصار لإخواننا في غزة . بإمكاننا كأفراد أن نقوم بجهود نصرة شرعية قانونية مؤثِّرة إن شاء الله تعالى ، على المدى القريب والبعيد ، وهذه بعض الأمثلة للوسائل المشروعة المتاحة أذكرها على سبيل التنبيه لا الحصر : المثال الأول : الدعاء لإخواننا في غزّة في مواطن إجابة الدعاء ، والقنوت لنازلتهم ، وقد أفتى بذلك في هذه القضية بالذات سماحة مفتي عام المملكة الشيخ عبد العزيز بن عبد الله آل الشيخ حفظه الله لكل من سأله . كيف وقد وجدنا في الأنباء أنَّ حاخامات يهود يدعون إلى الصلاة من أجل تحرير جندي ظالم ، وفي عدد من دول العالم هب الصهاينة لنصرة إخوانهم الصهاينة في أرض الإسلام المحتلة بشكل عجيب .. فما أهوننا إن لم نرفع أيدينا إلى الله عز وجل نطلب منه الغوث لأهلنا في غزة ، ونتضرع إليه طلبا للطفه سبحانه بالأجنة في بطون الحوامل ، والصغار في أحضان الأمهات ، والشيوخ في قارعة الطريق ، والمصابين والمرضى في عنابر المشافي وغرف الإنعاش . والثاني : الدعم المعنوي من خلال تثبيت أهلنا في غزة ، بكل الوسائل الإعلامية المتاحة ، ومن أيسرها المجموعات البريدية والمنتديات الفسطينية التي يكثر زوارها هذه الأيام ، وغيرها ، وكشف الحقائق الشرعية في مفهوم النصر ، وحكم الشارع في اتخاذ الشهداء ( ويتخذ منكم شهداء ) .. مع التأكيد في وسائل الإعلام والمنتديات العربية والإسلامية على عظم إثم التثبيط ، فضلا عن عواقب الخيانة والغدر بأهل الرباط ، والتحذير من العمالة للعدو .. وكشف كل مؤامرات الخيانة لتتضح الحقيقة للناس ويميز الله الخبيث من الطيب . والثالث : الدعم المادي من خلال جميع القنوات الشرعية المتاحة ، ولا يخلو بلد إسلامي من منظمات موثوقة وجمعيات خيرية رائدة ، قادرة على توصيل المعونات والإمدادات . ولدينا في المملكة يمكن تقديم التبرعات لحسابات بنكية تابعة للجنة فلسطين في الندوة العالمية للشباب الإسلامي ، وهيئة الإغاثة . والرابع : الكشف الإعلامي للحقائق المتعلقة بأسرانا في فلسطين ، أعداداً وأوضاعا ، وأحوالا ، فليزر من يروم نصرة إخوتنا في فلسطين - على سبيل المثال - مواقع الأسرى على الشبكة العالمية ، وليحكِ منها للناس بعض ما يجد من معاناة امرأة أو طفل أسير أو شيخ قد بلغ من الكبر عتيا ! أو مولود فلسطيني ولد أسيرا في عنابر السجون الصهيونية الظالمة ! فربما رقّ مؤمن فانتصر بالدعاء الذي قد لا يرد ، أو اطلع ذو مالٍ فاتقى الله في ماله وبذل ، أو قرأ خصم فارعوى ورجع ، أو بلغ من هو أوعى من قاريء . ومثله كشف الحقائق المتعلقة باللاجئين الذين يحل محلهم ظلما وعدوانا قطعان المستوطنين في المغتصبات الصهيونية الظالمة . والخامس : إبراز كل ما يتعلق بجهود المقاطعة الشعبية وأسبابها المشروعة ، من خلال مواقع المقاطعة الشعبية للكيان الصهيوني على الشبكة العالمية وغيرها ، ومنها مواقع عديدة معروفة ومليئة بالحقائق الميدانية ، والمزيد من الأفكار العملية المشروعة التي تحتاج إلى مزيد تفعيل ، لتساهم في بقاء القضية الإسلامية حية في نفوس الأمة ، وتوعية الرأي العام العالمي بها من خلال عرض كل جديد وتوضيحه مدعما بالوثائق والأدلة . وعدم نسيان الحقائق المتعلقة بالجهود الصهيونية في محاولة هدم المسجد الأقصى ، وما يجري منهم تحته من أعمال حفر وتنقيب ، وخلخلة لمبانيه ، وامتهان لأرضه ، وتهديد بذلك على أيدي العصابات الصهيونية شديدة التطرف ، وكذا محاولاتهم السيئة في تغيير التركيبة السكانية في القدس المحتلة . والسادس : كشف خطوات التطبيع الظالم ، والإفادة في ذلك من إحصائيات المواقع الموثوقة التي أنشأتها المؤسسات الإسلامية والعربية في البلاد التي تضرر أهلها من التطبيع ، ولم يجنوا منه غير الفساد في الاقتصاد والزرع والنسل ، وتيسير الاختراق الصهيوني للبلاد العربية والإسلامية ومؤسساتها الحيوية المهمة . والسابع : كشف الحقد الصهيوني وكشف دعاواه الباطلة ، لدى الرأي العام العربي والعالمي ، ونشر الصور التي تكشف حقيقة ما يجري من مجازر ، ولا سيما صور الأطفال والشيوخ ، التي يغيبها الإعلام المتواطيء مع العدو وعملائه ، أو العاجز عن نقل الصورة بنفسه من ميدان المعركة . الثامن : وهو خاص بمتقني اللغة العبرية : المشاركة في المنتديات العبرية ، وتوهين العدو من خلال منتديات الصهاينة واليهود المحتلين على الشبكة العالمية ، بكشف جوانب مهمة لقراء تلك المنتديات من الصهاينة ، وتوضيح خداع زعمائهم لهم ، وبيان خطر جريمتهم على واقعهم ومستقبلهم ، وترجمة بيانات المقاومة التي تتوعدهم .. هذه أمثلة لبعض الأمور التي يمكننا أن نقوم بها دون عناء بصورة مشروعة مأمونة . نسأل الله عز وجل أن ينصر الإسلام والمسلمين ، وأن يوفق ولاة أمور المسلمين للقيام بكل ما يطيقون من جهد في نصرة الحق وأهله ، ورفع الظلم عن إخواننا المسلمين في كل مكان . د.سعد بن مطر العتيبي

Do you wish to know?

Save Palestine now... They need our voice... and action.

I have no word for this... these pictures told the story...

Language Course - Part Two

Here are the second lesson from the language course, hope you will enjoy reading it...

Part 2 - Choosing Foreign Language Learning Books and Tapes

Go into a bookstore or browse around the internet and you will
more than likely be inundated with dozens of books and courses
on the language you want to learn.

They will all make huge promises to entice you to part with your
cash to get your hands on their products.

‘Speak fluent French in just three months!'

‘Learn Italian in 15 minutes a day!'

‘Speak Spanish with no effort whatsoever'

is what they will no doubt say.

It's an unfortunate state of affairs that 99% of the books and
courses on the foreign language learning market are simply poor.
There is no other way of putting it.

Go into your local book shop and pick up one of the items you
see there. Go home put it into action and months later it will
be unlikely that you will have learned anything in the foreign
language you have chose to learn.

Cue frustrated failure, and the inevitable ‘giving up syndrome'.

There are any number of reasons why the quality of foreign
language learning materials are so poor. Developers who don't
understand the needs of the language learner, Producers more
concerned with style rather than content. Course designers using
outdated or unproductive methods.

Whatever the reasons, I am not here to discuss those. What I do
intend to do however is put you on the right track to choosing a
language learning course that is suitable for you.

If you choose a good book or course to learn a foreign language
then your success is practically assured. Indeed choosing the
correct course is just as critical as putting it into action.

There are a number of criteria that any language course that you
are intending on buying should meet. When you look at, or test any
course, you should ask yourself if it meets the crucial criteria
set out below.

If the book or course you are looking at fails to meet the
criteria then you should move on and look for something else.
If you choose a bad course you are making an error that could
prove terminal to your language learning goals.

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Criteria 1 - Audio content and lots of it

The most basic flaw that any language learning course makes is to
include next to no audio whatsoever.

Next time you are around the shops in your local area go into a
bookstore and look around at the language learning books and
tapes.

Count how many tapes are included with all the books available.

Not many I would wager.

Most course include a couple of tapes or CDs, some may include
a few more, and very bad courses will include non at all.

It amazes me how so called experts in the field of language
learning believe people can learn a foreign language without
even hearing it in action, let alone putting it into use.

It is also a fact that foreign languages are best learned using
the audial skills of speaking and listening. In the vast majority
of languages, reading and writing follow the rules set out by the
spoken language, and can be learned easily once the basics of
the spoken language have been learned.

You should always strive to learn the basics of the spoken
language before moving onto the written language.

Ensure that any course you buy includes lots and lots of tapes or
CDs, and that the main emphasis of the course is on the spoken
component of the language.

If a course expects you to learn a language by reading a book and
listening to minimal dialogue, leave it alone. After you have
finished you may know all of the grammar rules in the language but
you won't be able to understand a word when you meet a foreigner or complete a comprehensive sentence in return.

Criteria 2 - Active User Involvement

How active will you be when using the course you are considering?

Will you just be reading grammar rules and extracts of text or
will you just be listening to foreign dialogues?

If that is all what you will be doing, put the course back on the
shelf in haste. This will do you no good whatsoever.

Any course worth its salt should induce much active involvement
on the part of the learner.

Going back to the earlier theme of spoken skills being the most
crucial in any foreign language, the course you are using should
include active spoken practice, and an abundance of it.

In the best format, this will involve the audio component of your
course either prompting you to translate sentences, or allowing
you to take part in a staged conversation. After you have
responded to each question the audio will ideally present the
answer for you, so you have a reference as to how accurate your
replies were.

If you find a course which does this then you are on to a winner.
Snap it up immediately and never look back. You are going to
learn your language, and fast.

Criteria 3 - A good ending

You should always consider where you will be when you finish the
course you are examining before you invest your hard earned money
on it.

Ignore the title for a moment. That ‘Learn French in three
months' on the cover with its bright picture and glossy
presentation is a sales pitch and completely inaccurate as to what
you will find inside the covers.

You should instead look through the books and consider what you
will have learned by the time you have finished the course.

Look at the exercises and reading extracts later in the book and
see what sort of level they are at. Would you be able to read
real life material if you can read the book exercises?

Listen to the last section of audio on the course. How fast and
complex is the reading? Is it at a level which you want to
attain? Would it be enough to allow you to understand a
foreign speaker?

Browse through the later exercises, written and audio. How
advanced does this book expect you to be? Are you happy with
that?

Check the word list or dictionary at the back of the book. How
many words does that course expect you to learn? Once you know
2000 foreign words you will be able to understand 90% of spoken
material and 80% of written material in the foreign language.
Will the course give you this foundation of words in the foreign
language?

Always consider where you are likely to be once you have finished
the course. Ideally you should be advanced enough to have a
conversation, albeit simple one, with a foreigner and be able to
get the gist of TV shows and newspapers even if you don't know
every word.

If the course will not take you to this level, or you are not
happy with what you will achieve, look elsewhere.

Meet the criteria set out above and you are going to learn a
foreign language and learn it fast. The search may be quite tough
to find a quality course. Don't give up. There is quality out
there and once found your learning won't ever be the same again.

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There is still much more coming up in the rest of the course
including, how to find the time in your busy schedule to learn a
foreign language, and how to use the internet to help you learn
a language.

See you in part 3

All the best,
David

http://www.freewebs.com/anylanguage

davidfisher@iespana.es

P.S. Please feel free to forward this report to your friends and
colleagues. If you have received a forwarded copy you can get the
complete course by clicking the following link.
www.languagepassion.com/popup

(c) David Fisher - all rights reserved.

A Week Without A Word

My last posting was on Dec 25, last Thursday, and here today another Thursday. We (nizhama) were moving to our new home at Kuarters Tun Telanai, and were very busy. Make the thing worse, the internet connection was cut, and we need another one week before it is reconnected. I think TM should do some thing about this. I moved to the same area but have to wait 2 weeks before I get back my phone and internet connection.

Anyway Happy New Year : 1430 Hijriyah and 2009 Miladiyah. Of course I have my own dream for this year, maybe I will share it later... Maybe not...

I have a lot of thing to write, but not much time... There are tones of works in front of me now, so I have to leave.