Turkish Folktale : Nasreddin Hodja and The Candle

                             



Nasreddin Hodja. Have you ever heard him? I myself haven't heard about this name until last Monday during our English class..He is one of Turkish folktale's character..As I search about him through Mr.Google, I came to know that he is a real person, he lived in 13th Century Turkey in and around Aksehir in the Konya area..Here I bring you some of Nasreddin Hodja's stories since I really enjoy this kind of genre..

LETTER

An Iranian gave Hodja a letter he had received from a friend back home and asked Hodja to read it to him. Hodja looked at the letter. It was in Persian and the handwriting was terrible so he told the man "Have somebody else read it. "The man insisted. "Listen" said Hodja "I don’t know Persian. Even if it were in Turkish, the writing is so bad that I still wouldn’t be able to read it!" The Iranian got mad, "You are wearing a huge robe and a turban but can’t read even a simple letter. You should be ashamed of yourself!" Hodja took off the turban and the robe and gave them to the Iranian saying "If one can do everything by wearing a robe and a turban then here you can wear them and read the letter yourself!"

I'LL KNOW WHAT TO DO

Hodja lost his saddlebag in the town where he had stopped to spend the night. "You either find my saddlebag or I’ll know what to do" he said to the peasants in town. The peasants were alarmed and they looked for it everywhere They finally found Hodja`s saddlebag and returned it to him. Just before Hodja left the town, the peasants asked "What would you have done if we hadn’t found it?" Hodja shrugged his shoulders and said "I have an old kilim at home. I was going to cut it up and make another saddlebag with it."

BLUE BEAD
Hodja had two wives and, because they were jealous of each other they used to fight quite often. To put an end to the fighting Hodja gave each one a blue bead and said "Now don’t tell the other one that I have given you this bead which is a symbol of my love for you." One day they were fighting again. They asked Hodja whom he loved the best. He answered calmly "I love the one who has the blue bead." Each wife then thought Hodja loved her the best and they never bothered him again.

Ok, enough about the story..Now I have to finish my homework about this Hodja person..

Q : How would you describe Nasreddin Hodja? Is he intelligent? Is he a likable person? Why or Why not?

   As for me, I think Nasreddin Hodja is one who likes to say big about himself even it is not true. But on the same time, I also think that he is an intelligent one among his friend that he get to think about the solution of his problem that fast..It is really impressive that a candle from hundred meters away can warm him even he didn't use anything special to warmth his self..For the second question,Is he a likable person?I don't think he is a likable person since he like to brag about his self in front of his friend..But he is good at teaching his friend a lesson for being unfair in judgement..

self-service technology

There are many type of self-service technology to help making things easier for people nowadays...As we talk about this topic,there just one thing that linger in my mind. It is a Book Drop Machine which we can see at USIM itself..The benefit of this self-service technology is it can help student to save time..We don't have to waste our time to go to library just for returning the books since this book drop machine is also available at other places besides library itself...But of course there's also disadvantages of using these machine..One of them is we will be less communicate with people since we just manage our business by dealing with a machine..And one thing that obvious when we talk about machine is there will be time when we can't use it anymore..

''What are some advantages of buying new things instead of fixing old things?"...that is the topic to be discuss for our homework...

Most of people nowadays want to be an up-to-date person..so, without doubt if their things got damage, they would buy a new one instead of fixing it..for example when a phone was fell into the water, it is better to buy a new one since they can buy a new one with more new applications and of course to be up-to-date..Moreover, if the cost to repair for the damage was almost same with the cost of buying new one....other advantages is that we cannot guarantee whether the damage will happen again or not...or it maybe will lead  to other damages...besides the phone, there are also other thing that is better to buy a new one instead of fixing it like a computer, a watch and so on....So, there's no doubt that buying a new one is better than fixing the old one....

Is It Possible To Be 100% Honest In Relationship??

As for me, I think it depends on type of relation we are talking about...Ermm...as for relation between family, i think we should be honest....for example we should let them know about the problem we are facing..but there are also a few of us that don't want to tell the truth about their problem because they want to avoid  their family from worrying about them....as for relation between  friends, i think we also have to be honest with them..but of course every one of us have our own secret that we doesn't want anyone to know bout it right??so..as hafiz (if i'm not mistaken) said in class "we didn't lie to them,but we just didn't tell them the truth"..I totally agree with the statement...and i think it's a same goes to other relationship too..

the MESSENGER...

       

Assalamualaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh...

You were so caring and kind,
Your soul was full of light,
You are the best of mankind,
MUHAMMAD khoiru kholkillah....
peace be upon the messenger THE CHOSEN ONE.....








Alhamdulillah, I just come back from the PERHIMPUNAN MEMPERINGATI RASULULLAH s.a.w...

I don't have much to share with you all about the ceremony since I am far away back there and I didn't even bring any paper and pen to jot down the note BUT I do remember this one thing that the speaker told us...He said "STOP COUNTING THE SUNNAH BUT START PRACTICE IT"...this is the only quote that I save in my memory chip that located in my brain from flying away with the bird..hehe...

here is some of the sunnah of prophet pbuh that is easy to be practise..
1)start your work with basmallah..
2)start your work with the right one first except when you want to enter the toilet..
3)reciting Quran
and many more...but the easiest one is SMILE since smile is  also a charity...right??

LET us all practice the SUNNAH.....

Q and A

           
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2.  DO YOU THINK THAT SOCIAL NETWORKING SITES ARE A GOOD WAY TO COMMUNICATE WITH FRIENDS?                                                                                                    What medium do you usually use to communicate with your friend? face-to-face? telephone?or maybe through letter?? as for me, i'll use social networking sites to communicate with them..why?? because through social networking, we can share about our latest news with our friends even thought we're far away from them..we can also exchange our idea with them about anything for example our interest in world star..apart from that, we can also make a video call with them by using skype..it's pretty cool when we can have our face shown on the screen, right??so no doubt that social networking is a good way to communicate..


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1.  HOW DO YOU THINK THE INTERNET CAN INFLUENCE A SONG'S POPULARITY?          Internet can influence a song's popularity..do you agree with the statement??as for me, I totally agree with that cause the sources of the music is from the internet itself..How??for example some people tend to upload the song on the internet so that their friend can hear to the song..other than that, internet is also a medium for people to upload the music and video..

2.  DO YOU THINK IT'S TRUE THAT PEOPLE CHOOSE TO LISTEN TO THE SAME MUSIC AS THEIR PEERS?                                                                                                                                              people choose to listen to the same music as their peers because they usually share the same interest with their friend..but there are also other people that doesn't like to hear to the same song with others because maybe they didn't want to be called the one who like to copy others..

COLOR.....again??

       

          Today's topic is still about color..Before this i don't even think about what my favorite color is since i tend to wear any color that I find suitable for me..so i don't really have any specific color of my life..But because teacher Sha ask us to write about our preferred color, I start to think..what is color of my life??so, this is my answer..

               I choose GREEN color..But I have my own reason to choose that color..first and foremost, of course I choose it because it is the color of nature..as long as you're walking on this earth, you get to see this GREEN color..Moreover, it gives me a calm feeling..Whenever i feel stressed up or depressed, I would like to see these color of nature..And last but not least, the main reason why i choose this color is because this color make me think of my home and family..Why??Because for your information, my parents run a nursery (the agriculture one ehh..not the one for children)..So of course our house was surrounded by GREEN..since this is my first time away from family, I tend to miss them..so I dedicate this GREEN color specially to my family..

color

       

 Colors play an important role in advertising companies product. Same goes to Al-ikhsan. A well-known clothing store. Whenever we talk about Al-ikhsan, we would think of sports need such as sports shoes, t-shirt, games equipment and so on. They use black-white-orange color to represent their company. Those combination of color is very attractive. Black and white is a cons, while orange represent the sun which give us a feeling of warmth and comfort. When we think of those color, we will imagine the warmth smile of their sales assistant. In addition, those color is bright and easy to remember.

Trend

            Trend is general change or development.When we talk about trend, we would imagine something that people think that they should have it so that they should be called an up-to-date person. Trend can be in many form, such as cars, food, music, technology and so on. One of the trend that people gone crazy about is   smartphone. A smartphone is a mobile phone built on a mobile operating system, with more advanced computing capability and connectivity than a feature phone. Moreover, with those application, of course it is easier to connect with others. One of the way is through sharing the information with other  fanatic fans about the  trend. Smartphone may be popular because people tend to have something new and sophisticated.

my homework...

                                                          Social Networking

           
           Stay connected with other people is one of the advantages of using social networking.Moreover, through social networking such as facebook,twitter and so on, we can keep in touch, not just with our friend but also other people around the world.Apart from that, we can make conversation with them without any expensive fee, but just spend monthly fee for the internet using.It's pretty simple right? When other people have to make an international phone call just to make conversation with their beloved one, we just need to face our computer or laptop.Thus, through social networking, we can not just make a conversation, but also a video call with them.Hence, stay connected with other people is one of the advantages of using social networking.

Assalamualaikum w.b.t                   

just a simple word from me......   

        

''Let Bygones Be Bygones''                   

and

''To err is human, to forgive is divine''                        

WASSALAM                                   

Nothing much...

Assalamualaikum w.b.r

Before this,i know nothing about 'this thing'..what we call it??ermm...blog??yeah..a BLOG...but since it is compulsory to our class member to have a blog due to teacher Sha's command (hehe..don't be an angry bird ehh) I too end up having a blog..as for the started,I have nothing much to share about....but this.....

                       



so....don't mind what others might think....as long as you are on the right path...Wassalam