Idul Adha & The Sacrificial Ram!

Id Al-Adha (Arabic: ‘Īdu l-’Aḍḥā) or “Festival of Sacrifice” or “Greater Eid” is an important religious holiday celebrated by Muslims worldwide to commemorate the willingness of Abraham (Ibrahim) to sacrifice his son Ishmael (Isma’il) as an act of obedience to God, before God intervened to provide him with a ram to sacrifice instead. The meat is divided into three parts to be distributed to others. The family retains one third of the share, another third is given to relatives, friends and neighbours, and the other third is given to the poor & needy.



The significance of Abraham’s preparedness to sacrifice his son Ishmael as an act of obedience & faith to God, leads to exemplify the universal need to sacrifice for a cause. Any Just Cause. All over the World.



We salute everyone, who had sacrificed one way or another, small or big, active or passive, blood, sweat or tears in championing what you believe in. Much more sacrifice & efforts in the right direction will make a better World, socially, economically and judiciously.


Wishing everyone "Selamat Hari Raya Idul Adha, Maaf Zahir Batin".
Special warm regards to all Eno Group...



The Delicious Bamboo Rice in Malaysia


Before cooking...


After cooking...

Lemang is one of the heritage foods in Malaysia that is popular not only among the locals but also among foreigners and all races across Malaysia. The delicious lemang is made of glutinous rice that is cooked with coconut milk in hollowed bamboos. The rice is wrapped with banana leaves to prevent it from sticking to the bamboos.



The method of cooking lemang is actually originated from the Iban people, one of the indigenous people of Borneo Island. Lemang has been the official food identity of the state of Sarawak. This traditional food is a favorite during festivities like Hari Raya and Hari Gawai. Some lemang recipes add corn and some use a mix of white and black glutinous rice. Lemang is usually eaten with chicken curry or beef rendang and sometimes with grilled fish, durian or tapai.


Lemang (Bamboo Rice)


This dish of glutinous rice is cooked with coconut milk in hollowed bamboos lined with banana leaves – a method used by the indigenous people of Malaysia. The pandan leaves are usually added into the bamboo along with the banana leaves to add fragrance to the rice. A favorite during festivities like Hari Raya Aidilfitri, Hari Raya Aidil Adha and Hari Gawai, lemang is best eaten with chicken curry or beef rendang, and sometimes with grilled fish, durian or tapai.

Lemang can be found throughout Malaysia especially during the popular Muslim festival of Hari Raya Adilfitri and Adha which usually falls on early or end of the year. You can easily notice stalls along the road that cook and sell the lemang. It’s particularly popular in the Malay village where the lemang is available throughout the year.


The Delicious Rendang


The Delicious Lemang

Lemang can also be found in restaurants and hotels. Some hotels do serve lemang and it’s normally available in buffer meal. Lemang is cheap and cost no more than a few ringgit for a few pieces. It’s filling since it’s made of glutinous rice and it’s high in fiber. It’s best eaten for breakfast and lunch.

In conclusion, lemang is a must-try heritage food for tourists especially expats. If you come across the stalls at the road side, do take a look at how this special traditional food is made and cooked.

Serve The World Save The Earth!!

The Flood - Please Help!!!

Flood waters in
southern Thailand
and northern Malaysia

This is one of our EnoSchool...


The last time team up with Mr Mika in Hat Yai...

Flood waters that submerged a key southern Thai city, making it completely inaccessible by road, have begun to recede, as relief workers continue to ferry aid to areas where water sometimes rose up to rooftops. Soldiers and Thailand's only aircraft carrier have been sent to help victims of what Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva called "one of the worst natural calamities" the country has seen. Eight southern provinces were affected by severe flooding, but the damage was most visible in the commercial hub of Hat Yai, a large city where the road system was transformed into a murky waterway completely inaccessible by cars







The death toll from Thailand's crippling floods has risen to over 120, officials said Thursday, after the weeks-long crisis spread south and affected tens of thousands more people, including tourists.

Rising waters began to inundate the southern region late Monday after days of heavy downpours, leaving eight dead in Songkhla province, two in Pattani and one each in Satun and Surat Thani provinces.

Thousands of soldiers have been dispatched to the area to help people stranded in their homes after flash floods swept through Hat Yai, a city of more than 150,000 people.

A further three people were also killed in northern areas, where the flooding began on October 10, bringing the nationwide toll to 122, the Department of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation said.

So far more than six million people have been affected, with homes submerged and farmland or cattle destroyed, in what Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva has described as "a huge natural calamity".

Waters have receded in most parts of Hat Yai, a city popular with tourists from Singapore and Malaysia.

But more than 100 foreign visitors remained stranded in their hotels early Thursday, according to the Tourism Authority of Thailand.

The government has sent two naval ships to the southern region to provide medical and logistical support for the relief operation.

On Wednesday marine police boats rescued about 100 Thai and foreign tourists from Koh Tao, a popular holiday island in Surat Thani, after they were stranded for half a day, local tourist official Panu Woramit said.

Nearby Koh Samui airport was operating again normally after a closure due to the bad weather, he added.

Fifty of Thailand's 76 provinces have been affected by the floods but the high waters have subsided in 19 of these, officials said. Bangkok has been on standby but has so far avoided major flooding.

Aerial view shows the flooded southern Thai city of Hat Yai on November 2, 2010. Thailand battled on November 2 to rescue thousands of people trapped in their homes after flash floods -- several metres deep in places -- swept through a southern city, cutting power and communications. Heavy flooding has already killed more than 100 people around the country since October 10 and with the disaster spreading there were fears of more casualties. Rising waters began to inundate Hat Yai, a city of more than 150,000 in Songkhla province, late on November 2 after days of heavy downpours, affecting tens of thousands of people, possibly including foreign tourists.





Malaysia evacuates thousands as floods hit



- Malaysian authorities have shut schools and evacuated more than 12,000 people as floodwaters rise in two northern states hit by torrential rain, official media said Tuesday. In Perlis state, which borders Thailand, 11 schools were shut and 3,000 evacuees were taking shelter in relief centres, state news agency Bernama said. Several roads were blocked and public buildings including a hospital were flooded, it said, as local residents scrambled to shift their belongings to dry land. In neighbouring Kedah state, some 9,264 residents were shifted out of affected areas, and housed in 39 relief centres.



Bernama cited local emergency authorities as saying that several rivers in Kedah had risen above the danger level. In Thailand heavy flooding has already left more than 100 people dead, mostly in the central and eastern areas. On Tuesday flash floods up to several metres deep swept through the city of Hat Yai in the south, stranding about 100,000 residents, officials said. Thai authorities estimate that almost six million people have been affected, with homes submerged and farmland or cattle destroyed. Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva has described the floods as "a huge natural calamity".

Serve the World Save the Earth!!

Merapi and Mentawai...

Beautiful but the disaster...

Merapi Before Eruption...












Mentawai Before Tsunami ....

The Disaster!!!

Indonesia continues to battle for survival against twin disasters as the volcano, tsunami death tolls continue to mount.Buzz up!Over 300 people have died in Mentawai islands was hit by a massive tsunami, triggered by a 7.7-magnitude earthquake. Official figures put death toll from Oct 25 7.7-magnitude earthquake at 311.



379 people have been listed missing, around 400 injured, and 4,000 villagers have been rendered homeless in the earthquake and the subsequent 3m-high tsunami wave.

Days after Mount Merapi volcano eruption, hot ash is still spewing into the skies. The search for victims has been suspended temporarily due to the rain. The operations will begin again once the weather conditions improves, said officials.

While those burnt or injured in the volcanic eruption are being treated by Red Cross Indonesia workers, a mass burial was held in central Java for 20 of the 32 victims killed in the volcanic eruption

Mentawai`s Tsunami



A tsunami that pounded several of the Mentawai Islands in West Sumatra killed at least 413 people left more than 298 people missing, the death toll is expected to reach over 500.

In a rare bright spot, an 18-month-old baby was found alive Wednesday in a clump of trees on Pagai Selatan - the same island where the 30-year-old Sageru lived. Relief coordinator Harmensyah said a 10-year-old boy found the toddler whose parents are both dead.



The worst hit area is North and South Pagai Island. Reports of villages flattened are coming from there, the aid boat are struggling to get there because the high seas, the trip takes around 10 hours in normal conditions.

A total of 517 houses were destroyed and swept away by the tsunami, while 204 others had minor damages, according to the data.

The government is considering relocating some residents in the earthquake-prone islands near Sumatra, the state-run Antara news agency said.

"President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has instructed me to draft a government regulation related to the relocation plan. We will discuss this matter soon after the emergency response period and rehabilitation of the impacted area are over," said People's Welfare Minister Agung Laksono.

Relief planes dropped boxes of dried noodles onto tsunami-ravaged Indonesian islands Friday because storms and a shortage of vessels made helicopter and boat deliveries almost impossible days after the wave killed more than 400 people.



A magnitude-7.7 earthquake triggered the 3-meter wave that washed hundreds of homes into the sea late on Monday, the scale of the quake has been revised to 7.5 magnitude.

According to ABC News Australia there were no tsunami warning because the system has been vandalized and it was too expensive to replace it right away.

German official at the project disputed there was a breakdown, saying Monday's 7.5-magnitude quake's epicenter was too close to the Mentawai islands for residents to get the warning before the killer wave hit.

You can check all the earth quakes in Indonesia at the Indonesia`s Government Official Web Page: http://www.bmg.go.id

Indonesia Merapi Mount Eruption






Somebody Help Pleasee????






Beautiful but the disaster...

Mount Merapi, Gunung Merapi (literally Fire Mountain in Indonesian/Javanese), is an active stratovolcano located on the border between Central Java and Yogyakarta, Indonesia. It is the most active volcano in Indonesia and has erupted regularly since 1548. It is located approximately 28 kilometres (17 mi) north of Yogyakarta city, and thousands of people live on the flanks of the volcano, with villages as high as 1,700 metres (5,600 ft) above sea level.









Nothing Left...

The name Merapi could be loosely translated as 'Mountain of Fire'. The etymology of the name came from Meru-Api; from the Javanese combined words; Meru means "mountain" refer to mythical mountain of Gods in Hinduism, and api means "fire". Smoke can be seen emerging from the mountaintop at least 300 days a year, and several eruptions have caused fatalities. Hot gas from a large explosion killed 27 people on November 22 in 1994, mostly in the town of Muntilan, west of the volcano. Another large eruption occurred in 2006, shortly before the Yogyakarta earthquake. In light of the hazards that Merapi poses to populated areas, it has been designated as one of the Decade Volcanoes.
















On 25 October 2010 the Indonesian government raised the alert for Mount Merapi to its highest level and warned villagers in threatened areas to move to safer ground. People living within a 20 km (12.5 mile) zone were told to evacuate. Officials said about 500 volcanic earthquakes had been recorded on the mountain over the weekend of 23–24 October, and that the magma had risen to about 1 kilometre (3,300 ft) below the surface due to the seismic activity. On the afternoon of 25 October 2010 Mount Merapi erupted lava from its southern and southeastern slopes.









They really need help!!!!



An Indonesian resque walks on an area swept by hot ash after Mount Merapi erupts in Gading Village, Klaten, Indonesia on 11 November 2010. Mount Merapi, Indonesia's volatile volcanic mountain, erupted yet again spewing hot ash and black clouds of smoke into the sky. The new eruption comes even as the death toll due to the previous eruptions soared to 191. The mountain, located in the heart of Java island, first erupted two weeks ago. Since it roared back to life two weeks ago, the mountain has erupted several times. The volcano has so far sent 350,000 people fleeing from the vicinity to seek refuge in emergency shelters.



An Indonesia's Red Cross multipurpose vehicle crosses the destroyed area that was swept by hot ash after Mount Erapi eruption in the Gading Village, Klaten, Indonesia on 11 November 2010. Mount Merapi, Indonesia's volatile volcanic mountain, erupted yet again spewing hot ash and black clouds of smoke into the sky. The new eruption comes even as the death toll due to the previous eruptions soared to 191. The mountain, located in the heart of Java island, first erupted two weeks ago. Since it roared back to life two weeks ago, the mountain has erupted several times. The volcano has so far sent 350,000 people fleeing from the vicinity to seek refuge in emergency shelters.



Mount Merapi erupts as seen from Klaten, Indonesia on 09 November 2010. Many people still insist on entering the 20-kilometer danger zone surrounding the rumbling Mount Merapi, even though at least 135 people have died on its slopes over the two previous weeks.



Mount Merapi erupts as seen from Cangkringan Village, Klaten, Indonesia on 10 November 2010. Mount Merapi in Central Java has spewed around 50 million cubic meters of volcanic materials since its first eruption on October 26, according to the Geological Agency of the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources. At least 153 people have died on its slopes over the past two weeks, and authorities were still struggling on Sunday to help those injured from massive Mount Merapi eruption.



An Indonesian woman rides an old bicycle as she passes the Plaosan archaeological site during Mount Merapi erupts Magelang, Indonesia on 10 November 2010. Mount Merapi in Central Java has spewed around 50 million cubic meters of volcanic materials since its first eruption on October 26, according to the Geological Agency of the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources. At least 153 people have died on its slopes over the past two weeks, and authorities were still struggling on Sunday to help those injured from massive Mount Merapi eruption.