Seven Years Ago

Ketika itu tahun 2010.

Aku masih ingat lagi, usia aku yang baru jejak tingkatan 2 itu baru nak aktif bola jaring di sekolah.
Teringat dahulu senior-senior yang gigih ajar kami teknik-teknik dalam permainan bola jaring.

Cuma anehnya bola jaring di sini, kami mula main dengan al-fatihah dan al-mathurat, tutup dengan tasbih kafarah, rabitah hati dan tazkirah.
Kemudian diikuti dengan dinner sama-sama.

Menjadi keanehan pada budak taayah, junior makan sekali dengan senior pada ketika itu.

The result is, hubungan kami menjadi rapat, seakan rindu gila nak turun main netball.

Perkara itu menjadi budaya di court ni selama, cuma setahun itu sahaja.

Menginjak tahun 2011 dan seterusnya, senior-senior tersebut sudah bergraduasi. Bila mereka bergraduasi, tiada lagi mathurat di court, tiada lagi rabitah hati etc. Entah mana hilang semua itu

Bila giliran aku naik jadi senior, ada mulut-mulut yang throwback benda tu dan teringin sangat nak buat semula, entah kenapa, masing-masing tiada kekuatan nak mulakan.

Cuma budaya rabitah hati tu masih ada.

Aku mula mempersoalkan, ke mana pergi keberhasilan 'tarbiyah-tarbiyah' ringkas di court....

Tahun 2016, aku dah jadi alumni. Entah kenapa Tuhan ilhamkan teammate aku untuk berkumpul. Which is, agak impossible untuk alumni buat gathering semata-mata nak main netball.

Aku dulu tak suka sangat teammate aku sebab aku bukan sekepala dengan dyorang. Tapi entah, jiwa aku sangat enthusiast nak gather sekali dengan dyorang.

Mungkin berkat doa rabitah dahulu.

Tetiba harini pulak, nak gather + with usrah. wait, what? Kawan-kawan aku dulu bukan geng BADRI mahupun KP. MashaAllah

Kadang-kadang, kalau jumpa junior netball yang dah tak kenal, dyorang akan terdengar-dengar cerita kakak-kakak dulu ada amalan-amalan yang mereka jaga, itulah kekuatan kami.

Afiqah cakap, akak adalah antara orag yang sangat sayang sekolah, walaupun dah third year.

Aku pun hairan sebenarnya.

Dulu kecik-kecik, dah kenal agama, kenal usrah, kenal mathurat kat court , etc. Lepas tu masuk UTP, jumpa permata pulak. My development continues, being stronger year by year.

Throwback and appreciate what I have really makes me feel grateful on everything that I have :')

Thank you Allah for everything

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Tetra Pak Sdn Bhd Sustainability Initatives

8 Jun 2017

I was given an honour opportunity to attend Youth Empowerment Sustainable Consumption and Production (YESCP) Mini Workshop located at Petaling Jaya. I don't have any expectations for the activities in day 2. However, the talks and programmes given was very satisfying as I had to skip few classes during the 2 days of workshop.

I was appointed to write about the Tetra Pak Sustainability

Other than water sustainability, the topic sustainability that implemented by Tetra Pak really catches my attention. I was so adoring the effort made by the Tetra Pak Sdn Bhd to have sustainable food packaging while protecting the food inside it. I wish when I graduated I could be working in any company that have this kind of philosophy.

Tetra Pak was founded by Ruben Rausing, he was a firm believer that a package should save more than it costs. When food is packaged it can be transported and made available to consumers everywhere in a safe, efficient, and affordable way.

Tetra Pak was inspired to have the best packaging as best as the nature's best packaging, which is the egg shells concept. The mass of the egg shells is only made up of 10% of its mass. The egg shells also protect the nutrients inside the egg for a very long period of time. The shells also deliver food an ensures food safety. That inspiration is the golden goal of Tetra Pak company. As for now, the highest achievement that Tetra Pak achieved is 7% packaging and 93% product.

Tetra Pak not only protecting the food, but also protecting what's good. The term 'what's good' consists of the protecting the people and the futures, which including the sustinability issues seriously in their business.

Since this workshop is circulating around the sustainability issue, the speaker elaborates more on the protecting future.

Tetra Pak produced recyclable products and the raw materials are obtained from proper logging activities. The speaker introduced to us what the packaing is made of, and they do mention about the alumunium sheets within the packaging.

This caugt my attention since the aluminium sheets provide a very little carbon footprint. Although it is very little carbon footprint produced, the carbon footprint is still there.

Why aluminium sheets? To make the food last longer, and to reduce the cost of storage. If there is no aluminium sheet, they have to keep the food in freezer everywhere (during transportig the food, distribute to consumer, etc.), which consume spaces and money as well. However, research and development is made to figure out what is more relevant, more biological to replace the aluminium sheets, to reach zero carbon footprint.

The company keep growing, but they keep minimizing their impact to the Earth year by year.

Recycling became the main topic of this packaging. They claim that their products is not a waste. All parts of them are recycleable. There are some projects launched by the youth where they collecting the used package and recycled them to produced roofs for project kampung orang asli. It was an amazing effort, how we benefits to people in such way.

In my opinion since the packaging is lastly at the consumers' hands, the consumers should have awareness about the importance of recycling the packaging. Plus, the packaging is not unusual, it is used in many production of food. So the question is, how we are going to inculcate awareness about the importance of recycling among the consumers?

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