The 1st Week of Ramadhan...

Asssalam Peeps...

How have you been? How has Ramadhan been for you for these 7 days? I hope all goes well, InshaAllah...

My 1 week of Ramadhan has been amazing, Alhamdulillah. Well, not perfect, but lovely. Just a little downside of it, I was a little sick for the 1st three days or so. Down with lower back pain. I mean, I know I have lower back pain, and it comes on and off, as and when. But it was very bad a few days ago. I can't sit for long, can't stand for long, even lying in bed triggers pain. So to the doctor I went, got an analgesic rub and muscle relaxant pills and was advised to sleep with the legs propped up. Doc said if it doesn't get any better in a week or two, off to the physiotherapist I go. It's getting better now. And this explains this blogging opportunity. If not, I don't even want to see the laptop. Hahaha...!!

And oh yes, my first time fasting in the new workplace. Alhamdulillah, it has been good. Only thing is the timing. I can't relax kueh go here or there after finishing work. Finish work, straight I zoom home. Tak toleh kiri kanan pun. Yang penting, I wanna reach home on time for futhoor. My hobby for this Ramadhan is running after trains and buses, heh.

Lunch time is spent with Zuhur prayers and Alhamdulillah, the colleagues whom never had a chance to do their solat before I came there, now solat in my room. I don't care a damn if people nak mata merah ke hapa ke. It's our lunch time, we are allowed to do things we wanna do. And we are spending time facing the Almighty. I usually let the colleagues, 3 of them, do their solat 1st, as they have supervisors looking for them straight after their lunch time. My lunch time is a bit relaxed, so I can do my solat when they are done. Im happy the colleagues and I have our chance to do their solat and what more in this month of Ramadhan. Sayang kalau kita tak solat in Ramadhan. Sesia puasa kita. And I hope it continues after Ramadhan too, InshaAllah...

Preparations for Eid are quite done actually. We did our preparations early this time round. Got our kueh raya in Simpang Renggam Johor. Baju raya pun dah belik. So no need for the headache of thinking what to buy and where. I'd prefer spending time making the most out of Ramadhan then thinking of Eid.

1st week has gone so fast and do we wonder what have we done to make the most out of it? I only managed to open the Al-Quran for a day to read the first few pages of Surah Al-Baqarah, then I couldn't find time to read again. Must discipline myself to start reading again. The eyes seem to be very awake doing other things, but to read Al-Quran, they prefer to go into shutdown mode. Cannot cannot. Must lawan.

Come friends, let's motivate ourselves to wake up at night, do solat sunat, read up the Al-Quran, do Dzikir more this Ramadhan. Let's treat this Ramadhan as if it's our last. We won't know whether we'll meet Ramadhan again next year. So let's make the best out of it. This, I speak to myself before I speak to you. Let's do this together.

May Allah guide us to have a more amazing 2nd week of Ramadhan, InshaAllah. Barakallahu fee kum...

Ilal Liqaa'...!!

the weekend that was...

hello peeps!

long time no write. just didnt have the mood to write. office pc was so 'dinosaur-age' that i found no mojo to do anything on the pc other than work-stuff. and today, i arrive at work and VOILA, i had a new pc on my table. so now i'm pretty charged up working with a new pc.

anyway, how are things? i have quite a lot to update actually. and don't know where to start. ok i'll try, with stories over the weekend.

friday night - went out for the 1st time for dinner with colleagues. in my 13 nearly 14 years in the previous job, i didnt have colleagues, so going out with colleagues was way out of the question. i had fun though. went for Seoul Garden dinner and the 7 of us were quite a noisy bunch. Alhamdulillah for the great bonding.

saturday - woke up with the plan of going to Science Centre for the Sultan of Science Exhibition. but was a little taken aback with a phone call at 10. Nani (my maternal grandma) was admitted to the hospital for bedsores. She's a Parkinson patient and I think she lies too much on bed with no movement so that explains the bedsores.

still we went to Science Centre. watched Arabia on Omni-Max and it was an eye-pleasing show. And when the Kaaba, Makkah and Madinah were shown, tears formed in the eyes. even my male cousin admitted he had tears in his eyes. ni baru tengok kat Omni-Max screen ni, kalau tengok real depan mata? MashaAllah.

And the Sultan of Science exhibition was an eye opening experience. Many a times we were told what the 'world' wants us to know. But before Wright Brothers learnt to fly in the 20th century, Abbas ibn Firnas flew in the 9th century. Before Beethoven and Mozart came to the scene, there was Al-Farabi, the person who invented the rebec, the ancestor of the violin. Ibn Sina was the pioneer who discovered that diseases spread through water and that tubercolosis was contagious. The world knew him by the name Avicenna and thats how the word "Medicine" came about. Ibn Nafis discovered the pulmonary-heart blood circulation system. And a lot more pioneers, and they were all Muslims. MashaAllah.

we lunched at IMM and went back home. then went out again to visit Nani in NUH. on the way to NUH, came a phone call, the Nenek wants to be sent to TTSH for severe vomitting. Ya Allah. One after another. Visited Nani a while, then off to Tampines to pick Nenek up to send her to TTSH. upon reaching there, we were told Nenek has been sent in a taxi with my cousin sister. Since it was late night, and she hasn't been warded yet, we decided to head home but not before detouring to Jurong West to have our dinner at 10pm. Rats were running in the stomach already.

SUNDAY - went out early to Geylang to get stuff. We even got our Eid clothes already. Since the design and colour was readily available, I decided that we should buy it now then wait till Ramadhan, when the prices will be steeper. I'd rather be at home jihading with tarawih then be at the crowded bazaars jihading with the crowd in Ramadhan.

went to TTSH to visit Nenek after that. had lunch and went home.

by the time i reached home, the only thing i could think off was to plonk myself on the sofa and zzz... Hahaha!!

the weekend that was. Busy and exciting.

Ilal Liqaa'...!!