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'...!!