Nota Raya

Wouldn't it be nice if everything ends the way the movie ends.  Especially the Raya telemovie.

Tak pelah.
One fine day.
InsyaAllah.
InsyaAllah.

Balik Kampung

Lusa dah raya. Jom balik Kampung 😀😀😀

Tengok adik-adik sent gambar-gambar persiapan raya, tak sabarnya nak join sekaki. Dah lama tak anyam ketupat, entah masih ada lagi ke tak skill tu.

Have a safe journey back home, everyone. Baju raya jangan lupa packing ehehe. Untuk yang tak ada kampung, enjoy your raya preparation 😊😊

Till later!

Cerita Jubah

Alkisah sepasang jubah.  Eh, sepasang ke? Dua pasanglah kot.

Yesterday I wore the jubah that I exchanged with my sister. And it made me think. On how things happen for a reason.

We happen to have almost the same taste in everything. And so in this jubah. She bought it first when it was first released and then sent to tailor for some length alteration. Entah macam mana, tailor tersilap potong, terpendek jadi jubah dia. So she had to wear another skirt inside to cover up the pendekness.

I on the on other hand, asyik bertangguh nak beli sampai tak sempat nak grab. Luckily they released 2.0 version. Cepat-cepatlah makcik pi beli takut kempunan lagi, and sent to tailor for alteration. Guess what? Mine was terpanjang, as if tailor tak pernah potong. With this petite size of mine, memang nak tersadung jelah jalan pakai jubah sapu jalan macam tu.

And then when my sister was in town, we decided to wear the same jubah (lain kaler, OK?) together-gether. Masa menggosok tu, masing-masing ceritalah on how the jubah tailor salah potong pendek sangat and how mine macam tailor tak potong langsung.

So we decided to just exchange them. And it fit us just perfectly! (My sister is taller than me)

Gambar tak adalah pulak nak share since we both are not the bergambar type.

So, everything that happened has its own purpose. Even it seems inconvenient at first, but in the end, we'll be amazed on how things work out perfectly.

When You Are Sad

Rasa nak mennagis bila dengar ni so I'm sharing it here. Semoga bermanfaat untuk kita semua.

The first question you have to ask yourself when you are sad, "How was my relationship with Allah?"

That relationship is connected to your salah, primarily your 5 daily prayers.

Do you read them with enthusiasm? We are not even talking about regularity because that is supposed to be the case, anyway. But we are talking about enthusiasm. Do you look forward to the prayer? Do you realize what you are doing when you are reading or fulfilling the five daily prayers?

Sit for a moment and think. It will snatch your sadness.  It will withdraw, it will combat the sadness you are feeling. just by thinking for a moment. "What am I doing? Who am I putting my head on the ground for here? Who is it? The One who made me, The One who owns my happiness, The One who's in control. And ultimately The One I'm going to go back to when my eyes close like everybody else's eyes have already closed and are closing and will close, I'm going to go back to the supreme deity whom I've just put my head on the ground for. Allahuakbar.

It is powerful. If you sit and ponder over it, that alone will help you to remove the sadness in your life because even if everything is going against your liking, you are assured that it is going according to the plan of  Allah.

Nothing goes according to someone else's plan.  It is Allah's plan. 

How can you be sad, when Allah is with us?

-Mufti Menk-

The Wall

Sometimes, we build a wall around us to protect ourselves from being hurt. 

But often, it is the wall that ends up hurting us. 

Trapping us. Crushing us.

I Will Always Love You

There is this one line of song that always keep popping in my mind, but I couldn't figure out what song it is:

 "I will always love you"

Until last night. While I was driving, the song was on the radio so I Googled it afterwards.

Rupanya Lovesong by The Cure.

Happy 12th Year of Friendship !!!

Of Baju Raya and The Aftermath

Dah jadi kebiasaan beberapa tahun kebelakangan ni untuk settlekan baju raya sebelum Ramadhan. Jadi bulan puasa tak perlulah mengharung lautan manusia yang berjuang nak dapatkan baju raya.  Atau nervous tunggu Mr.Posmen tak sampai-sampai.

Tahun lepas tak ada perasaan ralat ni sebab baju-baju yang di pre-order before Ramadhan tu tak turun harga pun sampai Hari Raya.

Tahun ni, yang membuat ralat tu baju raya kedua. Dia release Raya Collection just before Ramadhan, and one of the collections memang sekali tengok dah berkenan di hati. Biasanya kalau dah jumpa yang berkenan di hati aku memang tak pandang lain dah. So belilah on that very day it was released. Semangat tak semangatlah haha. Masa tu introduction price ada less RM10.

So bila dah settle perihal baju raya maka tak adalah aku perlu melekakan diri dengan Instagram lagi untuk stalking survey baju raya bulan Ramadhan.  Gitu.

Tapi baru ni dapat tahu baju tu ada sale lagi. RM60 cheaper than what I purchased earlier.  Tambah sikit lagi dah dapat nilopa selai kot.  Takleh nak kata apa lah, maka mampu ber-huhu jelah. 

But, I quote my sister - that's the price you have to pay for buying baju raya early. Well, literally. Huhuhuhu.

So nak sedapkan hati, aku pujuklah hati ni, at least aku dah tak buang masa scrolling down Instagram lagi dah bulan ni. Which makes a difference to me. Rasa macam nak permanently detached from IG and FB pun ada jugak ni. Hehe, kononnyalah.

The Past, Not Future

When people decide not to include you anymore in their life, you too, need to stop talking about them in future tense.

Refer them in the past tenses.

Let them be in the past, where they choose to be.

No more will.
Just was.

Of Temporary Attachment

"There's something amazing about this life. The very same worldly attribute that causes us pain is also what gives us relief: Nothing here lasts. What does that mean? It means that the breathtakingly beautiful rose in my vase will wither tomorrow.  It means that my youth will neglect me. But it also means that the sadness I feel today will change tomorrow.  My pain will die.  My laughter won't last forever - but neither will my tears. We say this life isn't perfect.  And it isn't.  It isn't perfectly good.  But, it also isn't perfectly bad, either"

-Yasmin Mogahed, Reclaim Your Heart-

Peaceful Mind - Tips #2

Hari tu tengok cerita ke iklan apa tak ingat dah. cuma ingat ayat dia lebih kurang:

"Tak kisahlah apa orang nak fikir pasal kita. 

Yang penting Allah faham hati kita"

Betullah. Kadang-kadang letih hati dan otak nak puaskan hati semua orang. Lagi teruk bila apa yang kita letihkan sangat tu disalah ertikan pulak. Lepas dah letih, stress, kecewa dan sedih pulak.

Itulah jadinya kalau hidup asyik nak puaskan hati orang. 

Sebab kadang-kadang orang kalau dah tak suka, kita buat apa pun nampak tak betul. Gitulah.

Maka kita bertenang jelah. Buat yang terbaik, dan harap yang baik-baik. Yang penting kita tahu kita tak pernah nak susahkan siapa-siapa. Tak pernah nak aniaya siapa-siapa. Kena selalu check dan bersihkan hati. Jangan syok sendiri ingat diri kita ni baik sangat.

 The root of all, cari keredhaan Allah. 

Puasa So Far

It's 6th day of Ramadhan.

So far, tak ada kena gastric attack except for first day puasa but it was not that bad. Sakit kepala yang teruk-teruk pun tak ada. Maybe sebab a few days before puasa tu dah stop coffee intake so that bulan puasa tak adalah caffeine withdrawal symptoms. Adalah sakit pinggang dalam 2 hari tapi cuba praktikkan tips letak bantal kat belakang area pinggang masa baring, alhamdulillah it worked.

Hopefully this year's Ramadhan will be better in terms of ibadah and health.

Bazar Ramadhan dah pergi dua kali tapi dua-dua pun kat kampung. Tapi tahun ni excitement pergi bazar tu macam dah tak ada. Kalau kat Terengganu pun dah rasa macam tu, kat negeri orang ni lagilah.

Here's to a better ramadhan, insyaAllah.