Im 20-ish now. I think

Happy birthday to me!
Sedih tak dapat bersama loved ones on this day but its okay dont want to celebrate me getting older and (not) wiserr.. eh tak tak astaghfirullah...moga2 ilmu yang dipelajari akan sentiasa manfaatkan diri sendiri dan juga orang lain. amin..

Grateful also for the well wishes from the fam bam and friends. Semalam my housemates surprised me with a home-made nutella/kinder bueno brownie cake (panjang name) so sweet la dorg. The last time someone baked me a cake was yeaars ago tk ingat. Kalau ade orang tu baca ni...thanks eh for the surprise cume part kene sabo dengan shaved ice dari fridge memang betol2 tk expect ;') seronok kene mandi dengan ice...tak cukup sejuk eh kat sini ;)

Im 20! this is a dream guys....pls kejot. K thats all for today...tired already...da tua katekan badan pon senang penat haha.
Salaams xx

Story time

Today's weather was harsh, winter came back and paid us a visit after long days of sunny bliss. Thankfully I wore a proper jacket to school. Everytime it rains the weather drops like 10 degrees and either we are under dressed and freezing or layered with too much clothing. Confusing la but still glad its cold and not summer yet haha

So during our break, me and my friends went to 'lepak' at the musolla at level 2. Its the biggest musolla in kuliah syariah and sambil tunggu untuk pegi next class, we met the cutest baby:) I cannot stand babies...like seriously tak sah kalau tk menggeram bile nmpk budak kecik kat sini. It was a Malaysian kakak with her 3 month baby boy named Abdullah. Rarely see any babies in kuliah syariah cume kadang2 nmpak toddlers dengan mak dorang pegi class. haha ikr

We bebual with her for a while.... then a lady came up to me and my friend, she asked whether we are free to be interviewed for her friend's research. So I look at my friend like: forreal kepe nak tanye ktorg yang baru year satu ni...masih selenge2 ;') So ended up three of us turun bawah psl kawan dia yg nak interview is a guy. Then one of the officers kat kuliah offered to us this room for the interview. Rase mcm official kene soal dengan recorder semua. Feeling2 interview suratkhabar gitew lol. So he proceeded with questions pasal yarmouk university...the faculties...system...environment. Mcm2 psl our life as students here in Irbid. So we let go....of our fustrations with the school and our likes and dislikes tapi english dia tak pro mane la so kene bebual word by word and slowly. The guy was a masters student and he had to research about international students living here but I dont remember his major.

So lepas interview ktorg naik balik pegi musolla utk solat zohor and pegi class psl da lambat. Then we saw kakak tu masih kat musolla dengan baby dia and it was rush hour psl waktu solat. So kalau I da geram dgn baby apelagi orang arab kat sini? They crowded around her and said 'haram! haram! Baarid!' mane kakak tu paham arab paling2 paham kalau dorg tanye 'ni anak kau eh?' They said the baby was gonna freeze in this clothing that he was already in...pada dorang tk cukup...kene ade hirom(blanket tebal) tutup satu badan dia dengan muka skali. Then the arab ladies took the baby and masukkan baju dalam tights dia so that angin tk masuk. By this time, klaka sangat....orang arab punye kecoh sungguh memeningkan kepala....stress tgk dorang ;') Tapi we managed to escape pastu tolong kakak tu turun bawah jumpe suami dia yang dabes class. She was going to go see the doctor for the baby's injection so dia tunggu kat musolla for the husband to finish class. The way I see it, baby tu ok je baju je...kalau nak berlapis sgt tak bernafas budak tu nanti.


So in the end we were late for class, doctor da masuk. Tapi belum start belajar thankfully.
The day before pulak, me and my roommate were late for this tafsir class kat rumah orang Malaysia ni...so ktorg lari la dua orang dengan hujan renyai2. Pastu da smpai lorong rumah dia tibe2 nampak seniors Spore lelaki jalan in our direction....in my mind da pikir: eh takde class ke? pls ah! jangan ah! nooo....pastu dorg suruh blg yg lain class cancel niari. Haizzz apelah nasib....my freinds baru turun taxi kat depan psl dorang pon lmbat. Kesian ;') Da semangat nak menimba ilmu ni...takpe next week ade lagi in sha Allah. Doctor yg ajar is from Yarmouk uni and his specialty is tafsir so he volunteered his free time to give us asian students a class tafsir from Al-fateha smpai surah mane2 yang sempat la.We've only reached the third page of surah al-Baqarah so far.

Okay sorry meleret cite haha.
Just wanted to share some stories yang tak interesting mane lah :)
Till next time, Salams xx

Mini Update on uni life

My first round of exams are over but will resume on the 10th of April so this week has been a lot of going out and playing while we await the dreaded period of back to back exams again. 

I watched Batman vs Superman 2 days ago with 2 of my friends cause we just finished our exams and it was an impromptu date. Skali bile smpai shopping mall...terserempak dengan students Spore lain. So we weren't the only ones watching a movie on a school night hah. They were our seniors and guys of course. The first half was boring...banyak mimpi2 and scenes tak penting but the second half when they started fighting was cool and there was an unexpected twist in the end.

Something recent that I want to share is about a guy senior who started a meetup session every Thursday night which he calls: Liqo' Mawaddah. Its basically his initiative to start a regular meetup with fellow Singaporeans to share things that are beneficial to us as students and future members of the community when we come back as graduates. Him and his housemate are usually the ones who do the talking and organize the content of the session but yesterday they wanted us to do the thinking and sharing and so they did a mini brainstorming activity. The question was how are we going to tackle taboo issues in way that makes people attracted to Islam? Technically speaking, what do we think is the right way to dakwah to people of the public? The issues discussed yesterday were:

 

1) If you had a close relative or cousin who has thoughts on becoming transgender, how would you approach the person so that he or she does not go down the wrong path?

2) A student comes up to you and says: Teacher, why did Nabi Ibrahim a.s destroy the idols of his people? Isn't that an act of vandalism? Isn't vandalism wrong in Islam?

3) A makcik who is about to go to umrah asks about keeping her wudhu while in the state of ihram. So does she have to follow mazhab Syafiee which states that wudhu is invalid once in contact with the opposite gender or apply the rules of mazhab Hanafi to make it easy for her doing umrah?

4) Last but not least, a guy comes up to you and says that he has a problem with perfoming his subuh prayers because his morning shift at work makes it difficult for him to pray and another person is a polytechnic student who has class from 12-2 which makes it impossible for him to pray Jumuah. How do we advise them on this?

Alhamdulillah, we got some answers and all of them have the same basis and fundamental rules in dakwah which are: dont judge and always give hope to them so that they know their efforts are not disregarded and there will always be a way that is not a burden to them as Islam is simple. We have to suggest to them solutions and explain to them in a manner that is easy to understand and passes a clear message. 

Benefited a lot from yesterdays session and realized I need to brush up on my content. Been to busy with school books that I seldom or hardly ever read books that touch on different topics. So far I have books on hadith and fiqh but I should read on other things as well. I cant wait to go Amman and immerse myself with the books there! hee in sha Allah before I head back home, will make a trip there with housemates :)

Im halfway through second semester..what even....so fast right. Cant wait for ramadhan also! I wonder what 'Ramadhan di rantauan' feels like? Wouldn't know cause Im going back this summer whoohoo~

Okie see you in my next post which is in the nxt 15432675 days (jk)

BYEeeee

My winter holiday (aka Jan)

Salam everyone...I know my blogs been dead for a long time and I just got lazy! ugh someone just punch me out of procrastination please. lol

So since I promised to post about my winter break trip around Jordon, Im not gonna talk about it since its been 3 months and I probably forgot a lot of things that happened, so Im going to show pictures and tell you about my trip through the pictures instead. Lazyy me

Me being one with the snow <3 

Listening to our tour guide aka abang Irbid storage talking about Ma'rokah Yarmouk

The place where perang Yarmouk took place...never imagined it to be a valley and nearby Syria

A Roman theatre in Jerash

Jerash remains and it was drizzling when we arrived

Our Brunei friends :) surprisingly them and us Sporeans made up the majority and there were only a few Malaysians who joined. Sesungguhnya bahasa brunei tak boleh difaham...mcm campur indon and bahasa melayu baku bile dengar..twas interesting

Lupa tempat ni kat mane ;')

Nice view right :) we were going down back to the bus from the castle at Jerash (I think)

Sorry blurr...but just wanted to show that we went to Maqam Muaz Bin Jabal r.a. A sahabat Nabi s.a.w sent to Yaman to dakwah to the people there.

Another maqam of sahabat Amir Bin Abi Waqas r.a

Sahabat Syurahbil Bin Hasanah r.a

The entrance to Karak Castle...it snowed the day before we came hence the piles of snow everywhere. 

The masjid built on top of the maqam of Syurahbil r.a. The prettiest mosque ive been to in Jordon. Havent visited a lot of mosques tho but this tops the list

Ma sha Allah *-* from Karak castle view

SubahanAllah 

Its so cold guys...smpai jadi ice fountain dia. 

Maqam sahabat Ja'afar Bin Abi Tolib r.a

We went to Petra! the weather here was slightly hot but still got cold wind

Meet my friends aka members satu block. Not anymore unfortunately

found somewhere along the trails inside Petra

Amacam? boleh masuk natgeo tk? lol

They make a living by selling a variety of trinkets and live on top of high rocks....  we managed to climb only one big rock, by the time smpai kat atas semua dah tk sabar nak balik hotel. penat cause we're so unfit!

This is Wadi Rum (pronounced as 'rum' like the beer). We rode jeeps into the desert and raced with each other. I recorded a video but its too dizzy to watch haha. Temp here was almost 5degrees! Tapi dapat tgk sunset and saw some stars when it was dark :)

Arrived Aqoba' at night and went to see the river the next morning. That country you see there is Israel and beside it on the left is Mesr.I finally felt the close distance between us and Palestine 

Super crystal clear water there! in sha Allah nak plan buat trip pegi sini dgn kawan2 pastu snorkel and swim same2 :) 

Thats a hotel near the coasts of the river...thats one of our boats that we rode 

Its called a glass boat cause you get to see the living creatures inside the water and pretty corals <3

Muka dorang lagi haha

Glad I wore a thick cardigan because it was so windyyy so yes ade matahari but still chilly 

Visited maqam Nabi Syuaib a.s and learned about a prophet which was less knowned by muslims

Snowball fight (more like snow photoshoot) at Ajloun. We couldnt go deeper up into the mountains cause the roads were blocked. But alhamdulillah dapat puas2 main dgn snow walaupun ade time limit

Candid shot of us! (excuse my over excited face)

Random photo: Meet Jamilah! cutie chinese baby who looks like a fluffy bear. Her family runs an Islamic Chinese restaurant near Uni

This is another Roman theatre in Amman and it was raining so super wet and couldnt climb all the way to the top

Had an impromptu meetup with the girls from nujum after we came back from our Jordon trip and they came back from Palestine :) Yummy arab food from a yemeni restaurant called Hadramaut

Budak ni selalu nak masuk gambar orang tapi kalau nak masuk gmbr dia tk bagi -_-

Some children we met at Petra :)

Another cutie bear ;') forgot his name but bapak dia yang buat rehlah ni. Ma sha Allah gerammm

We were stranded here for a almost 2 hours cause our bus broke down. So ape lagi syiok sendiri la merayap shooting music video to kill time 

So eveyone had to share one bus to go to a pit stop somewhere and it was there we waited smpai kol 9.30malam untuk bus lagi satu dtg amek ktorg. This was during our last day and alhamdulillah it was unexpected but segala benda ada hikmahnya. Enjoyed the long wait becuase of the great company. Cant wait for more adventures with them :)

OK..so itulah summary of my 5 days 4 nights trip during the winter holidays. Got to see and experience Jordon and it made our relationship closer because we spent a lot of time together ;')
Being with your friends 24/7 makes you see their true personalities be it bad or good. Learnt that the first day we arrived Irbid haha.

So that was a massive post and in sha Allah will write soon again.
Salams~