bismillah

Yesterday, I was happily eating my dinner at Eunos interchange with Kak Hanisah when this black cat with green eyes jumped onto the seat next to me! Apa lagi? Menjerit ah! I am totally afraid of cats so I let out a little scream and I expected Kak Hanisah to be just as scared but noooo... She fell in love with the cat instead! Haha, okay don't get me wrong. I don’t hate cats and I have nothing against them but they just make me scared. And the cat just stared at me until I had to talk to the cat. "Why are you staring at me cat? I am not pretty, dont look at me okay." Apparently, the cat is just as degil as me so it continued to stare at me. Luckily Kak Hanisah was there. She’s so gentle with the cat. Talking to the cat and stroking her head. I think it will take me 982748465372695854372545 years before I do that. Hehh :P I SALUTE ALL CAT LOVERS!

Allahu musta'an - Allah will help us
Allah ma'ana - Allah is with us
Allah ma'ak - Allah is with you
Allah ma'i - Allah is with me

Thanks Zakiah :)

saw this on the road while walking past a row of terrace houses with Safa.. So pretty! the power of reflection :)

The amount of work is just masyaAllah...

I am tired.

I think 'try' is a verb that is commonly misused, even for myself. Sometimes I catch myself using it in contexts that do not have any meaning. For example, if I say, 'I will try to do this question'. What does that really mean? If I go ahead and do the question, I am doing it. Doesn't matter whether I get the answer right. If I stop myself from doing the question, then I am not doing it. Isn't that right? So where does the word 'try' come in, for this case? Or if my sister tells me to buy something from the market and I say, 'I will try and see if they sell it.' In the same perception, it's wrong too right? Another example is 'I will try and stop smoking'.

Of course, the word 'try' does exist in other contexts like 'I will try to achieve my new year's resolutions.' That kinda makes sense to me.

Oh and yesterday, I wanted to use this sentence, 'I nearly freaked out'. Then I realised that the word 'nearly' in this case doesnt make sense. Like how can you feel freaked out but then stop yourself from doing so?

Haha, okay these are just random thoughts i'm posting here :)

In the future, I will make sure I speak Malay to my kids. It saddens me when I talk to kids from Malay families in Malay and they aren't able to understand what I am saying. I'm not saying that my Malay is good but I do love the Malay language. The reason why I feel that it is very important to know Malay is that it opens doors for our future generation to learn the Malay culture. By communicating with our Malay society, especially the older generation, that's when they will gain insights on our history and our heritage. Personally, I have this hypothesis in my head that the reason why some of us are so carried away with the Western culture is that we are not rooted to our own. And I definitely do not want my kids in the future to be influenced by the negative sides of the Western culture. The strong link between language and culture could possibly be why America and British are both holding on to their languages and not combine them together. (just another random though, fyi)

It's the same with Arabic. Just that Arabic is way more powerful because the door to knowledge is with Arabic. The All-Knowing talks to us in Arabic. The most wise man in the history of mankind talked in Arabic. Our scholars wrote books in Arabic. Im still nowhere in my knowledge of Arabic but I truly find it fascinating. I hope I can master it someday, insyaAllah :)

I'm actually excited abt my usp essay assignment! If only I could be half as excited for my engineering assignments...

I love this qasidah.. I really really wanna know what it means. Does anyone have the translation? Can you please please tell me? Thank you :)

My yai is too cute alr :)

I'm a strong-headed person or in my sister's words, a stubborn person. I can be pretty aggressive when it comes to expressing my opinions about things which I strongly feel for or against. I think I have to start learning to listen to others and not be confined within my narrow-minded thoughts :)

okay! some pics from my stay at the pasir ris bungalow...

nothing beats listening to you read the words of Allah :)

So yesterday, our engineering professor made us partake in the marshmallow challenge. Each group was given 20 spaghetti sticks, one yard of tape, one yard of twine and one marshmallow. The aim was to build the highest structure with the marshmallow on top. The group with the highest structure would get an additional $50 for their group project this semester. It was pretty fun!!! Here's my group's structure:

I found out that I have no feminine touch/gentle hands whatsoever. Like seriously! I broke 5 spaghetti sticks altogether! Which nearly broke my team's chances of ever creating a structure. Haiz. After the 5th stick I got a phobia of the spaghetti and didnt touch them at all after that.

One of the few interesting engineering lectures ever! :)