Living with Someone
Does living with someone scare you? All the sharing and tiptoeing round one another's feelings. All those arguments over hairs in plugholes and dishes left in sinks. The unmade bed. The wet towels not in place. The rolled-up sock stuffed under a cushion. The shoes left where anyone would fall over them.
Seoul, Korea Summer 2016
Day 1 : Itaewon - Myeongdong
Day 2 : Insadong - Gyeongbukgong - Gwanghamun Square - Cheongyecheon Stream - Banpo Bridge (Rainbow Bridge)Day 3 : Petite France - Nami Island - Namsan Tower - Banpo Bridge (Again because the day before it was raining, they cancelled the show)
Day 4 : Gwangjang Market - Namdaemun Market - Korea University - Dongdaemun Plaza
Day 5 : Ewha University - Hongdae (Cat Cafe) - Gangnam - Apgujeong
Day 6 : Going back to Malaysia
Eating Habits Poem
I have always told myself to start eating healthily. I need more intrinsic motivation for this. This is a poem I found online which makes my soul delights in reciting it.
Stop your Play, it's time to eat,
Come wash your hands and take a seat
Before you start though, bring to mind,
The mercy of Allah who is so kind.
Come wash your hands and take a seat
Before you start though, bring to mind,
The mercy of Allah who is so kind.
So begin in the name of Allah,
By always saying Bismillah,
Don't dish out more than you can eat,
For Muslims shouldn't over eat.
By always saying Bismillah,
Don't dish out more than you can eat,
For Muslims shouldn't over eat.
And one thing you must understand,
It's good to eat with your right hand,
Never stuff your mouth with food,
That would surely be most rude.
It's good to eat with your right hand,
Never stuff your mouth with food,
That would surely be most rude.
Take your time and chew quite well,
Pick up morsels in case it fell,
Eat your food and leave no waste,
There's no need to eat in haste.
Pick up morsels in case it fell,
Eat your food and leave no waste,
There's no need to eat in haste.
Drink your tea and slip slow,
You don't have to gulp you know,
When you've finished thank Allah,
You don't have to gulp you know,
When you've finished thank Allah,
Therapeutic Words
I wish I know how to always respond therapeutically,
Many times in life we will hurt and get hurt and hurt,
How do I try to stay away from those?
Turkey: Places that we Visited
Places that we visited:
Istanbul:
Panorama 1453
Theodosian Wall
Pierre Lotti
Eyup Sultan Cami/ Turbesi
Bosphorus cruise- Dolmabahce palace, Ciragian Palace,Galatasaraye University, Ortakoy cami, Rumeli Hisari, Belebeyi Palace,Kiz Kulesi
Aqueduct
Suleymaniye Cami
Fetih Cami
Hippodromi
Topkapi Palace
Hagia Sophia
Blue Mosque
Grand Bazaar
Ourtakoy Mosque, Bosphorus Bridge
Bursa:
Cumalikizik
Yesil Cami/Turbesi (Green Mosque)
Osman, Orhan Gazi tomb
Ulu Cami (Grand Mosque)
Karavas-i vali (Sufi dance)
Cappadocia:
Derinkuyu Underground city
Ihlara Valley
Selime Cathadrel
Pigeon Valley
Goreme Panorama
Hot air Balloon
ATV
Pottery
Pasabag
Imagination Valley (Pevri Vadisi)
Unhealthy Interactions
Unhealthy. Stop before getting scarred emotionally and being unfair to myself, and everyone else. Oh gosh, I wish I can reverse time and stop doing silly things.
I am sorry.
Fluffy ideas. Unrealistic.
This is just a product of low self-esteem.
If I can't answer this question of ' Will it still be the same if that person gain 50 kg or lose hands?', I am not ready. Just hormonal imbalances.
Until you live and marry that person, you will never know that person. You only will give more chances for people to give better impression and image.
I can be but I can't
I can be nice but I can't be sweet,
I can be smart but I can't be genius,
I can be generous but I can't be selfless,
I can be considerate but I can't be too patient.
I have to try hard with everything that I still can't put as what define me.
I am the one who is not easily excitable, emotionless.
I am the one who is not easily excitable, emotionless.
Vow to be the Lovely Sun
Last Muharram, I made a vow,
To not be the swelling cloudy rain that people fear will drench them.
I wanted to be the fiery wheel in the sky splashing molten-gold beams of light through the saffron leaves.
Many have said, I have always been the scorching sun in hot climate countries driving out the energy. A rather scary character firing people. Apology I ask from people who have felt only sweltering effects emanating from me.
#ifyouunderstandwhatimean
Epilepsy
I am going to do my SSC (Student Selected Component) on Epilepsy. Tomorrow is the day I am going to see my potential supervisor. Hope everything goes well.
I am very interested with brain as I had always thought that what defines our individuality, personality, uniqueness have its roots and come from the brain. If the brain is slightly faulty or some parts went amiss, are we still ourselves although some of our personalities are gone.
What is being ourselves after all? Is it really from brain or actually from what is in the soul? Who are we without brain and who are we without soul?
Arghh, my brain hurts thinking about this.
Rejections and Dejections; Placement Life
Have you ever felt dejected? I have. Repeatedly having it since the past 8 weeks.
Standing next to the patients' bed with the smartest men and not being acknowledged at all.
I have had the days where I did not have the slightest courage to even ask "What is going on with the patient?".
I have been made to feel like I am useless, only in people's way. That, my friends, the worst ever thing that you could make anyone feel.
I have had days where I had to hold tears, with flushed face, shaking just because of rejections.
What I meant by rejections is me coming up to the clinicians, " Hi, do you have anything that I can help you with? I am doing........." after having myself introduced.
I had met " No, sorry" as a reply repeatedly, be it either from a smiling face trying to be empathetic or from stern-do-not-disturb-me-look.
And I am still learning to keep doing the same thing, telling myself I will only come out of this stronger. Question is, will I ever come out of this? Is that what I really want? No, rejections will be part of my life as I will always need to look out for people or learning opportunities and not all the time they will accept me or the world will go round and let me have it. So, I just have to never give up.
I have to be stronger and take everything as it is and keep searching for other better things waiting for me. Wait, are they really waiting for me? Probably not, I just have to search and grab them right away. That is what I have come to understand. This is life.
I have made myself to promise to always try be a good teacher all the time, but that doesn't mean I can't say no at all, I just have to be nice and understanding.
Writing
I have always wanted to write. I have always have a thing with words. I love listening to harmonious words in whatever language. I love learning languages. I find satisfaction letting out things in beautiful phrases.
I do not find myself having the flair to write but recently I have got the intrinsic motivation to at least not to give up trying. I may start writing soon, now that I am better with the keyboard.
I am next going to find a good dictating application.
Pray for me.
Turkey : Day 2 (Istanbul)
Day 2- 1st April 2016
Istanbul is certainly gorgeous. I dare say
nobody would deny that. Napoleon Bonaparte once referred to it. He said: "If the world were a single state Istanbul would be it's capital."
Tired as we were, we did not waste a wink in the
flight, only arose when the plane was completely landed at Sabiha. We then
boarded a coach to Istanbul city. I reckon the journey was about 1 hour and
half and I must say that the views were always of tall buildings, very busy and
lively throughout. Well, I was sleeping during the journey but every now and then I opened my eyes, it was that kind of view. How big the is city actually? I do not know. I am not giving
the figure here.
We then had to figure our way to Golden
Horn Hotel. Trying to look sleek as if we know how and where we were supposed
to be just not to be cheated by dodgy people who might do a little service and
asking a fortune. Alhamdulillah, everyone that we met actually were sincerely helping us. However, those few bad memories in the past really stuck in head and controlled the thoughts. After a while, we then found the right tram. I have never
imagined Istanbul to be very city-like, very busy and big. I have never
imagined Bosphorus Strait to be part of the city and giving life to the people
and completes the beauty of Istanbul. I was absolutely stunned by it.
After checking in the hotel, we then
decided to wander around with the help of a little map from the hotel. We
then found ourselves in a park full of tulips, Gulhane Park just next to the
Topkapi Palace. Took a few shots of pictures, or should I say a couple of
dozens of each of us in there with all the different colours of tulips.
Gulhane Park was full of blooming tulips of many different colours. Tulips were originally a wild flower growing in the Central Asia and were first cultivated by the Turks as early as 1,000 AD. The flower were introduced in the westen Europe and the Netherlands in the 17th century by Carolus Clusius, a famous biologist from Vienna. Satisfied, we then had to gratify and feed our tummy. Seeing how scrumptious
the corns outside, I can’t wait but handed in 3 TL for a corn and was utterly
disappointed. It might even be 5TL, I just can’t recall how much the corn was. Found
a reasonable restaurant and dined in there. Happy tummy.
The yard of the Blue Mosque was our next
shooting site. Lol. There was this one episode where we were taking pictures of
each other and tried to have one with all four of us in it. Not having a selfie
stick, the next option was a selfie as we were to wary to trust anyone to hold
our camera. A man then came, “Let me take a picture of you guys”. “It is alright,
we actually love selfies, it is a popular trend now you know”, replied one of
us which was then followed by frowns by three others. A selfie then was
captured. The same man then showed us the bazaar next to the Blue Mosque and the way into the mosque as Maghrib was approaching. Did Maghrib in Sultan Ahmed Mosque/ Blue
Mosque. The interior design is finished with blue tiles, hence the name.
Later at night, we joined all the other
LUMSOC buddies and Jejak Uthmaniyah (JU) in a restaurant. Brought a pile of
something that looks like sand and fire surrounding it, one would certainly be
surprised the first time seeing it. It was actually like a cocoon of salts with
chickens in it, just needed to be burnt and cracked open before one could set
his teeth on it. Well, yes, I can't remember its name. Sorry.
So, that was how the day went.
Turkey : Day 1 (Pamukkale)
Assalamualaikum.
So, with the time and chance that I have
got, I am going to share my experiences during my visit in Turkey last spring. I
am writing this while waiting for my flight home from Manchester. Let us see
how much I could get through. I joined the trip organised by LUMSOC with the
collaboration of Jejak Uthmaniyah. It was definitely a trip that I will
treasure for my whole life. I was blessed with the company of beautiful people;
SUAM, Aisyah and many others.
One of the things that made me really want
to be in this trip was the presence of Ustaz Syaari Abdul Rahman. Not only
having always listened to him in Ibrah Segment in Ikim, I have also attended to
a winter camp; RISE where he was the speaker and it was absolutely amazing. He
has the flair to attract people with his speech and remarkable points.
Day 1
Sal, K Ulfah, K Meni and I arranged an
additional trip to Pamukkale prior to LUMSOC’s trip. We were supposed to have
Mili and Aliya with us. They were missed.
I honestly have forgotten the details. This
is why you should not write after months. Lesson learnt and I am afraid it will
be repeated again due to time constraint. So, I shall just please you with the
superficial points which might not even be useful to anyone but I am going to
do it anyway.
The flight took off from Gatwick to Sabiha
Gokcen. Mind you, the time and departure airport were changed at a very last
minute moment. If I am not mistaken, only one of us received a message about it
just a few days before departure. We totally took it as a spam and did not
bother about it. To our surprise, this kind of thing do happens. Alhamdulillah
anyway we managed to catch the flight although my coach ticket was burnt.
With the excitement of wanting to see
Turkey after hearing so many stories about it, we finally arrived. It felt like
home when everything there is halal and we were overjoyed that we actually had
a meal in the airport Burger King which had definitely burnt a hole in each of our
pocket. Little that we know of at that moment.
The next morning, we then took another
flight to Pamukkale. We have been told before not to trust anyone easily in
Turkey. We were so wary throughout, well at least I was. What is more that they
speak another language which I totally do not have any idea about. We took the
minibus from the airport to Denizli- Pamukkale for about 25TL. I
reckon it was Al-Bayt or something that sounds almost similar to that. Do not
trust me on these details, I am warning you.
As the sun rising in the east, we made our
way to Pamukkale. We were dropped at one of the local tour agent. The first
thought that quickly crept in was, ‘Oh no. These people are setting up
something. They are gonna scrap off all of our money’. Well, apparently that was not a fair
thought. We were offered a drop to the hotel, tour around Hierapolis, Pamukkale,
including the tickets and a drop to the airport the next morning for 90TL per
person.
Amazed by its construction functionality.
Hierapolis is actually just next to the
famous thermal pools and lake. So, there we were marveling at the ancient holy
city and spoiling our feet in the travertines. It was absolutely stunning. I
did not regret the grueling hours and sleep on the couch in the airport for
this view and experience.
The city (Hierapolis) dated back 2500 years ago, around 2nd century BC. It had many major earthquakes and because of these it had to be built for three times .It was then abandoned at the end of 12th century because of the earthquakes.From 1988 the area was protected by UNESCO although excavation has been going on from 1957 till today .Anyone who would like to visit the city in the past had to take a Roman bath regardless of the status. There was also a gymnasium where people sent their kids to do sports activities. However, it fell down in 7th century and we could only see a small part of it now. Later, we climbed up to the theatre. It was used for performances as well as gladiator fights. In the Roman time, people were divided into different classes and treated as such. Rich people would sit in the front of theatre, whereas the slaves would sit at the last steps. The theatre has amazingly nice acoustic system and echoes really well. Behind the big columns, there are changing rooms for actors and players. There were 3 floors, but because of the earthquakes we could only see 1 floor now. One astounding thing about it is that water sports were also done in here. I was told that they would fill the theatre with water, wanted to show to people that they also knew how to swim although the closest seaside is about 3 hours away.
The people practiced paganism. However, In the 1st century, when Christianity was spreading, war erupted between the pagan and Christian as this new religion affected the people’s economy.
The church in the city on top of the hill became the evidence of the victory of the Christians.
Necropolis
Graveyard was called as necropolis. As people from other places heard stories about the thermal water and thought it could cure all diseases, many sick and old people came. However, little did they knew that the thermal water could only cure skin diseases.
So many people died as many were poorly and did not mind being buried in this place as they believed that this is a Holy city. When they checked the body in one of the graves, they could see no flesh left, only skeletons remained, so they called that particular design of grave Sarcophagus -flesh eating box. The rich people were buried a little bit higher than others with their jewelries.
Sometimes, curses were written on the jewelries. For example, 'If you take this, you will not be happy', but unfortunately not many people could read at that time, so that did not work. They then put Medusa to scare people. There were also graves which were shared by a whole family. So, although you could only see one grave, but there could be more than one people in there. The royals had a different kinds of graves which are round.
Public Fountain
Ladies went to the public fountain to wash clothes. This is not only a place for cleaning dirty clothes, but also a social place where ladies will meet each other and have some gossip while doing the domestic chores.
Ladies went to the public fountain to wash clothes. This is not only a place for cleaning dirty clothes, but also a social place where ladies will meet each other and have some gossip while doing the domestic chores.
We also visited the agora and Cleopatra pool.
Pamukkale means cotton castle and it certainly looks like one. Amazingly, the city has so many thermal pools which contains different minerals in it. Some have iron and looks green and red. Some have predominantly calcium carbonate that gives its white cotton-like or snow-like appearance. This is said to be brought out by the mother earth as a result of repeating earthquakes which still happens about twice a week according to our tour guide. People have been coming here since the ancient time for its health benefits.
The night was spent in the hotel watching
Miracle in Cell No 7 while Kak Pah was fighting and struggling doing her
assignment. Next day , we headed for Istanbul, the city between two continents.
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| The travertines |
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| Agora |
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| Roman Theatre |
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| Thermal pools which contains irons etc |
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| On our way into the Hierapolis |
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| The name of the restaurant in Hierapolis, where the Cleopatra pool is. |
Bengkel Media PRISM
'Allah is beautiful and loves beauty'.
Indeed, everyone looked so happy when they got to capture pictures, as plain as they may looked like before which then turned to be beautiful. What is more now we can use Lightroom untuk lebih sinar.Lol
The facilitators' patience repeating the same thing was impressive. Beautiful is again the word for patience is beauty. If they could be patient over us when we were in distress, clicking here and there, yet not getting things right, let us then also practise that patience when we practise and build upon the skills that we have learnt on the day for it is not easy to create even a very short video. Bak kata Sya-irah Nasir "Bengkel Media taught me that struggle is real".
When Sifu Qayyum showed us the video that we will have to produce almost similar to, as far as I could remember and hear, there were almost no cheer from anyone in the room or there might be as faint as it could be.
We then tried to make it ourselves and later after the struggle of that, the very same video was then presented to us again. This time there was almost a roar from everyone admiring it. Well, we probably see the beauty more when we have experienced it.
Beautiful.
#bengkelmediaprism
School Visit Volunteering at Masjid
Assalamualaikum everyone.
A few days ago,I volunteered for a school visit in one of the local mosque here. There were 6 stations and I was assigned to take care of a group of 20 of seven and eight-year-old kids. They were very adorable and well behaved.
It was quite awkward at first as I am always quite socially awkward. Lol. After a brief introduction of Islam, they were divided into 3 groups. Then, when they all came to me as I stood in front of almost 60 kids, I greeted them with a smile on my face. I then asked them about their expectation.
"Alright, guys. Is this what do you expect to see in a mosque?"
"Hmm, no actually. I thought it will be bigger"
I can't help but curled both of my lips trying not to laugh.
The thing that they remember the most is probably the word 'Allah'. I am not sure if they really understand who Allah actually is as they repeatedly gave that as the answer to everything.
Cute. Kids are very innocent.
At the Quran station, they were given the chance to listen to Al-Quran recitation from the headphone for 2 minutes each. I love observing them. Some of them were even bobbing their heads and slightly shaking their body with a wide smile while listening to the recitation.
Children are so pure. They are like white pieces of cloth.
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