My Super Woman

Assalamualaikum,

You see guys, you haven't met the most incredible woman in my life. She gave birth to 7 kids, the first one was a caesarean baby, where the doctor said that the chances of her having another baby was very little. But SubhanAllah, He is the Most Merciful and Most Gracious, blessed her with another 6 in tow.

She married early, had a baby 1 year after her marriage, received her Master and PhD with 7 kids. She is a lecturer, a doting wife, a loving mother, a caring daughter. She is patient, and calm and she almost always never worries.

She is my super woman. She is my mother.

In debt

Assalamualaikum,

There will come a time when you are up to your nose in hardships, that you find it almost impossible to work your way through. There will come a time when you have no one to turn to and you become desperate.

This was one of those times.

To those who helped me in finding a house, paying for the house, moving into the new house, lending a car, letting me stay at their house because I was kicked out early, giving me their energy and time, buying me food, and not a single complaint and the sorts was heard, from the bottom of my heart,

Thank you. Thank you for not asking a repayment. Thank you for helping me at one of the moments when I felt so choked up. Thank you for everything. Thank you to Allah who sent these people to help me.

I hate feeling in debt, as if I have to pay everyone who has helped me because it helps me feel less guilty for asking for so much help, but even if I wanted to treat everyone who has helped me, that is quite far fetched. All that I can really repay you is my sincere prayers. Thank you, thank you, thank you.

Alhamdulillah, I'm surrounded by people who are truly kind at heart, selfless and know the true meaning of togetherness.

Studying overseas has it's perks, and the cons that come with it are enough to make you want to go back crying to your mother, but I figured, that the greatest perk in studying overseas is the sense of togetherness. No one is going to help you more than your fellow Malaysians.

Thank you. Jazakumullahu khairan kathira (may Allah reward you with goodness) to everyone who has helped so far, directly or indirectly.

:')

Things I realized I took for granted after coming to Korea

Assalamualaikum and good day :D

I haven't written for such a long time! I tried to, the ideas are there, but materializing it into words is getting so hard. I was given an assignment in English class, but unfortunately, we were only allowed to write 1 page, with times new roman font 12 and double spaced, and because I love writing, 1 page is obviously not enough. The title I picked for my essay was 'Things I realized I took for granted after coming to Korea."

New year and resolutions?

Assalamualaikum and a happy new year to my dear readers,

As 2013 dwindles down to a close, and precious minutes ticks away till 2014, we busy ourselves with statuses and posts about new years, and the inevitable almost ritualistic exercise of writing out our resolutions. Some of them are so far fetched, so fantasized that even we know, it is almost impossible to reach them.

Let's review 2013. How many of us can say that we have actually achieved our resolutions for 2013? Can you honestly recall things that you have done, that you are proud to mention in 2013? Have you lost a lot of weight? Have you gone on a backpacking trip? Have you made your life more than just study, work, sleep, eat, watch TV, facebook, twitter? If you have, then congratulations to you!

If I was a character in the television..

If I was a character in the television,

I would be Anastasia

jealous of Cinderella

Some lessons I learnt in AGM 2013 (Annual Grand Meeting)

Assalamualaikum and a very good day.

November has been the most hectic month for me, as well as it is for almost everybody. It feels like November just passed us by only five minutes and we're already in the last month of 2013.

We had our annual grand meeting, on the 30th November 2013. Compared to last year, it was pretty fascinating since I also actively took part in campaigning. After a long and tiring day inside the hall, I reflected back some of the things I've learnt on that day.

"Why do you wear that thing on your head? Isn't it hot?"

Assalamualaikum and warm greetings on a cold autumn's day. :D

During summer, there is always one question that is frequently asked to me. "Isn't it hot wearing that thing on your head?" or even worse, "Don't you feel suffocated?"

There was once when I was traveling to go back to my house in Konkuk, and one of the ahjumma (read: makciks) didn't even greet me with a proper greeting, and started scolding me because I was wearing the hijab.

She started yelling at me and said that if you are in someone else's country, don't try to impose your culture! You should wear like Koreans when you are in Korea! After nagging me at least 5 minutes, and since all I could do was smile and try not to look affected by her harsh words, she said "Hot! It looks hot! Take it off!" and she started pulling on my hijab inside the train, with everyone else looking at me, all silenced because they don't dare talk back to their elderly. Despite being rather old, I guessed that if we were to have a wrestling match, she would win. That's how scary the makciks are in Korea.

Dating at the mosque?!

credit: Saeed Owairan

Assalamualaikum and good'aye mate! (fail aussie accent) :D

Today, I experienced something new and unique! We distributed pamphlets to Koreans! Not just any pamphlets but pamphlets about Islam! (I think spelling the word pamphlet is a pain but whatever)

So I just wanted to share some funny and weird stories while distributing and explaining roughly about Islam to Koreans.

Blood, Sweat, Tears, Sportsmanship and a sweet thing called Friendship.

credit: Hanis Shauqi

Assalamualaikum and a very good day (even though it's a monday) :D

On 5th October 2013, Malaysian Student Association of South Korea held the annual PPMK Sports Day at Jungseok Aviation High School, Incheon. The students were supposed to gather at 9:00 AM but officially started at 10:00 AM something like that. The day was wonderful, the weather was perfect and you could totally feel the adrenaline and energy that radiates from each student, be it as a player or a supporter.

Homesick

Assalamualaikum everyone, and good day.

I haven't written a post in quite some time, with the new semester starting and all that, my head has gotten a bit confused, mixed up and the sorts.

I just came back from Malaysia, after 2 months of holidays. Most of my friends also just came back from their holidays, and mostly everyone misses Malaysia.

I would like to take you guys back 2 months before today, just right after I flew from South Korea to Malaysia. There was one week before I flew back, and in that one week, I wanted to do everything.

I wanted to climb mountains, have picnics, go swimming in clear, cool streams, go shopping, go water rafting, bike rides along Han River, and while most of them I did do, I didn't get to do all of them. After one week, it was finally time for me and my friends to return to Malaysia to spend our summer holidays there, bear in mind that we haven't seen our home nation in nearly one and a half year and we were so excited to meet our families and our friends back in our hometown.

I can't really say on behalf of my friends, but after landing safely in Malaysia, chatting with my family, eating out, and at 8PM, I laid in bed and thought,

"I miss Korea. I want to go back."

Confessions of a Kpop Addict.

Assalamualaikum! hewhew. It's been a long time right? Okay maybe not so long lah. I've had a writer's block for quite a while (a while because my previous blog, I updated like everyday.)

But today, bam! An idea hit me like a storm, at 11:00PM whilst I was trying to get some sleep. And guess what? Here I am at 11 something something PM writing this post down because I can't sleep with an idea in my head. It's a curse, and a blessing I guess.

AHA!

Today's topic, I actually mulled it over for a while, thinking about the appropriateness of the topic, whether it would be opening my own 'pekung' but I thought, this is to be treated as a lesson. I will try to keep that in mind whilst writing this post.

p/s. I really want to write a post in full Malay, but I need to brush up on my Malay I think, you know, artfully, like novel type of Malay, with good grammar and powerful vocabs and stuff like that, because writing in Malay very casually doesn't have the same impact. Well maybe it does but I think I'll make it awkward so let's save that till another day okay? ^^

Sedangkan tempat jatuh lagi dikenang - A trip to SABDA

Assalamualaikum! And good day to all.

The post title is in Malay but maybe I'll write this post in English (or maybe rojak as usual)

On 15th July, I visited my former high school, Sekolah Menengah Sains Bagan Datoh or famously known as SABDA.

So you wanna be a Vlogger?

Assalamualaikum and good day to you peeps :D

It's been like what? ages since I wrote, and my last post was me all emo, and really, I am always emo.

But that's besides the point.

How's your Ramadhan by the way?
Mine's just great.

Except I have an idea on my mind that's driving me crazy.

I want to be a vlogger.