The Eternal.

Assalamu'alaikum..

Today I would talk about LOVE. 

So, past few days my dad been suffering from a stomach ache. And it was lucky that, my mom is currently on her work day off until her pension day. So my mom was able to take care of my dad.

And it is this time that I am able to see my parents love towards each other. At night when my dad stomach is hurting, he would called my mom over to massage him with some kind of oil. As I called it 'Minyak angin'. My mom will do that until my dad feels better.

First day of my mom's day off, she prepared a lunch and my dad come back home to eat. Before, when I was helping my mom cooking lunch, she planned carefully first what my dad can and can't eat as at that time, my dad was not getting better.

There was one night, dad woke up in the middle of night and sleep outside, on the living room. I was not asleep yet at that time. Next morning, mom asked me if dad is in pain last night since dad is sleeping outside. She was worried of him and feel guilty because she did not realized that my dad woke up and sleep outside.

There are times when all of my siblings gather together in the kitchen to help mom cooks, dad would come into the kitchen and said stuff like 'You gotta learn how to cook from now on. When you get married, you will be cooking to your husband, just like mom. You surely don't want your family eating at a stall everyday, it's not healthy. God knows what they done with the food, oil, frying pan ans stuff.'

I was touched. He encouraged us and at the same time, my dad is praising my mom in front of her children. Making mom as our role model. My dad was not the type to express his feelings, and this is the way he express it. That I can be sure of, cause I inherit my dad inability to express our feelings, haha.

Sometimes, we are so busy looking at the Korean, Hollywood drama and movies, that we went up looking for that type of love when we know it is haram. And we forget the eternal love that is so pure and halal that lies right in front of our eyes. Our parents love. :)

Kitchen, Communication and Memory

Assalamu'alaikum..

Cooking is fun. It really is.

Semester break almost end. And it's breaks my heart to leave my parents, my family and my home. If you asked me which part of semester break that I like most, I would say there are 3 kinds.

 1 - Spending time in kitchen helping my mom cooking meals                                                                              2 - Spending time with my family. Especially with my big sis and my baby sis

 3 - Spending time with my friends.

For some people, dinner table is where their communication happen. It's that time when they are able to chat with their family, getting updates on whatever happen in their life and stuff. As for my family, I would say that most of our communication happen in the kitchen. Especially when cooking.

It is that time that my father would walk into the kitchen, asking what meals we'll be having tonight, advising us to learn how to cook from our mom, chatting, telling us about his work and his work jokes and stuff.

And my mom would teach us how to cook the meal she is preparing. She will scold us a lots and sometimes we made a joke about it. There are times when she crack jokes with us and we all laugh. Our kitchen feels so blessed.

So, our little kitchen has a TV as my mom love to watch TV while she cook. In the recent event, mom was following a Malay drama tittle 'Teduhan Kasih'. She was crazy over the drama. One day, when she turn on the TV, there is no signal. Since my mom don't know how to find the tuning of the TV, she asked for my help. I have been tuning the TC for almost 3 times but that particular channel which played the drama was nt found. 5 minutes had passed since the drama started. Mom was not in ease and cooking process became slow. I was freaking out cause I was so hungry, haha. Then I try again, this time with all hope and the recitation of Bismillah, I started the tuning process all over again. And this time, Alhamdulillah, it worked! Mom was happy and I was happy cause mom start to cook faster, haha. Well at least, after 5 minutes of trying to tune the TV, I was the apple of my mother's eyes. Hihi ^_^

In this technology era, we sometimes forget how to communicate in the real world. We forget that our old parents is not used to the technology, facebook, twitter and stuff. We begin to talk less. But still, in this era, I find that kitchen was a tool in helping me to communicate with my family member. And I love my kitchen.

#when I am back to UIA, the thing I gonna miss most is my kitchen and the memory we have in there.

-Shah Sahaja-

Father Day and The Adrenaline Rush

Assalamu'alaikum..

I love you daddy. So much 

This post was totally taken from my post in Facebook.

About my communication problem. About how nervous I was just to say Happy Father Day. 

And how I deal with those problems.

This was posted earlier last night when my big sis called my dad just to wish him Father Day. I was totally freaking out at that time. I mean like I was in the house with my old man the whole day yet I never said anything to him. I was kinda afraid that he'll be hurt by my ignorant act.

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I have some communication problems. I don't really know how to express my feelings in face to people around me. Some of you might notice all the posts I've talked about how much I love my friend and stuff. That was easy cause posting it in FB is not as hard as saying it out loud in front of them.

Right at this moment, my big sis is having a phone conversation with my dad. She is wishing him Happy Father Day. I am quiet worry cause I haven't said anything yet to my Dad. And I am nervous thinking of a way how to wish my old man Happy Father Day. It's just that I don't know how.

#some may find it weird, but this is me. For me, saying things in reality in totally different than saying things in the virtual world.
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Then the phone call ended. I was frozen in front of the PC. Except for my finger that just scroll the mouse, I was literally frozen, haha. That was how scared I am. All of sudden, my dad asked me to go with him to the 7-11. After I went back from the store, this was the post that I posted. 

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So last night. Right after my dad end the conversation with my big sis, he asked me to go to 7-11 to buy him Eno Halia. We end up went together to the store. My dad gave me RM5 to bought that while he wait in the car.

After I bought the Eno, I went back to car, gave the Eno and RM5 to my dad. He was pussled. Then I said 'Cek pakai duit cek beli Eno ni. Murah je, tak pa.'
"Eh, mana boleh macam ni. Tak pa, abah bayaq balik."
'Tak pe abah, ni hadiah Father Day. Happy Father Day abah. Get well soon dad.'
"Ooo, okay. Terima kasih."


# mission accomplished! *bunyi OST James Bond, haha
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And that, is how I say Happy Father's Day to my dad. My heart race at that time. I was blushing. Luckily, I was driving so I don't have to face my dad while saying it. This is how big my communication problem are, huhu.

Happy Father's Day abah. I will try my best to be a child you can be proud of in this world and in the HereAfter. :)

A Better Muslim

Assalamu'alaikum...

            Since I enrolled in IIUM, Alhamdulillah. I am a new man now. My parent was so happy seeing me in this kind of state. You know stuff like, reading the Holly Book like that.I was happy that they were happy because of me. It's the best thing ever to make your parents smile and knowing the fact that they were smiling cause of you.

            What my friends mostly misunderstood was that I change when I was enrolled in IIUM. That is absolutely not true. Well, the fact was that, I changed to a better person before I enrolled in IIUM. After I finished my Diploma, I had a training course for about 1 and a half month. That's when I changed. Getting in IIUM improve me to be a better person, a better Muslim. That's all.

            What made me change? It's quiet complicated to tell what is the reason exactly. I would say that it's just a matter of time for me to change. Not to mention Allah kindness to give me the hidayah. During the training course, I had to stay in the hostel with no TV and not to mention the slow Internet. It was boring. 

            There is a mosque near my hostel, so everytime it is azan, I can hear the call of prayer. Since I don't have anything to do in my room, I pray. It then became a habit. And the most amazing part was that, I never felt as calm as I was while I am praying. That feeling just can't be describe by words. 


Just like that I change. Alhamdulillah.
Next story will be about me wearing hijab. I guess it'll be fun to reveal my story of changes bit by bit, hihi  ^_^  

-Shah Sahaja-

Bon Appetite!

Assalamu'alaikum..

Looks like nothing but it delicious actually.

Hihi. Today was my first time cooking carbonara macaroni by myself in my room in UIA using rice cooker. Yes, you read it right. Using rice cooker only, hihi. *proud of myself

Here the recipe for those who want to try it by yourself. *bajet chef, haha

INGREDIENTS :
1 packet of macaroni. *you can replace it with spaghetti also.
1 tin of carbonara sauce. *any brand is accepted. I like Prego most. You can also replace it with original tomato sauce.
Seafood you like. *for my dish, I bough it at the pick and mix station in Giant. So it'll have more taste rather than only hot dog.

COOKING :
Boil half of the macaroni around 10-15 minutes. *my measurement was half packet=1tin of sauce.
Toss it and put it aside.
Put the sauce into the pot. And some water. If you use the whole tin, add 1 tin of water in the sauce. If you half half of tin, add only half tin of water into the sauce.
Stir for a while. 
After the sauce has blend perfectly with the water, add all the seafood. You can also put in some chicken or meat. Just customize it to your taste.
Wait until the sauce boil.
Walaaahh~~! Dinner ready.
Simply fast, easy and delicious! Bon appetite guys!  :)

-Shah Sahaja-

English.. Why So Shy?

Assalamu'alaikum...

           Our topic today will be English. *That's why I chose to write this in English. Since lower school to high school, up to until we enrol in university, most people think that English is difficult. Wonder why is that..

           When I am in my Diploma, few of my friends asked me to teach them English. Honestly, I was a bit shocked to receive that offer. I mean like, I am no one. We have English teacher in our class, so why asked me? Their answers was that, they were shy and afraid of the teacher. By afraid I mean afraid to ask questions.

Then they asked me, 'How come you are so good in English?'

            My answer would be 'My dad. He teaches us English from we were little. During weekend, he used to bring us sibling to the library. He will pick English book for us. Then he will left us at the library, come during lunch hour and bring us out to eat. Then he will ask what book did we read. What are the things that we don't understand. Not only that, he will make sure that each of us will borrow a book. It must be English but we can also choose few Malay books. We have our own little dictionary where we wrote words that we don;t understand. Then we'll search for the meaning in the dictionary and write it down in the dictionary. Every single day, my dad would check for the book. His condition was that, at minimum 10 words must be in the dictionary per day.'

That's how I can be good in English. It was all because of my old man. :)

            Yes, speaking English would be hard. Not to mention writing. If you are not good in writing, just make sure that at least, you can speak. Listen to English songs, watch English movie day and night. Practice by talking with your friends. If not, your siblings would be okay. Because friends sometimes, can be a jerk where they make fun of you when you talk English. Believe me, I know that feeling.

            I used to speak English with my family members. If any of us pronounce things incorrectly, we will correct it. That's all. No need to be shy or shame of. At least, you are trying to improve yourself rather than people who did nothing right?

            When people from other countries such as America, Korea, Japan speak Malay word, we were amazed and  shocked. But then when we can speak a little bit of English, why should we feel shame? Okay for example, I have international friends here in UIA. One day, we are discussing things and it was a bit late. Suddenly she said, 'Jom makan!'.  I was like 'Hey, you can speak Malay?' *with amazed face. She said 'Sikit-sikit'. Haha.

          See the difference? Be proud when you speak English even when the grammar is wrong. What important is that you need to boost up your confidence first to speak in English. It's an improvement! Be proud of yourself! After that,it will all be okay. Insya Allah 

Speak English or you will not be heard! :)  

Prophet sallallaahu alaihi Wasallam said:

طلب العلم فريضة على كل مسلم

"Demanding knowledge is obligatory for every Muslim."

(Authentic hadith, narrated from some friends including:   Anas bin Malik, Ibn Abbas, Ibn Umar, 'Ali ibn Abi Talib, and Abu Sa'id Al-Khudri radhiallahu anhum. See: Sahih al-jami: 3913)

-Shah Sahaja- 

Had A Disaster and Thankful For It

Assalamu'alaikum...

Just be thankful for being alive today :)

This story happened to me quite a long time ago. Around 2 weeks had past if I'm not mistaken.

             I was locked out of my room for about 8 hours. I went out to take a bath, forgot to take my key with me and when I'm back, the door was already locked. I was frustrated and stress. I went to my friend room, wait for about 2 hours and pray that she will be back. 

            Around 6 pm, I went back to my room, Just wanna check if she has come back or not. But then, the door was still locked. I knocked and keep knocking, but there was no answer. Then I started to cry. I was broken hearted, frustrating and tired. I haven't had enough sleep for the past few days and when I left my room to take a bath, this is what happen. I was so mad. Blaming everything and everyone around me. 10 mins later, I began to thought that there is nothing I can do by crying.

            I went to my friend's room, borrow her clothes *baju kelawar. We talked about stuff, life and study. Then, I went to my other friend's room. It's been ages since I last saw her. We chit chat for quiet a long time.

            She lend me her tudung and a proper shirt to be wear to the mahallah cafe. Then she lend me some money to buy foods since I didn't ate anything from the moment I woke up until 9.15pm. After I finished eating, I went to the TV room, watching movie called Shanghai Knight starred by Jackie Chan.

            Then I realised, if I have not forget to key my key to the bathroom with me, I will not be able to meet my friends, I would not be able to sit in front of the TV and laugh of the movie, and I would not feel how cold the night breeze is. I guess The Lord want to show me, that is, other than my small size of room and my tiny laptop and the Internet, there is other things in the world that can make me happy.

            Whenever a bad thing happen to us, we will be disappointed, angry and stuff. But then, take time to relax. Because after all, everything happen for a reason. You just have to find the good reason. Stay positive! :)

-Shah Sahaja-