Pre-story of my next travel diary

I am sorry for so many delays. I lost a lil bit of my focus and I become nervous without reasons haha. Entah la kenapa, but well yeah sebelum Disember melabuhkan tirai, I will try to finish my travel story. I just wanna write this though I am not sure who would still read my story lol

Anyway, this is the best part out of all including so many dramatic scenes when we were in Jeju. Our flight took off in the evening actually and we almost miss the flight because apparently my sister salah tengok jam and she thought we still have an hour to go dan still nak makan kat myeondong lels. Jadi berlari la kami dalam departure hall tu dan duduk2 je flight pun take off dengan gembiranya hahaha.

I purposely arranged our itinerary of our shopping time on the last day in Seoul so that we can really budget our expenses. In Korea, there are tons of shopping street and shopping places espc in Seoul. The best thing was they were all so cheap! Baju high quality semua boleh dapat RM30 je. That was crazy but being a typical me, I didn't buy any but I definitely would kalau tengah banyak duit ahaha coz semua barang-barang dia cantik cantikk, plus they are really up to date! To be honest, I still think I need more time to enjoy Seoul because window shopping could be one of your top itinerary if you come to Seoul. I am so into Korean design nowadays so I wish I could stay longer to explore more of their blouses and dresses. Tengok je pun dah cukup hokay hahaha. Well, we made it to Namdaemun market to look for gifts for our friends and family and then headed to Myeondong to shop for skincare!

Myeondong was insane. There were cheap skincare items and make up materials as to compare if you bought things online or if they sold it in overseas. I obviously can't shop like my sisters so sis tahan nafsu tengok skincare best best, shielding myself from the promoters persuasion and promotions, I was really strong to avoid the temptation I tell youuuu. I have made lists of skincare that I really wanna try and alhamdulillah, went to myeondong and I bought things I really wanna have. I successfully bought my snail essence which was a totally hot item of Cosrx and it was still sold out when I checked the item in hermo before I went to Korea. I also got my other Cosrx products and bought tons of sheet masks. And guess what, being a lip tint addict, I purchased my lip tint from Nature Republic for just RM18. Aha, before that I also get to taste hotteok in Namdaemun! I love watching travel vlogs and each time I watched vlogs in Korea, hotteok catches my attention so much so I made it myself out of curiosity hahaha. I can say that mine tasted pretty good so when I saw hotteok sold along the market I got so excited just to verify the taste of my hotteok hehehhee. 

I am too lazy to find all my pictures back in the street. It was the street that was packed with people and goods. But, I was totally happy in Seoul and being happy over buying things was another level of happiness actually although duit mengalir bagaikan air haha. 

So here's some video I edit to sum up my days in Korea. Before I proceed with another post on Jeju, please enjoy the video below :)

Toodles!

BTOB - Missing you

Hi.

I literally fall in love with a song at the first heard.

In which when I read the lyrics, it literally tells you the untold story of mine.

I never knew this boy group at the first place anyway but the song and lyrics are on point.

Presenting, the heartfelt of missing you.

Dear Wan Syafiqa,

Let's stay focus and cool.

Ps: I'll talk about my Jeju trip soon.

Day 3: Take 2 on Seoul

Hi guys.

I should have written this way back then. But I was quite busy trying to finish up my manuscript for scientific journal I need to complete. So I lose a little bit of writing my online diary. 

Anyway there's another reason of not updating this post coz I've been quite lazy to retrieve the pictures last time since they were all saved in my icloud. So yeah, I postponed on updating my second part. 

Well, the next destination we went was of course the famous Nami Island. It took around 2 hours to get there so we make sure that we went out as early as possible as we wanted to visit Itaewon at night. We took the train to go to nami island and I would highly recommend you to use 'Korea Subway' apps to look for the route. But you have to know which station you need to get off. You can't simply type in the destination like how we use google maps. Hence, you need to do a little bit of research and jot down a few notes so you won't get lost. I even have my notebook and highlighted important station and stops so we wont get lost easily haha. Good thing is it also showed you the fees per ride. Pretty much you can do the budget well and have at least rough ideas how much you should topup. I only used around 20 000 won for our 4 days around Seoul, and it is actually quite cheap. I usually use google maps pretty much on everything coz I love it so much ever since I live in Australia. You just need to type in your destination and it tells you everything and also the possible public transport you can take from your location. If it's involved in subway line etc, it even tells you the line and the route. It works really well in Australia and Japan but it was hopeless in Korea hahaha. I don't even know why. 

From the station to the ticket counter we took a taxi to reach Nami Island. Well actually at this area, you can visit other places too like Petite France etc, but I told myself, no you don't have to go and it's okay. Let's made it to France someday lol. As soon as I reached at the last point, I saw so many people there. It was packed with tourists OH MY GOD. And the lines to buy the tickets were insane. But we don't have to wait that long though, they did quite good job. I applauded them for that. It took only 3 000 won per entry. And also you can choose either you want to enter it by ferry or zipline. Since we were on tight budget, ferry was our choice. Memang pack la satu ferry tu penuh dengan tourists, kalau karam mati katak agaknya haha. It was a very short one, 10-15 minutes pun dah sampai. 

The first hour was cycling all over Nami Island, and we searched for the instagrammable spots to take pictures of course (although I don't have ig). I think it was around 10 000 to 12 000 won for 1 hour I guess. 

Last stop dia Gapyeong station rupanya. hehehe

Nasib baik bergambar

Sekarang kita dah sampai kat tempat beli tiket ya tuan tuan dan puan puan 

lepas berbasikal singgah tangkap gambar jap

After that we stopped by a muslim friendly restaurant and ordered black bean noodles or jajangmyeon. Sedap wei lain beno rasanya dengan dubuyo ke myeondong toppoki ke so different hokayy. But I can't remember the name. It is actually quite easy to find it. Korang pegi je amik pamplet nami island kat tourist center, it includes the halal sections. Then baru lah kteorang menapak cari tempat winter sonata. My dad was exhausted already coz he's been here twice and my dad jenis yang cepat bosan so dia dah nak balik haha. But being the typical Wan Syafiqa, I won't give up until I reached the signature statue and so called trees hahahaha. 

And yes bebeh, we found it.

 So this is the place peopleeee

The famous winter sonata statue. Sebab takde snow so kurang la skit feeling dia 

ehehhehe

Engkorang tengok la ramai dia macam manaaa

Stress aku nak bergambar orang photobomb sesaje 

Once mission accomplished, we made it back and sebab aku beriya nak makan dakgalbi gigih la kteorang cari. There were lotss of dakgalbi restaurant but there's only one halal place which is chuncheon dakgalbi. Quick tips, if you get off from you ferry, you need to head way down to the right and look for this restaurant. It was not too far from the jetty and it is surrounded with other restaurants as well. So you need to have good eyes for this hehe. 

I have to admit I enjoy eating this so much despite I was quite full 

coz I had a big bowl of jajangmyeon earlier.  Banyak kauuu

Semput jugak nak habiskan. 

Then, get back to the train station and headed back to Seoul. Another 2 hours and 30 minutes journey. We departed around 4pm, so it was already dark when we reached Seoul. It was quite a long day as we made it to Itaewon at night mainly because we want to experience the national mosque there :)

SubhanaAllah, Allahuakbar. 

It always feel good to be around your fellow muslims <3 i="">

The sense of belonging just got me here mashaAllah. 

As you guys know, Itaewon is full of Kebabs, loads of halal variety food. I was so tempted to try the halal guys hahaha since I've seen so many good reviews of the restaurant. We didn't anyway coz I let my dad chose his restaurant and we went to the same restaurant he went before. Since I heard that it was pretty tough to get a loaf of halal bread, we visited Salam bakery and bought a few stacks of bread to prepare for our next journey in jeju. 

We had so much walking in Korea and I truly enjoyed it. Mungkin sebab nak kurus jugak ahahaha.

Anyway, I have so much un-ticked lists in my wish lists. If I ever visit to Seoul again,  I have to: 

• Drink coffee at their coffee shops
• Try their Bingsu with their various flavor
• Try halal korean fried chicken. The smells of the fried chickens was so damn good!
• Wear their school uniform and walk around Lotte world 
• Try their halal korean bbq in Gangnam which I missed on the 1st night
• Go to their university and look for the school of Microbiology ahahaha
• Shop again at Myeondong and visit my fave korean skincare line
• Try their street food with the guidance of trusted muslims
• Attend free make up tutorials in Gangnam 
• Attend their korean cooking class since I heard they provide halal materials as well. Cool kan?

Hah, banyak nauu. Conclusion?

Kena pergi lagi sekali please. 

*I postponed this post for sooo long since so many things encountered while I was writing this post. Stay tune for the next post on my next stop, Jeju island!

Day 1 & 2 : Seoul Took My Soul Away

Guys.

I haven't move on with South Korea just yet that I have been boasting around telling people how good the trip was and how badly I wanted to come again to fulfill all the things we did not do. I need more time for that purpose obviously! I watched Joan Kim/Joanday Vlog a lot. The excitement sparked and yes people, second vacation is totally a must.

I have a weird habit of keeping things close to me if I feel like I need to achieve something from it. Just like how this trip goes, I have been telling a lot of people and I even wrote a post on how I really want to experience South Korea myself. Well, Korean wave blows hard. Even my dad won't hesitate to come there for the second time. Many people around me have been to South Korea and came back with souvenir in hands since I was at my teens. I used to gather them around and brought them to whenever I go or keep them in the visible area so that I can keep on telling myself, I would be there someday and I just did. It was refreshing and amazing indeed :)

I consider this as my post-thesis submission celebration because I flew right away after submitted them hehehehheh

Anyway, I feel like I should be there for two weeks or more so that I can really satisfied with my trip. But yeah, it is never easy to gain money people... marilah ukur baju di badan sendiri haha

So it took around 6 hours flight from Kuala Lumpur to Seoul, Incheon International Airport. I feel like my half day was wasted just for being on the flight. *Sigh* Flight from KL would be departing for 3x times a day I guess, so I highly recommend you to take the night flight. Hence, you'll be reaching Seoul in the morning and right away explore the city. Since we took the morning flight, we reached our hotel late evening. Incheon-Dongdaemun took around 1 hour and 30 mins which did not include our buffer time of purchasing T-money card for the subway and our portable wifi.

I choose to stay around Dongdaemun since it is only a few stops away from Myeondong and Namdaemun market considering that we need to catch our flight to Jeju after 3 days in Seoul. The first night we reached Seoul, it was pouring the whole night and the next morning too. My original plan was to take a subway to Gangnam to have dinner but it was quite late, plus we had troubles to find our hostel coz we chose the wrong exit out of ! The Korean subway line was totally big and every station they have tons of exits, and if you chose the wrong one, you'll definitely end up at a different place.

First lesson learnt: Read how to go a particular place carefully and choose the right exit!

If you are interested to stay at our place, it was Sunrise Dongdaemun Inn. This place is one of the cheapest place in Seoul as far as I searched through booking.com and I think the rate for an average price for dormitory (1) person is similar or I could say slightly cheaper if you compared to the (1) person rate of living in the three-bed room in this place for 1 night . Since we lived in a private room, so I think that's the added point of this place. I was pretty excited because our room was located at the attic. If you watched Korean dramas, you'll see so much scene on how people living at the attics. And they also provide space for you to chill outside. Perhaps it is where people often drinks and eat fried chickens. Pretty much, it really gives you the similar vibe hahaha. Not to mention it also has mini kitchen for you to keep your food in refrigerator or heat your food in the microwave. Fret not, they also provided you with all sort of utensils you can use to cook.

The attic where we can access from our room!

Cool kannn

Anyway, that night my dad dozed off early because we had so much walking from the airport to our rented place. I was long for the Korean Barbecue in Gangnam since it was the only halal barbecue place you can find in Seoul but yeah we didn't make it T.T I need more time pleaseee. Kak yang and I didn't want to waste our time so we went to walk around Dongdaemun. Well, I read that Dongdaemun market should be visited in night time because the night market would be so alive during midnight time but unfortunately, we didn't even catch a glimpse of it. I walked for about 3 KM that night but yeah still nothing. I am not sure is it because of the rain or is it us that did not find the right market. So we went to shop for umbrellas and stocked up our rice to be eaten the next morning. Thought of buying some veges but they were really really expensive. The price was so much different from the veges we had in Japan. We still can have veges soup in the morning in Tokyo, but we couldn't do it in Seoul haha.

The next day, we went to Gyeongbokgung Palace and we also visited Bukchon Hanok Village. Actually, in this area you can also visit Insadong because they are located close to each other. But we didn't make it to Insadong though, the palace tour was massive enough. The palace was big and we weren't able to walk freely since it still rained that morning. But it was still okay. We had a free tour offered by a school student named Da Hun and I applauded her for doing such a great job in giving us the explanation. I think it was a very good alternative to develop someone's soft skill and Malaysia needs to do that too! It rained all the morning so we missed the show in the palace. But we took some pictures of the people. My sister began to doubt whether were they real people or not as they keep on maintained straight face even though we took pictures together. That was quite hilarious to be honest hahaha

Da Hun and us!

Prior to take this picture, there were bunch of good looking men around. 

So I've seen another beauty of Seoul ehehhehe

Besar dan tinggi sangat mamat ni! 

Power boleh maintain muka straight 24 jam agaknya

Simply love this photo because it was well captured! :)

After we finished our tour with Da Hun, there is a free museum admission just next to the palace: National Folk Museum Tour. I think the appropriate time to finish the tour around the palace would be around half day I reckon? I still think there were more things I haven't discovered though because there were too much things to see huhu. As soon as we set off our feet from the museum, the sun begun to rise. If you're looking for a place to eat halal authentic Korean food in this area, please find Halal Kitchen that is run by a Korean Muslim man named Mr. Hassan. From the palace you need to walk a little but it was a walking distance and possible for you to reach by walking. The restaurant is situated a little bit of uphill so you need to look at up right and use the stairs to go to the restaurant. Actually, by the time we got there, the restaurant was still under construction but then Mr. Hassan was kind enough to offer us Bulgogi set and cooked for us. There was also prayer space so while I waited for my sister and my dad to finish their zohor prayer, I was given Banana uyu for free. How nice! I was thankful enough that he allowed us to dine at his place, but then he gave me the milk so I could feel that Muslims are connected through some kind of special ways hehe. 

You'll see the sign board. 

Mr. Hassan Lee who was kind enough to cook us this hearty bulgogi hotpot.

The delicious banana uyu gaiss! 

It became tastier because it is for free hehehhe

Then, we made our way to the area of Bukchon Hanok Village which is not far from the restaurant. You'll see some volunteers who wore red vest holding the map of the area. They are very helpful and friendly! So please do not hesitate to ask them. I've got so clear information from them because most of them can speak English and eventually found Hanboknam Hanbok rental place! There are two type of hanbok you can rent. The premium one where you can choose characters with more diligent design and the ordinary hanbok which is more cheaper than the premium hanbok. We chose the normal design and it costs us around 20000 won per person for 1.5 hours. You can choose to wear the hanbok for all day and wandering the area. I forgot to tell you that you can get free admission to Gyeongbokgung palace if you dressed up in Hanbok. What a catch kan? hehe

I was actually laughing so hard seeing my dad with this attire!

He was so determined to wear the hat everyoneeee lol

Family potrait

If we were born in the Joseon dynasty

The village itself has so many intsagram-able spot.

So many spots to make you feel like you live in that area and the ancient time

If you were to visit this village, you need to try the tea shops in the area so that you can feel the vibe of going through the time machine, enjoying your Joseon era at its finest!

Welcome to Tsukushi-Lee clan house!

We ordered berry tea, sikhye and rice cake. 

I always wanted to try sikhye after watching Minguk in TROS spilled the sikhye by accident

in the sauna. The scene was too funnyyy hahaha

For the rice cake, I don't really favour that kind of sauce. 

Sweet sauce which fits sweet tooth people. 

We ended our tour at 6 pm I guess, and began to make our way back to Dongdaemun. We thought of tracing back the market but unfortunately we didn't make it again. I actually did not know what went wrong because I was usually a quick witted person with directions and places. I adapt to new place really easy but this Dongdaemun market, I failed to find it huhu. Nevertheless, that was one of the craziest walking we experienced after the one we had in Tokyo. But we were very happy with wearing hanbok since it has been in my wish list for a long time! I can't remember what we had for dinner but I guess it was the rice we heated in the microwave and rendang tok abah brought from Malaysia. We were too tired to look for halal food and I pitied Abah who can't walk anymoree hahaha. What an experience!

I guess, I'll stop for now and would update another entry for my 3rd and 4th day in Seoul. 

For a travelling like this, it always makes me feel refresh and alive again.

I always look into Korea through the screen but now, I have set my foot on it.

I thanked Allah for always listening to my prayers.

I ran and wrote last month!

Hi guys.

It's been a while since I haven't write any updates in this blog. Rasanya kalau korang scroll setiap post pun ada ayat ni kahkah but anyway, it is really been a while kan? Don't you think so?

When I last updated my story on final draft etc, I focused my work on the corrections I need to mend and my final presentation afterwards. Though there are lots of things I wanna share, somehow my busy life restricted me to write the stories right away. Because every time I came back to my room I literally collapsed and sleep until the next morning. Sometimes I didn't even turn the light off and I didn't even know when I dozed off. For all those times that I have been hibernating from writing my online diary, I have been participating on 21 km virtual run last month and I also successfully submitted my thesis for the external examiner evaluation alhamdulillah!

Okay, this might sound absurd but you know I don't do long distance run and I found jogging is a boring thing coz you'll do this individually. However, this 21 km virtual run was so much fun that it trained me to run every morning constantly. And every time I saw my running tracker had increased in the distance section, I got motivated easily. I also felt that I need to do better than last time kind of feeling. So yeah, I have completed the run everybodeeehh =)

You see daaaat? I leaded the board hoyeah!

Semangat sangat hah, sampai aku lari 30 km last month aherher 

Tak main dah 21 km. Aku lari advance 10 km hahaha

Okaylah ni muka muka beginner yang happy gila sebab berjaya habiskan 21 km haha. 

lagi 2 orang #teamkurus kteorang takde dalam gambar

That was really fun aside of completing my thesis. Or perhaps it became a fun thing because I was stressing out with writing. 

So I also completed my pre-viva before I sent my thesis for evaluation. I was kind of satisfied with my presentation and my work since I consider it as my final presentation and that was the only chance for me to explain my work enthusiastically. I mean I've been working for years for this project and I should be doing a great job in explaining my findings to other people. I did not feel so nervous, instead I was looking forward for it and alhamdulillah. I was satisfied and guess what? My pre-viva celebration was going to the gym and running again the next morning for my virtual run assessment lol. Okay probably that was the reason I got exhausted every day hahaha. 

Terima kasih Ariff sebab tolong amik gambar dan update kat Dr. haha

Dan ya tuan-tuan dan puan-puan, 

pre-viva aku memang meriah dan mendapat sambutan orang ramai

-___-

I took for about two weeks to mend my thesis after receiving suggestions and comments from my examiners. Got it revised by both Dr. Azzmer and Dr. Naim and eventually submitted 3 copies of my softbound thesis. My supervisor said he was moved with my 'special dedication' section and yeah to tell you the truth, I wrote my acknowledgment section after I officially completed everything. And I didn't expect that writing it was such a heart warming and moving at the same time. I realized that my work would not come to its completion without many supports from my friends and family. If I was mentally tortured like most of the postgraduate stories I heard, I know this might be impossible. So everyone my work is not solely mine, it was built and contributed by lots of people out there. Well at least to my mental health la kan? haha. 

I submitted my thesis on 4th October and flew to Korea the next morning.

I reckon that as my post-thesis celebration! hahahahaha. Bought the flight tickets a few weeks before and decided Korea as our next destination. I know that was quite crazy and adhoc but yeah I need to breath some fresh air to stay alive. Ehem, you know me well enough kan? hihi. 

Korea is truly amazing! It actually has been a week since I returned to Malaysia. But I still can't move on with Korea and yeah definitely coming there for the second time. 

I haven't disclose this yet in my blog but I wish to bring my future-someone (read:husband) to Adelaide just to let him see the place I have grew. But now I have included Korea as a place where I need to come again with my future husband. Simply because I wanted to do lots of fun things with him in the future, well that includes wearing a school uniform and wandering around lotte world! 

I will write my Korea entries soon =)

See you guys in the next post!

Aha, nailed these cool-ly!

I've been waiting for this time to update my blog.

Alhamdulillah guys, I have submitted my final draft of my thesis last Tuesday! The feeling was incredible. Because right after I wrapped up my colloquium works, I speed up my writing and I worked like crazy. My thought is solely to finish off this thesis thing and I don't want to pay for my tuition fees haha. And yeah did it. Right now I am preparing my slides for pre-viva and still waiting for feedback from both my supervisors.

I wish to update this last month since I had much much stories to share. But the due date and my thesis flutter me a lot. These two years of my postgraduate life I think I experienced a great achievements during the latest colloquium held last month:

• I was the editor of Postgraduate Magazine entitled 'Virtousi' which was launched at the Colloquium night. I worked on the layout, the page arrangement and even proof read some of the articles sent to me. I chose the concept and did some alteration too. I know it was so much works but I was really happy and satisfied with the final result. I used to dream of being a journalist to be honest, tv hosting and reporting. Hahaha. That is probably the hidden part of me. Simply I feel so expressive working on the magazine. I love it so much. That should be my precious baby after my thesis I reckon. I feel so proud of my co-editorial board member: Shahrain and the PGKOS committee. Alhamdulillah we nailed this pretty cool. 

The anonymous quote is originally mine so yeah not so anonymous anymore hehe. 

Here is the link. Feel free to read it since it's made to motivate and inspire people with our postgraduate activities :)

VIRTOUSI

• I represented postgraduate student in a forum with two other lecturers. The theme was motivation for postgraduate students. To be honest I was freaking out because I know my place and of course I am not that diligent enough to be up there. I don't even own a thesis at that time and that is the most anxious thing ever for a postgraduate students of course. But Alhamdulillah, I think I did a pretty good job in this 2 hours discussion. After all a forum is all about discussion and every voice matters. It is not sort of debate that you need to win an argument. So it was all based on your point of view. That's the beauty of discussion until I was questioned by a phd student on my credibility lol (I think I need to write entire post for this sebab banyak sangat benda nak bebel haha) Frank enough, that was the point when I think I need to blurt out everything without thinking. So my virtual friend, where were you? (I know we were disconnected for almost a year now, but you were the 1st one I thought of that time. Because I wanna do it comfortably haha)

The other two lecturers are extraordinary. Memang bagai langit dan bumi. 

Hahaha. But like Dr Naim always said, "You are nothing less than me. We learn from each other"

Those words were so heart soothing. Thank you dr. 

Also I've got so many supporters that day. Credit to Dr. Latif too haha.

• I participated in 3 minute thesis and won first place! Alhamdulillah tsumma alhamdulillah. It was the first time me showing my unpolished public speaking skill in IIUM since I left school 8 years ago lol. I do not expect this would be such a plot twist cause the champion of this competition was there too. I was quite busy that week coz I attended a training program held in Bangi before the colloquium. Pretty much I barely had the time to practice. The thing is I prepared the text early and keep on murmuring the text while I was ironing and read my text before I sleep. That's was the only time I had. So yeah, hard work didn't betray :)

• I was the multimedia PIC for the Colloquium night. So I did another fun thing again! :) I edited videos and prepare for the VIRTOUSI launching ceremony. Since I was part of the editing team, I look forward for that moment so much! and alhamdillah things went well again. I feel expressive again coz I chose the songs ensuring that theme that night could be delivered nicely. Worked well with my co-multimedia committee; Wanie! Setiap kali dengan wanie, mesti rasa tenang dan selamat haha.

I looked so pale I know. That's the beauty of my bare face. hahaha

Well, on occasion patutnya beregek la skit ye dak.

But seriously I was out of mood sebab balik pukul 5pm, 

lepastu rasa macam overused my body for the weeks and I reached my limit.

Balik bilik, took a brief nap then 6pm baru terhegeh2 nak mandi dan iron baju. 

6.30pm terus keluar dan get ready kat hall. Sempat edit lagi satu video masa niii

Okay panjang penjelasan kenapa aku keluar muka camni hahaha

Kulliyyah of Science Postgraduate family. 

I am quite reserve at some points but I am glad to meet such amazing and steel heart people.

Coz I know to get going of this degree needs more than intelligence.

Let's stay strong and keep going inshaAllah!

I think this should wrapped up my post tonight. 

Still, at this point I am patting my own self (since nobody is doing this haha) to let me know I can do the impossible. What an achievements. Good job dear self!

Desire vs true love

Back on my stable state.

Those shattered feelings are temporary alhamdulillah :)

Tapi yerla kan, kita manusia mana pernah perfect. Hari hari kita cuba untuk jadi yang lebih baik dan cuba bangun balik dan find ourself back apabila teruji dengan benda-benda yang melibatkan hati dan perasaan. Lepas sehari dua dah okay dah sebenarnya hehe. Aku dah kembali dengan agenda dan impian hidup yang lebih besar iaitu ingin membina generasi harapan. Generasi yang bakal menaikkan nama islam iAllah.

So let's focus on to be a better version of yourself.
Mari menimba ilmu, menjadi wanita yang berfikir.
Menjadi orang yang bermanfaat untuk orang lain dan untuk masyarakat.

Semalam sebelum tidur belek2 balik kata-kata dari yasmin mogahed. Lemme summarize it into a small passage.

She said that people are often confuse on hawa (desire) and true love. We ought to believe that our wife/husband are our true love and submit ourselves to them. Yes, they are real but that's not true love. True love is when we submit ourselves 100% to Allah SWT. Allah says in the book that Allah created you from yourselves mate so that you find tranquility in them (30:31). Real love brings about calm-not inner torment. True love allows you to be at peace with yourself and your god. Hawa will bring you miserable, you keep on chasing them but you'll never reach them. So what I felt must be bounded to my desire/hawa. It's normal and it's about how you take care of it.

So may Allah grant us someone who can eventually bring us closer to Allah swt.
Ameen