End of Ramadhan

The end of Ramadhan is coming very soon and we'll be busy Rayaing. For the first time ever, i'm actually feeling sad. Honestly before this, when people used to tell me they wished Ramadhan wouldn't end, i could understand what they meant but my feelings never mirrored theirs. But this year, Ramadhan has been exceptionally good and rewarding for me. Alhamdullilah.

On another note about Ramadhan, i was happy that Prof. Hatta decided to talk a bit about terawikh during Grand Reflection. He talked about how the Prophet P.B.U.H demanded that we pray terawih but that it wasn't a must to pray it secara berjemaah. Terawih itself was supposed to be done in a relaxing manner and following your own speed. Anyway, why was i so happy he said that? Well, during early Ramdhan i prayed terawih in the college. But when it came to the last ten nights i preferred to pray at home cause i'd pray terawih after 12am and break into a few sessions where i'd do half and then sleep and then wake up just before sahur to continue.

When i told some of my friends who asked why i stopped coming to college for terawih about this, some of them questioned my ways. Now i know most of them meant well, but i so hate people who assume you're not doing something or you're doing it wrong just because they can't see you doing it or because you don't do it with them. Like if i don't join the Qiyamullail doesn't mean that while you guys are praying and all that at 4am i'm having a party or dozing off.

Okay, i've gone a bit off tangent. Anyways, I hope you guys have had a Ramadhan as full filing as mine and just in case i don't post anything in the next few days - Eid Mubarak!

Home Sweet Home

I'm back home in JB for raya! yeay! Got back yesterday around 9pm.

This week was my last week of Behavioral Sciences and so we had our finals yesterday. It was okay. The objectives were tiring to do actually what with 40 questions and each question having 5 sub-ques. The subjectives were quite direct and there was a question asking us to create our own human development theory based on all the theories we've learnt so far(Freud,Piaget,Kohlberg,Erikson). That ques let us use our creativity a bit.

After 3 weeks of BS, i'm quite happy it's over. Learning about psychology is fun sometimes but i find it to be something i like reading about for leisure. I'm not so interested about going to classes for it. Of course some of the topics we covered were fun but there were quite a few that were draggy. Doing the study group thing for this block was a lot of help cause having to learn all the topics by myself would have been boring. Which reminds me- Thanks Nebbe, Ezad, Amir, Afiq and Loi!

Talking about study groups, i realise that it's true what our lecturers told us about how we'd start using terminolgies we'd used in our classes in our daily conversations. Because it's Ramadhan, my study group mates and I would usually break fast together or go for sahur after burning the night lamp. One particular night sticks to mind. We had just finished reviewing the whole syllabus for BS and were at this tomyam restaurant in Dengkil and it was funny how we somehow managed to relate everything we were talking abt to BS, ranging from classical conditioning to exhibitionism and voyeurism to how were in sync with Erikson's Psychosocial Theory. We even got into a whole discussion about how prejudiced we were and if we were ever altruistic. I guess Prof.Hatta was right when he said that BS would make us look at things around us in a different light.

This week we started a new block, Behaviorial Sciences. Learning about the human mind, psychology and all that sounded very interesting to me as even before this i've read quite a few books on the topic. So, you could say i had high hopes when i started this block. But after one week...honestly i think i'm not quite enjoying it as much as i thought i would. I'm not going to air my dissatisfactions here cause i think that maybe there shoud be more initiative on my part to get the class to be more fun so i'll keep my opinions for the end of the block. Who knows? Maybe i'll be singing a different tune then

Ever since the fasting month started, i've been coming back on weekends so i've had some time to watch some telly. I so enjoy watching Oprah's Big Give ...somehow I always shed some tears watching this show. It's awesome watching this whole group of people acting so selflessly and then seeing the change they make in other people's lives. Also, watching 8tv has been somewhat kind of a walk down memory lane...they air shows like Beverly Hills and Boy Meets World, which i was so into when i was in primary school.

Fasting month has been good so far. I break-fast at college and usually do my terawih there. It feels great and you feel like one whole huge family. Because most days are quite busy, the weeks go by quite fast and the time for breaking fast seems to come by fast enough.

Ramadhan

It feels as if Ramadhan has arrived incerdibly fast this year, possibly due to the fact that life has been so busy lately. Ramadhan has always somewhat been a measuring tape for how much ive grown spiritually. Alhamdullilah,i feel that as years go by the Ramadhan's i've had have become more special and meaningful. Also, CUCMS is providing what i think is a good Ramadhan environment what with the Solat jemaah, and terawih prayers ,etc so hopefully all of us can properly experience the Ramadhan spirit.

So to all Muslims out there, happy Ramadhan!