late nights.

i forsee a lot of late nights this coming week. projects , projects and…. projects.

dont be surprised if you see me walking around like this in the day^^

rofl.

today’s class was….. wow. just wowwww~ alot of sharing and opening up. alot of us in class tearing up. epic i tell you! you see… we got to the topic of punishment. and something about whether you’ve been spanked as a child, what effect has it on us etc.and we had to share our own stories. i realised then that  something soooo trivial like this can became so much complicated haha. when nab, one of the extroverts in the class, started sharing and tearing up ,everyone just froze la. and then slowly, ripple effect i swear! the next person shares and teared up too. and then the next person. and then next. and next. etc. the whole atmosphere! haha, even though i didnt have much story to tell, while i was telling mine, i was practically tearing up because everyone else too was crying T___T

today was refreshing.

i missed heart-to-heart talks. maybe that’s why i’m a colder person now. lol pfft what am i talking about “-.-

I FEEL ALOT BETTER TODAY :)

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it’s that once in a blue moon moment again T____T

i need a locked post soon, i think i’m going to cry. a lot of things are bugging the hell out of me but bleah, whatever. i need some encouragement. i need some support. i need a friend.

for now, back to the assignment. and one presentation still waiting to be touched. officially 12 hours straight infront of the laptop today. sigh.

why we read the Quran even though we can’t understand a single Arabic word?

Interesting….

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This is a beautiful story.

An old American Muslim lived on a farm in the mountains of eastern Kentucky with his young grandson. Each morning Grandpa was up early sitting at the kitchen table reading his Quran. His grandson wanted to be just like him and tried to imitate him in every way he could.

One day the grandson asked, ‘Grandpa! I try to read the Quran just like you but I don’t understand it, and what I do understand I forget as soon as I close the book. What good does reading the Quran do?’

The Grandfather quietly turned from putting coal in the stove and replied, ‘Take this coal basket down to the river and bring me back a basket of water.’

The boy did as he was told, but all the water leaked out before he got back to the house. The grandfather laughed and said, ‘You’ll have to move a little faster next time,’ and sent him back to the river with the basket to try again. This time the boy ran faster, but again the basket was empty before he returned home. Out of breath, he told his grandfather that it was impossible to carry water in a basket, and he went to get a bucket instead.

The old man said, ‘I don’t want a bucket of water; I want a basket of water. You’re just not trying hard enough,’ and he went out the door to watch the boy try again.

At this point, the boy knew it was impossible, but he wanted to show his grandfather that even if he ran as fast as he could, the water would leak out before he got back to the house. The boy again dipped the basket into river and ran hard, but when he reached his grandfather the basket was again empty. Out of breath, he said, ‘See Grandpa, it’s useless!’

‘So you think it is useless?’ The old man said, ‘Look at the basket.’

The boy looked at the basket and for the first time realized that the basket was different. It had been transformed from a dirty old coal basket and was now clean, inside and out.

‘Son, that’s what happens when you read the Quran. You might not understand or remember everything, but when you read it, you will be changed, inside and out. That is the work of Allah in our lives.’