pahala berpuasa

"meh duduk sini" said Cikgu Syarin holding my hand and pulling me towards a group of people who were ready to break their fast.

i was running late and so i thought why not? the breaking of fast is any minute now and i still hadn't any food with me, so i joined him and a few of our regular friends at the surau.

Luckily, there were people like Cikgu Syarin.

Already, there were few plates of dates with curry-puff and tepung talam, Cikgu Syarin was busy pouring the icy-cold watermelon juice that he brought from home into the paper cups and handed one to me, then there was azan and we all ate to mark the breaking of our fast.

"my daughter baked this cake and my wife prepared this sardine roll. i just made the drinks for all of us". and that has been the practice of Cikgu Syarin ever since the fasting season started this year.

Why go through all this trouble, i asked Cikgu Syarin, a pensioner whose stature is far from filthy rich

"Owh there is no trouble at all!"  Cikgu Syarin and his family members are well known to be fantastic cooks and one of the generous people in my surau seizing at every opportunity to contribute some kind of comestible or others.

"Allah said, he who gives food to those who fast, will reap of deed (pahala) of the person who fasted the whole day, without any less deed to the person who fasted" i hope god bless me with good health so that i could do this little bit this year. i might not meet another ramadan next year!"

"amiiin" was the reply from everyone simultaneously. he beamed from ear to ear. 
i felt ashamed of myself!

pics from uncle google

New Zealand, What a heaven on earth.

They say New Zealand is one of the most beautiful country in the world, you need to see, feel and taste it to know that it is so true.
Alluring, appealing, exquisite, fascinating, dazzling, superb, stunning, gorgeous... are only but few words to describe this magnificent country, where the population of cattle and lamb supersede human by so very far.

Tetiba, i am feeling down the rut!

The message was short and simple.

"banyak kali saya tanya macammana nak register"

"orang lain boleh cari blog saya,
so tak payah la pa cari.
Tak penting pon blog saya tu."

We always hurt the one we love, this is a good case.
And you know what, those moments together were most precious, being able to reach out, hold and touch someone with so much love and affection, but you can't have - to call your very own - the yearning felt very bitter.

There are times catching glimpses of the person would have to be sufficient and so you put on your smiling facade even though no one knows what you comprehended inside.

But it felt like a dagger straight into my heart when you can't even look at that particular face anymore since the "apple of your eyes" god knows why is gone.........