lesson from a cockraoch

a very fancy way to end one of the most meaningful and pack year...

i woke up this morning, realizing a lesson...
given to me by a cockroach...

i have been working for 3 years to get rid of em...but they just won't go away...
and then i realize...no matter how hard we work for something, if He does not permit it...it wont work~
so at the start of term this year, i prayed...and promise to make sure things are clean so the cockroaches'll go away...
alhamdulillah they did...He kept His promise...

but this morning that tiny irritating guy came peeking into my kitchen again...what???
and i noticed...i haven't been keeping my promise...

bless the cockroaches~

:D
now i can appreciate its existance...LOL

have a nice happy new year everyone...
build up dreams and make em true!

*when you hope some people to do something, you must teach yourself to do it first
*depend on Allah in every huge and simple matters...
*beauty = arabic language

Alhamdulillah the ups and downs this year are nice to be treasured....i love 2010, and i hope 2011 will be much better and also treasure valuable lessons...:D

jom berazam!
do pray for our end of round peads exam...

zai titriddisi tib???

language barrier is a challenging  obstacle for us now...

a situation:

i was trying to take an antenatal history from a mother...
her 7 month old child has ventricular septal defect in his heart...so i asked

"lamma hamilti bi abdul rahman, kan yujad ayyi mushkelah?"
"when you were pregnant with abdul rahman, was there any problems?"
"aah...kan amilti....bla...bla bla..." i didnt get her...hehe

she explained...but i couldn't understand. so again and again until every mother in that ward tried to explain to me what happened during her pregnancy...
and they even explained stage by stage how a baby develop and how baby needs nutrition from the mother...(this is what i could understand)...but i still couldn't understand what was the problem...

and finally...a woman asked me -
"enti mush fahim eih elmushkelah?"
"you still couldn't understand what was the problem?"
"ma3alish...la'a"
"am sorry...nope"
"zai bititriddisi tib???...da hagah 3adi, kullu 'nas yufahim!"
"how could you be studying medicine???...this is a normal thing, everybody understands!"

erk...hehe
so i had to explain to them that i didn't understand ammiah thoroughly...and that is why am practicing talking with them

"rabbuna yusahhilik!"  "rabbuna yuwaffakku!"...they said~

# the word i didn't understand is "hablu sul" or that was what i heard..."zai khartuum" they said as they explained what is hablu sul...hmm~...

#very lucky to see an achondroplasia case...my jaw dropped the moment i heard a supposed-to-be-6-month-old-baby talking..."3anduha khomsah sanah!"...huh?...and then i realized that her limbs were different~

-do study short stature, chest, heart and abdomen

Qolyubiyah

i had the most wonderful opportunity to join a trip last 3rd Dec.

it was a three hour boat ride from ramses hotel

we reached a place called Qolyubiyah...

where we sat in the "Hadiqah" for tazkirah, games and eat...

then after zohor we ride "something" (i rode the horse-carriage) around the village....to the "shalalah"...LOL

and in the end...went home by boat accompanied by the beautiful sunset!

well,
my real intention was to tell about how i got invited into this trip...hehe

this trip was organized by the Arabic teaching center i join... n ust Mahmoud have told me about this trip since a month ago...but i just didn't think going for a trip is my idea of relaxing...

and finally, 3 days to the trip...ust Mahmoud gave me a "final tazkirah"...5 reason why i should join in...hehe...
i was laughing all the time...so i didn't catch all the five reasons...and mainly because ust was explaining to me in 'Arabic' -God!, when'll i get this language to settle in my tongue???-

but, one of his excuses caught my attention...

because you need to give yourself a rest!...working, studying, socializing everyday...all of this makes your heart/soul (qolb) tired, so once in a while...you have to get out of this routine...and there is the 3 most wonderful things that can give peace to your heart/soul...

1. the greenery

2. the blue water (well, it is very difficult to get the Nile river to be blue....)

3. the one that caught my ear...LOL...al weshu jamil (and ust sweeps his forefinger n thumb across his face)...au, soutul jamil...au...aiyee hagah jameel...

and our trip will provide you all this!

hehe...
and because of this reason...i decided to join...:)...fortunately!

peads are passing by me very fast...huhu...has anyone made the clock run faster?...it seems like it's running triple the usual rate i am used to...

arghhh!!!...am trying to be patient!!!

i really like to share this invaluable understanding that clicked in my head yesterday...

it's not that i never knew it before, but i guess the circumstances made me understand this more...:)

i was discussing with ustazah Jihad about an Arabic conversation. a guy was explaining to his friend why does his aunt lives with him. 

"my aunt had just gone through an unfortunate event, her husband and son died in an accident. that is why she's living with my family now, though this incidence could have affected her badly, she's a strong women, she didn't weep al the time and her face is always calm."

"ya liyana, as sobr feehi ithnain nau'an...fi sobr ma'a redho wa fi sobr ma'a sakhot" 

"liyana, there are two types of patience, there is patience with acceptance and there is patience with discontent"

said ustazah Jihad once we went through the guy's explanation. and she added:

when you face a problem that upsets you, yes you could say..."am being patient"...but your face would not fake others if you are really upset. it will be expressed by your bad mood...everybody around you can tell by just looking at your face that something is wrong...but, a person who accepts what has destined for him when an unfortunate event befalls him, he would say "la haula wala quwwata illa billah" and smile.

and this is not easy ya liyana. not everybody can do it...that is why, we pray to Allah:

أَللَّهُم أَرْضَ عَنِّي رَضَاءً ﻻ سَخَطَ بَعْدَهُ أبَدًا

and yesterday i realize that i haven't been thoroughly patient before...

take what is good, correct me if am wrong

a wonderful day to start a new year...:D

food

starting winter...my head is always occupied with what i would eat nex...LOL

each morning, i would already plan for tomorrow's breakfast...and here seeps all the memories of malaysian food...

laksam or roti canai for breakfast...owh, and we have a 'kedai mamak' that sells 100 types of roti canai in sek 13, my mum bought roti klcc once...LOL...or nasi lemak sambal sotong in PKNS...my favourite one...once in a while, hanging out with umi, yen, ona or ami for just a coffee and reading newspaper at weekends...ayah always have either oat or tuna with sandwich most of his breakfast (blood sugar control by mama...hehe)...or just bread and 'kaya'...owh we don't have 'kaya' here...

for heavy meals...we can simply buy at sek 8's...i love the fried talapia with sambal there or to ayam desa masuk kota's chicken rice at sek 11...mmm...it was there since i never know when, it's kind of remarkable to find it still at the same spot last summer...hehe...mee goreng, mee kari, laksa, keuh teow...hot plate...nyum3...sometimes i would be satisfied with just fried rice...or if we are so confused, just go to pasar malam for satay or kebab or murtaba' or anything

appetizers...hummm...i love all kuehs...just name it but my most favourite is toknde's karipap...hehe...or rojak...or...cekodok, jemput2, mmm....i love eating and it's stressing not being able to make one...

fruits,...manggis!!!....or rambutan or duku or cempedak or nangka or...betik which is the one of the fruits i havn't found it here yet...fruits are important to give you fiber...:D

after we've done the routine of appetizer, main dish and desert...of course we need a drink...mmm
fresh orange, sour sop, watermelon, mango juice, sugar cane...aaa...and chrysantymum tea...did anyone realize we don't have this here?...or simply sky juice...teh tarik mamak is the most wanted when you can't get it...but when i am living there...i never thought of trying this all out...hehe

now i see how valuable malaysian foods are

urm...i think that is only 25 % of what i experience myself...
eating is subconcious
but not here...

still, i should be grateful!

*what does food have to do with the new year?...well, food is the item that's been lingering around me since...but, for this new year, i would like to urge myself n anybody, to set new goals so that we can at least say we achieved something by the end of this year...

May Allah be with us all~
salam maal hijrah everybody!...hmm...what should i have for breakfast on thusrday???hehe