RAMADHAN: stories down the memory lane..

salam, it's been a while. let's just say i kinda lost interest about THE OUTSIDE WORLD.. but RAMADHAN is here.. bulan paling grand dengan pahala yang extravaganza.. when we talk about ramadhan, we can never leave behind things like fasting, breakfast, sahur, lailatul qadr, terawih, and being a Malaysian obviously i cant leave out the fact about BAZAAR RAMADHAN.. even the non muslims are looking forward for ramadhan to attend the bazaar.. haha.. WARNING: this is not my assumption okey, this is what my non muslim friends said to me tau.. haha..

to a lot of people, Ramadhan is their priority rather than Syawal.. when i was a kid, this concept was totally hard to comprehend.. because during ramadhan there's no duit raya and kuih raya maaaa... haha.. and of course time ramadhan la muka macam ayam berak kapur sebab tahan thirst and hunger... haha.. (no chicken is involve in the making of this post... hahaha).. but as i learn the true meaning of ramadhan.. lailatul qadr.. ISLAM.. i would be a fool if i take ramadhan for granted... ramadhan is when the doors of heaven open wide.. and the doors of hell (nauzubillah) close shut... RAMADHAN is a MIRACLE.. 30 days of nothing but miracles..

people have a lot of memories about ramadhan.. sweet.. bitter or ... tasteless.. because ramadhan is the only exception.. the month where everything seems to be out of the ordinary.. hence creating outstanding memories...

the memory which makes me smile every time ramadhan comes is CHASING THE LAILATUL QADR... there was this one time when i was in early teenage life... so long ago.. so naive.. (i feel so old this very moment)..and like everybody else i was so eager to meet lailatul qadr.. night of a thousand nights... the night when angels come down to earth and pray for those who have Allah in their hearts... the night when all doas are granted... simply said.. it is the night when heaven comes to earth.. so, back to the story... one night, after i went terawih with my dad, i saw this streak of light in the sky.. a beam of light shone the sky and moving left to right... my heart started to pump faster.. i thought "THIS IS IT... IT'S THE LAST 10 DAYS OF RAMADHAN, TONIGHT IS RAINING A BIT.. THE AIR SEEMS REFRESHING... YA ALLAH, THIS IS LAILATUL QADR ISNT IT.." well u can tell la i'm so excited and freaking out about the light... i called my dad who entered the house before me (i have a habit of looking at the stars and moon alone)... i told him about the light.. then..... there was tears in his eyes.. not because of how touched he was about meeting lailatul qadr.. i reaized soon enough that those were the tears he tried to hold back from LAUGHING.. so outrageously at me... he told me "ANIS SAYANG, THE LIGHT COMES FROM KB MALL LAAAA" hahaha.. at that time, kb mall (one of te shopping centers in kota bharu) was newly opened.. so the light was sort of it's promo... hahaha.. malu seyh!!! usually.. during the last ten days of ramadhan... i would try to keep my eyes open... preventing myself from letting the night goes without efforts to be closer to Allah...kalau tertido tu rasa macam nak nanges,,,

tu baru cite pasal ramadhan... ni nak cte pasal puasa la pulak.. you know.. being a girl and all... i dont have the chance to fast one whole month of ramadhan because of my "monthly visitor" so my dad had insisted me to fast since i was little.. so that i can feel what it is like to fast for the whole month of ramadhan.. there was this time... when syawal was only few days away and so far i had been fasting.. i hadnt missed one single day..but that particular day.. i was temted to break my fast even before zohor.. huhu.. just because i saw my cousin drinking pepsi...PEPSI!!! hahaha... punye la tempted.. sampai.. i drank it also.. and later i cried.. i cried my heart out.. and my dad said.. HAAA.. PADAN MUKA.. hahaha.. dush3.. dengan pepsi pun boleh tergoda..pastu masa first day of syawal.. duk tepi kolam then nanges puas2.. when my dad asked me why i cried.. i said "ramadhan dah habis.. dah tak boleh puasa.. nak puasa lagi" ... huuuu... so thats it for now... :) eid ramadhan everybody.. have a good one..