How Covid-19 years Affect My Life?

     Happy 64th Merdeka Day Malaysia! Guess our battle now is Covid-19 which I consider as a war too. Right now, I believe all of us around the world are affected by this virus somehow. 

    I never thought that I am unable to travel due to a virus. I usually think that the only limitation for me to travel frequently will be money. I always whisper to my heart, "Hey, It's okay if your work is hard now, work hard then travel hard" and then BAM! Coronavirus comes so quickly. No travel, no dining. 

    Then, my preceptive change, how I'm going to be mentally prepared every time I faced difficulty during working? I registered for a horseriding class! It was delayed a few times due to pkp. 

        There are few things that I have learnt during my lessons. 

1) How to prep a horse before riding, put them with saddle and bars on their mouth.

2) How to feed and them (they eat twice a day)

3) How to ride them, trotting and canter, although I am still unable to do canter up until now :')😅

    I love horses💓, they are funny, delicate and sensitive. What I meant by sensitive is that they will know when you are fear. They will bully you. So, before you ride a horse, try to relax and calm yourself. To be honest, I still learning to do so.

    I'm not a very good rider, I can say. Maybe because I'm too soft-spoken, which makes the horses harder to listen to my instruction. With my body language, I wasn't that clear too which make the horses confuse sometimes. I could not blame them, I was confused too.

    Although my horseriding class wasn't as smooth as I expected, I learnt a lot. I learn how to communicate better, be more patient and trusting which I was really bad at. I'm sure I will join another class in the future.

    Besides that, I changed my job this year. I quit my 3 years old position in a new town and meeting new people. There are a few things that my old job teach me. First, leave whenever you felt like you were not appreciated. We think that it's okay to stay as long as we get paid, but staying at a place that didn't appreciate you is very toxic.

    Secondly, leave with no conflicts and drama. Based on my experience, many people leave with drama and conflicts with their bosses or HR. I think we should leave the job with no conflicts because we should have clean records and many networking as possible.

    My first job also thought me a lot of things such as dealing with users, communicating, and planning things. Which I wasn't thought in my degree before.

    Last week, I got my finger stitches. Which unlock me with new things I guess. I never had anything stitch on me before. Well, it hurts like hell. The moment when the doctor injects you with numbing, it felt like someone stab you. I got stitches because I cut off my left-hand ring finger while cutting a stupid carrot. The stitches will remove this Friday. I'm really nervous.

    My sister convinces me to go to KPJ hospital instead of the government one because there are full of the covid patients there. Treatment kind of fast but the nurse gave me the wrong date for an appointment and didn't wrap my finger after the suture. 

    But what I wasn't expected is that how difficult to claim the hospital bills with my Takaful. Like seriously Takaful, people are losing fingers but what you all care about is to fill out 3 long pages of unimportant info that you all already have in the system and I'm in serious pain. I clearly have the hospital bills with details, I paid every single month of your insurance and didn't claim any accident for more than 2 years. I'm very disappointed.

    Finally, I really hope that covid-19 will be lesser soon in Malaysia because we are already in the range of 20k cases per day. I really could not predict how is the future going to be but I always pray for the best for Malaysia💪.

     

  

My First Umrah

Alhamdullilah for Allah greatness that I and my family are invited to Mecca and Madinah (22/2/2020-3/3/2020) by Allah. 5 days in Madinah, 6 days in Mecca. I remembered the first time I entered Madinah and riding the bus with my group (Bus 1, Andalusia Travel Agency) towards our hotel (Mawaddah Waha), Ust Maulana said “Everyone that enter Madinah city are love by Allah”.

On that night we bought a sim card near our hotel, there is one guy who said his Mutawwif (a person who brings you to travel and perform umrah, honestly, very interesting job) suggested Mobily. So, all of us bought Mobily that cost us SR45. It has 2G internet and call for 100 minutes. This is more than enough because there is Wi-Fi in the hotel too. 

What special about Madinah is Nabi Muhammad S.A.W was buried here, at Masjid an-Nabawi. Every time you pray in the Masjid an-Nabawi, the rewards are 1000 times that you pray in other Masjid except for Masjid al-Haram in Mecca. Very beautiful masjid and there is Raudhah inside it or known as Heaven Garden. Where every doa you request here will be fulfilled by Allah, InsyaAllah. 

At Masjid an-Nabawi

So here are the tips I got from Ustazah to enter Raudhah as a woman. Because men, they can enter Raudhah 24 hours a day. Women only 8-11am (sometimes close at 9am) and night after isya’ until 11pm.

1.       Go before 11pm and enter stage 1

2.       Wait at stage 2, where you can see the green dome where Nabi/Prophet Muhammad S.A.W was buried. Encourage to read al-Quran and Yaseen for our prophet.

 

Green dome from the outside Masjid al-Nabawi

3.       Stage 3 you can already enter the Raudhah. But please wait until 1am and more so that it will be the least crowded.

4.       Start from the very end near the green dome. So, if the guard chase you, move slowly by slowly towards the other end, and every time you move, pray, because they won’t disturb you if you are praying.

5.       Take care of each other.

Here is the picture of Raudhah.

 

In Madinah, I visited a few places.

1.       Masjid Quba’. First Masjid build by Nabi Muhammad S.A.W

 

2.       Masjid Ijabah. Nabi Muhammad doa for 3 wishes. But only 2 wishes are fulfilled

a)       His ummah never hungry/thirsty - (fulfill)

b)      Allah didn’t harm His ummah by sinking down - (fulfill)

c)       His ummah didn’t have a different opinion (Madhhab) - (not fulfill)

3.       Masjid Sajadah. Wahyu (revelation) was given to Nabi Muhammad about salawat and he sujud here.

4.       Masjid al-Fasah (near a cave where Nabi Muhammad take out his face shield)

5.       Masjid Mustaroh. Nabi Muhammad rested for Uhud War.

6.       Masjid Bani Harisah. Nabi Muhammad back from Uhud War.

Didn't go out of the bus. Capture some wording. Bottom you can see it said Masjid Bani Harisah

7.       Well/ Salman al-Farisi plantation. Long story cut short, he needs to plant 300 dates tree to be free and meet Nabi Muhammad, I didn’t remember much.

8.       Ghars Well. Nabi Muhammad request to be a bath with this water when he died.

9.       Ka'b ibn al-Ashraf. I honestly could not remember the story.

10.   Jabbal Maharoq/mahariq/Mahruq. Burn hills.

Ust Maulana said that the burn is still active and can burn again anytime.

11.   Bi'ru Izziq. Well, that has been spit by Nabi Muhammad S.A.W. 

12.   Masjid Musabbih. Nabi Muhammad prayed Subuh before going to Quba.

Before we went to Mecca, we did Miqat (niat for umrah) at Bir Ali. Here is the picture at Bir Ali.

In Mecca, I went to Masjid al-Haram where Kaabah is there. We are lucky, alhamdulillah because we can do umrah without any disruption due to Coronavirus. After we went back to Malaysia, some of them (27/2/2020) batch onwards could not enter Mecca after arriving at the airport Jeddah. 

We also visited Jabal Rahmah where Hawa met Adam for the first time in this world after separated for a hundred years.

 

 Here is Arafah where during Hajj, we need to be here all night.

            The next day, we went to Ta’if to visit some of the industrial places and for Miqat at Qarnul Manazil. It took about 1 hour and 30 minutes from Mecca to Ta’if by riding a bus. A basic history of Ta’if, is the first place Nabi Muhammad Hijrah. His breastfeeding mother, Halimah al-Saadiah was in Ta’if too. Ust Anuar Rangkuty told us the story about Halimah al-Saadiah.

            When Halimah al-Saadiah went to Mecca to get a child to breastfeed, she is the last one to arrive in Mecca due to her camel is too thin. Nabi Muhammad was the last child in Mecca, no one wants to take him because he was an orphan. If the baby is an orphan, meaning that no one will pay you when you breastfeed the baby.

            However, miracle due to blessing from Allah, Halimah al-Saadiah arrived first to Ta’if before her friends. During the time she is taking care of Nabi Muhammad, all her farm animals getting fat and healthy. That is why she loves Nabi Muhammad so much.

            When Nabi Muhammad was a kid. His heart was wash and clean by angel Jibreel during the time he is playing with Halimah al-Saadiah’s biological kid. This happened in Ta’if too.

            In Ta’if the temperature is like Cameron Highland in Malaysia. Cool and nice. There is a Military in Ta’if too. Even the king will visit Ta’if during hot/summertime in Mecca to cool down. In Ta’if we visited:

1.       Rose farm.

Back there is the rose farm. There are 2 dogs. Taking care of the farm

Distillation of rose water 

I got some free rose when I bought the honeycomb.

2.       Strawberry farm.

3.       Fruit Market. Grill Corn SR0.50. How cheap.

4.       Qarnul Manazil. For Miqat.

That is all from me today. I hope I will visit here again. Soon. Bye. Assalamualaikum.

Road To Sabah

My journey to Sabah. 

Well I supposed to write this thing 6 months ago because I went to Sabah on January. If this story is a bread, it would have expired long time ago😂. 

So anyway let’s get started. When I arrived at Sabah, it was about 9.00 am, I took a flight at 6 am from KLIA. I waited for my friend for 30 minutes because her flight from Penang. Bear in mind, you need to present your passport/ic and you will get this pass. Keep it properly😅

After reach at Kota Kinabalu Airport, we straight away get our rent car. We booked a Produa Bezza Car, RM130 per day from  En.Ali, he was somehow my friend’s father acquaintance. The car was great, it was new with Eco technology, so we saved budget on the fuel. If interested, can whatsapp him on 0138080771.

After getting the car, we drove to Lok Kawi Wildlife Park. Well.. I’m really craving about animals, so I get pretty excited. They have bears,  savannah cat and some bird that I’ve never seen in my whole life. It looks like a penguin 😂.

After that, we at at a nearby restaurant. During the lunch, I remembered a conversation with my sabahan friend, she said that most food here serve with soup. I found that interesting. Wherever you go or eat, there will always a small bowl of soup served😅. P/s: they call tomyum as tomyum soup.

Next, we checked in into our hotel, OYO 564 with the price of RM78 per night. On the evening, we went to Pasar Filipina. We ate a grill seafood and some seaweed salad. Bear in mind, if you take a lobster, it would cost around RM90-RM100 per lobster. Well my bad, I thought it was cheap 😒. However, the it was really tasty. So, I was happy in the end although it cost me more than RM100 just for dinner. We also bought some amplang and kuih cincin to bring back to Semenanjung.

The next day, we drove to Kundasang. We wasn’t really a good planner per se. But we got lucky when our journey was planned out nicely when we bought a ticket at Rumah Terbalik , that combined the places that we should go. So, we only paid once (around RM40) and we can visit all the place. So if you from Kota Kinabalu and want to back to Kota Kinabalu after that, the sequence should be like this:

1. Rumah Terbalik 
2. Kundasang War Memorial Park
3. Desa Dairy farm (exclude the ticket list)
4. Sabah Tea Resort
5. Tagal Luanti Fish Massage
6. Chanteek Borneo Gallery (near Kota Kinabalu)
7. Lok Kawi Wildlife Park (before/after go to Kundasang)

After all I think I will go Sabah again, only to view the sea. Most people said the see is to die for😅.

So that’s all, I hope I can visit Sabah again😍.