First Ramadhan away from family.

Assalamualaikum and Hi... Greetings from INTEC.

Tomorrow will start my first Ramadan away from my family. I don't know why but after going home for one day last two week, I'm getting more homesick. Don't know how I'll be when in Korea. I try to call my parents every single day. Is that too much?.. hehe... The moment I end my call, I'm getting more homesick. Hmm.... now there is more assignment that's need to be done. Don't mention the tests. I guess this is college life. Hope someone will give me some tips to overcome my homesickness. 

So, alhamdulillah, tomorrow will be tthe 1st day of Ramadhan. I'm not a perfect Muslim but I will always try to be one and advice my people to be one and I hope people will do so to me too. There's always room for improvement to increase my iman to Allah SWT. 

So, remainder to myself and all in this beautiful month. During fasting, make sure to left out the useless stuff we always do in the past. Rather than spending our time chatting, sleeping, watching Kpop (I'm a Kpop fan myself), we could always spend the time with zikir, reading Al-Quran or even hearing people reciting Al-Quran. Try our hardest to khatam Al-Quran during this wonderful month. Here a schedule I had from Twitter that can help us khatam Al-Quran.

Hope this help. And as a woman, we had our time when we are not allowed to read Al-Quran, so, made early calculation to read more pages when we can.

Solat terawih only presence during Ramadhan and it's only happens 1 month every year so please make time to do 8 rakaat of Solat Terawih or go to the mosque to Solat jemaah as frequent as possible. Even if you had to much homework or work, if you make time for Allah SWT, Allah SWT will make time for you too to finish your work.

That's it. Please add comment if I am wrong with some fact or anything. Or if you have an advice to a better me and you during this Ramadhan and forever. Have a great Ramadan. InsyaAllah. Assalamualaikum.

Besut-ian in INTEC

Assalamualaikum and Hi.

I love being from Besut. For those who don't know, Besut is at Terengganu. But, the uniqueness of Besut is it is located at borderline of Terengganu and Kelantan. Our dialect, of course a mix of both. Some words are from Terengganu but in a slang of Kelantanese. Among ourselves, we said we talk in a Besut dialect and we are proud of it. Football? I would say that I support both T-Team and Red Warrior. I know that all Besut people are like that. But when T-Team and TRW went in head-to-head in a match, I give my support to Terengganu (because, if we win, we may get a day off school.. hehe). Next, I would say Besut people are very welcoming. At school, we received some student from KL with open hands. We teaches them to speak Besut and how to live here. However, I want to appeal my dissatisfaction about the Terengganu districts ignoring Besut. We are called 'di anak tiri'. It happens all the time. For example, during a state competition, Besut, unwillingly had disadvantage of picking the last number or not receiving any claps. Well, we know that we speak in a Kelantan dialect but we still a part of Terengganu. But, we, Besut-ian redha with all of that.

So, what is it life as a Besut-ian in INTEC, home of hundreds of intelligent students from all over Malaysia? Take note that I telling this story in perspective of a rookie student.

Well, I am very prepared coming here in every aspect but one aspect that I forgot is my dialect. I forgot that here, people speaks KL. So, there was me struggling to speak KL. I would say that my Kelantan dialect is extinguishable(for now). Every time I had a conversation at the MDS, people would had a tiny laugh and asks, "Are you from Kelantan?". And I was like, "Maybe... but I'm from Terengganu... besut to be exact... We do speak a bit kelantan dialect". What a long answer for a simple question. Besides, I'm a bit suprised that most of people's conversation is in English!!! I thought we are still in Malaysia. But I don't blame them because they need to practice since they are going to fly to US in two more long years. Hehehe. But I'm okay with that since I was not too bad in English after all.

Making friends is what I'm struggling right now. I shouldn't be worry since I've only been here for a week but my family and friends back home is very worried for me. They said, don't walk alone. Ask a friend to accompany you. What friend?!?! I don't have any... yet. I hope I'll make plenty for the time being. Please take care of me, new friends. 😇😇

"If you want to go to shopping mall, you can take the KTM", said the PM.
"Oooo", said my groupmates.
And I was, (in my mind) "What the heck is KTM?".
And I went home to search 'K.T.M' and finally find out it's a train. Well, we surely don't have a KTM in Besut. So, I was hoping to find a friend and went to KL with her in a KTM.

Hu... A month after writing the above words actually.. today is actually 16 June already.... I forgot to post it since my data usage ends months ago... huhu... well, to sad to delete my memories so here is this...