My bucket list

I am 25 this year and I haven't made a bucket list. So, here we go. My bucket list: 1. Learn to play an instrument. I would love piano. 2. Master a new language besides English and Malay, visit the country and talk to the native speaker. 3. Get married and go honeymoon to one of the most beautiful island in the world. 4. Open a shelter for stray cats. 5. Get a PhD. 6. Buy a house with a mini library and huge wardrobe. 7. Perform Hajj and visit the land of the prophets. 8. Take my parents for Hajj. 9. Travel the world. 10. Take dancing lesson. 11....

Ignite

I never thought it would be that hard. You, me and that little space. I was trembling yet my body was heating. I tried so hard to act and breath normally despite those feelings, but you are always cool in your way. You know how to neutralize the situation, making me comfortable. Then I woke up, still shaking and a bit lost. I wonder how much my blood was pumped as seconds go. I hope it was just a dream. Obviously something is wrong with ...

Morning thought

Yesterday, in our weekly lab talk, one of our friends started her presentation with a verse in the Qur'an which as far as I was in the lab, none of us have ever done that before. It's in Surah Yaasin: All-Glorified is He (in that He is absolutely exalted above having any peer or partner), Who has created the pairs all together out of what the earth produces, as well as out of themselves, and out of what they do not know. (36: 36). This is a common verse, I heard about this several times before but what crossed in my mind when I heard/read this...

A lonely girl

I’m a person with few friends. It’s not that I hate making friends, but I’m definitely not the one that will start a conversation with strangers. Actually I’d like to but every time I intend to, I can feel my cells expressing adrenaline; I feel nervous, dizzy and that sort of things. I’m not sure if that is normal because if it’s not, I’m definitely an abnormal person. So I would rather forget it and stay quiet. I also don’t like to hang out with a group of people because I don’t know how to interrupt a conversation. So I will be the one who...