Age is Just a Number

This month has started, my foundation studies with Yayasan Ta'lim and today was my first online class for Fiqh subject. The introductory class was brief. We were introduced to the lecturer and his background, the kitab we will be using and also the mazhab that we'll be learning which is Mazhab Syafi'e. And we began …

Easier-Going Muslim

#latepost Something caught my eyes when I scrolled down my Facebook timeline the other day. "Shah Rukh Khan and Dr. Zakir Naik – a Live Dialogue on Muslims’ Identity" - wow, two significant icons in their respective industries met on the same stage to talk about Islam? Interesting. It's an old video from 2010 I …

Heart Issues

I once had an argument with my husband for being so overthinking of what people say about me and of what people actually meant from what they say. I have always been interpreting things even long after I had the conversation.  My husband, on the other hand, who is simpler minded disagreed with me and …

Three Repetitive Advices

Don’t you notice that when we live with a same person for a significant number of years, the person tends to indirectly talk about a particular thing over and over again? Today marks 6 years of me living with my husband in a happy marriage. We talked a lot, every single day about many things …

Toastmasters : Impromptu Speech is Killing!

You have no idea what’s gonna come out. You go to the front, take a random pick, look what’s written on it, face the audience and there you go! Two minutes – TALK! That’s how it is; the Table Topic session in every Toastmasters meeting. Scary as it sounds? Of courseee… It’s an impromptu speech, …