Life Is Like Pasar Malam
With the new template going on, it does feel a bit like preparing for raya at home.. changing new curtains or repainting the house. Very exciting.. Hopefully everything is ok with the new template. Do inform me if there is anything I can help you with.
Yesterday I actually went to the first bazar Ramadhan this year. Well, you have to understand that going out of an estate is hardwork, so I very seldom went out. The bazar here at my place is not that grand if compared to back home in Kedah, but there is still lots of yummy food around :)
I remembered an advice given by my brother, which I am going to share it with you.
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Slow Mo and Fast Forwarding Time
I was checking the calendar to check out this week's charity at Darul Izzah Bangi (Deliberately written to persuade you going hehe), when I suddenly realize that today is already the 23rd of Rejab. It seems like just yesterday, I notice of the coming of Rejab. Counting... there is only 36 days left to Ramadhan.
(Rejab and Ramadhan are Islamic months. Muslims all over the world will be performing the fasting during Ramadhan.)
If you notice, time sure fly faster when you are not paying attention.
- When we are just so busy with works, We will not even notice that we've just missed lunch.
- When we start fasting when we were children, we are holding a clock and see every second goes by. The longest time is the last 30 minutes :)
- When we got stuck in a meeting with the boss talking so slow, you can hear your stomach.. time feel like stopping. and yes you are hungry..
- and many more examples of this
Funny right? If we dreadfully hated what it is we are doing, we are doomed to "enjoy" every seconds of it and time move so slowly, you would check whether there's something wrong with the watch every 5 minutes.
And if you love what you are doing, before you even begin to enjoy it, it's already sunset.
heheh time really has a good sense of humor. Don't you think?
I remember very clearly the day I started fasting. Our "Abah" (Father) could see that we were going to lose the battle when we started going to the kitchen observing what new food magically appear on the table. He then took us out to the "Bazar Ramadhan" (A place to buy food to break the fast). There we were rewarded with RM5 of our choice of food and drinks. We really feel energetic then. With so much money, we bought a lot of food. I can still remember it covered almost the whole table. When we came back from the bazar.. it turned out only 30 minutes gone by. We still need to wait another 1 hour or so. All the energy previously had, had now vanished. And there we were looking "terhele" (very tired) with an alarm clock by our side. hehe
So what's your first day of fasting looks like? There's got to be funny stories in each of us :)
We are all given each 24 hours. Everyone will have to go through the same 24 hours - criminals, loitering youth, the dance teacher, the prime minister, and even Rasulullah. So what are we bringing home from the 24 hours? Do we even know our reason going to this "pasar malam"? or are we just walking around aimlessly.. and in the end we brought back those colorful tents home. which is clearly not what we're supposed to buy.
So what do you do at 6am? 7am? how long do we really need to sleep? Where can we squeeze out more time for us? Seriously I read a lot of self-managing books, but in my opinion this "Pasar Malam" concept is a good approach simply because we can associate the feeling of wasting time when we go to a "pasar malam" and return home empty handed... Don't you think so?
I heard a quote in the tv the other day - "Bukan masa yang terlalu cepat, kita sebenarnya yang terlalu lambat". Really make sense...
By the way, Mertabak here is very expensive. Cost me RM1.80 each, but I have no choice but to buy because the mrs ask for them... It's a good thing she crave for things buyable eheh :) Foods are getting more expensive each day isn't it? and getting smaller too