Project 365

I went to have dinner at Andreea’s place at her Spacebox today. Andreea and I took the Communication Skills class last semester, together with Shilpa, Evans, and Ciprian. There were only five of us in the class, so we knew each other quite well. The class has ended few months ago, so we decided to have dinner together. All five us had to cook and bring a food (potluck). I brought an Indonesian food, gulai, which turned out to be okay (not superb or something 😛 ). Shilpa made some Indian foods (complete with raita and a starter!), Andreea made a roasted pork (which I couldn’t eat unfortunately), while Evans made some bean curry. Sadly to say, Ciprian wasn’t there! He decided not to come in the last minute!! And I wasn’t happy about that!!! But thankfully, Andreea invited her friend so Evans wasn’t the only guy there 😀

Anyway, we had a super great time! Besides the foods (of course!), we did a karaoke. Andreea recorded a video for that and I’m sure it’s awful! Hahaha. She also taught us a dance she did at the student organization; which was quite fun!!!

Next week, a friend of mine, Vanessa, and I are going to host dinner at her place. I’m looking forward to it. I don’t know what I’m going to cook (yet!) but I’m hoping that it’s going to be a fun evening! I think there’ll be many people coming (as I kept on inviting people I met!!!). Hope it won’t make me broke hahaha. Can’t wait for it!

We are the night ocean filled with glints of light.
We are the space between the fish and the moon,
while we sit here together.

Jalal ad-Din Rumi

Surprise! I got a postcard from my friend Wiza today! 🙂 It instantly made my day!! Wiza was traveling around Tasmania, Australia (an island I never got to visit!). She and I have been exchanging postcards for some time now. Both of us love to travel to different places, so we send each other postcards for every few months.

Thanks so much my dear. Can’t wait for the New Zealand’s postcard, W! 🙂

And We had certainly given Luqman wisdom [and said], “Be grateful to Allah .” And whoever is grateful is grateful for [the benefit of] himself. And whoever denies [His favor] – then indeed, Allah is Free of need and Praiseworthy.

Dan sesungguhnya telah Kami berikan hikmat kepada Luqman, yaitu: “Bersyukurlah kepada Allah. Dan barangsiapa yang bersyukur (kepada Allah), maka sesungguhnya ia bersyukur untuk dirinya sendiri; dan barangsiapa yang tidak bersyukur, maka sesungguhnya Allah Maha Kaya lagi Maha Terpuji”. (Al-Qur’an 31:12)

I came across this verse during our weekly Qur’an session. Allah SWT asks us to be grateful to Him. If we do, then we’re grateful for the benefit of ourselves. If we’re grateful, we’ll most like not hurt or take advantage of others. Take for example our politicians who are never satisfied with the money that they get. The result is definitely corruption. If they’re grateful, things would turn out differently.

And now, I have to keep on reminding myself that I need to be grateful for every single thing I have. Creating this Project 365 is my way to be thankful, so that I can look back at my life at some point in time and realize how lucky I am that I can ever reach this point that is beyond my expectation! Hope I can keep on doing this project, Amin.

I’ve spent this whole week completing a project assignment with my group mates. The project is supposed to finish last semester, but we kept on delaying it on and on. The motivation in my group (and myself) had disappeared for so long. And it was really hard at the beginning to resume the project again!

Nevertheless, we managed to finish the report. Tomorrow is our presentation. I’m not really sure about the quality of the report. But I hope it isn’t too bad. Fingers crossed.

Let’s just say, I’m glad we’ve completed it.

Late, by myself, in the boat of myself,
no light and no land anywhere, cloudcover thick.
I try to stay just above the surface, yet I’m already under
and living within the ocean.

Jalal ad-Din Rumi

Dinner at Agni’s place on 25 Feb.

Alhamdulillah ya Allah. When there is a bad news, the good news follows! 🙂

Today I’ve been searching for a Couchsurfer who is able to host 5 people at once for a night in Paris (or nearby Paris), knowing that the hostels in Paris are quite expensive. I know, our trip will not be until next month, but I have to prepare everything from now.

Just before I was about to go to bed, I received a message from a really nice Couchsurfer who will open his door for 5 of us to sleep at!!! I can’t describe how happy I was! Searching for a couch/host in Paris is not easy. It took me 3 weeks to find a host when I went there last year, so I was really delighted to receive such a good news in such a short time! It seems like the host is very nice. He said that he could have a day off just to be with us and show us Paris around! OMG! That’s super wonderful! And the most important thing is: he has been to Indonesia! Yay! (perhaps that’s why he wants to host us!!!)

Oh I’m so grateful!

I fell in love with this song when the first time I heard it. This is a song by Maher Zain, who has a beautiful voice and has a great Islamic song collection! Do listen to it 🙂 It creates peace in my heart.

This is a beautiful village in Austria called Hallstatt. It’s located about 1 hour from King’s Lake. Isn’t it a pretty place??? I’m not sure if we can visit this village, but I’ll suggest it to my friends later for the trip! 🙂