SEJUK......bila nak snow????

Cuaca di amman semakin lama semakin sejuk hingga mencengkam tulang...tak tahan sekali sejuk di bahagian kaki, i pakai stokin sampai 3 lapis+fluffy slippers..sejuk sekali walaupun heater terpasang..memang kaki I cepat sejuk, kalau musim panas pun jarang I tanggalkan stokin terutama waktu tidur apatah sekarang musim sejuk..dulu ingat negara arab semuanya panas sebab adanya padang pasir ...rupanya tidak, winter is winter even though snow is only 'pouring ' down once or twice ..itupun mungkin in late january or early february....

I ingat my first experience lihat snow masa di DC..it was at night, my friend ,Rufina n I were studying near the clear glass window..we were also listening to the radio n we didn't realize it was snowing until the DJ said, 'It's snowing now in DC." We were shocked n looked outside the window n..."wowwwwwwwwwww, it's snowing lahhh", we screamed like crazy.

What happened next? You bet!!

Off we went, putting on our winter gear etc..we strolled the whole part of our beloved town of Rosslyn(situated by the Potomac River) It's like dream came true..I had been longing to feel snow , to touch snow,to taste snow n on n on n on............we dragged our feet where nobody had set foot on the white blanketed snow...it's like Rosslyn was ours(it's true coz tak de org lain pun kat jalanraya yang 'jakun' macam we all......tak kisah memang suka sangat masa tu....

On our way back to our apartment,ours was on the 9th floor of River Place (it's like 5* hotel ...miss u river place!!), we were so embarrassed when we saw a group of malaysian boys (who also lived on the 9th floor) were looking at us..even though it was at night but all the street lights were on n they could see us clearly....

Guess what??When we reached our apartment, one of them(a boy with nickname Apple ) called us n apalagi kena kutuk macam-macam coz malam-malam buta keluar main snow.......Biarlah asalkan kami bahagia... it was cool man!!!.

Itu kisah first snow in the USA dulu-dulu punya cerita...

Let me tell u the first snow in Amman...If I was not mistaken it's on the 4/2/06......the night before we experienced heavy rain n very windy.....after subuh prayer I went back to bed until around 6.30am I got up coz I had planned to cook nasi lemak that morning...( my hubby was on leave, so he was here in amman and one medic student from dublin , syafiq who was on holidays also spent a night at my house). Before I went to the kitchen downstairs, I said to my darling hubby maybe it's snowing n I looked thru the window.....It's all white outside..i couldn't believe my eyes, it was snowing, it was snowing!! I told izzat n sumayyah that it was snowing but nobody believed me....

.Why ??

Coz it's been so many times that I was only joking about snow...

When they found out that it was really snowing............macam mak dialah jakun first time nampak snow........Mimi, izzat, sumayyah, zaid, syafiq n my darling hubby pun keluar rumah main snow n they snapped pictures......I masak nasi lemak but i made myself clear to them...snow in my house backyard was mine, I would be the first to touch n set foot on it.....nobody else could..hahaha.After finished cooking apalagi I launched the 'pijak snow' ceremony in my backyard..dah dapat bergambar I pun 'serahkan' snow pada my kids...sukanyalah mimi n sumayyah main snow n buat pingu, nak buat big snowman tak cukup banyak snow ...dapatlah diaorang bergambar dengan pingu....

Itulah snow yang agak lebat, bertahan sampai tengah hari,.....yang lainnya sikit-sikit je tak cover jalanraya pun..........

Apapun I memang suka snow............when I think of snow , I think of my childhood dream............SNOW! SNOW! I LOVE U SNOW !!

Arab+Melayu=Arab........

Petang tadi my dear friend Lynn dengan anak-anak datang rumah I untuk ambil barang-barang yang dia pesan pada kak ana yang datang ke Jordan dari Malaysia baru-baru ni. Lynn is a Malaysian who married a British-born-Egyptian n dah tinggal di Amman selama 5 tahun. She married her arab husband when she studied in the UK. She's from Perak n now has 4 cute children.

Dulu i ada post dalam blog about malaysian/arab married couples yang tinggal di Amman and how their lives are..It's nice to learn that all of them spend their wonderful life together even though they come from two totally different races/culture/background/countries. What makes them bond to each other is ISLAM ....Isn't it wonderful??

They are lucky because their husbands are very Islamic n responsible to the families....Alhamdulillah. semua berkahwin semasa belajar di luar negara samada di UK or US....

I remember masa I studied di US dulu heboh kes seorang pelajar perempuan malaysia ,Mariam Jamilah,yang berkahwin dengan lelaki dari Iran yang berfahaman syiah yang berkesudahan si perempuan tidak menamatkan pengajian dan tidak kembali ke malaysia kerana mengikut suami kembali ke Iran. I sempat bertemu Mariam jamilah semasa dia hadir bersama pengikut syiah dalam satu program yang diadakan di pusat agama American U (universiti I belajar ) dan dia nampak ceria kerana pada pandangan I memang itulah jalan yang dia pilih iaitu bersama suami dan keluarga tercinta walaupun berlainan mazhab /negara / bangsa... Just wonder di mana dia sekarang ...

Kalau di jordan kaum lelaki jarang berumahtangga semasa usia muda ...20an..amat jarang..yang ramainya berkahwin dalam usia 30an-40an..Baru2 ni rakan sekelas zaid di british council yang berumur 29 tahun yang apabila zaid menanyakan bila akan berkahwin dia kata masih muda lagi dan tak tau bila baru berkahwin....Di jordan seseorang lelaki yang ingin berkahwin memerlukan JD20,000.00(RM104,000.00)+kereta+rumah dll urusan kenduri-kendara jika ingin menyunting anak dara untuk dijadikan isteri .

Bayangkan betapa tingginya harga sebuah perkahwinan. Oleh itu tidak hairan ramai lelaki arab yang masih belum berumahtangga walaupun sudah berumur 40an...Well, itu merupakan budaya dan adat resam masyarakat arab yang terkenal dengan kekayaan harta benda dan wang ringgit walaupun pada realitinya majoriti bangsa arab hidup secara amat sederhana especially di Jordan...

Satu yang I amati majoriti pasangan malay+ bangsa lain tak kira samada dengan arab/mat salleh/chinese/indian atau lain-lain bangsa akan melahirkan zuriat yang lebih cenderung mengikut genes dari sebelah yang bukan malay terutama dari segi fizikal............

*arab+malay = arab
*mat saleh +malay= mat saleh
*chinese + malay=chinese
*indian+malay=indian

(buktinya foto di sebelah....)

I think my observation ni betul kan??? Why?? Adakah genes melayu tak segagah bangsa lain sehingga dengan mudah di dominated???????

Louq Louq Tariq School

Ahad lalu I sempat menghantar mimi ke sekolah kerana izzat demam n mimi tak nak pergi sekolah seorang dengan Ummu Khatif (drebar mimi&izzat), so pagi tu i ikut mimi ke Louq Louq Tariq School, sebuah sekolah swasta dengan pengantar bahasa arab.Sekolah ni terletak dalam 15 minit perjalanan dengan kereta berdekatan University Balqa' .
It's a small school but clean n beautiful. Sekolah ni terbuka untuk kanak-kanak dari umur 4 tahun hingga grade 9(15tahun) sebab ianya sekolah yang agak baru. Di Jordan peringkat menengah yang paling tinggi ialah grade 12. Izzat studies dalam grade 7 n mimi peringkat tamhidi(taska) sebab baru 4 tahun. Walaupun baru 4 tahun tapi pelajaran yang diajar lebih kurang sama dengan peringkat tadika/raudhah. Kebiasaannya kanak-kanak mula masuk saf awal(darjah 1) semasa berumur 6 tahun.

Satu yang I admire this school kerana ianya diselenggara sepenuhnya oleh kaum wanita dari pengetua, guru besar ,kerani sehinggalah janitors semuanya wanita. Cuma lelakinya hanya pakcik-pakcik drebar bas sekolah(drebar mimi wanita !)

Hebat kan? Di tanah arab yang selalunya kita kaitkan dengan wanita dikongkong tetapi hakikatnya adalah sebaliknya, wanita diberi sepenuh kebebasan terutama di bidang pendidikan...

Di Amman sekolah swasta tumbuh bagai cendawan selepas hujan..samada sekolah swasta pengantar bahasa arab atau bahasa inggeris (international school) Katanya bukan rakyat asing sahaja yang suka menghantar anak bersekolah di sekolah swasta tetapi jordanians sendiri lebih cenderung menyekolahkan anak-anak mereka di sekolah swasta ...

Why ? No Comment!!Make your own judgement!!

Lagi satu yang I salute this school ialah di peringkat taska lagi guru akan menulis report harian dalam sebuah buku yang akan dibawa balik oleh pelajar dan semuanya lengkap dengan apa yang dipelajari dan homework untuk hari berkenaan..just imagine daily report sent to each single student...tak taulah i kalau di negara sendiri rasanya habis semua guru 'mengamuk' dibuatnya.

Bukan itu saja, laporan bulanan lagi lengkap siap dengan pencapaian/kebersihan/ kelakuan /interaksi dengan guru /kawan-kawan sekolah...siap untuk setiap pelajar. Baru minggu lalu mimi bawa balik surat pekeliling dari pentadbir sekolah berkenaan larangan memberi hadiah kepada guru sekolah dalam apa jua bentuk sekalipun..Kadang-kadang kita sebagai parents nak jugak bagi sesuatu sebagai tanda appreciation kepada guru yang mengajar anak kita selama ini..tetapi di sini dikira seperti rasuah kerana ditakuti guru akan terhutang budi dengan pemberian anak murid dan ibubapa. Memang di peringkat mana sekalipun hatta peringkat universiti, anak i zaid bagitau pensyarah tidak akan menerima sebarang pemberian dari mahasiswa sekalipun kopi secawan sebaliknya pensyarah yang selalu belanja pelajar minum , alangkah mulianya hati pendidik-pendidik arab/muslim di bumi anbiya ini.

Dulu sebelum berpindah ke amman ada jugak rasa gusar n risau macamana izzat n mimi nak bersekolah di sini, risau tentang sekolahnya/curriculumnya...bukan apa ingat sekolah arab 'out-of-date'...rupanya tidak malah ada subjects yang lebih updated dari sekolah di tanahair...di sini pelajaran sejarah (bukan sejarah jordan sahaja) tetapi sejarah tanah arab diajar di sekolah, pelajaran komputer jugak diajar bermula dari peringkat rendah lagi , bukan sebagai ko-kurikulum tapi termasuk dalam kurikulum sekolah, pendidikan jasmani juga diambil markah semasa ujian di sekolah...pendek kata lengkap sekali pembelajarannya....

Itulah sedikit sebanyak maklumat yang dapat i raih dari pengamatan /pengalaman anak-anak sendiri belajar di louq Louq Tariq School Amman......

Do You Know........

I just wanna share this lyrics which relates to our life......just ponder.......

Do you know
Where you're going to
Do you like the things that life is showing you
Where are you going to
Do you know?

Do you get
What you're hoping for
When you look behind you
There's no open door
What are you hoping for
Do you know?

Once we were standing still in time
Chasing the fantasies
That filled our minds
You knew how I loved you
But my spirit was free
Laughin' at the questions
That you once asked of me

Do you know
where you're going to
Do you like the things that life is showing you
Where are you going to
Do you know?

Now looking back at all we've planned
We let so many dreams
Just slip through our hands
Why must we wait so long
Before we'll see
How sad the answers
To those questions can be

Do you know
Where you're going to
Do you like the things that life is showing you
Where are you going to
Do you know?

Do you get
What you're hoping for
When you look behind you
There's no open door
What are you hoping for
Do you know

So long my dear friend.....

Petang ni my tetamu akan meninggalkan jordan ...sedihnya rasa , sekejapnya masa 9 hari berlalu...hope to see them again..pagi tadi kami mengimbau kenangan masa belajar di US...berkongsi nostalgia silam yang belum pernah di ceritakan......semoga pertemuan kali ini mengeratkan lagi tali persahabatan kami buat selamanya....

So long, farewell, goodbye, until we meet again, InsyaAllah.

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Yesterday satu rombongan NGO Muslim Care dari Malaysia singgah lunch rumah i, diaorang baru balik dari menghantar bantuan kemanusiaan ke Palestine n Lebanon, singgah di jordan semalam dan dalam perjalanan balik ke malaysia...i tak sangka bertuah menerima kedatangan rombongan delegasi Muslim Care , thanx to firdaus , anak murid i juga kenalan zaid yang sudi membawa rombongan ini bertandang ke rumah....

Banyak pengalaman rombongan ini dalam menyalurkan bantuan kepada mangsa-mangsa perang serata dunia terutama di negara timur tengah yang tidak henti bergolak.

I jugak dihadiahkan sebuah buku terbaru tulisan ustaz Riduan Mohd Nor ( beliau juga hadir bersama ) dan Ustaz Ahmad Adnan Fadhil berjodol : SIRI SERANGAN PEMIKIRAN, Islam Liberal dan Pluralisme Agama, InsyaAllah i akan baca buku ni dalam minggu ni.. Thank you ustaz Riduan......

Semoga Muslim Care akan bergerak lebih aktif membantu sahabat-sahabat se Islam yang ditindas tanpa belas kasihan dan semoga Allah membalas jasa kalian dengan syurga di akhirat kelak, amin............

Daily life customs...

There's nothing much happening for the past two days..i've been staying indoor to avoid coldness ...my guests came back from syria and straight went to mu'tah n petra.. .will come back to amman late this evening. They only have 1 day left before going home this Monday. Really hope they enjoy their holidays here.

Let's forget about them for a while because today I like to post some jordanians daily life customs/culture which I've encountered for the past 11 months.

1. Visiting the arabs..

When u visit your neighbour, first let them know that u are coming(who/time)..
They will let u know whether they are available or not...
They will chat n serve u coffee or sometimes soft drinks . Usually they serve coffee in a tiny cup,thank god it's so tiny , why? It's bitter because the coffee is mixed with cloves(cengkih). When u do not want anymore coffee, all u have to do is to shake the tiny cup n they'll not refill , if not u'll have to sip some more bitter coffee..unless u like it. So far no one does.

After talking for a while, they'll serve u cakes or peanuts(they love all kinds of nuts , that's why they have strong memory..)

Then they serve u tea...meaning after this, take a leave.....


2. Arabs are caring n generous.

Arabs are not busy-body people .They are caring n loving.

Example 1.

Last winter the heater that we used ( using diesel ) was leaking but we didn't know, we thought the loud bang-bang sound (never used this kind of heater before )from the heater was normal..until muhammad's father came to see zaid n told zaid that the heater was leaking n he fixed it there n then...

Example 2.

Izzat was staying alone because all of us had some outside business to do..it was already dusk..Muhammad's mother ,muna came n invited izzat to stay at her house until we came back.Izzat said it's ok(he's already 12 years old), later muna came n offered izzat some veggie soup because she thought izzat hadn't had dinner yet.. Izzat said he had already eaten..

Example 3.

Muna used to be a nurse n now working at the ministry of health. She always offers us all kinds of medicine if we need any. I remember when my friend (mukrimah , she's now in malaysia ) who was sick, muna came n treated her everyday until mukrimah was getting better n went back to her house in Sweileh.

The arabs are surely very caring, generous n kind, Alhamdulillah.

3. Let's party..

Arabs like party..men with men, women with women..the party is clean.. women can take off their hijabs/veils n they wear pretty colourful dresses/skirts, they dance/chat/smoke(yes smoking, many arab women do)...

I remember Maha's high school graduation party (maha is muna's daughter ) many makcik arabs were also present, they really enjoyed the party, they danced n wore beautiful dresses (I was surprised because all this while they seemed very islamic , all covered wherever they go ) I wasn't ready to dance...actually it wasn't that difficult to dance the arab folk songs, but i wasn't ready ( i didn't wear pretty dress!!) Sumayyah got up n dance ...it was so funny because she wasn't dancing the arab steps, she seemed like dancing 'joget melayu' hahahaha....what a party...we couldn't find this party in malaysia...women here enjoy their life..........


There are many more arab customs to write but i'll reserve for next time...So far..I like being/living in the arab community....Hope i can stay longer, amin.

quite beezee.........

This week I'm quite busy entertaining my guests from Malaysia. The first two days we spent our time in amman(ashabul kahfi, balad, rome theatre, jabal qala'ah,wadi seer,qasr iraq al amir, maqam bilal ibnu rabah)... jerash, umm qays, ajlun, irbid.

Yesterday my friends went off to Syria with Zaid as their tour guide.

It's so nice to meet them ...we chatted and talked and giggled.. etc...so so so much fun being with one true friend indeed.

Ahlan Wa Sahlan.........

Harini kawan baik I since I first arrived in Washington DC 23 years ago (13/08/1983 , to be axact) akan datang melawat kami here in jordan for 9 days. 5 of them are coming n akan stay kat my house. mula diaorang nak duduk hotel, i offer them to stay at my place since bukan nak duduk rumah je, nak melancong , balik tido je, itupun kalau ziarah tempat2 lain termasuk syria memang tak tido rumah, so might as well jadikan my house station/transit.

My best friend, kak rohana or i call her kak ana is one year senior than i am , an english teacher in kuantan n her hubby ,Wan Khairuzaman is an engineer working for TNB in KL . Masa i pegi belajar di US dulu i pegi sekali dengan Rahayu, adik kak ana n kak ana yang sambut kami di Dulles airport. Tapi i baik n rapat dengan kak ana n kurang rapat dengan aidknya rahayu walaupun i n rahayu same batch, same u n ambik same course. Kak ana belajar di George Mason U , virginia, dalam sejam perjalanan from DC. Nak dijadikan cerita macamana i boleh rapat dengan kak ana.........., selepas 4/5 bulan being in DC i felt something missing inside of me...the life was so challenging/busy/hectic..i was so involved with all kinds of social activities ( ????remain secret) when it came to the point that i started to find/search for my true identity..."who am i? why am i here ? where should i go ? etc " I really thought i have to do something about myself. I have to come back to ISLAM...that's it!! Yes . that's it.ISLAM is the answer...not that i wasn't a muslim(Nauzubillah) but it seemed my life was away from the true teaching of islam. memang waktu awal 1980an adalah zaman kebangkitan islam(zaman dakwah),alhamdulillah Allah pilih i sebagai seorang yang kembali kepada islam waktu tu.

Hampir every weekend i (modern girl, skirt, tight jeans ,body pun very slim!! )akan ziarah kak ana(kak ana waktu tu berjubah, bertudung labuh) untuk observe life kak ana ...kira macam cari bahan buat assignment...i duduk je kat rumah dia n kadang2 tidur kat situ, kalau dia solat, i tengok je, kalau nak solat, i ikut kalau tak nak, tengok jelah. Satu yang i pelajari kak ana pandai main psikologi, dia tak de nak pakse i solat, tak sindir, tak marah i tak tutup aurat...dia macam buat tak endah je...sampai minggu ke berapa i tak ingat dah , masa i pergi rumah kak ana buat observation lagi...baru kak ana bersuara..." sarinah, u tak nak cuba pakai pakaian muslimah, bertudung, tutup aurat....Allah akan sayang kita n hidup akan jadi lebih tenang......" Waktu tu i gembira bukan main bila ada yang bertanya begitu sebab ingat dia tak kisah, padahal hati ni memang dah terpaut dengan cara berpakaian muslim /cara hidup kak ana yang nampak begitu tenang ... Actually i ada rahsia yang jarang i ceritakan sebab ramai orang akan kata i buat-buat cerita..tapi inilah hakikatnya, ....saban malam i dapat 'dengar satu suara' yang suruh i tutup aurat , kembali pada islam....sampai sekarang i mencari dari mana datangnya suara tu..only Allah knows..ini bukan drama , it's reality..

Semenjak hari tu hidup i mula berubah, i mula belajar apa itu islam , mula praktik islam yang sebenar walaupun ambik masa nak tutup aurat sebab masalah tak de baju kurung n tudung, kena impot dari malaysia . waktu tu family di malaysia 'gerun' bila dengar anak dia ni yang lincah/aktif nak bertudung,ingat mula2 call mak nak mintak kirim baju n tudung , first soalan yang mak tanya " ha, nak masuk dakwah?? "...waktu tu mak ayah (bukan my parents je, ramai lagiiii)seriau n takut sangat kalau anak-anak nak masuk dakwah sebab biasanya lepas masuk dakwah, akan berhenti belajar , yang perempuan akan kahwin( memang i kawin pun tak lama lepas tu haha, tapi yang penting i tamat dapat BSc.) , tinggal/buang mak ayah yang kononnya mereka jelah yang islam, mak ayah tak islam...n gerakan al arqam abuya baru tumbuh bagai cendawan...memang mak ayah takut betul tapi i explained to them that i takkan nak berhenti belajar because that's my ambition nak pergi belajar oversea.....USA pulak tu negara yang i idam-idamkan....kalau i berhenti teruklah my penjamin nak bayar balik pada JPA...........baru my parents cool down..sampailah baju n tudung...I chose 1st ramadan 1984 (lepas setahun tiba di US ) mula bertudung......Alhamdulillah kawan2 ramai yang bagi good response walaupun ada yang menyindir/perli maklumlah i bukan budak baik waktu tu... ada yang kata, alah ina tu nanti bukaklah tudung, bukan tahan dia nak bertudung kat sini...sampai ada one american guy, Michael ( my ex-sweetheart !!, who cares now..) dia terkejut bila dia jumpa i dah bertudung, dia bagitau..." You look so sweet in your veil, but it's not impossible that you'll take it off one day because before this you weren't wearing it" teringat dia cakap balik, macam iklan biskut lu, kejap ada kejap tak de..waktu tu i cakap balik pada " I won't take it off , InsyaAllah, I won't take it off ", and i meant it.

Itulah kuasa Allah dalam mengeratkan ukhuwah islam yang terbina , takkan padam cahayaNYa selagi masih ada hamba yang mencari redhaNYa. Salam ukhuwah yang terjalin kerana Islam takkan padam sampai bila-bila...

Kebetulan kak ana tinggal di kuantan n i di kemaman(45mins drive )dapat jugak jumpa walaupun tak setiap minggu/bulan...memang she's truly my best friend/sister ever...InsyaAllah...

I'll be going to the airport this afternoon to welcome my dearly/darling kak ana n family...
Ahlan wa Sahlan ya habibi, ya maulana..ya kak anaaaaaaa....

Souq Muqayyam, Irbid

2 days ago Zaid n I went to Irbid, as usual main reason nak cuci gambar(Zaid tak suka yang digital, kamera dia hebat, tak tau guna blur lah gambar..). Waiting for the photos to be developed, we went to souq muqayyam which is only 5 minutes by taxi from University (Yarmouk) Street or Syariq Jamiah.

Souq muqayyam atau 'Kem Pasar' is a palestinian camp found in Irbid, Jordan. This is like the Baqa'ah camp which I visited during last Ramadan but this one in Irbid is better in terms of infra-structure(still shabby houses!! ) n they have a street full with shops which sell mainly clothes/jubah n household items at low prices. I bought myself a new long winter coat/jubah with hood, easy to wear/very practical like many arabs do. If I buy this same jubah in Amman it'd cost JD20-Jd25, but here at souq Muqayyam i got it for only jd??, what a bargain, itupun I jenis tak pandai tawar n zaid only bargained sikit je(rugi,rugi..kena belajar bargain..dari muda sampai tua tak pandai bargain, takut!! )

Other stuff yang I beli, mainly for mimi since a lot of cute little gloves, snow caps, mufflers, long socks, long johns.. geram tengok, very colourful n more important, very cheap, tak sampai sedinar for a a pair of cap n muffler, mana nak dapat kat amman... Next time nak beli jubah casual yang murah di sini n teramat mahal di amman..No wonder many malaysian students go shopping here before they go back home to malaysia.....

Kem ni asalnya kem pelarian palestine n mana-mana kem pun walaupun dah berpuluh tahun wujudnya, the physical of the camps remain the same, macam rumah setinggan, kem di irbid ni nampak bersih sikit n orang-orang living here nampak lebih ceria/happy . Mungkin kehidupan di sini lebih bagus coz they have shops n market where thay can sell their goods( source of income ).. Nasib pelarian palestine ...kesian lihat hidup mereka di dunia ni...sayu ....

Last week masa naik taxi nak ke bus station besar untuk ke Mu'tah, the taxi driver told us that 75% of jordanians came originally from Palestine, he himself moved from palestine to jordan 50 years ago.He n his wife used to take a bus from Abdali to masjidil al aqsa in palestine every friday just to perform friday prayer . It took only 1.5 hours to get from abdali(downtown amman ) to masjidil aqsa..how nice if we can do the same thing now...The driver also said during 1940s( he wasn't in jordan yet !) a person could finish getting around the city of amman in only 5 minutes, the only street found back then was the street in front of king hussein's mosque. Nowadays, one may take up to 4-5 hours to do the same...

When you talk about jordan , u can never refrain yourself from talking about palestine because jordanians are palestinians n palestinians are jordanians...Souq muqayyam or other souqs are actually dominated by mostly palestinians, they are the merchants, jordan's economy depends on these people......they know they have to strive n quest for their survival.......

perginya bersama seribu kenangan..............

I baru je dapat call dari my darling hubby, biras i(my kakak ipar's husband), abg Piey baru kejap tadi meninggal dunia(around 9pm malaysian time ) setelah sehari koma akibat stroke.

Alfatihah......

My biras ( I think dalam umur late 60s) adalah bekas guru besar di sekolah-sekolah sekitar Parit , Perak...Memang dia pun berasal dari daerah Parit. He married my kakak ipar after her wife died long time ago. He has 4 children, 1 with first wife n 3 with kak noriah, my ipar.

Abang piee seorang yang peramah, kelakar, very humble , baik hati n dia memang terkenal di sekitar Parit sampailah ke Bota, memang nama dia famous.Selepas pencen masanya banyak dihabiskan di rumah dan masjid/surau.

Abang Piee sangat sayang pada cucu-cucunya dan saban minggu akan melawat anak cucu yang tinggal di sekitar KL. Satu yang takkan dilupakan loghat parit nya yang pekat yang banyak perkataan yang i pun kurang faham even though i asal Perak, tu yang selalu jadi kelakar bila bersembang dengannya.

Semuanya kini tinggal kenangan ...kenangan amat manis yang takkan dilupakan..

Semoga Allah mencucuri rahmat ke atas roh beliau dan ditempatkan bersama roh orang yang beriman, Amin.

Mu'tah memory lane....

I just got back from Mu'tah, 160km south of Amman. Alhamdulillah I spent 2 days in that small town where more than 100 malaysian students living there. All of them are studying in the U of Mu'tah. Mimi n I stayed at Azra's (housemates:murni, saadah,nazihah,aini , all from N9) house in Mazar just 4 minutes by van from downtown Mu'tah while zaid n izzat stayed at Adam's house in front of Mu'tah mosque. Usually when we went to mu'tah we'd spend our time staying at zaid's house, but since zaid is no longer staying in mutah after he graduated last summer, we had to stay at 2 different houses.Furthermore ,there's no hotel/motel in this small town.

Mimi n I spent our friday going to Istana Darul Ridwan's(the name of the house ) open house(tak habis raya lagi since last week they had exams) The ex-Kolej Darul Ridwan's girls cooked mee hong kong+roti jala+nasi impit+kuah kacang+pudding+choco cake. Sedap betul semuanya. Thank you Ainul, Sari n other girls who invited us to their open house.

After that we went to Fadli n Saadiah's house ,a loving married couple, fadli is my ex-student back in kemaman. They served mee jawa(both orang jawa)+lontong+kuah kacang+biskut raya+kerepek which are all home made food, uuummm very delicious. I know fadli is very good cook.Thank you both of you for entertaining/serving us with mouth-watering food...

Zaid n Izzat spent their time at U of Mu'tah indoor stadium because the MSA (mu'tah) organized a futsal league tournament. Zaid n his team, Selamba FC played in the match, izzat the spectator...Result: The champion :Irbid FC ( all future doctors) , 2nd : SBB ( saya budak baik ) team from mu'tah.

Mu'tah is a very peaceful town where according to Islamic history, the battle of Mu'tah took part here . many Rasulullah's companions died in that battle including Zaid bin Harithah, Jaafar Abu Talib, Abu Ruwaihah n many other warriors who died as martyrs. The battle field can still be seen at the entrance of the town...the maqam of the companions are located in Mazar. I couldn't stop my tears from dropping whenever i visited the maqam, it looked like i could see how they(the martyrs) fought till the end of their lives with only one ultimate goal: ISLAM is the way of life .

Saturday 2.30pm, while waiting for izzat to come back with me to Amman at the bus stop ( zaid overstayed for another day), I saw a group of malaysian boys from Damascus , Syria who were also waiting for a bus to get back to Amman before going home to Syria.To my surprise, one of them, Nakaie was also there. He is my ex-student in kemaman....There he was, talking loudly/proudly telling his friend that I'm his teacher n bla bla bla.He is now married with one kid (another one is coming soon), he n his wife, Abidah (also my ex-student) have been staying/studying in damascus for 6 years.... how nice to meet him in mu'tah. He n other boys came to Jordan for a business-trip( MSA syria n to visit MSD Jordan ). I invited them to my house in Amman but then they had to get back to damascus by tonight (Thay have classes on Sunday )Maybe next time, InsyaAllah. We exchanged goodbyes at Amman Bus station at 5pm.

Izzat, mimi n I took a taxi home . Nakaie n the gang took a bus to abdali where they hired 2 taxis back to damascus, syria.So long, farewell, see you all next time....

Al Fatihah........

Al Fatihah............

This morning I received an sms from my darling hubby that it's confirmed that the Malaysian Helicopter Sdn Bhd (MHS) pilot who was found dead in a helicopter wreckage near exxon-mobil platform was Captain Salleh Teguh who used to be our neighbour in Kerteh.... He used to be a TUDM pilot before he joined MHS whose job was to carry workers to/from petroleum platforms daily. Captain Salleh as we know is a very kind person n it so happens that his father-in-law ,Pakcik Hamdan used to be my arwah/late father's best friend when they were in the army long time ago. I got to know this pakcik when the late captain salleh moved to our housing area in kerteh early 1990s.. That captain's house was the 3rd on the right of my house (double-storey terrace then!)

When I browsed through Malaysian newspapers today, I saw the faces of arwah n his children(they are all grown ups now )...I was sad but I know his wife ,Mariana or I call her Kak Midah is 'pasrah n redha ' with what had happened.She also mentioned in the paper that during last ramadan her late husband who 's also their nearby surau committee member, spent most of his time performing ibadah n read Quran a lot, Alhamdulillah.

This incident reminds me to always think of Allah the AlMighty because I never know when my heart stops beating...this entire colourful/attractive world is only a transit before heading n residing in the permanent destination.

Let's pray to Allah the Most Gracious God to grant Captain Salleh with paradise, Amin.

3 hours in Balad...

Harini I n zaid spend 3 hours in balad /amman city centre.....actually lama tak pergi..so zaid kata why not kita pegi Assyorofiyyah,sebuah perkampungan arab atas bukit opposite Jabal Qala'ah dekat city center.

Apa yang ada kat situ ?

Abu Darwish Mosque, a unique checkered black n white painted mosque which was built by Abu Darwish (a chechen muslim scholar ) long time ago... (has yet to know when it was built!!).It was on top of the hill n standing in front of the mosque was like standing in red square,Moscow. The mosque looks similar to St. Basil Cathedral in moscow( with different colour !! ).

Then, we went straight to the city center, captured a few photos n bought some food (takeaway coz we are fasting )from cairo restaurant.

1. A lady in black, selling rokok, selalunya sama je style diaorang ni, muka agak gelap, jubah hitam , big body size, duduk di kaki lima.

2. Gerai 10 qurusy(RM0.52) yang jual macam-macam aksesori hiasan wanita/kanak-kanak. Tempat favourite Maya n I (wajib singgah !! ) harini singgah beli gelang mimi 2 baru 20 qurusy.

3. Men with painting/cleaning/ buckets/brushes . Gang ni sokmo ada kat depan masjid Hussein, tunggu kalau ada orang upah cat /cuci kat mana-mana.......selain tu ramai jugak yang lepak, apa kerje diaorang ye.....

4. Pemuda jual jam tangan depan toilet. Zaid kata semenjak zaid tahun 1 (2002) orang ni dah jual jam kat situ, betul2 dpn pintu tandas kat kawasan tepi masjid hussein.

5. Lottery...halal agaknya di jordan...penjualnya lelaki berjubah , tak pun berserban, jual di kaki lima ...Waktu zaid nak ambik gambar ni pakcik si penjual lottery ni cepat-cepat beralih tempat, kononnya bukan dia yang jual, tau pulak malu jual benda haram.

3 hours spent in balad dapat lihat pelbagai ragam arabs/jordanians(banyak lagi pics yang zaid snapped...) which sometimes buatkan I semakin mengenali cara hidup mereka yang simple/humble/moderate/etc......

palestine oh palestinian...

Harini nak tulis sikit pasal palestine n palestinians...

I could still remember during my final semester belajar dulu which was fall/autumn 1987 masa di American U, Washington DC , i ambik 1 course, hebrew language untuk my last elective subject, hebrew language is spoken by jews or bangsa yahudi, alphabets nya banyak yang hampir sama yang buat susah nak kenal, i saja ambik course ni sebab saja nak tau n my U pun diasaskan oleh yahudi n in the uS memang jews yang dominate negara tu. Masa i ambik course tu , gerakan intifadah di palestine bergelodak semula sebab jews yang provoke ambik tanah bangsa palestine...My lecturer, a jew lady was so nice( I got A of course )...I remember dia offered one palestinian student( nama dia Kamil tapi ni kristian arab) jika kamil ada apa2 barang nak kirim pada keluarga dia di palestine because she's going back to israel end of that year...lecturer tu kata dia tak suka peperangan antara jews n arabs...memang cikgu ni baik sangat...waktu tu baru start nak perang (dingin/armed) yang sampai sekarang tak habis lagi......

Memang bangsa yahudi akan menentang n memusuhi arabs yang paling utama n second memusuhi muslims...

Sentimen anti yahudi ni takkan berakhir selagi bangsa derhaka ni wujud di dunia dan yang paling merana sekarang ialah bangsa arab di palestine, tanah yang telah diambil pihak yahudi melebihi 90% dah sekarang, ramai rakyat palestine undur dari bumi tumpah darah mereka termasuklah ke bumi jordan ..di amman city center saja lebih kurang 100 000 ribu palestinians tinggal semenjak 1948...tak termasuk lokasi lain dan negara lain...

Semasa berada di Malaysia hati terasa sayu setiap kali berita tentang bangsa palestine teraniaya , sungguh kasihan..... namun perasaan sedih n belas kasihan kian terhakis apabila berada di bumi jordan hampir setahun ... It's a reality here in jordan that most of the richest men come from palestine, n most of the bad guys also are from palestine. Palestinian are well-known for their bad habits/kaki putar belit n macam-macam perangai buruk yang menyebabkan terasa dalam hati patutlah bangsa arab palestin ni dihina ... Memang tak dinafikan masih ramai palestinian yang memang berjuang/berjihad demi ALLah n Islam . Paling hairan di jordan ni bila kita tanya dari mana asal mereka tak ramai yang nak mengaku mereka asalnya palestine, semua mengaku Jordanian walaupun pada hakikatnya ramai yang asalnya palestine. Mereka malu mengaku berbangsa palestine because persepsi orang if you are palestinian then you must be a bad guy...selalunya begitu...

Nak dijadikan cerita mengenai palestinian ni lebih lebih happening, jiran i kat sini anaknya nama Omar, mukanya putih (most palestinian putih, rambut sikit perang lain dari arab jordan)...Peliknya bila tanya dari mana asalnya dia selalu kata dari jordan tapi kawan-kawan arab dia yang lain semua kata omar palestinian. Omar akan marah kalau orang kata dia palestinian..dia ni pulak perangai tak baik, selalu ejek izzat, dia selalu dengki kalau kawan arab lain main dengan izzat, bila diajak main dia bukan nak main betul-betul selalu nak buli orang, akhirnya orang jarang nak main dengan dia.

Semenjak dari mula kami pindah ke amman, omar selalu je cari pasal dengan budak-budak terutamanya izzat (mungkin tak suka orang luar ), mula2 izzat diam je tapi sekarang dah berani lawan sebab omar kecil dari izzat (baru 10 tahun ).Keadaan tambah teruk sejak akhir2 ni bila semua budak tak berapa suka main dengan omar.

Then something terrible happened yesterday evening, masa tu izzat main bola depan rumah (memang biasa budak2 arab datang main petang2), Omar tak nak main n memang kawan-kawan izzat yang lain tak nak bagi omar main sebab sebelum ni omar tak bagi diaorang main sama, omar duduk je kat tangga luar rumah I, waktu tu dia dah provoked izzat ejek macam2 n izzat sempat tendang bola ke arah dia, kuat jugak izzat tendang (izzat memang born-footballer) . Lepas habis main izzat bersembang dengan muhammad yang tua setahun dari izzat tentang seorang goalkeeper faisoli football club yang juara AFC cup baru-baru ni , tinggal di belakang rumah I, tiba2 Omar mula mengejek-ejek apa yang izzat cakap, Izzat pun balas balik dengan kata omar palestinian, dia kata bukan, dan terus nafikan, kebetulan Zaid ada kat rumah, bengang dengar omar ejek izzat, zaid keluar n kata diamlah budak palestine, omar makin bengang, bila zaid tutup pintu rumah , omar terus baling batu (memang senjata palestine, batu tak de lain ) ke arah rumah I, apalagi tak sempat i nak larang zaid berlari keluar n kejar omar n maki macam-macam pada omar ( zaid amat fluent in arabic), omar lari dan meraung kata dia orang jordan bukan palestine, zaid kalau jordan /palestine ke jangan buat orang ejek orang...suara zaid kuat bukan main sampai semua jiran menjenguk nak tau apa yang berlaku, agaknya semua tak sangka' malizia' naik angin sebab zaid ni nampak lembut je.. I dah risau takut abang omar datang menyerang balas. Satu yang peliknya mak omar dah tua macam nenek dia, abang dia 2 orang dah beranak-pinak n muka memang tak sama langsung, I andaikan betul kawan-kawan arab yang lain kata omar palestinian, yang hairan lagi apa yang malu sangat nak mengaku palestinian, ni yang I tak faham.. agaknya memang benar palestinian ni perangai tak elok n memang orang malu nak mengaku palestinian... entahlah masih mencari jawapan.......................

Malam tadi sewaktu Zaid on the way nak pergi main billiard di abu nuseir billiard club(dekat je dengan rumah ) dia terserempak dengan abang omar depan rumah omar...zaid kata ok je dia salam abang omar n macam tak de apa-apa yang berlaku, lega I dengar, bukan apa tak nak lah nanti bermusuh pulak dengan jiran...Alhamdulillah, semua kira settle dah...

Nampaknya mungkin palestinians yang berani mengaku they are palestinians n who are still living n struggling in palestine are the real n true warriors ..

I'll always pray for the success of the intifadah...latest news, jews have killed more than 49 palestinians in the past 2 days...OO Allah, please help the Palestinians, Allah the Most Gracious the Most Merciful, Amin.

Refresh..............

It's now November, in less than 2 months 2006 will be gone . This also means I've been staying here in jordan for almost a year. I could still remember how we struggled cleaning/clearing up our house when my hubby made up his mind to let us move from kemaman to amman since it's easier for him to meet/see us because he doesn't have to travel all the way from abu dhabi to Malaysia when he's on leave. We(I, Sumayyah, Izzat, Mimi) moved to amman one week after sumayyah finished her SPM examination. We had twelve boxes/bags but Alhamdulillah we were not charged with excess baggage because I told the officer incharged that we were moving abroad. My hubby had gone back to abu dhabi earlier , so I had to settle all the necessary matters all by myself : cars( for rent) , house( not for rent just find a care-taker) , utility bills(all paid for a year except phone was disconnected ), furniture( some were sold except the bedrooms sets)..etc.

Until now many people wonder why we moved to amman, jordan n not abu dhabi where my husband works. The answer: my husband works n stays on an island called Das Island(100++km )offshore from abu dhabi mainland n the island is only for adgas(name of the oil co.) employees to stay ( all men of course) n my husband can only leave the island on scheduled dates(usually after 40-60 working days) n spends his holidays (14-28days) off the island. My hubby says the environment in abu dhabi city is not quite condusive for our small kids(izzat n mimi ) n the cost of living is lower in amman than in abu dhabi .Furthermore, my eldest son, Zaid is studying in jordan, even though he stays in Mu'tah but at least there's a man who can look after us(he comes back every weekend!) I'd been to jordan twice before i moved here so i know jordan is a nice/safe place to live, Alhamdulillah.

When we arrived here in amman the weather was not quite cold even though it was supposed to be very cold then (December)... Now is early november but it's already cold with rain n sometimes thunder... I love autumn/fall where lots of dry/brownish/yellowish leaves fallen off the tree(i once cried to see how beautiful autumn was at that time in west virginia, usa)...not in jordan, autumn is by the name , the feelings of coldness, the bald rocky mountains remain the same...no fallen leaves since there's no trees on the mountains...all i could see ... leaves from my backyard grape tree has started to change colours n little by little i could see the branches/stems/twigs more vividly than before....goodbye grape leaves....gonna miss u all...

2007 is just around the corner , i really hope we can still spend our wonderful life here in amman ,I don't know for how long , it's all depend on my husband's job ..so far no news yet when to leave.. , i was so busy back home... rushing early in the morning sending my kids to school n i seldom cooked back then(busy,busy, easy to buy delicious tasty food ) . I'm so relief n i think i have a peaceful mind after staying here in amman. I have started to love the city of amman (old n new), i love my caring n kind neighbours, I feel safer here than in kemaman, i'm now cooking more than i used to back home because here i have more free time n most of all not all food in amman suit our tastes ...i remember sumayyah n izzat said :" wah, mama dah pandai masak, rupanya mama pandai masak... etc"...i don't know whether to take it as a compliment or what...

May Allah grants us with lots n lots of happiness n faithfulness in our hearts here in Amman, Amin.

Back to normal,,,,,,,,,,,,,

It's been quite a busy week for me n family , celebrating syawal by entertaining guests n visiting friends here in Amman.Alhamdulillah , we malaysians in amman (not more than 30) are closed to each other, even my husband who is seldom here , feels at ease n can get along very well with students n families living here...

Even though only five of us are here in amman,my hubby, I, zaid, izzat, mimi kira ok jugak lah raya kali ni, cuma family photo for raya dah 5 tahun tak dapat semua ada . This is zaid's first raya with us in 5 years ,safiyyah celebrates her 3rd raya in simferopol,ukraine (tak raya pun ,exams) n sumayyah celebrates her first raya in seoul, korea(raya sakan dia ni, baru start class ) .

Two nights ago, we had our last family outing for this year at mukhtar mall.we went bowling n had dinner there....selalunya i tak main bowling tapi malam tu teringin nak main dah lama tak main...kalah teruklah, diaorang selalu main mesti pandai baling.Tengah makan, datang pulak mascot pikachoo jual belon pada kanak-kanak, apa lagi mimi yang memang takut maskot dari kecik menjerit n hilang selera makan,terus melekap pada baju i, banyak kali pulak si pikachoo tu datang, kesian mimi, masa balik terpakse my hubby dukung sebab di takut nak jalan buka mata takut nampak pikachoo.ingatkan dah besar tak takut dah maskot..............

My hubby had gone back to abu dhabi n will come back here early next year, mimi n izzat dah start sekolah hari selepas cuti seminggu ...oklah sikit dah terang sikit baru pergi sekolah sebab dah ubah time jadi 3hours ahead of GMT.zaid will start his english course at british council this wednesday , i 'll start my arabic class at ibnu nafees center this tuesday (was postponed by myself due to sore throat n laziness!)

Amman is now back to normal, my life is also back to square one, hope everything will be fine for the rest of the year, InsyaAllah.

RAYA 2006 pics....

Pics of hari raya aidil fitri 2006 in jordan...Till we meet again next syawal n may our friendship last forever InsyaAllah.....

EID MUBARAK ...KULLU AM WA ANTUM BI KHAIR...

Kullu am wa antum bi khair...itulah ucapan yang diberikan ketika menerima tetamu atau berkunjung ke rumah sahabat semasa aidil fitri di jordan...mula-mula terbelit jugak lidah nak menyebut tapi selepas zaid tulis atas kertas senang sikit baca, tak ingat refer kertas.....

Sehari sudah syawal berlalu namun suasana raya masih dirasai walaupun tidak berhari raya di kampung halaman tercinta. Di jordan suasana raya agak serupa seperti di malaysia, selepas solat sunat hari raya kunjung mengunjung , ziarah menziarahi sesama tetangga n famili lumrah raya.. tapi cuma di hari raya pertama sahaja....taklah sampai sebulan seperti di malaysia.

raya 1
solat raya di masjid berdekatan , diaorang pegi solat relax je dengan t-shirt lusuh je, tapi hari ni tok imam yang hari biasa pakai jubah, hari ni siap pakai kemeja n neck-tie imamkan solat raya n baca khutbah.
lepas solat our house was full with anak-anak jiran, semua pakai baju n kasut baru, macam kat malaysia, bagi jugak duit raya jd1 je (rm5.20) sorang sebab diaorang pun bagi , ada yang bagi coklat n kad, girls masing-masing bawak purse n handbag...i masak lontong tapi tak offer pun diaorang makan sebab memang diaorang takkan makan sebab kata pedas, daripada membazir bagi diaorang baik bagi yang manis-manis je, Amar anak pegawai askar, my jiran makan popia kecik yang isi serunding, dia kata' harr an nar' pedas macam api, pada hal tak rasa apa...izzat mengomel...allah bagi lidah pada arab ni buat apa entah, rasa benda manis je,...tak pandai guna lidah hehe.....

12 pm pegi embassy , jamuan , duta tak de balik malaysia , kata nak dapat anugerah datuk, yang ada pengarah msd n staff yang lain, ramai betul hadir semua pelajar hadir dengan bas sewa ..dari irbid , mafraq n mutah..masing-masing datang sebab ni je peluang nak jumpa rakan...harini je boleh hepi sikit sebab minggu depan nak exam dah..balik pelajar-pelajar irbid singgah rumah... dekat senja baru balik, tak tidur sebab nak study untuk exam..jumpa azah aziz anak kawan di malaysia yang baru datang buat medic di just...azra pelajar mutah je tidur rumah malam ni... malam lepas maghrib , jiran muna,n muaz datang beraya, lelaki arab kalau raya pakai coat/suit...makan kuih n m inum jus je, diaorang nak rasa kuih malaysia. siang tadi jiran sebelah bagi kuih arab yang isi kurma..alhamdulilah diaorang sudi datang rumah kami beraya...

raya 2

pagi masak laksa n lontong lagi....laksa untuk dibawa ke gathering malaysia with foreigners di ibnu nafeees center tengah hari karang.....
10am open house di rumah ustaz mujahid ( buat Ph D d U Jordan ) di sweileh, makan nasi dagang (orang ganu kite ) sedap...
12.30 pm satu van datang dari mutah, selepas makan lontong, kami semua termasuk gang mutah (memang dijemput jugak ) bergerak ke ibnu nafees center di jubaihah. i bawak laksa yang di masak...banyak makanan kat center ni. jumpa ramai americans n other malaysians/arabs kat sini..sembang n makan..
6.45pm . 22 orang gang malaysians di arjan (di amman jugak ) datang beraya. memang diaorang dah bagitau, i memang balik petang tadi terus masak laksa lagi ....alhamdulillah habis semua..9.30pm selesai...close for the night

raya 3
( belum lalui tapi dah ada planning )
tengah hari open house rumah sahrul n marwah....di sweileh
malam lepas maghrib rumah zul n diana .....di sweileh

raya 4
tengah hari open house kat my house...

itulah pengalaman beraya di tempat orang..alhamdulillah ok

SELAMAT HARI RAYA, MAAF ZAHIR BATIN.

GOODBYE RAMADAN, WELCOME SYAWAL

My first ramadan in jordan has almost come to an end , in 2/3 days time syawal is coming, leaving me with 1001 experiences/challenges/happiness/sadness..................

It feels like only yesterday was my first ramadan...time surely passes by extremely fast nowadays.....
List of things/actions encountered here in jordan during ramadan.....

• almost all muslims are excited/happy welcoming ramadan..can be seen from 'ramadan mubarak' banners
• mosques(every corner ) full of jamaah every night during early ramadan and only 3 saff left last night(same like in malaysia), maybe they had gone back home aka balik kampung??
• kuih qataif was introduced to me by zaid because this kuih is only produced n sold in ramadan..it looks like kuih apam kecik yang dijual di pasar malam di malaysia but dalamnya dibubuh pelbagai kacang n sira in syrup, very sweet,tak sedap mana pun..arabs buy this kuih almost everyday,tak sah berbuka tanpa kuih ni
• an arab is an arab, he does what he wants..2X in 2 different outings , in front of the fun directory computer shop in amman city center n on my way to irbid at the gas station. there were 2 young ,healthy arab men, without any shame, smoking in public in the mid afternoon, the one at the pc shop was scolded for smoking by another man passing by, what happened after that? the smoking man took out his empty kotak rokok n threw it on the car outside the shop...however he didn't say a word to the man who scolded him...he left the place..the one at the gas station (arab tak kira isi minyak pun smoking, jenis berani mati katak ) kept on smoking as if nothing happened... may be n may be they are christian arabs..
• most arabs break their fast by having a bite of date(sunnah) n.....SMOKING (some ulama say haram)as the main dish...
• almost all muslim arabs in jordan believe that lailatul qadr is on the night of the 27th ramadan , (in malay malam 7 likur ) they pray n perform other ibadah(iktiqaf) the entire night , they don't sleep at all.... actually zaid says nobody knows which night is lailatulqadar but its on malam ramadan yang ganjil ( 21,23,25,27,29 ??? )I don't know these jordanians follow whose fatwa,but that's the only night they all strive, performing prayers the entire night..masjid siap sediakan sahur...
• arabs also prepare for eid mubarak, when we were at irbid mall, many arabs went shopping for new clothes n shoes especially for the children, same like in malaysia..izzat says his teacher at school also asked him whether he had bought new shirts for eid mubarak..other than that, arabs celebrate eid with chocolates n sweets because many many of those sweet stuff are sold in almost all shops..ranging from ferraro rocher, raffello, deluxe, galaxy to no brand sweets are sold at discounted prices..I pun dah beli jugak sikit sebab murah
• many beggars can be seen during ramadan here in amman , women with small kids, little boys n girls, handicapped people are everywhere begging for money . They usually wait outside shopping complexes, markets n banks.one can hardly see any beggar on the street other than ramadan. i find that many jordanians especially men are generous, many times i saw them donated money to the beggars (many times in front of the jordan n housing banks, i selalu pegi bank ni).I don't know where the beggars come from because they don't look like jordanians, their faces are dark n they have very sharp eyes (yes i mean sharp eyes,bayangkanlah macamana!) n long pointed noses. well, after all ,ramadan is the month of giving ......
• no air pollution during day time, the 'no smoking' signboards are well observed by almost all jordanians, thank you for not smoking, thank you jordanians, Thank You Ramadan,Most of all, THANK YOU ALLAH THE ALMIGHTY.

Anyhow, i really hope that this is my best ramadan ever n may i have a chance to experience another ramadan next year, InsyaAllah.

...............GOODBYE RAMADAN, WELCOME SYAWAL.............

iklan raya petronas 2006

Saja i post this iklan because it means a lot to me...... i'm also getting older , just for a reminder..


Maghrib harini ada guests datang buka pose kat rumah, pelajar malaysia di amman n nurhana's family ,(nurhana is a malaysian yang bawak i ke palestinian camp baru-baru ni )husband dia jordanian, a prof di zaytunah university . I masak kari ayam , dah berzaman i tak makan kari ayam , sambal tumis sotong together with fried eggs , vegetable salad,cocktail with mixed fruit yogurt, bandung pudding, chocolate cupcakes n cherry n mango juice. Berair mata anak-anak nurhana makan my curry, hot but delicious, komen diaorang. Walaupun mak malaysian, bapa arab, memang diaorang tak makan pedas, i kata pada diaorang, u just taste the chicken, don't taste the gravy(they called the kuah curry , soup) Alhamdulillah they all makan jugak , i saja masak makanan malaysia sebab norhana lama tak rasa pedas, one of anak dia kata nak tukar mak sebab auntie sarinah pandai masak... kembang sekejap bila anak dia cakap macam tu...ish ish entah dia perli... Malaysian students yang lain pun enjoyed eating my chicken curry, they all kata first time taste curry makcik ina sebab sebelum ni memang i tak masak kari kalau ada jamuan di rumah(memang jarang makan/masak kari, sekali sekala sedap, selalu kurang enak )Malaysian students yang hadir petang ni...shahrul, marwa, putri, asyraf,aswandi, fatimah salina, ibrahim, sofia, fahim ,kaklong.Yang lain tak dapat datang sebab ada yang kena pegi irbid sebab ada majlis khatam quran n ada yang dah balik beraya di malaysia, balik seminggu je....

Bila makan bersama teringat iklan petronas, seronok makan bersama keluarga, di sini merekalah keluarga i yang sudi hadir ke rumah yang kami diami buat sementara waktu sebelum pulang ke tanahair. Semua pengalaman ramadan bersama malaysians di jordan terpahat di ingatan sampai bila-bila.

Semoga masa mencecah usia emas nanti masih ada yang sudi menjengok /menanya khabar diri hamba ynag lemah ini ..insyaAllah.

ole-ole dari homeland...

It's been a few days since i last updated my blog, well, nothing much to blog about...

izzat has finished his 1st out of 3 semester exams ..alhamdulillah he's done a good job considering all subjects are taught in arabic except english language..this is the his first 7th grade semester since last semester he only underwent arabic course..as usual he's very good at maths ..full mark, english of course full mark...other subjects like computer, arab history,geography,PE ,arabic, quran reading n memorizing all between 13 n 16. The only subject he couldn't get good mark is science because he couldn't understand the instructions , all subjective questions. he asked the teacher to translate in english, it became worse(her science teacher can't speak good english )alhamdulillah the science teacher with her courtesy let izzat repeat the exam yesterday, hopefully he could pass. Izzat has been an excellent student since standard 1, always top of the class, his strength , maths...InsyaAllah he'll become an engineer( motorsport eng. ) because he's very 'devoted' about this sport..other than soccer of course... he plans to continue his studies in manchester , insyaAllah. If motorsport i think germany is the best (?? )

Yesterday evening my darling hubby came back from malaysia to celebrate eidil fitr with us here in jordan, he brought quite a lot of stuff ( kena bayar banyak jugak di klia) like kuih raya, baju raya, tempe n taufu ,coklat raya, rendang tok, serunding(sumayyah n safiyyah jangan nak jealous ye , kami banyak makanan, ) tapi takpa ma akan pos sikit pada maya ...., sofie tak pe dia boleh masak di hostel, boleh buat rendang sendiri hehe ...tak payah pos ke ukraine.My hubby also bought me a new digital camera (jenis kodak ape tak hafal lagi model apa ) . beli kat duty free shop at klia. When he went back to kemaman i asked him to look for my old digital camera which i left at home( konon malas nak guna digital dah )..but my husband couldn't find it n he was so hooked up with all sorts of matters (banyak nak kena settle, bank, cars, house ) so dia taklah mencari camera i dalam almari... alhamdulillah dapat camera baru...rasanya hebat dari camera sofie n sumi...mak kan mesti nak yang lebih dari anak! !)

Banyak cerita yang diborakkan sebab dah 2 bulan tak jumpa n dah dekat setahun tak dengar kisah jiran setempat di malaysia...cikgu asyok sebelah rumah dah pindah ke rumah baru....ramai jugak yang dah perbesarkan rumah masing-masing..gerai che dah pizza dah diambik alih ustaz zul , breakfast only... surau makin makmur m makin ramai yang solat jemaah.. alhamdulillah...kawan izzat dah ada yang sama besar dengan my hubby,izzat pun dah tinggi sama dengan i 160cm, baru 12 tahun.

I ingat nak balik sekejap somewhere in january since both my mum n my mom- in- law are not doing so well..stay in malaysia for a month ke, tengah planning lagi....
















Baru tadi tengok iklan raya petronas 2006...it made me think of my mom n my mom-in- law...very touchy advertisement....

Taxi mabuk........

Yesterday afternoon we went to Irbid,80km from amman(nothing to do n dah lama tak pergi ). My son zaid nak cuci gambar ,dia lebih suka guna filem with camera besar (i tak pandai nak guna !!) sebab dia ni nature lover n suka tangkap gambar tanpa 'orang'. i kalau tangkap gambar mesti ada orang,kalau tak de rasa tak sah !! So we all pergi dari sweileh, nak naik bas tapi tak de, kami ambik taxi sapu, 1jd each, oklah , laju je n kejap je sampai irbid (2.40pm), hantar cuci filem,4pm baru ready, we went off to irbid mall yang baru jugak buka. Ingatkan macam muhktar mall or mecca mall , rupanya hanya a big supermarket, barang pun tak best , grocery pun tak banyak, banyak lagi barang di shopping corner dekat my house. Cuma satu yang murah n worth buying .table lamp, cantik n murah. At first nak beli jugak tapi bila ingat tak de tempat dah nak letak(i memang suka table lamp) , lagi pun kat rumah yang kecik ni dah ada 5 ( 2 dah rosak) table lamp..mungkin lain kali i nak beli .I bought potato cutter, izzat nak sangat buat french fries sendiri.

4.15pm ambik gambar, solat di masjid University Yarmouk(opposite kedai al qureem photo),terus ambik taxi putih(naik bas lambat )..dia caj 2jd sorang . Tapi geram betul dengan drebarnya, macam mabuk bawak taxi, dahlah bawak taxi goyang badan ikut rentak lagu yang dipasang, lepas tu terhoyong hayang steering dibuatnya.entah berapa kali kenderaan lain hon sebab dia masuk lane orang, rasa nak ketuk kepala dia..mimi dah mula nak mabuk, i berapa kali mengomel dia buat tak tau je. zaid kata mungkin dia mabuk sebab banyak kali benda yang sama je dia tanya pada zaid.. zaid kata arab pun ramai yang kaki arak (kalau tak takkan islam larang arak)akhirnya sampai jugak di chilli house restaurant depan university jordan ( memang dah plan nak bukak pose kat situ ).. Tak berapa sedap n sampai ke habis tak dapat apple pie yang di order sebab waiter sorang je, nak layan ramai orang..tak pelah cancel je apple pie, terus balik rumah n solat maghrib.....

Lepas solat izzat terus cuba potato cutter n siap dah potatoes yang dipotong , memang senang n cantik je potato tu.. goreng n enak dimakan...

From Sweileh to Daegu,Korea

Nothing much happened today except for majlis iftar(buka pose) n kenduri kahwin invited by newly-wed couple, marwah n shahrul at their house in Sweileh, just 6mins by taxi from my house. At first i was thinking of making roti jala for the iftar but i was a bit tired ( couldn't sleep well last night) so roti jala was changed into sardine popia ...oklah habis jugak., Thay invited students staying in Amman(not many ) but since they are close to me, they invited me along,Alhamdulillah. I few medic students from JUST(jordan U of Science n Technology) were also present..just got to know a few of them..juliana n sarah 3rd year students..

Shahrul the bridegroom(22 years old ) himself cooked the delicious beef rendang n ayam golek(small pieces) of course assisted by the bride Marwah (19). They are a very loving n romantic couple......Gang ikin..angah, yaya n nurul brought karipap n santan jelly(mimi loved it so much !!)

Selamat pengantin Baru , Semoga berbahagia sokmo.

This morning Sumayyah went off to Kyungpook National U in Daegu,2 hours by express train from seoul.. bro Zairemy (Thanx a lot!! )sent her there, Alhamdulillah she was placed with a korean on the 6th floor of the new dormitory building(lux hotel!!) .1st to 5th floor for guys, 6th to 10th for gals, very safe environment with tight security(guys can't hop to 6th n above !!).

She said there are around 20 muslims at KNU but she 's the one n only malaysian there. She 'll undergo korean language program for one year b4 taking undergraduate program(has yet to decide). InsyaAllah she'll be okay n get the language fast(she's catching up).

Lambaian Kaabah

Yesterday we all makan very 'hot' pizza di pizza corner not far from my house.Arab punya harr or hot pizza tak rasa apa, siap waiter tu reminded us that the pizza that we chose harr jiddan, i kata kat zaid ma tak caya pedas, just order , memang tak pedas langsung, arab memang tak makan pedas, so bila pizza tu ada cili slices dia kata pedas sangat. Selalunya we all just call for pizza delivery but yesterday kami mula-mula pegi mecca mall, ingat nak beli kasut baru mimi, sibuk nak snicker barbie pulak, rupanya semua kedai di mecca mall tutup awal, kami tiba pukul 5pm dah tutup semua kecuali fast food restaurants yang buka n ramai dah orang duk menunggu nak buka pose walaupun lambat lagi masa berbuka (6.13pm). I dah muak makan those fast food , so kami patah balik ke kawasan Abu Nuseir dekat dengan rumah n singgah di pizza corner untuk berbuka...Sekali lagi bila masuk waktu berbuka those arabs buka dengan kurma (sunat) tapi after that terus grabbed that damn rokok,rokok,rokok, semua termasuk waiters hisap rokok. Kami berempat makan 2 regular pizaa(terpaksa izat habiskan ), arab sebelah meja 2orang makan 3 regular pizza, habis semua. memang hebat arab, badan kecik je...

Sewaktu dalam taxi nak balik rumah lepas berbuka , i saw a few buses yang parking dekat dengan masjid, bila kami sembang kemungkinan kenapa banyak bas di situ, drebar taxi macam faham je, dia terus menyampuk yang bas-bas tu nak bawa jemaah umrah dari perumahan kami ke mekah . Wah bestnya kata dalam hati dapat buat umrah bulan ramadan. many jordanians go for umrah by land sebab dekat je ( 24hours jugaklah dekat pun ) n cheap. Macam i tak boleh pegi sebab visa tourist , dia kena ada PR baru boleh ikut pakej umrah dari sini.

Bukan apa dah hampir 10 tahun i tak menjejakkan kaki ke mekah n madinah, first pegi with darling hubby 1995 , last pergi 1 family 1997, semua pergi except mimi yang belum lahir lagi...Rindu nak lihat kaabah, rindu nak pusing tawaf keliling kaabah, rindu nak saie safa marwah n rindu nak ziarah maqam nabi dan para sahabat. RINDUUUUU .

Teringat kali pertama menatap kaabah tak tertahan air mata terharu meresap ke sanubari, bila lihat anak-anak kecil berlarian di hadapan kaabah, terus menadah tangan berdoa agar ALLah murahkan rezeki agar kami dapat membawa anak-anak bersama di lain masa. Kuasa ALLAH, 1997 kami datang semula bersama semua anak-anak, zaid waktu tu 11tahun, safiyyah 10, sumayyah 8, izzat3.Kami sunatkan izzat segera sebab senang urusan umrah(pakai full bius sebab kecik lagi ). Alhamdulillah anak-anak semua faham apa yang dikatakan buat umrah, apa yang perlu dilakukan, kat mana nak miqat, apa itu ihram dsb. Izzat yang kecik pun tau n dia dapat buat a complete umrah by himself, pakai ihram dari mula sampai habis selesai satu umrah.Orang lain i, my hubby, zaid, piah, sumi semua dapat completekan 11 times umrah,alhamdulillah. I masih ingat sumi takut betul dengan drebar bas, pakcik arab mustafa yang badannya besar , berjambang, suara garau, garang selalu jerit IJLIS, IJLIS suruh semua duduk dalam bas sebab dia nak pastikan semua ada dalam bas.BIla dia tau nama sumayah terus dia baik sebab anak diapun nama sumayah. Kami panggil pakcik unta sebab tak henti mengunyah chewing gum n sekali minum air habis satu flask, dahlah hari panas dia minum teh panas berasap satu flask sekali minum. Hari terakhir kami belikan serban pada pakcik unta(rugi tak bawa apa-apa dari malaysia ). dia tersenyum gembira. Bila berhenti rehat, dia hadiahkan sumayyah 10 gelang n rantai n air jus entah berapa botol...tak sangka sungguh sampai begitu dia balas pemberian kami yang hanya 10riyal je. Ada budak-budak lain yang pergi sekali umrah bersama kata, tak acilah asyik sumayyah je dapat banyak hadiah...nasiblah..rezeki sumayyah.

I masih ingat malam terakhir kami saja nak buat tawaf sunat, pergi hampir tengah malam ,kurang orang dalam kawasan masjidil haram, tengah kami tawaf, tiba-tiba seorang lelaki yang macam muka pakistan jatuh secara tiba-tiba betul-betul sebelah kaabah, kami panik tapi tak berhenti sebab tengah tawaf, kalau berhenti pun bukan tau nak buat apa, ada seorang perempuan iran ( dari cara berpakaian) terus pergi kepada lelaki tu serta beberapa orang polis, terus that lady kata , i'm a doctor. Di pusingan seterusnya kami lihat lelaki tu diangkat ke tepi tanpa bergerak..di sini kematian memang senang sangat berlaku.

Selepas melihat kejadian tersebut berlaku di depan mata, hati dan fikiran mula berkata, dan befikir, alangkah baiknya kematian lelaki tadi, dahlah sedang beribadat, tawaf, dah pulak tu betul-betul sebelah kaabah, baitullah, apa lagi yang mahu dipinta selain daripada kematian sebegitu..i tak pernah terlintas agar Allah ambil nyawa semasa tawaf...selepas tu i mula berdoa agar kalau ajal i tiba i nak i sedang beribadat kepada NYA,amin.

Dalam menjalankan ibadah puasa ramadan yang hampir kepenghujungnya, i sentiasa berdoa agar diberikan kelapangan untuk mengerjakan haji pulak, yang buat masa ni kami perlu memberi priority kepada anak-anak menuntut ilmu demi masa depan mereka jua .. InsyaAllah satu hari nanti (harap dalam masa terdekat !!) kami dapat menyahut panggilan haji dan menyambut lambaian kaabah yang dirindui selamanya, AMIN.

Bestnya kalau ada kereta raja....

Harini best sekali dapat melawat the royal automobile museum yang di dedikasikan khas buat almarhum king hussein, king jordan sebelum king abdullah sekarang. Terletak tak jauh dari rumah i , king hussein park ni baru lagi dibuka , taman yang amat luas yang terdapat pelbagai tempat rekreasi seperti gelanggang futsal, basketball etc, king hussein medical center n yang i pergi semalam museum kereta2 yang pernah digunakan oleh king hussein semasa hayat baginda. wow,wow!!! itu saja yang dapat i luahkan bila lihat koleksi kereta dari mercedes benz, ferrari, rolls royce, jeep. motorbikes, n pelbagai jenama kereta yang i tak pernah tau , all together more than 200 automobiles. Kebanyakan adalah hadiah yang diberikan kepada baginda n kebanyakannya hanya digunakan a few times...waduh, keliur tengok kereta-kereta tu, kalau dapat sebuah pun rasanya tak duk rumah , kereta jadi tempat tidur n shelter haha.

Lepas melawat museum kereta pergi pulak ke mukhtar mall, pusat belilbelah baru buka , oklah jugak harga barang2 yang rasanya dikhaskan untuk orang jordan berbelanja sebab unlike mecca mall yang mahal macam di klcc, this mukhtar mall sederhana harga barangannya,mampu dibeli oleh jordanian yang gaji tak berapa besar, tempat dream park kanak-kanak pun murah , dengan hanya 10 kurusy (52 sen malaysia ) boleh main satu permainan, puaslah jugak mimi main , izzat n zaid main bowling yang hanya jd1.5 sebelum buka pose n jd2.5 selepas buka pose. Yang hairan tokeh tempat permainan china sama seperti di aman mall..sudahnya orang arab jadi kuli cina yang memang pandai berniaga tak kira di mana.

Kami berbuka di mukhtar mall, i n zaid makan set lasagna di simply italian restaurant , izzat n mimi mcD. Selepas solat maghrib terus balik dan sampai rumah azan isyak baru dilaungkan. Jordan ni sedang membangun so hidup tak lah sunyi sangat sebab banyak tempat menarik yang boleh dilawati....

Iftar bersama pelajar..

Alhamdulillah today is the 15th day of ramadan n so far ramadan has been so good , not much problem, nice weather n well of health.

I'm so very much in mood since for the past two days my house was full with malaysian students having iftar (breaking fast ) together with me. Those students ada yang dari Mu'tah, Amman n Irbid..may i jot down their names .. echah,kakngah,ikin,marwa,saadiah,fadli,shahrul,angah zarir,hafizudin,nain,zahrin. I masak nasi tomato, rendang daging, sayur goreng, popeyes chicken, choco donat n fruits. OKlah nak masak banyak tak larat bulan pose ni,tapi oklah agaknya.

There were two just-married couples who were also present at my house , marwa&sagol, Saadiah&fadli..Congratulations!! Fadli is my ex-student back then in kemaman. Ikut jejak langkah cikgunya yang kahwin masa belajar haha!

MIMI yang paling happy sebab ramai kakak datang, dia makan dan makan n malam tu echa from irbid tido kat rumah, lagi tambah suka dia. Actually echah is my best friend's daughter in kemaman n she's studying in JUST.

It's nice to have them at our house for iftar since dah lama jugak they all tak datang sebab kuliah has started untuk fall semester.

Anyhow, i just want them to know that i enjoy their presence very much n may Allah grant us the best ramadan ever .Amin.

Amannya Amman di bulan ramadan...

Yesterday kami bukak puasa di cairo restaurant di city centre. Ingat nak beli ikan dan kacang soya. Alhamdulilah dapat beli ikan dan sedikit sotong tapi kacang soya tak dapat sebab kedai banyak yang tutup awal. pergi restoran pukul 6 ptg dah hampir penuh walaupun restaurant tu 4 tingkat. Kami ordered 'ikan masak cina', ayam panggang dan chicken n vege soup. Sedap jugak ikan masak cina tu. Jordan susah nak jumpa seafood, kalau ada pun di aqabah, selatan jordan.

Time bukak puasa padat dan penuh restoran dengan orang lelaki, cuma ada 4 meja yang customers perempuan....ada yang terpaksa berkongsi meje dengan orang 'lain' selain ahli keluarga atau kawan yang datang bersama. Kami berempat nasib baik tak disuruh share meja dengan orang lain.

Tak sampai 6 minit bukak puasa, makcik yang duduk sebelah meja kami dah keluarkan rokok .hai memang tak sabar nak berasap, dia cuba pasangkan rokok dengan lighter yang dibawa tapi tak menyala api...datang seorang pemuda yang entah dari meja mana tolong pasangkan api lighter untuk makcik tu yang nak hisap rokok. I bagitau izzat, hai baiknya pemuda tu buat 'amal jariah' dalam bulan puasa , tolong orang hisap rokok haha. Tak lama lepas tu berasaplah restoran kaherah dengan asap rokok yang ditahan sedari pagi di bulan ramadan ni.

Selesai makan kami solat di masjid hussein yang berdekatan restoran. Pelik sungguh sebab jalanraya yang selalunya sibuk dan bising dengan hon dan deruan kenderaan, sunyi dan kosong, sampai zaid kata boleh baring atas jalanraya...semua buka puasa dan solat di masjid. Suasana nyaman dan sunyi di bulan ramadan membuatkan hati sayu dan sayang nak tinggalkan bumi jordan jika sekiranya terpaksa meninggalkan negara ini untuk pulang ke tanahair...

Sewaktu di dalam restoran yang biasanya tingkat atas hanya untuk keluarga dan wanita tapi semalam dipenuhi orang arab bujang. kami meja malaysia dan ada 2 meja lagi orang indonesia yang ada perempuan beserta 1 meja makcik arab yang hisap rokok tu. Baru semalam i perhatikan dan amati ramai jugak lelaki arab yang hansome and macho, dengan kening yang cantik terlukis dan lebat serta hidung yang mancung...selama ni i pandang tak pandang orang arab sebab rasa macam biasa je muka diaorang tapi semalam baru 'discovered ' that arabs ramai yang handsome....harap my hubby tak marah i tengok n admire muka arab hahaha..

Best jugak bukak puasa di bandar atau dikenali dengan balad. Nanti nak pegi lagi sebelum ramadan tamat sebab semalam we all tak bawa kamera...Nanti dekat raya my hubby balik jordan boleh pergi balad lagi...My hubby balik tanahair hari ni ...urusan kerja dan peribadi selama 2 minggu sebelum balik beraya di jordan bersama kami. Safe journey to him, amin. I dah pesan suruh bawa balik kuih tat nenas n almond london kegemaran kami sekeluarga n barang grocery bila dia balik ke jordan nanti..harap dapatlah merasa tempe n tauhu...i bukan jawa tapi memang miss those jawa stuff...

This afternoon sumayyah sent a few photos of hers and palaces in seoul, so beautiful...I'm glad that she's ok n dah pandai guna subway n buses to get around in seoul.Next week she'll be going to KNU in daegu to start her korean class.

My second child, safiyyah from ukraine bagitau 2 hari lepas dia terpaksa buka puasa sebab nak makan ubat demam n sakit tekak serta batuk...mungkin musim demam. Lagipun dia bagitau sekarang dah pergi hospital ( observing ) since she's now in second year.I hope she'll take care of herself because kat hospital macam-macam penyakit ada.

My eldest son zaid baru balik mutah tadi, sempat i masakkan ayam masak kurma n sweet sour ikan untuk dia berbuka bersama housemates . Dia bawa balik vcd 'mutah in memory' yang dia sendiri terbitkan untuk dijual di mutah. Dekat seminggu dia pulun edit n produce vcd ni. Harap berjaya percubaan pertama bisnes vcd ni. Baru kejap tadi dia sms bagitau dia dah bertolak ke mutah naik coaster tapi malang dapat duduk sebelah pak arab yang hangit bau ketiak, terpaksa tahan hidung. I balas balik sms, janganlah ayam masak kurma yang i bekalkan lekat bau ketiak arab tu..zaid balas balik kata nanti sampai mutah ayam masak kurma jadi ayam masak ketiak..hehe i balas balik suruh dia cium puas2 ketiak arab sebab nanti kalau balik tanahair tak dapat cium dah...memang kalau yang hangit tak tahan dibuatnya nak terloya..kat kedai banyak jual minyak atar tapi pelik ramai yang tak guna...itulah arab.

Harap tak kurang pahala puasa mengata arab di sini.Ramadan terasa berbeza , Amman terasa lebih aman dari biasa...I love Amman yang aman.