Category: Ramadan
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Diary of a Fasting Girl — Entry 3, Day 23
Haha, yup sporadic entries at random times. That is what I have become this Ramadan, although I wasn’t very regular throughout the rest of the year either. I guess this is going to be my late New Years Resolution — Get regular with my writing! Anyways. The last ten days of Ramadan are upon us,…
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Diary of a Fasting Girl : Entry 2, Day 19
Well, so much for this blog series. It’s not like I don’t have anything to write about, it’s that I don’t really have the time to write much these days ever since I started my summer internship at National Zakat Foundation. I am so tired by the end of the day that my brain is…
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Diary of a Fasting Girl — Entry 1, Day 4
May 9, 2019 It’s sometimes so hard to believe that our beautiful guest, Ramadan, comes around so fast. And as it does, it brings in its wake the endless blessings and bountiful mercy of Our Lord, Allah (God). I am thankful everyday that I was given the honor of welcoming this month again, and I…
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Diary of a Fasting Girl — Day 9 (Super Delayed)
Board-games, Shady Restaurant, and a Yummy Pit Stop — It’s a Date!! Events of May 25, 2018 After several hectic days of tight scheduling and bad sleep patterns, it all starts weighing down on me. This phenomenon is what I called the “Flerp Days,” days where it becomes hard for me to focus on anything,…
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Diary of a Fasting Girl — Day 6 (2018)
Tuesday May 22, 2018 After three long years, I am back to writing diary style blogs this Ramadan (laziness took a hold of me the past two years that I just recently shook off). Also you might be wondering why I’m starting on Day 6 rather than day one. Let’s just say, I finally got…
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Ramadan – A Small Poem
A silver smile, shining so bright welcoming in the blessed night leading into a glorious month the moon that shown, hardly blunt. the beginning, bringing to a halt the excess consumed to a fault. hold back, fight back the powerful urge to eat to drink and further splurge. Abstinence from what you daily need, the…
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Diary of a Fasting Girl: Ramadan, Day Fifteen and Sixteen
July 2 and July 3, 2015 Another Double Post It’s so hard to make time to write these days, what with fasting, worship, coding courses and kitchen discourses. Whatever window of time that is presented to me, I open it and jump through it, flying through the highlights of my days, whether its working on…
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Diary of a Fasting Girl: Ramadan, Day Twelve/Thirteen/Fourteen
June 29, 30, and July 1, 2015 **I haven’t been able to make daily posts for the past couple of days due to busy-ness and tiredness resulting from that busy-ness. And tonight, due to the tiredness, I am unable to take a nap before suhoor. And that means that I’ll be conked out til at…
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Diary of a Fasting Girl: Ramadan, Day Eleven
June 28, 2015 The Variety Makes You Think, No? Today, I went grocery shopping with Saim. So the thing about grocery shopping is, it’s difficult. Going into a store full of food of different shapes, sizes, color, tastes, and smells makes you a tad bit hungry. And that hunger results in binge shopping — which…
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Diary of a Fasting Girl: Ramadan, Day Nine and Ten
DAY NINE: June 26, 2015 It’s Jumu’ah, It’s Jumu’ah Yaaaaayyyyy, Fridaaaayyyyy!! And, Alhumdulillah (Praise be to God), it was a really good day today. I got proper sleep and had a balanced day, getting tons done. I even made it to my coding today. The thing with the coding is I need to be on…
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