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,Continue reading “Diary of a Fasting Girl — Entry 3, Day 23”

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 IContinue reading “Diary of a Fasting Girl — Entry 1, Day 4”

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,Continue reading “Diary of a Fasting Girl — Day 9 (Super Delayed)”

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 gotContinue reading “Diary of a Fasting Girl — Day 6 (2018)”

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, theContinue reading “Ramadan – A Small Poem”

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 onContinue reading “Diary of a Fasting Girl: Ramadan, Day Fifteen and Sixteen”

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 onContinue reading “Diary of a Fasting Girl: Ramadan, Day Nine and Ten”

Diary of a Fasting Girl: Ramadan, Day Eight

June 25, 2015 A Meh Day Sucked. Tummy problems truly suck. Today was a day of constant acid reflex. I don’t know what I am doing wrong, as I am taking all the meds possible to feel better, eating healthy and light, and drinking loads of water in the time between Iftar and Suhoor. Sigh.Continue reading “Diary of a Fasting Girl: Ramadan, Day Eight”

Diary of a Fasting Girl: Ramadan, Day Seven

June 24, 2015 Maybe Sleep will come…Now! ….Nooooo…. And that is the game I spent playing this morning for two hours, turning this way and that. But that evasive temptress we call sleep was just that — evasive. I tried fruitlessly in my bed, punching the pillow and mangling my blankets. And then it startedContinue reading “Diary of a Fasting Girl: Ramadan, Day Seven”