Sunday, March 23, 2014

My camping weekend

What a busy week! Antara speculating theories on MH370, visits from academics from Turkey, hospital visits, I sempat ber-camping with my colleagues (frm different faculties..lebih 100 orang semuanya).Sebenarnya kami terpaksa.Mana ada uni dlm dunia yang cakna pasal spirituality pekerjanya.Hanya di UIA! My daughter kata mcm bdk sekolah..she said they did Ibadah Camp when she was in Form 3.Sapa tak pergi, kena show cause letter.I said kita semua dah dapat show cause letter tu (I didn't go last Sept ..they went to Melaka..sebabnya? Hantar Z balik UK).Z asked me are you 15 or 50. :D

And mereka yang tak pergi Ibadah Camp yang wajib every year semua kena tidur kat mesjid UIA.Sedih, kan? Diaorang suruh bawak sleeping bag bagai.So I packed segala keperluan: ubat nyamuk letrik (the batch that went earlier kata byk nyamuk tidur kat mesjid), kain batik, selimut, toileteries, yada yada.I ajak kawan2 tidur kat office since we have two attached bathrooms and ada split aircons).We call our room ni hotel 3 bintang but later my friends kata 4 bintang sebab jarak dgn mesjid sgt dekat mcm hotel Clock Tower kat Makkah tu..turun je dah mesjid..bawah tu cafes..sebelah kanan tempat depa buat senamrobik (tak kuasa I pergi..why pretend kan? One day senam will not make me thin) dan bila ada ceramah perdana, the hall is just sebelah my ofis.Heavens! Syukur.

So you can understand why my friends and I enjoyed the camping on campus! Zetty, Lin and I decided we'd wake up to do the qiyamulail (at 4 am OK?)

That's the best bit which I enjoyed.Ni betul2 mcm kat Makkah..you do not want to think of anything duniawi..just solat tahajjud (sampai 6 rakaat imam tu buat) and solat witir and zikir till Subuh.Something strange happened to me during the 6 rakaat tahajud...badan I rasa ringan satu macam.Biasa nak sujud sakit lutut tapi hening pagi itu..tiba2 lutut I berusia 16 tahun.Haha.By Subuh dia kembali 51. :)) Dan ketika kuliah subuh, I went to the female section and tidur balik ..but heard kuliah tu ujung2 telinga.I was so sleepy!)

I dengar there'll be another ibadah camp for administrators...haiyo...jgn la over-do OK? Kita buat qiyam je lah..ajak family members sekali, gitu.Nik and I dah janji we'll do it at least once a week.I told him about my weightless-ness experience (and betapa tak mengantuknya ketika itu).

Besoknya kita pi dating kat sini:

Not in New Orleans

 It's the Curve

 Nik's 

 Mine...which I had to send back to the kitchen cos' I didn't like it raw.
Darah dlm daging yang buat kita byk uric acid.Itu sebab daging kena sembelih to let the blood 
flow out

Our guests from Turkey at lunch on campus on Thursday

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