Strawberries and Non-Fictions. Life in College

I love Malaysia and all of its diverse culture-based holidays. One, more holidays. Two, more sales! 

Awesome steals during today's shopping session with mom. Almost every store is having a sale!

If there's one thing this week's theme has been, it's strawberries! 

The huge strawberries my roommate brought back from Cameron Highlands. They're so juicy and sweet and sourish! 

Speaking of food, I had the pleasure of tasting this amazing Pakistani restaurant in UTP just beside the CIMB bank. It tastes so good I totally recommend it! :D 

The chicken shaksuka, cheese naan and to-die-for mango lassi!

Overall, It's been a fairly good and hectic week what with helping out with UTP's orientation as facilitator and organizing  my schedules  and such. 

My room's on the fourth floor. I have no excuse of being fat now. My housemates are pretty awesome, they sure love squealing, but the good humorous kind haha. 

So, let's pray for a smooth and endurable semester ahead! 

  

Daily Inspiration: Agreeing to Disagree

I stumbled across this beautiful quote on Facebook today: 

It's true isn't it? The people who disagree with you are more valuable than those who do. Why? Because not only do they point out our flaws and humble ourselves, they also challenge us to gain more knowledge of the matter at hand in order to convince or persuade others in the future.

Imagine you're debating with a friend, and that person has more legit points than you and eventually makes his point. Doesn't that humiliate you in some way, even if they did make you even more knowledgeable in the process? With this humility, we can act on it to become more experienced in our field of interest so that the same mistake won't occur again. 

And that's what I find beautiful about Allah's way in making us realise our mistakes to correct ourselves. Because humans can't do it alone. We need each other to point out our flaws, discreetly or otherwise to become a better person who can lift the status of all Muslims everywhere and improve the Ummah :) 

jazakallah 

Back To College

Only 2 full days left in this home before my 4 months break ends and I would have to go back to UTP slash The Jungle.

As much as I love home, lazing around on my butt all day and playing with my cats (having to deal with my allergies later on), I do miss UTP and the whole hectic schedule of balancing classes and my club duties. There's this sense of satisfaction when you complete your subject's coursework or achieve your club's early-of-the-sem plans. 

But it is scary because if you're not careful, you could easily get lost in all the piles and piles of work. 

But I'll persevere, cause I only have 2 years of college left! Might as well make the most out of it :D

So hello 5th Semester of Chemical Engineering, and let's gear up for another memorable semester ;)