when trying to (sort of) give motivation, i usually try my best to use positive words rather than descriptions that might bring someone even much lower. i can say "be faithful" rather than "don't cheat". cause you know, you'd only remember the verb and drop the "don't".

i don't have many chances to explore places. this would probably be the only chance i'd have in a year or two. or forever? let's just hope for the best.

exploring places is good. you expand your horizons, you begin to understand why people acted the way they did and you'd learn that there are more to life than you had ever seen.

the pious muslims and not-really-pious ones used to have quite a big gap. in term of talking, dressing and whatnot. these days, we could see that more and more people are trying to show how not complicated it is to live as a muslim. how you can just pray anywhere and not only in designated prayer rooms or masjid. or that there are a lot of halal food than the haram ones.

with (i hope) a good intention of going, i hope that this time around, i could leave something good in someone's (or two, three, well, the more the merrier ain't it? :p) memory. like the old lady who asked "how do you actually wear it? cause i saw people wear it many ways"

maybe it's just me being too sensitive.

bismillahitawakkaltu'alallah.