First of All... Hey this is my 301st post!
Secondly, let's review how much i've done from My To-Do While He's Gone List.
1. Finish reading The Difficult Journey, The Way Back by AHmad Thompson
Done
2. Finish Qur'an 1.5 time
2 pages thru. LOL
3. Finish 14 days of fasting
1 down
4. Rememorise Surah Mulk, Rahman, Yasin. *guilty of forgetting*
No action yet
5. Spring Clean the WHOLE room inside out
on Xmas, Finished clearing 2.5 out of 4 sections of my cabinet and drawers.
6. Watch 3 or 4 more DVDs
Have watched The Wild, The Barnyard, X-Men 3 and Chuck & Larry while he was away.
7. Read 4 novels (AFTER finishing those 2)
Started Book 3 which Ayah bought for me - The Unromantic Orient By Muhammad Asad.
8. Practise cooking. Maybe i'll try to make Peach Tart? heheh if not then Mee Bandung.
Did the cooking last fri with another one scheduled for New Year. Im thinking of Corned Beef Keema and Chapati. Recipes here http://quickneasytreats.blogspot.com/2005/11/corned-beef-kheema.html
2.5 Weeks Review.
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4 glasses of Juice:
hey, just finished unromantic orient last week. :) and btw...i like cooking from zu's blogspot. she got pretty easy recipes there. im sure you'll do just fine..insyaAllah.
OMGosh!! That is such a coincidence! How did u get to know about the book? How do u find it?
The translator already warned me that the original author is quite long winded and that there are some inaccuracies in his perception that it got me disheartened and like no mood to read yet.
But i sooo recommend u read The Difficult Journey and The Way Back by Ahmad Thompson. That is, if you havent read it already~
I cant remember correctly, but i might have gotten that website from your site? hehe
Muhammad Asad...!!!??? He's very good. He was a hero. He sacrifice his life for Islam. He was a close friend of the late King Faisal and Iqbal the great. He contributed his brain for the forming of Pakistan. Mind you an Austrian German, grew up in Berlin, travel all over Palestine, Egypt, Syria, Iraq, Iran, Sudan, Libya and finally settle in Pakistan as an envoy of Pakistan to the United Nation...he was nor long-winded, but precise.
You should read his "Road to Mecca" which I think is a continuation of "The Unromantic Orient".
He crossed the desert of the uninhabited Arabia and nearly got buried by the sands storm.
Wriggle thorugh the desert of Libya while sleeking through the Italian airplanes srikes, just to help The Grand Sanusi movement to protect Islam in Libya.
How else do you a measure a man, if those mentioned hear do not qualify him.
Apologies, Ayah, if i had somehow offended you from the previous comment.
I dont mean to demean Muhd Asad's work. Far from it~ I think its miraculous how a revert can write a tafsir of the Qur'an!
On the other hand, The Unromantic Orient is NOT the Road to Mecca. The former is written BEFORe he reverted to Islam. Prolly, i should read Road to Mecca first. Hmmm yeah perhaps i will do that.
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