Welcome Ramadhan
Konnichiwa!
With September, came Ramadhan, Moslem’s fasting month. It is always a special month. For you who are non Moslems and have no idea about our fasting month, I’ll explain it to you. It’s one month in a year when we eat and drink nothing from dawn until sunset. It is a month full of blessings from our God, Allah SWT. We pray more in this month. More importantly, there is a feeling of togetherness in this month for us. Because wherever you are, as long as you are a Moslem and fasting, there are millions of other Moslems who also do that all around the globe. Have you ever eat nothing from dawn until sunset? The main point for this activity is experiencing what other unfortunate people experienced. People who live in poverty who can’t eat properly. To make us more grateful for what we already have, to make us feel more sympathy to others who are not as fortunate as we are. Not only fasting during the day, we also must control ourselves from any improper emotions, feelings, and thoughts. We are not allowed to be angry, speak hurting words to others, lie, cheat, and any other improper behavior. We must stop thinking of hatred. This is done in order to make us a better human. For ourselves and others.
This is a process that is done everyday in the Ramadhan month, in hope that we will always do it. And trust me, fasting a whole day is a whole lot easier than trying to control your emotion. After a month, we became a clean person. We are reborn. And in Idul Fitri, or the Day of Triumph, or the Holy Day, we are considered winners. From our own lust, sin, and hatred. That’s why, Idul Fitri is a day of celebration. The most important thing we do is, we ask forgiveness from everybody we know that day. And, we forgive everybody we know also. So that’s the concept. Many Moslems kept saying in the end of the month, “Hopefully Allah will give us time and health, so we can meet Ramadhan again next year”.
I watched several movies. Little Miss Sunshine, Bourne Ultimatum, The History Boys, and an Indonesian movie, Mendadak Dangdut.
With September, came Ramadhan, Moslem’s fasting month. It is always a special month. For you who are non Moslems and have no idea about our fasting month, I’ll explain it to you. It’s one month in a year when we eat and drink nothing from dawn until sunset. It is a month full of blessings from our God, Allah SWT. We pray more in this month. More importantly, there is a feeling of togetherness in this month for us. Because wherever you are, as long as you are a Moslem and fasting, there are millions of other Moslems who also do that all around the globe. Have you ever eat nothing from dawn until sunset? The main point for this activity is experiencing what other unfortunate people experienced. People who live in poverty who can’t eat properly. To make us more grateful for what we already have, to make us feel more sympathy to others who are not as fortunate as we are. Not only fasting during the day, we also must control ourselves from any improper emotions, feelings, and thoughts. We are not allowed to be angry, speak hurting words to others, lie, cheat, and any other improper behavior. We must stop thinking of hatred. This is done in order to make us a better human. For ourselves and others.
This is a process that is done everyday in the Ramadhan month, in hope that we will always do it. And trust me, fasting a whole day is a whole lot easier than trying to control your emotion. After a month, we became a clean person. We are reborn. And in Idul Fitri, or the Day of Triumph, or the Holy Day, we are considered winners. From our own lust, sin, and hatred. That’s why, Idul Fitri is a day of celebration. The most important thing we do is, we ask forgiveness from everybody we know that day. And, we forgive everybody we know also. So that’s the concept. Many Moslems kept saying in the end of the month, “Hopefully Allah will give us time and health, so we can meet Ramadhan again next year”.
I watched several movies. Little Miss Sunshine, Bourne Ultimatum, The History Boys, and an Indonesian movie, Mendadak Dangdut.
Maya recommended Little Miss Sunshine to me. And it is indeed good. A very touching story. About a little girl, Olive, who went to California to attend the Little Miss Sunshine Pageant. The whole family accompanied her, in an old VW bus—because they can’t afford airplane tickets.
It was a family with people of different weird personalities. Olive’s dad, Richard, was persistently trying to market his motivation module, “The Nine Steps”, and tried to make it into a book. Olive’s mom, is a working mom who is always busy and had no time to cook. But she loves Olive dearly. Olive’s older brother, Dwayne, is another teenager who felt he belong nowhere and views the world as hell filled with hateful people. He reads Nietzsche (I hope I wrote that right) as a thought food, and took a pledge of silence until he could enter the flight school he wanted. His mom kept refusing, so he hasn’t said a word for nine months. Olive’s grandpa is someone who can’t get over his troubled youth. Around sixty years old, and he still smoke heroin, reads porn magazines, and advised Dwayne to “f*** as many girls as possible while you’re young”. Olive’s uncle tried to kill himself because he broke up with his boyfriend, lost his job, money, and his rival have it all. The boyfriend, job, and money. While Olive, stay sane in all the confusing adult conversations. She is a happy child, cares to others, loves her family dearly, and always cheerful.
It was a long trip to California. Lack of money combined with arguing in the car, having to push the car every time they stop, and everything in between. The uncle met his old boyfriend, which was heartbreaking for him, and grandpa died because taking too much heroin, Dwayne went hysterical because he found out that he was color blind. He can’t fly a jet plane then. After nine months of silence, he screamed his lungs out and went berserk. In the middle of it all, Olive’s innocence and sincere heart kept them united. She hugged and smiled, and everything was alright again. The adults realize that they could be strong, if this little girl could stay happy. I think what make them united is Olive.
Little Miss Sunshine is touching, incredibly down to earth, funny, and taught us more than any blockbuster movie could. This movie said, however weird your family is, they are your family. Love them, and you will be loved. They are the persons who will accept you as who you are, who will stay beside you no matter what, and the most importantly, they are where you belong. And one more thing, “f*** all that beauty pageant thinking! You are perfect as what you are. As long as you are happy, you are perfect. All those perfect look and beauty meant nothing!”. Yeah. I’m glad I watched this movie.
Bourne Ultimatum was so outrageously thrilling. Blinking is a waste of a super cool scene. Blinking would be wasting one second of the movie. Trilogies some end good, some not. The Lord of The Ring : The Return of The King, X-Men 3, and Pirates of The Carribean 3 are trilogies that ended spectacularly. While Spiderman 3, for example, ended not really good. I think no. 2 was better.
Bourne Ultimatum was definitely the best of the three. Really. At first I wasn’t really thrilled to go. Reza too. Somehow the idea of taking a bus all the way to the mall was exhausting. But Kinta was dying to watch it. So we obeyed her. Literally. And thank God we listened to her. Matt Damon successfully presented Jason Bourne as a genius agent who is a master in everything he did, and disturbed inside. Jason has a photographic memory, speaks so much languages, drives everything, and moves super fast without making any mistake. All that was done with a face that was never emotional, and he looks like he was doing a thing while his brain kept planning for his next moves.
The fight scenes were incredible. Sometimes you can’t always depend on your gun. People could grab it from you, it could fall, or run out of bullets. Jason fights with his hands and feet as good as he used guns. Those bare hands fight scenes made us felt the pain and bruises.
I’m glad that Julia Stiles finally play a bigger role. It seemed like she had a relationship with Jason. Matt Damon was brilliant! Brilliant! So Jason was one of the experimental program led by CIA cronies. He was made to be a multi-talented killer, and was told that by doing it he saved American people. He was trained everything imaginable an elite agent need. And he was sent to murder people without any reason given. He just had to murder them, no questions asked, no answers given. But the fact was, he wasn’t saving American people, he was just doing errands for several elitist need. He was just a tool. He finally stopped in one mission, while he was assigned to kill an African politician, who had a little daughter. The girl came beside his father when Jason wanted to kill him. That stopped him.
The shock was, Jason volunteered for the program. But he realized that he wasn’t doing the right thing like he signed up for.
In the end, when he was shot before he jumped from the rooftop, and was drown in the river, I thought that was the ending. The scandal of “Treadstone” was public and was put to a stop, and he died as a martyr. But he didn’t die. I felt like a winner watching it. And Matt Damon was one of the best actor ever.
It was a family with people of different weird personalities. Olive’s dad, Richard, was persistently trying to market his motivation module, “The Nine Steps”, and tried to make it into a book. Olive’s mom, is a working mom who is always busy and had no time to cook. But she loves Olive dearly. Olive’s older brother, Dwayne, is another teenager who felt he belong nowhere and views the world as hell filled with hateful people. He reads Nietzsche (I hope I wrote that right) as a thought food, and took a pledge of silence until he could enter the flight school he wanted. His mom kept refusing, so he hasn’t said a word for nine months. Olive’s grandpa is someone who can’t get over his troubled youth. Around sixty years old, and he still smoke heroin, reads porn magazines, and advised Dwayne to “f*** as many girls as possible while you’re young”. Olive’s uncle tried to kill himself because he broke up with his boyfriend, lost his job, money, and his rival have it all. The boyfriend, job, and money. While Olive, stay sane in all the confusing adult conversations. She is a happy child, cares to others, loves her family dearly, and always cheerful.
It was a long trip to California. Lack of money combined with arguing in the car, having to push the car every time they stop, and everything in between. The uncle met his old boyfriend, which was heartbreaking for him, and grandpa died because taking too much heroin, Dwayne went hysterical because he found out that he was color blind. He can’t fly a jet plane then. After nine months of silence, he screamed his lungs out and went berserk. In the middle of it all, Olive’s innocence and sincere heart kept them united. She hugged and smiled, and everything was alright again. The adults realize that they could be strong, if this little girl could stay happy. I think what make them united is Olive.
Little Miss Sunshine is touching, incredibly down to earth, funny, and taught us more than any blockbuster movie could. This movie said, however weird your family is, they are your family. Love them, and you will be loved. They are the persons who will accept you as who you are, who will stay beside you no matter what, and the most importantly, they are where you belong. And one more thing, “f*** all that beauty pageant thinking! You are perfect as what you are. As long as you are happy, you are perfect. All those perfect look and beauty meant nothing!”. Yeah. I’m glad I watched this movie.
Bourne Ultimatum was so outrageously thrilling. Blinking is a waste of a super cool scene. Blinking would be wasting one second of the movie. Trilogies some end good, some not. The Lord of The Ring : The Return of The King, X-Men 3, and Pirates of The Carribean 3 are trilogies that ended spectacularly. While Spiderman 3, for example, ended not really good. I think no. 2 was better.
Bourne Ultimatum was definitely the best of the three. Really. At first I wasn’t really thrilled to go. Reza too. Somehow the idea of taking a bus all the way to the mall was exhausting. But Kinta was dying to watch it. So we obeyed her. Literally. And thank God we listened to her. Matt Damon successfully presented Jason Bourne as a genius agent who is a master in everything he did, and disturbed inside. Jason has a photographic memory, speaks so much languages, drives everything, and moves super fast without making any mistake. All that was done with a face that was never emotional, and he looks like he was doing a thing while his brain kept planning for his next moves.
The fight scenes were incredible. Sometimes you can’t always depend on your gun. People could grab it from you, it could fall, or run out of bullets. Jason fights with his hands and feet as good as he used guns. Those bare hands fight scenes made us felt the pain and bruises.
I’m glad that Julia Stiles finally play a bigger role. It seemed like she had a relationship with Jason. Matt Damon was brilliant! Brilliant! So Jason was one of the experimental program led by CIA cronies. He was made to be a multi-talented killer, and was told that by doing it he saved American people. He was trained everything imaginable an elite agent need. And he was sent to murder people without any reason given. He just had to murder them, no questions asked, no answers given. But the fact was, he wasn’t saving American people, he was just doing errands for several elitist need. He was just a tool. He finally stopped in one mission, while he was assigned to kill an African politician, who had a little daughter. The girl came beside his father when Jason wanted to kill him. That stopped him.
The shock was, Jason volunteered for the program. But he realized that he wasn’t doing the right thing like he signed up for.
In the end, when he was shot before he jumped from the rooftop, and was drown in the river, I thought that was the ending. The scandal of “Treadstone” was public and was put to a stop, and he died as a martyr. But he didn’t die. I felt like a winner watching it. And Matt Damon was one of the best actor ever.
I have to fast too BUT!! I don'T fast in the week (monday - Friday) becuase then I can't concentrade learning..till last year I always had fasted in Ramadhan but this year is too much for me so when I fast too I won'T get anything in school
so I just fast in the weekends^^...
I began fasting with 6 oO!!..pretty early deshou? o(^_^)o!!
Jya!^^
have to continue learing!^^
mata na!^^
hugss n kiss!^^
Reinai? Uso!!! You're a moslem too! Wow! I never thought about it! The idea seems bizarre, somehow. I mean you're a "Germany" for God's sake! I'm shock! Gomen. I live in Indonesia, with the most moslems occupants in the world. You know, everywhere I turn around here there are moslems everywhere. So I always had a shock when I know that any foreigners that I know is a moslem.
I mean, I know Islam is all over the world, and in Germany too. But I think accidentally knowing one is such an almost impossible thing to happen! But I'm ecstatically happy to know this. Where sisters in a way then. Huahahaha! Reinai is a moslem! *dancing happily on the street* Ah. Thank you so much for telling me. You make me so unbelievably happy.
Ganbatte with the fasting ne. Maybe in time you can do it everyday in Ramadhan again.
So, because I'm curious.
Are you a moslem since you were born? And that means everbody in your family, Grandpa, Grandma, cousins, everyone, is moslems too?
Or have just been a moslem recently?
You have to admit that it is unusual for a Germany to hold Islam as a religion.
Oh I love you!
Ganbatte in fasting!
Hugs and kisses 1000 times.
I LIVE in Germany...
but that don't mean that I AM German! xD
since I was born I'm a moslem!!..ok I was born in Germany but I'm not a German^^
I'm actually..from Turkey!^^
my nationality is türkish..and türkish means moslem!^^
no..actually...there are many turkish/moslems here in Germany!!...esspecially here where I live are many turkish/moslems^^
and the number is raising.....
haha I love you too!^^
thank you!^^
HUGS N KISSES 1000 times back!^^
Anyway, here, we start fasting from 04.00! And we can start eating again at around 17.45.
hmm I think we start 5am or 4.30 am (in last time I didn'T fast..ermm ya know...periode xD)...and begin eating at 19.18...^^