Maal Hijrah + Chinese New Year = 5 days holiday!!

And I have the opportunity to celebrate the new Islamic year in ‘heaven’ ironically named Janda Baik. Still, a heaven. It somewhere in the woods of a mountain, somewhere near Genting Highlands. There’s about 20 of us, Singaporean students, went there in a chartered UIA bus!!! Oh yeah, there’s also, a Thai and two ‘muwalats’ along. The place was amazingly beautiful! Man-made-cum-natural. The owner of the place is known as Pak Habib, a well-known political writer and as we found out there, a ‘spiritual’ teacher. There’s a mansion, nice on the outside, but not yet fully done, so we spent our 2 days/1 night in another ‘bangalow- kampung’. Nice place but a kampung, what do you expect. Still, that doesn’t bother us much. The nature and the river was the main attraction! Yes a river, a stream is more like it, was right next to the house!!! And the sound of water 24 hours for infinity~

We had fun games and congregational prayers…and the most important thing was welcoming the new Hijrah year in beauty. I really love it. And we had the stream all to ourselves!! Technically speaking~ The coolness, the pureness, I am so amazed.. We don’t have this kind of stream in Singapore!!

I really had fun there, and didn’t regret any minute of it! Hope to go there again soon.