here and there

there's not much to tell these past few days. nothing extraordinary happening. but that's just life, isn't it? nothing would be called extraordianry if it happens everyday. then life would be so boring. yes maybe something good's goin to happen this week. i really can't wait for the lecture by Syeikh Khalid Yassin (click to read an interview with him) on this easter weekend. to heck with the easter BBQ on this saturday. i'm so glad i don't really have to go. and the good thing is some of my friends in the hostel are going too although they have the BBQ. thank goodness i don't have to cope with the banging of the loud music all night like the previous weeks. it's so untolerable how they can have party almost every week, and right in the backyard which is facing my window. the un'sound proof' window. hurm yesterday i went to the community centre to borrow some books. hehe guess what those books are. i think i would really recommend them to others. when i finish reading then maybe i'll make a brief review about it and really recommend it to people. they're motivation books, books that guide you to change yourself, your way of thinking and seeing things from other perspectives in life. it's good enough i feel the need to change myself for the better, at least i have the willingness to do it. though i'll never know what the outcome is going to be but that's not the main point, is it?

and yesterday, before i went back home, i took a stroll with a friend along the Torrens River, which is right behind our uni. i've just realized how beautiful it is. alhtough i've been here for 3 semesters, i'd never even bothered to take a leisure stroll there. i felt such a tranquility just sitting by the river and admiring the beautiful scenery before us. and just wacthing the birds and the goose, i felt that all my stressful thoughts and problems had flown away with the them. that's is real life. life is not just working all out to make money, or studying to a breaking point to get good marks. life is about contemplating what's belied upon you by God to be admired and to really think, the real purpose of living. hurm maybe that was the thought for the day. i really should be doing it once in a while, just to put my mind off things that trouble me so much that i don't even have the feel for a real life anymore. it'll just be me and the river and the trees and the birds. nothing else matters. hurm what a good feeling.