12 days into 2012!

12 days into 2012!

We ended 2011 and started the new year with attending a great programme organized by Al Kauthar : Home Sweet Home! This was only our second time attending al Kauthar's event, and I am just ever so grateful to be given this chance to learn from their great speakers. Perhaps I will try to find some time later to share some of the things we learn in the course, insya Allah.

31 Dec 2011 didn't end early though as once we finished with the Al Kauthar course around Maghrib, we went to a friend's house over for dinner and listened to some sharing from a friend who has just performed Hajj recently. It was a nice meet up alhamdulillah, can't wait for the next one!

We then went to Dataran Shah Alam; we reached there around 10.30pm to have a look at what the state government has planned for the people that night. I was at first a bit sceptical for I don't really fancy Ust Azhar Idrus, though I find his talks to be quite nice. Then there was Zizan from Raja Lawak as the MC. When we arrived they were already half way through the 'show'. I think it's best to describe that the new year event was an absolute success by the state government as they managed to pull a huge crowd of almost 80K if I'm not mistaken! That's a really huge crowd for a program like that, and we saw people from all walks of life were there enjoying the event. It was fun and entertaining and I couldn't stop laughing listening to the answers given by Ust Azhar Idrus and of course all their neverending jokes haha. It sure was a better alternative compared to having a concert anyway! On that note, I applaud the effort of the organizers in coming up with the event that night. Those who haven't seen the video in YouTube should spend some time watching, try and have a look of it, I'm sure you will enjoy it.

So, yes, now that we're in 2012, people have been talking about their new year resolutions and whatnot. Somehow my husband and I has never been big in it though. We have never really sit down and think through of what we want to achieve for that year. However, we do have short term goals that we will always write down in our discussions via email. Or sometimes when we thought about it, we'll just aim to get things done. But all are very short terms in nature. And we also do our review for the year, looking back and do some reflection to see how far we have achieved what we wanted to achieve.

This year we decided to do something different.

Instead of writing or discussing them through email like we used to do, this year we decided to write them all down on a large piece of paper (a pink colour paper hehe) and paste it on our wardrobe hehe. So yeah, insya Allah our hope is to achieve them all =)

We have some personal goals and 'couple' goals, some material ones some spiritual ones and a combination of both too. And talking about goal setting, somehow without even realising we are actually in the process of achieving them, masya Allah.

May Allah help us both to achieve the things we want to achieve this year, amin.

I'm thinking of writing a review of last year's journey but perhaps it's best to leave it at that and move on to our new coming adventures, insya Allah. I believe that we have all the positive vibes to go through 2012, and we hope that this year would be another great year for us and both our families too.

Will write a proper entry next week the latest, insya Allah to talk about money, greed and fear!