Peace.
MashaAllah! Traveling alone, thus far, has been an exhilarating experience. The first thing I did when I touched down in Abu Dhabi was to look for the musollah and alhamdulillah, signs (literally) were clear and my path to the what they call a mosque (tho’ it is really just a musollah) was easy. Alhamdulillah. I felt like slacking in the prayer room throughout my 11 hours transit but I shall go around the airport and see and capture the hustle and bustle of the airport. I heard bad reviews about the airport being crowded and all and yeah basically bad ratings but I’m here to give a 5 out of 5 solely on the musollah and maybe on the cool architecture (the other services suck like come on, a wireless that cannot work and an internet station with only 30% of the computers that can work. Come on Abu Dhabi, get on with the programme. and when I finally got hold of the computer I COULD NOT log into FB). But ALHAMDULILLAH FOR THE MUSOLLAH!
I couldn’t sleep during the 7 hours plane ride from Sg to Abu Dhabi. Tried to but failed. Instead I watched Night at the Museum 2, 5 minutes of 500 days of Summer and biography of Heidi Klum only to realise one hour prior to landing that they have a Quran radio. -_-. I did fly on middle eastern airlines before (Jordan Air, Turkish Air [if u consider it to be middle eastern]) but I don’t remember them reading the du’a when travelling so I was impressed that the tv screen played the ayaat. The only contradiction to it all was that they do serve alcoholic beverages. It seems that you can’t be a totally Islamic airline, eh?
So my friends, like a hoard of them (hehe, love you guys and gals) sent me to the airport along with my family. IT WAS K.E.C.O.H. hahaha. Good thing no teary moments coz it would have ruined my eyeliner! haha.. and guess who came?? jauh jauh dari india… sempat mat tu. heheh (thx thx taufiqah!)
Anyhoo, here are some of the pictures that were taken so far..
yes, can wait long long.
ouh ouh and I ate cinnamon rolls on transit and they were GOOOOOOOD… but super ex. i think i spent about 13SGD for a cinnamon roll and a frappe that is not so frappe like.
Also, thank you for those who made du’a for me and the farewell gifts and meet ups and all. See you again in 8 months inshaAllah.
BTW, just to share some ayaats that were shared to me by a group of sisters (they gave me this cute gift with the ayaat no. and names written on pegs. Great Reminders!:)
Al-Imran: 8
An-Nisaa:44
Al-Hajj:78
Al-Baqarah:285-286
Al-Mu’minun: 1-11
An-Nisaa:40
An-Nahl: 96
An-Nahl:128
At-Taubah:20
Qaf:16
Al-Kahf:10
Ar-Rum:21
Al-Mulk:1-2
[more pics will be up on FB inshaAllah!]
