burbling sound of the stream

Salam! hope everyone's having breaks here and there in between those work. May Allah reward your exhaustion from it. 

talking about breaks, i had one last week with hitobal. If you know me, you'll know who she is. A kind but a little (im being nice) annoying friend of mine. Kinda jealous with her cool nickname ngl, hitobal. She have a blog (here to read) , she writes soo good and i love reading it. also, the only friend of mine who have blog so +1 point to her. and she wrote about this story and i thought i'd write abt my side of it. Its not that serious. 

I was supposed to have a staycation with my other friends that day but idk, Allah made me went out with her instead. She's been asking me to go out with her for so long (after 2 weeks of not meeting eo lol) so nice timing, lets just use my half day leave. Let us be those unemployed friends going out at friday, 3 pm.

She wanted to go to somewhere outdoor and i cant suggest nothing else other than sungai congkak. I have so many places i want to go, but my memory is so weak. But this sungai really left a good impression when I first came so that popped up. 

my work got pilled up that day so I got so stressed i just want to use this hangout to just chill and read and just be one with the nature. (konon)

despite my fast packing skill(?), my mind was everywhere i cant prepare it beforehand. But theres nothing to pack really. What do you pack for an evening along the river? logic. The kerusi healing. Some books. Some work. and food. and some baju. 

Here's the thing abt baju, I didnt pack mine the first time i went there and my friends semua mandi manda and i just can celup kaki and i even puasa that day! haha. what was i thinking. I completed the fast btw. 

So to not make banana fruit two times, i’ll just prepare it in case. but from a random hitobal’s “im a city girl” statement i just know we wont get even our pants wet. 

So we went together at 2 and arrived at 4:30? bcs we sesat and bought a lot of foods otw cs we were starving. My nafsu told me to. 

We were searching for maggi (not the brand) but every kedai runcit there sells only that maggi brand and samyang. first, we’re boycotting maggi. Second, ive had samyang too many times i finally think bout my health (by eating other maggi? questionable). We’ve passed few kedai and we stared at those maggies, “give up jela (boycotting)”? “tu ah, jom beli jela”. 

“kawasan kampung ni diorang tak tahu pun kot….” 

A place where theres usually so many people had only us and one small family. “Oh yea we got it all to ourselves”, i thought. no rempit songs blasting from the stall, no smoke from the bbqs, no irresponsibly thrown litters, only us, the stream, the healing sound, the blue sky, the green and luscious trees, a mischievous kitten, a suspicious grey adult cat, a dog, a pair of butterflies and the mosquitoes 😑 sokay, tu pun makhluk Allah. tapi boleh bunuh sbb haiwan perosak. 

the mischievous kitten. or should i say gangster bcs she wore a metal necklace mcm gangster gangster cina 

the stream that washes your thoughts away

anyway. 

We ate nasi bungkus, and planned to eat the maggi later petang petang. and we cant resist the water so we dip our foot in after. I put my kerusi healing in the water and started revisiting my “work”. The water was cold and clear subhanallah. Redupp je. And there were 2 pairs of butterflies flying around us. It was a nice escape.

Hitobal being the city girl she is, she followed the current, walked on stones, cheking the depths of it, playing with it and being jakun. I was lost in my work when i saw her enjoying her ownself. i know i wont be able to rescue her if anything happens so i asked her to not go so far.

budak bandor

The rain started pouring and we went up to our hut where we placed our belongings. and guess what, our foods got stolen. Our suspect was that suspicious grey adult cat. She’s been eyeing it from the time we ate our lunch. Cis. 

But its okay. i think that was Allah’s balasan for us buying boycotted stuff. Cash Allah bagi kat dunia je terus.

oh well. I started to read few sentences from the book (gifted by Iman <3)  but i cant focus so i just talk to hitobal instead. Idk what we’ve talked about but it was short. I just didnt have anything to say.  or, theres so much in my head that i dont know what to say. between that two. interesting enough, hitobal said we've talked a lot...idk if thats true. 

And i fell asleep. It was the best nap ever. I think the sound of the stream helped a lot. I might listen to it before sleep now. actually no, i prefer it silent. 

The rain went a little harder that we decided to go back home. It rained a lot in evening nowadays so understandable. 

It was fun. although the mosquitoes bothered me a lot. The stream, Allah's creation, calmed me down. Just like every nature never fails to do. Subhanallah, we just need Allah to calm us down kan. Idk. His creation is sooo perfect no man made things will ever come close. 

the book is great though. thanks Iman. 

Hitobal is always a good travel partner. Didnt i told you guys we went to Korea together? She was soooo easy to travel with. So menyenangkan orang, may Allah bless her. and she take great photos???????? Im grateful for her. Pls doakan jodoh yg terbaik untuk dia LOL. and a great job for her. Amin. 

Lets go to the beach next! im craving for it.  

p.s - tengok hitobal punya blog in malay aku pun rasa nak blog in malay one day.