I'm Awake While You're Still Asleep

'And Then I'm Awake'

Before I start, where should I start? the night before the day or the early morning Dilemma? anyways to make the short story long, i have decided to start in the night before the day :)

The night before the day is of course still dark, and the stars seems a shy at me, they didn't show-up.That's not a problem. On the other hand, i have decided to sleep and it's already 9 in the evening. I fell asleep and the next thing i know, i woke up and check my phone, what time is it? it's still 2:12 early morning, That's amazing! right? because i need to convince myself to sleep again and not to oversleep to miss fajr (pre sunrise) prayer. My consciousness does not cooperate with my eyes.

 I keep on closing my eyes and imagine that i will be sleeping, but my imagination seems ineffective during this time. Then i keep on moving on my very hard bed(i prefer sleeping on a flat, hard floor with a cover of course) making myself comfortable in a weird sleeping position (don't mind imagining what position it is, it can cause severe headache), shhhh... and I have been doing it for 2 hours  and that's super amazing, i guess you need to inform Guinness World Book of Records. 

Since i can't sleep again and the time for fajr prayer is 4:35am and the time on my phone is 4:14am, I'' just wait for the prayer time to come. upon waiting,I asked myself, pondering, reflecting things before the call of prayer in fajr, and this are the questions that i have come-up

• What if I was born with a financially incapable family? will I ever feel the comfort that i have now? the food, the dress and all kind of comfort that i feel?
• What if I was born in  a very materialistic country that could easily persuade a women into exploitation? will I ever understand the reality of this temporary world? will I ever know that a value of a woman is more than a jewel or a precious stone?
• What if i was born in a very prestige, famous and a very rich family? will I ever be able to understand the feeling of being hungry? being discriminated? being oppressed? How can i help the oppressed if that's the case? cause most probably i'll be the oppressor.
•  What if I was born a none Muslim? will I be able to search for the truth? the truth that protects me in ignorance and illusion in many form? will I be happy with those false happiness that I'll be tasting?

This questions made me say "ALHAMDULILLAH!" it means All Praise is due to ALLAH.  

Alhamdulillah because i know that being a Muslim is already a very big blessing, that you are being guided by your creator on the right path. The right path that is not being corrupted nor edited and not a man-made laws. Man are made with flaws therefore i can never ever in my whole life, trust those man-made laws. 

Let me continue on my timeline-type story, after a few reflection i heard the Adhan(call for prayer) and i rise up from my hard bed and go to the comfort room to have a wudhu(ablution),

 i start from saying "Bismillah"(in the name of Allah) then i start washing my both hands, 

then gargle to wash my mouth, 

next is the nose; in cleaning the nose you need to inhale a little amount of water(not internally) then blow.

 after the nose I cup a water on my palm then wash my entire face.

 next is the right arm, then the left.

 then i wet my hand and wipe it on my upper forehead backwards and include my both ears.

 and lastly i washed my both feet, of course right foot first before the left.

 After finishing my ablution, i recited "ash-hadu ala ilaha ilallah wa ash-hadu ana mohammad rasulullah" to validate my ablution:) and then I started praying for fajr;the coolness of my soul.

Upon finishing my prayer, I fixed my room before my beloved mother recognize that i slept again in the floor, yes! i have a soft bed. and time check, it's still early in the morning. I had a little scan on my notes, have a stretching because i'll be having a long day ahead. THANK YOU FOR READING!

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Tan-Tan! Why Did You Do That?

It's an another day for work

"The sun is out, cool breeze is passing by, the birds seems like waving their wings at me, as they fly around the free sky.Its an another day for work" said Tan-Tan; a black ant in a red ant colony. Yes! a black ant in a red ant colony, maybe you are surprised how come a black ant was mixed or living and working together in a red ant colony. 

Though Tan-Tan is different from the other, he has a circle of friends with them, and they are  robin,pia,buster. together they work together in a straight line. they sometimes tease Tan-Tan as a walking charcoal. Tan-tan is used in this kind of teasing, so every time they tease him, he will just freeze and act as a fossilized ant and afterwards they all laugh to there hearts content. they support and help each other that when Tan-Tan found a heavy food to carry, Robin,Pia and Buster always give a hand to Tan-tan. While they are carrying a heavy food together, they sang there favorite song. 

One day while all the ants are busy working, walking in straight line, collecting foods for winter, the three ants; Robin, Pia and Buster noticed that they didn't saw Tan-tan on that day. the three ants start searching Tan-tan, they even report the absence of Tan-tan to the Queen on the ants. They were all so worried that there black ant friend was missing, they even thought that something bad might have happened to him.

While all his friend are busy and worrying finding him, he is actually on his way to search on where he really came from. Tan-tan seems happy in the company of his friends but he can't help himself but to find his real family, and to know where he really came from. Tan-tan escaped on the colony early in the morning so that none can notice him. he is on his way finding reasons behind his existence. he feels the longing of family, a longing for a colony who is like him, a Black ant. Tan-tan wasn't ungrateful with the red ant colony. he loves his red ant friends, he even treat them as his brothers and sister. he loves them so much, that's why he really had a hard time making decision in leaving the colony. 

He was crying that he is walking with his face on the ground. He can't understand the feeling of being alone, so as the feeling of the ants that is different from you. while walking, he was slipped then he feel asleep. When he waked up, he found himself together with a group of black ants, he was so happy that finally he found ants that is like him. He was shouting and embracing everyone that he sees. he greet them and ask how they are. the other black ants was shocked on how this strange black ant does after waking up, they thought that this ant is crazy, while Tan-tan continues to jump and laugh. An ant approach him asking who is he and where did he came from, after there small conversation they discover that he is the lost son of there queen. then Tan-tan visited the sick queen. the queen wasn't feeling well because the queen spend most of her lifetime searching for his son. Finally the queens son is back! says one of the ant.

The news spread on almost all the colony near them. Robin,Pia and Buster heard the news and asked permission to travel to Tan-tans new colony and they were granted. while on there way, a familiar ant greeted them. It's Tan-tan! Pia shouted and embrace Tan-tan. They all hugged each other afterwards Pia asked Tan-tan, "Tan-tan, why did you do that?, we missed you so much, we thought we wouldn't be seeing you again" Suddenly Tan-tan cried and said " i have to do it, and it made a good result and i'm very thankful"

he missed his friends so much. after seeing each other, Tan-tan invited his friends to be his guest in his home. his friend spend some days on his colony. They played and shared some stories as if they haven't seen each other for such a long time.

Tan-tan finally found where he really came from, and it feels good to be with the ants that he loves.

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THE MONKEY AND THE TURTLE TALE PART2

The Banana Kingdom

once upon a time, a king of all the Monkey named 'Kra-Kra, is ruling his kingdom. King Kra-Kra is a greedy king. His kingdom has all the bounty of Banana. one day the King decided to go around his kingdom and in every corner of his kingdom he passes, all the little monkey bow down before him. The King is guarded by his monkey knights, while his beautiful Monkey Queen is walking with him waving her hands to there monkeys.

 After walking around, they returned to there castle tree and take some rest. the greedy king has a little secret that he has been keeping for years, and nobody knows it until one day, a four ninja turtles appear to the kingdom and wanted to talk to King kra-kra. The king was so shock because one of the ninja Monkeys looks so familiar. the King suddenly shakes and looked pale because one of the ninja turtle is his old childhood enemy named 'alex'.

Alex asked his old enemy about his new life, but the monkey king just answered "i do not have much to say, it seems like you have seen what i have today". then Alex replied "you haven't change at all, where's is the Golden Banana!?". then all the monkey in the castle was anguished in hearing about the Golden Banana that the ninja turtle was talking about. King Kra-Kra seemed so silent and sweating and says that he doesn't know what the ninja turtle is talking about. Then all of a sudden the king told his knights to throw away the four ninja turtles and not to let them enter his kingdom again. but the four ninja turtles doesn't like how the king treated them so they had a fight. the four ninja turtles fights against the monkey knights. 

the four ninja turtle finish the fight in just a few minutes, then King Kra-Kra was so angry that he opened a box beside his throne and get the Golden Banana on it and say "if this is what you want, i wont give it to you unless you kill me first! you don't know the sacrifices that i did in getting this, you don't know how important this is to me!" and so Alex replied "i know what you did, I've been following you since the day that you cheated me in the Banana tree that we planted when we were young, I've seen all the turtles that you have oppressed and fooled them a many times. some of them stay away but some,like me, stayed and prepared myself for a fair fight with you!".

 The king was silenced and he is  reminiscing the days when he was young, playing with Alex, they really had a a lot of fun. he realized that Alex did is a good friend ever since, before he knew it, tears are running down in his eyes saying "i'm sorry for what i've done, i just wanted to have the Golden Banana, i was really planning to share with you the Banana tree. I was so childish that time, now that i am a king, ruling a kingdom, i think this more than what this Golden Banana can give me". then the king decided to give the Golden Banana to Alex, he ask "anyway, why are you so interested with this Golden Banana?" Alex replied "my friends father is sick, and the only thing that will heal  him is this Golden Banana, because it has a healing power and few monkeys and turtle knew about it".

King Kra-Kra decided to help in healing the father of the Friend of Alex. They did some ritual then the father of Alex's friend did heal and feel more better. The friendship of Alex and King Kra-Kra had become more close, they even sing and dance in front of there monkeys and turtles. The Kingdom of the Monkeys lived happily ever after with the ninja turtles.

(IF YOUR FAMILIAR WITH THE FAMOUS STORY OF A MONKEY AND A TURTLES, THIS IS HIS CONTINUED STORY BY ME, I HOPE YOU LIKE IT!)