Shah and I were lucky to spend about two weeks in Saudi Arabia where we had the best time performing umrah in Mekah, doing more ibadah in Madinah and exploring other cities like Jeddah, Riyadh and Al-Khobar.

Feel very blessed to get the chance to observe Ramadan again, alhamdulillah! Being the holiest month in the calendar of Islam, there's just this air of magic in its days, somehow.
Do you feel the same about this month too, my fellow Muslim sisters and brothers?

It's already the fourth day of Ramadan and fasting is thankfully going well for Shah and me. On the outside, it's mostly "business as usual", but with the addition of preparing dinner earlier than usual to break our fast (which is not hard to do since we don't have to think about breakfast and lunch), performing tarawih prayers at night after Isyak — one of the magical bits of Ramadan, in my opinion! — and eating in the middle of the night for sahur.

I'm now very much looking forward to travelling back to our parents' homes to experience Ramadan this year with our families! All I can say is THANK GOD for vaccines and the brilliant minds of scientists around the world, because I can't imagine (and don't want to imagine) a vaccineless world where Covid still runs rampant unchecked. (Praying that there won't be any more "surprises" à la 2020 anymore, oh dear God please.)