Postremo

Well one of my duas weren’t accepted.

I poured olive oil into the pot and put the stove on high. Bad idea.

The olive oil started popping like crazy. I thought it was just normal, but soon I would learn my lesson.

Specks of olive oil started to shoot at me from the pot. It was like getting shot repeatedly by little men.

Repeated screams of “AH!” and “OW!” were among my many lines during the attack.

Finally, I was able to reach the temperature knob of doom and turn it down to low.

But yes, what an epic journey it was.

Alhamdulillah my chicken rocked.

In other news, looks like I won’t be able to go to MAS, my favorite event of all time this year. I’ll be in Denver once again in the cold, freezing snow, for a week. At least I get to snowboard.

Maybe I’ll get to come by on Saturday but I doubt that.

I’ll just have to get ready for TDC this year, especially since it’s the last one.

Or is it?

Insha’Allah my entire family is gonna be going, and I think my sister will volunteer with me as well.

Alhamdulillah, I’m glad the semester is coming to an end, can’t wait till spring.

Although all those online classes do seem like too much, I think it’ll be better in the end.

To be honest, I’ve been getting kind of tired of UH.

The drive itself is ridiculous, and then the gas on top of that.

MSA isn’t doing much anymore either, especially for the brothers. All we have is Thursday night sports and… that’s it?

There aren’t any actual halaqas, at all. The most we get is the Friday halaqas and that’s it, and alhamdulillah Ghulam does a great job.

MSA should really be doing more. All we do is one or two big events, and then that’s it. Everything after those two events are just dawah efforts or have something to do with the dawah table.

Kinda worthless when I think about it. What is the purpose of MSA then?

We don’t really invite other people to MSA, and even when we do, everyone on campus feels that MSA shuts out all other Muslims, such as the non-hijabis, or brelvi desis.

Stupid. Our MSA list has almost 200-300 people on it, yet only 15-20 people show up to the meetings.

You would think at the college level, MSA should become a little more than just Friday jummah’s, like it was in high school.

I think it all just leads back to the whole MSA vibe where we scare people off, and that “air” in the religion building where we pretend the other gender doesn’t exist.

Like a sister said before, gender relations workshops would be cool to have, and I’d be all for that, but I don’t think the people in MSA would agree, which I find hilarious.

Kheir, it’s all good. I have a feeling that over the next few years the MSA will most likely change.

I’m glad I’m taking a break.