As a kid, one of favourite things to do while waiting for iftar was watching the iftar time announcement around Malaysia that always shown on TV. I will be like haha, north is so late.. wahh, Sabah and Sarawak can break their fast 1 hour early. I even suggested to my mom we should sahur here and go to Sabah and Sarawak for iftar. In a way, our fasting time will be shorter. That's how my naive mine works previously.
Now, if I can go back to my past, I will tell my 10 years old me, hold on kiddo, you will experience it someday. Haha.
Fasting in Miri is the same like fasting in West Malaysia. Exept we iftar and sahur early. The best part of early iftar is our tarawih finish early too. By 9.15pm, we are done our 8 rakaat. That plus 15 minutes tazkirah between Isyak and Tarawih. There's one night, the imam skipped the Tazkirah, we were on our way home at 8.45pm. I told my husband, if this in Subang, we are just going to start Isyak. Hehe.
Anyway, the downside is there will no waiting for azan on TV. Every year if you stick to one TV channel you can guess that after this commercial, azan is next. But not in Miri, we are constantly looking at the clock waiting for iftar. One more thing, the bazaar Ramadhan also not as much of variety as in West Malaysia. So, I'm kinda miss that too.
Well, wherever we are, the most important is the whole Ramadhan ibaadah itself. For myself and all of you, let's make this Ramadhan better than the year before. Ramadhan Mubarak to all and let's race to Jannah!
