Wednesday, September 29, 2021

Nurturing Grit and Resilience in our children

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  This video was taken while Little Man was sliding down a very steep hill at our local park yesterday (without the mother, of course. Save ...
Sunday, September 26, 2021

"Abah dah kena COVID19!"

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  Muawiyah threw this ball at me and said, "Abah dah kena COVID19" 🤣 Apparently, watching the covid news reports every day with t...
Monday, September 13, 2021

Teaching our children hifz (memorization) of the Qur'an: what we have learnt (so far)

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  One of the things we made a clear intention to focus on our child was to instill a practice of memorizing Qur’an, even in infancy. We were...
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Tuesday, September 07, 2021

Sustainability Mindset: Continuous improvement, not disrespect

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  We should always plant the sincere intention to improve and do BETTER than the environment that we were in. And this applies in any social...

Our #Parenting Response to Injuries and Accidents

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This picture was taken a split second before Muawiyah fell into the bushes down below, after swinging out his arms to make fun of me telling...
Saturday, August 28, 2021

"Abah tak boleh main toys Muawiyah!" - A parenting reflection: Pick Your Battles

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While our 3-year-old Muawiyah was playing with his toy cars and monster trucks, narrating his imaginary stories, I decided to sit down with ...
Saturday, August 21, 2021

Spilled juice - A Defining parenting moment

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  Recently, while our 3-year old boy Muawiyah got excited in his storytelling and happily waved his hands, he clumsily knocked over his glas...
Sunday, August 15, 2021

Quran is a Cure: “Yet why am I not feeling the effects?”

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  وَنُنَزِّلُ مِنَ الْقُرْءَانِ مَا هُوَ شِفَآءٌ وَرَحْمَةٌ لِّلْمُؤْمِنِينَ وَلاَ يَزِيدُ الظَّـلِمِينَ إَلاَّ خَسَارًا  “And We Reveal the...
Saturday, August 14, 2021

Caring for Our Mental Health: Practice Empathy with our leaders and those above us, too!

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  In the recent Leadership townhall, one of the striking highlights of the Leadership Team (LT) conversation was the President’s own person...
Friday, August 13, 2021

Caring for Our Mental Health: Practicing Empathy with those under our care

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  In our recent company engagement, I noticed a recurring theme that kept coming up time and time again: is for all leaders to practice EMP...
Monday, August 09, 2021

"Panjang umur" - Nikmat atau azab? 🤔 #Birthday

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  Antara doa yang selalu diungkapkan di kalangan orang Melayu adalah "semoga panjang umur dan murah rezeki" - doa feveret untuk p...
Friday, August 06, 2021

Caring for our Mental Health: Discovering Passion & Purpose

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  In recent meetings #WorkingFromHome, there was a striking observation about how some colleagues responded to do some urgent work at night ...
Saturday, July 31, 2021

Caring for our Mental Health: Open up to someone you trust, and most importantly… ALLOW others to help and console us #whiteflag

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  Perhaps due to our upbringing or nurturing from our external environment, many of us tend to keep to ourselves, sometimes even subconsciou...
Tuesday, July 27, 2021

Non-judgmental listening: A life-changing skill we can develop to aiding the mental health of people around us

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  Last year, I subscribed to a course on building mental/emotional resilience. In one of the exercises, we performed a classroom exercise ca...
Tuesday, July 20, 2021

"Satisfying": Five Reflections of Our Hajj Journey @ 2015 (1436AH)

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Alhamdulillah - all Praises and Thanks to Allah - Who enabled for us to compete our Hajj when we were 31 years of age. For many years I have...