Ready Facing Ramadhan, dear?

Assalamualaikum. 

Wow, Ramadhan is approaching. yeyyeye! Alhamdulillah I am happy that I still have the chance to face Ramadhan this year. All praises to Allah. Ready facing this very very valuable months, dear? :)
By the way, This morning I went to 'Pengajian' (study Islam leaded by aalim) and it talks about Ramadhan. Here what I get there :)

Things we need to consider when fasting in Ramadhan:
1. Innamal a'malu binniyat. Have you ever heard this aayah? Yup, this aayah means every ibadah (worship) have to be started with niyyah. Niyyah is not about only reciting the niyyah lafadz by mouth, but most importantly is niyyah It must be out from our hear, this is the mistakes that usually done by people.    

2. Avoid all the things which can break up the fast. There 8 kinds of activities that break up our fast, so we have to make the fast up later on, they are:
- Eating or drinking.
Yes, obviously! Fasting in Ramadhan is about not eat or drink during the day between imsyak time (early                  dawn) and maghrib adzan (sunset). In Indonesia especially in Java Island its around 4.30 am up to 6 pm. We may not eat at all at that time, except we forget then eating or drinking unintentionally. Apart from eating and drinking, other things that is forbidden is inserting anything to one of seven channels in our body, they are 2 ears, 2 nostrils, throat, anus, and reproduction channel (vagina/penis). How about taking injection? Injection which is not give to replace drinking or eating (have no nutritional value), but for medication purpose is allowed,  regardless of whether they are intra-muscular or intravenous. Puffers used for asthma do not break the fast, because this is just compressed gas that goes to the lungs, it is not food, and it is needed at all times, in ramadhan and at other times.
-Vomiting intentionally
  In case of sick, vomiting unintentionally doesn't break the fast.
- Sexual Intercourse during the fasting time (at day) even if there is no emergence of semen.
It breaks the fast and have to make the fast up later on plus expiation fast (kafaarah). Kafaarah fasting lasts for 2 consecutive months. 
- Semen secretion intentioanally
- Hayd (menstruation)
- Nifaas (post-natal bleeding) 
- Murtad
- Got into crazy

3. Sunnah during Ramadhan
There are so many sunnah during this holy month, 
- Suhoor, a prefastmeal before early dawn. It is sunnah, so It is very recomended to do suhoor.
- Ta'jil  means open the fast as soon as possible after maghrib adzan (sunset). Eat dates to break the fast is sunnah, then continue drinking water. Pray maghrib after it before eat main course, but if it can disturb our concentration during praying, you should eat first before pray.
- Tarawih pray. Try to pray tarawih every night until the end of Ramadhan. The later of Ramadhan the more reward we get. But, usually at the end of the month, people are busy to prepare Eidul Fitri.
- Giving meals to other people for breaking the fast. We get the reward of fasting the same as they get. O, It brought me to my experience fasting in Mecca. There, people are 'compete' to give meals, snacks, or drinking for people because they know the value of it.
  
4. Things that not breaking the fast, but remove the reward
- Lying. there are 2 kinds of lying, by oral and by doing for example reducing weight when selling food.
- Talking about bad site of other people
- Watching something forbidden

Fasting is not only about keep our mouth, but also keep our heart. It is time to train our heart when entering the months after Ramadhan. It is our opportunity to look for rewards as many as possible, because the reward is multiplied. I am sure, most of information above you've been used to hear. But, hopefully can remind us when facing fasting months :)
Wassalam :*