Defying cosmic conditioning?

The Benefits of Praying; an Afiq observation.


Yeah sure, Muslims believes in Fate (Qada' and Qadar) but that is no excuse to be totally oblivious to the mechanics of Fate. There is of course, two kind of fates: a kind we could never change like the proceeding of deaths and the more flexible kind that revolves around everything else.

Astrology is something most Muslims considered Syirik or in simpler terms: deviant or misguided. But it is a fact that astrology is derived from the cosmic order of the Universe. The sun, the moon and the stars that litters our skies are actually contributing to our everchanging behaviours. The gravity of those objects subconsciously control our emotions and habits, and sometimes decisions.

Does is it occur you as weird when you read yesterday's horoscope and realized it was partially true? Satan's doings? Haha, ignorant slabs of meat! Those predictions are based on the pattern of Stars. The orbital pattern frictioned reactions that affects our mental affliction of logic.

The Chinese, who had continued doing research on the pattern of the universe predicted businesses and family matters because they are bound to it. It is not a conditioning where a piece of information is processed into behaviors that leads to pre-conceived results but rather the tendency of following traits that made the results possible.

We pray mainly because it is our prime responsibility to do so but do you know that by praying, a human being could actually alter the receptance of the cosmic gravitational effects. When a human being's minds are focused during certain period of time, it could strengthen the intermediate response of achievements and therefore, the brain will automatically ignore the cosmic effects for a while. This enable people to change their fate, by defying the cosmic conditioning.

The Maghrib prayer, for say, can only be done during sunset because our self-entity or soul are conjured by the gravitational force of the sun, leaving most of our body vulnerable to alien entities like satans or jinns. By praying, one will strengthen his/her own mental gravity and resist the pulling of the sun's gravity. In effect, it will reduce unwanted action/sins for the rest of the night.

Same goes during Subuh, the compression of force supplied by the sun will pour out the natural aura of the body, making the our self-entity/ soul to glow and flow out from the body. This phenomena will increase positivity of our surrounding, making ourselves more capable of communicating with other people effectively.

Tahajjud, the Sunnat prayer that should be done at night after a few hours of sleep, is one of the best ways to change one's fate. As the proceeding of the cosmic order can succesfully be 'programmed' into people who are under rest, the existence of self-gravity will reduce the effects greatly and contributes to later success.

Like I've mentioned before, Islam is not a mythical religion, just a religion we have yet to understand. But then again, those are just theories cooked up by a nineteen year old....

Bedahku~~~~

ALAMAK, BASIKAL SAYA SUDAH HILANG!!!

My handsome Bedah... It was a tad ironic, really. I was planning to take my bike to the bikeshop today to have one of its broken paddle replaced. Darn you BIKE THIEF!!! A 45 passenger bus from the other direction will struck your attention when it rear its headlights from a steep hill and forced you to go askew, only then you'll realize that the right paddle is broken.... May you die in vain... I will laugh heartily to your attempt and sip my morning coffee after reading the day's news headline:


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BIKE THIEF KILLED IN FREAK ACCIDENT
LIMBS AND PIECES OF FLESH WAS MISTAKENLY IDENTIFIED AS BARBECUE MEAT FROM GOD BY NEARBY ORANG ASLI.
THE MEAT WAS REPORTED TO BE BARBECUED AND SMEARED WITH BARBECUE SAUCE AND WAS EATEN BY INVESTIGATING POLICEMEN, THINKING THAT THE FREE MEAL WAS A TOKEN OF APPRECIATION FROM THE ORANG ASLI COMMUNITY.

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Having that in mind, I will be forever thankful of Bedah's deeds. My condolences to her:

So now I have to walk everywhere! Which will take 20 minutes from my room to my studio whereas a bike ride will only take 3 minutes. And with a budget that will not allow anymore extravagant expenditures, I will be force to do my commuting via feet. Feet!

Unless some of my readers are generous enough to invest a few hundred to buy a new Bedah. Wait, wait, I will even post an ad on the basket for your company for eternity. Deal?

random thoughts from a random guy

It had always been black. My heart. Life is not a joyride. It is not even a ride. It stumbled and stopped, stumbled again and stopped. And after all the stumbling, one could imagine the bruises and bumps endured by the strongest muscle of the body. It still beats of course, but every beat reminisce the stumbling and every interval is a void journey of loneliness. A pit black journey that echoes from the back of the heart.

I've come to the point that love is so overrated that I began to assimilate it with Presence, Patience and Perseverence. The three cordial Process of the beckoning of Love. And when love beckons, rainbows and golden cloud will come pouring in like chocolate fondue. As mythtical as that may sound, I'm still hanging to that narrative to describe Love. No matter how I age, or how numb and blunt I've become, raibows and golden clouds will always be my setting of an happy ending.

I've become more lonesome that usual. More irrelevant of attachments. I neither sleep early nor late. I'll only sleep when I feel tired. When the world is fluttery. And when my eyes are heavy. The absence of hope. Gone were the days where I'll pat my pillow three times and excitedly proclaim my ambitions and how it will slowly materialize after a day's hardwork.

Oh hope and love, where art thou?

I am beginning to hate random people who greet me with an Assalaumulaikum because they would do so only when our paths almost collide. It seems to me like a test. To look at me up close to find out whether or not I'm a muslim and then to test me with a greeting. It's annoying as it is haunting, to only realize someone had greet me a second ago and now he's a few metres away from my back. Get my drift? One fine day, I will muster enough bluntness to approach those people and teach them the proper way to greet.

ignore this entry

It's a conspiracy theory on the FLOODING OF JOHOR *echo intended*

Simple. Singaporeans are Kiasu, they tambak-tambak soil on their Island and increased the water level of the Selat between Singapore and Johor.

Monsoon season. Tengtedeng.... River water pun overflow and lama-lama banjir.

But mind you, flood has always been the fondest event in my life. I just love it when there's flood. I like it so much. Muah.

Like roti canai banjir.. Yeah baby, flood it, flood it. You spicy thang.

I got to stop, I'm being stupid. Afiq love you long time...

bloggers beware...

Beware. As for now, freedom of blogging had been unofficially impeded . Unofficially lah. But in the real world, in the Malaysian world, unofficiality is an official implication. I know you know that I know that getting in Universities is much more possible if one's father is an ex-classmate of an education ministry officer. Such cases are unofficial of course, but official in its effects.
It is also official that I had my first motorcyle ride around KL past midnight. Man oh man, the amount of whores lurking behind pissed-at columns are stark amusing. Trans, chinks and the heavy-dirty-nasty type. This coming out of a naive guy is a tad overrated but the experience was surreal (the motorcycle bit lah). I even made a 3 minutes video on it for my children. "This is Abah during his first serious bike ride..." *imagine me showing my newborn the videoclip via PDA*I pusing-pusing around UIA and found out that there's an infamous fishing spot where there were NO FISHING signs everywhere. Most of the fishermen are Indons. There's even an illegal settlement beside the tasik. It's official, the UIA developer has a financial crisis.

So that's that. I'm planning to catch a movie tomorrow with Azim. And nak naik that kick-ass ferris wheel!!

Art is


Britney Spears. A victim of the US consumerism capitalism. Promiscous and emotionally confused, she is the highest ranking sex symbol in the US. A sex sybol. Or rather, a woman who dressed innapopriately to get attention from men all over the world as well as being the ideal figure for teenage girls. In other word, she is a stripper and an Idol. A primadona. A media prostitute.

And we have our shares of Britneys in Malaysia too. I may be blunt or even biased but really, wake up! The word sexual have been replaced by elegance. Lecherous replaced by delicate. It is a large scale manipulation of perception.

Right. Sex is never a taboo, I mean seriously. Sex is beautiful. Sexy is beautiful. But when sex and sexy are to be feasted upon million of eyes, it could (or might) (or maybe) hint perverse. I could? You must be kidding. It is dirty, if not menacing.

Beauty had been corrupted by large scale capitalism. It is now only enjoyed by the rich and famous. By the corrupted and corruptee. And praised by the lower class community. Like Gods. Coolies would die to kiss a Bollywood star bossom. Die in vain, in lust.
The true beauty of music had begun its perishing. Music now represents obscurity and booty calls. It shakes, slides and slurps. Like a dancing snake. Poetry beats and scower over grey skies. Rythm travels through curves of an ebony. Art is shakened to its core and spewed out like rotten bananas, to be licked by the public.

Real art are too expensive to be experienced by the rakyat. As our culture grew dimmer by every flicker of the television, so is our life. And what a waste it'll be to have it rested in a pool of lies.

7 reasons to live, by madba



Its Muharram. Or the beginning of Muharram. To start anew is what I'm intending to do. That just now rhymes. Coolness.

Lamenting on my feelings is not new in this blog. I've done it before and I intend to do it again. Heck, this blog had had its highest rating when I bitch about my problems. I have no idea why.

For starters, I'm planning to write and publish a newsletter for IIUM students. I'll call it Weekly Madness by madba. It will be self-sponsored and will revolves around IIUM's lingering quandaries.

I was recently accused of being a money leech. Definition: a person who only makes an effort to make merry only when money is involved. To anyone who thinks I am that sort of person, madba has something to say to you:

1. Afiq is Afiq. The Afiq you know and loved. Afiq do not watch soap operas to fully understand the implication of being subjected into recreational slurs. Afiq has no idea how the very idea of Afiq being a money leech was embargoed.

2. Afiq is trying his best to not be as emotional and impulsive as he was. He is, if not all, trivial about handling personal issues as he thinks that true Love is unperishable. Love is something no one can take away. Love is a feeling of attachement that will remain in deepest pit of the human heart (whether it beats or not)

3. Afiq is not answering any calls because Afiq is afraid to. Afiq is not afraid of being hurt but he is very afraid that the person on the other end of the converstation will. He hates it when his most Beloved cries. Afiq is clueless. He really doesn't know what to do or how to handle such an emotion. Afiq have been crying a few nights in a week, pretending to talk to his most Beloved. Pretending to have a pure, undisturbed connection with his most Beloved.

4. Afiq is in a sense, unready to face the music. He had always been a sensitive person and for that reason alone, people have been taking advantage of him, emotionally and psychologically. He had hardened himself with lies and friends. With food and movies. With work. Because everytime he's hurt by the person he's trying to protect, a lump of love gulped down his throat and disintergrate.

5. Afiq's only wish is his most Beloved will just stop listening to people's voices and start listening to her own heart. Her own feelings. Afiq is awfully afraid to do anymore damage and his fear toppled his courage even more when his most Beloved accuse him of something he had never been in his life.

6. Afiq is becoming more and more confused and afraid. Afiq is becoming more vulnerable. Afiq could possibly blow up any moment now. It must be comforting to know that Afiq will never do drugs or take ectasy pills. He won't even lay a finger on cigarettes! But as his fear grew and his pride dimmed, he had thinked about it. I, madba, his conscience, is worried about his well being and wish that the person Afiq love so much could just let go of his faults and embrace his love as Afiq would dyingly do.

7. Because no matter what happened, Afiq still (and will always) love you the most.

swayed by whim?



Tentalized by her beauty? Mesmerized by her never-ending legs? Her slim figure? I've been taught in a agama school a decade before that if we have the opportunity to see women's aurah accidentally, it will be considered as Rezeki but if we decided to look twice, consequently, it will be considered as Dosa. In this case, ironically, we men do no need such limitation to set eyes on this beauty.
Prefferably dressed up as a full-fledged model, the woman you look upon is no uneducated drag. She has a degree in Human Science in a respectable university and had ventured across the world to promote her beauty. Her efforts were paid generously, having won numerous pageant competitions in Malaysia and Thailand. She is, in many ways, setting up a wave of challenge to everybody else with comparable beauty and talents.

Whether she is dressed up as a slutty geisha or a water-thirsty traveller, she had set up a pretty unreachable status as a showgirl with brains and looks. As mentioned, we men do not have a limitation when we feast our eyes on her. Mainly because she is not a woman. She's (I mean he's) a Man!

This is Che Fi. Che Fi is a name he adopted when he consorted the tranvestite culture and later on developed herself into a replica of unrivalled beauty. A lot of hormone pills I assume. He recently graduated from the International Islamic University in Human Sciences.

I was also told that a few newspapers and numerous F-Grade magazines had probed interest in reporting his winnings. Others were more than willing to bash and humiliate his choice of profession. But none of them succeeded because the IIUM administration had blocked their efforts and had tried to have his special talents kept under their wings of secrecy. It was also told that Che Fi was even banned from attending the annual convocation even though he had all the rights to attend the one in a life time acknowledgement event.

Is covering up the best option to treat this sort of evil? Oh yes.. In this university, it is a taboo to touch on gay and tranvestite issues. And cases like this are often unoficially stamped -EVIL- and simply ignored. Sure, human right plays a role in this education organization and Che Fi has all the right to do whatever he wants within or outside the parameter of the university.

Human rights? Does that mean I can wear shorts and keep a tochang? Can I smoke too? Like other universities, IIUM have rules and regulation and it was clearly stated that students are required to respect and oblidge rules governed by the university at ALL TIMES. At all times.

Even though this problem may not be fancy enough to gather scholars to solve it humanely, the enigma of transvestism may be accepted my many curious young adults in the future and by then, a dogma will be cultivated. A dogma of cross-dressing male students, strutting their muscular bottoms and toned arms. A dogma that may attract other male students as well as beckoning as the subject of envy by enforced tudung-wearers.
Truly, she has underlings under her supervision within the university and if that is unworthy of your attention, maybe this will change your mind:
keywords: tranvestite IIUM, Bapok, Pondan

Our generation, the new generation will soon take over political scenarious in years to come and I am more than happy to be a part of it. The new generation will be a new bunch of enthusiastic optimists who seeks the betterment of this lovely country. And what better way to start off their preferred couriers than campus politics.

---I'm not allowed to show you videos and pictures during the election. Shame. If I do, "nanti ada orang ketuk pintu bilik".---

I see a re-enactment of today's politics. I see unrefined young men with Kampong mentality winning the public's vote by displaying distasteful vulgarity. I see men who do not tolerate the diversity of races. I see men with no respect towards women. I see a dark lonesome future, peppered by more racial fights and misunderstandings.

It's a scary thought, having known that in the future, we have to put up with this kind of nonsense again. Again.

Out you go, from the box

Do you believe in pure evil. Evil embodied by human beings, manifesting them and eating them alive, slowly but surely. Do sadists who kill, murder and torture for the sake of it exist?

Seriously, I don't think such people exist. A human being is born clean and carefree, pure and dignified and it is the parents and the surrounding that shaped it to replicate a portion of evil. Evil takes place under notions and influences. Under one-dimensioned perspective illusioned and produced by others who have perspectives of their own; perspectives that could captivate power through people to obtain ?something? to satisfy another one-dimensioned perspective.
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So are men really evil. No! Satans are. If for say you'll shook your head and sighed "here we go again, another spiritual crap." I can only tell you this, ever heard of the Pandora Box. A box of hope that produced evil. Hope, the strongest emotion in mankind too, can be manisfested by satans. And being a box, an object, lifeless and still, wrongdoings are imperatively allowable. It's just a box. And when the killing starts, there'll be no indication of it.

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Like a calamity that resides in a box. In the Pandora Box.

Tengtedeng....

a thing or two

I had the strangest dream last night. A dream I only wish to acknowledge its absurdity. Because the details may cause nausea. A dream that made a strong point that I indeed have an alter ego character. 'It' revealed itself at night and in the morning. I think everybody have their own alter ego but some have more character empowerment than others.

We (my roommates and I) locked the door and switched off the light when we heard a gang of tabligh was in the area. Tabligh, a group of smelly people who wears white robes who preach about Islam. A bunch of hypocrites if you ask me. Again, symbolism play its role here. White smelly ungroomed bunch of people = Islam. Give. Me. A. Break.

I remembered once when Umno complained that an education organization was luring and brainwashing kids into Pas by enforcing a dress code. Green! Umno lashed Abim's uniform decision and bluntly (almost fuc*king stupidly) decided that red should be the proper colour.

Bangang.

aci aci buka pintu

***** *** ka-ching***ka-ching****ka-ching*****


Okay people I'm enlightened! I'm enlightened. Pass me no staff for I am no priest. Wield me no sword for I am no knight. Gimme the acar for I am officially a Bollywood fan.

What can I say. They make better movies. Way better. The new lots of them of course. If you're a homemaker whose life revolves around the idiot box, the sequents of Kuch Kuch Something Hey may still be your comfort pill. But for the rest of Malaysians, be a sport and tengoklah cerita Bollywhood. Read the reviews before watching them. And make sure AR Rahman is the musician for the movie.
Having a blue-blooded Indian roommate has its advantages. Every Sunday, he'll buy me full set of Pure Nasi Kandar from Masjid India. And for the past year, he had been giving me countless movie reviews and so I started watching Tamil/Hindi movies lah, only to be(insert indian accent) capticated.

It's worth the eyeballings of Indian folks chanting something I think means "Maybe he's lost." I didn't have to use the term 'chant'.I'll count to ten for all of you to stop looking at me:

ooner

rende

mooner!

i cough when i need to

I'm still angry at myself for some reasons I wish I could specify. But I couldn't. Because in this world of lies, ignorance had taken over the meaning of truth. Truth is only used when it is an advantage. Amidst the killing of tribes in India and Africa, only Iraq got the world's superpower attention. Because they got oil.
There was a time that I believed that there are no such thing as evil people. I just don't think any human with no conscience existed. But they do exist. Blinded by meaningless propaganda and shrouded by provoked fear, they exist because they need to. Because Mr.Bush tell'em that Texas'll get Bombed by Osamas.
I'm still angry at myself because I lost 4 kg in 2 days and suffered a gastric attack. Sure I lost 4 kg but in return, I was medically ill. I hereby would like to thank everybody who'd reminded me that I'd gained weight. Thank you all.
I'm still angry at myself for not being able to dismiss untrue insults (we muslims call'em fitnah) thrown to me by people I'd trusted my whole life with. Because I'm being nice. Because women don't listen. They only do when they get things done their way in the end. So now I'm a manipulative liar who's nice in public but plots murders when I'm alone. So now I'm jahat. So now I'm a penipu. I do believe thay some people had taken Bawang putih Bawang merah too seriously. Seriously.

I'm still angry at myself for not able to pray five times a day. I've been missing Subuh for weeks. But it's a good start this year. I've only started praying regularly since I entered this university.
I'm still angry at myself for having people thinking that I put faults on everybody else for my mistakes even though I dread myself everytime I see the effect of my mistakes taking shape. Why do they even think that? Do I show people that I blame other people when I make a mistake? ntahlah..
I'm still angry at myself for the fact that I am emotionally incapable of forgiving people. I hate this attribute of mine. I have to start forgiving people who had hurt me because you and I know that a lot of people had forgived me for my share of faults.

I'm still angry at myself.
Shiah and Sunnah Muslim, shite and sunni. Why is Islam divided? Is it because one of the two understanding of Islam is wrong? Why do I bother defending people who look for excuses to kill each other? There's no real Islam or real muslim. Just Islam. Just muslim.

It's a staggering fact, majority muslims are illiterate, unable to read or write. Majority muslims are poor. And yet, they still find a reason to fight each other. Iqra. The first word of the Quran presented by God. It means READ.

Created a man from Alaq (a clot).
Read: And thy Lord is the Most Generous,
Who taught by the pen,
Taught man that he knew not

hmph..

Nike

This is Ruqaya Al Ghasara.

She won Gold for the 200m sprint in the Asian Game, Doha.

she quote:

"Wearing traditional Muslim dress has encouraged me. It's not an obstacle - quite the opposite,"

To new readers of this blog, I am a male that owns an external genitelia and a set of reproduction duct.

To my Muslim Sisters by Joanna Francis


Beautiful article, thanks Lubna!


Between the Israeli assault on Lebanon and the Zionist "war on terror," the Muslimworld is now center stage in every American home. I see the carnage, death and destruction that have befallen Lebanon, but I also see something else: I see you. I can't help but notice that almost every woman I see is carrying a baby or has children around her. I see that though they are dressed modestly, their beauty still shines through. But it's not just outer beauty that I notice. I also notice that I feel something strange inside me: I feel envy. I feel terrible for the horrible experiences and war crimes that the Lebanese people have suffered, being targeted by our common enemy. But I can't help but admire your strength, your beauty, your modesty, and most of all, your happiness. Yes, it's strange, but it occurred to me that even under constant bombardment, you still seemed happier than we are, because you were still living the natural lives of women. The way women have always lived since the beginning of time. It used to be that way in the West until the 1960s, when we were bombarded by the same enemy. Only we were not bombarded with actual munitions, but with subtle trickery and moral corruption.


Through Temptation

They bombarded us Americans from Hollywood, instead of from fighter jets or with our own American-made tanks. They would like to bomb you in this way too, after they've finished bombing the infrastructure of your countries. I do not want this to happen to you. You will feel degraded, just like we do. You can avoid this kind of bombing if you will kindly listen to those of us who have already suffered serious casualties from their evil influence. Because everything you see coming out of Hollywood is a pack of lies, a distortion of reality, smoke and mirrors. They present casual sex as harmless recreation because they aim to destroy the moral fabric of the societies into which they beam their poisonous programming. I beg you not to drink their poison. There is no antidote for it once you have consumed it. You may recover partially, but you will never be the same. Better to avoid the poison altogether than to try to heal from the damage it causes.


They will try to tempt you with their titillating movies and music videos, falsely portraying us American women as happy and satisfied, proud of dressing like prostitutes, and content without families. Most of us are not happy, trust me. Millions of us are on anti-depressant medication, hate our jobs, and cry at night over the men who told us they loved us, then greedily used us and walked away. They would like to destroy your families and convince you to have fewer children. They do this by presenting marriage as a form of slavery, motherhood as a curse, and being modest and pure as old-fashioned. They want you to cheapen yourself and lose your faith. They are like the Serpent tempting Eve with the apple. Don't bite.


Self-Value


I see you as precious gems, pure gold, or the "pearl of great value" spoken of in the Bible (Matthew 13: 45). All women are pearls of great value, but some of us have been deceived into doubting the value of our purity. Jesus said: "Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you" (Matthew 7: 6). Our pearls are priceless, but they convince us that they're cheap. But trust me; there is no substitute for being able to look in the mirror and seeing purity, innocence and self-respect staring back at you. The fashions coming out of the Western sewer are designed to make you believe that your most valuable asset is your sexuality. But your beautiful dresses and veils are actually sexier than any Western fashion, because they cloak you in mystery and show self-respect and confidence. A woman's sexuality should be guarded from unworthy eyes, since it should be your gift to the man who loves and respects you enough to marry you. And since your men are still manly warriors, they deserve no less than your best. Our men don't even want purity anymore. They don't recognize the pearl of great value, opting for the flashy rhinestone instead. Only to leave her too!


Your most valuable assets are your inner beauty, your innocence, and everything that makes you who you are. But I notice that some Muslim women push the limit and try to be as Western as possible, even while wearing a veil (with some of their hair showing). Why imitate women who already regret, or will soon regret, their lost virtue? There is no compensation for that loss. You are flawless diamonds. Don't let them trick you into becoming rhinestones. Because everything you see in the fashion magazines and on Western television is a lie. It is Satan's trap. It is fool's gold.


A Woman's Heart

I'll let you in on a little secret, just in case you're curious: pre-marital sex is not even that great. We gave our bodies to the men we were in love with, believing that that was the way to make them love us and want to marry us, just as we had seen on television growing up. But without the security of marriage and the sure knowledge that he will always stay with us, it's not even enjoyable! That's the irony. It was just a waste. It leaves you in tears. Speaking as one woman to another, I believe that you understand that already. Because only a woman can truly understand what's in another woman's heart. We really are all alike. Our race, religion or nationalities do not matter. A woman's heart is the same everywhere. We love. That's what we do best. We nurture our families and give comfort and strength to the men we love. But we American women have been fooled into believing that we are happiest having careers, our own homes in which to live alone, and freedom to give our love away to whomever we choose. That is not freedom. And that is not love. Only in the safe haven of marriage can a woman's body and heart be safe to love. Don't settle for anything less. It's not worth it. You won't even like it and you'll like yourself even less afterwards. Then he'll leave you.


Self-Denial

Sin never pays. It always cheats you. Even though I have reclaimed my honor, there's still no substitute for having never been dishonored in the first place. We Western women have been brainwashed into thinking that you Muslim women are oppressed. But truly, we are the ones who are oppressed; slaves to fashions that degrade us, obsessed with our weight, begging for love from men who do not want to grow up. Deep down inside, we know that we have been cheated. We secretly admire and envy you, although some of us will not admit it. Please do not look down on us or think that we like things the way they are. It's not our fault. Most of us did not have fathers to protect us when we were young because our families have been destroyed. You know who is behind this plot. Don't be fooled, my sisters. Don't let them get you too. Stay innocent and pure. We Christian women need to see what life is really supposed to be like for women. We need you to set the example for us, because we are lost. Hold onto your purity. Remember: you can't put the toothpaste back in the tube. So guard your "toothpaste" carefully!


I hope you receive this advice in the spirit in which it is intended: the spirit of friendship, respect, and admiration. From your Christian sister – with love…

Deniro

I've been denying that I'm happy with myself. I've been denying that I'm not pressured by work. I've been denying that I hate staying up late. I've been denying that I love my girlfriend. Or not. Maybe. See?

Denial is not a river in Egypt. It's the whole ocean.

good heavens


What is up in heaven? I read a a book about heaven a few years ago and it pictured heaven as a palace surrounded by cotton clouds and gates made of pearls. A courtyard with 4 streams; water, wine, honey and milk. A golden portia surrounded by the richness of magical beings.
I seriously doubt I'm going to like 'that' heaven. Too cheesy..
Is it possible that heaven is a memory I would like to hang on to for infinity. Like pro-wresling with my siblings in our own hotel room. Or sunbathing while watching orangputeh skinny dipping. Or, I don't know, watch tonnes of animes in my bedroom.
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A conversation I had with a few studiomates:
afiq: The most important feature in a pen is the size of the body, the bigger the better.
someone: No lah, smaller pen are easier to manuever.
afiq: But bigger pen is more comfortable and not grasping the whole thing lessen the hand pressure
someone else: No, no, no, it's no howw big it is, it's how you use it!
Somehow, her statement made us laugh out loud.

new year

It's 2007.

Today is a second day of a two day confinement session in my room, to reflect, to ponder, or in other word, to fuss over little things that I should've never cared to bother. It is a period of time where I talk to myself in a strange documentary-like accent. Standard english. My english. A language I used only when talking to girls. I'll laugh a different laugh and even sneeze a different sneeze but walk the same old walk. There is nothing different in the way I walk, or talk. Just the way I think. And today is where my thoughts are free to linger outside my head.

It is call re-sobering. To be awakened from the drunkness of mundane-nity, schedule-lity and other E.T.s that surfaced earth soon after I start living on my own. To be resurfaced from the drowning reality of my pre-defined lifestyle. So I read books. And watch meaningful documentaries and finished a whole season of Grey Anatomy, ER and Scrubs. The sighting of blood is reality and the music of creations are fantasy, intertwined in a cosmic circle of balance.

Sad. My passion for architecture is growing dimmer, distant from the crackling fire of enthusiasm these few months. Passion is love. Love is the moisture that grows life. Heat from anger and stress dry the moisture. And it stays dry until love resurface from the roots, from underneath. So when was my first love and how did I experienced it?

So this is my list of Gama-gama! Similar to ooga-ooga or nookie-pookie. Or chooka-looka. (I'm still under the influence of 're-sobering')

1. Leave this in case of no1s reshifting

2. Boycott McDonald's

3. Get a grip of McLife

4. and McWeight

5. lastly to McASmallDifference