No more.

21Mar09

Lutfi (the older friend) recently discovered Breakfast at Tiffany’s (the film) and is a gushing fanboy now. That movie had an odd aftertaste for me – Akram would call it saudade. Saudade it is. For some reason, I’ve been putting off re-watching BFaT for more than a year now. Gushing Fanboy made me want to [...]

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Gaza appeal

14Jan09

To help, please donate to the following emergency funds:
HUMAN APPEAL INTERNATIONAL
‘Human Appeal International Australia is continually distributing over 11,000 hot meals per day to the [...]

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Tags: appeal, donations, Gaza, help, Israel, Palestine

The airport scene.

10Jan09

Interesting, the things you see in an airport.

Unless you’re a romantic, believing in the magic of the airport scenes in Love Actually, then the reality is different. Nerves are frazzled, people are tired, usually from a restless night of packing and unpacking and keeping an eye and ear on the alarm. Families are no more [...]

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We’ve been round this tree before.

06Dec08

They say history repeats itself, but this, my friends, is ridiculous.
I wrote this post once. My thoughts just after first year, enamoured with the idea of early marriage, filled with idealist imaginings of the Disney sort. ‘Oh, we shall live happily-evah-aftah’, ‘Love shall prevail’, ‘all you need is faith”.
Pfft.
So yes. My thoughts on the matter [...]

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SWOT-VAC ramblings (they say it’s good, for closure)

16Nov08

There are many blogs I admire.
I cannot help it. I’m a writer. I fall easily for the written word. And yes, although I’m more comfortable writing in English (not my mother tongue, but easily my first), I find myself wishing more often nowadays that I were more flexible. My Bahasa sounds awkward, and I admit, [...]

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Where I am now.

13Nov08

I have lived the past five months in underwhelming sadness.
It only catches up with me now and then. Like when I read a random Xkcd line about planets coming together. Or when I read a familiar Facebook posting about Bolehland.
My heart has been crying, crying, crying to me: Anywhere but here.
To some it seems like [...]

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The balcony in spring.

15Oct08

It is always like this.
I am weird and I am awkward and I strangle you, socially, metaphorically and almost literally. At first I think it’s just you, and then I think it must be me, and then I think that it’s definitely you.
There’s no hiding the fact that I am not the favourite person on [...]

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In the world of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.

23Sep08

Salaam Laylatul-Qadr.
We seek the last ten nights. We seek the contents of that most beautiful of nights in the most beautiful of months – even if, from the distance, it seems like uglier things have never played out in such a month as this.
Some people find a semblance of Imam al-Ghazzali from behind iron [...]

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‘I am 4631. And you are…?’

19Sep08

There are a million reasons I could give for you to sign this.
Unfortunately, I am also a student, and in 2.2 hours, I have to hand in a journal report worth quite a bit of my grade.
Sempat lagi.
So I’ll just leave it up to your conscience.
Just remember: It could be YOU next.

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Tags: goverment, ISA, Malaysia

Ramadhan mubaarak

01Sep08

Last night, it began. My corneal lesion/dendrital ulcer (I love entertaining my med student friends) was acting up, and seeing as how light is unwelcome to my injured eye, I decided to do my taraweeh at home.
At the first takbir, a shiver ran up my body. Eleven months, and now here I am again. And [...]

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