Rite. Write. Right.

This article in NST today caught my attention:

Decline in Marriages

Hmm… I personally feel that such things happen now is simply because the institution of marriage no longer has its purpose. Why? Because co-habitation between females and males especially among lovers is common. Therefore, what is the point of getting married?

With marriage comes a whole barrage of responsibilities and of course, the possibility of your spouses wanting children who will further give you more things to do. And yes, marriage also means that you share everything with your spouses and thus, you don’t have the freedom to make your own decision without consulting others. Kan? So why get married if you can do everything you like yet have the one you loved right next to you - no strings attached? If one day, you decide you don’t love him or her anymore, you can just walk out of the relationship. No need for lawyers, courts and paperworks. Heck, you can have babies without getting married too!

But marriage IS special. It gives you responsibilities yet promises happiness, stability, loyalty, good and clean lineage, someone to spend the rest of your life with, someone to be with you during hard times, someone you last see when you go to bed, someone you first see when you wake up in the morning - THE ONE. Of course there are marriages which fail, but while it last, it probably is the best thing that could ever happen to you.

That is why marriage is SACRED. That is why Muslims are refrained from having sexual relationships and intercourses and relationships between a man and a woman is very much observed. Such intimacy is only special for those who are married. That means, only your husband or your wife will have the right and the pleasure of having you. To protect us all and also to protect our lineage. To promise and give us only THE BEST.

And so, my congratulations go out to those who have just tied the knot and will tie it soon. Hope you will have life-long happiness and of course, many many children!

• Dewi and Feisal - August 2006
• Abang Min and Kak Mun - December 2006
• Nadia and Ahmad - June 2007
• Asni and Abang Aseb - June 2007
• Kak No and Abang Chaq - soon, I guess?

And to the rest, LET’S GET MARRIED! Haha!

My brother, Anas is home for a long, long break. How do I know that? Well…

• we start having a lot of meat for meals
• Mak no longer cooks fish
• there’s a long list of dishes that he wants to eat - none of them involves fish or anything related to fish (as if he’s been away for a long, long time la kononnye!)
• someone starts asking me to feed him two hours after we had dinner
• there’s a lot of screaming going on in the house that involves my voice and his
• one can always see the car in Tesco’s parking lot

Anas, hog all the computer and tv as much as you want now but after 4th of April and until I get a job, THEY ARE MINE! =p

Things I need to do before the semester ends (which is by next week)

1. Finish my sewing projects
2. Research Methodology assignment
3. American Literature’s Sleepy Hollow assignment
4. American Literature’s American Beauty assignment
4. Finish my Comp App blog and present the blog to the class
5. Finish my Bureaucracy assignment and present the policy this Saturday
6. World Literature presentation
7. Feature Writing assignment
8. Feature Writing presentation

So, if any of you guys have more things to do than these or even equally as many, do inform me, okay? Help me brighten up my really gloomy last days in campus.

I AM LOST. I AM AT LOSS.

I am a bad, bad person.

That’s how I feel.

Do I always follow what Allah has asked me to do?
I don’t think so.

Am I always a good daughter?
NO!

Am I a great student?
NO WAY!

Am I a good friend?
Yes? My friends would beg to differ.

Am I a good leader?
NOPE. Faaarrr from it.

Am I a good sister?
Oh please!

But I do try. I try to do what is right.

Even though sometimes, I have no idea of what’s right or wrong. I do my best to find what is right.

Because I do not want to hurt anybody. Not anyone.

And sometimes, I may be wrong. In fact, I am always wrong.

But I can be right too, sometimes. Can’t I?

Setting: Ahmad Ibrahim Kulliyyah of Laws, IIUM (during the ‘Pay Less’ book fair)
Date: 2nd March 2007 (Friday)
Time: Around 10.30 am

I was browsing through the books over there. I was ecstatic to be able to get really2 cheap books there so after 2 visits, I ended up buying erm, 10 books. Huhu. My indulgence.

But anyway, as I was paying for the books, the cashier said that those books cost RM 11 and I was like, so surprised as I had a lot of books with me. So I checked and the actual price was RM 23 and I told the cashier so. And he was pleasantly surprised. He thanked me for being honest and he said that lately, he seemed to always be making that mistake: miscounting the prices of those books. Yet, while in IIUM, he mentioned that the customers would always, always correct him, even if that meant they had to pay more. He said that he noticed that the people here are very honest.

And at that moment, I was so very proud to be a part of IIUM. A society made up of many, many honest people.

May Allah bless all of you who remains true to what the Prophet had taught us and what Allah had asked us to do! =)