i'm addicted to grand theft auto 3 which i juz bought. i think this pc game is the most diabolical, profane, and violently explicit game i've ever played in my life. *ratz, i give it a thumbs up!* and I love every minute of it. oh well, mebbe i'm bored. no one's 'entertainin' me @ msn...and i've finished doing my housework and i'm not in the mood to do any cd/web/game projects i have @ de moment.

but it was soo much fun yesterday. spent my day with bro ahmad and sis nuraisya...it's weird that we only met online for less than a month and we're like buddies who had known each other half of their lifes! life to me is a puzzle. i've met a number of new people and some of those pieces were more colorful, more rustic, groovier, or in some cases more bland than the picture on my life-puzzle box. a few of these pieces seem special, i would like to look at, and hold in my hand for a while...admire the shape and colors, and imagine what the rest of the picture looks like. yeah...de peeps i met yesterday were different. i can see myself in them. it's juz like me, kak rosi and odah. Alhamdulillah~

every inch of de muscle fibre in my body is pounding with a dull ache especially my legs from the 4-hrs cycling trip to ubin yesterday. the heavy rain hadn't dampen our spirits....we were completely drenched but trip wasn't wasted. it was exciting....very. kak rosi and kak embam were smashin! thanx peeps~ lurve you.....*huGz*

not many turned up today...cos it's the last day at mts WsPs. had lots of fun today taking snapshots with them...making farny faces and laffin when they saw their faces on the digicam's lcd. cute. i'll miss them though they are one noisy bunch. hope they'll do well in their exams next week.

i'll be going on a cycling trip to ubin wif kak rosi, kak embam and her bro. it will be mainly for photography. it's been years since i went there...the date was 9.9.98. kak zee, unic, shy, sk8er, shahril, kak aishah, kiambang, kak rosi and eyesyah were there too. memories. they're fun.



i'm also excited about meeting bro ahmad and sis nuraisha this tuesday for lunchy....woohoo~ it's a gr8 week ahead. ;)

finally i managed to go on a date with my d5. isz accompanied to the botanical gardens yesterday morning. insect macro has always been difficult for me and focussing on the subjects is challenging. i didn't manage to get any good shots there =/ isz snapped happily and she joked that mebbe she could stomped her feet on the ground and the insects will appear and pose for a group shot. lolz~ mebbe i'll go there again next week.

the lab is empty today....i guess everyone's zonked out after yesterday's web assignment. i was ready in my tudong and everything yesterday when i decided to give the flash file the last check and it suddenly couldnt work...i almost screamed. i modified de scripts and uploaded everything to my server. disslexic was kind enuff to offer her help and isz helped to retrieve them and chuck my files into the assignment server. at that moment, only Allah knows how i felt....and thanx guys for being such wonderful frenz. *muahz*

bulbasaur has been pestering me with his sms'es for de past few months. he kept ending his msg with "nor, are you attached?" *hmmph* i hope yesterday's reply ended it all. the soundtracks from possession and smallville has been lingering in my head since they showed it everyday on tvmobile. i kinda like de possession soundtrack...so unexplainable but soothing.

if i could watch the matrix again, i will.

i flagged the wrong bus today and when i finally realised it, i sheepishly smiled @ de bus driver and signalled to him that i've made a mistake. dat was very, very blur of me. *duh!* anyway all de best to all those taking de exams soon.....my adik, sis nuraisha, bro ahmad, bro anil....who else? de rest of my frens do not have to slog for exams anymore like me...*phew~* i remembered when i used to take my exams during my tp years and i had to take 4 supp papers in the holidays. as the exam fever faded away... another feeling began to build up strongly... anticipation grew larger and larger for my results. it was a traumatic experience for me... ... ...

i have this habit of reading stale news....and while i was rummaging through the sunday times' Life, i saw this article by Richard Lim, "Do not let Islam be hijacked".

"THIS may come as a surprise to many, including the few parents who insisted that their pre-pubescent daughters wear the tudung to their primary schools: There is nothing in the Koran that says all women must be veiled or be secluded in a separate part of the house. What the Koran does prescribe is some degree of veiling and seclusion for the Prophet's wives only. The veiling and seclusion of women were adopted by Muslims some three or four generations after the death of Prophet Muhammad, and even then, these customs were copied from the Greek Christians of Byzantium, who had long veiled and segregated their women...."
// extracted from sunday times Life.

Nowadays we see so many non-muslims and muslims alike condemning acts of terrorism and trying to explain what Islam is all about. i too believe that every religion promotes tolerance and appreciates the gift of life...but what mr Lim has said that the hijab is only for the Prophet's (pbuh) wives only is totally absurd. Are you saying that millions of Muslims have misintepreted the Quran wrongly? The Prophet said: "A girl who has attained puberty should cover up her whole body except her face and hands." Tell me one thing, Mr Lim....tell me one ayah in de Qur'an that teaches the Muslims how to pray.

juz for everyone's info.....Muslims use the Quran and the Hadith in formulating the Islamic law and their teachings of Islam. To intepret(tafseer) the Quran, one needs to have a strong knowledge of the Arabic language firstly. And he must also refer to the Hadith which records the sayings and deeds of Prophet Muhammad (pbuh). It's farny how a non-Muslim can teach Islam to everyone. yah...it's farny!

i saw a lion at the back of my flat. i swear!

no mangkoks for me, pls. ;)

happy belated berfday, tuty. *right click and click on Save Target As...* so have you grown up yet? heh~

If the leader can make a speech like below, those p*gs wouldnt dare to be racist! *thanx nobrainner for highlighting this* i'm NOT inciting that we should go on strike but are we supposed to juz sit and look at our fellow muslims be treated unfairly? i have non-muslims frens as well...and i respected them. but to think this is a democratic country and "regardless of race, religion, and language", i can't believe even the educated ones can do as such? *bah!*

//....''Over these 30 years, I have seen our own Muslims and our neighbours change. They have become more and more orthodox, behaving like the Arabs. But they are not Arabs. It's peer pressure.

''Now I see some of them, in Indonesia and Malaysia, behaving like Arabs.''

He added: ''Our Malays tell us they have to observe all Muslim dietary habits, dress codes, prayer times and other injunctions. Some little girls going to school now insist that they wear headscarves. We said that for 100 years they never wore headscarves. That's not part of the uniform.''

The Islamic world can make its peace with modernity only after Islamic theocracies like Iran fail, he predicted.

''All the states that go that way will fail. If you spend all your days studying the Quran, how do you catch up with the science, technology, management and knowledge that makes for the modern world?

''We have to hope that secular Muslim countries like Turkey succeed. The Turks have made more progress than other Muslim countries, although they have not yet taken off into steady growth.'' // *extracted from "The terrorists won't win, says SM Lee" straits times interactive 29th Sept 2002*

btw...mr SM, i'm wondering how come in your 30 years, you never knew that islam encourages Muslims to seek knowledge. Even the Quran says so.

never have i done so many things in the morning but i woke up very early today to touch up my poster and cd package designs. and then went off to meet bro revopit and bro *forgot-his-name* for some discussion @ DA. then buzzed off to SLS to get CD cases. stopped for a while @ lil india to take some panoramic shots for the cd. And guess what? mr syam *my animation cheacher* approached me while i was bz with my cam and said hi. that was a pleasant surprise...i stumbled for words and called him, "hey, mr bakhta!" and only then did i realise that i called his name wrongly. *duh! blur me...*

overheard on my way back from sls on bus #23, 2 makciks were sitting right behind me and talking loudly @ de same time. i even knew their names...hehe.

(bus stops opposite the new farrer mrt)
kak ijah: kat sini ramai jugak melayu tinggal tau bedah
bedah: iye ke?
kak ijah: a-ah, nenek haney hadad ader lah tinggal kat sini...

(talks abt other stuffs)

bedah: e-eh...kejap jugak ye dah sampai sini
kak ijah: a-ah lah, bedah. nasib baik kiter tak naik teksi
bedah: kalau naik teksi, dah kena tambang $12, kan kak ijah? bas baru $1.40

(talks abt other stuffs)

bedah: kak ijah dah pernah pegi mustafa ctr?
kak ijah: oohhh...sudah...rasid baru drive aku saner hari tuh
bedah: kalau naik bas nih, tak payah berenti. bas nih teros belok masok pasar tekka..lepas tuh kiter turun yg tempat kiter naik tadiii...
kak ijah: iyeee? tak payah turun lah gitu tukar bas?
bedah: a-ah...tak payah...sebab bas nombor 23 nih tak setop teros balik interchange tampines.
kak ijah: gitu kiter naik bas lain kali ye, bedah.

and they continued talking about their children, the weather, etc, etc. :P

thank you kak rosi!! for fixing my cdrom drive and for the briyani too...it was yummylicious. there comes a sense of relief in knowing that everything's going fine again and it feels like a burden's been lifted from me. it sort of felt like i was released from 'prison'....the heavy burden had been lifted from my heart, and there is no more stress and the dread of waking up every morning to go to skool, leaving my sick pc in the corner.

btw, nurul and izzuddin had a new addition to their family, aminuddin. so cutee!!