Since I will change no one else, I will change myself.
Since no one else will take me seriously, I will take myself seriously.
I will be different from now on.
God, give me the strength to be resolute.
From Brian Kim’s “How to Resist the Urge to Conform“:
Others around you feel uneasy when you choose not to conform simply because their egos have been so invested in the group that your actions may very well make them feel offended and defensive about the choices they have made thus far. It’s naturally in their [...]
(This is a rant.)
I have too much to say, and I do not know where to begin. Actually, I do not know where best to begin so as to give you the clearest picture of my current mental state. But who cares about clarity, really? Blackened hearts and minds will never accept the plainest, self-evident [...]
[1] Woe to those that deal in fraud―
[2] Those who, when they have to receive by measure from men, exact full measure.
[3] But when they have to give by measure or weight to men, give less than due.
[4] Do they not think that they will be called to account?―
:’(
The anonymized version of the letter of complaint I sent:
Yesterday afternoon, I brought my grandmother, Mdm XXX, to YYY Polyclinic to see a doctor. After registration, we were sent to Room NN to see Dr ZZZ. The consultation with the doctor was rather unpleasant for my grandmother.
To begin with, the doctor could not converse [...]
1) The choice is yours.
2) Resistance is futile.
Related: In rejection of lewdness
O Allah.
I have problems only You can solve.
I have questions only You can answer.
I have doubts only You can clarify.
I have cries only You can hear.
I have tears only You can stop.
O Allah.
It is only You whom I can turn to.
Please, help me sleep tonight.
kalau ‘nitis air mataku malam ini
kalau ‘nitis air mataku sekali lagi
hanya [...]
As if that’s new.
To say the least, I am pissed off by the fact that Microsoft Word 2003 cannot automatically generate bibliographies; even the open-source Neo/OpenOffice is capable of this task. This is, I find, a great impediment to the writing of my project report. I really wonder how people have been putting up with [...]
Control the things you can Muhammad.
Let go of the things you can’t.
“Let go.”
This seems to be the hardest thing to do. But obviously. How could one not be? Cliche as it may seem, I think, therefore I am. I am what I think. And yet life, [...]
Please do not recite exceedingly long surahs or long segments of surahs.
Especially if you tend to scrimp on other parts of salaat such as the sujud, the ruku’, or even the silent Faatihah in the third or fourth rakaat.
