Saturday, July 27, 2013 at 2:35 PM | 0 comments  
It's interesting to see the things that I went through by revisiting my blog. I enjoy writing but I suppose priorities changes and I suppose I felt like keeping things to myself. I no longer read blogs like I used to. Maybe the novelty of it has faded for me.

It's actually the month of Ramadan now. I don't know if this year is a better one from the last. I feel it is not my best as compared to the period when my interest in Islam was ignited.

It's the month of the Quran. I still want to make Quran a very close part of my life. I'm too lazy to even finish this post properly and I guess I'll elaborate on it when I feel like it.
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Saturday, December 8, 2012 at 3:17 AM | 0 comments  
Please allow me to write to my heart's content in this little dusty corner of cyberspace. The caveat from my last entry has only been because of another black hole of my life. Life is tough, nobody said that it will be easy.

I still do not know where exactly where I am heading towards but surely Allah knows what I do not. The world today is becoming more volatile with every single day that passes, yet I am still trying to figure where I sit in the scheme of things. As a daif insan (weak person), I can only seek guidance from Allah.

I've started working at a new place.

I miss my students.

I can be a better son, a better brother, a better student and a better friend. I would say a better husband too but that has yet to happen. Alhamdulillah, I pray that I will be an uncle soon too.

I feel there is some truth in Maslow's hierarchy of needs. (That's how the secular world sees it. I simply call it sunnatullah.) It is by Allah's will that eveythings has its proper place. Concerns and ambitions has their places too. It was easier for me to put the issue of finding a spouse under the rug when I felt that financially I can be a more stable position. However that stability itself is still an illussion; For I cannot escape from anything if Allah decrees it to be so. But I plan and we plan but Allah is the best of planners.
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Saturday, July 30, 2011 at 1:59 PM | 0 comments  
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Friday, January 7, 2011 at 2:00 AM | 0 comments  
My resolution for this year is to look like this. All I have to do is is to lose 238712888kg, buff up, somehow get quick-healing mutant ability and find a mad scientist to conduct adamantium plating on my bones.

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Monday, September 13, 2010 at 7:36 AM | 0 comments  
Its a season of celebrations but let's not make ramadan go to waste. I take the momentum of a renewed vigour to scour the lands for a new job. My current contract will expire in less than 3 months. There is an option to extend my contract but I am hoping to move on and finally land a job in my line by then. Working extra hard to finish up my new portfolio site for prospective employers.
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Sunday, June 13, 2010 at 11:19 PM | 0 comments  
I've been commuting to work and back on the MRT. NEL takes me to my workplace pretty fast. Morning city traffic is always best avoided together with those ERP gantries. All week I've been standing in the train and watch with fascination people who have mastered the art of balancing on the train without holding to anything.

Flat feet hurts and my back suffers when I tried emulating the balancing act. I can do it at the expense of comfort. I'll hold on to railings if I could help it. Crowd sucks and I only got to be seated once which was on last Friday, since work dismisses 30 min earlier.

And so I was seated. I caught my own reflection on the glass panel across me. Never did I realize how bad my posture was. My right shoulder drooped much lower than I thought. Having caught myself, I tried to position myself to a better posture.

I've slacked a lot. I thought I've improved quite a fair bit but that was a reminder of how much further I still need to through. Can I ever dare to dream of the dream job. I rejected a more permanent job prospect. I took up the temp job thinking that I can land that dream job by the end of my contract.

Health is important no matter what. I just have to keep working on it. If it means that I get that dream job by the end of my current contract, that is just the cherry on top of the icing. For certain, I cannot keep forsake steady income while chasing the dream for much longer.

Of course, I am grateful for other things in life. Just that, one's job is a huge chunk of one's life.

Have a blessed month of Rejab.
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Sunday, June 6, 2010 at 11:38 PM | 0 comments  
Starts work tomorrow. Prays that everything will go well. 6 months contract.
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