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Bismillahirahmanirahim. In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.
Allah'sgift.
Salutations and Peace be upon you :)
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Assalamualaikum and Peace be upon you :)
I just got back from Malaysia after spending 3 days at my kampung for a kenduri of sorts. Lately, my older cousins have been getting engaged, one after the other, so the topic of weddings are popping up like mushrooms after rain. Coincidentally, Maria Elena, a famous Malaysian blogger and vlogger at Youtube just had her nikah recently and she had her wedding videos up on the Internet. I was curious so I decided to watch a couple of her vids and I must say they were shot very nicely! Congratulations are due for the newlyweds!
I then came across this reality tv show called 'Rich Bride Poor Bride" and one of the episodes featured this couple with a tight budget for their wedding. What really surprised me was the amount of money they invested in a one day event to celebrate their union. A $4000 wedding dress that you'll wear once is not something I consider as a low budget item. What's worst is that their 2 best friends didn't contribute much except for a measly $200 on 'THEIR' dream wedding cake and ideas for a costly wedding involving chandeliers and peacock feathers. I just don't understand how a wedding of a couple became the dream date for another as well...that was just so confusing (they kept mentioning 'our dress', 'our cake'). So investing more than $30,000 for a day when that can be used for at least 5 months is just...mind boggling.
Afterwards when I logged into Facebook, guessed what my sister shared on my wall...
A video about marriage, what else!? This short clip was done by this duo and their take on marriage is something I think is worth sharing. Before we get blinded, by the excitement and rush of the glitz and glam of THE DAY, we ought to think thoroughly about our preparation as an individual. Are we equipped in terms of KNOWLEDGE, MATURITY, MANAGEMENT and FINANCE? Are we ready to share the REST of our lives together, despite the ups and downs, the rain and shine?
And what about the other half? Are we choosing him/her because we truly love that person? Or is it because of wealth, looks and expectations? Why sacrifice your happiness for something that is short-lived because you overlooked certain things due to 'love'?
Ask yourself these questions: Will I still love him/her if they no longer love ALLAH? Do I marry him/her because of ALLAH?
If you can't answer confidently, then I think you still have a lot of reflections and pondering in line.
What then, are the qualifications to look for in a partner? The Al- Quran answers:
[Surah An-Nur (The Light), Verse 32: And marry those among you who are single (i.e. a man who has no wife and the woman who has no husband) and (also marry) the Salihun(pious, fit and capable ones) of your (male) slaves and maid-servants (female slaves). If they be poor, Allah will enrich them out of His Bounty. And Allah is All-Sufficent for His creatures' needs, All-Knowing (about the state of the people).]
And what if you do want to get married but there are just so many trials going against you or you're just not ready. Allah answers in the Al-Quran:
[Surah An-Nur (The Light), Verse 33: And let those who find not the financial means for marriage keep themselves chaste, until Allah enriches them of His Bounty. And such of your slaves as seek a writing (of emancipation), give them such writing, if you know that they are good and trustworthy. And give them something yourselves out of the wealth of Allah which He has bestowed upon you. And force not your maids to prostitution, if they desire chastity, in order that you may make a gain in the (perishable) goods of this worldly life. But if anyone compels them (to prostitution), then after such compulsion, Allah is Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful (to those women, i.e. He will forgive them because they have been forced to do this evil action unwillingly).]
Until then, much love and peace!
4months
Hey everyone. Or actually "Hey myself", since this is more of a diary or a personal log than a platform of communication to the dwellers of Internet. Much has passed since I last posted something here. What's new?
1) NPMSS
Well I'm going to step down from Vice-Presidency of NPMSS this coming 28th...don't know what to feel about that. Relieved? Sad? I don't know actually... it felt like such a blur thinking about my journey with the awesome people of NPMSS but I can't pin point an exact emotion about this coming AGM. Perhaps the day has to come for the emotions and feelings to dawn upon me. *sigh* I don't know. Is it possible to feel everything at once so much so that it overwhelms you and is masked as nothingness?
2) Tests
Common Test was over last Wednesday. That was a disappointment mainly for me. I swear I really tried my best but I have a feeling that the results just won't be good enough. I mean this is the last semester of the second year so I am really hoping to get at least a 3.8GPA this time. I want it so badly but everything seems to go against me. Why? I don't know.
3) Projects
Moving on to the projects that are due as soon as school starts. One of them in Medical BioChemistry while the other is Instrument and Analytical Chemistry. BOTH of them require creating a blog so I shall post the URL here as a form of reminder to my future self :)
What are these projects about?
Well at first, MBC was about Deficiency in Fatty Acid Oxidisation thus we decided to research on Systemic Primary Carnitine Deficiency. What happened in the body is basically the transporter required to move carnitine into the membrane is defective thus the body is unable to utilise Carnitine. However, this deficiency is quite rare and the only 'treatment' available was to flood your body with daily intakes of L-carnitine hoping that at least some of the Carnitine gets into your system. Thus while the scientific material is in abundance, there's nothing much to say about the 'non-scientific' materials such as interviews, newspaper articles and etc. After much discussion with my partner, we then decided on Deficiency in Carbohydrate Metabolism: Lactose Intolerance! So look forward to our research on The Sweet Scientists!
INAC is about either a murder case involving some narcotics or something else so it's still quite tentative.
4) Internship
Last but not least, I have exciting news! I will be interning at University of Liverpool for 4 months! WEEEHEEE *insert Taylor Swift jokes here* It's still quite unbelievable and surreal. I've arranged for accommodations and flight tickets but I still can't fully grasp the reality of me living in Liverpool, UK for 4 months. Wow...I hope I get to do my internship well and learn a lot over there. It will be really beneficial and interesting for me so let's hope everything goes well!
Overall, December proves to be quite an interesting month so far. A lot of things have happened and are happening right now therefore the points mentioned above. Let's hope 2012 ends with a good note and for those who are celebrating Christmas soon, enjoy your holidays :) That's all from me....BYEEE
gimpmess
Salutations :D
So I messed around with GIMP since I didn't have adobe photoshop installed on my Mac. And here's the product:
I took quite a while to get the end result since this is my very first time with GIMP and it's quite different than photoshop.
Conclusion: I still love photoshop.
Maybe I'm giving a biased opinion since I have more experience handling photoshop but...there weren't any 'sparks' or 'fireworks' when I used GIMP. The layout of the program is quite messy for me and it took me quite a while to finally comprehend how to use the gradient. WHICH IS TERRIBLE!
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P/S: Firefox screwed up the font settings for my blog. (So SADDDD) So if you want to see how the real blog should look like, you can use Safari, Opera, Internet Explorer and etc :)