Elephant in the fridge

Can you fit an elephant into a fridge?

Definitely yes, if it's big enough.

But if it is so clearly not, then why are you so adamant in placing the elephant in there? Go, search for a zoo or something. Why are we even considering this in the first place?

Hmmpph :(

I can never stop wondering why we people like to insist in fitting enormous things into little containers.

Our mind is limited, but we talk as if it is boundless and judge others that differ from us as deviators from the true path.

Things are often bigger than who we are, bigger than all the world put together.

For me, leave the unanswerables to time. If you were meant to know, then eventually you'll know. I just mind my own step, hoping to God that I don't slip and fall down on my face to the mud.

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On the "Allah" issue, I think that even if in the Quran here's nothing to bar non-muslims from using the term, maybe we should look at it using a local perspective. Mind you, I am just stating my views and there's nothing for any of you to shout about. Islam, after all, is easy and is always peaceful. So what is the most peaceful route?

Using a local setting, maybe the best way is to preserve the use of "Allah" to Muslims only as it would (I think it would, anyway) disturb the peace of the country.

I know other faiths use the term freely in their country, in their setting. But, try looking at the local scene? The same cannot be said here.

However, I actually do not agree to the stance that we should preserve the use of the term because we fear that people will confuse their God and become infidels.

I doubt people now are that flimsy. If they are, then we really do not need them in our faith because there is no force for anyone to stay or go out of Islam. Our strength is not in numbers, but by the solidness of our faith.

I only want to preserve the use because it would retain the peace.

So, please stop trying to fit the elephant into the fridge? It won't fit. Just try and think where to put the elephant into the proper place so that we can all go on with our lives.

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I was just browsing through the endless articles on the web and it hits me that everyone has a perspective, everyone has a point that he wishes to make. All that is well: in the vast universe of the world wide web, anyone can claim a spot as his/her own and they can very well do as they please on that spot. Just as long that it doesn't trample on other's rights.

To do that, is an art you have to learn and will acquire through experiences.

Because I feel that there is no fixed rule to anything. No black or white. Only gradients of grey.

One course of action can be correct for a set of situations but would be totally stupid in another. A diamond can be hiding under slurries of mud and the devil can wear a smiley face.

Nothing is ever what it seems.

I googled 26

yes, today I'm supposed to be toiling away extracting RNA that's due for report on Monday. But wth. I'm gonna do it tomorrow, seriously :p

However, i find myself googling 26, which is a significant number for me this year as I was born on 26th Jan and I'm turning 26 years old this year.

Some things I find interesting about this number is:

1. Pierre de Fermat proved 26 is the only single number between a square (25 = 5² ) and a cube (27 = 3³ )

Hahaha, c'mon, "the ONLY single number". 26 is sure special :p

2. A rhombicuboctahedron has 26 sides.

I didn't realize that such a polygon exists.

3. The number 26 is the atomic number of iron

...and the fact that I have iron deficiency is just so ironic.

4. 26 is the "joke throw" in the game of darts, where a player throws 20, 5 and 1 when aiming for 20 (or treble 20). In professional darts, throwing 26 usually results in sneers or laughter from the audience.

5. Precipitevolissimevolmente with 26 letters is the longest word in the Italian language. it means "as fast as possible"

6. There are 26 letters in the alphabet and there's even an association called 26, which is an association for people with love of words.

I wonder, is this the reason I like reading and writing? huhuhu, nonsense :p

7. 26 January is Australia Day

I must go there sometime

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Oh, and I have the same birthday as Ellen DeGeneres. So as a parting quote, this is what she said:

The good psychic would pick up the phone before it rang. Of course it is possible there was noone on the other line. Once she said "God Bless you" I said, "I didn't sneeze" She looked deep into my eyes and said, "You will, eventually." And damn it if she wasn't right. Two days later I sneezed.

~Ellen DeGeneres, My Point and I Do Have One

Enjoy your holidays, everyone! :)

The point of anything

What we feel isn't important. It's utterly unimportant. The only question is what we do. If people like you don't learn from what happened to people like me, then what the hell is the point of anything?

~The Reader 2008

What is really the point of anything?

We live and see other people die and then we follow. There is no end to that cycle. The dead would be succeeded by the living.

Don't we ever learn from that cycle?

I don't know, but for me I think all of the problems plaguing the world or ourselves today are not new problems at all. It is always either caused by greed or impatience or foolishness or disillusionment or negligence or apathy or some other basic emotion ( I could go on with these basic state of humans but I think you get the message, eh?)

Someone, somewhere must have been through the exact same thing one time or another because of more or less the same reason. So after we leave from being one state of existence to another, why don't we ever learn from our surroundings, from other people's experiences and avoid the things that are proven time and again as wrong and futile?

We are supposed to be the only ones among the creatures of the earth to be able to learn so well and invent things so that we can destroy them at another time with another great invention. But why do we keep wasting our time going through the things that other people have known as mistakes?

I noticed the general nature of our problems because when I watch a movie or hear a song or read a book, I can identify with them. Why are we able to identify with the problems or situations of people so far apart from us that sometimes we don't even know how the sun looks like when it set at the other side of the world? It is because we are not that different. It is frustrating to see the same ol' problems/ situations treated as if it is so novel. C'mon, you're trying to tell me that in all of the 4.6 billion years (give or take 0.1 billion :P) since earth came to being, someone hasn't come across that before? Someone, somewhere, somehow would know how to fix it.

I am not talking about the problems that came about as technology and knowledge advances: I am saying that the root, the innermost cause of effect, what is left after the problem/situation is stripped of all its fancies and just laid bare for all to see is essentially the same across times, across continents.

Even ancient love stories, legends and the melodies seem so familiar. If we are different, all of those things would be foreign, and we'll seek to understand. But often there is no need for that, everything is universal. There are no races or color, there is only human. And that human hasn't changed much to be really considered as different.

See?

Life is not complicated, we are complicated. The solution is always so simple that it is easy to overlook it. The answer is so clear that sometimes we get suspicious and insist of looking for other options, we are thickheaded that way (yes, me included :p).

I think this is why the Quran is very universal and it is still relevant until today even though during the olden days there were never any comprehension about the effects of globalization. It is the word of God, our Creator. So definitely the Creator would know everything about the creation. However, as the solution is given to us, so simple a thing as just living in line with the true path, we tend to overlook it and not even consider it. It's like someone giving you a bag of gold coins: you can't believe your luck that you have to think that maybe the guy's lying and the gold must be fake or stolen from somebody. But what if it is really a real gift that would put you out of your sorry state?

People always insist they are different, that each of our problems are bigger than the world put together. However, what we feel is utterly unimportant when contrasted with the universe and the natural cycle of things.

Will we ever learn?

Heart melody

My hearts sings a melody

That is silent to except myself

A song that calls for something

That would lift the skies

And arrange the stars

What is it? you asked

I can't really say

As it is only a silent song

To be with me when I'm lonesome

To say or not to say

February 02, 2010

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   Aquarius (1/20-2/18)

After what you went through over the past couple of days, today will be an absolute dream come true. That means no more explaining your every move to loved ones who don't quite believe you, no more chatting up people you're not really interested in and an end to worrying about not being able to say the right thing. In fact, saying the right thing to someone who doesn't realize you're not really interested may be your worst problem. But aren't you used to that by now?

Hahaha, today's horoscope is a private joke for me. The laughter bubbles in me threatening to burst out in loud guffaws (which is by the way quite inappropriate for a girl hahaha )

I don't know about the dream come true though, nowadays my dreams are all jumbled up and always changing. What I settle for now is just aims and goals: I haven't truly perfected my dream just yet.

However, I am wondering how to break it to someone that we're not interested?

I am always afraid that I'm unable to say the right thing, but end up saying the wrong thing anyway.

Aiyah....susah la ini macam.