Transience

I just thought of saying a few words, I ain't got much time nowadays, but I sometimes feel compelled to write. I haven't expressed myself very articulately lately other than the incessant banal blurbs of Facebook or Twitter. So, today I just want to comment on the "kepimpinan ulama'" because since elections are close, many people have been piping about that on Facebook, I'm not sure if it's because my friends and I have already reached that age when you're suddenly bold about your political views or something, but my news feed seems to be awash with an impressive wave of political battle cries for ulama' leadership. Imma come clean and say I ain't got no fancy holy book excerpts or quotes from authoritative figures, it's merely my opinion of what I think about this. "Ulama'" comes from the word "ilm", so you kinda get a rough idea that these people are people with privileged knowledge about the religion. There ...

There's actually a couple of things I'd actually wanted to pen down, to kind of put my thoughts in a proper channel, and there's actually quite a few books that I'd wanted to read, quite a few people I'd wanted to talk to and things to do, but obviously, I end up asking myself "Where did my reading week go?" and bam! I'm dead centre in the busiest time of the term. I am currently typing this with a splitting headache. I have been looking at assembly codes for a midterm and there's quite a lot more slides I have to go through and labs and a sample midterm. My attention span is getting pretty poor. I currently despise being a keyboard warrior on Facebook. I'd rather write it properly on my blog with proper structure and elaboration which would at least look like it's something worth being taken seriously for (or not, depending if I meant it as a witty -har, har- journal entry, or a serious entry) rather than just some hooligan-y trolling ...

Something's over taken the comfort of old slippers it's something magnanimous estranging us of the pet names we used to call each other I guess riding fast cars made me a lotus eater it has deprived me of the memories of our little tea parties See I got this new set of frames it makes my face a little bit more gaunt it's not that I've dismissed the humor of our secret jokes It all reduces to the dust in the wind How foolish I was to think that an overturning wave would look perpetually the same and that time was relative. As the walls swallow me whole I resigned all hopes of reclaiming the intimacy of shared meals and soft whispers in the pillow I guess it's time I go.

Betrayed by the worst atrociously shameful mark of femininity, the shy, embarrassed, immature, self-conscious, awkward, school girl blush in the presence of a drop dead attractive member of the opposite sex. *facepalm* I'm gonna be fricking 21 years old, hormones, please stabilize. you know that feel, bro

                                                                                                     Richard Parker, Animal Alter Ego: An Examination of the Nature of Id in Life of Pi by Yann Martel Nurul Kamilah Mat Kamil 1007C10614 Period 3 ENG4U Mr. S. Wise 7 th March 2011             As a device of the poetic imagination and rhetorical flourish , metaphors give as much colour and emphasise to a particular message; be it a social critique or even a psychological examination (Lakoff). Animals are widely used as metaphors in Yann Martel’s Life of Pi ...

                                                                                                     Implications of the Interpretations of Islam: Comparative Gender Studies in Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s Infidel and Davar Ardalan’s My Name Is Iran . Nurul Kamilah Mat Kamil 1007C10614 Period 3 ENG4U Mr. S. Wise May 5, 2011            The status of Islam‘s relevance and compatibility to modern context such as individual women’s rights is a debatable issue. Presently, in Muslim communities, discrepancies in gender equality still occur despite the claim that Islam has ...

                                                                         The Loss of Innocence: A Theme Analysis in Lord of the Flies Nurul Kamilah Mat Kamil 1007C10614 Period 5 ENG3U Mr. S. Wise 6 th September 2010 The loss of innocence is a prominent theme in The Lord of the Flies, as it prevails from the beginning to the end of the story. Innocence is defined as the state of being unsullied by sin or moral wrong; lacking knowledge of evil (“Innocence”). In the context of this novel, loss of innocence occurs when the boys discover the innate evil within themselves. This knowledge causes a change in the boys’ behaviour and thinking. Some succumb to bloodlust, while some gain an insight of the natural evil in man that enables them to someh...

Social Structure Dystopia: A Theme Analysis in The Time Machine Nurul Kamilah Mat Kamil 1007C10614 Period 5 ENG3U Mr. S. Wise October 20, 2010             H.G. Wells was considered a visionary at his time, and the father of science fiction. Through his didactic writings, he made predictions of the future, including the evolution of social structure. In The Time Machine , he predicted the human race would evolve into two different species, the Elois and the Morlocks, due to a capitalist social system that is taken to extreme levels. Human beings no longer appreciated knowledge, and language had regressed to a “sweet and liquid tongue” (29). Wells believed that this was a consequence of social stratification. However, Well’s pessimistic view of the future may not necessarily be true because his writings were influenced by his background , his negative perception of hu...