6:30 am  •  28 January 2012  •  View comments

“I’ve never fooled anyone. I’ve let people fool themselves. They didn’t bother to find out who and what I was. Instead they would invent a character for me. I wouldn’t argue with them. They were obviously loving somebody I wasn’t.”

— Marilyn Monroe. Or they could be hating somebody I wasn’t too.

5:34 am  •  28 January 2012  •  View comments

Him: (reading from conversation starter cards) Describe yourself in 3 words.

Me: Strong, independent, and…

Him: And?

Me: … that would also mean some people would find me difficult to manage.

Him: Uh-huh.

Me: But if someone could handle me at my worst times, he sure as hell deserves me at my sweetest times, which is, undoubtedly precious.

Him: That sounds familiar.

Me: Marilyn Monroe, but I don’t think she would mind me borrowing her words.

8:15 pm  •  27 January 2012  •  View comments

… no more.

5:02 am  •  27 January 2012  •  View comments

“And I can’t breathe without you
But I have to”

4:49 am  •  27 January 2012  •  View comments

“Islam is based on naql [texts] and ‘aql [intellect]. Some people just have the texts – we call them naql-heads.”

— Shaykh Hamza Yusuf /via fez

9:45 pm  •  22 January 2012  •  2 notes  •  View comments

Babies are more than as what we see them are. Dun dun dunnn…

9:24 pm  •  22 January 2012  •  View comments

“I’d like to see these type of women represented in mainstream local movies more as opposed to the wish-fulfillment fantasy vision of weak, adoring girls who look up to the alpha male because that’s what that is, plain and simple - a very specific male fantasy of the male majority in this country who wish them bitches would just stay in the kitchen, raise them kids and look up to them as the Man of the house. Balls to that. I don’t want a servant, I want an equal. Confidence attracts me. Talent attracts me. Creativity attracts me.”

— Amen. If I could ‘favorite’ Khairil M Bahar’s post as many times as I could, I would. Also, one of the reasons I despise movies such as Ombak Rindu and its legion (among many other reasons).

4:39 am  •  22 January 2012  •  1 note  •  View comments

The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo opening title sequence is so sick! Will the movie be making its way in Malaysia?

4:38 am  •  22 January 2012  •  3 notes  •  View comments

“Doom is nigh. I am in acute distress, desperately trying to coax sleep, opening my eyes every few seconds to check their faded gleam, and imagining paradise as a place where a sleepless neighbor reads an endless book by the light of an eternal candle.”

— Vladimir Nabokov, Speak, Memory

3:47 am  •  22 January 2012  •  1 note  •  View comments