February 2012
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“That was the last I ever heard of him. No message, no note. (Nobody needs a...”
– Here, for you. Featured in Word Bumps.
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“I don’t think that there are any limits to how excellent we could make life...”
– Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything is Illuminated
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“People who think well, write well. Woolly minded people write woolly memos,...”
– 10 tips on writing from David Ogilvy
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“How you must’ve suffered,
getting accustomed to me,
my savage, solitary...”
– Pablo Neruda. The thought of how I have intimidated people the very least excites me sometimes.
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“Those who walk away from you in the dark should be forgotten in the light.”
– I Wrote This For You: The Things I Have Felt Have Torn Me Apart
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Kuala Lumpur, you heartbreaker
I have been told I was impossible to be loved. That I was difficult to handle. That I was complex, stubborn and wildly passionate about things it’s intimidating.
I say, I’m a rare breed. That to love me is to know the core of who I am. Unless I am evil, which I can positively say I am not, you will not judge me. I am not an archetypal Malay woman. I don’t cook, I don’t...
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“For every subject, there are really only two things you really need to know....”
– The two things /via swissmiss
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“I have died everyday
Waiting for you
Darlin’ don’t be afraid,
I...”
– Christina Perri, A Thousand Years
January 2012
38 posts
Confession
Sometimes I still send emails and text messages to my father’s phone to let him know how much I love and miss him.
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My 10 things I know to be true
Inspired by Sarah Kay’s 10 Things to Be True list/exercise, here’s mine:
Love can have an expiry date.
Families are not always right and sometimes they are the people you are forced to love. That is why we get to choose friends and partners.
Words have power - they can break or elevate people’s spirits.
Most of the times, you don’t need to change or understand someone....
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“There is hurt, here, that cannot be fixed by bandaids and poetry.”
– Sarah Kay, B.
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“Serenity is when you get above all this, when it doesn’t matter what they think,...”
– Henry Miller /via fezr
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“I’ve never fooled anyone. I’ve let people fool themselves. They...”
– Marilyn Monroe. Or they could be hating somebody I wasn’t too.
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“Islam is based on naql [texts] and ‘aql [intellect]. Some people just have the...”
– Shaykh Hamza Yusuf /via fez
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“I’d like to see these type of women represented in mainstream local movies more...”
– 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).
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“Doom is nigh. I am in acute distress, desperately trying to coax sleep, opening...”
– Vladimir Nabokov, Speak, Memory
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“Try not.
Do.
Or do not.
There is no try.”
– Yoda /via swissmiss
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“Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we...”
– A quote by Albert Einstein included in the article “Twelve Things You Were Not Taught in School About Creative Thinking” from Michael Michalko on The Creativity Post.
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“I thank you God
for most this:
amazing day
for the leaping greenly
spirits...”
– E.E Cummings
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“If you’re twenty-two, physically fit, hungry to learn and be better, I urge you...”
– I love Anthony Bourdain.
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“Move as a total being, and accept things. Just for twenty-four hours, try it -...”
– Osho
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“To all those suffering from sadness or depression, know that it isn’t your...”
– Imam Tahir Anwar. This too shall pass, Zana.
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“And if you want to know the feeling I’m talking about, run your own fingers...”
– I Wrote This For You: The Feeling Of Someone Drawing You
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“Dan aku tidak pasti hidup berdua itu bagaimana sebenar-benarnya. Tapi dalam tiap...”
– ‘Dia’, penned by my lovely Wani Ardy from her book, Langit Vanilla. Why is it so hard for everyone to understand?