February 2012
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Feb 10th
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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.
Feb 9th
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Feb 9th
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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
Feb 8th
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Feb 8th
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“People who think well, write well. Woolly minded people write woolly memos,...”
– 10 tips on writing from David Ogilvy
Feb 7th
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Feb 6th
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Feb 6th
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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.
Feb 5th
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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
Feb 4th
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Feb 4th
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Feb 4th
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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...
Feb 3rd
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Feb 2nd
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“For every subject, there are really only two things you really need to know....”
– The two things /via swissmiss
Feb 2nd
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“I have died everyday Waiting for you Darlin’ don’t be afraid, I...”
– Christina Perri, A Thousand Years
Feb 1st
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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.
Jan 31st
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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....
Jan 31st
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Jan 31st
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“There is hurt, here, that cannot be fixed by bandaids and poetry.”
– Sarah Kay, B.
Jan 31st
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Jan 31st
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“Serenity is when you get above all this, when it doesn’t matter what they think,...”
– Henry Miller /via fezr
Jan 30th
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Jan 27th
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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.
Jan 27th
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Jan 26th
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“Islam is based on naql [texts] and ‘aql [intellect]. Some people just have the...”
– Shaykh Hamza Yusuf /via fez
Jan 22nd
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Jan 22nd
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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).
Jan 21st
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Jan 21st
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“Doom is nigh. I am in acute distress, desperately trying to coax sleep, opening...”
– Vladimir Nabokov, Speak, Memory
Jan 21st
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Jan 21st
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Jan 21st
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Jan 21st
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“Try not. Do. Or do not. There is no try.”
– Yoda /via swissmiss
Jan 20th
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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.
Jan 20th
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Jan 16th
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“I thank you God for most this: amazing day for the leaping greenly spirits...”
– E.E Cummings
Jan 15th
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“If you’re twenty-two, physically fit, hungry to learn and be better, I urge you...”
– I love Anthony Bourdain.
Jan 15th
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Jan 15th
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Jan 15th
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“Move as a total being, and accept things. Just for twenty-four hours, try it -...”
– Osho
Jan 15th
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Jan 14th
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Jan 14th
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Jan 14th
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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.
Jan 14th
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Jan 14th
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Jan 12th
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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
Jan 12th
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Jan 12th
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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?
Jan 8th
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