Wednesday, August 08, 2007


Who invented this, anyway?

I have never been 'tagged' before (see: Cbox).

It's like a Friendster thing -- one of the many annoying ones you succumb to after a while. Granted, my blog was never that popular, so the complete absence of tagging was understandable. But, I suppose, some things are inevitable.

I'd explain a little further about the whole concept, but it's self-explanatory, anyway. Also self-indulgent, to an extent.

And so, as requested by my darling Shadoro:

Eight Random Things about Me.

1. Ever since coming to Melbourne, I've bought many books that I have not finished reading. The few I count amongst the Done list are HP7 (which was unexpectedly brilliant, despite some lapses in pace and syntax), the Qur'an, No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency, Howl's Moving Castle, and... Yeah, that's it. I find it intriguing how I could finish more books during a summer in Malaysia than I can for all the 14 months I've lived in Australia. Must be something in the air.

2. I have a thing for Moroccan mint green tea and dark chocolate. And for coffee from cafes. Specifically, the cafes in my uni, all of which deserve honorary doctorates in the art of java.

3. I find Doctor Who completely brilliant. The fantastic storylines, the dry Brit-wit and the amazing David Tennant have me utterly hooked. I am so keeping my eye out for blue wooden emergency police phone booths when I visit London.

4. By the way, did I tell you? I'm going to London come December, insyaAllah. I have YanYan and 'Izzah to thank for the trip. (Sorry, Alev. But I had to go to SOME part of Europe...)

5. Shopping with people makes me highly strained. Somewhat self-conscious, and constantly embarrassed. I feel like I have to explain my shopping all the time. Which is why my best shopping is done alone, after sufficient planning and strategics.

6. The last thing that made me choke was reading in Surah al-Maarij:
'No, that is not like that! Verily, We have created them out of that which they know!
So I swear by the Lord of all (the three hundred and sixty (360)) points of sunrise and sunset in the east and the west that surely We are Able
To replace them by (others) better than them; and We are not to be outrun.
So leave them to plunge in vain talk and play about, until they meet their Day which they are promised.
The Day when they will come out of the graves quickly as racing to a goal,
With their eyes lowered in fear and humility, ignominy covering them (all over)! That is the Day which they were promised!'
(70:39-44)

7. I have always felt a sort of kinship to Britain, which, yeah, explains my mostly reason for going. Everything about the British identity fits me -- the weather, the accent (which is so much less stressful to the nasal system than the American twang), their innate need for tea (yes, Alev, my caffeine used to be restricted to Earl Grey, I'll have you know), their look-the-other-way sense of humour, and their literary heroes. And the Doctor, of course. If only they weren't so obsessed about taking over the world way back when.

8. I have to start on my Biochemistry notes soon. That said, I mean to edit this particularly disjointed rant, if I can bother to get to it.

Sigh. Procrastination is so much harder than it looks.

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this has been a rant by Syazwina Saw at 10:20 pm

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