when angry...
don't punch the wall, fold and cut paper. it doesn't help one bit, but it does take the hours away and saves your knuckles.
spring cleaning
the best part of spring cleaning is when you lie down on the floor, battered, staring at the fan, trying to catch the spinning blades with your eyes and fall asleep when you're done.
you never really realise how far you've walked till you turn around and see the number of street lights you've passed.
if you keep looking ahead, the road just blends with the horizon and it never ends.
so i always look at my shoes when i walk. sometimes, im lucky enough to find another pair next to mine.
equivocal equality
islamic studies offers an interesting insight on islam and its stand on gender equality, or rather, the absence of it.
i take into account the possibilities of my fellow coursemates that might be reading my blog, more specifically, this post. or even lecturers who know their way round the blogosphere. but i doubt anyone would attack what would seem to be thoughts of a young and inexperienced mind.
from what i understand, in islam, a wife is to obey a husband even to the extremes. nothing beyond self preservation, but a simple example of a wife wanting to pay her last respect to her father who just passed away but denied permission by the husband. by which, in this religion, the wife has no say and have to obey the husband. indeed, this is wrong, even in islam, because a son or daughther is to remain loyal to his or her parents. to counter this oxymoron, islam places the sin on the husband. fair enough? for those who choose to believe in judgement day, don't you think justice needs to be swift? if indeed, islam is for this temporary world and the hereafter, why does such punishment needs to wait for till the end of days? why not now? why not before it is too late? before the wife suffers from depression from failing to fulfill her duty as a daughter to her father? i believe, when a person wrongs another, justice is served in this world, and when a person wrongs god, himself, his faith or anything within the context of being abstract, then he needs to pay in the other world.
another interesting issue is polygamy. if indeed, men and women are equal, why is it a man can marry up to four women and a woman have to stick with only one man? a wife cannot object if her husband wants to take a second wife. so where does this put women? i may not know anything about marriage, or love for that matter, but i believe it is a sacred bond between two people. it can't be shared. correct me if im wrong, but i dont even think animals have multiple partners at the same time. and yet muslims insult darwin when he compared homo sapiens to animals. yeah, nice going.
in fact, a father can force his daughter into marriage, even if she doesnt like the husband to be. equality? freedom? islam? they dont belong in the same sentence.
in my defense, i could be wrong....prove it. heh
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