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Hoax Supreme

People believe everything they see on Facebook, it reaches an annoying level I never thought could be reached. They see interesting ridiculous pictures on blogs and clicked and believed, praising God for the "miracle", shared and spread the lies.

Don't get me wrong, it's fine for you to praise God in everything you see, but honestly it starts to bother me when you go gaga for things that don't even exist. So basically you're applauding God for the miracle of Photoshop!

Giants were also victims of internet hoax in 2010. 

Maybe it's the drama that they love so much. Something to discuss between colleagues in whatsapp groups. Feeling like you did something great, spreading the miracles that you also believed to exist. Maybe the intentions were good, wanting to share some unbelievable things with people, that feeling of being the first to know about Crabzillas before your friends.

Omagad..! Crabzilla will terrorise your city! Quick! Call Ultraman!

Remember in around 2006 when they claimed in forward emails that apple was insulting Islam by building a black cube-shaped "bar" mimicking the Kaaba? How stupid did you feel when after all the drama you created online condemning them to hell was nothing but mockery on yourselves after it was revealed that the black cube was just hoarding from the real glass-cube apple store? It wasn't even a bar!!!

To hell, apple... to hell..!!!

Years later, Facebook and twitter surfaced out of nowhere and gave people, all people, even those who are IT blind to create online profiles, allowing them to post links, advertise their sex toys, share and believing hoaxes and ass-commenting every single thing they read.

And we thought evolution is a progress, not a backward journey to monkey-dom. 

There maybe some truth in some unbelievable news or facts in FB, but it's our job to use our brains to analyse the validity of them. Conduct a little research before clicking the SHARE button. Find out the truth before you praise God for every fake thing you see, making your praises less valuable. (Not to mention making you look stupid). And responding like a garbage truck, acting like you're perfection walking on planet earth...

Think about it the next you see a human-dog-pig, followed with a dramatic storyline about God cursing people.

I can't think of a funny caption for this picture. It speaks itself.

"You're a lecturer? Wow I thought you were a student..!"

No, It does NOT mean you look young.

It means you look underdressed and moneyless to be able to afford career woman level clothes.

Everybody knows students have limited budget for anything.

CHANGE.

Look your age and be proud of it.

The Drama of the "Touch a Dog" Campaign

Before you go all Ga-ga on this post, expecting to see me pick a side between the internet ulamaks and the religion ignorants, be prepared for disappointment.

These are my personal opinions about the debate:

1. I love dogs. Dogs are adorable. But I don't go around wanting to randomly touch them. I have my cats for my sudden animal-touching urges. Touching whatever you want is your own choice.

2. It's just dogs. They don't spread viruses or waves that can make u any less or more faithful to your religion. That's just you. What's with all the judgements?

3. Touch a Dog. It's a campaign, an educational event with positive pre-objective - gone viral because people in this country like to make a fuss about unnecessary things. If you don't know about it, don't comment on it.

4. It's stupid for people to go "Oh... after this there's gonna be an I want to touch a pig or I want to touch a breast campaign." It's not even funny. It's just stupid.

5. You want to touch dogs? Fine. Just don't go posting pictures of it on the internet, provoking wraths. You are old enough to learn how the community would react to anything.

6. Some people are confident enough to post religious hadiths and Al-Quran clippings to prove their points. But then comes the swearing and cursing, condemning everyone, except themselves to hell. This makes all their talks rubbish and invalid.

7. I don't agree with the dog-touching propaganda. I also don't agree with everyone else being so negative and bitchy about it.

8. I don't know much about what's wrong and right in Islam. There's so many teaching that confuses me, ever since the existence of Facebook. I will keep holding on only to what my ustazah in school taught me. Also, I am an animal lover, so I will keep feeding, rescuing and loving dogs no matter what you try to tell me. I just learned to not post anything about it on Facebook.

9. I wish people would keep their negatives thoughts inside their own heads. All the commotion is making me become more and more of an introvert. People are evil. Dogs are good.

10. Screw you, keyboard warriors. Anything you say makes you sound like a 11 year old girl. A stupid, 11 year old girl.

Annoyed,
Ms Anne.

Students' Love Affair

Yes I have to admit. This will not be a friendly post.

One of the difficult things I have to endure working in a conservative surrounding is the 'busybody' level of (not all) my fellow colleagues. Sometimes it's confusing between them being 'concerned' or plain 'nosey'. They seem excited to share the juices among the students on who is dating who and passing around judgements and religious interpretations of whatever. If this was a world of "tell it to my face" boy, the millions of things I would say.

I received a chained text in my whatsapp from a colleague about the "couple trends" among my students. Honestly, I don't think it's any of our concern being an educator. But then I know I can't win this case when they all attack me with religious stuff and the "fact(?)" that educators are supposed educate the students EVERYTHING. Including the law of "Thy shall not be in a relationship before marriage..."

Oh what a useless issue to ponder on!!!  It's unnecessary and unimportant. I am here just to vent about how much time is being wasted by lecturers overthinking about this. So what if they want to date at that age? SO WHAT if they get broken-hearted and affect their grades. They are grown ups I think it's their decision to make. And if they make mistakes, we guide them, not punish them with words like "Haha. I told you so."

I love to give advice to my students, based on my experience and knowledge. I share with them stories of how I am where I am and I give them opinions on family and relationships. I tell them to take care of themselves before others and I tell them it's alright to love, but respect comes first. You can't go around telling students not to have a boyfriend/girlfriend at the age of 18+. What? You want them to waste their youth and end up with Mr Ugly or Smelly because they don't have a choice like you didn't? Gosh, people... Let them create their own version of How I met Your Mother. Our job? Sit back, think about ways to lecture them on the subject we are responsible for and mind our own business and slip in an advice or two.

It's hard thinking differently in a world of conservative people. I find myself continuously disagreeing with so many. Maybe it's the western influence, I don't know. But what I do know is the world is evolving and we can't always expect everyone to think the way we think, and believe the things we believe.

As for the students... Oh grow up. You are not 12 anymore. With all the suicidal threats, acting emo and looking goth of being dumped... It's time to put your act together and shape up your future. Sure heartbreaks can be tough but nobody is worth jeopardizing your grades for. If you think you're adult enough to be in a relationship in the first place, then you should be adult enough to handle whatever comes from it. 

Cheers!
-Anne-

Words from Mr Lee (Bukan nama sebenar...)

I was going to make this incident as my Facebook status, but I remembered that there are a few close minded people in my friendlist who might take this the wrong way. So this is what happened yesterday at work...

I was the first person to arrive at a meeting. The second person was Mr Lee. No obviously that is not his real name... for security and personal reasons I won't mention real names. It was the first time I met Mr Lee so he basically have no idea who I am, and vice versa.

The ice breaking session suddenly reached the "Are you married yet?" point. He bravely asked me the question. So I just honestly answered, "No..."

"Haiyaaaa... You banyak cantik belum ada calon kaaaa? Kahwin saja la maaaa... dalam sini pun banyak lelaki bujang oooo..." 

(Translation : "Haiyaaa... a pretty face like you still not married aaaa? Here got many single man maaa...")

Well, I have nothing to defend myself against so I just casually laughed. And he went on...

"Nowadays ha... There are more men than woman you know... so chances are slim now for you..."

And I corrected him, "Mr Lee, It's the fact that there are less quality men than women... I can't just go marry anyone, right? Just for the sake of being married..."

And Mr Lee responded with the most cruel yet true statement in the history of marriage talks...

"Iyaaa betul tu... Tapi kan... I tengok banyak lecturer perempuan main kahwin saja dengan mana-mana lelaki wooo... Main sapu ja sapa-sapa..."

(Translation :"You're right, but I see many lecturers just marry whoever they can find...") -i.e "desperate".

I forgot how I replied to him but it just ended with a laugh. Our "bitter-truth" conversation was interrupted when a fellow colleague entered and managed to change the subject.

But wow... I always had these kind of thoughts in my own head, I never really had the courage to say it out loud. Mr Lee's intentions was probably sincere and meant no harm. I should have reminded him that not everyone has the same love/life story.Everyone has their own version of "How I met your mother." You can't just just go around judge people based on to whom they are married to. Plus, if they wanna marry "whoever" they want, It's obviously not to impress you. :)

One Sunday Afternoon

I'm a melodramatic person. I think too much about everything. I even have trouble sleeping because I think too much. I am easily influenced by what they show on E!. I admire all the Hollywood Stars and buy what they promote. I never seem to have enough no matter how much I spend on shopping.

But it was this evening when I was arranging my things, I suddenly realized. I own too much.

I am the kind of person who can never settle with ONE item. I must have a collection of everything. Hell I even have 2 laptops for the sake of it. You should see my collection of cosmetics, books, bags, clothings and stuffed toys. They are never enough. And they are all costly too. I'm not the kind of person who buys local, unbranded things. Not proud of it. An ex-crush of mine even rejected me because I was too "high maintenance". I cannot disagree.

Lately, the news have broadcast series of tragedies. The biggest one being the disappearance of MH370. It's devastating, having no ending to a tragedy. Then, as if that wasn't heartbreaking enough, 4 months later MH17 was shot down, leaving 0 survivors, killing at least 200 innocents. Stories were being told shedding people's tears and making the whole work mourn.

On a larger scale, Gaza was attacked non-stop by the heartless Zionists. I don't know much about the story behind this battle but I do know that innocent children and animals are being killed. I still believe it's more of a battle of ideologies instead of religions because I want to keep believing that all religions are good. Nevertheless, It's still devastating that humans are killing humans for reasons as weak as politics.

Back in my own country, Sabah is being attacked by intruders. Also, I don't know much about this event as too many false news are being spread in social networks. But many enforcers were killed, and people are demanding war. I am left confused.

So many tragedies lead to a sad, quiet Eid. I was contented staying around family for a whole week and was half-hearted going back to Ipoh, where I work. I realized how lonely I am now and how I tried making it up by spending money on shopping. So I started to sort out my things and my train of thoughts decided to move at full speed.

While I own more than what I need, there are people who have nothing. Children who are starving.

I don't need to elaborate on that to make you understand what I mean.

I keep talking about making a change to the world when I should just start on myself.  I don't know if this will happen but I guess I need to try.  I need to stop buying unnecessary things and live a humble life. I need to make things change for myself before the world. For the better...

I need to at least try...