Ramadhan is here!

Happy fasting, everyone! Let's make this Ramadhan a month of good deeds. Let's be good.

Why Kareem? What does it mean?

Manchester, a tragedy...

The moment the news came flooding on my Facebook timeline, I instantly knew. A Muslim did it... Because who else, right?

What is wrong with the people of my religion? Why are so many becoming terrorists and murderers? Didn't the religion tell us to be good? To be faithful, to trust in God and to JUST BE GOOD? Why are people in this religion killing innocents? Why are they making it so hard being a Muslim?

I'm thankful for the fact I was born and raised in this country. Wasatiah. That's what they reminded us to be. It's just simple logic. Once you fall too deep into something, be it a religion, race, video games, drugs or whatever, you lose sense of reality. You become angry. Extremism makes you a murderer in the name of that faith that swallowed your common sense. Sad reality that is.

I didn't read too much about the Manchester tragedy. I just knew it happened after an Ariana Grande concert. 22 people killed, mostly kids. And a Muslim from Libya did it. He suicide-bombed the arena because he was a coward. He probably thought he'd go to heaven after all that. Dumb-ass. And here we are, the rest of the Muslims in the world trying to convince others that he didn't represent our faith. He was a loser, selfish bastard who screwed up and cowardly took innocent lives because he was scared to die alone.

It's so hard being a Muslim in this world. I understand why most people hate us. And I can't help but to keep apologizing to the world. I just hope one day, it will all be better. God, help us all. Amen.

But I'm just one person.

Life so far...

Okay, I am soooo not meant to be a blogger. I'm only writing stuff when I'm in the mood, which is always never. So here's a quick update about what's been happening in my life. 

Still crazy about make up.

Yup. I find myself spending billions on Sephora make up product. Not that they make me any prettier, but having them, wearing them boost up some confidence I desperately lack off. 

Is Belle...!

There was a crazy drama about Beauty and the Beast a few months back. Something about Disney promoting LGBT. To add salt to the wound, we went to this so-called fairy tale "event" in Mines Convention Center and wasted RM150.00 for a stupid, ridiculous nothingness. The event sucked, the promoters sucked, the whole idea was a disappointment.   

Squished by Elmo

To fix the disapointment, we splurged in Singapore. The experience was fun. But my bank account was badly damaged. Yikes.

Hala Madrid Y Nada Mas...!

We are going to finals, baby!!! So as usual (ahem...) We beat Atletico in semi finals and now we're off to kick Juvy in the finals. For the twelfth!!!

We all love this guy now

Thanks to my sister and my boyfriend, I am officially a TWD fan. This show is awesome. The writing is awesome. The casts are awesome. Finished the series in a week and now we're in love with Daryl Dixon.

My shopping addictness continues...

It's funny how Facebook and Instagram can make you look so cool and richie rich. But yeah, I love shopping so much, it really doesn't matter that I do it for someone else. I also went to KL solo. (Not so solo, my BF did send me there) And I LOVED it. I think I might do it again. I love appearing strong and independent! 

I dream in red.

And as for the latest update, I am now an apple watch user. It took like a day for me to decide to buy it or not, and I did. A gift for myself. Something cool and sophisticated to wear around. And now I have to pay the damages to my bank account. Kudos, Anne! And also, we love red now. Pink is soooo yesterday.  

 So that's about all the cool things so far. See you in the next post. Whenever that will be. 

Disney Vs the LPF

I have long accepted the shallow minds of (most) Malaysians. I have lived in silence, observing how people judge each other in everything they do. I have learned to stay quiet and be the person people want me to be, instead of who I really want to be. It's a hard life living in this country. The minds are moving backwards, trying to control everyone using religion. It's fine in some ways, until they reach a point where they think they have the right to condemn anyone they don't like to hell.

The controversy surrounding Disney's new movie Beauty and the Beast has opened opportunities for people to speak their minds out about "censorship" in this country. The movie's director Bill Condon, openly announced there will be a "gay moment" for Le Fou (Gaston's sidekick) which sparked an outrage among homo-phobics around the world.

 "LeFou [Josh Gad] is somebody who on one day wants to be Gaston [Luke Evans] and on another day wants to kiss Gaston . . . [it] has its payoff at the end, which I don't want to give away. But it is a nice, exclusively gay moment in a Disney movie." (source)

This issue became a big deal not just in this country but throughout the whole world and even within the US itself. Alabama banned the movie (they never cared for the LGBT thing), followed by Russia and a few others. Malaysia didn't really ban the movie, but allowed to be screened with "edits". Supposedly they meant cutting out the "gay moment" because whoever watches it will want to turn gay. But Disney has more pride than we think. They told us to show the whole thing or nothing at all. Due to ego and pride I guess there will never be Beauty and the Beast in the cinemas any time soon.

Because the movie hasn't been released anywhere yet, I did some readings on some articles about it. Turned out the gay moment was only less than 2 seconds. People wouldn't even notice the moment if the director hadn't mentioned anything about it. And it is only a matter of opinions. But anyways, the damage has been done. The controversy in this country leading to LPF having to "edit" the movie has caused Disney to take back the screening rights. I can't argue about that, they have have every right to.

So that's what has been happening. Years of anticipation has turned into disappointment. I do feel slightly annoyed at the whole thing but honestly, I don't care about it too much. I knew something like this was going to happen when Bill Condon opened his mouth about the gay thing. I mean, dude... There are people who still believe strongly in religions. If you can support LGBTs, why not support people's religions too?

I have nothing against LGBTs. I also don't care about it too. People can be and act like whatever they want. As long as they don't hurt others, it's fine. There shouldn't have to be any support groups for this or for that when it comes to personal choice. But now, it has become a big issue. Bigger than Caitlyn Jenner. They cancelled Beauty and the Beast for goodness sake!!!

Well, thank God for torrents, I guess.

Using a Blog App on iPad

So I bought a Logitech keyboard to make typing easier and faster on the iPad. What was next to do, was to find a blog app since they removed google's "blogger" from the market. So here we are on this app called Blogpad Pro which was the only app that's free and blogger friendly (or so they reviewed). Hopefully it's not a scam and I can continue blogging like a pro.  Let's see if we can add photos here...  

Random photo for random reasons

Yeayyy... Well since it is free, it's cool so far. See you on the post!

Anne Vs Technology

Wow... I love technology and all its gadgets but technology hates my guts! It started with my iphone 5S being overcharged and became bloated, pushing out the screen (which apparently is common). It would cost me about RM350 to take it to apple store for repair (but apparently only RM90 at a lowyat pakistani who can 'fix' anything). So I bought a new iphone 6S. Then, my Alienware 15's battery got sick. And it got sicker, and then it got better, but then it died. So I ordered a replacement from Dell which costed me RM365 plus. Problem isn't solved yet as I have to find a technician who can put it inside my Alien. As though that isn't enough, my iphone 6S couldn't receive calls, so i tried updating it, got interrupted and went bonkers so I had to restore to factory settings through itunes. Thank God for Google.

So now I'm just at home, tired of the tech madness. I'm gonna play this new game I bought from Steam. Planet Coaster!

Why We Accept/Reject/Ignore Facebook Friend Requests (and sometimes request)

It's the Social Media era. Has been since 2005 when we all had that regretful Myspace account. Then some of us moved on to Friendster (who actually remembers friendster?) and then EVERYONE migrated to Facebook. And stayed there. Forever.

I am one of those bipolar people who happens to have two active Facebook accounts. One is where I put all my dirty laundry out and another is for the goodie-goodie lecturer image I carry. I'd consider you a close friend if I happen to have you on both. However, lately I have been more active on the goodie account as it is not a revealing as the other. Maybe it's coz most of my present friends are added there. And I do intend to delete most of my past. Who doesn't, right?

Anyway the purpose of this blog entry today is to sorta summarize how or why I (or even everyone else too ) Accept/Reject/Ignore some FB requests. And also the special cases where I actually do the requesting part. (I don't normally request to add people, but when I do, consider yourself special). It's a common knowledge actually, but people mostly ignore these scenarios and hold on to whatever they want to feel and believe.

right? We do have common sense.

Accepting Facebook requests:
1. If I know you or have seen you in person
2. If we have at least 2 mutual friends

Rejecting Facebook requests:
1. If you use a weird name and have a weird or no profile pic
2. If you use a very obscene profile pic

Ignoring Facebook requests
1. If I know you but I don't like you (yet)
2. If you have a decent name and profile pic but we have 0 mutual friends

Oh I also delete and block people if they turn out to be stalkerish creeps.

I think it's the same for everyone, right? It's only common sense for people (who takes FB seriously) to be careful with who they approve access on to their FB profiles. Even after approving these requests you can never be too careful. People tend to screenshot your regrets and make them haunt you forever coz people are jerks. I have had my share of giving chances to weirdos and tried treating them normally but now I'm too lazy. Be a creep and I got nothing to say but hit that block button. If only we can do that to people in real life. 

On the other hand, I don't usually send requests to people because I have this weird pride thing. I only send requests if I am interested in that person or I want that person to be interested in me. So consider yourself special when you get my requests. 😝. Oh it's nothing desperate or romantic or flirty, or whatever... It's a step to know someone. And after we do, we can move on (away or closer that's fate to decide).

So I guess, think about it when you request to friend someone. There might be reasons why 2 years later, your request finally gets approved and you have no memory of requesting that person.