born in april 1985, so that makes me an aries, born in the year of the ox, blaa blaa... I'm singaporean malay you see, and no, it's not part of either malaysia nor china.


hockey, soccer (my fav team's sheffield wednesday btw, and if you're wondering, they're in the english championship, aka div 1), xbox gaming, play computer, gymming, watching dvds and tv, read books + manga, listen to music. making/learning/improving blogs (unfortunately not this one). sleep, after doing all the above mentioned. and last but not least, i love mandy moore.. the girl of my dreams:)


mandy moore (duh!). punk/alternative/rock, i.e. beck, radiohead, green day, sugar ray, smash mouth yadda yadda. power pop/punk pop, i.e. fallout boy, good charlotte, linkin park etc.. hip-hop/r&b/rap, i.e. alicia keys, usher, 50 cent, eminem. retro, i.e. those music they play on mambo night. malay, esp indo pop, i.e. samsons, sheila on 7, peterpan, padi.. jamiroquai. k, so i listen to lots of music, it all depends on mood;P


dan brown (all four books). grisham (esp the client). harry potter (sigh, book 3's the best imo). crichton (esp disclosure). james patterson. mario puzo's the godfather. mitch albom's 5 people you meet in heaven & tuesdays with morrie. stephen ambrose's band of brothers. any graphic novel by frank miller. marvel comics. translated manga. interesting non-fiction, i.e. fast food nation, confessions of an econs hitman, freakonomics


mandy moore movies (duh,again!). the simpsons. futurama. that 70's show. friends. the family guy. malcolm in the middle. monk. csi (nothing beats the original). transformers (jap series). the oc. coupling (brit version). 2 guys & a girl. gilmore girls (hey,i've got sisters ok!). how i met your mother.band of brothers. lord of the rings trilogy. gladiator. shrek 1 & 2. kill bill 1 & 2. battle royale. schindler's list. amelie. the dinner game. run lola run. the godfather. grease. west side story. my sassy girl. ada apa dengan cinta. remember the titans. jap anime. movie spoofs (ala scary movie & hot shots). american pie movies. oh, and teen flicks on friday nights.


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back in sec 3, a non-muslim friend told me about a practice by mid-east muslims called "temporary marriages"... sounds like a euphemism for prostitution for me. but this came up;

wiki

excerpt:
The Nikahu’l-Mut‘ah is used in Shi'ism in various ways:

• It is specially useful in the modern times when many people move from one place to another,like from one country to another. Thus students, workers, scholars are allowed to fulfil their sexual and emotional needs if they are in another country. It may lead to marriage afterwards.
• It may be used to satisfy one's sexual needs. There are no requirements of having a witness, a written contract or permission from authorities (Although some people might prefer to have complete the contract in the presence of a learned Muslim.).
• May be used to become Mahram (unmarriable) with somebody they do not intend to cohabit with or have a married relationship with, but with whom they spend a lot of time (for example share a house). In order to ease the Hijab (modest dress) rules, they engage in a Nikahu’l-Mut‘ah, writing in the marriage contract that no physical contact is allowed.

• Two people who live in the same house but are not mahram (un-marriable) and must observe hijab may engage in a symbolic Nikahu’l-Mut‘ah with the others' offspring for a minimal amount of time (two minutes or less). The Nikahu’l-Mut‘ah does not need to have any practical consequence, but it will make the parent and the offsprings husband or wife permanently mahram to each other, and thus no longer obliged to observe hijab rules.

• Young unmarried couples may decide to use Nikahu’l-Mut‘ah as an allowable alternative to Zina. Thus in practice they engage in something very similar to western relations (that is, there is the potential of permanent marriage), but it differs in that there is a specified time as to how long the relationship is to last, with the possibility to prolong that period.

• Some divorced men and women, disillusioned with permanent marriage, prefer to only commit for a few years at a time.

• In 2001, journalist Camelia Entekhabi-Fard claimed that some women earn money in Qom, Iran, by engaging in temporary marriage with pilgrims and religious scholars, in what she claimed was "a thinly veiled form of prostitution".

haven't really updated anything, and i've never expected any audience either. so this will be a little self note on an interesting little info on my bdate-sake. interesting. seems that there is a little hockey in me all this while. gonna start retraining soon, cuz this is wad best describe me right now...



btw some friends will be going for sea games hockey tournament, and i seriously wish them all the best! the federation aims for silver, but heck, go for gold guys!