On Monday, the 26th of July 2015, about a day after a holiday in Bali, I had decided to start changing my habits. Exercise and good sleeping habits were to be implemented. It started with waking up at 7:30AM every day.

It's now been seven days and I'm slowly getting into the habit, albeit becoming a morning person after 28 years of being a late night owl is ridiculous. I wish I was a cat.

"Look at yourselves. Some of you teenagers, students. How do you think I feel and I belong to a generation ahead of you - how do you think I feel to have to tell you, 'We, my generation, sat around like a knot on a wall while the whole world was fighting for its human rights - and you've got to be born into a society where you still have that same fight.' What did we do, who preceded you? I'll tell you what we did. Nothing. And don't you make the same mistake we made..."

-Malcolm X

I like this quote very much. It reminds me to fight. To move. To be brave. To want change. To make change.

Nobody has solutions but everyone's a critic. If I don't start then who will?

I do believe my post on how to retort to people who throw religion upon you is... gone. I don't know how. So here's a re-cap!

Verses in the Quran that you can spurt to shut up holier-than-thou comments:

Numberrrrrrrr 3:

Surah Ghafir, Ayat 20 (40:20)

وَاللَّهُ يَقْضِي بِالْحَقِّ ۖ وَالَّذِينَ يَدْعُونَ مِنْ دُونِهِ لَا يَقْضُونَ بِشَيْءٍ ۗ إِنَّ اللَّهَ هُوَ السَّمِيعُ الْبَصِيرُ

And Allah judges with truth, while those they invoke besides Him judge not with anything. Indeed, Allah - He is the Hearing, the Seeing.

Numero 2:

Surah Al-Hujurat, Ayat 11 (49:11)

يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا لَا يَسْخَرْ قَوْمٌ مِنْ قَوْمٍ عَسَىٰ أَنْ يَكُونُوا خَيْرًا مِنْهُمْ وَلَا نِسَاءٌ مِنْ نِسَاءٍ عَسَىٰ أَنْ يَكُنَّ خَيْرًا مِنْهُنَّ ۖ وَلَا تَلْمِزُوا أَنْفُسَكُمْ وَلَا تَنَابَزُوا بِالْأَلْقَابِ ۖ بِئْسَ الِاسْمُ الْفُسُوقُ بَعْدَ الْإِيمَانِ ۚ وَمَنْ لَمْ يَتُبْ فَأُولَٰئِكَ هُمُ الظَّالِمُونَ

O you who have believed, let not a people ridicule [another] people; perhaps they may be better than them; nor let women ridicule [other] women; perhaps they may be better than them. And do not insult one another and do not call each other by [offensive] nicknames. Wretched is the name of disobedience after [one's] faith. And whoever does not repent - then it is those who are the wrongdoers.

NUUMBER OOOOOONE:

Surah At-Tin, Ayat 8 (95:8)

أَلَيْسَ اللَّهُ بِأَحْكَمِ الْحَاكِمِينَ

Is not Allah the best of all Judges?

Aaaaaaanyway,

Hello, internetizens, for another dose of... me. Haha.

Apparently an hour of reading your chosen field a day will make you some kind of expert within a few years. I could try it out but what I really need to do is start my investing shtick. Need my monays because monetary/financial freedom means you get a choice. It's really all I ask for.

I guess I should get to reading.

Also,

Evidently, if I am super grumpy and disagreeable, one of three things can be done to rectify this:
1. Feed me food for I am hangry.
2. Let me sleep because I will cut you.
3. I need alone time. Me time. Pyjama time. Leave me be to my own devices until I see fit to resume socialisation.