I feel OK. Just OK. I'm a little worried that my alternate Maths textbook isnt living up to my expectations. I think this is mainly because it doesnt really have any sort of reference towards the syllabus I'm doing. Fuck! I wish I had my real textbook with me! As for TOK essays... Friday's my friend, I'm sure Mr Powell would be too! (laughs)

I was at a dhikr/birthday function earlier, it obviously didn't help with preparing for the Maths test tomorrow. I'm not complaining, it was nice to have the usual talks with cousins Azim, Hadi, Syukri, Qawi (though he never says anything). Apparently Apiz was awesome enough to come by just when people started to leave. He wore a Metallica Kill 'Em All shirt, wise of him not to come earlier when the dhikr was still going on.

What is with Malays and Dhikr?

Seriously, I know plenty of Muslims in countries like Morocco, Egypt, Pakistan and UK. None of them knew what the hell dhikr was until we watched a documentary 'The Retreat'. Google is you're friend if you want to find out more about it, I'm not :P. Basically what I have against the practice of dhikr is, how useless it is. All it does is put you into this state of trance, making you feel all close to God. In fact, all that you are doing is letting you lose control of your body. This is achieved by the constant repetition of short sayings. It is scientifically proven. In actual fact, it doesn't matter what you repeat. It is the action of repeating what comes out vocally from your mouth constantly that does such things.

Dhikr is primarily a Sufi Muslim practice. The fact that Sunnis and Shi'ahs do it a little makes me wonder. From this, it is easy to say Malay Muslims are a mix of the Sunni and Sufi divisions of Islam. Whatever, I don't really care much about religion. This is ironic because I know more than the average person when it comes to such issues.

Nyah, there you have it. I don't really know how to sum up all this, so fuck it. =D

Cya!

¬ fryzzy