An article by Faris Noor

Thank you Faris Noor for this.

It seems to me In these times we are not moving ahead instead we are going backwards.

We women has proven time and time again how much we have endured and continue to do so with out getting appreciated or are even acknowledge for our struggles.

Why is it our menstruation is a big issue (to men)? We have led countries, fought wars, flown air planes, fought fires, rescued the lost, as well as kept homes, had babies, raised humans, etc.
And yet we are still considered weak?

Let me just say this, we are not weak! God made us smaller, (well some of us anyway, i know i'm not small), He made us more sensitive, He made us filled with feelings, He made us the bearer of humans, He made us the caregivers, He made us full of courage, He made us! That is why women have done so many things throughout history, Women have fought, led, raised, loved, planted, hunted, endured torture, endured struggles beyond words, and remained strong, women have stood beside men from day one right up until now.

And we have had and done all these with our monthly menstruation, gotten pregnant, gave birth, had babies, had our babies die, loved our men, had them die, some women were martyrs for their cause and believes. And we still continue to live on. So why are we weaker, why are we not equal? Personally I think we are more then equal.

Look at the women in our present time.

In a regular middle income family ( without a maid), the wife works a full time job, has kids ( 2-3), She's up in the early hours of the morning, she gets her kids ready for school, does the breakfast, she takes out the clothes out the washing machine (which she put in the night before), she hangs them to dry, then she wakes the kids and hubby up. every makes a mad dash through their morning washing up & getting changed. She washes up, puts on her office clothes, puts on the make up, does her hair, runs down to check on the kids and breakfst, then ushers everyone into the car. Hubby gets on the motor bike and goes off to work, She drops the kids off at school & babysitter. Then she's off to work. at work she works diligently from 8 to 5 then she rushes back to the babysitter picks up the kids rushes back home, starts on dinner, hubby gets home, while cooking dinner she keeps an eye on the kids and their home work. kids starts squabbling, she tell hubby to mind the kids, he does.
Dinner's ready, she tells family to set table, every sits down to eat. after dinner she get hubby to wash up (I sincerely do not know how many husbands does the washing up but i'm assuming there are).

She takes in the dried clothes, she puts more washing into the washing machine, she starts folding the clothes with dear hubby.

She tells hubby to put kids to bed. she goes on to iron the clothes needed for the next day, her feet are tired but she don't want her family to wear crumpled clothes the next day. She goes around the house straightening things up. then she gets ready for bed.

Just before she goes to sleep she needs to spend a bit of time with dear hubby.

And the next day the routine starts all over again. Now tell me how many men can do this 5 - 6 days a week, for years!

I rest my case.

A lazy Sunday afternoon!

I woke this morning after spending a night at my sister's house, watching 2 horror movies which was Phobia 1 & Phobia 2, ( I'll tell you more about the movie later) anyway My sister (God Bless her soul), made scrambled eggs for breakfast and I made indomee goreng as well ( I really was so hungry this morning).

And right after breakfast I turned on the PC and was online till now. I Have done practically nothing all day yet I feel so lethargic! (Lazy la). We all had a very late night yesterday. Now My wonderful sister is cooking lunch while I'm here writing my nonsense.

I'll help her do the clearing & washing up after lunch. Then I'll be going home with my family. And I consider my weekend over once I reach home. Got so much to do at home, all the clothes need washing the dogs need feeding, the house need cleaning, then the cooking again for dinner and getting our selves organised for Monday. I'll be lucky to get everything done by 8 tonight depends on what time i get started on my way home.

So what I'm actually trying to say here is, I Love spending this time at my dearest sister's house. She lets me take a much needed break from normal life. Thank you so very much Jey.

I'm going to return the favour as soon as Jasmine (her baby girl) gets a little bigger and starts eating food and not fully dependent on Breast milk then, Jey, You can go take your break. And Jey, You are my favourite sister in the whole world! (even though i have only one sister he he he he!).

Now about the movies we saw yesterday, Phobia 1 I tell you the person who did the English language translation was terrible! we were really laughing just by reading the subtitles!

It made no sense. for instance, in the last episode about the flight attendant, kept saying this line everytime she took the inflight intercom to talk to the pilot! "the machine is long!"
Now what machine is she taking about we have no clue!

And in the episode where the 4 guys were camping, one of them was missing in the rapids, the other three guys were calling out "This is virtuous, this is virtuous!"
It made no sense what so ever! and made us laugh so hard!

And another is "Chicken skin pimples" let me tell you there were no chickens insight!

Anyway, I enjoyed laughing so hard. Laughing makes me feel good. I love to laugh and I wish I could laugh more!

We did conclude that the meanings to the sentences is probably :
1) The machine is long = Captain.
2) This is virtuous = that drowning guy's name.
3) Chicken skin pimples = goose bumps.

That's it for today. I'm officially logging off for now.