and that is a rhetorical question btw.. i respect Mauluds and religious events, but i completely do not see the benefit when a holy event that was simply meant to foster faith in religion and respect towards our prophet had to involve kids being heavily made-up.. i understand that they were performers that night and needed to look presentable, but i really feel that employing a mak andam (whose services Malays usually engage when they want to get engaged or married) to doll them up was a bit showy and defeats the purpose of an event that was not meant to be a concert at all..

ok maybe i’m overreacting… but seriously, they don’t look like kids. i mean its not that i totally disagree with little girls wearing make-up.. they are girls, so of course they wanna look pretty and doll themselves up.. Arinah usually likes to put on her fake Barbie Doll make-up, which simply consisted mostly of glitter, when she’s going out for outings.. i’m cool with that cos she still looks like a kid after putting on the fake make-up (i repeat, fake make-up, not real compact powder and heavy blusher) and they don’t even look too much on her.. but in this photo, i just really hated how she and my other cousins looked.. they are only 5 to 8 years old..

anw, finally i got my 3 essays done.. 2 flasks of coffee really screwed up my sleep.. after getting 1000 words done for one of the essays at 3 am i decided to get some shut-eye intending to continue at 8 am the next morning.. but from 3 to 5 am i could not sleep due to the coffee, and finally after Subuh my body decided to rest and i totally did not hear my alarm clock ringing.. as a result, i woke up at 11 instead of 8 and had to rush the last 1000 words of my essay along with referencing before 2 o’clock and emailed them to Arisya.. after that, i allowed myself to watch a bit of Ellen, before showering and getting the intro for my last essay done in between TV and getting ready.. cabbed to school and spent the last 2 h0urs before my deadline and my make-up French finishing up on The Problem of Evil and why i don’t think there is a problem..

its liberating now that the 3 essays are handed up, that is if i don’t think about how rushed it was or the fact that i didn’t manage to proof-read my essays even once, and reflect back on whether my arguments made sense.. right now, i’m thinking about one thing and one thing only: KL trip tmr.. ciao bella..