what does that imply to you? In fact, I am still pondering over the deep true meaning of that phrase. As I walked to Shannon's house, listening to the iPod that I brought along with me, those words struck me out of nowhere.
It seems rather amazing for me to notice those words and still remember them. Do not you think so?
Love, is more than just an emotional factor in life. It seems to me that it is alive. Sharing love with the people aorund you seems just so enjoyable, but, are you able to do it? For many times, selfishness has creeped into our discrete hearts and displayed the dark sides of human. Yes, I do admit that this happens to me at times. Do this not happen to you too?
I am struck with lots of thoughts and words which I find it so hard for me to coagulate together....
Flipping through The Straits Times today, there was this one article that caught my eye. Yes, and I settled myself down to read through the article intensely. The article "Time to talk sex in Malay community" can be found in the Saturday (Insight) section.
Reading through the problems, I cannot help but to agree totally with the article. Yes, there's even an increasing trend of young Muslims smoking, scolding Hokkien vulagrities and 'hanky panky' with one another.
Let's take for example an incident which took place in a train somewhere around this year. I remember coming across this one malay family where the daughter was scolding awful Hokkien words at the parents and there, her mother was laughing at it. In fact, those words are awful as the four letter 'F' word and 'H' words youngsters are scolding right now. The daughter of the family then continued my 'nightmare' by speaking extremly loudly over the phone and having loud conversations with her family members who are sitting right opposite to one another. I do see eyes staring at them, but I reckon that they are bothered by it.
No, I did not mean to type that to have a propaganda. It was just another a little insight of my life I want to share with you. In the article, it mentioned about the problem of shot gun marriages among youths and how short-lived it is. Parents are afraid of becoming embarrass upon revealing the truth of the pregencies of their unwedded daughters is a pulling factor to the problem addressed.
However, I feel that we should think in a larger premise. Factors like 'why these youths are pregnent in the first place' and 'what caused them to behave in such a way' should be examined. Yes, the worldly desires are sought hard not only by the Chinese, but rather, every single race in S'pore. You can easily find Malays keeping up with the trend by their attire and etc. It is then inevitable that mention that Muslims will attempt to follow the 'modern' trend of getting involved in BGRs and slowly, pre-marital sexual intercourse.
As the article has mentioned, the poor grades and the low family income of some groups of Malay youths contribute greatly. On top of that, I believe that the lack of love received by their parents contributes to the problem too.
Despite saying all these, it is however unfair to sterotype the Malays in our community. After all, not all youths are getting married now and not all of them get involved in BGRs. I gotta stop commenting over here as I need to have my dinner.. Lols.
*I need to think about the world and think for the world..* -my kind of life-
