Exactly a month more to go

I've exactly one month to go from today, February 24 2007, for my scheduled traditional engagement ceremony to the Scandinavian Prince.

Somehow, I just don't feel I'm ready and up to it although I know that given a choice, unless we have deadlines, there are a lot of things in life that we are never quite ready for no matter how much time we've had to prepare ourselves for it.

I'm kinda like feeling weird with butterflies in my stomach and at times feverish too thinking if everything will go well as planned...will I look ok to please the prying eyes of certain family members...will I faint just before I exchange the rings...will I trip and fall in the saree...will the caterer come on time...will the hall decoration be exactly as how I specified it to be...will the guests invited turn up as confirmed?

Oh well, maybe I'm just over-doing this anxiety thing but really, I can't help but worry about everything that will happen that day...God willing it will all go as planned with manageable or no hiccups at all...all this worry is really doing me no good, what with the uncountable number of pimples on my face!

Oddly Enough...we have 'made it'

Often, I try to light up my stressful days at work by reading Reuter's Oddly Enough news column featuring quirky stories from across the globe.

These stories are quirky for sure but they are also true and sometimes, select stories that I read would me make me think about issues or actions which I normally wouldn't contemplate to think of.

Today, as I browse the web after the long Chinese New Year break, I realise that Malaysia is finally featured in that column - all for the wrong reasons at that!

For those who have been closely following the current news and political issues in this part of the world, you would know only too well that moral policing by religious authorities has long been debated upon and crticised by many quarters.

And now, we make it to the Oddly Enough news piece for that same old thing - Islamic spies all ready to snoop on lovers who make out in public! Can you beat that?

Now, now - haven't we heard enough about the fact that in a democratic country, its kinda not logical to be snooping on others in public?

When...oh just when is someone with mighty political powers and some sense gonna put a stop to this menace?