things i learnt today.

1. the first 4 caliphs of islam are NOT called "enlightened ones", as i wrote down as my answer for my test. actual answer: rightly guided caliphs. dear buddha, forgive me...
2. do NOT eat any citrus fruits when you've got cracked lips. might as well rub salt in your wounds.
3. bureaucracies are all manageable if you know THE ONE. usually that is the administrator or secretary to some big shot. so be sweet on the admin. they are the ones who can make or break you. they are the doorkeepers to the sanctum sanctorum.

1 good thing happened during my otherwise crappy mid east politics class test today. we were to mark out certain places on a map. and 2 places to be marked out were mecca and medina. now, seriously, who the hell would be able to accurately place either of those on a dinky little unmarked map?? luckily for me, just before the test, the lecturer was talking abt saudi arabia and she had a map of the region on the OHP. and what do you know... mecca and medina were marked on it. the poor lady forgot to switch off the OHP whilst handing out the papers, so i think about 2/3 of the class saw where to mark the 2 of them. what are the chances that there will STILL be some idiots who mark them on sudan instead of saudi arabia? i wonder...

quote of the day:
"when they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it." - bernard bailey

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• syndication

• thought of doing these?

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• the usage of f**k

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