Aa my blogger buddies...
How has existence been treating you of late? I, for one, am set to complain about my not-so-fabulous existence.
BSE has finally learnt why Flynn has been dubbed Queen of procrastination. Monday night, the night before my psych report was due, I spent about an hour or so chatting away to BSE (don’t let yourselves be fooled into thinking that it was BSE who initiated the hour-long chat session). Of course, I wasted a few more hours on I can’t remember what. So, it’s no surprise that I pulled an all-nighter to finish the awful report. Ironically, the report was about Attention Capture, yet it failed to capture even an ounce of my attention. Well, the fact of the matter is that it was done, submitted on time (let’s ignore the fact that I was half an hour late for my tutorial). Before I forget, I’d better tell you lot that I wasn’t the only procrastinator. My friend, Bubbles (as she shall be known from now on) was up almost as late me. Then, there was Black Night (another friend), who had the worst time of all- her computer died on her, which led to her panicking, hyperventilating & finally fainting (I’m not making any of this up- I’m not even exaggerating!)- the poor girl had to start all over again (ie- she didn’t sleep at all)! By the time I hit the sacks, the Fajr birds were chirping away. To make matters worse (and I know I’ve complained of this before), Tuesday is Chem Lab day *shudders at the thought*, which means that I was stuck at Uni until 5PM, with just under 2hrs sleep.
Speaking of Uni, the SUMSA AGM was held on Tuesday (yesterday). I was thinking of going home earlier on, but Peach sent an SMS reminding me of the AGM, so I changed my mind (I swear to you, the pizza was not my main incentive :P). Unfortunately, I wasn’t too happy about what went on (at least with the girls). There I was, happily aware of the fact that I hardly know any of the sisters at my Uni, forget the brothers- they’re almost non-existent (meaning, I don’t know of any of them). Anyway, my plan was to vote for the sisters who I knew were capable of being in the Shura. 10 mins before I walked into the lecture room, a coupe of sisters (let’s call them Stickers & Sandals), were umm (*searching for a word other than propagating*)… informing some of the other sisters that (and I quote): “Don’t vote for Jingle Bells [actual name deleted] because she/he isn’t as trustworthy as Brace Yourself [actual name deleted].”
My reply: “But I don’t know either of them, so how can I vote for them?”
Stickers & Sandals: “Well vote for Brace Yourself and Thumbs because we know that they’re “good” Muslims. We need decent people in the Shura.”
My reply: “Think I’ll just stick to voting for the people I know of.”
Stickers & Sandals: “Just make sure you don’t vote for Anonymous, Unknown or Unique [actual names forgotten, thank goodness].”
My reply this time was a blank face- I truly had nothing to say. SubhanAllah, girls, what was that about?! I was so utterly shocked that my mind couldn’t formulate a proper reply. I understand that the sisters (who are very nice girls, and whom I still consider my friends) only wanted the best for SUMSA. However, to say that so and so is a “good Muslim (not that I know their criterion for “good”), but X and Y is not- that’s wrong. Who are you or I to judge the “goodness” of other? And even if we can see from their actions that they’re perhaps not the best choice for the Shura, what right do we have to begin a smear campaign (albeit a small version, but smear campaign nonetheless)?
No one has the right to broadcast the faults of a brother/ sister in that way. I wouldn’t have been so shocked had they stopped at “Vote for Brace Yourself and Thumbs because they’re decent & trustworthy Muslims.” But to continue and say: “Don’t vote for so and so because they have X & Y faults.”
Suffice to say that dark clouds were hanging over my head that day, but I’m planning to speak to Stickers & Sandals as soon as I can, so that I can at least tell them my perspective on this… and not simply complain on blogger. Only, my main problem is that I have a horrible habit of being too blunt- SB would agree.
5 comments:
these ppl have seem to forgotten that the voting in an islamic org involves no campagining: whether its a promotional campaign or a smear campaign!
btw, where's snow's work for the mag...it was ur job to ensure that its done!
hmmm...4AM? Just because parents were away for a couple of days doesn't mean you should take advantage of the situation!
lol
Well, sometimes u need to be blunt flynn. Because they were quite blunt in what they said, i think in this situation u shud be blunt. But also, take evidence from quran and sunnah to prove ur point. Coz otherwise, believe me, they will have comebacks (no matter how ridiculous they may be)!
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