I just finished reading Audrey Niffenegger's The Time Traveller's Wife for the second time and I cried buckets once again towards the end. The advantage of not possessing a great memory is that everything appears new and fresh to you each time, even if they appear nigglingly familiar. I was trying to imagine the book made into a film as I read it again and I hope they don't. I am usually pro-film and ready to espouse the wonders of filmic magic but I have to admit that the beauty of a novel lies in its mastery of words and its ability to arrogantly take time. A two-hour film will simply not do this book justice, especially since it is a novel that deals so much with time!

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I wish I had more time to do these things:

1. practise my ngaji
2. write short stories
3. attend religious classes regularly
4. learn to cook 
5. spend more time at home
6. be with my friends

It is so easy to blame the lack of time but I guess my real problem is simply discipline. I need to learn to give 100 percent of myself to various things and not just dedicate myself fully to one. Thank god, women cannot practise polygamy. I would be such a crappy spouse.

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I always try to put us side by side. Chronologically that is. What was he doing at this time a few years ago?  Are we at this moment facing the same points, he a few years back and me in the present?