family law.

"susah nak kata sumpah sehidup-semati. sebab mati itu bukan di tangan anda."

- datin nor aini abdullah, family law lecturer

right, something else she said:

"husband + wife is different from mother + child."

that reminds me of one contestant of The Biggest Loser. (official website here). it was the season where the two opposing teams consisted of husband-wife and parent-child participants respectively. there was this whole hoo-hah about which team would stand a higher chance of winning. and obviously the husband-wife team said husband-wife would win, and the parent-child team said parent-child would win, etc etc. who enters a competition to lose la?

anyway, of all the pompous comments i heard, one struck me the hardest. it came from a contestant from the husband-wife team:

"i believe the couples would win,
because you don't get to choose your child.
you choose your life partner."

i often wonder if people know that they're profound. hmm.

taking the oath at the altar is important, not because you're afraid your other half would one day decide to complete the half of some other person, but because you both made a decision to stick together through thick and thin.

and at the altar, in a church, you declare before God as your witness, that you will be true to your word, and you give your life as a mortgage for that oath. (this is also why Christians are encouraged to register for marriage in a church and not a government agency, and also why marriages are taken so seriously in church)

speaking of which, the usage of the word "mortgage" may not be proper, because we just got out of Land Law class today, and there's a difference between a mortgage (cagaran), a charge (gadaian), and well, a pawn shop (pajak gadai as per dr grace's definition. shouldn't it kedai pajak gadai though?).

anyway, until i learn to use the terms properly, just pretend the paragraph above didn't happen. lala.

sometimes i wonder if i shouldn't be a lawyer. maybe i should be a stalker instead - someone who goes around listening to people and writing down things they say. maybe it could be a profession. hey, it takes some serious skills ok. like right now, my note-taking skills are super maxed cuz i do it so often. hm hm. *perasan*

but yeah, knowing you said something that made some other person think is a wonderful feeling. firstly, it shows people listened when you spoke. secondly, it shows that you're worth more than you think.

because people always seem surprised when they read something on my blog that happens to be something they've said before.

why so surprised? didn't you think it was profound too?

strange.