penance.

Something fishy is happening. Its too often to ignore and too big to not notice. Bak kata my favourite scholar, Sheikh Imran Hossein "If you don't know this, you living in Disneyland!". 

Keeping it simple, name 10 plagues and disasters in the last year 2010-2011.

1. Haiti's 7.0 earthquake, the one that brought us the song "We Are The World" by various artists

2. Chile 8.8 earthquake

3. Iceland's unpronounceable volcano eruption causing travel in Europe impossible

4. Russian heat wave and forest fires

5. China's April earthquake measuring 6.9

6. Suddenly a SINK HOLE appears in Guatemala, as thought to remind us, that hell is bound to be deeper

7. The BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is so ironical cause everywhere people are digging for oil greedily and its like God decided, "You want oil, we'll give you oil!". Sure enough they had 6.4 million litres per day. Thats like literally watching money float in water. 

8. Pakistans deluge affecting 20 million people, categorized as worst flood of the ever to hit the country

9. Mount Merapi explodes! Right after a 7.7 earthquake in Western Indonesia.

10. South China submerged by torrential rains, 10 million people displaced.

Quoting ABC News: 2010- Mother Nature going to the extreme. 20 earthquakes recorded at 7.0 and higher.

Right, and here I was in Malaysia enjoying 2010, which was, ironically, the year I wasted the most time doing nothing of particular significance.

You know how the world 'barbaric' and 'uncivilized' keeps cropping up in our history textbooks to describe times past? In comparison society today for all its i's: iPad, iPod, iPhone, iSetan, really are the most uncivilized people to walk the Earth.

Bukan hiperbola! Don't believe it, try naming 10 things considered as a social ill then and now.

1. Gays and lesbians. Its become so common that they even have "rights" and public incidents of people "coming out" everywhere. 

2. Killings. Even teenagers are shooting left, right and center. Malaysia pun! See Violent teens!

3. Massacres. Nigeria, Palestine, Mexican drug cartels.

4. Illegal *** Right, name me one TV series where they didn't do each other. its become lame to still be a virgin. Its the "do" all, lose all generation. We all know or have heard of read in the papers about someone doing/did/getting caught while at it. Thats why divorce rates are up everywhere, no?

5. Burying babies (with reference to zaman jahiliah). Its worse now, at least back then it was only girls, now its any baby born out of wedlock. Just cases of helpless infants dumped unceremoniously by parents I consider to be worse than animals (cause even they love their young). Pandai buat, pandai tanggung la. The least they could do is put the baby somewhere safe eg mosques, orphanges?

6. Substance abuse.

 ‘[Smoking is] hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, and dangerous to the lungs.” – King James I

And he didn't have any gruesome medical findings as we do. Don't even mention drugs, listen to Lily Allen's "Everyones At It" to get a picture of how everyones on something.

"But how can we start to tackle the problem, if you don't put your hands up and admit their your on them? The kids are in danger, they're all getting habits, cause from what I can see everyones on it." - Lily Allen

 Hey, we've even invented new thing to get hooked on like glue! 

7. Incest. Its in the local dailies every other day. Info on incest 

8. Pornography. Nowadays people prefer it personal. No more watching it online, lets make our own videos. And this is how we utilize technology. Its the rage for artists to have one and be talked about in the tabloids. Look at that Indonesian star dubbed Peterp***. 

9. Human trafficking. Slavery is back! Only its way more wicked cause you don't even know it is! The only traffic we seem to be interested is the one amassing on Jalan Tun Razak everyday Trafficking realities  There must be a reason why CNN's Hero of 2010, Anuradha Koirala is an anti-human trafficking activist.

10. Crime. Yawn, Its so often in papers, the snatch thefts, the robberies, the armed robberies, some of you may even have been victims. Its like people will stop at nothing, nothing is safe anymore. Even drain covers aren't spared.

11. Apathy. Probably the worse social ill. Ignorance and selfishness. To only want to see what you want to see. To be selective when deciding what to "Care" about. We have the sources, we read the news. But it just stays at that. News. Doesn't solicit any actions. Like a bunch of robots, going about our own lives, unable to escape our programmed nature. Only thinking about ourselves.

I know correlation doesn't mean causation. But the facts are there. People are getting creepy and nature doesn't seem to like it.

Theres just something wrong with the world. Its deep-rooted. The revolutions, the economic problems. Its like an unseen force is guiding mankind towards destruction.

And I know, deep inside you feel it to. Somethings coming.

I fear that it might even be too late. 

They say: "When will this Fath (decision) be (between us and you i.e. The Day of Resurrection), if you are indeed telling the truth?" Say: "On the Day of Al-Fath (Decision), no profit will it be to those who disbelieve! Nor will they be granted respite." So, turn aside from them and await, verily, they (too) are awaiting. 32:28-30