I am sorry for not updating anything for last week. No, I am not having writer's block, well, not yet and never will be - I hope. I am just being busy finishing my last week before I went home for my mid semester holiday. I just arrived home yesterday (Yippie!). Although it is only a week of vacation and I have tonnes of workload to be carried along, it still nice to be at home.

My presentation about the "What is The Perfect Age for Marriage?" when well and for that thank you for all the ideas that been shared with me. The comments in that post alone could easily rewrite my original post. Some of them even invaluable as it consist of the commentator's personal experiences and for that, I would like to express my greatest level of thank you. This is a token of appreciation from me. Though it may not be as beautiful as it should be (it was supposed to look like a flower, two leaves with a broken stick), I hope you like it.

A Thank You Note|By Bluecrystaldude

| Emila Yusof | Hafidz | The Success | Bluedreamer27 | Love-n-Hate | Akmal | Shemah | Sweetiepie (I really appreciate her comment as she hasn't been active blogging nowadays!) | Waliz | Mista Shandye | Fara (new blog!) | Angel Baby |

For those who commented more than once, please take the first one and this one too. (Please, I insist) :

You Are Awesome Award|By Bluecrystaldude

| zackzara (3) | Neomesuff (2) | Faisal Admar (2) | Farah Deen (2) | Rizal (2) |

P/S: Sorry if I miscalculated the number of your comments. Please do let me know.

I also included some calculation for my presentation. Oh, and by the way, that post also is the most commented post so far, in Hot Shit Form Here! My blog comments never reach 50 (some even reach hundreds) like most of my blogger friends did, but I happy anyway.

Hot Shit Form Here popular posts:
1. What is The Perfect Age to Get Married
2. Why Hot Shit Form Here
3. Hot News This Week #3
4. What is Your Definition of Friend?
5. Boys Are Stupid
6. Forgive My French
7. Define Your Happiness
8. When Love is On Air (Literally)
9. Paris - The Signs (Volume 1)
10. Dancing The Way

And my Award Gallery already packed with 40th award! Thank you Thank you Thank you!

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When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition continuously until death do them part. ~ George Bernard Shaw, Getting Married, 1908

Click to hear the song Here Comes The Bride:

Why we are getting married? For some, the rest of their life will be like a carrion crows who is trying to survive just to live another day of fight and dismay. That is why you should have a little help, called patient so that you would not just end up regretting your life but you still have to live with it. After all, everyone has a dream to be married once (a statement not a rhetoric question). Some prefer to be marriage when they already have a stable career, a nice home and enclosed with a good social environment.

For others, they prefer to get married at an early age, mostly 18-23. Some are firm believer that we should be married at the first love that we had, or that if we wait a little bit longer, the right person may just walks pass by without our noticed. Others, believe in spontaneous act or when adrenaline hormone urges to a certain level (may or may not be due to abundant booze, boobs and drugs) have to get married just to fill an annulment hours after that (Read Britney Spears).

But in some part of the world, most commonly in South Asia and Saharan Africa, the children there did not have the right to choose, they were forced to. Their parents may consent to child marriage out of economic necessity, or because they believe marriage will protect girls from sexual assault and pregnancy outside marriage, extend girls’ childbearing years or ensure obedience to their husband’s household. From UNICEF report on 2007, 36 per cent of women aged 20-24 were married or in union before they even reached their 18th birthday. Child marriage is a long-standing tradition in areas where it is practices, making protest sometimes barely possible.

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So, if you ask me, what is the perfect age for me to marriage, I will say around 25-30 years old. I will graduate with my degree when I am 23, settle down as a junior engineer in my scholar’s firm for 4 years. Buy a comfortable house, the latest hybrid car and enjoying my years of traveling, parties and social meeting every before I move into the real adult age at 30 (young adult age should be around 20-29). My partner should be around 23-35 years old. I do not mind a matured one, if she is still keep in shape and has more experienced than I am – I will go and chase her if I feel that she is the right one for me.

Several factors to be consider when you are deciding your perfect age for marriage:

1. Career
2. Self achievement
3. Finances including assets and property
4. Physical attraction and emotion attachment
5. and the most important is Mr. or Mrs. Right

Three rings of marriage are the engagement ring, the wedding ring, and the suffering. ~ Author Unknown

Of course, this is only a plan. In the end, we leave it to God to do His wonders. Marriage: a knot of two souls, two live and two families.

To have and to hold,
From this day forward,
For better, for worse,
For richer, for poorer,
In sickness and in health,
To love and to cherish,
'Till death do us part

Kindly note, I would love to hear comments from marriage couples to those who still single, to share their thought upon this matter. Your comment may or may not be used or publish for educational purposes only. I really appreciate your comments.

Bluecrystaldude

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>> Less Word Wednesday #2 >> Nerdy Professor

*UPDATED!*

Did you notice that the picture is actually a man face looks upside down and masked with few other accessories?


This picture reminds me so much to my old lecturer from India, Senior Lecturer, Dr. Jyoti Prosad Choudhury. He is very very thin (and fragile) looking lecturer, who spoke with confident and you could see spots of saliva form at around the corner of his mouth. He wears belt up to his chest and locked inside his office every free time. But he indeed a good lecturer. He cycles everyday from his house in front of the university to our campus. The rumors said that he was even bullied by secondary school kids at his residential area while riding on his old bicycle. He went back to India last year. I really hope that he will found happiness in his home country. What about you? Do you have a teacher that has a very distinct characteristic like mine? Please feel free to share with us here!

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It has been ages since my last post. Well, it was 4 days ago, but I do hope you miss my presence here. It has been a hectic week. My workloads have been multiplied every single minute as it approaches my half semester break, which is due on 15th August. Other than watching Never Back Down (5 stars – the actions were very impressive!), Wall-E (4 stars – filled with moral values), The Dark Knight (5 stars - the best summer movie to date) and the latest installment of Mummy (3.5 stars – Just okay and reminds me a lot to National Treasures), I also managed to squeeze my time to read a best selling book called The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini.

It was the first book by him, but one of the best books I ever read. I am only half way through the book but already looking forward to buy his second book. (A Thousand Splendid Suns). What amazed me the most is that the author is a doctor. Who would have thought that a doctor could wrote such a beautiful novel to which Washington Post Book World quoted as “a powerful book… No frills, no nonsense, just hard, spare prose”. The book best describe as a remainder for some facts in life that we may be neglected after a hard day at work. The need for a good relationship with subordinates fellow workers, bosses, friends and family.

As I told before, I love to read books. But reading and writing is a totally different story. Nevertheless, I tried (read = forced) to write a technical essay on Energy: A Challenge for Sustainable Development. This essay was for the National Chemical Engineering Symposium 2008 (NACES). It is an annual gathering for chemical engineering undergraduates from both local and private universities all over Malaysia. I have submitted mine just a day before I went to Paris. Rushing and without any guidance from my deputy dean (the person who was supposed to supervise my essay), I thought nothing about winning. And then, last weekend, at the main NACES event in University Putra Malaysia (UPM), I was announced a second runner up. Crap!

I never enter any essay competition in my whole life before. Let alone wrote a serious article based on journals and other creditable resources for educational purposes. An engineer, who writes, draws and has a big mouth. I am sure hope it would not be a lethal combination. Great, this ends up just another post about myself (I had a different post in mind). Before you all getting bored about Hot Shit Form Here, I would like to give a little heads up. My next post would be about marriage! I am not married yet. At least it sure would not be about me, right.

Bluecrystaldude

P/S: Sorry for miss out few posts in my regular visited blogs. I will repay the visit as soon as I have the free time. Thanks for the faithful visits and commenting!

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