"typical"

greetings and Salam.

today i encountered something peculiar, weird. and again, it made my head think: erk...ape benda lah yang aku portray sebenanrnye. hmphhh. pelik. pelik

i was talking to one of my friends, after eating so much for lunch. well, everyone close to me would noe that i eat a lot. so while we were talking we talked about our hobbies during our free time. hers was to be rolled in peculiar game plots and stories. she asked about mine and i honestly said that i am into korean/japanese drama. the latest prove you could get: CITY HUNTER. thats when she said that its kinda typical. and i do agree, yeah it is typical. in fact, its not really a good habit. you could spend the whole day in front of your laptop watching those korean dramas, only pausing when you need to eat or pray. you don't care about other stuffs once you get into the plots and the male character love story. and the thing that made it so typical is that the plots are almost the same. gahhh. its either the hero is too poor to get married with the rich girl, or the girl is too poor and was rejected by the hero's parents. very few had different plots, but if we look at it again, the romance genre is still the same.

nak buat macam mana, wani ni degil sangat nak buang that habit. but Alhamdulillah, dah berkurang.

the next thing that she said made my head ponder for a while. quite a while. i said that besides korean drama, I'm beginning to like reading factual books. books about philosophy, mainly islamic philosophy and history..its never bad to inculcate those habit, i thought. but then she said (of course its in a non-offensive way), that by the looks of me (i wear baju kurung/jubah with tudung labuh), yeah its typical to read those stuff. the way she said it is like reading such topics is the nature of people with similar looks of me.

hmphh. i wonder if thats true.

i monologued with myself for a while. its not that i was angry by the things that she said. she did asked me if she was being offensive and with such short-thinking i said no.

to me, she was just being honest. and honesty is the best policy. i am grateful for that.

but the thing that disturbed me was,the fact that she said reading those kinda things is typical for someone like me, and reading those things itself is typical. it means its not a unique hobby, its not something intriguing, and its not something that people would think is unique. thats her point of view. well,, ok.. maybe its not really that fun.

but heres the catch; shouldn't we all muslim delved into the world of islamic knowledge to enhance our knowledge in our own religion? so that we could understand better the things that we practice everyday. so that we could understand better the things we SHOULD practice everyday..? isn't that the real case? i believe that if it is something that we SHOULD do, it doesn't matter if we want to classify it as something typical or boring, its just something that we should do. the simplest analogy is, STUDY. eyy? lol.

isn't studying WAY TOO TYPICAL to do nowadays? u go to school since kindergarten and, ohh please! even i couldn't stand all the pressure of studying sometimes. another example would be: talking about the issues in palestine. how our brothers and sisters are bombed to death there each and every single day. how muslims of the world didn't seem to care about it thats why the media or any responsible body keep harping about it again and again. how we should actually not eat McD and support them because they use their profits to help the zionis destructing plalestine. but isn't that what we SHOULD be hearing and DO?

so is 'typical' considered relevant in this case? ..

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