Wednesday, April 12, 2006
It was biochemistry lecture. I was surprisingly wide awake despite the bitter fact that i usually in my dreamland ~30mins halfway through the lecture. Well, it was Graham Parslow's final lecture with us this semester, and the topic he was talking about was not examinable. It was something to be enjoyed, as he put it; and that explains my attentivenes. Pathetic,i know.
Chin in my cupped palms, I was following everything he was saying, down to every joke. Wise, witty, funny old bloke I always loved listening to him, though tak paham pon biochem stuff yang penat die dok cerita tu.
Then, came the subtopic vitamin D. I could sense something was coming my way. (Hurmmmm.Eyebrow raised) I've heard from the med students (all of my housemates are med, most of my friends are med). They had the same lecture, same topic from the same old Graham Parslow, and i knew very well these lecturers repeat just the same information year by year , AND i remembered very well what he has told the med student last year when he gave that lecture on Vit D. "there's only 2 groups of people who suffer from vitD deficiency. one is the poeple who stayed in their house most of the time and never get out. the other is the
strict muslim women who are all covered up all the time. so when you get this patient on your dental chair with teeth all wobbly you can be sure whether this is someone blabla blabla" well those are his words, rephrased and distorted by me whose with my limited English ability am not able to reproduced what he's said
Being the only Muslim girl in the class, and the ONLY ONE covered up, and to make the story perfect, i was in my black long hijab and black baju kurung,(just a perfect sight of the so-called strict muslim woman)i could feel my cheek flushed. Not that i was embarrased (huh? malu?), but that was the heat boiling within me trying all its best to stay inside and be nice. I tried to keep a straight face. Being husnuzhon kat pakcik Parslow tuh, i told myself again ang again "hey he doesnt mean it, look how he tried to say it as fast as he could, it was just his mere his duty to convey the fact" I could see he was avoiding my eyes, trying not to look at me.
The issue was not that i was mentioned (indirectly) in front of the whole class. The issue was not that it was embarassing me. The issue was not that in he being racist whatsoever. It is how muslim ;in particular muslim women, is seen in their eyes. The oppressed, the gloomy (ohh she must have a miserable life), the one denied her rights,those who'll get ricket for not being able to synthesise vitD for sunshine cant reach their skin; are just some of it. God knows what else they have in mind. Anyone out there, dare to take my challenge to prove these kaper scientists wrong? Anyone dare to prove exposing face alone is enough to get your skin synthesising those vitD? I was desperate to yell this in the class; "as much as i am aware, there are more people suffering skin cancer due to sunlight over-exposure than muslim women died of ricket" I'm 100% confident and that's my faith in Allah that Allah didnt make us covered up only to make us vitD deficient. He created us, and he knows that this is the best for us, and that being exposed bring whole pile lot more harm than being this all covered up (duhhh?). What Allah has made us to do is in fact the best for us, and brings not the slightest harm.
And Graham Parlsow, I've enjoyed his lecture, only when he didnt start mentioning (and i start silently rolling my eyes) those evolution crap. All these while we've had this silent battle which i'm so aware of (which, i'm pretty sure he has not a slight idea about. psycho me =p) I've been fooled enough in my 1st year to be taught about modern man, new age man etc, and believed it! If it wasnt for Allah who wanted me to know how evolution theory has possesed everything in this world today, i might still be fooled by it today. There was no modern man or cavemen or whatever, there was no single cell creature existing in this world in those early days, there was no paleoitic mesolitic age whatsoever (surprised?). All they are instilling is just leading to one concept; everything that exist is not created. They emerged by chance. Only to conclude...that there is no God. Nauzubillahi min zaalik.
Aitt...lab report tak siap lagi...panjang pulak nulihnye....better get going. Salam
~~*posted on*~~ Wednesday, April 12, 2006
