From: Mohamad F. Mohamad-Sharin [lalat_1881@hotmail.com]
To: Melayu Minnesota [persisma@tc.umn.edu]
Date: May 4th 2001, 17:25:31 EST



Dear Sir(s),

Assalamualaikum and howdy,


Topic: Addressing the Homeless and the Needy

My name is Mohamad F. Mohamad-Sharin (a.k.a YBLalat) and I am the sole authority
responsible for the contents of this email and that none of my roommates had any prior
knowledge of it and therefore, they are all held non-accountable for any collateral damage
this email will inflict, unless if later on they openly voice out their concern of support for it.

Let me make this quick and painless. As of today, I pledge for your support and
understanding to do as the following:

1.Starting from tomorrow and ending until the next Saturday (which account for 7 days),
please erase from your daily planner any idea pertaining to hanging and/or sleeping out
at Dinkytown's most frequently visited abode, the #102. This period of 7 days will be
called "the finals week" hereafter.

2.This is in realistic accordance with (a) the increasing demand for privacy and silence,
(b) the mounting pressure for finals' preparation, (c) the accelerated consumption of food
and edible stock from the refrigerator, and (d)the worrying state of well-being of the
residents' wallet due to that of all of the above.

3.However, if the issue of item (1) could not be adhered in the period of the finals week,
due to unavoidable causes (e.g. famine, project dateline) and you need to be present in
the #102 for more than 2 hours or if you need to use the TV/kitchen/toilet/phone extensively,
please inform me as soon as possible via phone (612-6234602) or via email
[lalat_1881@hotmail.com] or via Pyan/Awin so that I could arrange for my departure
from the #102 to any available study lounge in the U of M area.

With this notification, I sincerely hope that the present situation, which is slowly gnawing
my sanity and pushing my tolerance limit, will progress towards the desired state that will
nurture effective studying sessions and increase the amount of materials read, practiced
and memorized.

All feedback concerning the content of this email, may it be related to the thinly-veiled
sarcastic insights or my rigid viewpoint arguing the Malay's 'ziarah' concept or anything
at all, is most appreciated and warmly welcomed for pointless debates, everlasting grudges
and blind admiration.

Thank you for your time and have a nice day.



Yours sincerely,

YBLalat

Mohamad F Mohamad-Sharin
1227 4th St SE #102
Minneapolis MN 55414



"…I’ve used humor as my defense mechanism. Sarcasm is my favorite offensive measure while
blind faith as my means of escape. Most of the time, my intelligence would be iterated as excuse
and my imagination as the ticket to ambitions…Funny thing was, nobody noticed that about me…"
Excerpt taken from "The Extras and that Terrible-looking Ogre" by Mohamad Mohamad-Sharin

"…Sitting around, amongst those who calls you a 'weirdo' and a 'brick wall with genitalia'…"
Excerpt taken from "The River Knows Best" by Mohamad Mohamad-Sharin

"…However, if a morbid end is not in your near-future’s plan, then do not stay comfortable and
pleased at any point in your life, for it might be your destined boiling water…"
Excerpt taken from "A Frog in Warm Water" by Mohamad Mohamad-Sharin

“…I wish that I could be who I wanted all the time. Sometimes, I wish that I could just lose myself
inside of a crowd and quietly slip and fade away from the hustle and bustle of it all. I wish that I
could just stop walking on my way to class and leisurely sip the juicy morning air that floats
amongst the leaves…”
Excerpt taken from "Thus all is Allah’s wish (Part 2)" by Mohamad Mohamad-Sharin.