Black By Pearl Jam

Wow, it's been a very tiring fortnight and that's my "valid" excuse to be less active in blogging. I'm even slouching while blogging at the lecture theatre. This whole week was filled with talks and club meetings. Changing the topic now, many wonder why my nickname is Black Death and some have questioned how I came up with the nickname.


I think I came up with that nickname since 13 or 14 years old when I created my Friendster account. So, if there is anybody else that has the same nickname as mine, let's see who came up with that first.

I found the need to create a nickname for the main reason being that it is cool. Having a nickname is never blatherskite. Other reasons being that I needed a stage name just like Slash and Undertaker to brand myself so that it is easier to market myself, to show my creativity and also to have something to represent the other "me". I realise that I have split personalities. I behave differently outdoors and indoors. So, my nickname would represent the more bad, cool and sociable side of me and Nur Shah would represent the good-hearted and anti-sociable side of me. Just like how Gollum from Lord Of the Rings has split personalities.

My initial nickname was Black however this sounded racist so I needed to add another word to it. By a mere stroke of genius, I added the word death to it. Coincidentally, I found out that Black Death had a meaning. It was a plague that killed 450 million people in 1400 in Europe. To me, it means superiority because it killed a lot of people when they know nothing about it. It is silent and deadly. It attacks when people least expected it.


The word BLACK also has many meanings and almost all of the meanings are negative in nature and Death basically means the end of life. Nur Shah and Black Death have remained in the vicissitude for the past 4 or 5 years and we shall do so until we part.

Lastly, I've changed my playlist to the top 7 of my favourite bands and those songs are the top songs from each of those bands. This is because these songs best represents my musical taste and I don't care if the music is too loud.