Holy Trail

Taken from the wiki,
‘The ʿUmrah or (Arabic: عمرة ) is a pilgrimage to Mecca performed by Muslims that can be undertaken at any time of the year. In Arabic Umrah means “to visit a populated place”. As a technical term used in the Shari’ah, Umrah means to perform Tawaf of Kaabah and Sa’i between Al-Safa [...]

A blond moment

This morning, I made a declaration to the unsuspecting husband.
‘ I have a crush on Logan Huntzberger’
‘Logan WHO? ‘ he asked, not taking his eyes away from whatever he was reading.
‘Logan Hunzberger. He is 21, a blond hunk studying in Yale and his father owns the publishing empire in the US’… I rattled on.
‘ Ohh [...]

Opocot !

For the longest time, I have and am still looking for the English equivalent of the word ‘melatah ‘. It all began when I was in primary school and my mum was making pineapple jam tarts in the kitchen. Her back was facing the kitchen door and I entered the house after a school day, [...]

Give me more Gilmore

Got them at Rm 4 per disc at Penang’s Batu Ferringhi’s Pasar Malam. I am talking about the full Season 5 of Gilmore Girls. I can’t help but love the series for its witty dialogue and of course, Lorelai’s relationship with her mother Emily Gilmore is more or less like me and my own mum. [...]

Line clear! Line clear!

I have never been a fan of anything curry. I can eat them but I just don’t fancy them. Hence I think before last Sunday, the last time I had Nasi Kandar was almost 20 years ago when I followed mum back to Penang to see her family.
But I have heard of this really old [...]

Authenticity tested

We arrived on Pulau Pinang at almost 6 pm on Saturday and straight away went to the USM guest house which we booked on Friday. Checked in and rested for a while. All the other hotels were fully booked to the brim due to the school holidays and I didn’t feel like staying with any [...]

Pondering

There are things here which I still find very hard to understand.
For example,
Why do the Malays, while sticking strictly to 5 times daily prayers, fasting, zakat and other requirements of Islam– to show that they believe that there is no God but Allah, BUT when things do go wrong, they go to see Mr Bomoh?
So [...]

Pi Uthara

Seuss is in front of me, playing with the Big Apple Donut’s receipt. He is obsessed with receipts. If he finds any, he can play with it for hours until it is receipt no more but shredded pieces of paper laden with his saliva.
The week has passed really quickly. Weekend is coming yet again. My [...]

‘Neo’

If we have heard of rumours about neo Nazis making a comeback in Germany and in FACEBOOK neo ‘daily philosophers’ are aplenty, I think I might have just found a neo HAMKA in the making.

So far I’m only familiar with 3 literary personalities of Indonesia. I’ve only read one book of Almarhum Pramoedya Ananta [...]

Yet again?

After this, I thought we more or less settled we have a boy and a girl for kittens. But since last week, we yet again found out we were wrong. Milo is indeed a boy ! So instead of two twin sisters-kittens like what we were initially told, we then thought we had a boy [...]