Bila Rumi Menari…

…entitled the song by M.Nasir. But I was alerted to this work by Rumi by the husband recently…and what  he may have meant by it…
Excuses
Someone says, “I can’t help feeding my family.
I have to work so hard to earn a living.”
He can do without God,
but not without food;
he can do without Religion,
but not without idols.
Where [...]

Fish Labour

In this hot sweltering sun as the skin on my feet dried up, it’s time to give my tired feet a break by indulging in the…

Fish spa image taken from here.
even fishes have jobs to do these days !

In the spirit of ascension

In this month of Rejab, we are reminded of the Isra’ Mikraj incident. Probably it is tonight as stated by the narrations.
It is quite difficult explaining the ascension story to skeptics where the question how in the world Prophet Muhammad ( pbuh ) did the journey up into the sky on a buraq ( a [...]

Twilight Zone

… that I had a pack of homemade sausages in my freezer. I didn’t cook any sausages last week, the husband can vouch for it. I didn’t give it away, cause they are good sausages I had intended for a certain recipe. But I searched high and low today, ransacked the fridge, took out everything [...]

In Retrospect

When things happen not on our side or to our immediate liking, more often than not we grieve right? I know I did. A bad one years ago. When something I thought would work out for me, didn’t. And I had to make the decision to leave it or to go on with it. I [...]

A bushel and a peck

Some years back, I think the year was 2002, I met a wonderful lndonesian lady in Australia. She was older than me. Petite, friendly and very, very wonderful, I still keep in contact with her to this day, and I met her again two years ago in 2006 when we were in Queensland.
Sometimes, when life [...]

Of Tom Cruise and Comic Relief

Last night during training we learnt the four point sword movement, using a wooden ’sword’ of course. Unlike the pic below which uses real sword.

Image taken from here.
Nevertheless, I berangan /berfeeling Tom Cruise in the Last Samurai … ahaks! I am quite on high now as I have gleefully learnt how to bring [...]

Dirgahayu

A friend wrote this circa 2006…
( Ibrahim, if you are reading this, yes it is yours. I am quoting it because I like it and I relate to it. Bravo )
Progress is a forward movement towards a goal. As we expend our energies on the future, we move away from where we were. We delight [...]

Raindrops on zinc roof

Last night somehow all of us, the husband, Milo and myself ended up sleeping upstairs in the attic-mezzanine floor, which we turned into our library and office.
At around 4plus in the morning, it suddenly rained cats and dogs. The rain pelted down hard upon our zinc roof. Somehow I found that sound so familiar. It [...]

Sore feet

Right at this moment, I am blogging while a blind person is doing foot reflexology on my feet. Bloody painful. He said that the more pain I feel, the more problems I have with my health actually. Oh man, if that is the case, I must have alot of health issues I am not aware [...]