The father, the son and the sparrow…

The one with the biggest smile

…actually has too little.
I was, as usual being the news junkie this Saturday morning. I saw this image on JakartaPost and I cannot help but stared at it for a few moments. It hit me that I teach rich kids but they hardly have smiles as wide and purely happy like this. And they have [...]

They say…

Did I hear correctly ? That there was supposed to be an invasion of sorts? That Indonesia is going to invade Malaysia like today or is it tomorrow?
heh , as I said to a friend and on my twit, I hope the invaders ‘tapau’ for me a set of Nasi Uduk and a carton [...]

Goodbye, Shaykh…

Thank you for all your guidance, your nasihat, your listening ear, your awesome funny lessons, your presence at the zikr session at MasjidKampungSiglap where I had my akad nikah, and for gracing my wedding, for your prayers when I felt down, for introducing and guiding me to traditional Islam, for teaching the newcomers to Islam [...]

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Biology ended  my Ramadan a little earlier and I spent a bit of today trying to look back and see how it has been this year. It is, as Is said in her blog about this month– more poignant than any other months as we tend to look back to the last Ramadan and see [...]

neun neun neun

Murphy’s Law, to put it simply states that “anything that can go wrong, went wrong”. I had a bit of Muphy-ism on the neun/neun/neun 090909 day today.
First it was a student who screwed up his exams, and then a situation which threatened quite a bit of problem as it involved a shipment of goods not [...]

A love story, a reflection, an excitement and everything else

You know it has got to be something about it when friends from Vancouver to Paris to Singapore to Australia yelled at me over the facebook not to give spoilers until they catch the episode on tv3 catch up tv. By now, many women of the households, and surprisingly many who do not, on normal [...]

A bus-loadful of wishes

We have a zinc roof top and it pitter patters as the rain drops on it, which is like right now. Especially if I am working away at night in our home office, which is like the attic part of the house- more of like the mezzanine floor of sorts.
I love it each time I [...]

The toughest thing

I used to think that the toughest thing to do is to learn how to cook, or bake for that matter. But I conquered that by learning formally and informally and practice, practice, practice.
I also used to think Maths was the most difficult thing to learn, but all of the major exams, I never failed, [...]

Paradise Land

I like this. It’s cute