I was not sure on whether it was ok to ask him the questions but curiosity got the better of me and I went ahead to ask anyway. So far he is the only war survivor I personally know and having been listening to Yusuf Islam’s cd ‘ I Have No Cannons That Roar’ for [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘travels’
September 27, 2009
Merry making, et al
So many bloggers have updated their blogs about their Eid/Raya this year with colorful photos of happy families etc. Our Eid was in Singapore for about a week. 2 days of Ramadan there and 4 days plus of Shawal and I had a blast. I ate and ate ( ok, that’s nothing new about me ). [...]
September 5, 2009
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 [...]
August 2, 2009
Of their plight
My first ever encounter with the people of their kind was in Sydney, Australia. It was Ramadan, and I was with the Purnomos, our Indonesian friends in Sydney. It was a case of where to break-fast-dunno-so-how-about-Uighur-food? And the ok-Uighur-sounds-exotic. And there we were, in the Uighur restaurant in the city.
The restaurant was full. There was [...]
July 17, 2009
A gift…
Al just came back from visiting her in laws in Bosnia and she bought me berries-tea while the husband, this cute thing…
He was so gleeful about it he wore it to tonight’s lecture in his campus. heh.. Balkan’s humour aye, thanks Al !
And of course, my feeble attempt to make a really, really hot and [...]
April 14, 2009
Like a chapter in the past…
By the 2nd day on the resort, we were quite bored already with the resort and itching to explore the island as it is. So in the trusty signature Pangkor pink cab, ( whose driver, an old Chinese uncle born and bred Pankorian used to live and work in Ang Mo Kio for 6 years [...]
April 11, 2009
Perjanjian Pangkor
Mention Pangkor and my A Levels history notes which involved Sultan Abdullah, the then Sultan of Perak and Sir Andrew Clark which gave British influence on Perak that 1874 year came to mind. I remember being a bit baffled back then when studying for the paper on why Perak needed a British protection and also [...]
February 22, 2009
Natural Lap Lip
Pre-hari raya season is the best time for anyone to see the lampu lap-lip adorning the windows/doors/balconies/driveway of Malay houses. They come in all sorts of colours, patterns and also the way they meander all over the house, put the natural creeper plans to shame. I never liked this lampu lap-lip. Lampu colok with the [...]
February 22, 2009
About fireflies, green bottlefly and other things
Once upon a time, a long, long time ago…there was a brave warrior who was so ‘terar‘ (or invincible). He was travelling through the forest with his men and decided to stop his gang of travellers for a rest. Before he could go to sleep, a green bottlefly or what the Malays then called the [...]
January 28, 2009
carrefour means ‘crossroads’
I sat at Gelato Fruitty KLCC with raspberry gelato in hand absent mindedly staring at La Cucur. Half my mind was on the gelato, thinking that I did manage 4 ice-cream flavours in this month after all. The other half of my mind wondered how she would be like now. I have not met her [...]
