“So how was it?”
The 100th[1] text asking me how was the “date”. I shuddered at the word “date”. To me, it was a plain simple dinner in the company of a man sans an elderly chaperone. The company was a great guy who happened to be a writer and from the looks of it, everything [...]
Archive for December, 2008
Some call it a DATE, Some call it a Dinner, I call it enrichment to my recovery process. :)
Posted in life is like that on December 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Of going to the park, being alone and Safra on the swing…
Posted in life is like that on December 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I woke up to an empty bed only to realize that it was Union Guy’s turn to spend time with Safra. Oh, bother, another long day without Safra. I would definitely suffer from a severe case of boredom if not mental block today. I was on leave since Christmas and despite that had not went [...]
Awal Muharam : Of Asma’ Abu Bakar, Ummu Salamah and Self-Reflection
Posted in beautiful souls on December 28, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Reflecting on 1429H tonight while I recited the New Year prayer after Maghrib, ignited the feeling of deep gratitude and calmness, indescribable beyond words. I gone through a lot last year and I was always wondering whether each decision or choice I made was a step closer towards making me a better person, a better [...]
ARROGANCE
Posted in poems & photos on December 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
We think we know what is the best for us,
So we let our empty souls drowned in illusion of hope,
We think we know what is the best for us,
So we let ourselves consumed by the misleading promises,
We locked ourselves in denial
We prefer to live in the mirage we created,
We treat the painful falsity as if it is [...]
All Time Favourite Pending New Year Resolution 1997-2008 Pt.II
Posted in current & relevant on December 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Resolution #4 – Wira, I am so gonna pay your RM198.70 in cash!
For this resolution, it had its own special shrine in my Hall of Overdue Debts since 2002. Other debts were settled lovingly by yours truly but when it comes to this particular “hutang”, there are always unexpected barriers hindering me from settling it [...]
“Shoe Throwing” Could Be “Active Journalism” But “Torturing Journalists” Is Always a “Bad Editorial” :-P
Posted in politics of politics. on December 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
In Arab culture, showing the sole of the feet symbolizes contempt or anger. Go figure with a PAIR of shoes being hurled at Mr. Bush last Sunday. The shoe-thrower , Montazar Al-Zaidi was arrested and detained but his brother later on, alleged that there are signs of his brother being tortured while in custody.
Let’s [...]
How It Takes Someone’s Near Death Experience To Make Me Think About My Own Pain:FBking with the Kick-Ass Mujtaba Hamdi
Posted in beautiful souls on December 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Taba is a new friend found from the kick-ass land of Indonesia. He is the Editor of Syirah, a mag that is promoting progressive and fresh ideas about Islam over there. We met in 2006, when he interviewed me for a SEAPA’s publication aptly entitled “Men and Gods”. He’s scrawny and thin, but with the air [...]
Transits
Posted in poems & photos on December 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Transits,
A pleasurable detachment from those long overdue flights,
A lively connection from one place to another,
A brief encounter with stories of strangers,
Whom I wish I could spend more time with,
But rather, we depart ways after quick smiles
and stolen glances,
Transits,
Withdraw me from the hectic and bustling journey,
To familiar lands or alien places,
Either way, I am already in transit,
Whatever it be [...]
Dear People in the Town Council-Dedicated to Safra and other children who has the right to play in a safe and nice playground.
Posted in beautiful souls, poems & photos, tagged poems & photos on December 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Dear People in the Town Council,
I find it disturbing,
And humiliating,
To discover my fine daughter,
And her group of friends,
Sitting in the drains,
With wide innocent smiles
That passerby noticed from miles away,
Getting their dainty small feet,
Soaked in the mud
and their baby fingers,
Picking rough pebbles coated with dirt and old weeds,
I think drains are for frogs,
Or for [...]
All time Favourite Pending New Year Resolution 1997-200…
Posted in current & relevant on December 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
We always try to be better persons come New Year because we always think January marks the new beginning of everyone’s new life[1]. Well, fair enough. But apart from questioning why must we wait THAT long to improve ourselves, I am also questioning this annual ritual of putting up a new list of resolutions. What [...]
