Al-FATIHAH, TOK UMI

I pictured my numb self , overwhelmed with sudden grief over the death of  Tok Umi at Pak Tam’s home today. It was like a Dali’s painting, all the dream images are uniquely surreal and randomly bizarre but felt rightly where it should be. I was in a crowd of people  who had blood ties with [...]

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Of Night Jamming with a Stranger :)

Did we realize how the small unexpected events in our life brought to us by some unknown strangers could also be God’s way of cheering us up when our days are gloomy or when we are drowned in our own mundane life? Just at the point where we almost give in to our sucked life [...]

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Awal Muharam : Of Asma’ Abu Bakar, Ummu Salamah and Self-Reflection

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 [...]

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How It Takes Someone’s Near Death Experience To Make Me Think About My Own Pain:FBking with the Kick-Ass Mujtaba Hamdi

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 [...]

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Dear People in the Town Council-Dedicated to Safra and other children who has the right to play in a safe and nice playground.

 
 
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 [...]

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The Little Girl and Her Singing Bird

I wrote this story in reflection of a great friendship I had of which turned sour and later, drifted apart because of my own mistake in setting my priorities in the relationship. To my dear friend, I dedicate this story to you.

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Once upon a time, there was a little girl. She was running away from  [...]

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Fate chooses relations, you choose your friends.

 
 

A TRIBUTE TO “GEE-PEI HSI KONGSI GELAP” EL PRESIDENTE CAFE CONSPIRACY
2004-2008
 
When I first joined SUHAKAM, as a wide-eyed idealistic fresh graduate, I was intimidated by the whole personal expectations and anticipations of working in such a grand organization. I got over the fact that the organization is nothing close to being grand in just a [...]

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WHAT A GREAT WEEKEND!

A lot happened this weekend.
I laughed a few tonnes of great honest laughters and also cried a few ocean of melancholic tears. (note: I wished the night market in “Neverwhere” could conveniently float on our Klang River so I could buy my new supplies of laughters and tears. I ran out of both at the [...]

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Safra, The Gatekeeper of My Household

I thought the day that Ms. Safra, the megababe rocker of Shazeera’ eccentric household , is able to open the front gate will be say… when she’s four years old. That’s like three years from now. While waiting for D-Day to come where I will be huffing and puffing, chasing and trying to stop her [...]

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WHO HAS A NICE BIG HEART? NOT ME!

Who has experienced the mistake of overlooking a nice soul in his or her pursuit for great friendship or relations and only get to notice this nice soul when he or she is stuck in shit?
Me. Hands down.
I never thought that this chap who I thought has a crucial fashion default and try really hard [...]

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