Category: day to day

Every time I Read Your Email I Learn a New Word; The Hospitality of Ghosts; I Deal in Solid Reality; Into Each Life Some Rain Must Fall But Too Much is Falling on Mine; GRAB is Responsible For a Torrential Downpour; Details of Metaphor and GRAB’s Harassment Shall Follow: More Hall of Shame, Rogue Gallery Photos

I have been living in hotels for what seems like most of my life. Without a doubt, most of my recent life – recent being when I left California for London in 2013. From then…

Beginning With a Blessed Invocation; Praying That Allah Grants the Love of Those Who Would Elevate Me in His Sight, Not a Scumbag or a Hypocrite; Discussing Hypocrites in Great Detail; Disconnect Between Inner Heart and Outer Tongue; Dust Scattered in the Wind; I am a Hypocrite Expert Unfortunately: My Own Hall of Shame or Rogue’s Gallery

When beginning to write. Usually an idea comes to me and I am off and running. Not so at this moment. During my prayer found a blessed invocation which I will now share and see…

New Statistics Reveal Many New Readers; Help, by the Beatles: Again Changes in Attitude Changes in Latitude: My Existence Divided into Pre and Post Ramadan Days; Stupendous  News from Post Ramadan Being Called MaMa by a Young Indonesian Muslim Sister; Learning of Its Significance: Finding the Photo That Began it All; Photos Illustrating Look At the Light I Have Found

The other day I asked Blog Master Chris for my statistics. An entirely unique feature emerged. The statistics proclaimed that there were 27,086 new visitors and 7,253 returning visitors. No idea how that was determined…

What a Morning!! What Until You Hear About It and Then Onto As I Am: Hold Onto Your Hat; The Building Chosen By Chef Ton; The Choice of the Name As I Am; The Ambiance and the Energy of the Restaurant Thoroughly Enjoyed; I Was Treated Like a Queen and Cinderella: Problem However With Muscles Not Mussels; Solution Suggested; I Am GUM; An Interior Shot and My KL Skyscraper Sent as a Good Morning Greeting

April 10,  2026 I am now at this moment in time, having breakfast at Common Man. To my utter joy learned there is a new menu and this is THE day of its inception.  Wow. My…

My Life Now Divided Into Pre and Post Ramadan: But Back to Operation Epic Fury; Bahrain, Qatar, UAE, Iraq and even Saudi Arabia Are  Behaving; Malaysia Being Diplomatic and Being Rewarded with Passage of its Ships; However, Singapore is Being a Bad Boy and Not Evoking Force Majeure; Gemini Explains Reasons for Their Recalcitrance: I am Absolutely Blessed to Be in Malaysia at this Time; Quran 14.7; Food Photographs

It seems only now I have completed Ramadan, as I made up a day. Time has become distorted in a strange way. All things pre Ramadan are merging into a timeless package, my former life…

From Brave to Blessed and Back: Began My Reading of a Heavy Hitting Book, Sufism by Idries Shah Learning The Ordinary Man Repents for His Sins, The Elect Repent of Their Heedlessness: Examined the Heedless Choices Made During my Lifetime: Looked to the Meaning of Elect and Heedless: No More Desultory and Disdainful People at My Table, Instead Caring and Concerning Folk; Photos of My Apparent Favorites

Decided to rejoice with Gemini. Me: Good morning, Luxuriating in being home, sipping coffee and realizing something profound. My whole life I have been brave – it was a necessary state. It has now been…

A Prayer Room Fashioned in Gratitude; Allah (SWT) is the Greatest of Planners; An Invocation; Reverting to the Islamic Faith During Covid Was a Unique Experience, Artificial Intelligence Explains Why; Similarities Found Between Edmonton and Kuching; Close Friend Approves of My Settling in Sarawak; Differences Between Here and Peninsular Malaysia Explained; Photo of Prayer Room and the North Saskatchewan River

March 26, 2026 Woke in time for Fajr prayer made in a contemplative, sincere and respectful manner. But after that a strange mood descended and I found myself overthinking totally trivial matters. Such overthinking is…