Definition Archives - Alexis McBride

August 19, 2026

Hazy Here in Kuching; Kuching on a Good Day Ranks High for Clean Air: But This is the Right Place at the Wrong Time: Thunder and Rain Arrive During Writing of Blog; Then an Instagram Post Brings News of the Guthrie Dawn Raid; Authenticity Explored Using Artificial Intelligence Then Referring to a Cambridge University Publication: Photos Taken on My Morning Walk

August 17, 2026. Well the talk of the day today is the haze. People comment upon it – those near and far – but what is it anyway. Lets find out and then explore people’s…

July 9, 2026

Do not Cry for Me Argentina Leads to Do Not Cry For Me Malaysia With Diversions for Word and Idiom Definitions; Photos of Grandson Cole’s Food Photos

It happened again. The words of a song came to mind; I could not get it out of my head. So, of course, I looked up the lyrics of the song and also looked it…

June 11, 2026

Wallowing In Misery; Friends Text Sympathy and Guidance: You Made My Day Became You Made My Year; Nixon Sent Text from Bazheer; Skating Lessons Now on the Agenda; The Butler Drew the Bath; The History of Raffles Butlers; Closing with An Invocation and Photos of the Day

June 10, 2026 – I woke up this morning in a thoroughly and completely bad mood. Misery – downright misery. Misery: a state or feeling of great distress or discomfort of mind or body. The…

June 3, 2026

A Good Morning Treasured Gift from Alice: Juxtaposition is a Word Describing My Beginnings in Sufism and the Pragmatic Approach to my Existence; Dwelling on the Past Using an Article on Social Media; Then to the Future; Dinner with Yusaf/Cat Stevens; Photos of My Stay at the Kuching Hilton

June 2, 2026 My first WhatsApp good morning greeting arrived from my dear Penang friend Alice. I could not have been a better blessing and one I did need, as a matter of fact. It…

June 1, 2026

My Birthday, The Best Ever with One Possible Exception; Fêted Beyond Belief at the Kuching Hilton Hotel; Details Shall Follow; Balloons, Rose Petals, Happy Birthday Bed; A Cake; Videographer Allowed an Instagram Reel Which Collected 1.7K Views; My Twenty First Birthday; What I Was Doing at 38: The Sin of Overthinking

I have never in my entire life had a better birthday. I was feted beyond belief. Feted is a strange word – off to look it up (to be fêted) verb [with object] honor or…

April 27, 2026

Numbers CAN be Meaningful; Wait Until You Hear About Mine; My Blog is My Everything: Apparently I am a Force to Be Reckoned With; 100,000 Strong: Being the Heart and Soul Meant I Could Not Weep Openly; Photos of My Special Common Man Coffee, My Indonesian Jewels and Two T-shirts

First of all let us get meaningful out of the way. (Hahaha) We will be exploring the word through its synonyms. There is more than one meaning, combining them explains what I mean. (Hahahaha). Synonyms are…

August 17, 2025

The Care, Feeding and Rearing of Children in the Islamic Faith; The First Step, Naming the Child, a Communal and Spiritual Event; the Child’s Name a Moral Compass: Artificial Intelligence Questioned as to the Meaning of My Muslim Name, Alaa; Then the Name of Shamir:

Although I have never had children, and at my age it is rather unlikely that I shall (hahahah) The first step in the ‘education’ of the child is to name the child. In Islam, the…

January 5, 2020

Temporarily Touching Upon Trashy Trump; New Frontiers in Digital Dating; A Discourse with Friends About Changing Plans; Emus Instead of Turkeys.

The Atlantic Daily dealt with the supreme fiasco caused by Trump and his minions or in other words, those men who can best be described as trashy. Flunkeys, lackeys, hangers-on, followers, servants, hirelings, vassals, stooges,…