Category: Friends

Waking Up to An Unusual Message With the Question: What Part of Halal is This?; The Text Exchange Did Bring Laugher Along with InComprehension; Exploring in a More Reasoned Fashion The Question of Power and Responsibility Particularly in Malaysia; Back to Penang for the Holiday Season; Photo of the Chariot That Will Carry Me and a Selfie of Nesh and Myself in our Lyf Hats.  .

December 21, 2025   Yesterday woke up to an unusual message. The sender sent the message at 1:06 during my hours of rest. Laughingly I wrote to him:  Me: We keep very very different hours….

First the Good News; The Warning in the Quran; New Words for Jingle Bells; Truth is Stranger Than Fiction Explored Again: The Most Blessed Evening Ever Filled with Laughter, Friendship, Respect, Honor, Highest of All Compliments and Zero Coke; Photographs of Gifts Bestowed in This Lifetime and Three Wonderful Women 

First the good news. The good news is that, with the help of instructions from Artificial Intelligence, I was able to boil eggs in a rice cooker. A rice cooker is one of the cooking…

Last Christmas I Gave You My Heart; Followed by a Serious Second Round of Second Chance: Responding to Nesh’ Blog Breakdown of Second Chance, Sufis and Shamir; You Can Lead a Horse to Water But You Cannot Make Him Drink; Photos of the Diversity of Malaysia: Christmas Trees and Durian 

December 10, 2025  My life is extremely unusual Here are some examples.  Christmas music is playing  Last Christmas I Gave You My Heart.  Here are the lyrics. I do not think that sending them to…

A Thoroughly Stupendous Day. October 27, 2025; Good Morning Greetings Sent to Muslim and nonMuslim Friends; Water Walking in Lyf Pool; Appointment with my Malaysian Physician; Manicure and Pedicure; An Incredible Delicious Lunch at Saigon House: Photos of Food and Decor . 

Stupendous is the proper word to use. Definition: extremely impressive. Synonyms: extraordinary, prodigious, phenomenal, mind-boggling, awesome, amazeballs, wondrous. Nothing  run-of-the-mill, nor ordinary about the day.  It began, as all my mornings do, with Fajr prayer. It…