Category: Malaysia

How Could I Live Without You; The You is Allah; Comforting Words from the Doha Airport; I Just Called to Say I Love You; My Home is Home to a White Robot: On the Cutting Edge; Life Gave Me Lemons, I Made Lemonade; A Lunch Encounter Inspires Malaysian History Exploration:  How Could I Live Without You Also Mentioned on Prior Blogs

Most unusual occurrence. The song How Could I Live Without You played on the soundtrack of Mojo Restaurant as I was about to leave. I listened to it, mesmerized Than began to weep, the heaving…

Books, Books and More Books; Borrowing from the Penang Library; A Beautiful Coffee Table Book Above Penang; The Floating Mosque From the Sky Will Lead to Another Visit; The Three Remaining Library Books Speak to Mundane Matters; Explanation of the Dewey Decimal System; Now Learning British Sign Language; My Morning, Meeting a New Family and Forgetting My Phone

October 26, 2026. An incredible “coffee table book”, could not quite remember the definition so asked Handy Dandy, which is my nickname for my Artificial Intelligence helper.AI: Coffee-table book means a large picture-heavy book meant…

October 20, 2026 The  Sixth Anniversary of My Shahada, Story of my More Formal Introduction to the Faith in Abu Dhabi; A Photo from October 20, 2025 Showing How Lonely I Must Have Been; My Anniversary Through the Day Beginning with Fajr Prayer, Breakfast, the Wearing Apparel of the Owner; My Observant Use of a Allah Remembrance Counter; A Two Year Old Darling Girl; Her Indonesian Grandmother Tells Us About the Fires: the Alchemist Appears Again; Photos of the Day

Today is the sixth anniversary of my reversion  to the Islamic Faith. I said this to a dear Muslim friend, saying that it seemed like a lifetime. Some devout Muslims would say that it has…

Gratitude and Then  More Gratitude; Two Gratitude Wisdoms; You Do Not Have to Care, We Care; A Poem Self Esteem; A Bedtime Story, Allah Made Them All Says it Al; The Reasons for My Immense Gratitude Revealed with the Numbers; 2.38K World Wide Viewers in 28 Days; The United States Ranks Number One: The City Kuala Lumpur, MY Soar in Numbers, Photos of the Statistics and the Bed Time Story Book

October 14, 2026. I woke for Fajr prayer feeling enormous gratitude for reasons you shall soon be appraised of. I prayed in reverence and thanks – my attention was drawn to my ‘bookshelf’. There was…

Blessed to Be in Penang For Many Reasons Particularly Since It is the Home of Penang Floating Mosque; Its History; The Old Mosque and the Floating Mosque Under Construction Were Spared in the December 2004 Tsunami; Learned That the Aceh Mosque in Indonesia Was Also Spared; In Shaa Allah, the Story Shall Be Told Along with the Telling of a Whale of a Tale Told; Artificial Intelligence An At Will Part Time Employee: Photos of the Mosque Taken in 2025; A Trip There in 2026

October 9, 2026. Yesterday morning I sent a photo taken almost a year ago. It was of the Penang Floating Mosque, with Home written upon it. This was the greeting sent to my WhatsAppers. “Going…

Getting Sidetracked; Into and Onto PickleBall of All Things; How it Got Its Name; My New Found Abilities Surprised All, Including Me; Concentration on the Ball My Secret Weapon; Funny Responses from My WhatsAppers; The Day Held Exercise for the Spirit, a Temple for the Body and Chocolate For Everything Else; Photos of the Day

Admittedly I got sidetracked which means my attention was diverted from what I originally intended to do. The expression comes from railways; a train moves off the track onto a side track. My train took…

Books, Books and More Books; A Discussion of Sensitive Truths in Malaysia, a Book Borrowed from the Penang Library; A Decision Made Not to Learn Malay Based on Facts Found in the Borrowed Book; Defining Quixotic; Bookworm Explored: Alexis Alaa Devours Books; Then A Day in the Life of Alexis McBride Described When Released from the Books

I am surrounded with books. A young staff member walked me to my room last evening helping me with my possessions. He could not believe his eyes.He: Look at all of these books.Me: I love…

‘Out Damned Spot’ Then to Broken, Quran 4.6, an Hadith and Pearls of Wisdom, Further Reflections Upon an Invocation: Rectify My Religion: Aziz and the Golden Age of Islam Comes Back ‘Home’; An Aphorism; Penang Library Loaned Me Three Books; Photos of Then and Aziz and the Golden Age of Islam

I was thinking of the space taken in my mind – space taken away from my thoughts of Allah – by insignificant people of the past and present. I remembered Lady McBeth’s famous soliloquy:  “Out…

Books are Essential for My Existence and Always Have Been; Living With the Quran Recommended a Dikher Counter That Bought Peace of Mind; Reconciliation Explored: Reconciliation of My Past Being Somewhat Achieved; A Further Book Review of Nakhoda: Back at Lyf International Housekeeping Week Celebrated

Books are essential for my existence. Always have and always will be. I turned to them for solace as a child, spending hours in my room reading; transported via them and my imagination to a…