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…

Mashaallah May Allah Put Barakah in It and Your Time Here: Learning the Meaning of Barakah: A New Chapter is Unfolding; A Chance Encounter Brings Back my Ikebana Days; Guiding You to My Ikebana Book on the Blog; Oops My Last Visa Run is Sooner Rather Than Later; Photos of Flowers and a Prayer Dress

I gleefully sent messages to friends announcing the successful transfer of funds from my US bank to my Malaysia band  A dear Muslim friend responded.Me: Major bank transfer. My 10 year visa almost entirely funded….

The Last Day, Forces Used to Combat People with Insight; Condensation Proves a Blessing When Photographing the Morning Sunrise; The Words of Have You Ever Been Mellow Leads to Immense Gratitude for My Good Health Which Enabled My Reversion to the Islamic Faith in My Later Years; My Ten Year Visa Funded Allowing Me to Live in Peace in Malaysia

May 28, 2026 So far it has been a great day. It is not quite sunrise on this the last day I shall be 82. Tomorrow is my birthday and I shall have advanced to…

Candor, That’s Me: Following my Lead Reason and the Rule of Law Prevailed in Alberta, A December Bayan Tour of Malaysia Beckons Led by Dr. Nadia Khan: I Become a Sticker: My Connection with Nadia Brings About a Connection with Shaykh Waleed Mossad: His Wisdom, Hypocrites Spiritual Heart is Disconnected to their Steering Wheel Perfectly Describes Hammad the Hypocrite; Links To Tour and Lecture Provided

May 25, 2026 For some strange and unknowable reason I thought of another word to describe me. It is candor – not a word I usually use. It means: the quality of being open and…

A Pajama Manifesto: Be Prepared: I am Definitely Working on Being Prepared for my June 3 Conference by Reading Idries Shah’s The Sufis: A Quote Led to the Question: Must One Be a Muslim to be a Sufi: Depends on Who You Ask was the Answer: Idries Shah Faced Many Difficulties: An Invocation Asking for the Highest Level of Paradise; Declaring I am a Sufi Will Mean I Need a Syllabus; Photos of food

I began typing the title. However realized I did not know the meaning of manifesto. Best I look it up. I did, it is a perfect word. Manifesto: a public declaration of policy and aims,…

Blasting the Media: Trump is a Decoy Used by a Lazy Press Because Outrage Sells; US Has Media Has Been Impugning Other Countries For Years and Years; Malaysia Has Energy Security; The USA and Canada Energy Insecurity; Nero Fiddling as a Theme; A Link to a YouTube Interview Revealing the Truth That Must Be Viewed; Photos To Cheer

The media has a HUGE responsibility for the mess we all are in. As you shall see by the conclusion of this blog – when accurate truthful information is conveyed one can see the extent…

A Morning of Immense Gratitude; Which Turned to Pity for Canada and the United States Which ‘Blossomed’ Into Third World Countries; Casting a Blind Eye Both Causes and Perpetuates the Immense Problem; The Vistas From Societe Reveal the Wealth and Productivity of Malaysia; Photos to Substantiate My Words

My gratitude abounds. – wow what a great word – abound. I must look it up. Abound: exist in large numbers or amounts. Abounds synonyms overflow: full of. teem with, be packed with, be crowded…

Back to Love Stories Charity Exhibition; Three Love Stories Featuring Young Woman’s Epiphanies; Onto the Dregs of my Personal Life; Men with No ‘There’ There and Catfish; Concluding By Offering  Gratitude to Allah For Keeping Me From Wrong Doing People; Photos of the Young Women’s Art and Flowers

Today is Sunday – two days ago was Friday; when the Love Stories; Illustration & Writing Charity Exhibition was held here in the lobby of Lyf’s Penang. A previous blog spoke of two of the…