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Tengkleng

“What is that?” asked my son. “Its a soup that can stare back at you”, thats my answer.

Finding Islamic Toilet (2): Muslim Urinal?

This is the second article in this series (read the first article here if you have not read it yet). Again, I am not joking with the title. There is such a thing as a Muslim urinal. I knew it many years ago when I work with the interior designers at Matahari Dept. Stores on [...]

Tahfizh management software

This is the English version (with heavy editing) of my earlier post, which is actually an email posting to various mailing list. Some facts about memorizing the Quran Fact 1: As a Malay saying says, “Apal kaji karena diulang”, something is memorized because you repeat it. Fact 2: Memorizing itself is easy. To continue memorizing [...]

Asides

If Moses had gotten the Ten Commandments on a floppy disk, it would never have made it to today. (Dag Spicer, curator of the Computer History Museum in Silicon Valley, The NYTimes Circuit, 26-Mar-2009)

“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”
George Bernard Shaw, Maxims for Revolutionists

“The wrath of God is the only way I can describe it. I’m used to seeing roofs off houses, houses blown over. These houses were down to their foundations, stripped clean.” said Governor Phil Bredesen of Tennessee, after surveying tornado damage there.

James Madison said, “If there be a principle that ought not to be questioned within the United States, it is that every man has a right to abolish an old government and establish a new one.” In Indonesia, …, well no comment.

Setelah empat belas hari menunggu, akhirnya saya bisa menikmati kembali berita-berita dari Bandung. Harian PR tampil dengan wajah baru dengan koneksi yang tampaknya lebih kencang.