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“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 [...]

Finding islamic toilet

I am not joking with that title. Not many people, out of billions of muslims, that even think about this problem (what problem, they will ask). And out of the few that do, only a handful have the willingness to raise this issue for an open discussion. For the sake of finding a solution, let [...]

Making love in the dark?

Regardless of what you see the picture below, it does not really matter whether it is dark or not.

The captain of the bus

The sophisticated words in the title simply means the driver. The Singapore Bus Service calls their bus drivers as “captains“. CMIIW, I do not think that in any other country people will call a driver with any other term but “driver” (in any language). Look at this sign below, what do you see?

Prata durian

In terms of roti prata, Singapore has moved a long way since I left in 2001. Now we can have prata with all sorts of flavor: strawberry, cheese and many other. Of course we can still have the classic prata kosong and prata telur. But then, Singapore’s creativity stops short of inventing the most delicious [...]

Taxies: Indonesians are (actually) not lazy

It was our trip back to Lafayette, Indiana, from ifthar gathering in Springfield, Illinois, sometime back in Ramadhan 2004. The trip was around three hours, and it was late in the night. But for the three of us in the car, the trip was fun because we were engaged in a deep discussion. One of [...]

Celebrating the Prophet’s birthday

How should we react to those insulting cartoons of the Prophet? This is the transcript of my sermon delivered on Friday prayer 21-Mar-2008 at the Islamic Center of Boise. Brothers and sisters, I start this khutbah with an advice for every one of us to always increase our imaan and taqwa to Allah s.w.t. Allah [...]

Get down and gimme forty

How fit are you? A simple indicator for that is the good ol push ups. The push-up is the ultimate barometer of fitness. It tests the whole body, engaging muscle groups in the arms, chest, abdomen, hips and legs. It requires the body to be taut like a plank with toes and palms on the [...]

Wrath of God

“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.

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.

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