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“What is that?” asked my son.

“Its a soup that can stare back at you”, thats my answer.

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# 9:22 pm

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 toilet stuff, and they said we usually choose Muslim urinals for our stores.

Say what? Up till that time I have not heard such a term. Of course I have seen such urinals, but I have no idea that they were actually called a muslim urinal.

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# 4:38 pm

Hafizh without tajwid?

Tajwid is a set of rules on how to read the Quran properly. Can you imagine that a person can memorize the quran (being a hafizh) without knowing how to read the Quran properly (tajwid)? Until not so long ago, I cannot. But that has changed.
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# 12:23 pm

Dari George Square ke Afghan

Ketika datang ke alun-alun kota Glasgow, saya hanya berniat untuk menunggu kawan saya datang dari Aberdeen. Tapi begitu mendekati George Square, saya mulai mendengar riuh rendahnya musik jalanan. Suara gendang bertalu-talu, diiringi ecek-ecek yang ramai, diselang seling suara peluit.

Ada sirkus?

Bukan. Ternyata akan ada demonstrasi, dan musik jalanan ini digunakan sebagai penarik perhatian.
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# 10:55 am

Making love in the dark?

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

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# 3:03 am

Singapura: ttg penegakan hukum

“Sila berhati-hati ruang di platform.”

Kalimat itu yang menarik perhatian saya ketika kembali naik kereta api di Singapura. Saya tertarik pada kalimat itu karena pertama, kalimat itu belum ada ketika saya meninggalkan Singapura enam bulan yang lalu, kedua, saya tidak mengerti arti kalimat itu.

Saya tetap tidak akan mengerti maksud kalimat itu sekiranya tidak ada terjemahan Bahasa Inggrisnya. “Please mind the platform gap.”

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# 11:04 am

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.