| Distant Thunder I hear the rumbling of a distant thunder, Light is veiled behind a plume of cloud, But rain is come The seeker is now the sought The lover is now the loved Woe that I was ever in doubt!  |
| Big Fat Clouds... this is the skyscape that was sorely missed by me and my countrymen during the choking, bitter hazy days a couple of weeks ago when some parts of Malaysia hit 400 on the API (Air Pollution Index). Back then we saw no clouds, in fact not even the Sun, as a blanket of smoke blocked our view of the sky... I felt like the haze descended on my very spirit and felt physically and spiritually lethargic. |
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| I guess telecommunication towers are a necessary evil in a developing country like mine, but it does make one hill look the same as the next. |
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| The clouds drifted so close to the Hermitage in the Sky that I felt like I could simply lean over the balcony and touch the wispy white water particles. |
I was bewitched by the evening clouds, and I thought I have never seen anything quite as lovely and reassuring as they floated near and around me. The haze and smog was a memory and perhaps a lesson that we ought not to take nature and its manifest beauty for granted. I reckon that is what God wants to remind us of. Don't you?
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| Before I left from the office, I detoured at the coffee shop beneath my office. And there was a kitten, wandering around looking about in the curious way that kittens do. It climbed on my lap and gazed at my face with that pleading hungry cat's eyes. |
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| Where is the mommy? That is what I would like to know... And I think it is also asking the same question... "Have you seen my mommy?" |
I am actually writing this at the very same coffee shop. But I haven't seen the kitten since that day, I hope it is alright... though doubt shadows my heart. Kittens have such a high mortality rate. *Sigh*
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| Mikhail (my 9 year old son): Papa... I can't stand doing revision with Mummy! Me: Why is that? Mikhail: It is worse than school!! She would tell me to read this, do that... and then she would go to sleep, or watch TV or play on her iPad! |
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| Mikhail: Do you think I can get a Restraining Order
against Mummy on the Internet?
Me: Hmm... you can try.
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I don't know where Mika learned about Restraining Orders! But he has the mechanics of the judicial order correct and said that he wanted to restrain his mother from coming within 100 metres of him.
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| Setting Sun on the Hermitage. The low clouds have mostly marched eastwards, and in the distance I could hear thunder. |
Have a pleasant Friday, sunshine. And if you are where the air is fresh and clean, count your blessings with each breath... Allah... Allah... Allah...
wa min Allah at-taufiq
Hate has no place in Islam
Love will show the Way
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