A DECISION TO BE MADE SOONER OR LATER

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"Empty", was the answer I got from Akhlaken when asked how's life been treating him.

We chat over glasses of hot tea at Syed one late afternoon recently. The mid-nite before, we were chatting in the FB, exchanging thoughts and views on so many issues. It didn't end there however. We thought there were many more things that need to be discussed - but not via the electronic social networking. Emotions in particular, could not be comfortably expressed virtually; besides, one cannot possibly write - or keyboarding - as free or as long as he wishes due to some limitation. Face to face then remains as the best way of interacting and communicating between people. The way one expresses his or her feelings, as reflected perhaps by the look at his or her face, the tone of his or her voice, the anger that shown in so many ways - language used in the form of verbal and non-verbal etc - are all easily observed.

It has been quite a while since I last met him some months ago in Damansara. The recent meeting puts us back into perspective of what true friendship is all about. And we agreed - after taken into consideration some unpleasant incidents which involved our dear friends the last few weeks - that a tiny issue is all it takes for a friendship to come to an end unforcibly. Fate, then, must be regarded as the most powerful force in giving meaning to every single thing in what we called friendship. The 'friendship' circle - in the forms of Akhlaken, FinFin, ShiShi, WaWa, Alex & Purple Stockings - was once a wonderful and mystical chain of affection and expressions.

We thought it could last longer; well, it did not. 

Life goes on.

A HUMBLE CHEERS

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The lappy that I got from Zura the other day keeps more than simply files and what not. I didnt expect it to come back. It was used merely as a reason for something. Never mind, forget about anything else. Any ways, it seems that purple stockings is farer and farer. And the folder 'lovely pics' is perhaps the last stuff I got recently, safely kept in the lappy. Im not sure whether it is a vendetta or accidental file. But the pics are there for me to look at. Thank you purple stockings. God bless both of you.

An excerpt from a Pulitzer winner, Ann. Interesting.

"I learned to live many years ago. I learned to love the journey, not the destination. I learned that it is not a dress rehearsal, and that today is the only guarantee you get. I learned to look at all the good in the world and try to give some of it back because I believed in it, completely and utterly. And I tried to do that, in part, by telling others what I had learned. By telling them this: Consider the lilies of the field. Look at the fuzz on a baby's ear. Read in the back yard with the sun on your face.

Learn to be happy. And think of life as a terminal illness, because if you do, you will live it with joy and passion as it ought to be lived"."

AN INTRODUCTORY NOTE

Dear all, salaam.

Immediately after the two seminars that we have been participating last few days, I strongly feel that there is a need for you to have a more crystal-clear conception of what the history of the Malay Peninsula (during the European era) really is. I believe Mills's (1961) account of the history is sufficient to describe the scenario better:

"The division of of Malayan history into three phases of European domination can, therefore, have some justification if the Portuguese, Dutch and British in turn were able to use their naval stations either at Malacca or Penang to establish an indisputable and extensive control of local Asian commerce; it might then be said that they affected the life of the country decisively through their supremacy on the sea if not by their ccupation of the land..." (Mills, 1961, p. 9)

Please proceed through the pages, and let me know of the remaining 'hidden' history of the Malay world polity system.

Have fun reading, thank you. See you then.

i am a man
i want to play god
i am the younger brother
i want to be the older brother
i am the son
i want to be the father
i am young
but i really want to grow up in no seconds.