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Out with the old, in with the new
Thursday, 5 February 2009 4:04 P GMT
Category: Blue Stockings' Circle Politics
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At times, curiosity provokes readers to find out about this person's personal details. I hate to disappoint, but there are none here beyond the following:
Muslim, woman, voter, polyglot.
My practical heritage is Malaysian, collective memory is Straits Chinese, culture is British, outlook is Commonwealth, views are European, and my religion is Islam. This site contains a mix-bag of entries, including but not limited to politics and political literacy, Islam, spirituality and social justice, books and reviews, and the occasional pictures. If you want to respond to any articles here, do leave a comment, or email me at anisah.sofia@yahoo.com.
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Out with the old, in with the new
Thursday, 5 February 2009 4:04 P GMT
Out with the old, in with the new... Or is it out with the new, in with the old. Many people might simply just give up. People want politics to work for them. Not politicians politicking to warm the seat of governance. Health caution: the follo
Category: Blue Stockings' Circle Politics
An inspiration but potentially not miraculous
Monday, 19 January 2009 5:37 P GMT
An inspiration, but potentially not miraculous.Anisah19 November, 23:05, +8GMTLess than 24 hours away from Barack Obama's inauguration as USA's 44th president, and first black president (to be definitionally correct, non-white, mixed-race), m
Category: Politics
Tribute to Mini Cat
Wednesday, 14 January 2009 12:50 P GMT
A tribute to the life of Mini Cat
Category: General
American election
Wednesday, 5 November 2008 6:15 A GMT
My admiration for the American people for collectively working towards this. My hope, my prayers are that in my own country, I will live to see the day when proponents of race-based politics are in a minority and we could vote in the best man, or wo
Category: Politics
kunci hati
Sunday, 26 October 2008 6:06 P GMT
Jangan penjara hati ini
ia tak erti mencari kunci
cuma diam menunggu.
Category: Trivial yet momentous Spirituality
Disordered world
Saturday, 2 August 2008 7:00 P GMT
Disordered worldAnisah, 01:15, +8GMTThis week, I had a conversation with someone. It went pretty much like this:I think I have obsessive compulsive disorder. Do you arrange all your toothbrushes?I still straighten all my towels. Do you str
Category: Trivial yet momentous
Anwar vs Ahmad
Tuesday, 15 July 2008 4:25 P GMT
Anwar vs Ahmad 00:17, +8GMTI have just watched the live debate between Anwar Ibrahim and Ahmad Sabbery Chik. The former is the de facto 'opposition leader' and the latter is the Information Minister. In a debate, the jury mu
Monsoon of 2008
Tuesday, 17 June 2008 3:45 P GMT
Monsoon of 2008Anisah17 June 2008, 23:43, +8 GMT How do you know if someone's yours? I don't. How do you know if someone's for you?I'd be blessed if I do.How do you know?I don't.Yo
Category: Spirituality
Oily business!
Saturday, 7 June 2008 7:50 A GMT
Watch out for this space. There's too much work, and too little sleep. Now, there's the oily business of high oil and food prices. More to come in the following week...
Category: Trivial yet momentous
Yellow card for fly alone women
Sunday, 4 May 2008 12:43 P GMT
Yellow card for fly alone women!Kota Kinabalu, 4 May 2008, 22:36 (+8 GMT) Regressive. Unfair. Bias.These are the words published on page 4 of the New Strai
Category: Trivial yet momentous
Cloudy skies
Sunday, 24 February 2008 7:16 A GMT
we just stayed at home, ate home cooked food, had the occasional eating out, watched TV, talked politics with my dad, read newspapers, read novels, etc. In short, we did all the ?everyday things?. It is a luxury.
Category: Trivial yet momentous
Right to health
Tuesday, 25 December 2007 1:26 P GMT
Right to healthBy Anisah25 December 2007 Can you imagine how many grains of sand on earth? Then imagine that there are more stars in the universe than there are grains of sand on earth. We are then, but a tiny speck. So then why the
Category: Trivial yet momentous
National Christmas Open House
Tuesday, 25 December 2007 1:21 P GMT
Right to healthBy Anisah25 December 2007 Can you imagine how many grains of sand on earth? Then imagine that there are more stars in the universe than there are grains of sand on earth. We are then, but a tiny speck. So then why the
Category: Journal
Sacrifice
Friday, 21 December 2007 5:05 P GMT
Sacrifice!By Anisah 20.12.2007 On the way home, I had the radio switched on to drown out the sound of silence. The sound of the engine, although an inevitable by-product of vehicle propulsion, was not a soothing alternative.&
Category: Trivial yet momentous
Breaks
Wednesday, 19 December 2007 5:21 P GMT
Breaks By Anisah 20.12.2007 Eid Mubarak. Two articles ago it was Eid al-Fitr. And now it’s Eid al-Adha. I managed to write once, on accompanying my grandfather on his last journey in this world. In bet
Category: Trivial yet momentous
Death?s humanising effect
Tuesday, 4 December 2007 4:36 A GMT
In the midst of family, I sent my grandfather on his last journey at 2 p.m. on Tuesday, 27th November 2007. He was 89. He slipped away in his sleep, of old age. This is not an obituary, which will come later.
Eid Mubarak
Tuesday, 16 October 2007 7:01 A GMT
Opportunities don't come many times.
Go home.
Whilst memories are still warm.
When waiting is still meaningful.
Category: Islam Spirituality
lexicon
Monday, 10 July 2006 2:40 P GMT
Lexicon
by Anisah Sofia, London Monday, 10 July 2006
To my young nieces and nephews, I hope you're not hoping to read about unicorns when you see the title of this article! It is anything but (!) but sometimes it might as well have been.
Category: Trivial yet momentous Islam
Hay Festival
Friday, 2 June 2006 3:52 P GMT
Hay Festival
I shall miss Hay Festival when I have to spend summers and winters elsewhere. Audio downloads of their events do give solace, some files are free. The Hay Festival is an annual event in a place called Hay in Wales. Com
article270
Wednesday, 17 May 2006 3:46 P GMT
Facts to get right
By Anisah SofiaLondon, Wednesday 17 May 2006, 15:14 BST
Many Malay Muslims felt angry enough to protest when a group of Muslims and non-Muslims gathered in Penang, Malaysia, to have a forum on rights of non-Muslims in Malaysia as
Category: Islam
The future of Muslims and non-Muslims
Thursday, 11 May 2006 3:44 P GMT
The future of Muslims and non-Muslims
By Anisah SofiaLondon, Thursday, 11 May 2006, 15:54 BST
I have met fantastic friends; Muslims who have a binary vision of things (Us versus Them, the two don't mix); Muslims who seek the common values everyone
Category: Islam
Local Council Elections
Thursday, 4 May 2006 12:09 P GMT
Local Council Elections 4th May 2006
Today, if you are British or a Commonwealth citizen residing in Britain, put on your sandals, it's very warm, 24 Celcius, you don't need to put on an extra layer of a pullover or a winter coat (!), and walk to yo
Berlalunya Pramoedya Ananta Toer
Sunday, 30 April 2006 1:32 P GMT
Berlalunya Pramoedya Ananta Toer, 1925 - 2006
Malay and Indonesian literature today bids farewell to Pramoedya Ananta Toer. As I type this article, I am thinking of his and many others', in Indonesia and in Malaysia, Left-wing writers, who hav
Goodbye John Kenneth Galbraith
Sunday, 30 April 2006 1:12 P GMT
Goodbye John Kenneth Galbraith, 1908 - 2006
Supporters of The Affluent Society would today celebrate the life and thoughts of John Galbraith. Opponents of government spending as being essential to economic well-being will today celebrate his d
Muslim Reformation
Sunday, 30 April 2006 9:50 A GMT
Muslim ReformationDocumentary by Tariq Ramadan.
I alerted my friend, a Canadian-Scot Muslim about this Channel 4's Dispatches' documentary.
He replied, "Waaaaahhhh!!!! I wanna see it!!!!"
Friends in Britain, or with outside the UK
Category: Islam
