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Category: Blue Stockings' Circle Politics
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Anisah
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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Trivial yet momentous
kunci hati
Sunday, 26 October 2008 6:06 P GMT
Jangan penjara hati ini
ia tak erti mencari kunci
cuma diam menunggu.
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
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...
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
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.
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
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.&
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
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.
Expletives by Malaysian elected politicians
Monday, 24 April 2006 11:22 P GMT
Expletives by Malaysian elected politicians
By Anisah Sofia London, 25 April 2006, 12:06 BST
In the past, Malaysian MPs have used expletives in English and in Malay in Parliament. They have been told off in and outside Parliament, right
A matter of lifestyle and its perception
Monday, 20 March 2006 7:15 P GMT
A matter of lifestyle and its perception
by Anisah London21 March 2006
Which one is healthier? Which one is better for the environment and humanity? Which one is more responsible?\
The Melbourne Commonwealth Games (XVIII) is now taking
Saturday observations
Saturday, 18 March 2006 1:35 P GMT
Saturday observations
For lack of a catchier title, it's "Saturday observations".
I straightened my lazy bag of bones, I didn't crawl back under the warm duvet after the pre-dawn prayers. I had a cooked breakfast, yummy! Mush
Type of audience and purpose of writing dictates writing style
Wednesday, 15 March 2006 7:21 P GMT
Type of audience and purpose of writing dictates writing style
Most authors, whether of paper or electronic publications know this rule of thumb. I was burning the candle on both ends, one stage after burning the midnight oil to fi
Indonesians, our apologies
Saturday, 11 March 2006 4:21 P GMT
Indonesians, please accept our apologies.
I find there is no intellectual value in the pursuit of news / gossips about celebrities, either in the West or in the East. There is economic value though, benefitting the printers and peddlars of su
going home_where to
Friday, 3 March 2006 12:13 P GMT
Going home, but where to?
Almost five years ago, a friend spoke about friends in Malaysia, and he couldn't live elsewhere because he would miss their friendship too much, over and above everything else. I cried, thinking of my friends back hom
American interests
Friday, 24 February 2006 7:49 P GMT
Promoting (neo-conservative) American Interests
I was searching the internet to do an exhibition on European Muslims, and I chanced upon the Middle East Forum. Having an ever curious mind, I was intrigued when I read the immediate phrase after
Faraway Tree
Friday, 24 February 2006 6:50 P GMT
Faraway Tree
The Folk of the Faraway Tree
by Enid Blyton (2002). London: Egmont. Originally published in 1946.
(Sold at £4.99 at Waterstones, Malet Street, London).
In the next article, this blog will return to Islam and Politi
radical
Thursday, 16 February 2006 3:43 P GMT
Being a radical in British politics
Sir Menzies Campbell said that the Liberal Democrat is a center left party, there is no room for the Lib Dems on the left of Labour. He remembered the person who brought him into the party, and that person i
pro-Islam protest
Saturday, 11 February 2006 7:17 P GMT
Pro-Islam protest.
I wrote about protests which did injustice to and tarnish the name of Islam previously. Today (Saturday, 11 February 2006), British Muslims protested splendidly, if such a description could be applied to protests. The
Opus Dei
Friday, 10 February 2006 2:34 P GMT
Opus Dei
I managed to catch a documentary on Channel 4, in the wee hours of Thursday morning (9th February 2006, 1:25 a.m. to be exact). It featured Opus Dei. Journalist, Mark Dowd was comparing what the f
horror1
Wednesday, 8 February 2006 7:04 P GMT
Moral policing on religious grounds have arrived in Malaysia - HORROR!
For sometime, some Malaysians, Muslims not excluded have indulged in measuring their neighbours' or politicians' religiousity. Of course, there's no standardisation in the
today's guardian
Wednesday, 8 February 2006 5:18 P GMT
Today's Guardian
I have so much to do and so little time to do them! That hasn't stopped me from blogging. However, it certainly has forced me to learn to write more succinctly. In the midst of all the madness going on around me, s
theatre
Sunday, 5 February 2006 12:29 P GMT
Theatre Mah Ho Huan
Utusan Malaysia in its online edition reported on the King and Queen of Malaysia gracing a theatre performance held at Dewan Sri Pinang in Malaysia. (I love that hall, I used to go the Penang Library which was (still is?) h
two guilts
Saturday, 4 February 2006 3:19 P GMT
Two people, guilty of the same crime - ignorance.
In September of 2005, a Danish paper printed caricatures of the Propeht Muhammad (peace be upon him), including one which depicted him with a turban made out of bombs. Other newspapers have sin
horror
Friday, 20 January 2006 11:59 P GMT
Moral policing on religious grounds have arrived in - HORROR!
For sometime, some Malaysians, Muslims not excluded have indulged in measuring their neighbours' or politicians' religiousity. Of course, there's no standardisation in
