Dear Friends and Relations, may Peace be upon you all, Our baby was born this morning at 7:07 am April 7th Malaysian time. She is a baby girl. Her name means “radiant one”, but in the family she has the title KakUda, meaning “Fourth Daughter” and that’s what I’ll be using on the web for […]
Yearly Archives: 2004
Malay Contributions to English, pt. 5
Though I’ve been here in Kuching over a year now, I’ve barely been outside of the city. Partly because of that, I had the impression that all the “real” nature was to be found far into the uplands. So I was very pleasantly surprised when I visited Semenggoh just a half an hour’s drive from […]
Kubur
[dropcap]W[/dropcap]e visited my late father-in-law’s grave on Eid al-Fitr to read Ya Sin and pray on his behalf. This is a common practice on the Eid, maybe because families are gathered together at that time. He was buried only about a kilometer from our village. The cemetery was so humble and unassuming. Graves were marked by […]
Happy New Year x3
It’s been months since I last wrote, but it seems like years. Maybe that’s because we’ve entered 2004 AD, the Chinese Year of the Monkey, and, today, the year 1425 of the islamic calendar, all within two months. The first of Muharram is a public holiday in many states in Malaysia, including Sarawak, so I’m […]