Tatkala hidup berbenih...

命が物種 (Inochi ga mono dane)　　When there is life, there is hope.

This is a Japanese proverb.

Go over it in Bahasa and it sounds: Hidupan itu benda berbenih.

Hidup kita ini sesuatu yang berbenih. Orang Jepun kata begitu.

Bashou (guru haiku) duduk bersendirian di ladang yang penuh dengan daun kentang.
Dilihatnya petani-petani sedang sibuk mengeluarkan kentang pada musimnya. Bashou duduk di kelilingi dengan timbunan kentang.

Lalu Bashou teringat peribahasa ini. Hidupan itu benda berbenih.

Kentang itu berbenih. Selagi ada kentang (yang berbenih), ia boleh menyara kehidupan manusia. Setidak-tidaknya manusia tidak mati kelaparan.

Lantas, Bashou mengilhamkan haiku ini.

命こそ　芋種よまた　今日の月

Inochi koso/ imodane yo mata/ kyou no tsuki

Yang bermaksud:

Kentang bertunas/
hidup itu berbenih/
bak sang purnama

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Translation by jahrera ryukyu

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Trashing out tyme

Other than having less time to blog-hop nowadays, the write-up below is another reason why I don't visit blogs anymore.
Once my firewall (which is set to very high), annouces that your blog is a high security risk, you are out of my reading list. Maybe for a trial period of 2 months.
But if the same problem persist, your blog will be categorised as history.

So please, I beg blog-writers, make sure you keep your site save for reading visitors. That is, if you want that high visitors stats. But if high visitors stats is not your type, you are free to let online threats hang on your sites that eventually will slow down your pc performance and delete all files (including photos) from your hard drive.

Not only do I keep a high security firewall. I set my email box to trash all forwarded mails,
multi-receipients mails,
mails without my name,
mails wiithout the senders name,
mails with weird attachments,
mails with invitation to become friends,
and chain letters mails.

I keep my mails (have several mail addresses for different functions) guarded tightly and never display them freely.

So, don't mind me, if I stop reading your writings. Maybe the problem is from your own pc!

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Reuters - Tuesday, August 25

Biel, 27, who shot to fame in the TV show "7th Heaven" and most recently starred in "Easy Virtue," was deemed the most dangerous, with fans having a one-in-five chance of landing at a website that has tested positive for online threats, such as spyware, adware, spam, phishing, and viruses.

"Cybercriminals are star watchers too - they latch onto popular celebrities to encourage the download of malicious software in disguise," McAfee's Jeff Green said in a statement.

"Consumers' obsession with celebrity news and culture is harmless in theory, but one bad download can cause a lot of damage to a computer."

"Every day, cybercriminals use celebrities' names and images, like Kim Kardashian and Rihanna, to lure surfers searching for the latest stories, screen savers and ringtones to sites offering free downloads laden with malware," the statement added.

Coming second in the list for the second year running was pop star Beyonce, with McAfee finding that putting "Beyonce ringtones" into a search engine yielded a dangerous website linking to a distributor of adware and spyware.

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Tatkala belulang berkasar...

Semalam saya selak-selak sebuah majalah terbitan Malaysia (tak perlu namakan) dan membuat kiraan.
Menjaga kecantikan tapak kaki.

Yang diperlukan:
Pembasuh lawan kuman RM15
Pembuang kalus RM30
Krim RM18
Krim pelembut RM18
Spray lawan kuman RM13
Semua campur RM94.

Mencantikan tapak kaki perlu siapkan RM94!

Saya syorkan duit itu masukkan saja ke tabung anak-anak yatim (hendak-hendak bulan Ramadan mulia ini-dapat markah ke syurga!) sebab saya ada cara lain.
Cara yang saya lakukan paling murah, paling mudah, paling berkesan dan terjamin tapak kulit kaki licin hingga menjilat jari...(pinjam slogan ayam Kentaro!)
(Dapat seorang macam saya dalam 10 orang pembaca majalah itu, nampak sah...industri kosmetik di Malaysia gulung tikar).

Ini cara saya.

Pertama sekali...sebelum mandi siapkan bangku. Bawa bangku ini bersama ke kamar mandi.

Penuhkan air panas suam dan rendam kedua-dua belah kaki selama 10 minit. Sambil menunggu, basuhlah rambut dll. Itulah sebab saya kata bawa bangku. Bangku itu untuk didudukkan.
Lagi lama dapat rendam kaki itu, lagi senang untuk menjalankan operasi mengasah belulang.
Lepas berendam, lumatkan tapak kaki dengan sabun mandi dan dengan menggunakan papan pengasah, teruskan operasi mengasah. Kalau kalus agak banyak, gunakan pengasah batu (tengok gambar). Asahlah dengan lembut, tapak kaki itu nak guna lama.

Dah. Itu sahaja. Jangan lupa masukkan RM94 ke tabung anak-anak yatim ye!

YES. Itu SAHAJA.

Keluar kamar mandi, sapukan krim pelembut kulit (baby losen pun jadilah) pada tapak sehingga ke betis. Sebelum tidur, selepas bersihkan kaki (sebelum tidur bersihkan kaki!), sapukan krim pelembut dan guna stokin. Kalau stokin rasa rimas, sejam pun cukup.

Ulang proses operasi ini 3 kali seminggu.

Kalus perlu dihilangkan sebab jika dibiarkan lama-lama, ia akan merekah dan tercalar. Luka terbuka begini mengundang jangkitan kulit seperti kurap.

Lain kali saya beri lagi tip mencantikkan badan (tak janji). Khidmat dan nasihat saya percuma tapi hulurkanlah RM94 itu ke tabung kebajikan!


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Selamat berpuasa 1430/2009

Selamat menunaikan ibadah bulan Ramadan. Semoga ibadah kita di bulan mulia ini mendapat keuntungan di akhirat, insya-Allah. Amin.


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Tanka Darma Mohammad

Tanka dibawa tersiar dalam Majalah PEREMPUAN, Ogos 2009



2. Naratif ringkas Tanka berkenaan :-

[1]
Hirisan zaitun dimakan selepas menunai solat Subuh. Zaitun
bukan sahaja didapati di negeri asal tumbuhnya, malah di mana-
mana sahaja di dunia ini. Perkenalan dan silaturahim terjalin
antara manusia melalui memakan buah zaitun itu.

[2]
Bintang merupakan ciptaan Tuhan yang memberi manfaat
kepada manusia. Kerdipannya dapat ditafsirkan sebagai
pedoman atau isyarat kepada manusia untuk mencari jalan
kebenaran atau mengenali Tuhannya. Melaluinya manusia
taat beribadat.

[3]
Makhluk di laut (juga di bumi, dll) tetap bertasbih kepada
Tuhannya. Manusia (pelaut) gigih berjuang memenuhi tuntutan
hidup dan patuh kepada suara hati nurani dalam mencari
keredaan Ilahi.

Nota kaki: Tanka/Haiku yang disiarkan di cetak media telah disemak dan diluluskan oleh empunya blog.


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Tatkala bimasakti mengalir...

Bimasakti-Amanogawa (kata musim luruh)

1. 荒海や　佐渡に横たふ　天の河

Araumi ya/ Sado ni yakotau/ amanogawa

Sang Bimasakti/ merentas Pulau Sado/laut gelora

(Sado: Sadogashima= Sado Island)

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Sungai bimasakti di cekerawala mengalirkan taburan bintang-kemintang.

Saya pernah menyoalkan darihal haiku ini. Mungkinkah Bashou hanya berkhayal apabila menghasilkan karya ini?

Haiku (sejenis puisi Jepun) berasal dari Bashou Matsuo. Dialah orang pertama (guru) yang memperkenalkan haiku di Jepun.

Saya mempersoalkan kewujudan sungai bimasakti. Mana ada sungai bintang-bintang yang mengalir setiap tahun di cekerawala? Mana ada?

Tapi Bashou kata ada. Siap dengan haiku di atas.

Bashou kata setiap tahun lewat musim panas atau musim luruh, sungai bintang-kemintang ini mengalir di angkasa.

Selama ini saya tak yakin...

Tapi...

Terbukti sudah! (Lihat laporan di bawah)

Memang ada sungai bimasakti. Bashou bukan berkhayal.

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AFP - Wednesday, August 12PARIS (AFP)

Perseid meteor showers heading your way

The night sky will sparkle with "falling stars" on Tuesday and Wednesday as Earth passes through a trail of dusty debris from the Swift-Tuttle Comet, say scientists.
The light show, called the Perseid meteor shower, kicks off each year in late-July and increases in intensity, peaking a couple of weeks later.
The Perseids occur when Earth runs into a trail of dust and pebbles deposited by the comet Swift-Tuttle in its 130-year orbit around the Sun.

This debris strikes the upper atmosphere at around 60 kilometers (37 miles) per second, a speed that causes it to burn up into a white-hot streaks. Bigger chunks can be seen as fireballs.

Meteor showers vary from year to year, depending on the amount of debris.

In the early 1990s, there were several spectacular Perseid shows, with bursts of several hundred meteors per hour.

Meteors are named after the constellation from which they seem to appear -- in this case, Perseus, a northern constellation lying east of Cassiopeia and north of Taurus.

The light show, called the Perseid meteor shower, kicks off each year in late-July and increases in intensity, peaking a couple of weeks later.

On a clear night in a dark sky "you should see dozens of meteors per hour," notes Bill Cooke of NASA's Meteoroid Environment Office.

East Asia is best placed to see the shower at its most intense moment, which is predicted for 1800 GMT on August 12, according to the US publication Sky and Telescope (skyandtelescope.com).

The meteors are also active for many days before and after this date, though the light reflected by a waning quarter moon may obstruct the view somewhat.

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Tanka Aliff Mustakim

Aliff Mustakim boleh dihubungi di blog ini.



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Hujan cambah Karya Darma Mohammad

Puisi (bentuk: haiku) bertajuk HUJAN CAMBAH, siaran DEWAN MASYARAKAT (terbitan DBP), Ogos 2009.

[i]

Bila hadir dua unsur serentak iaitu hujan (air) dan panas (cahaya),
maka terbitlah pelangi. Ia ciptaan Tuhan yang ajaib, kerana walaupun
pelangi nampak dipandang, tetapi tidak pernah dapat disentuh jari.
Tujuh lapis warnanya tetap tersusun begitu, tidak pernah berubah
dari dahulu hingga sekarang. Tafsirakanlah!

[ii]

Waktu fajar (Subuh) tetap muncul, tanpa mengira cuaca atau musim.
Pelaut (perenang) terus berjuang menuju ke pantai, tempat asal dia datang.
Di sana insan yang takwa tetap menunaikan kewajipannya tanpa mengira
susah atau senang, dia tetap bertutur dengan Tuhannya.

[iii]

Makhluk dicipta berpasang-pasangan untuk menikmati Rahmat Tuhan.
Samalah sang angsa, saling memerlukan cinta kasih di dalam kehidupan.
Kiasan kepada manusia, mereka berijab-kabul untuk membentuk ikatan
perkahwinan yang sah di sisi agama.

[iv]

Alam akan musnah. Manusia akan juga kembali kepada Tuhan,Maha Pencipta.
Jasad akan hancur dan bersatu menjadi tanah. Bagi anak-anak dan kaum
keluarga, doalah ke atas roh yang pulang (insya Allah) mampu memberi pertolongan
kepadanya di akhirat.

Tahniah Sdr Darma Mohammad. Sekali lagi haiku Melayu berjaya menyisip pembaca di Malaysia.


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Massive terror tyme USA-style

Back in history 64 years ago. Exactly Aug. 6, 1945.
A visit drop by Little Boy that carried an explosive that yeild 15000 tons of TNT.

After the visit, 90,000 people varnished from the earth's face just by one second. A month later another 145,000 lives gone.

See the video. I only see it once. I cannot see it the second round. I don't dare, too scary for my small heart.

"A bomb can now be manufactured which will be 25000 times as powerful as that which destroyed Hiroshima." - Betrand Russell

Hopefully what Clinton did today, going all the way to N-K, will benefit all mankind.
Hopefully, that communis:t country will stop its nuclear activity.
Hopefully, when we die, we die peacefully...
Hopefully...


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Umeboshi-making tyme

For my home-made umeboshi (dried plum), I used the items below. The quantity is all up to you, but this is my measurement.

I use:

10 kilograms fresh-plucked Japanese apricot (ume/ bahasa Melayu word not invented yet). Abundant only during apricot season.

2 bottles of leek vinegar (leek bahasa Melayu...not invented yet)

1 pack of red shisou leaf (beefsteak leaf/ bahasa Melayu...not invented yet)

With lots of sunshine and patience.

Step one: Pick off stalks from base of apricots. Wash and drain water well.

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Step 2: Pour 2 bottles of leek vinegar and mix well. Hands should be cleaned with vinegar before mixing. Mix with shishou leaves here.


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Steps 3: Weight down with 10kg stones. Weighing stone and the base must be cleaned with vinegar first.


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Step 4: Leave in cool (below 26c) place for 2 weeks. If bubbles and white particles appear, pour more vinegar and mix again with vinegared-covered hands.


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Step 5: After 2 weeks, pick all fruits and arrange on filter to dry. Keep the vinegar.

This vinegar makes sore throat better, prevents bad breathe, creates appetite, balances the acid/alkaline level in intestional tract.

I use it for salad dressing and cooking. Whenever I feel tired, I drink about 5 tablespoon directly.

See the link I attached below for more info.

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Step 6: Cover friuts from flies and insect and put in very hot sun for 2 days or until fruits really dry up.


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Step 7: Keep fruits in air-tight jar. Keep in cool place. Eat anytime you like.

Another information about umeboshi: Bacteria cannot penetrate it!

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The making of umeboshi-tyme

Please read this page first, then I will tell you how I make umeboshi.


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PS: ayuk, since you mention it, insert yr email add. in the comment box (will not publish).

Tatkala tahi gigi kering...

Ini Ai Miyazato. Anak tulin Okinawa. Dia menang Pertandingan Wanita Golf Evian Masters semalam. Yang peliknya Otto. Tak habis-habis dia menatap permainan budak ini (sama umur anak sulung). Dari satu berita sehingga berita lain. Berita yang sama diulang-ulang. Pelik betul. Punyalah Otto dan umat Okinawa yang lain berbangga! Pengumuman di radio beri ucapan tahniah. Berita tempatan di televisyen pun beri ucapan tahniah.
Lagi satu, budak Ai ini berasal dari kampung Higashi-son. Wah, bukan main gembira ria betul orang-orang kampung dia. Nenek dan datuk tua yang dah kerepot umur 70, 80, 90 joget-joget beramai-ramai. Berpimpin tangan, berpusing-pusing kesukaan.
Mendapat tempat pertama, budak Ai ini dapat bawa balik seguni duit sebanyak US$487,500.
Datuk bandar Higashi-son tersenyum sampai kekeringan tahi gigi. Nak tahu kenapa?
Ingat tak cukai pendapatan?
20% kemenangan ini dikenakan cukai. Kira, tolak, bagi, darab jumlan US97,500 masuk ke akaun cukai. Nak tahu siapa dapat duit cukai ini?
Kampung dia dapat, Higashi-son.

Sekarang dah tahu kan kenapa datuk bandar tersenyum sampai tahi gigi kering?


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Solar eclipse-tyme

The sun is covered about 30% as I am writing this. The whole sun will be covered in about 50 mins time. It will pass through Kikai island south of Japan, north of Okinawa island chains. The last solar eclipse was 46 years ago. After calculations, the next solar eclipse might pass over Tokyo in 26 year's time.

The sky up my head is dark suddenly. I thought it might rain but it's the side-effect of the moon slowly covering the sun.

If you guys in Malaysia get this message now, go out and check the sun immediately.
Maybe make solat dhuha or solat sunat matahari gerhana.

Time: 11.30 am- The moon cover the sun completely. NHK is making a live view of the whole event. Kikai island is covered in darkness. The temperature drops 4c. All the star admirers coming in from around world are gathered and all pointing their giants scope towards the sky. The people on Kikai islands are outside their houses. The people in my neigbourhood are hanging out on the street. We just want to be a part of this great phenomena. The sun is covered for 6 minutes only. The whole sky is dark.
Tomo said all teachers stopped the classes in campus and they went to the ground outside to witness the show of the universe.

Nota kaki: Dilaporkan cengkerik di bumi dan unggas di langit tidak berlagu dan bersuara selama 7-10 minit tatkala buana ini dalam kegelapan. Subhana-Allah!


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Sa..Sa..Eisa-tyme

Mirukumunari

The Summer school holiday started yesterday. Of course, I didn't know about it but when I see many children on the street with their bikes burning in the hot sun, I can guess as well. 40 beautiful days for these children. 40 days of harassful time for their mothers.
Also, this sound , the taiko drum is heard every eveniing around the corner in my neighbourhood. I think these people are doing their practise for various upcoming festivals, again I'm no sure what festivals.
If you hear the video up there, you can feel the beat of Okinawa. You can't help it. Everytime I hear this taiko drum, the adrenalin level shoot. Actually, the singer sings in Okinawa dialect. Don't request for translation of it, my head feels too overload right now and I don't want to include Okinawa dialect or any other foreign languages, for that matter.

Friends or people who have ever step on this island, be aware. After you hear this beat, you will cry for this island again!


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Tatkala nafs diibadahkan...

Gelombang umat Nabi Mohammad SAW mentsunamikan alam...amin.


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Tatkala kumbang mogok...

Bolehkah madu diganti?

Saya selalu bermuhasabah pada konotasi yang terdapat di baris bidalan ini:

Kumbang tidak seekor, bunga tidak sekuntum.

Saya bukan renungkan dari aspek seseorang yang kecewa dalam bercinta. Sebenarnya ayat ini memaparkan kata-kata bersemangat dan positif untuk mereka yang bercinta separuh mati tapi dikecewakan. Lantas, dunia bagaikan zombie yang hidup segan, mati tak mau yang ditayangkan dalam Thriller nyanyian arwah MJ.

Saya bukan merenung ayat ini dari segi zombie yang melonjat-lonjat itu tapi dari jantina kumbang dan bunga. Bidalan ini menggambarkan kumbang itu semestinya jenis lelaki dan bunga pula semestinya perempuan.
Boleh tak kita pusingkan gambaran ini. Kita letaklah kumbang itu perempuan dan bunga itu lelaki. Ada orang tak boleh pusingkan pandangan ortodoks ini! Kenapa agaknya, kepala kita dibentuk begini? Mungkinkah peribahasa ini yang mengukir pemikiran kita begini? Sehingga kita melihat semua kumbang itu lelaki dan semua bunga itu perempuan?

Dari pengalaman, dari siasatan, dari pemerhatian, ini bukan halnya pada kerangka fikiran orang Jepun. Menjangkakan kumbang itu lelaki membawa tuduhan seksis.
Kumbang dan bunga adalah anugerah alam, pemberian-Nya dan mengikut fitrah mempunyai dua jantina. Juga bunga, fitrahnya ada bunga jenis jantan dan ada bunga jenis betina.

Kumbang yang menghisap madu bunga itu dari golongan kumbang askar. Kumbang askar diperintahkan-Nya mengumpulkan madu untuk Maharani Kumbang yang melahirkan beribu-ribu anak kumbang. Madu itu dikumpulkan untuk menghidupkan anak-anak kumbang.

Bolehkah madu diganti jika kumbang hilang dari busana tua dan kerepot ini?

Pertanyaan besar, janganlah dipermain-mainkan soalan ini. BIG Happening.

Kumbang semakin berkurangan di Jepun! Rakyat kumbang di Jepun sangat rendah sampaikan tahun ini pasaran madu di Jepun tidak mencukupi.

Balik lagi...bolehkah madu diganti?

Masalah kumbang mati, kumbang kurang...itu juga masalah saya.

Bolehkah madu yang saya sapukan bersama roti panggang dan taburan tepung kacang soya buat sarapan setiap pagi digantikan?


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Miyou Jyou/Tatkala bintang masih bersinar...

Totas Matsumoto

The suicide rate for the first half of the year has reached more that 35,000. That's double the yearly figure of 33,000 deaths.
The older people over 90 years old seem to hang on to life but the opposite is happening to the younger people in Japan.
Most of suicide happened to people within the age group of 50s-60s years of age.

This song The Shining Star, debut last month.

I don't have time to go into the fine line. This is my best effort.


Everything that happened in this world has a reason.
We have only one life. The only way to go is up. Look positive.
Whatever we do is not wrong. Whatever we do is not a mistake.
We have to go on with life. We have only one life. Our life is not a mistake.

My cute girl left for America. She went without telling me. Then, this morning I received a line saying she forgot to let me know. How stupid can she be!
I want to be with her. Its a dream. But, I still want to be with her.

I picked a magazine from the train floor, after reading, I cried so much. Still life goes on.
I'm hungry, very hungry. I want to eat but I can't. But life goes on.

Life has to go on. Life is not a mistake. Life is everything.
Look at the shining star. That is our life. Just one star. One shine. One life.


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Tatkala komunis bermain...

AFP - Friday, June 19

Japan's defence ministry believes that North Korea might now be planning to launch a two-stage or three-stage Taepodong-2 missile towards either Japan's Okinawa island, Guam or Hawaii, according to the report.

But the ministry said launches toward Okinawa or Guam were "extremely unlikely" because the first-stage booster could drop into waters off China, agitating Beijing, or hit western Japanese territory, the report said.

If the missile were fired in the direction of Hawaii, the booster could drop in the Sea of Japan (East Sea) well before the missile's remaining part flies over northern Japan and towards North America.

This would put "enormous military pressure on the United States," the Yomiuri said, citing the ministry report.

The ministry concluded that it was "most likely" that North Korea's next ballistic missile test would be directed toward Hawaii, the daily said.

WOHO!

SATU PERTANYAAN: Apa pasal tak ada orang berani heret kepala komunis ini ala Saddam Hussein?

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Number 53 tyme

Bukan sekalung rantai emas, bukan sebiji mata putih berkarat atau sebuah Honda Prelude...bukan, bukan tapi dua buah bergantungan dan berjuntai-juntai. Inilah hadiah istimewa itu. Hasil titik peluhnya sendiri.

That is goya grown especially for me. Goya or bitter gourd or peria. We are eating goya almost everyday now. Some Japanese eat it raw like salad but I do a half stir-fry and eat it still crispy. It is very bitter. But I'm used to the taste. I can't compare the Okinawa goya with the goya found in Malaysia simply because I forgot the taste of the Malaysia version.

When we were newly married, I could not hold hands like this. I was very conscious of people around us looking. Menyampah! Nak tunjuk-tunjuk!
But now, that doesn't bother me anymore. Holding each other is like eating and drinking after more than 27 years into the marriage.

My birthday dinner

Replying to a question in the previous entry from Sara atorako about halal food in Okinawa. So far no muslims have died of hunger in Okinawa. Even if there is no muslim shops in Okinawa, there are varieties of Japanese food that muslims can eat. If you insist on eating halal meat, go to the dining hall at Okinawa International Center (JICA) in Urasoe. That's the only place as far as I know that serve halal meat.
Hope your stay in Okinawa is pleasant.

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Tatkala "tanka" diMelayukan...(2)

Rangkai satu---Sunyi membawa kepada kenangan lampau bagi manusia. Ingatan itu kadang kala manis namun sekaligus menusuk sampai ke hulu hati.

Rangkai dua---Tatkala seseorang berada di tempat bersejarah, seperti di Jabal Rahmah, dia rasakan apa yang dirasai oleh Adam dan Hawa, cinta luhur dua makhluk yang terpisah. Keduanya seakan menapak ke Ka'bah (Kaabah) kerana itulah lambang cinta agung (Cinta sesama manusia semata-mata kerana Allah).

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