Ramadhan Wishes

To all my friends and bloggers, I am wishing you all the best and success this Ramadhan.  May we be blessed with Rahmah of Allah with hope to meet Lailatul Qadr together with our beloved ones.  Aminn

The early summer

June is here, again.

Early summer has arrived.

Roses start to bloom.

Exotic smell more distinct in late evening.

A bush of roses, red roses

A bouquet of english roses for michelle ma belle

A red sharifa asma for the one with the sad eyes

Here are my roses for you  on your most important day in your life beautiful one, said he

alas, it can only be seen by the naked eyes not meant to be hold upon her bosom

But, the thoughts that count, wise man said

My flying kiss for you dear good friend

Not meant to be soul mate

Only meant to be an owl wondering at night

Alone

Looking down that lonely long and twisting road

Berbicara Bahasa Cinta

Berbicara bahasa Cinta are Malay words.  The translation of which, Speaking the Language of Love. The language of love can be demonstrated through various ways medium and forms.  Expressly or Impliedly.  Verbally or Silently. Or in any other ways that you think fit.  Apparently, this is one act that is based on one's discretion. I am speaking it this way:-

Where the words able to fly you away to the land of blissful paradise.  Great is the way when we speak the language of love. Berbicara bahasa cinta...

The Banang Mountain

Selat Melaka lautnya tenang
Disitulah banyak berlabuh perahu Bugis
Orang yang jauh jangan dikenang
Kalau dikenang menangis tentu menangis.

Asalnya kapas menjadi benang
Benang ditenun hai kain menjadi kain
Orang dilepas jangan dikenang
Sudah menjadi hai lain si-orang lain...

Minah Gadis Dusun

inginkah kawan tau siapa daku,
minah gadis dari dusun digunung'
jauh daku berjalan menuruni-nya,
hanya ingin menjenguk indahnya kota,

amboi indah dan megah kota mu kawan,
rasa daku mimpi didalam syorga,
jejaka dan gadisnya tampan dan cantik,
gedung tugu dan mobil,
oh amboi amboi ...


tapi maaf kawan daku tak tinggal lama,
kekasih hatiku rindu menanti...
tunggu saja kiriman hasil panen ku,
daku orang dusun pandai bertani,

hanya pesanku kawan,
jaga negerimu ,
sampai berjumpa lagi, salam manis ku...


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7lZKczIwt4&feature=related

..my favourite song about seeing life from the point of view of a young kampung girl.  Nice beautiful pictures of simple way of life... time to think... again....

My Cloud

Cloud… cloud…why are you here

Why bring with you the shadow of darkness

With the shadows will come the rain

Cloud…cloud…please come when the sun is here

Bring the rain, cloud.. when the sun is out…so that rainbows will appear in twins.



Cloud…cloud… it seems that you cannot hear me

Oh! I forgot … the night is creeping in; you are busy preparing to leave for tonight’s party

Lest… the lovely couple be drenched in heavy downpour.



So kind you are cloud

Like a candle burning itself for other’s comfort

So selfless you are cloud

No other space being can do like you do

Cloud… cloud… how blessed you are… you are

O you are back, cloud..

What..?

You missed something?

What would be the object that you have missed, cloud

Oo... you are teasing me... that cannot be true

Oh, come on cloud.... it is just not possible, cloud

For it to happen you must bring along your best friend

That is the uttermost important element, cloud

Of course the wind must be here, cloud

You simply must call the wind.

Call the wind, cloud...

Why the long face, love?

Why the long face, love?

The night is warm... the stars are out playing in the black sky

The moon is showing its shines in that glowing crescent,

Then, why put that long face, love?

Is it because of the mist you saw this morning

spreading its grey blanket over the golden field

Is it because of that big fluffy clouds

Crawling upon your big old willow tree near the pond

bringing with it the big dark shadows 

making your eyes blinded from seeing the bees and the butterflies

There is no need for the long face, love

The world is sad as it is

The sun is piping hot as it is

The rain will come no matter what

The scirocco will blow come what may 

Put on your smile, love

Put on that fetching face, love

The one that I love so much

The one that makes my heart melt like erupted volcanoes it becomes

For I have not seen it for a long long time, love

You can say that I missed that smile that fetching face like Shah Jehan missing his Mumtaz 

And the waiting is like Adam searching for Eve and met at last near the Hill of  Rahmah

Or do you wish the meeting at the Mount of Mercy, love?

Come love

Put off that long face

Come love

Bring on the rainbows 

Rainbows that showed in pairs in Rotorua's dreamy forest

Even in rain the sun will shine

Even in darkness the moon will shine

Why the long face, love?

Delight and Joy

I'm elated !  I read today of words that come from man of statue who is often in blue and red


I'm elated!  That I have tears in my eyes rolling on my cheeks


I'm elated!  The words of wisdom, of love, of courage, of visions, of dreams that give so much 


so deep in meaning and purpose


to someone so ordinary


I'm touched! By the looks on his face; by the smile on his face; by the curves on his lips 


I'm lost ... 


I am now drowning in his words ... his words of Red seas. 

Roses are Red, My Love ...

Once upon a time
I asked you
Why are you angry , still ...
And you said,
No, I am not angry
But I said,
Yes , you are angry
You said again
I am not angry, I am happy
I said, I don't believe you ...
You asked , why ...
I answered , because you are
in Red ...
You replied,
Red is not anger
I said,
Red is anger
to me...

Now, I ask you again
Why are you in Red ?

The Sun is the Answer

The question as I can recall; since the day you posed it
The answer is only a simple one, my friend
Why must my body be covered with thorns you asked

Why not my dear ...
perhaps it is there so that not any Tom Dick or Harry can pluck or come near me
Or Jack of all trade; who would want these persons come by and disturb one's life uninvited
Or, to keep me from that plain Jane from simply sniffing on my elegant ripples of soft amber flush petals

But, it is not so that reason, dear friend
They are only my prickles my spines ... my precious adored accessoire
Just like your hands and your feet, accessories to your wonderfully structured body, dear friend

My spines prick and prick and prick
Bringing this material of organized substance, the realist me up towards the blue sky
towards my love, the Sun
They prick and prick and prick until I could reach the top of the roof of your home, dear friend
I must reach the sky so blue and so true, my friend
For my true love, the Sun, has been waiting since so long ago

Have you not a little sorrow to share with me , my friend
For without my prickles my spines life is pale and cold for me
For, I would not be able to reach out and hold the warmth of my love, the Sun
And, at night, I would be left lonely and in darkness
for, I could not reach out and be up there with my friends, the Moon and the Stars ...


Don't you know my friend, that the Sun the Moon and the Stars are siblings of the truest blood
They vowed to wait for me
to care for me
to be there standing on the alley when I reach the sky to be with my beloved Sun

My friend
My prickles my spine are my needs to bring me up there to be with my love
You must help me dear friend
Help me climb your roof so I could be with my love
so that this sadness;
this despair;
this loneliness;
this hope;
this glory of emotions; can be told to my love

Will you give me your words;
lend me your strength;
show me your smile;
and lift me to the sky, my friend

For as beautiful I am to the eyes of the audience
I live a life of alone-ness
Though, so strong and fierce I may look
I am a fragile and tender at heart
For so sweet my fragrance from afar to you
I keep the best of me within my soul and being , waiting
waiting for the day when this exquisite parfum will engulf my love and me in the most tremendous moment of our life ...

Can you now understand me, my friend
Can you now keep this secret I share with you
Can you now forever be my truest friend
Can you smile for me all through the days and weeks and months
And not to shed a tear when I reach the day of union with my love

You promise me these, my friend ...
I will be your true friend for life.

Spring Garden

There is my spring garden
so green it lays under the blue sky
basking in the bright afternoon
so bright the sun that it blinded my eyes
still, i could see you .. my spring garden
so green, so red, so purple 
yes... so appealing to the eyes and the senses

Stay there my spring garden
do not wither away
even when autumn peek its nose upon you in September

Spring garden spring garden
you brought colours in my life
you brought sweet smells to my home
you brought with you the dreams i dare not dream in winter

Spring garden spring garden
drive away my sadness when he never comes
drive away the wrinkles of sadness when he never calls
drive away the eyes of sadness when he never write anymore
drive away the grey hairs of waiting.....

Spring garden spring garden
lift me from all these weary of delays
perhaps tomorrow
tomorrow
he will come .

The Fragrant Garden

Hi people!!  Its been a while now since last we met.  September has left us, and, October is here to stay.  Yes, autumn we welcome you. In this season one is reminded of spring and summer.  How wonderful are those seasons bask with colours and sweet smells everywhere.

Almost one can sense the intoxicating sweet rare perfume,  secret promises from the secret admirer. 

It is like a fragrant garden fills with roses, jasmines, carmelias, honeysuckles, magnolias and vanillas, lavenders and ylang ylang, sakuras and apple blooms and orange blossoms that make one feels almost being showered with mixtures of thousand fragrances from thousand blooms... ahhh... so divine is such a place if one can languish in it even for a minute.

A fragrant garden is where we want to be.  A place so beautifully graced with beautiful colours like rainbow and scented to the core from down below up to the sky, surrounded endlessly by the sweet musky scent then followed by the uninvited guests - the bees and the butterflies and the hummingbirds and the couple in love.  Always the picture of the blue sky embroidered with the white fluffy clouds.  There are days where rain might fall but of course, the sky will be brighten again with the sun come smiling to earth.

Such is the heart of a being at peace with himself.  Such is the heart of a woman in love.  Such is the picture of two persons in love with each other and at peace with themselves.  Such is the heart of a knowing man of the true meaning of life.  What is a life of a human being without the beauty of a fragrant garden in his heart.  Why must anyone wonder what life is with all its mundane and cruel bits of events which eventually will become so meaningless for it concerns only material gain and loss.  Strive for the beauty of the fragrant garden.  Walk the road to the journey of your life towards the fragrant garden.  The fragrant garden of your heart is the centerpiece of your meaning in this planet and your meaning in comprehending your being with the other beings.  Lets not abandoned the fragrant garden.  For abandoning the good of life is like killing humanity itself.  It has been said that life is dead when the sun is not shining again in the garden.  Alas, life is ended when love has died.

As has been said ...

"Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and richness to life that nothing else can bring. ~~ Oscar Wilde"  ...

The Four Seasons

This new season of fall is a busy time for my sisters back in France and England.  Its the new school semester for their children, and so, busy time but with some free time early of the day for them too.  I want to talk about family ties and how that fact can influence and affect one's marriage. 

My two sisters have been a great influence in my life both at younger age and as an adult.  They grew up around me and my life was timetabled around them.  They exist because I was around, that's how closed we were to each other.  I am the eldest girl.  So, naturally, I took care of my sisters when they were little.  I was like a mother to them apart from being an elder sister.  That's how I was regarded at least during the times when our parents were away.  And, they were away most of the time.  My youngest sister, the one who resides in England at the moment, is the most attached to me when she was small girl.  She couldn't eat when  I was not around.  She will wait for me no matter how long it took.  And, my other sister who is now in France with her family, she and I are two of a kind.  We shared many things together.  She loved to read.  All heavy stuff, literature most of the time.  But, nowadays, she said she read mostly about economy and finance.  Still heavy stuff.  She read Pramoedya Ananta Toer novel, Keluarga Gerilya, when she was thirteen years old.  After she finished reading the novel she told me about it.  And I read that novel at fifteen, after she gave it to me.  I always considered my two sisters as smarter than me.  Both were brilliant students.  We were very closed that we shared everything down right to having baths together, the three of us, scrubbing each other's back, and shampooing each other's hair.  We slept in one bed and cooked together and sang together and I will play the guitar.  We will cry together when we were down about something or crying for our mother because we missed her so much.  We will protect and defend each other against any harsh or hostile people.  We kept our secrets amongst us never shared it even with closed cousins.  Of course, we had our quarrelled too.  But, we simply loved each other.  And, that love lives on till this day.

We never drifted apart from each other.  Even when we started to have boyfriends.  Except for my sister who is living in England now, she despised my boyfriend those times when I had one.  To her, my boyfriend took me away from her physically and mentally because, to her, I had to spare my time to the boyfriend and no more to her.  She took it very very badly, until the day I got married.  She refused to attend my wedding.  Hahh... still, I love her with all my heart.

This closed relationships between sisters, the kind that I have, is hard to erase or dilute or intrude by outsiders, even by spouses.  We had very strong memories, sweet, happy and sad together.  In bad times, especially, during our adult marriage life, we shared our grievances about our marital problems and talked it over for solution finding.  We opened up everything to each other.  Working on to find the weakness points in our selves and our strong points and talking to find ways to understand our own spouse.  There is always mutual respects amongst us towards each other's lifestyles and beliefs.  We are outright about our opinions to each other.  Sometimes, it hurt to hear the truth but that's how it is with my sisters and me.  We tell each others our mind and thoughts, in the hope to help each other to understand the situation that one is in and so, the best of solution can be found for the best interest of us as sisters.  We care about each others' well being and the happenings in our marriage life is a matter of interest to us all.

In fact, we know of each others' development, about our children and their successes and failures, whats the issues troubling youngsters nowadays, and for that matter, we encourage interaction between our kids.  So, that they are closed to each other.

Does this closed relationships amongst us sisters disrupt our relationship with our spouse or it gave negative influenced to our marriage and spouse?  No, it doesn't.  Unless, the spouse has a specific grudges towards any one of us then, our sisterly closed ties would be an unpleasant fact to him.  But, in our marriage, the spouses are fully aware of how closed we are with each other and they are also aware how much we would be missing each other if holidays are postponed or cancelled.  The awareness of spouses is due to the fact that we make it a point for them to know and understand our relationships as sisters and we told them stories of our life together.  This kind of understanding is crucial to build because, a marriage where a spouse cannot take or accept this kind of family ties, would slowly contribute to being a negative issue to be pick-up by the spouse during bad times.  As such, would be an unhealthy element in one's marriage.  Eliminating unhealthy elements is important for the positive growth of one's marriage.



I regard healthy siblings ties as a good ground for building lasting self-confidence and believed in one self and this strong ties are really helpful when one is in a marriage crisis where decision upon decision must be contemplated on and finally made.  I regard a strong sisterly ties like what I have is like four seasons coming and going each year, renewing its elements with the coming new season.  Giving one with a new perspective to ponder on, and  preparing one with new hopes and new views on life.  Giving one with a feeling of belonging-ness and root-ness.  What is life without a family beside you to give you unconditional love, till the day you die.

To my sisters, Bun and Tik, my love forever to both of you.

Bridge of Love

This is a beautiful romantic number from Harvey Malaiholo, I loved this song.  Good listening with the loved one.  That is, if you are building your marriage to blissful happiness.  Here are the lyrics : 

Remang malam duduk aku melamun... menekuri langkah yang telah kita tempuh... di hatiku masih melekat hatimu...  bila kita melabuhkan biduk cinta...  dermaga menanti bersama angin... dan aku disini merindu..... kita kan saling mengerti... aku pun hanya milikmu..   seutuhnya untukmu, takkan terpisah lagi sampai ke hujung dunia,  kasih hanyalah satu,  tuhan merestui cinta kita... kasih....

Celebrate the most meaningful things that matters to you people.  Do not hesitate and doubt.  Light the fire of union-ness between you and your loved one.  After all, what is life without living it with the one who fills your heart.  Its all about togetherness, belonging-ness and being with the one that you loved who fulfills your highest ideals of love -- an achievement indeed, people!

Enjoy...

True Love

Quote: "love between two neanderthals is the most beautiful and primitive love of all... the only thing coming between them is a dinosaur ... " -- aar

I can't help but smile to myself upon realising how true the words above are. When a man and a woman decided to stay in a union, what do you think glued them together? It was the love from the first sight of each other that they shared the first time. Love will come to you always from the first sight. After love at the first sight, what else? How to reach the true love shangrila? There will always be a in between, whether you like it or not. Avoid as much as you can, even going back to the forest, still this in between form or being will be there trying to test you and your loved one. Hence, the dinosaur coming in between as stated above!

One is forced to think of the unthinkable when one's position is treatened by an uninvited and dreaded enemy such as a dinosaur. This is an intruder to one's happiness. The beloved man will find ways to invent weaponry to safeguard his possession and territory, lest the love of his life will be banished from this earth thus, leaving him behind to loneliness and despair. You have to remember that true love as genuine and as basic as the Neanderthals, finding a replacement for the lost one is not a small matter. It is a huge physical and mental losts that tantamount to irreplaceable-ness. Is that not a great true love or what?

A man and a woman in love will do all things, acts and invent all necessary objects and tools to protect them from intruders. This is the basic instint exists in humans that ensure their survival and continuation of the new generations to come.

This basic and primitive instinct called love is most beautiful and meaningful when it is at its most basic environment. Is that so? I think, yes.

How can we apply this notion of basic and primitive instinct in our modern life-style of consumerism in the capitalist era?

As for me, aaahhh..., I wish for that Neanderthal love....! Because, love must reign supreme entire.