Food, Glorious Food!: Congrats, Mee Kolok!

Mee Kolok has been gazetted as a National Heritage Food! First time I tasted it was of course when I got posted to Kuching back in 1996. Thought it was only ok lah. Basic noodle dish. Then I was transferred to Miri, and things got serious. 

I started going to this one shop near the market opposite the old Miri Court building and it quickly became a daily routine. I would go with a colleague, the late Brian Bryan Mason, and for variety,  I would alternate between dry and soupy mee kolok. Haha. For a year plus, mee kolok was almost my daily weekday breakfast! 😃 

So, where's my favourite mee kolok now? In Kuching, Kopi o Corner and Bismillah Cafe. In Miri it's Mat Kolok (see picture). And in the Klang Valley, Salted in Mutiara Damansara. Nyaman!

Another MPH Bites The Dust

 

MPH MidValley to close by end of the month! One sweet memory of the place - it was where the first book I co-wrote was launched  back in 2001. Interestingly too, the emcee for the launch was none other than Jeffrey Ong 😀 . Thanks for the memories MPH!

Himpunan Malaysia Bersama Palestin

 

Sekitar Himpunan Malaysia Bersama Palestin, 24 Oktober 2023 di Axiata Arena, Bukit Jalil.

Free Free Palestine!

Meeting Dr Bilal

 

Alhamdulillah. Finally got to meet the founder and Chancellor of our uni IOU (International Open University), Dr Bilal Philips at The Faith Conference yesterday. Been attending his Fiqh and Aqeedah (online) lectures these past 3 semesters, and have benefitted so much from him and the rest of the BAIS faculty. Masya Allah, Tabarakallah.

There Is Never Room For Racism

 

By the grace and permission of Allah, I got to perform my Umrah back in January this year. Alhamdulillah.

Indeed, it was also a great blessing that we got to experience Umrah after all the Covid-19 SOPs have been lifted. We were free to move around anywhere with no restrictions and the wearing of masks was purely voluntary.

One of the holy sites that we got to visit which was previously closed was Jabal Rahmah, although I did not climb up the 70m hill, having done so during my last Umrah some years ago.

But it was here that our mutawwif reminded us of Prophet Muhammad SAW’s Farewell Sermon, the Khutbah al-Wada’. Among other things, the Prophet SAW said, “All mankind is from Adam and Eve, an Arab has no superiority over a non-Arab nor a non-Arab has any superiority over an Arab; also a white has no superiority over a black, nor a black has any superiority over a white – except by piety and good action. Learn that every Muslim is a brother to every Muslim and that the Muslims constitute one brotherhood.”

It is a fundamentally important message that says, there is no racism in Islam.

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