Last Saturday morning Leen and Alisdair and I left our little apartment so I could drive Leen to work and spend the day with Al. I was quite sore because the day before I’d finally started exercising again (a deceptively simple bodyweight workout that must have been designed by Satan or at the very least [...]
Categories: Life
Tagged: Alisdair, video, Youtube
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- February 25, 2009 – 3:51 pm
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- By Jordan
A few weeks ago we tried to explain the concept of time to Al. It was a Saturday and he was enraged, in typical terrible-two-year-old fashion, because Ultraman had not yet appeared on Astro Ceria. I showed him the clock and said, “Look, look here. See this little thing here? When it reaches the number [...]
Categories: Life
Tagged: Alisdair, parenthood
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- February 11, 2009 – 4:09 pm
- Author:
- By Jordan
Since other bloggers have been sharing their thoughts on the Qur’an for the Let’s Read the Quran initiative started by Marina Mahathir and a few others, I suppose I should get off my proverbial butt and actually write something about it. So here goes…
My experience with the Qur’an has been quite different from that of [...]
Categories: Life
Tagged: Arabic, Islam, language, Qur'an, Religion
- Published:
- February 5, 2009 – 4:46 pm
- Author:
- By Jordan