Monthly Archives: February 2009

Alisdair Gets Down 5

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 [...]

Time for change, Daddy 4

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 [...]

The Qur’an & Me 9

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 [...]