happy birthday - 22 again ( confirmed with 21years of experience )

You once asked 

- what would you do if  I sing out of tune - 

your sisters replied..if you intent to earn a living as a singer, 

we could starve and may have to live on prune.

You used to ask 

- what will happen if you pick mama late to home - 

mama said , the kitchen inda berasap and 

 you don't get a new jacket for the prom.

You have asked

 - what will happen if the world stopped spinning - 

and we all replied  - we will be floating instead of walking....

we do know you sing out of tune (well most of the time)

we know you do turn up on time (sometimes)

we know you seek out-of-the-world questions ( at odd times)

on the occasion of your birthday....

we just want you to know

it is okay to be you.

love from the bostamanians.

Maakah (musim haj 2006)

A Picture worth a thousand words

I search for tranquility and it found it here in Brunei Darussalam 

- my beautiful  country - the  abode of peace.

  

                                                          

   I heard the storm and its rage in the distance. 

I took shelter awaiting for its might

instead I behold  the golden light 

the sun breaking through - ooh what a sight

  

Beauty is in the eyes of the holder

if only you stop a while and hear

 you do not need go afar

to appreciate what is dear

 

   Behold and wonder 

the beauty that is abundance here 

   

 

 A place I call home 

..my beautiful home

the abode of peace.

     

Environmental Impact - consequences of our action

The things that we let others do in our name 

In our pursuit of modernisation. 

We got diverted. We let others steer us. 

We tolerated the congestion and inconvenience.

 Ah... it  will be just for a short while , we convinced ourselves. 

It will be for a better future - we promised each other

We let them fell the trees that filtered the air that we breathe 

so that we can build bigger roads. 

We let them dried the land that wet the earth when it rains 

so that we can build more dwellings

they did this on our behalf , our behest 

Alas,  we heed not our own warnings 

we ignore the signs

in our pursuit for modernisation

Behold the cost of  our ignorance., 

the consequences of our (in) actions

the price we have to pay. 

We will pay - no doubt., 

either we pay now or the future generation will pay.

we pay the consequences of our actions - 

in kind -unfortunately - painfully 

floods , land slides, haze 

pay now or later

we will pay.

when Ye call - we'll come in our own way InsyaAllah

madinah - green dome