Internetting....Alahai....
How often do you surf the net? Regurlarly? Once a week? Everyday? Whatever the frequency, you are connected to the virtual world, and as they said....at real time with real people! It is virtual and real? Irony!
I got hooked on the net too; I have to log in almost every night. I have to check my email box everyday! That is the best part of internetting! Here comes the danger....the chatting part. It was something that I was addicted last two years, but I regain "my consciousness" last year when I got stalked by a so-called "fan". Anyway, it was a good lesson for me not to trust too much people whom I get to know on the net. At first, you can't help to chat with people whom you are being connected. I prefer talking to people who lives on the other side of the world rather than people who live on the same land as I am. The reason? I do not want to be known to them and it is easy to be reached by them. As for the international friends, well ....they are thousands of kilometres from me. I am aware that they can be here in a matter of time if that is their wish. But the fact that they are far, makes me feel a bit secure to be connected to them. However, the danger is that the culture, mind set, social views of my international friends are different from those people who live next door. What I may not want to do, would be what my international friends wish to do.
Another interesting fact is that I now get to know my brothers and sisters of the west. I got a few muslim friends from Albania and Kosovo. I even got a muslim lady friend from Netherland whom is my best friend in the net so far. She was once married to an Arab and that is how she became a muslim. She added me as her friend at first with the intention of finding out the difference practice of muslim from all over the world. I told her that she has to be clear of the practices as some are culturally imposed and some are genuinelly religious law or practices. For an example; she asked me the practice of wearing a headscarf or veil. She asked me whether little girls as young as 8 must cover their hair? I told her; it is not imposed to little girls of that age unless she has reached puberty. Some parents wish to teach their kids from young so as to avoid resistant over the practice when she reaches 10 or 11 or when she has reached puberty.
How interesting to know what my friends are doing in Albania and how they are not so lucky to have very few mosques there. One of my friends, Mustafa told me he has to teach his children to read Quran using the CD ROM rather than having an ustaz or religious teacher to teach the kids, as they do not have such teacher there. Lucky that he knows how to read Quran. Sadly to note her, his children read Quran through the roman alphabet, not the Arabic letters. What makes me feel amazed of them is the fact that they want to learn and read Quran with or without a proper teacher.
Now, internetting really makes me feel so lucky to be living in Malaysia.....with its prosperous economy, social and political condition. Well, my fellow Malaysian, whatever problems that we are having, we are still..........very much lucky and fortunate than many people on the other side of the world. So? Please be grateful to God that you are born and bred here, my beloved motherland, Malaysia.
How often do you surf the net? Regurlarly? Once a week? Everyday? Whatever the frequency, you are connected to the virtual world, and as they said....at real time with real people! It is virtual and real? Irony!
I got hooked on the net too; I have to log in almost every night. I have to check my email box everyday! That is the best part of internetting! Here comes the danger....the chatting part. It was something that I was addicted last two years, but I regain "my consciousness" last year when I got stalked by a so-called "fan". Anyway, it was a good lesson for me not to trust too much people whom I get to know on the net. At first, you can't help to chat with people whom you are being connected. I prefer talking to people who lives on the other side of the world rather than people who live on the same land as I am. The reason? I do not want to be known to them and it is easy to be reached by them. As for the international friends, well ....they are thousands of kilometres from me. I am aware that they can be here in a matter of time if that is their wish. But the fact that they are far, makes me feel a bit secure to be connected to them. However, the danger is that the culture, mind set, social views of my international friends are different from those people who live next door. What I may not want to do, would be what my international friends wish to do.
Another interesting fact is that I now get to know my brothers and sisters of the west. I got a few muslim friends from Albania and Kosovo. I even got a muslim lady friend from Netherland whom is my best friend in the net so far. She was once married to an Arab and that is how she became a muslim. She added me as her friend at first with the intention of finding out the difference practice of muslim from all over the world. I told her that she has to be clear of the practices as some are culturally imposed and some are genuinelly religious law or practices. For an example; she asked me the practice of wearing a headscarf or veil. She asked me whether little girls as young as 8 must cover their hair? I told her; it is not imposed to little girls of that age unless she has reached puberty. Some parents wish to teach their kids from young so as to avoid resistant over the practice when she reaches 10 or 11 or when she has reached puberty.
How interesting to know what my friends are doing in Albania and how they are not so lucky to have very few mosques there. One of my friends, Mustafa told me he has to teach his children to read Quran using the CD ROM rather than having an ustaz or religious teacher to teach the kids, as they do not have such teacher there. Lucky that he knows how to read Quran. Sadly to note her, his children read Quran through the roman alphabet, not the Arabic letters. What makes me feel amazed of them is the fact that they want to learn and read Quran with or without a proper teacher.
Now, internetting really makes me feel so lucky to be living in Malaysia.....with its prosperous economy, social and political condition. Well, my fellow Malaysian, whatever problems that we are having, we are still..........very much lucky and fortunate than many people on the other side of the world. So? Please be grateful to God that you are born and bred here, my beloved motherland, Malaysia.
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