The iPhone is her third Apple gift to me, the first being Apple iPod 3G (3rd generation) for my 30th birhtday 5 years ago and still working great, after I did a battery replacement a year ago. The second was a 1st generation iPod shuffle 3 years ago, for passing an insurance exam. Unfortunately the shuffle has gone kaput a year back.

As a birthday gift to myself , I have also bought a Sanyo Xacti VDC 2000 Full HD Dual-Camera (Video/Photo camera). Again, useful little gadget, handy especially for traveling (like we did recently!) as it can record 12MP photos and Full HD video up to 60 frames per second.

Could it be the templates?

So to experiment, I have imported all my posts from blogspot to this wordpress platform, and try to tweek the template to suit my needs.

If this is successful, then I will inform my friends of a permanent move. If it doesn’t, then I will stay at blogspot.

Mr G

Anyway, this post is about my experience at the Masjid Assyakirin at KLCC for the Friday prayers. It is located at the KLCC park, just 5 minutes walk from Suria KLCC.

Unfortunately, during my visit it was undergoing renovation to increase capacity for more worshippers, and as a result have to pray at the hall outside the main mosque next to a scaffolding. Anyway, what interest me most is the way the sermon was delivered:

1. It was delivered in English, suitable for the location as about half of worshippers are foreigners (tourist and expats)
2. The sermon was started with introduction of the issue (during that week was about entertainment not forbidden in Islam, more on that later), explanation of the issues (backed by Surah from Holy AL-Quran and Hadith from Prophet Muhammad, May Peace be upon him) and finished by conclusion – reiteration of the main issues.

The Imam spoke very fluent English, and yet his recital of the Al-Fatihah and surahs during prayers was also very, how shall I say it, very pleasant with his melody and more importantly perfect Tajwid (rules in reciting the Holy AL-Quran).

On the topic of the sermon, basically Islam does not forbid entertainment as long as:

• it does not contain any elements forbidden to Islam (blasphemy, alcohol)
• the entertainment audience does not mix the man and woman, as this is haram or could lead to haram activities
• the entertainment should be avoided if it could result in more harm than good (collection of money for charities but the activities are haram)

Anyway, I long to return to the Masjid Assyakirin again one day, when the renovation is completed.

Muhammad and Iman at the hill surrounding the Masjid

Apart from sleeping due to medications to solve my blocked ear, I managed to finish the book, a marathon 100 pages in 3 hours.

Most is based on true accounts (non-fiction), but to me the fictional bits are when Mallory and Irvine actually stepped on the top summit – there is no prove to this, only based on assumption that Mallory had promised his wife Ruth that he would leave her photo on the summit. His body was found in 1999 without Ruth’s photo in his pocket, nor in his wallet.

Good read, but I still loved the “Prisoner of Birth” and “Honour Among Thieves”.

To my bro Aziz, Rahman and dear friend Hajah Fauziah, I’d strongly recommend this book to you.