<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" version="2.0"><channel><title>Latest entries from myspringbud.blog-city.com</title><link>http://myspringbud.blog-city.com/</link><description></description><copyright>Copyright 2008 myspringbud.blog-city.com</copyright><generator></generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 15 Nov 2008 04:47:00 GMT</lastBuildDate><image><title>Latest entries from myspringbud.blog-city.com</title><url>http://server1.blog-city.com/images/bc_v5_logo_small.gif</url><link>http://myspringbud.blog-city.com/</link></image><ttl>360</ttl><docs>http://backend.userland.com/rss</docs><item><title>American election</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://myspringbud.blog-city.com/american_election.htm</guid><link>http://myspringbud.blog-city.com/american_election.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2008 06:15:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://myspringbud.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=american%5Felection</comments><dc:creator>Anisah</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[My admiration for the American people for collectively working towards this.  My hope, my prayers are that in my own country, I will live to see the day when proponents of race-based politics are in a minority and we could vote in the best man, or wo]]></description></item><item><title>kunci hati</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://myspringbud.blog-city.com/kunci_hati.htm</guid><link>http://myspringbud.blog-city.com/kunci_hati.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 26 Oct 2008 18:06:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://myspringbud.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=kunci%5Fhati</comments><dc:creator>Anisah</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Jangan penjara hati ini
ia tak erti mencari kunci
cuma diam menunggu.]]></description></item><item><title>Disordered world</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://myspringbud.blog-city.com/disordered_world.htm</guid><link>http://myspringbud.blog-city.com/disordered_world.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 02 Aug 2008 19:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://myspringbud.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=disordered%5Fworld</comments><dc:creator>Anisah</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Disordered worldAnisah, 01:15, +8GMTThis week, I had a conversation with someone.&nbsp; It went pretty much like this:I think I have&nbsp;obsessive compulsive disorder. Do you arrange all your toothbrushes?I still straighten all my towels. Do you str]]></description></item><item><title>Anwar vs Ahmad</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://myspringbud.blog-city.com/anwar_vs_ahmad.htm</guid><link>http://myspringbud.blog-city.com/anwar_vs_ahmad.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 15 Jul 2008 16:25:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://myspringbud.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=anwar%5Fvs%5Fahmad</comments><dc:creator>Anisah</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Anwar vs Ahmad&nbsp;00:17, +8GMTI have just watched the live debate  between Anwar Ibrahim and Ahmad Sabbery Chik.&nbsp; The former is the de facto &#39;opposition leader&#39; and the latter is the Information Minister. &nbsp;In a debate, the jury mu]]></description></item><item><title>Monsoon of 2008</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://myspringbud.blog-city.com/monsoon_of_2008.htm</guid><link>http://myspringbud.blog-city.com/monsoon_of_2008.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 17 Jun 2008 15:45:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://myspringbud.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=monsoon%5Fof%5F2008</comments><dc:creator>Anisah</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Monsoon of 2008Anisah17 June 2008, 23:43, +8 GMT&nbsp;How do you know if someone&#39;s yours? I&nbsp;don&#39;t.&nbsp;How&nbsp;do you know if&nbsp;someone&#39;s for you?I&#39;d&nbsp;be blessed&nbsp;if I&nbsp;do.How&nbsp;do you know?I&nbsp;don&#39;t.Yo]]></description></item><item><title>Oily business!</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://myspringbud.blog-city.com/oily_business.htm</guid><link>http://myspringbud.blog-city.com/oily_business.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 07 Jun 2008 07:50:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://myspringbud.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=oily%5Fbusiness</comments><dc:creator>Anisah</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Watch out for this space. &nbsp;There&#39;s too much work, and too little sleep. &nbsp;Now, there&#39;s the oily business of high oil and food prices. &nbsp;&nbsp;More to come in the following week...&nbsp;]]></description></item><item><title>Yellow card for fly alone women</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://myspringbud.blog-city.com/yellow_card_for_fly_alone_women.htm</guid><link>http://myspringbud.blog-city.com/yellow_card_for_fly_alone_women.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 04 May 2008 12:43:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://myspringbud.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=yellow%5Fcard%5Ffor%5Ffly%5Falone%5Fwomen</comments><dc:creator>Anisah</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Yellow card for fly alone women!Kota&nbsp;Kinabalu,&nbsp;4&nbsp;May&nbsp;2008,&nbsp;22:36&nbsp;(+8&nbsp;GMT)&nbsp;Regressive. Unfair. Bias.These&nbsp;are&nbsp;the&nbsp;words&nbsp;published&nbsp;on&nbsp;page&nbsp;4&nbsp;of&nbsp;the&nbsp;New&nbsp;Strai]]></description></item><item><title>Cloudy skies</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://myspringbud.blog-city.com/cloudy_skies.htm</guid><link>http://myspringbud.blog-city.com/cloudy_skies.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 24 Feb 2008 07:16:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://myspringbud.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=cloudy%5Fskies</comments><dc:creator>Anisah</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[we just stayed at home, ate home cooked food, had the occasional eating out, watched TV, talked politics with my dad, read newspapers, read novels, etc.  In short, we did all the ?everyday things?.  It is a luxury.]]></description></item><item><title>Right to health</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://myspringbud.blog-city.com/right_to_health_1.htm</guid><link>http://myspringbud.blog-city.com/right_to_health_1.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 25 Dec 2007 13:26:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://myspringbud.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=right%5Fto%5Fhealth%5F1</comments><dc:creator>Anisah</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Right to healthBy Anisah25 December 2007&nbsp;Can you imagine how many grains of sand on earth? Then imagine that there are more stars in the universe than there are grains of sand on earth.&nbsp; We are then, but a tiny speck.&nbsp; So then why the]]></description></item><item><title>National Christmas Open House</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://myspringbud.blog-city.com/right_to_health.htm</guid><link>http://myspringbud.blog-city.com/right_to_health.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 25 Dec 2007 13:21:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://myspringbud.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=right%5Fto%5Fhealth</comments><dc:creator>Anisah</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Right to healthBy Anisah25 December 2007&nbsp;Can you imagine how many grains of sand on earth? Then imagine that there are more stars in the universe than there are grains of sand on earth.&nbsp; We are then, but a tiny speck.&nbsp; So then why the]]></description></item><item><title>Sacrifice</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://myspringbud.blog-city.com/sacrifice.htm</guid><link>http://myspringbud.blog-city.com/sacrifice.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 21 Dec 2007 17:05:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://myspringbud.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=sacrifice</comments><dc:creator>Anisah</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Sacrifice!By Anisah &nbsp;&nbsp; 20.12.2007&nbsp; On the way home, I had the radio switched on to drown out the sound of silence.&nbsp; The sound of the engine, although an inevitable by-product of vehicle propulsion, was not a soothing alternative.&]]></description></item><item><title>Breaks</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://myspringbud.blog-city.com/breaks.htm</guid><link>http://myspringbud.blog-city.com/breaks.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 19 Dec 2007 17:21:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://myspringbud.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=breaks</comments><dc:creator>Anisah</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Breaks&nbsp; By Anisah 20.12.2007&nbsp; Eid Mubarak.&nbsp; Two articles ago it was Eid al-Fitr.&nbsp; And now it&rsquo;s Eid al-Adha.&nbsp; I managed to write once, on accompanying my grandfather on his last journey in this world.&nbsp; &nbsp; In bet]]></description></item><item><title>Death?s humanising effect</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://myspringbud.blog-city.com/deaths_humanising_effect.htm</guid><link>http://myspringbud.blog-city.com/deaths_humanising_effect.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 04 Dec 2007 04:36:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://myspringbud.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=deaths%5Fhumanising%5Feffect</comments><dc:creator>Anisah</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[In the midst of family, I sent my grandfather on his last journey at 2 p.m. on Tuesday, 27th November 2007.  He was 89.  He slipped away in his sleep, of old age. This is not an obituary, which will come later.]]></description></item><item><title>Eid Mubarak</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://myspringbud.blog-city.com/eid_mubarak.htm</guid><link>http://myspringbud.blog-city.com/eid_mubarak.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 16 Oct 2007 07:01:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://myspringbud.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=eid%5Fmubarak</comments><dc:creator>Anisah</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Opportunities don't come many times.
Go home.
Whilst memories are still warm.
When waiting is still meaningful.]]></description></item><item><title>lexicon</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://myspringbud.blog-city.com/lexicon.htm</guid><link>http://myspringbud.blog-city.com/lexicon.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 10 Jul 2006 14:40:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://myspringbud.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=lexicon</comments><dc:creator>Anisah</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Lexicon
by Anisah Sofia, London Monday, 10 July 2006
To my young nieces and nephews, I hope you're not hoping to read about unicorns when you see the title of this article!&nbsp; It is anything but (!) but sometimes it might as well have been.&nbsp]]></description></item><item><title>Hay Festival</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://myspringbud.blog-city.com/hay_festival.htm</guid><link>http://myspringbud.blog-city.com/hay_festival.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 02 Jun 2006 15:52:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://myspringbud.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=hay%5Ffestival</comments><dc:creator>Anisah</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Hay Festival
I shall miss Hay Festival when I have to spend summers and winters elsewhere.  Audio downloads of their events do give solace, some files are free.  The Hay Festival is an annual event in a place called Hay in Wales.  Com]]></description></item><item><title>article270</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://myspringbud.blog-city.com/article270.htm</guid><link>http://myspringbud.blog-city.com/article270.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 17 May 2006 15:46:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://myspringbud.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=article270</comments><dc:creator>Anisah</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Facts to get right
By Anisah SofiaLondon, Wednesday 17 May 2006, 15:14 BST
Many Malay Muslims felt angry enough to protest when a group of Muslims and non-Muslims gathered in Penang, Malaysia, to have a forum on rights of non-Muslims in Malaysia as]]></description></item><item><title>The future of Muslims and non-Muslims</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://myspringbud.blog-city.com/the_future_of_muslims_and_nonmuslims.htm</guid><link>http://myspringbud.blog-city.com/the_future_of_muslims_and_nonmuslims.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 11 May 2006 15:44:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://myspringbud.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=the%5Ffuture%5Fof%5Fmuslims%5Fand%5Fnonmuslims</comments><dc:creator>Anisah</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The future of Muslims and non-Muslims
By Anisah SofiaLondon, Thursday, 11 May 2006, 15:54 BST
I have met fantastic friends; Muslims who have a binary vision of things (Us versus Them, the two don't mix); Muslims who seek the common values everyone]]></description></item><item><title>Local Council Elections</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://myspringbud.blog-city.com/local_council_elections.htm</guid><link>http://myspringbud.blog-city.com/local_council_elections.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 04 May 2006 12:09:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://myspringbud.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=local%5Fcouncil%5Felections</comments><dc:creator>Anisah</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Local Council Elections 4th May 2006
Today, if you are British or a Commonwealth citizen residing in Britain, put on your sandals, it's very warm, 24 Celcius, you don't need to put on an extra layer of a pullover or a winter coat (!), and walk to yo]]></description></item><item><title>Berlalunya Pramoedya Ananta Toer</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://myspringbud.blog-city.com/berlalunya_pramoedya_ananta_toer.htm</guid><link>http://myspringbud.blog-city.com/berlalunya_pramoedya_ananta_toer.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 30 Apr 2006 13:32:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://myspringbud.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=berlalunya%5Fpramoedya%5Fananta%5Ftoer</comments><dc:creator>Anisah</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Berlalunya Pramoedya Ananta Toer, 1925 - 2006
Malay and Indonesian literature today bids farewell to Pramoedya Ananta Toer.  As I type this article, I am thinking of his and many others', in Indonesia and in Malaysia, Left-wing writers, who hav]]></description></item><item><title>Goodbye John Kenneth Galbraith</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://myspringbud.blog-city.com/goodbye_john_kenneth_galbraith.htm</guid><link>http://myspringbud.blog-city.com/goodbye_john_kenneth_galbraith.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 30 Apr 2006 13:12:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://myspringbud.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=goodbye%5Fjohn%5Fkenneth%5Fgalbraith</comments><dc:creator>Anisah</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Goodbye John Kenneth Galbraith, 1908 - 2006
Supporters of The Affluent Society would today celebrate the life and thoughts of John Galbraith.&nbsp; Opponents of government spending as being essential to economic well-being will today celebrate his d]]></description></item><item><title>Muslim Reformation</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://myspringbud.blog-city.com/muslim_reformation.htm</guid><link>http://myspringbud.blog-city.com/muslim_reformation.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 30 Apr 2006 09:50:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://myspringbud.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=muslim%5Freformation</comments><dc:creator>Anisah</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Muslim ReformationDocumentary by Tariq Ramadan.
I alerted my friend, a Canadian-Scot Muslim about this Channel 4's Dispatches' documentary.  
He replied, "Waaaaahhhh!!!! I wanna see it!!!!"
Friends in Britain, or with outside the UK]]></description></item><item><title>Farewell MGG Pillai</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://myspringbud.blog-city.com/farewell_mgg_pillai.htm</guid><link>http://myspringbud.blog-city.com/farewell_mgg_pillai.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 29 Apr 2006 16:08:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://myspringbud.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=farewell%5Fmgg%5Fpillai</comments><dc:creator>Anisah</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Farewell, MGG Pillai
Jonathan Kent, BBC's correspondent in Malaysia writes this as he bids farewell to Malaysian journalist, MGG Pillai.&nbsp; 
If ten so called &quot;journalists&quot; who could find it in themselves to put news about one of Malays]]></description></item><item><title>Long-haul MPs</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://myspringbud.blog-city.com/longhaul_mps.htm</guid><link>http://myspringbud.blog-city.com/longhaul_mps.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 28 Apr 2006 13:48:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://myspringbud.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=longhaul%5Fmps</comments><dc:creator>Anisah</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Long-haul MPs
By Anisah SofiaLondon, 28 April 2006, 14:27 BST
These are some intersting facts.  If one is Malaysian, the excitement comes with a twist of irony.  What analogy can I use to describe the feeling.  Can you remember,]]></description></item><item><title>Expletives by Malaysian elected politicians</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://myspringbud.blog-city.com/expletives_by_malaysian_elected_politicians.htm</guid><link>http://myspringbud.blog-city.com/expletives_by_malaysian_elected_politicians.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 24 Apr 2006 23:22:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://myspringbud.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=expletives%5Fby%5Fmalaysian%5Felected%5Fpoliticians</comments><dc:creator>Anisah</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Expletives by Malaysian elected politicians
By Anisah Sofia London, 25 April 2006, 12:06 BST
In the past, Malaysian MPs have used expletives in English and in Malay in Parliament.  They have been told  off in and outside Parliament, right]]></description></item></channel></rss>