<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xml:lang="en"><title>Latest entries from myspringbud.blog-city.com</title><rights>Copyright 2009 myspringbud.blog-city.com</rights><subtitle></subtitle><author><name></name></author><updated>2009-06-29T17:47:00Z</updated><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://myspringbud.blog-city.com/"/><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://myspringbud.blog-city.com/index.rss"/><id>tag:myspringbud.blog-city.com,2009:1</id><entry><id>tag:myspringbud.blog-city.com,2009-02-05:links.412152089</id><title>Out with the old, in with the new</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://myspringbud.blog-city.com/out_with_the_old_in_with_the_new.htm"><![CDATA[Out with the old, in with the new... Or is it out with the new, in with the old. Many people might simply just give up. People want politics to work for them.&nbsp; Not politicians politicking to warm the seat of governance. Health caution: the follo]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://myspringbud.blog-city.com/out_with_the_old_in_with_the_new.htm"/><dc:creator>Anisah</dc:creator><author><name>Anisah</name></author><updated>2009-02-05T16:04:00Z</updated><published>2009-02-05T16:04:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:myspringbud.blog-city.com,2009-01-19:links.412149029</id><title>An inspiration but potentially not miraculous</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://myspringbud.blog-city.com/an_inspiration_but_potentially_not_miraculous.htm"><![CDATA[An inspiration, but potentially not miraculous.Anisah19 November, 23:05, +8GMTLess than 24 hours away from Barack Obama&#39;s inauguration as USA&#39;s 44th president, and first black president (to be definitionally correct, non-white, mixed-race), m]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://myspringbud.blog-city.com/an_inspiration_but_potentially_not_miraculous.htm"/><dc:creator>Anisah</dc:creator><author><name>Anisah</name></author><updated>2009-01-19T17:37:00Z</updated><published>2009-01-19T17:37:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:myspringbud.blog-city.com,2009-01-14:links.412148236</id><title>Tribute to Mini Cat</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://myspringbud.blog-city.com/tribute_to_mini_cat.htm"><![CDATA[A tribute to the life of Mini Cat]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://myspringbud.blog-city.com/tribute_to_mini_cat.htm"/><dc:creator>Anisah</dc:creator><author><name>Anisah</name></author><updated>2009-01-14T12:50:00Z</updated><published>2009-01-14T12:50:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:myspringbud.blog-city.com,2008-11-05:links.412137428</id><title>American election</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://myspringbud.blog-city.com/american_election.htm"><![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]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://myspringbud.blog-city.com/american_election.htm"/><dc:creator>Anisah</dc:creator><author><name>Anisah</name></author><updated>2008-11-05T06:15:00Z</updated><published>2008-11-05T06:15:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:myspringbud.blog-city.com,2008-10-26:links.412135638</id><title>kunci hati</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://myspringbud.blog-city.com/kunci_hati.htm"><![CDATA[Jangan penjara hati ini
ia tak erti mencari kunci
cuma diam menunggu.]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://myspringbud.blog-city.com/kunci_hati.htm"/><dc:creator>Anisah</dc:creator><author><name>Anisah</name></author><updated>2008-10-26T18:06:00Z</updated><published>2008-10-26T18:06:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:myspringbud.blog-city.com,2008-08-02:links.412119380</id><title>Disordered world</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://myspringbud.blog-city.com/disordered_world.htm"><![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]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://myspringbud.blog-city.com/disordered_world.htm"/><dc:creator>Anisah</dc:creator><author><name>Anisah</name></author><updated>2008-08-02T19:00:00Z</updated><published>2008-08-02T19:00:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:myspringbud.blog-city.com,2008-07-15:links.412116092</id><title>Anwar vs Ahmad</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://myspringbud.blog-city.com/anwar_vs_ahmad.htm"><![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]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://myspringbud.blog-city.com/anwar_vs_ahmad.htm"/><dc:creator>Anisah</dc:creator><author><name>Anisah</name></author><updated>2008-07-15T16:25:00Z</updated><published>2008-07-15T16:25:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:myspringbud.blog-city.com,2008-06-17:links.412110702</id><title>Monsoon of 2008</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://myspringbud.blog-city.com/monsoon_of_2008.htm"><![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]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://myspringbud.blog-city.com/monsoon_of_2008.htm"/><dc:creator>Anisah</dc:creator><author><name>Anisah</name></author><updated>2008-06-17T15:45:00Z</updated><published>2008-06-17T15:45:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:myspringbud.blog-city.com,2008-06-07:links.412108354</id><title>Oily business!</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://myspringbud.blog-city.com/oily_business.htm"><![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;]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://myspringbud.blog-city.com/oily_business.htm"/><dc:creator>Anisah</dc:creator><author><name>Anisah</name></author><updated>2008-06-07T07:50:00Z</updated><published>2008-06-07T07:50:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:myspringbud.blog-city.com,2008-05-04:links.412100919</id><title>Yellow card for fly alone women</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://myspringbud.blog-city.com/yellow_card_for_fly_alone_women.htm"><![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]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://myspringbud.blog-city.com/yellow_card_for_fly_alone_women.htm"/><dc:creator>Anisah</dc:creator><author><name>Anisah</name></author><updated>2008-05-04T12:43:00Z</updated><published>2008-05-04T12:43:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:myspringbud.blog-city.com,2008-02-24:links.412085893</id><title>Cloudy skies</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://myspringbud.blog-city.com/cloudy_skies.htm"><![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.]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://myspringbud.blog-city.com/cloudy_skies.htm"/><dc:creator>Anisah</dc:creator><author><name>Anisah</name></author><updated>2008-02-24T07:16:00Z</updated><published>2008-02-24T07:16:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:myspringbud.blog-city.com,2007-12-25:links.412071920</id><title>Right to health</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://myspringbud.blog-city.com/right_to_health_1.htm"><![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]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://myspringbud.blog-city.com/right_to_health_1.htm"/><dc:creator>Anisah</dc:creator><author><name>Anisah</name></author><updated>2007-12-25T13:26:00Z</updated><published>2007-12-25T13:26:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:myspringbud.blog-city.com,2007-12-25:links.412071918</id><title>National Christmas Open House</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://myspringbud.blog-city.com/right_to_health.htm"><![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]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://myspringbud.blog-city.com/right_to_health.htm"/><dc:creator>Anisah</dc:creator><author><name>Anisah</name></author><updated>2007-12-25T13:21:00Z</updated><published>2007-12-25T13:21:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:myspringbud.blog-city.com,2007-12-21:links.412071185</id><title>Sacrifice</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://myspringbud.blog-city.com/sacrifice.htm"><![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.&]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://myspringbud.blog-city.com/sacrifice.htm"/><dc:creator>Anisah</dc:creator><author><name>Anisah</name></author><updated>2007-12-21T17:05:00Z</updated><published>2007-12-21T17:05:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:myspringbud.blog-city.com,2007-12-19:links.412070607</id><title>Breaks</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://myspringbud.blog-city.com/breaks.htm"><![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]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://myspringbud.blog-city.com/breaks.htm"/><dc:creator>Anisah</dc:creator><author><name>Anisah</name></author><updated>2007-12-19T17:21:00Z</updated><published>2007-12-19T17:21:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:myspringbud.blog-city.com,2007-12-04:links.412066091</id><title>Death?s humanising effect</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://myspringbud.blog-city.com/deaths_humanising_effect.htm"><![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.]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://myspringbud.blog-city.com/deaths_humanising_effect.htm"/><dc:creator>Anisah</dc:creator><author><name>Anisah</name></author><updated>2007-12-04T04:36:00Z</updated><published>2007-12-04T04:36:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:myspringbud.blog-city.com,2007-10-16:links.412050708</id><title>Eid Mubarak</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://myspringbud.blog-city.com/eid_mubarak.htm"><![CDATA[Opportunities don't come many times.
Go home.
Whilst memories are still warm.
When waiting is still meaningful.]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://myspringbud.blog-city.com/eid_mubarak.htm"/><dc:creator>Anisah</dc:creator><author><name>Anisah</name></author><updated>2007-10-16T07:01:00Z</updated><published>2007-10-16T07:01:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:myspringbud.blog-city.com,2006-07-10:links.311754202</id><title>lexicon</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://myspringbud.blog-city.com/lexicon.htm"><![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]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://myspringbud.blog-city.com/lexicon.htm"/><dc:creator>Anisah</dc:creator><author><name>Anisah</name></author><updated>2006-07-10T14:40:00Z</updated><published>2006-07-10T14:40:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:myspringbud.blog-city.com,2006-06-02:links.311726170</id><title>Hay Festival</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://myspringbud.blog-city.com/hay_festival.htm"><![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]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://myspringbud.blog-city.com/hay_festival.htm"/><dc:creator>Anisah</dc:creator><author><name>Anisah</name></author><updated>2006-06-02T15:52:00Z</updated><published>2006-06-02T15:52:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:myspringbud.blog-city.com,2006-05-17:links.311714324</id><title>article270</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://myspringbud.blog-city.com/article270.htm"><![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]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://myspringbud.blog-city.com/article270.htm"/><dc:creator>Anisah</dc:creator><author><name>Anisah</name></author><updated>2006-05-17T15:46:00Z</updated><published>2006-05-17T15:46:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:myspringbud.blog-city.com,2006-05-11:links.311709433</id><title>The future of Muslims and non-Muslims</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://myspringbud.blog-city.com/the_future_of_muslims_and_nonmuslims.htm"><![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]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://myspringbud.blog-city.com/the_future_of_muslims_and_nonmuslims.htm"/><dc:creator>Anisah</dc:creator><author><name>Anisah</name></author><updated>2006-05-11T15:44:00Z</updated><published>2006-05-11T15:44:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:myspringbud.blog-city.com,2006-05-04:links.311703421</id><title>Local Council Elections</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://myspringbud.blog-city.com/local_council_elections.htm"><![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]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://myspringbud.blog-city.com/local_council_elections.htm"/><dc:creator>Anisah</dc:creator><author><name>Anisah</name></author><updated>2006-05-04T12:09:00Z</updated><published>2006-05-04T12:09:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:myspringbud.blog-city.com,2006-04-30:links.311700076</id><title>Berlalunya Pramoedya Ananta Toer</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://myspringbud.blog-city.com/berlalunya_pramoedya_ananta_toer.htm"><![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]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://myspringbud.blog-city.com/berlalunya_pramoedya_ananta_toer.htm"/><dc:creator>Anisah</dc:creator><author><name>Anisah</name></author><updated>2006-04-30T13:32:00Z</updated><published>2006-04-30T13:32:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:myspringbud.blog-city.com,2006-04-30:links.311700064</id><title>Goodbye John Kenneth Galbraith</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://myspringbud.blog-city.com/goodbye_john_kenneth_galbraith.htm"><![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]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://myspringbud.blog-city.com/goodbye_john_kenneth_galbraith.htm"/><dc:creator>Anisah</dc:creator><author><name>Anisah</name></author><updated>2006-04-30T13:12:00Z</updated><published>2006-04-30T13:12:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:myspringbud.blog-city.com,2006-04-30:links.311699991</id><title>Muslim Reformation</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://myspringbud.blog-city.com/muslim_reformation.htm"><![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]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://myspringbud.blog-city.com/muslim_reformation.htm"/><dc:creator>Anisah</dc:creator><author><name>Anisah</name></author><updated>2006-04-30T09:50:00Z</updated><published>2006-04-30T09:50:00Z</published></entry></feed>