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Author Archives: bingregory
Little tiny trees
Living in Malaysia and not making bonsai is like living in Minnesota and not snowmobiling. You’re just not taking advantage of what is on offer. With a 12-month growing season, plenty of sunlight and rainfall throughout the year, the slow, slow pleasures of bonsai come just a little bit quicker. It took me years to […]
David and Nor
American prisoner weds Singaporean in a touching story of international romance from 30Mosques.
What Fronds Are For
The mighty coconut palm provides an afternoon’s entertainment. The fronds (Malay: pelapah) dip low enough that the kids can grab them and sling themselves into the air. After an hour or so of swinging the frond is swung out and hangs limply from the trunk. It’ll take a few weeks until the next one has […]
Wasteful
It’s a fact. According to the FAO, Americans waste as much food at the table as South/SE Asians lose in their entire supply chain from farm to table! Put another way, individual Americans throw away 10-15 times more food than South/SE Asians. And that wastage is one driver for the global rise in food prices. […]
Mloggers has launched
Check out Mloggers, a muslim blog aggregator/ranker project by Omar Tufail of Deenport.com. If you run a muslim blog, you can sign up here.
Avatar II: Blue As I Feel
Synopsis of the upcoming sequel to James Cameron’s Avatar: Sulley continues to grow and mature as a Na’vi. We explore the wondrous beauty of the planet with him and the nuances of Na’vi society. But he begins to see aspects of the Na’vi he never noticed before that trouble him. He notices conflicts within the […]
And the winners are
The 2010 Brass Crescent Awards have been announced. Al-Miskeenah finally won!