30
Nov
Posted by adikbongsu in Personal, Rambling, family, friend, society. 3 Comments
Bondings among siblings….can be great, good, so-so or just bad. There are times when the relationship is so good that you think you’ve the best family in the world. Yet, there are also times when it can be so bad that you feel isolated and hurt.
I have done and gone thru all these phases of [...]
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29
Nov
Posted by adikbongsu in Halaqah, Personal, Rambling, WITs. 1 Comment
In Singapore, majority of the government bodies and statutory boards have WITs teams in their organization.
What is WITs? Well, it means “Work Improvement Teams”….the purpose was to increase innovation and efficiency in one’s organization. But in recent years, I have noticed that most organization have forgotten the purpose of WITs….now WITs is being called “Waste [...]
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27
Nov
Posted by adikbongsu in Allah, Guidance, good deeds, islamic stories, moral stories. 4 Comments
A young man had been to Wednesday Night Class of Quranic Studies.
The Mualim had shared about listening to Allah and obeying Allah
through intuition.
The young man couldn’t help but wonder, ‘Does Allah still speak to
people through intuition?’
After Lessons, he went out with some friends for coffee and pie and
they discussed the message.
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23
Nov
Posted by adikbongsu in Guidance, Personal, Rambling, character, friend, self. 4 Comments
Today’s lesson during halaqah really touched me to the core of my heart. Coincidentally I had just finished attending the course “7 habits of effective people”. Surprisingly, the message during both these classes are similar. That to change, it must start with ME. Myself, myself, myself and no one else but ME.
Topic of how to [...]
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22
Nov
Posted by adikbongsu in Personal, Rambling, charity, friend, self. 4 Comments
These days, lots of things in my mind. Some good and some not too good. I have been thinking a lot about myself, the need to improve and yet the struggle and trial that I faced while trying to change for the better. The failures of getting rid of some really bad habit. Pretty depressing [...]
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21
Nov
Posted by adikbongsu in Allah, blog sisters, character, children, islamic stories, mistakes, moral stories, regret, repent, sins, society. 6 Comments
This story was published at the Shaw University Mosque website, North Carolina, USA
Bismillaah
As Salaamu ‘alaykum and peace to all,
Eau De Parfum – A Motivational Story about Forgiveness
That day I was with my adorable hyperactive 5 and 3 year old nephews. They were trying to demonstrate their ‘martial art’ skills which they have acquired from the [...]
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18
Nov
Posted by adikbongsu in Memory, diet, food, health. 8 Comments
Everyone forgets things from time to time. But for some people, poor memory can be a perennial problem. The brain never actually loses a memory. It records each one like a computer.
However, problems with recall begin when we don’t practise retrieving this information and so the memories we had become lost. The brain, like other [...]
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15
Nov
Posted by adikbongsu in Allah, character, moral stories, regret, repent, self, sins, society. 4 Comments
In that place between wakefulness and dreams, I found myself in a room. There were no distinguishing features save for the one wall covered with small indexcard files. They were like the ones in libraries that list titles by author or subject in alphabetical order. But these files, which stretched from floor to ceiling and [...]
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