Meeting online personalities in good faith

“We also forget that many of the current cultural practices of the Malays have been adopted or influenced by other cultures, and not necessarily Islamic ones at that. For example, Farish Noor, in his book From Majapahit to Putrajaya describes how the notion of derhaka (treason against the ruler) was ‘taken from the discourse of Hinduism and the Sanskrit language’. I’m sure we can list many other examples, if we sit down and think over a cup of teh tarik.”
-Page 31, In Good Faith

For the moment:
N/A-Massive Attack, Bjork, Tricky & Portishead

I am now reading Zaid Ibrahim’s In Good Faith*. Last night I had dinner with two online powerhouse personalities.

*My take on what Marina Mahathir said about the book.

Food blogger Lyrical Lemongrass who runs 4 digit a day traffic A Whiff of Lemongrass and Riz Ainuddin who works very closely with Fried Chillies TV, which generates 1.5million hits per week.

There’s a possibility that all three of us will document, one way or another, the outing. What I should note is that, despite the age difference between the three of us, we got along fairly dandy, extending beyond the one thing we definitely, initially have in common.

LL admitted her addiction without guilt. And accused me and Riz of being holier than thou when we concurred each other that while we all spend a significant amount of time on the ‘keyboard attached flat panel idiot box’, its an abuse we try to curb.

Addicts are, usually in denial.

LL suggested that I should pick up a book. I told her I have over 3 new books and 4 second hand books in my room unread. I explained, I do this because it gives visitors to my room that I am an intellectual well read person, without me having to say anything to them.

That was sarcasm. If you didn’t get it, go read a book.

At 4.41 pm today. I did. I suppose because of the circus of the Malaysian Judiciary at this moment and me neglecting domestic literature for a sometime now due to my anglophile nature, I picked Zaid’s book.

Whenever I have a random thought, whether for private use or in view to be documented here in randomalphabets, I type it out and save it in my phone as Drafts. Moments ago when I got to page 31, I paused and reach for my phone. As a hiatus can at times be a brief moment of reflection, I found myself saying,

Fcking amazing book.

I was about to continue with the book until I overheard two tame pre-teen female monkeys engaging in yet, another argument in my sisters room. As a responsible homo sapien, I went over on site to mediate the matter, only to find out there was a difference of opinion between the two mammals as to the best strategic approach to put on bed sheets and quilt covers.