From the eyes of a Bookworm

If you are so bored then its time to read something serious. This one is a contribution from a bookworm. A bookworm's view is heavier than the bird's eye view, becos, worm has no eyes.

Birds are so light that they can fly, while Worms are so heavy that they sink in the earth. That's why his view is always heavy metal type.

This particular bookworm like Russell very much, becaos of the mathematical interest. All mathematicians are like brothers.

When this bookworm is so hungry he goes feebling other books for some different taste. The one shown below is quite Nietzsche (pronounce as 'nice')

Karen Armstrong writes

This is a book that everyone of us on Earth should read, so that we understand the meaning of this life on Earth.

Karen Armstrong wrote in her Introduction of this book...

I hope to continue from here at a leter date.

UEFA 038 - Cliff Richards & The Shadows

UEFA 038 - Cliff Richards & The Shadows

Unexpected European Fabulous Adventure

The train brought us from Ramsgate to the

Victoria Train Station. We checked at the Bed & Breakfast counters and chose to stay at Kingshill Hotel in Paddington.

I remembered it was 40 Pound Stirling a night. The counter girl showed the map, and the way there by the subway train, which the English called ‘tube’.

It was an easy ride, although the map looked a little complicated, with so many colourful lines.

The hotel was a nice stay. We took a short nap and woke up around 11am. We ploughed the streets of Paddington and found an Indian restaurant selling briyani rice. It was 8 Pound Stirling per plate. It was an expensive ‘royal lunch'. We tried a plate, and found that it was a royal serving enough for 2 of us.

I had been studying the London map for places of our interest to be visited. In the list were Hyde Park, Buckingham Palace, Regent Mosque and the Tower Bridge.

I recommended my wife a bus ride, as we can see more of London on the surface. We bought a ticket that qualified us to take as many rides as we want within a day, which, I think was 30 Pound Stirling.

Taking the conventional red double-decker bus ride reminded me of the movie 'Summer Holiday' starring Cliff Richards & The Shadows.

Following the map and physical road names sign, I mistakenly brought my wife to walk across London Bridge, instead of the historically ancient Tower Bridge.

I must confide with you that I had always thought that the London Bridge that fell down in the children nursery rhyme was the same bridge as Tower Bridge. It was only in 1994 I discovered that London Bridge is a different bridge from Tower Bridge, because, while crossing the London Bridge, we could see the Tower Bridge nearby.

From London Bridge we walked to The Tower of London. We did not go inside the tower, but was walking outside and admiring its view. One of guards of the Tower of London, an Englishman, greeted us with;

“Selamat Datang”.

We were shocked and perhaps our faces showed it, that he went to explain that he had been working in Malaysia in the British Army for many years in the 60s. He demonstrated more Malay by asking,

“Apa khabar? Sudah makan? "

I had a photo taken with him.

Due to time constraint we sufficed by viewing the Buckingham Palace, Royal Albert Hall, St Paul Cathedral, Piccadilly Circus and Trafalgar Square from the bus. I regretted that I could not find the way to Regent Mosque. Westminter Abbey was out of my mind, so we missed it.

Breakfast at Kingshill Hotel was an interesting adventure. The bread was marvelously crispy. I liked the butter and strawberry jam.

After breakfast we took the tube to Heathrow Airport. We took the green line tube to South Kensington and then changed to the blue line tube to Heathrow. It was easy, but, changing station with luggage was a tough challenge. It was a long walk, up and down several staircases, before we could get to the right platform towards Heathrow Airport.





We fly via KLM from London to Amsterdam. On reaching the shore of Holland, I managed to peep through the window, to see the rough and fierce legendary waves of The English Channel eroding the sandy beaches of Belgium and Holland.

At Schipol Airport in Amsterdam, we had a long wait for the night flight back home to Singapore.

THE END

555 words Drafted on 07.04.2007 Edited on 04.05.2007 at 2153hrs At Woodlands Avenue 5

Squeezing & clasping of hands

Translation, Commentary & Explanation of The Quran
Chapter 18 Al-Kahfi (The Cave) Verse 42

The meaning of verse 42

And then it really happened that his fruitful garden was ruined, as mentioned in verse 40.

He looked at his two gardens, squeezing and clasping his hands in distress and regrets,

over what he had spent on his two gardens that are now destroyed.

He regretfully said,

"O wouldn't it be better that I had not attributed any partner to my Lord."

Recommendation for Wedding Feast

Extracted from the book Sunan Abu Dawud containing compilations of the saying of prophet Muhammad, the prophet of our time.