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It was in the early 90's again. I was in the class room in form one. We were learning Arabic, suddenly one of my classmate rise his hand and ask the teacher. "Is it true Zainab means cow shit?" The teacher, an ustaz, is one of our school's most notorious and one of the discipline committee, of course. When he's around even the funniest becomes humorless. How ever our friend here doesn't show any sign of joking, he gave a straight and query face confidently and convincingly. The ustaz pause for a moment draging the whole class to a complete silence, his eye balls move up and down as if he's scanning our friend for any sign of fooling around. After awhile, may be satisfied finding nor presence of joking element on our friend, he answered, "No, who spoke such nonsense, Zainab is a good name meaning desert flower". Everybody felt relief nobody got in trouble that day, and no body laugh at that incident even after class. Four year...

It was in the early 90's. I was sent to learn the Quran by my parents to one of our learned man in the village, we call him Pak Hamzah. It is a custom at that time in every village for children to learn the Quran after school and khatam (finished reciting the whole Quran with good tajwid) before setting out to secondary school. The school was his house, a traditional, Malay wooden house. We were to read at the hall, an opening where most modern house would sit the TV and sofa, but here is just an empty opening. There were no monthly fee nor monetary obligation whatsoever. We bring our own Quran and rehal (a contraption to sit the Quran), as the Quran is holy and it is unethical to put It directly on the ground where people usually stepped on. The T&L was easy, three hours, from two to three we recite on our own, new comer will learned from the senior and practice reciting in front of the senior, from three to five Pak Hamzah will appeared from the adjac...

I have another blog which I’m very active at and have a high number of readers, approximately 100 readers per post. There's nothing illegal regarding the content, just topic people love to read so much these days. For the past few years Google persistently attempt to get my phone number regarding to that blog by creating an extra door every time I log in. At that time however there is an option where I can click away the annoying request. A small link like those asterisks on weight loss products. Until last night, just after posting another controversial thread, I go about promoting the thread, and at one point I was logged out involuntarily. When I tried to log back in, a warning appeared, asking me to verify my account. We've detected unusual activity on your account. To immediately restore access to your account, choose how to verify your account.  Then, asking (again) for my phone number. The only different this time there's no click away button. Whe...