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My! TIME really FLIES!
A major or minor sign according to MUSLIMS is the rapid flow of TIME...

IMITATING [as in "TAQLID"] the style of Western existential
writers like Camus, Sartre with their single-word titles...

THE COCKROACH
About a week ago I found a cockroach that was shedding its coat.
It looked white as milk & only "1 step" away from freeing itself
from its old covering.
[I didnt know cockroaches also undergo "MOLTING".]
It wasnt moving & I thought it was dead. I immediately put it
in a clear plastic bag with the intent of donating or even selling (! : ))
it to interested biologists/zoologists or students for use as exhibit item.
I let in some air in the bag.
After about five (5) days it was still stationary but it was alive.
The third day I was surprised to find out it had re-entered its coat!
I thought, "Gininaw siguro kaya bumalik." It looked naked in its pure
white state of molting & returned to its dark reddish brown usual appearance.
Two days ago I discovered it had escaped by chewing off the plastic.
I wonder where it is now. I entertain the idea that it might have been a "non-ordinary" cockroach. In ISLAAMIC tradition/lore they say JINNs can appear as animals.
But I DOUBT if one would ever appear as a cockroach!
I am more inclined to believe THE SCORPION I saw years back inside a room
in ZAMBALES was a JINN! And my cousin HERMIE's THE SNAKE in his bathroom...
More about these strange incidents/experiences later...
We have so many cockroaches here in the house that we kill at least two a day.
No, we are not unsanitary in habits but the house is really full of gaps/openings
that mice & cockroaches, spiders & crickets can go in & out"at will".
[Do animals have "WILL"?]
Of course, I kill mice & cockroaches while invoking the name of the CREATOR...
Am not really following the Hindu JAIN way but I BELIEVE I HAVE NO RIGHT
TO DESTROY OR KILL ANYTHING [ESPECIALLY LIVING BEINGS]
THAT I DID NOT CREATE...
One should realize how GRAVE it is to KILL a HUMAN BEING whether in RETALIATION,
as a JUDGE-EXECUTIONER or in MERCY-KILLING or ABORTION.
"EUTHANASIA" is a relatively recent issue in PHILOSOPHY & I wonder
if ISLAAMIC JURISPRUDENCE has tackled it & related issues...
Potentially verbose & contentious topix for discussion in this or another BLOG...

A few hours ago, we (including my aunt 8 mother) were almost arguing over why the
refrigerator was unplugged... Only my elder brother who is presently out of the house
& a distant male relative who did not sleep here for the night could have unplugged it. But these two persons have no REASON at all for doing this. Now WHO DUNNIT???... I told my aunt only the five of us could have done it. Of course I wil not accept that some other BEING did it.
I normally try to EXHAUST ALL MATERIALISTIC/SCIENTIFIC ARGUMENTS/POSSIBILITIES/EXPLANATIONS before adopting other MODES of EXPLANATION or alternative PERSPECTIVES.
NOTE: I DEFINITELY am NOT a NAIVE thinker because I have done DEPTH THINKING
FOR MYSELF & even reading into PHILOSOPHY OF MATHEMATICS, PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE...

THE REFRIGERATOR
Ours is an old G.E. refrigerator
[Old Joke:
Q. Why did the old retired PMA'er military officer salute every time it faced the refrigerator?
A. Bec. it was "GENERAL" Electric! HAR! We used to have also an "ADMIRAL" freezer! Were these model names chosen by PURE CHANCE/LUCK???]
that was bought in 1973 when we moved to MANILA from OLONGAPO, ZAMBALES for our secondary studies.

DIGRESSION
I was born in Olongapo (where my late aunt owned a business/property given to her
by Americans & where my late father worked as a civilian employee of the U.S. Naval Base
at Subic) & lived there up to Grade 6. I have lived in Manila since 1973 but have also
stayed for some length of time in Batangas. Batangas-Manila-Zambales...
Our ancestral home is in ALITAGTAG, Batangas which we consider our real place of origin...
POSSIBLE BLOG TOPIC: MIGRATION & ORIGINS/TRIBAL AFFILIATIONS & IDENTITY
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DALAM BAHASA MALAYU: NENEK MOYANG SAYA atau SAYA BERASAL DARI BATANGAN/WANGSA atau DAERAH atau TANAH BATANGAN-TAGA-ILOG.]
---Statement INI UNTUK ORANG-ORANG NUSANTARA---...]
KALAU/JIKA SEORANG MAU BACA POSTINGS SAYA DIA HARUS BISA BACA BAHASA ARAB, INGGRIS, MALAYU DAN TAGALOG - SEMUAH PIDGIN!!!
DAN DIA HARUS JUGA SUKA BERMAKAN MAKANAN2 ARAB DAN INDO-MALAYU HAR!
========================================================================
NOTE: the BATANGANS (Batanguenos) are well known travelling businessmen.
Traditional MINDANAW MORO brothers have told me even in KUTAWATO there are BATANGANs...
[Am reminded of a fellow BATANGAN revert (Namatay na) who was (IN)famous for his technique of what I would call HOLD-UP (as in HOLD-UPPER!) DA'WAH.
Traditional MUSLIMS especially DAIs/DAIYAHS mught be wondering if there is such a thing!
Extremely SERIOUS topic especially for ULAMA but equally EXTREMELY FUNNY HAR! HAR!
END OF LENGTHY DIGRESSION

COMPARE prices: the ref, cooking range/oven, dining table & chairs & air-con (last item?-unsure) were all bought for the total cost of P5000 only in 1973!
[OTHER POSSIBLE BLOG TOPIX: ECONOMIX especially the DOLLAR EXCHANGE RATE,
GLOBAL, REGIONAL & LOCAL ECONOMY, MONEY AS COMMODITY etc...
There is more to this refrigerator thing because it has a role to play in my OCCULT story
about the death of my maternal grandmother in 1976...

TO BE CONTINUED