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Things That Make Me Happy

Posted in Art/Culture, Food, garden, Health/Spirit, tagged , , , , , , , on February 25, 2024| 4 Comments »

things that make me happy collage

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Mushroom Homes

Posted in Art/Culture, Flowers, Health/Spirit, Home/Garden, tagged , , , , , , , on October 31, 2023| Leave a Comment »

mushroom houses collage

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“An Evening Breeze”

Posted in Art/Culture, Health/Spirit, Inspiration, Nature/Animals, tagged , , , , , , , on June 30, 2023| Leave a Comment »

blue heron haiku

An evening breeze:
water laps at the leg
of a blue heron.

– Yosa Buson

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“The Wind’s Song”

Posted in Art/Culture, Inspiration, tagged , , , , , , , on June 16, 2023| 4 Comments »

poem about the wind

O winds that blow across the sea,

What is the story that you bring?

Leaves clap their hands on every tree

And birds about their branches sing.

– Gabriel Setoun

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Domestic Discoveries

Posted in Art/Culture, Home/Garden, Life, Nature/Animals, tagged , , , , , , , on September 29, 2022| Leave a Comment »

cats at home vintage paintings

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Sunlit Animals

Posted in Art/Culture, Health/Spirit, Inspiration, Nature/Animals, tagged , , , , , , , on August 27, 2022| Leave a Comment »

animal and sun illustration

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Colors

Posted in Art/Culture, Life, tagged , , , , , , , on August 13, 2022| Leave a Comment »

peacock wedding gift bag

A lovely wedding gift bag.

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Blue and White

Posted in Art/Culture, Inspiration, tagged , , , , , , , on May 27, 2022| 4 Comments »

blue and white collage

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The Pineapple Trail

Posted in Art/Culture, Film/Books, Malay, Malaysia, tagged , , , , , , , , , on February 28, 2022| 7 Comments »

the pineapple trail sharifah

Recently, I published my novel The Pineapple Trail on Amazon. I feel pleased and grateful that I have achieved this long-held dream.

This blog has been an important part of the journey towards this goal. So thank you to all my blogger friends, fellow bloggers and readers for being part of that journey. ( Thanks also to Goodreads friends for sharing their reading recommendations and insights.)

Here’s a description of the novel:

Two sisters, Safia and Nora, grow up in a town in Malaysia where the pineapple is king, where the fruit’s factory and plantation provide livelihood for the residents. As young women, they start their adulthood at the factory.

Nora is happy to stay in her hometown with all that it offers. Charming and bubbly, Nora has many suitors. Will she make the right choice?

For Safia, the older sister, a chance encounter with a glamorous woman unveils a side of her that she never knew existed. She leaves home to follow the lure of a bigger dream. Alone in the capital city of Kuala Lumpur, through her timidity, Safia loses the drive to seek her goal. Then she meets an ambitious young man who revives that dream. At a time when the city is brimming with new opportunities and new wealth, can they pool their yearnings and achieve all that they want?

The sisters tread life’s journey through expectations, unfulfilled dreams, joys and resolve. This is the story of their pineapple trail.

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Cat’s Day

Posted in Art/Culture, Health/Spirit, Home/Garden, Nature/Animals, tagged , , , , , on October 29, 2021| Leave a Comment »

antique cat collage

Today is National Cat Day. In celebration of the animal that is both lovable – babyish in its charm;  also mysterious – having preserved some of the instincts of its wild big cat ancestry.

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