Pak Idrus's Blog

We have been told that to strike the Iron while it is hot. You can only mold or shape or have any effect on the Iron only when it is still Hot. At that temperature that Iron is soft enough to have any effect on your strike. Once it is cold there is no way you can have any effect of that Iron. This is just a saying, a word of wisdom but true to the happening of everything in life. Say if you are sick and the doctor ask you to swallow a pill and you said that you would do it later. It does not work that way. To get cured you must do then and then and not later. It the Now factor that is important.  I told friends many times that you got to do it now. I meant it Now if you want to be healed or cured. Most of the time they just take it easy. Once I told a friend to read the book [the answer to his predicament I believe is in the book] but his answer is that I would ask my sister to read it first and I would read it later. Recently I show several people who are at stage 4 cancer...

Yes Makan. In Malaysia, the word Makan is always in the mind of Malaysian. Unlike in the West, in Malaysia you can go and eat or drink 24/7. From the best of restaurants in the Hotel and Mall to the roadside stalls you can enjoy your foods the way you like it. There are always foods and foods at any time of the day; it does not matter, early morning or at midnight. Been a multiracial and multicultural country you can enjoy all the Asian cuisines, be it the Malay Rendang, the Chinese Chow Kwey Teow or the Indian Tosai or even the finest Steak or Lamb grill could be had anytime you like. Makan is always in the minds of Malaysian. The other day I was invited to a Hi Tea at the Mandarin Court Hotel in the City of Kuala Lumpur, a hotel that start operation in 1998 and is still around to served it loyal guests. I took the Grab taxi service and got there just before twelve thirty.  The Manager a Mr. John Yeo who had invited me greet me at the lobby of the hotel. I was then i...