good morning. apparently my blog has been scoured by writers and directors and quoted aka copypasted. even if i’m talking about a theatre or a song or a book or a competition like a certain anugerah band, i’m thinking it’s my own views writing in a blog which i did not think will get to the first ten links to come up when you do google. i wrote something yesternight and today i got to find out it’s been quoted. my Lord, i’m only trying to be neutral. and that’s the thing, i trash something out, i got all these anonymous tags, i commented in my silly amateurish way, i got quoted blindly. it was ok initially but now i don’t like it.

but, that’s web 2.0. i know. well, it’s been said and done. all i’m thinking, this meagre theatric performance, has open up my own critical thinking system, and that’s a part of me which are rarely woken. and when this happens, it means, there is something close to my heart which is ‘mutilated in translation’ and quite simply, turned out wrong.

even though i said it was a STEP forward, they shouldn’t think it’s perfect. because eventually, a first step will set a benchmark and if there is something way much better than the first, the benchmark will definitely change. there is no need to be complacent in praises.

people often misunderstand sufism and mysticism. Captain Makh*doum personally, said it right to my face, “the path to sufism is not easy, you need to go through and understand the syariah carefully” the very system of syariah is simply said, difficult. there is no short cut i say.

i hope further plays which want to adapt sufistic elements, should be done with the utmost care and detail, up to the actors chosen and costumes, the lines of course, and take into account the people you are going to attract. for a circle of us, sufi is inseparable from being islamic. you don’t take it for granted. it’s not about laila and majnun, it’s not just about ana alhaqq, because once you misunderstand it, means that, you misunderstood it, that’s it. don’t take it for granted.

scary.