Thanks for dropping by. Both Engogirl and I had a blast meeting you and your wife. LWOB club?

Legends
Without
Borders…..

perhaps?

It was a pleasure meeting you and I love the blog. Don’t forget that by being to Santa Fe you have been officially indicted to the LWOB club

Thanks for the kind words and dropping by.

Peace be upon you, and thank you for your kind words.

I think that there has been a lot of misunderstanding about the hijab or in your case the tudung in non-Moslem countries. Luckily, here in Australia there have been quite a few government sponsored television shows that have tried to explain to the wider non-Moslem community what wearing the hijab is all about.

I think the more we know about different cultures, the better we will all get along.

i stumbled across your page on muslim girl in malaysia and yes, as the matter of fact i am a malay muslim girl still in university and i can’t stop smiling for your kind words on that page.

in malaysia im one of the blessed who were born in the city and is more exposed about other’s culture especially western. i have to say we girls likes to play dress and the west have it at best. so you see, some will choose to follow and some will stay put like you said in modesty. it’s all depends to how we were brought up. everyone loves who they are regardless how we were perceived as oppressed or freedom-less. it’s true just as others wear clothes the level of shame if we didn’t wear scarfs is tremendous as we were to show it.

but changing other’s perspective isn’t easy so i’d rather thank you for having to see us just equally as anyone else (at least)

for me it’s a motivation when a stranger understand you (even if not much a little) since you were so different in other people’s eyes..i thank you and im sure if you’re not better you’ll stay great as a human being

<3 from the girl in veil, kuala lumpur malaysia

Sorry but I didn’t have a good time on the “Vagabond” and I don’t feel predisposed to help them out. Here’s a link for other people who are reading this and want ot know what I’m talking about.

http://blog.allthedumbthings.com/2008/12/16/id-rather-be-blown-the-great-barrier-reef-far-north-queensland-australia/

By the way, if you’re going to use shots with people in them, for commercial puposes, you will need to have model releases. None of the images on this site have been “model realeased” so they can’t be used for your purposes any way.

I dont know if you can help my but I would dearly love to get your permission to use copies of the photographs that you took whilst you and your wife were out on the Vagabond Sailing Tour in Cairns for our website (which is currently being rebuit): http://www.cairnsvisitorcentre.com In keeping with the look and feel of our website I guess I would want them without the print added. We sell tours and we have favoured booking the Vagabond for may years but I can’t seem to access any quality images fromVagabond (such as yours) in order to promote their tour. At the end of the day on completion of our website I would be happy to add a link to website in favour,

Any assistance that you can offer will be much appreciated

Kind regards

Melody Forgan

I think that it’s part of the human condition to feel “that the grass is always greener on the other side of the fence”. Many Australians long for a sense of belonging to an older culture that they can call their own, and for that reason many go to Europe and in particular, England.