Delightful Blackout

I just came back from Ipoh to my home in Bandar Baru Bangi  on Jan 30, 2013 7.30pm only to be greeted by a power blackout. The normal comments came out from me "blackout, what happening?" We just entered the house, lighted 2candles that have been dipped in cooking oil ( a technique  I learned to make the candles last longer), took out  all  the  luggages  and  performed  our Maghrib   prayer.  After  then  my wife,  my two daughters and   myself gathered near the candles, talked happily with my wife  and   played with the kids when I suddenly said " This is why during the yesteryears family are close knitted,  there are no TV (some family have SW radio),no internet, let alone electronic games during the night and after dinner everybody gathered around the head of the family to hear folklore stories, advises or better still religious lessons or discussions. The father during those days were like magnet and felt really honoured, drawing the rest of the family to hear the valuable voice full of wisdom. Family members were more or less free from overindulgence in the media and entertainment world. When we got so called advanced and well informed now, Almighty take away this kind of goodness, maybe because we are advancing and well informed in a wrong way!-Allahualam Musabab