Monday, November 29, 2004

Year of the Dog

Hi.This is for everyone born in 1982 known as the Year of the Dog in chinese astronomy.

People born in the Year of the Dog possess the best traits of human nature. They have a deep sense of loyalty, are honest, and inspire other people¡¦s confidence because they know how to keep secrets. But Dog People are somewhat selfish, terribly stubborn, and eccentric. They care little for wealth, yet somehow always seem to have money. They can be cold emotionally and sometimes distant at parties. They can find fault with many things and are noted for their sharp tongues. Dog people make good leaders. They are compatible with those born in the Years of the Horse, Tiger, and Rabbit.



SHA

Saturday, November 27, 2004

Vocab Genius

Got this in email today.It's a sentence of vocablary genius.You will notice that the Nth word is exactly n letters long.


The person who invented this sentence must be a vocabulary GENIUS.. Read the below sentence carefully...
"I do not know where family doctors acquired illegibly perplexing handwriting nevertheless, extraordinary pharmaceutical intellectuality counterbalancing indecipherability,transcendentalizes intercommunications incomprehensibleness".

In this sentence the Nth word is N letters long. e.g. 3rd word is 3 letters long,

Dont believe me
See for urself !

I
do
not
know
where
family
doctors
acquired
illegibly
perplexing
handwriting
nevertheless
extraordinary
pharmaceutical
intellectuality
counterbalancing
indecipherability
transcendentalizes
intercommunications
incomprehensibleness".

Don't look at me.I don't know what it means too.


SHA

Friday, November 26, 2004

Wrong Expert Predictions

Some prediction made by experts that were wrong


Charles H. Duell, Office of Patents, 1899Everything that can be invented has been invented.

A Boeing engineer, after the first flight of the 247, a twin engine plane that carried ten people.There will never be a bigger plane built.

Lt. Joseph Ives after visiting the Grand Canyon in 1861.Ours has been the first, and doubtless to be the last, to visit this profitless locality.

Albert Einstein, 1932There is not the slightest indication that nuclear energy will ever be obtainable. It would mean that the atom would have to be shattered at will.

Decca executive, 1962, after turning down the Beatles.We don't like their sound. Groups of guitars are on the way out.

Margaret Thatcher, 1974It will be years--not in my time--before a woman will become Prime Minister.

Business Week, August 2, 1968With over 50 foreign cars already on sale here, the Japanese auto industry isn't likely to carve out a big slice of the US market.

Popular Mechanics, 1949Computers may weigh no more than 1.5 tons.

Ken Olson, president of Digital Equipment Corp. 1977There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.

Western Union memo, 1876This 'telephone' has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication.

David Sarnoff's associates in response to his urging investment in the radio in the 1920's.No imaginable commercial value. Who would pay for a message sent to nobody in particular?

H.M. Warner, Warner Brothers, 1927.Who wants to hear actors talk?

Gary Cooper, after turning down the lead role in Gone With The Wind.I'm just glad it'll be Clark Gable who's falling on his face and not Gary Cooper.

Response to Debbi Fields' idea of Mrs. Fields' CookiesMarket research reports say America likes crispy cookies, not soft and chewy cookies like you make.

Hewlett Packard excuse to Steve Jobs, who founded Apple Computers instead.We don't need you. You haven't got through college yet.

Thomas J. Watson, chairman of the board of IBM.I think there's a world market for about five computers.

Admiral William Leahy, U.S. Atomic Bomb Project.The bomb will never go off. I speak as an expert in explosives.

Marechal Ferdinand Fock, Professor of Strategy, Ecole Superieure de GuerreAirplanes are interesting toys, but they are of no military value whatsoever.

Irving Fisher, Professor of Economics, Yale University, 1929Stocks have reached a permanently high plateau.

U.S. Secretary of Navy, December 4, 1941No matter what happens, the U.S. Navy is not going to be caught napping.

Lee DeForest, inventorWhile theoretically and technically television may be feasible, commercially and financially it is an impossibility.

William Thomson, Lord Kelvin English scientist, 1899Radio has no future. Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible. X-rays will prove to be a hoax.


SHA

Thursday, November 25, 2004

Random Thoughts

I counldn't believe my eyes when I logged into orkut for the first time.It was totally a different world.I found so many of my old friends from my school days and found out so many new things about my classmates (my new friends) from the university.Orkut.com really is a great site.
Anyways just wanted to say that the stuff I post is not always mine,sometimes I get it in email & sometimes I find something while surfing like the poem below.

Walking into the bathroom, already feeling the pull that comes after a long dry spell...
A cold winter’s night, saving on the heating bill, heater on low
The perfect mix of warm and cold water, definitely more warm than cold.
Hands under the stream, scalp tingly, the cold windchimes within-
intensifying the warm surrounding each finger
A thought: "forget that three time thing, nobody said twenty times was forbidden.
"Laughter, savoring. Looking into the mirror,"Why, hello there..."
Making faces, a pretend comedy show for friends, making them laugh
Mmm. The water just got warmer.
Washing the face now, warmth on the eyelids- one of the best feelings in the world..
Almost as wonderful as when a mother places cloth
on her child's irritated eye,
bringing her mouth to it,
and letting her warm breath through,
Soothing it with her grace.
Heaven is most definitely under that woman's feet.
Droplets lingering on the chin…
Arms are always the hardest; afraid they’ll be cold as soon as the water stops, they always are--until remembering to bring a towel to the bathroom.
Head, ears and neck, simple, But the feet
are another potential problem area.
Never been too fond of the whole water-over-the-sock thing.
cheaters.


alhamdu.......lilah The praise is............... for God.


SHA

Hijab

A Cool Conversation on Hijab!

"I'm so tired"
"Tired of what?"

"Of all these people judging me."
"Who judged you?"

"Like that woman, every time I sit with her, she tells me to wearhijab."
"Oh, hijab and music! The mother of all topics!"

"Yeah! I listen to music without hijab.haha!"
"Maybe she was just giving you advice."

"I don't need her advice. I know my religion. Can't she mind her own business?"
"Maybe you misunderstood. She was just being nice."

"Keeping out of my business, that would be nice..."
"But it's her duty to encourage you to do good."

"Trust me. That was no encouragement. And what do you mean 'good' ?"
"Well, wearing hijab, that would be a good thing to do."

"Says who?"
"It's in the Qur'an, isn't it?"

"Yes. She did quote me something."
"She said Surah Nur, and other places of the Qur'an."

"Yes, but it's not a big sin anyway. Helping peop le and praying is more important."
"True. But big things start with small things."

"That's a good point, but what you wear is not important. What's important is to have a good healthy heart."
"What you wear is not important?"

"That's what I said."
"Then why do you spend an hour every morning fixing up?"

"What do you mean?"
"You spend money on cosmetics, not to mention all the time you spend on fixing your hair and low-carb dieting."

"So?"
"So, your appearance IS important."

"No. I said wearing hijab is not an important thing in religion."
"If it's not an important thing in religion, why is it mentioned in the Holy Qur'an?"

"You know I can't follow all that's in Qur'an."
"You mean God tells you something to do, you disobey and then it's OK?"

"Yes. God is forgiving."
"God is forgiving to those who repent and do not repeat their mistakes."

"Says who?"
"Says the same book that tells you to cover."

"But I don't like hijab, it limits my freedom."
"But the lotions, lipsticks, mascara and other cosmetics set you free?! What's your definition of freedom anyway?"

"Freedom is in doing whatever you like to do."
"No. Freedom is in doing the right thing, not in doing whatever we wish to do."

"Look! I've seen so many people who don't wear hijab and are nice people, and so many who wear hijab and are bad people."
"So what? There are people who are nice to you but are alcoholic. Should we all be alcoholics? You made a stupid point."

"I don't want to be an extremist or a fanatic. I'm OK the way I am without hijab."
"Then you are a secular fanatic. An extremist in disobeying God."

"You don't get it, if I wear hijab, who would marry me?!"
"So all these people with hijab never get married?!"

"Okay! Wha t if I get married and my husband doesn't l i ke it? And wants me to remove it?" "What if your husband wants you to go out with him on a bank robbery?!"

"That's irrelevant, bank robbery is a crime."
"Disobeying your Creator is not a crime?"

"But then who would hire me?"
"A company that respects people for who they are."

"Not after 9-11"
"Yes. After 9-11. Don't you know about Hanan who just got into med school? And the other one, what was her name, the girl who always wore a white hijab.ummm."

"Yasmeen?"
"Yes. Yasmeen. She just finished her MBA and is now interning for GE."

"Why do you reduce religion to a piece of cloth anyway?"
"Why do you reduce womanhood to high heals and lipstick colors?"

"You didn't answer my question."
"In fact, I did. Hijab is not just a piece of cloth. It is obeying God in a difficult environment. It is courage, faith in action, and true womanhood. But your short sleeves, tight pants."

"That's called 'fashion', you live in a cave or something? First of all, hijab was founded by men who wanted to control women."
"Really? I did not know men could control women by hijab."

"Yes. That's what it is."
"What about the women who fight their husbands to wear hijab? And women in France who are forced to remove their hijab by men? What do you say about that?"

"Well, that's different."
"What difference? The woman who asked you to wear hijab.she was a woman, right?"

"Right, but."
"But fashions that are designed and promoted by male-dominated corporations, set you free? Men have no control on exposing women and using them as a commodity?! Give me a break!"

"Wait, let me finish, I was saying."
"Saying what? You think that men control women by hijab?"

"Yes."
"Specifically how?"

"By te lling women how and what to wear, dummy!"
"Doesn't TV, magazines and movies tell you what t o wear, and how to be 'attractive'?"

"Of course, it's fashion."
"Isn't that control? Pressuring you to wear what they want you to wear?"

Silence
"Not just controlling you, but also controlling the market."

"What do you mean?"
"I mean, you are told to look skinny and anorexic like that woman on the cover of the magazine, by men who design those magazines and sell those products."

"I don't get it. What does hijab have to do with products."
"It has everything to do with that. Don't you see? Hijab is a threat to consumerism, women who spend billions of dollars to look skinny and live by standards of fashion designed by men.and then here is Islam, saying trash all that nonsense and focus on your soul, not on your looks, and do not worry what men think of your looks."

"Like I don't have to buy hijab? Isn't hijab a product?"
"Yes, it is. It is a product that sets you free from male-dominated consumer ism ."

"Stop lecturing me! I WILL NOT WEAR HIJAB! It is awkward, outdated, and totally not suitable for this society ... Moreover, I am only 20 and too young to wear hijab!"
"Fine. Say that to your Lord, when you face Him on Judgment Day."

"Fine."
"Fine."

Silence
"Shut up and I don't want to hear more about hijab niqab schmijab Punjab !"

Silence.

She stared at the mirror, tired of arguing with herself all this time. Successful enough, she managed to shut the voices in her head, with her own opinions triumphant in victory on the matter, and a final modern decision accepted by the society, rejected by the Faith:

Yes to curls or blowed dried hair, no to hijab

Miss being a kid

Sometimes, I miss being a kid.. even though things weren't always so great.. there was something to look forward too.. adulthood sucks eh? There was always something to look forward to, an entire life that we couldn't plan.. something waiting around the corner of our teens.. waiting to swallow us.. and change us. Now that we're so much older, it's not so much that we don't have anything to look forward to. There's work, marriage, children, grandchildren.. but there's a weariness associated with it. The weariness of a soul that has seen much and still hopes for good times, but one, that misses the innocence lost. There are a myriad paths and none that distinguishes one from the other. It's like being in a haunted house. I'm in a room with a hundred doors in front of me. Life is chasing me, forcing me to pick one, and I don't know which one to pick because I don't know what each of them will lead to. People say, just close your eyes and pick a door, but they don't know the indecision and the agony that it could lead to. So much is resting on my choices. I almost feel like it's too late to not make a decision, yet, if I make a wrong decision, it's too late to turn back. I'm waiting for the wind to sway me into a particular direction, and open a door that fate chooses.


SHA

Monday, November 22, 2004

Post UR Comments

AoA & Hello ppl

Any random comment that u may have apart from the ones related to the posts(whenever they will be posted) u can put in here.

Thanxx

SHA

Ramadan

Falling ill is one of the worst things that can happen to a person living alone in pardes (foreign country). From our childhood we have seen...