.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } bridge over troubled..., originally uploaded by tread. Why do we have to go somewhere... Why can't the journey be its own main purpose? The fun is not in reaching at a destination, but in the journey to nowhere! ~desh (11.05.2006) Read more
Sania is 20 today - Nov 15, 2006. She is out of her teens and also way below her best ranking of 31. Currently she is now 66! For Sania, she has gotten much returns from her ad deals over the years and she now seems to be messing up on her game itself! She certainly has the oomph and the sex appeal .. and whether she is a short skirt or a full body covering hijab, she makes news and have every guy's attention.... In the ad world, however, it seems that her "stock" may be falling if she doesnt improve her performance soon. Read more
"We need to keep the terrorists from entering our borders and deal with them where they are..." Bush and his coterie kept saying something to this effect time and after time for last so many years! Did they? Instead, if you were to carefully look - the villain of middle east - Iran President Ahmednijad was able to do exactly that to the US. He knew that he/his country was part of America's "Axis of Evil". So, what does he do? He creates alliances with Hezbollah, Palestinian extremists and the Iraqi insurgents and arms them. Meanwhile he is busy getting the Nukes from the Pakistani Government (oh well I know the so-called "renegade" scientist). Where does that leave the US? Read more
Unbeknownest to many of us, Google has been revving up its blogging platform - blogger or blogspot! Blogger was always the first - and permanent for some - blogging platform for almost all bloggers at birth! Later most bloggers moved on. Few reasons were: no categories tardy update routine not enough features Well things are achanging there. Blogger has come out with a Beta Blogger - which from my initial review is just awesome!! I love the thing because: Read more
Who says the Chinese aren't innovative? Here is a guy who wants to sell Beijing air during Olympics so sports lovers watching the Olympics on TV can hang a bag of "original" Beijing air around their neck and smell actual stuff that the atheletes are taking in! Pretty cool huh? Well, the Chinese authorities dont think so.. and this Mr. Innovation who wants to literally make money out of thin (or thick - with smoke?) air, is suing the authorities for hampering his entrepreneurial abilities! Here is the entire news: A Chinese entrepreneur is suing a Beijing trade bureau for denying him a permit to sell bags of "World Cup air" and for scotching his plans to bottle and sell "2008 Olympic air," a newspaper said on Thursday. Li Jie, who describes himself as chief executive of the Lunar Embassy to China and once tried to sell land on the moon, sought a permit to sell "World Cup air" for 50 yuan ($6.30) a bag to soccer enthusiasts unable to make the trip to Germany this year. His idea was that fans could hang the green plastic bag around their necks and breathe in the air while watching World Cup matches on television, local media reported. But the Chaoyang Industry and Commerce Bureau had rejected his application on the grounds that "special air from special places" was not classified as "an industrial category," the Beijing News said. Read more
"If you take out uncovered meat and place it outside... and the cats come and eat it... whose fault is it, the cats' or the uncovered meat?" This is what the Australian cleric Sheikh Taj el-Din Al-Hilali said to a congregation of Muslims during Ramadan. Transcript of his speech: Those atheists, people of the book [Christians and Jews], where will they end up? In Surfers Paradise? On the Gold Coast? Where will they end up? In hell. And not part-time. For eternity. They are the worst in God's creation. Who commits the crimes of theft? The man or the woman? The man. 'Women's responsibility' That's why the man was mentioned before the woman when it comes to theft because his responsibility is providing. But when it comes to adultery, it's 90% the women's responsibility. Why? Because a woman possesses the weapon of seduction. It is she who takes off her clothes, shortens them, flirts, puts on make-up and powder and takes to the streets, God protect us, dallying. It's she who shortens, raises and lowers. Read more
Another great verse from Sama Veda: There the eye goes not, nor words, nor mind. We know not. We cannot understand how He can be explained. He is above the known, and He is above the unknown. Thus have we heard from the ancient sages who explained this truth to us. -Sama Veda, Kena Upanishad Read more
There are many religious beliefs that either we do not go into detail or we just take what is told to us blindly. Here is an interesting account of how the pre-Islamic idols and symbols as well words formed the basis of some of the most important symbols within Islam itself. Some of them have been cleverly disguised but their origin seems pretty clear.. But before we go to the interpretation - lets go to the Wikipedia version: Many Muslims regard the Stone as 'just a stone'. When Umar ibn al-Khattab, the second Caliph, came to kiss the Stone, he said, in front of all assembled: "No doubt, I know that you are a stone and can neither harm anyone nor benefit anyone. Had I not seen Allah's Messenger kissing you, I would not have kissed you."[2] Many Muslims follow Umar: they pay their respects to the Black Stone in a spirit of trust in Muhammad, not with any belief in the Black Stone itself. Read more
Here is Ashtavakra Gita on what "freedom" is: The world no longer holds him. He has gone beyond The bounds of human nature. Without compassion Or the wish to harm, Without pride or humility. Nothing disturbs him. Nothing surprises him. Because he is free, He neither craves nor disdains The things of the world. He takes them as they come. His mind is always detached. -Ashtavakra Gita 17:16-17 Read more
This is a joke I just got that is simply hillarious!! Worth reading! Dear Husband: I’m writing you this letter to tell you that I’m leaving you for good.I’ve been a good woman to you for seven years and I have nothing to show for it. These last two weeks have been hell. Your boss called to tell me that you had quit your job today and that was the last straw.Last week, you came home and didn’t notice that I had gotten my hair and nails done, cooked your favorite meal and even wore a brand new negligee. You came home and ate in two minut es, and went straight to sleep after watching the game. You don’t tell me you love me anymore, you don’t touch me or anything. Either you’re cheating or you don’t love me anymore, what ever the case is, I’m gone. P.S. If you’re trying to find me, don’t. Your BROTHER and I are moving away to West Virginia together! Have a great life! Your EX-Wife. Read more
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