Festivities?

I was asked whether festivities were around the corner... I had totally forgotten about the following days... I guess I won't be celebrating... Already had a BBQ party last weekend... I did the BBQ... quite fun... Now I'm tired and have a cold... enough festivities till the end of the month...

Simple... To the point... always...

Touched...

So many things happen but we don't stop to realize the essence of each and every thing... sometimes we're busy... sometimes we're not looking... sometime's we just don't care...

But there are things in this life... from the poor person on the street to the rich man in his Bentley that people just cannot ignore...

The thing of the thing is... Each thing is a sign... A sign from the one who created this Universe... A sign telling you something... but most of the time we're tuned to a station of our choice and don't bother tuning to others because we have selected what we want to hear... The static in between stations means something... and that is what we as humans will never bother to understand...

And the heart sinks...

One week makes a difference...

I took one week off work to see if it actually makes a difference... even after my one month vacation... I just couldn't get back to work the way I wanted to... But this week helped me a lot I think...

This week I went to Dubai.. met some old friends and had sort of a good time... watching movies from morning till afternoon then going out with friends or something or the other... and then watching more movies till late at night...

How did that make a difference?

Well I guess it wasn't really the week.. or my timetable... It was the water... Even though I didn't spend too much time on the ocean (I wanted to though but got lazy after I saw the movies)... But I love the white sand... the breeze... the white foam... the sound of water splashing... but most of all I love the endless amount of water that continues throughout your view....

Beach is heaven...

Another year... Another wasted life...

If you have enough free time (which I seem to have quite a lot of)... just sit/lie down under the cloudy sky looking at it... and just think...

Think about your life... What has been done by you... and what people have done... and what you have done about what other people have done... Its amazing... not because you get to use your wasted brain cells in the last year... but because you understand how small you are in this world... Your significance...

It's like comparing the universe with the earth... Loads of different places yet to be discovered... So many people in these places with similar or different feelings... unique experiences...

While people celebrate birthdays, there are others mourning deaths...

Anyway, its quite comforting to have not been wished this year... Innocent deaths in this year have been more than innocent births and I comfort myself in this fact...

Everybody's a comedian...

I'm sure a lot of you have heard that some time or the other.. But here's where the problem is...

Everybody's a scholar...

Its just not true.. I've so many people talk about this or that but they just don't know what they're talking about (this does not necessarily include my guest last weekend)... No.. its a lot of other people that I have met either on the net or in real life...

So many people have degrees and certifications but when it comes to practical information they just don't cut it... They lack simple plain wisdom... My question is... Is there no way to judge a person's wisdom? Not his way of thinking... not knowledge... wisdom...

This world lacks wisdom... that is also a secret of the mind... a secret yet to be discovered by so many people in this world... a secret that lies in the dark... gathering dust... till its lost... completely lost... to ignorance...

Nice Weekend...

Had a great weekend... I had a doc friend come over... We sat and talked about all kinds of stuff... He's quite a talker... something he said:

Nothing is good or bad but advertising makes it so...

I don't care where he got it from it was the first time I heard it and it was perfect for the topic at that time... That made me think.. Why can't I think of stuff like that when I talk... maybe its becuase I'm not a people's person and I don't like to talk too much...

Silence is heaven...

Movie Cravings

I had DSL installed... Although it's not too fast its good enough...

One of my bad habits I have to admit is watching movies... and that too one after another... I used to do that in college and I have been addicted since... I dunno... it just puts me in another dimension... It's my high...

Anyway... I plan to retire early with a collection of movies and travel to China and live in a village with nothing but a generator that runs the TV and DVD player...

Aahhh.. heaven... :)

Death Penalty...

Thousands of civilians have been killed... and they are still dieing... but more importantly... Wicked men have been put to justice...

Or have they?

Recent overseas re-active attacks by the US after 9/11 have crossed the fine line of justice and wickedness... I'm not sure about you guys but we had some mean girls in our younger days who would make hopscotch lines according to their standards (and sometimes would push you over) so that whoever plays with them eventually loses... For some reason, US is very much similar...

Mr. Osama Laden has still not been captured... which was why Afghanistan was attacked... over one person? hmm... started a civil war... WMDs have not been found... which was why Iraq was attacked... over non-existent weapons? hmm... started a civil war... And now they say US policy doesn't cover civil wars...

Saddam was indeed a wicked man... but many others are just as wicked... But Saddam was sentenced not because of his wickedness... He was sentenced to make a statement... A statement made for the elections... A statement that failed its aim... But still he was sentenced... sentenced in quite an unfair trial disregarding sovereign immunity and disregarding the fact that Saddam was indeed financed by the US...

It is quite obvious from history that US has been using many countries for their interests... The thing that strikes me dead is why don't the country's rulers take heed of this fact... Are they so stupid... or so scared to do this?

Death penalty to all wicked rulers... Saddam, Bush, Blair and the rest...

To see or not to see...

1400 e-mails later... another 1000 something mails left to sort... I think its about time I take a break... from both work and personal things... and take some time out to blab a li'l bit...

Some time ago, actually still going on until now... The debate (not really a debate maybe a "talk") sparked by Jack Straw about Muslims not wearing veil because that obstructs communication... Aisha Azmi getting fired... and attacks on innocent veiled Muslim women... shows (i'm sorry to say) the ignorance and ultimate stupidity of the British nation... Especially where there was a time when woman not wearing modest clothes (possibly with a light veil) would have been considered "loose"...

Suck-ups like Shahid Malik (MP hopeful) and others from Muslim Progressive unions supporting them (i.e. the above) shows (again í'm sorry to say) the ignorance and ultimate stupidity of a people who cannot stick to their beliefs... And won't let those who do...

Let us say the veil obstructs communication... Then I guess a moustache and a beard would do that as well - hiding half of the face... I wonder if they are going to ban beards in public places... Or maybe sunglasses - hides the eyes... or worse both together... How am I to communicate with a person who I cannot see...

Oh but a veil is a piece of cloth and the face is an important part of communication... And what difference will it the piece of cloth make if the voice can be heard... What difference? You talk on telephones and cellphones, listen to the radio and chat with people on the net looking at nothing but your imagination... but you cannot talk to a person who has her face covered... Nice...

The question remains... To see or not to see... Or maybe it should be To veil or not to veil...

I sincerely hope those with strong beliefs do not change... It is only our beliefs that lead us through life and will eventually help us in the afterlife... Kudos to you...

It certainly has been a long time...

I can't believe I haven't written since August... Amazing... Maybe this is what they call Writer's Block (in a Blog)...

In any case, a bit of sanity has returned after a month of almost 0% technology... But work never seems to stop and we start another day either hating ourselves for getting us into whatever we have gotten into or loving ourselves for not getting anywhere and still having something to show for it...

Still there is a lot of work to be done... There always is... and for some reason the only thing that is done is not enough or unsatisfactory... But sometimes new is good... Improving yourself is the only way forward... and by improving yourself, you are eventually improving your surroundings...

Well I'll get back to work... More from me in the next few days hopefully... Stay tuned... :-)

Double Standard?

A couple of months ago we had people almost insulting Saudi Arabia for taking steps against the Danes for their "illegitimate" cartoons depicting their religious hero and Prophet...

Now we have people taking steps against a restaurant with Hitler's name... Why the double standard?

Breeding Terrorism...

There are probably thousands or more likely millions of innocent people out there who are suffering torture from other humans... Some in the name of religion, sect or just plain terrorism...

But why are these innocent people labeled as collateral damage?

Israel seems to not care if thousands of innocent people die because these Hezbollah fighters are among these innocents... Let's say that these fighters are among the innocents, what do we do to reduce casualty? Simply don't give them a reason to attack... Now while you are making a bold statement of destroying what Lebanon built over several centuries, you are breeding terrorism... You are making the terrorists stronger by giving them a reason to recruit innocent people and hand them a weapon to go after you...

Hezbollah doesn't care if innocent people do die... It gives them more of a reason to rebel... And if gives them more power... Because it was them who actually built all that stuff that Israel destroyed and they had gained respect of the local people which Israel has none of... Not before and definitely not now...

The same scene with America and Iraq... America and Afghanistan... America and Iran...

Stop breeding terrorism and that's when you will stop being attacked and/or threatened...

A post I made before.. I guess I predicted this war before it happened... Coincidence?

Ultimate Secrecy

So the World Cup's been done with, first time I cheered for a winning team... Buffon was amazing all time around... Zizou was good as well poor guy got a reddie for his headbutt..

Israel's attacking Gaza for a soldier.. I wonder what happened to the SpecOps and other units who could've done a smash and grab job rather than attacking Gaza's infrastructure, killing innocent people and destroying the government...

Anyway, life goes on... We are in our own world and live our own lives not caring about anybody else.. and when we do care we tend to send some money over to a charity which does as it pleases... We don't go out ourselves... We sit around watching TV changing channels from World Cup to Gaza to a Romance Movie to what not... Our conscience is dead... and we have murdered it... We are all guilty of involuntary manslaughter...

But why? We have been brainwashed by this world, this media, this entertainment and everything around us, to believe in our thoughts (their thoughts), act accordingly and to not think... It is our own willful blindness that has caused chaos in this world and it is going to be worse... and that is... the ultimate secret...

Rhythmic Explosion

Quite a lovely blog even though it just started... Rhythmic Explosion... Check it out...

The world keeps on spinning...

Time is uncontrollable... That makes age uncontrollable... but ppl still want to stay young... Why's that? What makes being younger better than being older? And what makes being older better than being younger?

Nothing... Nobody knows the time of their death and yet they strive their best to not think about it... Try their best to stay away from it... It's inevitable... Why bother? Why don't we learn from other's mistakes? We were always taught this as kids.. Learn from others' mistakes.. But we still don't... What does that make us?

We may want whatever it is that we have prioritized but we know that nothing is going with us to the grave... No matter how rich you are... No matter how poor... Mother Nature is going to swallow you...

Oh, and we don't think about Mother Nature... Where did she come from?

So many questions, very few answers... Blind faith is heresy...

Another update

Not that major but me friend Furqan's started a Techie blog... http://psandwss.blogspot.com

Major updates..

Lots of things been happening... *Indian Accent* Thousand Apologies *End Indian Accent* to my readers for not posting.. been too busy with this and that that I never got enough time...

Anyway... Major update #1... I'm taking care of my dad now.. He was down in a hole and couldn't get back up.. so I brought him over here.. Big mistake - yea I know... Anyway.. So my life's almost a living hell... He wants to be a major part of me life when he was nothing but a picture...

Yea so he's li'l out of it.. major head problems.. Wants to hug me for some reason and obviously I keep running away.. he's showed no affection in 23 years now all of a sudden he's my father...

Then he gets angry and accuses me of not having friends and/or girlfriends... Unfortunately he doesn't know its a choice... All my life, I've been befriended or only had friends for a reason.. and the main reason behind that is I'm sort of a predictor type... I tend to predict the person usually by reading the eyes... I sort of know what the person will be like and if I want to keep him/her I keep my distance...

Fortunately my predictions didn't work on 2 and a half people... Let's start with the half...

Indian girl... name's Saher... quite an interesting piece... Quite fascinated by what goes on on her mind.. She was half-predictable... That's why I ended it with her...

Indian guy... name's Sudhir... really nice guy... friend's with everyone... ran off with his girlfriend... got fake married and what not... I'm still in contact with him..

Indian girl... name's Shaina... not really beautiful... but fascinated by her wit and mind... Still in constant contact with her.. Very unpredictable...

Major update #2... You've prolly heard.. Gas prices are down.. do almost 1.5 times the distance with the previous amount for a full tank...

Major update #3... Looking for a good car...

That's all I can think of atm...

Brap...

I just wrote my mind out on a post and it didn't fly... Great.. Now I ain't gonna write it again...

I am worth $2,027,280 on HumanForSale.com

Another one...

Here's another one by Sheikh Hitman..


Down with the Muslims
Down with Islam
Down with Muhammadism
Down with Terrorism

This is what you get to hear
Silently everywhere you steer
What can we do but shed a tear
We're not capable to defend a spear

You get several types of us
Ones who accept the cuss
Feel helpless.. then just... combust
And then there those who discuss
Those who don't know about the fuss
Faith is prone to rust

But Muslims got sickness
Skulls' got some thickness
No quickness
Just depressed
Filled with sadness

World's gone A.D.D.
But you've got the key
Be Proud brothers and sisters
You've got the Creed
We tend to disagree
But our hearts should be free
Of hate for each other's family tree

Don't go on a killing spree
You have to get down on your knee
And pray to the One and Only
Then Unite the Ummah into a family

As a Muslim you've got responsibility
You're a trustee
in His decree
Only He
can guarantee
Your safety
from the sea
of fire, ready to engluf thee

So don't be an escapee
Don't flee
Don't waste time in Virtual Reality
Trying to look busy
looking for a girly
Impressin lots who don't take you to a higher degree

You're a Muslim
This is not your cup of tea
You'll say: "What do you know about me?"
But let's see
Brandishing a goatee
being a vendee
at Versace
Riding a souped up S.U.V.
Listenin to musical MP3

Where's our Modesty
Do we realize our inability
To practice what we are required daily
We just need extensive therapy
to bring us back to Factual Reality

Oh Allah Strengthen our Eman...
Keep us away from Shaitan...
Unite us under Islam...

- Sheikh Hitman

Banned...

Haha.. So my good friend Furqan tells me he's banned from MuslimGlobe just because he had confronted the Admin about something un-Islamic he was doing...

This goes to show the poem Furqan wrote was true.. Not only that.. I've asked him to write something on how Muslims hate each other based on what their scholars say...

Let's hope something will come out soon.. But yeah.. I laughed my head off when he told me what the un-Islamic thing was...

Nice poem..

The world is on automatic drive
Time seems so alive
Life is too short to waste
Mankind will soon be replaced

History repeats itself again
Break free of their mind games
Do they have no sense of shame
No to them its all the same

We Muslims should be a different lot
But we got so many weak spots
Tryin to be like who we are not
All in the name of freedom of thought

We Muslims don't understand
They have nothing to do, nothing to prove
We have to face our Lord
We need to prepare
coz we have nothing in our hands

We're proud to bear the Kalimah
Expressing love for Sahabah
How much do we really put in action
of what Islam teaches but only a fraction

Claiming Prophet's love insatiable
but paradise is unattainable
with only love and no amal (actions)
Muslim is nothing but a label
this life becomes so questionable

Do we really need to survive
When we aren't able to strive
To pray to our Lord
For His love noone can afford

We Muslims cannot see
We have just one enemy
Disbelievers waiting for you to snap
To use your shoulder strap
But we fall into their trap
Petty fights between us
Time to put on our thinking cap
And then start to unite
Not on words
But only truth

There is no God except Allah
and Muhammad's His Messenger (SallAllahu Alaihi WaSallam)

By: Furqan aka Sheikh Hitman

MuslimHipHop

So Muslims have rappers... This is something new...

Check out MuslimHipHop... There are some really good writers there...

And here I thought Music was not allowed in Islam...

Thoughts

Sometimes you reach a point... you don't really want to look back.. but you have to ... coz you have to correct those wrongs...

Fame is shortlived... So is wealth... Why do we strive for it... Because both mean success...

We have our eyes closed to the World...
Evil persists because of the indifference of the Good...
We humans... we stab each others backs... why... for fame... for wealth... for love...
Time's come for us to diminish to dust... just like we were... in the beginning... we were nothing... and we will become nothing...
Insignificant...
Why is it that when we speak truth it comes out as being different...

Me... Cynical.. Don't think so...

The Kid

So I read a book called The Kid by Kevin Lewis... A true story it was... It reminded me so much of my past that I sort of regretted reading it...

But once I started, I couldn't stop till I finished it... A very interesting read... Amazing how the same things happen to different people throughout the world... We are in for a test and we are there to learn from others, yet most of us keep things to ourselves because we think we are more important than the next person...

Hats off to Kevin Lewis...

You are Proffesor X!

You are highly capable of any task and you care

deeply for the ones surrounded by you. Enough

to risk your life for them!


Which of the X-men do you resemble most?
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Oh and I also belong in Fightclub... lost the code and can't be bothered to do it again..


You're Norro!

A Fun loving dude who can never be stopped! Your

energy and attituade are soo good that only

the best is in your future. It's a good thing

that only a few can keep up to you, or you

wouldn't be in a league of your own!


SO YOU THINK YOU'RE AN ADVENTURE CREW CHARACTER!
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Beatboxing

So I just recently discovered Beatboxing... It's amazing what people can do with their mouths alone.. If you're really interested in learning this art I suggest HumanBeatBox.. They've got great tutorials... If you're a beatboxer and live in Saudi lemme know..

Also, I came across MC Hammer's blog which prompted me to go and actually read about Tupac and B.I.G.

Quite Interesting... I read MC Hammer's blog coz I used to watch HammerMan as a kid... Liked those cartoons..

Updates

Okay, so the Communications exhibition was sorta crap...

The weekend was amazing... Went to Dammam Corniche... Took no pics unfortunately, but had a good time in the lovely weather over there...

Amazingly enough when I came back to Riyadh, the temperature dropped 10 degrees C... I was amazed to say the least...

And just when you think you've seen everything in this world... I found out about the Toilet Restaurant thanks to Saher Zainab...

Gaming...

For those of you who are online most of the time and have nothing else to do.. You might want to check out KingTuner... And if you are really out of it then you can join my club over there... Essentially what you need to do is buy a car and then race other people to earn money then buy some parts to upgrade your car and then race some more... and it goes on...

Other online games are also there... such as Kings of Chaos... and Fall of Empires...

Talking about online games.. You've probably heard of Gaymers... How icky can this world get?

A quickie...

I've been meaning to blog, but I always seem to forget the topic I wanted to blog about..

Anyway, so there's this Communications Exhibition that I really want to go for some equipment I'm looking for.. I hope to find it there...

There seems to be a problem with the server again... Ima go look into it...

Personality Test

So I heard about the Myers-Briggs test.

I really want to take it. I hear it changes people's lives... I want in for a free makeover.. except that it isn't free...

Try taking this. It's an adapted form of the above. Not accurate at all but still... I am an INTJ:

• distinctively expressed introvert
• moderately expressed intuitive personality
• slightly expressed thinking personality
• slightly expressed judging personality

Or in more proper terms:

• The Portrait of the Mastermind
• Introverted iNtuitive Thinking Judging

Not bad I guess.. I just need to think more... be less of an introvert and I need to know my strengths and weaknesses...

Introverted - 67
Intuitive - 38
Thinking - 12
Judging - 1

Sic Vis Pacem Para Bellum

"If you want peace, prepare for war"

This is so true... I remember we had a debate on Peace without war or something of the like @ college... Never took part in it.. not much of a debater myself.. but it was useless... Barely anybody had done their research... Didn't put up many arguments either... The Rebuttal was non-sensical.. and in the end we had to just laugh our heads off because noone knew what was going on...

But it is true... If you open a history book, you will find nothing but wars... ranging from basic civil wars to world wars... But why do we have wars?

To keep peace... People tend to group together.. That is how God made us.. in Groups... And we tend to have differences... but we were not created to fight each other... we were created to get to know each other... and develop a deeper understanding of Earth and why we live on it...

But that is not how human nature wants it to be... Humans are envious.. They are spiteful.. and it takes a lot to change this behaviour...

Knockoff Heaven

I went to a place yesterday where they sell Knockoffs... and I was amazed...

You see the same quality stuff you would in a normal store the only problem is they have a slight error... Like this one shirt, Old Navy I think it was... Fantastic material and everything... the only problem was on the size they wrote F rather than an M... I thought it was hilarious...

So yea had a nice shopping spree... Don't really like shopping but a man's gotta do what a man's gotta do...

Boycott

Yea so the Muslims are put on the defensive by publishing cartoons against their Prophet... and so the Muslims have taken it upon themselves to boycott Danish products... Too bad I used to like (actually more like addicted to) Danish Butter Cookies...

So here's my depiction of the Muslims in the current world.

Hope you like it...

Business

So I've got an idea of starting a business... Well who hasn't thought about doing their own business... But yea, the idea of waking up whenever you want seems to interest me nowadays more than ever... For some reason the past few days I've been coming to work late, its just that my eyes won't open...

So yea, back to the business idea, I see there's sort of a gap in the community over here and I think I can fill it up... Should be interesting...

I'll probably be around quitting my current job... But let's see what happens... It takes two weeks to get an approval on the business plan by SAGIA and they decide whether they'd like you to continue or whether your plan is BS... I had heard that you have to have around half a million Riyals to start your own thing, but then I contacted them today (from my current office - does that make me a hypocrite?) and the guy said that there is no such limit and I should just put in the application and see what happens... So I'll fill in the application and see what happens...

Hopefully things will work out... (as they say, InshaAllah)...

I don't get it... Why do people promise when they know they're going to break it?

I guess they're used to the feeling you get when you're lying and you know it... The feeling that goes like hope that person forgets about this whole thing...

I'm not a perfect person... There are many things I wish I didn't do... But I continue learning... And hope that other learn from me too...

Patience...

There is a time in everyone's life, when they love something more than what they had ever loved their entire lives...

Everything else seems so un-important.. It doesn't matter what others think... It doesn't matter whether it is right or wrong... The moment is full of purity... The moment is full of enthusiasm... The moment is full of happiness... The moment is full of everything good... The moment is full of all the good feelings one can think of...

Well we know what we were feeling but what were we thinking?

That's the thing... We don't remember... Maybe we don't want to remember... We try to block out stuff from our memory and learn lessons from it... It's definitely easier said than done...

As kids, we're always taught, "Look before you leap" but we, by human nature, want to feel in control... We don't want to think of the consequences...

What is done... is done... and there is nothing you can do to change the past... But...

It's only the wind, and nothing more... Not the end of the world knocking at the door... So close your eyes and dream again... Believe me... It's only the wind...

But do not just dream the same thing all over again... You should have learnt what you did whether wrong or right... This is called experience...

Experience is a comb which nature gives us when we are bald. ~Proverb

And then sometimes things don't go so well...

Even the best fall down sometimes... Even the wrong words seem to rhyme... Out of the doubt that fills my mind... I somehow find... Everything collides...

That's when you need patience...