INSIGHTS

So I've been away this holiday and all I can really say was YAY BRILL!!!!
My cousin decided to finally get married so the whole gang (and i seriously mean WHOLE 64 strong gang) were holidaying in Jhb. guess the brill part was the fact we all stayed together and kept the rest of the hotel up hehehe
so we arrive on Friday (8/12/06) morning and fortunately we able to check in early. Have lunch at my cousins place after Jumuah with most of everyone who made it up in time. the noise levels my family are able to produce is off the charts...

Getting ready for the wedding the next day was pure entertainment...imagine girls running around from room to room trying to get ready was hilarious...me i just sat and watched till I could use the bathroom lol the wedding was brill no doubt about that... This is almost the entire family missing a few people. I know not the best of pics but it'll do till i get a better one :)

We ended up at Gold Reef City the next day...I used the excuse it was my birthday and everyone had to do what i wanted...I so refused to visit another mall...argh...yah I know I'm a girl but that sure doesn't mean i need to always be shopping!

TO BE CONTINUED...

2. Shrek
3. Finding Nemo
4. Ice Age
5. Cars





.....And lots lots more not forgetting Toy Story...


*******To Infinity and Beyond************


(Yes I know they all Pixar films but what can i say they are really good)
And Yes I did not forget about Disneys classics like Aladdin and Lion King...but I'm looking at the new animated world.

Okay okay would some one please explain to me the concept of chain mail letters. Well in this case emails!!!I do not get it...like why would it affect me getting a guy or a happy married life or anything for that matter??
And the worse are the definite Islamic ones...Will me not forwarding it to other people make Allah love me less?
Whats with that?
Okay so I'm ranting and raving but seriously why? Whats the point and who the hell started this?

The Purple Romance

The Most widely recognised currency

The reason life is beautiful?

Are we, as people, forgetting that life is so much more then money?

Hey MJAD hope this keeps giving you ideas for a honeymoon if you ever decide to marry...
And to those who are and are planning one remember...The world is beautiful!!!

Oops that sounds so like my friend MJAD...he likes labeling his links as 'Concerning whoever'. O well this topic does concern friends and well how reliant are we on them.
Well friends and the whole idea of friendship is well beautiful, and horrid all at the same time.
You must be wondering what I mean by that right?

For starters my friends mean the world to me. Think I rely more on them then my family. I know it shouldn't be like that but it is true. Just the sense that they understand me better well makes it that way.
So were is the bad I'm seeing in the world of friends?
Its in the fact that people who some times you think are your friends are back-stabbing psychopaths who need to be institutionalised.
Other time its watching your friends life slip through your hands...you could have stopped it but you did not.
And even other times circumstances and distance makes them walk away from you and the friendship you had...

So my question is...is there a point to having friends?
Do we really need them ?
OR do they really need us?

If family never leaves you, why do you feel closer to your friends and not to you family?
then again maybe I'm looking at this all wrong...

Welcome oh beautiful day...
Yes people its a bright and sunny day in this wonderful part of the world...Durban...
So me out of here to enjoy it!
MWAH

Hey before someone thinks they are actually mine let me be kind enough and inform you they are my nieces. My cousins beautiful daughters...the two youngest from the four girls.
Yah its a load of trouble she and her husband are heading into :)

So its like early in the evening to some or late in the evening to others. With me its that time when my thoughts run away... the sleep eludes me and those who surrender to it I envy.
What am I rambling on about? Well welcome to the life of a person who is sleep deprived not because they are over worked but by the fact that the mind does not allow the body to rest.
Its a sad state of affairs but now I have this - the wonderful world of blogging - which some how is supposed to let you see into my mind but like who would ever truly reveal themselves to the world?
In this quiet period before the awakening of those in deep slumber for sehri, I type away. oblivious to the fact that my body needs sleep, my brain is pushing the boundaries of my mere existence and my soul cries within...SSSSSSSSSLLLLLLLLLLLLEEEEEEEEEEEEEPPPPPPPPP!!!!!!!!!
Okay enough shit talking time for some serious reflection...o wait that's the reason I can't sleep. Enough, Enough laters my people...

The Beautiful Dessert as we should see it.....
And God gave us more beauty and we man keep destroying!!!!!

The article below suggests the extent to which non-muslims view those of the Islamic faith. What is Jack Straw truely trying to accomplish?

Is his suggestions that we muslim women can be better at what we do by removing our veils and headgears?Does he honestly understand the reasons we wear it and does he think we are being hindered by it?

No Jack, that is not the case! We are in fact the liberated women of the world. We wear the veil and the scarf because it gives us the freedom to be who we are and what we want to be. It opens the doors normally shut to us. We are not lokked at for our bodies, but for our mind. We therefore know we are achieving what no one else can for who we are not what you see.

It is our choice to whether we wish to wear it or not. It empowers us and no one, not even you Jack, can take that away from us.

October 06, 2006, 08:15

A senior British cabinet minister said Muslim women who wore full veils made community relations "more difficult", sparking criticism today from Islamic groups.
Jack Straw, the former foreign secretary, now leader of the House of Commons, said a veil was "a visible statement of separation and difference" and that he felt much more comfortable dealing with people with their faces uncovered.
Writing in his local paper, Straw said he was concerned that "wearing the full veil was bound to make better, positive relations between the two communities more difficult".
"The Muslim community does not need lessons in dress from Jack Straw," said Nazreen Nawaz, of the radical Hizb ut-Tahrir organisation.
Straw said he had received a unanimously positive response to his request for Muslim women to take off their veils when they came to see him in Blackburn, the northern English town he represents in Parliament.

Concerns "misplaced"
"Most seem relieved I have asked," he said in his article for the Lancashire Evening Telegraph. Straw made it clear he defended the rights of Muslims to wear headscarves and that wearing a full veil "breaks no laws". He acknowledged that his concerns could be "misplaced".
"I thought a lot before raising this matter a year ago, and still more before writing this. But if not me, who?", he wrote. The Labour government of Tony Blair, the British prime minister, is striving to improve integration among Britain's ethnic and religious groups after suicide bomb attacks by four Islamists on London's transport network.

"Contact could overcome differences"
On Wednesday, David Cameron, the Conservative opposition leader, said many communities were growing up living "parallel lives" and that only contact could overcome differences. The Muslim Association of Britain (MAB) accused both political parties of pandering to anti-Muslim elements.
"Both the Labour and the Conservative politicians are trying to compete with each other. One wonders whether they are trying to appeal to the right-wing media," a MAB spokesperson said, adding he believed Straw's comments about the veils were unwarranted.
Abdul Hamid Qureshi, chairperson of the Lancashire Council of Mosques, said Straw would be criticised "from all quarters".
"What is he really concerned about? This is not helpful, it has got the potential to cause anger," he told the Lancashire Telegraph. – Reuters

Hearken to this Reed forlorn,
Breathing, even since ‘twas torn
From its rushy bed, a strain
Of impassioned love and pain
“The secret of my song, though near,
None can see and none can hear.
Oh, for a friend to know the sign
And mingle all his soul with mine!
‘Tis the flame of Love that fired me,
‘Tis the wine of Love inspired me.
Woudst thou learn how lovers bleed,
Hearken, hearken to the Reed!”
--- Jalaluddin Rumi---

These blogs are supposed to be what you want when you want it, Right?
Well apparently I have neglected my darling page and therefore have incurred the wrath of a certain friend who believes that since I have him addicted to this insatiable blogging situation, I am seriously not living up to expectation.
Well sue me for having such an extraneous life and therefore no time to blog as much as my dearest friend.
My darling friend, you scare me when you believe that I some how have an easy carefree life. But what scares me even more is that you may not have much of a life...mwah but I still love you.
I will dutifully resume blogging as soon as I have appropriated myself according to the many situations I have on hand. But do not fear your woman of words will articulate herself soon.

Many people have asked why I have not been around and why I have not done much with my blog...well for starters I'm totally new at this and I do not know how to change things or make my blog even better...
Secondly well I've been busy...its Ramadhaan and I have not had much time to do anything else.
Thirdly and ultimately the main reason is...I do not have Internet at home and its driving me crazy.

I am currently a media student and have been wondering what in fact is the influence of media on people and how much of what we see in the news is in fact true? What difference can I realistically make as a journalist? Why am I following this career path when I can do anything I want or set my mind to?

These questions have become so part of my thinking of late. Why? Maybe because of the difficulty I'm experiencing in trying to find a job. Well the main reason, I guess, is the fact that I'm vocal. I want people furthermore to see the truth and have come to the realisatioin that in fact the media including the news is in fact extremely biased and are so influenced by advertisers and owners that the truth becomes distorted.

Maybe I'm crazy. I feel like I'm up against a brick wall, but if I don't do something, who will? If I can make a start maybe more will follow.

Hi, assalamualiakum, Morning to everyone in the world on this day. i'm just going to take this oppurtunity to inform everyone that I'm entirely new at this and hopefully with time and help i can continue informing people of my splendid and boring insights.