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Saturday, May 27, 2006

Word Press

These days i'm experimenting with WordPress
It is nice and some features are really good, like import facility to import all your posts from many differnt blogs on to word press.
Managed to import from all my differnt blogs to make on nice Organized blog.
Like the categories option and also the book mark option.
Somehow its not very flexible with the look and feel of the blog.
Some templates are good, some terrible, some are nice but lack certain features and most of them are not at all customizable.
Have experimented with differnt looks, some how i still like this blogspot glimpses blog.

So not sure if to close this down and move on to word press, or stick to blogger....
chek out the experiments on:http://javeria.wordpress.com/

iN dReAmS...


The Emerald Isle
Originally uploaded by rajue.


IV alwaya had wierd dreams...i get the most exotic dreams anyone can think of! hehe if i start making movies out of them, they would be super hits im sure.

I usually tend to forget my dreams, after a few days they just dissappear.. but there are certains dreams i can never erase from my mind.
I usally dream of water.. im in sea, on the ship.. prob coz my dad is a sailor and i love the sea. But somehow , some dreams are so wierd.. so breathtaking..

i remeber seeing this dream where i was on the ship.. right in the front. the bow.. hehe NO.. this dream was Before anyone (meaning general public) had even heard of the Titanic.

It was dark, wind blowing on my face and right in the midle of the ocean was a huge carnival, beautifully lit up, with a ferris wheel, in the darkness of the ocean, that was like a galaxy on its own, and i sail past it, almost touching the ferris wheel...

One dream i can never forget was that it was a beautiful day, im again at the bow, sailing towards the most beautiful green cliff i had ever seen and right on its top was a castle!

Imagine my surprise when i came across this pic of Irelands west coast.. this is what i saw in my dream and i had never even seen this pic before.. let alone heard of the place!!

Some how ,in my dream my ship anchors right in front of the cliff and i step onto the cliff and the castle....

i so badly want to go there in real life..
Inshallah Inshallah will go soon!

Thursday, May 25, 2006

The Nether-World: Stop Starving Palestinians!

The Nether-World: Stop Starving Palestinians!

teRminatiOn sHoCk !


'Termination Shock' is the the out most edge of our solar system and Voyger 2 will pass beyond it into the interstellar space some time next year. :-) coool

"Scientists determined that Voyager 1 was approaching the termination shock when it began detecting charged particles that were being pushed back toward the Sun by charged particles coming from outside our solar system. This occurred when Voyager 1 was about 85 AU from the Sun.

In contrast, Voyager 2 began detecting returning particles while only 76 AU from the Sun.


"This tells us that the shock down where Voyager 2 is must be closer the sun than where Voyager 1 is," said Ed Stone, Voyager project scientist at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena." - Space.com, >>READ MORE


One AU is the distance between the Earth and the Sun, or 93 million miles.

Tuesday, May 23, 2006

SuRreAL sOLituDe...


SuRreAL sOLituDe is bAck...
http://surrealsolitude.blogspot.com

Of All the piCs iV tAkeN, tHis is My fAVe oNe... i dOnt knoW whY bUt it hAs tHat mAgiCaL fEeL tO iT....

LOneLy bY the SeA

LOneLy bY the SeA
Originally uploaded by
Javeria.


Ah! To be all alone in a little cell, to be alone, all alone:
Alone I came into the world
alone I shall go from it.

~Samuel Barber

Monday, May 22, 2006

tHeRe miDniGhT's aLL a gLiMmeR...


Lake isle of Innisfree
Originally uploaded by irelandseye.

LAKE ISLE OF INNISFREE
I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree,
And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made:
Nine bean-rows will I have there, a hive for the honey-bee;
And live alone in the bee-loud glade.

And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow,
Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings;
There midnight's all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow,

And evening full of the linnet's wings.
I will arise and go now, for always night and day
I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore;
While I stand on the roadway, or on the pavements grey,
I hear it in the deep heart's core.
~ W.B Yeates

Lough Gill is a lake in County Sligo in Ireland. It contains about 20 small islands, including the Lake Isle of Innisfree, Yeates was Irish and for a part of his early life lived in Sligo.

Saturday, May 20, 2006

wHat iF tiTaniC sAnK tOdaY??

What If Titanic sank Today?
Reaction from different countries:
U.S.A:
"A ship coming to Freedom was attacked by terrorists.We will not sit quiet and we will teach them a lesson.Bin Laden you can run but you cannot hide we will findyou and destroy your Al-Qaeda network."(President Bush........whoelse?)
U.K:
"I have spoken to the President of United States andwe have both agreed that the sinking of Titanic issignificant prove that Saddam Hussein is clearlybehind this attack, Iraq is imposing a threat to theworld and this has to be dealt with."(Prime Minister Blair)
Iraq:
"LOL!!!" (President Saddam Hussain)
Israel:
"These Hamas and other terrorist network is enoughevidence to say that sinking of Titanic is not anaccident but it was their suicide bombers who havecommited such a crime.We will now impose curfew on thePalestinians, detain them, exile them, kill them,starve them, destroy their homes and refugee camps."(Ariel Sharon....)
Canada:
"Titanic who?" (Canadian Prime Minister)
India:
"Is mein Pakistan ka haath hai. We have receivedpassports of Pakistani extremists from the Titanicdebris. Pakistanis will have to pay for suchhorrendous act of terrorism. We are now deploying moresoldiers to the border."(Prime Minister Vajpayee)
Pakistan:
"Sind may Double Sawari per ghair muayyana muddat keliye pabandi"(President Musharraf)
UN: "Shit happens right??"(Sec.Gen. Kofi Annan)
Survivors: "Uhh. Helllooo. Is anyone listening...it was an iceberg..hellloooooo."
(a forwarded mail)

Thursday, May 18, 2006

iS tHaT tHe sUmMeR sUN???


is ThaT tHe sUmMer Sun!!

yEs iT iZZ...

tHatS the deCepTivE UK weAtheR

Friday, May 12, 2006

StuPid things iV beEn aSked in UK

Being a Pakistani and a Muslim, i have been asked a lotaa strange wierd and stupid questions in UK....here are some of them i can re call... and things i would have liked to say.. heheh which obvv i didnt!:

How come your english is sooo good if your from Pakistan?
Oh! as soon as i stepped on the british soil.. i became fluent in the langauge in one day! im a very good learner.... (asked by many)

Oh! so you have O levels in Pakistan!????
NO! we still use leaves and leather to write on!! (asked by a bbcd)

OH so iS Pakistan very modern? you have shopping malls there?
No, we still all live in mud houses! and shopping malls?? what in the world in that?!
(asked by a bbcd)

Do you wear that(head scarf) all the time? do u take it off when you go to sleep?
No! i havent taken it off in years!! (asked by an indian girl at work)

Why cant i see ur hair !.. i wnna see ur hair!
ur gonna hafta marry me for that darling! :-P (asked by a guy at work)

are muslim girls allowed to shave their legs!!
Nope! theyr all hairy as an ape! (asked by my aussi house mates...they asked too manyy censorable questions which are un-blogable!... )