Me Radia here!

Salaamz ppl. This is RADIA.
This poem, I wrote it at school because we had to write poems for Writing. We wrote a lot of different poems like around 4-5. This one we had to do about ghosts because we read another poem about ghosts. Then we had to write our own and make it totally different from the other poem. When I was writing this, I felt quite excited because I never really wrote a poem about ghosts & stuff. But poetry I really fun and I really enjoy writing poems A LOT!!

IT CAN’T BE, CAN IT? 29-06-2005

An evil spirit floats through the gruesome graveyard,
Of your backyard.
He silently floats through your front door,
And who knows what he’s looking for?
“It can’t be a ghost,” you say to yourself-
You huddle into a tiny ball,
As the ghost starts wailing, giving you a call.

Calling your name, he floats by your bedroom door,
And you know exactly who he’s looking for.
“Come here,” he whispers aloud.
It’s your imagination you think, but you have your doubts.
“It can’t be a ghost,” you say to yourself again-
You slowly get up and walk to the window sill,
But the world outside is silent and still.

salam ppl. M apu'r poem gula pore amar khub poem likhte ichcha korche. but sadly, i suck at writing poems. infact when i took creative writing. every fri. i had to write something. anything. and i used to write poems abotu how i cant write poems. anyways, M pu's poems had such a great effect on me that now, i decided to embarass myself by posting one of my own poems here.

ahm ahm ahm..................

Poetry & I

writing a poetry
is not my thing
it is so hard
i'd rather sing

I know nothing
about writing poetry
I guess we just
don't have the chemistry

I try hard
for my poetries to rhyme
but it takes too long
and i just don't have the time

Wow, this poetry rhymes
this is so amazing
I am so happy
I feel like dancing


ok..................lol..............guys, serious, i got a 10/10 for it. lol. hard to believe eh? well, it was creative writing. and my poem has some unique qualities. lol. to unique.

*sob in despair*

Did anyone know Taslima Nasrin has been nominated for the Noble Prize in 2005, doubtlessly for women's rights or some such rubbish! She is a disgrace to the Bangalies and to Muslim women all over the world. If you don't already know who this infamous women is, click here

"In her two-volume memoir, Meyebela, Taslima Nasreen sounds almost like a manipulative child writing what the west wants to hear"

I URGE YOU TO READ THE REST.

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salams again everyone,
i was just reading through brainy-peach's post about BLACK. that reminded me of a man in bd named Muhammad Shahnaz, and this is a true story. at around the age of 3 his legs stopped functioning and he bacame an untintentional hermit, i guess. but he had his education upto year 10 at home by a home tutor. but his education didn't stop there. he wen't onto complete college (ie year 11 and 12) close to his home. he wasn't content. he applied for university and got in. currently he is working in (i think) Shonali Bank as a manager (again, i think, i'll check it). he's married, and has three children all grown up. his story was shown on Ittadi, last year (once again, i think) and his advice to viewers and others was that people who are disabled like himself, we, the able-bodied should always cooperate with them, as his wife has through out their conjugal life. once, long time ago, in ophra, they showed a couple of girls who had speech and hearing impairment. one of those girls said something that i really like - "Handicap is in the mind, not the body".
Ma'assalaama
Emu Martian

Absolutely Vile!!! ... yet so tasty ... read on

Salams all
yes my dears, the emu is back on the web (it's hard to keep off, even with pocket monsters on the lose).
anyhow, to continue with my title ... this vileness i'm talking about is the shelling of ilish machh. if any of you shud b forced to do such an act, make sure that u wear full body protection for your own sake, if u don't want shells flicking on ur clothes and hair ... and having mentioned the flicking, i feel the need to utter - "aaaaaarrrrrrgggggghhhhhh ... get 'em offf!!! get 'em offf!!!"
HOWEVER, it all pays off after the cooking period. mmmmm, ... the smell of freshly cooked ilish machh...
and that was my vile, yet tasty experience in the beginning of my 6 wks holiday. how about the rest of u?

Bangali biral er dukho

All the cats from all wound the world gathered together for a race. Cats from all nations were there: USA, Australia, Africa, China, England, Madagascar, every countri in the world had a representative.

The race bagan and soon enough all the cats were astonished by a single scrawny looking cat that no doubt was the fastest cat there. Beating every cat in the world, coming first in this mega-international race was none other than the Bengali cat!

The shy little cat completely flustered by its win, was covered in prizes and applause from the Bengali audience. After winning the race, all the media wanted to interview this unexpected winner.

Answering each question at a time, it was the last question that shocked the world.

Media: So tell us your secret to such an agile body.
BD cat: Ashole, ami kintu bagh, na khaite khaite ami malnutritioned hoye biral hoye gesi.

This is Simpson's donkey, my fav from the Australian War Memorial: from left: Radia & Shomota. About Simpson's donkey: At Gallipoli,this guy named Simpson found a donkey which he used for carrying wounded soldiers and medical supplies. He became quite a hero...I reckon half the credit is due to the donkey dontcha think?

Two-who-suck!

“You know you suck”
“Who me?”
“Yes you”
“You suck too”
“I know but you suck more”
“You suck heaps”
“And you suck tons”
“You suck millions”
“You suck billions”
“You suck trillions. Ha ha that’s the last you can count”
“Well, then, you suck infinitely”
“Arrrrgh! You still suck more than me. Let’s see. You suck double infinity”
“Can’t have double infinity, there no such thing”
“Ok, you’re a super-suck.”
“Fine you’re the Queen suck then. In chess, Queen’s higher than the king”
“Arrrrrgh! Can we change the topic?”
“Su**-**re!” (suck-more)

what do you think of my master-piece everybody? This has been a great source of hilarity and amusement for me and Radia....life's meagre entertainment....

3D Magic eye

see if you can figure out the image hidden in this 3D puzzle!
Here's the answer! This image is embedded in the hijibiji.

1st day at work...

Assalamualaikum all,

It's been a while since I last posted something up. But I have some stuff to tell now, so I shall blog ;). I had me first day at work yesterday. Although it was only training, it gave me an insight into wat i'll be doing.

Well, firstly, the environment there is so friendly. Every single person is very respectful. Every hour you can take a 10 minute break so namaj isn't a problem. I prayed maghrib there and my team leader even reminded me at 5 that I had to pray! So no rpoblem with praying, I can do that whenever i like, especially because they are so laid back and free.

I have training again 2day - I make my first call... Dua korben shobai.

I hafta go now, 1st exam 2moro. Keep me in ur prayers.

Wassalam

If I'm feeling down and out, If I'm feeling blue :(

I've begun feeling depressed right after a happy event. It's been like this the past few days. My back hurts....like hell. I suspect most of it is due to sitting in front of the computer for long hours. Don't ask me what I've been doing. I've been wondering like a lost soul.....tormented.....agonised......hungry...unsatisfied..... Yet I cannot afford the luxury of wallowing in self-pity.....there is prenty of work awaiting my attention.

I've been digging through my stuff......stories.....poems, diary, scraps that were meant to be part of a scrap-book which was never made.......all neglected......unfinished......incomlplete.....in utter decay *sigh* Instead of solace, my gain was a deep sense of failure.......bygone times and opportunites, plans and drafts of things I never ended up doing......I'm feeling very old.......though I have no preparation for drawing a conclusion.

I've been laughing a lot these days.......empty cackles reflecting the vaccum within.......my back is hurting some more.......why does it take so much effort to share your joy? I can't stand your happiness.....in which I have no part....of which I am deprived. My woes no longer derive any response from you. I understand that you're sick of me. I have lost your sympathy. Yet, without it..................

Visit to Canberra

We went to Canberra on the weekend and stayed and giny and mou's (Mumtahana) place. It was 2 fun-filled days and late-nights. Najrul uncle took us to the Australian War Memorial and Telstra Tower. I grabbed a bunch of 'Canberra tourist attractions' brochures before leaving. Cant wait till we go back and cover all. (our own photos havent been develped yet)

Telstra Tower: The middle level (870 m high) is the public gallery, we went at night, it was way cool!

Australian War Memorial: Well it started off with Najrul uncle giving us a lecture before going in. He told us to think about the agenda behind showcasing the stuff in there. It was good though we were rushed. There were weapons, equipments, ships, aircrafts, personal artefacts of soldiers, life size models and also a short aircraft movie...and oh yes! we saw Simpson's donkey as well *lol*

I got the job!

Salams ppl,

Alhamdulillah I got the job I told u abt b4. Im so happy. Jazakallah 4 all ur dua's. I was so excited wen they called I couldn't concentrate on anything else, lol. But I feel so guilty wen good stuff happens 2 me coz I'm such a terrible muslim. But I guess things like this shud inspire us all to be better servants of Allah coz it is He who provides and He who takes away, rite guys?

Wassalam

How fast does it move for you?

Keeeeep loooooking.....

Something about slaughtering

Salams sisters

have any of u ever cn a slaughtered animal right after it has been slaughtered? if u did, i think u would realise how much the soul wants to remain in the body. if u ever get a chance to c a slaughter, look at the animal after the slaughtering (unless of course u know u'r gonna b sick). it'll make u wnt to take prepare ur soul even more to leave this world and make it easier for our it to go into the next stage of our beings.

may Allah forgive our sins and have mercy on our souls.

Emu

Stress and Depression: The Results of not abiding by the Religion

Salams every1,

I found this really interesting article by Harun Yahya. It's so relevant to most of our problems. Read it and tell me what u thought of it.

Wassalam

The state of today's Muslimahs: read the poem

Guess where this is from?

".....but I'll not venture a name, the sudden leaping of your eye to mine and the blackening of you expression recalls to me your warning that you would tear the lips of my face if I ever made another attempt at guessing it. Well, though my lips may not be well shaped, they are useful, so I think I will endeavour to retain them."

Amar mon kharap

Assalamualaikum every1,

I haven't written anything up abt wats happening 2 me lately so I'll attempt at riting something insha Allah. Lately I've just been upset about myself. I'm becoming so lazy and bad! I've missed so many classes at uni and I've left ALL assignments till the last minute. Now I feel like I'm gonna fail exams no matter how hard I try. Mon khub kharap. I've lost hope in a lot of things, esp myself. But I make dua that I don't lose hope in Allah (SWT) insha Allah EVER!

I feel so low abt myself islamically too because my imaan has gone down heaps as well. My AM report is very bad and has been that way for a while. I'm becoming a pessimist now - like Flynn. I was the biggest optimist I knew before. I really dislike pessimism - no offense Flynn. I just wanna be happy with wat i have and I have to stop making excuses that i know to be irrelevant.

Anyways, I dont feel like writing any more. Have to get back to assignment due tomorrow. Just started it a while ago (c wat i mean, i'm so dumb!). I feel like a loser writing this but i just thought it mite make me feel better if i write abt it, even though it may still be very obscure as to wat i mean.

U all take care and make dua 4 me.

Wassalam

Agonising Assignments!

Last night, I didn't sleep, ask mou. She's signed in msn at about 3:30 Australian time and I was still working on it. Finished at 7 in the morning, then slep until 9 and then went to uni! It was that HORRIBLE ETHICS ASSIGNMENT! Tell u more about it later. Now I got a 50% test.

Islamic Emoticons

Explanation of Quote

emu: the quote "Those who know they do not know, know that, to know is to know what they do not know" by Ibn Sina... can some one explain to me what it means?

I think it means people who think are smart think they know everything, they're blind to their deficiencies. However, what ibn Sina is trying to say, I guess is that, if you know and admit to yourself that you don't know certain things, that means you're a wiser person because having that knowledge about yourself is a kind of knowing, a kind of knowledge itself! Does that make sense?? Maybe others can supplement...

WORKING WITH IDIOTS CAN KILL YOU !

Stress caused by dim-witted co-workers may give you a fatal heart attack!
By KATE McCLARE STOCKHOLM

Idiots in the office are just as hazardous to your health as cigarettes, caffeine or greasy food, an eye-opening new study reveals. In fact, those dopes can kill you!

Stress is one of the top causes of heart attacks -- and working with stupid people on a daily basis is one of the deadliest forms of stress, according to researchers at Sweden's Lindbergh University Medical Center.

The author of the study, Dr. Dagmar Andersson, says her team studied 500 heart attack patients, and were puzzled to find 62 percent had relatively few of the physical risk factors commonly blamed for heart attacks. "Then we questioned them about lifestyle habits, and almost all of these low-risk patients told us they worked with people so stupid they can barely find their way from the parking lot to their office. And their heart attack came less than 12 hours after having a major confrontation with one of these oafs.

"One woman had to be rushed to the hospital after her assistant shredded important company tax documents instead of copying them. A man told us he collapsed right at his desk because the woman at the next cubicle kept asking him for correction fluid -- for her computer monitor.

"You can cut back on smoking or improve your diet," Dr. Andersson says, "but most people have very poor coping skills when it comes to stupidity -- they feel there's nothing they can do about it, so they just internalize their frustration until they finally explode."

Stupid co-workers can also double or triple someone's work load, she explains. "Many of our subjects feel sorry for the drooling idiots they work with, so they try to cover for them by fixing their mistakes. One poor woman spent a week rebuilding client records because a clerk put them all in the 'recycle bin' of her computer and then emptied it -- she thought it meant the records would be recycled and used again."

Published on: 03/19/2004

US military confirms Guantanamo Koran Abuse

International News
© ABC 2005 10:32 AM June 4

US military officials have confirmed that American jailers at the Guantanamo Bay prison in Cuba mishandled and abused the Islamic holy book, the Koran.

A newly completed military inquiry has found US personnel splashed a Koran with urine, kicked it, stepped on it and soaked it with water.

The inquiry was investigating five cases of alleged mishandling of the Koran at Guantanamo Bay, which houses mainly foreign Muslims suspected of terrorism.

In the incident involving urine, which took place this past March, Southern Command (responsible for the Guantanamo Bay jail) said a guard left his post and urinated near an air vent and "the wind blew his urine through the vent" and into a cell block.

It said a detainee told guards the urine "splashed on him and his Koran."

The statement said the detainee was given a new prison uniform and Koran, and that the guard was reprimanded and given duty in which he had no contact with prisoners.

Southern Command said a civilian contractor interrogator, who was later fired, apologised in July 2003 to a detainee for stepping on his Koran.

In August 2003, prisoners' Korans became wet when night-shift guards had thrown water balloons in a cell block, the statement said. In February 2002, guards kicked a prisoner's Koran, it added.

In the fifth "confirmed incident" of mishandling a Koran, Southern Command said a prisoner in August 2003 complained that "a two-word obscenity" had been written in English in his Koran.
Southern Command said it was "possible" a guard had written the words but "equally possible" the prisoner himself had done it.

Southern Command released its findings on a Friday night.

-ReutersSource: Reuters

salam guys. tomra jehetu keu kichu post korchona (munipu chara) i decieded to tell you guys about my interesting day. (since i have nothing better to do). hm..........summer started............really boring......amra jei jaigai move korsi, thik shamne amader school-er ekta meye thake. so everyday i have to see them sunbathe. gross.... oh, guess what. i finally got my diploma today. graduation-e ora only folder ta dise jetate ora rakhte hobe. anyways, i got my diploma, and a diploma card, mini diploma. i woke up at 10:10 today. and then this friend picked me up at 11:00. and we went to school. we picked up some stuff from class, and returned some stuff. and then picked up this other friend, who is a 10th grader. and we took her out to lunch. to pizza hut. and then dropped her off after 5th hour. um......yeah and then she dropped me off at my house. yeah....you know this summer is going really boring. i need to make plans. hey guess what, i decieded to learn to sew. i mean, then i wouldnt have go through the trouble of finding the right kind of clothes for me. i mean, you cant really get a lot of clothes thats covering, and loose, and cute. yeah......i already made this shirt. well, aunt-ra bolse je ota fotua. but i dont really understand the diff. ekta aunty bolse je unake amar ekta jama banai dite hobe. well dui ta aunty bolse. jodi bhalo banaite pari, then they are going to pay me. ekta aunty bolse jokhon ami ready hobo unake bolte, tokhon uni duita kapor kinben, ekta amar jonno banabo, ekta unar jonno. anyways, they were just encouraging me. but it would be cool to sew my own cloths. that way eid-er jonno purano salwar kameez porte hobena. amader ekhane ektao bangla dokan nai. hm...........and maybe i will learn to knit. ammu once showed me how to knit, back in 3rd or 4rd grade. but i didnt improove much, i still cant make anything, just can knit straight dorir moto, well, scarf, but cant put it together...............yeah....i allways make these plans for summer, but never accomplish any of them. Pray for me guys, so i can overcome my laziness and actually do something for once. anyways...........i am gonna go now. mom is trying to teach me how to cook. its soooooooooo boring. i mean who likes to cook? you cook, and you eat. it doesnt last. i like to make things that lasts. like cloths. but anyways, i should really stop talking about leaving and actually leave. so salamz guys.

What do you think is the majority of the peoples’ stand about what determines ethics/ethical guidelines?

For background, read 'Religion does **not** make people ethical'

Why is there two versions of the Divine Command theory and what is the impact of this duality?

For background, read 'Religion does **not** make people ethical'

Of the two Divine Command theories, which one relates to Islam?

For background, read 'Religion does **not** make people ethical'

From an Islamic perspective, how would you respond to Freakly and Burgh?

For background, read 'Religion does **not** make people ethical'

According to Freakly and Burgh, why cannot ethics be founded in religion?

For background, read 'Religion does **not** make people ethical'

RELIGION DOES **NOT** MAKE PPL ETHICAL!

Freakley, M. & Burgh, G. (2000). Engaging with Ethics: Ethical inquiry for teachers. Katoomba: Social Science Press. pp. 100-101.

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It is sometimes assumed by adherents of religious traditions that systems of morality must have a religious foundation. As a matter of empirical fact this is not the case. Although many people still use the words “morality” or “ethics” to refer to codes of behaviour that are associated with, for example, the Judeo-Christian or Islamic religious traditions, many of these moral codes are followed by non-believers who are able to justify their support or non-religious grounds.

For instance, it is clear that there are many people who do not accept the authority of either the Hebrew Bible or the Koran who nevertheless share the belief, expressed in those texts, that it is morally wrong to commit murder.

In principle, too, there are problems with the idea that morality can be based on religious authority, such as the idea that morality necessarily consists of God’s commands to us revealed either directly or through interpretation of sacred writings. On one version of Divine Command theory, God’s command makes thinks morally right or wrong, on another version, God so commands because these things are morally right or wrong.

Consider the first version, given the plurality of religions, the possibility that our interpretation of the many sacred writings may be mistaken, and the similar possibility that our conscience may not “hear” God’s voice without error, it is difficult to see how we can be at all clear about what is right or wrong.

And the second version leaves open the possibility that we humans can also discover, through means quite apart from religious observance or divine revelation, what is right or wrong.

Ethics, because it involves the search for reasons rather than authority, is not compatible with the first version of Divine Command theory but it may be compatible with the second version.

(The heading-linked article with provide further information as well as the basics on ‘Ethics.’ Notice the author’s portrayal or Islam)

Peeved!

I am doing an assignment for 'Ethics' as part of my teaching course and came across this text which made me think hard. I felt this was important for all of us to know and be informed about so that we better understand value of Islam and will be able to defend it better as well.

Please read the next post and contribute to the questions posed. I've posted each question as a new post so that you can reply as comments.

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