For people or for GOD?

I am quite furious .. I dont know what people think of themselves. Do you think piousness is demonstrated on the cost of a public display of your affection towards God?? NO .. Never. But would somebody explain this to the farcist extremist Moulanas in the numerous mosques?
Islam is a religion of peace and harmony. But as the occasion of the Prophet's birth nears by, every nook and corner of my city is full of blaring voices. There are kids, elders and what nots, all busy reciting hymns and naats. Fine .. fair enough .. but can you imagine the extent to which they are going on and about? Listening to their mixed up voices, it may seem that they are rather competing for who's the loudest or the best one amongst them. And this goes on and about everyday .. until ofcourse the loadshedding disrupts them and leaves us with some peace. I wonder with pity about those residencies which lie next to these mosques. Those people wouldn't be able to converse with each other in normal tones so one can only imagine how badly affected their daily lives would be.
As if this wasnt enough, we have the on going rallies of different groups daily. Either the reason is purely political or religious or rather a protest .. but the common man suffers with road blocks, altered bus routes and eventually reaching late to his workplace.
Religion is one's personal domain within that person and God. To mutilate it with such public demonstrations is simply an offense to the notion of piousness. The most ridiculous thing is that as soon as the occasion is over, all the noises subside, waiting for yet another such occasion to come up prior to which the torment begins again. Praising God with beautiful hymns would maintain their simplicity if it is done with gratitude, humility and affection.
I may go on and on about this .. but to handle matters simply, just ask yourselves: Who are we doing this for? For people or for GOD? If its for GOD, then he's closer to us than anything else, a whispered prayer can do magnitude of effects as compared to a blare-up flare-up. Noise pollution remains noise pollution .. whether its with a movie song or an over-loud hymn!

Back with a bang!

Sounds cliched but its true guys .. I was away on an exam break but now I assure you full entertainment on my blog. Talking about exams first, let me update you guys on what happened. I had my final exams of the final graduating year, so definitely I wasn't too high on studying. Afterall, its a psyche that you actually don't feel like studying for the last of all exams.
Anyway, so like I said, I was low on preparation. If you had read my pre-exam blog, you would recall how I love the adrenaline surge it gives me. This time however, I had to undergo series of unfortunate events. After my initial two exams (which by the way were the toughest), I had a bone stuck in my throat. We had to rush to an ENT to get it removed. There, in the theatre, while I was undergoing laryngoscopy, I simply had one thought in mind.. I somehow had to get rid of the bone. There was no chance that I was going to miss my exam the other day. Finally, on the 6th attempt, I coughed it out along with lots of blood and other goey stuff.
This left me wounded badly. Now, with my throat injured and the my mouth ulcerated, you can only imagine how well prepared it left me.
As if the dilemma wasn't enough, I had a viral infection soon after my vivas began. A never ending fever, bad cough and flu .. this wasn't all I was deemed too have. Soon, my throat got so bad that my voice sounded all cracked up. Pretty worse than the crows perched outside my window. Heck I sounded funny when the examiner asked me questions!
Well, that done too .. it was the first time I wasn't well during exams so that was pretty hectic. I wouldn't cry over it now that I have spilled it all about .. but one thing's positive about this .. for which I might be ever grateful to nature. lol .. I LOST WEIGHT!! hehe thats the best part of being sick .. and the loveliest is, when people comment on how weak these exams have left me! Afterall, what these exams did to me wasn't achieved by 3 months of workouts! Great going eh?

6 good things to learn today ..

You are The High Priestess

Science, Wisdom, Knowledge, Education.

The High Priestess is the card of knowledge, instinctual, supernatural, secret knowledge. She holds scrolls of arcane information that she might, or might not reveal to you. The moon crown on her head as well as the crescent by her foot indicates her willingness to illuminate what you otherwise might not see, reveal the secrets you need to know. The High Priestess is also associated with the moon however and can also indicate change or fluxuation, particularily when it comes to your moods.

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FREEDOM mocks at me!

"The trend for this New Year is freedom ...." This was the ending note of a TV show host of High Life Dubai - a show that boasts and haunts the elite. The remaining lines drained off as I tried to digest what the host meant. Dressed in a deep burgundy, spaghetti strapped silk gown, this host actually meant what she said.
After a long day, with the newspaper in my hand and skimming through multiple channels, I had not given this line a second thought until I sat down in the haven of my newspaper again. The words FREEDOM mocked at me as I read about the world happenings. The bombardments in Gaza, where thousands are suffering. The pictures in the paper depicted nothing of the FREEDOM that this host had anticipated for the upcoming year. Ask somebody who saw his family die, ask those whose shelters were bombed or rather ask those whose lives have been crippled. The memories etched in these young minds would haunt these people for a thousand years. Try talking about FREEDOM with these innocent souls, and you'll meet their empty,lifeless,hopeless gaze, wondering where on Earth are you from. For them, this has been their world all their lives. They grew up with curfews, never knowing if death was around the corner. The happy shrieks of their laughter have been numbed by mournful cries of yearning. The sounds of gunfire are no more un-nerving. The deserted streets are no more strange.
Living on the same planet, our worlds are miles apart. The air we breathe doesn't smell of gun smoke. The water we drink is not filthy with someone's blood. We might be lucky but are we free? Had we been granted with FREEDOM, our words would not have been un heard. The worldwide protests for Gaza had no impact on the governments. Infact, this on-going human slaughter house practically has no end to it. The governments which can help are not bothered by the Gaza happenings. They are probably too busy blaming people for terrorism, finding ways to boost their economies, ruling developing world by their 'divide and rule policy' and probably charting up methodologies to encounter yet another devastated country. Isn't this terrorrizing enough?

The Rocket Principle .. :P

"Great students like us work on the principle of rockets, it doesn't mean we aim for the skies. It means, we don't start studying till our tails are on fire."

Hey guys,

This is the first blog on this site. I dont know if I'll get you guys clicking. Now first, dont get scared when you see my webpage's title: the individual,family and society. I am definitely not going to waste your time into Darwinism or his theories. Nor, am I going to blabber about the evils of society and how things SHOULD be. For all I believe, things are the way we want them to be. Well, anyway, my aim would be to write about anything inspiring, reality based that I come across daily.

Say for example, my brother told me the starting quote when I sat down to write this up. And there it clicked, as I mocked upon myself: Wow! Here I am doing this blog writing, when this Monday I have my Final Exams! .. lol

I donot boast when I say that it's been half my educational life where last moment cramming has been my ultimate tool to clear an exam. I dont understand how people sit hours and nights, months before their exams, preparing!! Preparing for what?? It's not like you are off to a war where you got to display your brave acts. Get real!!! When you have tuitions to give, home chores to take care of, TV serials to watch, facebooking to do, then how would you end up concentrating on studies? Well, even if you cut down supposed time-wasters, you just cant sit and let all the studying drone you down.

I actually love it when I am out of time and have lots of study. It's kind of re-freshing. The adrenaline surge that it gives! Try it someday. Its better than any marijuana on the block. This part in its real sense gives me a challenge, that I would want to fulfill, be it in an hour or a sleepless night. The real joy then comes from succeeding in that exam, which thank God I have uptil now.

However, when I sit down to reflect it later, I do realize one thing: It would have been distinction marks, if I had studied the proper way. Which reminds me, I have an exam to give this Monday!