Stranger's Words

Plz couples, decouple your social log ins

mohsenali — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 08:12:10 +0000

We know you are married or girlfriend/boyfriend or together or whatever,

we know you have already decided this is your happily-ever-after,

that you can’t hide anything from each other, you tell everything to her or him

that you have joint account,

that you share your souls,

But please don’t share our messages, they can’t play any role in your eternal love

I don’t care if you have joint piggy banks, I don’t want to communicate XYZ-company when I want to talk to XYZ

don’t let me write “Cheetay kia hal hea, aaj to …… ho gaya yar” on gtalk

and get replied with “it’s ABC (girl-friend), XYZ is in office/lab or next room”

No no no, I don’t want to share with your better half (no offense) what I want to share with you, atleast not in exactly those words.

please decouple them

please like a reasonable social humans don’t share your passwords so that your friends are always guessing who will be on the other side of the screen. You really don’t think it will be good idea if I tell I saw your ex-girlfriend or love-flame, believe me no matter how much you trust your better half, that day you will get extra salty daal (if you ever get it that day).

hide your emails and vault your e-presence if not for you sake for your friends sake.

P.S. you setting a bad precedence for future couples, if I ever get example of you people when I refuse to have joint-social account, …… its not gona be good for our friendship.

Maya Khan Fired; Pakistani social media’s firstblood ?

mohsenali — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 16:55:13 +0000

When Maya Khan took out the camera and start filming people in the parks, she did not knew what will happen afterwards, she had not expected that Social Media will go crazy on that. Youtube clips of Maya-Khan Squad rounding the couples and humiliating them made everyone cringe,……. Facebook hummed her name, blog after blog start appearing criticizing her, then some portion of main-media actually took notice, (tribune was posting blogs already) BBC’s urdu section without naming her wrote a wonderful piece. (Aap Toa Naeb-e-Khuda Hean), she tried to give half hear-ted apology which was more of explanation with an ounce of showing that she understands why people are angry.

Today, Maya Khan has been fired,

I was not expecting that, did not knew Pakistani social media could be a little powerful, did not fathomed that criticism by the public can force cooperate’s hand to correct the mistake, we are the nation where 100 people die due to medicine-reaction and no one cares, but here it happened, sound was too loud to be muted.

Is this Pakistani social media’s first blood, I don’t know but it is one quite visible one. It’s power, let’s use it properly and effectively? Next topic? Medicine companies? well if not big shots atleast we will be able to mute out the people who announce Kafir Fatwas on Tv.

Beating your wife? Why are we not rejecting these?

mohsenali — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 21:05:02 +0000

Somehow I reached to this video(http://youtu.be/Y-Tw7WhH_aQ ) in which some Arabic (socalled) scholar was telling about Rules of Beating your wife. He had audacity to say that this honors the wife, because it is for her discipline. Oh no wait wait, he does say that man cannot beat wife on food or work or anything else, he can beat wife for only one point, i.e. when she refuses to sleep with her? Get it!

Well I don’t, For the people who actively believe that it is to give discipline to wife, what if the husband is undisciplined? he is selling things of house, he is misbehaving with the relatives, or anyother thing for which anyone thinks that wife could be beaten, should not wife has a right to beat her husband?

I don’t get why Muslims cannot setup a committee for Ijtihad and say you know these things even if previously thought to be valid (which I don’t believe were valid at anytime, I believe beating wife is misrepresentation of the word) are no more valid. Why are we shy of taking important decisions?

We need to understand that cannot live in this “push everything under the carpet” situation, we need to talk and discuss these very serious issues. We need to tackle such issues, make declaration that acts of one person beating other, acts of having slave or any such actions have lost all of the validity, even if such validity existed.

Annie Hall, thoughts and words (Balcony Scene)

mohsenali — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 20:01:21 +0000

Do I need to say anything? just watch this and you will know (although starting dialogues are uneasy ones, but when the sub-titles start poping up showing the thinking of the characters vs what they are syaing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLblwVUEHyw

Muhammad Asad…. does anyone from Pakistan know him?

mohsenali — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 21:39:24 +0000

during conversation with an American Muslim friend, my friend quoted something from the Muhammad Asad’s book. I did not knew about him. Only thing I knew about him was that he wrote “the Road to Makkah” and nothing more.
To my amazement I found out he was given Pakistani citizen and become part of Pakistan’s Foreign ministry. Very interesting personality. Have a look at his wikipedia page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad_Asad
I never knew about those aspects of his life and (I might be wrong) I think that not many Pakistani know about him.

Broncos, Tim Tebow and Gainesville

mohsenali — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 04:22:00 +0000

You know there are people who you just like, whose success are cherish by many people who might not have any direct contact with him, the successes which might be just small. Tim Tebow appears to be one of them, a lucky one I must say.

Today he did it again, the last pass (which finally he made) resurrected his image of quarterback you should be always be watching. Although he ruined previous two chances by taking too much time before making a pass and once almost getting sacked. The last pass just put him back on the list. He should be thankful to the defense that did the hell of job in containing the competitors.

His success is being cheered by many of the people who might even not like Broncos. Most of the Gainesville wants Broncos to succeed because of Tim Tebow . He has this feel good thing about him. people want him to succeed; to be fair it has very less to do with his being religious or not. Just a microseconds Broncos made touchdown, facebook was full with the status updates and tweeter was singing.

Here is for Tim Tebow and this is for Gators and for Tebowing.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/08/tebow-thomas-broncos-steelers-overtime-win-thomas_n_1193054.html

something interesting about 316 passing yards and 3:16 on his face

http://communities.washingtontimes.com/neighborhood/fade-black/2012/jan/8/sunday-school-tim-tebow/

Hurry BY MARIE HOWE and Poetry Foundation.

mohsenali — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 21:56:14 +0000

Very interesting poem by Marie Howe, very interesting point of view. read more of her poems in http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/marie-howe. There is one interesting poem about the her childhood.

This website Poetry Foundation itself is very interesting, having huge resources of poems and selection of poets. So if you are beginner and want to study some, you can pick one of the categories and read through the listed poets. For some poems they have comments, commentary and reading material; which makes understanding those poems more easy.

Hurry

BY MARIE HOWE

We stop at the dry cleaners and the grocery store

and the gas station and the green market and

Hurry up honey, I say, hurry,

as she runs along two or three steps behind me

her blue jacket unzipped and her socks rolled down.

Where do I want her to hurry to? To her grave?

To mine? Where one day she might stand all grown?

Today, when all the errands are finally done, I say to her,

Honey I’m sorry I keep saying Hurry—

you walk ahead of me. You be the mother.

And, Hurry up, she says, over her shoulder, looking

back at me, laughing. Hurry up now darling, she says,

hurry, hurry, taking the house keys from my hands.

soource http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/237292

Time to Rise by R.J. Chevalier

mohsenali — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 01:04:48 +0000

No music literate much, but really like this piece

and this one,

and this one

Checkout his full page,

http://soundcloud.com/rjchevalier

enjoy.

Tim Tebow is back!

mohsenali — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 06:22:44 +0000

Not back to UF but back in game, scored two touchdowns. Lately have been getting quite a lot of criticism and bag full of predictions that he is out. Today atleast he did something, even when it was after long wait. And Urban Mayer was there also in the stands.

I hope he plays and plays good.

Somehow I am not been able to add the video link here you anyone wants to see his touchdowns look at this story http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/blog/shutdown_corner/post/After-disastrous-start-Tebow-leads-Broncos-to-o?urn=nfl-wp10165

a ghazal by Saraj Aurang Abadi

mohsenali — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 18:07:22 +0000

reached this poem through a firend’s posting,

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the amazing verse is “Na Khurd Kea Bakhea-giri rahea na janoon kea perdah dari rahea”.

It’s meaning in accordance to the one verse before that (atleast to me) is that I am such situation that I cannot use Intelligence to conjure up some excuses/explanation of my actions and neither I can use insanity to hide behind.

If you understand Urdu you will enjoy wordplay