Best Joke Ever ?????????

ok, here's a joke that made me laugh until i had cramps.... i'd love to hear others

To set the scene, Marge is expecting her third baby...

Marge: "I'm afraid we're going to need a bigger house.
Homer: "No, we won't. I've got it all figured out. The baby can have Bart's crib and Bart'll sleep with us until he's 21."
Marge: Won't that warp him?
Homer: "My cousin Frank did it.
Marge: "You don't have a cousin Frank.
Homer: "He became Francine back in '76. Then he joined that cult. I think her name is Mother Shabubu now."

As close as possible

These photos are the work of a photographer from new york who lived a few meters away from WTC. He took these photos on the day of the tragic attaques.

some photos made me speechless... some made me sad, angry, and sad again

all we could do is pray that such a thing never happens again... to anybody

Rush hour.. I Loath Thee

I am a lazy guy, let's face it...

I do everything... everything to avoid commuting during rush hour... and in London rush hour is more than TWO hours...

good news is my lectures don't start until 2 pm!... So i take an 11am bus or train where i can actually have a seat.... but sometimes it's unavoidable, "THOU SHALL COMMUTE ON MY RUSH HOUR- sometimes".. says the rule.

honestly i just walk to the train station... 20 minutes walk, 45 minutes by bus... fair enough

I am already late but some bunch of humanoids are taking their time walking down the stairs or through the barriers... reading a newspaper maybe... or even drinking coffee...

MOVE YOU BUNCH OF YAHOOS !!... MOVE!!.. it's called rush hour for a reason!

so i get to the platform, waiting for the train, the signal is telling me it's coming in 2 minutes... but it's 2 minutes "underground time"... which varies between 3 to 4 min...

never mind

first train... couldn't make it in, too crowded

second train, managed to squeeze after giving a hard look to a lad who moved down the carriage.

morning carriages smell of coffee, bacon, deodorant... and bad breath

evening carriages...OH BOY... alcohol, sweat, socks, punk eating "chicken and fries", unknown smells.. etc

Well... i can't avoid morning commute... but here i am now in the library, browsing some websites i found after i googled " I am bored"... waiting for rush hours to pass

"OH NO it's a girl !.."

The story of the "Selective abortion" in India has been talked about so much in the last few days. Apparently, about 7 million girls have been "missing" from demographic statistics of births in India. The sex ration (proportion of male to female babies) has gone up from 103 in the period of 1969-1979 to 114 in 2000-2005.

The problem is not confined only to India. Wherever females are seen as mere reproducing machines or, worse, a shame to family, this barbaric tradition reigns.

The differences between genders is very clear: Man is NOT like woman, and woman is NOT like man. from all aspects of life; the differences are so apparent that only the fool would deny them. Physiologically, psychologically, physically, .. etc

If you got here and you didn't stop reading :"here's another sick sexist".. Well done...

The issue of gender equality has been polemicised by fanatics :pseudo-intelligentsia, pseudo-religious, or corrupt opportunistic politicians.
Although both genders are different in the aspects that i mentioned before, they are both equally held responsible of their deeds. Different functions? rather complementary functions. I am still baffled by the way that gender has evolved; but it works (quasi-miraculously) very well.

I am a strong supporter of women rights, and their right to "be born" is obviously paramount. Every effort must be made to save the lives of human beings, no matter what gender they are. Life is sacred, and human souls are equal in the right to be given the opportunity to live.

I would like to quote a scripture, the Quran... A very powerful picture is given here:

"for, whenever any of them is given the glad tiding of [the birth of] a girl,

his face darkens, and he is filled with suppressed anger.

Avoiding all people because of the [alleged] evil of the glad tiding which

he has received, [and debating within himself:] Shall he keep this [child] despite

the contempt [which he feels for it]-or shall he bury it in the dust? Old, evil indeed is whatever they decide!" (16-58)

Wisdom is never too old...

Khallouni... let me of souad massi

Let me, Leave me alone... let me cry on my luck...
look how the sky is clear.... but yours is all dark.

Some Lyrics from "Khallouni" of Souad Massi... helps letting out some of the "boohakis"

Funny Cartoon: Russian Space Program

Funny Cartoon by the talented artist Dilem of the Algerian Newspaper "Liberte"

'50 years of conquering outer space:"At the time, it was the only way to get out of Russia ! "'

Yet Another Time... and why we should NEVER allow politicians to hijack our faith

Another day and another exploitation of the sacred by politicians...

The English teacher arrested in Sudan after allowing a child to name his teddy bear "Muhammad", the name of the prophet of Islam, made the headlines to most newspapers in London. Needless to say, this is yet another disgraceful attempt by politicians to (ab)use religious beliefs and sacred figures.

Obviously the matter is blown out of proportion, and let's be honest some people just love that.

a closer look at the event will reveal that the true intention behind it is the Sudanese government challenge to Britain, kind of arm twist, especially about Darfur's humanitarian crisis.


The Ulemas were quoted to say that this represents :"another ring in the circles of plotting against Islam". The spirit of conspiracy is very clear in the words of these religious officials; a title which is opposed to the corp of Islamic philosophy of absence of mediators between the divine and humanity. These kind of people are trying to set fire in the normal moderate majority of the population; and it's a very bad timing... very bad indeed. Because on the other bank, there exist a bunch of polemicist who will, unashamedly, use this to perpetuate their image of Islam as a barbarian backward religion and discriminate against the Muslims.

What the world needs is to strip these two groups, extremist Ulemas and ignorant xenophobes, from their "raison d'être". hatred flows from generation to the next, and poverty and injustice does no good in reducing it. A better understanding based on fair dialog between civilisations is more than necessary. When moderates are silenced by dictators or, much worse, by interests, only the ignorants on both extremes of the spectrum are making their messages heard!

The Truth Behind the Title

I published this in another blog, and there was some technical problems (it's very techi you gotta be a nerd to understand... i lost my password!)... I thought i post it here... enjoy:)

I assume that the best way to start this blog is to explain why i called it "Seeking The Truth". I am not a conspiracy theory fan, so the truth here is not about UFOs or Lady Di or the such. I mean the Truth of my life, our life; the Truth of Life.
The question that might come to mind now is: why assuming that there is a meaning at all?
Well, that is far from being an assumption. nihilism could be an option but after close investigation, the emptiness that this leads to will have to be filled-necessarily. Nihilism assuming that there is no meaning, no truth, actually proves the ongoing thirst for finding something- even if in this case this something is the nothing-ness.
Okay... moving on..
The case for the presence of meaning in our life can be found everywhere. since antiquity, philosophers, scientists, mystics and ordinary people believed that behind the order and patterns in nature is something deep, that there is more to life than what meets the eye. Even some scientists who argue against a meaningful life base their entire research on the assumptions that "more facts can be uncovered". This is the pillar of scientific research, otherwise they are wasting our tax money in the pursuit of "the nothing".
This is a very serious issue, one that touches the core of the human "being". I will try and swim the sea.

I'm No Superman

One of my favorite songs is: "I'm no superman" , the theme song of the TV show "scrubs". I even used it as my phone ringtone for a very long time.

I'm no superman, and I'm no super-writer either... but what i will try to do here is to express some of my ideas and feelings as they come.

Coming from a country where dictatorship is reigning over its people, i learned as did most of my compatriots, to self-sensor my ideas. This was a survival step more than anything else.
The state of paranoia created by dictatorship, where the public feels spied on all the time is very effective in controlling "the masses" . When people believe that anything they say will be known to "the government", even the "thinking" mechanism itself starts to diminish. Eventually, we end up with a society made up of apathetic members struggling to survive and to get their "daily bread".

The Internet, Thank God, is one of the last resorts for people to say what they want... well not perfectly safe, because if you are Chinese.. oh, "they" WILL get ya!
Anonymous blogging is OK, as long as it is not the last step. sometimes words must be said out loud... and the truth must be known, even at the risk of loosing the dearest of things. Heroism should not be the aim, but heroes must always be remembered... remembered that they are "not superman".