meet my daughter Shaza

Tho (Thoha) posted this picture on his blogspace and I couldnt help copying it to mine. The cute face was totally irresistible. This here, ladies and gentlemen, is my daughter who is going to be two years in 8 days from today. I am really impressed how Tho manages to capture cool images.

A God’s birthday & my Hindu neighbours are having a ball!

Yep! The birth of Krishna (literal meaning “black,”) a.k.a. “the dark one” who is also referred to by many other names was born some 17 centuries ago and is being celebrated here and among many Hindu believers.
What’s it to me? Well these ppl here are mostly Hindu! My neighbours most certainly are ‘cos they are having a ball of a time right now! Early morning the sounds of a local “baynparty” (brass-band) scared the silent crows feasting on the rooftops (there are plenty of them crows here I tell you.) This festival is called Krishna Janmastami and I have been warned not to buy banana today as everyone is going bananas taking banana to the gods. After all, Krishna is believed to be the eight reincarnation of the protector of Vishnu, the protector of human kind from evil! Sure, give some more banana kilos! I saw a few women (wearing red, they wear red whenever they have a reason to or even not to) with baskets (red baskets) of banana (“agu maaiyvi kaanaa, banana”! Apparently a huge mass of Krishna believers will be gathering today in this Valley for this sort of “pilgrimage.”
As far as I am concerned they can do that (yeah right! What else? I go and stop ppl from believing in what they believe! Duh! I don’t think so, not here!) But my problem is the band, the noise; they play in no particular scale, every instrument to itself, the tempo is more variable than the electric fluctuations here, the “tunes” come in sudden outburst as if they go to sleep while playing and then suddenly wake up, and moreover its bloody deafening LOUD! I passed by the place to have a closer look; there was a boy getting a haircut (or getting it shaved), and there was the crowd watching in awe and fascination, the video camera guy taping the whole ordeal and the still camera guy with the professional looking camera doing his bit of it too! All the while the red-dressed women were serving snacks (on red trays,) and of course in a corner was seated the infamous band in their decorated uniform doing their thing.
It’s a pity I don’t have my camera at this moment. If this is still going on then, I shall post some photos of this when I get the camera later today. Meanwhile, I’ll try my headphones.

the yahoo Wahoo has been deleted

Yes I've deleted that yahooWahoo post of 17th August 2005 . I didnt need to have a post at all.
I could write about laser hair care or some kinda hair removal in a more not-really-non-sense format. But first I need to grow hair.
If you find yourself scrolling down to see that post, ITS NOT THERE! I repeat, I'VE DELETED IT.

the Microsoft® Word add-in for Blogger

I just installed the Microsoft® Word add-in for Blogger and am posting now from Microsoft® Word. Blogger buzz calls it Blogger for Word (what was I thinking? They’ll call it “blogger for characterMap?”) Its free of course. I think it’s nice to use this. I for one, find it easier to just type away in MS Word, do the tiny edit bits here & there, and just press a button to get it posted than going to the blogger home, to blog dashboard and a while later to posts meanwhile all the time waiting for each page to keep loading (yeah it’s a slow connection and a lazy user at the end of it.)
The BloggerForWord can open previous posts in your MS Word and edit away too! Or save the post as draft. These are functions available from the blog edit page on the blogger site as well but it’s nice to have it here on MS Word too. All in all I give it a thumb-up!

Decision to remove the yahoo wahoo post.

I have finally decided to delete the post titled "This below wont make sense” dated Wednesday, 17th August 2005. It’s an absolute waste of space. I’ll be deleting it soon.
Thank you for the comments

Man's best friend? NO WAY!

I hate the dogs in the neighbourhood. I hate them. They go off like alarm clocks just when the sun is setting and all of them go off together or in sequence like some orchestrated performance. I hate those loud intimidating barks, barking as if the rest of the whole animal kingdom hates the human kind. For the record, I even hate those what-the-hell-are-you-doing-here stares they give me when we walk past them.

EVERYDAY they scream their barks as if the sky was falling (as the good people of Gaul would have said) and they would keep at it non-stop! I don't understand this. Why don't their owners calm them down? Why do they just let the fellows keep at it? Does it give them some kind of inner gratification, satisfaction, some sadomasochistic high? MADNESS!

True the fellows keep guard but there is nothing to keep guard from. It is just a "I own a dog" luxury the people want. It is just an expression of showing dominance, I'd say.
What have I done about this? What can I? Well I went out to the balcony and screamed out once in to the night on one occasion!! But I am sure the dogs didn't even get the slightest hint that this mad man’s scream was at them, nor would have their owners realised it.

That was once. Now I am waiting till I get my night vision sniper arms.

violence for peace !?

I've been reading a bit about reasons for violence, violence as a tool, etc etc.

I have still not found a place in my mind to really believe that any form of violence is for peace! Ofcourse, there have been all these battles of yester-times that were fought with causes. Even so, those were to gain power over some societies! There is so much of violence around us and it makes me wonder if that is something within! The dark history of our nation, has it that we werent the most symphathetic people! There had been violence used, often I would say from what I know, as a means of portraying might and mainting it! I often think that nothing but the style only has changed! We violate, create violence, call it peace, call it democracy, call it monarchy, bla bla. Fact remains that we seek to, and have sought to, violence to settle most of our disputes from time immemorial! And yet we stay (quite a few of us stay) with the ever infamous "what-to-do" attitude! What does that makes us? What has that taught us?

I still wonder.

Resurgence issue 218 - GLOBALISATION AND TERRORISM by Vandana Shiva

Resurgence issue 218 - GLOBALISATION AND TERRORISM by Vandana Shiva

Haveeru Online news on BBC by chance..

I was passing by the latest (at that time) news on BBC News page about Discovery landing.
I was, however, totally taken aback by a link that appeared in the side bar where it said "From other news sites." These are relevant links that are searched and "randomly" displayed. This time, on the top, was a link to Haveery Daily Online.
This link took me to an article on the Discovery by Patrick Moser of AFP! Imagine that! Maldives newspaper quoted on BBC News! I thought that was cool, even by chance.

3d vision? 3d reality

I was just relaxing this afternoon, almost dosing off when I found myself staring at the corner of the cupboard and the shadow it was casting on the wall. I closed one eye and looked at this picture, then the other eye! The images were different! Its confirmed what I had believed as needing both the eyes for good stereoscopic vision! Instantly I felt this deep appreciation and amazement at how it was that this carbon-base biological chunk of 'meat,' the brain, was putting together these two different images to produce a different image and with an extra dimension to it!! Mentally I wrote a formula: 2 D + 2 D = 3 D (where D is number of dimensions in the image.)
An image, I thought is always 2D! It’s the calculations and the processing inside the mind that gives it the extra dimension(s.)
I wandered further in my thoughts. How do we actually apply this pictorial phenomenon to non-pectoral circumstances! To the so-called everyday walks of life! Could we say this following example is such an application; Two people arguing and then a fight breaking out: verbal + verbal = physical? How about this example: Tonight's Community Shield match of Arsenal vs. Chelsea! Two bunches of people sitting at the TV screaming, supporting and swearing for two different teams and having absolutely no effect on the game! Just like the shadow of the cupboard corner; both eyes seeing two positions on the shadow in relation to the corner, yet the shadow remains in one static place in space! It’s the viewing angle and the "viewing methodology" that differs!
I wondered for a "moral of the story" to this. Could the message be "your realisations are limited to your ability (/abilities) of perception and interpretation? Or is the message "keep an open mind."

comment on creators of tsunamimaldives.mv

Since this issue is very close to me, I thought I should have this as a separate post on my blog space. It is written essentially in response to disreputable and disrespecting comments from an all-but-facts website, towards very sincere efforts of a creative bunch of ppl. Below is a copy of the comment I posted originally on a post on gaanagaa's blog.

"Now I HAVE to comment on this tsunamimaldives.mv ! I know first hand that these guys worked hard on this with very strange limitations from the 'proiders' side as well too! These ppl overcame any hurdle with no (NIL) political implications! It was efforts and contributions of a heartfelt, sincere, patriotic and they-know-their-stuff bunch of guys! I cant admire them enough for it!"

Anyone would best be able to contribute to a cause with tools of his/her know-how, and that is precisely what these ppl did! They were "I.T." guys! They used their I.T. skills to spread the word; that Maldives needed help, that ppl needed to know about others in trouble, that .. oh heck, they did a fantastic selfless job. Information given to them was better managed than the producers of that information, I'd say! The site brought in money for the country! I can say these with extreme confidence as I was there, not exactly with them but.. I was there.
Simon still has his blog (of Dec 2004) on how strongly the group felt about the site not being "propaganda." -link to it-
The guys were proud (I was proud) of the work done. Simon, as the leading person of the group, had his pride expressed here.. and here.. (in Jan 2005.)
The hell did they have other motives, the hell were they 'propagandising' (if there's such a word.) They proved they were true Dhivehi blood.
I love you guys. Long live Maldives ....
Excuse me if i got a wee bit carried away there...

Now look what you've gone and done!

Now look what you've gone and done! Suddenly blogs are re-famous!

"bla bla bla Blog? blog log bla bla?" everyone is talking about it! Well ok not everyone, some are still "hey paatey"-ing!

I've got to give this GPS guy primary0 due applause though! He should go up in google.mv as a separate button and call it "Dhivehinge Blog Links." (BTW anyone attempting that URL and what'd go with it?) And all this too, cos he got a nice pic that was published on a news paper long ago, and a scanner to scan it! Easy fame. But then, did he ask for it? Did we all ask for it? may be, may be not! Whatever the case be, we are in it now! Some, more than the others! But in is IN! Let us know what goes on! Keep the blogs coming. But not like Chopey did the last time, not the 500 words essay please!
remember: a blog a day may or may-not make a real man/woman. so just do it!

Blog bacK

its back! I managed to get the same template as before, working again. This time I do have a back up copy of the small and tiny modifications to template. I should say I am learning a thing or two about styles and coding on a web site. Nice. Let me add "Dreamweaver rocks, no?"

pffft! rxs spot of blog's gone!

I was merely adding an image bar of google ads! The next thing I knew I couldnt see the rest of the blog! except some scripting (and that too of the provided template)! I, apparantly had deleted much of the template! I should have saved a more recent copy of the template. All I had was a messed around good-for-nothing version on my web site editor history! Dammit!
And where did this all lead to? To what? Well, a loss of links (nice adddresses they were too) I had put on the site mostly! I guess I'll look for another look for the spot of blog!
brb.