tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-142002972011-11-28T00:42:19.756Z[begin] rxs ::::::::: These here are views on anything that crosses my mind and those that find the time to route via taps of my fingers on the keyboard, onto this earth wide web.rxshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17648843512534020548noreply@blogger.comBlogger371100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14200297.post-40591618602696108322009-01-19T06:18:00.001Z2009-01-19T06:18:55.821Z

Maldives Photographers Association Get-togetherDate: Friday, January 23, 2009Time: 4:30pm - 6:00pmLocation: West ParkCity/Town:Male, MaldivesThis even is organised to introduce the Maldives Photographers Association (MPA) to enthusiasts and to enroll interested individuals as members to the Association.Information on the formation and intentions of the MPA will be given along with a free coffee (

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Playing soccer on Saturdays was good. This particular Saturday, a few months back, we were playing in the make-shift grounds within the campus of the Medicine Department of the Teaching Hospital. It was just another fun-filled, goal-filled, breathless and tiring soccer match! Until… Until a cart with its top about half the size of plywood rolled on by. Their were two people in what looked like

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Some have heard there is an Honorary Maldives Consul in Nepal. From what I found he is the owner of big hotel Radisson (American hotel chain) and has held this title for a loooong time now! No one has ever heard from him! I wonder why the Madives Government justifies keeping such people at such posts.A couple of days back we got a mail from him. Everyone's response was fury. I dont know who else

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lets really do! Its been a while since the last post. Why no post? 'cos i can.

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These sentiments / theories arose from a discussion with Simon after commenting on his blog post on “The Irresponsible Nation.” Below, I am trying to focus my writing on how two very basic aspects of Maldivians, the Dhivehi language and the Islamic faith, has been used over the ages to make us irresponsible people! Maldives has a strong history of people having good command of its language,

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Hungaaa no LoNGAA! 2PM noodlesIt wasn’t an out of the ordinary day, until I read and browsed to the website mentioned on the cover of the cup-noodles I was having! It said “Visit us at www.rumpum.com” My cup-noodle had a website! Yay! I was greeted with a WRROOOM WROOOM of a mo-bike! For a moment I thought those were sounds I was supposed to make after I had consumed the contents. When I

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was a black day, it was.all at the mercy of the forces of nature. scared and sad. mad at the wrong doers. disgusted at the misusers of the opportunity. disappointed at the inefficiency of the 'leaders.' proud of the unity of some. realising again how small we were, in every sense.life is short, make it worthwhile.

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I've just completed Soldier of Fortune Double Helix. Its a swell game and full of action. I loved every inch, every minute of it! I couldn't play without saving multiple of times and hence, lame me, I had to play in amateur mode. The challenge ahead is to play in the Soldier of Fortune mode. On the other hand, though SOFII is a good game I might not really have another go at it.Instead I think

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I just wanted the battery of a watch changed! My usual watch repairman (I went there once before) was all smiles to see me back. He was a dark round man with a smile that was too hard for him to put on ('cos of his muscular cheeks.) He was not really truly an authentic Nepali, but then again I shouldn't judge so 'cos there is so much of Indian & Chinese mix.Anyways, he had complained earlier (3

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This blog had one.

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Happy birthday, rxs.

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I don’t get it! Why the hell is the first of Ramadan different on different parts of the globe! (or is it Ramazan??!! Another dispute!) I just don’t get it! This year it was 4th Oct in some places like Maldives, the Saudis, North America, and today 5th Oct for Malaysia, and some others, and tomorrow for Pakistan, Nepal and some others! What the hell is wrong! Isn’t this supposed to be one “umma”?

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This isn’t a gay couple with a ladder fetish! They’re the technical guys from my ISP fixing the RF connection. This pole one is about 80m from my place and there is a wire coming from their tied to the balcony here! This carries my TV and the internet signals! The 70+ channels TV signal comes free with the cable internet. I lost internet connectivity for three days. The ISP had sent some guys

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Couple of days ago my little daughter somehow managed to pour a bit of water on this keyboard! I chuckled and quickly turned off the computer; I didn’t know if the keyboard worked or not but the mouse worked. After having split open the cover I quickly let the water drain out and used a hair dryer (not mine) on it. This, however, didn’t fix whatever had gone wrong! I couldn’t read what I was

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Finally, I am thru! I patted on my back. Well done!I must say, this is an exciting book and enlightening one too! Now as I walk inside this house, or anywhere for that matter, I keep looking for symbols, icons, relics, bla bla. I even, at one point, had explained to myself Buddism as descending from Roman Gods! I am baffled by the author's creativity, and how he based his creativity around and

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I know a lot of ppl could get enraged and vow to kill me for this but..I hate novels. (I love magazines and stuff though!) I just cant read 'story books.' I think I can count the number of novels I've read using my digits and without recounting one too! Thats less than 20 (got my counting right for once.) I dont regret not having read either.Anyhow, out of sheer curiosity and a teeny bit of

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(pic: tho) Wishing my Princess a very happy birthday.This (8th September 2005) is her third birthday (including the day she was born) and is 2 years old. The last 2 years this little girl has evolved so much! From just staring to imitating words and moves, from just being able to move her limbs to complicated manouvers like climbing down the stairs. Amazing! I am just sitting here, few minutes

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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.

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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” (

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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.

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Resurgence issue 218 - GLOBALISATION AND TERRORISM by Vandana Shiva

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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?"

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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?

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This is a bit overdue but nevertheless, here! This blog is very much the modified writings in my comments to Inn's blog on Dhiraagu logo on July 5th 2005. The old logo of Dhiraagu wasnt pretty or particularly likable or even reflective of Maldives (it was more a reminder of Cable&Worthless) but it had more character than this new one! Red? Blood? Martyr? Communist? wat? Apparantly, when you

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No no. Not you.This is a bathroom cleaner I came across in the stores! Its simply amazing how the product designer dudes had came up with this name!OUT-U-SCUM!tm. (The trademark includes the exclamation mark.)The Blue Cross Laboratories at Santa Clarita in Canada produce this bathroom cleaning, tile scrubbing, porcelain out-scumming detergent. I was not able to find much info on the product on

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"Dagun-dah dagun-dah dagun-dah, Raydiyo haveeru.... Dhivehi bimun tini tinti teetee" and the madonlin of Jaymu Dhonkamana played on and the programme began!I just heard it. It was miyooooozik to my aching ears. Aching to hear homeland voices beside what i hear everyday, aching to hear "radio" the maldivian radio I grew up listening to and was listening to until a few months back! I had made

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Finally I went for it! My mind was set on the Nikon Coolpix 4600! I had read the specs and was impressed, as I said in my previous post with the 4cm macro, as well as the a/v recordablity!Went to the shop who offered the camera the previous day for 16,500 rupees (236 USD)! The guy didnt have Nikon4600! I was totally depressed for a second. He insisted I buy the Nikon Coolpix5600 and was offering

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I needed to buy a modest, good, non-unbranded yet cheap digital camera! Where do I go? I went to the shopping roads (where the happening is.) True enough I had seen digital cameras there earlier. There were the big names Nikon, Canon, Sony, Olympus. And there were those I didnt want: Vivitar, Mercury, many more!A friend of mine had bought recently a Vivitar digital camera and I wasnt impressed:

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so this is it!blogging starts.I signed for a new account in the wake of midnight last night and this morning I signed in as rxs and I had a completely different profile! Apparantly I had created an account long long ago (not in a galaxy far far away.) I want the old one and needed to delete the new one. I wanted the one I created in May 2001! and delete the July 4th, 2005!Quickly, I went thru the

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