Wednesday, November 30, 2005 

Is Micheal Jackson Converted to Islam???

This news when i read, i was shocked to be honest Micheal Jackson has moved to Bahrain and he has converted himself to Islam. Below is what the link says and the same i read almost in my local newspaper. However i have still doubts on this news.

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3174956,00.html

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The report is based on information elicited from sources in Bahrain. According to the report, Jackson’s announcement noted he is moving to Bahrain and has purchased some real-estate on an artificial island there. The singer said he decided to convert to Islam because he is convinced it is the closest religion to his personal beliefs."


Tuesday, November 29, 2005 

I feel Good!

After 12th October, 47 and a half days, 1140.5 hours, 68430 minutes, 4105800 seconds of non stop heart throbing action, drama, suspense, disappointment, ectasy, joy, dejection, disheartening, disillusionment, kicking the luck at times, enjoying the luck at times, toiling times of wrought with sometimes fret and with sometimes confidence, sometimes giving tension to others, sometimes taking tension from others,sometimes being frolic, sometimes being nervous are going to end ...yes my papers will finish tomorrow! ...YahoooooooooooooOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO...but wait i have one week of practicals as well...that will start from the day after tomorrow....Ohh NoOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!..but for at least 24 hours..i will be damn happy!!! :) I will feeel gooooooooooooD!

Saturday, November 26, 2005 

Angelina Jolie in Pakistan

Yes thats right. She is in Pakistan. With Foreign people being afraid of coming to Pakistan, now thats a news that will surely remove any fear that they have regarding Pakistan and Security. Angelina Jolie has come to Pakistan to help the vicitims of Earthquake. A flying news that she is thinking of adopting a child [but not confirmed].

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Wednesday, November 23, 2005 

Before and After Love!

BEFORE - You take my breath away
AFTER - I feel like I'm suffocating

BEFORE - Twice a night
AFTER - Twice a month

BEFORE - She says she loves the way I take control of a situation
AFTER - She called me a controlling, manipulative egomaniac

BEFORE - Saturday Night Fever
AFTER - Monday Night Football

BEFORE - Don't stop
AFTER - Don't start

BEFORE - Is that all you're having?
AFTER - Maybe you should have just a salad, honey

BEFORE - It's like I'm living in a dream
AFTER - It's like he lives in a dorm

BEFORE - $60/doz.
AFTER - $1.50/stem

BEFORE - Turbocharged
AFTER - Jumpstart

BEFORE - We agree on everything
AFTER - Doesn't she have a mind of her own?

BEFORE - Victoria's Secret
AFTER - Fruit-of-the-Loom

BEFORE - Charming and Noble
AFTER - Chernobyl

BEFORE - Feathers and handcuffs
AFTER - Ball and chain

BEFORE - Idol
AFTER - Idle

BEFORE - I love a woman with curves
AFTER - I never said you were fat

BEFORE - He's completely lost without me
AFTER - Why won't he ever ask for directions?

BEFORE - Time stood still
AFTER - This relationship is going nowhere

BEFORE - Croissant and cappuccino
AFTER - Bagel and instant

BEFORE - You look so seductive in black
AFTER - Your clothes are so depressing

BEFORE - Oysters
AFTER - Fishsticks

BEFORE - I can hardly believe we found each other
AFTER - I can't believe I ended up with someone like you

BEFORE - Passion
AFTER - Ration

BEFORE - Once upon a time
AFTER - The end

Credits:Dan

Saturday, November 19, 2005 

Borat's Guide to USA!

Borat is amazing. I first watched his some episodes couple of months back i think and it was a wonderful experience. His innocence after doing absolutely insane stuff or saying audacious stuff is a must see thing and thats why he is becoming more and more popular. Now he has made a mockery of Kazakhastan's international image by all the antic stuff he performed. He makes everyone go wild and crazy but at the cost of Kazakhs impressions on the international scale. If you watch Ali G Shows than you know what sort of stuff he do and what he says about Kazakastan and if you havent watched Ali G than i cant write all those things here :), but finally Kazakhastan Government has seen enough of it and has decided to take some action againts Borat. Below is what reuters has to say on this issue.

ASTANA, Kazakhstan (Reuters) -- Kazakhstan's Foreign Ministry threatened legal action Monday against a British comedian who wins laughs by portraying the central Asian state as a country populated by drunks who enjoy cow-punching as a sport. Sacha Baron Cohen, who portrays a spoof Kazakh television presenter Borat in his "Da Ali G Show," has won fame ridiculing Kazakhstan, the world's ninth largest country yet still little known to many in the West, on British and U.S. channels. Cohen appears to have drawn official Kazakh ire after he hosted the annual MTV Europe Music Awards show in Lisbon earlier this month as Borat, who arrived in an Air Kazakh propeller plane controlled by a one-eyed pilot clutching a vodka bottle. "We do not rule out that Mr. Cohen is serving someone's political order designed to present Kazakhstan and its people in a derogatory way," Kazakh Foreign Ministry spokesman Yerzhan Ashykbayev told a news briefing. "We reserve the right to any legal action to prevent new pranks of the kind." He declined to elaborate.

Wednesday, November 16, 2005 

Brain Test: Male Brain or Female Brain<-------

This brain test is great. It tells you whether you think like a female or a male and tells you all about the intracacies and complexities of brain.

Brain Test: Here

 

[Pakistan Wins!] Ashes Heros; Zeros in Multan<----

Pakistan played best cricket to dismiss England on the last day. Englishmen fell 22 runs short. Starting the day English side looked favourite to win but the rampant Pakistani side hit them hard and converted a likely loss to a win. Great stuff team..Just keep on the good work!

Amazing stuff by the Pakistani bowlers. This win has made this series more interesting. I am having my papers though but will watch it ...some of it though :P.

Waiting for the Karachi One day ...!



Credits: Cricinfo

Saturday, November 12, 2005 

Pakistan vs England


The talk is finally over and England and Pakistan team kicks off the series today to settle their rivalry on the cricket pitch and the docile one as well . Pakistan is the country that has suffered the most from the terrorist attacks after 9/11 but due to government's strong action against the terrorists, Pakistan is slowly but surely getting an environment of peace for everyone. Lot of English supporters are coming to Pakistan and i hope this series will remove all their doubts regarding Pakistani people and the country's impression. Pakistani people will surely prove once again that they treat their visitors like no one. Englismen [Barmy Army], You are invited :)! No one will dare lay a hand on you guys here. Its safe ..100%.

Wednesday, November 09, 2005 

Dr. Kofi Annan in my Inbox! [Spam Mail]

I Dr. Kofi Annan, Secretary-General of the United Nations, would like to ask your partnership in reprofilling funds over $250m in excess, the funds would be coming via a string of selected banks in Europe and Asia.

The Funds in question were generated by me during the oil for food program in Iraq.

I have been getting scandals/ controversy in this regards, you can read more on the links below-

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/apr2005/anna-a05.shtml

http://www.canadafreepress.com/2003/main042803.htm

You would be paid 5% as your management fee. Please do not write back directly to me via my official email address. All further correspondence should be sent to my private mail box ( kofiannan4un@o2.pl ). As soon as you indicate your interest I will give further details.

Remember to treat this mail and transaction as strictly confidential.

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SECRETARY- GENERAL

kofiannan@un.org

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Tuesday, November 08, 2005 

Australian English

We generally tend to differentiate English with respect to two major English spoken countries. One American English and the other United Kingdom's English, but how often we forget about another version of English rapidly taking over the "youth" of world and that is Australian English.

Australian English began to diverge from British English after the foundation of the colony of 1788. By the 1820s, observers had recognised that native-born white Australians spoke with a distinctive accent and vocabulary. Since the first Australian goldrushes, in the 1850s, and the accompanying influxes of immigrants from around the world, Australian English has borrowed increasingly from external sources.
The so-called "Amercanisation" of Australian English — signified by the borrowing of words, terms and usages from American English— which began during the goldrushes, was accelerated by a massive influx of US military personnel during World War II. The large-scale importation of television programs and other massmedia content from the US, from the 1950s onwards, has also had a significant effect. As a result, for example, Australians use the word truck instead of the British lorry, and freeway is the most common word for a high-speed, grade-separated road, although motorway is also used in some regions.

However Australian English is much like the same english not a different language altogether but their slangs are different and are catching people by storm. The australian terminologies are different for different things. Their words are more conotative than denotative in nature for most of the things. for e.g an Aussie will call a fantastic thing "Ripper" whereas English or American will call it differently but these days they are all getting mixed up and all converging towards a single language ? is it?.

Some of the common slangs of Australian language.

Mate: Friend
Lolly - candy
Sheila - woman
Thongs - cheap rubber sandals (tsinelas)
Rip snorter : great, fantastic
Roo : kangaroo
She'll be right : it'll turn out okay
XXXX : pronounced Four X, brand of beer made in Queensland
Whinge : complain

You can get more of the slangs by going on this link
http://www.koalanet.com.au/australian-slang.html

What do you people say it is worth getting to know these meanings or you dont want to learn some more things?. Well frankly saying, i like some of the slangs of the australian language but i want to know what you guys think about Australian language and its usage of slang on the international level.

Friday, November 04, 2005 

Eid Mubarak

My cordial wishes to all the muslims of the world on this sacred festival. I wish you all Eid Mubarak from the bottom of my heart and on this Eid remember our brothers and sisters in prayers who have suffered from the disastrous earthquake. May Allah give them the strength to recover and also unite the muslims world.(Amen)

Tuesday, November 01, 2005 

Why Earthquakes come; How can Earthquakes be predicted; What we can expect in future

After the recent earthquakes in Pakistan, i heard TV opinions of different people and read articles. With them i am able to draw some intresting conclusions:

Why Earthquakes Come?

Earth releases its energy in many ways. One of its most dangerous and unpredictable way is earthquakes.

On the ground we are standing, below it are plates called tectonic plates. Every region in the earth is on some plate. Some continents have same plates, some have different. Oceans are on plates as well.These plates move and because of their motions they develop energy in them and they release it when it becomes too much either in the form of volcano or earthquake or in some other form.

Formation of Earth on Different Plates:
The World Today:

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The picture above tells the formation of today's world on plates. I would say you open the picture while reading the material in this section.

The meeting point (indicated by the red lines) of different plates lie in three main categories. They are Constructive, Destructive and Conservative.

At Constructive Margins:
Where two plates are met by constructive line shown in the picture, then these two plates are going away from each other. The sea floor is spreading, allowing semi-molten rock to well up b/w the two diverging plates.For e.g, as you can see in the picture,there is a constructive meeting point b/w the Europe and North America, So the mid-Atlantic Europe and North American are being forced apart at 2 cm a year.

At Destructive Margins:
Destructive Margins occur when plates are forced together. When two continent plates collide, giant mountain ranges are thrust up. For e.g as a result of collision of Eurassian plate and Indo Plate , we see a great Himalyan Range, similarly Alps in Europe by the collision of Eurassian and African Plate. When an oceanic plate collides with a continental plate, part of its load of crust is subducted or carried down, into the mantle beneath the more buoyant continental crust. When two oceanic plates collide, a volcanic island such as Marianas Islands in Pacific is formed. Due to collision of plates , earthquakes can occur here, e.g Pakistan's recent quake that was felt in India because of the same reason that we both share the destructive meeting point of plates of Eurassian and Indo-Australian Plate.

At Conservative Margins:
Here no new crust is generated neither destroyed but there can be disastrous earthquake. They take place by the sliding of the plates together. If you see the picture again what line is going through possibly Iran and Pakistan...its conservative line. e.g Iran disastrous earthquake that killed thousands of people.

World 130 Millions Year Ago:


The picture below shows the world 130 millions year before. Now isnt that amazing how the world changed and we have a completely different world today, thats because of the movement of the plates. If you remember the text above, i wrote north america and europe are seperating at 2cm/year speed. See this picture below , how they were 130 million year before. Now, they are apart at quite a considerable distance between them. So its the movement of the plates that should be taken seriously. We will see how the world will be in 250 Million years from now in next section.

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World 250 Millions Years From Now:

Even now Africa is breaking up; the Mediterranean is closing; Western and Eastern Californica are sailing past each other. The earth's tectonic process continue inexorably, and by computer plotting from exisiting trends it is possible to predict the future and below is the future.

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See above where the America, Australia, India, Pakistan, Africa are, they are just because of the movement of the plates. Todays world will be so different tomorrow.

Prediction of Earthquakes:

Human Way:

  • The most promising research on prediction of earthquake is on waves that are generated at the time of earthquake. There are two types of waves that are generated at the time of quake. One is P-Wave (Primary Wave) and the other is S-Wave (Secondary Wave). P-Wave are shock waves that travel like a bellow. S-Wave is the wave that is generated afterwards and cause ripple up and down. Research suggests that the speed at which the rock transmits P waves changes before the an earthquake strikes.

  • The P-Waves and S-Waves travel in direction that form a right angle triangle. The ratio of P-Wave and S-Wave is in b/w 1.24-1.34. However when an earthquake comes , this ratio changes to a greater extent.

  • Scientists have also studied the length of time between major earthquake episodes. Violent earthquake sometime come in cycles at plate edges. Large earthquakes are likely to occur where they have happened 100 years or more ago. High risk area when this research was being done were told "Chile, California, Taiwan , Sumatra and Caribbean". So now we know where Tsunami hit, at the high risk area of Taiwan and Sumatra which the scientist predicted way back.
Animals Way:

Animals can predict earthquakes. Yes that is absolutely right. Animals behave differently when they sense earthquake is on the cards. For e.g A group of Elephants that were near the Tsunami hit area left the area before the Tsunami struck that area.How elephant knew about the earthquake? . The answer is elephant foot have sensors that can sense waves travelling beneath the earth and that helps them sensing about earthquake.

Future Predictions:

There are many more earthquakes still to come as you can see the world is completely different in future.

For Pakistanis and Asians ,the news is not good thats what i think because if you see the current world (World today picture) , a conservative line goes through Iran and a destructive line goes from the northern parts of Pakistan , so because of the movement of the plates to bring the shape of the world 250 millions years from now, we can encounter more earthquakes, the current earthquake is just one from the sequence that might hit the region in future..sorry to say that..but thats true, but the time is in millions so we shouldnt worry that much as we wont be living that much.

Same goes for the rest of the world. Earthquake wont stop coming but one should be careful while living in the areas of constructive, destructive and conservative meeting points of the plate because these points are mostly vulnerable to yield an earthquake.

Credits:
World Atlas for pictures and technical assistance
Dr. Shahid Masood's Views on News program.

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