A Muslim groom was outraged to open an envelope at his wedding celebration to find that one of his friends had given him only one, lonely fifty Riyal bill .Incensed at this tightwad behavior the groom decided to confront his friend -or perhaps ex-friend from a moment ago- right then and there.
The argument ran thus:
Groom: "What’s the matter with you? I gave you two thousand for your wedding"
Stingy guest: "Yes, and I gave you two thousand at your first wedding. But this is your second wedding, and for your second wedding you get fifty Riyals"
It was about here when the two men went after each other with punches and slaps until the groom’s father took control of the situation and calmed the men down.
Well that goes to say a lot on a marriage ceremony repeated - with a new bride
Courtesy Arab News
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Friday, October 2, 2009
Friday, July 3, 2009
GOAT HEARD
We mostly remember pet goats through 
the eyes of Heidi the orphan who went to live with her grandfather in the Swiss Alps. But there is a lot of stuff we don't know about goats.
Abraham Lincoln had two pet goats named Nanny and Nanko.
Goats today are indeed getting all the attention they want.
A goat had policemen of a station in the horns of dilemma for more than five hours. He made himself heard outright when his master chose to be careless. The goat trotted bleating all around the market place clamoring for his master. The police brought to the police station and suffered his pleas. His master was found and the goat was restored to his master with a severe warning . I wonder why and how the policemen did not feast on the mutton instead. Humanity still lies concealed under stiff uniforms.
A man ordered two goats for a sacrifice. He had specified white ones but one of them happened to be black . The irritated man knew that if he did not mince words he would lose time and effort over the carelessness .Furiously he rectified the error in a novel manner. He painted his black goat white and offered it as sacrifice. After all appearances are deceptive.
After a distinguished career that included overseas service, royal welcomes, and parade leadership, this old goat is retiring from the military.
Soldiers with the 1st Battalion of the Royal Welsh Regiment lined up on Tuesday to offer a full military send-off to their aging regimental goat, William Windsor. The eight-and-a-half-year-old lance corporal will spend the rest of his days at Whipsnade Zoo.
Did the goat bleat to the soldiers' beat?
It's as common as sin, the use of goats for weed control. With their insatiable desire to nibble on anything, goats have gained credibility as land clearers among Seattle-area government agencies Skeptics, quickly become converts. Goats are cheaper than manual laborers, chemical-free and popular with parents and children. Even the critters' droppings are in demand.
They are just eating m
achines. They suck down blackberry vines like it was spaghetti. The thorns don't bother them at all. Goats were effective tool for clearing underbrush on fire-prone hillsides and to combat invasive species of plants. Goats are faster and cheaper than human crews or heavy equipment on steep slopes covered in blackberry vines, Goats can't compete with herbicides for speed but can work in wetlands and along stream banks with minimal threat to water quality or salmon habitat.
As for the goats, "As long as there is plenty to eat, they're happy."
The proper name for a group of goats is a trip.
Baby goats are kids.
Males are called buck or billy goat.
Female goats are called doe or nanny goat.
When goats are pregnant you say the goat is kidding.
Determining the age of a goat is called toothing a goat
All goats have beards and some have tassels under the chin
the eyes of Heidi the orphan who went to live with her grandfather in the Swiss Alps. But there is a lot of stuff we don't know about goats.
Abraham Lincoln had two pet goats named Nanny and Nanko.
Goats today are indeed getting all the attention they want.
A goat had policemen of a station in the horns of dilemma for more than five hours. He made himself heard outright when his master chose to be careless. The goat trotted bleating all around the market place clamoring for his master. The police brought to the police station and suffered his pleas. His master was found and the goat was restored to his master with a severe warning . I wonder why and how the policemen did not feast on the mutton instead. Humanity still lies concealed under stiff uniforms.
A man ordered two goats for a sacrifice. He had specified white ones but one of them happened to be black . The irritated man knew that if he did not mince words he would lose time and effort over the carelessness .Furiously he rectified the error in a novel manner. He painted his black goat white and offered it as sacrifice. After all appearances are deceptive.
After a distinguished career that included overseas service, royal welcomes, and parade leadership, this old goat is retiring from the military.
Soldiers with the 1st Battalion of the Royal Welsh Regiment lined up on Tuesday to offer a full military send-off to their aging regimental goat, William Windsor. The eight-and-a-half-year-old lance corporal will spend the rest of his days at Whipsnade Zoo.
Did the goat bleat to the soldiers' beat?
It's as common as sin, the use of goats for weed control. With their insatiable desire to nibble on anything, goats have gained credibility as land clearers among Seattle-area government agencies Skeptics, quickly become converts. Goats are cheaper than manual laborers, chemical-free and popular with parents and children. Even the critters' droppings are in demand.
They are just eating m
achines. They suck down blackberry vines like it was spaghetti. The thorns don't bother them at all. Goats were effective tool for clearing underbrush on fire-prone hillsides and to combat invasive species of plants. Goats are faster and cheaper than human crews or heavy equipment on steep slopes covered in blackberry vines, Goats can't compete with herbicides for speed but can work in wetlands and along stream banks with minimal threat to water quality or salmon habitat.
As for the goats, "As long as there is plenty to eat, they're happy."
The proper name for a group of goats is a trip.
Baby goats are kids.
Males are called buck or billy goat.
Female goats are called doe or nanny goat.
When goats are pregnant you say the goat is kidding.
Determining the age of a goat is called toothing a goat
All goats have beards and some have tassels under the chin
Friday, April 17, 2009
Aladdin’s Magic Lamp in Arabia
The fantasy tale of the Arabian nights- which every child in the Middle East is familiar with- has emerged to relevance again.
There are many who wish that the genie would be back to help them out especially in this 
period of global economic crisis.
An odd scam went around the market lately involving antique Singer sewing machines. The hoax claimed that red mercury inside the machines could capture wish-granting genii and convert its owner to an Aladdin with the Magic Lamp.
This drummed up story about the existence of a mythical substance called “red mercury” caused more than a stir .This led to a surge in the sale of a particular brand of old Singer sewing machines.
Following the rumor, the price of a Singer machine reportedly catapulted last week People were ready to pay up to SR120,00
0 per machine( its original price being only 150SR) with hopes of u finding gold, warding off evil jinni, or a key and highly prized ingredient in making nuclear bombs. For some it was a pitch to make a fortune by buying these old sewing machines and selling at a great profit.
Rumors were spread on the Internet that a sewing machine can be proved to contain red mercury if a phone signal cuts off when held close by. Buyers started using their mobile phones to test the machines.
There are various theories as to the origin of this mythical and magical substance.
· There is no such thing as red mercury except in the world of superstition and magic.
· It might be cinnabar, a mercuric sulphide or simply any mercury made in Russia during the Cold War era when “red” was used as a euphemism for communism.
· Red mercury might also refer to a red-colored ballotechnic mercury compound that is explosive under the right conditions.
· Conspiracy theorists believe that red mercury was developed by Soviet scientists in the 1980s after developing a smart nuclear bomb that could kill people without harming the buildings and streets and that its existence has since been covered up by US military because of its potential use as a weapon of mass destruction.
An article in the Russian newspaper Pravda in 1993, describes red mercury as a superconductive material used for producing high-precision conventional and nuclear explosives. It was also reported that Russian businessmen offered red mercury for sale throughout Europe and the Middle East and found many buyers who would pay almost anything for the substance even though they had no idea what it was all about.(Arab News)
Whatever be the truth, Singer sewing machines do not contain any compounds that will find gold, fight jinni, make nukes or pave a path to quick riches.
The feverish search for Singer sewing machines has lost its tempo as the common man is slowly realizing that it is another ploy to dupe the naive public, particularly in Saudi Arabia and Jordan.
Educated amused youngsters have started sending messages as “I adore you more than red mercury” or “I love you more than an old Singer machine.” Another message even suggested the name Singer for a new baby.
images : courtesy google
Monday, April 13, 2009
DOTING - DATING DRAMA
The unpleasant episode in the lives of the popular singers nineteen-year-old Chris Brown and 21-year-old Robyn Rihanna Fenty has left fans in shock.
The images of both the stars stand tarnished. Chris Brown went from a pop star to a prison inmate and Rihanna from a cover girl to a poster child for domestic violence.
Brown attacked Rihanna, during a roadside dispute in his rented sports car, Lamborghini last February. The two got into a fight when Rihanna found a text message from another woman on Brown's phone. Brown shoved Rihanna's head against the passenger window, repeatedly punched her in the face, bit her ear and finger, and put her into a headlock and told Rihanna, "I'm going to kill you."
A photograph of Rihanna’s battered face, hours after the incident, with welts, scratches, bruises and swelling on her face was posted on a US gossip website which purported to show the Barbadian star in the was leaked onto the Internet.
Rihanna confessed that she had suffered from such treatment for a long time.
This incident is the latest buzz among teens and has brought out a lot of relationship issues from under the carpet.
Youngsters are now pondering over what they would do if they were victims of abuse, physical or mental.
It's high time to stop all this, and treat your partner as equals.
Dating violence is a recent add on to the dating scene, and is causing quite a stir. It is not unheard of. It’s just that most of us don’t give it due attention.
Some girls practically behave like slaves to their boyfriends. Hundreds of thousands of teens will continue to quietly hide their own bruises and tears, inflicted by boyfriends or girlfriends. It's easy to confuse manipulation, intimidation and emotional abuse for passion.
The victim often does not move away from or leave the abuser (Rihanna is still with Chris). This is scary. They can still get hurt.
Fight against dating violence and abuse and keep teens safe. Take a stand and create awareness among teens.
In a world of Cinderella myths, couples fall in love at first sight and jealousy is often interpreted as proof of deep love.
Occasional arguments are one thing. But regular manipulation, emotional abuse and violence can spiral from mental distress to physical harm.
One red flag is a warning. Several mean you need help. Watch out for the key warning signals
when your boyfriend or girlfriend:
• Belittles you and makes you feel bad.
• Tries to control where you go, what you wear or what you do
• Exhibits signs of extreme jealousy or possessiveness
• Frightens or intimidates you
• Threatens harm if you decide to end the relationship
• Isolates you from your friends and family
• Has broken or thrown something at you in anger
• Has ever hit, slapped, shoved or kicked you, or forced you to have sex
It is better to be aware of all these in any relationship right from the beginning so that timely intervention will keep you out of danger.
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The images of both the stars stand tarnished. Chris Brown went from a pop star to a prison inmate and Rihanna from a cover girl to a poster child for domestic violence.
Brown attacked Rihanna, during a roadside dispute in his rented sports car, Lamborghini last February. The two got into a fight when Rihanna found a text message from another woman on Brown's phone. Brown shoved Rihanna's head against the passenger window, repeatedly punched her in the face, bit her ear and finger, and put her into a headlock and told Rihanna, "I'm going to kill you."
A photograph of Rihanna’s battered face, hours after the incident, with welts, scratches, bruises and swelling on her face was posted on a US gossip website which purported to show the Barbadian star in the was leaked onto the Internet.
Rihanna confessed that she had suffered from such treatment for a long time.
This incident is the latest buzz among teens and has brought out a lot of relationship issues from under the carpet.
Youngsters are now pondering over what they would do if they were victims of abuse, physical or mental.
It's high time to stop all this, and treat your partner as equals.
Dating violence is a recent add on to the dating scene, and is causing quite a stir. It is not unheard of. It’s just that most of us don’t give it due attention.
Some girls practically behave like slaves to their boyfriends. Hundreds of thousands of teens will continue to quietly hide their own bruises and tears, inflicted by boyfriends or girlfriends. It's easy to confuse manipulation, intimidation and emotional abuse for passion.
The victim often does not move away from or leave the abuser (Rihanna is still with Chris). This is scary. They can still get hurt.
Fight against dating violence and abuse and keep teens safe. Take a stand and create awareness among teens.
In a world of Cinderella myths, couples fall in love at first sight and jealousy is often interpreted as proof of deep love.
Occasional arguments are one thing. But regular manipulation, emotional abuse and violence can spiral from mental distress to physical harm.
One red flag is a warning. Several mean you need help. Watch out for the key warning signals
when your boyfriend or girlfriend:
• Belittles you and makes you feel bad.
• Tries to control where you go, what you wear or what you do
• Exhibits signs of extreme jealousy or possessiveness
• Frightens or intimidates you
• Threatens harm if you decide to end the relationship
• Isolates you from your friends and family
• Has broken or thrown something at you in anger
• Has ever hit, slapped, shoved or kicked you, or forced you to have sex
It is better to be aware of all these in any relationship right from the beginning so that timely intervention will keep you out of danger.
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Thursday, April 9, 2009
Cheating in China
No it is not only in China. It is happening all over the world. And nowhere is it acceptable.
The anti-cheating campaign is part of a larger effort to clean up China's academic community amidst a spate of high-profile plagiarism and fake research cases. In recent months academics were caught lying about their credentials or faking research.
A dean at Shanghai Jiaotong University, one of China's top science schools, was dismissed after investigators found he had faked research.
Similarly Shanghai University dismissed a scientist who had lied about his academic record.
A professor at Tsinghua University was fired in Beijing.
These scandals have been embarrassing to communist leaders especially at a time when they are seriously engaged in spending more efforts on scientific research in hopes of developing profitable technologies.
When such is the state of professors, what can anyone comment on students who are over anxious to perform well in order to enter the universities.
More disheartening it is that Chinese parents have been arrested because their children were caught cheating in exams. Strangely the parents are taken to task along with their sons.
Naturally enough they had to be put in jail for using high – tech communications equipment, including mobile phones and wireless earpieces, to help their children cheat at university entrance exams
Eight parents fought together in 2007 to plan how to help their children in the exams since the achievements of their children were not ideal
One of the parents hired university students to provide answers which were sent to the examinees via wireless earphones while they were writing their exams in the exam hall.
Unluckily for them the police detected abnormal radio signals near the college and discovered the ruse of the culprits.
The parents were sentenced to six months to three years for illegally obtaining state secrets. What punishment was meted out to the children is not revealed.
Chinese college entrance exams called gaolao are fiercely competitive tests.
. But despite all penalties, cheating surfaces every year. Students pay for leaked exam papers, smuggle in mobile phones and electronic dictionaries or pay others to take the exam for them.
In a highly competitive world with increasing shortage of job offers there are shortcuts aplenty invented to secure a stability in life.
Sunday, March 8, 2009
BLESSED WOMAN
When God created Woman, he was working late on the sixth day. An angel came by . He looked quizzically at God.
Why do you spend so much time on that one?
Have you seen all the specifications I have to meet to shape her.
She must be washable,but not made of plastic.
She should have more than 200 moving parts that must all be replaceable and she should function on all kinds of food.
She must be able to embrace se
veral kids at the same time, give a hug that can heal anything from a bruised knee to a broken heart and she must do all this with only two hands.Just two hands?..... Impossible.Is this the standard model? This is too much work for one day.....Wait until tomorrow and then complete her.
No I am so close to completing this creation which will be the favourite of my heart.
She curses herself when sick and she can work 18 hours a day.
The angel came nearer and touched the Woman.
Ah! but you have made her so soft?
She is soft. But I have also made her strong.You cannot imagine what she can endure and overcome.
Can she think?
Not only can she think, she can reason and negotiate.
It seems this creation is leaking. You have put too many burdens on her.
She is not leaking. It is a tear.
What is it for?
It is her way of expressing grief, her doubts, her love, her loneliness, her suffering and her pride.
This made a big impression on the angel.
Lord you are a genius. You thought of everything.The woman is indeed marvellous.
Indeed she is.
She has strength that amazes man.
She can handle trouble and carry heavy burdens.
She holds happiness,love and opinions.
She smiles when feeling like screaming.
She sings when she feels like crying, cries when she is happy and laughs when she is afraid.
She fights for what she believes in , stands up against injustice
She does not take 'No' for an answer, when she can see a better solution.
She gives herself so her family can thrive.
She takes her friend to the doctor if she is afraid. Her love is unconditional.
She cries when her kids are victorious.
She is h
appy when her friends do well.She is glad when she hears of a birth or a wedding.
Her heart is broken when a next of her kin or friend dies, but she finds the strength to get on with life.
She knows that a kiss and a hug can heal a broken heart.
There is only one thing wrong with her.
SHE FORGETS WHAT SHE IS WORTH.
images courtsey Google
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Believe me
The Anglo-Saxons believed Friday to be such an unlucky day that they ritually slaughtered any child unfortunate enough to be born on that day.
The 'Hundred Years War' lasted 116 years.
When George I became King of England in 1714, his wife did not become Queen. He placed her under house arrest for 32 years.
Henry VII was the only British King to be crowned on the battlefield.
Richard II died aged 33 in 1400. A hole was left in the side of his tomb so people could touch his royal head, but 376 years later some took advantage of this and stole his jawbone.
Queen Elizabeth I passed a law which forced everyone except for the rich to wear a flat cap on Sundays.
During the reign of Elizabeth I, there was a tax put on men's beards.
One of Queen Victoria's wedding gifts was a 3 meter diameter, half tonne cheese.
Queen Victoria was one of the first women ever to use chloroform to combat pain during childbirth.
The British did not release the body of Napoleon Bonaparte to the French until twenty days after his death.
The national flag of Italy was designed by Napoleon Bonaparte.
It is illegal to be a prostitute in Siena, Italy, if your name is Mary.
The Matami Tribe of West Africa play a version of football, the only difference being that they use a human skull instead of a more normal ball.
Peter the Great had the head of his wife's lover cut off and put into a jar of preserving alcohol, which he then ordered to be placed by her bed .
Between the two World Wars, France was controlled by forty different governments.
In 1849, David Atchison became President of the United States for just one day, and he spent most of the day sleeping.
The Imperial Throne of Japan has been occupied by the same family for the last thirteen hundred years.
The 'Hundred Years War' lasted 116 years.
When George I became King of England in 1714, his wife did not become Queen. He placed her under house arrest for 32 years.
Henry VII was the only British King to be crowned on the battlefield.
Richard II died aged 33 in 1400. A hole was left in the side of his tomb so people could touch his royal head, but 376 years later some took advantage of this and stole his jawbone.
Queen Elizabeth I passed a law which forced everyone except for the rich to wear a flat cap on Sundays.
During the reign of Elizabeth I, there was a tax put on men's beards.
One of Queen Victoria's wedding gifts was a 3 meter diameter, half tonne cheese.
Queen Victoria was one of the first women ever to use chloroform to combat pain during childbirth.
The British did not release the body of Napoleon Bonaparte to the French until twenty days after his death.
The national flag of Italy was designed by Napoleon Bonaparte.
It is illegal to be a prostitute in Siena, Italy, if your name is Mary.
The Matami Tribe of West Africa play a version of football, the only difference being that they use a human skull instead of a more normal ball.
Peter the Great had the head of his wife's lover cut off and put into a jar of preserving alcohol, which he then ordered to be placed by her bed .
Between the two World Wars, France was controlled by forty different governments.
In 1849, David Atchison became President of the United States for just one day, and he spent most of the day sleeping.
The Imperial Throne of Japan has been occupied by the same family for the last thirteen hundred years.
During the seventeenth century, the Sultan of Turkey ordered his entire harem of women drowned, and replaced with a new one.
In parts of Malaya, the women keep harems of men.
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
Chilling news about Children
A 38-year-old Saudi man has been arrested on charges of setting up a child pornography website - Arab news
Horrendous
Child pornography is a multi-billion dollar industry and among the fastest growing criminal segments on the Internet according to the USA. There is a massive increase in the production and dissemination of child pornography - " in the availability, accessibility, and volume of child pornography. Child pornography on the Internet is becoming more brutal and graphic, and the number of images depicting violent abuse has risen fourfold since 2003.
About 82 percent of cases worldwide of children being sexually molested occurred in places that were supposedly safe — and some 77 percent of molesters were people whom the children trusted.
Such statistics should be a wake-up call to threats against childhood innocence, not only at home but also in kindergartens and schools where children spend so much time.
Sexual harassment results in adverse effects on the child, physically and psychologically. Molested children may turn away from the opposite sex. These children may never be able to live a normal life, especially if the molester is one of the parents. The child victim may end in becoming a molester himself when he grows up.
Harsh punishments and deterrent laws are still not in the offing. Our society is pointing an accusing finger to the West. It would be more useful to learn from the laws of the West in such cases instead of just condemning it as being a promiscuous society.
We have to enlighten our children about sexual harassment and instill in them the confidence to refuse any attempt at abusing their bodies.
Masha Allen, who was adopted at age 8 from the former Soviet Union by an American man was sexually abused for five years She testified before the United States Congress about the anguish she has suffered at the continuing circulation of the pictures of her abuse A law named for her "Masha's Law," is included in the Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act passed in 2006.
Horrendous
Child pornography is a multi-billion dollar industry and among the fastest growing criminal segments on the Internet according to the USA. There is a massive increase in the production and dissemination of child pornography - " in the availability, accessibility, and volume of child pornography. Child pornography on the Internet is becoming more brutal and graphic, and the number of images depicting violent abuse has risen fourfold since 2003.
About 82 percent of cases worldwide of children being sexually molested occurred in places that were supposedly safe — and some 77 percent of molesters were people whom the children trusted.
Such statistics should be a wake-up call to threats against childhood innocence, not only at home but also in kindergartens and schools where children spend so much time.
Sexual harassment results in adverse effects on the child, physically and psychologically. Molested children may turn away from the opposite sex. These children may never be able to live a normal life, especially if the molester is one of the parents. The child victim may end in becoming a molester himself when he grows up.
Harsh punishments and deterrent laws are still not in the offing. Our society is pointing an accusing finger to the West. It would be more useful to learn from the laws of the West in such cases instead of just condemning it as being a promiscuous society.
We have to enlighten our children about sexual harassment and instill in them the confidence to refuse any attempt at abusing their bodies.
Masha Allen, who was adopted at age 8 from the former Soviet Union by an American man was sexually abused for five years She testified before the United States Congress about the anguish she has suffered at the continuing circulation of the pictures of her abuse A law named for her "Masha's Law," is included in the Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act passed in 2006.
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