"A Man is an Island"

John Bon Jovi wrote in one of his famous song that 'no man is an island'.
I choose not to believe so...
In this I have to totally agree with Hugh Grant in 'About a Boy'

of course minus the 'magnet to Swedish tourist"

Why I like to delude my self in thinking such? because i think relationship (u know what kind of relationship i refer to) is the most complicated thing in the world.

But sometimes I cant help myself feelin that, deluding myself into thinking 'a man is an island' is a complete bullocks.
Maybe I feel a bit lonely today. End of the story. The rest of it the world doesnt need to know ;)

OK, above is just a prologue.

I thought im not going to do the anniversary thing anymore but I cant help myself mentioning it, I just passed a quarter year here. 3 months!
I travel a lot since last week. Last Friday went to Oxford for my research group meetg. It was cool. cant describe more, id signed an agreement, it is a top secret hehe

This week Ive been traveling to London everyday since Wednesday, bcos I have to attend a short course. I cant imagine if I have to do it on daily basis, the public transport is really horrible in the morning. Thank God I live quite away from the bustling city.

Today is the last day of the course, the evening after the course, I went to Wesminister again, for the weekly anti war campaign but the place is quite, erm maybe i got the time wrong. (refer to the previous post about this.)

So, went to Leicester Square instead, to the Chinatown, and bought few packets of fried rice seasoning, Tomyam paste etc, ie all the Malaysian stuff.

When I was walking back to the underground station, I think I went the wrong way, and ended up going through a street with quite numbers of gay bars! LMAO That was quite interesting, pub, with only guys. I guess that must be the hotspot for GLBT in London, as there are also sx-shops, labeled for adult, featuring guys in spandex and the famous rainbow pride flag.

After rushing through the street (I dunno why I did speedup my walk), finally I come across another street with lots of bookshop, and bought a Persian Poem book from the religion's section at BORDERS (the book was placed in the Sufism section?). Maybe someday Ill post some of the beautiful bytes from the book.

And now I havent yet sleep, even though Id planned to start my jogging regime early in the morning. It is hard to do the first start. Life.

6 years of Injustice - Guantanamo Bay

I was in London yesterday, have to attend the annual student union meeting and later that evening a birthday bash. (this post is neither about both, just an intro)

So I have some time in between, and decided to stop by at the Westminster area (for non Londoners, it is the area where the Big Ben, House of Parliament and London eye are located). It is a nice place esp in the evening where the lighting effect multiply the artistic nature of the building and its surrounding. In front of the Parliament House there is an open area called Parliament Square (where the statue of Churchill stand) and also there is a small camping site from the anti war group, i admire their determination, as it is a 24-7 campaign.
And yesterday was Friday, there is a weekly protest against the War including other things like the oppressive Guantanamo Bay, and the Palestine Conflict.

I am somehow lucky to turn up that evening, it is a special event. I saw Yvonne Ridley live giving a speech!(she was a British journalist, famous for her Taliban Capture story. Wiki her if u cant remember).

Part of her speech, the last bytes at the end.

also there was a rendition of the famous Cuban Guantanamera song, altered to include the Anti Guantanamo msg, by an artist (sorry i dont know him, but he looks very familiar)


Here is the story of the campaign, it is organised by the Green Party.

For Londoners, u can help by being at the field every Friday evening 6 till 7, shouting anti war slogan towards House of Parliament. It is cool! and hopefully beneficial.

Close Guantanamo

Guantanamo, a place with no soul,
where laws don’t apply,
It’s a legal black hole.

In orange jumpsuits and cages they remain,
for fours years and more they have suffered this pain.

No charges, no trial, no due process,
innocent or guilty they couldn’t care less.

Brought to Cuba from far and wide,
tortured so bad they would rather have died.

Guantanamo, a place with no soul,
where laws don’t apply,
it’s a legal black hole.

Captured and sold to the US by their own,
how have they ended up so far from home?

Families and lives torn apart,
this is the beginning - only the start.
Children labelled as terrorists,
a symbol of injustice is what it is.

Guantanamo, a place with no soul,
where laws don’t apply,
it’s a legal black hole.

Respect for human rights is what they preach,
what a shame its not what they teach.

For every Guantanamo there are many more,
this is what they have in store.

This is America's war on human rights,
without boundaries it reaches new heights.

Guantanamo, a place with no soul,
where laws don’t apply,
it’s a legal black hole.

Who are these people, what was their crime?
Have they not served their time?

America's war comes at a price,
just ask Dr. Condaleeza Rice,

The time has come for us to make a stand,
the time has come for us to demand...

CLOSE GUANTANAMO!!!
Shazia Parveen

p.s. please pardon the vdo quality

BBC reported "Bush urges Israeli occupation end'

President George W Bush has said Israel must end its occupation of some Arab land to enable the creation of a viable Palestinian state.

wait, hold your applaud
watch the aljazeera report on this



Everyone is entitled to be stupid, but some abuse the privilege.

Fourteen Twenty Nine

Hey all, its the first day of the new year in Islamic Calender, the 1st of Muharam year 1429.
Happy New Year.
a fresh new opportunity for a new years resolution if u had break the resolution for 2008. ;P

here's a vdo from RizKhan's bout new year resolution (a discussion with 2 experts in human behavior). Worth checking out, if u constantly break yr 'resolution'.
Thats why I never had any ;)

Islam on Youtube

I have to admit Im an avid 'youtube-ian'. Why I love it? It allows peoples to express their opinions, and say anything they want to the world.
This anyways does somehow result, the emergence of quite a number of youtube-ians bashing Islam via video or their comments, criticising the religion and Prophet Muhammad PBUH. Few years back, I feels very sad watching all these, and feels helpless because I know what they say isnt true, and I had tried my best to correct the things they said by commentg/defensing on the video. But that wasnt really efficient.

And now, I realise there are more and more Muslim youtube-ians start to produce their own video, to correct whats wrong and to deny what is not Islam. Bravo to them.

And below is a summary of the situation.




and bravo to the guy below, there are many more alike him on youtube

more from him at http://ummahfilms.blogspot.com/

In the time where Islam is being humiliated and misrepresented. Allah send us help in a way we didnt think of. Subhanallah.

Two Thousand Eight

First of all, Whoa, time does fly fast!

Thinking that its already 2008, makes me wonder what have I done all these months in this 'strange' land, which is now strange no more.
I dont reach my work goals, lots of things I havent master n read n write, which scares me a lot, if 2++ months feels like just a day, am I going to spend my another 4 years here just like another few days!

hopefully the new year, is a new n fresh start for me.
Need to be more efficient, which in my opinion, becoming more organized. I just get a new bed (its a single) delivered, because i want to get rid of the king size bed which took 75% of my bedroom space. With more space, its easier to organize my space, had planted a plant, and just started an indoor vege farm, just a small organic farm, which consist of 3 red onions, yea to produce my own onion leaves (i think there is a special name for it).

And updating my blog does feel too much, i am not sure why, not that I dont have time, i think i do have time, just now i just spent hours on youtube, (on somethg good), but not necesseraly important for now I guess, i should just had do my works actually, which is the priority. But hey, since i just had wasted my time on youtube before, below are somethg from the tube that i found v interesting.

Speed of light derived from the Quran

Subhanallah. The vdo was titled 'how science destroyed Islam', maybe to redirect the target group to watch the vdo.

And I also met this witty girl on my youtube session.
Here a vdo from her disputing the popular accusation that Muhammad PBUH was a pedophile.

I am amazed, she discovered Islam from self study and you can see on other vdo from her, the difficulty she faced when she told her family about her choice when she was still a teen. I am truly inspired.

And the christmas-new year break had past, I did a lot of thgs during the period, too many, i felt a bit lazy to jot down here. But iA I will jot some worth mentioning, which include the Manchaster trip, the Glasgow Islamic Gath and a conference in the 1st day of 2008.

Here is the sneak peek of the conference.

Note: Despite their 'appearance', these guys have a very 'non-conventional' views on Islam. Ill try to find some time to share what I heard that day iA, or you can search them on youtube ;)

Until later...