somewhere between the states of sabr and shukr
lies the state of stagnation
unhappiness about the current situation
but no energy or motivation to change it
just a drive to ignore it
by filling ur life with trivialities
to make it seem less encroaching.
but ignoring it
is the very fruit on which stagnation thrives
definitions for stagnation that speak to me from the web :
stagnate : idle: be idle; exist in a changeless situation; "The old man sat and stagnated on his porch"; "He slugged in bed all morning"
when there is little water movement and pollutants are trapped in the same area for a long period of time.
a blockage or buildup of qi or blood that prevents it from flowing freely. Is a precursor of illness and disease and is frequently accompanied by pain or tingling
A period when wind speeds of less than 0.5 m/s persist
dulling of the brain due to excessive use of a tool to carry out it's job. (e.g. using a calculator for simple maths or googling instead of thinking)
Monday, September 27, 2010
Tuesday, July 6, 2010
Kaboom and Tippy
the adventures of kaboom and tippy
as created by sajida mitha in one of her bored but creative moments.
I intend on stealing more of her creative works and seeing what this cartoon develops into.
Monday, July 5, 2010
SouthAfrican-ism & WorldCup-ism
The world cup brought so much hope and togetherness to this country. Nelson Mandela was correct when he, as per the movie invictus, said that sports would bring people together and focused much on the 95 rugby world cup in uniting the country. The 180 000 strong crowd of diverse people that united in Sandton for the bafana parade, could not have been envisaged 15 years ago. It was beautiful to be a part of it and to say "I was there".
One thing that's special about our country, is the way we love and support our sportsmen no matter what. We always knew our soccer team wasn't the greatest in the world, but we stood behind them nonetheless and cheered heartily for them. Then, when they were kicked out, we were unhappy, but we got behind another team and continued attending matches and supporting the football. And we still love our bafana and we are proud of them for what they managed to achieve.
Normally, Fifa has to worry when the host team gets kicked out, but the morale in South Africa never dropped. I read an article by a lady from the U.S. who said that South Africa has taught her about the true meaning of 'ubuntu'. We welcome and accept anyone from any country and are genuinely interested in them as people. Countries like the U.S., on the other hand, are too focused on themselves and think of all other countries as outsiders. For all the xenophobia we've been accused of and the international media has harped upon, I think we truly are welcoming people and we really used the world cup as an opportunity to show the world first hand what we are. Also we got to show them that we don't wear animal skins and lions don't walk in the streets.
I'm so proud of us and of the world cup.
And we have a super awesome unique flag. Yes it's quite a bit similar to the flag of Vanuatu (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Vanuatu) but it's still way more creativethan 3 horizontal or 3 vertical stripes and if anything, it's an improvement on the vanuatu one.
Here's to South Africa and it's uniqueness and it's freedom and just all round awesomeness :)
One thing that's special about our country, is the way we love and support our sportsmen no matter what. We always knew our soccer team wasn't the greatest in the world, but we stood behind them nonetheless and cheered heartily for them. Then, when they were kicked out, we were unhappy, but we got behind another team and continued attending matches and supporting the football. And we still love our bafana and we are proud of them for what they managed to achieve.
Normally, Fifa has to worry when the host team gets kicked out, but the morale in South Africa never dropped. I read an article by a lady from the U.S. who said that South Africa has taught her about the true meaning of 'ubuntu'. We welcome and accept anyone from any country and are genuinely interested in them as people. Countries like the U.S., on the other hand, are too focused on themselves and think of all other countries as outsiders. For all the xenophobia we've been accused of and the international media has harped upon, I think we truly are welcoming people and we really used the world cup as an opportunity to show the world first hand what we are. Also we got to show them that we don't wear animal skins and lions don't walk in the streets.
I'm so proud of us and of the world cup.
And we have a super awesome unique flag. Yes it's quite a bit similar to the flag of Vanuatu (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Vanuatu) but it's still way more creativethan 3 horizontal or 3 vertical stripes and if anything, it's an improvement on the vanuatu one.
Here's to South Africa and it's uniqueness and it's freedom and just all round awesomeness :)
Monday, December 7, 2009
Prawns in the Grass
I'm thrilled to have found my very first parktown prawn :) I found it far away from Parktown. It was on the edge of a golf course in Magaliesberg. I think it might be the 2nd most interesting insect I have ever found. Second only to butterflies because butterflies are the most beautiful creatures in the universe.
I don't think these pictures do them justice. They are beautiful and the fact that they are indigenous to South Africa makes them even cooler.
I sat for a while and watched this one. Took about a hundred photos -none were very good coz I used my 2 megapixel cellphone camera and i'm not much of a photographer to begin with.
It wasn't doing much, so I took a stick and started poking at it. No, I'm not like a horrible 4 year old child who pulls cats by their tails, it has an exoskeleton and I wasn't hurting it at all.
I left it and when I came back to check later it was still lying there, but it's body was being eaten by ants.
So I guess it hadn't moved earlier coz it had been dead the whole time. Which is sad for this beautiful little cricket, well beautiful large King cricket, but lucky for me, coz apparently they bite quite hard if u come too close.
It was my first encounter with a Parktown prawn and I hope for my sake that it was pesticide in the grass and not my stick poking that killed it.
I don't think these pictures do them justice. They are beautiful and the fact that they are indigenous to South Africa makes them even cooler.
I sat for a while and watched this one. Took about a hundred photos -none were very good coz I used my 2 megapixel cellphone camera and i'm not much of a photographer to begin with.
It wasn't doing much, so I took a stick and started poking at it. No, I'm not like a horrible 4 year old child who pulls cats by their tails, it has an exoskeleton and I wasn't hurting it at all.
I left it and when I came back to check later it was still lying there, but it's body was being eaten by ants.
So I guess it hadn't moved earlier coz it had been dead the whole time. Which is sad for this beautiful little cricket, well beautiful large King cricket, but lucky for me, coz apparently they bite quite hard if u come too close.
It was my first encounter with a Parktown prawn and I hope for my sake that it was pesticide in the grass and not my stick poking that killed it.
Friday, December 4, 2009
About The Arrivals
The arrivals is a lot of truth shrouded in heaps of paranoia. It's an imaginitive mind that started asking questions and has managed to uncover many truths that the higher powers would rather hide from us. It makes u start to question everything u thought u knew and to look at the way the world has panned out and recognise that everything that has happened has panned out according to a greater plan.
Knowing that the zionists are moving closer to attaining the promised land, knowing that the anti-christ is practically on our doorstep and knowing that there are so many people who are willing to carry out his plan, made me feel like I need to do something to stop it.I didn't know what I needed to do, I just knew I needed to do something. I can't let this happen. I need to fight it. I need to make people aware of what they are not seeing.
The director of the arrivals, who seems to be an ardent Matrix fan, draws a parallel to "unplugging" people, as it occurs in the Matrix trilogy. In fact he draws parallels to the Matrix in many of his arguments. I doubt that the matrix was about the same thing, but I find his linking to the Matrix theme quite apt.
Linking us to the dunya and making us as unholy as possible is seen in a whole different light. I had thought it was just commercialisation, but the arrivals makes you realise that it's all part of the greater plan of shaytaan/lucifer/the antichrist and that there are millions of people doing his work and preparing for the arrival of the antichristIt is after all, shaytaan's duty to whisper into the hearts of people and confuse them.
It's not too far-fetched to believe that the people in power and the people with huge popularity have made a pact with him, but I do find it hard to believe that they would leave the kind of clues that he picks up on.
For example, he says that starbucks supports the state of Israel and have named their company starbucks to show their loyalty to the star of Israel. If it's a great plan and they take such care to cover it up, why would they put something so blatant right there in their name?
or perhaps...they are so confident that no1 will suspect their evil-ness that they go ahead and put it in their name to gloat (insert evil-looking emoticon here)
Even if some of it is paranoid, I think it's very good to watch, just to expand ur mind and free it from all the propaganda it's been fed.
one of the comedians in the arrivals says at one point, "there is one type of prison where u can see the walls and the bars and u know that u r captured, but there's another type of prison that is even more dangerous; where u cannot see the walls or the bars and u believe that u are free."
Initially I was very disturbed at everything that I was seeing. I am an ignorant bliss kind of person and I absolutely hate it each time the rosy bubble surrounding my idea of the world bursts and I'm hit with all the ugly.But then I realised that this is the way it was meant to be; the coming of the antichrist, the pain and hardship that good people will have to endure and the wars - real wars that we are aware of, as well as silent wars that hurt us without us knowing we are being hurt, have all been written long before the world came into existence.
There are some things that are just meant to be and no matter how hard u try to fight them, they will happen. You need to watch the arrivals with this in mind and then only can u accept it's message without getting all upset and paranoid and feeling like there's no hope, or getting stubborn and cocky and closing your mind even more by rejecting everything that is being said.
Knowing that the zionists are moving closer to attaining the promised land, knowing that the anti-christ is practically on our doorstep and knowing that there are so many people who are willing to carry out his plan, made me feel like I need to do something to stop it.I didn't know what I needed to do, I just knew I needed to do something. I can't let this happen. I need to fight it. I need to make people aware of what they are not seeing.
The director of the arrivals, who seems to be an ardent Matrix fan, draws a parallel to "unplugging" people, as it occurs in the Matrix trilogy. In fact he draws parallels to the Matrix in many of his arguments. I doubt that the matrix was about the same thing, but I find his linking to the Matrix theme quite apt.
Linking us to the dunya and making us as unholy as possible is seen in a whole different light. I had thought it was just commercialisation, but the arrivals makes you realise that it's all part of the greater plan of shaytaan/lucifer/the antichrist and that there are millions of people doing his work and preparing for the arrival of the antichristIt is after all, shaytaan's duty to whisper into the hearts of people and confuse them.
It's not too far-fetched to believe that the people in power and the people with huge popularity have made a pact with him, but I do find it hard to believe that they would leave the kind of clues that he picks up on.
For example, he says that starbucks supports the state of Israel and have named their company starbucks to show their loyalty to the star of Israel. If it's a great plan and they take such care to cover it up, why would they put something so blatant right there in their name?
or perhaps...they are so confident that no1 will suspect their evil-ness that they go ahead and put it in their name to gloat (insert evil-looking emoticon here)
Even if some of it is paranoid, I think it's very good to watch, just to expand ur mind and free it from all the propaganda it's been fed.
one of the comedians in the arrivals says at one point, "there is one type of prison where u can see the walls and the bars and u know that u r captured, but there's another type of prison that is even more dangerous; where u cannot see the walls or the bars and u believe that u are free."
Initially I was very disturbed at everything that I was seeing. I am an ignorant bliss kind of person and I absolutely hate it each time the rosy bubble surrounding my idea of the world bursts and I'm hit with all the ugly.But then I realised that this is the way it was meant to be; the coming of the antichrist, the pain and hardship that good people will have to endure and the wars - real wars that we are aware of, as well as silent wars that hurt us without us knowing we are being hurt, have all been written long before the world came into existence.
There are some things that are just meant to be and no matter how hard u try to fight them, they will happen. You need to watch the arrivals with this in mind and then only can u accept it's message without getting all upset and paranoid and feeling like there's no hope, or getting stubborn and cocky and closing your mind even more by rejecting everything that is being said.
Monday, November 30, 2009
5 minutes of fame...almost
I wanted to be in front of the lights and camera.
I wanted people around me to recognise me from the video.
Oooh I know u! u were in the I'm an IBMer video :)
But when the time came, I looked ahead and my brain was dead.
My soul was dead.
I couldn't bring myself to speak to a dead camera.
I was constantly chided for looking away.
I sometimes find it hard to look into people's eyes when I speak to them...
But I realise now that I need there to be eyes.
If there aren't eyes for me to look at when I speak,my personality dies.
I wanted to be a rockstar, but i failed.
I wanted people around me to recognise me from the video.
Oooh I know u! u were in the I'm an IBMer video :)
But when the time came, I looked ahead and my brain was dead.
My soul was dead.
I couldn't bring myself to speak to a dead camera.
I was constantly chided for looking away.
I sometimes find it hard to look into people's eyes when I speak to them...
But I realise now that I need there to be eyes.
If there aren't eyes for me to look at when I speak,my personality dies.
I wanted to be a rockstar, but i failed.
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
I don't think it's fair that obama won a nobel prize. Somewhere deep down inside of me I've always wanted to win a nobel prize. I look at the nobel prize winners with such awe and amazement; their names are written in history and the things that they have achieved help humanity so much.
Also it's cool to have the title. Perhaps I spend too much time seeking what is cool and what sounds nice. As corpsekicker once said to me, we don't like being developers, we like the idea of development. The idea of development has worn thin for me, now I like the idea of IT architect and want to move to that role.
Although I guess that's how dreams originate. looking at something from the outside and saying..I want that.And if u don't have that dream, u don't have something to work towards and if u not working towards something, every day just follows after the last and u get stuck in the monotony of the now without thinking about the future.
Although I guess that's how dreams originate. looking at something from the outside and saying..I want that.And if u don't have that dream, u don't have something to work towards and if u not working towards something, every day just follows after the last and u get stuck in the monotony of the now without thinking about the future.
I guess I'm a self proclaimed idiot
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