Happy Eid-ul-Adha

Posted by Ramjaan | 12:45 AM

Eid ul adha is eid of sacrifice,
and commitment to Allahs orders,
May Allah bless us with the same in all circles of life,
and help all amongst us,
who are helpless,worried,
and waiting for his rehmat,
Ameen.Eid Mubarak.

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Chandni Chowk To China is a Bollywood film slated for release on 16th January 2009. It will be directed by Nikhil Advani and stars Akshay Kumar and Deepika Padukone in the lead roles, with Bollywood veteran Mithun Chakraborty and Hong Kong veteran Gordon Liu also playing important roles. The film is the first Bollywood film to be shot in China. This is Warner Bros. Pictures's second Bollywood film, Saas Bahu aur Sensex (2008) being the first.

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The N-97 has the touch screen popularized by Apple Inc.'s iPhone, a real keyboard that appeals to users of BlackBerrys and Nokia's own E-Series devices, and fast Wi-Fi Internet access to complement third-generation broadband access.

The phone also has an accelerometer, a widget-friendly OS, a still and videocamera and a 3.5 inch screen.

But other analysts don't think the phone will do much to help Nokia avoid what's expected to be a 1% to 9% industry-wide decline in sales next year.

"[Nokia] tried to cram in lots of different technologies such as a touch screen, full qwerty keyboard and plenty of memory, but it had to make trade-offs in its size and features," CCS Insight's Research Director Ben Wood told Reuters. "It has ended up with a relatively thick device that lacks some of the benchmark features expected in flagship products in mid-2009."

Said Gartner analyst Carolina Milanesi: "It might give Nokia a little edge, but it's six months until this reaches the market."

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http://image.examiner.com/images/blog/wysiwyg/image/venus_moon_etc.jpgIt's gray, damp and overcast where I live, and it may only get worse by tonight. Oh no--I'll have to miss tonight's sky show when Jupiter, Venus, and the crescent moon form a triangle.

But there's another option: watch online today with Peter Grego of Cornwall in the U.K. Grego. He's livestreaming images of the celestial hookup. As I post this, it's just before 4 p.m. in his time zone--which means the best pictures still lie ahead.

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World AIDS Day

Posted by Ramjaan | 5:52 PM


Life in South Africa has been lived somewhat under the shadow of HIV/AIDS for over a decade now. Conservative statistics put us as having 5.5 million people infected with the virus, which is about 16% of the amount of people infected world-wide. As a result of the pandemic we sit with an ever rising number of orphans, currently at about 1.4 million. And so today my blog post is a call to prayer. Won’t you stop for a second and direct some pray towards the following issues:

  • The rate at which the virus is spreading: Pray that God will intervene here.
  • The availability of medication: Less than a quarter of those infected in South Africa have adequate access to the right medication.
  • Child-headed homes: As more and more parents succumb to the virus, more and more children are having to take over headship of households looking after even younger children
  • Abstinence as a solution: Pray that people we see abstinence amongst the un-married as real solution and not something to be scoffed at.
  • Faithfulness as a solution: Pray that married couples would be faithful to one another throughout their marriage.
  • Discrimination: Pray against the terrible discrimination that some face after being diagnosed with the virus.
  • The orphan crisis: Pray that God would raise up emergency parents, foster parents and even parents willing to adopt.
  • Pray for our churches: Pray that the redemption they have received in Christ will flow out into acts of love and kindness towards those infected.

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