The year that was 2006

Today is the last day of 2006 and it has been a year of many ups and downs for me; the ups of course always outnumber the downs. It is also time again for resolutions to be made which do not have to be followed through but it is always fun to make them.

First of all this is my one hundredth post in this blog. 2006 marks a time when I seriously started blogging and though I have not managed to keep to the promise of a post a day, I still managed to write bits and pieces here and there. I celebrate the blog's anniversary in 2006 also. For 2007 I resolve to write more articles and seriously start on my fiction writing.

I celebrated my first wedding anniversary in 2006 which was the happiest day of the year and seriously competing for the happiest day of my life. We also got the happy news that my wife is pregnant which is awesome! So 2007 will herald the birth of my first child and I resolve to get all the stuff that needs to be done by that time, done and over with.

I started going to a job for the first time this year. I do not like the work very much but it brings in money and I do not hate it too much. The co-workers are nice enough and I have managed to somehow get on the good side of most of them so much that I have been offered further training which could in fact lead to more hours which would mean more money... There is just one person who I have taken an intense dislike to. He is rude and arrogant and all of my fellow coworkers do not like him. Most of the days I am at work are spent trying to make sure I do not have much contact with him. Hopefully 2007 will find me having more hours at work or a new job that I like better...

I actually managed to lose 10 kilos during 2006 which is quite a feat. I used to weigh about 90 kilos before ramadan and the start of work combined to provide a weight loss program so that by the end of ramadan I weighed 80 kilos. I still weigh 80 and in 2007, I resolve to lose a further 10 kilos and go down to 70. Maybe get some more muscle tone as well. If I am going to be running around after a kid I will need to be healthy.

I have this guitar which I bought from a friend in 2004. My wife bought me a beginners book to guitar playing and a tuner, all of which has been gathering dust in some corner of the flat. last year I made a resolution to learn how to play the guitar but did not follow through so for 2007 I make the same resolution but to follow through this time.

2006 also had the usual marriages, births and deaths of those close to me.

My Aunt passed away(bless her soul!), Naimbe's mom passed away as well.

Yuli and Mua became parents of a baby girl. Shahyn and Nashitha became parents of a baby boy. Nazim got married to Shim's sister. These people are from the Bendigo clan with whom I spent my Uni days.

My baby brother tied the knot as well on friday. Congrats Hassan and Fahy! Hope you two have a fun life together.


The resolutions for 2007

*Write the stories that are (and have been for sometime) floating around my head. Try and get some of these published.

*Make all the necessary preparations for the arrival of my child and do everything in my power to make it as easy a time as possible for my wife.

*Lose a further 10 kilos and build up some muscle.

*Learn to play the guitar.

*Look for a better job or at least try and get some more hours at the job that I already have.

Eid mubarak and Happy New Year to everybody!

Expecting

Fantastic Four 2: Rise of the Silver Surfer

Marvel's first family of superheroes, The Fantastic Four, meets their greatest challenge yet in "Fantastic Four: Rise of The Silver Surfer" as the enigmatic, intergalactic herald, The Silver Surfer, comes to Earth to prepare it for destruction. As the Silver Surfer races around the globe wreaking havoc, Reed, Sue, Johnny and Ben must unravel the mystery of the Silver Surfer and confront the surprising return of their mortal enemy, Dr. Doom, before all hope is lost.


watch the trailer! looks great

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New TMNT pics

Leonardo gets ready for a fight.

The garden fight: Karai and the Foot Ninja prepare to face the Turtles.

The Turtles, Splinter, April and Casey reflect on the battle they've just fought.

Talking about the weather

Melbourne's crazy weather continues as today it got pretty cold even though this is the middle of summer and only three days ago it was 40 degrees celcius. The victoria region sees this cold front as a belssing as it helps them with the fires that have been burning out of control all over victoria...

Second time it has hailed and i got another video which im going to post here. enjoy!

Merry Christmas

Transformers trailer

This looks awesome!

Mr. Nice Guy

Wii VS PS3

Smokin' Aces new trailer

The Wheels of Life

I am still in the bicycle phase...

300 latest trailer

This just keeps getting better and better...

TMNT

I have always been a fan of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. First there was the cartoons and then there was the live action movies. At that time I did not know there were comic books on the characters. This new animated movie which is coming out on 30 March 2007 will derive its tone from the original comic-book series and will be slightly grittier than the previous live-action pictures. The animation will be created in Imagi's state-of-the art facility in Hong Kong.

View from the Animal Womb

A couple of weeks back I saw these amazing pictures of animals still in their wombs when they showed it on the news. Today I cam across the pictures again and I googled and found that these pictures are going to be in a movie showing on the National Geographic Channel in December. The two hour movie will show tiny pink elephant embryos, a teensy dog fetus with glowing blue eyes, and mini-dolphins swimming in their mother's belly. It will show in the United States on December 10 and in Germany on Christmas Day.

The film is made possible using technology developed at the beginning of the decade by veterinary scientist Thomas Hildebrandt, from the Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research in Berlin. In addition to providing clear 3D images, his team was able to advance ultrasound techniques so as to make it possible to penetrate further than the 15 centimeters technology had allowed.

The result is a look inside the wombs of a wide variety of mammals, even including giants like elephants. Hildebrandt's system involves inserting an ultrasound scanner's head into the empty intestine of the pregnant elephant. When the fetus is visible, the ultrasound then goes into 3D mode, which produces up to 70 cross sections, which are then pieced together by a computer.

And viola! One can see the tiny eyes, trunk and wrinkles of elephant fetuses as young as 17 weeks. The technology is perfect for vets and for researchers.

Here are some of the pictures;

The Sun Sleeps in my Bed

I met a man who asked me
"Why are your arms so white?"
I told him I have sunscreen on.
He replied, "But its still night..."

I told him that was true; he asked me,
"Why are there sunglasses on your head?"
I told him the reason for all this is because
You see the sun, she sleeps in my bed!

Yes the sun sleeps in my bed!
Outrageous as it sounds, it is true!
She sleeps in my bed each night
And keeps me warm through and through!

The sunscreen keeps me from being burnt
By her brilliant heat; the glow she radiates,
Requires the use of sunglasses, though I am
Tempted to go without and leave it to the fates.

The man told me "you are very lucky!"
I replied that I am aware of what he said.
At the end of the day, when everyone sleeps
The sun, she goes to sleep in my bed!