The stork is coming...

As the sun dies, birthing the night,

Darkness reigns without the presence of light,
Except for the little beacon high up in the skies,
Flapping his long wings, onward he flies.

He lights up an otherwise dismal night.
He makes all the wrongs into a right.
As we await his impending arrival
With a cargo essential for our survival.

We have been waiting so long for this
Precious cargo, this bundle of bliss.
This answer to our prayers, this light
For which we have and will continue to fight.

There is still sometime till the coming
But the bees have already started humming.
The flowers are already in full bloom
And we know that he will be here soon.

CHILDISH INSIGHT

NUDITY - I was driving with my three young children one warm summer evening when a woman in the convertible ahead of us stood up and waved. She was stark naked! As I was reeling from the shock, I heard my 5-year-old shout from the back seat, "Mom! That lady isn't wearing a seat belt!

MORE NUDITY - A little boy got lost at the YMCA and found himself in the women's locker room. When he was spotted, the room burst into shrieks, with ladies grabbing towels and running for cover. The little boy watched in amazement and then asked, "What's the matter haven't you ever seen a little boy before?"

HONESTY - My son Zachary, 4, came screaming out of the bathroom to tell me he'd dropped his toothbrush in the toilet. So I fished it out and threw it in the garbage. Zachary stood there thinking for a moment, then ran to my bathroom and came out with my toothbrush. He held it up and said with a charming little smile, "We better throw this one out too then, 'cause it fell in the toilet a few days ago.

OPINIONS - On the first day of school, a first grader handed his teacher a note from his mother. The note read, "The opinions expressed by this child are not necessarily those of his parents."

KETCHUP - A woman was trying hard to get the ketchup to come out of the jar. During her struggle the phone rang so she asked her 4-year-old daughter to answer the phone. "It's the minister, Mommy," the child said to her mother. Then she added, "Mommy can't come to the phone to talk to you right now. She's hitting the bottle."

ELDERLY - While working for an organisation that delivers lunches to elderly shut-ins, I used to take my 4-year old daughter on my afternoon rounds. The various appliances of old age, particularly the canes, walkers and wheelchairs, unfailingly intrigued her. One day I found her staring at a pair of false teeth soaking in a glass. As I braced myself for the inevitable barrage of questions, she merely turned and whispered, "The tooth fairy will never believe this!"

DRESS-UP - A little girl was watching her parents dress for a party. When she saw her dad donning his tuxedo, she warned, "Daddy, you shouldn't wear that suit." "And why not, darling?" "You know that it always gives you a headache the next morning"

DEATH - While walking along the sidewalk in front of his church, our minister heard the intoning of a prayer that nearly made his collar wilt. Apparently, his 5-year-old son and his playmates had found a dead robin. Feeling that proper burial should be performed, they had secured a small box and cotton batting, then dug a hole and made ready for the disposal of the deceased. The minister's son was chosen to say the appropriate prayers and with sonorous dignity intoned his version of what he thought his Father always said: "Glory be unto the Faaaather, and unto the Sonnn, and into the hole he gooooes."

SCHOOL - A little girl had just finished her first week of school. "I'm just wasting my time," she said to her mother. "I can't read, I can't write and they won't let me talk!"

BIBLE - A little boy opened the big family bible. He was fascinated as he fingered through the old pages. Suddenly, something fell out of the Bible. He picked up the object and looked at it. What he saw was an old leaf that had been pressed in between the pages. "Mama, look what I found," the boy called out." What have you got there, dear?" With astonishment in the young boy's voice, he answered, "I think it's Adam's underwear!"

Say what?

What she said:

Moreland Leader

What I heard:

more than a litre

Sometimes it is hard to hear what someone is saying and you only catch the gist of it. More often than not you end up with some words that sound the same as the ones that have been said but which does not make any sense at all and you are go "Huh??? what??"

My wife was telling me today how we seemed to have stopped getting the "Moreland Leader" which is a community newspaper that gets delivered to our doorstop every monday. I heard "more than a litre" which of course did not mean anything to me but might have so I had to ask again what she was saying and she very patiently repeated what she had said in a slower and more clear voice so that my water logged ears could identify the actual words that had been said.

Now I am not saying that I have a hearing problem because I most certainly do not. It is everybody else's fault for not speaking coherently enough.

The Creepy Crawlies are here!

Looks like the best part of summer is here. The creepy crawlies have started creeping and crawling out of wherever they had hidden for the last few months. I was getting a drink from the fridge when I heard my wife screaming and shouting. When I rushed into the study she was shaking and stuttering and she just brushed past me into the living room. I followed her asking what was wrong and she finally managed to calm down enough to tell me that a cockroach had been crawling on her arm.

I went back into the study and sure enough, on her laptop was the ugliest bug I have ever seen. It looked as if it had descended directly from Kafka's monster himself. The thing was black in most parts with some silver and grey spots all over. It had wings but it did not look intimidated enough to fly away. We stared each other down, not one of us giving the other an inch. From the living room, I could hear my wife shouting, "Kill it! Kill it!"

I went back and got the bug spray and some paper. As soon as it saw the insecticide it tried to crawl away. I was not going to let it escape that easily though. First I tried to grab it with the paper as I did not want spray on my wife's laptop. But the creature proved more elusive, slipping away everytime I thought I had caught it. I finally managed to wear it down and it dropped onto the carpet where I let shot off a barrage of toxic gas.

The thing struggled but was no match for the might of chemical warfare. A few wrigglings later, it had flown off to creepy crawly hell. I picked it up with some paper and took it off to my wife who was still shaking. She did not want to look at it, instead told me to go flush the thing. So I dropped it into the toilet and pushed the lever.

This was probably a scout or the advance party. We can expect more of their kind in the coming days. Not just the cockroaches. The spiders, ants and flies will all be coming out in droves. The only thing we can do is be prepared and make sure we have enough bugspray.

Spiders on drugs

funniest thing i have ever seen hehehe

In the dark

It has been quite an interesting morning. When I went to work I saw the people who were working on the main electricity cables and realised that there might not be any electricity in the store. Sure enough the whole place was darker than dark when I arrived at the door. Deinse was already there waiting in her car. When she saw me, she got out and sat down on the bench.

"Is that a garbage bag?"

I looked at where she was pointing and there was something dark and plump lying near the door. I got up and went to check on it and imagine my surprise as I heard little snores coming from it. As my eyes adjusted to the dark, I could make out a pair of boots coming out of the heap. I backe away and told Denise that it was a guy. I was thinking it was some homeless guy just asleep on our doorstep.

As the rest of the guys arrived this guy work up and surprise surprise he was wearing a uniform. Margaret asked him who he was and he replied that he was the security guard!

He was the security guard, guarding the place because the electricity was off and the alarms were not working! And he was asleep on the job! hehehe.

Anyways when we finally went inside, we could not see a damn thing. Which meant we could not do any work. And I was not going to call the boss up. He should have realised that this was going on and called us to let us know so that we could have come later or not at all. We went out the other side and asked the workmen how long it would take and they replied that it might take a couple of hours. What did we do then? We sat down in the dark, on the couches and talked about nothihng for an hour till the department managers arrived. And then we talked for an hour more until she finally decided to call the big boss who told us to go home. He also said that we would be paid for the day. SO that was not quite bad. A day's pay for sitting in the dark telling ghost stories.

More 300 artwork

Empireonline has posted even more 300 posters. There is only 83 days till the movie is released...

Spartan hardass Stelios (Michael Fassbender) as he jumps on some unfortunate Persian.

One of Xerxes’ silver-masked Immortals.

New 300 artwork

Can you tell that I just can't wait for this movie to come out??? I found some new posters for the movie over at Empireonline.

Feast your eyes on three of the main characters –

Gerard Butler’s Leonidas, King of the Spartans, who launches a desperate effort to stop an army of 250,000 with a force of 300.

Lena Headey’s feisty and firey Queen Gorgo, Leonidas’ wife and herself part of the war effort.

Rodrigo Santoro’s chain-attired Xerxes, the Persian Emperor.

And as if that weren’t enough, you also get a glimpse of one of the film’s crazy Persian warriors, the gigantic chained “über-Immortal”, the scariest member of Xerxes’ personal guard, the 10,000 Immortals.

The bracelet - part one

The sun is still asleep when I start on my hourly trip to get to work. It is not easy to get up every morning before 4 am but I have somehow managed to do so for nearly three months now. The day I found the bracelet, started out like any other working day.

I was walking at a well maintained pace that required just enough power to keep from falling asleep but not enough to tire me out (which would lead me to fall asleep too...) I had just stepped on the bridge over the freeway when I notice the sparkling of something on the pavement.

It was a bracelet. You know the type that is sold in most two dollar shops or novelty stores. Cheap imitation jewels set on a stretchy metal band. I picked it up. To this day I am not sure why I did so. It was probably my cat like curiosity which is going to get me killed one day... and on this day it nearly did... But I am getting ahead of myself.

I kept walking while looking over the bracelet. I was wondering who had dropped it and whether there was any way I could figure out who it was so that I could return it to her. Her! Of course it belongs to a girl. No self respecting male would ever own one of those things. There were no initials on the inside of the bracelet. No identifying marks or even a serial number. It was a cheap imitation. They do not come with serial numbers.

So without thinking what I was doing I slipped my left wrist into the bracelet. I was almost at the end of the bridge. On any other day there would still be ten more minutes of walking up to the tram stop. But on that day, when I tried on the bracelet, I suddenly found myself standing at the tram stop.

I do not remember walking those ten minutes from the bridge to the tram stop. Usually I time my walks so that I get to the tram stop just minutes before the tram comes. That day I had to wait ten minutes before the tram came and I hopped on it; the bracelet was still on my left wrist.

Quote for the day

This is a good spin on an "old saying" ...

The glass is neither half-full nor half-empty: it's twice as big as it needs to be.

- Unknown

Blog overhaul for 2007

I had been thinking of changing the look of my blog for sometime now.. I liked the stripey template I have been using for the past few months which I found at eris design. That site has for some reason gone down and I had been trying to change the three column look into a two column one but it didnt work out.

Anyways I picked the minima black template that I used when I first started this blog sometime ago. With the new blogger page elements it is really easy to bring about the changes that I want to make to the template. So for the time being I am going to have a completely minimal black template... It is however going to be improved upon just as soon as I figure out how to add the things that I want to add to it.. Keep watching this blog!

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

Fantastic Four: Rise of the SilverSurfer
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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