I am reading Echart Tolle’s The Power of Now and came across a sentence I wish I could learn to master:

“Wherever you are, be there totally. If you find you are here and now intolerable and it makes you unhappy, you have three options: remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally.” (p82)

Dedicated to all of you…thank you for being part of my life

If you ask me which secret society right now is controlling the world, which organization holds the steering wheel of our mindset; I will say without a doubt it’s the media. If you want world peace we have got to pull the plug on all the media—silence them I say–off with their heads…ok that was taking it a bit too far, let them keep their heads. So how we would we get our news you ask–from the honest hearts of ordinary people on twitter, facebook, blogs, and the other billion social networking sites on the WWW

Now back to these NLP experts (aka the media); one could seriously learn a lot of business tricks and gimmicks from them. They seriously know how to drill a trival piece of news into the mass’s head until they stop questioning why the informatin they are feeding them is relevant. Their latest project is of course this swine flu…would someone please explain to me why this has become a big deal????

Ever since watching a YouTube clip of somegreyblok on Grey’s blog I have become a fan of his short sarcastic clips. Check out his latest on the swine flu especially the statistics on worldwide deaths per month of other dieases.

This blog really had become just a cut and paste plagiarism zone….aahhh what the hell…my brain is on hibernation these day….here’s my stolen stuff for this week:

Depressed people think the only reality is their own depressed reality.

If you want to forget all your other troubles, wear too tight shoes.

Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it’s all over.

An angry man is again angry with himself when he returns to reason.

“We Learn . . .
10% of what we read
20% of what we hear
30% of what we see
50% of what we see and hear
70% of what we discuss
80% of what we experience
95% of what we teach others.”

Criticize me, and I may not like you.

Ignore me, and I may not forgive you.

Encourage me, and I will not forget you.

Pain is inevitable; suffering is optional.

I’m not normally a religious man, but if you’re up there, save me, Superman! ~~~ Homer Simpson

There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in.

Prayer is when you talk to God; meditation is when you listen to God.

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you don’t trust enough.

Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.

When a question is posed ceremoniously, the universe responds.

When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.

Life keeps presenting us with a lesson until we learn it

Happiness for a reason is a form of misery because the reason can be taken away from you at any time. To be happy for no reason is the happiness you want to experience.

Well if life is all about clearing your path of all those little bumps, boulders and imbeciles then I just got a step closer. I just kicked an itsy bitsy pebble out of my way…yep…I am now a proud owner of an whole choice of Office 2007 without that annoying “Your product is not genuine” notice…in your face Bill Gates

I am humbly gratefully to our office IT support guy for this patch.

Run this DOS command at C:\>
MsiExec.exe /uninstall {B148AB4B-C8FA-474B-B981-F2943C5B5BCD}
You will be prompted if you are sure you want to unistall. Click ‘Yes’
This will unistall the OGA notifier 1.7.0105.35.0 described on this blog.
Works for vista and XP.

Dunno where he found this command so can’t give credit to the original saviour

Our Connected World

Ok, here are a couple of things I love:

1. Great food (with the taste buds I have, almost all cuisine –except for seafood–is classified as great food in my book)

2. Great music (especially Persian and Indian)

3. Great ambiance (sth cozy, exotic, and soothing)

So put all 3 together and you have the restaurant I went to last night…and the bonus part is that the music was live…yep 4 musicians..and the take requests…I requested 1 song (zengi ek safar) and my mom 3 songs (an AMir Khan and Kaloj song from the film Fanaa; a song from the film Darkaan, and a sonu Nigaam song)…oh and the male singer sounds a bit like Kishor Kumar

Here are some pics and videos of Rangoli at Radisson Sas (they don’t have a website   )

PS. plz excuse the quality of the pics and video, they were taken with my mobile

Rangoli's Menu

First page of the menu

The musicians at work

The restaurant is build around the base of this dhow. The Dhow itself is another restaurant

Musicians getting ready

That butterfly was not edible

The entrance

The dessert

PS. I’ll upload the videos soon

Tagged by Technogal

LAST THINGS:

1. Last beverage : tea with milk
2. Last phone call: a Nowrooz Mobarak call from a friend
3. Last instant message: “Sweet dream”
4. Last song you listened to: watching local Iranian tv now; they are playing nowrooz/spring songs; dunno their names or the artists

5. Last time you cried: this morning…had the nowrooz blues
6. Last text message :Happy Nowrooz

LIST THREE FAVORITE COLORS:

Depends on the object, shape, and material. The only color I am NOT too fond of is brown…like I always thought that if tree trunks were a bright florescent blue, they would be a lot cuter

THIS MONTH HAVE YOU:

15. Made a new friend: Depends on the meaning of friend…
16. Fallen out of love: yep…I’m no longer crazy about Bounty
17. Laughed until you cried: Do people seriously laugh till they cry??!!!
18. Met someone who changed your life: no comment ;p
19. Found out who your true friends were: nope, but I did find out who the village cultural idiot is
20. Found out someone was talking about you: Yep…but dunno what they said…just overheard my name
21. Have you kissed anyone on your Facebook friends list: air kiss, yes
22. How many people on your Facebook friends list do you know in real life: Define real life…btw why is this question under the title: This month have you???
23. How many kids do you want to have: 0
24. Do you have any pets: Do the stray street cats count?
25. Do you want to change your name: Not legally nope, but since Darya is not my real name, guess I kinda already have
26. What did you get for your last birthday: Mostly clothing and accessories…none that I really liked
27. What time did you wake up today: today is Friday so I should have slept till 3 pm BUT had to go somewhere so I got up around 11:00 am
28. What were you doing at midnight last night: Dreaming
29. Name something you CANNOT wait for: this summer
30. Last time you saw your father: a couple of seconds ago
31. What is one thing you wish you could change about your life: I have already changed it
32. What are you listening to right now: The voices inside my head
33. Have you ever talked to a person named Tom: I assume we aren’t talking about the cat here…let’s see Tom…hmm…oooh yeah…unfortunately yeah…I did have to put up with an imbecile/teacher called Tom once…
34. Who’s getting on your nerves right now: A couple of stray cats in front of Sultan Center
35. Most visited webpage: Google reader (including blogs, articles and news), facebook, emails

36: what’s your real name:
37. Nicknames: this would give my real name away…actually who cares…real name is Noushin…nicknames: nunu, nounoush, noush
38. Status: stable ;p
39. Zodiac sign: Cancer
40. Male or female: Female…I wonder what the ‘fe’ in female means? Hmmm?
44. University: does university mean there’s only one veristy…what does veristy mean?
45. Hair color: yep, my hair is colored
46. Long or short: eeehhh…what are we talking about here? ;p
47. Are you a health freak: yep, that’s why I love chocolate coz it’s a vegetable ;p
48. Height: I am 3 times the height of my niece…I think
49. Do you have a crush on someone: why is it called having a crush? Does it mean do you wanna crush them?
50: What do you like about yourself: too many to list here ;p ;p ;p …but what I LOVE about myself is that I never jeopardize my principals for the sake of acceptance…
51. What don’t you like about yourself: I get pretty annoying stm ;p ;p and RW, if you are reading this, you better wipe that smirk off your face
52. Righty or lefty: Righty

FIRSTS :

53. First surgery: appendix when I was eleven
54. First piercing: First and only ears when I was 2 months old…and the wird thing is that I kinda remember it…
55. Your first best friend: my blog
56. First award: 4got the name of the sport but the one where we throw a disk
57. First sport you joined: volleyball…I used to punch the ball over the net
58. First pet: gold fish for nowrooz
59. First vacation: London
60. First concert: Shahram Shabpareh in Toronto…I am not a fan
61. First crush: a classmate named Marwan when I was 13 or 14

WHAT ARE YOU?

62. Eating: Reese chocolate
63. Drinking: just finished the tea with milk
64. I’m about to: call someone
65. Listening to: TV
66. Waiting for: a business email

YOUR FUTURE :

Since I mostly live in the moment, dunno the answers

WHICH IS BETTER WITH THE OPPOSITE SEX?

70. Lips or eyes: Eyes
71. Hugs or kisses: both
72. Romantic or spontaneous: Both
73. Nice stomach or nice arms: nice something else ;p
74. Sensitive or loud: sensitive
75. Hook-up or relationship: Relationship
76. Trouble maker or hesitant: none
77. Lefty or Righty: Does it really matter?
78. Shorter or taller: around my height
79. Older or Younger: around my age

HAVE YOU EVER :

80. Lost glasses/contacts: before my lazik surgery, ALL the time
81. Ran away from home: Nobody runs away from home…people always try to run towards home
82. Kissed a stranger: I was air kissed by a TOTAL stranger once
83. Drank Pepsi: A loooooooooong time ago, gave up on soda
84. Broken someone’s heart: eeeeeh…hope not
85. Been arrested : been to police station twice, but only coz of accidents not arrested
86. Turned someone down: Yes, including myself
87. Cried when someone died:
88. Liked a guy/girl friend: I like 99.99% of the people I associate with

DO YOU BELIEVE IN:

89. Yourself: To do what exactly?
90. Miracles: life itself is a big miracle
91. Love at first sight: Nope
92. Heaven: yep, in the eyes of a child, in the aroma of a flower, in ….
93. Santa Claus: in the old guy with a beer belly, yeah…in the flying reindeer nope
94. Kiss on the first date: define kiss
95. Angels: kids and guardian angels

ANSWER TRUTHFULLY :

96. Are you happy with your life: happiness is several stages; in my current stage yep…now waiting for next stage
97. Is there one person you want to be with right now: sigh
98. Had more than one boyfriend/girlfriend at one time: define boyfriend ;p
99. Do you believe in God: Everyone does…even self-proclaimed atheists do
100. Posting this as 100 Truths? Heheh, since I dodge answering most of them, yes ;p

Good old mother nature (or daddy nature for the sake of not sounding sexist) is taking part in a beauty pageant and is asking you guys for your vote

Since the site has a scary “INFORMATION ON REPRODUCING AND COPYING THIS RANKING INFORMATION” clause I am refraining from putting my copy and paste talent to good use here and will just c ‘n p their url: http://www.new7wonders.com/nature/en/liveranking/#bottom

I wanted to blindly vote for Mount Damavand from Iran and Failaka from Kuwait, but apparently I have 7 votes in the following categories and  have to cast all my 7 votes at once

Mount Damavan’s current ranking is 8 in group C and Failaka’s current ranking is 21 in group B

BUT for both of them their status is currently pending!!

OSC Status: Pending
We have been approached for the formation of an Official Supporting Committee (OSC) for this nominee. However, the applicant does not fulfill all the New7Wonders of Nature requirements for an OSC formation. If YOU are an official administrator of a public entity or could enroll such a public entity, please fill out the OSC fax application and fax it to us.
WITHOUT AN OFFICIAL SUPPORTING COMMITTEE (OSC), A NOMINEE CANNOT PARTICIPATE IN THE NEXT STAGES OF THE NEW7WONDERS OF NATURE CAMPAIGN.

Who’s the official supporting committe in Iran and Kuwait? Please fill in the form so I can continue with my bias voting process…please

My energy level is low…very low these days…except when I am at work…my new job has given me the passion I had long lost in the masquerade parties of my old work place…but since this universe never lets things be balanced, my personal life has lopsided…I don’t enjoy any one’s company anymore…anyone currently in my life…a minute chat with total strangers gives me more energy than a single exchange of words with my so-called friends…they haven’t done anything…it is I who have changed…

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You know how sometimes a song starts playing on your ipod that you have heard a billion times in the past 20 years but have never actually ‘listen’ to it…that’s what happened last night…I ‘listened’ to Whitney Houston’s song “Saving all my love for you’ for the first time and it just dawned on me that she is the other woman in this song!!! How come I had never paid attention to the lyrics before?

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Talking of Whitney Houston, I think her song “Greatest love of all” is gravely underrated…it’s the perfect song…the words should be taught in school…grade one…as the book of life…our manual…yeah the greatest love of all is learning to love yourself?…. Or is it?…what does loving yourself really mean anyway? …A while ago I was thinking whether there’s any truth behind this quote: “If you are afraid of being lonely, don’t try to be right.”…Almost every single person told me yep it’s right…but doesn’t it mean that you would have to give up your dignity for the sake of not being right?…

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THE GREATEST LOVE OF ALL

WHITNEY HOUSTON

I believe the children are our are future
Teach them well and let them lead the way
Show them all the beauty they possess inside
Give them a sense of pride to make it easier
Let the children’s laughter remind us how we used to be
Everybody searching for a hero
People need someone to look up to
I never found anyone who fulfill my needs
A lonely place to be
So I learned to depend on me

Chorus:
I decided long ago, never to walk in anyone’s shadows
If I fail, if I succeed
At least I’ll live as I believe
No matter what they take from me
They can’t take away my dignity
Because the greatest love of all
Is happening to me
I found the greatest love of all
Inside of me
The greatest love of all
Is easy to achieve
Learning to love yourself
It is the greatest love of all

I believe the children are our future
Teach them well and let them lead the way
Show them all the beauty they possess inside
Give them a sense of pride to make it easier
Let the children’s laughter remind us how we used to be

Chorus

And if by chance, that special place
That you’ve been dreaming of
Leads you to a lonely place
Find your strength in love