Wise or insane?

Being alone surrounded by four walls for a long period of time can be impulsive.

I sometimes speak to myself.

I sometimes feel I need to fall deeply in love.

I sometimes get mystic.

I sometime bring out my camera and shoot silly things (a bottle of water, couple of coins).

I sometimes eat even if I don’t have an appetite.

I sometimes listen to one song or instrumental over and over without a purpose.

I sometimes walk around the room thinking I am a sad bastard.

I wanna open my course notes and revise but still loads of course work to accomplish and always thinks it is early, although it is not.

SO AM I WISE OR INSANE? I GUESS BOTH.

There is a drinks reception this wednesday where all the MSc students are invited to the beautiful Roman Baths for having a group photograph for all this year’s MSc in Management students and some drinks (not for me!). However some issus impede me from going. I have to dress smart, which I dislike and these days I feel like not so enthusiastically being around many people. And the final reason is because it contradicts with the UEFA champions league semi-final against Liverpool-Chelsea. So I am gonna pass this time, although I am sure I am gonna regret it in the future. But what the heck, my life has been a bunch of regrets and it worked out fine.

Finally, which have been bugging me for a while now. Did you ever, during a teamwork task or assignment, happen to be with lazy people who regularly delay his/her task and profusely apologizes for these delays in a sweet way you can do nothing about it? Well, I am stuck with one of those kind of humanbeings. May Allah help me! Hope he/she does not read this post or I’m totally dead!

Regards,

Tito

Always for you!

 

 NOTE: Don't view the below link if you aren't a song listener!

You can view the video her
 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jYr2fDgn64 

 

 

 

In the air I flew

Through the clouds I fall

Through the country I've walked
In front of temples I've stood
Before the ocean I pray
And I said your name

In the air I flew
Through the clouds I fall
And all the things I've tried to say
Were never easy to explain
They were always meant for you

And all the memories that were made
For years and years
I've chased this day
They were always for you
Always for you

In the air I breath
Through the clouds I see
Through the cities I've walk
In the castles I dreamed
On the mountain I climb
When I call your name

In the air I flew
Through the clouds I've fell
And all the things I've tried to change
Were never easy to contain
They were always meant for you
(always for you)

And all the memories will never fade
For years and years
In my heart you'll stay
It was always for you
Always for you
Always for you

And all the pieces that remain
They will build a place for us to stay
They were always meant for you
(always for you)

And all the chances that we take
For years and years
We'll have this place
They were always for you
Always for you

 

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A song for The Album Leaf, titled "always for you". They specialise in Indie rock, soft-rock, & alternative. 

I am sincerely sorry ..

Craziest Valentine Gift ever!

 

Celebrity Film photographer Jasin Boland, 41, had the house wrapped in 465sq m of paper covered in 1.5mwide hearts, with a 23m pink ribbon on top, for bride-to-be Maria Moral Peña.

He even flew German-born Maria, 29, home by helicopter yesterday to see the luxury four-bedroom Gloucestershire house.

Maria said: "When I saw the house, I thought it was a construction area. Then I saw the hearts and was completely overwhelmed. He's just so cute."

But, despite forking out half a million on the gift, Mr Boland said you do not need to flash the cash to be romantic.

 

He added: "The secret of romance isn't big gestures – it is being in love. If you're trying to give a romantic gift – you just need a big bow."

 

Asked how he was going to top this year's gift next year, he said: "Are you kidding? I can dine out on this one until I die."

Nick Acland, managing director of Bond Fabrications, which carried out the wrapping using two cherry-pickers, said: "It's a wonderful idea – I just hope my wife doesn't expect the same."

The lovebirds met three years ago while working on a film set in Berlin.

Mr Boland, originally from Australia, proposed in December.

The house is on the exclusive ecofriendly Lower Mill Estate, near Cirencester, which has a £5million eco-spa purified by plants, and is home to Britain's only wild beavers. Hollywood star John Travolta has shown an interest in buying a house there and footballer Sol Campbell has commissioned a lavish £12million mansion on the estate.

 A video covering the story and how the house was wrapped

 

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Anti- valentine ضد عيد الحب

بقلم أميرة الحلواجي 

 

 

الكل يعرف أن اليوم هو يوم الفالنتاين و يحيي الكثيرين هذا اليوم وكأن العشق ما كان ولن يكون إلا فيه،بعيداً عن الأساليب التي يتبعونها أو الطرق

 التي يعبرون فيها عن الحب،إلا إنني أرى ومن منظور شخصي ان العشق او الحب كحالة يجب ان

 نعيشها كل يوم  ،

فلماذا نختزلها في يوم واحد

لماذا لا نجزئها على مدى سنة كاملة365يوم

نظهر في كل يوم شيء مختلف و جديد

فينا نتجدد بالعاطفة والحب والاحترام لكل من نُحب

وبمناسبة ذكر الحديث عن الحب والعاطفة والاحترام

هل تعرفون أصل حكاية عيد الحب

(valentines day)

يقال والعُهدة على ما نُشر في جريدة الأيام في احد أعدادها، إن الروايات تعددت في أصل

 الحكاية ولكن الرواية الأولى تقول

إن "فالنتاين"هو قسيس أحب إحدى السيدات فهرب معها، ولكونه حباً محرماً لأنه قس ولا يحق له

بالزواج،ظل الناس يرددون قصتهما لزمن بعيد ولم يُعرف ما حل بهما.

ورواية أخرى تقول

إن "فالنتاين" هو قسيس كان ذا نزعات شاذة أحب رجل ولكون حبه محرما وغير مقبول في أي دين

 وأي مجتمع(في ذاك الزمان) والمعاذ بالله

فانتهى بهما المطاف بالهروب سراً مع هذا الرجل ومرت السنوات وتغيرت الكثير من الأعراف

 المجتمعية الغربية حتى نسي الناس مع من هرب

"فالنتاين"

وتذكروا الحب اللاشرعي و اللامقبول

أعزائي القراء

هل حقاً ترغبون أن تحتفلوا في يوم كهذا؟

هل يمت هذا "الفالنتاين"لنا بصلة؟

هل يشبه عيد الفالنتاين اي من الأعياد التي نحتفل بها نحن المسلمين؟

وهل يا ترى يستحق القديس "فالنتاين"أو أياً كان اسمه أن نحتفل فيه؟

إذا كانت إجاباتكم عن الأسئلة السابقة "بنعم" فلا تكملوا قراءة المقال

وشكراً على قراءتكم ما سبق

 

 

أما إذا كانت إجابتكم "بلا" فواصلوا القراءة

أيا كانت الرواية الأصح عن القديس "فالنتاين" الأولى أو الثانية فهذا وحده غير كافٍ لدى البعض

ولكن تعالوا لنتكلم عن شيء آخر

هذا الرجل المسمى "فالنتاين"هل هو نبي أو إمام أو ولي ؟

لا طبعا

هل هو يستحق أن نحتفي به أو نحتفل به أو حتى نصفق له؟

لا طبعا

إذا لماذا نحتفل بإثمه؟

لماذا نقول لبعضنا في هذا اليوم 14 فبراير

happy valentines day

ولماذا هذا التاريخ ؟

هل لأنه هذا التاريخ هو تاريخ هروب "فالنتاين"المزعوم ؟

أم هذا التاريخ هو تاريخ مزيف أو تقريبي؟

أم هذا التاريخ وجد لإنعاش حركة التجارة باعتباره واقع بين سلسلة أعياد مهمة لدى الغرب وهي:  عيد

 الميلاد و رأس السنة وعيد الإيستر

ومن المعروف إن هذه الأعياد تؤثر في إنتاج وإنعاش العديد من الشركات والمؤسسات الكبيرة التي

 يعتمد عليها الاقتصاد الأوروبي أو الأمريكي

وما أريد أن أقوله أن حكاية الفالنتاين ربما تكون حقيقية ولكن الغرب يغالي في إظهار قيمة كبيرة لها

وكأن الاحتفال بها لشيء عظيم بحد ذاته

ولا اعتقد ان هذا يناسبنا نحن امة"محمد  ص"

امة لا إله إلا الله

محمد رسول الله

علي ولي الله

دعوا كل أيامكم مليئة بالحب والرأفة وإنسوا الإحتفال بهذا اليوم

 

تحياتي 

Love before marriage? or marriage before love?

Good morning,

This question was up in my head all of a sudden this morning. I was wondering about the kind of relationships that might occur before marriage or engagement. After the huge changes in our islamic culture (especially the techonological ones) and becoming more open, how much are the chances of arranged marriages or engagements (by the family) can occur and survive these days? The thing is that there should be some sort of knowing between the man and the woman intending to be together. 

On the other hand, Islam prohibits any kind of close relationships between a man and a woman if it is not under engagement or marriage. Ok, engagement might be the way of each person to know each other, but if something goes wrong, it might be a heart-breaking event which may make a man or a woman doubt his/her competancy for marriage.

But it is still very wrong to be in love outside the islamic-specified framework of relationship with the other sex. That is why it seems to be kind of confusing to me because I don't know whether love should comes before marriage or engagement or vice versa. Correct me if I am wrong about anything

Regards