Great Buildings - A 3D Walkthrough

Go check it out. Its really amazing.

We must learn to love, learn to be kind, and this from earleist youth; if education or chance give us no opportunity to practice these feelings, our sould becomes dry and unsuited even to understanding the tender inventions of loving people. Likewise, hatred must be leanred and nurtured, if one wishes to become a proficient hater: otherwise the germ for that, too, will gradually wither.

nietzsche

I might be your best friend, and you don't even know it.

Watching Israeli troops forcing Jewish settlers out of Gaza strip was absolutely amazing. I have seen Israeli bulldozers destroying Palestinian homes many many times but this time it was the same bulldozers demolishing Jewish Settlements. Although it's not something as big as being projected in western media but still (Israel still controls Air and Sea around Gaza), not many people expected this from Sharon. To me it marks the beginning of an end. One small but historic step towards peace in Middle East perhaps? Only time will tell.

Source: Cincinnati.com
A goodbye note is painted on the side of an abandoned home in the Jewish settlement of Neve Dekalim, in the southern Gaza Strip Saturday, Aug. 20, 2005.

For some reason these events take me back to 11th century battles between Christians and Salahuddin Ayubi. Salahuddin started liberating the occupied lands one by one and eventually Jerusalem fell in 1187 after 90 years of Christian occupation. It's been 54 years now (since 1948) and I really don’t see any Salahuddin Ayubi around but my sixth or seventh sense tells me it is that beginning that many of us were waiting for. I don’t know how it will happen and who will do it.



Crusades have always been my special area of interest and I am glad atleast something has happened in my life time similar to what I read in history books years ago. May be I will live to see another fall of Jerusalem :)

You Know That I Want To

Lover don't love too much
It's a bad thing, a sad thing
And it's heaven to the touch
Hey, everybody's got some moment in their life
They can't change ( don't they baby?)

I know you don't care what's right or wrong
All that I know
Is that love don't belong here
And so it's better to turn the page
And watch me walk away,
My dear, watch me walk away

But you say

I can't stop but you know that I want to
I can't stop don't you know that I want you
I want you baby (more than ever)

I can't stop but you know that I want to
I can't stop don't you know that I want you
But it's never gonna be that easy child

Lover don't love too much
I'm a bad boy, I'm a sad boy
And I'll never give you much
Hey, everybody's got some moment in their life
They can't change

So I do not dare to take you home
All that I know
Is that something is so wrong with this heat
Why do you touch the flame?
You know you feel the pain, my dear
You always find it here

But it´s never gonna

So it happens every time
it´s so easy to forgive myself with
A little wine
And you want more
And the pleasure will be all mine
Can´t see you
Oh I´m using you baby

But you say

I can't stop but you know that I want to
I can't stop don't you know that I want you
(please don't say it)
I want you baby (more that ever)

I can't stop but you know that I want to
I can't stop don't you know that I want you
But it's never gonna be that easy child

You need a lover
And I am just a friend ................

From George Michael's unplugged album

New Scientist Reports on a remarkable runaway process of global warming that has been going on in Siberia for the past few years. 'Western Siberia has warmed faster than almost anywhere else on the planet, with an increase in average temperatures of some 3C in the last 40 years.' As a result, a million square kilometers (the area of France and Germany) of frozen peat bog have been found to be melting, according to Russian and international scientists. This releases methane, a potent greenhouse gas, which contributes to further global warming.

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The Space Shuttle Discovery is up in orbit, safely docked to the International Space Station, and for the next five days, astronauts will be busy figuring out whether it's safe for them to come home. In the meantime, the rest of the Shuttle fleet is grounded (confined to base, not allowed to play with its spacecraft friends) because that pesky foam on the fuel tank keeps falling off.

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A Rocket To Nowhere

So finally it's time for the BIG THING. I have just been informed (and the timing is most unexpected, 10:50 PM on a Sunday night) that it's approved and those bureaucrats have accepted that proposal. hmmm seems like a great thing, oh well it is. I worked so hard to take this chance and finally when I have succeeded, I am not feeling the excitement anymore. I am supposed to be jumping around in excitement and I am not, it's strange but true. Perhaps I was not at all expecting this to come true? May be I am a little afraid which is unusual. I dont remember if I have ever been afraid of anything in all (ok may be once or twice but not anything like that). So what is it then? Or may be its normal, somebody told me not to thiunk about it, IT happens sometimes.

Anyways in ths world of uncertainity, there is one thing I know for sure, someone/something is controlling my life and there are many things that I do not understand at this moment. Everything happens for a reason so I guess its gonna be alright :). I will figure out what it is all about one day. For now, my quest has taken me to yet another level.

It's time to celebrate and surprise myself one more time :)

Damn hotmail!!! I signed in just a minute ago and its showing me that I have 25MB storage space instead of 250MB. What the hek is that, without any prior notice?

I am gonna sue them 2 million bux!

Scenes from Kabul - A portrait of Kabul and its people by Ariana Delawari



Most pictures are from post Taliban era.



Getting the Monkey off Darwin's Back

Evolution is poorly characterized by certain commonly used phrases. Properly communicating how evolution works requires careful attention to language and metaphor.