The twilight Zone

1. The UK's first mobile phone call was made 20 years ago this year, when Ernie Wise rang the Vodafone head office, which was then above a curry shop in Newbury.

2. Mohammed is now one of the 20 most popular names for boys born in England and Wales.

3. While it's an offence to drop litter on the pavement, it's not an offence to throw it over someone's garden wall.

4. An average record shop needs to sell at least two copies of a CD per year to make it worth stocking, according to Wired magazine.

5. Nicole Kidman is scared of butterflies. "I jump out of planes, I could be covered in cockroaches, I do all sorts of things, but I just don't like the feel of butterflies' bodies," she says.

6. Baboons can tell the difference between English and French. Zoo keepers at Port Lympne wild animal park in Kent are having to learn French to communicate with the baboons which had been transferred from Paris zoo.

7. The energy used to build an average Victorian terrace house would be enough to send a car round the Earth five times, says English Heritage.

8. One in 10 Europeans is allegedly conceived in an Ikea bed.

9. The London borough of Westminster has an average of 20 pieces of chewing gum for every square metre of pavement.

10. Bosses at Madame Tussauds spent £10,000 separating the models of Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston when they separated. It was the first time the museum had two people's waxworks joined together.

11. If all the Smarties eaten in one year were laid end to end it would equal almost 63,380 miles, more than two-and-a-half times around the Earth's equator.

THINGS A DOG MUST REMEMBER:

1. The garbage collector is not stealing our stuff.

2. I should not suddenly stand straight up when I'm lying under the coffee
table.

3. I will not roll my toys behind the fridge, behind the sofa, or under the
bed.

4. I must shake the rainwater out of my fur before entering the house.

5. I will not eat the cats' food, either before they eat it or after they
throw it up.

6. I will stop trying to find the few remaining pieces of clean carpet in
the house when I am about to be sick.

7. I will not throw up in the car.

8. When at the beach, I will not roll on dead seagulls, fish, crabs, etc. no
matter how good they smell.

9. Kitty box crunches, although tasty, are not food.

10. I will not eat any more Kleenex or napkins and then re-deposit them
after processing, in the back yard.

11. The daiper bin is not a cookie jar.

12. My humans' toothbrushes are for the exclusive use of my humans. If they want me to have one, they'll get me one.

13. I will not chew crayons or pens, especially not the red ones, so that
when I throw up, my people will not assume I am haemorrhaging.

14. When in the car, I will not insist on having the window rolled down on rainy days.

15. We do not have a doorbell. I will not bark each time I hear one on TV.

16. I will not steal Mom's underwear and dance all over the backyard with it.

17. The sofa is not a face towel, neither are Mom & Dad's laps.

18. My head does not belong in the refrigerator.

19. I will not bite the officer's hand when he reaches in for Mom's driver's
license and car registration.

20. I will not play tug-of-war with Dad's underwear when he's on the toilet.

21. To avoid having a string hang out of my butt, I will not eat
mint-flavored dental floss out of the bathroom garbage.

22. I will not consider rolling around in the dirt a necessity first thing
after getting a bath.

23. I will remember that sticking my nose into someone's crotch is an
unacceptable way to greet visitors.

24. I will not fart in my owner's face while I am sleeping on the pillow
next to their heads.

25. I will not come in from outside and immediately drag my butt across the carpet.

26. The toilet bowl is not a magical, never-ending water supply, and just
because the water is blue doesn't mean it is cleaner.

27. I will not sit in the middle of the living room and lick my crotch when
company is here.

28. I will remember that suddenly turning around and smelling my butt can quickly clear a room, and is thus to be avoided. Except when in-laws are here.

29. The cat is not a squeaky toy, so when I play with him and when he makes that noise, it's usually not a good thing.

30. Even though he's too chicken to come on Sundays, the mailman WILL be back

Dumpling stuffed with the ovary and
digestive glands of a crab.
From a menu in China.

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Three cute prawns suntanning on the rice.

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Children soup.
From a menu in India.

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Deep Fried Fingers of my Lady.
From a menu in India.

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Boys style little chickens.
From a menu in Barcelona.
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Pork with fresh garbage.
From a menu in Vietnam.

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Dreaded veal cutlet with potatoes in cream.
From a menu in China.

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Strawberry crap.
From a menu in Japan.

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Teppan Yaki - Before Your Cooked Right Eyes.
From a menu in Japan.
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Intestines of crab.
Describing a Dim sum plate on a menu in China.

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We serve dead shrimp on vegetables with a smile.
Chinese restaurant.

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A job as glamorous as a cold sore
A mouth as dry as a carpet
A smile so brilliant it could be spotted from the moon
A thousand-yard smile
As tense as an exam hall
As unresponsive as a rolled-up carpet
As tough as old boots
Even an amateur psychologist who’d failed at his amateur psychologist’s exams could have figured that one out
I slathered on so much night-cream that I used to slide off my pillows
In apple-pie order
In blind man’s holiday (at nightfall)
It has all gone more pear-shaped than a skipfull of Conferences
Naked trees that look miserably bronchial

Halloween is a tradition celebrated on the night of October 31, most notably by children dressing in costumes and going door-to-door collecting sweets. It is celebrated in parts of the Western world, though most commonly in the United States, Canada, the UK, Ireland, Puerto Rico, and with increasing popularity in Australia and New Zealand. Halloween originated among the Celts in the British Isles (especially Scotland and Ireland) and France[1] as the Pagan Celtic harvest festival, Samhain. Irish, Scots and other immigrants brought versions of the traditions to North America in the 19th century. Most other Western countries have embraced Halloween as a part of American pop culture in the late 20th century.

The term Halloween, and its older spelling Hallowe'en, is shortened from All-hallow-even, as it is the evening before "All Hallows' Day"[2] (also known as "All Saints' Day"). In Ireland, the name was All Hallows' Eve (often shortened to Hallow Eve), and though seldom used today, it is still a well-accepted label. The holiday was a day of religious festivities in various northern European Pagan traditions, until Pope Gregory III moved the old Christian feast of All Saints Day to November 1 to give Halloween a Christian interpretation . Halloween is also called Pooky Night in some parts of Ireland, presumably named after the púca, a mischievous spirit.

Halloween is often associated with the occult. Many European cultural traditions hold that Halloween is one of the liminal times of the year when the spiritual world can make contact with the physical world and when magic is most potent (e.g. Catalan mythology about witches, Irish tales of the Sídhe).

Do they exist?

I am glad about it
Today is the 170'th day of my blog life and i got 10,000 hits.
59 hits a day..not bad

Einstein said....

Special relativity considers that observers in inertial reference frames, which are in uniform motion relative to one another, cannot perform any experiment to determine which one of them is "stationary

The theory of relativity shows that almost all the things in the universe are relative,rather than absolute.

We in the present era,consider science as the ultimate
answer to all the questions..OK..although science is based on observations and reasoning,and results are drawn on the basis of certain verified constants...
A constant is something that "can't be changed"..

Eintein's favourit constant was the speed of light.
It is a great constant,,but there are some who have proved that the speed of light is proportional to the commulative gravitational field of a galaxy.
The sped of light taken as constant by einstein is good for our galaxy only.

Again relativity...what about other galaxies..or if the speed of light is related to the gravitational pull...is it different for different planets?Because all planets have their own gravitational pull according to their mass.

May be mass is a constant..what is mass?..According to definition..mass is the quantity of matter in a body..but E=MC2 shows that mass and energy can be interchanged..that is mass can be converted into energy,as it happens in the thermo nuclear reactions,and energy can be changed into mass.
People who study Quantum physics,know that particles,keep appearing and disappearing on sub atomic levels.There is no eqation that can prove the dual characteristics of light ray.It behaves as a stream of particles in certain circumstances,and it behaves as an electromagnetic radition also.Can we answer these questions.Can we reject the existance of any superior being than us?
Are we smart enough to know every thing?Can there be some one who knows more than all of us?

Click the link below,and enjoy this funny video.

Suspicious

On the eve of 9/11 me and mey friends were sitting in fron t of the TV and playing cards,in Karachi.The 9/11 news came in,we saw it all.That night i logged into a yahoo chat room,and saw very angry rantings from americans,about the incident and eventually about the muslims.
My cousins live in USA,one is a nuclear scientist and the other is a doctor.I talk frequently to the miss "Nuclear Physicist".She lives some where near the "Hershey choclate factory".
The next day i called her on the phone,and asked her if her family was being beaten up by angry americans,and she laughed at me,saying that the reality is not always the same as the media shows us.She was living as usual,even after 9/11 with her friedly american neighbours.
Me as aPakistani,can't travel to Israel,and many Pakistanis consider travelling to Israel as a journey to death,thinking that they will be killed by israeli secret services,for being Pakistani muslims.
Many Americans and europeans have simillar concepts about muslim countries,that they will be instantly bombed,if they go there.Even about a country like Turkey.
Reality is much different from the impression we get from the media,isn't it?

Women are grumpier than men in the morning, according to a new survey.

The study found women were grumpier than men when they wake up - and stay in a bad mood for longer.

Thirteen per cent of women are in a bad mood for up to four hours after waking, compared to a tenth of men, according to the study by the Sleep Council.

Spokeswoman Jessica Alexander said: "Many more men than women claim to get a good seven nights sleep a week, so perhaps it is not surprising that more women than men get out of bed on the wrong side."

Forty per cent of people studied blamed their bad mood on a disturbed night, while 24% point to stress and worry.

Londoners are the grumpiest, but only seven per cent of people in the North East and Yorkshire get seven nights of good sleep.

The Sleep Council questioned 2,105 adults for the study.

# Always have multiple projects going. That way if your boss starts to wonder why you’re falling behind on one project, you can tell him that you’ve been catching up on another.

# Create the illusion of furious activity whenever possible. Never have a clean desk. Fill your work area with several projects that you are in the process of doing (or not doing, as the case may be). Cover your desk with open binders, highlighted reports, and sticky notes all over the place—make your workspace look like a war zone. Remember to keep your wastebasket full, too, preferably with work-related debris.

# Emphasize the tremendous amount of work you’re accomplishing. Talk about your work in dramatic, but plausible terms. Rather than referring to something as "that small project", call it "the epic quest" or "the gargantuan struggle." Preempt unfavorable discussion of your progress by reporting every little advance you make as though it were a large step. Never miss a chance to communicate how busy you are.

# Ask a lot of questions. Think up complex questions about tasks you have to do and ask them of your boss or coworkers. Ask questions frequently enough and everyone will think you’re really wrapped up in whatever task your asking about. Be careful what questions you ask, though: you don’t want to sound incompetent.

# Fabricate major obstacles or developments that require you to go back to the drawing board. Every once in a while report to your boss that you had nearly finished a whole project, but then you realized that you had to scrap all that you had done because you figured out a better way to do it. This gives the impression that you’re constantly thinking about ways to enhance your productivity in the long run. It also shows that you can overcome any obstacle. Both of these are preferable to saying that you spent too much time writing personal emails.

# Open several of the applications you normally use for work and have them visible on your computer’s desktop. The applications, of course, vary depending on the nature of your work. For example, if your task is data entry, you should have one or more databases up and running.

# Be alert. Not working is like playing a sport or game. You’ve got to always be on your toes and ready for anything. Try to anticipate your opponent’s next move—for instance, does your boss always stop by at certain times?—and pay attention to clues (if you hear footsteps approaching, a chair creaking, or a flourish of activity nearby, it could mean trouble).

# Watch out for Big Brother. Most large companies now monitor their employees’ computer usage. Learn about your company’s policies on internet usage, and learn about their monitoring efforts (it helps to make friends with someone in the IT department). If you can’t run afoul of the company’s policies without making sure you won’t get caught, don’t risk it.

# Trick the watchers. There are a variety of tricks you can use to fool those who might be monitoring your computer usage. On the frontline, there are free programs you can install that will allow you to have two active desktops on your computer (one for work, one for play) that you can switch between at the touch of a key when you hear the pitter-patter of supervisory feet. You can also defeat this sort of monitoring by positioning your computer in such a way as to block someone else’s view of the screen (blame the unusual positioning on glare or ergonomics, if you need to explain it). Sneakier IT personnel, who monitor usage on the backend, are harder to fool. Use proxies to surf the web, or use cached Google pages of a website instead of going directly to the site. There are also a variety of programs you can get (many for free) specifically designed to help you avoid detection. Search for them on the internet, or check out the external links.

# Slack off a little bit at a time. If you spend one whole day a week doing nothing, you’ll get caught. But you can may be able to waste the same amount of time without getting caught by spreading out your “leisure time.” Take a few minutes here and there to write emails, check the football scores, or surf the net, and then get back to work for several minutes. Rinse, repeat.

Excluding today i am
12,111 days OR
* 1,046,390,400 seconds
* 17,439,840 minutes
* 290,664 hours
* 1730 weeks (rounded down)
Old...

Wana know about yourself?

http://www.timeanddate.com/date/durationresult.html?d1=31&m1=08&y1=1973&d2=28&m2=10&y2=2006

Rolls Royce Phantom

Price: $328,750 (Which i don't have )
Gas Mileage:12 mpg city / 19 mpg hwy (I will need to buy a filling station with this car )

Engine/s:6.75L V12, 48 valve, 453 hp @ 5350 rpm (I think it's a truck )

Transmission:6 speed Automatic

Well,at the moment i will have to be content with my 160 Pounds car.

1) Joe Sensitive - "After I wash the dishes, let's cuddle, OK?"
Also known as: Mr. Nice Guy, Family man, Honey, Darling, Soft-
boiled Egg, Snugglepup
Advantages: Well-behaved; irons own shirts
Disadvantages: Irritatingly compassionate, wimpy

2) Old Man Grumpus - "People are stupid. The world can go to hell.
Let's stay home and watch TV."
Also known as: Grumbles, Sour puss, Stick-in-the-mud, Old Fogey,
Slow Mover. Jerk
Advantages: Stays put; predictable
Disadvantages: Royal pain in the ass

3) Flinchy - "I--I'm sorry for whatever it was I did."
Also known as: Trembly, Creampuff, Hey you
Advantages: Jumps entertainingly when startled
Disadvantages: Easily spooked; surrenders without a struggle

4) Bigfoot - "Shut yer trap, I'm thinkin'."
Also known as: Chunk-style, Lummox, Ignoramus, Galoot, the Hulk,
Big 'n' Dumb
Advantages: Can tote bales; is easily fooled
Disadvantages: Can break you in half, sweats like a pig

5) Lazybones - "Zzzzzz"
Also known as: Lucky Dog, Parasite, Bum, Sponge, Snoozebucket,
Drug Addict
Advantages: Well rested; easy target
Disadvantages: Unlikely to fulfil your dreams

6) The Sneak - "Who, me?"
Also known as: Love Pirate, Snake, Rat, Slime, G-D Son of a Bitch
Advantages: May feel pangs of guilt
Disadvantages: May be having time of his life

7) Ace of Hearts - "After I wash the dishes let's make love like
crazed weasels, OK?"
Also known as: The Sizzler, Handyman, Dreamboat, Casanova, Monster
Advantages: Perpetually aroused
Disadvantages: Perpetually aroused

8) The Dreamer - "Someday I'm going to be rich and famous. I don't
know how, but--"
Also known as: Struggling artist, Philosopher, Buffoon, Bag of
Wind, Fool
Advantages: Tells good stories
Disadvantages: Will turn into "Old Man Grumpus"

9) Mr. Right - "While the servants wash the dishes, let's make love
like crazed weasels in my new yacht, ok?"
Also known as: Mr. Perfect, Jim Dandy
Advantages: Answer to a woman's prayer
Disadvantages: Hunted to extinction

1) Ms. Nice Gal - "Tickets to the boxing match? Oh Darling, you
shouldn't have"
Also known as: What a gal, precious, one of the boys, my main
squeeze, doormat
Advantages: Cheerful, agreeable, kindly
Disadvantages: May wise up someday

2) Old Yeller - "You G-D spineless good-for-nothing drag-ass no-talent
son of a bitch! Can't you see you're making me
miserable??"
Also known as: She-Devil, Sourpuss, the Nag, My Old Lady, Warthog
from Hell
Advantages: Pays attention to you
Disadvantages: Screeches, throws frying pans

3) Sickly - "Oh, my head. My head. My feet. My cramps. My
cellulite"
Also known as: Whiner, Mewler, Glumpy
Advantages: Predictable
Disadvantages: Contagious

4) The Bosser - "Stand up straight. Put on a different tie. Get a
haircut. Change your job. Make some money. Don't
give me that look."
Also known as: Whipcracker, The Sarge, Ms. Know-it-all, Ball and
Chain, yes Mom
Advantages: Often right
Disadvantages: Often right, but so what?

5) Ms. Vaguely Dissatisfied - "I just can't decide. Should I switch
my career, goals, home, and hair
color?"
Also known as: The Fretter, Worrywart, Typical, Aw c'mon Honey
Advantages: Easily soothed
Disadvantages: Even more easily perturbed

6) Wild Woman out of Control - "I've got an idea. Lez get drunk an'
make love onna front lawn. I done it
before. S'fun."
Also known as: Fast girl, freewheeler, goodtime charleena, passed
out
Advantages: More fun than a barrel of monkeys
Disadvantages: Unreliable; drives off cliffs

7) Huffy - "I see nothing humorous in those silly cartoons you keep
snickering at"
Also known as: No fun, humorless prig, Cold fish, Chilly
proposition, iceberg, Snarly
Advantages: Your friends will feel sorry for you
Disadvantages: You will have no friends

8) Woman from Mars - "I believe this interpretive dance will explain
how I feel about our relationship"
Also known as: The Babbler, Spooky Girl, Screwball, Loony, Bad
News, Artistic
Advantages: Entertaining, unfathomable
Disadvantages: Will read her poetry aloud

9) Ms. Dreamgirl - "I am utterly content with you just the way you
are, my handsome genius of a boyfriend. I think
we must make love like crazed weasels now"
Also known as: Ms. Right, Goddess, Knockout, Perfection, Gorgeous
Advantages: Funny, intelligent uninhibited
Disadvantages: Will have nothing to do with you

I have never been to the Pakistani parliament,but i visited the british parliament house this monday.
The last time i went there was in 1998.
The only change i saw were the hi-definition monitors,noe every where in the parliament,and the thick glass wall,seperating the visitor's area and the hall.I am not too sure,but as i remember,it was not there in 1998.
I enjoyed my visit

WebMD Feature

June 12, 2000 -- So you surf the Internet for an hour a day. OK, maybe for three hours -- or five. At what point does this fascination become so compulsive that psychologists would call it an addiction?

Psychologist Kimberly S. Young, MD, PhD, founded the Center for On-Line Addiction (http://www.netaddiction.com) to help people with just this problem. She's identified eight key symptoms. Take a look at her list. If five or more apply, Young suggests you consider talking to a mental health professional about your Internet use.

1. Preoccupation -- You think constantly about previous online activity or keep looking forward to the next online session. Some people crave time on the Internet the way a smoker craves a cigarette.

2. Increased use -- You need to spend increasing amounts of time online to achieve satisfaction. A parent who's spending 50 hours a week in a chat room might neglect basic responsibilities such as doing laundry or making dinner for the kids.

3. Inability to stop -- You can't cut back on your Internet use, even after several attempts. Some people can't stop visiting chat rooms while at the office, even though they know their bosses are monitoring the sites they visit.

4. Withdrawal symptoms -- You feel restless, moody, depressed, or irritable when you attempt to stop or cut down Internet use. Some people feel so grumpy in jobs where they can't go online that they make excuses to go home and use the computer.

5. Lost sense of time -- Everyone lets time slip by occasionally while on the Internet. Consider it a problem if it happens to you consistently when you're online and you're also experiencing some of the other symptoms on this list.

6. Risky behaviors -- You jeopardize a significant relationship, job, or educational or career opportunity because of Internet use. One man decided to leave his wife of 22 years for someone he had corresponded with on the Internet for a couple of months.

7. Lies -- You lie to family members, a therapist, or others to conceal the extent of your involvement with the Internet. Someone who's seeing a therapist for depression might not tell the therapist about her Internet use.

8. Escape to the Internet -- You use the Internet as a way to avoid thinking about problems, or to allay depression or feelings of helplessness. One CEO constantly downloaded pornography for stress relief at work.

10. They have a lot of data but are still clueless.

9. A better model is always just around the corner.

8. They look nice and shiny, until you bring them home.

7. It is always necessary to have a backup.

6. They'll do whatever you say, if you push the right buttons.

5. The best part of having either one is the games you can play.

4. In order to get their attention, you have to turn them on.

3. The lights are on but nobody's home.

2. Big power surges knock them out for the night.

1. Size does matter.

A few days ago,i blogged about changes in women's outfit with the passage of time.I tried to poin out the fact that women are becoming more and more exposed,compared to men.
I didn't mean to point out western fashion trends only.It is happening worlwide.
I have posted here some pistures of latest pakistani fashion.These women are all models,and none of them wears veil
Anyway,Paksitan is a predominantly muslim country,but times are changing there as well.
The Pakistani-british are more religious than the Pakistani-Pakistanis
No.1 and 2 are wearing kinda everyday dress of a typical Urban woman in Pakistan,the rest are wearing rather formal dresses.

Me back from London.Yesterday was "Eid" same as Christmas.I enjoyed a lot with my relatives in London.
Their kids were born in the UK,and all of them speak very little Urdu.They have a pure London accent,and they speak english.
I know the english language good enough,but haven't got the british accent.It was a bit difficult for me to speak with them.
I called my mom in Pakistan,my brother in Malaysia,my sister in Australia and my cousins in Canada.
My sister's kids speak english in australian accent,my cousin's kids speak in canadian accent,and my brother's kids are malay speakers.My brother speaks good malay.
I gave them all greeting on the Eid day,and all of them were fine.
The problem i faced was to understand all the different types of accents.May be i should join a course to learn Ausi and Canadian accents.

Yesterday i set out for Barking,London.I had a road navigator with me,and i was pretty sure that i won't get lost.
But something went wrong with the stupid gadget,and i ended up in the middle of no where,on the gates of a country farm,somewhere in rural essex,and the navigator said "you have arrived"
I had to call my relatives for directions,and i foun out that i am 39 miles off the track.
It took me another hour to reach the degnem area,and i saw a fox roaming in this heavily populated area ,ofcourse it was night time,about 10ish.
It was good to see the little Pkistani-Londoners,with broad cocni accent.They know little about their country of origin,and love Brittain.
Today i went for the "Eid prayers" in a big mosque in Barking,and it was too good a feeling.
As i was walking back to my brother in law's house,an old white lady approached me,and told me that she wanted to ask something.I stopped and she asked me "Why are you celebrating today"? and i kept on telling her about Ramadan,and how it starts and how eid day celebrated.She was very nice lady,andd i felt too good,that she asked so much.
Infact it is always a good idea to approach and ask people,istead of making some concepts about them,based on suppositions..Isn't it?

My brother in law is coming to the UK .He and my sister live in Sydney, Australia. I am going to see him. My sister won't be coming ,as she was too busy with her job.All their three kids are little australians now,with broad ausi accent,none of them can speak Urdu.
I will see him after two years. Although, we chat a lot over the Internet, and regularly call each other.
Hope I will find less traffic on the M25, as it's always too bad there.
It will be a 260-Miles drive, so I better be going.

Any messages for the Queen?