Saturday, September 08, 2007
Wednesday, April 25, 2007
UAE - Justice
Attempt murder - three months
Beat up your wife - six months
Molest a child - one year
Steal from charity - one year
Drink, drive, kill - one year
Slash four women - two years
Torture your maid - three years
Rape a woman - three years
Smoke cannabis outside the UAE - four years
Abu Dhabi: A teenager who smoked a cigarette containing hashish while he was in Egypt will serve four years in jail followed by deportation, the Federal Supreme Court has confirmed.
The boy, 18, an Egyptian identified as E.M., smoked a cigarette containing hashish with his friends in Egypt. He smoked it one day before he flew to the UAE.
via [Secret Dubai Diary]
Beat up your wife - six months
Molest a child - one year
Steal from charity - one year
Drink, drive, kill - one year
Slash four women - two years
Torture your maid - three years
Rape a woman - three years
Smoke cannabis outside the UAE - four years
Abu Dhabi: A teenager who smoked a cigarette containing hashish while he was in Egypt will serve four years in jail followed by deportation, the Federal Supreme Court has confirmed.
The boy, 18, an Egyptian identified as E.M., smoked a cigarette containing hashish with his friends in Egypt. He smoked it one day before he flew to the UAE.
via [Secret Dubai Diary]
Thursday, April 05, 2007
السلام عليكم
Finally I completed my Arabic classes. I missed only one class out of 40..... That is an achievement in itself compared to others (the people I know)
Now don't ask me what I learnt... Ask me what I didn't..... I never came to understand how a language could be so complex and so nice at the same time... Somedays I just felt like running away from the class... and on some other days it was a cultural awakening...
So when I came out of the last class... I tried to recall the ordeals I went through for past 2 months... Rushing from office or site to the class and then dinner at odd places and then trying to convincing the taxi's to drop me to nowhere and coming home at midnight and sleeping the moment you hit the bed... and waking up next day late for office and this cycle continued for nearly 2 months....
In case anybody wondered what is the status of my Arabic.. For now i can try to read and my chances of getting it right is around 60%.... I can speak a little....Can surely tell "No it was not me"..... Have decided to give up trying to write Arabic.... It's just not working out...
At the end of the day even though I might not be able to speak Arabic, I am happy to have know abt this culture and a lot more exists to it than just the common notion that the entire stuff is around their religion....
Ma' Salama
Now don't ask me what I learnt... Ask me what I didn't..... I never came to understand how a language could be so complex and so nice at the same time... Somedays I just felt like running away from the class... and on some other days it was a cultural awakening...
So when I came out of the last class... I tried to recall the ordeals I went through for past 2 months... Rushing from office or site to the class and then dinner at odd places and then trying to convincing the taxi's to drop me to nowhere and coming home at midnight and sleeping the moment you hit the bed... and waking up next day late for office and this cycle continued for nearly 2 months....
In case anybody wondered what is the status of my Arabic.. For now i can try to read and my chances of getting it right is around 60%.... I can speak a little....Can surely tell "No it was not me"..... Have decided to give up trying to write Arabic.... It's just not working out...
At the end of the day even though I might not be able to speak Arabic, I am happy to have know abt this culture and a lot more exists to it than just the common notion that the entire stuff is around their religion....
Ma' Salama
Monday, March 12, 2007
Best Personal Defects
I was reading this post by Scott Adams - Best Personal Defects where he tells that the best personal defects one could have are the ones that other people notice in you while you can't notice them.
Even though I know how cruel I have been to people around me, I never knew the gravity. Now I know!!! But not anymore guilty....
Only reminds me of two instances....
I remember a once when people tried to jump off the roof to prevent me talking any more and once my office colleague offering his Dad's sweater to put over my shirt before leaving to a party.
Even though I know how cruel I have been to people around me, I never knew the gravity. Now I know!!! But not anymore guilty....
Only reminds me of two instances....
I remember a once when people tried to jump off the roof to prevent me talking any more and once my office colleague offering his Dad's sweater to put over my shirt before leaving to a party.
My Visual DNA
This is supposed to be my Visual DNA... I wonder what happened to all my biological ones....
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Wednesday, March 07, 2007
Tuesday, March 06, 2007
Anti-"Anti Piracry" Ad Poster
You don't get to see these kind of posters very often.... But there is some truth in them too... When you go to a shop and buy a DVD instead of picking it off from a Pirate, you expect something better for the extra value that you are paying.... And not seeing a Anti Piracy Ad everytime you pop in the disc in your player...
[via Boing Boing]
Micro$oft Sued Again... :-)
Micro$oft has been sued... I know this wouldn't generally make headlines because it happens every other day...... But this time it has been sued by a Gun Wielding Porno Lover....
According to Inquirer, a guy who was arrested by FBI for some gun sale issue had his computers looked upon and FBI happened to get his Electronic history from it and his love for pornography.... So now that guy sitting inside Jail decided to sue Micro$oft because its OS is so insecure that FBI was able to dig into it....
I am just imagining a guy sitting in a Prison, using his "Call" and talking to his attorney...
"Hey man, lets go for Micor$oft for selling me that Windows which was supposed to secure my porn stash... and also lets sue Compaq and Circuit City for selling me that shit... "
More here
According to Inquirer, a guy who was arrested by FBI for some gun sale issue had his computers looked upon and FBI happened to get his Electronic history from it and his love for pornography.... So now that guy sitting inside Jail decided to sue Micro$oft because its OS is so insecure that FBI was able to dig into it....
I am just imagining a guy sitting in a Prison, using his "Call" and talking to his attorney...
"Hey man, lets go for Micor$oft for selling me that Windows which was supposed to secure my porn stash... and also lets sue Compaq and Circuit City for selling me that shit... "
More here
Thursday, March 01, 2007
Only in India...
If I remember correct I used to drive in this traffic once upon a time.... But arriving here I guess I must have lost that art.... When I look into this video I am worried whether when I go back would i be able to do it ??
Saturday, February 24, 2007
Best Tamil Remix Seen Till Date....
Lately I have been watching some of the You Tube Links that people have been sending me or blogged about... Will try to share some of the best ones down here in the course of time..
One such video is the best tamil remix song that i have heard or seen...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbBsDOzxZlU
It's a remix of an tamil song.... by Illayaraja..... Remixed by Yogi B & Nachathira group.... It carries a powerful mix of the classical tamil and local Chennai Slangs too.... Worth watching and enjoying...
One such video is the best tamil remix song that i have heard or seen...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v
It's a remix of an tamil song.... by Illayaraja..... Remixed by Yogi B & Nachathira group.... It carries a powerful mix of the classical tamil and local Chennai Slangs too.... Worth watching and enjoying...
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