SiD’s Sphere!!

now that ive finally figured out how to post videos on my blog, im goin to add this one too. i made this for my 2nd semester ‘Enlightened Moderation’ presentation. plz, turn up the volume. its really funny if u can relate the lyrics to the caricatures.  

.. to make someone feel special is to send him 29 msgs on his 29th birthday, all custom written to ensure a smile everytime they r read.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!

3 months ago, i thought ‘ok so now i wont get sms’s any more’ coz he was the only one who did msg me. but then ufone, djuice and zoom changed all that. thanx to their cheap sms rates my phone keeps beepin almost every minute which annoys ammi. the other day my phone was just kept on the table when it beeped again. it was close to dad. so he just read the alert out loud ‘1 new message, memory is low.’ and then repeated ‘memory is low??’. ‘jee. is mein hardly 80 msgs store ho saktay hain’, i explained. ‘and thats less??’, he was clearly surprised. ‘jee’, came a meek reply.  lolll!!

yes..the latest trend. forwarding short messages that demand a reply. finishing sentences. tell me what u like abt me.tell me what u dont. tell me what uwant  from me. suggest a nickname for me. and then the selfish creature that hides inside us all cant help but forward it to more ppl while the service providers continue making big bucks. im so sure that is where these msgs initiate from.

i only feel sorry for ppl who’re still stuck with jazz. im sure ppl have even started dislikin them for the very reason ‘he/she never replies to my msg’. coz that is how we measure ppl up now. 

anyway, there r a few msgs that i need to reply to.

When three guys shout at you for somthing that

a) is not not ur fault

b) doesnt matter,

you should just apologise without any argument.

Bertrand Russell once said:

“If I were to suggest that between the Earth and Mars there is a china teapot revolving about the sun in an elliptical orbit, nobody would be able to disprove my assertion provided I were careful to add that the teapot is too small to be revealed even by our most powerful telescopes. But if I were to go on to say that, since my assertion cannot be disproved, it is intolerable presumption on the part of human reason to doubt it, I should rightly be thought to be talking nonsense. If, however, the existence of such a teapot were affirmed in ancient books, taught as the sacred truth every Sunday, and instilled into the minds of children at school, hesitation to believe in its existence would become a mark of eccentricity and entitle the doubter to the attentions of the psychiatrist in an enlightened age or of the Inquisitor in an earlier time.” 

Even though this was a statement of a person who did not believe in God at all, it also points out to the possibility that maybe it is us who have created God and religion and not the other way round. I am sure everybody must have at some point in their life questioned God’s existence and His role in the scheme of things. Having found no physical evidence and too afraid to be labeled as unbelievers we resort to the inculcated version of God. In the course of my speech I am going to talk about what cosmologists have to say about God and what are the implications of the latest cosmological theories. Cosmologists who study the universe as a whole–it’s structure, origin and development are now greatly concerned with the question ‘Is the universe a product of chance or has it been designed”. 

Now before I go on, let me tell you that philosophers have come up with five arguments to prove the existence of God(each of which may be negated by another set of philosophers.) To avoid confusion, I will only talk about the first one, The Cosmological Argument, which pertains to the subject at hand. It states that because each cause has an effect and vice versa, the effect of the universe’s existence must have a suitable cause. This suitable cause is more commonly known as the First Cause, and philosophers and cosmologists alike attribute the First Cause to a divine Creator. Now this is where the cosmologist’s role comes in. All he has to do is prove that the Universe and the four dimensions of space and time had a beginning and emerged out of nothing to prove that God exists. But if he is to go on and prove that the Universe has always been and always will, he eliminates the First Cause and thus the need for a Creator.

The first cosmologist I will talk about is Albert Einstein. He was the most prolific scientist of the last century and his theory of general relativity has shaped modern science. Even though he was known to be a Jew, he did not believe in God. He wanted to create a steady state model of the universe that there was no beginning. However, Einstein’s reaction to the consequences of his own general theory of relativity appears to acknowledge the threat of an encounter with God. So, before publishing his cosmological inferences, he introduced a cosmological constant, a ‘fudge factor’ to yield a static model. When the equation was corrected by another astronomer, it predicted that the universe was expanding away from its point of origin. Through the equations of general relativity, we can trace the origin of the universe backward in time to some sort of a beginning.

Einstein later considered this to be the greatest blunder of his scientific career and ultimately gave grudging acceptance to what he called “the necessity for a beginning” and eventually to “the presence of a superior reasoning power.” 

In 1946, George Gamow, a Russian-born scientist, proposed the “big bang,” The theory which was proven in 1992 by the cosmic Background Explorer, predicts that all the galaxies in the universe should be rushing away from each other at high speeds as a result of that initial big bang.

Astronomer Hugh Ross in his book, The Creator and the Cosmos, puts the argument this way: “If the universe arose out of a big bang, it must have had a beginning. If it had a beginning, it must have a beginner.”

But some cosmologists were still reluctant to accept this theory. Stephen Hawking is probably the most famous living scientist. His hero was none other than the atheist philosopher and mathematician, Bertrand Russell who I quoted in the beginning of my speech. The thrust of Hawking’s philosophizing in A Brief History of Time is to demean God’s role in the affairs of the universe and to elevate the role of the human race. A Brief History of Time speaks “about God, or perhaps about the absence of God.” It represents an effort to create “a universe with no edge in space, no beginning or end in time, and nothing for a Creator to do”. Ironically, his theorems establish that “time has a beginning.”

But, for laymen like us, this is what it all boils down to….

Eid was just as borin as I expected. The high point of his week was shoeshoppin at zamzama after midnight on the fake chaand raat. just when everyone decided to stay back at home and not go out and have fun, me and ammi decided to get some serious shoe shoppin done. i fall in love over and over again when im at zamzama. be it a dress displayed in some boutique’s window or the shoes and handbags that are jut awesome. someday, when im all rich and stuff, im goin to go to zamzama and ’shop till i drop’. abhi toa dad just handed us a few thousand bucks and told he was waitin in the car.

i wanted some sexy heels but later just settled for a flat chappal that was simply amazing. ill post pics when i wear em sometime. no i didnt wear them at eid. didnt have a reason to. the only reason i went out on eid was on the third day (today) and where to?? IBA, ofcourse. when i told friends at IBA that noone even visits Farea said she’d come by and she did yesterday and we sat chattin for a couple o hours.

Both of us wanted to go to AJ’s weddin so bad yesterday but ammi said i couldnt go(so much for bein honest for a change) and she didnt want to go alone. Hammad told us this mornin that AJ asked abt us. that was nice. someone remembered us on his wedding day.

slept really late night so dozed off in the accts class. now who’s goin to teach me ‘accounting for leases’?? aaargh!! even though last semester’s accounts teacher didnt know much, atleast he knew how to teach. our current accts teacher badly needs to learn. she’s such a bore. and im also sick of IBF.

remember this? well i got two of them to come true. i was bad to sara. i told her she couldnt come to study finance from me on an Eid day. Some time ago, I had started gettin really irriatated when i saw that i was always helpin out everyone and whenever i asked someone for help, I usually didnt get it. Then when my aunts were here, and ammi was always doin so much for them, i asked her ‘aap kyoon itna ker rahi hain when they dont even give u any credit for it’. she said she wasnt doin it for them. she was doin it for Allah. i stopped bein by helpin ‘ehsaan framosh’ friends after that. i was the one who was benefittin the most. but i so didnt want to have anythin to do with teachin and sudyin on Eid(it was borin enuff as it is) so i asked sara to come on sat. even Misbah msged askin if i could teach her accts for her hourlies on the 9th. huh??? who’s goin to teach me??

and the second thing i got is the testimonial. hahha. now i want another. muahahahahaha.

Sarim says:

i will take u farea rafia lallan and the rest to bovis thek haiwoh eidi bhi hojeygi aur mera promise bhi

S!D says:

yayyyy!! whats the occasion?

Sarim says:

EID THEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sarim says:

dumbo

S!D says:

u forgot uruba.. just coz she doesnt bug u as much as we do doesnt mean u ignore her

Sarim says:

ohh yeah forgot her sorry yes urubah 2

S!D says:

heheh… 3 cheers for sarim!!

S!D says:

for he’s a jolly good fellow

S!D says:

ahahhaha

Sarim says: sahi baat hai

S!D says:

saaaaaaaaaarimmm… now that ure bein nice, aik aur kaaam karo

S!D says:

write me a testimonial

Sarim says:

farmain

Sarim says:

bas free ho gain

S!D says:

pleez

S!D says:

pleez

Sarim says:

pehlay aap lihain

S!D says:

pretty pleez

S!D says:

ok.. ill write u one tom

S!D says:

u write me one abhi

Sarim says:

jee nahi pehlay aap

S!D says:

nahin na.. then u guys say we women demand courtesy. ab jab im defyin both ‘ladies first’ and the ‘pehle aap’ wali routine, toa u guys want to go ahead with it

Sarim says:

its always ladies fisrt so lets stick to ladies first..u write me one firstd

S!D says:

ok

S!D says:

but what assurance do i have that u will write me one too?

Sarim says:

jaisa tum likho gi waisa mein likhunga

Sarim says:

u have my honest non greasy extra crispy word

S!D says:

i just gave an online quiz that said im sufferin from major depression. i asked u to write me a testimonial coz then i could feel good abt myself. and now that i have told u that, u r under the moral obligation to write me a nice one

Sarim says:

buahahhahahahahahahaha

Sarim says:

u suffereing from depression

Sarim says:

yeah ryte

Sarim says:

and im the new general

Sarim says:

u dont have any symptoms of depression but farigh-opia

S!D says:

 the test said i do. now even if it is bull shit i need sthg to make me not believe in it

Sarim says:

ok u have my word keh ur not in depression bur farighopia bas:

S!D says:

no… ineed a testimonial

Sarim says:

acha likh raha huun

S!D says:

abhi?

Sarim says:

u want long and boring ya short and spicy

Sarim says:

yep

S!D says:

thankyou.. *jumps up and down with excitement

S!D says:

long and boring

Sarim says:

cuz incidently i dont havppen to be doing anything ryte now

Sarim says:

itna time nahi hai to ill make it short and spicy

Eid is good. it signifies that we have completed a whole month of fasting and doin good deeds and its a promise to God, that whatever we practiced for ion Ramzan-patience, not lying, not cursing- we will continue the whole year.

But what do we do? for us eid is more like welcomin Satan out of Hell. Come back to us, O our true lord. We have no idea how we spent this one month without u. we tried our best to be faithful to u but we had to give up lyin when we were fastin. but dont worry, we’ll start today. we didnt listen to music for a whole month to respect the month of ramadan but now that ure back, its back to Channel V for us. You’d
be really happy to know that our nerves got the better of us even while we were fasting and we got more angry at others than we usually do. O Satan, O our dear lord, we had to give Zakat this month. It killed us. but today, on the day of Eid, we will forget all the poor or sick ppl and indulge in luxuries to our heart’s content. Forgive us, for bein virtuous for a whole month but startin today, its back to bein our bad old self.

EID MUBARAK everyone!!

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Today

height: 5′6″
color: Tanned
piercing: ears
tattoos: would never take so much pain for a mark thatd never go away.

Right Now

Time: 5:00 pm
Mood: Bored
taste: none
the weather: too humid
bad habit: loads
current crush: none
biggest regret: not havin done enuff  
Perfume(s): none. i dont put perfume at home
Thing I want to do: for starters, make a difference in somone’s life

Favourite

TV show: cant think of any
book: Loads!!!
non alcoholic drink: Nestle Apple, Apple Sidra, Iced Tea
milk drink: Hot Chocolate
brand: ummmm… *bummer
color: these days, black
emblem: why would i have a favourite emblem. no im not in love wid my school’s. no. none.
perfume: Too many.
designer: Burberry
Chocolate: if only i could eat them regularly, id have favs.

Have I Ever

broken the law: must have
misused credit card: No
skipped school: DUH!!!
fell asleep in the shower/bath: No
had children: No
been in love: Ha!! there is no such thng as love.
been hurt: no. im not human.

Random

have a job: No.
My CD player has what in it right now: stacie orrico.
if I were a crayon, the color? yellow of the sun.
what makes me happy? ive never thought abt that.

When/What Was the Last

I got a real letter: ummmm.. i get letters from liberty books all the time askin me to renew my newweek subscription but ive been too lazy. 
got an email: 2 hours ago.
thing I purchased: Daud’s Kurta =D
TV program I watched: ummm…when was the last time i watched TV?? ummmm….no, cant remember.
movie I saw in the theaters: Crash. last semester. 
Hugged: ive never really had a proper hug my whole life.
Place I was: IBA.
song heard: I Promise, Stacie Orrico
phone call: him
was depressed: last few months..

What Comes to Mind When I Hear

car: 867
murder: blank
cape: superman
cell: indispensible
fun: shakiba and aarish 
shoe: shopping
crush: my dreams
music: nabeel
love: me
chalk: school I TagAbeer. let ths be ur first tag! welcome to blogosphere!

Every morning when ammi, in a very low voice calls out my name, I wake up with a start and sit up in bed shivering for a good 3 secs.
why does this happen, coz ammi brings me back from an altered state of conciousness where i can not only touch, smell, see, hear and taste but also think, make decisions, feel emotions, judge, reflect…. what makes the altered state of conciousness so much better is that i can be someone else. Moreover, i can also think for everyone else who’s a part of that space and time with me. while in that moment, i remember experiences from my real life and incorporate them with the situation then, but i can never tell the difference between real and unreal.
the 3 secs that it takes me to make the transition from real to unreal, from the unknown to known, the memory of my dreams is lost to the unconcious again(most of the time) and no matter how hard i try to remember what i was dreamin abt, i cant. i just remember bein concious. i just remember bein alive.
sometimes when i dont remember being concious, another feelin overwhelms me: i was temporarily dead.
sleep scientists have given explanation after another to explain this phenonmenon. Freud, Jung and Adler have all proposed different theories to explain the mysterious world of dreams but does science hold the answer to all our questions?
Ever since ive realised that a lot of the dreams i remember come true-the exact same words are spoken by the exact same ppl at the exact same place- ive been wondering if dreamin is an interaction with God. (I think even sex is an interaction with the Divine- the ecstasy, the formation of life, expression of the purest form of love. btw, theres nothin perverted abt thinkin abt sex. newsflash: freud was right, we all do. its much more than just a dirty joke. why is it such a taboo to talk abt it even in serious conversations, specially for a girl?) so back to dreams.
a companion of the Holy Prophet Hazrat Mohammad (P.B.U.H), whose name i cant remember, once gave his zakat to a prostitute. the townspeople ridiculed him. the next day he gave the remainin of his zakat to a theif subjectin himself to more ridicule. that night Hazrat Mohammad (P.B.U.H) came in his dream and told him that the prostitute had stopped sellin sex, and the theif had stopped stealing coz they now had the money for which they had to stoop so low.
This shows us that dreams are a method of communication. God’s way of delivering messages to us. I am not sayin that Freud was wrong abt wish fullfilment. he was right too. Dreams are a representation of our hidden desires, just our brain chemistry at work. But before tryin to find an explanation for everyhting in th realms of science, we should remember there’s a Higher Power who controls this universe and while He has formulated laws to maintain order, it is in His power to use our dreams to show us a glimpse of the future.