Cousins….End of Journey…

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Fahmy Ifthicar Salih 11th May 1955 ..24th January 2012

The Angels Once Again

lips sealed and tears that i could not hide!

Alone in the sandy desert as I watch the clock tick by
The sun spreads the golden effect from the high sky
Then the shrill of the telephone so many gave me a fright
My hands a trembling strength was fading out of sight
the message once again I hear and will not ever forget
Someone near and dear oh what can one do is all I felt
As her words voiced a sad whisper that did convey
Reviving the pains and all strong feelings.. again in dismay!

St Pauls Milagiriya 1958….

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seeing it over 40 years later

Still the same!!!

Oh ..Thats Our Little Corner (1965/66)The Green!

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The March Past

Many years later……………..

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Prefects

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13th January 2011………………..incidents

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Oct. 13, 1307 – Officers of King Philip IV of France raided the homes of the Knights Templar, who were warrior monks during the Crusades, imprisoning several thousand men on charges of illegal activities. None of these charges were proven, but hundreds suffered excruciating torture intended to force confessions, and more than a hundred died, according to “Tales of the Knights Templar” (Warner Books, 1995).

2. Aug. 13, 1521– Conquistador Hernán Cortés captured Cuauhtémoc, the ruler of Tenochtitlán, claiming the city for Spain and marking the end of the Aztec Empire. Cortés appointed himself the new ruler and renamed it Mexico City, according to the Smithsonian National Museum of American History.

3. Nov. 13, 1789 – Benjamin Franklin wrote “Everything appears to promise that it will last; but in this world nothing is certain but death and taxes,” according to U.S. government documents.

4. Sept. 13, 1940 – Five German bombs hit Buckingham Palace and destroyed the Palace Chapel, as part of Hitler’s strategic “Blitz” bombing campaign, according to reports from U.K. newspaper The Guardian.

5. June 13, 1952 – A Swedish military DC-3 plane carrying a crew of eight disappeared over international water in the Baltic Sea. This became known as the “Catalina affair” because one of two Catalina rescue planes sent to search for the plane was attacked by Soviet forces. In 1991, the Soviet air force admitted that it had shot down the DC-3 as well, according to the BBC.

6. July 13, 1956 – The United States and Britain turned down Indian and Yugoslavian pleas to stop atmospheric testing of nuclear weapons, according to The New York Times.

7. Nov. 13, 1970 – A huge South Asian storm killed an estimated 300,000 people in Chittagong, Bangladesh, and create floods that killed as many as 1 million in the Ganges delta.

8. June 13, 1986 – The Olsen twins, Mary-Kate and Ashley, were born.

9. Jan. 13, 1989 – The “Friday the 13th virus” infected hundreds of IBM computers across Great Britain, wiping out program files and causing considerable anxiety at a time when large-scale computer viruses were a relatively new threat.

10. Oct. 13, 1989 – The Dow Jones Industrial Average underwent the second largest drop it had ever experienced at that time. Nicknamed the Friday-the-13th mini-crash, the Dow dropped 190.58 points that day. Today, that drop doesn’t even make the top 10 list of largest drops.

11. March 13, 2009 – “SAW – The Ride” premiered at Thorpe Park amusement park in England, only to be temporarily shut down due to “minor teething problems” according to UK news reports.

12. Aug. 13, 1999 – The day would have been Alfred Hitchcock’s 100th birthday.

13. Sept. 13, 2013 – The planned date of the thirteenth installment of the Friday the 13th horror film series, which revolves around hockey mask-wearing Jason Voorhees.

I was born on the 13th May Friday 1949 ..and in the midst of Lord Buddha’s bday celebration ..Wesak Day!

(Audrey Barber one of my best online pal)

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Friday never bothered me till the year 2006 when i got emails about my birth date 13th friday May 1949 as ‘unlucky’ Well I found it in favour for me cos i was born on the day Lord Buddha Birth annuversary was being celebrated and leaving the shores o Sri lanka was on the 13th Novemebr1979  13th May 182 got our resident visas

Interesting subject friday the 13th…

Why Friday the 13th is considered unlucky

Friday the 13th, ‘the most widespread superstition’

The sixth day of the week and the number 13 both have foreboding reputations said to date from ancient times. It seems their inevitable conjunction from one to three times a year (there will be three such occurrences in 2012) portends more misfortune than some credulous minds can bear. According to some sources it’s the most widespread superstitionin the United States today. Some people refuse to go to work on Friday the 13th; some won’t eat in restaurants; many wouldn’t think of setting a wedding on the date.

How many Americans at the beginning of the 21st century suffer from this condition? According to Dr. Donald Dossey, a psychotherapist specializing in the treatment of phobias (and coiner of the term paraskevidekatriaphobia, also spelled paraskavedekatriaphobia), the figure may be as high as 21 million. If he’s right, no fewer than eight percent of Americans remain in the grips of a very old superstition.

Exactly how old is difficult to say, because determining the origins of superstitions is an inexact science, at best. In fact, it’s mostly guesswork.

Legend has it: If 13 people sit down to dinner together, one will die within the year. The Turks so disliked the number 13 that it was practically expunged from their vocabulary (Brewer, 1894). Many cities do not have a 13th Street or a 13th Avenue. Many buildings don’t have a 13th floor. If you have 13 letters in your name, you will have the devil’s luck (Jack the Ripper, Charles Manson, Jeffrey Dahmer, Theodore Bundy and Albert De Salvo all have 13 letters in their names). There are 13 witches in a coven.

13: the Devils Dozen

By David Emery, About.com Gudie

The devils dozen….

Although no one can say for sure when and why human beings first associated the number 13 with misfortune, the superstition is assumed to be quite old, and there exist any number of theories — most of which deserve to be treated with a healthy skepticism, please note — purporting to trace its origins to antiquity and beyond.

It has been proposed, for example, that fears surrounding the number 13 are as ancient as the act of counting. Primitive man had only his 10 fingers and two feet to represent units, this explanation goes, so he could count no higher than 12. What lay beyond that — 13— was an impenetrable mystery to our prehistoric forebears, hence an object of superstition.

Which has an edifying ring to it, but one is left wondering: did primitive man not have toes?

Life and death

Despite whatever terrors the numerical unknown held for their hunter-gatherer ancestors, ancient civilizations weren’t unanimous in their dread of 13.

The Chinese regarded the number as lucky, some commentators note, as did the Egyptians in the time of the pharaohs.

To the ancient Egyptians, we’re told, life was a quest for spiritual ascension which unfolded in stages — twelve in this life and a thirteenth beyond, thought to be the eternal afterlife.

The number 13 therefore symbolized death, not in terms of dust and decay but as a glorious and desirable transformation. Though Egyptian civilization perished, the symbolism conferred on the number 13 by its priesthood survived, we may speculate, only to be corrupted by subsequent cultures who came to associate 13 with a fear of death instead of a reverence for the afterlife.

Anathema

Still other sources speculate that the number 13 may have been purposely vilified by the founders of patriarchal religions in the early days of western civilization because it represented femininity. Thirteen had been revered in prehistoric goddess-worshiping cultures, we are told, because it corresponded to the number of lunar (menstrual) cycles in a year (13 x 28 = 364 days). The “Earth Mother of Laussel,” for example — a 27,000-year-old carving found near the Lascaux caves in France often cited as an icon of matriarchal spirituality — depicts a female figure holding a crescent-shaped horn bearing 13 notches. As the solar calendar triumphed over the lunar with the rise of male-dominated civilization, it is surmised, so did the “perfect” number 12 over the “imperfect” number 13, thereafter considered anathema.

On the other hand, one of the earliest concrete taboos associated with the number 13 — a taboo still observed by some superstitious folks today, apparently — is said to have originated in the East with the Hindus, who believed, for reasons I haven’t been able to ascertain, that it is always unlucky for 13 people to gather in one place — say, at dinner. Interestingly enough, precisely the same superstition has been attributed to the ancient Vikings (though I have also been told, for what it’s worth, that this and the accompanying mythographical explanation of it are apocryphal). That story has been laid down as follows:

And Loki makes thirteen

Twelve gods were invited to a banquet at Valhalla. Loki, the Evil One, god of mischief, had been left off the guest list but crashed the party, bringing the total number of attendees to 13. True to character, Loki raised hell by inciting Hod, the blind god of winter, to attack Balder the Good, who was a favorite of the gods. Hod took a spear of mistletoe offered by Loki and obediently hurled it at Balder, killing him instantly. All Valhalla grieved. And although one might take the moral of this story to be “Beware of uninvited guests bearing mistletoe,” the Norse themselves apparently concluded that 13 people at a dinner party is just plain bad luck.

As if to prove the point, the Bible tells us there were exactly 13 present at the Last Supper. One of the dinner guests — er, disciples — betrayed Jesus Christ, setting the stage for the Crucifixion.

Did I mention the Crucifixion took place on a Friday?

 

Legend has it: Never change your bed on Friday; it will bring bad dreams. If you cut your nails on Friday, you cut them for sorrow. Don’t start a trip on Friday or you will encounter misfortune. Ships that set sail on a Friday will have bad luck, as in the tale of H.M.S. Friday. One hundred years ago, the British government sought to quell the longstanding superstition among seamen that setting sail on Fridays was unlucky. A special ship was commissioned and given the name “H.M.S. Friday.” They laid her keel on a Friday, launched her on a Friday, selected her crew on a Friday, and hired a man named Jim Friday to be her captain. To top it off, H.M.S. Friday embarked on her maiden voyage on a Friday — and was never seen or heard from again.

 

Bad Friday

Some say Friday’s bad reputation goes all the way back to the Garden of Eden. It was on a Friday, supposedly, that Eve tempted Adam with the forbidden fruit. Adam bit, as we all learned in Sunday School, and they were both ejected from Paradise. Tradition also holds that the Great Flood began on a Friday; God tongue-tied the builders of the Tower of Babel on a Friday; the Temple of Solomon was destroyed on a Friday; and, of course, Friday was the day of the week on which Christ was crucified. It is therefore a day of penance for Christians.

In pagan Rome, Friday was execution day (later Hangman’s Day in Britain), but in other pre-Christian cultures it was the sabbath, a day of worship, so those who indulged in secular or self-interested activities on that day could not expect to receive blessings from the gods — which may explain the lingering taboo on embarking on journeys or starting important projects on Fridays.

To complicate matters, these pagan associations were not lost on the early Church, which went to great lengths to suppress them. If Friday was a holy day for heathens, the Church fathers felt, it must not be so for Christians — thus it became known in the Middle Ages as the “Witches’ Sabbath,” and thereby hangs another tale.

Smiles We Shared Seethala Group Novemebr 2010 (retirement)

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The Lady In Red!

The Dawn of a New Chapter Seethala Group (online)

News/ Union from the four corners of the world Nov 13th 2011

They Came In Smiles!

Happy Anniverary 2011.... the Cake!

A grand thank you..Arshad Ibrrahim

Smiles...

 

 

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    • Zakir HussainThe only thing you can change is yourself, but some times that changes everything =)

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    • Azahim MohamedMarriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can’t sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can’t sleep with the window open…George Bernad Shaw

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    • Saleem Abdul-Rahim“Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.”

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    • Saleem Abdul-Rahim‎”We make a living by what we get, but we make a LIFE by what we give.” “To the world you might be one person, but to one person you just might be the world” Albert Einstein “For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who disbelieve, no amount of proof is sufficient.”

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    • Shirani Ibrahim‎”Never Play With The Feelings Of Others   Because You May Win The Game   But The Risk Is That You Will Surely Lose   The Person For A Life Time”. Shakespear

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    • Sabthy MarikarWhen YOU laugh the whole wide world laughs with YOU… but when YOU cry YOU cry alone

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    • Shirani IbrahimI count myself in nothing else so happy As in a soul remembering my good friends. Shakespere

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    • Shirani IbrahimA friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.Shkespeare..

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    • Inthikab Zufer‎”What sought of unseen can be hidden to you ya rasoolallah when allah himself was not hidden from you” – aala hazrath imaam ahmed raza khan bareilly

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    • Inthikab ZuferAwliya are the hackers of your heart’s software- Mawlana Shaykh Hisham Kabbani

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    • Sabthy MarikarBeing  bitchy means I wont compromise what’s in my heart. It means I live my life my way. It means I won’t allow anyone to step on me or park their 3b’s …BULLSHIT BAFFLES BRAINS

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    • Inthikab ZuferLeadership – and life itself – is all about making tomorrow better than today. And stepping into your next level of excellence with every passing hour- Robbin sharma

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    • Sabthy MarikarUnborn tomoorw ~Dead yesterday~Whyn fret about them if today be sweet. Omar Khayyam

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    • Inthikab ZuferGet to know thousand..move with hundred..go out with ten & marry one – Azeem Smsudeen

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    • Sabthy MarikarThere’s a smile on my face but I don’t know why it’s there… I put it on to satisfy all the people that don’t even care~I know the ones who care and they deserve more than a  true smile of sincerity~~saying de Sabs~~

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    • Sheryl Hamid HassenA Smile is Worth than a Thousand Words :)

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    • Inthikab ZuferA picture says a thousand words :D

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    • Shirani IbrahimYou have a natural right to be as free as you want to be. You don’t owe anyone an explanation for how you choose to live or handle any given situation. Do not allow the opinions of others to cause you any hesitation. You are not living in this world for their entertainment..your road to heaven cannot be judged by them,..shirani ibrahim

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    • Shirani IbrahimYou are the only one who can truly assess your needs, ideas views means,beliefs and requirements for happiness. Your life’s journey is not anothers business..Let them look at the mirror before they pass judgement on another…shirani ibrahim

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    • Shirani Ibrahim‎’A mans converstaion is the mirror of his heart’

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    • Sabthy MarikarOnes Original thinking to share~ is superb as the taste is unique ~it blossoms bountifully~Dont you 4get to add your signature to it ~ Like Shirani and I~This shows there is talent amongst us and life is precious  and all is not lost~Carry on the good work~All is not lost as “The Past doee not equal the future”

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    • Sabthy MarikarIf you say your are right you are right If you say you are wrong you are wrong If you say you are right and and say you are wrong YOU are most probably RIGHT

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    • Sabthy MarikarDream as if you’ll live forever.  Live as if you’ll die today.  ~James Dean And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count.  It’s the life in your years.  ~Abraham Lincoln

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    • Sabthy Marikar‎”If we aim for the Moon we will fall among the Stars”   “…for there are no stars to be found when one’s eyes are fixed on the ground looking for salvation with nowhere to go or hide

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    • Shirani IbrahimThink before you utter words that cause an endlsees pain wounded hearts are sow i heaing they may never heal agin whats the use of being sorry when regrets are in vain.. SPM famous quote

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    • Shirani IbrahimAll our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind.” – Kahlil Gibran, Sand and Foam

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    • Shirani Ibrahim Love that blossoms in ones heart with sweet fragrance leads you to absorb the world with a beautiful mind…but if it is extinct then the comprehension of the beauty the bounties will forever be blind… Shirani Ibrahim

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    • Azahim MohamedClean your finger before you point at my spots……Benjamin Franklin

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    • Zakir HussainSHARING is caring ;)

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    • Nadira Moosin AsadKnowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power

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    • Shirani IbrahimIts just a drop of ink and words unjust if they make Shapes thoughts deeds and doubles many a heartache… Shiraniibrahim

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    • Shirani IbrahimAngels come in the form of freinds ..An answer to a prayer till the journey ends..Shirani Ibrahim

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    • Shirani IbrahimHey Sabthy..tnxs..love this thread..words keep flowing..straingt from my heart..reliving my school days..n autograph!!!

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    • Shirani IbrahimHeights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudded flights..they while their companions slept were toiling upwards in the night…given to me by my dad!

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    • Shirani IbrahimI can and i ougt to and by Gods help i will..given to me by my class teacher when my dad passed away…

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    • Sabthy MarikarRemember that everyone you meet is afraid of something, loves something, and has lost something.Thats life~~Saying de Sabs

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    • Sabthy MarikarWhen people who don’t know you hate you,for reasons of their own~ that’s when you know you’re the best ~~saying de Sabs

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    • Inthikab Zufer“My intercession is for the sinners of my nation”-hadith

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    • Inthikab ZuferWhenever you are coming and sitting in an association, or you are praying at night, or by day, or you are making dhikr, or reading Qur’ān or hadīth, or doing anything, when you sit, say: Nawaytu‘l-Arba’īn  I intend the Forty Days Nawaytu‘l-‘Itikāf   I intend retreat Nawaytu‘l-Khalwah   I intend seclusion Nawaytu‘l-’Uzlah  I intend isolation Nawaytur-Riyādah  I intend devotion Nawaytus-Sulūk   I intend discipline Nawaytus-Siyām  I intend abstinence Fi hadha‘l-Masjid  In this place of worship, li-llāhi Ta’āla  for the sake of God the Exalted. – Shaykh Abdullah Dajesthani

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    • Inthikab Zufer‎”The Night of the Prophet’s (s) birth is a magnificent, noble, blessed and holy night, a night of bliss for the Believers, pure, radiant with lights and of immeasurable price.”- Imam ibn Katheer

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    • Inthikab ZuferIdeas are just words. What brings them to life is massive execution – and relentless focus.- robin sharma

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    • Shama Ismail-Mohamed‎”Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem to be more afraid of life than death.” – James F. Bymes

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    • Inthikab Zufer‎”O muslims! Islam is very delicate. Islam is not only praying the five prayes and fasting and pay charity and do hajj. That is the obligation you have to do it. but besides it is the taste, you have to show good manners and good character to people. esp to those who harmed you.” ~Mawlana Shaykh Hisham Kabbani

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    • Mohamed Zavahir MarikarTo understand Islam in the deep sense,one has to practice Our holy Prophet’s(Sal) sunna.

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    • Zakir HussainToday… Give a stranger one of your smiles. It might be… the only Sun-shine he sees all day =)

      January 20 at 8:49am · LikeUnlike · 1

    • Azahim MohamedAnd in the end,its not the years in your life that counts…Its the life in yours years…..Abraham Lincoln..

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    • Azahim Mohamed‎’May you live to be 100 and may the last voice you here is mine’….Frank Sinatra 1915 -1998

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    • Fareena AththasIf you are going to trust someone with your heart, make sure they have a heart of their own, so they know how it feels when it’s broken..

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    • Nadira Moosin Asad‎’Life is too short to stress yourself with people who don’t even deserve to be an issue in your life.” – Anonim

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    • Faiz OmarThe mind is like a parachute..it works only when its open

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    • Faiz OmarWhat you do for yourself will die with you. But what you do for others will remain

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    • Nadira Moosin AsadToday’s Inspirational Quote: “The big secret in life is that there is no big secret. Whatever your goal, you can get there if you’re willing to work.” — Oprah Winfrey

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    • Zakir HussainLife ends when you stop “Dreaming” Hope ends when you stop “Believing” Love ends when you stop “Caring” Friendship ends when you stop “Sharing”

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    • Seyed J FRizvia Moulana‎”A sister is a gift to the heart, a friend to the spirit, a golden thread to the meaning of life.”  ~ Isadora James

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    • Zakir Hussain‎”Weakness of Attitude becomes Weakness of Character”- Albert Einstein

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    • Zakir Hussain‎”A person who never made a mistake never tried something new”- Albert Einstein

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    • Zakir HussainDon’t put the key to your Happiness in someone else’s pocket =)

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    • Zakir Hussain‎”You already possess everything necessary to become great” -Crow

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    • Zakir HussainWhen was the last time you did something for the first time ? Mind over matter

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    • Zakir HussainThe happiest people don’t have the best of everything, they just make the best of everything they have =)

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    • Azahim Mohamed‎”Truth without love is brutality, and love without Truth is hypocrisy”…Warren Wiersbe…

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    • Zakir HussainIf you have a compelling reason… No doubt you have the Burning Desire.. So just don’t waste time… follow the DREAM ! Never Say ‘ do it Tomorrow’ .. Just Do It Now (extended Nike version)

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    • Sabthy Marikar“Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air” Thomas Gray

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    • Seyed J FRizvia MoulanaWhen a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.  ~Louis Nizer

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    • Sabthy MarikarMason Cooley: Friendship is love minus sex and plus reason. Love is friendship plus sex and minus reason

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    • Sabthy MarikarYou don’t write just because you want to say something;~~ you write because in your opinion you’ve got something to say and get it out of your system~saying de Sabs

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    • Sabthy MarikarWalter Winchell: Money sometimes makes fools of important persons, but it may also make important persons of fools.

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    • Sabthy Marikar“Intuition: the strange instinct that tells a woman she is always  right, whether she is or not.” Oscar Wilde “Women have a wonderful instinct about things. They can discover everything except the obvious.” Oscar Wilde

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    • Sabthy MarikarIf music is the food of love play on ~William Shakespere ~aka Shekas Perera our own !!!!

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    • Inthikab Zuferif there is a reason..then it cannot be love-shakespere

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    • Sheryl Hamid HassenA tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.

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    • Shirani Ibrahim There is a hero inside us so we must use it to help defend ourselves against liars deceivers and all kinds of terrorism…Dont buy the cheap stuff they are selling…we will  end up as one of them..Shirani Ibrahim

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    • Sabthy MarikarHero to Zero is ones own chosen destiny~~You deserve what you get~~Saying de Sabs

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    • Sabthy MarikarGood things are no cheap ~Cheap things are no good ~Select wisely before you are conned by the fakers

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    • Sheryl Hamid HassenNever let Success get to your Head and Never let Failure get to your Heart

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    • Sheryl Hamid HassenForgiving people who have hurt you is your gift to them. Forgetting people who have hurt you is your Gift to You

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    • Maheesa MusawwirIf there is a will there is a way

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    • Sabthy MarikarDefinition of ‘Insanity’~~Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting  a different result

      January 22 at 9:07pm · LikeUnlike · 1

    • Zakir HussainTRUST : It takes a lifetime to build, a single moment to lose, and an eternity to gain it back =)

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    • Sheryl Hamid HassenYou can never realize the Importance of Something until it is Gone.

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    • Sabthy Marikar Too many people try to fake their way through life. That’s why the real ones shine so brightly.Saying de Sabs

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    • Sabthy MarikarThank you Ladies & Gemtleman for updating and keeping the post going as a priority~It does not matter any Quotes that looks repetious as it is new ones have not seen~Can we all keep the one liners/sayings in this post  as it would be tidy~and not take any more space in the main page only likes please~~ If it is your original sign your name with pride ~~thanks

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    • Sabthy Marikar‎”Dictionary is the only place that success comes before work. Hard work is the price we must pay for success. I think you can accomplish anything if you’re willing to pay the price.”  – Vince Lombardi

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    • Zakir Hussain‎”Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.” — Samuel Ullman

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    • Zakir Hussain‎”We must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each moment of life is a miracle and mystery.” — H. G. Wells

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    • Inthikab Zuferif i say it once…it is as if i said it hundred times – Rajanikanth :D

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    • Hooriya Careem-Marikar‎”Do not practise what you breach”Smile Sabs,its only ur friend,”Loony”Compiled by me

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    • Hooriya Careem-MarikarJust to infuse little humor.Wonderful challegne,Sabs, way to go.

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    • Shirani Ibrahimwhen we twist God’s law to suit our ’cause’..we have to pay quite a price…as we earned it shiraniibrahim

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    • Sheryl Hamid HassenSometimes you have to stop thinking so much and go where your heart takes you.

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    • Sabthy MarikarOther people have have problems …..I like to call it. challenges…saying de sabs

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    • Sabthy MarikarTo meet and to greet…to love and to be loved….is the greatest happiness of existance….saying de sabs..

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    • Zakir Hussain‎”You have to make mistakes to find out who you aren’t. You take the action, and the insight follows: You don’t think your way into becoming yourself.” — Anne Lamott

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    • Zakir HussainIf you can’t solve it, it isn’t a problem – it’s reality. And sometimes reality is the hardest thing to understand and the thing that takes the longest to realize. But once it hits you in the face you’ll never forget it. It will always be there in your memories and sometimes that is the best way to look at it.

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    • Zakir HussainOne day our life will flash before your eyes. Make sure it’s worth watching.

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    • Zakir HussainThe greatest risk in life is not taking one.

      Tuesday at 4:29pm · LikeUnlike · 1

    • Zakir Hussain‎”Never take life too seriously. No one gets out alive anyway.”

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    • Sabthy MarikarIf all you dear SG members can take away one inspirational quotation…we as contributors have done our job….Pls do scroll Back and check what else could be beneficial as there are great ones to  boggle your mind……I want many more participants…..keep it going…the platform is all yours.

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    • Maheesa Musawwir“Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.” ― Maya Angelou

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    • Maheesa Musawwir“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.” ― Albert Einstein

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    • Sheryl Hamid HassenIts easy to ”Say” but difficult to ”Do”  -  by Sheryl

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    • Zakir Hussainله-Daily Reminders-الله Jealousy is the art of counting someone else’s blessings instead of your own!

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    • Sheryl Hamid HassenThere is only ONE PERSON who could make YOU HAPPY and that person is ”YOU”

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    • Sabthy MarikarEverybody want to go to heaven but nobody wants to die

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    • Sabthy MarikarTo rant or not to rant is not the question….lets rant and rant anyway until  the rants are repeated to convince its a true rant…When it is not…..

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    • Sabthy MarikarFeel the fear and do it any way……Susan Jeffers

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    • Seyed J FRizvia MoulanaClouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky. Rabindranath Tagore

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    • Maheesa Musawwir“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.” ― Albert Einstein

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    • Shirani IbrahimSabthy my cousin just went to heavennnnnnnnn! Allhamdulilah

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    • Zakir HussainWork for a cause (Islam), not for applause (showing-off).

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    • Shirani Ibrahimlove is beautiful……….                                                              Love motivates the human spirit and fills the heart Love means hope, soothes the mind and pain departs   Love is the best antidote to makes us feel real strong   When everything around us seems so sad and real wrong   Shower your path and everything around you with love   It is the the only door to happiness from heavens above…..

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    • Sabthy MarikarPatronizing is what you do.when you want to Crawl to show you  sincere when you are not…..saying de Sabs

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    • Sheryl Hamid HassenMany people will walk in and out of your life, but true friends, will leave footprints on your heart

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    • Shirani IbrahimThe boast of heraldry, the pomp of power,. And all that beauty, all that wealth e’er gave. Awaits alike th’ inevitable hour:-. The paths of glory lead but to the grave. thomas gray

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    • Saleem Abdul-Rahim“A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion.”

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    • Nadira Moosin AsadLife is composed of light and shadows. We would be untruthful, insincere, and saccharine if we tried to pretend that there were no shadows. – Walt Disney

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    • Nadira Moosin AsadWhen ego is lost, limit is lost. You become infinite, kind, and beautiful.

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    • Shama Ismail-Mohamed“I have learned silence from the talkative, tolerance from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind. I should not be ungrateful to these teachers.” — Kahlil Gibran

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    • Zakir HussainSometimes words are not enough….. A strong man knows he has strength enough for the journey but a man of strength knows it is in the journey he will become strong.

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    • Shirani IbrahimThe answer to the lonely prayer..During those moments there really is great benefit in taking to silence and remain lips sealed. All it takes is the strength for patience. But again sometimes, it is important to take a stand when they don’t give up…the time comes..it becomes our natural right!

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Memories I Harbour

Posted on by shiraniibrahim

My Walking Miracles

 

Memories I Harbor
I decided to retire as destiny was against me.
The four cold walls the lap top and just me . …
 The days seem long the nights oh so short.
As memories unfold of the days I boldy fought.
For dreams that I wished be soon a reality.
The laughter the joy was all mine in plenty.
 Standing never alone and with many murmurs.
Of many a love story for the hearts to stir.
The days of school and friends sweet n near.
Hearts filled with delight with love so dear.
Now I open my wet eyes and Nature do speak.
 As I see my hair with those greying streak .
I look around me so many loved ones..
Gone beyond, I stand alone under God sun.
Confused  with pain youth cant understand.
Reach out for my grand kids kind hands.
The soft look the twinkle of their eyes.
And their sweetness special i do proudly spy.
Every step every move and their sparkling smile.
Fills my heart a happiness, journey worthwhile.
As my grandkids lay a good night kiss on my head.
It leads me to gently rest my tired self on bed.

 

 

Another Year 1st January Twenty Twelve

Posted on by shiraniibrahim

Unseen Contents In My Heart

                               New Year 2012   Awakes What Lies In Store?                                    

Lets celebrate another new year, let our life be eased.

Enjoy life by fully living with good times to be pleased

Free our minds and partake in all the merriment galore

Embrace the fragrance of love unity peace of mind and more….

Love motivates the human spirit and surrounds the heart

Love means hope soothes the mind and pain departs

Love is the best antidote to makes us real strong

When everything around us seems to go real wrong

Shower your path and everything around you with love

May you have the best of happiness from heavens above

As I wish you and your familyh the best this dawning new year 2012

A happy and prosperous new year wherever you may dwell…

WELCOME!!!

 

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COPIED FROM FACEBOOK FAZLI SAMEER (recd via email) 1st January 2012

*Silent Thoughts for 2012*

I would never trade my amazing friends, my wonderful life, my loving family for less gray hair or a flatter belly. As I’ve aged, I’ve become kinder to myself, and less critical of myself. I’ve become my own friend. I don’t chide myself for eating that extra cookie, or for not making my bed, or for buying that silly cement gecko that I didn’t need, but looks so avante garde on my patio. I am entitled to a treat, to be messy, to be extravagant.I have seen too many dear friends leave this world too soon; before they understood the great freedom that comes with ageing.Whose business is it if I choose to read or play on the computer until 4 AM and sleep until noon? I will dance with myself to those wonderful tunes of the 60 &70′s, and if I, at the same time, wish to weep over a lost love ….. I will.

I will walk the beach in a swim suit that is stretched over a bulging body, and will dive into the waves with abandon if I choose to, despite the pitying glances from the jet set. They, too, will get old.

I know I am sometimes forgetful. But there again, some of life is just as well forgotten. And I eventually remember the important things.

Sure, over the years my heart has been broken. How can your heart not break when you lose a loved one, or when a child suffers, or even when somebody’s beloved pet gets hit by a car? But broken hearts are what give us strength and understanding and compassion. A heart never broken is pristine and sterile and will never know the joy of being imperfect.

I am so blessed to have lived long enough to have my hair turning grey, and to have my youthful laughs be forever etched into deep grooves on my face.

So many have never laughed, and so many have died before their hair could turn silver.

As you get older, it is easier to be positive. You care less about what other people think.. I don’t question myself any more. I’ve even earned the right to be wrong.

So, to answer your question, I like being old. It has set me free. I like the person I have become. I am not going to live forever, but while I am still here, I will not waste time lamenting what could have been, or worrying about what will be. And I shall eat dessert every single day (if I feel like it).

MAY OUR FRIENDSHIP NEVER COME APART, ESPECIALLY WHEN IT’S STRAIGHT FROM THE HEART!

Kusal Perera/Journalist

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The Dawn of Another Day

SUNRISE SUNSET UNEXPLAINED SPLENDOUR

From the clouds we do see, The changes so blissfully.

My soul dwelled this hour, Gently like an opening flower.

As I tried to comprehend the place, While facing my appointed race.

It seemed carpeted with peace, And mother earth seemed at ease.

Every moment awaited me,  My heart reached out with glee

Everything seemed so serene bright, The world filled with natural light.

As I floated from high above, Filling my heart, witth many a love.

Heavens smiling a feeling as it pleases, Like sailing the waters of the seven seas.

The beautiful golden ball displays, And the earth faces another phase.

Nature’s lamp and its dear light, Strays gradually and out of sight.

Under these dying pale shades, My ageing minds now do take a laid.

T’was a beauty with blue n green, Wow, Breath taking like a magazine!

Three Angels filled my life with flavor, They became my journey’s saviour

Then came the angel from above,  And a handsome knight with love

The fragrance of love lights, keep its flame, Sunrise, Sunset the wonders of love and fame!

Shirani Ibrahim  (pomehunter)

The sun rest its head on a pillow of sea

HAPPY MOTHERS DAY 11th May 2008

Posted on by shiraniibrahim

A mum and a mum of many generation of a variety of kids, weaves her magical words with her silken voice n silver tongue,

And never will she rest till her life’s journey is finally and sadly done

A glorified maid a Florence Nightingale, she treads around where to few she’d be known,

Loving strong so tenderly, the essence of her life, and when she cease to be,   sadly, she will lay amongst the unknown…..

Happy Mothers Day

My Picture Perfect Family Of Blissful Delights!

Posted on by shiraniibrahim

My living lamps my family and their dear bright lights,

Blossomed my happiness that garlanded my fading might.

Their silken satin display on my b’day, they did parade,

A regiment so sweet and strongly with fragrance played.

For a colorful surprise with eloquent luxurious taste,

My gaze rested on the celebrity table laid, with no haste.

A triumphant table, a cake in command, balloons to decor,

Computed to meet my wondrous hours and years and more,

With Beauteous friends, jewels of the just, they did restore

Brigth shoots of memory, and an everlastingness to store.

As I walked into my years of fifty and nine with serene delights

T’was a glowing glitter in my cloudy breast, a clear crystal sight!