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Date: Sun, 9 Mar 2008 12:19:43 +0400
Subject: Newsflash
All: Mubaraki for the announcement. Here in Dubai, the buzz has truly commenced ...

WAM -ABU DHABI MEDIA- Abu Dhabi, Oct 28th, 2007:
>
> Sheikh Nahyan bin Mubarak Al Nahyan, Minister of
> Higher Education and
> Scientific Research received here Sunday.
>
> Prince Aga Khan, the Imam [spiritual and general
> leader] of the Ismaili
> sect, who is on a current visit to the UAE ...

> >>>Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2007 1:27 PM
> >>>Subject: FW: Deedar!
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> >>>>>FORWARDING AS IS FROM SOMEONE WHO JUST HAD DEEDAR IN NAIROBI,
>MUBARAKI,
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> >>>>> > "Had very good deedar here in Nbi...it was well
> >>>>> > organized...deedar was at 10am they opened the ...

Something women should know.

Men are not reliable! Read this story in news lately:

Fantastic Find


For a Toronto couple it was like winning the lottery.

The thing is – the million dollars worth of goods was theirs to start with, they just feared they’d lost it forever. But thanks to Good ...

CAR FOR SALE

A fifteen year-old boy came home with a Porsche and his parents began to yell and scream, "Where did you get that car???!!!" He calmly told them,
"I bought it today."

"With what money?" demanded his parents. We know what a Porsche costs."

"Well," said the boy, "this one cost me ...

"Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within."
--James Baldwin


Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life."
--Lord Byron


"A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave."
--Mahatma Gandhi ...

Kanjibhai is talking to the family doctor. "Doc, I think my wife Rupaben
going deaf."
The doctor answers, "Well, here's something you can try on her to test her hearing. Stand some distance away from her and ask her a question. If she doesn't answer, move a little closer and ask again. Keep ...

"Never a lip is curved with pain That can't be kissed into smiles again."
--Bret Harte


Pain is life--the sharper, the more evidence of life."
--Charles Lamb


"Pain and pleasure, like light and darkness, succeed each other."
--Laurence Sterne


"The pain of the mind is worse than the pain ...

"Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses."
--Francis Bacon


"He knows little who tells his wife all he knows."
--Thomas Fuller


"A wife is a gift bestowed upon man to reconcile him to the loss of paradise."
--Johann Wolfgang Von Goetke


"I chose my ...

I’ve learned that I am responsible for my own life and happiness. When I focus my life on another person and try to build my life and happiness around that person, I’m not truly living.

Laurie Waldron

Some people live closely guarded lives, fearful of encountering someone or something that might shatter their insecure spiritual foundation. This attitude, however, is not the fault of religion but of their own limited understanding. True Dharma leads in exactly the opposite direction. It enables ...

I read this and couldn't stop laughing ...

A bit of light humour.....

It is the year 2020 and call centres are opening all over the West, as the new economic power India outsources work to the countries where many jobs originated. Millions of Americans, still struggling to adapt to a
global ...

"He who does not love does not know God, for God is love." (1 John 4:8)


"And we have known and believed the love that God has for us. God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God in him." (1 John 4:16)

Prayer:

Loving Heavenly Father,

I praise because You are the God of love ...

Flowers symbolize unbridled passion,
Love, and the attraction lust requires.
Of beauty born, they burn with hungry fires,
Waiting for the pleasures of possession.
Even so may lovers be drawn higher,
Rapture melting soon their self-obsession,
Swept up to tenderness by love's desires.


Nicholas Gordon

Priorities:
"Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least."
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


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Problems:
The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking ...

The clearest sign of what kind of person you really are is not found in the things that you say, it's found in the things that you do. The life you lead is a photograph of your soul that you display to the world. Is the picture you've created with your life all that it could be?

Friends can be ...

Two blondes are waiting at a bus stop. When a bus pulls up and opens the door, one of the blondes leans inside and asks the bus driver:''Will this bus take me to 5th Avenue?'' The bus driver shakes his head and says,''No, I'm sorry.'' At this the other blonde leans inside, smiles, and twitters ...

I believe there is an important distinction to be made between religion and spirituality. Religion I take to be concerned with belief in the claims to salvation of one faith tradition or another--an aspect of which is acceptance of some form of meta-physical or philosophical reality, including ...

For those of you who haven't heard this lately in news.


Families steamed over winning Tim Hortons' cup
Mar. 8, 2006. 10:22 PM


MONTREAL (CP) — Two families are fighting over a vehicle valued at almost $29,000 after their daughters discovered a winning Tim Hortons coffee cup.

The dispute began ...

Several years ago, a friend of mine and her husband were invited to spend the weekend at the husband's employer's home. My friend, Arlene, was nervous about the weekend. The boss was very wealthy, with a fine home on the waterway, and cars costing more than her house.

The first day and evening ...

An Arab was admitted in the Lilavati Hospital at Mumbai for a heart
transplant, but prior to the surgery the doctors needed to store his
blood in case need arises. As the gentleman had a rare type of blood,
it couldn't be found locally.So the call went out to a number of
countries.

Finally a ...

Just Humour

A man wonders if having sex on the Sabbath is a sin because he is not sure if sex is work or play. He asks a priest for his opinion on this question. The priest says after consulting the Bible, "My son, after an exhaustive search I am positive sex is work and is not permitted the ...

"Every day I see at least one person who is struggling or having a hard day, and I try to smile or say, 'Hi,' even if I don't know them. Sometimes that simple 'Hi' — that reaching out to them in a friendly way — could change how they're feeling. Someone once wrote, 'Make yourself a blessing to ...

No fun when mom's shut out



Gradually, my family is shutting itself off from the world.

First, we stopped answering the phone. We leave the answering machine on audio so we can hear all messages being left. If it is someone we know, we pick up. If there's just a click, we declare ourselves ...

An Tanzanian dies and goes to hell. There he finds that there is a different hell for each country.

He goes to the German hell and asks,"What do they do here?" He is told,

"First they put you in an electric chair for an hour. Then they lay you on a bed of nails for another hour. Then the ...

"Hey Dad," one of my kids asked the other day, "What was your favorite fast food when you were growing up?"

"We didn't have fast food when I was growing up," I informed him. "All the food was slow."

"C'mon, seriously. Where did you eat?"

"It was a place called 'at home,'" I explained. "Grandma ...

A priest at a parochial school, wanting to point out the proper behavior for church, was trying to elicit from the youngsters rules that their parents might give before taking them to a nice restaurant. 'Don't play with your food,' one second-grader cited. 'Don't be loud,' said another, and so on ...

A clergyman was walking down the street when he came upon a group of a few boys about 10 years of age, surrounding a dog. Concerned that the boys were hurting the animal, he went over and asked them what they were doing.

One of the boys replied, "This dog is an old neighborhood stray. We take him ...

A judge was interviewing a woman regarding her pending divorce, and
asked, "What are the grounds for your divorce?"
She replied, "About four acres and a nice little home in the middle
of the property with a stream running by."

"No," he said, "I mean, what is the foundation of this case?"

"It ...

There are faces I remember from the place in my past. Sometimes I can laugh and cry and I can’t remember why, but I still love those times gone by.
James Taylor


The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.
Mother Teresa


If you judge people, you have no time to ...