Facebook Posts - August 2010

There’s a difference between truth and fiction. Fiction has to make sense. Poison pills need the best sugar coating.

2-Aug-2010 8:29 am

"My wife has the occasional habit of cherry picking the best bits of all of our friends/acquaintances lives, combining them into one and using that as the yardstick as to how we are doing." --- anonymous:-)

Comments:
• That's why I find it it so funny:-)

3-Aug-2010 12:32 pm

How positively you see other people shows how satisfied you are with your own life, and how much you are liked by others.

4-Aug-2010 9:28 pm

It's Marketing first, aesthetics second and functionality third.

Comments:
• Tech business overall. The way to make money.
• My wife sometimes recites some lines that probably goes like that. I thought she was just being "Kosto Bilashi" :-)
• @Mahmuda we all thought the same first. Reality shows it the opposite.

5-Aug-2010 11:38 am

And Muttaqis shall be in gardens and fountains. Enjoying what their Lord gives them. They were Muhsins. Used to sleep little at night. And by morning they asked for forgiveness. And there was a portion in their property for beggars and deprived. [The Winds, 15-19]

Comments:
• Q. In a world where there are no load shedding, no traffic, no crime --- what next would humanity pray for?

  A. Dream.

• ...can survive only if these people are dreaming.

  /Fixed that for you.

• Ok. I was just kidding.

  Reality is every one has got enough reason to enjoy his life, in spite of his current situation. Let not your pains cover your vision from seeing all the good things that God has given you, which you probably always take for granted :-)

6-Aug-2010 11:39 pm

Ever roamed around in fields, looked at the trees and praised how beautiful God's creation is? How many times have I look across the sky and praise Him for how large His creation was? Looking through my own eyes do I realize how complex a creation these eyes were? Another reason to recite: Subhanalla, Al-hamdulilla and Allahu Akbar.

Comments:
• Agree. [Actually disagree on your first part, but lets keep that for another day:-)]

  Another point. In my writing, "you/your" actually meant "I/my". Guess you understood that anyway. (<-- this last you is you of course.)

9-Aug-2010 5:57 pm

"We’re all salespeople at the end of the day."

Comments:
• Desheo ramdan arambo hoyese.
• Colder weather will probably make it easier to fast through the longer day time in the North. Anyway, Ramdan Mubarak.

11-Aug-2010 12:04 am

wants to be like the old muslim he saw...bony from prayer...standing before his Lord like he was born like that...I don't know if he weeps, can't see his face...born a Muslim...dies as a Muslim...what do I need to be his follower?

Comments:
• Note that only 60% of the population is Muslim. So you can expect the other 40% to not fast.

11-Aug-2010 11:24 pm

Egypt, meanwhile, has turned the clock back an hour so that the Ramadan fast ends earlier in the day :-) Anyway good article on how Egypt is celebrating Ramadan this year.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=129105207

12-Aug-2010 10:49 pm

Quote of the day: "Welcome to the new decade: Java is a restricted platform, Google is evil, Apple is a monopoly and Microsoft are the underdogs" -- Phil Nash.

15-Aug-2010 2:06 pm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAr8dafwGDQ

Comments:
• Time flies.
• Jonmo dey na? Need to spend more time reading Shakespeare, Blake and Keat. Further the British hate Rain. They love sunshine more because of the chilling weather there. In BD, we love rain a lot because it suddenly cools us in mid Summer.
• আরবিতে দ্বিন শব্দটা যদি বাংলায় অর্থ ধর্ম হয় তবে কোরআন শরিফে কিন্তু ইসলামকে ধর্মই বলা হয়েছে। তাই "ইসলাম কোন ধর্ম নয়" --- কথাটা কিন্তু পজিটিভ হচ্ছে না।
• চমৎকার ব্যাখা করা হয়েছে। আপনাকে ধন্যবাদ।

17-Aug-2010 7:33 pm

And they feed beggar, orphan and prisoner for His love, saying "We feed you for Allah's pleasure only! From you we don't seek any gratitude in return, not even a 'Thank you'". -- The Human, ayat 10.

24-Aug-2010 5:42 pm

Study find hardworking, unselfish, people are the least popular in any work group - because most people think they make them look bad in comparison.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/08/100823101110.htm

25-Aug-2010 5:35 pm

Secured my uploaded images on facebook. Only relatives can see those now.

28-Aug-2010 12:23 am

"A store owner can't sell a line of jewelery, so he write a note to an employee to cut the price in half. The employee misreads the note and doubles the price of the jewelery instead. All of a sudden the line sells out."

28-Aug-2010 5:14 am