they're really hard to bring to reality, arent they? there's so many external factors that would cant help that comes and just turn your plans tupsy turvy.

and then you feel down in the dump - that expression is too nicely sounding to express how you feel when a dream doesnt happen. but whatever, cnt be bothered to think of something else...

so then u get this idea, whats the point of even having dreams if they might just get crushed like this?

or they might not.

Being offended when we are corrected, seriously reduces our chances of improving or achieving heights in any field.

We must always welcome those who correct us and show us where we are going wrong.

In most cases, those who regularly correct our ways and habits or errors in any field are those who truly care for us.

People who intentionally do not correct us are either insincere or fearful of our reaction due to being offended.

(Mufti Ismail Menk)

I wanna be - i think its called an inventor - but i dont think that job exists anymore.

anyway, i wanna invent recyclable pen, i wanna work into "green" discoveries and inventions. I wanna make "green" planes. but i think at some point down my "green" lane i'll have to give up on planes...too unenvironmentable unfortunately, or maybe not? maybe when i research into it, there will be a way to have green, environmental flights. maybe.

so back to planes, yeah. pens, markers etc... we just throw them in the bin and htey end up on landfills, pens are not recyclable and they are stuff we use EVERYDAY!

i wanna invent everyday materials that is recyclable, thhat decomposes when not needed anymore. e.g: hairbrushes, HEY! what abt toothbrushes!?

Salaam

The things I do to raise money for The Revival!

First the Great Manchestrert Run and now this:-)

I will be taking part in the Bungee Jump on 27th October

It would be great if you could all sponsor me.

To sponsor me send email to editor@therevival.co.uk or send me a PM

Wassallaam

Sajid Iqbal

Editor, The Revival

Although Islam recommends us to ask questions and clarify what we are unsure of, I think sometimes, it is possible to go too far with the questions. It's no longer asking questions, but questioning the reasoning, logicalness of something - it is easy to go from trying to clarify our own understanding to trying to make Islam make sense based on our understanding.

Wait, does that make sense?

It's a bit like the difference between"Is it compulsary to pray five times a day?" and "why do we need to pray 5x? once should be enough". 

That's not a great example but I think you'll get what I mean.

I think, this problem mostly arises when there is a lack of Islamic knowledge. 

One man + One woman heard a loud roar, took their binoculars out and saw with their very own eyes, a lion! But they changed their mind and called it a BIG CAT instead. How boring!! This animal was listening to them and glared at the couple with its big eyes. Its not from the zoo. Its not from the recent circus. Its not been reported to be missing.

All this hoo-haa which is a rarity in Britain, drafted in armed police, one helicopter hovering over the area in which this LION was spotted and another helicopter using a thermal imaging camera to try to detect any trace of an animal. Residents are now advised to stay indoors. Such drama queens and scaredy-cats!! They need to live in the wild for a day...

so yeah, abit everywhere recently ive ben posting stuff about how im trying to boycott anything related to helping Israel.

so ive also just been doing light research aka google, opening lots of tabs, browsing.

and i found a few things i want to share with you.

First and foremost, this list. right from the horse's mouth. Its called "THESE COMPANIES SUPPORT ISRAEL...LET'S SUPPORT THEM..." why the need to ellipses is beyond me..so is the need for capital letters, so there we go:

http://www.ruthfullyyours.com/2011/02/27/these-companies-support-israel-...

starbucks

India and Australia Under 19 cricket teams are ready to face each other on 26th August 2012.

Here we can tell you the squad of both teams and you have to comment us your faverite teams with reason.

Australia Under-19s squad
WG Bosisto, KR Patterson, CT Bancroft, MJ Buchanan, S Cassel, HNA Conway, AJ Gregory, SR Hain, TM Head, JS Paris, JJ Peirson, GS Sandhu, MT Steketee, NG Stevens, AJ Turner

India Under-19s squad
U Chand, AD Nath, B Aparajith, P Chopra, SS Das , Harmeet Singh, AA Herwadkar, RB Kalaria, K Passi, SK Patel, Ravikant Singh, Sandeep Sharma, GH Vihari, Vikas Mishra, VH Zol

Samsung Vs Apple.

Apple says that Samsung copies its rounded corners and made lists bounce. They want $2.5 billion for it.

Samsung says that rounded corners already existed, and so did precursors to bouncing lists.

They also say that apple are using their technology (they basically helped design how the 3g system works) without paying them. They want $500million for it.

Apple is saying that yes they are using Samsung Tech, but they think they sould give something like less than a penny per device - and get $40 per samsung device for the rounded corners.

Samsung argue it is crazy to ask for such royalties for something so simple as rounded corners.

(and I hate Apple. Scumbags.)

And the jury has reached a verdict.

Last few Ramadans:

Ramadan for me was always an inconvenience.

Such a disruption to my daily routine.

I mean, I have things to do, places to go, people to see and all this “don’t eat at daytime” or “do extra-long prayers in the evening” had always taken me away from the important things.

I mean, come on, staying hungry all day – what does that even do for someone? (other than help them lose a few kg?)

But it doesn’t even help you lose a few kg really cos the samosas and pakoras in the evening just pile on everything you lost during the day.

And sleeping straight after eating loads and loads just stores fat onto you so I’d always end up putting weight on rather than losing it.