0 Time capsule

I've always wondered how to send messages to the future, this website though probably not the best answers my question..

http://www.bored.com/emailcapsules/

7 We skipped uni to..

....make the muslim snow-woman :D

The snow-woman was made by Sabiha & Sayyeda at 15.23 hrs :D

0 Complex Numbers

Last week I had to give a presentation for calculus on any topic we'd covered.. The one I gave on : Complex numbers. I first came across complex numbers in Vikram Seth's 'A suitable boy', just before Lata meets Kabir. We were allowed any sort of presentation, I chose powerpoint. lol.. my reasons:

1) Can give more attention to the audience
2) Not much work to do during the presentation.
3) fun :D yessss!

So anyways the presentation went really well, Everyone else gave excellent presentations. In the beginning I was nervous, and could feel a slight change in my voice, however towards the end I was beginning to enjoy it.

Now abit on complex numbers...

A question goes like this:

If the square root of +1 is both +1 and -1, then what is the square root of -1?

13th century mathematicians would have no answer for this insead they would raise their hands skywards and pray for divine intervention.

But then everything changed, in 1527 an italian mathematician-Rafael Bombelli defined imaginary numbers, √-1 (the square root of -1) is i. i is an imaginary number.

A complex number is a combination of a real* and imaginary number. It is in the form a+ib.

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*The real numbers include both rational numbers, such as 35 and −2/129, and irrational numbers, such as π and the square root of 2

7 Sea life

Photos taken from the National Sea Life Center in Birmingham:




The orange rock is actually a fish :) lol.. though it looks really obvious from the picture. In reality it was really hard to vision it as one.

Date: November 2006

1 Eid mubarak

Nearly every year, before Eid ul adha, my couzins & I visit the goat market. Well it's not really called that and I haven't the slightest idea as to what it might be called. It's basically some poorly constructed sheds on a roadside with goats more than one could possibly fit.

Last night we saw all the different ways goats were transported. Some in pick up trucks, some at the back of cars whilst some were mercilessly dragged. One (which I thought was rather cute) was carried by a man over his sholder. And finally something that amused all of us.. One was being transported in a tuk-tuk! :)

Eid Mubarak!

2 Syrian Pictures

Umayyad Mosque

The Euphrates

5 How Scissor Sisters killed mother's Kenyan lover

Story by REUBEN KYAMA and AGENCIES
Publication Date: 12/17/2006

Thirty-eight-year-old Farah Swaleh Noor left Kenya in the early 1990s and settled in Ireland in 1996 after siring a child with an Irish woman.

Sometime in 2003, Noor got involved with 51-year-old Kathleen Mulhall, a married woman. She left her husband, a bricklayer with a company in Dublin and her four children, all in their late teens or early adulthood. On March 20 last year, Noor, Kathleen and her two daughters, 24-year-old Charlotte, and Linda, 31, spent the day drinking in different bars in Dublin's city centre. The women were also popping ecstasy pills, popularly used in clubs and parties to keep one dancing without getting tired. They make people to see or hear things that do not exist.

Noor and the three women returned to Kathleen's house where they continued drinking. At some point as they were drinking, Kathleen reportedly crushed one of the ecstasy tablets and added it into Noor's drink without his knowledge.

She and Noor had an argument. Noor began fondling Linda and whispered something dirty in her ear. He was also threatening her mother.

Charlotte, who had been telling Noor to get his hands off her sister, picked up a box-cutter and cut his throat. As he staggered through a bedroom door, hitting his head on a bunk, she then hit him repeatedly on the head with a hammer while Linda stabbed him.
22 stab wounds

Noor received 22 stab wounds and had injuries to his internal organs, including the heart, liver, stomach and bladder. When he was dead, it took the sisters five hours to chop off his head, arms, legs and penis in the bathroom. Linda took the top half of the body into the shower and ran the water while she sawed the head, hacking away until it separated from the torso. Less than two feet away, Charlotte used a hammer and knives to cut Noor's legs.
The sisters put most of the body parts – seven in all – into bags which were later dumped in a river canal during several trips. Linda told the police that she put Noor's head in her son's schoolbag and, after kissing the satchel and saying a prayer, left it in a field in a south west Dublin suburb where the sisters lived.

It is unclear from the evidence heard in the murder trial where Kathleen Mulhall was or what she was doing all those hours while her firstborn child, Linda, was in the shower chipping away at the dead man's body with a hammer and her second-youngest child, Charlotte, sitting on the toilet seat, was using a kitchen knife to saw off Noor's legs.

The killing came to police notice only after Noor's leg, with a sock on the end, was seen floating in Dublin's Royal Canal 10 days after the attack at Kathleen Mulhall's flat. Police divers retrieved most of the rest of his body in seven parts. Noor's head and penis were never recovered.

When Noor's dismembered body was found last year, it took a number of months before he was initially identified through DNA testing with a son. Despite extensive searches by the police over the last 12 months, Noor's head has not been found.

In August last year, Kathleen and the husband she had left for Noor, John Mulhall, were arrested by police in relation to the killing. They were both released without charge. However, their two daughters were held and charged with Noor's murder. They were arrested after Linda contacted investigating officers admitting her involvement in Noor's death.

John Mulhall, unable to bear what had happened to his family, hanged himself from a tree in a public park. The two sisters who the Irish media had christened the Scissor Sisters after an American pop group denied murder charges.

Cutting his throat Initially, Charlotte told the police that she and Linda had been drinking "all over town" from 10pm until five or six o'clock in the morning and came home to find their mother covered in blood. Charlotte said that, at first, she thought her mother had been assaulted by Noor but that her mother had said she killed him with a hammer and by cutting his throat before chopping up his body.

Subsequently, at various times during the trial, the sisters insisted their mother was not involved in the killing but they also told officers that their mother kept urging them on. Charlotte told officers: Ma kept saying to me and Linda, 'Please just kill him for me.' "Then she got the hammer and the knife and she gave them to me and Linda but he wouldn't let Linda go so I cut him on the neck."

In March this year, Noor was buried at a Dublin cemetery following a service attended by about 40 of his friends. Last week, while sentencing the women, Mr Justice Paul Carney said the case was the "most grotesque killings" that had occurred within his professional lifetime.
Linda was sentenced to 15 years imprisonment while Charlotte will spend the rest of her life in prison for the murder of Noor. Linda's four children have been taken into foster care while a child born to Charlotte while she was on bail awaiting trial for murder is expected to be allowed to live with her mother in the women's prison until the child reaches the age of 18 months. The child is now eight months old.

Noor's mother, Samoea Swaleh Noor, reportedly welcomed the news of the Mulhall sisters' convictions. Mrs Noor, who could not afford to travel to Ireland to hear the details of her 38-year-old son's killing, said that she can finally find some peace.

Kathleen Mulhall who is described as "a very malign influence" on her family, never appeared at her daughters' murder trial. She is now being sought by Interpol after she fled Ireland and is suspected to have fled to Britain.

Source: http://www.nationmedia.com

5 Mission Mbarazi!

Last night my 2 little cousins and I decided that we would go look for mahamri and mbarazi early in the morning. I've been wanting to have it ever since I came back. Furqan's friend said he'll meet him at 8.30 outside Fort Jesus to show us the exact location of where the best kind is sold.

At 7.00 am Maisam came to wake me up, he's only 8. lol. He said 'I woke up at 6.40'. He always prides on waking up early. We decided to go to the cementary with the few minutes we still had. 8.30 and we were still there, Furqan's friend called, and we had to rush to Fort jesus.

As I drove through the narrow alleys of old town, we saw a huge truck heading towards us. With my terrible reverse skills, I tried all sorts of ways to move the car at the total edge of the road. Finally the truck passed but was only an inch away from our car. It was a wanting-to-close my eyes moment.. lol

9.00 a.m still no mbarazi. Furqan and his friend got out and set on foot for mission mbarazi. I saw them go from one shop to another, each time shaking their heads. Finally we decided to let go.. hopefully we plan on getting some tomorrow Inshallah.

(I have a picture of the narow alley somwhere around, Will post it IF I manage to find it)

*The picture (Pigeon peas in coconut sereved with mahamri) is from a book 'A Taste of Zanzibar - chakula kizuri(which means 'good food' in swahili)' by Zarina Jafferji. This Photo's either by Javed Jafferji or Philip Waterman.Page 54.

9 Selected photos from Birmingham..

Bullring:

A church nearby:

Krispy Kreme Doughnuts:

6 One book..

tagged myself from noon's blog :)

One book that..

1) One book that changed your life?
i'll agree with fatema :) .. The Holy Quran

2) One book that you’ve read more than once:
the harry potters - j.k.rowling

3) One book you’d want on a desert island
surviving the dessert for dummies - hmm.. if it exists..

4) One book that made you laugh
the goverment inspector by nikolai gogol

5) One book that made you cry
k.. not really cry.. but the saddest book ive come across so far...tuesdays with morrie by mitch alborn. However i was reading this on my flight from Mombasa to London.. I other reasons to be sad about ..

6) One book that you wish had been written:
when i was 13ish i wanted to write a book about the earth moving away from the solar system and its consequences.. well i started but got nowhere lol.. it would have been called 'the earth ahead'

7) One book that you wish had never been written:
im a terrible critique.. can't really tell..

8)One book you’re currently reading:
memoirs of a geisha by arthur golden

9) One book you’ve been meaning to read:
purple hibiscus by ngozi adichie, books by abdulrazak gurnah

10) now tag five people,
anyone.. everyone.. :)

6 One fine sunset in London..

9 Random II

Hmm.. my first post from uni.. :D lol..
I've been having weeks of continous tests that never seemed to end.. I noticed the 'when moors ruled europe' video has not been workingg.. don't know what's wrong.. will try to fix it later..

Anywaysssss... I found the top picture in my drafts.. thought of putting it up.. Everything looks sooo sunny there.. :D lol.. i miss the 'sunlight days'... :'(

0 When the Moors ruled in Europe

As I struggled (and still do!) with my Geometry module, I thought of Googling Geometry Video.. One of the results: this lovely Video..

It describes the rule of Muslim Moors in what is now Spain. A forgotten history is remembered.

2 Poems by Rumi

3 lovely poems by rumi;

My Burning Heart - read by Deepak Chopra

My heart is burning with love
All can see this flame
My heart is pulsing with passion
like waves on an ocean

my friends have become strangers
and I’m surrounded by enemies
But I’m free as the wind
no longer hurt by those who reproach me

I’m at home wherever I am
And in the room of lovers
I can see with closed eyes
the beauty that dances

Behind the veils
intoxicated with love
I too dance the rhythm
of this moving world

I have lost my senses
in my world of lovers

Bittersweet - read by Madonna

In my hallucination
I saw my beloved's flower garden
In my vertigo, in my dizziness
In my drunken haze
Whirling and dancing like a spinning wheel

I saw myself as the source of existence
I was there in the beginning
And I was the spirit of love
Now I am sober
There is only the hangover
And the memory of love
And only the sorrow

I yearn for happiness
I ask for help
I want mercy
And my love says:

Look at me and hear me
Because I am here
Just for that

I am your moon and your moonlight too
I am your flower garden and your water too
I have come all this way, eager for you
Without shoes or shawl

I want you to laugh
To kill all your worries
To love you
To nourish you

Oh sweet bitterness
I will soothe you and heal you
I will bring you roses
I, too, have been covered with thorns

Intoxicated by Love - read by Deepak Chopra

Because of your love
I have lost my sobriety
I am intoxicated
by the madness of love

In this fog
I have become a stranger to myself
I'm so drunk
I've lost the way to my house

In the garden
I see only your face
From trees and blossoms
I inhale only your fragrance

Drunk with the ecstasy of love
I can no longer tell the difference
betweeen drunkard and drink
Between lover and Beloved

7 Pictures

2 pictures taken so far in London :D

Took this from my uni, and thts the london eye far far awayy..!


a blind lady in the tube reading braille and her dog..

So its been around a week since ive been in london.. been wanting to blog for a while, just been busyyyy lol.. have to do everythin.. cook, clean.. and noo im not complaining.. im actually enjoying it lol..

londons really pretty and quiet..and the undeground systems not a tad bit difficult.. id heard from a few that it was difficult.. and well id agree except its quite difficult to get lost.. :D

The nights dont feel like nights! lol.. its sooo bright! The first night there were no visible stars. The night later i could only see 4 stars! i meannnn the idea of being able to count stars is soooo... (can't think of a right word) lol..

(Sorry no pictures this time.. lol)

0 chem animations yet again!

So i noticed the chem animations did nothing.. lol..
Uploaded them again on blogger.. still same thing.. thn i realised it converted the .gif files to .png causing the image to lose its main propertyyyy!
Finally decided to uploaded them on Free Image Hosting

2 The dayssss!

Graduation day tomorrowwww..! Gosh time's passed soooo fastt! Anyways been clearing out a few stuff.. and came across a few scribbles done by my friends and I.. Had a few scanned from before..

The document of naughtiness:

Chem Class:




My Harry Potter days at the back of my economics book:



Economics Class :

Sakeena's Caricature during economics lesson:

source: http://www.geocities.com/svpages/

6 Randomm!

Hmm.. ages since i updated, been on this holiday mood lol.. So anyways I had this stray cat coming over (on the right) .. and I thought it was pregnant.. turns out it was a malee! lol. Just recently 2 other female cats hv been coming over with their kittens..They're really scared of all of us.. The other day I bent to pet one of the kittens on the staircase and it jumped from a height of around 8 feet! Thank God cats land on their feet!


A sad thing happened a few days back.. one of the pigeons outside our window died :'(.



Anyways I'm still trying to improve on my cooking skills for uni..

I made a nameless pudding the other day.. :D Its a combination of different recipes.. :D lol It's really simple to make and a lovely crowd pleaser :D

1 No more Chemmmmm!

Today I was clearing a few stuff in my PC and came across 2 chem animations I'd made for my AS revision last year in March. Just thought I'd add them here :)

0 Panaromas

Salaams!
long time no blogg! there was a wedding on the way! :D had guests around and stuff!
Okayy so today thought i'd share a few panaroma photos that i've taken.. :D

A Mosque in Aleppo (Masjid Nuqta if im not mistaken)

Mosque of Bibi Zainab (A.S)

Mosque in Pangani-Tanzania

The view point in Lushoto - Tanzania

Tomorrow I'll be leaving for Tanzania.. I'll try blogging from there Inshallah! :D

5 The Umayyad Mosque

The site of the umayyad mosque has housed sacred buildings for many years. In the armanian era it was a temple of Hadad. In 1000 BC it was the temple of Jupiter. In the 4th century it was transformed into a church-The church of St. John. With the Islamic conquest in 661, the church was shared with the muslims praying in the eastern section and the christians in the western.

In 706 the Umayyad caliph Abd al-Malik had it rebuilt as a mosque.The christians were compensated in return. The mosque holds the shrine of prophet Yahya who is known as John the Baptist to the christians.

The mosque was restored in the 15th century and again in the 19th. In May of 2001, the pope visited the mosque. During his historic visit John Paul II became the first pontiff ever in history to enter a Muslim place of worship. Before he went inside, the pope took off his shoes and prayed in front of the tomb of John the Baptist.


It is believed that between the pillar (as shown in the picture) and another pillar is where Prophet Isa & Imam Mahdi (A.S) will re-appear from.

North of the mosque is the tomb of saladdin.

3 Backkkk!

I'm back :D and had a wonderful time! I'll upload a few pictures soon enough Inshallah.. trouble is none of them are labelled so it'l take a while to sort them out.. :S

I finished reading "The Da Vinci Code " today...lol.. finallyyy!

"O, Draconian devil! Oh, lame saint!
was a perfect anagram of...
Leonardo da Vinci! The Mona Lisa!"

This for some reason brought me back to Harry potter and the chamber of secrets where anagrams was used.. whereby "I am Lord Voldemort" is an anagram of the name Tom Marvolo Riddle

Another time where I was brought back to harry potter was where the cryptex crashed. In the order of phoenix the prophecy in the ministry of magic breaks..
Oh welll.. getting late! laters!