will the real Guy please stand up?

hahahahhaha...

This video clip is hilarious. To fully understand it, you need to read the following article:

"Revealed: The identity of the BBC's latest star", The Mail on Sunday, 13 May 2006

with a knife

She's "detained" for questioning? URGHHHHHHHHHHHH. Detain the stupid man.

Filipina severs genital of abusive Saudi boss, Khaleej Times, 2 May 2006

RIYADH — A Saudi man was recovering in hospital after having his penis sewn back on by surgeons but the Philippine maid who chopped it off when he sexually assaulted her is under arrest, reports said yesterday.

The maid's 38-year-old employer assaulted her while his wife was asleep, the Okaz daily said.

She grabbed a knife from the kitchen to defend herself and used it when he persisted despite having it brandished in his face, the paper said.

He is now recuperating after successful surgery in a specialist hospital in Riyadh, while she has been detained for questioning, it added, without identifying either party.

Foreign workers in Saudi Arabia, many of whom work in domestic service, are systematically abused and exploited, the New York-based advocacy group Human Rights Watch said in a July 2004 report.

The Saudi authorities strongly deny the charge.

Dixie Chicks

Love their latest:

I made my bed and I sleep like a baby
With no regrets and I don't mind sayin'
It's a sad sad story when a mother will teach her
Daughter that she ought to hate a perfect stranger
And how in the world can the words that I said
Send somebody so over the edge
That they'd write me a letter
Sayin' that I better shut up and sing
Or my life will be over

I'm not ready to make nice
I'm not ready to back down
I'm still mad as hell and
I don't have time to go round and round and round
It's too late to make it right
I probably wouldn't if I could
'Cause I'm mad as hell
Can't bring myself to do what it is you think I should

commodifications

i am confused as to why some desis refuse to believe, truly believe with their hearts, that marriages are something decided by God. Allah determines who marries whom. It's not upto Aunty falaan falaan. No Aunty, regardless of how well-connected she may be and how many eligible belles/beaux she is connected to, cannot make a rishta happen if it's not something Willed by Allah. Period. End of discussion. Nooooo. Not for some desis. (Emphasis on 'some'). i don't know what the marriage-contract has been morphed into. It doesn't seem as though what i am seeing around me, is what Islam stipulates. The guy is a commodity valued according to the profession he belongs to and the corresponding income. His status is a commodity. The female's skin colour is a commodity. Her virginity is, obviously, a commodity. She had better never been divorced. Brush under the carpet the fact that the majority of the wives of Prophet Muhammad (may God's peace and blessings be upon him) were either divorced or widowed. Nooooo. Forget the fact that Islam recommended we should look for piety in our spouses... Noooo. 'Are they sayyids', their status, their skin colour, her sughaarpana, the dowry she'll bring in, the greencard/ western passport she brings. Ugh i am so sick and tired of this crap sometimes. How can i be proud about ALL aspects of my culture/heritage when there are some aspects that are so blatantly abused. Islam makes it so simple. We make it so damn difficult.

invitation

Come, come, whoever you are.
Wanderer, idolater, worshipper of fire,
Come even though you have broken your vows a thousand times,
Come, and come yet again.
Ours is not a caravan of despair ~ Rumi

Stephen Colbert

Once you are able to get past the annoying ad, Stephen Colbert's skit during the annual White House Correspondents' Association dinner [29 April 2006], is rather amusing.