All Hearts are dead except those with knowledge... All those with knowledge are asleep except those who perform good actions... All those who perform good actions are deceived except those with sincerity... And all those with sincerity are in a constant state of anxiety... [Imam Shafi'i]

Thursday, December 08, 2005

Daddy-dear's back!

Salams all,

Abbu came bak the day b4 yesterday from bd safely alhamdulillah! We all missed him heaps! Ammu completely stopped cooking for the one month. I had to live off noodles and cereal and flavoured tea. Of course there was the week Jannah apu was here, we actually got food then. But since then, nothing.... i even had 2 meals a day sometimes. But abbu ashar shathe shathe all food is back too alhamdulillah!

He got a lot of stuff 4 all of us, considering he went all alone and stayed for less than a month, and had to travel so much that the longest time he was at one place was around 6 days! I got 6 kameez and a skirt. Anika got 3 kameez and a sharee (but she scabbed the only 2 kameez that i wanted). Ammu got 10 sharees! We all got jewellery sets and choori's as well as roopchorcha stuff like uptan, fair and lovely and mehendi (for hand and hair).

One thing abbu didnt mention 2 us while he was in bd was that he got looted by hijackers! They took his fone, money and all other valuables he had on him at the time. He told us that he lost his fone and we cudnt contact him on that number. But we just found out the truth when he came back. OMG, he was so casual abt it! Apparently they had a HUGE knife, half the size of my entire arm! Alhamdulillah abbu is safe though. Allah bachaise! I've been hearing stories like this quite a bit recently, so those of u going 2 bd, please take care and dont have too much valuables with u at any time!

HP and Zuhrat (2 of my frends who remind me so much of each other, even their mothers remind me of each other!) are flying 2 bd 2day insha Allah, but on separate flights. So keep them in ur prayes guys as i will 2 insha Allah. I hope that all of u who r going 2 bd have a good time there and stay safe and in a good state of iman insha Allah!

Monday, December 05, 2005

Harry Potter 4


Yup i watched it! Was ok, not too bad. Heres a load of the good and the bad!

Good:
* Special effects (I cudnt stop screaming in the dragon scene)
* Casting (voldemort was exactly what he was described as and Cedric Diggory was every bit handsome as he was described in the book)
* Humour (although bits that werent in the book was added, it was HILLARIOUS! Snape hits Harry and Ron in the head not once not twice but 3 times!)
* Make up (the characters looked great! although not as good as they did in HP 3)

Bad:
* Plot development (like HP 3 plot, this 1 is very poorly developed. I want Chris Columbus bak - the director of HP 1 and HP 2)
* Too rushed! (this is understandable, the like 600 page book was shrinked to 2 hrs and 45 mins)
* Casting (Krum wasnt as hairy as he was supposed 2 b, Fleur didnt look anything near a semi-veela)
* The movie made it seem like Harry and Hermione had weird chemistry going on when the book makes it obvious that its Ron and Hermione with the weird chemistry!

Overall, i'd say it was ok. Bad plot development (which annoyed me a LOT!) was overcome by the special effects and humour so by the end i was ok with it. I mean even tho i was annoyed at fleur and krums casting cedric made up for all of it! lol, y duz the cute ones always die! Sorry 2 give away the ending. All in all I'd give it a 5.5 out of 10. Yup, the only thing I am ever cynical abt is movies. Theres ever been only 1 movie i think that i wud give 10/10. And believe me, I've seen heaps of movies!