Shhhhh.... Let the music play!

Lately I have been researching for my honey moon plan. Though it does not seem too feasible for us, I keep stumbling back to Maldives. So, as I had earlier said one stumbles upon some really interesting stuff while surfing, so here is an excerpt from one of Maldives travel sites, under the Maldives history section:

Mohamed Ibn Batuta, a Moroccan traveller who visited the Maldives in the 14th century recorded an interesting legend on how the country converted to Islam. Abul Barakaath Yoosuf Al Barbary, an Islamic scholar, visited the Maldives during a time when people lived in fear of the “Rannamaari”, a sea-demon, who came out of the sea once a month threatening to destroy everything unless a virgin was sacrificed. The unfortunate young girls were chosen by lot, had to stay in a temple near the seashore and were found raped and dead in the morning. The daughter of the house he was staying at had been selected to be the victim and he decided to save her. Disguised as a girl he spent the night in the temple reciting continuously from the Holy Quran. In the morning when people went to find out the fate of the chosen girl they were amazed to find him alive and still reciting the Quran. When the King found out that the demon had been defeated through the power of the Holy Quran he embraced Islam and ordered all the subjects to follow him."

A very good friend of mine, Sabiha Essa Khan regularly writes for DAWN Sunday magazine. I had a chance to read the following recent article of hers:

http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/in-paper-magazine/the-review/meeting-the-odds

This is indeed a very real issue in Pakistan. Due to the close mindedness of the marriage suitors and their families, a lot of needy working women are subjected to lonely life, sacrificing their marriage proposals and their youth in order to support their families. I wish that the mindset of the men and their families would change and they would realize that working women does not always portray liberation but some times, they portray need.

Some thing that I Sketched after a huge gap, around 3 years back, when I gave a sketchbook as a gift to my Bilal. This was the intro page of the sketch book, containing his name. :D

The pure joy of internet is that if one is too free or even if he is not... while randomly browsing, one thing leads to another, and by sheer luck one can stumble upon some really interesting stuff.

However the following was not discovered like this but forwarded to me by a friend named Obaid. Here is the summary of what the cool link has..

Some smart ass Russian photographer from 100 years back took pics in red blue green separately hundred years ago. Recently they were discovered and combined to give us amazing colored images of Russia from 100 years ago. These are beautiful.

Marvel and Disney's marriage.. feels like a whole world of possibilities just opened up. Stan Lee, creator of most of the Marvel comics characters said in an interview, "I have file cabinets filled with ideas for movies and television shows and all sorts of things, and I've been waiting to be associated with someone like Disney so I can start tearing into these things." So that sounds promising.


However, on the flip side, Disney's extreme sissy approach lately scares me that it will also turn our beloved Marvel heros into sissys as well. Here is a freaky preview: brrrrr........ scary

http://kotaku.com/5349732/the-disney-marvel-team+ups-wed-like-to-see