...for the protection & safety of the human rights activists on their way to Gaza. Whatever nonsense Israel came up as their 'reason' would not justify the illegal capture of civilian ships carrying humanitarian aid in international waters, let alone the use of deadly force.... Ya Allah, we pray for protection of the brave and courageous souls who are only trying their best to do what they can to help out the people of Gaza...
... Al-Fatihah to Sheema Wahid, a 31yr old-mother-to-2-yr old-daughter PTD officer who passed away while undergoing her DPA training. I've been told that it was due to pneumonia or influenza like illness, but the mainstream papers seemed to glorify the fact that she passed away while undergoing 'ala commando' training. I don't know the full facts - but had read somewhere that she might have been saved had she been taken to the hospital earlier... Well, what happened already happened, and what ever else history is, it's in the past - so all we can do is pray for Sheema, and for her family, and hopefully a lesson had been learned from this incident...
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I've been super busy at work - at the new place, surrounded by new bosses, peers, subordinates, learning all sort of new things because I'm handling stuff I'd never had any experience handling previouly...
The ICT policy in the new office is very, very strict - not only social sites such as Facebook, Friendsters, Myspace are blocked, we are restricted from viewing blogs under blogspots, wordpress and all. Worse - we are even blocked from access to web-based mails such as Yahoo Mail and Gmail. Yeah, they are that strict...
So, please forgive me for not updating my blog for quite some time now, and for not leaving comments at friends' blogs. I try to read them all - but I must admit that I get so drained out at the end of the day, I couldn't think of any good comments to be left at other people's blogs. No surprise really - what with me being so drained out that I couldn\t even think of any new post for my own blog - until today, that is...
