Sold: Story of Modern-day Slavery

I found this book while checking a bookstore at Timesquare last month..I was actually looking for a book, about a little girl being sold by her mother, but couldn't remember the title..haiya...i am very keen to read that book..Anyway, i asked the staff there to look for a book entitle SOLD and there's a little girl on the cover. He check on the system, and said that the book sold is under woman eductaion, something like thatla..then i said..ok la..just let me check that book first..

The book was awesome!

Zana Muhsen (born 1965) and her sister, Nadia (born 1966) were sisters of Yemeni and british origin who were born and brought up in Birmingham, England. They were sent to Yemen in 1980 on a purported holiday to meet the paternal side of their family, but sold unaware into marriage in by their father, Muthanna Muhsen, a Yemeni émigré.

Its a true story and i can't stop wondering, why a father can do such thing to his little girls! Looking at their photos taken by journalist, Eileen McDonald, i can imagine days that they have to go through everyday. Not even know their husband, far from loving them, being rape by their so called husband and getting so much impossible housework...omg.

My heart cry when the writer explained every details on all the days she have to live with. After 6 years she finally reunite with her mother, and with the help of so many people, she finally back to England.

After being reunited with her mother, Zana expressed unhappiness in England, and was quoted by McDonald, "I want to go back to Taiz [where she had lived in Yemen] and get a job. I will visit England when I want to. I am not sure I want to be a British woman anyway. I don't like the short skirts; it's disgusting."However, she remained in England and in 1992, wrote Sold: Story of Modern-day Slavery with the ghostwriter Andrew Crofts, describing her experiences.

A very sad story yet can learn so many things from it. Well, sometimes, we took things for granted, even when getting wooden toys for a birthday gift, we will just put it aside and never appreciate it. Do you know that Zana's child only use muds and dusts as a toy? Yep, she has a son, but she has to leave him there when she returned to England. The Yamen government forbid her to take her son with her to england.

Woman marries dolphin!

I was browsing through some article on my advertising content for next month, its about 'Live Free', and i come across this beautiful old movie entitled Free Willy..The Dolphin stories.

Well it bring back my childhood memories, well i mean i watched this movie when i was only a little girl, and wow look how fast i grow..I watched it back to 1995 if im not mistaken, about 14 years back!

That's the first movie makes me really adore Dolphin, they are really cute and intelligent. So much facts about Dolphins out there which is very interesting, and you really amazed on what you will know. Thay are fun, amazing, friendly and most of all adorable!

And how about marrying a dolphin?

Sharon Tendler met Cindy (Dolphin) 15 years ago. She said it was love at first sight. This week she finally took the plunge and proposed. The lucky "guy" plunged right back.

A real stories where a true love of a woman to a dolphins...Hmm interesting...

In a modest ceremony at Dolphin Reef in the southern Israeli port of Eilat, Tendler, a 41-year-old British citizen, apparently became the world's first person to "marry" a dolphin.

I think i will put Dolphin as my main content next month! :)

About Judging..

One night there was a woman at the airport who had to wait for severalhours before catching her next flight. While she waited she bought a bookand a pack of biscuits to spend the time. She looked for a place to sitand waited. She was deep into her book, when suddenly she realized thatthere was a young man sitting next to her who was stretching his hand,with no concern whatsoever, and grabbing the pack of cookies lying betweenthem. He started to eat them one by one. Not wanting to make a fuss aboutit she decided to ignore him.

The woman, slightly bothered, ate the cookies and watched the clock, whilethe young and shameless thief of biscuits was also finishing them. Thewoman started to get really angry at this point and thought "If I wasn'tsuch a good and educated person, I would have given this daring man a blackeye by now."Every time she ate a biscuit, he had one too. The dialogue between theireyes continued and when only one biscuit was left, she wondered what was hegoing to do. Softly and with a nervous smile, the young man grabbed thelast biscuit and broke it in two. He offered onehalf to the woman while he ate the other half.

Briskly she took the biscuitand thought, "What an insolent man! How uneducated! He didn't even thankme!" She had never met anybody so fresh and sighed relieved to hear herflight announced. She grabbed her bags and wenttowards the boarding gate refusing to look back to where that insolentthief was seated.

After boarding the plane and nicely seated, she looked for her book whichwas nearly finished by now. While looking into her bag she was totallysurprised to find her pack of biscuits nearly intact. If my biscuits arehere, she thought feeling terribly, those others were his and he tried toshare them with me. Too late to apologize to the young man, she realizedwith pain, that it was her who had been insolent, uneducated and a thief,and not him.

How many times in our lives, had we known with certainty that somethinghappened in a certain way, only to discover later that it wasn't true? Howmany times has our lack of trust within us made us judge other peopleunfairly with our conceited ideas, often far awayfrom reality. That is why we have to think twice before we judge others.Let's always give others the benefit of the doubt before we think badly ofthem.

Hmm..things we always forget...

Sometimes we just need to be reminded!

A well-known speaker
started off his seminar by

holding up a $20.00 bill. In the room of 200,
he asked,

"Who would like this $20 bill?"

Hands started going
up.

He said, "I am going to give this $20 to one of you

but first,
let me do this.

He proceeded to crumple up the $20 dollar bill.

He then asked, "Who still wants it?"

Still the hands were up in the air.

Well, he replied, "What if I do this?"

And he dropped it on the ground
and started to grind it into the floor with his
shoe.

He picked it up, now crumpled and dirty.

"Now, who still wants it?"

Still the hands went into the air.

My friends, we have all learned a very valuable lesson.

No matter what I did to the money, you still wanted it

because it did not decrease in value.

It was still worth $20.

Many times in our lives, we are dropped,
crumpled, and ground into the dirt by the decisions we make
and the circumstances that come our way.

We feel as though we are worthless.

But no matter what has happened or what will happen,
you will never lose your value.

Dirty or clean, crumpled or finely creased,
you are still priceless to those who DO LOVE you.

You are special - Don't EVER forget it."

If you do not pass this on, you may
never know the lives it touches, the hurting hearts it speaks
to, or the hope that it can bring.

Count your blessings, not your problems.

Ok its a joke

1, MOM...CAN YOU BUY ME A BRA?

"Mum, can I ask you something?"
"Sure! What about?"
"You see, I'm already fourteen and... I think it's just proper that Ishould own one."
"And what is this 'one' you're referring to?"
"Could you buy me a neat set of brassieres?"
"No."
"But my nipples are already prominent and it catches attention."
"Nope."
"It will be just proper at my age..."
"I said no way...!"
"But all of my friends wear......!"
"David! How many times must I tell you that bras are for girls!?"


2. WHO SHOT THE BEAR?

An 80 year old man is having his annual check-up at his doctor's office.He says to the doctor, "I've never felt better in my whole life. In fact, Ihave a 20 year old bride who's pregnant and having my child.. What do youthink of that?"The doctor thinks for a second and then says, "Let me tell you a story. Iknow this guy who's an avid hunter. He never misses a hunting season. Butone day he's in a hurry to go hunting and he accidentally grabs hisumbrella instead of his rifle. So he's in the woods and suddenly a giantgrizzly bear appears out of nowhere. He raises his umbrella, points at thebear, squeezes the handle and the bear drops dead in front of him. What doyou think of that?"The old man says, "That's impossible. Someone else must have shot thatbear!""EXACTLY" says the doctor.
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hmmm.......hahahha

The life of an Angle

Mother Teresa was born in 1910 in war-wracked Albania to Catholic refugees. At the age of 19, she went to India to join the Sisters of Loreto, a missionary order of nuns. She served with the Sisters as a teacher for 20 years. At the age of 38, while traveling by train in India, she had a striking realization that her life's mission was to minister to the poorest of the poor. With the Pope's blessing, Mother Teresa descended into the slums of Calcutta, undoubtedly one of the poorest cities on the planet, and began the Sisters of Charity.

The 20th Century will in many ways be remembered as the century of images. Of utmost importance in this day and age is the image one projects to the world. Politicians obscure self-serving motives behind dazzling smiles and expensive haircuts. Super models hide anorexic bodies behind layers of makeup. Hollywood makes heroes out of decidedly un-heroic narcissists. One person, however, lived a life that was identical to the image the world had of her. This person was Mother Teresa of Calcutta, a woman who was celebrated worldwide as a saint and who lived a life that wholly justified this renown.

Her Mother

Little things are indeed little, but to be faithful in little things is a great thing.

-Mother Theresa-