i’ve moved…

December 14th, 2006 by tuanzamani

salam…i’ve moved here…look for the white sabre..hopefully a new environment will bring out the best of me…lnsyaAllah…

Bismillah

a wedding

December 12th, 2006 by tuanzamani

last sunday was special,because one of the malaysian girls here got married.how nice huh…

i’m not going to write much bout it,because some reporters are going to publish the interview in “syabab” anyway.takle la kacau modjo orang kan.we never knew getting married in russia was so easy,not “sungai golok” easy,but it is very simple indeed.

maybe because we malays had always seen wedding as a huge thing,as we kelantanese say “bekwoh”,lots of people cooking(if u’re a kampung boy like me),eating together,pelamin,hantaran,big pots,big tents,big everything..and a “big wash”after that.

and of course if the family are capable,they’ll havemore than the basics.if u’re a big celebrity,u can set ur wedding date on palestine day,so that people will watch ur wedding live instead of some programmes to remember suffering palestinians(sorry for siti fans,maybe she just didn’t know)

anyway..only by watching the ceremony here that i remember how simple was islam’s syariat,without all the adats and stuffs(it’s not that i’m against them),check the nikah’s rukun,i’m sure exchanging pantun is not in there.

the best thing after the akad was,some of us had some interesting reactions,one smsed her mother and was replied”jangan nak gatal kawen aa(or something like that)”,some of the guys said”i think i’m gonna get married here la”,an engaged friend kind of decided to hasten his wedding(really),but anyway..at the end of the day,we all realised we’re still bound to some things in malaysia and,for most of us,everything were easier said than done.hoho..

here’s some pictures

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listening to the imam’s khutbah

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still listening

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muke2 teruja..hehe

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ni bukan plamin diorang..anyway..smoga bahagia ke anak cucu

after the akad,some of us went straight for the kenduri,but again,i had to go to a meeting(lucky me huh),but this time,there was some food left eventhough i arrived a few hours late…sorry i got no pictures of me gulping them all(had 3,small helpings)

and owh yeah..i decided to take this thing a little higher,most probably this is my last blog here..i’ll be moving…

cycle2…

December 6th, 2006 by tuanzamani

last week was our clinical pharmacology lecture,unlike what i anticipated..it was good..actually it was the best cycle i had this year.i thought it was like pharmacology or biochemistry…where we had to memorized everything..read,read till we were nauseous,then read again(we were supposed to,i didn’t read much.u can see the proof in my zachut book)clinical pharmacology was great..though i didn’t understand much..but we learnt a lot from maksim urelevich frolov…a guy who has 5 degrees,speaks russian,english,japanese,and lots of fun to hang around with.he cracked more jokes in a day than any other doctors i know since my first year here(more than jamil habib..seriously,and i thought he was the best).

the class started from 8.30 till 1,but was far better than any 1 hour of let say,ENT.sadly,most probably we’ll not get him to teach again next year cause,in fact,untill we came,he only taught doctors(specialists).and it’s just plain luck that there was no other lecturer free in our cycle(maybe the usual one went to a conference)..anyway..here’s some things that i learnt from him:

-there’s three types of facts:the truth,the false and the statistic.
-the skill of a doctor is not memorising the facts but to find the right info as quick as possible(we trained using VIDAL 2005)
-rats are very clever animals..
-bicarbonated drinks may be as bad as cigarettes:they have everything that can make our body go wrong..indians are very smart campaigning against it..i wonder when malaysian government will do the same(or maybe they still need the taxes from coca cola to fund the space programme)
-cigarettes are still one of the worst thing a sane human being can smoke,eat or any other action of putting something inside the body.and if u light a cigarette,put it out and then light it again,it’ worse.
-there’s no elixir of healing..a cure for this guy may not work for the next guy.and there’s always the drug tolerance to think of.
-like most things,the quality of drugs are not connected to their advertisement.sometimes,a drug company just changed the name and packaging of the same,old drug,just like mitsubishi did with Evo 9(same feature with Evo 8,they just changed the no to 9 so that Evo enthusiasts can buy the calendars)
-but,more expensive generic drugs are better than cheap generics,so paradox to what i wrote above,we probably should buy the prettier packages..

i’ll write more about clinical pharmacology in my next blog.but now…i’m in my ortho cycle.where all the machoest,handsomest,coolest(i know i’m grammatically wrong here) male surgeons work together under one roof…with drills,hammers,wires,screws,plates and everything metal.

my first time in the OT,i can’t help remembering scenes from Hostel and Saw..all the tools were there,except,there’s more people and there’s a nice lady with a portable x-ray machine.all the patients were concious and talking,even joking with the surgeons.horrifying at first,but after a while we got use to it(in the end only 3 of 7 of us left in the OT),never thought that a knee surgery is far more gory than an appendectomy.and the plus thing hanging around the wards is that the head of department looks like johnathan kent of smallville.and another guy really resembles warden pope of prisonbreak.
hopefull we’ll learn more..insyaAllah

here’s some ayats from Quran talking bout healing value of honey:
And thy Lord taught the Bee to build its cells in hills, on trees, and in (men’s) habitations; Then to eat of all the produce (of the earth), and find with skill the spacious paths of its Lord: there issues from within their bodies a drink of varying colours, wherein is healing for men: verily in this is a Sign for those who give thought. (16:68-69)

and some ayats that i thought of when the ortho lecturer taught of multiple fractures and their treatment.:
Does man think that We cannot assemble his bones?Nay, We are able to put together in perfect order the very tips of his fingers. But man wishes to do wrong (even) in the time in front of him. (75:3-5)

that’s all for now…wassalam

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the rector was giving a lecture bout drug allergies..i think

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a “green tree” in the snow

summer-autumn-winter

November 13th, 2006 by tuanzamani

one of the thing that learnt in life is that u’ve got to know when to just slow down and look around.i learnt that sometimes,the best thing to do is to stop and smell the flowers,smile at the fullmoon,watch the raindrops(or snow).it’s one of things that help me to hold myself together in life.knowing that i’m not the center of the world(not even my own private world) and how miniscule i am among all of Allah’s creations.if He wants,i’ll fall like a drop of rain,or shine like the full moon.

anyway,last sunday was a kind of a busy day for us here in volgograd(ironically it’s the only day off for us)
in the morning,zul n me went to the weekly ceramah at hiroshima.like always..we’re late but couldn’t stop oursleves taking some shot on our way there,earlier it was snowing and the mixture of snow,green grass and fallen leaves made quite a nice few.

to those who asked”best tak dok russia”..examples like that day was the answer.i dunno whether there’s a view like this in front of any apartment anywhere in the world,but down here is some of the pictures zul n me snapped along the way(the main reason we were late to the ceramah was that we overslept though,the pic-snapping part took only a few minutes.hehe)

after the cramah,there’s a meeting bout the weekly usrah(we’re just going to start all over again).i dun think i gave anything beneficial by being there except when i reminded that we should call the “naqibs” “rangers” intead and rename the “usrah” to “ring of wisdom”, so that it’d be a cool thing instead of having a heavy ring to it.if u live here long enough,u’d know that going to watch a soccer game in a windy day will attract a bigger crowd than a cramah inside a cozy building.

meeting over,i brought some of the tutors for the AL(arabic language) gang to my house(gang sounds cooler than class).there were 15 of us and we continued our lesson with hamid at the lead.alhamdulillah that we can meet a good arab here willing to teach us.

after the lesson and maghrib,me and some of the tutors went to the open house in ploshad sovestkaya.most of the food are gone,but kitorang bantai jerk mana ada.sorry and kudos to all the tutors who prioritized the class over their stomach.a volunteer’s will is always stronger than any paid worker’s ,heh.

thanks to the open house hosts’ kindness we ate to our fill(at least i did) and went home with satisfied grins.
looking forward to another sunday…insyaallah

By (the Token of) Time (through the ages), Verily Man is in loss, Except such as have Faith, and do righteous deeds, and (join together) in the mutual teaching of Truth, and of Patience and Constancy. ( 103:1-3 )

“Bergeraklah, kerana diam bisa mematikan. Sebesar-besar keuntungan di dunia adalah menyibukkan dirimu setiap saat pada aktiviti yang memberikan manfaat paling banyak di Akhirat. Menyia-nyiakan waktu, lebih bahaya daripada kematian. Kerana ia memutuskan mu daripada ALLAH dan Akhirat. Sedangkan kematian hanya memutuskan mu dari dunia dan penghuninya.” - Ibnu Qayyim al-Jauziyah -

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there’s grass of summer,yellow leaves of fall and white snow of winter

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kompem takle tengok kat blakang umah aku kat KB ni.

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the enneagram test…

November 4th, 2006 by tuanzamani

i got so bored that day,that i took the enneagram test…well anyway..this was the result…

the Romantic

your Enneagram type is FOUR.

“I am unique”

Romantics have sensitive feelings and are warm and perceptive.

How to Get Along with Me
Give me plenty of compliments. They mean a lot to me.
Be a supportive friend or partner. Help me to learn to love and value myself.
Respect me for my special gifts of intuition and vision.
Though I don’t always want to be cheered up when I’m feeling melancholy, I sometimes like to have someone lighten me up a little.
Don’t tell me I’m too sensitive or that I’m overreacting!

What I Like About Being a Four
my ability to find meaning in life and to experience feeling at a deep level
my ability to establish warm connections with people
admiring what is noble, truthful, and beautiful in life
my creativity, intuition, and sense of humor
being unique and being seen as unique by others
having aesthetic sensibilities
being able to easily pick up the feelings of people around me

What’s Hard About Being a Four
experiencing dark moods of emptiness and despair
feelings of self-hatred and shame; believing I don’t deserve to be loved
feeling guilty when I disappoint people
feeling hurt or attacked when someone misundertands me
expecting too much from myself and life
fearing being abandoned
obsessing over resentments
longing for what I don’t have

Fours as Children Often
have active imaginations: play creatively alone or organize playmates in original game s
are very sensitive
feel that they don’t fit in
believe they are missing something that other people have
attach themselves to idealized teachers, heroes, artists, etc.
become antiauthoritarian or rebellious when criticized or not understood
feel lonely or abandoned (perhaps as a result of a death or their parents’ divorce)

Fours as Parents
help their children become who they really are
support their children’s creativity and originality
are good at helping their children get in touch with their feelings
are sometimes overly critical or overly protective
are usually very good with children if not too self-absorbed

ok,it’s no that accurate,but anyway it’d be around 75-80% correct..i’m not that senstiive(at least i don’t think so la…)…to use the term that the test’s creators used(owh yeah..i googled the test’s)i have other “wings”…maybe a littele of no 1 and no 5.
if u don’t know what in the world i’m talking about..google Enneagram of Personality

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from anthrax to ambulance

October 27th, 2006 by tuanzamani

we’re in our epidemiology cycle and today’s topic was anthrax.. also called black death,black bane..
well anyway, prof popov handled anthrax so many times that it’s like a joke to him,here’s something that u’d rarely find in a textbook:

-in the gulf war,there was a treaty between the major powers that they will not use biotechnology as weapons(the americans were afraid that russia would help iraq to gain it)

-compared to normal weapons,bio weapons such as genetically modified anthrax bacilli, are much more expensive,due to some technical difficulties(u’d had to vaccinate all of ur own soldiers,or equip them with with special gears)so,if u’re thinking what i was thinking,that is,why didn’t the americans use any bio-or chemical weapons on afghanistan and iraq like they did in vietnam(rambo didn’t had a a part in the war,it was “agent orange”),which they lost anyway,it’s because of the money, not because of their human side(they happily bombed the afghans and iraqis)

-when the prof wanted to show us some electron microscope of the bacillus in action(they were in an envelope),he mockingly blew the envelope’s contents towards us(if u’re an american, u’d be jumping down the windows)which was hilarious.

-in the normal form(not the genetically modified one)anthrax is not as contagious as we think, usually an infected person are just given antibiotics and treated in an isolated room.

that’s the highlights, most of the time, the prof would explain things in russian while we were making a dedication poster(like the umno one, but we combined our imaginations and made a pas and dap version of it)

we went home early and stop by at ramstor to buy sushi..which was much2 cheaper than yakitoria i think..heh(i’m crazy bout sushi,i luv ramstor)
owh yeah…wal mart(the one that sold bullets used in the columbine massacre) is bidding to buy ramstor chain of stores,if walmart wins, they’ll be some changes in ramstors all over russia.hopefully to the better.

later that evening I went to the dean’s office for some matter and I saw lots of ambulance gathering at ploshad pavshik vastov.i dunno what’s the occasion but there were lot’s of them…I think all of Volgograd’s finest ambulance were gathered…

owh yeah,yesterday I got a big kad raya from my family and as I promised to someone,i’ll share it with others..though the raya festive feeling had waned over the years,but a kad raya always cheers me up.

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antrax bacilli in action

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try counting the ambulance

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the kad raya beside my 19″ monitor

notes on relationships

October 27th, 2006 by tuanzamani

Love is in the air they say….

Nowadays. u’d rarely find a girl or a boy who never had a serious relationship with the opposite sex. it’s a culture that had been so imbedded in our subconscious minds that most of the young of our time don’t even know or can even imagine that just a few decades ago, going out with the opposite was a taboo in our culture. but now, it’s so assimilated in our culture that rarely u’ll see a boy sitting alone at a fast-food joint and as weird as this may sound two boys hanging out together is considered a queer thing to do.a boy goes out only with a girl and vice versa,..

I think there’s enough articles and comments from reliable scholars bout this but here are quotes ,stories and observations that I accumulated over the years related to modern relationships, hopefully this shared knowledge will help us all to make better choices in life.

-“a boy falls in love from his eyes, a girl from her ears” –meaning most…. I repeat most guys will be attracted first from the outer appearance ,while most girls will be seduced from the “ayat power” that the guys had to offer.

-“there’s two types of girls, the first one is the ones that like u and the other type are the ones that u can make them like u” -a disturbing point of view but quite a true one, even in malay there’s a proverb”keras2 kerak nasi,kena air lembut juga”that refers mostly to women’s heart.

-“at our time, it’s harder to get good girls, so if u find one, hold unto her”-which was kind of nice,because the guy will choose a girl with certain virtues, e.g someone who never had a relationship before, never went out on a date, never talked to guy etc…but after a certain period of time,they went out together,and suddenly all the virtues that the guy seek within her were turned upside down, ironically by the one who chose her due to those virtues, with the hopes that they’ll end up with a proper wedding(albeit there’s a fair chance that it will not end up that way)

- there’s lots of couples who planned and limit their relationship to a certain extend but as long as they are together,even in the basis of nasihat-menasihati(scoff) they’re bound to cross the line. I know this from my own experience, every human has their own frequency of increasing and decreasing iman(if the relationship is based on it anyway)and the more people come in contact with the opposite, the more probabilities that they’ll reach the weak point at the same time, which explains why we saw even those couples learning Islamic studies are caught doing khalwat. it’s not that they don’t know it’s wrong in the first place.

-“make a move when the girl is in her most vulnerable state, (that is)usually after her breakup”-a proven fact

-“they are two types of girls: “the girlfriends” and the “wives” : the first type can turn into the second type, but most of the time,they never do. even at a glance, a guy can differentiate these two.and sadly some guys can turn the second type to the first type.

-unfortunately for most of us,there’s some bad people out there that realize the opposite sex’s weaknesses and sadistically manipulate them.i can’t possibly write the modus operandi here(it’s too disturbing) but what I can say is,be careful,u’lll never know who they are until it’s too late.

-A relative of mine came before I departed here for the first time, among other things what I remember the most is that he said” Allah created human nature so that the love we have will flow like water, from higher places to lower ground, so it’s a fact that a child can never love his parents like they love him,” but a grateful child can always try right

-some guys just enjoy the thrill of chasing girls. and vice versa too.

-I’ll always remember the time when an Indian boy said to a Chinese girl “ur parents brought u up for 17-18 years, but whose picture do u put in ur purse, ur boyfriend of just 2 years ”,albeit he was joking, but it was the truth of life nowadays, we’re dividing our love and giving it in an inappropriate way. Those who should receive the most receive the less

-“u’ve only got one heart, use it wisely”

Well, most of these are from the male perspective because I don’t hang around girls talking bout boys(that would be…ackward),but I did get some girls’ point of views from trusted sources. Anyway, these are usually secret talks, if I’m not writing in the near future, most probably it’s because I’m already assassinated or I’m not allowed to join any conversation anymore.

I hope my writings can wake those who are still in the mist,those who hadn’t realize the reality that humans are not meant to celebrate just one feeling, but to live a balanced life.

Firman Allah:
?Katakanlah kepada orang-orang beriman lelaki, supaya mereka menundukkan pandangan dan menjaga kehormatannya. Itu lebih suci bagi mereka. Sesungguhnya Allah Maha Mengetahui apa-apa yang mereka usahakan. Katakanlah kepada orang-orang beriman perempuan, supaya mereka menundukkan pandangan dan menjaga kehormatannya dan janganlah mereka memperlihatkan perhiasannya kecuali apa yang biasa lahir daripadanya… .?

(QS. An-Nuur: 31-32)

Hadis:

On the authority of Omar bin Al-Khattab, who said : I heard the messenger of Allah salla Allah u alihi wa sallam say :

“Actions are but by intention and every man shall have but that which he intended…….”

Ihdinassiratulmustaqim….wassalam

eid mubarak…

October 23rd, 2006 by tuanzamani

it’s the morning of eid….

i remembered a few years ago a friend asked,”what’s the meaning of ramadhan to you?what’s the worth of the month?”(something like that la…)
i(dgn poyonya) answered”it’s a training time,and each time u meet ramadhan u should learn something,something that u should hold untill another ramadhan comes,it’s the thing that u learn that matters…”(it’s likely a more stupid answer)

and each ramadhan’s end every year after that,i’ll think about what i ‘ve learnt and did that month…

how much time i talked nonsense,how many times my head are on a pillow instead of the floor praying,and how much time i spent my time reading everything but the Quran,how many time i led myself to useless things….

and what i learnt this year is that i’m still far…far away….
hopefully i’ll be able to meet ramadhan again next year..to learn again…to train again..insyaallah

selamat hari raya..maaf zahir dan batin….

gettin fat…

October 19th, 2006 by tuanzamani

i’m gettin fat..i thought we’re supposed t be thinner if we don’t eat?anyway,i think it’s my level of satiety,while some people can’t eat much during sahur,it was never a problem to me,alhamdulillah my appetite is always there.

ironically,when i was 7 or 8,i just can’t eat,even if i try i’ll just vomit all the excess.remembered a few occasions when eating out.especially the one in bangkok,imagine vomiting in front of a few families(we were visiting my mom’s foster parents when she lived there).when i tried to fast for the first time(darjah 1),all i can eat during sahur was fruits.but for the record,i fasted the whole month(a family record,i still rub this on my sis’s face),though i remembered that suddenly tap water was very tasty.hehe.

the big guys from jpa came to russia and,for the first time in years,there’s a free dinner from our sponsors.it’s kind of nice having them visiting.it’s a cheerful night like raya already.

yesterday,there’s a meeeting for hari raya feast.though not all the supposed committee came,but it was fruitful.what i can conclude from it however,is that all that malays want is to have fun.unlike before,there’ll be some,err..unorthodox programmes in this one.we’ll se.heh.

from history to evolution…

October 16th, 2006 by tuanzamani

last thursday we had a seminar on history of medicine..yes..it’s true,around 200 years ago,some guys got bored enough that they created this subject,so that, 200 years later,we,the uninterested 5th year students can have a seminar about it,for 2 long hours,once a week,for who knows,how many time(didn’t bother to check the schedule,the bad news of another seminar may break my already fragile spirit)

imagine combining the most boring elements of sociology and medicine in one pot and putting it in one compact..err..lesson,if u can call concentrating not to snooze off a lesson.

the lecturer started the seminar with a question”do you think that history of medicine a science?”..the answer,after 30 minutes or so of defining science,medicine,and even some other things that i never thought of having definitions was, “no” it’s not a science,rather a part of the big and wonderful subject of “HISTORY”.

then,we entered one of the subsubjects of the day”the history of prehistoric medicine”..we started on of course defining what is prehistoric time and that unsurprisingly led to the darwin’s theory of evolution..and that’s the reason i’m writing this blog anyway.

bear said prehistoric time started 5 thousand “million” years ago,but of course the evolutionist* lecturer said that it was wrong,it started at the time when the apes turned into humans(huh).of course,most of us are creationist** because we are muslims,and rejected the idea that we originated from some hairy apes with tool wielding abilities.he then showed us the timeline of human evolution(with helpful imaginary sketches)

then he asked,”when do u think medicine started in prehistoric time,could the apes have acquired some skills of medicines in their community”,
of course that led to another fuss (i think the thought that apes learning medicine is a real threat to med students everywhere)

the lecturer kind of looked at us in a funny way when he realised that most of us didn’t believe the darwin’s theory,may be to him.it’s like saying the sky is violet,the grass is blue,and i can play football.

at that moment i realised,”woah..i’m in the middle of something here..”may be it’s just at a miniscule scale,but it was a clash between evolutionist ideas and creationist belief,with the lecturer explaining the human lineage and some of the guys mumbling about how the don’t believe a cent of it.

well,in short this was my observation:

the lecturer:he was born in a communist community,where for many years religion and the idea of god was banished,all he had was a firm believe in science and human intrepretation of natural occurence.the idea of evolution was embedded in him hard.of course knowing that some students not believing in it
was quite a shock.

most of us:we were brought up in a country where the idea was not popular,how many times i saw people ridiculed the evolution theory publicly.but never i saw this problem discussed academically,thus rejecting it in a discussion will prove difficult,it’s our fate that we came to a country that pride itself with many famous evolutionists.

well,i had always been interested in the theory of evolution,since there was a time(when i was 8-11 i think),that i really wanted to be a paleontologist,
yeah,digging for dinosaurs and stuffs,but i had to abandon my dreams for some personal reasons(that’s another story)
well,in the course of pursuing the ambition,one could not help to find the literature supported by darwin’s theory,but it never seem to get into my head,i really don’t know why but the more i read about it,the more difficult i found to digest it.alhamdulillah..

even after i decided that i’m not suited to be a paleontologist,i’d always find books,and stuffs bout dinosaurs and evolution’s theory a part of my interest.after all these years i found some interesting facts dan findings against the theory ,i’ll not state all of them,but here’s some of the higlights :

-the theory stated that life originated from sea,from fishes that became amphibias,then became reptiles,then into birds and mammals.that means that between all the transformation,there should be creatures of “half-fish”-”half-amphibians”,”halfreptile”-”halfbirds” et cetera,to prove the theory,we should be able to find fossils of these creatures.a few decades ago a fossil of a fish said to have lungs and leg-like fins are found,i think they called it coecalith(sorry if i misspelled it),this,was said to be the link where the fishes leapt onto land became amphibians,(thus the origin of all land creatures)but a few years later,the fish(not a fossil) was found living in deep sea(not even near a beach or any land mass),with perfect gills and fins,and after millions of years,it didn’t evolve a bit.

-the theory stated that evolution was a process of natural selection,where mutations will make new creatures,and nature will select those reliable mutated creatures to breed and pass their genes to the next generation,but of course,anyone who learnt biology knows that almost all mutations will lead to dire effects not better beings,sickle cell anemia,down syndrome,albinism are result of mutations,in real practical life,we can never see cool mutants like wolverine,prof x or beast,the x-men are all just hoax to subconciously implant our minds that mutations can lead into better humans.nature will never select mutants,and if u’re in medicine u’d know that in most genetic defects,even if the subject’s phenotype is normal,they will be sterile or produce more abnormal offsprings.

-the theory supporters stated that life occurs spontaneously,that is from one celled creatures into more complex ones,but even if the mutation towards that(1 cell to multicells creatures) can happen(see point no 2)the complex dna structure(s) can never had been spontaneously occured.even the most simple 1 celled organism will have complicated dna structure supporting its functions and life.numerous experiments to produce dna spontaneously had failed.

-all of the skeletons said to be early humans,australapethicus,homo habilis,homo erectus,was proven to be frauds even before 1980’s,the ones who was said to dig them out was found to attach human skull with orang utans jaw(in the case of australapethicus i think)and most of the other skeletons that they say are early ape-humans are most probably different races of humans,we can see the differences in front of our eyes,are the builts of europeans the same with asians?by saying that the fossils are subhuman due to their brain sizes and backbone forms can be explained by malnourishment and diseases.
and don’t be fooled by documentaries showing antropologist-artists making models of apelike creatures from skulls that they said from the ape-humans,it’s more imagination than science,they can make the model into anything they want,even u,me,an orang utan,it was proven by giving the same skull to different artists,in the end,the result was different models.but of course the truth was never been published,and all the imaginary facts are still taught in most schools.

uh.oh,the blog turned into some refarat..well anyway,the class then was continued with the usuals,talking about the medicine in renaissance,the period where europeans turned secular and started antrophocentrism thinkings(that’s another story),rejecting the idea of god and the starting of many social problems now(at least in my opinion la),the leturer ended the seminar earlier and gave us a diskette of hometasks for our next seminar(i really am not looking forward for that).

more fast facts:
-karl marx was so impressed with darwin’s theory that he dedicated a copy of”das kapital” to darwin.

current world affairs:
-i heard from latha(the only indian student in our class)that the idians are boycotting softdrinks due to their proven hazard,it’s a nationwide campaign,even in the cinemas before they show the movies(i heard indians are such movie goers),i told her just last week my housemates did some of their own experiment on colas,putting rusty coins in cola,they found that the cola deoxidised the coins after a few days,imagine what happens to our stomachafter we drink the cola
-russia is still sanctioning georgia,though at the same time disapproving americas intention to sanction north korea and iran.

from my own vocab:
*:one that life on earth evolved from the natural selection process
**:believers of God,and life is created by Him.

On the earth are signs for those of assured Faith, As also in your own selves: Will ye not then see? And in heaven is your Sustenance, as (also) that which ye are promised. Then, by the Lord of heaven and earth, this is the very Truth, as much as the fact that ye can speak intelligently to each other. (adz zariyat:20-23)

ps:most of the facts are from my own observation and experience,adding my own opinions,if there’s any discrepancies or wrongs found in them,please tell me.it’ll be much appreciated.wassalam…