What is Love - An excerpt from Paulo Coehlo's The Alchemist

"The wind told me that you know about love " the boy said to the sun. "If
you know about love, you must also know about the Soul of the World,
because it's made of love."

"From where I am," the sun said, "I can see the Soul of the World. It
communicates with my soul, and together we cause the plants to grow and
the sheep to seek out shade. From where I am—and I'm a long way from
the earth—I learned how to love. I know that if I came even a little bit closer
to the earth, everything there would die, and the Soul of the World would no
longer exist. So we contemplate each other, and we want each other, and I
give it life and warmth, and it gives me my reason for living."

"So you know about love," the boy said.

"And I know the Soul of the World, because we have talked at great length
to each other during this endless trip through the universe. It tells me that its
greatest problem is that, up until now, only the minerals and vegetables
understand that all things are one. That there's no need for iron to be the
same as copper, or copper the same as gold. Each performs its own exact
function as a unique being, and everything would be a symphony of peace
if the hand that wrote all this had stopped on the fifth day of creation.
"But there was a sixth day," the sun went on.

"You are wise, because you observe everything from a distance," the boy
said. "But you don't know about love. If there hadn't been a sixth day, man
would not exist; copper would always be just copper, and lead just lead. It's
true that everything has its destiny, but one day that destiny will be realized.
So each thing has to transform itself into something better, and to acquire a
new destiny, until, someday, the Soul of the World becomes one thing
only."

The sun thought about that, and decided to shine more brightly. The wind,
which was enjoying the conversation, started to blow with greater force, so
that the sun would not blind the boy.

"This is why alchemy exists," the boy said. "So that everyone will search for
his treasure, find it, and then want to be better than he was in his former
life. Lead will play its role until the world has no further need for lead; and
then lead will have to turn itself into gold.

"That's what alchemists do. They show that, when we strive to become
better than we are, everything around us becomes better, too."

"Well, why did you say that I don't know about love?" the sun asked the boy.

"Because it's not love to be static like the desert, nor is it love to roam the
world like the wind. And it's not love to see everything from a distance, like
you do. Love is the force that transforms and improves the Soul of the
World. When I first reached through to it, I thought the Soul of the World
was perfect. But later, I could see that it was like other aspects of creation,
and had its own passions and wars. It is we who nourish the Soul of the
World, and the world we live in will be either better or worse, depending on
whether we become better or worse. And that's where the power of love
comes in. Because when we love, we always strive to become better than
we are."

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Energy Discussion

Found this joke on the ongoing energy crisis in Pakistan, via email. See the Past, Present and the Future of energy in Pakistan. Enjoy!


YEAR 1980
1ST Voice: YAR YE LIGHT KAB JATI HAI

2ND Voice: PATA NAHI MERE KHAYAL MAIN SAAL MAIN 1 BAR

YEAR 1990
1ST Voice: YAR YE LIGHT KIO JATI HAI?

2ND Voice: PATA NAHI MERE KHAYAL MAIN TRANSFERMER BADALTY HAIN

YEAR 2009
1ST Voice: YAR YE LIGHT KAB AATI HAI?

2ND Voice: JAB HAMARY ELAKEY KI JAE GI TB TUMHARY ELAKEY AYEGI

YEAR 2014
1ST Voice: YAR YE LIGHT AYE GI AAJ?

2ND Voice: NAHI AAJ MULTAN MAI HAI LAHORE KI BARI KAL HAI

YEAR 2020
1ST Voice: SUNA HAI PURANEY WAQTON MAI LIGHT HUA KARTI THI ?

2ND Voice: SO JA LIGHT WITE KUCH NAHI HOTI SUB TERA WEHAM HAI

Unveiling the gravest conspiracies in Pakistan

Few days back on a private news channel, Brig. Imtiaz Billa has unveiled some of the gravest conspiracies in the history of Pakistan. The IJI conspiracy set up by Intelligence Agencies to stop the Leftist Political Parties. The Khur conspiracy against the Army high command and the famous Jinnahpoor Conspiracy against the innocent urdu speaking people of Karachi.

Watch and dont forget to leave the comments.

Part 01 - IJI Conspiracy




Part 02 - Khur Conspiracy




Part 03 - Jinnahpur Drama




Part 04 - Nuclear Conspiracy

iPhone OS v3.0 Hidden Feaures

Last night while playing with my iPhone, on which I recently installed OSv3.0 , i found some of its hidden features which Apple has not announced officially. So in case you haven't bumbled upon them already, do checkout these hidden features in iPhone OS 3.0.

- More Home Screens

Apple added the support of 11 home screens instead of the previous 9 home screens. So now you can add more fun to your iphon by adding 32 more iPhone app from your home screen.

- Unlimited number of Apps

Thanks to Spotlight for iPhone, Apple is, as always, giving its users the maximum out of thier iPhones. Now you can have the unlimited number of iPhone apps assuming that the required storage is available on your phone. So if you're an iPhone Freak (like me) and you want to install more apps then the home screen limit, you can access them using Spotlight.

- Call Interruption

Now, this hidden feature is something not very big, but it will lessen the minor annoyance for every iPhone user. So if somebody calls you while you're playing around with your iPhone app, after the phone calls end you will be taken back to your iPhone app you were using before the call interrupted you.

- More Extra Characters

Phone's virtual keyboard has also been updated with few more extra special characters while holding certain characters down similar to the ".com" button. In iPhone OS 3.0, when you hold down the "." you also get "...". The dash "-" also displays an em-dash "-" and quotations and apostrophes display "<<" and ">>" and can also be curved.

- Added Camera Button

A Camera button is also added to the Home button settings in new iPhone firmware 3.0. So if you're a photographer on the way, iPhone now gives you the power to shoot on the go. You can quickly launch the camera from iPhone home screen.

- Unresponsive iPhone Apps

You now have another option to force quit an unresponsive iPhone app. You can hold the sleep/wake button until the red slider appears, then press and hold down the home button to quit the iPhone app.

- Shake it baby

You can undo typing by shaking the iPhone. When you are in the Mail, Messaging, Safari or Notes applications, after you typed a word/several words, just shake the phone and a pop-up will appear, asking you whether you want to undo what you have just entered.

One thing which i really want to see in iPhone is background support for App processes. Right now we can run only one app, unlike Symbian or Java phones in which we can run multiple apps at a time

Please don’t forget to post your feedback. Or if you know any other iPhone OSv3.0 hidden feature which is not mentioned here