Code of Ethics for using mobile phones

I came across a written code of ethics for the usage of the mobile phones. Although most of the points are logical and make sense but there are still people who don't switch their phones (or at least set it to silent) in places of worship, cinemas, hospitals ... etc.

I hate it when in a restaurant someone is going through the ring-tones to choose the best tone, or in a train when someone reports his whole family crisis to someone on the other end, and in a church when the phone rings and the person answers the phone.

What did people do before the mobiles came on the market? Life was still going on fine.

Have a good day.

Contentment

“Desiderata”

Do you remember the song? It was sometime in the 70s / 80s. Lately, I was going through my old notebooks when I came across the songs words. “Desiderata” is the Latin word for “things to be desired.”. The words were actually written by Max Ehrmann in 1927.

- Go placidly amid the noise and haste and remember what peace there may be in silence.
- As far as possible without surrender, be on good terms with all persons.
- Speak your truth quietly and clearly; and listen to others, even the dull and ignorant; they too have their story.
- Avoid loud and aggressive persons; for they are vexations to the spirit.
- If you compare yourself with others you may become bitter or vain, for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself.
- Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans.
- Keep interested in your own career, however humble; it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time.
- Exercise caution in your business affairs, for the world is full of trickery; but let this not blind you to what virtue there is.
- Be yourself.
- Especially do not feign affection. Neither be cynical about love, for in the face of aridity and disenchantment, it is as perennial as the grass.
- Take kindly the counsel of the years, gracefully surrendering the things of youth.
- Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune, but do not distress yourself with dark imaginings. Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness.
- Beyond a wholesome discipline be gentle with yourself.
- You are a child of the universe no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here, and whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.
- Therefore be at peace with God, whatever you conceive Him to be.
- And whatever your labors and aspirations, in the noisy confusion of life, be at peace with your soul. With all its shame, drudgery, and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world.
- Be cheerful.
- Strive to be happy.

Have a good day!

20 09 2009

What's so special about the figures 20-09-20 09 ... the century is the combination of day and month ...

It's also my birthday, so happy birthday to me ...

And it's the first day of the Eid, so happy Eid to my readers.

Have a great wonderful day.

Amreeka is coming to Zurich

I was thrilled to find out that this film will be shown at the Zurich film festival later this month. I won't miss the chance to go and see it.

The Zurich Film Festival focuses strongly on the discovery and support of new talent. The core of Festival is the International Competition. Three Golden Eye awards will be conferred on the most convincing of the participating films in the competition. Only Swiss premieres, German-speaking premieres and European, international or world premieres will be shown.

As for the film, Amreeka is the arabic word for America.

Amreeka shows the adventures of Mona, a single mother who leaves the West Bank with Fadi, her teenage son, with dreams of an exciting future in the promised land. In America, as her son navigates high school hallways the way he used to move through military checkpoints, the indomitable Mona scrambles together a new life cooking up falafel burgers as well as hamburgers at the local White Castle. Told with heartfelt humor by writer-director Cherien Dabis in her feature film debut, Amreeka is a universal journey into the lives of a family of immigrants and first-generation teenagers caught between their heritage and the new world in which they now live and the bittersweet search for a place to call home.

Have a nice day.