Barfi n Mithai

Fateh ji

I am doing A2 Level English Language and Literature and A2 History and need tuiton.

Does anyone know someone in Birmingham who can give me private tuition for these two subjects.

I really need a teacher. I cannot find anyone, so even if u only know a good teacher at school could u let me know because I can ring the school and ask them if they can help me out. Thanks so much!!

Fateh Huxley Veer ji

There is a problem with my account and thus I cannot make posts. My usual username on this forum is Sitargirl so please feel free to run a search.

I would like to start off by saying that I am a huge advocator of feedback so I look favourably on comments. If you have any feedback for Imperial Sikh Soc then the first thing you should do is get in touch with the current commitee of 2008-2009 as they have been elected to run sikh soc for this academic year. You can also email the new commitee on sikh@imperial.ac.uk.

As you can appreciate direct communication via email or in person is the best option rather than posting on a website as the commitee have no idea about internet posts since they do not check websites; and therefore they would be unable to help you. Infact, it was only coincidental that I came across your post so you've been very lucky.

Also as your aware posting here is to no avail as no one on sikhsangat can answer your question. Instead it appears they will assume unjustifiable things where you will have people like militant veerji saying we are linked to a person that we have never heard about. Since militant veerji is not part of Imperial University and furthermore has never attended a single Imperial Sikh Soc Simran or Homeless Food Run - the nature of his reply can only highlight the sad times we live in

Anyways Huxley Veerji - drop the commitee an email or you can meet them at Simran. If you don't know, Simran happens every Thursday in SAFB. All are welcome.

Fateh Ji

Ex- President of Imperial Sikh Soc

(2007-2008)

Waheguru Ji Ka Khalsa, Waheguru Ji Ki Fateh

You are warmly invited to Collaborations. This is an annual Inter London sikh society dinner hosted at Imperial College London. This is an excellent chance to make new friends and find out about other London Sikh societies. Last year over 100 people attended from UCL, Kings, Queen Mary, Royal Holloway, Kingston and the like. We look forward to seeing you there!

Details:

3 course Punjabi meal for only £8.

See attached poster to book a ticket.

hahahhaha yeh i been inside the plane.....its huge not a small tanki....real seats tables lol....its in ghara, right near jalandhar city..

my dads pind is begowal, distt.. kapurthala near lakhan ka padda and bholath.....my mom is miani dist.. hosiarpur i guess between tanda and dasuya

nearly every house in doaba has a plane made on there tanki(water tank) or somewhere in there house, highlighting that one of there family members have gone overseas.

lol does that mean that the massive football tankis signify they've got footballers in the family then??

hahaha thats exactly what I thought! But you have to admit that aeroplanes are more popular. More than 80% had aeroplanes....then came footballs followed by other random items. Actually I want to know who owns the house with a tractor as their water tanki!

The stories here are amazing. Mine is not so entertaining.

I was born into a Sikh family. My mum used to read alot of stories to me when I was a baby. I knew Sikhi from the beginning. I started learning Kirtan when I was 6 years old on the vaja. Both my parents were musical: Dad and Mum both knowing Tabla. Around 12years old I started learning Sitar. My sister did the same as me but she started Sitar early and my other Sister is a tabla child.

As children we did a lot of things together with my mum. She taught us everything. We would do paath together. My mum started teaching us Sukhmani Sahib paath and meanings when we were around 8 years old.

I was really inspired by my mum. We had this library collection of Sikh books in our house. Only one of the books were in English. The rest were all in Punjabi. I used to hate the way I could not read the other books. So i pushed myself at Punjabi class. I got excellent grades in those exams. I would read the books in my spare time. I found Shiri Guru Nanak Dev Ji fascinating. I remembered the story of him and the snake protecting him and how he fed the Pandits. Things like that really amazed me. Secretly I wanted to be Guru Nanak Dev Ji but I never told anyone in case they told me off.

Then for one of our bed time stories my mum told me about tru pralaad. That was a big day for me. I found Bhagti an interesting and almost magical concept as a child. My mum told me there is rab ie God and to get to God u must do bhagati. I must have been about 8 years old when I told my mum not to disturb me as I am going to do intense bhagti. I think that only lasted 2 days. I was really upset when it did not work. Then my mum told me about Bachitar Natak and how long the 10th Guru spent praying and how you cannot get things quickly but you must keep trying. This was also when I learnt about Baba Fareed.

I then spent the rest of my childhood bonding with various figures in our sikh history. The 8th Guru was cool for me cos he was a child Guru and so I used to think he was one of me. I can honestly say my mum taught me many things and its because of her I am Sikh. I don't think I can write it all here but one thing was for sure - before I hit my teens I knew more about Sikhi than the average Amritdhari Sikh. However on the outside I looked like a normal Punjabi girl with my two plaited braids. My hair was never cut but it was never covered.

For the whole family however there was a major turning point when we went on Yatra in India during my teens. I don't think I learnt much on the Yatra but I got to see all the places I had heard about. My mums family were Nihang Singhs so she started to tell me about that heritage. I learnt Gatka from my Mama Ji's in India and got a Bana made too.

I now wanted complete Sikhi roop. Soon after Yatra I therefore stopped having a braided poiny and instead I started wearing Keskhi. This happened when I was in my teens. It was shocking as suddenly I went through a lot of bullying.

Even though I was always Sikh I now had to deal with prejudices amongst other things. I only survived this because I knew so much Sikhi from my Mum. I put up with it and I soon found people respected me and to this day my old school friends call me and tell me how much they look up to me. I remember one of the things I got bullied about was not listening to the same music as them. The saddest thing was that the bullying campaign was led by another Sikh girl who went around telling everyone I was 'sad' for being religious. Some people used to call me Aunty Ji. It wasn't very nice.

University was different. By this time I had matured. Importantly I was confident in handling prejudiced people. I think the biggest thing for me was learning how to advocate myself. In my teens I simply put up with the bullying. Looking back I spent alot of time thinking why they were being mean, when actually I should have shared sikhi and explained philospohical idea's to help them understand. I've now learnt its about educating them cos people make fun of things they don't understand. In my experience I found the white people listened and hence accepted me more.

Nowadays I don't get too wound up on what people think. Everyone is different and sometimes you have to accept some people will never understand. I have not taken Amrit. Lots of people mistake me for an Amritdhari as I live enough of the lifestyle to be an Amritdhari. However I don't want to reach a minimum standard. I want to be the best I can. So I could have taken Amrit ages ago but instead I am waiting for the right moment for when I feel I just need to take it! I have given myself a mini aim and that is to hopefully take Amrit before I am 25....I am 22 now so thats in the next 3 years

wow most people here are from Jalander. Also this thread is kinda cool. I wonder if anyone is from my parts: My family are from Hosiarpur India Punjab but before 1947 we were from Lahore Pakistan Punjab.

I used to have very little hair but now I've started getting a lot of hair. I think its because I am starting puberty later. I literally have had a hair explosion on my arms and legs now. Including random hair in other places! I think everyone has hair so ure not hairy: your normal but u don't remove it! But ure trying to ask will he see that?

If I was in your situation I would bring it up because heartache now is better than later on. Your amritdhari so surely he knows that you don't remove hair. So mention something like I am worried about something and then say basically as I am Amritdhari I keep all my hair. It may seem hairy: would this bother you? Then wait to see what he says.

Also I know this is random but I know this Amritdhari girl who used to bleach and pluck some of her hair too before marriage. She married an Amritdhari guy and she stopped bleaching. We all believe the guy gave her the confidence to take that step. Honestly I cannot tell you how special he must be. So talk to your man and you never know

Trim

Grim lol

Gran

You can tell they went to a lot of effort. Best wishes for the couple to have a chardikala jeevan

Happy Birthday Jio

^^ he preety much summed it all up =]

I think every person whether sikh or not has this feeling at least once in their life...

Veerji once in a while we all get sad and feel low. I've had it happen to me and I assure you that everyone else has gone through it too. From your post it seems you need a new social network...so you need to make new friends. That should solve a lot of your problems!

About the partner thing...in my experience don't look for love. Instead do your normal activities and you'll find someone. Also if she has a problem then she is not the one....so nothing lost because your not after any random person....you want something real!

All I can say is don't worry about it too much. Think about all the stuff you do have, a good job, good health, education, family etc....and remember God is there for you! Attend a Rhensbhai or Kirtan programme and make some new singh friends.

Myself I use ardas as a time to talk to God. Everything else like reading bani and doing kirtan is listening to God and the Guru's message....but during ardas time I have a chat and say how I feel. Does it work? Yes, its just like how reading bani works.

Does it work interms of wishes and wants.....well I don't ask for anything. I believe God will give you the real gift you need at that moment in time without the need to ask as God is all knower.

I would recommend a VAIO. Sony in my opinion is the best quality around. Mac is good too but you always have compatibility problems and thus have to buy additional software. I used to have a HP Bell too. It was the DreamWave edition which is regarded as the best in home entertainment: it crashed so many times! I was always getting it serviced and buying extra insurance. My Sony VAIO laptop I've had for 4 years. It has not once crashed on me, I've never had to emergency restart it ever. Its more than enough for uni too plus I have the best screen to watch my awesome movies on. Sony is my favourite brand. Read around by all means but I would highly recommend a VAIO.

Bunda Ji is correct these lines are from the beginning of Sukhmani Sahib Ji. Therefore Sukhmani Sahib is a prayer to bring peace to ones mind.

Sukh= peace, Man = Mind.

These 4 lines you mentionned are a small part of the prayer, the actual prayer is much longer! The Prayer was written by Guru Arjun Dev Ji and it is said Guru Ji wrote it in response to a request from a devotee who was suffering from physical pain and mental anguish. Listening and meditating to this prayer, restored the devotee to calm and good health.

Here is a youtube link: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Ukjnpzs6BUQ