Balait_da_Sher

SSA update from me, since posting in this topic on "14 April 2012 - 10:02 AM", I have been eating ok and exercising a lot more. Also taken up, squash. I have now gone down 1 dress size, from XL to L :D Balait.

I meant to reply to this the other day, apologies for the delay. Having worked as a software engineer for a number of years I can tell you that IT is not the greatest. Money can be good but the work is always quite demanding, unless you are working in a small IT department where there are not many IT challenges. If you go down the engineering route then you will have to continuously upgrade your skills and also deliver what is required. Downside of engineering is that experience is required now days. Even if you have the qualifications, employers want some experience. With experience, you can find plenty of jobs but there is always the danger of jobs being outsourced. If you go down the analytical route, then you could become a project manager, business analyst etc. I would recommend this route for you as your Law degree will provide you some benefit here and may even help you move ahead of other candidates. If it was up to me, I would be doing something else right now which has a lot more interaction with people. 1) How difficult/what type of maths is in the courses, eg. computer science? I don't have A-level Maths, but I have a GCSE grade B. I havnt had to do too much maths. If you do a degree in Software engineering then you will be required to do some maths but most IT jobs dont require complex maths unless you are working for a financial organisation. 2) How can I pick which course is right for me and how can I know if I am cut out for it beforehand? No idea, you have to pick what sounds interesting to you. Report writing (meeting clients, writing reports, attending meetings) or Coding? 3) What are job prospects like? They can be quite good with some experience and depending on how good you are. Most engineering job interviews contain a technical test which if you ace then the job is pretty much yours. Good luck.

SSA So, I always suffered from this, I learnt to tie pagh myself so always struggled with style etc. My dastars usually look quite nice but I always end up tying them too tight. Not only do my hair get pulled but its also quite painful sometimes. I am always trying to improve my pagh style so I figured i would share the best method I found of tying a typical pagh which is going to be much more stronger than the usual one. First step is to purchase this or one that matches the colour of your pagh. http://www.bandana-w...nnet-black.html The back of it is a bit open so you can put a headbandand then tie the bandana so that no hair are visible from the back. Then it is a simple matter of wapping the pagh from left to right and job done. Because the last step of pulling the first larr out from the back to cover the middle part is avoided, the strength of the pagh is much more that it would have been otherwise and the shape also remains pretty good. I found that, two or three wraps above this bandana do the job really well. I am posting this because, a lot of youngsters have trouble tying dastars and this is a very quick way of tying one. It takes me around 3-4 minutes to get a really nice looking dastar tied. Any comments / suggestions, please reply.. Balait.

you guys could try clearing your brwoser cache. see if that works.

Thanks for the replies guys. SikhiStore, what size and quality did you order? The biggest is 'Grand' for premium canvas.

fateh all, I am in the process of purchasing my first house and was thinking of some new paintings for the lounge. I remebered we once had a skin on sikhsangat.com made from one of the visakhi pics. It was really inspiring. http://www.artofpunjab.com/mai-bhago-and-the-forty-liberated-ones/ Just look at the above painting. How can someone not be inspired with that? I want to purchase two but I always end up having buyer's remorse when I spend a lot of money. So I want to make sure I get the right paintings. Have you bought any? Which one did you buy and what do you think of the quality. I really want the large premium canvas one but they are quite expensive so don't want to think I spent too much on them when the cheaper one would have been equally good. Balait

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/yosemite-extends-hantavirus-warning-as-death-toll-rises-8117342.html Yosemite National Park doubled the scope of its hantavirus warning today to some 22,000 visitors who may have been exposed to the deadly mouse-borne disease as the number of confirmed cases grew to eight and a third death was reported. US officials recently sounded a worldwide alert, saying that up to 10,000 people were thought to be at risk of contracting hantavirus pulmonary syndrome after staying at the popular Curry Village lodging area between June and August. As many as 2,500 of those individuals live outside the United States, US health officials said. Officials are concerned that more Yosemite visitors could develop the lung disease in the next month or so because the virus may incubate for up to six weeks after exposure. The warning was expanded to roughly 12,000 additional visitors to the park's more remote High Sierra Camps, after an eighth case of the illness was confirmed in a man who had stayed in tent cabins at three of those camps. He also had stayed in a tent cabin at the Tuolumne Meadows Lodge and had camped in the wilderness - all locations in the park's high country, Yosemite spokesman Scott Gediman said. His symptoms were so mild that he never went to a hospital, but after hearing about the outbreak he was tested, and laboratory results confirmed yesterdat that he had been ill with the disease, Gediman said. The seven other confirmed victims are all believed to have contracted the virus while staying in one or more of the 91 insulated "Signature" tent cabins in Curry Village, located at a lower-elevation area of the park. The 91 Curry Village tent cabins were shut down after deer mice were found infesting the double walls of the structures. Officials in Yosemite, a fabled national park destination in California whose scenic vistas, hiking trails and wildlife draw some 4 million visitors a year, did not previously consider the High Sierra Camps to be at risk for hantavirus. Those camps will remain open, based on recommendations from public health officials, Gediman said, adding, "We do inspections, and we try to keep the rodents out. It's impossible to say every tent cabin is rodent-proof. That's impossible." He estimated that a few hundred notices also were being sent to individuals who still had reservations to stay at the High Sierra Camps before they close for the season on September 17.

Maybe he thought that he would be able to handle the situation however I agree with you totally. The inability of our leaders to step aside and allow the right person to do the job has kept our community back.

Companieshouse website shows that the registered address for that company number is in staffordshire. http://wck2.companieshouse.gov.uk/6b83d48493382c49c1df45174fa2c96c/compdetails As they say, Sounds too good to be true, it probably isn't

At the bottom of this page you have the "Change Theme" option which has a skin "IP.Board.Mobile". Can you not select that from your mobile device? I shall do a test from my tablet as I prefer the full skin when using my XOOM tablet.

If you have customer service experience then treat the interview as you were helping a customer. Also make sure when you are doing the interview you are standing as I read that it relaxes you. http://reorg.co/the-key-to-a-successful-phone-interview-dress-up-and-stand-up-2011-05/

Waheguru, It really saddens me when I hear that our community is still being prosecuted. I think its time we stopped fighting amongst ourselves and became a kaum of shers for real as we are no longer that. We need to come up with solutions as it seems we dont learn any lessons from such events and talk about them for a while and then forget until the next one comes along.

Benti, please keep all discussions directly related to this issue in the following topic http://www.sikhsangat.com/Index.php?/topic/67717-shooting-at-gurdwara/

Guys, lets stick to the topic and not begin arguing amongst ourselves. Welldone Singhstah.

I was going to post the same. If you are a sikh woman and dont wear a dastar then the law should apply. It is quite simple really.

I have nothing against people believing what they want and I dont think any sikh of Guru Granth sahib jee has either. But there is a famous saying, "you cannot cross the ocean with one foot in one boat and another in the other boat." I find that this is what the followers of these babbes are doing. They are trying to take aspects of sikhi whilst following these babas. Majority of the time, these babbes advocate sikh practises to gain more followers. This whole situation can be compared to people buying chiense knock-off goods, they may look the same, feel the same but they will break when you need them the most.

The story of bhoomiya chor comes to mind. When he met Guruji, Guruji didnt say confess your past deeds and go tell all the people who you robbed from. But instead Guruji gave bhoomiya some rules to follow which lead him to reform his life and also change the life of many others.I would say that, you do the same, do seva, seek forgiveness and inspire others. We all make mistakes and have moments of weakness, so dont be too harsh on your self. Unfortunatly, the environment we live in, makes it too easy for us to stray from the path. The fact that you are feeling guilty only shows that you are still connected to sikhi. I think a befitting punishment for you would be to teach people punjabi or maybe teach english to non-speakers at the gurdwara sahib.

You already have been given good advice in above posts so i wont repeat. I will leave you with few quotes from the movie I watched last night "The only real faliure is the failure to try" "The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing"

Sikhs have always fought injustice and the treatment of minorities from 1947 - present only shows that sikh grievances against the indian government are justified. If I was the pm and as per your scenario if a hindu had killed a sikh leader and there was chances of backlash against hindus then I would have sent the army to protect them. If the whole issue was personal as was the case with rajiv gandhi then I would have sorted out the perpertraters my self. What the government did and has done since shows that sikhs are expendble. Take USA for example, thousands of their citizens died due to terrorist on 911, how many american muslims ded in the backlashes? That my friend is a true democracy.

I think this got more coverage because it was directly related to a high profile event, so the two are not the same. However, I do agree with your comment about re-engineering our approach to raising awareness.

I will sort out the gallery soon. Please continue to post in this thread and also post in the gallery. Reason being that threads disappear out of view after a while so we need to have a common and organised place to keep historical images. Lets build a resource of sikhi based items which people will find useful. I have added the Gallery feature to the forum, I can add a download feature too which will let us upload ebooks and other stuff.

http://www.sikhsanga...x.php?/gallery/ I have installed a photo gallery, please post in here too. I will create an album called "Historical Photos" Please use the following URL at http://www.sikhsangat.com/Index.php?/gallery/album/2-historical-photos/ for the historical photos.

If they expect your parents to be strong financially to help then they should first be strong themselves to not need help. Whilst asking for help is not a bad thing, insisting someone is able to help is. I don't think the boy or his parent's attitude is good and yes they are asking for a dowry. If they don't ask for it now, then you can be sure that in future a situation will arise where they will expect your parents to give them money and if they cant then they will not be happy with you or your parents.

bah, i dont understand people leaving tasks which they will need help with till the last minute. If you PM me what issue you are having, I will forward you my email address and you can send any attachments to it. I will have a look at your code and see if I can fix it. I have Visual studio 2008 and 2010 at home but dont know if I bothered installing VB as I program in C#.

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