It has been a while!!!!

It has been a while since my last post, a lot of changes to Maldives as well as to whole world within last 4 years.

Some are good and some are bad changes (some are really bad). Even though we liked it or not.

Power Struggle in every aspect of life, environmental disasters, scary diseases and so on left scars on the planet earth.

So i decided to enjoy every moment of my life. I have decided not involve in power struggle by any means and help people around me to make there life easier. 

Best of Luck Gabbe

Abdul Gafoor Ali (Gabbe) to sail around Maldives in a catamaran within 23 days. Best of Luck

Release Shauna now!!!!!!!

http://www.kansascity.com/2012/07/13/3704346/former-missouri-student-jailed.html

Pole and line fishing in Maldives

Tuna fishermen, Maldives 

Pole and line fishing is one of the only true sustainable fishing methods on the planet with almost no by-catch. It allows the fishermen to be more selective and therefore more sustainable way to catch tuna as only fish of a certain size are caught, leaving juveniles to grow to spawning age and replenish the stock in the future.  See link.
http://www.intrafish.no/global/pictures/article248377.ece?imagenumber=0 

A Season of “Ambergris” to Maldives

Maldives and Ambergris have a long history together. It has been ages since it is a habit to some Maldivian every day morning to walk on the beaches of the islands looking for ambergris that will make them rich in just seconds.

What really is ambergris? “A wax like substance that originates as a secretion in the intestines of the sperm whale, found floating in tropical seas and used in perfume manufacture”

For the last three or four months, we locals have seen many news headlines that involves an ordinary citizens found many kilo grams of ambergris. Not from the capital city but from islands and most of them are fishermen who spend their days on the sea. Some are wise enough to find out the real price of the piece and sell it and others not so brave to look for the “actual” price instead they go for the “trusted” buyer and sell it to a price that is just a small price of the actual value. There are also cases that will need to be solved through justice system and I think there are still cases pending that involve ambergris.

Now matter of the actual value, within the last four months, we Maldivian have found 7 ambergris and that gave them a chance to earn around 100 million Rufiyaa in cash.

My intension to write this post is not to ramble about ambergris. But I was just wondering how these people will spend this sudden income they earn. If I am not wrong, some decides to do the religious necessities and others spend that money to build a new home and many more.

But how many of these ordinary households use this huge bulk of money to invest it in a way that will long last for their life time. Because the amount is that big, if they are wise they might not have to work for the rest of their lives.

I would love to see a success story about these ordinary citizens who are lucky to find ambergris and that change their lives for better. I hope a journalist to cover such story and let us read it in a near future from a news source.

I hope they will not use all the bundles of cash to build a luxurious room with the most expensive bedroom set and an expensive sound system only.

Maldives Tourism

notes on tourism: Tourism: Tourism or tourism is a journey undertaken for recreation or pleasure, and the preparations for this activity. A tourist or a touri...

Jism 2 - Song by Unoosha

Traphic Jam - Bagaavai

Human ethics and their problems
As I've been watching a discussion about a completely different topic (weight), there also was a vegan who argued that all animals were almost as intelligent as humans and thus we should not eat them.

The problem I have with vegans and vegetarians as such, is one of morale and ethics. The way I see it we, the humans that is, are just animals as well. We are intelligent, that is true, but intelligence is our means of survival, nothing more. Other animals are not as intelligent as we are - at least the way we define it. I seriously doubt that - and not because of what the scientists say, but because the way I see it, only intelligent beings survive on the globe we call earth (and yes, I know our planet is rather an egg than a globe, but usually people call it a globe).

Vegetarians declare it wrong to eat meat - and usually not because of health, but because of morals. Vegans even go one step further, they declare it wrong to use any kind of animal product, including milk, eggs, honey or even leather - because of morals, too. If I could ask any predator on earth (and biologically speaking we are predators, too, we eat meat, we have 'fangs' - though not very strong ones - and we originally had a lifestyle based on hunting animals … and eat fruits, vegetables, roots and so on in addition), they would only say "so what" when faced with the fact of their prey being intelligent and able to feel pain or joy as well. They don't lack intelligence, they only lack morale. And I don't think they're unhappy because of it.

funny hahhhhn

Very Nice pics

Snorkeling in Maldives

Snorkeling in Maldives is increasingly gaining momentum, as it gives an opportunity to even those people, who cannot dive or do not feel enthusiastic about trying diving, to enjoy the wonderful underwater life by simply wearing a mask and fins. Read on to know more about snorkeling sport in Maldives… 

These days, most of the hotel resorts are making provision for snorkeling. The calm waters around the coral islands of Maldives make snorkeling very easy. The superb visibility of the sea, the credit for which goes to its crystal clear waters, enables you to witness the underwater life as you snorkel. 

Snorkeling allows you to become a part of nature and glance at the colorful fishes that flock around the hotel resorts in the lagoons. The best part about snorkeling is that it makes you feel the depth of the world lying beneath you and it is something that really astonishes people. Maldives is considered to be one of the best destinations for snorkeling in the world.

New Maldives & Anni

Mohamed Nasheed (Dhivehi: މުހައްމަދު ނަޝީދު) (born May 17, 1967) been elected as President of the Maldives following election in October 2008.Mohamed Nasheed got 54% of the vote in the Maldives' first free elections.

He is commonly referred to in the Maldives as Anni and is a former member of Parliament for Malé. Nasheed is also the founder and the presidential candidate of the Maldivian Democratic Party who have successfully won the majority of the votes in the election held on 28th October, 2008, thus the current Maldivian President-elect for the next five years. He is an outspoken critic of the Maldivian President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom and his policies. Due to his criticism of the government, over the years he was arrested and sentenced several times.

Wathan Edhey Gothah

We have heard ad nauseam that MDP does not have capable leaders. Such a slight could have perhaps been plausible about a month back, before the party formed a coalition with Gaumee Itthihaad Party. And now with the formation of the 'Wathan Edhey Gothah…' coalition, the accusation borders on the ridiculous.

Today while the ruling team also has capable leaders, Wathan Edhey team can credibly match them man for man. To illustrate this, let us compare possible choices for some key cabinet positions. Such a comparison can only be hypothetical because the size and shape of the future cabinet is unlikely to be the same as at present, even if DRP wins the election. Further it is difficult to predict who will be offered cabinet posts and who will accept. Keeping these limitations in mind, here are some possible pairs.

Education:

• Dr. Waheed
  


• Zahiya Zareer

Health:

• Ilyas
  


• Dr. Aminath Jameel

Trade and Tourism

• Ali Hashim
  


• Yamin
  

Fisheries

• Dr. Hussein Rasheed
  


• Dr. Fathin Hameed

Islamic Affairs

• Mohamed Rasheed Ibrahim
  


• Dr. Abdul Majeed

Legal Reform:

• Mohamed Nasheed
  


• Dr. Hassan Saeed

Attorney General

• Azima
  


• Dhiyana Saeed

Justice

• Dr. Jameel
  


• Ahmed Zahir

Atolls

• Thasmeen
  


• Dr. Mustafa Luthfee

Finance

• Qasim
  


• Jihad

Environment

• Dr. Mausoom
  


• Dr. Mohamed Ali
  

External Affairs

• Dr. Shaheed
  


• Abdullah Shahid

Planning

• Hamdhoon Hameed
  


• Abdul Bari Abdullah

Youth

• Dr. Aishath Shiham
  


• Hamid Abdul Ghafoor
  

It's the people who will decide on the 28^th which team they want.

Note: The above is not an exhaustive list of all possible ministries or all possible candidates.

Source from Abdullah Waheed 's Blog

The Hulhumale’ Condominium-A new concept

The Hulhumale’ Condominium is a project that will erect an eight-story condominium block with a total of 116 units, on a currently vacant 7,000 sq m site located at Hulhumale’. This is going to be an exemplary evolution to the Maldives. This will be the first condominium concept building at the Maldives as well the first “high class” residential building.The condominium will include a full range of facilities including a pool, well-equipped gymnasium, tennis court, fitness stations, a modern clubhouse and underground parking space. Thankyou Gasim. 

Melamine Fears- Milk with Melamine

It started with China then it spreads everywhere! The Melamine Scare is now everywhere! I don’t understand why there are people in the world who sacrifice the lives of young people just to gain a lot of money. Imagine the reason of the two culprits who put melamine on the leading milk in china for babies was to make a great quantity of milk to produce and released in the market. They didn’t even consider the fact that babies will be the one who will be affected by this irresponsible decision to gain. The effect is the whole China business and products made in China were greatly affected. With the previous Toy scandal, canned good meat scandal, other bad image about China’s products and this, melamine scandal will be the worst of its kind scandal that will really kill the industry of China. All over the world, from US, Canada, Asian countries and other places in the world started to question and even recalled the products of China from their stores. Some (or majority) of the countries even banned Chinese foods due to this melamine issue. Tsk! This will be a great problem for them to face for so many years and it will be very hard for them to recover. Even they put the culprits to firing squad, the effect and damage made were already done. They just can’t undo it.

Another problem with this baby milk scandal is that even baby milk that does not use raw products from China were affected. A domino effect. Every milk in the world were questioned and people don’t know now which milk they should give to their children. Which greatly affected the milk industry in the world. That’s why lately, different milk companies made media press releases claiming that they are not using China milk for their products.

Melamine is a chemical substance used to produce a plastic called melamine resine by combining formaldehyde. High level of melamine intake causes fatal kidney stones and with a young age, babies is not that resistant to this kind of toxicity in the body. That’s why there’s a lot of fatality in China caused by this melamine milk.

There are no really safe place on earth right now. I am just praying that this things come to end and may God do something to make things right and safe for us.

Do the setting & send MMS on iPhone

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I happen to have an iPhone and it has been months i'm using it [it is necessary i mentioned that]. I don't wanna be rude or anything like that but the TV show name 'Fahimagu' on local TV is spitting out wrong information on certain things like GPRS/EDGE and MMS in iPhone [with all due respect]. Well, i'm not going to givva detailed report on what they have blabbered about but certainly a step by step on setting up a third party app called SwirlyMMS for iPhone.

SwirlyMMS is developed by Mats Berggrund and Tommy Sevensson on the late December 2007. I'm currently running version 0.2.2 of this app, which was the update on the January 17, 2008. Until today this app is running smooth as silk and yet it is only possible to send MMS as receiving is not developed so far.

Anyways here's some information you will need to do the settings to be able to send MMS using your iPhone. Following details is based on my experience in this matter. Aand this is only when your carrier is Dhiraagu as i'm using that [duhhhh!]

Here you go!!

1. Install the SwirlyMMS using the Installer. [You need to have Community Sources added to your installer sources]
2. Run the SwirlyMMS and tap the Settings on the right-bottom corner. See the image below;

3. On the Settings page you will have to enter the following as in order;

MMSC and Proxy Server Settings
MMSC: mmsc.dhimobile.com.mv
Proxy: 172.24.97.4:8080 [i had a tough time to figure out this, thanks to 123] :P

MMS-specific APN Settings
APN: internet.dhimobile
Username: [leave this blank]
Password: [leave this blank too]

Image size: You have a 5 options but best recommended is Medium.

4. When you are done entering as above tap on Save located on your Left-top corner.

5. Now you are good to go to try sending your first MMS. Tap New MMS on right-top corner. Now you will see the page to enter aTitle, To and File as in the below image.
6. Just give any title you want and tap the blue '+' to select the contact you want to send this MMS to and then finally the image [sound slips and so on are not yet possible to send] you want to send then tap the blue send button.

7. You can let me know if it works by posting a comment on this. :)
8. Make a Donation to the developers by going to Info located on the left-bottom corner when you open the application. [You can always skip this option though.. ;-)]

When you want to delete your sent MMS history, go to Settings like you did before and scroll down to see the enormous RED button - tap on it. :)

That's it for the SwirlyMMS. But one thing, GPRS/EDGE works perfectly from day one i started using iPhone, that was in September 2007. O_o

Word Cloud of Presidential Q&A 2008 of Maldives