July 22, 2007
This image of Haneef in police custody could become a very very significant image in the days to come, once the verdict is announced.
Some of the banners held in protest/support of haneef included..
”Reckless with a SIM? Arrest Shane Warne?”,
”Howard: 600,000 Iraqis killed, Haneef: One SIM card lent”
”I’ve lend my SIM card, arrest me too”.
July 22, 2007
Mohammed Haneef, an Indian doctor from bangalore, residing in gold coast, Australia after spending a stint in UK, has been dominating the newspaper headlines for the last few days, for all the wrong reasons.
The reasons being he was related to 2 people, suspected in UK terrorist attacks. He left a SIM card for their perusal.
In the wake of crumbling evidence against him, it would be foolish to assume Haneef is innocent. We will have to wait and watch whether the government can provide further evidence, which they could have kept confidential so far. No problems with that.
But what is sad and highly worrying the way the Oz government handled things is the way it smashed the basic tenet a legal system is bound to follow. “Presumption of innocence until proved guilty”
The public prosecutor has “presumed guilt until proved innocent”.
The implications it has for me personally.. If I book one-way flight tickets for my marriage, jus because there is a very good flight deal on that particular date, and If I had chatted with yahoo a few days before with a buddy while exchanging a couple of photos about sydney’s AMP tower or harbour bridge, the Australian federal police can arrest me on a hitch or an itch (or a suspicion), they could keep me under arrest without a charge jus asking me questions, they could smear my photographs across on all newspapers, rendering permanent damage to my character profile all across the world, detain me, cancel my visa and then when there is no evidence or substantial evidence, they could simply deport me and wash their hands clean. So much for australia’s anti-terror laws.
And if I take australian citizenship as I am planning to, there is no deportation in question. So I could be f**ked. Done and dusted and smeared for life!
PS: Haneef is not innocent quite yet. Lets wait and watch how australia plays this out.
July 20, 2007
I am going to write crap but that crap of bull shit is dedicated to Deepak, who seem to have clung onto some vain hope, that I will visit this page again. Deepak.. udunnit.
It has been 6 months and what a long 6 months it has been. It has been a work tinged and romance touched journey and I would be failing in my duties if I dont provide you some spicy details about the latest love of my life.
She is sleek, sexy & romantic. And fair. Gorgeously fair. I end up speaking to her for nearly 1 hour everyday, she never tires of me. She enjoys my touch so much I have to gently prod her each time I need her to do something. We share the bed and I have changed so much, I dont wake up in the morning unless I hear her ’sweet voice’
Shez the all new Dopod D810 (Bah…. men are always men 
), a fantastic PDA phone I bought recently.
Now for all the IPhone fans.. dopod is a company unheard of. But this phone is the best phone I have had so far and trust me, this will go a long way. I have not been a great deal brand conscious and by all accounts, I could be justified.
Its a PDA phone on very similar lines to the O2 atom or Jagsam. It has got a nice touch screen interface and stylus running windows mobile 5. It has got all the PDA stuff like the word, excel, power point etc and stuff like calendar and hand written notes which are cool. No QWERTY keyboard to add bulkiness, it has got a virtual keyboard. Hotmail, Outlook email and exchange server to connect to. Being a windows OS, I can install custom applications like skype and yahoo. I can connect to my home wireless router and browse via Internet explorer. It has got Windows media player through which I can create playlists and library. GPRS (HSPDA which is high speed GPRS), WLAN yada yada.
All OK. Its supposed to have all that.
But the thing I fell in love with that.. and I have been head on heels since then is the GPS! Fucking Awesome.. the beauty comes with an inbuilt GPS chip and GPS reciever (the morons at 3 dont give you a GPS enabled ROM for reasons I couldnot fathom, but its not that easy to crack, have been in a windows world.. cracking should be easy). So I could download maps on the Internet for free (yes.. cracked version again) and roam around australia (or anywhere in the world.. but india excluded) and have a map in hand. I travelled to Sydney recently and I didnot have to struggle to find places. The phone was great when it said ‘turn left in 200 metres’. it was jus awesome.
Now the good part where it really scores over its competitor, the Nokia N95.. battery life. Awesome battery. With GPS.. it easily lasts a day, gets upto a day and a half. No GPS.. nearly 3 days of light usage and 2.5 days of moderate to heavy usage. (1 hour of talk time everyday and 5 SMSes)
I have been head on heels so much so the other love of my life is getting furious.. he he. Will upload pics very soon. Pics of the dopod I mean. 
A raikkonen win this weekend would be sweeeeeeeeeeeet , might make me blog again.
