Six degrees of separation

Is it really true if you were to pick randomly of any name in any phone books of this world, you could actually trace your connection to that person with only six different persons of this world? I wont put this theory to the test but i do know that with social networking web like twitter and facebook, the world has shrunk in size. Im now reconnecting with my old school and college mates and even with my former tutor at law school whom I have not met and seen for years.

But I thought I should post something on this much touted social theory on an incident that I encountered recently. I came to know a person here from one of the balkan states who happened to be married with a canadian whom I met at one of the endless dinner functions that me and my wife attended. She was introduced to us by the wife of the world bank director here. The Director who is a Sri Langkan is one of my golf buddies. One night me and missus bumped into her with her friends, a couple on holiday here from Canada. When we were introduced, I asked the husband of the couple where he worked and he told me that he used to be a police officer. I told him that I used to know a government lawyer, a prosecutor to be exact working in Canada and now she is a judge at the International Tribunal at the Hague. And we were actually good friends but somehow I lost contact. To my surprise, the husband told me that he knew the person I was talking about and in fact he used to work with her in some of the criminal prosecutions they did together. What a small world indeed! but there you go with six different persons I randomly met, I could reconnect with a friend. Of course with the modern days wonder called Facebook, the "mutual friend" button could probably take you to your long lost friend within a click of a button.

But that is not my central thought of the day. This is... With only six different people or six degrees of separation with every person on this planet, we are actually very close to one another than we thought. This may sound corny and idealistic to some, but why the heck do people still hate each other? Okay, I do a have a fair idea on some of the answers. I just thought I wanted to pose that question as my closing thought for this post. Have a good day ahead :-)

babysitting job: my last night

we are now at our favourite hangout at Swensen. My boys' good friend Haidar has been having a sleepover at our house. And today is his last night before we send him home. Haidar's dad Habib, is an Indian businessman who has been living here for years and we have become close friends since the day we arrived here. It so happened that Habib went back to India for a businness trip so I told him that I could take care his son Haidar as he goes to the same school as my eldest son syafiq and they too are good buddies.

My maids told me that they had been awake almost everynight playing pingpong, football and the PS3 only to hit the beds at the wee hours of the morning. As usual the little rascals have been pushing me around literally like a headless chicken from one end of the planet to another. I really have no idea where they got their energy from but they really got me so conked out with all the endless activities they wanted me in, from swimming at our lap pool, playing catch up, football as well as cyclin. Last weekend they got me up onto the ferris wheel at the night market down at the city centre. It was not exactly the kind of theraphy I was expecting from my current malaise that is vertigo. and the worst part was the ferris wheel did seem to spin endlessly as the guy handling the wheel looked gingerly happy looking at my misery. It kept on spinning for a good 8 minutes or so. Had I threw up that night I could swear I would have aimed it at him! really cant wait for missus to get back! Thankfully this is the final night I am all alone babysitting them. Otherwise, I dont think I will live through another day! Honestly.

Babysitting

Since missus is back home for her 2 weeks break, I am left behind to babysit the boys. I caught these pics this morning when they were still fast asleep. Everytime I look at them sleeping looking innocently, I can feel this deep appreciation with all the fortunate blessings that I have received from God the Almighty. Alhamdullilah...Thank you Allah

Sweating it out

Im now at my gym trying to shed those extra fat. Happy to see that they got new equipment.

Last day in luang prabang

just sitting quietly over coffee at the hotel room verandah. Flight is at noon and I need to kill time before i hit the road.

Bear Rescue centre

Day 2