Oman 'arrests hundreds over plot'
[From:http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4209645.stm]

At least 100 suspected extremists have reportedly been arrested in Oman over alleged plans to attack a festival.
The arrests were made over several days across the country, diplomats told Associated Press news agency. A cargo of arms was also reportedly seized.

Oman's al-Hayat newspaper said rumours suggested those arrested had "planned explosions" targeting the cultural festival in the capital, Muscat.

Officials have refused to comment so far but may do so in the next few days.

Accounts of the number arrested vary from 100 to 300. None are thought to have been charged.

Among those arrested were professors in Sultan Qaboos University and the Theology College, many of them known to be fundamentalists, AP reported.

Festival 'boycotted'

Citing information and rumours circulating in the sultanate, al-Hayat said "social and military officials" were among the suspects.

The paper said the authorities had moved against them after a cargo of arms was discovered when the truck carrying them was involved in an accident.

The festival, which began with the start of Eid al-Adha, was "boycotted by Islamists who deem it against the precepts of Islam", al-Hayat added.

More than two million people from Oman and elsewhere are expected to enjoy its shopping, cultural activities, entertainment and sports before it ends on 18 February.

Unlike neighbouring Saudi Arabia, Oman has not witnessed any terror attacks and is not regarded as a potential target for extremists.

In 1994, the Omani authorities announced the arrest of 200 alleged extremists, who were convicted of belonging to a secret, violent group and given sentences ranging from the death penalty to jail terms. They were later pardoned

New Year!! 2005
i think i have not written what i had for the new year. even though it is late, but not too late right.

I start off the new year by praising god after all he makes all possible. Even surrounded by friends and loved ones, even with the music playing and even with the distractions, I can't help but to remember the events that passed and the ones yet to come. To know that for just a night, to try to forget what took the lives of 114,000 people in tusnami and counting is hard for me. I know life goes on...but for now, its in slow mode.

I start this year as a changed person. To think that anything good came out in the year, is to know that this world can get together as one. It also got me closer to God. I've always been close I thought, but I realized today how really far I was. May god forgive all of us, may He give us the guidance that we need to establish ourselves in the right path and the ability to help others.

My parents have always been there. But this year I hope i can be there for them. No question. I need to be a better son. A better brother, a better neighbour and an important a very good friend. I start this year fresh. New start. I started the first few minutes of this new year with my greetings to my parents and than I went to pray. I feel good.

Thanks to all my friends espcially vrushali who were there for me. I hope that this year I can be the same for you. I always say that every year I will change but I think its different this time. I have a feeling!

Anyways, may this 2005 be better for all of us. May it bring LESS calamities and may god make it easier for those who lost everything except their faith in Him.

From My family to yours!!
vineet

Vineet Suthan 

This is Vineet

Pretty women wonder where my secret lies
I'm not cute or built to suit a fashion model's size
but when i start to tell them
they think i'm telling lies
I say
Its in the reach of my arms
the stride of my step
I'm a man
Phenomenally
Phenomenal man
That's me.

I walk into a room
Just as cool as you please,
And to me,
the ladies stand or
Fall down on their knees
Then they swarm around me
A hive of honey bees
I say,
Its the fire in my eyes
And the flash of my teeth
The swing of my body
And the joy in my feet
I'm a man
Phenomenally
Phenomenal man
That's me.

Women themselves have wondered
What they see in me
They try so much
But they can't touch
My inner mystery
When I try to show them
they say they still can't see
I say
Its in the arch of my back
The sun of my smile
The grace of my style
I'm a man
Phenomenally
Phenomenal man
that's me.

Now you understand
Just why my head's not bowed
I don't shout or jump about
Or have to talk real loud
When you see me passing
It ought to make you proud
I say
Its in the sound of my feet
The blend of my hair
the palm of my hand
The need of my care
'cause i'm a man
phenomenally
Phenomenal man
That's me.

Song
i wrote this song for someone specail today and posted in the blog. now i have come here to edit the blog. i guess this is going to my last love song i will write. and this was the most beautiful song i know. now this is the END of my love.


song dedicated to someone specail
(song from WET WET WET:1993)

I feel it in my fingers
I feel it in my toes
Love is all around me
And so the feeling grows
It's written on the wind
It's everywhere I go, oh yes it is
So if you really love me
Come on and let it show
You know I love you, I always will
My mind's made up by the
Way that I feel
There's no beginning,
There'll be no end
'cause on my love you can depend
I see your face before me
As I lay on my bed
I kinda get to thinking
Of all the things you said, oh yes I did
You gave your promise to me and i
Gave mine to you
I need someone beside me
In everything I do, oh yes I do
You know I love you, I always will,
My mind's made up by the
Way that I feel
There's no beginning,
There'll be no end
'cause on my love you can depend
Got to keep it moving
Oh it's written in the wind
Oh everywhere I go, yeah, oh well
So if you really love me, love me, love me
Come on and let it show
Come on and let it show
Come on and let it
Come on and let it (come and let it show, baby)
Come on, come on, come on let it show baby
Come on and let it show
Come on and let it show, baby
Come on and let it show

cya
vineet

Chatting not safe on net!!!

Less than 10%of the people on chat are there for some good clean fun. The rest 90% are there for cyber sex. Let us face it.The next best option seems to be chat. On chat, one can live in a fantasy world. The kind of fantasy one would not dare to live in real life.

There are several chatters. I think they form a microcosm of society. Some have turned out to be good friends over the years and others have left a mark. There have been several cases of affairs and frauds that have taken place due to chat.It definitely is not safe to meet anyone after spending 10 minutes chatting with him or her. But if there is a degree of comfort, there is no harm in meeting at a public place.

Here is a example of one of the encountered by one of the person whom i know:

"I once chatted with a 46-year-old man as myself and then as a 14-year-old schoolgirl. Over weeks I pretended to be a girl and he asked me a lot of weird questions. Finally, he gave me his cell number and we decided to meet.

I went over and found a kind corporate looking man waiting for a girl old enough to be his daughter. I do not know whether he was a closet paedophile but the thought scared me. There must be several men and women out there with a lot of dark thoughts in their minds. The same man used to discuss with me stocks and shares and give me information about business, when I was myself. This amazing incident cleared a lot of questions in my mind about what chat is for many people. it all for sex!!!"

I know a few people who have fallen in love after meeting in chat rooms. And I know of a few affairs that have led nowhere. The options are limitless. When there are no guarantees in marriages that take place after ritual parent interference, what can one say about marriages that takes place through chatting? Maybe in time this is the only way people will meet and get to know each other.

PRECAUTIONS I WOULD GIVE:
Never give out your true identity till you are sure what or whom you are getting involved with. Otherwise it is not dangerous to get to know people on chat.

Beware of Vineet!! he he he
adios
vineet

What is my Future
Last week my friend Thomas, who is my college friend in india got married and this made my mind to think. Now at 25, we have our own seperate lives. Most of us have a career already, some working in regular jobs, some running their own business, and some, like me, are still studyingl. I made a quick count in my head and discovered much to my astonishmnet that there were only few of us who don't have not yet got a job and not married. Everyone else was already 'mommy' or ‘Daddy’ to a little angel.

What have I done with my life in the past 25 years? How come almost everyone has their own families and jobs, while I'm still living at home and still trying to graduate? Is it because I'm taking my time? Or is it because I haven't had a chance to live my own life since my parents still basically control mine? Or is it because I've been brought up to do things only when its the right time like getting married and having jobs? Did I miss out on life? Or am I the one living life to the fullest?

adios amigo
vineet

The stuff of success
The reason my past experiences in blogging have not succeeded, I believe, is simply because it can be a lonely pursuit and that when that is the case, eventually, the returning silence drowns you. You're one of millions in a world where everyone wants to be heard, and you're no more special than the next. The chances of you pulling in a regular crowd lessen as each day passes by and Blogger signs up another thousand.

Many writers jump up and down and state that it doesn't matter whether you are heard, that the blog is for you only, but surely this is just plain bullshit. Why are you writing online if not to be listened to? - to try and draw in a like mind and empathise for even but a brief moment. This is why we do it.

This blog, like all the others I have written over the many years I have been doing this, is potentially doomed for the lack of the above - the empathetic reader. The moment I get that sense I am sitting alone in a field of grass that extends in all directions as far as the eye can see my brain will switch off and so will this. The question is perhaps whether that is more healthy than flogging away in the hope someone will come to love you and revere every line that spurts from your qwerty.

Given the nature of this medium and how it propogates you may well be a blogger, just like me, or you are at least considering it, so this post is aimed partially at you. Why do you read what you do? Do you stick with something for the long term or move on quickly? How many blogs do you read on a daily basis? Are you addicted? Do you ever contact the people whose work you read?

I'm not asking these questions for a response, I really don't have time to return anyway, but I guess I am pro-introspection, and particularly so when it comes to a medium that is so raw and telling. At the moment I myself wonder why I can't stick with any given blog for more than a year, why most blogs get 1, maybe 2, reads from me before I never return, and why for the last couple of months I seem to be riveted to the hapless exploits of reports and assignments which i have to sumbmit and i just believe that i am writing this blog at this busy time.

Ask yourself some questions. Don't lose sleep over it, though.

cheers
vineet