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It’s been a long road, getting from there to here.
It’s been a long time, but my time is finally near.�
And I can feel the change in the wind right now. Nothing’s in my way.�
And they’re not gonna hold me down no more, no they’re not gonna hold me down.

Cause I’ve got faith of the heart.
I’m going where my heart will take me.�
I’ve got faith to believe. I can do anything.�
I’ve got strength of the soul. And no one’s gonna bend or break me.�
I can reach any star. I’ve got faith, faith of the heart.

It’s been a long night. Trying to find my way.
Been through the darkness. Now I finally have my day.
And I will see my dream come alive at last. I will touch the sky.
And they’re not gonna hold me down no more, no they’re not gonna change my mind.

Cause I’ve got faith of the heart.
I’m going where my heart will take me.�
I’ve got faith to believe. I can do anything.�
I’ve got strength of the soul. And no one’s gonna bend or break me.�
I can reach any star. I’ve got faith, faith of the heart.

I’ve known the wind so cold, I’ve seen the darkest days.
But now the winds I feel, are only winds of change.�
I’ve been through the fire and I’ve been through the rain.�
But I’ll be fine …�

Cause I’ve got faith of the heart.
I’m going where my heart will take me.�
I’ve got faith to believe. I can do anything.�
I’ve got strength of the soul. And no one’s gonna bend or break me.�
I can reach any star. I’ve got faith, faith of the heart.�

Cause I’ve got faith of the heart.
I’m going where my heart will take me.
I’ve got faith to believe. I can do anything.
I’ve got strength of the soul. And no one’s gonna bend or break me.
I can reach any star. I’ve got faith, faith of the heart.

Cross-posting to The Siliconstani

If you’re ever in Mountain View and looking for a quick meal, coffee, and FREE Wireless internet then visit Rose Market and Peets Coffee & Tea House at the corner of Castro Street and El-Camino.

Rose Market is a Persian Grocery and Cafe where you get the best Kabob wraps for under $5. They also have other Persian/Iranian dishes, including lamb shank with rice.

Next door to Rose Market is a Peets Coffee where you can get your espresso or latte drink. In addition they have FREE Wireless internet.

Now you can enjoy lunch while at the same log into your corporate network and remain productive while away from the office.

The sands of my true origins, are trying friend to call me home.
Yet Home, where the Heart Is Lodged, is not to me clearly known.
Because the Heart belongs in dirt, the deserts of my seductions,
is Home then merely Pak-o-Hind, or my Literal Origin? (*)

This I ask of you my dear, O you reader of these lines.
What do you think brings you here? Messages are all divine.
Every moment is a portent, every event is a sign.
Words you read are meant for you, don’t you say that these are mine!

Can past accomplishments but measure, what the future may behold?
The stuff of stars can become me, babies one day become old..
What then says that I can not, in true-ness to my own desire,
take this soul and say BECOME, and become not Noor untold? (**)

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(*) Pak-o-Hind is a valid name of the Indo-Pak Sub-Continent, my motherland. The ‘deserts’ could be BurningMan, or Rajistan, or Arabia. Do U wish to know?

(**) Noor is the same word in Arabic as Luz is in Spanish: inner illumination. We see this as the halo shown around saints in old paintings. This halo exists within us all to varying degrees, as V R nothing but Noor in our true essence.

Melancholy Moods, my gifts of nature are..
hiding in their breasts, wonders though they scar -
my fingers and mind, as the pen continues on..
and my Melancholy Moods, gift me wisdom when they’re gone.
-
I write better as I drive, inspiration deeper still.
Free my inspiration flows, when the mind has had its fill,
and reacts unknowing with its outlets unconfined..
as my Melancholy Moods show me ‘knowing’ I then find..
-
amazingly oh!@@? amazing so! Why does inspiration flow -
when in melancholy mode, the pen takes over, I let go?
What key melancholy holds, letting out what’s locked inside?
Why is inspiration linked - to my deeper, inner glow?
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I wish joy could know the ‘knowing’ feelings melancholy bring.
So then being joyous moi, I’d let inner wisdom sing..
And inspire and rejoice, though I realize - what’s true,
that in Melancholy Moods, is wisdom mine coming through.

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  Today, Friday August 1st a number of  Calfriends and I met for our weekly TGIF FRIDAY CLUB at STRAITS RESTAURANT (http://straitsrestaurants.com) in Santana Row While looking over the menu,  my eyes fell upon an interesting item: ROTI JOHN.

Roti John, is a sandwich inspired by some legendary guy named John who apparently while in Singapore was over come with nostalgia for a sandwich from back home. Goes out in search of a bistro or deli like place, ends up at one the many street side hawkers and custom orders a sandwich made from Asian bread or Roti, omelet, and vegetables.

The hawker, a Malaysian Muslim had the entrepreneurial savviness to brand this sandwich as ROTI JOHN that apparently became the talk around town.

I couldn’t order ROTI JOHN since it’s only served for lunch, however the name alone inspired me to share this on WadiBlog, not to mention having a mouth watering ring to it.

I wonder how many times we go through life where because of our impulsiveness, urges, desires to do or eat something we, without realizing inspire someone with a great idea.

Entrepreneurship isn’t something you learn in school, or can read up in ENTREPRENEURSHIP FOR DUMMIES.I doubt anyone taught this Muslim Hawker about how to look out for a good idea, or how to market and brand the idea, no?

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San Francisco, 6/1: Russell Peters, the comedy superstar in much of the world, having built a massive underground following completely by word of mouth. For the past few years he’s been selling out theatres across the US and Canada, all without ever appearing on network television in the United States was visiting the San Francisco Bay over the weekend. Tonight is his last performance at Cobbs Comedy Club.

Here is a sneak peak for those unfortunate ones who weren’t able to secure tickets…

The Tragedy of TIME. (Fear written in, upon realizing my limitations: 1993)

The TIME I don’t have - the time I don’t have..
deterring me from LOVE itself, is but the time I don’t have.

What I would do, to be with you - to teach you, guide you, help you through.
What I would pay to hold your hand - my legs would crumble, help me stand.
What I would give to see your sighs - to hear your laughter and your cries..
to share with you the little time - I WISH I HAD, that I don’t have….

When comes the day I EARN this time: I’ll fly your way, to CLAIM you mine..
and there DISCOVER - to my horror - that there is time, that YOU don’t have..

[The piece above bothered me to no end. I desired a way to undo the spell
of those sorry words. What came below, in Nov ‘04, -while playing with my firstborn- was a birthday present pre-packaged as a self-realized response:]

The Ecstasy of TIME! (Fear transmuted as the Power of Letting Go took hold.)

The time I do have, ooh, the time I DO have!
BRINGING to me LOVE itself, is but the time I DO have.

The work I do, the time I earn - is all done to be with you.
The things I yearn, and all I learn - are just better done with U!
The gift YOU are, All-Thanks is not, enough said for knowing You!
The Path is now so very clear - a loss for words you put me to!

The day has come I LEARN that time, is only what I DO with mine.. ~!~
.. and here discover, to my honor- that HERE is TIME, that I can have!

I now think of me as I am..
a maturing thought - yet realizing itself.
I have always seen myself as I envision -
a reality coming about in its own time.
Altering destiny in its wake, more than the story of me.
It’s beyond what we see; the story of a past yet to be.
~
I remember, as a child, wanting the non-existant..
desiring toys uninvented, that were to become my tools.
Wanting to play with model airplanes, and the mind,
with flight simulators and grand opponents, strategizing.
I recall longing for that chess partner, no longer around.
And friends distant I wish I could chat with, and confound!
~
And I look back and realize that my dreams are -
no longer dreams anymore. So many of them.
My dreams have the ability to alter reality, see?
So many toys I have today are the result of wishes.
So many joys of mine are outcomes of dreams -
and these dreams - children of desires screamed!
~
I remember grieving over the Commodore 64.
And now what do I play with? Mac OS X galore!
Windows 3.1 showed possibility, but left me wanting more.
So I asked for it to change, and it became Vista via M.E!
I desired the means to share thoughts across time,
and now we have the web & blogging, beyond MIME.
~
I remember missing my baby sister, beloved she.
And now I am blessed to be father to a her and a he!
So now that I know that my dreams create -
they create the future and the history of time..
Why don’t I employ them to Liberate -
our beautiful future, beyond the curtain blind?
~
Help the new age that arrives, as yours and mine,
straight from Sublimity, through intention divine!
Which we are! You can see: it is so! Here are we.
And my desire -my burning need- I say is One.
I wish to attain that single most worthy of goals..
I seek to KNOW -to remain in union with- ALL *.*
~
So that when I go, its not so much a departure..
as it is an arrival - to the place of my desires.
And what, do you ask, is the place of my desires?
It is the state of connectedness to the source of ALL *.*
And what do you think I mean by these elusive words?
I mean exactly what Rumi meant, when he spoke of being more.
~~
*.* = All-Wisdom, All-Grace, All-Knowing, All-Love!

1. Trendr
2. Kluster
3. Twiddla
4. Muxtape
5. Bricabox

Trendr

A snazzy trend tracking website. You can track # of blog posts from googleblogs or technorati, stock tickers, particular job queries in specific cities on craigslist and monster, google news items, amazon sales ranks, number of Ebay auctions, flickr photos for specified query, stats for a particular video and the list goes on. You can also track custom data sets by uploading by hand or using their API.

Most interesting to me is the ability to collects stats from a given profile in myspace such as –Number of Friends, Number of Comments, and Profile Views Per Day. Now granted this does not have facebook yet but it is the beginning of tools that are slowly getting us closer to being able to measure influence on social networks, and perhaps new business models around social rank (see Sanford Dickert’s notes from NYC Bar Camp 3).

But do have fun with this tool too. For example check out the number of times the youtube song called I have a crush on Obama got favorited.

Kluster

Introduced by founder Ben Kaufman as an online decision making and collaboration platform that can be used to facilitate large group decision-making during product development, marketing/advertising initiatives, and event planning. Any kluster member can login as a user and then start or participate in a project which meets their skills. A spark is an idea on how to proceed further. While an amp is a suggestion or a refinement.

A highly interesting biz idea and even greater potential for the many startups out their who can use it. I’m going to start one of my app ideas out there as a project to see if user contribution is valuable. Since I am good at ideas but not a designer, I’d love some design feedback. Lucky for me since Ben told me that most of the 10k members of the site they got in the 3 weeks since launch are designers.

Twiddla

A few weeks ago when my partners and I were trying to mindmap our site flow ideas needed to be thought out by one person and emailed for comments or if done on spot we had to wait until 1 person finished his changes before another could make some. If we tried making changes simultaneously google doc and mindomo discarded someone’s changes.

Online meetings just weren’t as fast as each of our thinking. Too much waiting around, which as most of you know means a loss of great ideas since the rest of the team couldn’t see and build on all the individual ideas. I prayed for some way more efficient then this.

Twiddla is the answer to many my prayers. A whiteboarding service at it core, but one with the ability to co-browse. No more telling partners to go to the link, do x to see what I mean. With cobrowsing we can all be on the same page or mind map or photo or site template and simply mark it up. To check it out you don’t even have to sign in, you can work as a guest.

Muxtape

I wanna share my music tastes with this new guy I am dating, but I don’t necessarily want him to hear some of the trance I listen to every day. Passing on my pandora or lastfm login names will mean doing exactly that. But now with muxtape I can easily create and share mixtapes online of songs I know might work for him (without damaging his impressions of me). Once created he can click on any particular song or listen to all 12 tracks in each playlist in the order I place them.

Heck once Muxtape offers a link to itunes and a commission for my forwarding ppl to itunes I might even be able to make some money. A great way for me to make money of my recommendations and a great way to see if this guy I’m dating is worth it.

Brickabox

Is a platform where one can easily create one’s own social content site in mins. There are some premade templates for web review sites, mashup sites, video review sites etc. You can also create your own layout from scratch. Great tool for new organizations. The only other thing I could wish for would be an interface that connects with facebook.

Until next time. Love, Spunky

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Just discovered this:

http://damnsmalllinux.org/

Interesting…anyone used this? Comments? Input? Gotchas? This-is-cooler-than-sliced-bread’s?