Okay then, I wont be writing up a lot on here as there isn’t much to show on here as it is more to do with what I achieve out of this BBC Archive project which is a part of my assignment.
The BBC Archive is all about information being collected ever since 70 years ago which could be more useful for the future and remember the culture of how it was in the past, and also how we could learn from the past and things we persons today haven’t seen anything like it before.
So I have a group to work with,which will help make a video towards our BBC Archive project vid(wahey-hey) as I can not wait to work on it…:-D
We have an idea on what our project will be on but its quite complicating to actually mention it on here but in short words it is Football/Religion Culture mixed. I have two ideas on how to connect this altogether so far. This topic should make people understand about different cultures from all over the world as we are one people but are bought up in many ways.
I am hoping it turns out to be a great video as it seems really interesting to me …(obviously).
I have been wanting to let this out of me and thought my aswell share the insight of a Asian Wedding belonging to a Pakistani culture. I love weddings, as I see it is the most romantic and the happiest moments of a couples life and it makes me happy and makes me think ‘awwwww’ and so I decided why not share it with you guys .
Well there is a lot of preparations needed for these events which I will be mentioning below. In event which I have been to in the previous years, if it is a close wedding, I would have to attend a lot of the events before the actual Wedding takes place. The events are as follows:
Dholki
The Dholki or Dholak (Urdu: ڈھولکی) celebration takes its name from the percussion instrument Dholki, which is featured heavily during this wedding celebrations. Just a week or two before the actual wedding day, women will gather in the house of the bride at night to sing and dance while accompanied by percussion instruments. Today, this ceremony has also been reduced to a single night of singing and is often combined with Mehndi or Henna ceremony.
This instrument is called a Dholak . The word Dholki is used as a event as a whole which is named after the instrument.
Here is a video of me playing the Dholak (drum). I know the videoing isnt very excellent but atleast you can see the whole idea of what the dholki event is like.
Mendhi
This is one of the main events of the wedding process. It takes place a day or two before the actual wedding day. It is usually held seperately for the bride and the groom. The henna is symbolically placed on the couple’s hands. The groom’s friends and family bring along sweets and henna for the bride, and the bride’s family does the same for the groom. The bride is absent on the groom Mendhi and the same goes for the groom.
The bride normally wears a green dress or yellows/orange for the Henna celebration and uses only light, or mostly, no make-up. The groom will typically wear a casual Shalwar Qameez. The bride and/or the groom are brought forward in the ceremony under a decorative rectangle material by their close relatives. In the bridal ceremony, family and friends apply henna to the brides hands, and feed her sweets. Similarly, on the groom’s side, oil is applied to his head and sweets are fed to the groom.
Even on this event a Dholki would take place, songs and dancing, in some cases it would become so exciting that a competition would take place between the girls side and the boys side of family.
A link I had found on youtube on what happens on a typical Mendhi ceremony:
A quick Highlight of Mendhi ceremoney:
A really good dance done on a Mendhi Ceremony:
Wedding Day
Barat
Barat is the procession of the family, relatives, and friends of the groom and they accompany the groom to the bride’s home for the official wedding ceremony. The groom makes his way to the bride’s home on a richly decked horse or car and the “barat” follows in different vehicles. Usually they are also accompanied by a band playing wedding songs. The groom is given a warm welcome by the bride’s family with flower garlands and rose petals thrown upon the procession by the bride’s sisters, cousins and friends. While he is entering the brides home he is also accompanied by a Dhol (drum) player so the Bride families knows that he has arrived.
After the Barat comes in the Bride then enters and has her entrance song played, she comes in with her two closely related male members during her entrance.
Rukhsati
The Rukhsati is the sending off procession of the bride when the groom and his family will leave together with his bride to go back to his house. This is a somber occasion for the bride’s parents as it marks the departure of their daughter from their home. The departure of the bride becomes a very emotional scene as she says farewell to the home of her parents and siblings to start a new married life.
Traditionally, the groom travels by a decorated horse to the bride’s house and after the wedding ceremony takes his wife in a doli (palanquin) to his parents’ house to live. The horse and the carts have now been replaced by cars, and in sharp contrast to western weddings, it is typical to see a quiet bride with wet eyes as she sits in the car beside her husband leaving for her new home.
Here is a video which I found on YouTube of an actual Wedding day :
Walima
This is done from the grooms side of the family. This day is just a dinner party for his side of the family. He may invite some of the bride’s family, but he invites a certain number of people from her side who is ever close to her family.
and they live happily ever after!
P.S Do let me know if I have made any kind of mistake. I only own one media on this page which is the Dholki video. The others I have found are on YouTube just to show what it is like in during the events.
Please do comment and tell me what you think and if you do not know anyone who knows how to play dholki maybe you know who to call
Come on,admit it, how many times do we actually do this everyday? It has become so normal that we even forget that is it even illegal or is it a copyright?… The truth is, if one artist comes up with an idea of an image, and another person reuses that image in a different manner, it can not be considered as an illegal or copyright as this helps other people with bringing out better ideas, and without this, we wouldn’t be able to have access to internet used and today we have many social networks alike, such as Facebook, Hi5, Twitter… These websites may have one purpose, but each manages and functions in few different ways, well it is pretty obvious that one of these social network producers had help from other social network producers!!!…..This is the part where this build an understanding of how things can be made and done.
Let’s say if we all had an assignment to do at uni, and we were told to use references, and we were not allowed to copy it, how would universities or schools manage? If there was no WIKIPEDIA or GOOGLE, we would not have enough knowledge to even carry on, we would be left amazed thinking, how on earth does this damn thing work!.
My heart says as long as its done with good intention and you not EXACTLY copying anyone and your using it to broaden you mind, it should not be considered a bad thing, every little thought has been put into something but gives other a bigger imagination and create into something bigger.
Basic Elements Copy; Transform; Combine … other wise there would not be any mobile rivals, Blackberry vs Apple, O2 vs GiffGaff and etc.
Here is a Video of My mash-up which I have created with my lovely hands :p (joking I am not that vein lol)…..
I know you could be thinking a lot at the moment…. Food? What a random post right?
Well I have a lot of interest in cooking as you can see hence why the topic I would always cook this when I feel like eating something really tangy and tasty as well as spicy! As I come back from University, I cook food often in my spare time (oh the joys of being a student living away from home hey!)
The recipe which I will be giving today is ‘Stir fry noodles’ which is made in my own way of course. As I am an asian I love to eat quite a lot of chilli, so if you are not a chilli fan, you may not have to use it at all.
Right the ingredients you will need:
1 whole onion
Vegetables (I used microwave steamed vegetables as they are easier to warm up and then put them in the cooking wok, these can be purchased from Spars)
Sweet and Sour sauce by Sharwood’s or a sweet and sour sachet sauce by Blue dragon
Minced Quorn (add a certain amount)
Medium sized Sharwood’s Noodles
Chilli (not necessary)
Masala’s (salt, ginger and garlic powder or cubes would do)
Soya Sauce
Add oil into the wok (this could be an estimate or add 3/4 spoons of it). Chop the onions into chunky slices. Cook till the onion look golden/brown colour. Add the masala’s in and chilli. Then add the mince quorn in, along with the Sharwood sweet and sour sauce. Mix it all together. Add the fresh Sharwoods Noodles in, add soya sauce and mix altogether again.
Voila!
Hope you enjoy my recipe
Please to rate and comment on what you thought of the recipe. (Might add some pics up soon so please bear with me )
Well, I will be talking about about media privacy in this blog.
How many of us worry about the privacy over social networking platforms? It is quite disturbing the fact we have to reveal some information according to each social networking website policy. You sometimes do not realise that what information is being given out.
Below, I have posted a video the facts about these social website and problems which affects, and what can be done to be safe in the Social media world.
We all access social media everyday to update our statuses, write on wall, writing a blog, adding pictures or posting YouTube links through Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, name it all, I am sure you must know what I mean. It has affected our lives so much that, its come to an extent where we download applications on our phones, such as Apple, Blackberry, Android, HTC, Nokia to keep up to date and we do not miss out any event or other information. These applications are sometimes are even used by connecting application to our numbers, once they opt for it, it is connected to the social websites also, and this can get serious issues as there are a number of hackers around, which we should be aware of.
As I have social accounts to, I make sure I do not give out too much information, just for my own safety.
This all is all part of using Technology, which in some cases can be a bad thing, especially by exploiting data.
I have had few problems with Facebook security in the past as it was only set to one, and I must admit the new Facebook security is so much more better as I can limit the audience of my status to one sort of audience and the wall post from friends to another set of audience. This way you are much more better off than showing everything to either public or to ‘Friends’ only.
So to conclude, there more options available on how to manage your privacy. And readers, always read the terms and conditions before accepting anything, look at what the policy has got to say before getting yourselves into trouble. As most of the social websites do send data to third parties, yes, even sometimes without notifying you. I don’t my lovely readers to be upset, so I am just looking out for you all:)
Has this information been any useful to you? Also please comment if you have any thoughts on how to make social websites a safer place to be, and what changes can be made to privacy
If you would like to know more similar topics relating to social media, I recommend you reading Samir Sanghani blog at http://samsanghani.wordpress.com
Oh, and please also check out my Podcast below which is an audio file, which I have also created as part of my assignment do comment on that too . It my first audio podcast, so please do go easy on me
Well Hello there, readers! Welcome ….(Feb 8th 2012)
Now that I have introduced my self and you know who I am, I will be writing my very first blog, and many more blogs to come, as I will be updating post
In this blog, I will be talking about the amount of personal identity which everyone reveals over the internet. It is a tough situation to think about as they are advantages and disadvantages.
The interesting part is that once you are up on web, employers, family, colleagues, and other form of relationships would want to know you once a bond is formed. Here they will start get to know you and will also get an idea of how you are, what your personality is like, and will have their own opinions about you. Like I had mentioned before it can be seen in a good way or a bad way.
There are a lot of social website such as Facebook, Twitter, Hi5, Tumblr, WordPress, chat rooms, and the list goes on. From the people who would like to add you what kind of reaction do you want from the readers going through your profile?
There are many people who will think a lot about you. Example for this is if an employer had received a CV from you, and had found you through Google or though another search engine and seen a real embarrassing picture of you acting stupid they would most likely think twice about making you their employee. If they had seen a good smart and mature side of you, they probably consider and probably accept you as their employee. This is the part how people would view you as, so readers, lets hope your on the good side, we don’t want to lose on a good employment now do we
There are other website that displays household information through Census or electoral roll, one popular website being the 192.com. The data includes, address and family members.
Below are few screen shots of my name as I typed my name on Google. The top one being my LinkedIn Account. My Twitter account and Facebook Account does not show up.
It may be quite scary seeing your name come up on Google and thinking your very famous, but at the same time we do not want to get in trouble by fake accounts at the same times, as this can cause a lot of problems for you. So be very careful.
Here is another update as I type my name in on Google ( Feb 10th 2012 @ 22:29pm)
Here you can see that as I type my name in on Google straight away my name will come up first to my actual websites.
