Chowk@Five

Happy Birthday Chowk!

And regards to all friends/foes I have made on Chowk in all these years:-)

Billi,

Aw c`mooon stop being a lurker & join our party! Who cares if your english is bad? I speak bad english too. The good thing about Chowk is kuchbi english chalta hai our kuchbi spelling chalta hai. Just dont submit an article though, because then Mia Temporalji will start singing:)

Dont worry about rudeness & occ. gaalis either. Words can hurt children, but as mature adults, as long as we are secure about our self esteem, words should NOT hurt us! People give gaalis to GOD!...why should mere mortals like us be exempt?

Thats the good thing about cyberspace & anonymity. On Chowk you can reveal as much or as little about your personal self. Even if there is a khunnas-ka fight; nobody gets physically hurt. Thats what happens in the ``real`` world....then all the ``fun`` in the fight is gone:)!

raveena #39,

children should be seen not heard, so shooo, go play in the mud outside.

Happy anniversary Chowk. Here`s wishing you another 5 more years. By that time I hope we will not need Chowk to air our peeves and kudos, :-)

I hope all 2K members (lurkers?) will post something on this anniversary of Chowk`s creation.

It is also fun to read the responses even if its a bit of a bundchungal for some people, :-)

Dear ChowkStaff:

I may occassionally play the ingrate and whine about how chowk`s seems to sacrificing quality at the altar of sensationalism and polemic, but I remain indebted to you guys for more than I could hope to express in this little box (including, regreattably, a temporary loss of a social life sometimes :) )

Thank You!

“O ye who believe! Stand out firmly for Allah, as witnesses to fair dealing, and let not the hatred of others to you make you swerve to wrong and depart from justice. Be just: that is next to piety: and fear Allah. For Allah is well-acquainted with all that ye do.” Ayah 8, Surah Al-Maida.”

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tahafahim #55:


aaozobillah-e-min’ashh shaitaan-nir rajim!

and

Lahol-e-wala-quwwata-illa-billah-e-…….




Anyone who is so hateful cannot be a marginal muslim even. Go read that surah in the second chapter...the one tahmed hinted at on another board that puzzled hamidm…that finds a place in His heaven for saracens, christians, jews….anyone...as long they believe in their heart of heart in one creator, a day of reckoning and have led a good earthly life…He promised a just reward for them…and i suspect even those who do not believe in Him…but lead and led a good life…a law-abiding temporal existence…they will not face His wrath…

...may the wrath of Allah visit you and your bigoted brothers-in-trade here and in ‘akhirah’…o hate-mongering pseudo muslim…

...t

AnNy #36: [abnormal feelings of wanting to reach out and hug interactors to meeting some special people in real and cyber life]

It is normal feeling to wanting to reach out and hug kafir interactors; abnormal is for the rest....:))

Remember it is always, ``kis kafir pe pyar aaya`` and not ``kis momin pe pyar aaya``. Also it is always, ``dil-e-be-iman ke baataiN`` and not ``Imandar dil ke krishmey``.

Smoking Chowk blend has magic qualities of visualizing fourth dimention and beyond. I bet before the sixth birthday, YLH and Harimau will be Bhai-Bhai whereas Scout and Rsaxena Behen-Bhai.

Subject: Microsoft for the punjabis

DO READ THE FINAL COMMENT!!!

If computer starts working in Punjabi then?

This will change setting of your computer as per the guidelines given

below

so that you can work in PUNJABI ...

Send = Sutto

Insert = Wich Paao

Attachement = Naal Laao

Edit = Sidda Karo

View = Waikhee Jaao

Forward = Aggay Sutto

Inbox = Undar Da Daak Khaana

Outbox = Baar Da Daak Khana

Trash = Mitti Paao

Sent Items = Bheji Gayee Dak

Address Book = Patay Wali Kaapy

Reply = Bejan Walay Nu Jawab do

Reply All = Saareyaan Nu Jawab do

Delete = Daffa Karo

Download = Thallay Laao

Download All = Saary Cheezan Noon Thallay Laao

Properties = Jaidaad

Connect = Naal Milaao

Fonts = Likhaai

Accounts = Galla

Drafts = Chitheeyaan

Find = Labbo

Paste = Thook Naal Chipkaao

From = Bhejan Walaa Banda

To = Door Betha Hoya Banda

Subject = Khaas Gall

Carbon Copy = Koelay Walee Naqal

Blind Carbon Copy = Anni Koelay Walee Naqal

Stationery = Pensal, Rubburd, Shaapnar

Folders = Thailay

High priority = Waddee Takleef

and finally

Ctrl+Alt+Delete = Sara Syapa Mukao

Chowk staff needs to be credited for their patience and hard work.

It is remarkable as scout said to be addicted to this site. And as someone else pointed out, cutting the family ties.

As Iqbal said (Was it Iqbal?:

``Silah-e- Shaheed Kiya Hai

Tabo Taab-e Jawidana.

Although Chowk claims to be a forum for South Asians to come near each other.

But mostly it results in anger and frustration and letting each other down.

But that is how family, friends and neighbour behave in real life.

So what is the prize for Chowk staff, except making their own life miserable so that we can be happy?

Happy fifth birthday to Chowk and Chowk family.

Shahgul,

ROTFL

Temporal,

Lve. lve. lve.

Yours,

Aamir

….zafarsaab, a very happy belated birthday…

Howdy Chowk,

Happy 5th birthday. You`re one year closer to your death!

All know that the drop merges into the ocean but few know the ocean merges into the drop.

Think about the above two statements.

Umer M.

...what?...zafar turned 28 and i didn`t even know?...well, happy birthday, zafar...

Oh God.

Reply harimau #: 33

That should be ``Hippo birdies two ewe``.

Baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah! HAMBU G! (I amo nly sanging if they a rehalAL ewe, ok?)

tahmed, ana, semi, saminashah (even rsax) – many thanks, I have grown from knowing you. (and all you others on chowk.)

oh, and happy budday chowk, you are a true gulistan in cyberspace.