Gurpreet Singh: June 2006

Thursday, June 29, 2006

Are You Thankful?

# posted by Gurpreet Singh @ 7:59 PM 2 comments

Friday, June 16, 2006

Kirpan Licence?

An email I received from Bhai Mehtab Singh.

Just yesterday on my visit to a Gurdwara in Dubai, I found out that the Government of the United Arab Emirates has made a provision for Sikhs to carry the kirpan. I am attaching a scanned version of an identity card a Singh gave me yesterday. Now I am not really sure how much authority such a card has here, but it has the authorization from the Consulate General of India in Dubai, and this ID card is given free to all who take Amrit over here. The date says October 27, 1986. The matter is written out in Arabic as well for Arab policemen to read it, in case they pull over a Singh wearing the kirpan. However, the kirpan is worn under the clothes and kept concealed. Nonetheless, there is a law that allows it. I was wondering, if Islamic countries like this one can make such provisions, why don’t western countries take such a step like issuing ID cards?

# posted by Gurpreet Singh @ 10:40 PM 0 comments

Tuesday, June 06, 2006

Liccle Birdy

So I finished my class and I was heading to my friends car. When I saw this little birdy on the fence. At first I was like wow its a beautiful birdy so i was going to take a picture. Then I realised something was wrong with it. Somehow its little feet got stuck in the fence and it was trying hard to break free but it couldn't. So I dropped my stuff and tried to free its feet and after I did. It didn't fly ..It just stayed there so I picked up my camera and took a pic then it strangely it the little birdy flew away.
Here's the pic of the birdy :