Quiz time

Here’s a quiz.Its about dwellings. Hoe you enjoy answering them. Choose from the options and email it .

1. Where do boy scouts, explorers and troops live for a time.
a) Convent
b) Camp
c) Inn
d) Hostel
2. Where are invalid or convalescent people treated?
a) Prison
b) Sanatorium
c) Asylum
d) Convent
3. Where are mentally ill people kept?
a) Creche
b) Sanatorium
c) Coop
d) Asylum

Quotable Quotes

• Leadership ... the ability to see what no one else sees, to listen when others talk and the ability to be optimistic when others are pessimistic.

-- George W. Cummings

• If at first you don't succeed, try, try, again. Then quit. There's no use in being a damn fool about it.

-- W.C. Fields
• Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

-- John F. Kennedy

• Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.

Khalil Gibran

Charles Dickens.

Who does not know the famous English novelist, Charles John Huffam Dickens (Charles Dickens for short)? He was born on 7 February, 1812 in Portsmouth, Hampshire, England (now the Dickens Birthplace Museum) His father was a clerk in the Navy Pay Office. A fault caused him financial difficulties throughout his life. Charles had an older brother Frances, known as Fanny, and younger siblings Alfred Allen, Letitia Mary, Harriet, Frederick William known as Fred, Alfred Lamert, and Augustus Newnham. In 1827 the Dickens were evicted from their home in Somers Town for unpaid rent dues and Charles had to leave school. He obtained a job as a clerk in the law firm of Ellis and Blackmore. In 1833, his first story of many, “A Dinner at Poplar Walk” was published in the Monthly Magazine. He married Catherine Hogarth, daughter of the editor of the Evening Chronicle on 2 April,1836. Most of his novels were first serialized in monthly magazines as was a common practice of the time. Oliver Twist between 1837 and 1839 was followed by Nicholas Nickleby (1838-1839), The Old Curiosity Shop (1840-1841), and Barnaby Rudge (1841). Dickens’ series of five Christmas Books were soon to follow; A Christmas Carol (1843), The Chimes (1844), The Cricket on the Hearth (1845), The Battle of Life (1846), and The Haunted Man (1848. Dombey and Son (1846) was his next publication, followed by David Copperfield (1849). In 1850 he started his own weekly journal Household Words which would be in circulation for the next nine years. From 1851 to 1860 the Dickens lived at Tavistock House where Charles became heavily involved in amateur theatre. By now Dickens was widely read in Europe and in 1858 he set off on a tour of public readings. A year later he founded his second weekly journal All the Year Round, the same year A Tale of Two Cities (1859) was first serialised. Great Expectations (1860-1861) was followed by Our Mutual Friend (1864-1865). Charles Dickens died from a cerebral hemorrhage on 9 June 1870 at his home, Gad’s Hill.

POETRY

LUCY'S SONG

How beautiful at eventide
To see the twilight shadows pale,
Steal o'er the landscape, far and wide,
O'er stream and meadow, mound and dale!
How soft is Nature's calm repose
When ev'ning skies their cool dews weep:
The gentlest wind more gently blows,
As if to soothe her in her sleep!
The gay morn breaks,
Mists roll away,
All Nature awakes
To glorious day.
In my breast alone
Dark shadows remain;
The peace it has known
It can never regain.

FLOWRS MAGIZNE JANUARY 2011 EDITION

Dear readers,

Assalam-o-Alaikum. Here’s the January issue in your hands. I am still puzzled with this Holiday Magazine or a monthly one. But still probably will be late. Well, Happy New Year. Hope this year brings happiness and glorious moments and prosperity in our country. Yes, I have to tell another thing, The Flowers Magazine is online. If you want to read it online, log onto http://qintranizami.blogspot.com/

Please leave your comments and up till now two issues are online. One was I think the June one and the second is the special issue, December. Please give your contributions. There are 2 new contributors. Zainab Anwar and Zoha binte Akmal. Zainab Anwar has also designed the title page. Give feedback what you liked or disliked and give suggestions so we could improve the magazine. I hope you like this issue.

Qintra
flowersmag09@gmail.com

AL QURAN & HADITH

Al Quran
We granted Lut wisdom and knowledge, and We rescued him from a town that used to perpetrate despicable acts. They were certainly evil and lecherous people. And we admitted him into Our mercy. He was indeed from among the righteous. (Surah Anbiya 74-75)



Al Hadith
Hazrat Anas Bin Malik R.A said “Rasulullah said, “Spitting in the masjid is a sin, and its expiation is that the spittle should be buried in the Earth.”