9.9.08

Is it haram....

...to skip fasting so that you can donate blood? In a personal plea from the governor to the president of my company, the governor has asked him to send out similar plea to get as many people to donate as possible at our regular onsite blood drives scheduled for tomorrow and Thursday.

There is currently a blood emergency, where supplies of blood for tranfusions are at dangerously low levels at most a few hours. I am O- which is in high demand as it can be given to anyone. With over 6000 units of blood collected in the past 3 years at my company's blood drives, helping well over 20,000 people, you can see where every donor counts and how being the largest employer in the state, huge amounts of blood can be collected. I donate every 8 weeks and unfortunately Thursday is my next scheduled one.

So you can see my problem. What do you think? Skip a day fasting so that I can donate.

8.9.08

Congrats Serena!



Simply one of the greatest tennis players of our generation! Congrats 2008 US Open Champion! Match Score, 6-4, 7-5!

I have always been a fan of Serena Williams and her older sister Venus. They have really made the sport fun to watch over the past 10 years. Yes, I admit I watch tennis, on TV nonetheless. Ha ha, laugh all you want. It is very exciting!

It's the Williams sisters have really made it exciting to watch. They have won many major championships in their long storied tennis careers. They have come a long way from their humble beginnings, Serena being born in Flint, Michigan and raised in Compton, CA (aka, most dangerous inner city/inner suburban are in the United States). You are lucky to make it out of there alive, so you can imagine what it means to sit on top of the world as the number one seeded womens tennis player!

Her tennis ability is second to none and I never tire from watching her play. The grunts I can do without though...but that seems to be so popular now, even the men are starting to do it ;-)