Our Very 1st Gathering!

NB lounge is organizing our very 1st gathering event ever! This gathering main aim is to break the ice, get to know one another and most importantly is to enjoy and have fun! We have put up a question under announcement on the website seeking for your suggestion and input to create this event. This is your opportunity to tell us what you can possibly see happening and if you'll like to join this gathering.


Please click on the question title below to read details and to reply:-

Question Title: NB lounge 1ST EVER GATHERING, Suggestions?



Night Cycling Event for youth


Al-Mukminin Mosque is organizing a night cycling event from East Coast Park to Al-Mukminin Mosque 9th to 10th February from 9:30pm(Sat) to 8.00 am(Sun). Hurry! The registration ends this 4th of February. For more information check out this website:www.youthalmukminin.blogspot.com

In the light of supporting the cause of health and fitness in our community, NB lounge is one of the sponsors for this fun filled activity. We request your support by sponsoring this event or by participating in it.



Assisting on Nasibriyani Lounge website

We are always on a look out for individuals who would like to make a difference and assist to grow this website. If you are looking to improve or acquiring certain skills like communication, moderating a website, writing, organizing event, creativity, team/ community building, finance, etc This is the place for you to built your talents and really shine for the community. If this appeals to you and none or something of what you would like to do is here, please contact us and tell us what you want, insert your contact number and we'll be happy to have a chat with you about it.



Invite your family and friends to use NB lounge

Click on the link here and fill in the details and click send. We do not collect your friends and family name / email address or generate spam.

If you do have any concerns, questions or difficulty about anything on our website, please contact us.



Regards,
NB lounge Team

Here's wishing all our members on NB lounger, readers of our blog and multiply a Happy Eid. May Allah grant us Jannah in the hereafter and create a clearing within our Muslim communities worldwide for our vision of a community which supports each other through our differences. Inshallah.


W'salaam
NB lounge team

This month we have an interesting addition on the Hall of fame charts. Please click here for more ranking.

Mehboob is now our top ranked member on NB lounge with a score of 2404 points. He is just 596 points away from his next ranking Shield!

While Fariz received his first ranking shield 'Fresh' as well as being rank #3 on our charts with 1293 score points.

Sultana is now ranked #2 with 1634 score points and Ebonytigress ranked #4 with 785 score points.

Well done guys!! Above is a table on our top 4 members. For more information on how our ranking and score points works please check out details by clicking here <<

Nasi Briyani lounge is picking up like crazy!! Do you know that Last week, We have about 15 new members who sign up. Each week the number have been increasing. We also have new questions being asked and replied to each day!!

A request on behalf of all members. If you've replied to questions before, try asking one. If you've asked one, try replying to a few. Contribute your support to others. If you’ve done none, get out there and start participating and earn credits and ranking shields. If you've done both, AWESOME!! Try doing more and get into the hall of fame!

Most active member on NB lounge this month?

A special acknowledgment to an inspirational member on our website; Fariz. He has been answering as many questions as he could on NB lounge this month. He continues giving replies to other members and supporting them in whatever way possible. Please view his profile and drop him a line for his contribution.

Please visit Fariz Profile here >> Fariz Profile



Meet our new volunteers!!

NB lounge team would like to introduce to you our new volunteers who are assisting in improving our website further. They are dedicated members of NB lounge who saw the potential of what our website can offer to our community and for them to gain some knowledge and experience in the process.


Moegsin
(nick: zoomie )

Web Programmer

Moegsien says:
I've recently joined Nasi Briyani lounge team as a web programmer and will be helping to make the site even better, while learning more about programming for the web.

I'm a Cape Malay from South Africa, living in Australia at the moment and find the similarities and differences between Malays and Cape Malays very interesting.


Check out Zoomie Profile click here <<




Nazihah
(nick: constant_searching)

Public Relations & Media coordinator

Nazihah says:
"I'm just an ordinary person from Singapore. An ordinary person who talks to herself and who is a friend to herself. LOL. Is that any ordinary to you? And also, ever heard of the term Internet freak before? Well, guess what? You are meeting one here. =)

A freak or not, Internet is my best friend! I can go sleepless nights with the net. By the way for those who don't know me (which I guess almost everyone of you all), I go by the username 'constant_searching'. You'll pretty much have a rough idea why I'm using that nick. As for age, gender & country, I'm giving you all the chance to fill up the particulars.

Check out Nazihah Profile click here <<



Volunteering opportunity

We welcome you and anyone else to take on this volunteering opportunity to make a difference and have fun and learn something in the process. You don't need experience, you don't need to be in Singapore. No constraints. Just your enthusiasm, commitment and sense of humor oh and of course an Internet connection :)

We are please to inform everyone that we have started our Sponsorship Programme.

Our website is increasing in popularity as the days goes by. We are also now expanding our website globally as well as developing new features and rewards for our members.

We would like companies, businesses and organisation to take this opportunity to support NB lounge in our cause in providing this platform to our members.

Depending on the amount that your company is willing to sponsor us, we can offer you one of our smart advertising options. Sponsorship amount starts from a product cash value of SGD $50 – SGD $1000 per month. Instead of sponsoring product, sponsors can also opt for cash itself.

This sponsorship will be used to reward our members with prizes and to pay for running of NB lounge’s server on top of improving our website further with new development and technology.

To give an idea of what Sponsors will be supporting, here are a list of what our website aims to do.

Aim of this website

• ·         Nasi Briyani Lounge hopes to create a thinking, supportive and helpful community, where useful and resourceful information is gathered and can be found easily by everyone to use and share.

• ·         Finding quality information that is relevant to Singaporean/Asian context can now be a click of a button.

• ·         To educate the community on how to harness the power of the internet effectively in Singapore

• ·         Making new quality friends who supports each other

• ·         Participated on a website that makes a difference to people’s lives, especially when someone shares a question or an answer.

• Going global. Providing this platform in different countries all over the world.

For more information and a copy of your brochure pack, please e-mail us using our contact form on our website. Leave your contact number (doesn't matter which country you are at) and an existing email address so that we can provide you with the best assistance possible.


Hear from you soon.


Regards and W'salaam

NB lounge team

Nasi Briyani lounge have been busier and busier. As NB lounge's popularity is gaining, more people are begining to post new questions on our site ranging from various topics, like divorce, marrige, how to get married, weddings, social issues..etc. This is so encouraging!

We are inviting you guys reading this to participant in asking and answering to these questions our site. Our website has provided hundreds of people with the information they need thanks to the generous community in providing these information to them.

To view our new questions, please click on the link below:
NEW QUESTIONs

Salaam everyone,

I’ll like to share this with everyone. One of our members on NB lounge had taken up landmark education in Singapore. (scroll down below for wht he said)

I'm just thankful to Allah, our progrmming team, and members of this webite  for making it possible to cause this to people around me and even member on this community website.

Alhamdullilah. We are very thrill on your new tranformation and endless posibilities.

W'salaam
NB

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Thank you email from member
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Name: Mehboob
Subject: Thank You

Message: Today I am a new man writing this email because of a transformation that was made possible through your website. I posed a question on your website and one of the members on the network provided a possibility that I tried out. Alhamdulilah the results are beyond my wildest imagination. I have created for myself possibilities which never existed for me previously. All I can say is that Life is what you make out of it and during your dark moments, you need help regradless of how strong you thought you were and the fact is that , there is help out there if only you are willing to reach out and ask for it. I thank your website for what it has done to me and my life and am hoping that you will be able to touch, motivate and inspire many more people out there. Keep up the great work and may Allah bless your noble intentions and deeds , Ameen.

Link to the Question: http://www.nasibriyanilounge.com/topics/Hobbies/Q275.html

We had a fantastic week for Eid. Each year in Australia, Melbourne there's always an Eid festival and this one was the biggest we've seen so far. It was amazing with rides, Nasheeds, Movie presentation, and some performance. There's stalls for everyone in any age group and the finale the fireworks. There are muslims in every walk of life who turned up for this festival. And although the night soon turn quite chilly, people were still hanging around with a nice cupa coffee and kids running around.

courtesy of Sultana.

Request for bone marrow transplant deposit- patient Abd el rahman omar mandour, hrn no. XE3121450

Abd Rahman is a 17mth old boy egyptian child who is diagnosed with a gentic disorder, Mucopolysaccharidosis at the age of 10mths. His family needs S$250,000 for his treatment. His article was featured in Berita Harian, dated 22 and 25 sept.

Before he reaches 2yrs which is 6mths from now, his brain cells will start to deteriorate. He need treatment as soon as possible. Please help to disseminate this information.

If you need further info/clarification, pls call Dr Tyrone Goh, Director of Ops, NUH at tel; 67725030 or abd rahman
father- Mr Omar 90864144

Here`s wishing all Muslim bros and sis, a blessed Hari Raya...

Please spread this urgent news...

rgds,
Jimmy
96338807

On behalf of NB lounge team, we will like to wish all our Muslim members on NB lounge and our multiply readers a Happy Eid. May Allah grand us Jannah in the Hereafter.

Please remember the volunteers, members of NB lounge and our all the Muslims around the world in your prayers. While you are out and about visiting family and friends, share with them about our fantastic website and what we are doing for our Muslim community in Singapore as well as in other parts of the world.

Your continue support by asking and answering question on our website will only motivate us to develop this site beyond what we currently have. So, thank you for that.


W'salaam

NB lounge team
http://www.nasibriyanilounge.com


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For your info, the real content of the website is actually on our main site and multiply and blogger are just compliments to the actual site itself. More like a summary on what is going on NasiBriyani lounge. Any ideas..please let us know. If you will like to be a part of our team, also drop us a line. :D
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We figured out that the list of Upcoming events which we were using through yahoo upcoming was creating the problem. We have taken down the events on the right side of the site in order for our site to operate as per normal.

We are contacting yahoo to let them know that something is wrong with their codes which was interfering with our website.

Thank you guys for your support and help. :)


Have a great weekend.

Salaam All,

Thanks to one of our member alerting us about this, Nasi Briyani lounge seemed to be only showing the events page on explorer web browser and not the rest of the site. Our web guy is trying to figure out what is causing this.

If you are using 'firefox' as your web browser you will be fine. We've always been wanting to advise our members to use firefox as your web browser as that web browser is more robust, powerful and it has a solid pop up blocker. It's also the web browser that is well loved by web developers. So please go to the link below to download it.

download firefox here:
http://en.www.mozilla.com/en/firefox/

We'll inform all of you when we have figured out what is causing this. If any of you guys have web programming background or knows what might be happening, please contact us.

Thank you for your patients.

W'salaam
NB

Be a part of our team!
We are an online Singapore Muslim community website based in Australia, Melbourne call NasiBriyani lounge.com. website url: http://www.nasibriyanilounge.com. We have created this website project to bridge Muslim organisation,businesses, groups, individual together by actively supporting each other by asking and answering questions. We would like to expand our site globally for the benefit of everyone.

Our website was recently featured, showcased and selected as the editors choice on CSSBased.com! Yayy!! We are proud to be a Muslim Community website to be recognized in the global web circles. Our team are volunteers who are dedicated to usability as well as design and of course our Muslim community.

Are people getting the hang of this? Get in there people and start answering and asking too! :D

• What do you think if a younger man in love with an older woman and wants to marry her. My close friend.... more >>

• Could someone please share why Muslims are allowed to marry four times? Is it bcos ...more >>
  

• Is it forbidden for a muslim to attend religious wedding ceremonies in say, a church or hindu temple?...more>>

Find out what our members have to say...and whoz stopping you form putting in your own answer or even questions?

Dying to voice out your opinions!! Just do it ;)  Be involve in your community.  Try voting  your hot questions and answers will be good for starters.

Description:

We are an online Singapore Muslim community website based in Australia, Melbourne call NasiBriyani lounge.com. website url: http://www.nasibriyanilounge.com.

We have created this website project to bridge Muslim organisation, businesses, groups, individual together by actively supporting each other by asking and answering questions. We would like to expand our site globally for the benefit of everyone.

Our website was recently featured, showcased and selected as the editor’s choice on CSSBased.com! Yayy!! We are proud to be a Muslim Community website to be recognized in the global web circles. Our team are volunteers who is dedicated to usability as well as design and of course our Muslim community.

We are now opening our doors to more Volunteers who would be forming a team of Web Programmers to work with our current ace web developer and designer.

Who is this position suitable for?

Any individuals who are serious and passionate about the web and wanting to implement, learn and develop new technology in an active environment. Also great to built up your portfolio.

Who is this position NOT suitable for?

We work based on datelines, weekly tasks and weekly 1hr or so meetings to catch up on what we have done. For those who may have an issue with keeping with datelines and weekly meeting then it might Not be suitable for you. If you are looking to earn cash, this might not be for you as well since our website do not earn any money. Meeting can be done online or we can sometimes go for a cupa coffee or dinner (if you are in Melbourne) or else we can do it virtually :P

It's hard to come by a good website let alone a good Muslim website. Hence we would like to be one of the best website in the world.

Please email me your resume or any queries you might have.

jobs@nasibriyanilounge.com

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Beside you sending messages to members on NB and adding them as buddies, you can now add your own character avatar in your profile page. These are some of our recent members updated avatar.








               Think you can do better ;) ? To edit your avatar, log into your profile, and follow the instructions. We have integrated with WeeWorld and made it possible to bring your weemee to our website.

Vote for us on cssbased.com
As you guys know we were featured on Cssbased.com.
We were on page 1, scoring a full 5.0 votes initially on, (view pictures here) however the voting scoring varies as people vote for us. So please go to cssbased.com and vote for Nasi Briyani lounge website a full 5! (please vote for us by clicking here !! Get us back to page 1)
We are proud to be a Muslim Community website to be recognized in the global web circles.

Other News

Outstanding members
We are scouting for outstanding members on NB lounge in terms of participation and dedication. I will like to reward these members with a special opportunity and privileges on our site. For example like being involve in moderation, events management, article/ blogger contributors, IT, design etc.


Top rankers on NB lounge. Who are they?
I'm sure you must be wondering who are our top scorers. We want to encourage more of our members to actively participate. If you think getting those points is just too difficult, these members have done it. Our top 2 members have receive their first ranking shield for giving good answers. I'm sure the other 2 will follow suite and don't forget, you will get onto the 'Hall of fame' by people's votes. So tell your friends to vote for you ;)

Anyway, below is the list of the top 4 members. For other top member categories please view it on our 'Hall of Fame' page. Way to go guys!

1st	Sultana	1349 score	55 votes
2nd	Mehboob	1022 score	34 votes
3rd	Ebonytigress	783 score	5 votes
4th	PaulBaul	750 score	0 votes

Latest Question and Replies
Don't forget, there are always new questions awaiting for your replies and recently replied questions which you might wanna check out coz i know that you are eager to jump in and share your opinions or to cast your votes. You can also view recently replied questions by clicking on the browse page, then click on 'recently replied'. It will show you the number of questions in different topics that have been recently replied to.


Examples of recent new questions:

Is 30 days Ramadan a doctrine?
Religion and Theology

pick up line?
Love and relationship

Examples of recent new replies:

Perform prayer in workplace.
Work and Career

A Hindu boyfriend converting to Islam. Issues with last rites in hindu culture
Culture and Tradition


Well that all for now. On the thrills and spills on NB lounge updates and comment n questions please drop us a line. :) See you guys on our site.

W'salaam
NB

NasiBriayni lounge.com was featured on the CssBased website. Among all the thousand of entry, we were picked as the featured site as well as the Editorial Choice, scoring a full 5.0. We owe it to our team effort in creating such an amazing website, in particular our designer and our programmer/ developer. Our team is dedicated in usability as well as design. Thank you guys! We are proud to be a Muslim Community website to be featured on that website amongst all the rest.

Css Based is a project providing web designers a database of well designed CSS based websites from around the world. To view more click on http://www.cssbased.com/

We will like to extend this invitation to Volunteers to be apart of NasiBriyani lounge team! If you are dying to get your hands on latest technology, design, even PR, research, journalism, etc...just contact us. If you can contribute something other then what is mentioned here to support this Muslim Community website project just let us know and we will accommodate you guys.

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NasiBriyani lounge.com:- Ask question to real people with real Answers http://www.nasibriyanilounge.com
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It blows me away when i see members on our website getting their question answered while each member forming the support network to each other one in their daily life. Even if the question can be about finding a nice place to dine or something more serious like a problem marriage members are readily there to answer in one way or another.

Our society lacks that interaction these days ironically as more hi-tech equipment are being invented for more communication between people. We forget the beauty in humanity as we are engulf with work, trying to find money and supporting the family, that we forget that humans are all one and we feel each other's struggle. There is something bigger then just us and our suffering.  We assume that people don't care or can't help out, but if  the community come together to work together as one, that would solve a lot of our current problem that we are facing in this modern times.

Our recently accepted answer on our website about :"A Hindu boyfriend converting to Islam. Issues with last rites in hindu culture" for example shows that our community Think Share and Help.

We will like to thank members for being there for supporting each other in giving opinion, suggestion to questions. That's what makes NasiBriyani lounge site worth every effort to keep expanding on.

Please feel free to contact us for feedbacks and suggestion. We will like to hear from you on how we can improve our site further.

W'salaam.
NB


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NasiBriyani lounge ask question to real people with real Answers:- http://www.nasibriyanilounge.com
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Intro:

We are organising an arts and cultural exhibition in Singapore promoting Muslims and Muslim talents, like painters, photographers, sculptures, music, short movies or even a theatre production .Other organisation I’ve spoken to suggested lawyers, counsellors, doctors providing free consultation etc. This exhibition will allow Muslims in Singapore to express themselves using a different medium which other people (Muslim and non-Muslim) can relate to.

Ideas on different booth section:

We can have a section on the religious side of islam and probably an ‘imaam’ to answer any queries. Then, we have the Arts/ theatre and History section, Professional section (like lawyers, doctors, Islamic banking, free counselling etc…), Muslim Fashion and music from some Muslim contemporary singers/ Nasheed singers. (ie Taufik Batisah, Raihan,etc)

Venue intend: Singapore Expo
Name of event: (open to suggestion)
Proposed Date of event: December 2007

We would like to gather individuals and organisation/ businesses that shares our idea and would like to support or sponsor us in organising this fun and fresh project. I planned to have this exhibition to be broadcast in the main news (channel 5,etc) and newspapers (straits times, etc). . Please let me know your feedback (bad or good) And lets join together in making this idea a reality. Perhaps you may have additional ideas?

I feel that the Muslim society have been trying to hide their identity to avoid stereotyping or they are ashamed of who they are. Singapore society as a whole ( Muslims and non-Muslims)  have little knowledge of what Muslim are and this exhibition will allow them to gain information within the safe space created while getting to know who Muslims are without the frustration of misrepresentation in the media. It will expose us Muslim to everyone else and not just among ourselves which we have been doing for many years.

We are inviting you guys for:-

- feedbacks
- sponsors
- more groups/ individual to join us in organising this event


 
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NasiBriyani lounge is a virtual website for Muslims in Singapore to Think Share and Help across a wide range of topics:- http://www.nasibriyanilounge.com
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