mudassir

Application request for Fulbright Award 2009 has been advertised, and except for lonely mails for Mohsin bhai, there is almost no activity on this group regarding it. And we have results as well; last year out of 170 (roughly) awardees, only two were PUCITIANs. To be frank it is extremely embarrassing considering the number of selected people from other colleges, we usually reckon as on same level as we are; count from LUMS is in forties. UET, FAST, NCA, NUST, all have counts better than ours. And don’t tell me we are a nascent school yet; at least five BS batches and over five MS batches were eligible for it, and that makes more than the total number of graduates FAST has ever produced up to date!
Please apply. With a grant estimate of over 20 million, FB is one of the best grants available for Pakistani students covering literally everything and yet giving you enough pocket money to spare.
Please don’t assume from the application deadline (early May) that you have got enough time. As a matter of fact if you have not already started working on your FB application, you are probably already late. But don’t despair, if you can decide now you can win. There is no cost associated with application process except roughly 18K that you spend on taking GRE and TOEFL tests, and I think this is worth spending this much money on. GRE and TOEFL tests can be used for apply for other scholarships as well.
Most of the people think, it to be very unlikely to be selected for FB award as they believe there is so much competition. Well, mates, this is very untrue. If you have got something near 3.0 GPA, a GRE score of 1000 (which is obtainable almost without any effort), TOEFL passing marks (100 roughly), three teachers who can spend a couple of hours to write a page on you, believe me you are very much in. You may not believe me but people with similar credentials have won FB this year and you have every right to hope for the best.
If you think
1. You still can’t do it
2. You have a family to take care of and can’t go out
3. Your matrimonial will get delayed if you take this road
4. You don’t have enough money to take GRE or
For any other reason, you are not willing to apply, please contact me. I have solutions for all of these problems (I am a genius!). Don’t let your hearts be troubled by these trinkets.
As a side, USAID is also available for MBA (which most of the other scholarships don’t sponsor). Some people are fettered by Bond FB has attached to it, I would like to say to them that it is not as it looks like; I can let you on a secret about it if you are worried about it; please contact.
I have plans to take from 2 to at least 20 this time and for that to happen I am ready to do all in my hands. I can help you with GRE, TOEFL, SoP, Objectives essay, LORs, interviews and with anything I could and I believe this very little as compared what my seniors did for me. But please do apply; you only need admit that you will long to tell your lads that you attended the finest schools of your time…
Hope to welcome a selected subset of this crowd in US September next year!
Thanks,
Mudassir.
P.S: you are left with very little time, so decide now!
P.P.S: please visit USEFP site http://www.usefpakistan.org/ for more information.
P.P.P.S: Thank you so much seniors; I an indebted!

I am honored to be with you today at your commencement from one of the
finest universities in the world. I never graduated from college. Truth be
told, this is the closest I've ever gotten to a college graduation. Today I
want to tell you three stories from my life. That's it. No big deal. Just
three stories.

The first story is about connecting the dots.

I dropped out of Reed College after the first 6 months, but then stayed
around as a drop-in for another 18 months or so before I really quit. So why
did I drop out?

It started before I was born. My biological mother was a young, unwed
college graduate student, and she decided to put me up for adoption. She
felt very strongly that I should be adopted by college graduates, so
everything was all set for me to be adopted at birth by a lawyer and his
wife. Except that when I popped out they decided at the last minute that
they really wanted a girl. So my parents, who were on a waiting list, got a
call in the middle of the night asking: "We have an unexpected baby boy; do
you want him?" They said: "Of course." My biological mother later found out
that my mother had never graduated from college and that my father had never
graduated from high school. She refused to sign the final adoption papers.
She only relented a few months later when my parents promised that I would
someday go to college.

And 17 years later I did go to college. But I naively chose a college that
was almost as expensive as Stanford, and all of my working-class parents'
savings were being spent on my college tuition. After six months, I couldn't
see the value in it. I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life and no
idea how college was going to help me figure it out. And here I was spending
all of the money my parents had saved their entire life. So I decided to
drop out and trust that it would all work out OK. It was pretty scary at the
time, but looking back it was one of the best decisions I ever made. The
minute I dropped out I could stop taking the required classes that didn't
interest me, and begin dropping in on the ones that looked interesting.

It wasn't all romantic. I didn't have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor
in friends' rooms, I returned coke bottles for the 5¢ deposits to buy food
with, and I would walk the 7 miles across town every Sunday night to get one
good meal a week at the Hare Krishna temple. I loved it. And much of what I
stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be
priceless later on. Let me give you one example:

Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction
in the country. Throughout the campus every poster, every label on every
drawer, was beautifully hand calligraphed. Because I had dropped out and
didn't have to take the normal classes, I decided to take a calligraphy
class to learn how to do this. I learned about serif and san serif
typefaces, about varying the amount of space between different letter
combinations, about what makes great typography great. It was beautiful,
historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can't capture, and I
found it fascinating.

None of this had even a hope of any practical application in my life. But
ten years later, when we were designing the first Macintosh computer, it all
came back to me. And we designed it all into the Mac. It was the first
computer with beautiful typography. If I had never dropped in on that single
course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or
proportionally spaced fonts. And since Windows just copied the Mac, its
likely that no personal computer would have them. If I had never dropped
out, I would have never dropped in on this calligraphy class, and personal
computers might not have the wonderful typography that they do. Of course it
was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in college.
But it was very, very clear looking backwards ten years later.

Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them
looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect
in your future. You have to trust in something — your gut, destiny, life,
karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all
the difference in my life.

My second story is about love and loss.

I was lucky — I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz and I started
Apple in my parents garage when I was 20. We worked hard, and in 10 years
Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion
company with over 4000 employees. We had just released our finest creation —
the Macintosh — a year earlier, and I had just turned 30. And then I got
fired. How can you get fired from a company you started? Well, as Apple grew
we hired someone who I thought was very talented to run the company with me,
and for the first year or so things went well. But then our visions of the
future began to diverge and eventually we had a falling out. When we did,
our Board of Directors sided with him. So at 30 I was out. And very publicly
out. What had been the focus of my entire adult life was gone, and it was
devastating.

I really didn't know what to do for a few months. I felt that I had let the
previous generation of entrepreneurs down - that I had dropped the baton as
it was being passed to me. I met with David Packard and Bob Noyce and tried
to apologize for screwing up so badly. I was a very public failure, and I
even thought about running away from the valley. But something slowly began
to dawn on me — I still loved what I did. The turn of events at Apple had
not changed that one bit. I had been rejected, but I was still in love. And
so I decided to start over.

I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was
the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being
successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less
sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods
of my life.

During the next five years, I started a company named NeXT, another company
named Pixar, and fell in love with an amazing woman who would become my
wife. Pixar went on to create the worlds first computer animated feature
film, *Toy Story*, and is now the most successful animation studio in the
world. In a remarkable turn of events, Apple bought NeXT, I returned to
Apple, and the technology we developed at NeXT is at the heart of Apple's
current renaissance. And Laurene and I have a wonderful family together.

I'm pretty sure none of this would have happened if I hadn't been fired from
Apple. It was awful tasting medicine, but I guess the patient needed it.
Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith. I'm
convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I
did. You've got to find what you love. And that is as true for your work as
it is for your lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life,
and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great
work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you
haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the
heart, you'll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it
just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you
find it. Don't settle.

My third story is about death.

When I was 17, I read a quote that went something like: "If you live each
day as if it was your last, someday you'll most certainly be right." It made
an impression on me, and since then, for the past 33 years, I have looked in
the mirror every morning and asked myself: "If today were the last day of my
life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?" And whenever the
answer has been "No" for too many days in a row, I know I need to change
something.

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever
encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost
everything — all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment
or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only
what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best
way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are
already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

About a year ago I was diagnosed with cancer. I had a scan at 7:30 in the
morning, and it clearly showed a tumor on my pancreas. I didn't even know
what a pancreas was. The doctors told me this was almost certainly a type of
cancer that is incurable, and that I should expect to live no longer than
three to six months. My doctor advised me to go home and get my affairs in
order, which is doctor's code for prepare to die. It means to try to tell
your kids everything you thought you'd have the next 10 years to tell them
in just a few months. It means to make sure everything is buttoned up so
that it will be as easy as possible for your family. It means to say your
goodbyes.

I lived with that diagnosis all day. Later that evening I had a biopsy,
where they stuck an endoscope down my throat, through my stomach and into my
intestines, put a needle into my pancreas and got a few cells from the
tumor. I was sedated, but my wife, who was there, told me that when they
viewed the cells under a microscope the doctors started crying because it
turned out to be a very rare form of pancreatic cancer that is curable with
surgery. I had the surgery and I'm fine now.

This was the closest I've been to facing death, and I hope its the closest I
get for a few more decades. Having lived through it, I can now say this to
you with a bit more certainty than when death was a useful but purely
intellectual concept:

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die
to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever
escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the
single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the
old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too
long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry
to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be
trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people's
thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner
voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and
intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become.
Everything else is secondary.

When I was young, there was an amazing publication called *The Whole Earth
Catalog*, which was one of the bibles of my generation. It was created by a
fellow named Stewart Brand not far from here in Menlo Park, and he brought
it to life with his poetic touch. This was in the late 1960's, before
personal computers and desktop publishing, so it was all made with
typewriters, scissors, and polaroid cameras. It was sort of like Google in
paperback form, 35 years before Google came along: it was idealistic, and
overflowing with neat tools and great notions.

Stewart and his team put out several issues of *The Whole Earth Catalog*,
and then when it had run its course, they put out a final issue. It was the
mid-1970s, and I was your age. On the back cover of their final issue was a
photograph of an early morning country road, the kind you might find
yourself hitchhiking on if you were so adventurous. Beneath it were the
words: "Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish." It was their farewell message as they
signed off. Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish. And I have always wished that for
myself. And now, as you graduate to begin anew, I wish that for you.

Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.

Thank you all very much.

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mudassir shabbir

There is a slight background to this post: some days (roughly a month, I think) ago, I departed with CambridgeDocs, to found WizEdge, a small software company to work on my own, along with a few associates of mine. This post will more or less summarize first month of my first official business experience. I would rather list it than summarize it, I reckon.

Making Money or Self Expressiveness?

Well, almost everyone assumes that business is about making money. Yes it is, I am not going to deny that, but if you ask for a truth, I think it is more of an idea of self expressiveness than a financial move (at least in my case). You have your choices about colors, and shirts, and laptops, and cities, days, and dates fruits and flowers. About professional life, yes we do make choice about our career field, and job and company. But sometimes you feel industry does not have the exact type of job you want. What would you do in this state of affairs? If faced with this question, I think one should take a step if one has got favorable situation to a considerable extent. That’s what I did, because I wanted to do what I want and the way I want.

What is WizEdge?

We spent over a week to choose a name for which we could find a domain name as well, and in the end we were just switching alphabets of random English words. It is wiz+edge; it does not stand for any Greek mythology, but we thought neither do Google, Microsoft, SUN, or Mentor Graphics; do they! By the way, don’t go looking for our website, www.wizedge.com, I have just taken it down, because I thought it was violating a copy right; it would by back by Tuesday I guess!

Wizedge is Lahore based team, dealing in four major areas of software design and development.

1)    Java, Symbians, and Windows CE based mobile phone applications

2)    Protocol stacks development (including GSM stack based apps)

3)    Migrating of Windows based applications to other OSs (including Linux, Solaris, and MAC OS X).

4)    Quality Critical Web applications.

How did first month go?

It was pathetic; yes it was! Though I had expected it to be very tough, but it was, by all means, more challenging than possible. We had to attend office at weekends, we had talk to lots of people, we had to travel off station on short notices to see our (perspective) clients, we slept so less and we had issues. You may believe whatever you want, but I tell you, it is extremely demanding to work on your own. You need to work harder, almost ten times harder than one does on a normal job, you need lots of lots of patience, and you need to remain positive. Good part is, I think, we did all this, the first month at least. It’s four in the morning, and I am still at office; please don’t tell my mom!!!

Any Problems we faced?

Well, a month ago when I was planning this, the biggest problem I could imagine was, clients; where would they come from? Guess what? Its all different scenario right now; clients or work is least of my worries. I have been so choosy, and yet we have had work to do all the time.

The biggest problem, we faced was the lack of infrastructure. It took us over two weeks to get PTCL phone facility working. We didn’t have UPS, and electricity supply in Lahore sucks. We still don’t have our DSL enabled. Our LAN was not well protected against threats in the start, and we got problems there. Our leads wanted to visit us, but we thought our office premises was not so appealing at the stage. I broke my LCD, and we had to get it changed, and the new one, stopped working the next day .

To mention other problems, we need people; faithful, loyal experienced people, who could work with us on long term basis, we need them so much. And we want electricity.

And the Outcome is?

Well, I can’t let you in on my company’s finances (as it is purely Finance Manager’s job), but to give you an idea, we got four projects to work on, and we are on tables with few guys for an other project. Some of these projects brought us to shake hands with some world renowned software companies, but I think it will take some time, before I could name any of them here. But I surely trust God on this.

Way Ahead?

We are planning to keep working with our current clients, find more clients, and grow. We are planning our own products to work on in near future. We plan to hire more people this March, and if everything goes as planned, we are going to open more offices which we feel are necessary to get closer to our partners and clients. On our wish list, we have offices in US, Australia, KSA, and of course in Pakistan by the end of this year. May God help us. We need all your prayers!!!

Mudassir Shabbir.

Well, I think, points raised by Abdul Aleem have already been answered on this group, but for the sake of taste, if he asks for more explanation I will surely answer his call. There are two main points to address, I believe:

1)      If Jinnah wanted it democratic way then why “many” want it theocratic way?

2)      Did Jinnah ever wanted it secular way?

Lets follow the order!

If Jinnah wanted it democratic way then why “many” want it theocratic way?

I think its plain, they have got the right because they are “many”. This is the essence of democracy, you don’t see who is speaking, you only count the mouths. If they are “many” enough, no one can deny them their choice, not even Jinnah (though I would suggest Jinnah is also on the side of “many”). “Many” rule, and “small” are ruled; not in terms of master and servant, but in terms whose choice qualifies. If you are “small”, then you would be an idiot to call for democracy. You would surely go for a loophole, won’t you?

Did Jinnah ever wanted it secular way?

Did you ever heard the word “propaganda”? Before world war II, it used to mean “to put forth”, “to present” as if a scientific theory with very neutral connotations, but today it means “systematic propagation of a doctrine” to achieve specific interests and is viewed as a negative term. I only want to say that, words meaning are very specific to time and culture they are used in. Most of the quotes by Jinnah presented here provide way forward a country with pure Islamic norms, and the rest have got reasons. First they are used when addressing foreign nations for whom “theocracy” is a nightmare;

1)      They have seen priests torturing Galileo to death,

2)      They have experienced church ordering the burning of literature that was collected over time of hundreds of years, and was written yet more painstakingly.

3)      They have known evangelicals to deny women of very basic rights of inheritance, of vote, and of schooling etc.

4)      They know the difference between color, and race, and sects more than anyone in Islamic “Theocracy” would ever imagine!

They have just got rid of this stuff (30’s and 40’s of last century), they have empowered women, they have given rights to black, and they have just institutionalized knowledge for every one. They don’t want a new country that would make them remember of their past, and Jinnah assures them that we are very peaceful society with equal opportunities for everyone and no discrimination on terms of race, color, sect, or religion. And he is very true to say that; isn’t he?

If you think, he meant to “remove” Islamic basis for this country, then think again and please answer this: Why was country named “Islamic republic of Pakistan”? Why at all? I can produce quotations five times more in number than you did, to proof Jinnah’s Vision of Pakistan. But I don’t it is needed. West was fearful of theocracy, and Jinnah knew far well than we do; he may not have clearly pledged that Pakistan would have a Shariah law but he never ever uttered the word “secular” at least after 1930. In a press conference Jinnah gave 15 July, 1947,

When asked whether Pakistan would be a secular or theocratic state, Jinnah retorted that "You are asking me a question that is absurd. I do not know what a theocratic state means."

When another journalist suggested that the questioner meant a state run by ‘maulanas’, Jinnah retorted, “What about [a] Government run by Pundits in Hindustan?”

Jinnah continued to hedge: "Then it seems to me that what I have already said is like throwing water on duck`s back (laughter). When you talk of democracy, I am afraid you have not studied Islam. We learned democracy thirteen centuries ago."

In a press statement made by Jinnah in which he condemned Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan’s resolution for a free Pathan state, he said:

“The Khan brothers…have raised another poisonous cry that the PCA (Pakistan Constituent Assembly) will disregard the fundamental principles of the Shari’ah and Qur’anic laws. This, again, is absolutely untrue. More than thirteen centuries have gone by ….. we have not only been proud of our great and Holy Book, the Qur’an, but we have adhered to all these fundamentals all these ages, and now this cry has been raised…[that] we cannot be trusted.”

 

It is nothing more than propaganda against Jinnah, and his beloved nation who know very well, what Islamic Republic of Pakistan was made for!

What “small” people fear:

You know first they call for a democracy, and when they know it won’t be of any use, they call for Jinnah, and I don’t know what they call for when Jinnah disappoints them, but “Small” people of Pakistan fear that once we have theocracy (or even democracy) in Pakistan then they would lose their place, they would be declared second grade citizens and find it hard to live, which I think is a considerable thought for every human being. And on behalf of “many”, I hereby assure you that Islam is all about peace, love, and knowledge. In an Islamic state, you will have a more secure place to live than you have now, you will find Islamic ideals easier to handle today’s corrupt politicians. Islam is an ideal of life, as Jinnah himself puts before the Sibi Darbar in 1948:

“Let us lay the foundations of our democracy on the basis of truly Islamic ideals and principles. Our Almighty has taught us that our decisions in the affairs of the state shall be guided by discussion and consultations.”

 

Thanks,

Mudassir.

On Jan 3, 2008 6:09 PM, Abdul Aleem <aleemkhan@gmail.com> wrote:

I wonder where we have lost Jinnah's vision of pakistan, why many of us want to turn pakistan into a religious theocracy and some want it to be a country split by provinsialism. Maybe the powers that be have not let democracy flourish in this country from the very start and today many of us are looking for other answers.

It is my belief that survival of Pakistan lies only in being a modern democracy and this is eactly what Jinnah wanted pakistan to be. Some sayings of Jinnah which reflect his vision of Pakistan.

• In any case Pakistan is not going to be a theocratic State to be ruled by priests with a divine mission. (Broadcast talk to the people of the United States of America on Pakistan recorded February, 1948)
• No nation can rise to the height of glory unless your women are side by side with you. We are victims of evil customs. It is a crime against humanity that our women are shut up within the four walls of the houses as prisoners. There is no sanction anywhere for the deplorable condition in which our women have to live. (Speech at a meeting of the Muslim University Union, Aligarh March 10, 1944)
• Even now there are some States in existence where there are discriminations made and bars imposed against a particular class. Thank God, we are not starting in those days. We are starting in the days when there is no discrimination, no distinction between one community and another, no discrimination between one caste or creed and another. We are starting with this fundamental principle that we are all citizens and equal citizens of one State. (Presidential Address to the Constituent Assembly of Pakistan on 11th August, 1947)
• The great majority of us are Muslims. We follow the teachings of the Prophet Mohammed (may peace be upon him). We are members of the brotherhood of Islam in which all are equal in rights, dignity and self-respect. Consequently, we have a special and a very deep sense of unity. But make no mistake: Pakistan is not a theocracy or anything like it." (Broadcast talk to the people of Australia recorded on 19th February, 1948)
• You are free; you are free to go to your temples. You are free to go to your mosques or to any other places of worship in this State of Pakistan. You may belong to any religion, caste or creed --that has nothing to do with the business of the State. (Presidential Address to the Constituent Assembly of Pakistan on 11th August, 1947)
• We are now all Pakistanis--not Baluchis, Pathans, Sindhis, Bengalis, Punjabis and so on--and as Pakistanis we must feet behave and act, and we should be proud to be known as Pakistanis and nothing else. (Reply to the Civic Address presented by the Quetta Municipality on 15th June, 1948.)
• It naturally pains me to find the curse of provincialism holding sway over any section of Pakistan. Pakistan must be rid of this evil. (Reply to the Civic Address presented by the Quetta Municipality on 15th June, 1948.)

 

Source: http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jinnah

 

 

Regards,

Abdul Aleem

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Along with December, comes to an end Miss Benazir Bhutto, murdered in Pindi by someone who thought itworth giving his own life to take hers. Things dramatically changed last night, soon after her death was announced, markets, public transport, offices, all just vanished in Lahore. People are taking few more lives in Pakistan to commemorate her loss, as she was taken on a plane with Asif, Bilawal, Bukhtawar and Asifa to be lied down beside her father.

I am sad. If I look back, she has been a life long companion of mine; ever since my childhood I have been listening to her, listening about her, and at times listening against her. But the point is she has always been around since I was born. She was the best orator in Pakistan Politics since Jinnah himself. I don’t know why people thought it be so necessary to have her out. I wish they had come to a better settlement…

I am not so ethical a person nor do I have judgmental power to decide what is right or wrong in terms of this incident, but I am very sad. You know when you kill a person, for whatever reason, you, kind of snatch, from every human on this earth, the right to talk to that person, to be with that person, to love that person, to hate him, even the right to feel his existence. I don’t know whether I can put my feelings in words but, I think the person killed is not as much of a loser as is the rest of the world. Well, you may fear death as a deadline, or as a painful event, or for whatever is to come after death, but once you are dead, that’s it, you can’t fear anymore. Can you? But the actual loss is of the rest of the world; they have lost a human, a mind, a heart, a person. They have lost!

Write down names of all your friends and relatives on a piece of paper, and I guarantee you, you won’t be able to see, on average, one fourth of them for rest of your lives; they will die or you will die before the meeting occurs. Isn’t a cruel fact, we believe we have them, we can touch them, we can talk to them, we think we can be with them sometime; but we can’t. And we don’t have enough time to be with all of them. So fragile and so blameless is human race. And in this extremely cruel environment, we have no place and no need for a killer. We are already running short of time, how can we think of cutting ropes even shorter. I detest killing, in every form of its. Allah has perfectly said in Quran, “One who murders a single human, is a murderer of all humanity…” I wish for every problem in this world, there be a solution other than killing someone; I wish Pakistanis could stop killing each other; I wish I could see a peaceful Pakistan before I die. Just one wish God, a peaceful Pakistan..

mudassir shabbir.

You know you grew up in Pakistan in the 90's when:

• Evenings on STN/NTM were the highlight of your day.

• The Jetsons, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Captain Planet were dubbed in Urdu.

• If you were lucky, you had a dish, and you'd watch Disney Hour dubbed in Hindi on Zee TV and write to the host Vishaal. And you never missed "Hum Paanch" (Pa-Pa-Pa-PAANCH!) or Tu Tu Mein Mein either. 

• You played "Kings" in school (the game where the first person to yell "Kings" would try to step on someone's foot. Then 
that person would try to step on someone else's foot and so forth).

• The only co-ed sport that was ever played was dodgeball (called Dodge the Ball) and girls were actually pretty good at it. 

• You played Dark Room, Tilo-Express, Oonch Neech, Chor-Sipahi and Chupan Chupai.

• You decided conflicts not by rock-paper-scissors, but by Pugan-Pugaai, In Pin Safety Pin, or Akar-Bakar-Bambay-Bo.

• 5 words: Assoo-Panjoo-Haar-Kabootar-Doli. 

• You know what these mean. "Bil Patori naasa chori aadhi mithi aadhi kori. and "Mein >>kon hoon, mein kya karoon, mein kiss ko khaaon" and "Ulloo ulloo hello, ulloo ulloo hello." • You wished you were Imran or Moattar from Ainak Waala Jin.

• You drank Frost juice with Super Crisp chips. And then when you were done, you'd chuck the juice box on the floor and jump on it to burst it. • 

• There was never a line at the canteen. Instead everyone drove the canteen wala mad by screaming at the top of their lungs. 

• You remember RC Cola and how no one liked 

• It was taboo for guys to drink Mirinda/Fanta because it was a GIRL's >>drink.

• Wasim Akram's "mein cigarette nahi peeta" ad made half ur generation vow to never smoke (the other half just missed out on good stuff).

• You had to ask "Ma'am/Miss may I come in" before entering a class, and you had to stand up to answer questions during a lesson.

• You carried around a cordless phone in your bag/pocket pretending it was a mobile phone, because heck, they both looked the same back then didn't they? 

• You begged your parents for a walkman and then bought tapes of Junaid Jamshed, or if you were really cool, Junoon. 

• You remember Fakhr-e-Alam hosting the Top Ten on NTM and his "Bhangra Rap" was always #1. 

• #2 was "Jaadoo Ka Charagh" by Awaz and #3 was "Dohlna" by Shehzad Roy.

. #4 was "Mann de Moaj" by Hadiqa Kayani, the only cool female-singer in Pakistani (and that was her only song for a long time, till she sang Dupatta Mera Malmal Ka.")

• You still hold a grudge against the Indianization of Star Plus after all those years.

• You remember celebrating when they changed the weekends to Saturday and Sunday because it meant Friday was a half-day. 

• You played Mario Brothers like there was no tomorrow. 

• You remember the Nintendo game where you had to shoot ducks with an actual gun-shaped joystick and thought it was the most amazing thing ever. 

• You played Dave 1 and thought level three was the hardest thing in the world.

• You used to wait for the Ice Cream wala in the afternoon and bought Paddle Pops from him. 

• You had "kutti" (pinkie finger) with your enemies and "sulli" (index+middle finger) with your friends.

• Our idols were either the guys from Alpha Bravo Charlie or the guys from Teen Bata Teen.

• It's "copy," "rubber," and "dustbin." Or rather, "duss-bin." And "desk" was once "dex." 

• The coolest clapping games were "Cham Cham Cham," "O Pillar," "Zig Zag Zoo."

• You were on the top of the food chain if you were made monitor (and you very easily abused the power too, by chucking chalk and dusters at people). 

Aaj bazaar mein pa-bajolan chalo
Chashm-e Nam, Jan-e Shoreeda kafi nahin
Thumat-e Ishq poshida kafi nahin,
Aaj bazaar mein pabajolan chalo

Dast afshan chalo, Mast o Raqsaan chalo
Khaq bar sar chalo, khon bad-aman chalo
Rah takta ha sab Shahr-e Janaan chalo

Hakim-e Shaher bhi, Mujmaa-e Aam bhi,
Teer-i Ilzam bhi, Sang-e Dushnam bhi,
Subh nashaad bhi, Roz-i nakam bhi

Un ka dam saz apnay siva kon hai
Shehr-e Janaan mein ab ba-Sufa kon hai,
Dast-Katil kay shaiyan raha kon hai

Rakht-i dil bandh lo, dil fogaro chalo
Phir hamien Katl ho aiyn, Yaro Chalo

—–
A wet eye, a shaken life is not enough,
The accusation of a hidden love is not enough,
With feet in chains, Let us go in public today.

Let us go with palms exposed, with a song and dance,
with dirt in our hair, with blood on our chest,
Let us go while the entire city of lovers watches.

For the warden of the city, and the crowd of the commoners,
And the arrows of accusation, and the stones of abuse,
And the glum morning, and the failing day,

Who is there to give them life except us?
Who is ready in this city except us?
Who is honorable enough for the killer’s hand except us?

Pack up your belongings O Injured heart ones!
Let us go friends and get killed once again.

- Faiz Ahmed Faiz, 1959 (Lahore Jail)

translation by by sepoy

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After you download any Linux distro from the internet, you have to burn it to a DVD, CD or a number of CDs to install it. That CD or DVD is generally used only once after which it lies unused , and worse, almost every Linux distro comes up with a new release every 6 months. So if you are in the habit of upgrading to every new version, you must have dozens of CDs lying at the bottom of your drawer. What a wastage of CDs! But with a little trick you can install any Linux directly from the hard disk without burning a single CD or DVD. The prerequisite of this trick is to have an operating system already installed on your computer. This is obvious because unless you are able to boot into your machine, you can't install anything; and we are not going to boot from the Linux disk because we aren't burning any. Here I'm going to focus on Microsoft Windows as the pre installed operating system.Almost all Linux installers uses two files to boot the computer: a Linux kernel, and an initial root file system containing a minimal set of directories that is mounted prior to when the real root file system is available. This initial root file system is also called Ram disk (initrd). We will use these two files to boot our PC. Now lets get to the actual procedure.1. The first thing you will have to do is copy the ISO file(s) of the Linux to your hard disk (ofcourse, you already have it). Make sure that the partition is FAT32 unless the distro you are installing has native NTFS read/write support. Some distros require you to copy the ISO file(s) to the root of the partition. If you keep it inside a folder, the setup might not be able to detect it.2. Use Winrar to open the ISO file (you need not need to extract it). Now you will have to extract the two files I talked about earlier. The files are usually found inside a directory called isolinux. Different distros might place the files in different location; you just have to search for it, but it isn't hard to locate. These two files are also named differently in different distros. The files that you will need to search and extract are: (the kernel file is shown in green and the Ram disk is shown in red)Fedora: vmlinuz and initrd.imgSuse: linux and initrdMandriva: vmlinuz and all.rdzUbuntu: vmlinuz and initrd.gzGentoo: gentoo and gentoo.igzKnoppix: vmlinuz and initrd.imgSlackware: bzImage and initrd.imgDebian: vmlinuz and initrd.gz3. After you have extracted the two files, copy them to c:\boot (you will need to create the folder "boot")4. Now download the file called grub4dos from here. Extract the folder "boot" and the file "grldr" from the downloaded zip file. Inside the folder "boot" is another folder called "grub"; copy the folder "grub" to c:\boot. Copy the file "grldr" to c:\5. Open c:\boot\grub\menu.lst and add these following lines. (Notice that hd0 refers to the first hard drive. If you have more than one hard drive, they will be named hd1, hd2 etc. Replace hd0 with the proper hard drive number incase you have windows installed on another drive.) Replace Linux_kernel and Ram_disk with the appropriate file names below. (the ones you copied to c:\boot)title Install Linuxkernel (hd0,0)/boot/Linux_kernelinitrd (hd0,0)/boot/Ram_disk6. Now you have to add grub to your c:\boot.ini file. You can open boot.ini by clicking on Start>Run and typing c:\boot.ini. If Windows does not allow the file to be modified, then go to Control Panel>System and click on the Advanced tab. Now under Startup and Recovery click Settings and then under System Startup click Edit. Open boot.ini and add this line in the end.C:\grldr=”Start GRUB”7. You are now ready to install Linux. Restart your PC and from the boot screen select "Start GRUB". This will load GRUB. From the grub screen select "Install Linux". During the setup you will be asked the source of installation. Choose hard disk and then select the hard drive partition where you copied the ISO files. Sometimes you might have to type the whole path of the partition and the exact name of the ISO. So write it down before you begin.I have personally tested this with Fedora, Suse and Mandriva and it works without problem. I have no doubt it will work for others too.Update: dougfractal adds that this is possible from Linux too. The method as he describes is:From the terminal enter these commandssudo mkdir /distrosudo chmod `whoami`:`whoami`cp MYLINUX.iso /distro/distro.isoNow extract Linux_kernel & Ram_disk to /distro#Open /boot/grub/menu.lst#ADD NEW ENTRY#title Install Linuxroot (hdX,X)kernel /distro/Linux_kernelinitrd /distro/Ram_diskReboot and select "Install Linux" from grub

instant fundas: Install any Linux distro directly from hard disk without burning any DVD

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Yes...I am very extremely greatly hugely immensely vastly gigantically colossally enormously tremendously...HAPPY. I am sorry I can't give out all there is, as it would negatively affect my current biddings. But if you are close enough to me then perhaps you already know, think "what i have been upto lately?".

It will mark one of the greatest changes in my life, and hopefully for good. It also means achieving my goal for year 07-08, which has not happen in its true sense for quite some time now.

I am so much thankful Allah for all this, for my family who prayed for me [against their desire in this case], to so many people without whom it would have been impossible. Thank you everyone!

I am writing the complete story as a protected entry [accessible to friends] to this blog. Please read it!

On Thursday 13th, I left for Islamabad, for an urgent meeting. I mett Irfan on my way; he was going for the defence of his MBA thesis at NUST (there are thesis in MBA??). I reached Babar around 4 (almost end time for the first sehri of 1428 AH). Babar lives with a friend Zaigham in room number 102, Mughal Plaza, commercial market (commercial AND market), satellite town, Pindi. I left early in the morning wearing my new trousers (bought after almost three years :) ), reached there earlier; hung around and then entered at almost the exact time.
I returned just in time for my Friday prayer, and then I took rest.
At Pindi station, on my way back, I met Zeeshan, accidentally! While he was standing around 4-5 feet away from me, I had to call him to confirm he was Zeeshan :@ He has changed looks :0. But hang on, by all means he looks much more prettier, and of course untangible! He told me about (an exchange of pics and) his plans to switch company; he is perhaps going to join E2SP soon.

Bottom line is Islamabad is a beautiful city!

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I have been to Sialkot to see Sajjad Akhtar this weekend. Sajjad Akhtar was my roommate during my stay at PU hostels. He lives some 25-30km east of Sialkot, in a small village. Though industrially it may have a name, but you can not declare Sialkot a beautiful city; namely transportation system is very poor.
Anyway, we reached his hometown, around 6:15 in the evening; we prayer Mughrib, in lonely masjid, and then went to his home; but before that Sajjad introduced me to his CHAUDARY, though I can't mention here the word S.A used for him :)
To everyone there, I was introduced as a Computer Engineer who "makes" (and also "sells" :) computers. S.A's 4-5 year old nephew Abdullah was very much interested in buying from me a new computer, and he would literally have made me take his old computer with me (in return of promising him a new one ) if I had not been saved by the excuse that I don't sell/buy on weekends :)
Wapda personnel are not in league with any villager there, so during the time we had a "light" break, we went to CLUB to enjoy some company. If I got it right (you see there was no light), it was a place to keep buffaloes, and other honorable creatures of middle-earth, though they were "perhaps" absent at the very precise moment to let us have a meeting.
That night was a very busy night for S.A, he hardly slept that night :)
The next morning, we went for fishing, for an hour or so we did our best, and hold on we actually caught one fish.
And then was the time for a cricket match, and then before leaving I had a shower under a TUBE WELL, very cool. Isn't it?

As few of you know, with a very heavy heart, I am leaving Mentor Graphics Pakistan on September 05, 2007. I will be joining CambridgeDocs on September 10th.
It is an emotional parting with Mentor at least as far as I am concerned. I do not feel at home; I will be leaving this seat of mine, and neighbors; I will leave Shahbaz, and Waqas, and I will leave Talha, Humayoun, Mansoor, Fuaad, Touseef, Faisal, and every else. I will also leave my table tennis, not to mention the title of Table tennis Winner :)
But sometimes, you must make very hard decision to ensure that you are growing in life. I have to risk this comfort bed of Mentor, to explore what is out there for me. Let us this risk taking pays off, as Qazi bhai has recently wished in his parting mail. I get some courage when I realize that Qazi, Usman, Doctor, Bilal(2), Mudassir(R), Adnan, Sufi, and so many others have left as well. I hope it goes well.
Sis R.A.B had told me "once you have decided, do not look back; it is dangerous.". I hope I will find courage in me to follow her words.

Let us enjoy table tennis as long as we can :)


har-chand ho mushaahadah-e ;haq kii guftaguu
bantii nahii;N hai baadah-o-saa;Gar kahe ba;Gair

نمے دانم کہ آخر چوں بہ دم دیدارمی رقصم   مگر نازم بہ این ذوق کہ پیش یار مے رقصم

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The Scale of the Universe

source:http://www.astrosurf.com/benschop/Scale.htm

The scale of the Universe is simply astounding. The best way for the layperson to understand the distances we are dealing with is not to use words like Parsecs or light years, but rather to use easy to understand analogies.

The Earth and our Moon

Analogy #1 - The Earth-Sun Distance

Suppose that our Earth is the ball in the tip of a ball-point pen.

How big would the Sun be, and how far away from the pen tip?

First, Hold the ball-point pen up in the air. Now hold a ping-pong ball about 15 feet away from the pen tip.

................149,597,890 km...................

The Sun..________________________________ The Earth

The ping-pong ball represents the sun, and the ball in the tip of the pen represents the earth. This is approximately a size and distance scale model of the Sun and Earth. The moon would be the size of a dust speck beside the ball in the pen. When we observe sun-spots on the sun, these magnetic storms are often larger than the earth itself. Amazing...

moving beyond our sun...

Our sun is a star. The closest star system to our Sun is Proxima Centauri, in the Alpha Centauri complex. If Proxima Centauri were a second ping-pong ball, how far away must we place it from the first, to stay within our scale model?

The answer is, start driving. And be sure to bring some food for the trip, as you must drive some 2300Km away to place the second ping -pong ball in it's correct location to represent Proxima Centauri, while the first ball represents our sun.

That's about the distance from Toronto to Tampa Florida!! This helps us understand why we cannot resolve individual stars into discs from any earth-based telescope, including Hubble. The only reason that we can see them at all is due to the copious amounts of light they emit. Our own sun is no exception, when you consider the light from a full or partial moon, is simply the moon reflecting a very small portion of sunlight back to earth.

other bodies in our solar system...

Continuing with our model, Saturn, within our Solar System, would be about the size of a pea, and would be about 150 feet away from the ping-pong ball representing our Sun, while Jupiter would be about the size of a small marble about 100 feet away from the ping-pong ball.

moving out of our solar system and into our galaxy...

When you look up into the night sky, you can see millions of stars. All the stars you are looking at are within our own Milky Way galaxy, an island of stars and matter in a vast and strange universe. Our Sun and Proxima Centauri are but two of the millions of stars within our own galaxy, The Milky Way. We can see the Milky Way edge on, stretched out across our sky. It is most prominent in the summer in North America, as we are viewing the thickest portion of it. The light that makes the Milky Way glow as a whitish haze is actually the combined light from billions of stars, all further away than Proxima Centauri. Try looking at the Milky Way with a pair of binoculars some night, you'll be amazed at how many stars there are.

Analogy #2 - Milky Way Galaxy - How big is it?

Our Milky Way galaxy is simply huge. To fully comprehend just how large, again we turn to an analogy. Just how big is our galaxy? Let's now pretend that our galaxy is a kid's sandbox, and our sun is a grain of sand in a sandbox. The Earth is a miniscule dust speck near the grain of sand, too small to be seen without a microscope.

If our sun were a grain of sand in this sandbox representing the Milky Way galaxy, the sandbox would be somewhat oval and yet flat, and would be about 20 feet in diameter. The sand would be about 12 inches thick in the center, and thinner towards the edges.

Our Milky Way Galaxy

moving out of our own galaxy ...

Now that we have an idea of how large our own galaxy is, we can turn our sights to more distant objects. There are billions of other galaxies in the Universe besides our own. The closest large galaxy to our Milky Way galaxy is the Andromeda Galaxy, just barely visible naked eye from a dark sky site. The space between galaxies is very empty, devoid of stars and even dust. About the only tangible thing that exists between galaxies is light itself.

Now how far away is the Andromeda Galaxy?

Analogy #3 - Milky Way - Andromeda Galaxy Distance

Continuing with our analogy where our Milky Way galaxy is the 20 foot sandbox, we can determine how far away the next closest sandbox be to ours, if that sandbox were to represent the Andromeda Galaxy (or M31).

As in Analogy #1, quite a distance away. The next closest sandbox representing Andromeda would be approximately 2000 ft away, about 1/3 mile away. This sandbox would be quite similiar in appearance to our own, perhaps slightly larger. Some piles of sand lay scattered nearby this sandbox, disorderly "mini" galaxies, seen below as M110 (below M31) and M32 (above M31)

M31 - Andromeda Galaxy

Note that the comparative distance between the Milky Way galaxy and Andromeda galaxy is smaller than the comparitive distance between the stars within our galaxy. This is exactly the case in reality as well. The galaxies are clumped into groups, and M31 happens to be within our Local Group of galaxies.

moving out of our local group of galaxies...

Analogy #4 - Our Local Group to other Galaxy Groups distances

For this analogy, our Milky Way galaxy will again remain the 20 foot sandbox.

Our Milky Way galaxy and Andromeda are members of the "Local Group" of galaxies, which includes other member such as M33 (Triangulum) as well as the Large and Small Magellanic clouds. The large and small magellanic clouds are akin to disorderly piles of sand that are on the grass about 5 feet from our sandbox, the Milky Way, while Andromeda is another sandbox about 1/3 mile away.

The next groups of galaxies are the M81 group, the Maffei group, the Sculptor Group (including the magnificent NGC253), and the M83 group.

Each of these groups would be like other groupings of sandboxes from about 2 miles to away, perhaps some other schoolyard..

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NGC 253 - Sculpter Galaxy

The galactic groupings have been studied extensively, and have been found to be structured into strings and clusters. The Virgo Cluster contains our local group and other nearby galaxy groups, much like cities each with sandboxes may be structured along a river for example.

moving out into the remainder of our Universe...

.Analogy #5 - The rest of the Universe

For this analogy, our Milky Way galaxy will again remain the 20 foot sandbox.

The groups of galaxies we looked at in Analogy #4. represented several schoolyards, each with several sandboxes. Now let's see what's left in our observable universe...

The rest of the universe can be represented by our entire earth, with all the continents having thousands upon thousands of "sandboxes", each representing a galaxy. The Earth would have to be filled with sandboxes as well, such that when we sight a line through the earth, multiple galaxies would lie upon our sight line, with some being closer than others.

This is in effect what the Hubble Deep Field revealed, millions of galaxies. The deeper we look, the more galaxies we can see.

Hubble Deep Field - Millions of Galaxies

In conclusion; by means of analogy, we can see that our earth is but a speck of dust on the side of a grain of sand, in a sandbox that is about 20 feet diameter, with the closest sandbox being about 1/3 mile away, and our local group of galaxies would be but a collection of sandboxes in a space about the size of a small city, and that there are other cities with groups of sandboxes as well, expanding out to the whole earth, with billions of other sandboxes each representing other galaxies, each containing billions of stars.

To be frank, I find it humbling. I also find it amazing that us people, living on that little fleck of dust, can set up a telescope in our backyard and witness this grand scale universe in action, by simply magnifying the view. We also have been given the ability to attempt to comprehend the scale of it all.

I will not pursue this point further here, as there is the line between physical reality and philosophy that need not to be crossed within the context of this article.

Let it be said that it truly is an incredible Universe in which we live.

88Voilà! In view, a humble vaudevillian veteran, cast vicariously as both victim and villain by the vicissitudes of fate. This visage, no mere veneer of vanity, is a vestige of the vox populi, now vacant, vanished. However, this valorous visitation of a bygone vexation stands vivified, and has vowed to vanquish these venal and virulent vermin vanguarding vice and vouchsafing the violently vicious and voracious violation of volition! The only verdict is vengeance; a vendetta held as a votive, not in vain, for the value and veracity of such shall one day vindicate the vigilant and the virtuous. Verily, this vichyssoise of verbiage veers most verbose, so let me simply add that it's my very good honor to meet you and you may call me V.

"How happy is the blameless Vestal's lot! The world forgetting, by the world forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! Each pray'r accepted, and each wish resign'd." ---  Alexander Pope

88ay tan mera chashmaan huway
tay mein murshid wekh na rujaan hoo

loon loon dey mund lukh lukh chashmaan
hik khoolan, hik kajaan hoo

itnia dethya, sabr na away,
hor kidhay wul pujaan hooo

murshid da deedar hai bahu
meanu lakh karoran hajaan hoo

,.,.,..,


jo dum ghafil, so dum kafir
sanoon murshid ay purhaya hoo

kiti jaan hawalay rub day
usaan aisa ishaq kamaya hoo


murun to agay mur gaay bahu
taan mutlab na paya hoo

Tujh ko qasm hai ana na hath khali
ankhoon mein busanay walay, meray chaman kay wali

,.,..,.,.,.,.,.,.
apni chub banayi tu gai balam kay pass,.,.
jab dekhi balam ki chub, so apni bhool gai

chaap tilak sab cheeni kay mossay naina milai kay


bul bul jaaon mein toray rang rijva,
Apni si rang de ni mossay naina milai kay

An FM  radio station.

Lovers don't finally meet somewhere;
they exist in each all along!

-Rumi

کم نگاہ و کور ذوق و ھرزہ گرد
ملت از قال و اقولش فرد فرد
مکتب و ملا و اسرار کتاب
کور مادر زاد و نور آفتاب
دین کافر فکر و تدبیر جھاد
دین ملا فی سبیل اﷲ فسا
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ملااور بہشت

ميں بھي حاضر تھا وہاں ، ضبط سخن کر نہ سکا
حق سے جب حضرت ملا کو ملا حکم بہشت
عرض کي ميں نے ، الہي! مري تقصير معاف
خوش نہ آئيں گے اسے حور و شراب و لب کشت
نہيں فردوس مقام جدل و قال و اقول
بحث و تکرار اس اللہ کے بندے کي سرشت
ہے بد آموزي اقوام و ملل کام اس کا
اور جنت ميں نہ مسجد ، نہ کليسا ، نہ کنشت!
 

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حال ومقام

 
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