Today the whole country is celebrating Eid-ul-Azha with great spirit so wish you all a very Happy Eid-ul-Azha Mubarak!, luckily this year its Eid the same day all over the country except in some parts of Peshawar where the Aghans celebrated it yesterday. Its going to be a Tikka Program all day long and at night, though am not fond of meat much but well its fun. Its winter all over, its getting cold and we have a long winter break for about 14 days so the internet business is down for some time. Happy Winter Blogging Amigos~

P.S: Last night was a tikka night in my sis, in law’s and it wasn’t much fun:( so eat less~

Dad called today, asking when am going to be home for the Eid, but well the good news is that the construction work on our home in Abbottabad is in full swing now, they just ended up with the first floor and the roof, my bed room according to the map is on the top and is going to be a decent thingy;). Though i hate Abbottabad for no particular reason other than it being a dead city and people sleeping too early and the streets getting empty and dark right after the Isha prayers,well who cares anyways as long as i have my internet connection and the PC where i can spend my time quite well, movies and music in addition to it. Currently am living in the Hostel but 2 years from now i’ll be home most probably cos i will be done with my bachelors in business and so called IT.

Lets see what’s the plan for the room, its going to be custom inshallah and not an ordinary one,i just saw this Home Automation Systems website (see the animations on the right side) that show how one can fully automate there home, i just need a room though;)

We have a good number of voters within our family and my uncles and aunts and there families make up quite a decent number of voters that live in the same area with no other people around us. Out of all the individuals my father is considered the senior most in family. My father has decided not to vote a single candidate this time and also asked us to do so if we want to, the reason am not sure but he say’s no one is worth it. All are fed up of the dirty people popping up everytime, filling there pockets and than getting off the seat with a dirty conscience, ! I might end up not voting as well, though a close friend’s dad is a healthy candidate in our area and i am eligible to vote but well am not sure in either case.We need to be educated with our political thinking, what looks good for one is bad at times for the others that causes a big shift in change of mind, but well politics is dirty. Good teachers can make it clear to us how a true and clean political thinking can be adapted, we have great universities in Pakistan for the engineering , medical and management sciences and all we need are good political background teachers from these places, if no hire them from abroad, or some online teacher certification programs where many good Pakistani PhD’s are listed who have no biasness towards any political party for no reason. Hey what the…..??? What am i saying, teachers yes, but even teachers are not trusty:( when i can’t guarantee myself, i might end up voting for my friend’s dad just cos he’s the father of my friend, well forgetting the fact Politics is so bad and so so bad are the Politicians~

 EDUCATE YOURSELF, and also others if Possible~

I know am a bit early to make this post since its nearly a 17 days from now on when the year 2008 starts but well, the only thing i’d be waiting in the 2008 is no not the elections but the Beijing Olympics 2008.
Ok we’ve had bad bad Olympics that past 12 years cos last time i hears someone say our country ever won a medal was back in the Atlanta Olympics in the 90’s. After that its like a big lock on the players of our country, no doubt we don’t have the best of the equipment and the best of what it takes to develop the best players for Olympics caliber of games but our Hockey team was known for the speed of Hassan Sardar, and the Flying Horse Shehnaz Sheikh, after legendary players like them who helped Pakistan win the major events, and not to forget the team of Goal Keeper Manzoor and Shahbaz Sr whose tiring efforts helped us win the World cup 1994 Hockey from the Netherlands, and than since that major victory, the only thing i remember about Pakistan’s achievement in Hockey is either a victory over India or the Azlan Shah Hockey Cup.Why is there a complete full stop now?

Hockey has been the only sport that represents our country as a tough competitor in Olympics and we’ve lost the glory and charm in that very sport, the government should give the most importance to the Pakistan Hockey cos it is the only thing which represents us in Olympics as a team that could go on and even win the gold medal, thank god there’s no cricket in Olympics cos Pakistan is no more the 1992 World Cup Team. Today, while i was sitting biting my nails when suddenly i remembered a year calendar that my father brought years back, it was 1995 i guess, at that time Pakistan was the Winning champion of 4 major sports of the world being Squash, Cricket, Hockey and Snooker, and that calendar highlighted pictures of the captains holding those trophies and cute smiles and i was like wow, what a moment that was. What do we have left? Can we even expect a Medal?

Fatmeed Foundation held a Blood Collection camp at the Institute of Management Sciences Peshawar (my uni) today, the idea was from the Social Welfare society in the institute that invited them to hold a free camp. Not all but many students including me gave blood to the only organization in Pakistan that has been saving lives of thousands of people. Other than that i was tempted to give blood today since i have a very rare blood type (i.e O-Negative) and other than that i heard someone say that it improves the skin and wipes out all the pimples off your face in case you get to recover the blood quick, and offcourse Sawaab is another bonus so why stand back?. So i finally am one of the Donor’s.

The other thing i was worried about prior to giving the blood was the apparatus used by them but well it was all clean and sealed stuff, other than the bare hands of the nurse, the Vaporizers and the Herbal Grinders (donno what were they for) all the equipment was sealed new and as clean as one can imagine, and the one thing was the needle didn’t hurt much at all. I hope i get the donated blood re-developed so that it comes into use by some needy person, I wish no one gets to need it but well its life and it is needed.~ So donate to Fatmeed and save a life, afterall who knows you need it tomorrow!

Heroes is an amazing TV series like Prison Break( my all time favorite ) from the NBC, it is a story about some amazing people on the earth who thought they were normal people like others until at some stage of their life they tend to realize they have abilities that makes them special, for instance healing instantly after getting a bruise, flying, painting the future, teleporting oneself to future and stopping the time, hearing the rain from 40 miles, melting the metal when touched etc. These special people than realize how important role they have in saving the humanity while some bad among them like Sylar ( a character ) who learns that by grabbing the brains of such special humans he can take his power continues on killing other special people like him. From what i’ve seen so far in the first 18 episodes of Heroes i thought the Cheerleader’s father (owner of a printer cartridges and paper factory) but in real working for some gang who are on a mission that could lead to a disaster was the main culprit but the more i progressed with watching the series it looks more like his love for his adopted special daughter was way beyond anyone could imagine.

Sorry i am speaking as if you’ve all seen it, anyways if you haven’t done so far so the Season 1 with 23 episodes and Season 2 with 11 episodes have already been aired. Don’t miss to watch it since its a great time killer as well as consisting of a nice story~

It never usually happens that we set out with friends for a long drive but when the mood is alive than all one needs is an excuse to go for one, we setup with a group of friends to go to Rawalpindi right from Peshawar to watch the latest Indian movie Goal on the big screen at Cinepax. All the friends and company am sure would have laughed there @$$ off at we few individuals but it was a great experience for someone like me who never was willing to see the face of cinema, but hearing that this particular cinema was far better than any other ordinary one i never said no.

We went via the recently built Motorway and so the drive was comfort and less time consuming, and the movie itself was pretty entertaining, though am not a very big fan of Indian movies specially but i must say the movie was a piece of great story put together with great actors. GOAL is a must to watch movie i would say and i highly recommend it. We’re all impatient now for the release of the movie “Bee” at that very cinema and we’re surely gonna watch it there. Glad to see some good places to “kill time” though not in our city but the country at least;).

Man is born in the garb of a child, passes through the pinnacle of his youths and at last fades away into the darkness of his grave”, whoever said was wise enough to mention Man neglecting the service done for humanity by Man, although Women have played an equal role somehow in the service to mankind but Information Technology is one field where women are far behind. I am not by any means being Male biased but these are the facts what history has for us. Coming back to IT, specifically our country, in Pakistan though woman is as good as from any other developed country but there role in the enhancement of IT is minimum, where in the developed countries a woman is head of the Information Technology department our woman is limited to being assistant or secretary to the head of IT department, where women in Europe write computer applications to provide an ease in work, our women are the users of those very applications,where a female writes and teaches computer games designing (e.g http://www.gamedesignprograms.com/ )in the schools at europe, our women are the one’s who only play those games, where girls abroad have a keen interest in the Information Technology our woman is limited to the Medical profession only. The reason is not that our women are not equally educated but the fact is the culture, the environment and the society our women are brought up in, since most parents want to see there daughter either as a Doctor or a Lawyer or anything but not a Techy Girl. Though the scope of IT and Technological studies is way beyond anyone’s imagination but why this likeness for the afro mentioned professions only? It is because either the parents are not technologically literate or they fear the future seeing other IT students having wasted there time studying IT. Most women who studied IT see there studies go wasted because none of them could come up with an innovation in IT, no one planned to practically put there skills, they are either looking for a job or switch to other fields but none of them ever planned to form an organization of there own, be a female IT Entrepreneur, none of them. The truth is when you study IT, you just get to the know-how of IT, the practical learning comes when you plan to continue to this field and be well informed about the latest developments and innovations and using them can you only go on with your own skills and “Be the Change”.

Did you ever thought why would a woman always need assistance to install a mere Windows to a computer, set up an electronic device, or use the enhanced features of a cell phone? Someone said Women are Technologically ill, I disagree, the reason behind this is that they are not much interested in technology, the portion of thinking and brain that they could utilize in finding solution to the above problems, they have it reserved for Studies weather learning by heart the codes of a computer program without thinking how could they use the program practically in there daily life.

Some of you will not believe but there are women who were the backbone to the algorithm on which Google the best search engine runs, there are women who are full time web designers and developers and paid highly for there services, women with programming skills who write complex applications and programs for web which we use, women who are responsible for the entire animations and motioning of the TV commercials for the top brands like Coca Cola, women with although not much skills but good knowledge write articles for the best IT magazines and the future developments are the aftermath of their suggestions in those articles and not to forget but some women are the CEOs of the most respectable IT Companies. Where these are some good facts for women the bitter fact is not one amongst them is an example we can see from our country.

Its just about the time we should have a change, our country is badly in need of strong brains that women here are wasting and that could be utilized to revolutionize the IT industry in Pakistan as well as leading to a safe future, where the future is IT there is always a need of a balance contribution from Women as well, only than can Pakistan appear on the world map as an IT giant.