2012, A Lethal Year in Karachi

Only few moments separate us from the end of a year but, it has the concise life of 365 days in it; for few those 365 days were just days and for few its 31,536,000 years in it as they spend each passed second as a year.  Before starting that year few people thought that it will be then end of life... well 2012 was the end for some people -including some friends-. Don’t wait for “the end” to come, have fun as if you will die tomorrow. 

In Karachi 2012 was the month of sorrows and angst for so many families who lost a son, a brother, a sister, a mother, a father, till last year people were dying for saving belongings but 2012 was quite questionable to everyone as few families still unaware of the loss they had. The stoned eyes of mothers are still waiting for the justice or at least a reason for killing of their sons.

A part from that one man was quite relaxed here, I am not going to point my fingers on the politicians that we all are aware of their corruption and now it’s useless to discuss about their performance, that man is IG Police not going to drag his detail but he always mention “only 127 peoples were killing in target killings” I think either he is not aware or may be pretend for unawareness from the actual count. 

Actually, 2012 was the hungriest year in the history of Karachi as around 1279 peoples were fell prey to the wave of target killings across the city. This is the only count of target killings but how can we close our eyes from those 289 people who lost their lives in one of Pakistan's worst fires and probably everyone is aware that it wasn’t an incident but the real truth behind to that issue was lodging allowance. 

Still those 120 families who have lost their close one in April 2012 Bhooja crash did not find justice even they don’t exactly know that either it was an incident or that plane was targeted in the name of security. I hope these all questions will get an answer in 2013 or otherwise everyone will be a rebellion and start changing things in their own way after getting frustrated by the continuous poor performance by the elected democratic government.

And finally, this year ended up by taking the last chunk of it's whole meal from Karachi, which disappointed a lot of people who were living in this jungle. As everyone has a simple question; if the only son of Deputy Superintendent of Police is not saved and he needs to beg for justice by using different forums in this country then how they can save us? Where is the chief justice who is famous in taking sou motto actions? Well from this killing one thing is quite visible which was blur before. That I am not a supporter of any political party but at least feudal system should be removed from the whole country and accountability should be added for everyone or else for no one.

Hopes for 2013:

Life, Justice, Honesty

Though these hopes are not practical but let’s see where the hell we land up.

Adios 2012

Only few moments separate us from the end of a year but, it has the concise life of 365 days in it; for few those 365 days were just days and for few its 31,536,000 years in it as they spend each passed second as a year.  Before starting that year few people thought that it will be then end of life... well 2012 was the end for some people -including some friends-. Don’t wait for “the end” to come, have fun as if you will die tomorrow. Personally that year had so many things with it. This year will be memorable to me not because I have enjoyed it at full extent but, because I have found so many betrayers and those people were somehow associated with me. Till the time I was kept on thinking about right and wrong but after such a greater internal conflict with myself I came to a point if a person is wrong than saying him/her right will not make a difference and in simple words it's wastage of time and money.

I’ve met more people in 2012 than I’ve ever met in my entire life. It was a year full of challenging stuff, circumstances nearly killed me, i lost friends, but i could see nimble in the end of this obscurity, i see affluence after depression, i see bliss after melancholy, at the end of this tunnel i see freedom after coercion, i see righteousness in the end.

So, what I am really thankful for 2012 to give me: fun, Life, Love, hate, debate, run, shout, hug, smoke cigar (not cigarettes those could kill me :P ), had an awesome dinner with Mom and Nephew, a way to achieve my dreams or die trying, careless of what other people think, as it’s my life not theirs. Few good friends who were always with me either in hard time specifically, Nighat, Fakhar, Mahin, Muzammil and Nauman.

If you can’t take a break every now and then and enjoy life while you can you will regret it, as nothing is more important than losing your youth and health for. I would not recommend anyone to work like a mule during their life and only wait for the age of retirement when they will be too old to have fun… It doesn’t conclude that someone can live like a hippie either. Do mix all the flavors of spices in proper proportion to have a wonderful life curry.

Balanced life is the key of a good life.

What's Your Brand?

I was just sitting in a group of friends who were used to discuss the way people wear and the way they carry themselves. Suddenly things diverted from each and everyone attire to the brands they wore and then that discussion ended up with an orthodox statement that they must be earning from some illegal ways as the brands are not achievable these days.

In Pakistan we are famous for blaming someone without knowing that how hard time they faced and now each and everyone has their own satisfaction, but I think that was the way for their satisfaction and after blaming others they get satisfied mentally at least.

But, then suddenly a thought raised up in my mind that each and everything has a label must be known as a brand and obviously famous in humans (i.e. Gucci, Prada, Rayban, Royal Stag). I tried to figure out that is there anything that is a brand but not a consumable good? Answer from my brain came in “Yes”. Yes, there is a thing which is a brand these days which we can’t consume but we know every other person from that brand.

We have so many such brands that we can’t consume (i.e. Shia, Sunni, DeoBand, Barelwi, Sipah-e-Sahaba, Ahl-e-Hadees, Ahl-e-Sunna & etc.). But, by the end of that thought I realized that we can even consume these brands as well. In Pakistan these all became brand names instead of religion and each name we use for other person as a weapon. And now things are getting narrow down and people are trying to believe in only two brands, either the brand they use or rest of the brands can be named as “KAFR”. I am not sure when it will be ended or will it be ended or not but as per my research, market always gets more competitor and brands grow more with respect to time.

I am not going to mention my brand else people will start finding the reason behind writing this, but for everyone I think, I am a Human.

No Kindess for Killing

Since past few years I have been getting news like save Muslims in Iraq, Egypt, and These days in Burma. Well I think it's a human nature that powerful always rules and demolishes the weaker. There is nothing like show kindness before killing anyone, or portraying anyone as the world's most brutal nation or religion. Because power has no religion but nature which is built-in into human. As if anyone is aware of the condition in Pakistan, so, this can be easily judged; Shia are minorities so they get killed in Majority, in NWFP Pakhtoons are in Majority so they enforce Kalashians to left their religion or the souls. Similarly, when we go to Burma scene then a group of extremist who are in majority want the minorities to leave their land.

Before writing anything I just want to assure the reader that I am also a Muslim and I have no differences with my religion at all but, we always hear that Muslims are innocent and they always get crushed. Let's not get back so far and start from Akbar and his few ancestors and descendants. As Akbar always portrayed as the greatest ruler in the history of Muslim Leaders. I always get a question in my mind that why we always get a bias and altered history in our academic books? Well, a difficult question to even ask myself. But, I really don't want my family kids to get grown with those so called pseudo secular historians  written books  who always concealed Akbar' s inhuman cruelty.

First let me tell my readers something about the cruelty of Akbar to his own servant and family members, this incident was narrated by Asad Beg:

“At that time the Emperor used to retire for a long interval, after evening prayers, during which time the servants and courtiers used to disperse, assembling again when they expected His Majesty to re-appear. That evening he (Akbar) happened to come out sooner than usual, to hear the news from the Dakhin, and at first found none of the servants in the palace. When he came near the throne and couch, he saw a luckless lamplighter, coiled up like a snake, in a careless death-like sleep, close to the royal couch. Enraged at the sight, he ordered him to be thrown from the tower, and he was dashed into a thousand pieces.” (--Asad Beg, Wikaya)

Humayun, Akbar’s father, blinded his elder brother Kamran so that he could never pose a threat to the throne and Akbar assassinated Kamran’s son for the same reason. But, it can be easily seen from this scenario that this blood-line had the cells of brutality in it. As Akbar ancestors were none other then the most barbarous and vicious killers from the history, named as Babar and Humayun. By getting the above things one can easily get an idea that these deeds can only be expected from those who never ever faced to any school of civilization. Yes, akbar was bron and brought up in an illiterate and foul atmosphere characterized by womanizing, drug addiction and excessive drinking. Few secular historians always project Akbar as the greats of all Mughals.

Babar who was the grandfather of Akbar, when invaded India in 1521, he ordered and took thousands of persons in prison. the pitilessly lashing of women and children were the common bravery act by such a brave ruler in impended history. Babar was also a terrible iconoclast. Babar’s barbarism desecrated and demolished thousands of Hindu temples and converted several thousands into mosques.

After all these act we know Babar as the best of the rulers of his time who had eight great qualities which are: prudence and foresight, great personal ambition, skilled warrior, skilled and generous administrator, a man free from religious discrimination and the quality to gain the hearts of the army. Beside that, he was a great admirer of art, music and learning. He was also a poet and could write good poetry in Persian language. Were these historians are talking about the same Babar I read or Babar had split personality issues at that time.

Well Babar was a poet sounds strange but that's true, he wrote poetry from his beloved Babri who was a young boy and he was the subject of Babar's poetry:

In a verse, Babar wrote –

“I am abashed whenever I see my love,

My companion looks at me while I look to the other way.

I had neither strength to go nor power to stay,

To such distraction you have reduced me

Oh, my (male) sweetheart.”

Humayun, Akbar’s father, had a similar legacy of cruelty, slaughtering Hindus in thousands and taking Hindu women and children as captives. After repeated battles, Humayum could ultimately capture his elder brother Kamran and subjected the latter to brutal torture. He was pulled out of the tent and a lancet was thrust into his eyes. Some lemon juice and salt was put into his eyes.

One can imagine the cruelty and torture that Humayun was capable of inflicting on others when he subjected to his own brother to such atrocities He is also known to have married a 14 year old Hamida Begum by force. The cruelties perpetrated by of Akbar’s descendants (Jehangir, Shahjahan, Aurangzeb, etc..) are not entirely different from those of his ancestors. It is amazing that Akbar let his contemporaries and Generals, like Peer Mohammad, loot and rape the helpless citizenry that he was ruling!

At last, Akbar ordered to dig two Sabats (a trench covered with leather is called a Sabat) from far away places to the wall of the fort. Then explosives in large quantities were dumped at the walls of the fort and severe blasts collapsed the wall. Expecting imminent fall of the fort, nearly 300 Rajput women sacrificed their lives in Jauhar (self immolation in fire). When the Mughal army entered the fort, nearly 800 Rajput soldiers were alive and all of them were put to the sword.

However, according to the Islamic faith, killing so many kafirs and drenching the Chittor Fort with kafirs’ blood, Akbar had undoubtedly done a great service to Allah and Islam and to seek blessings for this great service.

Now the tables has turned and the same conditions raised up against the Muslims where some rulers are ruling over Muslim and they are powerful. So, the game of power has began now it's time for us to face the music.

Islamic Make-up by Media

Receiving tweets, funny messages and media is becoming a trend in the tweeter and other social networking sites. Where everyone is not getting their step back to comment on such a hilarious joke cracked by the media, so I have decided to add up a tweet in my list and my blog posts. Well, I think since the day media in Pakistan got the freedom to speech flag they got into the state where their excitement reached to madness, and now they can't even think what they are doing.

Well, when Ramadan comes in any Islamic state, we often avoid doing sins and those things that can become the reason of a thought for a sin. But, our media has started playing with our patience and came up with a very new way to preach sins. Yes, obviously I am talking about the Ramadan show that will be hosted by Veena Malik, in which she will probably teach a new lesson that missed from the Islamic books.

There are the possibilities that she will declare Hinduism, Islamism, Christianity and Buddhism are only the name but, in real they all are equal. And second possibility is that she will come up with some Alima degree, and will throw some Fatwa that were attested by the Government of Pakistan. Yes, in Pakistan everything is possible, where Minister can be hired with the fake degrees, Islamic minister knows everything that were not in any Islamic book.

Who wasn't aware of the semi-nude pictures, item numbers and the famous seducing scene with an Indian actor in Big Boss, but, still we will be entertained during the holy month of Ramazan with her seducing dresses and fake tears. Well I think show never ends here as another fake Alim will be online at the other channel too which we will surely bear with all his Drama over TV.

But, how can we forget to take the name of Ahsan Khan who jumped from his seat when saw Veena and Aalim kind people can do this job then how can he not participate in the race, so finally, he will also be coming up with a show in this month of Ramazan. But, I think that was not only the reason as the major population of TV viewers is glamour influenced and they can't digest a TV show with long beard Molvis.

Consume 48 Hours in A Day

Every morning when I wake up I realize that I have wasted 4-5 hours of my life by just having a good sleep. And when I move to bed in the mid of the night I always think about of things I had to do but didn't because of time and suddenly find my hands full of pending tasks. It's not like that I have wasted the whole day and at that time I got to know that what exactly I had to do? but, I think everyone has a lot of plans but wouldn't be able to execute because of time constraints.
It's something similar to our lives that we spend whole life in the way we want and while we were taking our last breath, we start praying for the forgiveness or most of us think at that time about what we could but not what we did already. Well, here the point is we all are surfing like robots and getting boss of our own who never satisfy with the performance of his employee. We start our day, go to work and then reach home then speak few words with dinner and then bed; each Monday we wait for the Friday.
We have no other option then be the part of this wheel which will never stop and it has started moving faster. We all are the part of the system where even watch is betraying us by moving faster. Few are still just thinking more then their needs, few still planning to think about the future, and few lucky people are living life in the way they want to.
But, my point is not that who is living the life in this or that way. But, here if we consider only the first two kinds of human then what exactly they are trying to fetch. If I just consider myself then have too many stuff to work on but in parallel can't leave my daily party, jogging is also as important as training which is as important as party. So, indirectly I can't skip anything out from my life but, it's difficult to find the way to overcome this situation. So, from now on I have eliminated few very useless tasks from my life, like useless family gathering or weddings, wasting my time in the backbiting or socio-economical discussion which has no resultant. I think I'll not be able to fetch out 48 whole hours in a day but I think it will be a better try to utilize the 24 hours honestly. I could save my few more hours by hiring a driver but, I don't want to give him the driving pleasure which I enjoy the most.
So, let's see how many around agree with this thing as I know few will completely take me as an anti-social, but, I think it's better to be an anti-social than to be the part of those who never did anything and will think about what they could do at last breath

What "Marriage" is for you?

These days I have noticed very hot discussion either in my office, in my friends  and in my family that why don't you get married. So, I have just started polling by using different mediums to inquire the experiences of those who got married and who were or are in relationship. Also tweeted and posted it on my Facebook wall to do the same. 


24 responses I got which I am just going to quote. Few of them were really funny along with depression and also opened up their relationship that what exactly they are moving on with.

1. Depression and A compromise
2. Marriage I think is just a social recognition of a couple, nothing else. Whether they are in love or not, it's a commitment that they are husband and wife.
3. WHAT?
4. To get a refine carved form of a gold we need to pass it through too much heat and after marriage whole life will be in that process.
5. The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open.
6. It's just a religious way to keep you far from sins.
7. It's something important to continue your generation
8. It's a natural phenomenon which everyone needs to follow.
9. If your husband and his family are good then married life can be heaven but, otherwise it's just a series of one-sided compromises.
10. Marriage is a religious and social bond b/w a man and a woman
11. It's just a indulgence of two families.
12. It's compromise.
13. It's something we just do to fullfil our lust.
14. It's only for those who don't have girl friends in their lives.
15. Name of sharing; sorrows, happiness, love, money and bed.
16. Wastage of money. 
17. Liability
18. Marriage is a pure relation to complete your family.
19. Marriage is a long term plan to get support in the age of retirement.
20. Marriage is a contract in between a money making and love making machine.
21. It's a complex name of easy process.
22. If you are happy and jealous of your own happiness then you go for it.
23. It's good in initial stages then seems like the biggest blunder of life.
24. It was healthy initially but things were not the same after few months.

Well from the above result set I just came to a point that 67% were completely depressed or fed up of their wedding lives. So, why do I need to go for it as I have the similar concept because in my opinion marriages should be done without compromises with mutual understanding of both. But, whenever I just see this thing then I enforce myself to think back again. My mostly friends are married or in relationship but, they still have doubts on their partner that they must be cheating on others. It's only because no one know their partner completely because if you know some from the beginning and aware of their past and present. Then it's the best guy or gal for you to get married.

As one of my friend used to say it's better to get married to a known bastard then an unknown bastard.

Commitments Disrespecting

I was just roaming around and was thinking about so many people in my life and what they often pissed off with? Well, it is the commitments disrespecting, and it's really very common in human nature regardless of the nationality and religion. I have seen so many peoples those who talk a lot about commitments, here I am not talking about everyone but mostly people. Secondly, I am not taking any name else people will start finding religion in that.
What exactly commitment disrespecting, so I analyzed and figured out few things:

1. Break the commitment directly.
2. Enforce someone to break a commitment.
3. Make a commitment then prioritize other commitments over that, it's different from first one which will be seen later.

Break the commitment directly:

Well mostly people find their own words so meaningless, as they don't bother to fulfill their own sayings and considered it as the least important thing. Commitment is not a matter of going somewhere or skipping a single party, but, it has so many ripple effects on the perception of others about the one who breaks commitment. Secondly, when someone invites you then he always manage his time too, and hold so many feeling in their heart which most of us break with a simple lame excuse or any other reason which seems important in front of them, but in front of me it can't be more important then a feelings of a human.

Normally we consider that disrespecting a commitment is something like skipping an event, but disrespecting a commitment also cater the group of those people, who thinks that their presence is necessary where time is not a constraint.

Enforce someone to break a commitments:

These days we have a very common problem that we all are getting selfish, and we don't bother to consider the problems of others. Some good friends often ask me to join their gathering and ask the other event to alter their plan, though they are aware of the fact that I have committed before. But, in my opinion everyone should consider themselves at the position of both the person and then try to ask me or anyone else to alter my plans because of theirs. 

Make a commitment then prioritize other commitments over that:

This is the most funny scenario which I always see and hear, in this case everyone is ok with a plan at first place. But, after sometime they got another invitation which they found better, what exactly they need to do in this case? I know mostly people thought the way I thought but their thoughts are quite contradicting with ours. As, they simply skip the plan and few don't bother to inform, few simply bother to inform at an eleventh hour and few just request you to move your plans as they stuck into other commitments. What about the emotions and time of others but, they think that this is the best way to excuse from an event and no one got hurt because of their that deed. 

So, I think people should follow he proper timings, stop being selfish, and stop being hypocrites which they really don't like for themselves and want someone to do with others.

First Formula 1 Car

I have seen so many students in my life as I also do some voluntarily advisory service for IT students.  Not, only this but have also tried to promote the work of those students, where I think the work in not extraordinary but, they have the skill-set to do something beyond the thoughts.

Well, Pakistan is considered to be the country lives under the threats of terrorist and the people here always talk about the stuff which is not healthy for anyone including themselves. But, if this tail can be considered true then why different countries on the globe, hire the people from Pakistan and India. As everyone is aware that the people here are talented but unfortunately due to project funding issues and the growing country problems people have started migrating to different lands where they can find peace. As the first statement was not a rumor and it's a bitter reality but along with that the people are talented and always try to do something innovated which can't be expected from the country.

It's a true talent I think, as in Israel students get isolated from the problematic world and they get more productive but, what's about those talented fellows who works under pressure with all the constraint exists in this country i.e. Electricity, Gas, Strikes and other hurdles which halts the city operations.

I know there are so many breathing at this land who are doing some work with very low resources. But, here I am mentioning only few whom I met. Aman Ahmed, a person who has been trying to work on green energy for past few months and finally being able to produce 110W of electricity and still facing problems but I know that he will be able to achieve that as his target is 500W at least. So, that he can use that electricity to charge the batteries of UPS which will obviously reduce the consumption of ESC (Electrical Supply Company) units.

But, as I have mentioned this article is to promote the first formula one car which will be painted in green and white, obviously the flag color of Pakistan. Whenever we just think about formula one racing ,we always come up with the following brands Ferrari, Honda, McLaren Mercedes and Renault and so many $ symbols in our mind. As everyone, who has even least interest in cars can be aware of the prices of these expensive cars . But, the time is not so far when Pakistan will be enqueued in these brands, with a cost effective model of Formula One car. As the student of NED are also working on creating a first Formula 1 car. I think if we will not be able to promote the talent then obviously like other talented fellows of this region, this talent will migrate to other countries. And once again we will loose what we have.

These are the students of NED, creating a Forumla 1 car as their FYP (Final Year Project) and these students are the group of person who always take the difficult jobs as fun.

It’s kind of fun to do the impossible. – Walt Disney

I think if we can't just directly help their project by giving a complete sponsor then at least can pray for them and also promote them as much as possible. These guys can easily be followed on facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/FormulaPakistan

And if anyone can help them then can talk to them directly either. I have just noticed that these guys are progressing well and hopefully first Formula 1 of Pakistan will be on roads soon.

Say 'No' to more

The land, where I breath is known as Karachi, a city of Pakistan. Here, I find every kind of people around me. Few of them are very useful for me, few are useful for others but useless for me and few are just born to cry, yell or keep complaining. I really don't understand why this kind of people exist, because they don't even know what they were born for.

Let's start with the childhood of such people, how and why they born? Even for such kind of people there  parents were not sure, but they had nothing to add in this country, so they added one in the population. As that was not the child of mutual understanding, so after 2 years of that kid age, they asked him to go out so that they can plan for the other siblings of that kid. KESC (Karachi Electrical Supply Corporation) or Railway track near to their place can also be the reason behind the birth of such kids. It's another tail that how these things became the reason of a birth in which I am not jumping.

Well, this is the scenario which can be easily seen in the 'Muhala' type of places of Pakistan. Now, when these kids had nothing to do, so since childhood they start crying on the streets, or making unnecessarily noise to disturb everyone other then their parents and to roam around for no reasons. They are well trained to give privacy to there parents as whenever there will be a power failure in such areas, you will always hear a loud noise to express the happiness. I don't know what is the exact reason behind making such noise. But, after so many thoughts I finally realized that they don't do it themselves but, there parent always ask them to go out and disturb others so that they can easily spend time together. And after few months children get addicted to that and do the same.

Now, these kids proceed to the second step of the lifecycle. And, as they were not allowed to disturb the privacy of their parents, so they make a group and select the best place for their X-Ray machines and stick to that. Now, they start taking X-Ray of females (I intentionally used females instead of girls) careless of age, religion, color or any other kind of stuff which discriminate one from the other. As X-Ray can only give you the blue plastic print, so why do they need to worry about color and stuff. 

After wasting there life in this way, few of them join any kind of political party to get strength, few get converted into snatcher or few had nothing to do so they think proud in spreading red color on the road by splitting betel leaf. 

I think if there parents are so much romantic then adding more junk on this land why don't they take some precautionary elements. As we are getting out of resources globally, so it will safe the resources too from consumption.

Glide OS, A Web Based Computer

I have been working with an IT industry since long and always try to backup the important stuff I have created. Not only this but, I also try to carry my laptop with me in order to create some presentation or write a document while I was having my coffee. But, why do I always need to carry the laptop when my friend is carrying his laptop. As I think if someone has internet access and I can simply create a presentation by borrowing a laptop then why do I need to take risk of carrying my device in Karachi, where snatching is too common.

But, problem is how can I create a presentation on someone's PC by keeping my presentation secure and private without downloading on his/her system. Here, I wished so many times that could have an OS which should be virtual where I can create or update my documents.

Or by getting back to my laptop I can easily synchronize that document from server to my local machine, so that I can continue my changes into that. Well, in this case I found Glide OS, A web based operating system with 30 GB of free space. Yes, free space of 30 GB is being offered by this company. And I have been using it since past 2 years and try to update my all the important documents to that. So, I can easily access my important information everywhere.

As it's a complete OS created by TransMX, for which I am really thankful to them. As I can easily develop website pages, documents, presentations and other then this I can also synchronize my calendar and contacts directly to the server by using a client utility provided for all the OS.

In most of the cases I was unable to find the synchronizer for my Macbook which is a plus for me to have the client for macbook too. This client can get the information from outlook and can get synchronized. PhotoEditor is not like photoshop but a basic tool for photo editing which is fair enough for me to use. As, for professional picture editing I commonly go for my machine rather then using this.  User interface of the whole OS is also a plus.

Well, here I am not comparing it with Google Drive as google drive is not exactly the same because Google Drive offers sharing which unfortunately Glide OS doesn't offer in collaboration mode. So, both tools are different and have different significance. In my opinion sign up for both and have fun.

Website for GlideOS Registration: http://www.glidedigital.com/

Ben 10 A new Hero

It was 8:00 in the morning, and I was driving towards my office. There was a bike very next to my car on which a very little kid was gripped his dad in his school uniform. Well, this is an ordinary scene on the streets of karachi that mostly father's were dropping their kids to their schools. The backpack that kid carried for his school was covered with Benjamin Tennyson. 
Hopefully no one recognized this name and probably few did. Benjamin Tennyson was the real name of the character we often find on the signals of karachi, where slumdog were selling few scales, pencils, and in some proche areas watches and plastic ballons too. Now, mostly people recognized that I am talking about Ben in Ben-10. The hero of a comic series, this character is unbelievingly more popular then the name of Quaid-e-Azam in our country. 
As few days back I saw some kind of similar kid with a bag, watch, shoes and t-shirt walking in my home, who was my nephew. He is so young and only spend a year in his school but, I suddenly asked the name of the person who was printed on a 1000 Rs. currency note and he wasn't aware of that. And then I asked him for the name of the person on his bag then he told me his name with the name of another character in same cartoons, 'Gwen'. 
I think it's not the problem with those kids who were not aware of that, but in this, Media (Printing Media, Television), Parent, and Teachers played a pivot role. Because everyone just print the stickers and logos and badges of cartoon characters on the bags, rulers, watches. Either Parent always try to gift the cartoon character books to their kids. I am not saying that they will never be able to know the national figures of the country, but, I think whatever they will learn from the beginning will be in their brain roots.
Entertainment is necessary but with the  education, so, I think everyone should play a role in feeding such things into the brain of kids. 

Annoying Advertisement

I love to see beautiful hoardings which are sheltering the streets of Karachi city, full of colors, beautiful models, places and yummy candies that advertised on those hoardings. I feel really good when I wake up at the time I want to be and when I work with complete focus.  I know few readers have started thinking that what's the connection in between the advertisement and the way I sleep or work. But, what if these hoardings start walking and can reach to your doorstep anytime, careless of day, or night or work and will start knocking at your head.

Yes, finally these hoardings has given birth to so many small feeds, that have started walking and they can knock at your head in the mid of night. These hoardings are not showing you beautiful models and candies, but an irritating bunch of words that sound louder then a loud speaker.

Few of the common feeds are:

"Subscribe to smart tunes", "Get cricket updates","auctions"

What exactly you will feel? when you are in deep sleep, having good dreams, and suddenly your cell start humming, yes it happens to me as I am the subscriber of Telenor, Ufone and Zong and get all these updates irrespective of time. I have lodged a complain in Telenor that kindly stop updating me with all the irritating stuff but, no luck. As, neither I am interested in auctions and cricket nor in smart tunes.

I think an act should be applied on all those companies who always disturb the privacy of their customer with all these annoying messages. 

Refresh Memory

I am in the middle of night, reclining over my chair and watching two faces at a wall in front of me. Thinking about so many words which are still unsaid, so many thoughts which had to come out but, unfortunately few things are not under our control. I am not sure that will I be able to wake up the very next morning to express all those words. Will I ever be able to proof my truth? I think few things left unsaid, few feelings always stay unshared.

I was just trying to put all the pictures, videos, gifts on the front table from my brain. Pictures were clear, but the colours of the pictures are not original, as I forgot the matching of that particular day, words on that specific moment. It could be the problem with my memory, which puzzled everything in brain and now I am getting each and everything in black and white or without any voice or lips are not speaking what words I am getting in my ears. And probably I lost all the rights now, because if someone doesn't belong to you then you have no right to even listen to that person.

I extracted one thing from this that if someone is not in your life then sooner or later everything will fade out from your brain. In order to remember them you need to write something about them, which can be easily seen and re-memorize about each and every moment you have spent with them. I know no one can paint the whole life on a sketch board, but at least some best moments.

Purpose behind this writing is just to remember the way to re-memorize the close-ones who are no more with me. 

Pakistan Media's Shameless Act

On daily basis we just watch television channels and find the advertising campaigns during the program. Well, it's bearable when we just see those advertisements during the show. We also find it not that bad when we just move either via car, cycle, or train and see the areas painted by the advertising agencies. As by that thing, they just play with our mind and make us to buy their products. But, what if they will start playing with our emotions? What if they will start playing videos of your close one's funeral? And, what if they will start asking you that how are you feeling, just after the news of the death of your close-one?

I was just moving through the airport and suddenly saw sparking flashes at airport, it was like watching stars in the day light. I thought there must be some celebrity, political person or someone really special gonna come out of airport. But I was just stunned when I just saw a very unexpected thing that a coffin was coming out of it with so many cries. And our media persons were trying to capture those emotions on the faces, they were fighting like dogs to capture the best teared eye shot. No one was giving it a second thought that what exactly they were feeling at that time.

It went miserable when some television guy went to a girl who were in deep grief of her brother's death and asked her how are you feeling? what do you want to say about this plane crash?  Well, everyone heard about the plane crash of April 20th, 2012 at Chaklala base camp, of a Pakistan local flight named as Bhooja Air. As it's impossible to miss this news because media presented that as an entertainment with so many advertisements,  I am not getting into the stuff that how the plane got crashed and who were responsible behind that? As I am not going to launch an inquiry commission for the responsible person, neither it's my duty nor I am going to take it as a citizen's responsibility.


But, what I have noticed after that crash is a juggling of words on television. Every second a new way to market the news and to show the site on television that they are going to give us exclusive pictures of the crash site. My point is, it's ok to keep everyone informed and it's a nice role played by media. But, what was the point behind taking interviews, when they were in deep grief of the great loss they had. Does anyone every try to think about the grief they have faced, or any media person ever tried to put themselves in their shoes to analyse the feelings. Everyone will get a big 'No' when they will ask anyone of them who were reporting exclusive reports.

I think they forgot to market their product labels on shroud of the deceased, as that's the only thing left. Any way I tried to request them but obviously this is not the land to make request. Either you have enough power to simply go and stop them or just to face all such gigs by them. But, I think here I can simply condemn that act by the media and simply ask Pakistani media to stop selling the grief.

Trustworthy People of Pakistan

As I have started it back again after such a long time as I have given my previous blog to my friend, as she needs to do some assignments over that. Well, as she found that useful so she has taken that. But, this article is not related to what I have done with my previous blog and what was written in that? As, this article is completely related to the peoples whom you trust, and then they betray you just to make them published in the good books of their elders (or Seniors) or sometimes for money or may be some reward. In Pakistan you can't trust anyone, as may be this is the case with me and one of my friend Mano.

Mostly we both discuss the lives of each other and found us betrayed so many times. Either we are not human or probably they are not. As in my dictionary human are not only those who can have eyes and breath because similar qualities a dog have. When I just compare such human beings with dogs I feel pity on those dogs who have good breeds like GSD; world's most intelligent dog with so much loyalty.

Mostly people know start poking me on this that how dare I am to compare a human with a dog breed. Yes, but I think dogs should mind but not those humans. Well my such rebel behavior is only because of the experiences I have faced against trust. So many experiences here to quote but let me start with the worst which were common in both of us, us mean me and Mano.

She got betrayed by two guys and I was betrayed by so many girls, betrayed by guys and girls is completely not like that they ditched us or we were their boyfriend or girlfriend respectively. As they often asked us for favors and at occasions we were lucky enough to see their real faces. We both have one thing in common very rare friends in similar gender, obviously it proves that we both are still straight. Reason behind not having same gender friends is nothing like we never tried to make friends in same gender, but we always got backbiter, diplomatic personal in similar gender. It's not like that in opposite gender we didn't get but here I am talking about often cases.

I got betrayed by so many peoples not going to quote their names reason being I don't want to hurt the feelings of anyone. I'll surely mention the names of those who are currently not with me. I still never tell them that I was aware of everything what they talked about me, what they discussed about me. Because in my opinion keeping those peoples with you and prove them wrong is the best way tell them what exactly you are. I never try to degrade because I don't think by doing this I'll rule the world or they will stop living. So, a huge list few of them were my friends whom I have given my guitar, books, photography equipments, always considered them more then my family and few are those who were the party of my family and I considered them more then my life.

But we can't change the nature and can't make correction in the problems seeded in them with their growth. Nisa Nargis Ali, a photographer friend, Self-Centered, always tried to be my girlfriend as she has shown so much involvement when she just came to know that I got a break up. And, when I told her that I left my job she was vanished as she saw something unusual.

Asma Kauser, Uzma Kauser and Naghmana Kauser; three sisters whom I always treated like my true friends they left me because I just had an argument with a guy who would be a boy friend of one of their sister.

A famous quote 'Karam kar phal ki asha mat kar' I can simply say that not possible in the land we are breathing in. We both live in Pakistan, but both have visited so many other countries too. We never found such kind of people ever in my life which I just faced in Pakistan. They lie for no reasons, they are hypocrites, they are true diplomats. 
Well it's not the problem with the land but, the people and their growth. I am no talking about everyone but mostly.
I have worked for a company, and met a guy, not quoting the name as people will start finding the religion in his name. I met him, worked for him normally I charge in advance for photography work but for him I didn't charge a penny. He asked me to send the pictures taken and then they will pay me off as he want to show those images to someone. 
Well, I normally donate all the money from photography as my mom thinks it's not good to keep that money, I am not that much into right and wrong, but obviously if my mom thinks like this so I don't keep that money.  I have sent the images and just after that they were not taking my calls, because they think I have given them images and it was fair enough for them.
For me relations were important and for them saving 200-300K which is obviously nothing for me. Anyway, if I just start finding people who betrayed us, so there will be a list of people. But, can't quote few as need to carry their respects with me and can't quote few because they haven't done that bad to me. Problem is when we trust someone we in return want trust. But, don't know when these people will considering that money, rewards are no more important then a trust and a relationship. Well, in this materialistic world where, everyone is thinking more then their needs and their thoughts have already began to bleed.

Social Frame of Life

Today, almost all of us who will be able to access my article must have an idea of social networking, Facebook, Twitter, Wave, Orkut, and blah blah blah. Whenever I get free time and think over all these social networking sites and my life, I often fantasize my life in the wrapper of social networking. If life could be in this way I could easily unfollow someone who is irritating, can share my feelings with the people around me and can also be able to delete the perception of others which I will not like. Here, I know I am speaking like a bias kid but yes, I want it in this way.

Making someone stranger will be quite easier just delete a friend and it will be deleted from the memory of network for the whole life. Define the limits of everyone that how I want to get into interaction with an individual or a group of individuals. I can get isolated simply by de-activating my account, not only this but, finding someone will be real easier just a click away no need to advertise or publicize whom I am looking for with others. As we normally ask our one friend about the other friends.

But, it will be irritating too in some cases, let's say if someone just come to me whom I don't even know, and ask me to follow me then? I will be like, are you serious? Or if I am just being followed by more then 10 persons, then wherever I will go I will not be able to get myself hide from all those 10 persons, as they have started following me and I want them to follow me. It'll be good initially but with respect to time similar thing will be irritating for me at least. Why the hell you guys are following me everywhere? I allowed you to follow me but not all the time specially when I am with my family and my girl friend. I think social networking sites will have too look at this kind of privacy too which can be set on the basis of relationship.

Everything has pros and cons but I really want my life like some error free social networking site. Where I can easily manage my life just by moving to settings tabs. Can express my view openly without any fear of anyone. But, I think it's similar to the dream one of my friend having since her childhood to become a super man. And as I always want to be the hollow man, trust me, I don't want to be that creep as he was but yes when everyone can just dream unlimited then why can't I?

What you want in your life to be like, the way we are living on the thoughts of everyone near around us? And to think in a way they want us to think? I think in this world no one is happy with the way they live, as just today I was talking to a friend of mine and her father had an issue on wearing her jeans. I don't know what's the point in that as we all have our own lives,our parent taught us the rightdoing and wrongdoing then why don't they understand exactly what we want. And as we are the part of tweet genration and can't afford long discussions but just a 140 character tweet with the exact problem. I am just talking about this stuff where parent kept complaining about the problems with their own kids. Because I noticed that I never get upset with the complains but, with an unnecessary explanation of that complain, which I never be able to mute, or unfollow or something like report spam.

Well these are just my thoughts obviously people have their own way of living life and I am not enforcing my perception on others.