Archive for September, 2004
“Terror’s Children” preview at UPENN
On my first week in UPENN I was surprised to see a preview of Terror’s Children produced by Sharmeen Obaid. A decent documentary where she talks about reasons why third world nations are breeding grounds for raising terrorist. I would appreciate the effort she out into producing such a documentary and also having it displayed [...]
@ UPENN
Hey blog readers out there.
I have moved out of Karachi for sometime - and I am right now sitting in Philadelphia trying to attend a course at UPENN. Its been 2 days an I am bored shit without any cricket. To be honest I am not complaining too much as I love NFL. It’s pleasant [...]
Pakistan Cricket team falters
It was indeed sad to see another crumble of the batting order during the match against the Indies. Faltered at 131 all out was embarrasing and hence dashes our hopes again of a heroic come back.We should not loose hope I think there is light a the end of this tunnel with Bob Woolmer [...]
Pak vs West Indies Game Plan
Hey call me a coach or whatever but every Pakistani has a theory on how to handle the cricket team to make it a winning combination.
Teeth Masters Winning team - Stick with the present lineup Afridi way down the order and Shoaib Akhtar as replacement second line of attack bowler, he does not know how [...]
Cowasjee retaliates to Musharraf
Ardershir Cowasjee in his article in DAWN on Sunday the 19th says
“Some bright spark has calculated that 96 per cent of the 160- odd million citizens of this country feel so, and the general has duly accepted the figure. Question : after his four-day visit to Karachi last week to inaugurate Ideas 2004 (arms for [...]
We Will - We Will Rock you - Pak beats India
Hey pakis out there - we finally did insert the nail in the coffin - India all out for 200 should have been a walk in the park BUT NOOO India vs Pakistan match needs to be a thriller.
Finally we barely made it but was fun to see Afridi belt two sixes on Irfan Pathan [...]
Save the Whale Campaign (Save Musharraf)
Watch for todays headlines - Daily Times was loaded with news reports that Musharraf should remain in the driving seat - well welcome to the new turn of affairs - Economy takes a back seat and Save the Whale “Save Musharraf” campaign comes to the front.
Wake up people until december you are going to be [...]
President Musharraf and Karachi
Mind you Karachiites - whenever President Musharraf is in Karachi you arebound to be cursing out loud and not simply under your breath. Theestablishment is so scared that they block traffic both ways, my advice tomanagement is that it shall always be Allah’s will, you can’t do anything toprevent it. You might deter the small [...]
Zaafir Habib Alvi
A picture of my baby boy Zaafir
Mushy stuck forever
The latest -
Shaukat Aziz and Sh Rashid Ahmed - puppets of the present govt said today that our dear 5-year old “Dick”tator Prez Musharraf does not have to step down from power and they hoped that he would accept to retaining both the Military and Prez post, as no constitutional restrcitions exists.
YIKES - what is [...]
Oprah’s Pontiac Giveaway
You must have heard Oprah in her show gave away 276 brand new Pontiac’s for the 19th anniversary, estimated at almost US$ 8 Million. Though it was donated by GM but it sure did create stir world wide.For GM the cost was equilavent to almost 50 prime time adverts but even that cannot create [...]
US Election Scorecard on Slate
As of 15the Sept Bush is leading the Presidential race by a solid lead of almost 70 Electoral votes (307-231)
Bush has 212 Solid votes and 95 closely contested wins
while
Kerry has 170 Solid and 61 closely contested wins
I hope these predictions stand overturned as my gutt tells me Bush should be OUT - but who am [...]
Off to UPENN
Hey all - finally i got my Visa - im now off to UNIV of Pennsylvania for a degree in the field of Endondtics (Root Canals)
‘47 The Unfinished Agenda
Saturday night I had the opportunity to preview the documentary ” ‘47 The Unfinsihed Agenda” a well produced peice by Saadia Ashraf.
Talks about the problematic borders of Pakistan - Its a step in the right direction to promote the Pakistan cause albeit a bit twisted to the Paki version nevertheless amazing job
Well done Saadia
BandBaja.org
Bookmark this site if you are interested in discovering the latest Pakistani music scene.
They publish an online monthly newsletter, which is an outstanding piece of work, as well as a decent BLOG -
BandBaja you ROCK
ChangeThis.com
A website that one should surely pay a vist -
this group of individuals ask people to write manuscripts published in adobe format on any topic that is of interest - browse through the website im sure you might find some good reading.
To love thy Child
Allow me to introduce my baby boy - Zaafir Habib Alvi. To say the least simply a bundle of joy.
I come home from work and walk into the ever joyous welcoming smile greeting me on the driveway, that simple act lasting for probably barely a minute washes away all the tensions from work. Not [...]
Email to Blog service
Im impressed at the developers at GOOGLE to be able to develop such a user friendly service – you name it anything published by GOOGLE is outstanding – I am a loyal fan of google – here is an EMAIL-BLOG test
CYA next time
Mobile Blogging into the Next Frontier
Technology leaps forward by leaps each and every day the open world with its unregulated policies permits companies to be creative and hence today I can blog from my cell - what the future holds next year, I dare not even predict
On the other hand the Government of Pakistan feels threatened by each and every [...]
Bush in his acceptance speech
excerpt from Slate.com
Back to the Future
What Bush would do if he were president.
For $2.4 trillion, guess what wordâ€â€?other than “a,” “and,” and “the” â€â€?occurs most frequently in the acceptance speech George W. Bush delivered tonight.
The word is “will.” It appears 76 times. This was a speech all about what Bush will do, and what will [...]
Are the Saudians guilty of 9/11
Surprisingly
After the Michael Moore’s “Farenheit 9/11″ was released it has haunted the Saudian Government to such an extent that they have launched a web campaign and adverts were displayed on Slate.com (picture attached)
Are the Saudians really guilty or is it just a clean up affair? One has to wonder - I am secretly glad that [...]
Vodafone & Orange controversy
Rumors have it - (Pakistani gossip scene)
The reason why Vodafone and Orange backed out of the Cell Phone licenses in Pakistan was due to the reason (rumor) PIA was going to sign a purchase agreement with AIRBUS but at the last moment with some US pressures backed out and committed to BOEING this infuriated the [...]
