Archive for May, 2005
An Aalim-like Encounter
People ask me, why are you so dead set against Aamir Liaquat Hussain who commonly referred to as Aalim Online by his stage name. Reasons are innumerable, starting off with his set of fake degrees, his outlandish dress code, his fake humble attitude and the biggest reason of my animosity against him is that [...]
Virtual Magic Kingdom
Too poor to go to Florida, or is the US Embassy in Pakistan simply refusing to grant you your one last wish on earth, to atleast once visit the magical world of Disney. (We all know you have no intention of overstaying in that country or maybe find a job in the process, marry and [...]
Yahoo Mindset
Yahoo! has a new search tool called Mindset. It features a slider bar at the top of the page which can switch between commercial and non-commercial sites.
This site is presently in Beta development by Yahoo Research Labs and seems to be a neat tool that adapts to ones requirement with a simple slider click on [...]
The Perfect Expression
I simply love the expression of Ronald McDonald in this picture somehow it perfectly matches the expression of a person who get the opportunity to look at a dirty magazine for the very first time.
I extend my apologies to anyone who finds this bordering a rated picture, but it was too good to let [...]
US Admits to ‘Mishandling’ of Quran
Breaking News: (Reuters) The U.S. military has identified five incidents of “mishandling of the Holy Quran” by U.S. personnel at Guantanamo Bay, but found no credible evidence that the Muslim holy book had been flushed down a toilet, the commander of the prison said on Thursday. Brig. Gen. Jay Hood refused to specify the [...]
Yakuza Boss
……….Damn this picture sooo rocks… he loooks like he’s gonna be some new yakuza boss or something. Insert two hot chicks under his arms there and he is the #1 boss in town.
Women Drivers?
……….Honestly I would like to come to a conclussion at Why women drivers are bad drivers. To be honest men also have accidents but somehow whenever a car sways erratically in front of me, I instinctively blame a woman at the wheel. Lets hear both sides of the story.
This is Pakistan
In the ever expanding blogsphere, I have seen blogs of every subject from cats to kites from technology to mythology and from romance to withering congugal life. But G 3 a famous Pakistani tech blogger has come up with Wallpapers Suite — a rich collection of walpapers he has previously been offering at [G3]-TechNews. [...]
You decide
An interesting concept, I now let you decide if its true or false?
Galloway fires punches
This could be for many old news but today I just happened to hear the entire senate hearing in which George Galloway delivered punches onto the US Senate committee hearing on 17th May 2005, seems as if the senators were simply taken aback at his opening statement and soon realized he would not be a [...]
Taking a Piss
…………I have heard a dog take a leak like this, but one has to wonder why an SUV would have its leg up at the gas station (I await a humourous caption to go with this picture)
If I could ….
To continue the challenge started by Shirazi @ Light Within I proceed
If I could be a Cartoonist…. I would remove all the hard hitting cartoons and go back to the days of soft cute cuddly cartoons so that my son would learn a peaceful co-existence with the world instead of hatred
If I could be a [...]
I am Back with tons of Static electricity
People living in Pakistan see a loss of electricty quite frequently but rarely excess of electricity - apart from the few surges we get every hour or so, well yours truly experienced a surge of static electiricty in my laptop which corrupted the magentic fields of my hard disk (at least thats my diagnosis). [...]
Absence
I apologize for my protracted absence from the blogging world and also the net as on Thursday 12th May I had a traggic Hard Drive crash, I am slowly in the process of recoveting my 60GB data off the Hard drive and transfered onto another computer. The process is slow and time consuming, sorry again, [...]
Customer Service in Pakistan
I write this post in anger, I write this post in pure frustration at being repeatedly mistreated at the hands of customer service representatives. Before I begin, I actually do not owe them a dime and have always paid my bills on time, but this unlucky soul whenever has a problem, I dread making [...]
Guess Who?
Guess who is all dressed up in this picture? I agree its been doctored but the picture is simply hilarious, If I were to give you one simple hint which should be enough to allow you to guess this elaborately dressed up minister and maybe extract a giggle from you in the process. [...]
Karachi by Night
………Credit goes out to ‘Anathema’ on Karachi Metblogs for providing the link to a stunning pictures of Karachi I have ever seen.
The Washington Times
Bill Garner of The Washington Times depicts how the Americans feel about Pakistan. Take a closer look and then look back into our history at how we slowly fell to such a disgraceful position, it has a lot to fo with selling our souls to satisfy our ambition to become the ‘West’.
I leave you [...]
Q-News talks about Blogsphere
An upcoming Muslim Magazine recentlyy discussed the Muslim Blogsphere in some detail see the PDF file and turn to page 33 to read more.
A few well known muslim bloggers were mentioned whom I also happen to sometimes follow, Zack Ajmal of Procrastination which get an ‘Honorable Mention for Non-English Blog’ and also Avari/Nameh [...]
AKU Expels 10 Students on Murder Charges Finally
I am sometimes quite hooked onto SA Tribune, for its blunt reporting style, though Shaheen Sehbai the ex-editor of The News is wanted by the Paki Govt because the Danial Pearl video tapes landed on his doorsteps and Shaheen instead of handing the tapes over to the establishment convinently showed up at the US Embassy [...]
Pakistan Technology News
Check this forum out for all your Pakistani Technology News. This is the perfect idea to fill the vacum of a unified source for all your Paki technology news. I commend the webmaster on doing a through job, I see a long future for this forum which can be a success only if [...]
Guantanamo: Quran on Toilets
In the latest issue of Newsweek (Dated: May 9, 2005), a horriyfying scandal about the Guantanamo Bay has been revealed.
Among the previously unreported cases, sources tell NEWSWEEK: interrogators, in an attempt to rattle suspects, placed Qur’ans on toilets and, in at least one case, flushed a holy book down the toilet.
……The US indeed remains [...]
Stick Cricket
For those cricket fanatics who want to take the passion a step futher check this online game out. The game is flash based and very well made, you can compete at various levels, either Head 2 Head or in a tournament setting.
What I really enjoyed was the solid knock sound of a the [...]
Mobile Alerts in Pakistan?
I have wanted to receive Yahoo and MSN alert on my cell phone (ufone) for sometime. Going through the MSN / Yahoo Alert sign-up screens I am allowed to enter an email address of my messaging device and I enter is properly in the format as 0333*******@ufone.com following this I am supposed to receive [...]
Army the biggest Real Estate Mafia
Apart from controlling the budget of our country the Army has a tremendous control over the freely available real estate of our country. Lets take a glancing look at the statistics, the Army has 22,500 acres of land sanctioned to its own profitable use while the Navy has 712 acres and the Air Force [...]
US Embassy gets medical bill
Belgian doctors sent an Iraqi girl home Thursday after treating her for leg wounds caused by a bomb during the U.S. invasion — and sent the 51,570 euro ($66,650) bill to the U.S. embassy.
In response to a few queries the hospital managment stated that they sent the bill to the U.S. embassy because [...]
