Run to you

Bryan Adams is the best live performer ever. Check out his number "Run to you" on YouTube.

Lady finger

This lady finger in the palm of my hand is bigger than my fingers. It is amongst several other lady fingers that have been grown experimentally at LUMS. They have grown several other vegetables, too. Periodically, now, they hold a vegetable market in LUMS to sell vegetables at reduced prices to faculty members, staff and students.

1U

Did you know that 1U of rack space is equal to 1.75 inch or 4.45 cm?

You know....

You know ____________ when your landlord asks his kids to shower your car for you.

Chalo!

Lo g! It seems the saying "Those who can, do. Those who can't, teach" is right (at least in this case).

What senior players?

Which senior players? I don't see any. I would call Muhammad Yousuf senior, he's not in the side. Shoaib Akhtar's performance is nill. It even makes me sad that he was the only one to grab the two fallen wickets in yesterday's match against the Australians. He's in, he's out. Wherever he is, he is not fit. Afridi gives 100% only in the commercials. You score 40 runs and you get cramps when fielding. I believe we should put down our feet and say, enough of this crap! We want sportsman who field and ball through the entire innings without getting tired no matter what you scored when batting. Other teams' players do it, why are ours not professional enough? It is time to pay heed to Imran Khan's warnings and take his suggestions into account. He is the only captain under whom Pakistani team has ever delivered even with a weak side.

Of vice and men

This may sound taboo or controversial, but I wanted to raise my voice against the exploitation by women of women and subsequent blaming it on us. Look at this. As I recall, it is women who are on the heels of the bridge the morning after the marriage and every day afterwards asking about "progress". They are the ones who encourage early births. And who gets the mention in the article? The "low-paid guard". Women, for goodness sake, get your act together.

Sad story

A LUMS student was killed in DHA Lahore. It is sad how the privileged class indulge in extortion of the lower classes on the basis of power earned through money and status. It all continues to go unchecked. Not only are the rich oblivious of the foul play of their children, but also, the poor and the middle class. I couldn't imagine leaving home without telling my mother, didn't fly a kite, didn't play cards, because my parents told me it was bad manners. But today, look at the maniacs on cars and bikes and on foot indulging in wheeling, speeding, sex, drugs and what not. All the time getting the ignorance or protection of their parents. We need vigilante.

Soracle? OraSun?

Oracle is going to acquire Sun.

MVP yet again

Yup! I am renewed as an MVP for 2009. All the hard work in the community has paid off yet again. Just gotta work harder to keep it up.

My blog is still useful

Turns out my blog is serving a purpose. A student in the lab right next to mine read this posting and contacted me. One of his friend's laptop had taken a dip in the water and he wanted to open it to dry. Turns out he heeded my warning of worn out screw heads in my aforementioned post and came to get the swiss army knife. Hehehe!

What an idiot!

Meet Mr. Ahsan Saleem. He's got a movement going on for "12th March - Virtual combined Asr(eve) Prayer for Solidarity of Pakistan." Anyone who reads it is thinking about a virtual jamaat. And that's exactly what the title implies. He claims, though, that it is a misunderstanding. What he claims he is talking about is supplicating together, making dua. I pointed out the obvious to him, but he just doesnt get it. People like this are misleading many simple minded folks, and there's plenty of them today, who want to oversimplify the religion. I mean, Islam is a religion of simplicity, but make no mistake, this isnt what it implies. Dont make up things on your own.

Return of the Tecra

I couldnt find time to write an update my Toshiba Tecra S2's surgery. I took it apart over the December 25, holiday. I used precision screwdrivers, which was a mistake. The other ones I had didnt fit the screws, because the screwdriver tips were too big. The precision set was so small that it damaged many screwheads. I took everything apart based on irisvista.com and was able to put it back together and it is still alive.
The "power surge on hub port" message didnt go away, though. I was still able to use the USB ports. I have no disabled the USB controller from Device Manager and am not getting the error messages and the system runs fine. There's just one problem: I think I didnt get it all put back tightly enough. Something seems to be lose. The system would just pause sometimes and I'd have to knock on it to get it to resume working. It's not too bad, though. I'm OK with it.

Take apart your Toshiba

Warning: Taking apart your laptop can kill it (permanently). I've killed an IBM Thinkpad once, I should know. I'm about to take apart my Toshiba sometime in the near future. Let's see how that goes. How do I know how to do it? The information is available at www.irisvista.com. Check it out!

Beggars can be choosers?

Beggars can be choosers? Wow, that's a new one!

what?

This is so unfair to the pakistani spectators. In return pcb should pay every pakistani household 3 years TV license fees and electricity bills for watching games at horme on tv instead of stadium.

Good grief

What a grieving widower! Sure he'd have (loved to) embraced her.

What a price

What?

Who's lying now?

Who's lying now? This guy, or this guy? One of them definitely has a fame for lying. Guess who!

Kyoon?

Kyoon bay! Nervous ho gaya kya?