TRIM

Today was a busy day..My new project's work assignments have started to arrive and they do suck a lot of time..

The whole day i kept making foolish mistakes..where the most common one was : not trimming the values to compare.[for non CS people: i was not converting the values to same format before comparing] ..I even wrote it big on a paper "ALWAYS TRIM" and kept it in front of me..even then i kept doing this same mistake again and again..

My previous project was DHL Czech Republic...and i was not happy with my performace in that ..I had vowed to be extra efficient in my new project but...what the hell.. i keep getting stucked in very basic things...kept working till 9:00 pm where as all the other team mates were free by 5 pm.. :(.... I kept cursing my self the whole day for not being able to catch up ...but khair..thats life.. after all i have changed my whole field...so whatever is happening should be an expectation.. I am not a very genius guy and i will have to live with my speed of grasping new ideas.

Oh.. I had a lunch at Marriot today..It was a treat from the project manager of my previous project for our good work on the project. The guy was so happy that he sent money from Czech to sponsor our lunch...Earlier the plan was to go for a dinner but we couldnt get a common free dinner time so it was decided to go for it on Friday's lengthy lunch time.. We had Thai food..I have never had thai food before..but.. i didnt eat anything new in the food.. the only new thing that i noticed was the strange combination of Kahwa (green tea) and choclate that was served after the food...instead of the dessert..

What else..I am blank...completely blank..made a telephone call to my sister a while ago... felt sleepy during the conversation even though she was talking about something that can effect my future...

Kashif Bhatii aka KB is in Nathia Gali right now.. I kept trying calling him the whole day..His number was not reachable.. :(.. will probably meet him on sunday..

Am feeling sleepy... will go home now...am waiting to see how the Sand Ninjas will save the leaf ninjas from the sound ninjas... :) ..Today i got new episodes of Naruto you know... :)

GCC birthday

GCC Birthday

We had GCC birthday on 29th June.. GCC , my office , is short for Global Consulting Center.. Its sort of a branch of NCR which turned one year old on 29th. We went to Hotshots F-9 park to celeberate the birthday where we started with bowling. I have never played bowling before.In the start the game looked weird..and i was really wondering who invented this game and how..?? but later i started enjoying it..My score was the lowest in my team. :(

Then we had Laser Tag. I had been trying to play this game for so long. It was a nice game of 15 minutes in which we , 5 boys , played against our enemies , 8 girls , and lost.. :(... In the game , we hit each other's infra-red-sensor-jackets with laser guns ..it is a great game , i will surely be playing it more...was fun..Seems a sure way of losing weight as one keeps running around in total excitement for 15 minutes..

Then we had food and i ate chicken wings till the vomit limit.. lol. :)

At night i was very happy(hyper) and when i met Noman he commented on my behaviour as "You are acting like little kids who become very hyper after having jhola at a park" :)

About Naruto:

I have watched 99 episodes.. an episode is 20+ minutes ..and many times i re-watch a scene repeatedly...so it means that i have spent 33+ hours on it.. I am still enjoying the story line.. its great ...

About My Spiritual Journey:

On this weekend Timmy aka Taimoor gifted me a book ..Its Zawiya 2 by Ishfaq Ahmed..(oh.i am getting too many book gifts these days) .I also bought a book on telepathy by Khwaja Shams-ud-Din Azeemi. I am now feeling that spiritual development doesnt depend only on learning psychic abilities..It also requires learning of life concepts . I recently understood the importance of Forgiveness..A term very heavily used but rarely understood in its proper meanings..I plan to write a post on the power and meanings of Forgivenessthe way i understand it..The book Zawiya gives a good insight into life..I feel the words of the author going deep down ....deep inside me...It sort of cleanses the soul and empowers it to grow.. A PTA friend , Shehryar, used to say that its not important to learn psychic abilities as they are not the ultimate goal...He is quite right when i think about the ultimate goal.. but i am continuing just because i want to see the world with a different angle..atleast for a while..

I have a lot of books piled up now that i have to read.. I have a lot of audio/video lectures to listen....and there a few softwares that i have to try..and then there is this one software that i want to crack ..i have been looking for its crack since Oct 2005... :(.. i am too desperate that i am even willing to reinstall my windows after every 15 days.(the trial limit is 15 days) .but i hope i will soon find easier ways to make the trial run longer. May i succeed in my (un)holy plans..

Sandwich and Salad

Life is a bit changed these day... thinking of Naruto all day... and then trying to watch its clips every now and then..have watched 75 episodes...(there are nearly 300 in total)..

yesterday , i had a strange cooking experience.. I was trying to make a sandwich ..ended up making a Salad..:) ..I have too many sauces at my places..Tomato ketchup , Mianoese , Chicken Spread , Olives in Vinegar, Mustard Sauce.. so i usually bring some frozen food from market and enjoy a tasty sandwich . Sometime i bring that to office. Last night the tomato slices, cucumber slices, onion pieces ,capsicum pieces and the cutlas pieces made the sandwich bigger than the capacity of the sandwich maker. so i finally made a Salad out of the ingredients and stored that in the fridge so that i may take it to office....Oops!! i forgot to bring it in morning..

My sleep cycle is very disturbed these days.. i do go to bed early but once there, i start watching Naruto. strangely i am not having the effects that i usually have with lack of sleep..It might seem stupid if i say so , but i do feel it that watching Naruto fills me with some kind of energy..I dont know what it is...Probably its happiness... or satisfaction.. I dont know what..but it is there....

Ok!!...Me goes to enjoy the birthday of NCR GCC (my office) .. too many celeberations around these days..

Quick Refresh

I have fallen in love with NARUTO.. A japanese anime..about Ninja kids who use their Ninja Arts, different illusionary techniques and Chakras for fighting with each other. Its a great anime.. i have watched 50 episodes uptill now...I started watching it because i heard they use Chakras. Now , most of the times i keep thinking about the characters of the anime.. I am really impressed by the great art , the story line , the characters, the music , sound track , the everything.. I wish i could learn Japanese..

I went to Ceroze Cinema last week with PTA friends.. Noman Jelani ,Taimoor aka Timmy, Kashif.. We watched MI:3 ... ( a pathetic movie!!).. All of a sudden i feel my connections with PTA friends getting stronger.. Later in the week I enjoyed Noman's Bday party at Italian Oven with a few more PTA friends.. Noman was my best buddy in PTA... He is not a very sensitive person and is usually very hyper ..thats what i like about him.

I had a 4D workshop last weekend. Three NCRians , other than me , attended the workshop.. Taimoor aka Timmy also attended it.. The workshop was not great.. It was poor in contents and was very mismanaged in the start..I have been attending the workshops for a long time and i feel that its quality is dropping continuosly.. Oh! i did it for free.. :)..

Our office is now strictly monitoring our internet usage.... i had a download of 330 MB (for a month) where the average usage was 55 MB..later i found a person who had a download of 7 GB of data.. :) ...Access to Google video was blocked last week..This morning i found that MSN spaces has been blocked too. :( ...I hope i will be getting Bodi's posts through google reader (i dont know wether RSS feeds get blocked or not)..... Soon blogger will be blocked too... :( .. I surely need to get an internet connection at home..

What else:

• Raza left Pindi..He is back in Karachi now..He will soon join Imperial University London for his PHD on Dr. Emoto's Crystal. :).. ..Raza is a great person..(i must say so afterall he has gifted me two books on my MOST favourite topics).
  
• My brother returned from Sweden.. His "haan" has been done and now his mangney will be celeberated soon.

Adush

Though they have deleted my wiki , they can't delete my intellectual work.. I hope the image above will be readable....and please express it when you get impressed by my laptop's 1400 x 1050 resolution.

(For best results , please open the image in a new window and then save this full image on your harddisk and view through a image viewer)

What makes me happy today:

• I finally got a song that i was looking for so long. Its "Release - Afro Celt Sound System"..
• I am also happy because i got Earth 2 whole season from a guy in NCR. Earth 2 was my favourite series when i was a kiddo.
• I am also happy because the "Dungar"(read:Dung-gar) Pointer gave me a nice and expensive treat today at "Table Talk" restaurant in Kohsar Market along with a few other NCRians. I was thinking i will have to pay , but the news came later that its a free treat by him. Thanks man!!!!
• And i have finally formated my system..though i had to go through a big process for that and there is still a lot of installation to do tomorrow.

NLP success and Dianetics

NLP Success

I met an old friend who was extremely worried as it turned out that the girl of his dreams was not exactly the girl of his dreams. He met me right after having a very traumatic incident with that girl.He was sad , disappointed and was thinking of himself a real loser.. Thats when i thought of applying an old forgotten NLP trick on him..

I asked him of to think of all the worst things that can happen to him .. he did so..then i asked him to tell me about the best things that can happen to him..he did that too.. I asked him the first question again... and then the second question again.. I kept repeating it..making him answers to me louder everytime... This is known as pattern breaking... I dont want to go into much detail basically because i do not remember the precise science behind it..but whatever ..the thing worked and the guy was all ok and fine...He left feeling great and confident..

There was another trick that i applied on him..I dont know the name of it but i have applied it so many time during my academic life ..it a special breathing mechanism through which you can get rid of all the negative thoughts in mind.. I dont remember how i learnt it.. but i recently read that this is a very good technique to awake the kundalini...

I now feel very satisfied when the guy tells that both the tricks helped him a lot...I regret now for not practicing these things earliers.. This was my first attempt..though i learnt the course an year ago..

DIANETICS / SCIENTOLOGY

Dianetics has started managing its office in Islamabad..They offered a Seminar on Communication Skills this sunday..

A few concepts that i learnt follow:

A man is composed of a body , a mind and a soul ...
Body: it is the physical thing that we can see.. i.e our organs..
Mind: it is the collection of mental images that we have...i.e it is the collection of all our memories..this is not only limited to visual pictures but also the memory of other senses.
Soul(Thetan): it is us...we ... the spirit..the thing in us that thinks...

Reactive Mind: According to the concepts of dianetics , all of us have a reactive mind that stores traumatic memories and these traumatic memories keep haunting us all our life.. these disturbing memories are called engrams.

Auditing: Auditing is a procedure in which a guy who wants to get rid of the thoughts in the reactive mind sits with a councilor (called orator) and talks about various incidents of his life.. the orator takes once incident at a time and asks the guy to reapeat telling about the incident again and again each time giving more information about the incident.. Finally the guy starts feeling fine about his traumatic experience and gets rid of the engram cause by that experience.. The auditing session continues as long as a person is completely clear of all the engrams.. Such a person is then termed as a CLEAR in terms of dianetics.

About Aliens:
I read somewhere that dianetics is related to an idea that long ago aliens invaded Earth and brainwashed the people. but in the seminar , they didnt tell us any such story..besides even the main stream article on wiki doesnt say so..so i guess that was just a rumour.. I spoke to the manger of the dianetics office here and he didnt know about any such thing..

About the Communication Seminar
It was a nice seminar.. cant write much as i have already spent too much time writing about Dianetics.. There were some communication exercises in the seminar which seemed good to me.. At the end of the seminar they showed us a video of Tom Cruise saying good words about the Dianetics .. He is famous for actively supporting Dianetics.. Celebrities like him make marketing quite easier.. :)

Dianetics offers variey of courses like the Basic moral values , career growth, learning the methods to study, etc.. Basically these are all self development courses...I may or may not take some course...All depends on what if feel about it in future...My first experience was fine..and i may go for another one, though i am more interested in knowing the Aliens stuff... :( . Self improvement is good but the alien thing is really kool... :)

CAR conversations

with a general person:
speak:my car is with the mechanic
hear:again.
speak:yeah
hear: oh..why dont you leave this car..why dont you buy a new one..i tell you what ..there is this option that you can get the car leased from a bank...the way to do it is .....[i wait till the end]

with mom..
speak: hi...
hear: hi..how are you? have you started searching for a girl yet or not.
speak: no..mom.not yet..
hear: start looking then...i want you to get married soon..
speak: all right..i will do it..right now i am very bored ..Its the car..its still with the mechanic..
hear: what?? why dont you just get rid of this car..throw it away..whats the use of it if it is disturbing you daily..sell it and buy a new one...dont take this tension any more...get rid of the junk...
speak: i dont have enough moeny to buy a new one..
hear: Why dont you get it leased form the bank..its very easy..pappa was saying that Sameer can get a car leased from the bank..all he will have to do is........[i wait]


with a friend who visits Islmabad after a long time
hear: What is this..
speak: what?
hear: what kind of car is this?
speak: yar..kiya kharabi hay is main..it is doing all the work for me..
hear: but you are earning good you can get a better car..
speak..yar..i am fine with this...whats wrong with this..
hear: whats fine with this car...its doesnt even look good. why dont you buy a new car..
speak..cause i dont have enough money.
hear: thats not a problem you can simply get a car on lease...you can buy whatever car you want ..all you have to do is... [i wait till end]
speak..ok.should we go now..
hear..yeah..but it will be better if we leave your car here and go on my car..

with Bodi
type: ok yar...me goes now have to get my car...
read: from where?
type: from the mechanic..its **** was causing problem ...
read: whats the use of such a car ..you have spent so much on this stupid thing..An old car is always an old car...
type: yeah! i realize it now..
read: you always realize things late and you dont ever listen to the people around you..had you listened to me earlier and had you abstained from spending so much on the old car and your stupid silva workshops, you would have earned enough money to leave Pakistan..
type: yeah..right!!
read: your life is so full of waste..start doing something about it...you have no plans for your future ..you want to do whatever comes in your mind.. didnt you learn anything from your tableeghi time... why dont you just listen to me.. Now start saving your money and make up your future..

[err..should i tell him about the lease thing]

with Raza
speak: yar..what the hell ..the car is troubling again..
hear: uff!! kia mosiabt hay..why did you buy it..
speak: yar..a friend of mine in PTA sold it on me beacuse he wanted to make his boss happy..i was fooled by him...
hear: this is certainly quite interesting...why do you trust in people so easily..why are you so blind a follower..this is why i always ask you to go for a peer review whenever you have to spend money on something...Peer review is a proper scientific process in which recognized and affiliated scientists review something genuinely and publish their scientific research results in international scientific journals that are read world wide in the scientific communities and then there are seminars and discussions on the findings and the results of the research are then made public..
speak..err..Raza..who is that guy in green shirt...
hear...where ..where...which way..
speak..Adussssh....
hear. oho...had darjay bad tameez admi ho..how do you always remember this..



With NCR pepole-lasania cafeteria

Speak:yar meri gari aaj phir khar gharab ho gayee hay..
hear: oho..ab kiya ho gaya aap ki gari ko..perhaps now the engine is not working..but i guess it was working fine..kiyon keh woh app nay abhi abhi theek karaya tha....perhaps its some problem with the clutch pad.
hear...app [pause] aisa [pause] kiyon [pause] nahee [pause] kartey [pause] kah [pause] aik [pause] hi [pause] bar..
hear: yar..aik to yeah bolney main itna time lagata hay..sham ho jati hay suntey suntey...
hear: to to chup kar na..suney day..or yeah dhuwaan zara side per phank...
hear: acha..yar main door bhait jaataa hoon..
hear: to door bhi bhetay ga to dhuwaan phir bhe hamari taraf hi aye ga...yeah to bata aaj hum cigarette kon sa pee rahain hay..
hear:pata naheen yar.yeah ***** kaheen say lay ker aiyee hain..
hear:kiya..****!! aap yeah cigarette is kiy liye lay ker aaeen hay..app is masoom ko kharab kar raheen hain..
hear:naheen naheen..main is ko kharab naheen kar raha..infact ..rather...yeah or sameer mujhay kharab kar rahain hain..
hear...acha..to main ap ko kharab kar raha hoon..
hear: naheen naheen..haan haan.. mera matlab yeah naheen that..mera matlab tha keh mujhay Sameer kharab kar raha hay.. Seemingly , appearantly !! usi ki company say main aisa ho gaya hoon..
hear: acha chal main pepsi le kay aata hoon..
hear: pepsi...oh yar meray liye woh bhi lay aana.. [a hand gesture is used]
hear:raita!!?? koon sa?? ...
hear:koon say wala...yar ap batain kain main kon sa wala raita khaoon...
hear:yar ab app nay khana hay to main kaisay bataoon kay kon sa raita khana hay..
hear:yar bus to lay aa na...kuch bhee lay aa na .. Roman Catholics main aisa hi hota hoga..acha.ja
hear:Roman Catholic ...perhaps woh itna dahee naheen khatey they..Romans main cheese zaada use hota tha..haan...laiken Rome ki aik city thi jis main , i guess, dahee bhi bohot istimaal hota tha..rahter there were two such cities...perhaps there was only one..perhaps other cities got this tradition from that city .....rather..perhaps..rather...
[a laughter]
[a laughter mocking the first laughter]
[a laughter again because of the 2nd laughter]
hear:Oho..Chal to suna to kiya keh raha tha..yeah..roman catholics to hamara damagh khatey raheen gay.. bulkay damagh ki dahi banatey raheen gay...
hear:main [pause] keh [pause] raha [pause] tha [pause] keh [pause] app [pause] naiee [pause] gaari [pause] lease [pause] per [pause] kiyon [pause] naheen [pause] lay [pause] leetay . . . . . . . . . . . ..



NCR- THE secret P3 corp meeting

[since its a secret meeting]
what others hear: [some muffled sounds ]..'my car'...[some muffled sounds ]..'princess is naraz'...[some muffled sounds ]..'in 4D'..[some muffled sounds ]..'fix its engine in the healing room'..[some muffled sounds ]..'power symbol on the seat'...[some muffled sounds ]...[a strange sound as if some hindu is chanting some praying words]....[some muffled sounds ]..[a laughter]...'Kundalini was awakened'....[some muffled sounds ]....'then the three wise men looked at me and said'...[some muffled sounds ]... 'the aunt who died with madness'...[some muffled sounds ]..[a laugter]....'meray say kuch kiyon naheen hota'...[some muffled sounds]...'Out of Body experience is so'...[some muffled sounds ]..'program managers'....[some muffled sounds ]....'i have shared this new software'...[some muffled sounds ]...'itna fit hay.itna zaada fit hay'...[some muffled sounds ]..'koi naheen ji..yeah kiya baat hoi'...[some muffled sounds ]........

War of the words

Below is a reply to the comments on my last post..I did not have enough motivation to waste time on that stupid comment box that requires html scripting for formatting...and you can not even put pure html there...

I am continuing this word war because i am somewhat tired of me shutting up after just one or two sentences from people who dont beleive me and start arguing ...so this one time i have decided to continue it..Much of the text that follows might not be interest of you..You can simply read the last four paras..as before that ..its a conversation that goes on between me and Raza ....and i guess only he will be able to have the motivation to understand and read all the thing... To get his comments on what i say, do check the comments section later..

Legend:
Blue text is my earlier writing..that i wrote in a comment as response to a comment .
Green text is Raza's reply to that blue writing..
Normal is my present writing which is a response to Raza's green text..

CONVERSTAION WITH RAZA

Ok..lets go through it again:

First off, there is a distinction between research and scientific method. Research is a part of science, and thereby you cannot do research applicable to science unless you meet other criteria of scientific method. That research is associated with scientific method is in the definition of Research from the wiki link you cite.

I still have no interest in the scientific method..why because it is NOT something that you talked about earlier.. you used the word research ..but then you looked on the definition on it and didn’t find any thing objecting Emoto.. then you looked at this link of scientific method (given on the wiki of ‘Research’ ) and then you are using the word ‘scientific method’ to help you to the rescue.. I am sure that you know it more than I do that staying on one word is important in a discussion cause going into the meaning of each and every word makes things out of focus…that why I am still hooking to the word research.. so in the next reply which you will definitely provide. .i don’t want to talk about scientific method cause I don’t think that its helping me.. but if you really think it IS that important ..i am talking about it in the para below when you yourself provided a copy paste from it..

I gave you the criteria for scientific method, which includes peer review. It was paraphrased, here it is again in case you missed it:


Another basic expectation is that of making complete documentation of data and methodology available for careful scrutiny by other scientists and researchers, thereby allowing other researchers opportunity to verify results as well as to establish statistical measures of reliability.

The writing itself says that this requirement is mainly an expectation..and not a requirement.. Btw do you know that there is criticism on the "peer review thing'.. mainly because it is slow (taking many years sometimes) and because it makes the ability to publish susceptible to control by elites and to personal jealousy.

And IN YOUR FACE ...let me tell you that there have been many papers that appeared in scientific journals without any peer review...FAMOUS EXAMPLES:

1. Publication of Watson and Crick's 1951 paper on the structure of DNA in Nature.

2. Abdus Salam's paper "Weak and electromagnetic interactions". Salam even got the Nobel prize for it in 1979. and ou

You ask me why I give such importance to Wiki, for one you quoted it when you posted on Silva so I assumed its a resource you trust, for another although everyone can edit Wikis, Wiki is "open source". Anyone can raise objections and contest material, thereby if there are differing opinions on a matter they are often contested. If you find anything misleading here, you can do the same.

Raza!! We were not talking about MY CRITERIA to understand thing…It should be YOUR CRITERIA all the time… You already have so many objections on my sources and the things that I think are trustworthy….. and btw MOST of the spiritual stuff that I have learnt is from wikipedia.. does it mean that you believe in that all too?? Aint this strange that I guy who believes in research still follows a site which can be objected by anyone and which can be edited by anyone who may or may not be applying the so called scientific methods in editing the wiki. It is even objected by the wiki writers... read...

So how many people do you know who edit wikis using ‘Scientific method’ and how many people in the world are all dedicated to the holy cause of keeping wikipedia correct . You have assumed that all the people in the world have an all time internet connection along with ample of time & motivation to check the wikis of their interest. On the Internet, it's impossible to actually confirm people's identity in the first place, short of getting credit-card information. On any site it's very easy to come up with a fake identity..

WRONG!! Lets see how..there are two objections
not repeatable
double blind

REPEATABLE:
Emoto's experiements are repeateable...Not only that the whole process has been described on the same wiki from where you learnt all the things against him (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masaru_Emoto) but also on NBC's website where they even tell you to experiment it yourself.. They the NBC guys call him a researcher btw...
(http://www.nbc10.com/news/5455548/detail.html)
http://www.nbc10.com/news/5476558/detail.html)


When I say repeatable it is in context of technically complete specifications, which is not the case.

A group of students in colorado (i think) tried to repeat his experiements (the very last link on the wikipedia site on Emoto) and they came up with the conclusion that it was impossible to do it, because the specification is just too vague. (They also found that virtually all of the crystals across different emotions looked the same in general)

NO RAZA.. you are wrong again…. they were able to do it … READ IT AGAIN..its here…It was done by Advanced Placement Psychology class at Durango High School in Durango, Colorado ..They did the whole experiment using ALL the technical parameters defined by Emoto .These technical specifications are written on the Emoto’s wiki and the class itself has defined it in their procedures as well.. … The students were ABLE to do the experiment .. and there results were in conformance .. Read below as I answer

Emoto approaches the issue of objectivity from a radically different perspective: Since each person's state of mind will affect the water, and since much of the experiment is based on the "consciousness of wanting to find that beauty," then a person with a neutral or disinterested perspective might not find the crystals at all, he said.

so are you getting it..the water gets effected differently by the thoughts of different people..so you can not go for the blind test.. Blind test can be used only at the places where the state of changing a person mind wont effect the result..Here , the results WILL be effected..and thats the basic essence of the whole research...the way you presented this thing was as if Emoto was denying any offer of the peer review and was hiding his findings...he, instead, has described his method so clearly that even you yourself can do them to check their authenticity..What else do you want..


First off he hasnt presented his methods in a way that I can do it, or even you can. I've cited you a link where a group of students tried to replicate his results and couldnt simply because there wasnt enough information, and what he did give did NOT give any fancy results.

AGAIN.. YOU ARE WRONG .. The students were able to do it.. citing something and presenting it in a wrong manner wont make your argument true…READ THE WHOLE THING AGAIN.. READ IT here..…Since you have WRONGLY repeated the thing so many time..now I will give the true picture by writing the conculsion that they (the colarado people) had ..It follows

Conclusion: We did not find sufficient evidence to refute or accept Emoto’s hypothesis that thought influences water crystal formation. We noticed one interesting similarity between two separate groups of water samples: Similar crystals formed on the same message, “I despise you,” in two types of water. But, for the most part, the crystal formations in each water sample resembled each other, regardless of the messages attached to them. We concluded that in order to make a significant finding, further research would have to be done. So, for now, we will have to live with our curiosity and continue to wonder if our thoughts have the power to influence water and ultimately ourselves.

So you see it.. They were able to find the same type of crystals on the same type of message “I despise you”….and although they did not have very very supportive result..they still accept that they do NOT have sufficient evidence to refute or accept the guy…They have concluded that FURTHER RESEARCH should be done.. FURTHER RESEARCH right??? So the experiment did provide them enough curiosity cause they did find something there..

AND RAZA…here I wonder again.. A researcher who proves his point by giving theories from wikipeida and examples from some Psychology class at a High School . Are they really so credible for you.. Is that YOUR criteria ??? this clearly means that YOU CAN NOT target my criterias when your own criterias are not worth trusting.. Wikipedia and other internet search results should not be a criteria for a proper researcher at least.. and if it so then whats the difference between a normal person and a researcher..

His saying that you only find the crystals when you WANT to consciously find them, doesnt that send off warning signals? The blind tests do NOT impact the conditioning of the water (that would cause the crystals to form). They are there to discourage people from finding the crystals they'd like to find.

HE never says that you only find the crystals when you want to find them. He says that he hired photographers based on their…..(cited by wiki)

aesthetic sense and character is the important aspect when taking crystal photographs. Therefore, I try to make sure that they can take photographs in a relaxed and positive atmosphere.

…. (citation ends)

SO this is how and why he selects people.. and off course that’s what he should do…why? Because not every person has a properly developed aesthetic sense. Not every person is able to find beauty. You can go on and read this thing in Psychology if you don’t trust me.. and secondly he wants to provide a proper environment in which people wont be fighting on the definition of beauty…

What Emoto is essentially saying is that you consciously look for crystals that support your hypothesis. Either that, or I misunderstand you.

Well..from the thing that I read I don’t think that’s what he is saying..Try to read it with an unbiased mind…

At any rate, theres nothing stopping people from using all their mind power when they're creating the crystals. However if they start using their mind power when photographing the crystals, then you basically are never going to be wrong :).

Well.. the way I understand it…is that the thought projection thing (that you have named mind power above) is done before taking the photograph… i.e the step 2 on the wikipedia …photography is the step 6 in the procedure defined on wikipedia..

Since he says its language independent, he could follow blinding by cursing in one language and hiring the photographer of a different origin who is unaware of what to look for.

Yes ..He has exposed water to different languages and has come up with the same results… Hiring a photographer of a different origin is not important at all…cause that is the step 6… but offcourse this is yet again a very trivial thing which you can use to build another argument only because there is no information on whether he actually tried hiring a photographer or not.. though you yourself know that people on other places (colarado) have done these things… yet again you will come up with something about which there is no information wether it was done or not..just to create confusion…

But then no...you have to consciously look to find structure right.. So you have license to fabricate any relationship you want.

I didn’t get this sentence.. Paraphrasing may help… The thing that I understand is that your probably mean that you can get what you want from it..the same way ..you and I google on the net and always find opposite point of views on the same things…some time from the same source…some time from same experiment results…especially the Colorado one…which you yourself asked me to READ AGAIN…thinking that I had not read it..and then I have given the whole conclusion here telling that the experiment was infact concluding in the favour of more research.. Citing it went against your points..

And it is true that Emoto has not published in peer review, nor are his methods repeatable (I once again urge you to read the report of the psychology class that tried to redo his experiments).

YES RAZA.. I have read the report of the psychology class..and I don’t urge you to read that..i simply ask you to scroll up and see their conclusion from up there..that I have simply copied and pasted from their website… I am really amazed a psychology class in colarado is all that you are referring again and again.. Hmmm.. a very nice example by a person who claims to look into SCIENTIFIC Methods when proving something…It shows your level.. and you blame that I am the one who believes in things quickly.

By the way, the *Photo Essay* he has out is in the American Journal of Alternative Medicine. So it is clearly not a case of him not having access to scientific journals or anything like that. He merely, for some reason, does not put his research out in a scientific way.

I don’t know wether its him or not…I have never read an article or anything from him explicitly saying that he is not deliberately writing things to scientific journal..May be he tried and was turned down by the political bodies in the scientific community …may be no body ever approached him…(like that 1 million dollar challenge ,in which the foundation never actually directly asked him).. there can be many things..…However, what you should come up with must be an article in scientific journals completely against Emoto…Can you find that..oh you can always use Google and Wikipedia..

What else?? Oh!! read comments on him at http://66.201.42.16/viewitem.php3?id=511&catid=510&kbid=ionsikc where a woman who is M.D., Ph.D. , Founding President, of American Holistic Medical Association talks about Emoto..


I didnt give my links any credibility just because they were written by Phds. Nor because any TV station called someone a researcher, because I am a "researcher" and that doesnt really mean anything.

Oh..you never gave any credibility at all..though you should have if you are a researcher.It was only me attempting to give some credibility by citing a PHD…all that you ever cited was the wiki searc results…oh how very credible…All wikis are written by PHDs right (sarcastic…cause they are not written by PHDs..They are written by people whose identities can not be verified..)

Masuro emoto ofcourse could be called a researcher. He is after all a Phd, even if thats from the Open University of Alternative Medicine in India or whatever.

Earlier you said in an earlier comment ..the 2^nd one in the comments on the post…that he has not done any research.. Read the last line of your comment ..….Now you are saying that he can be called a researcher….Does it prove something..?? You yourself are saying conflicting things…

So Dear Raza ..now i have used your own criteria to prove the guy true

You havent *proven* anything. Nor have I *proven* anything. Lets not claim results we havent got. Neither of us is Masuru Emoto :D

Oh yeah…and I didn’t prove that you said conflicting things up there....and here again you are blaming Emoto of saying things without a research.. False claims Raza!!.. you are not coming up with anthing solid ..you are just repeating the sentence to make the false look true..

Talking about existance of no research...and then denying an example ...and then keep reading it about from other websites to prove it wrong....when the problem is not the research ...but in my ability to believe those things quickly which you do not...you have been targeting the wrong thing Raza from the very start.


Well this has been an encouraging exercise for me because I've gotten you to read about him, even if that has been from the section of Wikipedia that was sympathetic to him :D.

Wikipedia was sympathetic to him.. really??…Oh you can always raise objections on this article then as wikis are supposed to be neutral…and you claimed earlier in your comments that anybody can do that…Lets see who has too much spare time to go and correct all the wrong things on the wikipedia…Lets see who edits Dr. Emotos wiki now to make it appear neutral..After all , as you claim ,its an open source thing which according to your logic makes it credible and true.

The last time we talked, you gave me an example of the "science" of your stuff, do you remember? That they have captured the katra or whatever with some magnetic resonance stuff. And I dismissed that and said tahts not science. And we had a whole discussion on what science is then, and I told you that the body of knowledge that is accepted in universities and scientists is science (becuase science is a function of what we know).

Do you remember that debate? We ended on whether science is the same as knowledge.

Yeah…I remember..we were standing beside my princess. I was of the view that knowledge is science..and you were confused wether it is not..and that’s where we ended when I got bored by your confused answers of wether knowledge is science or not. At that time you claimed that there is NO RESEARCH anywhere in the world on the paranormal stuff..

So clearly, my saying that there is no research on this was in context of scientific research. I have shown you how this isnt research, the guy hasnt put out a scientific publication and that he doesnt shield his results from bias (the requirement again is that you dont need to be unbiased when cursing/being nice to the water crystals, but be unbiased when filming it).

WRONG…you have to be biased before taking the picture…REPEATING again…just because you want it to appear it true.. oh..you say (you repeat) that it is not a research as the guy has not come up with any scientific publication…but how is it that you call yourself a researcher when you too have not got any scientific publication against the Water crystals… Let me repeat to make the true thing appear true…that Emoto doesn’t say that you need to be biased when filming the crystal.. you do it before that….

If you think the Randi stuff is non-credible then I'll drop that argument. Anything that either one of us doesnt trust becomes a red herring.

Oh.. Wow…you are trying to show that all the other things that you cited were extremely credible….

so let me be clear..i have been into paranormal stuff and though i have not been able to come up with earthshaking results , i have had enough experinces/reading that make me understand a few phenomenons... uff!!


The way it will work out Sameer (and you can put this upto my being in tune with the cosmic energy of your future) is that you will realise that these things do not bring any appreciable value to your life, eventually, and will discover how people can take advantage of your genuine longing for spirituality in order to fulfill their own very material need for money. However, you will do that only when you've paid a very hefty physical and career price for it.

thanks for PREDICTING the future…All knowledge comes on a price…It may be money…it may be long hours of reading things on internet… People do waste their money and time on things they wanna know and learn.. I spent a lot more (money +time) in GIKI on my electronic engineering studies…Do you have objection on that…cause I am in an IT firm now.. I never found the line of people dying to hire me in their company at the time of my graduation…neither I ever found a good electronics related company …but still I believe that the education I got there was important for me… I still keep on going on Electronic/Telecom related seminars cause i know that eductation never goes wasted.. Btw ..in this para..don’t you think you sound like the molvees in the mosques who tell people that they will be burnt in hell flames if they wont listen to what they say.. and just to clarify: i have spent a lot on this knowledge and i have no remorse..

From various parts of our conversations I've come to see that you want to lose weight but you dont because a lot of your time is spent in this stuff. You want to be progressing career wise but dont because you spend your time and money on this.

From previous parts of our conversations , you consider that fatness is the most important thing in my life …I assure you it is not…There is something else (it is out of scope of this discussion..but what the hell..you are already going out of discussion by leaving Emoto and all of a sudden pointing on me.) .. so I tell you that the reason I have fatness is that I never gave it the top priority..There are other things in my life which I do consider more important..and if you trust my conversation with other people, then let me tell you that I once told my Guru (prof Moiz) that I am not losing weight cause I realize that I do not consider it very important…He answered me that I should apply some techniques to make it appear as the most important thing.. though , he added, that if you are happy with it , live with it…I also know a guy who has achieved a very high spiritual status but is double the size of me… slimness is not at all as important for him…I agree that there are health risks involved with fatness…I am not saying that one should remain fat…its just that it at the moment does not appear as my top priority.. A fat guy who is happy with his life is a million times better than a slim , smart ,handsome and **** guy who is not happy..

…The reason you think that fatness is important for me is that it is one thing that I make fun of a lot..(you know..my own self is the biggest source of fun for me)…

About my career progress: … Do you fail to see that I recently left a job where I was earning more to a job where I am earning less.. only because its offers a better career...but whatever..career too is not THE MOST IMPORTANT thing in my life...I want to live a happy life..and you have not heard of what I say about my previous job where I was getting more by doing less… and you have not ever heard of what I say about my satisfaction level now that I switched job..perhaps reading my earlier posts (which I started during the job switching time) may help you…

There is a time when one needs to look around and evaluate what is holding him back in life, and drop it like it never existed. Tell me this, do either me or Bodi still prefer games over advancement in life?
I don’t know about what you guys prefer…let me just make claims on me ..I do give preference to advancement in life… …. Offcourse you saying this because you have different parameters to define “Advancement in life”…Your idea of having advancement in life might be getting lot of money , enjoying a very good designation etc. etc.. For me the idea is to BE HAPPY with whatever you have.... i want to remain happy even without having much.. (Reminds me of a one liner by bodi….I am happy and I must remain happy)...Its not that i am deliberately trying to be prefer spiritual thing on life..its just that i am prioriting things that are important to make me happy... I dont believe that a good career can keep me happy all my life..

And btw I believe that I was hired in my current company because for the first time in my life I had done NO TECHNICAL STUDY and only SPIRITUAL PREPARATION for the interview..and I was selected even though I have a EE background and they hire CS guys.. Offcourse, you can consider this as a mere coincidence.. I can go into further detals if you are interested…but this is one thing that i strongly call my success...

What kind of spirituality inhibits a person's personal life? What is the difference between your tablighi jamaats gasht and making you lose ICI mails and these tapes and meditations and 15000 rupee conferences?

What kind of spirituality is so corporate, so manufactured, so marketed, so prepackaged into nice little consumer boxes?

These are just derogatory remarks.so I am ignoring them.. But I know about research organization that ask for MONEY …They ask for money to get registered WHY????.. ..Knowledge has become commercial..Its not the problem of spiritual knowledge only..Its the knowledge of everything…Be it spiritual ...be it technical papers...

You are supposed to be a free man, free from anything that enslaves you. IF you have control over this, IF you can give this up and focus on other things in your life that absolutely need your focus, and IF this is not hampering your career and health, I would have no objection to it, nor would I write so much.

Yeah.. a guy who is so materialist that he considers CAREER and MONEY the most important things in life is asking me to be a free man… Let me be clear the real important problem of my life (description is out of scope .it has been shared with only few people) can not be solved by a good career and money.. and..errr…Just to give you an example…how can you ever make a person’s idea about God’s existence by giving him lots of money and good career..Can you?? (Clarification: God’s existence is not my real big problem)

As far as my health is concerned , my office job is whats making me fat..

But I dont see it that way. I see you held hostage to this. And I dont think one has an indefinite time in life.

And how do I consider it as any help..when you don’t tell me a way out ….. just telling me that you don’t like something wont be of much help to me…I understand that there is no indefinite time in life…so what is your idea about it..should I devote myself completely to money and career advancement….or should I enjoy my life by learning thing I want to learn…and by remaining happy with whatever I already have.. ..

If you want to talk more about me..we can...and we should as it helps me more than it helps you..but I just want to stay on the current thing..the Dr. Emoto thing…the last few things can be discussed…We can talk about it but for now I prefer to stay closer to the main topic of discussion…

CONVERSTAION WITH RAZA ENDS

THE LAST FOUR PARAs..

Our discussion started on your objection : I cite it

I disagree with you on key aspects though, foremost that you are too easy a believer, and thereby you undermine your own quest by taking whichever spiritual door shown to you without really questioning anything.

You blame that its me who believes things too easily.. In this course of discussion I have seen you believing in thing that you already wanted to believe…I have always been a skeptic to all my spiritual things myself.. and I look at it in a neutral manner…and I like to discuss it in a neutral manner. ..you seem to have a belief that these things are false.. you are not seeing these things neutrally.. All the objection that you had on Emoto’s experiment was that he had not done any peer reviews…something which by its definition is just expected and not required..that Abdul Salam thing turned out to the rescue ... My god, people are getting noble prizes without peer reviews...something that you hold so dear..

And this course of discussion also shows the your approach and mine approach to trust is similar.. Its just that you don’t believe at all…I , on the other hand, might be a believer but I am still looking at these things in a neutral manner…I keep looking at things..to verify them…cause I think you have to do things in order to verify wether they are wrong or not.. Just reading on some big words against something is not enough (this comes from a notice on your statement..that silva is nothing but “cold reading”.. I have done silva..it has nothing to do with the cold reading. .the teacher there never ever told us anything about us ..let alone any cold reading..you should have atleast read about Silva or atleast cold reading)..

I usually try to have my own experiences and my own opinions…I don’t want to waste my life on copying and pasting…so I go out to have my own interaction with of all the things that I want to learn.. and I guess that’s what a research is.. If at any time later, I decide that all these things are wrong (though at present I don’t feel like it as I am currently successes after a lapse of so many years) I will still have the satisfaction that it was ME who proved it to me....not a copy and paste of somebody’s else writing…and I guess that’s what makes me a researcher..

I am alone on my Journey

People do not seem to appreciate my spiritual endeavours .. A proof is the comments on my last post...

Raza and bodi are my friends from Giki..and i still have this grudge that they didnt let me be their partner in writing the novelette for the first official Giki magzine.. btw, I did take my revenge later by never making it to the list of those 4,5 people who ever actually managed to read that story completely.. :)

Anyways, I have lived with objections on my spiritual endeavours for long..4th Dimension , Hypnosis, NLP , Silva, Reiki, Out of body experience.... all these things never made sense to anyone in my social circle.. But i have never cared .. i have my beleifs .. I do not mind changing them..and i dont mind putting them in front of people to get criticized... but till yet no objection has made much sense to me..

Raza...! your initial argument was that there is no place in the world doing research on such things.. We never talked about your opinions on the results..so that is a new argument that you are coming up with.and btw we can always have objections on all kind of experiments.. All great sceintists have experienced great opposition at their times.. This doesnt mean that they were wrong .. this does mean that they stood with what they believed.... but anyways this doesnt mean that i whole heartedly support Emoto..though i do know that even research in USA is not as good and authentic as it is considered..and if you dont believe me, i can cite a person who has worked in two research labs of NASA... do you know that guy Raza!! :)

And about my wasteful life...(was it wasteful or waistful??) ..well..I guess thats it is for me to decide how much value is getting added to my life by learning all these things... I have always liked paranormal things...and i enjoy doing paranormal stuff... I know people who spend thousand of rupees on expensive graphic cards and then they waste hundereds of hours playing computer games.. so...you see!! my case is just like that....with the only difference that the stuff i do and i believe has a lot to do with coincidences... and recently i have started to have a lot of coincidences.. and it will be very stupid of me if i fail to relate these increased coincidences with my recent increase in spiritual practices...

but offcourse i never mind people objecting me...how else will i ever know that i am going...

PS.. i miss KB here...though Raza is compensating his absence a lot by being as much logical as he gets at times..but still KB has his own his class.

What i learnt from Silva Workshop

SILVA workshop ended.. It was a three days workshop where i learned that my already learnt things are enough ..Now is the time to practice them..

About "What do you do in that workshop?"
You can get all the details about Silva from wikipedia (see) ..About the workshop that i attended; its a three days workshop in which they program our mind with different techniques.. They take us to a trance state (a state between being sleep and awake state) and give us a few suggestions.. This is called programming.. Ideally there should be 21 trances but we got only 14.. :(...And that too were not very clear to understand..

VISUALIZATION & IMAGINATION
A main thing that i have now realized is the importance of the VISUALIZATION and IMAGINATION. These two are THE MOST important skills in mind sciences and they CAN be developed and improved by simple regular practice...

Water can store our message
There was a very informative video shown in the workshop.. it was about the ability of water to store information .. There is a guy who did some research on the crystal structure of frozen water and came up with amazing findings...His experiments show that the water crystal change their structure if you project your thoughts or emotions on it.. The video showed effects of prayers, greeting , curses on water crystal.. I am showing a few pictures...

This is the picture of fresh water which has no crystalline structure...

Then this is the picture of that same water after it was exposed to prayer... See the beautiful crystal structure.

Then this is a picture of water after it was cursed...

More details can be found here and here.. These articles provide more images..

The main idea is that thoughts can effect things..The power of prayer does exist..and that there are people who are doing research on how mind can effect the matter. (For the eyes of Raza: Do you still believe that There is NO Place in the World doing research on such things)

Mind Rulz..

For the love of Princess

I have been tweaking this poem for a month......now i am finally copying and pasting it without having a look on it cause then i will easily spend an other hour on it..so do ignore any obvious errors in it...till monday..till i return from SILVA....

Oh princess , my princess ! where have you gone

I wait for you daily, from dusk till dawn

I miss your broken mirrors , and your teerhi seat

I miss going far away, to try new things to eat

Can I guess the speed , you ever had at max

it was 60 right? , on which other cars relax

do you miss having dhakas , each and every morning

and then being Naraz without giving me any warning

even Amjad never smoked ,while sitting in you

see!! every body knew, you hate cigarette ki boo

Getting your body washed , has always been a pain

But why to worry now, In summer there is more rain

Now my friends are happy, they never have to wait,

Since you aren’t around, I never reach anywhere late.

I miss all that ‘khar khar’ , you used to release

So please come back , oh! please please please please

PS. Uff!! main kit fitna poet hoon!!

Sleep Less, Relax More

it may seem like a telenor ad...and i do like all their ads where they tell you about one thing that is less and the other that is more... I am waiting for their "Pay Less, Talk more" product.. :).

AC

I bought a split AC yesterday.. DAWLANCE ka.. 1 ton ... Akheer kharcha.. but after using it for a night , i have realized that i badly needed it .. my body needed it... I slept for 6 hours only and when i woke up i was all fresh.. Earlier i was not relaxing even by having an 8 hours sleep.. Before the arrival of the AC, i had been following a proper protocol before sleeping.. It was a long protocol that involved taking showers 2 times before sleeping...and turning on my SALT LAMP for a while .. I have a belief that my salt lamp has magical power to cool down the room in summer and warm it up in winter.. There are other beliefs associated with this lamp..but that will be in a later post... :)

SILVA

For the next three days i may not come online.. My silva workshop will start from tomorrow.. Its a three days workshop...from morning till evening...(nearly 10am to 6pm)... For 3 days , i will be having breakfast and lunch in PC... :) .. Yumm!! Yumm!!

OF THE PRINCESS

Oh! i forgot...She is back.. Details later..cause i am getting late now.. I have written a poem on the princess in its absence... but shouldnt that be a seperate post..

The new addiction

I first saw a guy playing Starcraft in PC Lab (GIKI, 1998, my first semester) . I was awed by the method of playing the game....I had never seen a game being played solely by a mouse before... The first sight of the game made me fall into love with it...and in the time that followed i got fully addicted to it ..I still consider this game as the 2nd most important reason that i got probabtion in my first semester in Giki, ....the first one being Nix..


Addictions have played very important role in my life... the few that i have had are Starcraft , Warcraft , Food , depression , e-mails , stupid jokes etc.


Recently i have developed a new addiction..reading.... reading of the spiritual stuff...of mind...of soul....of eastern meditation techniques...etc...etc. There is a big treasure of information about these weird things on internet.. (Yeah!! i am not alone) .. and once i start reading the things i can't stop for hours.. At home, I am in the boss stage of prince of persia 3 for the last 2-3 weeks and even though i have read the method to kill the evil Vizier (the boss) i can not get enough time to beat the shit out of him because my reading addiction is not letting me have enough time to even turn my PC on .




OBE ... is Out Of body Experience.. Our soul leaves our body every night when we go to sleep .. It then goes to another plane....which is known as astral plane... We recall the experiences of our soul in the astral plane (when we wake up) as dreams...
OBE is like dreaming but it is with an awareness.. I am trying to have an OBE for a long time..but very recently i have started trying it regularly ...Last night i did have a glimpse of what OBE is like...


DREAMS:

My dreams are making some sense now... A week ago i had three dreams that had very deep meanings.. I got the solution of my biggest problem through the first one...slighlty understood the reason of my current religious status through the second one.. and had an idea to keep continuing my workshops from the third one... Finally!! I am getting a guidance...A connection.....

I am happy that now i am making progress on the spiritual front...

Sorry...but there is nothing new..

Yeah.. there is nothing new on my side... with a life that has turned into a office-home routine now.. there is nothing great to write...

Of the princess..
The Engine Transplant operation turned out successfull.. there is some work to be done on the body and the brakes...most probably i will be getting her back on Monday evening...a time when Jazz will have left Islamabad... :(... Jazz!! wont you be coming to the hospital to see my precious ??....my princess... the damsel in distreess...

Of the weight...
There are two weight updates ...

• 26 April... Yipeee!! I lost a kg...
• 27 April.. Ooops!! , I found a parallax error in my weighing machine , fixed it , got the lost kg back... :)

Of health..
I got warts in my feet... :(.. i hate summers..

Of the Spritual Stuff...
My practices have reduced..thanks to the workload in office ..it reduced my frequent visits to bathrooms now.. I dont meditate regularly but the reading addiction that i talked about in my last post is still there..my focus is on dreams these days....seems they too have a very definite role to play in the spiritual development/guidance of a person..but one has to develop skills to be able to use them properly ..

Of the Weekend
A long weekend is starting...I just hope i will be able to do a few things that i am planning to do for so long... that includes , interalia,

• getting my laundry done,
• getting a decent hair cut ,
• setting my room so that i may be able to watch TV while lying on bed ,
• reviewing a poem i wrote last week ,
• completing the flash advertisement for Silva Workshop for the institue of mind sciences ,
• listening to all those Silva CDs that my partner in crime got downloaded from internet ,
• reading the Silva book that i bought ,
• finally visiting my uncle who lives in F11 ..something i have been planning for an year
• meeting JAZZ...
  
• watching scrubs..so that i may recover some harddisk space after deleting them
• using my Psychic powers for Farhan (Gikian , Batch 15) so that he may start studying 18 hours a day...till the finalz...8 May ..

but.... above all ...,

• having an OBE...

..... whats an OBE.. ??? ......hmm!!!.. we will talk about it later .. some other post......

Me busy and addicted

Sorry for the late post.. but I was busy ..officially busy …I was busy in some trainings for an other NCR project along with my current project and apart from that that I developed this addiction of web surfing to know more about all the things related to my weird interest… Its more addictive than computer games..cause i havent played Prince Of Persia 3 for so long…. and what else ..now i happen to have a very good and efficient partner in crime in all these readings and knowledge searching...Anyways, today I have got some time to write a few lines and I am writing them as quickly as possible cause I have got a dead line to meet …

Health update:

I bought a weighing machine.. atlast. Now I check my weight daily.. 2 times a day…..

Spiritual update:

I have become somewhat regular in my spiritual practices. And I am having some successes with it….finally.. This involves sending remote healing to a few people.. Psychic development is a long term thing which requires regular efforts.. Now that I have my own personal unshared room , I can easily practice the things…Besides that I have found a way to practice it in office.. How?? ….. err.!! i guess NCR friends should not be knowing this...

O'.. Great goddess of Blogosphere ..i invoke thee to turn the following green coloured text invisible from the eyes of NCR people

Ok.!! the question is How I practice my things in office?? Well, the answer is that I go to the bathroom and practice it there.. Not only that the environment is perfectly isolated there , the noiseless room makes me relax properly and as a bonus I also get a very valid excuse for my absence from the project for a good period of time … am i not I clever ?

And now I have also started reading books on the stuff …(yes bodi!! They do have books on these topics)….I have bought two books …and I have got a lot of pdf stuff that I plan to read later in my free time..

Of the princess:

The princess has been admitted to the mechanic doctor where she is currently undergoing her engine transplant along with some other minor surgery processes.. Princess will be getting new body organs of a CULTUS …On her last day , before the operation , she insulted me as much as she could.. Her engine stopped in extreme busy traffic the moment the signal turned green …This happened twice..(no..it was not a deja vu!!).. both the times I was in the front of the row on my side of the chowks…and these were both busy chowks ---i.e Peshawar moore Chowk and Zero point Chowk--- … just imagine….itni zaada insult…and what was my crime….only that I forgot to check water and oil for 3 weeks..

So these days I am baykar (without car).. Theoretically this should help me lose weight… i will be updating my readers about the results soon..

Gikians around me

The weekend passed with my university fellows..All of a sudden, there was a burst of so many Gikians..

Friday

I met..Jazz.. aka usman Aijaz...who was in Islamabad to spend some time at home..before joining Engro as a project Engineer...We dined together at Pizza Hut along with Khurram Nadeem -another Gikian friend, working at Ericsson ... I ‘tried’ the too-much-being-marketed stuffed crust pizza finally... The only difference that I found between Stuffed Crust and Normal Crust Pizza was ……that the Stuffed Crust Pizza had more salt .... Damn!! I always hate it when I start believing in the marketing stuff..

Jazz is currently in Engro and he is enjoying his time there filling up bulky registration forms. He looks like a greek god in this picture...This picture has been mentioned in the works of the great blogger ...Lord Bodi... see here..

Saturday..

Alvi creature arrived .. He is working in Saudi Arab... where he has lived most of his life..He is on Pakistan Tour ..its not a concert tour,though he has the potential .. He always comes with great plans to meet everyone. And the plans remain plans .... He used to be my religious mentor once.. When we got our Year book on our graduation, there were 3 comments on Alvi's page .. Two from his project partners.. both proposing him to leave the childish ideas and to grow up...Third one from me.. praising him , his wisdom and his intellect.. so you can well imagine about the kind of people I have followed all my life..

Anyways, Me and Alvi went to Jehangir where we had No-chicken food.. …. Thanks to the bird flu fear…We had mutton karahi and seekh kabab ..I had a lot of talk with Alvi..I am happy that he is just a friend now and not a mentor any more… I am satisfied with my beliefs , my own life and everything that is happening…

Alvi is currently in Lahore suffering from food poisonining.... ... May he get well soon..

Sunday

Raza arrived from Pindi.. He is a Karachi based CS guy who has recently joined Ultimus after completing his MS from USA…. He used to be my partner in crime in Giki when I was in habit of mass mailing my whole batch about the things that I thought were funny.. (You wont believe me but is true that I even had fans of my emails)

We went to try a new place at Lunch…The CAVE…The place was great… Made like a cave and you do feel like sitting in a cave...(For the eyes of bodi only: Bodz..its the same place where used to be your favorite Chevy Restaurant).. Raza had an arabian dish and I had the chef’s special steak… the name of which I couldn’t understand though I made the waiter speak it some five times.. Later we went to Margalla hill tracks....trekked for less than a km discussing people's religious beliefs...And we had a looooong debate when Raza tried to prove me that all the spiritual stuff that I am into has no scientific basis. The logic he used was that he has not heard of any scientific research being done on spirituality in any well-known university. When we were in Giki, I once had a long debate with him on whether vegetarians should eat meat or not.. (I love talking food) ..Raza won the debate after referring to some world wide survey that proved ,inter alia, the longer life spans of vegetarians.. Later he told me that there has never been any such survey and he was simply having fun with me..

It was fun enjoying time with my old mates…I realize now that being with a good friend is more enjoyable then playing a computer games..

Monday

On monday morning..i got a call from Nix from America...I can not write about him as a part of a post..He needs a whole post devoted to him and only him..

And then what I found.. another Gikian batchmate commented on my previous blog.. Sabah.. He blogs too..and I found a post on GIKI on his blog... There is a part of his post that I liked so much that I am copying it here..

I just thought I'd share something about the place as I was feeling somewhat nostalgic. As a good friend once said about the place and I'm trying to accurately quote him,

"I wish they would find out that there's something wrong with our degrees and we're all called back to do it all over again".

That's how cool it really was!

How true...

NCR Annual Dinner + 4D + POP3

so .. the weekend passed... i attended the Annual NCR Dinner.. and it was great ..For the first time i attended a company's program in which people joked on the senior management people of the company.... on the stage.. in their presence.. and nobody seemed to mind a single thing... it was a new experience for me... people doing skits as if they were in unviersity or college functions..i too had a little role in a video skit that was shown by my office people..


Then i had this workshop on 4D..and for the first time i had a free workshop .. because i introduced a new person , krakhead , who seems to already have the natural abilities that i am trying to learn.. This time there were a lot of people in the workshop thanks to Prof. Moiz's (the guru, the teacher) appearance on TV... In the end of workshop, there is usually a remote sensing session (aka telepathy).. i , being a 4D-graduate , took two new going-to-be-4D-graduates..made them do the whole process .. and they too had 100% accurate sensing... I had asked them to sense my grandmother and tell me about her illnesses.. they were able to give me the correct answer..though none of them has ever seen my grandmother.... But i know that my close friends will never believe me if i tell them these things... My spiritual journey using mind sciences has been an alone one for a long time.. but now i am making friends who believe in such things.... It matters a lot to have such people around...

Something good has happened to me too..A clairovoyant that i made friend in the 4D-intro told me something that made me understand the reason i was not having major successes in the spiritual world.. and because of that ..a new change has happened to me.....a BIG , NEW, GOOD change....I wish i could go into the details..

The biggest News: I finally installed prince of persia 3.. The game is great..but ..i dont know why.. i am not addicted to it yet... The game has got good creative things...a new speed kill system...and i really liked the conversation that goes on between the prince and the dark prince.. And..oh!!.. The Farah from the first part is back too.. Just wait a few days and i will be writing about nothing but the game..

Food News:
One of the colleague at office found an earthworm in food served in our building's cafeteria...He mailed to the whole NCR about it..so people do not go to cafeteria anymore.. but ... do i care?? :)

Ok me goes.. Jazz will be waiting for me. He got Job in Engro as a project Engineer ..(good pay i tell you).. he is enjoying some time in isloo before he joins the place on monday and i dont want to miss spending time with him..

Less but frequent

I write too much in a single post... i should be respecting my reader's patience.. With a current profile view of 77 ..(WOW!!!).., i have vowed (once again) to be more frequent in updating it ...

I am suffering from a sleep disorder these days.... There seems to be something bothering me.. probably the fact that i have taken too long to give my 2nd Teradata paper is giving rise to my old habit of developing exams tension.... or probably because i havent meditated for a long time or probably the late night reading of Da Vinci code did not let me had enough sleep last week.. Whatever it is, i really need a long rest..

.... And today has been very bad to me uptill now.. I was late in getting up this morning (again).... there was no hot water...which meant no shower... :( Then i found that princess was naraz on the oil-change process that it went through yesterday , thus making me come to office by Taxi.. in rainy weather.... :(...on reaching office i found I was late by 2 minutes :(.....then i got an email from the tech lead of my project team giving a good amount of task with a deadline of Friday.. :(.... . Anyways i m happy that the rest of the day went fine.. :)...

An update
..hey! i got cable TV at home.. so half of the time at home is now spent in...... guess what??? ...watching cable???.....NO.!!!.... its..... searching for the remote control... :)

A Food update
The dieting that i talked about in my last post....i couldnot continue it for more than 3 days.. ...there is no fun in life without good food..

Coming Attractions
This weekend I will be attending an NCR's function called annual dinner.. Besides food there will be some skits , performances in it .... Being an arts fan, i am eagerly waiting for it.. .. on Sunday i will be attending my 4D workshop as well... I hope this time i will be repeating it for free as i may introduce someone new to the workshop...... So i am really waiting for it...