Sameer is working in America

I am at office.. at the Daimler Chrysler's office.. Its all silent. i am just hearing the sound of people tapping the keyboard keys . they are all busy. I am free and am waiting for someone to leave so that i may leave too..  I dont have my car yet... :(

Its night.. It was raining outside in morning.. not sure wether its raining now.. work is there... and i should be the last person to complain as i am the one with lowest amount of work load.. but still.. I complain..there is too much work...even if i am free after 13 hours of work

my stomach is so full... Had an omelete in morning...with apple juice..then had fruity yougurt -Banana and strawberry mix . Its tasty and You can find the fruit at the bottom of the cup... had a chicken with tomoatoe in lunch.. it wasnt tasty.. Just a plain chiken piece with some tomatoe on top of it and some boiled vegetables along it.. Ali bhai had turky pot... that was better.. it tasted like the usual curry food that we have in Pakistan... that was tasty ...Food here usually contains boiled items..no spices..

Had a green apple later in evening .that was tasty. and then there were lot of choclates.. There is a very kind lady in my project who usually brings left overs from the Office Parties for us... Yesterday , she took us to a party left over areas..where i ate a lot..Today shebrought choclates for us from a meeting.. we ate so many of them.. .. and i am feeling so full of choclates right now.. :).. i may not have dinner tonight...

I dont like this growing tummy  of mine now. day before  yesterday , i broke my trouser's button.. now thats a clear signal of the coming storm.. I am eating too much here.. much of it for the sake of TRYING it.. but now I want to reduce even though i am not fat by the local standards.. i mean, in America a person like me is not  considered fatat all.. There are real FAT people here.. and oh my gosh!! there are too many of them..and oh my gosh! they come in all genders, shapes ,sizes and colours.. :).. so i am happy that i got my name removed from the category of FAT people without doing any effort.. :)

Oh.. and i got a mobile now.. bought it on black friday..but it wasnt working uptil now.. got it working yesterday.. if you wanna call me email me and i will send you my number.. :) .. but  what the hell.. most of the times i am unreachable... the place where i work is in the basement... and there are no mobile signals here.. Telecommunication system is not very good here.. I feel Telecom system is better in Pakistan...Its cheaper and is proper.. Here i buy a calling card for 5 dollars .. use it to call home.. it claims that i can talk for more than an hour.. but it always ended up giving me some 15-20 minutes..  I have used Long Distance Calling Cards in Pakistan, they mess up too but not as much as these American cards..

What else...the weather report says that it will snow here on friday..

oh and the work report says that i will be coming to work on weekends too... Probably there wont be any free weekends till Christmas..

I am feeling sleepy.. there are talks now in office.. my project people are working. i am not..i dont know what they are working on.. but i am here and waiting and wishing them to leave.. cause i wanna leave too but i need a ride to my home..

 Oh! Chuck is leaving..me goes to catch him.. :)

Sameer has reached US

so i reached US on morning of 15 Nov. I landed on New York JFK Air Port.. where my entrance in US had to be registered with the US security department ... It is something that i was very scared of from the very start.. They usually take a long time to check non-US citizens.. and it is recommended to have a gap of atleast 4 hours before the next flight from JFK to Detroit because the time taken for checking is usually that long...but in my case, my flight was the only flight that landed on the airrport.. so i was kinda lucky as there were no long lines..i was the first one in my line..then the whole  procedure went quite smoothly, i was all clear in some 45 minutes...great!!!!...

 

but then i had nothing to do.. so i just roamed around the airport...checked my next flight terminal , got the boarding pass from there.. I didnt checked in then as there was no point going inside cause they dont let you come out once you go in..

I started feeling tired very soon.. so after having lunch , (Rice with Sweet and Sour Chicken) I slept on the bench for a while. My flight was near 2 , i started going towards my terminal near 1:20.. i thought it was a reasonable time for me to reach the GATE ..... I was wrong..

In the Airport , there is an air train that takes you from one terminal to another..There i asked the lady at duty about my terminal ..she asked me about my flight and when i told her...She exclaimed.."Hey you have already missed your flight".. Scared!!! i ran... i ran to my terminal ...reached there.. but oh there was a checking first ...a complete checking that required removal trouser belt, shoes and laptop from its bag...err..they wasted my time.. then i ran again ..at a very good speed.. but even then when i reached the gate, i was informed that my flight had been closed... I was late by minutes only..

:(

 

 

i then had to take another flight..... blah blah blah!!!!

 

 

(writing the rest of it on 29 NOV)

 

well .. i didnt get enough time to update my blog.. the story continues.. I reached to Detroit near 9. where my team welcomed me at the airport.. Then i was taken to my hotel after food... My hotel is different than the other team mates.. cause there was no vacant room in thier hotel.. so they are staying at Marriot Spring Suites and I am staying at Embassy Suites.. and i beleive my hotel is better...Its two big rooms.. and the bed room has got a real big window from where i can see the highway .. so i really enjoy seeing Amreeka from there.. :).. Detroit is a cool place.. both in terms of exclaimation and the weather conditions..  :)

 

What else... We were not allowed to have a free weekend the first weekend of my arrival... and then all of a suddent there was this four day leave of Thanks Giving in which we had a trip to NewYork..

NEWYORK

NEW YORK is a city full of people..

we visited Empire State Building. we wanted to go on top of the building but the que was two hour long so we dropped the idea.. we planned to see the Statue of Liberty but we didnt have enough time to reach to that area from where we can atleast view it.. :( .. We went to see the Rock Feller Center, its a high building and they too have an observatory on top of building to see the whole Nework.. there werent too many people in que as its a new observatory and not every one knows about it..

 

Thats it.. There is too much that i want to write.. but i cant.. i dont have time. I have to call so many people..i cant.. i dont have the calling card ..I got a prepaid mobile connection last Friday..It has not been activated yet..seems that Telecom Services are better in Pakistan...I dont think I will be getting my own car soon cause i am a bit afraid of driving here...besides i havent driven automatic cars before..but i guess that shouldnt be a much problem.. The only problem is to shift to the left handside driving ...and the new kinda traffic signals/rules...

I havent enjoyed much healthy time here.. I have been coughing for so many days...My sleep is not proper yet.. I am still underslept..

 

People are really nice here...you usually find strangers greeting you and giving you a smile.. Most of the people happen to have a sense of humor.. a very well developed sense of humour... They are friendly and cooperative..  

In few days , i dont think i will have any time for internet... even right now i am typing this all because Informatica (software that i work on) crashed and it locked the mapping that i was working on .. Somebody is trying to get it fixed.. and i am making use of the time to write...

Sameer goes to US Part 2.(On flight : Dubai to NewYork - date:15 November Time: i dont know)

I am on my flight to New York.. (uff!! i am so happy to write it).. its a 14 hours + flight .. I have never ever had such a long travel before..not even a land travel..

I guess i didnt write much about the reason of my travel in the part 1 of this post.. here it goes: I am working on a project for an american company DAIMLER CHRSYLER FINANCIAL SERVICES. Its a financial services provider of a car manufacturing company.. It was/is because of this project that my online life is not active for a long time. Since August , I am continuosly busy..but oh thank God (IIE) , atleast i was called onsite .....  From a pessimist point of view, this is not very great, cause i had been working like a donkey offsite till now.. (even my weekends and legal holidays were on) .. and now that there is rest on the offsite team and the work load focus has shifted to the onsite team, i have been called onsite..the onsite team has already started working on weekends from now on.. Its going to be a difficult job i tell you...I am seriously expecting that i will fall ill soon..But from an optimist point of view , HEY MAN!! i am going to America ...  i dont care what they make me do there.. :)

[If you think that the words Pessimist and Optimist have been wrongly placed, then sorry.. I know the meaning of both but i am not always sure which means what..so kindly make that adjustment yourself for your 'READING PLEASURE']

 

In recent past, a few things happened which i missed to blog, thanks to the my project... Let me just recall..

My Family Life:

 My sister had a very major life/death operation...Doctors who operated her said they would not have been able to save her had she been half an hour late.. it all happened on her Eid Days in Ireland.. She is fine now .. is resting now..not as much as my mother and I want her to .. I just hope she will heal and recover soon..

Personally i feel my bonds with my family is getting stronger now....Its a new change... Its a new me.... I just dont feel very good to see my parents' condition now...The fact that they are old is very apparent now..They too have realized this and thats why they are urging me to get married soon.. but now with my sister's recent condition they have once again forgot about my marriage plans.. :)

Anyways, i have also started feeling very social.. I am very excited on my travel ,  but i am also feeling bad for missing a few things like seeing my sister this december when she will come to Pakistan, Missing a good friend's wedding this weekend, missing meeting my very good friend and an ex-mentor who will come from France to Pakistan for a few days, missing the new-hire party at my office for which the office people have already collected money from me :(..

 

My Psychic Life:

My Psychic life is improving now.. Finally i have started picking words what the other peoples are about to say..It doesnt happen all the time..The frequency is once a week ..but the point is that it has started happening ..now when i am not meditating any more.... Oh! and I had a dream in which i saw myself present in US ..this dream was out of blue.. i mean there were no chances of me going to US  .. and exactly that same day my tech lead told me there are chances that i will be flying to US.

 

My Princess Life:

Princess has started behaving better now.. I had no problem in Ramzan .. but just last week , the generator belt was broken.. I have now posted a FOR SALE notice on it and after my return from US, i will be selling it through newspapers ads.. I was definately going to give this ad on this sunday's JANG.. but i could not do it because of this suddent travel. Oh, and i found the problem atlast.. It wasnt the car all this time.. it was the mechanic..

 

Office and Travel Arrangements:

There have been too much work in office..There was no official leave for me to prepare for my travel. I was assigned work as if i was not to do any travel preparations at all. It was really troublesome getting my International Driving License, and a air breaker jacket and other important travel arrangements.. The most difficult thing was to get things done from Office.... I had to inform a few people at office about my travel and had to ask them to permit me a few things like increase in credit card limit, travel advance money etc. etc. but things went at a pace slower than my expectation..I hope i will receive all the approvals and the money soon..

Back to the present:

The plane shakes like shakira every now and then.. but its a comfortable flight.. An Emirates flight it is..Had heard so much about it..Food was good..I dont know why arent there any AEROPLANE FOOD restaurants in the world.. I watched ICE AGE 2 .. didnt enjoy it very much as I was not feeling very well.. but its a good movie.. I would have enjoyed it more had i been fine.. I am sleepless for past few days...I just hope my sleeplessness and my happiness of going to America ---Comibined, they wont trigger any thing.. I just hope my depression will remain in control.. though i wont mind getting slightly maniac :) ..trust me...Its a great feeling when you are a maniac..:) ... Oh..i just saw the map of the flight, and they showed Tampere in the map.. Bodz!!! I just passed your area!!..and hey man!! i am really sorry for not being able to socialize much with you..

 I am losing the sense of time and space.. what is the time here..what is the time in Pakistan..is it night outside..i dont know much..Will be writing something on my pocket notebook ..

The laptop battery is going down.. so me goes ..

And yeah!! i have decided that i will write my blogs in a single go..  the WRITER inside me doesnt let me post things without a million reviews and tweaking... but i am tired of so much reviewing of text.. So now you are going to read my raw thoughts..

This is my first post through Windows Live Writer.. Lets see how it appears on my blog...

Sameer goes to US

I am on karachi Airport ..waiting for my flight to DUBAI.. will be going to New York from Dubai and then from New York to Detriot , Michigan....


YAHOO!!!!

I am so excited about it..

They told me 5 days ago that i have to reach US on 16 Nov. Happy i was but travelling has always been a tensed thing to me..and international travel.. come on man thats a MEGA tension..

so since 9 Nov, i have not been able to sleep properly either because of some stupid sleeping arrangements + happiness. The first night i kept thinking of US... was completely unable to sleep.. I am still somewhat suffering from the sleep loss.. You know , i do crazy thing when my sleep is not complete... I always have to take GOOD care of my sleep wake cycle.... and i never manage to do it.. :)

Past months were very busy.. Too much work.. Too much work... i , at last, had started missing my life.. was kinda bored of my work routine too... was kinda frustrated because of that one irritating person of my project team who works a lot more than me in the same time.. Living with extra efficient people is not new to me.. I have tolerated many of them in GIKI.. i still remember people who used to study double than me in half the time i used to study .. (that multplies their efficiency with 4).. but this guy, this irritating guy I am talking about .... does not irritate me with his efficiency but with his talk...he talks, and talks and talks..and i really thank Gid whenever he leaves...

Shit.. i have to catch my fligh...

Busy again

I am busy again.. Last two weeks went good.. My trips to Rahat continued.. :) ...

NEW THINGS

I watched the play Dally in the Dark , it was great... First play of Shah Shrabeel that i really liked ... .. was really funny... An old friend of mine was the Assistant Director of the play..I just hope he will offer me some good role (probably leading) in his upcoming play... :).. Uff!! i am so full of talent..

Oh!.. i bought a new mobile.. along with a new SIM..., Warid number..its so great.. now i am able to easily talk with anyone right while sitting in my office or in my home.. I am also keeping that pathetic mobilink connection as well.. but it is there just for the number.. Warid is really great.. Its very cheap and the sound quality is great...


PRINCESS

What else .. yeah!! Princess has gone really bad.. i gave it to the meachanic last saturday.. got it back this thursday..i.e it stayed with mechanic for 6 days.. :)...... Will start efforts to sell it soon.... i was coming to office yesterday, took a turn on a square...and when i had turned enough , the steering refused to come back.. as a result the wheels remained in the turned position.. and my car kinda started circling on the road.. :).. A motorcycle bumped into the car..and there were some angry screeching sounds of a few cars.... it could have become a really BIG accident but thank God nothing big happened...


OFFICE

Office work has become more demanding.. :(.. i even came this saturday (yesterday) and worked till 12:30 (midnight i.e) .. and now i am here again...on sunday... :(


HEALTH

I hope to reduce some weight this Ramadan.. but its just that these days.. my old desire to eat good and to eat great (in terms of amount) is coming back.. and in every Ramadan there are so many parties to attend.. waisay i am looking forward to have iftaris in office.. Thanks to the project deadlines..

FUN TIME

I have recently started watching FULL METAL ALCHEMIST these days.. its good...and i have also started playing Diablo 2.. but what the hell i cant install on my system at home.. ... :(... I told a guy in my office that i have starcraft at home and he got really excited about it.. I brought it for him the next day and then we had a 1 on 1.. which I won after having a tough time.. :).. I enjoyed it a lot.. I wish i could play it on BNET... Bodz! you are so lucky that you are able to play it on BNET..


ok.. me goes to home..to prepare for my first Sehri..

A weekend spent well

This weekend i got my room cleaned.. it was a four hour procedure.. in which i removed all the stuff from my room.. got it cleaned..then got the mat cleaned.. then placed things inside with a different setting.. Now i cant watch the TV when i am sitting on bed... A stupid configuration that i will change soon...

I had Rahat ka Pizaa on both the days of the weekend.. Rahat.. my old love .. is coming back to life.. :)..

and i had a fancy hair cut.. Razar hair cut...a cut in which the hairdresser uses a razor instead of a scissor to cut the hairs.. This give a Rough look (How? i dont know..the hairdresser told me so) .This new hairstyle requires shining gel to give a good look but i do not use gel, so the style is not looking as great as it should... so i do not look Rough .(whatever it means)..

The weekend was spent well.. i enjoyed it.. i also watched Xmen III.. [Spoilers ahead] didnt like it much.. There was no point in killing Xavier.. He didnt die a heroic death...and there was no point in killing Cyclops either..and there wasnt much contribution of the phoenix idea to the whole story plot.... The whole story was ok without her.. Khair.. the effects were good.. i was only happy for rogue for losing her powers... :)... She deserved it... :)

and there was a mouse in my bathroom's commode (WC) this morning.. an alive mouse ..or may be rat...or whatever... it was trying to come out but was slipping again and again.....i hope it wont be there when i will reach home..

3 more parties

The parties never ended...

6th Septemeber... Wednesday

On Wednesday...We , the whole project team , went to Pappa Sallys for lunch.. to celeberate the birthday of the youngest person in our batch.... on his expense offcourse... :) We had very very tasty Pizzas.. The Pappa Sally's Pizza's are a hell lot better than Pizza Huts'..

7th Septemeber.. Thursday

A friend of mine is leaving NCR.. He was in my NCR batch... He has been offered a very good post from an other company and so he is leaving ...We gave him a Lunch at Lasania...

8th Septemeber.. Friday

Today , i enjoyed some left over food .. :)... Some Goras visited NCR this week..and food was served to them in our recently constructed Cafeteria.. The food services were provided by Trimutsu.. A new restaurant in blue Area which i havent tried yet....but i have heard its very expensive.. The food was great..


I FOUND SOMETHING

Well.. I guess i havent mentioned on my blog yet that i lost some 7 Kgs recently.. but OH thanks! to all these parties.. i have gained it all again... :)...i have found what i lost..... :)

Four days of Party

Last week was full of parties.... All related to my office life..

Thursday 31 Agust

First there was a gathering on the expense of our Program Managers.. At Planet X.. but we didnt watch any movie there... :(..it was just food..

Friday 1st Sept

Then there was a Reward Acheievement Celeberation the very next day... A new tradition has started here to celebrate the acheivements of people every month..

Saturday 2nd Sept

It was Fauzan's Waleema on Saturday..He is a part of my ETL team.. He was lucky to get his days off right at the climax time of the project....... I reached on his Walima at a time when most of the people had already left.. Thanks to my princess.. the tyre punctured on way..I hate changing tyres... Luckily the spare tyre was fine.. (Last time i had a tyre puncture and the spare tyre was found punctured too)... but unluckily i was unable to pull the tyre out.. It took me some 15 minutes just to pull the tyre out of its place from my car's trunk..the CNG kit installed there provides too little a space for the tyre to come out.. and i had to exert all my super power to pull it out..

but that was only one hard part.. the other was when i tried to unscrew the nuts of the punctured tyre.. I kept trying to unscrew them for some 15 minutes but they remained tight.. The poor me then asked a Taxi driver for help. The guy parked his car , took the tools from me and unscrewed the nuts with one blow and then it dawned on me that :

"I was applying pressure in the wrong direction ...I was screwing the nuts insteads of unscrewing them"

Khair.. this direction thing is a lesson that i have learnt for ever now..I am never going to forget it again..

The whole tyre changing process took nearly more than one and a half hour...When i reached the wedding hall (PC pindi), most of the people had left..the food time was over .. all i got was some kababs and baryani.... But whatever I am happy that I was atlast able to reach that place...


Sunday 3rd Sept:

Our Organizational hiearchy has changed and the x-program manager of my x-team is leaving for Turkey..so we , the old team, gave him a farewell dinner at Cinemon... It was my 3rd or 4th trip to Cinemmon and i have now kinda started disliking the place.. First of all there is some not-very-decent thing famous about that place which might be just a rumor .. Secondly , their menu is extreme complex .. I always have to think a lot before giving an order..and what the hell.. i always forget the name of the dish that i order at the time it arrives.. lols...:) .. and then i never like the taste of the thing that i order.. and yeah!! the price is always too much.. The place is veryy expensive...

This time i had prawns or shrimps or whatever in starter... I ate one piece and then i asked..

" Do we eat the legs of this thing?"

I got two answers..

1. No.. we dont eat it..
2. Its not a leg.. Its a tail....

i had chewed the leg/tail by the time I got the answer...and just to look decent , I was not willing to throw it out ..so i gulped it.. and then , all the time during the dinner i kept feeling this irritation in my throat... :(

so this was the story of the past few days.. I will be ending bleach (cartoon anime) soon.. will start my spiritual practcies after that hopefully... am completely out of practice for soooooo long...

Oh.. Tomorrow there is a birthday of a friend , another ETL developer of my team... and he has already promised Papa Sallys Pizaa on the occassion.. Wow!! i love celeberations.. :)

Catching up with the deadlines

Finally i see some improvement in my working.. A little help from fourth dimension made me improve my concentration at work... Before that, i was doing so stupid mistakes that my project partners have come up with the name "Sameeri" for stupid mistakes...so whenever anyone makes any stupid mistake we say that he has done a Sameeri... :) ... You see i am building a good reputation for myself... :)

but now things are getting better...i am not doing much Sameeres now... Things are going smooth now..

We are having many parties at GCC these days.. The management is really trying to pump up our motivation level.. but they cant increase my motivation level...I am already so happy here.... :)..I have recently realized that all the people in my team are really lively and full of fun.. The Tech Lead of the team recently returned from USA and he brought a box full of choclates for us.. Now we start our daily 8:30 meeting with choclates.. i dont go to the bakery for the breakfast now... :)..



What else , I am watching bleach these days.. Its really a fun anime... (Anime = Japanese Cartoon).. Its a great anime.. There are spiritual beings (death Gods) who come on earth to kill Hollows (ghosts).. One death God sacrifices her powers to save a boy.. As a result the boy gets all the powers of her..and he has to complete her job of killing the ghosts...very soon his very close friends start developing their own powers because of him... Its a real fun story...with akheeer action and fun... DO watch.

Fits of laughters

Its been more than 2 weeks..I am sitting at the same place with same people..and i sit here from 8:30 in the morning till late night.. ..same faces that i see daily..I admit its fun ..more fun than seeing different faces each day..cause i happen to have very lively project partners...but every day when i wake up in the morning , i dont feel the begining of a new day..Its seems i am still passing a long day...May be i am not resting enough!!!

The project is going great...enjoying the company of my project partners is a real treat..and I am getting my usual fits of laughters like my very old days..there are some stupid funny statements which make us all very excited...we laugh whenever someone of us says that and we say it frequently.....it continues like this the whole day....and we keep laughing regularly...reminds me of my GIKI TA ship times...reminds me of one specific time when I and Kashif Bhatti had a long laughter that i guessed lasted for more than 15 miutes..may be more..I guess i never had a laughter longer than that ..and we were laughing because i gave him my reason of not playing starcraft on battlenet (multiplayer) ..basically it was a comment that my allied player gave me when i failed to protect his base..I had more than a dozen dragoons ( a strong fighting unit) but unfortunately I was not very sure of what to do with them...My ally's base was under attach and i was supposed to help him with my draggons..When the guy realized that I wont be able to reach to his base in time (cause i was having trouble in crossing a bridge..the dragoons are big units and with big units you can not cross the bridge so easily) he left the game after leaving a message for me.. . At first glance, It looked like an advice of what to do with those dozen dragoons.. unfortunately i didnt know the meaning of one of the english word in the message..so i , while playing the game , specially checked my electronic dictionary to see the meaning ...thinking it will help me win the game...and i found it it was an abusive term.. ..lol..

..and after I told this whole thing to Kashif Bhatti...we laughed like hell for so long....It was night..we had to go to sleep but we were standing in the doors (our rooms' entrances faced each other).... I had to finally sit on the floor cause i was laughing so hard that i was impossible for me to keep standing............Those were great days ....the best time of my life... I wish i could go back..I wish i could go back to Giki... back to that time.. with all those friends.... atleast for once more in my life... The time that i am having now is great too..but those memories ..that time ..it has set a benchmark for me.. a benchmark to compare happiness level...


I am happy that i got all those laughters back...but Oh God !! i am feeling so nostalgic...

Haste makes waste

My days are still passing with LOADS of work...with me increasing my own workload by doing stupid mistakes...Thanks to my habit of getting tensed, i try to work quickly and end up doing mistakes like working on the wrong things, importing wrong tables in the database, deleting the main target tables instead of the temporary tables.... so with my normal work , i also have to spend some extra time to correct things ...... Khair i hope i will soon overcome it.

I have got 3 DVDs games with me now.. Thanks to an assignment initially given by JAhaZZ...but god knows why ....i am always so unlucky with DVD games.. whenever i buy them ,I always have to visit the shop again to get them replaced..even now , the three DVDs that i have are not functioning properly...and a poor guy like me who hardly gets enough time from office these days has to spend some hours trying to make the games work.. Yesterday , i spent two full hours trying to install the games...:( ....the games being ..my all time favourite DIABLO 2 , Black and white 2 and DREAMFALL...

ok me goes...will try to install the games again...i hope to succeed this time.. but i vow now that i will never ever ever ever buy a game DVD again...

Free for a while

Finally i am free...We had a burst of work assignment..which made me work late along with the whole team... The past 6 days (including today's...we had to come office on saturday too) were fun...in a team of four ETL developers., i enjoyed the burden a lot. Its always fun to enjoy life in extreme conditions.. daily meetings at 8:30 am in morning ....leaving for home around some 10 pm at night.. laughing at the most stupidest things around... it was a time spent well....

What else..nothing much to tell..cause nothing new happened in my life..there were just data mappings in my mind for the past few days..

The weekend is here...the monday is off (14th august)...thanks god the assignment ended today.... two free days ahead... and i havent planned anything for such a long period of free time.. but does that matter..its the same even if i plan.. :) .. but i must party a lot...more work is on its way..

and oh God..14 August is coming..i hate listening to crackers every 5 minutes...Its so annoying...

My brother's engagement

This weekend my brother got engaged...finally...!!!! ............and now .. i have become the focus of many staring eyes... ..lol!! :) .. but i am confused ... cause i am really considering a few things...like...is it the right time...should i go for it now..should the girl be of my choice..or should i let it be my parents' choice... should i chose a professional or what....should i accumulate more money before getting married.......... Its such questions.....confusions...puzzling thoughts... that i am having these days.. I havent seen many of my long terms plans materializing..and i kinda dont want to waste my time in planning things..but ....well...err!!!..umm... errr....!!!! ?????...I know i will keep thinking of such things.....

The engagement was on saturday ..the program ended near 12 at night...but we reached home near 4 in morning....this was a big disturbance in my already disturbed sleep-wake cycle..and when my sleep-wake cycle gets disturbed , I become extremely cranky (Chirchira) ...(though sometimes i become quite funny..but its a different mood cycle that i am suffering these days).. so please stay polite with me for a while... :)..its for your own benefit... :)

And I have got a new addiction of a game..SIMS2..Its a beautiful game in which you control lives of different people..you make them go to school , take a bath , play games , have food , clean their home , then they grow up , they marry ..they learn things...etc..etc..etc..the game is full of many fun things...and it is very addictive...it made me stay awake till 3 for 3 consective nights last week...A few days ago It made me sad when a person in my game died..and last night a burglar stole TV and books shelf from my one of the families that i am playing with...

ok me goes now..i am not feeling well as i havent had enough sleep yet..i even took a day off from office yesterday as i was ill...please pray for my health...

oh !! about the princess ..last week its battery generator failed..had to get it replaced...but the fun thing happened last night..when i returned from home (Peshawar) last night and went to Rahat Bakery as the first thing..just to cheer up my motivation that is down because of my illness.....There i was having some snacks while sitting in the princess and i thought to put the keys in the ignition plug..i did that...and after a while i thought i should better get some juice too...so I got out of the car..locked it...and OHHHHHH!!!! I left the keys inside...:(...Now the two front doors of my car have different locks ..one has Suzuki locks other has Toyota Locks....so at that time of night (it was 11:30 pm) i was seen asking people (having Toyotas and Suzukis) to let me try their keys on my car...but no success....after some 6-7 attempts of opening the locks with different keys..i finally had to came home on a TAXI to get a spare key that i have placed at home for such occasions (i have locked the keys inside two times before:) ) ....

Thats all for today...Very soon i will write about a friend who is leaving..(leaving what??) ....Details later...

Me in July 2006

My O my..This is a big gap between the posts....but its not my fault..my desire to stay on the edge of technology made me download FireFox 2.o beta the day it was released..(it was not even on mozilla's main webpage..I had to search for the installation file on tech forums)...then i wrote a long long post and just when i was about to publish it. . ..firefox crashed.... @:..i was so angry..now i have switched back to 1.5.. i dont know why people call firefox stable..

My project is going at snail speed now...with bursts of late office sittings once in a while..I am kinda getting tired of late sittings..so now i usually try to leave office early..thats why no blogging for some time...Today i sat late as i had to call Ireland to talk with my sister... enjoyed some shopping time along with her in ireland markets....

Oh... N E W S .. My brother is getting engaged..this weekend...so I will have to go home.. I might even take a day off from office..

What else..i cleaned my room ..and now it looks better..(cleaner)..i have also bought an ironing table and now my room is more filled with ever with me occusionally hitting one thing or the other on my way ..The following events frustrate me at times..

• While ironing my clothes , the long sleeve of the shirt hits the power cable .. that makes the cable fall out of the socket ..that turns off the TV..now ...It is important to plug the cable carefully so that the hot iron may not fall down on my head while i am bent below the iron table reaching the wall socket.
• Before using my PC i have to drag my chair near the computer table...then while ironing i have to drag it a bit far away (usually to the center of the room ) so that i may get full freedom in moving my arm...then while going out of the room..i have to move the chair from the center to area behind the door so it may not come in the way...but ..then to use my PC againI have to drag the chair again causing it to come in the vicinity of the ironing table again..!!!!!!!.... .The cycle continues........argh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ...........But wait..............thats not all............ this continuos dragging of the chair effects the floor mat so that ripples are formed on it and then i cant open the room door without first clearing the mat ripples.. argh!!!!!!!!!!!!!....
  
• And now that i have an AC in room ..I have got one more remote control to search for (first it was only the TV's remote) ...so yeah!!..still ..most of the time in my room is spent searching for the remote controls.

FOOD:

I recently added Jalapinos peppers to my collection of sauces and pickles at home..for some time, i am enjoying sandwiches made from frozen food and some good sauces ....and wow!! they taste greaaaaaaaat............ I love eating all the dishes made by the genius cook within me....


Princess:

Princess is ok...I finally shifted it on Gas......It was indeed a rarely sighted scene when i was watching Naruto on my laptop at the mechanic's place in Pindi.....:) ... then a few days ago , i had some trouble with gas again....but when i got gas filled from an other gas station..the car started working fine..i dont know wether its true or not but it seems that different gas stations have different kind of gases... huh!!!.. o-:


Spiritually...

I am kinda lazy on the Spiritual front ..am not regular now..i keep feeling relaxed all the time and thus i fell that i dont need to do any meditation..... This weekend i listened to the Silva CDs that i once got free and found that they are too great for me if i use them... I have too much good spiritual knowledge stuff piled with me now but i dont have enough time to read /hear /view it..


About Friends:

• Noman Yasir Jelani aka NYJ is going to Canada..for a training on Wi-Max.. something great happening to a great guy like him..
• Timmy aka Taimoor had a new haircut on my constant insisting...It was a Razor Cut i.e The hairdresser used a razor instead of scissor to cut his hairs.. Its the newest fashion in the town dattey boyou.. [dattey boyou is japanese of 'you know']..so please get impressed from me for having a friends who has Razor cuts ..
  
• Saleem Gul wrote an article on Net beans..[link].I dont get it what net beans is..even though he explained it to me..(hey!! i am EE guy) ...:).. so please get impressed from me for having friends whose articles appear on big sites...
  
• Jazz has requested me to be courteous enough to go to Jinnah Super , buy some computer games for him (there were some 40 games in the list he sent to me with nearly 30 marked as MUST HAVE) and then be more courteous by sending it to him through TCS..oh! thats not all...he has also asked for some choclates with it...
• Bodz asked me not to do anything for any one ever...This is the corollary of one of the laws of successful life.... "I am happy and I must remain happy" ....This was said a long time ago but i recall it now as i seek guidance in order to analyze JAZZ's highly demanding request ..so i guess...i should not send any DVDs to JAZZ..(even though now i have bought 3) .. I must conform to Bodi 's saying as thats the only commandment that he left for me before leaving for Finland..I cant betray one friend for the other...
  

Naruto

Have seen some 177 episode of Naruto and have started with reading its manga (the comic book ) ..It is as addivtive as the anime (animation)....Uff!!!....Naruto is too kool...oh an btw! Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle is coming back too .. the movie will be released in 2007... [link]

What else...hey!! i am keeping a frenchie beard these days... :)

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... :)