Well so getting married can sure put a huge dent in your social and personal life calender …and boy does it make you go about in circles…so anyways here i am with internet access for a limited time so i thought i’d drop a word or two just to let my ardent readers (yeah right :-P )know that i am not dead hehe..just plain busy, putting make-up on my face and attending all those post wedding parties…whew that’s tiring…hope the blogging world’s all good..

Be back with something that makes sense a bit later, till then…pray for the people in Gaza, the sensitive Pak and India border conditions and yeah the intermittent quakes that are cming around the globe :-S Allah mian bless us all, aameen

I am tuned onto FM91 as i try to finalize this glossary for the manual that I just recently completed. DJ Sophie, who has a very sweet voice btw  is pretty excited and on the roll since she’s celebrating Children’s Day and playing all those jovial nice tunes… Uptown girl, you got the touch, pappu can’t dance heheh…but what suddenly instigated me to open this window and write this quick post is this thought that she quoted and i have made it the ‘Thought of the Day’:

“We don’t inherit the Earth from our acestors….we borrow it from our children”

Call it hitting it home!….If we should start thinking of our endowments as legacies that have to be passed on in all their shimmer and glory then we’ll never plunder them as we do, thinking we are the last & only link in the blessed of beings.

Thinking of those who’ll come after us will teach us to cherish what we have today and nurture it so that those of tomorrow will be able to enjoy it too…being selfish can leave us alone and miserable since all the joys lies in sharing!! :-)

‘Save the world and Go Children!! they make our world so innocent and bright :-D

Note: The text ahead may make no sense whatsoever and tht’s pretty ironic since it’s all about logic….so if you’ll read ahead with a mind to understand something then think again :-D

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Was listening to a team mate of mine as he explained how the different musical instruments were mixed after recording using that signal mixing console. I asked him about adjusting the ‘bass’ and ‘treble’ levels and that what in God’s name were those two knobs for.

He launched in on a summarized explanation of how the low, deep notes like that of drums are controlled by playing with the ‘bass’ while high pitched, shrill sounds sometimes like that of guitars are smoothed over by the ‘treble’…As he carried on about how the inputs should just match the range set for any of these or other options…my mind flicked through the graphs and figures in  Digital Signal Processing and the responses of various filters that we studied in them.

I smiled in spite of myself coz i had always loved those subjects that made logical sense :-P   I remember i was in eternal awe of ‘Digital Logic Design’. A friend and I were making ‘4-way traffic signal’ for our DLD project and for the life of me i couldn’t understand how to convert the zeroes and ones into blinking , working lights…..until the journey from deciding logical states to truth tables, then equations and k-maps gave us our circuit…amazing!! the natural highs could be so damn exhilerating!.. The world of digital electronics has always mesmerized me because at the base of it lies the simple concept of presence or absence of a signal, very precisely timed. There is that software to hardware interfacing along with the tiny wonder machines called microprocessors and Digital signal processors that could do something as simple from sending a signal to an LED to acting as a complex speech transaltor… but at the base of these all lies the logic which tells when to or when not to send a signal.

In mathematics it’s a zero or one, in Computing a bit and in physical world a mere switch that turns on or off according to the defined patterns and that brings me to the wonder of having just the ‘right’ pattern…the proper sequence can regulate something as ordinary as accounting, tagging and shelfing of books to something as complex as booting of a pc…so at the apex of it or at the root of it all lies the sequence in which one command follows another.

I’m so keyed up now that i can’t even put together a decent and literarily respectable sentence to express my admiration for the magic, the tricks that logic and numbers are capable of…. I dont know if there is even a central idea to this post…it’s just a random set of words to pay my ode to virtual world of bits and frequencies that are making the companies run, control engineering the milk that goes into tetra packs, refreshing your monitor every fraction of a millisecond and ofcourse teaching u to be v careful and sure coz small mistakes in this environment mean big troubles in our world!!

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It’s my last month here at TPS and I have been working forever more diligently than this past year…guess the feeling of no strings attached sort of gives you the boost and liberty to work at ease. Deciding to quit my job wasn’t an easy decision and I am sure most of us ladies out there face this confusion when they are getting married and are unsure of almost everything :-) …But to me this is the right decision!….and this does not mean that I advocate ladies sitting at home and doing nothing besides cooking and putting goop on their faces :-) ….

No my point of view is merely that when u are starting into a life, u ought to give it ur full, undivided attention so that u can understand the novelty of it all and mould yourself accordingly. Many of my friends and colleagues suggested I should have taken an extended leave…but I thought that knowing that I had this thing at my back I would be more prone to cling to it and if I ended up resigning anyway at the end of leave that would be like breaching a commitment I had made with my firm of returning back while they held my position and hire no new resources…. It’s like maybe these two to three months while you enjoy the roasts and drinks at wedded blitz parties thrown for you, someone out there might just be looking desperately for a means to earn his or her bread.

Office life is like a full time thing, it requires you give it it’s due attention unaware of the sliding hands of the clock or wondering if you ironed your husband’s evening clothes or not:-P Well no I am not sure if that always happens because I have seen many a smart ladies, married, who work at office and at home….but I have seen myself…I work at office and yeah man enjoy the luxuries at home….Akhir piari Amma hain na :-D  

Argh this article seems to be only opening up more arguments than I am bracketing close…and I only just wanted to say that if you have confidence in your abilities and potential and are lucky enough to develop an understanding with your partner later on and decide that you can juggle two or more responsibilities then you should not be very much afraid of leaving your job initially…..because you can always get another one :-D …..or your current employers can always hire you back when u are ready. Also in the meanwhile there are always those great freelance opportunities that you can work for right from home….Oh there are a dozen things that you can do, provided you have that… umm… ‘gumption’ (hehe thnx Saqib for the addition to my vocab) to not let your brilliant brain go to waste….. It’s just that in the beginning I think the new people with whom u are getting associated should be given that prime importance and respect because they are making you their prime object of attention….and as things go by….as time flies you can always get what you want provided you always have the purity of intention, thoughts and will :-)

 

The reason I gave up on Accounting and Economics was that I just could not stand the thought of measuring the worth of everything for its monetary value. Calcualting the goodwill and efficiency of an employee and adding it to the company’s gross income filled me with disgust for all the subjects of finance…..but lets not be too hasty to judge my point of view….for, a thought process a few days back had somewaht smudged my sharp opinions.

Money has never been a thing of prime importance to me and wanting to be in possession of new toys, gadgets or accessories never been my habit…yet this can easily be owed to the fact that I always get the things of basic necessity and continual luxury unasked for. My Baba and Amma have made sure that there is nothng left in life that their children could say “Ah i Wish…” for and to that end sooner or later all sorts of things have been provided to us. It is said that you can seldom know the importance of anything unless you have experienced the absence or loss of it…so Alhamdulillah not having experienced those deep pangs of craving for the material things, i have always thoughts the people who are running after cellphones, old, cars, ipods or what nots as….well silly. I thought they did not know that to be happy you just need to have around you the right people at the right time and a lot of creativity.

But few days ago, with this crash in the value of Rupee i had a revelation on me…what if the dollars account really did freeze and people who have their paychecks coming in the foreign currency could not get their month’s worth of dough to buy their bread and butter?? ….. A person who earns and i mean earns faithfully…collects each penny almost literally at the expense of a drop of perspiration of his/her brow. So what if a month’s salary should be held back?…

What if a fan bought by a peddlar’s collected tens and fivers suddenly breaks down?

What if an old, old beggar finds enough strength to buy himself a rs 25 bun kebab and he falls somewhere and loses his sole source of sustenance down a drain??

What if? and these what ifs can ruin the peace of your mind but alas they keep you conscience and common sense alive. It is this thought of losing the things that are vital in life to be able to live respectably or simply…just live that makes ‘money’ such a holy obsession…because it’s money that buys…and though it can not buy happiness it can atleast buy us the articles that may induce that feeling.

I still don’t find it in me to give money that apex for being the propeller behind a smooth life but i do respect it’s stature and am scared of it’s power….It’s is no man’s friend.

So whenever i am allowed to exercise my right to choose the little comforts of life i ponder, assess and analyze the resources and then apply it to the fullest …because today i can tomorrow i may not….Yet i try never to make them my means to survive….they are because of me, i am not because of them!!

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Thought of the Day by Me :-P

Things of temporary and fluctuating values can never be held on to…and i believe human can always adapt so let’s hold on to something timeless and eternal….like faith and love!!

You know you are getting older when the bends in the roads don’t stop you anymore and you merely turn with them instead of going straight…..

You have matured when the chill of the autumn winds starts making you feel tired and lethargic yet you get up wash your face and are ready to face the world with a big smile plastered on your face…

You have grown and matured when you start to feel for others besides yourself….Their smiles make your inside seem sunny and bright or their pain puts a tight noose around your hearts and constricts it….you know when you are able to think beyond yourself and your happiness and needs and desires…it is really the time when you have really arrived and are ready to live as it is ought to be lived…..struggling

…………….and getting immense satisfaction after the struggle is over…………. 

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This one is for a dear friend of mine who is on her way to realize her forbearance!

If we could but just eliminate the last option: “Giving Up!” …. then we would never and i repeat Never fail…yeah we may balk or get slow due to the friction and viscousity of the opposing current but yes if we Persevere and then revel and even take the tiniest of achievments as our inspirations…you know we’ll reach far….

Failure is simply a state of mind… it’s a delusion because as it is…we never lose…we always gain…either by getting what we want or even by not gettting what we want since enroute to whatever status we are on…there are many small lessons that are learned along the journey…and atleast for me, personally the journey counts as much as the destiny itself….

So if i keep on trying and trying and trying….. atleast some day I’ll find the solution to a problem, a brain teaser, a bug……..ah yes it’s good to not give up and stick on to those tiny little streaks of hope that keep feuling your mind and keep life interesting :-)

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And there is definitely a rush, a natural hihg you get from solving some mind boggling puzzle…I love mathematics :-D

 

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The original source is already mentioned however i got it from here.

While I walked towards the bus stop on my way to home one day I could so feel the sun scorching my head and yet it was good to be brisk walking after staying put and confined inside walls for several hours at a stretch……That is when it hit me….the peace that comes with liberty…wth being free and not afraid to step out and jump, dance, shout, do whatever you want to…because this is your country and u have teh right to tread its paths and roads…

The trickling of America’s fight against terrorism across the borders is starting to get tiresome now….it pains me…it definitely must be paining you too…It’s infuriating and agonizing and that too so smoothly at the peak of such vulnerable and sensitive political plus socio-economical situations….

People say it’s been predicted that the map of 2011 will not show (God Forbid) Pakland as a unique, sovereign state on the map of the world…and it sends deep shivers of fear down my spine because sometimes  that seems more like a schedule that is bound to happen than simple prophecies……. I hope NEVER does that happen Amen!!

Was having a discussion with a friend of mine regarding favorite places and he pointed out a certain place in Islamabad and then he said that Pakistan in itself is very beautiful and indeed a land so blessed that we as a nation do not even deserve it!……..his last point made me think …maybe now we don’t deserve it but it really was the labor of love of the people who got it made…and since they wanted it for their future generations to know the joy of running free on the roads with no fear of the men in greens and browns therefore for their sake we desereve it….we do…if only we’ll learn to love it. And then again maybe…all we need is an external force to prick us to come together and realize that we are all standing on the same side of the line????

Who does america think it is to be going about being a busy body and spending its million of dollars on arms and taking lives of its own young men and everyone else’s people too when it should worry about the like of Ike s hitting its beaches and its growing rate of  unemployment…

Since when has war creatred peace???!!

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And it amazes me what cheek the american leaders have to be so sanguinly declaring that they ought to attack Pakistani basis…read this and this

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Note: Searched the pic from Google images and then applied some effects :-)