Think…”Tomorrow”!

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

To work or not to Work…THAT is the question!

Note: This piece of article is basically intended for young women and ladies of my age group but well no harm if guys read and drop their valuable comments too

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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  

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 …..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

Up-sa-Daisy

Headaches are a bad thing…not that any types of aches are good

so anyways this isn’t about  aches and pains and crams or anything that hurtful at all, this is about happy things  Yesterday was a good day…a miracle day of sorts…comes out that yesterday we got our appraisal feedbacks whihc i had long forgotten and lost hope of anyway

The thing is keh once you are engaged to be married the authorities in the office hardly put much care into your performance and upgrading…uh did i mention that this is the case if u are a female??? So anyways that’s why i wasn’t really waiting for my appraisal letter or anything…. but Lo and behold!! a mmulti recepient message on VYpress flashed acrossour screens announcing that our patience was finally to be paid off with the fruits we deserved

Cutting a long story short! I got my level upgrading that means from level1 to level 2 oh it means i got a promotion (*Yowee!!*) and i got a nice raise, and i got eligible for a SIM and its allowance and ah the  cherry atop the sundae was the hefty bonus!!! (*Giggles….Giggles*)

Surprises such as these i can get used to

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Taking a Tea Break :-D

I am very brave but still coward enough to avoid committing a social suicide…ummm Naah! not really …but still I tend to stay within the bounds of civic duty and sense …and one of which is to fulfill your promises!

 

So when yesterday at the Teabreakers union Ammar wrapped up the session with telling us that they’ll visit each of our blogs to see our thoughts about this small get together (basically trying to cover up for their laziness in formulating feedback forms ) we were all sort of bound by blog hood camaraderie to do a write up…..Actually lets just say, it is a good excuse to fight off the Monday Morning Blues in office

 

Alrightey!! Yesterday when after dragging myself to CK for a Tea Break of another nature i was eager to see what this team of mindful thinkers was up to… I was a bit late …ok make that quite late (but I was trying to be in sync with Lubna’s arrival, who had gotten lost and got even late) and so when I arrived Madam JehanAra was speaking. Since I got a place to sit such that her back was to me so I was hardly able to hear what she had to share. Next was the introduction of ‘Next by Ramla’ …by the time Ramla was speaking we had ourselves rearranged and so I could hear her loud and clear….

 

Ramla Shah talked about how she has now focused her entire energies on building up her website which has become a local as well as an international attraction. It was a good thought that she shared where she said that hers was an example of how a blog could become your life….me thinks it’s not a bad channel to touch hearts now ain’t it!!

 

Right after her it was my turn to do the speaking…put suddenly under the spotlight I began by introducing myself and after about some time through I suddenly exclaimed: “Btw I am sorry but what are we discussing around here???” That broke everybody up…but I was late remember?? So anyways After me Lubna did her bit of public speaking with her really nice punch line:

“Ammar you should have told me that we’ll have to deliver a speech I would have prepared one”

 

Then there were intros of Ammar, another member of Tea break team and another fellow who blogs about rock music plus another one who writes about news, events and his classes’ syllabi….So in all gathered there at the Hi Tea, sponsored by Tea Break was a set of diversely thinking individuals who wanted to come together and move towards raising a combined voice.

 

Guess being late robs you of being organized and makes you a bit  confused so that was with me too, otherwise the idea behind this get together would have been a lot more fruitful for me. The concept was all about sharing our views and news regarding the blogging world and how we can come together to raise our voice and be heard….because that is what it was all about…People having an opinion!!…and they having the patience to respect the other’s point of view!

 

I like the spread of tea things at CK though I don’t particularly like the dark and congested environ, but it was good to be enjoying a light snack while chatting away the time with people you know. The Tea Break T shirt was a plus too though I asked Ammar to give me an ‘L’ sized one…no no Not because I come in the gigantic category but because I don’t wear Tees and my brother, for whom I was taking it as a souvenir…is definitely from the league of those BIG BOYS!! J

 

 

So you ppl out there of the Tea Break team, you are on a good thing here because I can sense what the strength of  eager, active and thinking young minds can do…it can bring about a revolution of enlightenment where people care beyond…what’s it for dinner today ???

A Saturday story

It was difficult to get up and pry my eyes open to come to office today….it being an off day basically. So I just sat up on my bed and replied to some pending messages and sent some new ones, trying to get my brain pumping and the lethargy to slip off. Anyways after stalling as long as i could, i dragged myself out and dressed up to face the day whinnying all the way to office that i wanted to sleep..ah what a waste of good sleeping time ;-)

 

Once I reached my floor and put my thumb against the biomatrix identifier whose clock showed it to be 10:01 am, i was ready to face the hall full of perky people trying to sound serious while attending the scheduled training of IRIS (Ooh IRIS is a great new product I’m telling you :-)…will definitely bring a new twist to banking once the banks will wake up to its advantages ) ….so well i was prepared for amused and huffy glances thrown my way for being lat and all but was never ready for the stark darkness and the dead silence that greeted me as the door’s locked loudly clicked open!!

What?? Huh?? With just 11 rupees in my phone’s credit i knew i had to make the first call to Summera….no reply. I tried my Boss….no reply…..I tried Zehra….Ah finally someone picks…but no she hasn’t come to office!! :-S (ho gayi na googly!!) OK with just 3 rupees left i decided to use my legs and sedately walked down the stairs to 2nd floor and braced myself to find another darkened hall after identifying myself at the thumb reader…

 

Anyways to cut a long story short , i came to know that the training was being conducted on 7th floor and a peon was told by my boss to switch on the electricity at my floor for me to work on my project in peace….Yup! it’s cool working all alone in the large hall with having only one AC on and listening to my headphones just a key higher…Although i am still waiting for the test server to be pulled up so that i can start working on making the IRIS user manual…..which has been a major pain in the neck these past few weeks

Well atleast it is my first official book in the making anyway … and i think i can get used to working on Saturdays if i can work as comfortably as this

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Btw if anyone’s interested, IRIS is a one window solution  that completely integrates all the applications of banking and ah well company discretion keeps me from saying anymore

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Professional ladder

One good thing about today…..I got my confirmation letter which says it has been effective since February 19th 2008 So now I’m one level up in my company’s hierarchy…I’m at level 2 now…phew finally…parallel with my batchmates…so now I’m officialy a Technical Writer , moving on without the Associate tagging along …yay!!

Now I’ve got to start worrying about the big khappa that I’m supposed to give to satisfy my team with….ah money..thou arent loyal to anyone!!

In the roller coaster of life…it sure feels good when u are at the few zeniths…. and i thought maybe i wont be able to stick it through…Dear God, help us all to find our feet and the ground beneath them..Aameen

P.S. Lubz , I’m Alhamdulillah happy with my current job so no thankyou I dont think I’ll join u guys just yet (just kidding…u guys rock on!)

Leaving on a jet plane

What is it with the recent escalation in the number of PAF airplanes crashing almost every month these past 6 months? Just now while listening to the FM I heard about yet another plane crash in Rajasthan area with Alhamdulillah the pilot being safe.

A plane and a fighter plane at that, is worth multimillion rupees while the pilot and copilot are priceless….losing any of the three is not a small setback…it’s a catastrophe. My Chacha who has now resigend from PAF used to be a fighter pilot on ‘mirages’ too and he has had two ejections while preparing for the airshows of the 23rd March’s march pasts. I know what follows is not easy…the moment between the cockpit opening and the seat throwing the pilot out and then the moment between the jumper tries to open his parachute and tries to keep his thoughts from  looking at the hard ground approaching him fast…these moments are full of anxiety and yet the strict interrogations later on, can make the person want to jump out of a plane anyway…

However the question here is this that we all know that machines are unreliable and may bail out on you anytime but does this mean we need newer and a bit more reliable vehicles? And say, that even if there is some overlooking on the side of the engineers and the aviation crew even then maybe there is just as much effort as they can put in a badly depreciated and frequently flown plane?

Everytime a jewel falls down from the crown of PAF, new reports are opened and new investigations are started but the point is that how many chances are one too many?….God bless the hawks that guard our skies and make us proud of them!! 

together forever…??!!

 Saturday night was a girl’s night out for me…I had taken two of my school friends to dinner with my little baby sister obviously coming along ( I love the way my little golo molo does everything the way I do, infact better than me ) After dinner and after having dropped my baby behna home we had bunked over at the house of one of them and talked the whole night through. It was fun, relaxing…and special…probably because our such get togethers are becoming rare and far off, since we are all so busy in our different little worlds.

I remember the last time I had called them over was back in March, after a long, hectic and a trifle bit depressing day of NetCom….Once they were over I had gone off to pray for Isha and fallen asleep instead….they had spent some 15 minutes trying to locate me in my darkened and sleeping household…they were mad….nah…not really…friends are not supposed to stay mad.

Time you spend with friends is the time with quality and one that when you look back, can often make your smiles watery….I remember that song I had heard from the animated movie…”the Road to Eldorado”

“Friends never say Good bye” sang John Elton in the cartoons and I had felt a constriction in my heart…they sometimes have to and yet physical distance is nothing if there are distances in hearts…yet lost amid the everyday rush and responsibilities we tend to overlook and not appreciate the comfort we get from having friends around….

Here is a very nice poem Ash forwarded me one morning and it has been haunting me since

Around the corner I have a friend

In this great city with no real end

Yet the days go by and weeks rush on

And before I know it, a year is gone

And I never see my old friend’s  face

For life is a swift and terrible race

He knows I like him just as well

As in the days when I often rang his bell

And he rang mine,

But we were younger then

And now we are busy tired men

Tired of playing  foolish games

Tired of trying to make name

“Tomorrow”, I say I will call on him

Just to show that I am thinking of him

But tomorrow comes and tomorrow goes

And the distance between us grows n grows

around the corner yet miles away

And here is a telegram telling

He’s died today

And that is what we get and deserve in the end

Around the corner a vanished friend!

Here is a toast to all my friends, the old ones and the new ones….I wish we could each cherish what we can give each other for there is a whole world to learn from people that we meet…

Tears of Angels

 They say when it rains it pours….maybe it does. Right now I’m in the office and have a window opened right next to me giving me just a feel of the heavy shower outside…No matter how much I hate the after effects of rain, but when it comes down I just get cast in its spell…amazing, beautiful and mesmerizing!

My hands are turning to ice from the cold winds but when you can it’s good to let the elements hit you with their raw force….it keeps on reminding you of the life without luxuries and it keeps on reminding you that no matter how much artificial atmospheres you may create nothing can top the finesse and perfection of the nature….

Gotta turn back to reviewing this doc after all I am stealing a few minutes from my working time J but I just couldn’t resist the sudden inspiration….on a more realistic note though…”May God have mercy on Karachi’s roads and those people living in the slums”  we might be enjoying it but somewhere people might be in a great worry

Missing a Day

 One might miss several days during a lifetime without even noticing that a chunk of our life has slipped away unless a very important day is stolen away from you…..the Eid day :(

Right now I’m sitting in the huge driveway of my Chacha’s palatial villa in Al Ain where we reached last night around 2:30 am UAE time…for so called Eid Holiday….

But Eid that had already happened in UAE yesterday and which will be there in Karachi tomorrow L while we end up being in the Eid day limbo   :\

And as happy as I am to break away from the monotony of our routine and once again come back to this global village, I still think that Eid ul Azha’s full spirit can only be felt in my dear Pakland. I love the moooooing and bleating of the animals the whole day along and it’s a lot of fun petting the wildest of the animals plus the animal parades that are carried out by the guys on the Eid’s eve….

My brother, my cousins and my uncles are after me to join them in the  game of cricket, they are playing  and so let me wrap this up by wishing you all a very happy and hearty Eid with lots of kebabs and chops and whatnots…but try to go easy on you stomachs with all the meaty things ( why couldn’t we have had chicken slaughtered on Eid ul Azha? :P  )