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Anybody listened to Coldplays new album yet? It’s an amazing album, really.
Coldplay - Violet Hill
Was a long and dark December
From the rooftops I remember
There was snow
White snow
Clearly I remember
From the windows they were watching
While we froze down below
When the future’s architectured
By a carnival of idiots on show
You’d better lie low
If you love me
Won’t you let […]
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Now I know what it feels like - to have one milligram too much of adrenalin injected into your veins. Feeling like another step uphill will push your heart so far you wouldn’t survive. Like the world around you is slowing down and your internals are twisting at the speed of light - over the […]
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Last week we had a fire alarm at the office. No body moved a muscle. Five minutes later, the receptionist announced that it was a false alarm So, a notice was issued by our director that the Emergency Response Plan that the company had spent hundreds of valuable HSE man-hours on preparing will be […]
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This is a very simple digital post it app that serves people suffering from short-term memory loss (like myself). You can have these notes “On Top”, you can color-code them by project or by priority, you can even share notes on the network with people working on the same project. You can set the opacity […]
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A few days agoFriend: “WHY do you go to the gym??”Me: “Because of the 6-foot-6 blond Scandinavian girl who comes there…”Today, that Scandinavian girl left with a (easily) 70-year old guy who, if the father or uncle, was eternally inappropriate.
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Since I came back to work this past Sunday, I’ve been working on improving work efficiency. Yeah I know how weird that sounds. But it’s really exciting to be wasting time on coming up with efficieny-improving techniques than actually working.Anyway, I was looking around on the internet to see what other people have written about […]
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I don’t know what it is, but I seem to emit some sort of ‘brother radiation‘. This causes an intolerable and very uncomfortable degree of confusion when I compliment a girl on something - they seem to think that I’m just being frank or socially pleasant. As you can imagine, this puts me in a […]
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Mein hairat-o-hasrat ka maara,Khaamosh khara huun saahil per,Dariya-e-mohabbat kehta hai,Aa kuch bhi nahi, payaab hein hum!
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Someone once said to me that to make a point, you need to do away with humor. This post serves as a testament that I can dispose of all humor, and still not make a point.As I entered the building, I noticed the ample parking space available today, compared to the cramped, double parked area […]
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Okay, so I guess going from Audioslave to Om Shanti Om will take some time. But I’m making progress, I only listened to “Ajab Si” from Om Shanti Om, and “Jab Se Tere Naina” from Saawariya today Kher, today I suddenly remembered this song, and although this isn’t completely me, but there’s this little […]
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Ah at long last! After six months I’m in Karachi, and loving every humid, electricity-less moment of it! I am so happy that the sky is not blocked by suffocating high-rises everywhere! Even the lung-eating smoke from the ridiculously old buses and trucks tastes good! Although I have a feeling that this particular affection […]
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What I felt, I wrote for you,And not a word that bled!The scathe on my heart,Dried with an impotent weep,Stretched across an eon! But I know now,What I wrote for you,Was just ink on paper;Given beauty only with the spreading of colors!For someone.
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Okay, I’ve been tagged for the same tag by two people: SAWJ and Rabia. And since I’m lazy about tags, or rather about blog posts (heck, I’m lazy about everything :P), I’ve been putting it off. But in the spirit of not having to be tagged a third time for the same one, here I […]
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DISCLAIMER: ANY PERSON WITH ANY FRACTION OF MENTAL BALANCE SHOULD STOP READING AT THIS POINT.I had planned on not thinking about it. But for how long can you run from something? Something happens, or someone says something, or you hear a far-off tune, or sense a smell somewhere, and it all comes rushing back in […]
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For a childs whim,You mistake my words.For a youths fire, my intent!A different peak would bring to you,What my words never could!For your comfort,I’d lay my life to rest;With not a whisper of regret,Shall the wind be burdened!
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Behind the million-watt decorations, the multi-billion dollar road networks; behind the giant glass houses and tons of metal horses; behind the glitter of dozens of ‘worlds firsts’ and ‘worlds largests’ - behind it all, this place is still a desert at heart. And on a totally unrelated note, saw this beautiful mosque in Sharjah the other […]
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The thing about feeling lonely is that if you tell someone about it, they’re gonna want to talk about it. Then why would you possibly feel lonely if you could talk to someone about it in the first place? So - better not to say “I’m lonely” to anyone. Ever.
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There is something about double doored elevators that makes me uncomfortable. I get the feeling that on some floor, the wrong set of doors will open up and I’ll have to walk through them out of courtesy, and fall a couple meters down and break something. Something important like a neck or back.http://xkcd.com/175/
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Nickelback - RockstarI’m through with standin in lineTo clubs I’ll never get inIt’s like the bottom of the ninethAnd I’m never gonna winThis life just hasn’t turned outQuite the way I want it to be(tell me what you want)I want a brand new houseOn an episode of cribsAnd a bathroom I can play baseball inAnd […]
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Just the other day, Aamanna was reading to me an article by Javed Chaudhry titled ‘Yazid Ke Daur Mein Hussain’ . It was about the brutal murder of Quaid-e-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnahs young great grandson at the hands of Pakistan Police back in 1998, when our beloved Mr. Nawaz Sharif was the Prime Minister of […]
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I’m too worn out after todays seminar to write, so I’ll just leave you guys with a few pictures.Oh, and I’m also too worn out to fix this weird gallery bug that seems to infect my WordPress installation! So I’m just linking to the photos here. I’ll inshAllah write about the seminar sometime later, it […]
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Me: Soch raha huun hairstyle kuch change kar luun - do saal se aisay hi bana raha huun.Aamanna: Fikar na karo, kuch arsay mein khud hi karo ge.Me: How?Aamanna: Jab baal girien ge to khud hi sar dhaknay ke liye style change karo ge!Honestly, the water here eats away your hair!
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Five years ago, about this time of the year (or maybe a few weeks past), I was in my A Levels, applying to different Universities, both in Pakistan, and abroad. Three of us from our batch were exceptionally ambitious. We applied for the Oxford scholarship, the Cambridge scholarship, and any other scholarship we could hear […]
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When I was a kid, I read somewhere:Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.Now I find it ironic that the author was discussing people.
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The Beatles - Let It BeWhen I find myself in times of trouble,Mother Mary comes to me,speaking words of wisdom, let it be.And in my hour of darkness she is standing right in front of me,speaking words of wisdom, let it be.Let it be, let it be, let it be, let it be.Whisper words of […]
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At this rate, this is soon going to become A-song-a-day blog Alter Bridge - Open Your EyesLooking back I clearly seeWhat it is that’s killing meThrough the eyes of one I knowI see a vision once let goI had it allConstantly it burdens meHard to trust and can’t believeLost the faith and lost the […]
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I got this forwarded text yesterday:Aik gadha doosray gadhay se: Yaar maalik khanay ko kam deta hai, aur kaam bohot karata hai.Duusra gadha: To tu bhaag kyun nahi jaata?Gadha: Yaar bhaag to jaaun, laikin yahan 2 years ka experience le luun to careen ban jaayega!
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I love music. I work better when I’ve got buds in my ear. Give me For The Love of God, or House Full of Bullets any time of the day! Of course now I can’t, because of the inappropriateness of having your ears full in the office.There are some songs that I just can’t work […]
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I just got to thinking, that everything in my life has been going right for the past few months. Everything. And I’m brooding over the one thing that went wrong? That is so ungrateful! Allaa’humma lak’al hamd wa laka shuk’r
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One of the reasons why success comes after failure is that we become more willing to compromise on more things after each successive failure, to be able to attain success. In a way, failure becomes a balance between compromise and will, and success the achievement of that balance.- Unrelated -They say there are five stages […]
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Receptionists make me sad. Not that it’s a bad profession, it’s not. They work hard on the job, and most of them are good at what they do. And for big companies, the job is not as simple as might seem at first thought. It’s just that when they’re on the job, they can’t be […]
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Me: “It doesn’t make any sense, this political coalition system. This should be illegal. I mean what’s the point in having elections when the political leaders themselves get to decide who gets to be the man. It beats the whole point of democracy!”Aamanna: “There should only two political parties in Pakistan-”Me: “There should be no […]
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Why do papercuts hurt so much? I mean, it’s such a minor cut. Caused by paper. Why is it so bad then? Maybe it’s where the cut is more than what cuts it. I’d like to believe that someday.
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Literally. It kept raining on and off all day long. The short, sudden, powerful bursts of rain soaked me wet whenever I went out - for lunch, or twice for prayers, and I couldn’t go out without the suit jacket because I already have a cold and all that nasty stuff that makes me groan […]
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I’ve just been posting other peoples creativity here for the past so long, but I guess you guys are safe not having to read my own Here’s another song in my head these days.Sarah McLahlan - I Will Remember YouI will remember youWill you remember me?Don’t let your life pass you byWeep not for […]
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I have a theory. About why people care. For one thing, I don’t think people care, in the perfect sense of the word. Why do people care what other people think of them? Or even should they? As I said, in the perfect sense of the word, we don’t. The only thing we really care […]
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The biggest question in life isn’t one to life itself. It’s not even about why the chicken crossed the road, if that’s what you’re thinking, although for some that is a sufficiently close approximation. I think the question that matters most in this world is ‘Will it happen to me?’. That is the one question […]
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Faith is a difficult thing to understand - it can bring people closer, or it can blow them apart. It’s just a matter of how you look at it.I have been thinking differently about faith since I started work here in Abu Dhabi, the work environment here being so diverse in cultures and religions. I […]
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I’m a big fan of Samuel Clemens, popularly known as Mark Twain. Not because of his popular Tom Sawyer character, which was for me a loose end in his career simply because I consider a mans childhood to be his most private element. It lays out the entire path a mans life will take. What […]
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Bacho hum par hasnay walo, aao tumhain samjhain,Jis ke liye is haal ko pohchay, uska naam batain,Roop nagar ki ik raani thi us say hua lagao,Bacho us rani ki kahani sun lo or so jao.Us par marna, aahein bharna, rona, kurhna, jalna,Aab-o-hava par zinda rehna, angaro par chalna.Hum jungle jungle phirtay thay us ke liye […]
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It’s hardly been two months, but I keep missing Karachi intermittently - between bomb blasts, that is Michael Buble - Home Another summer dayHas come and gone awayIn Paris and RomeBut I wanna go homeMmmmmmmmMaybe surrounded byA million people IStill feel all aloneI just wanna go homeOh I miss you, you knowAnd I’ve been […]
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Inhi pattharo pe chal ke agar aa sako to aao,Mere ghar ke raastay mein koi kehkashaan nahi hai- Mustafa Zaidi
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Although I may have lost my way,All paths lead straight to you.Follow the path of religion, and there is no limit to what you can achieve.
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