February 2011
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8:32 pm // Look at all that white stuff on streets...
Just saw some pictures of hailstorm in Lahore and damn I so feel like going there right now even though I have seen worse this winter here.
I am supposed to get my Chinese visa by start of this coming week but now I am indecisive if I want to execute that deal there. A small part of me is telling me that it might be the time to just go there, forget business and drive from Kunming to Xinjiang via...
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WatchPhilippe Gounel - Actif Passif
My add: Sharing to remind myself of something to do in future. The best way to shoot in a video in HDR at the moment seems like to use the same set up which many people are using for 3D videos; a beamsplitter rig. In this set up you put a camera which is shooting straight through a mirror whereas another camera on 90 degree is shooting the image off the mirror at 45...
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Moths - <3
For their video click here (NSFW -...
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BBC: The Human cost of drone attacks which you... →
Newsbeat’s Tulip Mazumdar spoke to 15-year-old Sadaullah who says he lost both legs and an eye in a bombing in North Wazirstan.
“Show me a hero and I’ll write you a tragedy.”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald (via claerwen)
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FP: How Do You Hire Mercenaries? It helps to have... →
Mercenaries have a long and proud history in both warfare and conflict suppression. England’s King Henry II hired foreign mercenaries to put down a domestic rebellion in the 12th century. The Italian condottieri (“Contractors”) famously served various papal states in wars throughout the late Middle Ages. King George III hired German “Hessian” mercenaries to fight...
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WatchKurz und Schön opener (by errorone via @roushee)
Something for this chaotic time in my life.
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AP: Jamia Deoband in a bitter control for power →
One of the world’s most revered schools of Islamic learning, whose strict interpretations of the Quran inspired the Taliban, is facing a revolt against its newly appointed reformist leader — an MBA with a Facebook fan page.
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2:42 pm // Just imagine like that child you once...
Imagine sitting on the most beautiful beach you can remember from your childhood. With that golden sand, bright warm Sun at the horizon and calm waves which make no noise at all but look beautiful. Remind yourself of that biggest sand castle anyone has ever seen which you made all by yourself. Now suppose you run on it and raze it to the ground. Just add to this that you are physically a child but...
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WatchAt box, Glasgow
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7:39 pm // Nokia N8 few months on
Am writing this because some friends often ask me about it and I thought it would be better if I can point them to this next time.
I reluctantly moved from Nokia E series to Nokia N8 after the former was launched. I was very much comfortable with having a QWERTY keypad on phone to type emails fast, do my official work and of course make phone calls. But the large touch screen and a better camera...
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WatchA timelapse in Glasgow with Rumi
Shot a timelapse in Glasgow on 18th and 19th January. The shots were taken early in the morning for over 4 hours each day.
Rumtime: 41sec
Music credit: Shahram Nazeri & Hafez Nazeri - The Passion of Rumi (Album: The Passion of Rumi)
Long overdue! need to clear the backlog so can try some new things. Also apologies for a small spam which will reach this blog...
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Shake-up in the Foreign Office & Drone attacks →
And the Shah Mahmood Qureshi fiasco continues. More officials put aside who continue to defy the Government on the American spook Raymond Davis case (previous chatter here). Interestingly many people are linking the lull in the first time for years in unauthorised drone attacks on Pakistani soil to the arrest. While some claim that Raymond Davis was important person in coordinating the attack to...
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carpe-cerevisi asked: I MISS QURESHI MAKE THEM BRING QURESHI BACK :c
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11:29 pm // wondering
Watched my family celebrate Salman’s birthday via Skype. They had cake and I just munched on some Walkers. Later gave him an online gift voucher as his birthday present. Cyber-blood-relations?
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What do the Scholars say? Message from the Mosque →
Dr. Prof. Pervez Hoodbhoy along with his team at Mashal Books have started this initiative where they will record and transcribe the sermons of various religious scholars from different schools of thought in Pakistan (especially the most “educated” province of Punjab). The text is available in English and Urdu along with the original audio and provides a very interesting insight into...
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8:32 pm // Hope you are having a wonderful...
Seriously who said some Saint Valentine is behind it all? I blame Hallmark for all this. Whenever I read news from Pakistan of the Muslim extremists or from India of the Hindu extremists burning Valentine cards in protest, I always blame the rival card companies for all that! (trust me on this)
Otherwise quite a productive day, except for that the staff at Barclays were in such a hurry that they...
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10:04 pm // Lesson of the night
Now next time my parents have returned after attending a wedding I will do my best to avoid talking to them for at least 3 days. This should be enough time for them to detox from the events and festivities to not bombard me with questions over when I am getting married?
If I had a penny for every time I am asked this question I would have surly become a millionaire by now. Yesterday one of my...
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How Qureshi is disciplined for disagreeing with... →
If you remember there was a Cabinet reshuffle in Pakistan and one of the most surprising action was removal of Shah Mahmood Qureshi from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Instead he was offered “Water & Power” which he clearly declined to take and hence might face party disciplinary action.
To majority of observers inside Pakistan find this as a very clear issue, Qureshi had...
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WatchAt Bookclub for Tamsin’s birthday get together after having birthday dinner for Steven. This is officially a birthday week!
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Crystal Castles vs The Little Ones - Lovers Who...
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8:58 pm // My Egyptian prediction
Possible scenarios tonight with same ending:
Hosni wouldn’t step down till September and will ask Army to clear the Tahrir Square!
Hosni would transfer the power to Omer Sulaiman and he will ask Army to clear the Tahrir Square!
Hosni will transfer power to Sulaiman or Army but will symbolically stay in power till September and will ask Army to clear the Tahrir Square!
When I say is in...
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WatchPBS News Hour: In Pakistan, U.S. Diplomat’s Arrest Related to 2 Deaths Stirs Tensions (video via: nightswideawake) Explaining in simplest term what is going on between Pakistan and USA these days. Sec State Hillary Clinton has already snubbed Pakistan’s Foreign Minister in a scheduled meeting in Munich by not meeting him and even President Zardari’s state visit to USA next month is in...
Errata
The poem I shared earlier here, was written by Dr Khalid Javed Jan on hanging of Bhutto. Apologies for wrongly attributing it to Habib Jalib, and of course thanks to Omer for correcting me there.
