Independence Day

On the eve of Pakistan’s 61st Independence Day, it rained thoroughly throughout the city — perhaps throughout the country. I walked out late in the morning over the wet asphalt on a road that was rebuilt a few months ago to the spot where one of our cars was parked. Dad is in [...]

Epilogue: How to terminate your PTCL Broadband DSL contract

After months of bearing mental torture, limited or no connectivity, and bandwidth and service charges apparently without having a usable service at hand, I have finally decided to throw in the towel and terminate the contract I have for PTCL Brandband DSL service. Now, since the monthly bill for the service comes augmented with [...]

Shooting a bird flying high in the blue sky.

Do you believe in destiny? Do you subscribe to the belief that what happens, happens for good, that what bad happens, happens to avert worse from happening? Do you believe that from the point you settle on a decision till the point where you materialise upon it you are in total control of [...]

BSA’s crackdown on software piracy in PK: The 35-day grace period

The title of a brief column on the second page of Dawn’s Metropolitan section today caught my attention by surprise. It read “Deadline for installing illegal software”. That is certainly not what you get to read everyday in Dawn.
According to the column, the Business Software Alliance (which I’ve long known as a group [...]

Unfathomable (Random Musings #22)

After all the pain, suffering and sorrow, after so much prayer, so much believing, it ends in an instant, reminiscent of the way one get rids of an addiction — in a jerk. In an instant — and that is it.

Your eyes are precious!

For those of us whose work involves staring at a flickering screen for hours at end, Web Worker Daily has an insightful post titled “Five Ways To Be Nice To Your Eyes’’ that is a must read.
I spend hours sitting in front of and staring at a screen on a daily basis, be it [...]

I hate what I hate. (Random Musings #20)

If there is something I have come to hate more than most of the things I hate, it is being friends with people who fall down quickly to grab your feet when they are in need, convince and assure you that if you need anything, you need only ask of them, and turn colours faster [...]

Deathful wishing :(

Today has been one of those days where I wished, driving at 102+ on a busy highway, that I rammed into a car and died. :-(

Measles and a bloody eye infection.

The past fifteen days were both tough and painful. I had been down with a severe case of ‘measles’ and an utterly painful eye infection, which kept me away from many things throughout the fifteen days. It appears that I might have caught the infection from a friend, who himself subsequently suffered from a mild [...]

Inhumane?

A man lured, with sweets, the 11-year old daughter of his friend’s into his house and raped her. Subsequently, he slit her throat with a kitchen knife and, using a chain-saw, cut her body into three parts: torso, legs, and head. He hid the body parts inside cupboards, cleaned his house, and, with a look [...]