Archive for August, 2008

Evul Boss One – Arrival

With due apologies to Omen One, Star Wars III, First Blood one, Evil dead one and all the other ones out there, Alchemy Technologies proudly presents their new widescreen hit – Evul Boss One Brought to you by the daring camera work done by the team from the first floor Scene One – Alchemy Campus [...]

August 28, 2008   Posted in: Alchemy stuff, Startup, new ventures, small business  9 Comments

This calls for a blog post…

No comments. Unconfirmed email source, couldn’t get confirmation on the MarcFaber website since the content is no longer public. No offense intended but still read at your own risk. Dr. Marc Faber concluded his monthly bulletin (June 2008) with the following:“The federal government is sending each of us a $600 rebate. If we spend that [...]

August 26, 2008   Posted in: Uncategorized  3 Comments

I wish I could write like this…

Sally Jenkins story at the Post, comparing Phelp and Usain Bolt amazing feats at the 2008 Olympics highlights the many ways one can win or write. Where for some of us natural endowment plays a part in how we fare in life while for others it is an extended 8 year plan with discipline that [...]

August 19, 2008   Posted in: Uncategorized  3 Comments

Untitled…

The measure of a man is not how he begins things, but how he ends them.

August 18, 2008   Posted in: Pakistan  5 Comments

You know you are getting old….

And now for something from a completely different side of the menu… You know you are getting old when: The two primary items on your annual birthday bash are rest and sleep; The wild party at work you have been dreaming about all week is a lecture on probability of default models; The best gift [...]

August 16, 2008   Posted in: Alchemy stuff, Personal shit  No Comments

The pen is mightier than the sword…

This, btw, marks my 200th post. Every once in a while I should utter something meaningful. Wanted to say all of this, but she said it much better than I ever could. Make up your own minds, I just do the forwarding. Of all the hype, the noise and horse shit floating around at this [...]

August 16, 2008   Posted in: Uncategorized  No Comments

Happy birthday to me

My favorite number now for a decade and a half: Streets of Philadelphia, by the Boss: I was bruised and batteredAnd I couldn’t tell what I feltI was unrecognizable to myselfSaw my reflection in a windowI didn’t know my own faceOh brother are you gonna leave me wasting awayOn the streets of PhiladelphiaI walked the [...]

August 16, 2008   Posted in: Uncategorized  4 Comments

In memory of Nicole Dial

Please see Sana’s post on her blog about Nicole. This is not the Islam that we believe in or practice.

August 15, 2008   Posted in: Uncategorized  No Comments

The state of the Pakistani Economy – part ii

(This post follows on the comments made in my previous post “The rise and fall of the Pakistani Rupee“) Entrepreneurs are the most irrational of all creatures. We see hope and optimism, when the rest of the world sees doom and gloom. While our internal outlook at times may turn to despair (we never have [...]

August 14, 2008  Tags: , , , ,   Posted in: Desi Back to Desh, Desi Startup, Pakistan, entrepreneurs  9 Comments

Gwadar road trip, quick review

It is between a 7 to 11 hour drive depending on the average speed you can maintain and the number of pit stops you make. Ideally you should do this in a group of vehicles so that if one of you breaks down there are a few handfuls of help around. Petrol is in short [...]

August 13, 2008  Tags: , , ,   Posted in: Alchemy stuff, Pakistan, Personal shit  6 Comments

Road Trip, continued

The ride from Ormarah onwards was un-eventful. Once we left our luxurious pit stop and out house behind, we were all looking forward to our 5 star bathrooms at the Zaver PC, which was unfortunately only 290 odd kilometers westwards on a flat unwinding road. There were glimpses of distant waters and mounds of brackish [...]

August 12, 2008   Posted in: Uncategorized  No Comments

Road Trip…

This Saturday morning a bunch of alchemists, their significant others and friends from Lahore took the long road trip to Gawadar. This conspiracy was hatched by none other than our very own favourite cousin (as in MI6 and CIA) from Lahore, Jareer, with two members of the dev team who will remain unnamed. Unfortunately for [...]

August 11, 2008   Posted in: Uncategorized  No Comments

New models from Alchemy’s Gawadar Road trip.

Let me introduce: I can walk on air, very much in demand Fawwad, Hotshot movie star, politician, KU terror, or String lead vocalist Hyder, Don’t let my seriousness fool you, I can party as much as the next dude, Farhan, I am a model from model town, Hammad, Lord of the surf (now working for [...]

August 11, 2008   Posted in: Uncategorized  7 Comments

There goes your coolant; here comes your core…

Running a small business is difficult. No one ever said it would be easy. You sleep less and work harder and that is the part you actually enjoy. Everything else is a struggle. If your small business is a technology company it just upgrades your nightmares to a different class – your personal nuclear reactor [...]

August 3, 2008   Posted in: Alchemy stuff, Desi Back to Desh, Desi Startup, Failure, PASHA, Pakistan, Startup, entrepreneurs, new ventures, small business  11 Comments

And here we go again…

Can’t keep an alchemist away from food for too long. Since July and August are birthday treat and new hire months at Alchemy, we have had an exceptionally wild week. Early this week was the 18 pie pizza party thrown by Sarang, Hammad and Mussadiq. Which was quickly followed by Arif’s kunnah (an exotic north [...]

August 2, 2008   Posted in: Alchemy stuff  3 Comments