I will break an internal taboo today and a personal resolve to keep politics out of this blog. The last time I did this was post December 27th. There has been a very interesting and at times heated debate going on in the paper world on the fate of the local body system but the…
Author: Jawwad
Looks like rain
Finally it seems that we will get a shower that may be a bit more than the wimpy drive bys we have been getting these last few weeks. About time too, if you ask me. Dark clouds, rolling thunder, light breeze and lots of birds hovering about. Here comes the rain… Update: Spoke too soon……
PASHA CEO Lunch and TPS Tower
I have always had a soft corner for TPS. I met Sohail, Owais and Shahzad for the first time when they were nominated for the APICTA ICT Awards in Macau. Then we together crashed and burned in front of MIT’s E-Lab’s Ken Morse elevator pitching our products. However Sohail came out as the star of…
Where the blankety blank have I been?
I moved to Tahiti. Didn’t like it too much. It was too hot and everything had sand in it. Then tried out Hawaii for a few days, but I can’t surf to save my life and these tropical paradises are someone else’s vision of what the ideal temperature in paradise should be like. What is…
On Expectations and POGs…
Once upon a time I used to think that given a chance most individual will rise up to your expectations. Needless to say this expectation got me into a lot of trouble. Still does. As recently as Monday afternoon! But then despite a few unfortunate exceptions including the one on Monday, most individuals that I…
My name is Taha…
Aneeka picks up interesting quotes to put beside the entrance of her room. Monday morning the board read “The only disability is a bad attitude.” I wonder what it feels like to be the four year old behind my son’s eyes. Aneeka and her approach have made a world of difference. We now have more…
The evolution of a risk manager
Pakistan Risk Review – Editorial for the second issue As we wrapped up work on the second issue of Pakistan Risk Review, I sat down and took a few minutes to look back at my relationship with risk over the last decade. Just as this publication has evolved dramatically over the last 12 months, my…
Mothers, wives and sisters
Ammi’s is in Liaqat on account of emergency knee surgery and Fawzia is staying over with her tonight. It’s only when mothers, wives and sisters are away that we realize how strongly they hold a house together and how helpless us lesser mortals are without them.
High hopes…
What do Frank Sinatra, John F. Kennedy, Ants (the movie), Sesame Street, Taha, Jehan and the rest of us ordinary mortals have in common? Next time your found, with your chin on the groundThere a lot to be learned, so look around Just what makes that little old antThink he’ll move that rubber tree plantAnyone…
An abridged history of the technology industry in Pakistan, three
When the time came for us to graduate things had started to get exciting. GUI tools were getting more impressive. Borland was getting the whacking of a life time at the hands of Microsoft in everything other than development environments and was returning the favor in IDE’s (Integrated Development Environments). The era of Word Star…