Jehan has not been well the past few days. High fever and other related symptoms. She was finally (forcibly?) checked into OMI today. I hope she has her laptop and that OMI has cutting edge wireless connectivity. And that she gets well soon. Update as at 03 October evening: Fever is under control but platelet count…
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Oppss I did it again
Yup. Me and wordpress don’t interface well. For that matter, me and blogspot didn’t interface well too.. I am now actively looking for some one to take ownership for maintaining this blog. I will do the writing, you do the pressing. Please send in a short application confirming that you will work for the sheer…
Now playing James Blunt…
1973, Billy, Annie, You are Beautiful, Cry
Sami Mustafa – CAS and beyond
But Sami has a new question. Sami has had this question since 1981. From the year before I started at BVS. Don’t other children deserve to be happy? To be confident? To grow? To find their own Dina M. Mistri? To dance away with the wind and look at loving faces that look back with…
Sami Mustafa – one
1983…I went to a Parsi school. There it is out there and out of my system. It gave me a solid footing as an individual and put me in care of teachers who changed my life. I found friends who have stayed with me in thick and thin and to whom I still turn to…
I know I am old when….
I get drenched thrice in an evening storm on the rare occassion where I actually wore a suit for a client demo… and look forward to getting drenched a fourth time…In younger days, I wouldn’t have worn a suit… Psss. Yes I am still alive and kicking.
In search of Profound(ness)
In a country marked by religious intolerance and extremisim, the most popular underground band comes from the bazars of Peshawar. For a nation in mourning after Lal masjid, Pervez Hoodbhoy summarize the paradox faced by our civil society… “The Lal Masjid ideologues did not rouse their followers to action on matters of poverty, unemployment, poor…
Why is it a bad idea to pee on toilet seats… or the State of bathrooms in this country?
In my undeniable quest for controversy and traffic, I now have to stoop to the gutter (metaphorically speaking). And no I am not talking about just the Golden Arches bathrooms at Karachi Airport and/or Sea View. This is equally true for private bathrooms, be they at offices or homes. Every single time I have opened…
Blue screen of death – new edition on the cards
Finally decided to take some more time off (ah the joys of working for oneself) and redo the book again based on the all the feedback received. Here is the new cover, once again a great job by Jehan and Nida at Enabling Technologies. If that potter woman can do 7 books in 7 years,…
Dissing Standard Chartered Bank
And while we are at dissing Standard Chartered, let me state for the record that their new Islamic Banking campaign, Sadiq, is incredibly absurd. While they are in the process of firing their call center team, they should also fire their agency and who ever approved the Sadiq campaign internally. When UBL launched Ameen, it…