I am not sure how many of you have ever heard of Randy Pausch? I hadn’t till May ’08 when my routine review of the best selling books list on Amazon brought out the Last Lecture. Last weekend in Dubai I picked up a copy at Borders and read it in six sittings. I only…
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We have moved…
It was time to grow up and do something insane. So we found a new office we couldn’t possibly afford and moved in 12 hours. This Thursday evening things stood a little cramped. Friday afternoon they looked a bit busy. Not to mention messy But this being our fifth move (home to PIDC, PIDC to…
Things to do on PC rooftop, when you are not busy being a shutter fly
I hope this puts any doubts to rest about how I spend my time on PC roof top J
Can you recognize this city?
Soy
Ever since I discovered Soy at Ibn-Batuta Mall two years ago, I try and make it a point to have at least one meal here. And every time I have a bite sitting on rattan chairs, I slip back to our long ago, but not forgotten Californian adventure. Soy is outside the main Mall in…
MIA
I know I have been missing in action since the last post but a lot has been happening in our lives… From closing the largest deal in the history of Alchemy to moving into our new campus right next to Hill Park, from terrorizing new recruits to abusing difficult clients, it has been two long…
The rise and fall of the Pakistani Rupee
Us actuaries are a dreadful lot. Being a student of mortality tends to do funny things to your outlook. While as a nation we specialize in two national pastimes (bitching and complaining), our real talent lies elsewhere. Morbid outlooks and panic – no one does morbid outlooks and panic attacks like good old thoroughbred educated…
Death…
How will she come, the day death comes… One simple couplet by Faiz was my first poetic introduction to death somewhere in the early late 80’s, when I knew little about death or poetry. This was followed by Joeseph Heller’s Catch 22 that more or less rewired my brain. Catch 22 made irreverent fun of almost everything…
The death of Cyber Net
Two years down the road this company will be dead, sold out or infamous (possibly all three). You heard it here first. I have been a CyberNet customer for God knows how long. Maybe since 1996. I presume 12 years of loyal service gives me some bitching rights. When they launched DSL we dumped Habib…