“It is better to light a candle than to rant about the darkness” (Chinese proverb) I have done my bit for today, go on and light a candle, before you go to sleep tonight…
Baan Deva Montra, Chiang Mai, Thailand
Finally, vacation time… On 22nd December, the six members of the combined Farid and Salahuddin families packed up their bags and trucked all the way down to Karachi airport to catch a plane to Thailand. Despite an empty flight and Thai’s silky smooth service, the flight was an interesting nightmare on account of one simple…
What is it about orchids?
You decide…
Murphy’s law
On the eve of the day before making the single largest pitch in our history as a company, in a different city, I find out that I am booked to travel the day after the pitch is supposedly being made. How is that for timing. These are the days a great travel agent is made…
Beat that Ms. Project Manager
Having trained for the last five years with our aggressive technology project schedules at Alchemy Technologies, Fawzia Salahuddin our resident, in house, PMP, had no problems at all in taming and feeding a fully grown tiger cub in less than 15 seconds. If you want a similar job, please perform a similarly outrageous feat and…
Oopss
That by the way was post number 100 on wordpress…
Business Plus spot on, Wednesday, 09 January 2008
Three words. Don’t miss it. Nayyab and I go on for about 15 minutes talking about working for your self….
So what can you do…
In the immortal words of Bob Marley, (as delivered by Will Smith, in I am Legend) Light up the darkness…
Hell hath no fury…
670 bank branches (out of 5000)… 900 Cars…burnt after their CD players were stolen. FAST Institute of Computer Science Campus…Set alight after robbing it of newly delivered computer servers and workstations. 58 killed via bullets, knives and fire including 8 burnt alive at work… God knows how many miles of railway track, rail engines and…
It is not easy playing the game that is words…
I have chosen to walk on the shoulder of giants… Daughter of the West by Tariq Ali, ex-BBC, The Leopard and the Fox, in self imposed exile. The LBR piece written on 13th December 2007, paints an alternate picture of the princess in Pink. Pakistan after Benazir by Adil Najam, at All Things Pakistan, talks…