Friday, October 27, 2006

Top Cop!!

Clifton Town Police Station has a website, check it out here

The best is the "Cop of the Month Feature"

Go Karachi..... Forget the NYPD, we now have CTPD (Clifton Town Police Department)

Thanks Abbas

Thursday, October 26, 2006

Deepak Jain

"You can only control your efforts, not the outcome of your journey. Put your energy toward your efforts and you will reach your destination faster."

Deepak Jain is the Dean of Northwestern's Kellog School of Management.

Saturday, October 21, 2006

I'm on youtube

Haider was randomly browsing youtube when he discovered a video taken at a family event.

The video was taken at my nephew's first birthday, we had organized a Qawwali for the little one.

I'm not sure who posted it on youtube, but its really weird to see your own videos pop up in such places.



Random-ness at its best.

Tuesday, October 17, 2006

Its my Country too

Saturday 21st October at 1410 GMT
Repeated: Saturday 21st at 2110, Sunday 22nd at 22nd 0410 and 0910 GMT

5 years on since 9/11 - the US is a changed country... especially for Muslims.

As part of the USA Direct season, It’s My Country Too follows Salman Ahmed, founding member of successful rock band Junoon, as he explores what it means to be an American Muslim.

Islam is one of the fastest-growing religions in the US. Yet one in four Americans regard Muslims living among them with suspicion. And what if you are an American and a Muslim?

This World follows Salman Ahmed, founding member of successful rock band Junoon, as he explores what it means to be an American Muslim these days. Salman says: "I never thought about my religion in a sense that I have to explain it to the rest of the world." However, as non-Muslims search for answers, this is exactly what they seem to be asking of their fellow citizens.



Monday, October 16, 2006

Shoaib : Hotboxed

So Shoaib Akhtar does it again. I'm sure many of us remember the charas filled video of him singing 'Aate Jaate Khoobsurat' with doobie in his hand.

This time, He's been sent home for 'substance abuse' . Based on following Shoaib's performances for the past 10 years, I can safely say that Shoaib, Asif and Rana are incapable of procuring and administering performance enhancing drugs on their own, without any medical officer finding out / helping them.

Shoaib had a private Doctor on his payroll, makes you wonder why he would need to hire a doctor when the Pakistan Cricket Board pays for all medical fees.

Here's my take on the situation : Everyone's shady, including the PCB and Shoaibee, so really nothing coming out of this one. Maybe a 1-2 year ban at the most. But a reputation that further tarnished.

Like Warne, all these guys should have blamed it on their mothers too. He definitely won that year for 'Smartest Grownup with toddler hairstyle'

Shoaib and Asif have already made it on the Wikipedia list for controversial Nandrolone abuse cases.


More later sometime.

Wednesday, October 11, 2006

Iraq : 655,000 + dead since March 2003

An estimated 655 000 more Iraqis have died as a consequence of the March 2003 military invasion of Iraq than would have been expected in a non-conflict situation, according to an Article published by The Lancet

Bush says its not true, and says he's deeply saddened. Doesn't mention any numbers though.

I bet he cant wait for his term to end, cuz that's the only way he's getting out of all the mess that he's created.

Question is.. If no one supports the war, what are they still doing there?

Wednesday, October 04, 2006

Third Base coach

Did you know that there is a coach for the third base in baseball.

I'm assuming there's one for first,second and the home base also..there must be some coaches for ensuring that people can catch properly with a glove that twice the size of their hand.

If anyone has ever been to a baseball game, you'll quickly realize how its a completely overstaffed game for people with really short attention spans. I went some time ago, and was completely bored out of my mind. Super slow, golf is more exciting to watch.

I'd rather go to the circus and see some real clowns.

Monday, October 02, 2006

Internet = Forever

They say that if you post something on the internet, it will stay there forever.

I say that if you post something on the internet, it will stay there forever..unless google decides to delete it.


“Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up. It knows that it must outrun the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning in Africa, a lion wakes up. It knows that it must out run the slowest gazelle or it will starve. It does not matter whether you are a lion or gazelle. When the sun comes up you had better be running.”

Thomas L. Friedman in his book 'The World is Flat'