MyLifeDumpMyLifeDumpMy twisted blog where I ramble about My Life, My Views and My Thoughts. I talk about My Life, SFSU, Politics, Islam, Books, News, Technology, Internet, Music, Movies and My Websites. Articles
Eid-ul-Adha Mubarak
2007-12-21 19:57:00 Finally I get to say “Eid Mubarak ” even though I celebrated eid two days ago. This time because of so many things were happening around me and I couldn’t concentrate on any one of them….. eid was not as good as it should have been. Let me just say it, it sucked! It sucked like ... More About: Islam , Personal life
Transition in Pakistan is the Number One News Story of 2007 - TIMES Magazin
2007-12-19 20:53:00 I was honestly surprised to hear this on the radio today but then I pondered for a minute and it all started to make sense. Because of Pakistan’s strategic position in Southeast Asia and the so called “War on Terror”, Pakistan should and must be number one if one looks at the current power struggle. Every ... More About: News , Politics , Islam , World , Story
My Interview with Pakistani Spectator
2007-12-19 06:21:00 Pakistani Spectator is on a roll and seems to be interviewing a bulk of Pakistani bloggers, I am honored that they inlcuded me in their list and sent me an interview request. My interview is now live at The Pakistani Spectator. Here I am posting the entire interview, I hope google doesn’t penalize me for ... More About: Pakistan , Blogs , Interview , Personal life , Pakistani
Namira Salim - First Pakistani Woman to go to Space
2007-12-17 22:37:00 Namira Salim is the first ever Pakistan i Woman selected to go for space tour in 2009. She is one of 100 space tourists who will board landmark commercial space flights being offered by Virgin Galactic, which plans to start operations by 2009. Namira, 35, was born in Karachi , but now lives in Dubai and the south ... More About: News , Space
Press Release: Wateen Launches WiMAX Nationwide for Consumers
2007-12-16 21:00:00 Lahore, Pakistan , December 16th, 2007: Wateen Telecom, an Abu Dhabi Group venture in Pakistan, launches its WiMAX and HFC services for the consumer markets today. The launch will allow Wateen customers to have voice, telephony and broadband internet.Wateen Telecom has been working on establishing a wireless network infrastructure since early 2006, and installed the network ... More About: News , Internet , Press Release , Press
Top 10 Pakistani Blogs of 2007
2007-12-16 02:04:00 Light Within recently published a post ranking Top 10 Pakistan i blogs of 2007. Blogs were ranked according to: 1. Regularity/Activity 2. Content 3. Impact Below you will find the list of the blogs, I have taken out explanations done by Dr Farrukh Malik, I believe, and just included the list. 1. Teeth Maestro 2. Pakistani at 3. Light Within 4. Chowrangi 5. Buzzvines 6. Thatta Kedona 7. ... More About: Internet
Don?t Shun the Hijab or Else
2007-12-15 09:48:00 A very strong title but even a stronger story developed in Canada last week. This story is the one where after you are done reading, you say “WHAT?” and then shake your head. Aqsa Pervez, 16 year old girl, never would have thought that when she was told that if she doesn’t wear Hijab , things can ... More About: News , Islam , World , Stupid
Uncle Musharraf Is Now a Civilian President; That Must Hurt
2007-12-01 23:37:00 When Musharraf sacked Nawaz Sharif back in 1999, I started referring to him as uncle Musharraf because at that time in history Pakistan needed someone like him. Two years down the line, things started improving in the economic sector. Then came September 11 and Pakistan was center of attention. Musharraf played the “Fight against terrorism” ... More About: News , Politics , President , Hurt
ISNA: Intrafaith Q&A on Shia/Sunni Relations
2007-12-01 23:16:00 INTRA FAITH WORKS ONE FAITH ? Nineteen Questions about Shi?i-Sunni Relations by: Mohamed Nimer, director of research at the Council on American Islam ic Relations, is the author of “The North American Muslim Resource Guide: Muslim Community Life in the United States and Canada” (Routledge: 2002). Asma Afsaruddin, associate professor of Arabic and Islamic studies at the University ... More About: Issues , Shia
Pakistan Hit by a Magnitude 5.1 Quake
2007-11-25 22:46:00 This news is not been reported anywhere so I don’t have much information or damage caused by this quake. Probably there isn’t any otherwise it would be in the news some place. Apparently at Pakistan was hit by Magnitude 5.1 earthquake on Sunday, November 25, 2007 at 06:53:47 PM local time 70 miles west of Dera ... More About: News , Quake
Man in India Marries Dog As Atonement
2007-11-25 02:13:00 A man in southern India married a female dog in a traditional Hindu ceremony as an attempt to atone for stoning two other dogs to death ? an act he believes cursed him. P. Selvakumar married the sari-draped former stray named Selvi, chosen by family members and then bathed and clothed for the ceremony Sunday at ... More About: News , Funny , World , Atonement
Another Suicide Blast in Pakistan
2007-11-24 23:26:00 Pakistan is now turning into Asian Iraq as suicide bombings are on the rise. This is not the first suicide bombing after the emergency was imposed and this is definitely not the last. The trend seems to be getting popular everyday and new jihadist recruits seem to be signing up to meet 70 virgins in ... More About: News , Pakistan , Suicide , Blast
Bill Gates Didn?t Say That
2007-11-23 22:31:00 I have received this email many times, again and again from friends and what have you… I am talking about the email with the subject “Bill Gates ’ High School Speech on The Eleven Rules of Life”. I knew in my hearts of hearts that bill gates could never say these things, he is a nerd, ... More About: Funny
My Car Hunt Ends
2007-11-18 21:05:00 I had been looking for a car for about 2 months and was going back and forth between different makes like I started off with ‘07 Camry. Test drove it but didn’t feel any kind of significant difference from Corolla 1998 which I was driving up until now. Maybe I was sick of Toyota or ... More About: Personal life , Ends , Hunt
Saudi Prince: Lets Buy a Flying Palace
2007-11-13 03:37:00 Don’t you feel like shaking your head in amazement when you hear about things rich people do in their day to day life to amuse themselves with toys as expensive as $310 Million? Stop the shaking, this time it is not some russian paying $10 Million to goto moon, it’s our very own Saudi Prince, so ... More About: News , Middle East , World , Flying , Dubai
Things You Didn?t Know about Benazir Bhutto
2007-11-11 04:12:00 I just read “Bhutto’s Persona Raises Distrust, as Well as Hope” story on NYT’s website and it is something that I have been wanting to read but was so shocked that no one was talking about Benazir ’s past while people where busy jumping on the Bhutto band wagon who offers nothing new to Pakistan i politics. Things ... More About: News , Politics
Bhutto: Pakistan under dictatorship is a pressure cooker
2007-11-10 20:31:00 The first thing I do every morning these days is go to iGoogle which is my homepage to checkout news stories from around the world. Nowadays there is only one story, Pakistan ’s emergency rule. Today what caught my eye was Benazir Bhutto ’s comment during an address to diplomats at reception hosted by loyalists at the Senate ... More About: News , Politics , Dictatorship
Description of Images on Edward Said Mural
2007-11-07 21:30:00 Edward Said Mural was unveiled at SFSU on November 2nd 2007. This is the first mural of its kind to be unveiled at any American University. Edward Said Mural - Final Image Description of Images on Edward Said Mural 1) Professor Edward Said (1935-2003) Edward Said was a Palestinian Arab-American academic, educator, writer, philosopher, thinker, scholar, civil and human ... More About: Middle East , Photos , World , Edward Said
Fate of Pakistan as I See It
2007-11-07 20:40:00 It’s interesting to look at newspapers from around the world deciding the fate of Pakistan , speculating things outrageous and sometimes predictable. Depending on what side you are on, one can only see that there will be an uprising against Musharraf that will lead to his becoming the President and dismissal of his post as Chief ... More About: News , Fate
Pakistan: Text of emergency proclamation
2007-11-03 23:40:00 Martial law has been imposed in Pakistan . This is the full text of the emergency proclamation: PROCLAMATION OF EMERGENCY Whereas there is visible ascendancy in the activities of extremists and incidents of terrorist attacks, including suicide bombings, IED explosions, rocket firing and bomb explosions and the banding together of some militant groups have taken such activities to ... More About: News , Text , Emergency , Proclamation
My VITA Interview
2007-11-02 03:15:00 I interviewed today for VITA, Volunteer Income Tax Assistant program. It is basically tax preparation assistance for individuals who can’t afford paid professionals to do their taxes. Supposedly, SFSU’s VITA program is very well ranked and they have been awarded numerous times for this. Last year I wanted to go for it but then I ... More About: Interview , Vita , Personal life , Accounting
Shake That !
2007-10-31 19:37:00 Yesterday, another one of those jolts that make your heart beat faster, were felt by almost everyone in the bay area except for few prune beings. This was the 3rd time in 5 years. That scares me, maybe a big one is on its way. The sad thing though was that my midterm wasn’t cancelled even ... More About: San Francisco , Personal life
PageRank Update Currently Underway
2007-10-27 01:54:00 PageRank is Google’s way of determining a website’s worth. The higher your rank, the better your position in the Google search results. Google’s pagerank update is currently underway so if you run a website, you will see it in few days. When this blog was launched last year in September, I didn’t really concentrate on ... More About: Pagerank , Update , Ager , Gera
Celebrating Islamophobia-facism awareness week
2007-10-26 07:59:00 Joshua Micah Marshall from TPM analyzes the whole Islam o-Facism awareness week and summarizes it in this video, worth a watch! More About: Videos , News , Islamophobia , Awareness
Pakistani Bloggers Community on BUMPzee
2007-10-24 21:40:00 I recently joined a very cool social blog community website BUMPzee. It is basically a blog discovery website that helps you find blogging friends, create blogging communities and communicate with your readers. I decided to create a community there for Pakistan i Bloggers as I couldn’t find it initially. I have seen communities out there on other ... More About: Internet , Community , Blogs
Ghosts of Abu Ghraib
2007-10-24 20:35:00 I watched Ghosts of Abu Ghraib on Monday at U.C. Berkeley. Nida told me about this documentary and it sounded like another eye-opener and it certainly was. As you can guess by the title of this documentary, it’s about the prison abuse that took place in the city of Abu Ghraib in Iraq. When the prison ... More About: Politics , Movies , Middle East , Issues
Resident Evil III was a Disappointment
2007-10-22 19:45:00 I am a big movie buff and so yesterday I watched Resident Evil III. I loved the game; I and my brother were crazy about it when it first came out on PlayStation. I think it gave a re-birth to the zombie genre. The last sequel in the installment though was a big disappointment. I really ... More About: Movies , Resident Evil , Disappointment , Sapp
What the heck is Islamo-Fascism awareness week?
2007-10-21 23:16:00 On facebook this thing has taken up some heat and at SFSU I saw some posters advertising speeches and discussions during the Islam o-Fascism awareness week informing the masses about the dangers of Islamo-Fascism. I started looking around and found out what actually is going on. Supposedly this guy named David Horowitz wrote an article in ... More About: News , Politics , Awareness
What?s Wrong with Pakistan?
2007-10-20 23:47:00 As soon as Benazir stepped on the Pakistan i soil, she was greeted by firecrackers that killed 120+ people and achieved misery. I really hate the whole concept of killing to achieve anything but when killing takes place and you don’t achieve anything, what did you exactly achieve then? Misery! Since the attack on Bhutto, I have ... More About: News , Politics , Islam , Wrong
Eid was good this time around
More articles from this author:2007-10-20 21:57:00 For the past five years, my Eid has been like any other day… I remember being in school, listening to lecture and then coming home. The most that ever happened on my eid was calling people up and wishing them eid mubarak. I regretted being here in the U.S everytime eid came up. Not because ... More About: Time , Personal life , Good 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 |
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