Mere Allah, Rehemm !!!

Its not the first time, but I dont know why it just makes me feel very sad today. May be because I am selfish, and my family was in Islamabad a little before the blast, although not exactly at Marriot, but a little away from it. And the thought that if the attacker would have chosen a different target, Muadh’Allah, who knows …

This menace is out of control now, and there seems to be no solution to it. If there is any, nobody seems to be looking for it. They have so many other things to look into. This is not a priority. And this is even more dangerous a situation.

Human life has never been so un-important, so cheap, as it has been since last couple of years.

My Allah, please excuse us from this. Please forgive us. We have suffered enough for our mistakes. Please dont make it worse. Please … !!!

The Punjab: Moving Journeys

A photo exhibition on Punjab of 1800s has been organized by Royal Geographical Society, London (RGS). Its on from September 9, 2008 to November 27, 2008.

Few that I liked:

Lahori Gate , Lahore (1930)

Jamia Mosque, Lahore (1935)

Selling Fruit (1910)

From RGS’s website:

The exhibition reveals the ‘Punjab’, a region spanning  India and Pakistan. The complex history of this region and its modern significance are explored from the perspectives of five UK community groups with links to both countries.

The ‘moving journeys’ of successive generations of Punjabi people, both within and across borders, are explored.

There is an online gallery set up as well. Quality of pics is great but captions are missing. So you have to guess what place it is.

via BBC

Few more here.

Magic Code

Magic.cpp

#include"Magic.h"

Dear Computer
Please print "Hello World!" string
Then wait until user pressed a key
Best Regards
Programmer

Well if you know C or C++, you gonna yell at me, what do you expect the compiler to do with this funny string? And to that my answer is: I expect the compiler to compile it perfectly fine, and upon running, it should display “Hello World!” as normal. After all that is what it has been told to do, and that too in a very decent manner.

Yes my friend, its all about Magic. Yeah rite, Magic.h to be precise.

Magic.h

#include<stdio.h>
#include<conio.h>
#define a )
#define Best ;
#define Computer (void){
#define Dear void main
#define key ;
#define pressed (
#define Please printf
#define Programmer
#define print (
#define Regards }
#define string );
#define Then int
#define until =
#define user getch
#define wait x

How was that

Loot Sale

We were discussing the results of Presidential Election in Pakistan last evening, when a friend suggested, “Start saving money guys”. We were like, for what? To which he quite whisperingly replied, “Pakistan is going to be on SALE soon. We must have some bucks ready. May be we can buy some shares, some pieces of land may be, or anything that comes up.”

And we were like amazed. Why this didnt happened to us, such a great idea. It can be profitable. 

So, keep some bucks ready.

Ohh one more thing, he immediately demanded 2.5% of all the profit that we will earn from this purchase. After all he coined the idea. So I hope in case you make some profit, you’ll send in his 2.5%.

Happy Shopping !!!

Back to life

Yeah, that is what it means to have your own machine for a software guy.

I was without machine for the last two months or so. Yeah I had access to MUF’s, for which I am grateful to him, but you know having your own is a different feeling

Its a SONY VAIO. Specs are awesome, something I can brag about. Its Core 2 Duo 2.26 GHz, 3GB, 250 GB, 16.4″ and beautiful Yeah looks are cool.

Don’t have internet connection yet, at home. Will get it by next monday insha’Allah. Yeah right now I am at MUF’s place.

And here we go with my first post from my naya nakor laptop

UPDATE: Found some images for FW11E:

Ramadhan Mubarak

Well logically speaking, its 29th of Shaa’ban today, but somehow we are fasting and observing 1st of Ramadhan in Europe, as announced by The Islamic Cultural Center (ICC) for the UK.

I am unable to comprehend the rationale ICC could have used as grounds for turning Shaa’ban into 28 days, may be following the Saudis, but still, I mean there has been instances of having a 29 days month instead of 30 days, or vice-versa, but turning a month to 28 days is rare, and illogical.

If you have a look at all the imagery out there about moon’s state, its impossible to see the moon with naked eye on Sunday 31st August 2008 in this part of the world. So there is no possibility of having a witness to the moon.

I asked the people at my local mosque, that how come we are having this, and they said, we discussed and decided collectively. Is this a matter of collective decision or we should follow the Book. I dont know.

On discovering this last evening I talked to my friends here, as I was unsure about what to do, as you know its not 1st of Ramadhan, and your community is fasting. And then we collectively decided , that its a community concern, and Islam is not individual’s religion, so we should go with what Imam sb tells us.

Although I am not that excited about 1st of Ramdhan, as I used to be, but still, Happy Ramdhan to all of you. May Allah bless you all in this blessed month.