The stuffy wars

Somedays back, I was trying to figure out something, at my workplace, concentrating at my screen, when something just passed by my head. It just missed me.

When I looked in the direction of sound, it was a stuffed toy, that fell few feet away.

No, there wasn’t any fight going on, a war rather … As I was looking in that direction, another stuffy toy was thrown back, by another colleague, who was supposedly the target of previous strike.

And it was not just that day. There are almost a dozen of such toys, on the tables of 3-4 guys, and you never know when something just falls over you, and you see the guy passing by as if nothing happened. If you look at him, he would be like, whaat? Ohh, where did it come from? May be from the ceiling …?

I haven’t been a target as yet, as I am not into the circle as yet, but it just makes you feel light to see the stuff flying around in a professional environment It reminds me of Ult-A, when we would fly the paper-planes in office

Those were the days …

Lemonade .. really ??

Yesterday, we went to a pizza restuarant in city center for lunch. Yup, sometimes, you know dil pashori ke leye, we get into some pizza place and eat vegi pizza, yup vegi pizza And whats interesting to note is that they have a buffet for pizza, pizza + pasta + salad actually. So sort of “all you can eat”.

We were three, me MUF and his arab colleague, lets call him SD. In drinks, MUF asked for a 7up, we asked for 2 lemonades.

After placing the order we got to get the food. When we returned there were three glasses, big glasses actually like we have for lassi in Pakistan, on the table. The liquid in all the three was colourless, as you  normally expect from 7up. What confused us was, which of these are lemonades? They looked the same. I was like, lemonades should have a bit of colour, a bit of whiteish you know … SD agreed to me, but …

We even tried to identify the odd ones by observing the number of bubbles that go up from bottom to top, as MUF said 7up is supposed to be more carbonated as compared to lemonade,  but that was also same … :S In all this process, I was trying to get the waiteress’ attention, who was serving us, but she would never look our way.

Khair .. at last MUF picked one, and said this has to be 7up, took a sip, and confirmed. So, logically speaking remaining two were lemonades. We, me n SD, each took one glass, and tasted it; yeah it looks like lemonade, but … anyway …

We were still eating, when the bill was placed on the table. It stayed there for a while, as everybody was busy eating. When were done, we noted the amount. I normally read the bill before paying, so just out of habit, I took a look and it read:

Three 7UPs.

The shoes have been traced …

I received this today on my class’ mailing list, and couldn’t help posting it here

The pair of shoes which was thrown at Mr. Bush in Iraq has links to
Pakistan, said a statement from Pentagon. They have the following
proofs:

i) The journalist had visited Pakistan earlier this year. There he was
inspired by the shoe throwing at former CM Arbab Ghulam Rahim and Sher
Afghan Niazi.

ii) He received his training of throwing shoes by a Pakistan based
Jihadi organization.

iii) The DNA sample of leather has revealed that the animal whose skin
was used for manufacturing the shoe had traces of grass which is grown
in North of Pakistan and this skin was collected by a Jihadi
organization on Eid-ul-Adha this month.

Hearing this, President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Yousaf
Raza Gilani have decided to ban the Jihadi organization and launched a
country wide crackdown against all the cobblers in Pakistan

Yeah, its funny, but contains some food for thought …

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

Islamic Cultural Fayre 2008

Yet another Mela

Date: Sunday , August 24, 2008

Timings: 12 PM to 6 PM

Venue: Eastville Park, Bristol.

Islamic Cultural Festival 2008

So if you are in Bristol, do come. As yet I dont know the stuff that would be there, as this would be my first time, but we should come to see at least. Organizers will feel good 

Harbourside Festival

Before coming to England, I was under the impression, like most of people who haven’t been here, that these gora log must be living a mechinical life, with no time for life itself. Working fulltime, and drinking for the rest of it .  I was wrong.

They do work, and drink, but then they get to spare a lot of time, may be more than us, for themselves, their lives, and their families. Throughout the week, they would work like anything, and throughout the weekend, they would enjoy like anything. They always have their weekends already planned. And you know what, every month or so, there gonna be some festival, or mela as we know it. Its hardly been a month I am here, and there has already been two in the city.

Over the last weekend, it was annual harbourside festival in Bristol. Entry was free, so quite a lot of people were there, so were we; me n MUF

Notables included an open air circus, BBC headroom; they were teaching Djembe Drum along with other things, and a couple of jigs going on. Luckily when we reached for the jig, a Sikh band was performing and the beat of dhol was so tempting that we cudn’t help actually moving our legs. And then, it was not just us, it was eveybody standing there. As we say, Gora qaum pagal hui wi thi. I have the video with me, will try to upload it but not sure if I will actually be able to as its around 40 mb.  But you have to accept, dhol rocks.

Circus was also fun. We witnessed some really amazing performances, particulary a guy doing rope dance (i dont know if its the exact term, but cudn’t think of anything more appropriate). It was a rope hung vertically, and the guy sort of danced on it, on the drum-beat. Ammmazing … I must say.

It was an experience of its own.

And just yesterday MUF told me about this. Its over this weekend. We may be going, but only to see the baloons flying around as I am a bit tight on money nowadays , praying for the salary day to come ASAP.

Khair …

Lets hope I could upload the stuff for harbourside festival. Meanwhile you can have a look at this, this, this and this.

UK: The cooking side

I am learning to cook. And my teacher, the one and only, MUF He is so good at it, that it amazes. I mean Allah ne kia zaiqa dya he bahu ke haath men. Errr…….., MUF ke haath men

Although my lessons are quite basic as of now, but MUF says, slow and steady wins the race, so … be patient.

So far I have learned how to cut onions, yeah.  And how to cut green chilli. How to make half fried egg without breaking its zardi. And I can make a paratha , yup dont be impressed, here you get it from the market in a frozen state, put it in frying pan, do some stuff, and there you go. Paratha is ready.

Ohh yes, I also learned how to brown the onions before making curry. Infact onions in this part of the world are a bit hard, and take time to get brown, so you have to be patient and cautious that they get brown evenly and don’t get burnt (I mean jalen bi na, I dont know if I am using the right word here :$)

My next lesson would be to prepare the curry on my own.

My teacher hopes that one day I would be a better cook than him although keeping his, and my, skills in mind, I seriously doubt his hopes.

Thank you MUF for the lessons and the patience.

Need a Hair Cut ??

Let me take you to the Virtual Barber Shop.

If you have few minutes, its worth taking:

I have experienced such effects in cinema before this, but still, this is amazing. Particularly when he wraps the bag around your head. Its amaaaazing !!! Good knowledge and use of human brain.

KLUELESS 3

Yeah, Klueless 3 is there since some time, but I happened to see it last week.

Addictive as much as you may think. Although some of the questions are somewhat pathetic, but still a lot more are awesome I checked it on Friday, and continuing today from where I left.

If you are new to Klueless, its a guess-it game. Tests you for commonsense, general knowledge, learning from hints, Googling skills, finding unknown/unrelated information, relating seemingly unrelated facts and finding the answer. Enough

Klueless 2 had a theme: Sherlock Homes. All questions were related to it. Klueless 3 hasn’t any. The question can be about anything. Klueless2 had 20 levels, 3 has 30.

Normally if you are only playing Klueless and not doing anything else, which happens to be the case once you start playing it, it gets done in 2-3 days; provided that you keep getting answers. If you are stuck somewhere, that is not counted. And the interesting part is that you don’t get answers anywhere on the web. All you get is hints. Yes some hints are spoilers, but still you only get hints, and not the answers.

And if you plan to give it a try, be warned: It can take up whole of your day, even more than that infact. So if you are at office, make sure you are not meeting some deadline, as it may hinder your work for a while

You have been warned !!!

I am at level 13 now, lets see how far I can go

P.S. Hints? Leave a comment and will get back to you. Or you may check Klueless 3 official blog.