Archive for February, 2010

I Won The HP Mini Netbook by HP Pakistan!!

by Sarosh Waiz on February 27, 2010 in Featured, Notebooks, Technology with No comments

I am very pleased to announce today that I won a HP Mini Netbook from HP Pakistan 2 days back. This came as a prize for attending and winning the HP bloggers meetup. I was extremely excited and couldn’t believe it then. Even till now I am in a state of shock and surprise. I am extremely thankful to HP for selecting me as one of the bloggers they considered. Its a white HP Mini 110-1121TU Model and has the following features:

  • Intel Atom N280 Processor (1.66 GHz)
  • 160GB (5400 RPM) Hard Drive
  • 1024MB DDR2 SDRAM (1Dimm)
  • Webcam
  • 10.1″ Diagonal WSVGA Anti-Glare Widescreen Display
  • Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 950 with shared graphics memory
  • 802.11 b/g WLAN & Bluetooth
  • 5-in-1 Digital Media Reader
  • 3-cell Lithium – Ion Battery

Its a very light weight machine and I am seriously loving it. The best feature about these new HP Netbooks, is that we can go online without even starting Windows. I am extremely thankful to Faraz Noorani, the Channel Marketing Manager from HP and Khumar from Xenith PR for contacting me regarding this. The funny part was that I was talking to them in a pre-scheduled meeting and till the last moment I never knew I won it. And when I found this out, I was extremely excited and overwhelmed! Its been 2 days and I still cant get over the excitement level…  =P

I am still exploring this beautiful machine by HP with amazing art by the artist Tord Boontje; will post how it is in a few days time. Till then .. Adious!

Karachi Blasts – Talibans Are The Scape Goats For EVERY DAMN THING!!

by Sarosh Waiz on February 6, 2010 in Articles, Featured, Pakistan with 2 Comments

One of my fellow Tweeter posts AAJ KA SAWAAL everyday in order to question various things that he thinks should be answered. His twitter ID is ‘Ammar_haider’, just in case if you plan to follow him. Today he posted another interesting question related to the bomb blast yesterday. The question that he asked was:

“Was yesterday’s blast a continuation of target killing and to sabotage local govt. election in 2 months time?”

I’m too full of everything today! Its just that I don’t know from where to start! I might go off topic Ammar, but I just feel like yelling out loud when I see such things happening. The problem lies way beyond the plan of sabotaging the local elections. As a nation we have always been nagged by basic issues such as electricity, water, security.. the fact is that until people or the masses don’t get out of the basic necessities, they can’t think beyond what they need and require. That’s what Maslow’s Triangle is all about .. hierarchy of needs!

If today we educated people talk about uniting together and standing up against this issue, a major reason for this is that we enjoy the basic necessities one way or the other. We can’t settle and grow as a nation because the external forces don’t want us to get strong and grow. That’s why people always keep nagging and disturbing our minds. Again this can be too much, but I was wondering yesterday that Thursday Dr. Afia’s unfair court ruling was announced and a lot of people protested or were planning something, and Friday we get the bomb blasts to divert our attentions? I don’t know.. may be I am using a lame logic here.. but why do things seem lame ALL THE TIME? And then we just laugh and make fun of the person who points it out so that he also stops thinking what is going around us! What the hell is wrong with us?

It’s our corrupt politicians who sell their souls for foreign interests… Isn’t this simple BULLSHIT that all the time they get to use the public? Through bomb blasts? Security Threats? And they have adopted the word “TALIBAN” by the American Govt. to use as an scape goat and make the public sound like an IDIOT? SHAME ON YOU! And then they have pre-prepared speeches of condemning the attacks? Where were they before hand in any of the cases that have happened since the recent years? If Taliban are really that scary, our so called leaders should go and get themselves operated to get their GENDERS changed. They are such a shame on the word “LEADER.”

And on top of everything! Where the fuck do they get to know that the so called “Suicide Bombers” have entered the city? Yes a lot of people replied that they do it to start shifting the blame because of security loop holes. Yea Right… !! Making fools and idiots out of innocent people since 60+ years!

Its just something I cant stand now! I’M AS MAD AS HELL!! AND I AM NOT GOING TO TAKE THIS ANYMORE!

I’m As Mad As Hell! [Video]

by Sarosh Waiz on February 1, 2010 in Random, Videos with 1 Comment

One of my student’s shared this video on Facebook, and this is from an old English movie called Network (1976). It really inspired me, so I thought I’d paste it on my blog for all the people to realize what the traditional media is doing to us. We need such a revolution for our country and we need to get up and bring that change ourselves rather than sitting on our seats and expecting the corrupt politicians and the so called higher authorities to do something about it! Long Live Pakistan!

Check out the video below and share it if you get what I am talking about!

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