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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!

Amir Khan Got Me Hooked To Boxing!

by Sarosh Waiz on December 15, 2009 in Boxing, Random with No comments

I have not been a ‘boxing’ fan all my life. In fact, I found it rather boring because I never understood the rules and how it really worked. Similarly, I was never a WWF or a WWE fan, although I did try to follow it will ‘all-my-heart’ because of peer pressure at school. All I could remember today are three names: The Undertaker, Hitman Heart and The Rock. The Rock is an interesting character overall.

It wasn’t that as a kid I never used to like fighting sports, but it was more like it looked ‘lame’ when I saw these guys fighting on WWF. As I grew up, WWE was nothing more than a funny entertainment for me, which of course doesn’t mean that I was a fan.

I liked real fighting as compared to the lame ones. Ask me about Kung-Fu sometime. I loved it. I also happened to practice the basics of Kung Fu for sometime. It was an interesting experience, but I will leave the Kung Fu story for a later date.

Coming back to ‘boxing,’ the sport never inspired me because maybe I never saw it earlier. Or there was no peer pressure that made me follow it. Or another possibility can be that because of PTV only in those days, we never had access to a lot of games and information. All I knew about boxing were two synonymous names of champions, who were Muslims: “Muhammad Ali” and “Mike Tyson”

It was not until recently that I partially got hooked to this sport. I had been hearing about this British Pakistan youngster named “Amir Khan” who made history by winning the WBA World Light-Welterweight Championship in July this year. He is also commonly known as “King Khan” or  the “Pride of Bolton.” Well I never knew all this until Amir Khan defeated Dmitry Salita on 5th December 2009 and the hype reached my ears.

Amir Khan

Amir Khan

Dmitry Salita was the first challenger of Amir Khan’s title, who was a much senior and a more experienced fighter. Dmitry Salita is a Ukrainian American from New York, who is an Orthodox Jew. Now with Amir Khan being a practicing Muslim, the media termed this fight as the “fight of faith” and the “holy war.” The interesting part was that Salita was never defeated in his entire career and a lot of people did not think that Amir Khan would be threatening enough for Salita.

Dmitry Salita

Dmitry Salita

The fight was expected to last for 12 Rounds of 3 minute each as this match was being considered as one of the toughest matches. As soon as the match started, Amir Khan knocked Salita down with his first punch in less than 10 seconds. It was hilarious. Salita managed to get up, but he was knocked down second time again by Amir Khan within seconds. The third time he got up again, and was knocked down thrice in the first round. Amir Khan won the fight and retained the title.

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Khan & Salita

It is a must watch match. This got me hooked up to boxing. It won’t even waste a lot of your time if you are not a boxing fan. Here is the complete video of the match between Amir Khan vs Dmitry Salita:

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My Experience as an Adjunct Faculty

by Sarosh Waiz on December 14, 2009 in Random with 12 Comments

Since I quit my job in April 2009, I had been working on a a few projects as an entrepreneur. Although I still haven’t been able to crack that open opportunity that I have been trying to exploit, I am still going to go on and capture it until I succeed.

Since I had no office place to work at, and I couldn’t afford one as well… I was using the library at SZABIST (my university) as a business incubator to carry on with my work processes. To cut the long story short, I was lucky to be present at the university as aspiring new entrepreneur, when I got the chance of teaching the “Entrepreneurship Course” to the BBA students.

To be very honest, I was one of the weakest speakers in my class and when I got this opportunity, for a second I was fearing the consequences that could have happened. With my heart beating at a 4x faster rate, I kept on working on my first lecture for a week. I always intended to teach, and had also been teaching Maths after I did my O’levels when I first started a Maths tuition center named “Mathemagics” at my home with one of my ex-teachers. But that was an entirely different experience.

To teach at a university level, was something that I thought of doing a few years down the line. But as they say that, opportunity knocks the door very few times in a lifetime, so I thought of going ahead with it. It was the summer semester, and I was all prepared for my first lecture when I reached in the classroom well before time. Students, as usual, came in late … and some of them had this surprised look on their faces as they couldn’t realize I came in to teach them. Either it was the name, or it was the fact that I wasn’t an old chap… but it was funny as some of them confirmed it from me more than twice whether I am the teacher for Entrepreneurship.  Extremely nervous in my first class, I started off the lecture … and I was shocked that I was moving ahead so quickly with my ‘power point’ slides, that I almost completed my 3 hour lecture in 1 hour. Damn! I was nervous … couldn’t help it! It was hilarious … oh well.. I had some substitute audio visual material.. and I put up a half an hour informative speech by “Steve Jobs” at Stanford. Its one of my favorite speeches… it motivates me every time I watch it. I cooled myself down while the video was playing for the next thirty minutes. And as soon as the video got over.. I had a small interactive session and gave a break! The break actually helped me as I planned and prepared myself. It also helped me organize my thoughts rather than rushing with the chapter. After that… there was no looking back. And now.. I believe that I have finally overcome the weakness of public speaking.

I got an evaluation of about 96% in the summers which is one of the highest at college. I would like to thank the BBA Coordinator at that point in time who kept the trust in me and gave me a further of two courses to teach in the fall semester 2009. I have taught about 3 classes by now which makes up to (26+23+28) 77 students in all. I tried be a different teacher altogether, tried to be more practical than bookish and kept more a friendly attitude. I don’t know how the students really felt… and if they learnt anything at all.

A lot of students were nice and understanding. Plus… they were serious about taking the course. Some were just trying to get off with an A grade because they thought I was a “thand” teacher. The rest had such a careless attitude… that my patience was being tested.. which finally ended up in me bursting with anger in the last class. The problem is.. that a lot of people don’t realize the issues the opposite person might have been going through.. and they just care about themselves only. A lot of students tried to act quite smart when they tried to trick me with various … ‘stupid questions’ to be honest, which of course made no sense. I don’t know where they get this much of over smartness… its going to effect them in the long run if they don’t correct it right now.

I plan to take a break with teaching for some time because I have other areas to concentrate on. But it was a great experience as I also went on to take some extra classes of Marketing Principles for a colleague in Iqra University. Apart from this I was honored to be called in as a guest speaker at various places. All in all .. it was great knowing a lot of students, and it was a pleasure teaching them.

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Attending the HP Bloggers Meet in Karachi!

by Sarosh Waiz on December 13, 2009 in Events with No comments

Just woke up on a boring Sunday, its 1:25 pm right now, and I am about to get ready to go to the HP Bloggers Meet in Karachi. The event is at 4 pm so I think I’ll leave my house around 3:15 pm with a 15 minute drive to Royale Rodale ..

I had already posted about this event earlier on my other blog i.e., PakMediaBlog.net, where I asked people to register for the event. If you haven’t registered … too bad … since the registrations are closed now!

I’ve heard a lot of bloggers from Karachi would be coming to the event. So its a good chance for me to go out there and meet my fellow bloggers for the first time since I had been blogging in isolation because of too much stress on me in in the last 8 months ..

I’ve mentioned before that there is always a good way to blog for brands and in my opinion, this is a good step by HP to jump into the blogosphere and get noticed. Its great to see brands recognizing the importance of social media.

Social Media has been a big thing always.. but it did not get that high recognition .. and its about time that this medium is developing into a proper communication channel now.

See Ya! .. Will write about the event details more when I get back from the event in the evening ..

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The McDonald’s Rap

by Sarosh Waiz on November 21, 2009 in Random, Videos with No comments

Just though I’d drop in for a random post today. In fact I couldn’t resist posting this up. Yea Yea .. I know its old.. I have seen it a long time back too .. but just got a chance to watch this video again today.. so I thought I’d put it up on my blog to share.

Interesting rap by this guy about McDonald’s. The video is shared on Youtube, and he has done other rap videos as well.. but this one just caught my attention.

That’s the power of consumers talking about a brand. Every brand strives to get to this stage… I’ve done too much talking I guess.. I should stop .. and you better watch the video if you haven’t .. So here goes:

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