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When on the morning of 13th Aug sid gave the rallying cry for the #blaggers to assemble it felt surreal. The #gogreen team pioneered and headed by our mad scientist/blogger Farhan Masood had been working hard over weeks for this day. The idea being to turn twitter and facebook into a virtual sea of green…
A few days ago, as I was leaving for work in the morning, my guard handed me a small piece of paper saying government officials had driven by and        handed this to him saying it was a ticket. I unfolded it and saw that the ticket was for the excess water flowing out of my…
I was recently invited to blog buster, a show about blogging on Aagtv. Its basically a show which encourages and promotes blogging and the issues we talk about on our blogs. I have not received an official video yet and will put the entire episode up when I get it. However many people wanted to…
A Few weeks ago on a sleepy Sunday here in Karachi, we had a tweet up. It was seemingly organized at the drop of a hat by CIO and sponsored by Google, Dawn and Red bull with P@sha & Acer as supports. For the non geeks a tweet up means a meet up organized via…
I have been absent from my blog for well over a week now, which for me has to be some kinda record, since i even blog when I am traveling. Pssst can you say “addicted” anyways I thought I would give my readers a little clue into what I have been up to. Its a…
I had the pleasure of attending a very interesting event today, which was the launch of a pictorial biography by Rasheed Jamal on the leader of the MQM “Altaf Hussain” Born in Sept of 1953 this student leader has not only galvanized the middle class immigrant minority of Karachi into becoming its strongest party in…
A few days ago at the petrol station, I was talking to a friend as the attendant filled my car about my recent visit to China via cell when the attendant timidly approached me. I looked at him quizzically as I had already forked over the cash for the petrol, and shut my phone. “Sahab…
This morning the world has just witnessed the longest solar eclipse of this century. It was best viewed from a small village in India called Taregna in the eastern state of Bihar, where it was visible for a full earth shaking 3:50 mins. Funnily enough the word Taregna in Hindi means counting stars, how appropriate…
If anyone’s been wondering as to where I have disappeared to, I have just gotten through one hell of a week. July the 14th was an important day for my family specifically my inlaws as my “SIL†or “sister in laws†marriage was scheduled for that day and as I had to deal with being…
Its been a week since I arrived in China and after the last post, as I flew back to Shanghai I felt like I was almost part of the fabric of this nation now, ceaseless noisy and restless. The flight back to the center of china was uneventful but the view in the morning of…