Keep your feet on the ground..

I used to hear the phrase “Keep your feet on the ground and Keep reaching for the stars” .. by a very famous RJ of FM 100 .. yes Akbar Shahbaz. His voice used to wake up thousands if not millions every morning in the early days of FM100.

I never realized the true essence of this quote / phrase. I only thought that it related to achieving what you can in life in the best possible manner. I was never concerned with the 1st half of the phrase. One reason being I was a bit younger that time and away from the usual wrongs of life.

Now I understand, “Keep your feet on the ground” - means where ever you go what ever you do, do not forget where you belong, what you love, what you care for most. Do not forget who brought you up and stood by you in all times, stayed up in all darkness to comfort you.

I wish I had understood the meaning earlier in life.

Aaj ghar phir khali ho gaya

There are situations when one cant help but go through them. Staying away from home and especially that too away from parents is all together a different set of emotions.

Parents visiting your place is always a nice change but their departure; never a good sight.

I believe this is how life is. Win some; loose some.

Now who should be held responsible!

Well who is to be blamed for this action. I mean the Franchisee or the Comercial ppl looking after this area? So much so for the corporate social responsibility of TP! But here the comment to the picture is totally invalid. None of the top mgmt of any MNC would like to be viewed this way!

More later…

Time to switch themes

Just came here to write a post, instead saw a new layout of wordpress and am forced to give a new look to my blog.
Welcome April 08!

Slow Startup Excel 2003 - Problem Solved!

This problem had me bugging for the past 3 weeks now. Searched the whole wide world of Internet, tried numerous options, even messed up my MS office settings.

But finally the problem got resolved by searching for all *.xlb file and deleting.

Voila!! The excel opens up just as it does in safe mode (excel.exe /s)

This is hilarious

http://www.dawn.com/2007/12/18/letted.htm#11

This gave me a good laugh after a long time.

Cheers. 

Early morning Massacre - Post emergency

I usually get up late on weekends, owing to the fact the days are off and there is no early morning yawning and rushing for school. But today I was up at almost the same time, when suddenly it happened yet again. The blast sound was too near our place this time. With that the birds and crows making a hue and cry over the incident flew away.  “Ya Allah Khair - my heart pounding”. 

For a split second i wanted to switch on the TV and surf thru to find the latest news.. But then the media clamp down came to my mind. No there wouldnt be any news anywhere. There were no sirens rushing to the scene even. Almost an hour later, i finally switched on the set to find only Aaj News displaying the strip. Still nothing on the dammned PTV, ARY or even Dawn News. I am not a proponent of Aaj or any other channel but they still bravely started airing the news of the blasts. Yes it was near faizabad this time.

 I wondered in the past few days, what has caused the outburst of attacks to subside. And then this..

Where are we headed? The following two letters to editor in Dawn Newspaper depict the real state of mind of the public

 http://www.dawn.com/2007/11/24/letted.htm#10

Relinquish your office

MR President, I am a well- wisher of yours. As said in earlier mails, you had done good to your country, but all things come to an end. I accept you are supported by the army, but there had been to much water under the bridge, it is time that you vacate the office. I list the reasons for it.

The emergency should have been declared by the president and the commander-in-chief of the defence forces. However, it was done by the chief of the Army staff. The implication being that the Army ignored the president in doing so.

The sacking of the judges is unprecedented in modern democracies. It will be impossible for you to exonerate yourself from this act. People of Pakistan will not accept you turning the country into a Myanmar. If people don’t want you, say: “Hell to you, I am going”. Let them sort their problems.

Ten years are more than enough to be a president. I fail to reason your desire for power.

Your political problems are encouraging religious fanatics who are exploiting the unstable political climate.

S.A. KHAN  /London

http://www.dawn.com/2007/11/24/letted.htm#6

Lagay raho…

IT was nice to see in Dawn’s issue of Nov 22 the picture of a female journalist offering a red rose to a police official outside Karachi Press Club despite the police’s brutal behaviour with the journalists a day before.

This reminded me of Indian movie ‘Lage Raho Munna Bhai’ in which Munna Bhai (Sanjay Dutt) launches peaceful defiance through the teachings of Mahatma Gandhi, which he calls ‘Gandhigiri’.

He sends flower bouquets to the landlord of an old-age home who forces the occupants of the house to vacate.

Following in the footsteps of Mahatma Gandhi by adopting a peaceful way of protest, he asks the general public to send flower bouquets to the landlord of the old-age home with a ‘Get Well Soon’ card, and ‘Gandhigiri’ does wonders for Munna Bhai.

I think it is time we Pakistanis started sending flower bouquets to the presidency for Gen Pervez Musharraf with ‘Get Well Soon’ cards. Let us put ‘Gandhigiri’ to test in Pakistan.

M. RAFIQUE ZAKARIA /Karachi

Maa

Just read these lines a couple of days back in another email. Liked it therefore putting it here for you all.

MAA

WO IS TARAH MERE GUNAHO KO DHO DETI HAI
MAA BAHUT GUSSE ME HO TO RO DETI HAI

LABON PE USKI KABHI BADDUA NAHI HOTI
BAS EK MAA HAI JO MUJHSE KHAFA NAHI HOTI

JAB BHI KASHTI MERI SAILAAB ME AA JAATI HAI
MAA DUA KARTE HUYE KHAWAB ME AA JAATI HAI

KISI KO GHAR MILA HISSE ME KISI KE HISSE DUKAN AAYI
MAI GHAR ME SABSE CHOTA THA MERE HISSE ME MAA AAYI

 —

May ALLAH always BLESS you Ammi & Abbu.

The dilemma

One cannot clearly comprehend the situation our nation is going through right now. Sitting at gathering last evening, I came to know that the previous military rules had similar instances in their tenure before the downfall. I wonder how much of sacrifice is needed from the common man before some sanity prevails in the country.

The dilemma in my point of view is that of lack of true leadership in the country. Whether it is military or democratic rule, the charisma, vision and insight has been missing. Today on the business community seems to be making hay while mushy stays on. The expat community stay here and working on different projects wants Mushy to stay on. The Molvi hazraat never really played the role they were supposed to do. Instead making invalid statments time and again. Countries like Malaysia, Indonesia and others are far ahead of us in terms of infrastructure availability, literacy etc. Pakistan seems to be light years behind.

The focus of our energies and activities has either been the political crisis or waging or readying the military for another warfront. And nothing more.

More later…

Parha Likha Punjab

A point to ponder…

Have been listening to the radio Ad and watching the commercial. Its good that the govt is working to promote education and good to listen to the radio promos while driving, but on a different perspective it doesnt feel right when all you hear is about Punjab.

Thinking at a macro level, isnt it the right of every citizen here to be educated. Profiling, targetting individual areas of the same country? However on a different note, when the leadership of the country is wayward, one should not expect any pragmatic steps from the lower cadres.