This problem wasnt life-threatening but sudden problems in the home / office computer really bug me a lot. Recently the office system was afflicted :p with MS word problems.

Older files did not open in MS word, normal.dot file kept on asking to be replaced/changed. Similar issues in MS Outlook (which uses MS word as the editor).

Finally i got hold of this link which helped solve the problem at the 2nd step only.

Thanks to the author!

Just saw this news item in today’s Dawn. Orascom has started due diligence for RBS-Pakistan. Now are we seeing another Telco-Fin Merger / take over in process?

Telenor Pakistan took the first step back in q4 2008 to close the deal with Tameer Micro finance bank (a relatively much smaller financial institute) and acquired 51% stakes in it. This is part of their long term plans to provide the end customers with better telecommunication and financial services to the length and breadth of the country.

The dynamics of the Pakistan industry are changing. This together with the effects of recession (read another article here) are rapidly affecting how organizations (SMEs, blue-chips) work now.

Lets keep our fingers crossed and see how the things shape up for the Telco and Financial industry in the next two quarters.

“I am planning to hunt for a better job, out of Karachi”. Probably these were the words that I said to everyone in my family somewhere in early 2007.  I was too frustrated while looking for a permanent position in my home city. Nothing seemed to work out. 

Suddenly one day an offer dropped in from one cellular operator for a positon in ISB and yet another one from another operator for a position in LHR. Things started to roll. Allah bestowed me with these opportunities. The moment of decision arrived.

I had to make a decision with the available choices – Stay back and look for something in KHI, select the position in ISB or the one in LHR.

“Its been two years since you left home and moved to ISB”, said my mother this evening. Countless questions roam my mind today as they have done so in the past couple of years. Some answered, others yet to be answered.

Life has moved fast, hours into days, days to months and months to years. I had never planned for that long a stay away from home. 

Lyrics from the movie Tera Zameen Par Song “Maa” touch my ears..

 

Have a read here at my Zumbeel blog.

Just checked out this interesting search pattern on my stats page. There was a time i was facing a situation of seeing the number 13 in different forms. Older post here at WP. So the image here indicates other people too are looking for similar phenomenon happening to them in their lives.

Yes, its packup time. Shifting to another location in ISB. Was looking for accomodation. But searching for a good enough and economical place in ISB is a nightmare. Sometimes the agents blast the deal and sometimes the landlord. It is tiring and at the same time challenging!

With most of the landlords greedy enough to bite your back and asking such ridiculous questions like.. Your company must be paying the rent for you? How many kids do you have? Whats their age? Agreed its their property and no-one likes to have his beautifully earned house destroyed. But then again it makes you feel and shout out loud.. “We are humans for Gods sake..”

But there’s another side to this story as well. Some tennants are really non-sensical and do damage to the property.

Finally our deal was struck on the eve of Ramzan with place and people nice enough to go ahead.

So finally its packing time!

6th Sep xx, – A day of commemoration for the armed forces of Pakistan.

6th Sep 08 – Presidential Election in Pakistan, yet another time.

Was the date for the later event delibrately selected or is it just a co-incidence. Everyone knows the character of the person who has the most lime light today for the Presidential candidature.  Then how come no body cares anymore. Does the elimination of his wife from the premiership race caused this? I really doubt that.

Should we term it yet another blunder from Mush, invoking NRO and then letting them come bk to Pakistan.

So the many people from the political and non-political circles asking Mush to step down and help curb the evils from society, where are they now? Does his stepping down help Pakistan.

i term today’s date and day to be co-incidence. This is nature’s way of showing us the paradox. Sacrifice of hundreds of men for their homeland and yet another man’s induction to the highest slot in the country.

The very men who pushed AZ into police and prisoner vans shall be saluting him!

My mind cannot comprehend anymore.

 

Military coups, elections, politics, agencies, blasts, suicide bombers, events like Lal Masjid, buearacracy, president quitting.. Who provides fuel to these matters? Ofcourse our very own media.

Yes they are one source of information which the audience requires more than any other medium. But the sense of responsibility that should ooze from such institutions does not simply EXIST.

Having no pro lobby for any political or military dictatorship or any political affinity, I was simply grounded by reading the headline of one of the newspapers this morning (19-Aug-08).

“Mush quits with his tail between his legs”

(Just imagine the Urdu translation for the same)

Is this a bloddy high school drama going on here. This is Pakistan that we are talking about. It is hardly 24 hrs to his resignation and this is the kind of information sharing you are doing? Simply insane! I wonder had this statement come out in some foreign paper, what would have been the consequences for that news agency.

I simply lament our state of mind as Pakis.

May Allah guide us to the right path.

I wonder what went wrong there. I was just cursing firefox less than 24 hrs earlier. This morning when i opened up the browser.. They are all back. The first thing i did.. ran the bookmark export option and saved them for any future use.

Yes, this is what happened. I never depended more a browser until now!!.. Lost all of the bookmarks when i upgraded the browser from ver 2.0 to ver 3.0….

I am SADDDDDDDDDDD.. & FURRRRRRRRRRRIOUS