Journey from Rupee To Pound....

Why this is happening in Pakistan?

2011-11-22T04:08:00.000-08:00

It was shocking for me to believe such instances but as living outside Pakistan and watching this is moer painful. I am sure all weird instances happening in Pakistan used to happen before but now as the media is free and easy to get the news we get such news more occasionally. This is about a person who was abusing Dead Womens in Karachi papoosh nagger graveyard his name is "Muhammad Riaz". After watching his interview I can't see that he has some mental problem or any financial reason behind this. Also I can see from this interview that he lied quite a lot of times.

For me such behaviour is insane and not acceptable at all. My brain stopped working for a while after I watched this interview.

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Inspirational Pakistanis Part 1:

2010-09-18T12:23:00.000-07:00

In these days when our country Pakistan is famous everywhere and not in good name from Government to Cricket some people of Pakistan playing great part to motivate people and inspire without any return from any one.

They are role model or in other words heros of Pakistan which are helping Pakistan and our people in their own style. This is my first list I compiled and will come soon with second list.

Farhan Masood:

I met Farhan on Twitter and I didn’t know about him at that time but when I started following him I found that he is IT Guru of Pakistan.

Farhan Masood is a Founder and CEO of Solo Smart Inc. He has wide experience and knowledge in IT he is famous best thing is despite of this busy schedule he is really making time to tweet for Pakistan Flood and telling world about the facts. Well done Farhan keep it up.

Here you can see the Interview of Farhan on ATV.

Ayesha Mehmood:

Very inspirational person and very strong girl. She is studying BA, leading a cause about Thalassemia, working as a freelance merchandiser for a buying house, blogger. I follow her blog as well I found her really sensitive and caring.

She is a sister of late Salman Mehmood who was a founder of this cause. Ayesha is official spokesperson of Thalassemia cause.

Here you can see her interview.

Here are her blogs:

Ayesha’s Blog

I write a lot

M. Akram Khan:

From his words Akram called him an ordinary person. A person who tweets everyday about inspirational quote and thoughts can’t be ordinary person. These days we Pakistani just need inspiration and rest all we already have and Akram is doing great job. I love his tweet too much and usually retweet them so everyone can read them.

He lives in Rawalpindi. He is married and proud father of three children. He usually talks about peace and this is a big reason he has so many friends across the world.

Experience delivering supplies from UK to Pakistan for flood victims: (Phase 1)

2010-08-31T02:03:00.000-07:00

My friend called me one day and told me about Fakhr-e-Alam’s show how can you send supplies to Pakistan flood victims from abroad and PIA offering free cargo. I was amazed and started looking my options but at first phase it was not that easy as most of the people didn’t know about this. I called PIA cargo London and they told me to contact Ismail Amer from Goldcross for more information as he can guide me better ok so I called him and asked him the procedure and also dropped him an email. I was looking to start collecting money from my friends and colleagues here but before that I want to make sure that it will deliver to right people. After a while on same day I received an email back from Ismail explaining about the procedure and that I need to pay £15.00 for documents and £25.00 for Export Custom Clearance but if I can’t afford it PIA will pay for that hmm not a bad start but I was not convinced still something missing and I started tweeting to the people I know can explain me they told me to email several people which can help me out and I started dropping emails and finally I received email back from pksafe@piac.aero from captain Salman that they are issuing a fresh instructions to all offices was happy as I was getting replies pretty quick and I was also looking to send these goods as soon as possible to my brothers and sisters. After a short while I received an email again from GoldCross and send me a link of a page which had all explanation of procedure I called Ismail as well he is a great guy and helpful. After the call I decided to start collecting money which was smooth and I know so many people here in UK they looking to send some money but can’t find any resource they can trust. Me and my friend collected money and decided to go to Costco store.

My team :) I was taking pictures

Now it was a mission to find milk powder as people here in UK usually use skimmed milk powder and we were looking for full cream one so we called that day off and decided to go next day to Asda or Tesco to find milk powder. The next day we did shopping for Milk Powder and Sanitizers and finished packing the supplies in boxes.

In the middle of all this we also face one issue that suddenly PIA refuse to accept any dairy product due to custom issue WTH is this we worked hard to collect these powder milk and now you are telling us. But finally Ismail Amer from Goldcross managed to resolve this issue for us. Allah bless his he is really doing great work here for us.

Finally we booked a Van from Streetcar from Finchley location and delivered it to PIA Cargo Terminal 4. We met another guy there who came with his daughters to deliver some boxes they collected from friends to Pakistan was really amazed but shocking news was that there were two planes cancelled to take Cargo from UK to Pakistan due to some custom clearance issue and now we have to face some back logs. Sent details to Ali Abbas from PYA and now waiting for delivery confirmation to Pakistan will post Phase 2.

Two Brothers in Rajanpur

2010-08-27T00:13:00.000-07:00

I watched this video in facebook shared by my friend and I found it’s insane how someone can treat their own sons like this. Father said he bought the cow to give healthy life to his son can someone ask him is this is Healthy life weighing more than 90KG. I have a son and I love him as well and want him to live healthy life but not to weight this much even though the father know that he can’t afford for that long what will happen when they come out from Milk diet and asking to have proper food to full fill their diet. Think about this.

Impact of Social Media in our daily life

2010-07-18T14:03:00.001-07:00

Some years back we all know about sending letter to our relatives by post and I used to do the same to write a letter in a proper letter pad and post it via postal service and I liked that because it was fun and you know that someone care about you when they reply you back. I had many pen pal friends in Pakistan and abroad like in Japan, Canada, USA and India. But where are they gone somewhere where is that Letter writing I think always big fish eats small fish so Email is the big fish here which eaten out letter writing habit most of the people these days don’t use Postal Service for mails they use only for billing and Greeting Cards purposes which I will come back later to this point.

Emails are fascinating to us just single click and hey words travelled to 1 mile to thousands of miles. So on the other hand letter writing is dyeing as bills and statements are becoming paperless as well. So here I am going to discuss other what other big fishes eating small fishes.

Emails:

Yes we just talked about Email which took over the letters but hey what Emails are going to die soon as well so who is the Big fish here Social Media websites like Facebook, Orkut and others. These days I don’t receive much email than Messages and posts from friends they think it is easy to ask just drop a message on facebook, scrap on Orkut and get reply. So is this mean Emails are going to die yes why not sooner or later we are lazy we want something to do just as simple as possible. Most people use social media website more than checking emails.

Party Invitations:

Ok this is another small fish which cost some money but still I use to love by sending Invitation card to invite in parties but what now we don’t need it we can create event in Social Media and just invite everyone and guess what the benefit we can receive the acknowledgement fast as well and can find out easily who is coming and who is not.

Greeting Cards:

So do we need to send Greeting cards na I don’t think so just wish your friend on their wall or scrap it with some nice animation or image or either send them e-card which we don’t use that often as well.

Phone Calls:

Ok this is not going to die soon but we are using it less to call to friends because we can easily find out how is my friend doing by just looking into his status on Social Media.

When I ask this question to everyone they just give me one answer this is GREEN world I accept this but don’t you think we are getting use to for too much technology. I will love if my friends send me a card or letter on their own hand writing or any of my family members than an email or message.

I still try to send greeting card to my family so they can feel what I feel for them and this is best way I can show how much I care.

Ruislip Lido

2010-07-04T10:34:00.000-07:00

Really nice and beautiful place and specially fun for kids good thing is it is completely free even car park which you can hardly find in UK. The car park is just outside the entrance of Ruislip Lido and a large space easily accessible via public transport. Most of the information is available at website.

I went with my son who is 2 years old his first impression was not really good as he was never introduced with sand yes there is sand there so kids can play like beach but my son took only 10 minutes and then he realised how to walk in sand and play we went with a baby beach bucket set so that he can have some sand fun and he loved it. After a while we took him to water which was not really clean but worth it. There are many children rides at Ruislip lido which he enjoyed and had lots of fun. Also you can find Canada geese and Swans there.

There is a Ruislip Lido rail for kids as well there but we missed it by the time we finished everything they were closed.

Here are some pictures enjoy:

Over qualified and Over experienced

2010-01-27T13:37:00.000-08:00

What we facing in Pakistan for jobs this is the experienced my brother faced when he went from UK after completing his Masters Degree and work in some companies for better future and will to live with Parents but what he faced in response is ‘You are over qualified’ or ‘over experienced’ why? Just because he studied in UK from a reputed University and he worked in UK for a year but he used to work in Pakistan and he worked almost 6 years in Pakistan. He also applied at Geo Pakistan for job after a long process he was called for a technical interview and the question the interviewer asked him was:

- How was your stay in UK?

- What did you study there?

- How was the weather?

- When did you come back?

Etc

Just to make clear this was technical interview. After some days he was rejected and the reply was he was not technical enough je didn’t replied for most technical questions. After we asked someone we know to find out what’s the problem is we were shocked the manager of that department is only has Bachelor Degree and he was scared for his own position.

So if we go out to Pakistan for higher education and some experience and want to go back what do we need to do?

- Do we need to take out our degree from Resume?

- Do we need to show us fresh graduate?

After waiting 18 months final my brother got the job but not the one which is best for his qualification and experience but he had no choice.

I am sure most of us went back to Pakistan somehow faced some similar issues but if we are going back to Pakistan that means we want to do something for Pakistan and whatever we learned here so far we want to spread it back to our country. But still so much talent is away from the country and these types of issues always discourage them to go back.