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DigitalEyez Experience

April12

Old memories brought back when I visited FAST NU Karachi Campus today. The memories were incidently of FAST NU’s Lahore Campus, which is built (almost) exactly like the one in Karachi. It was DigitalEyez - the event people of creative flare were looking forward to. I went in quite late, and I saw a welcoming group of people over there. I was with my friend Sarfaraz and we were treated like special guests which was surprising. BTW this ’special’ is not the one you may end up thinking about. Faisal Abidi, who was the participant and guest relations executive showed us around. I’m almsot certain he took us as if we are from press or CIA, or he was damn too generous in helping us have a nice experience. Anyways, the good thing was, we were happy! We settled into the auditorium for the short movies, and some of them were really well made, and different. I liked how the audience enjoyed.

Since we were late, we only discovered the web design competition lab with judges trying to figure out what design to choose as the winner.

Afterwards Sarfoo had to have his camera looked after by the Sony service centre people, so we left just before the prize distribution ceremony over there.

I feel bad that I was not able to participate in the web design competition, but anyways, it must be better, that is why God disabled me from taking part in the competition.

I noticed that Procom is coming, so I’ll have to try and find time to sharpen my algorithm skills, just in case I decide to dive into Procom. Strangely enough, this time its Procom.net instead of Procom, and that .net is for what? I don’t know. That’s not a domain name or anything, its just a name. I know Microsoft has .net but looking at what Procom offers, I am still confused what that additional “.net” is doing in there now.

Anyways, cheerz!

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10 Comments to

“DigitalEyez Experience”

  1. On April 13th, 2008 at 10:35 pm Fariha Akhtar Says:

    Oh u were there and I din’t even notice..strange because I was one of the judges (an in formal judge though :P) trying to rate the websites that people came up with in the web design competition :)
    Neway Digital Eyez was an excellent event. Now I hope Procom also goes well.

  2. On April 14th, 2008 at 2:10 am Kamran Says:

    Hey Fariha, I think I did see you if you were one of the judges. Umm.. were you the lady with the glasses on? I think it was you. I was just there while you were searching for the winning design :)

  3. On April 14th, 2008 at 2:41 am Asma Says:

    Ah han .. I’m waiting for Hina’s account on this too :)
    So figured out why the guy treated you so nicely :P

  4. On April 14th, 2008 at 3:18 am Kamran Says:

    Asma: O nai nai I ain’t “special” :P hehe

  5. On April 14th, 2008 at 4:19 am Faisal Abidi Says:

    I’d like to think me and my team gave All guests, big or small, this “special” treatment:).

    Thanks Kamran, glad you had a good time for the short while you were there. Wesey Kamran (you wore green shirt, right?), I was wondering just now after reading that you were FASTian that maybe you did look familiar. But here you say you are from Lahore:S. You sure we havn’t met before DEz?

    Last year another all pak event NETCOM was conducted besides PROCOM. They will now be combined this year.

    DIGITALeyez is the first FAST-Khi all pak event initiated by an existing student committee, unlike the Procom and netcom teams which are made anew each year. DEz was initiated by The Webmasters, then joined by The Literary Club (TLC) who did the xpressions (sketching and painting) competition. It is hoped that next year even more committees will merge all their events into DEz, such as Gaming Extreme Tournament, debates & declamation, play/drama, etc.

    Hope to see you next year with even more friends!

  6. On April 14th, 2008 at 4:25 am Kamran Says:

    Faisal: Hey buddy, welcome to my blog man! it was a pleasure meeting you at DE. I am from Karachi and yeps, with green shirt and I ain’t a FASTian.. we met at this Linux workshop some time back in the FAST Main Campus ;)
    Congrats to you for pulling up this exciting event and I surely am looking forward to the next iteration of DE!

    For all Readers: OK readers, so this is the guy himself here.. and he just clarified that I ain’t ‘that’ special :P

  7. On April 14th, 2008 at 9:12 am Fariha Akhtar Says:

    Yup..I was the lady with glasses :)

  8. On April 14th, 2008 at 3:59 pm Asma Says:

    Fariha, you call yourself a LADY :P
    Cute :)

  9. On April 15th, 2008 at 2:46 am Hina Says:

    THanks for the kind words! =D

    Hope faisal explained the .net in procom… it’s PROCOM + NETCOM this year!! All the best with the programming skills!

  10. On April 15th, 2008 at 2:58 am Kamran Says:

    VL: Yeah the .net is now clear! =) thanks!

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