Talked to Shoaib Mansoor on the phone! :)
Just a few minutes ago, I called Shoaib Mansoor, yes that very Shoaib Mansoor who is known for so many good things that I find it difficult to highlight any single aspect of his personality. Well, I mainly like him for his magical work done for the Vital Signs and Junaid Jamshed. Then I like him for his excellent tv shows such as 50-50, Sunehrey Din, Ankahi, Tanhaiyan, Alpha Bravo Charlie, Gulls & Guys, etc. Then I like him for his first ever movie Khuda Kay Liye, a really well made movie which I really liked!
I got his number after quite an effort I'd say. I'd been trying to call him on and off for a quite a few days now. But today he picked up the phone and well, we talked, and i was just so happy to talk to him. I was just kinda lost in thinking what to say hehe. He was cool, calm and casual and the calmness in his speech was mindblowing. I was so impressed and I guess success lies in being patient and calm.
Well, you might take it as anything, but talking atleast once to Shoaib Mansoor was a dream for me since I just love the lyrics he has written. I basically like all of his work a lot. I hope he can continue doing more of the great work he has been doing for all these years. I'm indeed feeling lucky that I've got to talk to him hehe.
I’ve been Tagged!
OK, I've been tagged by Hina, and here I am with the answers:
1. Last movie you saw in a theater?
RACE - idiotic but stylish movie. Saif Ali looks great!
2. What book are you reading?
Many actually. All of them technical 
3. Favorite board game?
Chess
4. Favorite magazine?
None, I dont read too many
5. Favorite smells?
Damp soil, 4 am morning breeze (these two are actually kinda stolen, but i seriously love'em), my 'Fa for Men' deoderant
6. Favorite sounds?
Rickshaw! haha, no. Umm.. chirping sparrows in the morning, maybe more..
7. Worst feeling in the world?
to go to Korangi Creek every day and having the opportunity to ride my bike on those 'amazingly beautiful' roads
8. What is the first thing you think of when you wake up?
It varies, it can't be static. If you just ask me about today, I thought of checking my email as soon as I woke up.
9. Favorite fast food place?
Hot n Spicy (love their rolls)
10. Future child’s name?
Babloo and Pinky... no actually.. I'd ask my spouse hehe... Or maybe.. 'Aysha' if a girl.. and 'Yahya' if it's a boy haha
11. Finish this statement. If I had lot of money I’d?
have lots of fun, travel my heart out, invest in a sensible manner so i can multiply, and do something to help make things better for everyone in a sustainable manner!
12. Do you sleep with a stuffed animal?
no, that question sounded funny to me for some reason.. should've been marked as a 'girls only question'
13. Storms - cool or scary?
Scary yar
14. Favorite drink?
Natural orange juice
15. Finish this statement, If I had the time I would?
I would read and experiment and discover much more than I do now
16. Do you eat the stems on broccoli?
ye kia hai? I actually googled images for 'broccoli' but didn't figure out 
17. If you could dye your hair any color, what would be your choice?
Hmm.. blue or cream or any shades of brown 
18. Name all the different cities/towns you’ve lived in?
Karachi - all my life
Apart from Karachi, I've lived for a few days in many other cities, such as Lahore, Islamabad, Most of the cities in Sindh except Karachi
19. Favorite sports to watch?
Twenty 20, Table Tennis, Badminton, Tennis, Snooker, Soccer Highlights, Hockey Highlights
20. One nice thing about the person who sent this to you?
OK. Serious. One good thing, she doesn't mind when I call her 'Baji' - very unlike most other girls lol
21. What’s under your bed?
I sleep on the floor, deliberately!
22. Would you like to be born as yourself again?
yeah sure
23. Morning person, or night owl?
a bit of both.. that's the problem with me, i am not consistent with anything haha
24. Over easy, or sunny side up?
I'm fine with both the options
25. Favorite place to relax?
A quiet place with a panaromic view of the beach, all I should see is water in the span of my eyesight
26. Favorite pie?
sirf paye.. jo bhabi banati hain
I am feeling free
I am feeling free, after having the last few days of my life so in love with course books (zabardasti ka love). I finally got rid of the most amazingly useless thing on the planet, it's actually not a thing, it's a complete course titled 'IS Audit'. There is some crappy organization called ISACA which tries to robotify all the sane elements of the environment. I am so annoyed by this CISA Manual, this CISA Manual is a terrible peace of **** load. I am sorry guys but I am extremely annoyed by this. If I were a warden, I'd have given this CISA manual to the most misbehaving of prisoners to read it as a punishment for their behaviour. If you need to know that an apple comes with 'a' and it is a fruit, the CISA manual will tell you that deliberately in atleast around 5 to 10 pages and that too using uselessly 'made up' terminology.
Well, I was with Adeel and Amjad, at Adeel's place the whole night before the exams. Before going to Adeel's house in the evening, Adeel and Amjad were at my place the whole day, and all this time we were trying to figure out why in this world has this ISACA got such respect that thier material is being taught in the universities. Well, everybody I talk to are terribly sick of this CISA manual broduced by ISACA crap. The exam has been taken, and I am relieved that all those long hours proved helpful with the friends, we travelled, we had great food outside (and inside our homes) and in between we managed to study. That's the way one should study a boring subject.
I still have one more exam to take but that one is relatively much more sensible and useful and practical and something that atleast makes sense 
Non-linear Non-linear Non-linear
I was one of those people who were much more appreciative of a somewhat linear way of thinking: Grow Up, Finish School, College, University, Work, Family, Weakness, Death. But I changed myself and the way I think a lot many units of time ago.
I have become a dangerously (should I say that?) comfortable person. And I am a non-linear person. I just CAN NOT live my life in a linear fashion. I have seen that and I have learnt that. I tried, yes, to live in a linear method and tried walking on that path (Us Rah Per) but I am so not able to walk on that. I am also of the opinion that is expressed in that lovely song Us Rah Per.
A megatriilion times I have thought about giving everything else I do a break and be a tameez dar insaan and finish off my studies first, but I can not, i simply, CAN NOT! This is somewhat dangerous for me, I am unable to control myself here Allah saeein khair kajo!
I enjoy it all though. I enjoy if I feel I am a little different (am i?). Being different doesn't always have to be a 'cool thing'. Hitler was different, yeah! Begum Nawazish Ali is different.
But yes, a good thing to have in your life is the Non-linear way of things. Infact, if you are practical enough, this non-linear way of things would be so common to you that it may have already become second nature to you.
I was so optimistic when I decided that I am going to take a little break and then I will be back to full throttle when I am done with my exams. Lekkin! I am not used to live without my workstation and some work that keeps the excitement in my life!
I got my first teeka (not maathey wala, its the injection) for my Hapatitus B vaccination. Rather unknowingly, I had never cared much for having the vaccination for it. I only went today, tested negative on Hepatitus B, and got my first dose. I'll have to go to them next month again.
Non-linear, Non-linear, Non-linear... blaaaast! **my head explodes**, **heads to emergency ward**, **wishing life was simpler for the thinking souls**
Computer Graphics Project Progress: Badshahi Masjid Lahore
The time has come that we submit our course projects and I am kinda lost in these ajkal. I have to deliver this Computer Graphics project on Monday and I haven't started animation process. I had started working on this one way back but then left it as I had so much of everything else to handle
Now when the time has arrived, I have no choice but to move on the path of 'jaan churaaying'... that's the art of just getting things done as soon as possible!
So, the model is ready, and now I am going to start animating it, during which I have to setup lighting, and then after all this, editing and composition of the final thing. It's been done entirely in Blender 3D, an open source 3d production package. So, thanks to them!
Prayers needed! I am also kinda slow on the Network Programming project.
Gandhi on World Peace
It may be long before the law of love will be recognised in international affairs. The machineries of government stand between and hide the hearts of one people from those of another.
-- M.K. Gandhi
Source: http://friendswithoutborders.org
Huh.. an update
Finally, I am taking all the pain to update my blog. Oh boy, it often becomes a pain, the best thing you love to do, it becomes the worst thing that you have to do. I am busy in exams and projects so much that I am unable to do anything of anything else.
I went to Procom 2008 and TechElite 2008, we did have a great time there! Was totally worth the time I spent there I would say, meeting talented people from different places.
I will be busy in the upcoming days. I will try my very very best to update my blog with stuff that you like to read maybe, but grrrr... I am so lazy at times so I don't find enough things that push me to write.
Maybe I'd like to share a wonderful piece of work from Ali Kapadia here. Be ready for a pleasant surprise! I interviewed this guy for CGX back when he was just a new name and he had come up with Maujon Mein, a music video built using the stop motion animation. And at that time, we did know that this guy is going to come up with some rock solid entertainment stuff! So, he did exactly that!