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To all those far and near a very warm new year wish from Moiz.

Guys there is a rumor in the air that Akunet is going to provide us free internet from February next year. How good is this. I say awsome I can't wait to be in February.

Most of my hostellite friends will find this news very upsetting. Finnish police have raided a famous bit torrent weebsite and have brought it down. Along came some 30 moderators. The rounding up mission was construed because these networks are used to share files that have been illegally copied. Screw all these authorities. Link Via Metafilter

Goodbye Lenin The movie was superb. Though the movie chose to deal with the changes taking place after the fall of the Berlin wall in a comic manner, the message about the confusion in the minds of the older generation was very clear. The reality was much worse than that and a huge majority of party members and the older genration simply couldnt reconcile to the fall of communism. There was this pervasive despondency and sense of failure; a high unemplyemnet rate all leading to an alarmingly high rate of suicide especially among the professional middle class. Anybody who is interested in the history of communism and the plight of party members after its fall, should read this novel, Fear of Mirrors. The author is of Pakistani origin but displays a tremendous command over the events that shaped the last century. It is a great read. I loved that scene in which the mother leaves the apartment building and a statue of Lenin is being carried away by a helicopter. The scene was intense; it i...

Happened to drop by 4th Kara Film Festival this Friday along with the rest of the bunch. two movies were aired in the prime time that day. The first one was from Iran and not interesting at all. Enough said about this one we move to the second movie of the night. This movie came all the way from Germany. Started rather ordinarily but turned into an interesting watch fifteen minutes into the movie. It dealt with the immediate post cold war era in Germany when the wall had fallen and communism disappeared into the overwhelming wave of capitalism thus bewildering many in the process. The movie deals with the change at a more personal level and in a very delicate way. Tells us that both systems of governance are rather false and try to keep the people in a false hope of progress and security. All in all it was a movie worth the money we paid for.

In my opinion, the Aga Khan Board is a step in the right direction. All of us, who are the products of the F.Sc. system bear witness to the fact that the current system is outdated and inadequate to meet the needs of the modern era. The syllabus is decades old and unfortunately its revision is in the hands of those, who want us to be taught the same way they were taught. The entire education system is about to collapse and there is no hope for a change, the way things are going. In this scenario, the establishment of this board is like a breath of fresh air. As far as the maulvis are concerned, let them have their fun. It is their life mission to turn non-issues into issues. If they have the balls, why don't they target Mushy over the uniform issue. I sincerely hope that Mushy and his team of corps commanders do not backtrack like they did on the blasphemy law procedural changes issue.

Guys you need to watch this. This is simply hilarious.

We have been hearing a lot of fuss about the Aga Khan educational board and the radical change that it will bring into the education system of the country. I personally don't have any opinion at present but it seems that some of the people outside the campus are quite vocal about it. Just five minutes ago there was an announcement on the loudspeakers being carried on the back of a vehicle that warned the people of the adverse consequences of accepting the board in our educational system. There has been wall chalking on all the walls near our university that outright condemns the creation of such a board.

I have been under attack of a flu epidemic in the region. This is the worst disease to have. Really cuts every neuron in the brain so that you are left with nothing but confusion and restlessness. On top of all this is the compunding effect of undone work.

I am sick and tired. I am sick and tired of introducing to you newcomers to this blog. I am sick and tired of introducing to you those newcomers who make a single post and then disappear for good. I sincerely hope Murtaza here will not do this. He is one chap full of spirit and the will to keep things moving no matter how adverse the circumstances. So murtaza buddy let it go_let it go wild into the cyperspace.

Ladies andd gentleman...big daddy is in the house!

We beat 'em. Via Pakpositive

I got my mobile just today. Its a sleek looking 6610i from Nokia. I simply love my mobile. Thanx Usman.!

The greatest want of the world is the want of men- men who will not be bought or sold, men who in their inmost souls are true and honest, men who do not fear to call sin by its right name, men whose conscience is as true to duty as the needle to the pole, men who will stand for the right though the heavens fall.    I think Waheed is one of those men.

U.S. Medical Transcription Market Worth $40 Million to India

Inflight CE    As if back breaking burden of work was not enough to keep the doctors bent over there is more news. An innovative company has introduced the concept of inflight continuing education. Hereby the doctors enroute to medical conferences will be able to take CME on their flight to their destinations. Read about it on medical informatics.

Guys you need to read this post for this is something serious.

A great place to study.    Yes this is the name of the article written by the US ambassador in Pakistan and deals with the issue of foreign medical students in the land of the free. The whole article is replete with false claims and assurances that is so characteristic of the US government. At one point in time the honourable writer makes us believe that after the installation of Student and Exchange Visitor System it has become ever so easy for the aspiring students to enter states in peace. The writer talks of foreign medical students and the benefit they bring to the US society both in terms of cultural diversity and monetary inflow. He tells us of new scholarships being given to help students study in states. In the end he ends his essay with the following note, For Pakistanis thinking about your own future, I strongly recommend that you consider higher education in the United States. With more than 3600 fully accredited institutions of higher education, America...

We are back from the break and I hope that more interest will be shown in blogging regularly on male hostel. In other news our number has yet increased from four to five bloggers. Isn't it a shame that the number of posts that five of us can manage in a week is less than five.

Just watched The Pianist... Holy moly! Quite a movie...shook me shook me shook me...and here's why! We all know abt Herr Hitler. Janab Izzat Maab Sahib Hitler killed around 6 million jews {at least according to American Stats) between 1938 and 1944 under his clean-the-world-from-jews fund drive...and ain't that funny! That was the last straw that broke the world' back...and had everyone clamouring for one place for the Jews to live...and surprise surprise! They ended up in Palestine...funny, huh? Lemme clear up something right at the beginning. I am not racist...or if I am to be brutally honest, not very. I still think no matter what plan God had made for the Jews and no matter how much they've been driven out from wherever they've ever lived, one can't simply kill an entire community just because their beliefs are different. I remember a time when I used to hate them because of what I knew was happening to Muslims in Palestine (it still is! I hate the Israelit...