It is Good to be Back

Dear all, I am back at home after my joyful visit to Islamabad the Beautiful. I love this city a lot. Very calm and quiet. I could not write much during my visit but here I am back to the duty. During my visit I met with many people I love. Family, friends, and university buddies. Feeling very nostalgic right now. December has something that made you feel sad and happy at the same time. I do not know how to express this irresistible feeling.

Today I am feeling homesick despite I am in my home. When I left for MBA Programme many people claimed it is your first time out of house. You would live in a hostel and would miss your home like anything. Guess that was not the case. Also it surprised me. My first visit to home was after two months and second at the semester break. I remember coming home after a full 2nd semester (4 months). I settled in very well there but now this uncanny phenomenon has begun as soon as I think about my past time of university it starts to bother me that I did not miss my home as much as I do now. 

Both interviews went well, the main purpose of visiting Islamabad. Now I am waiting for the next call. Need your prayers very much. I shall write again soon and please leave your thoughts about homesickness and your experience with it. Mine has been very different.

- Usman Saeed

Home - It is Good to be Back

13th December (Pouring Rain)

I am in Islamabad and it's soaking in non stop rain. Oldies say that the rain that starts on Thursday continues to drizzle for a full week. Superstitious beliefs? I would not presume on that. But I am thrilled to see this rain because as a desert man I do not get to see rain often. 

From Monday to this very day, I am enjoying every second of time which has passed by. On Monday I gave two job interviews; one at Rastgar Engineering Company and one at Haleeb Foods. Both went very well Alhamdolilah. Rastgar people adopted a very unconventional approach for hiring. They are hiring people by an assignment given to candidates and candidates are supposed to come up with a workable marketing plan. Currently I am working on that.

Had a great time with Gulfam as always and later we were invited to a get together at Intermezzo Restaurant by Abdur Rehman Munir. What a quality time we spent as group members and on that dinner. Discussed future prospects and the meeting was adjourned after 2 hours as I had to go to Chak Shahzad at my pal Hassan's place just to spank him at Table Tennis. I must say I was amusingly surprised by his game but my never say never attitude won me the day (night actually)

Then I went to PIDE hostel to meet a classmate and two marketeers Nadeem and Irfan. It felt like university days all again. I had a great time. Although, I got exhausted later at the night yet great 2,3 days. Tomorrow I am going to meet my brother. He currently resides in Attock.

Hope to see you soon again. Until then (khush rahain khhush rakhain)

Happy Commenting

Dear readers, as promised in my earlier posts that I shall made commenting easy for you. I have a good news that any of my readers can now comment frequently and anonymously. How did you like this decision people? I am waiting anxiously for your replies now. Happy commenting!

Pakistani Media

Good were the days when we only had PTV as primary source of entertainment. PTV was one stop shop for news, dramas, sports, and current affair programmes. 90's were good. My words should not be taken as nostalgic expressions 90's were really good in every regard.

Then came the millennium and things got changed drastically. Specially after 9/11 and so called war on terror. Uncle Sam needed an adventure for changing calm environment of world. America backed by corrupt media of the world ran havoc in Muslim world. First Afghanistan gets invaded then Iraq and now Pakistan is on their targets. But you still have to answer the Armageddon you scripted.

All of this madness is some key achievements of spectacular propaganda. This is how media mess with your heads folks. Some wise man said true lines about hypocrisy of media and I am quoting, ''This tube [TV] can make or break presidents, popes, prime ministers. This tube is the most awesome goddamn force in whole godless world. And woe is us if it ever falls into the hands of the wrong people. And when the 12th largest company in the world controls the most awesome goddamn propaganda force in the whole godless world, who knows what shit will be peddled for truth on this network."

Wow! Seems everything was directed towards our recent and forthcoming events. Anyhow, one fellow of mine shared a picture with me. It was taken from HUM TV Drama and actress is Ayesha Omer. This picture rattled me to the last fiber of my body. Geo, Hum, ARY, and other private channels are intoxicating their dirty game in the mind of Pakistani viewers. Now they have targeted us with subliminal bigotry and this worries me a lot. 

Shocking!!! Isn't it? What they depicted in picture is one shameful act of psychological warfare. Hollywood excessively has deployed this strategy in their films but because it is on a Pakistani TV this really saddens me. What the hell is going on TV? But nobody seems to notice and nobody seems to care.

I know what they want. They want us to remain at this sleep and accept everything acquiescently they throw at us. They want us to accept everything perfunctorily and they are not stopping at any cost. They are making grueling efforts everyday and they know we are at sleep. Because we are at sleep they have taken over. And that's the fact they count on. "They know the fact that we will probably remain 'willfully' ignorant of the big red, white, and blue dic*s being jammed up in our ass***** everyday."

Please start thinking critically and start asking questions, to yourself and the authorities before they make your life a living pandemonium. May God protect you all.

Job Interview

Dear all, I am having a big interview; well at least on my part it is big, at Rastgar Engineering Company. This company is self-learning and rapidly evolving organization. Mr. Imtiaz Rastgar is spearheading this organization. He is a renowned name in the market for engineering goods marketing and export. In short he is a visionary and innovator of top quality. (if I get the job his description stays)

I appeal my readers to please pray for me. Your prayers mean a lot to me.