Back To Lahore

Well I'm glad to be back in Lahore finally. Reached at 2:30 am during the night. Came here on a half full daewoo whose last 5 seats I had occupied for sleeping purposes. Anyhow I still havent compiled the list of Islamabad statistics that I was upto but you guys stay tuned.

The weird thing is that I still didnt get my evaluation. Zeeshu's going to get it for me. So anyways Now that I'm home I'm looking forward to continuing my social life. Another thing that came out of the unexpected. A dude at my office asked me where I was from and the first thing that came to his mind when I told him I was from GIK was Atif Anwar :P. Looks like Tiffy boy's turning into an ORKUT celebrity. Its devoted people like him that have managed to keep Pakistan on number 3 in ORKUT's usage stats after all. :P Okay dudes me is signing out Until next time I'm off to drink some tea

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Iqbal Talaat Bhatti

Covering the tracks

I've been at the paper shredder at my office since the last 5 minutes. I shredded all the stuff(around 20 A4's) that were in my drawer. They contained stuff like, diagrams, interface designs, algorithms, doodles, more doodles and a lot of other crap. It was fun running them all through the Paper Shredder together. Now I feel like shredding certificates the people have hanged around. I also want to shred Dietel & Dietel that is lying around and Beginnnig JSP 2.0 and the Office XP CD, and the tissues from the tissue paper box around me. Shredding is a great tension releiver. Maybe I should buy a shredder for my room in GIKI so that I can shred any quiz or mid that goes bad after gettting the result. Anyways you guys have fun I'm off to more shredding.

Toodles

Last day at the office

Today is my last day at NCR. I just finished the documentation of the HR Management System and now I have to get it burned on CD and thats about it. I've enjoyed my time at NCR. I'ts been my home away(NCR) from home(Isloo) away from home(GIKI) away from home(Lahore). The time was fun. But I regret one thing and that is why I didnt figure out how to use ORKUT earlier.

Right now I'm just meeting the guys, Altaf, Adeeb, Salman, etc (may God bless em all). You know Final goodbyes. I wish I had a camera or something. *Sob!!!* Right now Its raining outside real hard. Typical movie scene. But I want to leave and run around in the rain like a free man whose prison sentence has just expired. Prison might be a harsh word because this was one fine prison. I hope I'll be able to get some stuff done in Lahore that I was planning to. Chances are that I'll start sleeping like a lazy bum.

And before leaving I'd like show my Appreciation to each and every one of these people who took me out for lunch/dinner. It pays to do an internship in a city that is not your own. People are just so nice to you:-

1. Uzair(Wattoos Friend) for taking me out to Italian Oven
2. Rana Saqib for taking me out to KFC
3. Usman Wahid for the delectable meal at Sufi Restauraunt
4. Mian Omar(Raptor & Abdul's friend who I met for the first time in Pindi) for not letting me pay at KFC.
5. The Bakery Dude who's name I've forgotten for free punch yesterday
6. Roshi for free Chicken and Bahari Rolls in F10
7. Zeeshu for Lunch at NCR Cafetaria.
8. Babar Sattar for Lunch at NCR Cafetaria.
9. Faiz Burney for Lunch at NCR Cafetaria.
10. Fahd(Raja and Boxers friend who keeps coming to GIKI to visit) for Lunch at NCR Cafetaria.
11. Talal Ubaid for his warm invitation to his home where I ate spaghetti after a long long time.

May GOD be happy with all of them. With this I finish this post and head off for lunch. My next post will contain Islamabad Statistics which I compiled and hope to get published soon.

Finally I got a JavaScript Clock Inserted into my blog. Quite cool actually. Now I can go to Peshawar Morr and enjoy a nice cool glass of lemon soda. Aaaaaaaaaaaaah!!!!!! And after that back to my room for sleep. zZzzz...

Internship Coming to an End!!!

Today is the second last day(or rather night) of my internship and it is coming to an end and I dont know what I am still doing at the office. maybe I dont want to let go of my IP Phone, maybe I am going to miss my laptop, maybe its the 100 K download speed but I guess this is time to say good bye.

Tomorrow I am getting my certificate and I'll be off for good. Well the whole experience was fun. I think I'll miss the samosa parties, the occasional extravagant meals(lamb roast, lasagne, etc). The people were nice. NCR has its share of smartasses, dumbasses, nice people and bad people, but I guess I'm going to miss Altaf and Helper the most. Salman or "Helper" as we like to call him is a considerate dude who'll come, spend time with you tell you stuff about your code and bug you till your head is about to explode but the magic is that in the end you feel like thanking him for it. He is a JSP dude who gave us a lot of tips and tricks.

Altaf on the other hand impressed me even before my internship. Rather he is the reason that I did my internship at NCR in the first Place. I really like the way he presented his company at GIKI last year ( during the b11 job tests). He let us sit for the test and later when I got selected, I couldnt say no. Even today he sat down with me and tried to help me find out a problem with performing operation on Access Dates, using the JDBC-ODBC driver bridge. In the end we both came to the conclusion that Access Sucks.

The City of Islamabad initially appeared to be a dissapointment after all I heard about the place but now I think I might miss it and also the whole internship experience. But then again this is a transitory period of my life. But who knows where I'll be doing a job next year. I have lots of obstacles right in front of me at the moment like :-

1. Learning how to drive in 20 days
2. Stydying for CCNA in 20 days
3. Meeting everyone in the next 20 days

But the thing I want to do most of all is to get some shuteye. Preferably for the rest of my vacations. I also need music. MUSIC!!!!!!!!!!! Its been ages.

Well I guess Its getting late and it might be a good time to call it a day!!!. I would love to hear from all my readers so leave comments. I know you guys stop by really frequently. The counter shows it all. Which reminds me I need to add a clock to my blog. Okay ppl until next time. Take Care.

I'm leaving this conversation for you guys to read. Its a chat I had a couple of years back with a friend on Java and C++. This stuffs so funny that you'll laugh your brains out. I changed his nick in order to preserve his identity but you guys are welcome to try and guess :P

Copy the contents of the box below to a text file and save it as an html, open it with some webbrowser and then Have Fun!!!!!!!!


<br />O_O therE?<br />I-T yes <br />O_O wassup? <br />I-T bas theek <br />I-T Tum sunao <br />O_O main fit <br />O_O yar ek baat poochney hai <br />I-T bol <br />O_O u know mice c++ is weak <br />O_O v weak <br />I-T yes mice arent good at C++ <br />I-T :) <br />O_O hmmmm <br />O_O acha ek baat bata <br />O_O r c++ n java same?? <br />I-T O_O u know 4mice c++ is weak <br />I-T no <br />I-T They are different languages <br />O_O acha <br />I-T Just read through some book on C++ <br />I-T And do the exercises <br />I-T That is enough <br />O_O can we do all things in java which we do in java? <br />I-T n we do all things in java which we do in java? <br />O_O i mean <br />I-T What do you mean by doing all the things in JAVA which <br />you can do in JAVA <br />I-T ?? <br />O_O can we do all things in java which we do in c++? <br />I-T yeah <br />I-T But java is classes based <br />I-T Pure Object Oriented <br />I-T It'll be hard for you a bit <br />O_O hmmmmm <br />O_O is java better or c++? <br />I-T depends which aspect you look at it from?? <br />O_O making programs <br />O_O wise <br />I-T with Java you dont have many libraries and help <br />I-T So you'll have to research a lot yourself <br />I-T C++ has a lot of help availible <br />O_O in making programs c++ is tough or java? <br />I-T for you Java <br />O_O hmmmm <br />I-T Cos you dont know what objects are I guess <br />I-T C++ is better <br />I-T It is more widely used <br />O_O u mean private n public classes? <br />I-T It has better support <br />I-T no dumbiee <br />I-T Yaara C++ hi parho <br />I-T Go through that book <br />I-T Issey paka karo <br />I-T And then later you might think about trying Java <br />I-T once your concepts are strong <br />O_O hmmmmm <br />I-T Whats with the - hmmmmm <br />O_O thinking <br />O_O ... <br />O_O yar do both languages have same logic? <br />I-T yaara so ja tu jaa ke <br />I-T Logic same hi hoti hai universially <br />I-T Do you even know what logic means?? <br />O_O i mean making program logic.... <br />I-T Open a dictionary and look up logic <br />I-T it is the same in every language of the world <br />I-T and's and or's <br />I-T That is logic <br />O_O acha if i know java;does it mean its of no use to cover c++? <br />I-T no <br />O_O yar wait a sec......mom calling <br />I-T Ok <br />I-T mainly cos I dont think you are in a position to cover java by yourself right now <br />I-T And C++ has market dominance <br />I-T Tu java karney ka ho sakta hai ke tumhe faida na ho <br />O_O hmmm <br />I-T cos Java isnt that widely used <br />O_O hmmmm <br />I-T Whats with the - hmmmmm <br />I-T ??? <br />O_O wat can we not do in java which can we do in c++? <br />I-T Does hmmmmm mean that I'm boring you?? <br />O_O thinking..... <br />I-T acha <br />O_O ooo nahin yar <br />O_O u r giving me info <br />I-T Yaara you dont understand, you can do everything in assebly which you can do in other languages <br />I-T By why dont you code in assembly <br />O_O which is very useful n i am thinking on it <br />I-T The answer is simple <br />O_O wat to do... <br />I-T Convineince <br />I-T C++ is more convinient <br />I-T And powerful too <br />I-T Java is not convinient <br />I-T Cos its not dominating the market <br />O_O in sense of libraries? <br />I-T Java programmers have less support <br />I-T And there are less libraries <br />O_O in wat sense r u saying its not dominating market? <br />I-T YEs <br />I-T java programmers are a few <br />I-T Compared to <br />I-T C <br />O_O in which sense u r saying support? <br />I-T Help <br />O_O java has less support <br />O_O hmmm <br />I-T If you cant do something in Java you cant get help from anyone <br />I-T In C++ someone else would have done something like that <br />and you can get help from web sites <br />I-T That is support <br />I-T Libraries are different <br />I-T Read about these things <br />O_O u mean it`s compilar dont indicate synatx n other errors? <br />I-T Libraries are compiled header files <br />I-T No yaar <br />I-T It does indicate errors <br />I-T but these are low level logic errors <br />O_O wat u mean by low logic? <br />I-T What if you cant do something, e.g. plot a graph <br />I-T What'll you do <br />I-T If you have no sample code to look at <br />I-T See what I mean?? <br />O_O hmmmmm <br />I-T Just use the internet and read about these things <br />O_O u mean its has no examples? <br />I-T I gotta go now <br />O_O not exacty got u <br />I-T Class at 3: <br />O_O okie <br />O_O thanx <br />O_O bubye <br />I-T Aik second <br />O_O k <br />I-T have you seen the C++ book <br />I-T ?? <br />I-T They have code samples <br />I-T Right <br />O_O ya <br />I-T you can refer to those code samples and they help you program <br />O_O java book dont have code exampleS? <br />I-T You have millions of code samples on the web for C++ <br />I-T But only a few for Java <br />I-T There are code samples <br />I-T but there are a few <br />I-T Get it <br />I-T ?? <br />O_O hmmmm <br />I-T so hence Java is difficult to learn <br />I-T now I'm off <br />I-T Ah <br />I-T Use the internet to read about the points that we discusses <br />I-T *discussed <br />O_O hmmm <br />O_O chalo okie <br />I-T use www.google.com <br />O_O hmmmm <br />O_O k <br />

Pakistan Software Houses Association Job Fair at PC.

Major CS Job Fair in Lahore. The first event of its kind in Paki Land. For free registeration use the following link. 500 Companies are attending EE companies, CS companies, etc. Plus Workshops on interview and Presentation skills.

http://www.rozee.com.pk/jobfair/index.php?ref=

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Iqbal Talaat Bhatti

A counter at Last

Greetings Fellow Country men. My blog just got a hit counter effective 11:01 am thursday. Just another reason for ppl to come by my blog and marvel at the counter. Simple yet elegant. Wonder how it works though, i.e. how a picture can track the unique identity of different ppl (Explanatory comments shall be appreciated) :S.

Anyways I have also to get back at work, sooner or later someone is bound to catch me wasting company resources. Meanwhile have fun and keep visiting. Love Ya All!!!!

"Also Check out the list of Friendly blogs. My Favourites at the moment are Dabba's live2see and Usman's Blog."

Computer Geek Test

If you're really bored like I am then head off to http://www.nerdtests.com/ft_cg.php
Below is my score. Lets see what you come up with. If you take the test then post your score in comments. I want to see what I rate among normal ppl.

weird blogs

Just a couple of minutes ago I came across a very unique set of blogs by trucktr543

The special thing about these blogs is that they are quite mysterious in the sense that their topics make sense and the content of the blogs are the topics padded with text that either makes no sense or is very hard to decipher.

e.g a blog titled hczvjrr and several others. If anyone finds out what the padding is and what it means, whether or not they are mapped onto the title text by some mathematical function or procedure as I strongly suspect ,or are they just nonsense do let me know. One advantage of these weird blogs is that they have given me one thing to really think about.

"Are ppl by default dumb or smart"

Anyways take care ppl and have fun. I'll try to see if I can figure out some relation in these blogs.

Goodbye to you!!!!

You have been with me through the good times and the bad times, but now its time to say farewell to you my friend. Drats!!! Another mobile gone. Its been 2 so far. First it was mobile number 1 (SAMSUNG RJ 445) Stolen in GIKI From my Very own room not too long ago.
Mobile #2 lost just recently while I was internshipping (thats what I like to Call it) in Isloo(Everything about that place is forsaken) a week ago. The reason I later got to know were well apart from being irresponible, there were other mysterious forces at work. The reason I lost mobile #2(NOKIA 3310) was because I went to get a haircut. I was not surprised. This is not the first time such a thing has happened. I ruined my 5th semester result just because I got a haircut before the result was out. There are of course many more incidents I can go on yappin about. But another time maybe in a blog titled, "The curse of the haircut" or something which you can expect to see in the near future but not too soon (It takes time to come up with stuff :: You were not supposed to listen to that). Anyways the point is that I got another mobile that has volunteered to be my companion.


Introducing Mobile number 3 : The Motorolla C115.
I hope this one stays longer. - Aameen

ART BOTS coming soon

If you're bored shit and want somewhere to head off to, you might want to check out the artbots site. Its a sublimation of art and robots and its quite extravagant and extraordinary. Definitely a must see. Head off to :-


http://artbots.org/2005/participants/Cockroachcontrolled/ <<-- This one I like

Anyways about my internship, its going on fine, its mainly JSP, Javascript and WebBased so far. 2 projects so far and the The second one almost complete. Right now I'm home on weekend and chillin out. Until next time, take care and stay tuned.