P@SHA Job Fair 2005

Today I went and witnessed the P@SHA Job Fair 2005. For those who dont know, it was a job fair organized by Rozee.com. Surprisingly the head of the event was Abidoon Nadeem , a B-8 Gikian and co-Founder of netronix(GIKIANS Lead the way eh?!).

Yesterday I was up all night playing GTA San Andreas so I thought I wouldnt be able to make it today, but somehow I slept at 7:00 am and woke up at 9:00 am, and reached JIT for the registeration. Well the companies at the job fair were, techlogix, trg, netsol, intel, Mentor Graphics, abacus consulting and many others but the information they dispersed was well known esp to GIKIANS. The Mentor Graphics and Abacus dudes had stuff that was new to me and we chatted for quite some time. Mentor Graphics deals in RTOS'es, Drivers, Interfaces all the techno geek C stuff. Abacus'es PAPI( Personality and Preference Inventory) is availible on the cubiks web site and it is what employers use to determine the needs and stff of people who they hire for potential employers (e.g. how much power hungry a person is). So it is a middle layer company that has a part to play in the Recruitment Process.

• The first workshop was at 10:30 but I missed that because I was 2 minutes late, but according to Rappie it sucked so I feel no remorse. After Rappie and I went out for Ice Cream and AFC( another SFC [FYI : SFC = "Sasta Fried Chicken"] ) for lunch and came back. It was then that Riz also joined us and we attended a couple of workshops. The time management one was a good introduction to the field.

• The second one titled, "Bridging the GAP between the workplace and the institution" was all about IT [FYI : Information Technology not Iqbal Talaat] in Banking and though informative, it made me feel woozy because of lack of sleep.

• The third one was about how to appear for an interview and it was stuff that you'd expect a 2nd grader to know, but some of the examples they gave were good about they experiences they had appearing for and taking interviews.

• The last workshop was the funniest one and it was about how to recruit a person. Half of what the person was saying was Punjabi and he seemed to turn everything into a joke. He was a favourite for the Masses. He gave good examples and had good stuff to say about the qualities companies look in an employee. His Slides were also hilarious and I quote : "No Atitude + No Skills = Shit Man" [Sounds like a super hero]

After that we ate dinner from Tarka and went off to our homes.

Before I leave I would like to finish this post praising Abidoon, P@SHA and Rozee for taking the initiative for P@SHA Job Fair 2005. Although GIK has a good recruitment process and collaborations with companies, but for people who are not so fortunate this was a golden oppurtunity. Hope next years Job Fair will be grander than this one.

Some good books I came across

With the internship coming to an end you will find an increasing number of blogs about what people did during their internships for fun. Well among other things I read a couple of books. Dont get me wrong these books rock and werent just to kill off time.

There were three books of Paulo Coelho who I rather find fascinating as an author. His writing style is quite philosophical and it causes the reader to review his own life. So its a book that'll keep you thinking for hours and hours. Its a pity rather that people have no time for their own psychological development in todays busy world. My favourite book written by him was "Veronika decides to die", its about a young girl who decides to take her life because she thinks she has experienced everything life's had to offer. But her suicide attempt has failed and she is admitted in the asylum where she realizes that she has very little time to live. Paulo Coelho carefully analyses the world then from her perspective.
Another of his works was "The Alchemist", this is a classic title that even my grandfather had read quite a while ago, but which I enjoyed nevertheless. Its about a boy in persuit of his dream(something that no one gives a damn to anymore).
"By the river Piedra I sat down and wept" is a book about a young girl who writes about her lover. (Good book but the first two were better)

I am however looking forward to reading his new book, "The Zephyr". For those who didnt know Paulo Coelho is a Brizilian with most of his works translated from brizilian into other languages. He has won the Nobel Book Award for "The Alchemist". And I hope you enjoy reading his books as much as I did.

The other author is a far more recent Dan Brown. You will find reviews of his books extensively on amazon.com. He's an excellent author who disperses a lot of information about symbology, science and a whole lot of other stuff to his readers without making them actually aware. I love his writing style too and he is an excellent writer. From among his books I like "Deception Point", "Digital Fortress" and "Da Vinci Code". Ironically I lost "Angels and Demons" on Daewoo.

Other than that I read some Sydney Sheldon, and I guess that's all folks.

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Coming in contact with my inner self

Back at Isloo and NCR there was no music, there were no PC games there was nothing. Whenever I tried to open any game related web site I used to get theese crappy messages.

NCR HAS BLOCKED ACCESS TO THIS NON-BUSINESS RELATED INTERNET SITE

NCR currently spends $25 million in data network-related expenses.  Since the initial deployment of the Internet Filtering Service in 1998, a significant decrease in the amount of non-business related network traffic has improved the efficiency and availability of NCR's global network for business use. These additional measures are expected to save an additional $500 thousand in network costs.

Well back then a friend of mine used to say :-

"May god have mercy on their souls! they just commited a sin of devoiding a gamer to come in contact with his innerself"  - Umair Azfar

Anyways now that that tyranny is over. I hope to reenter the world of gaming. Not just CS or warcraft3, but I have a lot of titles to do some serious catching up to do like San Andreas( heard that was good). I dont have enough time to end anything but I want to get a glimpse(5 hours game play) of millions of titles that my younger brother has kept hoarded up. Other titles to check out include battle for middle earth, HL2 ( I want to absorb more of it) and various others. ( I cant find the CD box right now)

Iqbal Talaat Bhatti