Before the wedding and before my mom and sisters devious plot which has left me literally without any hair(I'm speaking in relative terms: Relative to myself : Hehe!!). Oh now back to the subject. Before returnign to civilization they called me, "The Afro Man" but I was literally cut(as in scissor, lawn mower, turbines) short of my title. Anyways the upside was that I received two more instead.
The first title was the obvious title of IN LAW. The second not so obvious title was that of VAKIL. This is quite an awesome title that is usually translated to lawer, but in my case I'm a witness to my sisters nikah. This made me quite happy cos there were 2 Vakils, one me and the other one was my Uncle. It is quite ironic that I couldnt be present at my sisters nikah, I was a couple of hours late so I had to put in my signatures in boxes that were left blank later. Kumbaya!!! A witness who has witnessed nothing at all. Now isnt that just plain weird.
Anyways coming to the marriage. This Baraat like most baraat's was really emotional and stuff. I mean it started with the usual getting to the hall really early, seeing that everything is in order, waiting for guests and meeting everyone, followed by waiting for the groom to arrive, running up and accompanying my sister down to the stage, everyone getting pictures taken people coming to me and introducing me to their kids and stuff. Really hectic stuff. It wasnt that bland though. I just wish I could add video to my blog somehow, but blogging 3 days after something has happened makes recollection quite difficult. Then again it is more of an obligation. I wish I had developed pictures and stuff. Waisey maybe in the two weeks I get off after the semester I'll work with Raheel's(The Groom) brother Nabeel to work on a website in honor of the newly wed couple. www.Maria&Raheel.com was what we envisioned. It'll be full of pictures and stuff. But then again going on like this about it wont make anything happen so I'll cut off this blog right here saying that the wedding was awesome. I'd rather not go into the emotional stuff that followed. (My mom and other relatives crying is not what I want to fill this blog up with, I'd rather fill up this blog with pictures of the wedding food for all my GIKIAN friends. Mutton Karahi, Chicken Biryaani and Chicken Roast, followed by gajar waala halwa and kheer. Now lets see who gets emotional !!!)
/me is waiting for the pictures to get developed.
Wednesday, November 30, 2005
"My sister, the Bride"
Now I'm back in GIK already and wondering why I didnt have any blogs after the last one and before this one. A guy rarely gets time to blog when he is really busy and doing the stuff that he really needs to blog about. Theres a half finished blog on my bro's desktop even now :p. But I'll try to go over the events and highlights of my sisters wedding:-
Before the marraige KB bought a Sony HandyCam. Its an awesome lil device that was intended to give this marriage coverage apart from my Dad's olympus and oh the camera crew from my mom's university. The mehndi was at a quaint lil hall called the Dewaan-e-Sughan (if I'm getting the name correct) When we got there(an hour early), my mom put her artistic training to use by fixing up the bench that bride and groom were going to sit on, by putting on various kinds of flowers and stuff. Meanwhile I was goofing around bugging my sister. Not going to be so easy after she's married and all.
Then one by one the guests started arriving and the atmosphere started getting lively. And once the people from our side of the family were here, the bridegroom gang started making its way upstairs whilst getting flowers thrown at them by my cousins. I know this sounds weird, but thats the way of the east. Once they came up, we greeted them and the dulha made his way up to the bench followed by my sister the bride. During the time I was assigned the ardous task of being a camera man. Squeezing into crowds looking over shoulders and running around to get various angles was no mere task. It was a task that took all I had and left me with a terrible backache.
It was only after then that the actual fun started, with the dancing that followed shortly afterwards. It was so funny and even KB danced. It was a funny sort of a dance where he looked like a happy cricket umpire walking around declaring "OUT" and "SIX" over and over again. My dad thought they were I's so he called it the ICI dance. I got cofused too and started running around flapping my arms initially and later returned to the more normal type of dancing. Even my sister and raheel joined into the excitement later. My sister was doing the robot and raheel, well lets just say that he likes moving his arms vertically and his neck laterally. Slowly everyone joined in.
The dancing was followed by dinner and more dancing. Oh and I didnt have dinner at the tables like the regular folks. I got my sister to feed me from her plate. I didnt even know it and it was 2:00 am already. That was when we packed up and were ready to go home looking forward to the next occasion.
Anyways I would like to conclude this blog that should've been posted on Saturday with the follwing statement:-
I just hope that, "There'll be together forever until they find somebody new". Just Kidding.
Before the marraige KB bought a Sony HandyCam. Its an awesome lil device that was intended to give this marriage coverage apart from my Dad's olympus and oh the camera crew from my mom's university. The mehndi was at a quaint lil hall called the Dewaan-e-Sughan (if I'm getting the name correct) When we got there(an hour early), my mom put her artistic training to use by fixing up the bench that bride and groom were going to sit on, by putting on various kinds of flowers and stuff. Meanwhile I was goofing around bugging my sister. Not going to be so easy after she's married and all.
Then one by one the guests started arriving and the atmosphere started getting lively. And once the people from our side of the family were here, the bridegroom gang started making its way upstairs whilst getting flowers thrown at them by my cousins. I know this sounds weird, but thats the way of the east. Once they came up, we greeted them and the dulha made his way up to the bench followed by my sister the bride. During the time I was assigned the ardous task of being a camera man. Squeezing into crowds looking over shoulders and running around to get various angles was no mere task. It was a task that took all I had and left me with a terrible backache.
It was only after then that the actual fun started, with the dancing that followed shortly afterwards. It was so funny and even KB danced. It was a funny sort of a dance where he looked like a happy cricket umpire walking around declaring "OUT" and "SIX" over and over again. My dad thought they were I's so he called it the ICI dance. I got cofused too and started running around flapping my arms initially and later returned to the more normal type of dancing. Even my sister and raheel joined into the excitement later. My sister was doing the robot and raheel, well lets just say that he likes moving his arms vertically and his neck laterally. Slowly everyone joined in.
The dancing was followed by dinner and more dancing. Oh and I didnt have dinner at the tables like the regular folks. I got my sister to feed me from her plate. I didnt even know it and it was 2:00 am already. That was when we packed up and were ready to go home looking forward to the next occasion.
Anyways I would like to conclude this blog that should've been posted on Saturday with the follwing statement:-
I just hope that, "There'll be together forever until they find somebody new". Just Kidding.
Saturday, November 26, 2005
Yet Again!!! Another shaadi blog
Yet again it is time for another Shaadi blog. But this time everything is different because its my sister and she's going to drive off into the great Australian outback on her Supra before I graduate which is both good and kinda sucks at the same time. :/
Well what can I say!!!! Anyways I arrived from GIK(HELL) yesterday and I missed the nikkah but I'm looking forward to the Mehndi that is scheduled for today.
(Note:See card below)
Everyone is busy in his own way. KB is in search for a Digital Camera for the event. My younger brother is preparing for his papers before the Mehndi. I wonder how the event is going to turn out to be. Wonder how I'll ever figure out the bhangra in time!! I guess I'll just have to put on some rap song on and improv. :P My sister will be doing the robot or at least that is what she claims. Lets see what KB conjures on the spot. This shall be interesting. :D
As far as the nikah was concerned, Abid uncle missed me, but you cant say that I didnt enjoy the event cos at least I enjoyed the food. But I missed my dad's kukkar and rat dance that he created for that event. We'll I'll just have to be really creative today. The only sucky thing is the shalwar Kameez. I'm laughing my arse off imagining KB in one already. Apart from that, Hashim just called me today and told me not to worry about GIKI and that he'll do my assignments for me(Boy!! For a big time procrastinator, I'm lucky to have good friends).
Oh and I met Raheel yesterday night, friendly chap, addicted to cricket. I guess i'll try to get to know him better in the upcoming days. The sucky thing is that I'll have to return to GIKI on wednesday not leaving me too much time.
P.S. I'll try to keep you people posted with the updates
Well what can I say!!!! Anyways I arrived from GIK(HELL) yesterday and I missed the nikkah but I'm looking forward to the Mehndi that is scheduled for today.
(Note:See card below)
Everyone is busy in his own way. KB is in search for a Digital Camera for the event. My younger brother is preparing for his papers before the Mehndi. I wonder how the event is going to turn out to be. Wonder how I'll ever figure out the bhangra in time!! I guess I'll just have to put on some rap song on and improv. :P My sister will be doing the robot or at least that is what she claims. Lets see what KB conjures on the spot. This shall be interesting. :D
As far as the nikah was concerned, Abid uncle missed me, but you cant say that I didnt enjoy the event cos at least I enjoyed the food. But I missed my dad's kukkar and rat dance that he created for that event. We'll I'll just have to be really creative today. The only sucky thing is the shalwar Kameez. I'm laughing my arse off imagining KB in one already. Apart from that, Hashim just called me today and told me not to worry about GIKI and that he'll do my assignments for me(Boy!! For a big time procrastinator, I'm lucky to have good friends).
Oh and I met Raheel yesterday night, friendly chap, addicted to cricket. I guess i'll try to get to know him better in the upcoming days. The sucky thing is that I'll have to return to GIKI on wednesday not leaving me too much time.
P.S. I'll try to keep you people posted with the updates
Thursday, November 10, 2005
Recent developments
Okay now I'm back in GIKI(A synonym for hell, also my university) and all the stuff you've missed and I didnt blog about:-
Yesterday's Puppy Linux experiments didnt go as smoothly as I expected so I'll play around with the iso's a bit more before burning em. I handed over the responsibility of designing the super sonic double bionic multipurpose gizmo I've always dreamed of to a designerI recently met. Apart from that everything's going fine and I hope to get myself back in shape in a couple of weeks. All those iftaris at home made me gain a pound or two. When will the sports complex open :/
And oh where is Moody, I cant wait to get my hands on his throat. A lot has happend recently because of him, and one particular incident that happend day before yesterday is one of the funniest yet most humiliating things that happened to me in a long long time.
Oh and B^A has gone to Balakot to help the earthquake victims once again. He's setting up a school there. Too bad I couldnt go with him this time :( . Got caught up in wedding preparations for my sister.
Anyways all of you guys have fun and take care, stay tuned
Same iqqi time
Same iqqi channel
- How I reduced my CPU core temperature by 20 degrees C.
- My mom and sisters devious ploy which resulted in me getting a haircut (dont even ask)
- Eid, on which I visited my recently departed(My God Bless her) grandma's grave the first time.
Yesterday's Puppy Linux experiments didnt go as smoothly as I expected so I'll play around with the iso's a bit more before burning em. I handed over the responsibility of designing the super sonic double bionic multipurpose gizmo I've always dreamed of to a designerI recently met. Apart from that everything's going fine and I hope to get myself back in shape in a couple of weeks. All those iftaris at home made me gain a pound or two. When will the sports complex open :/
And oh where is Moody, I cant wait to get my hands on his throat. A lot has happend recently because of him, and one particular incident that happend day before yesterday is one of the funniest yet most humiliating things that happened to me in a long long time.
Oh and B^A has gone to Balakot to help the earthquake victims once again. He's setting up a school there. Too bad I couldnt go with him this time :( . Got caught up in wedding preparations for my sister.
Anyways all of you guys have fun and take care, stay tuned
Same iqqi time
Same iqqi channel
Friday, November 04, 2005
Eid without a hard drive resident OS :(
Just a couple of hours ago I was a happy person until I had to mess around again with my linux installation. I tried to write a script that could clear logs, temporary files and other stuff that was make my life easier (not such a hard thing to do) but as a result and carelessness I ended up deleting my Linux Files. Thank God I had verbose mode on in the script otherwise I might have ended up erasing my precious data as well. I only lost my conf files. Anyways I think I'll go to sleep for now and get XP set up in the morning. Its about time I shifted to SP2.
Plus stupid Ubuntu isnt letting me cp files from my NTFS C:/Documents and Settings to my FAT32 D: Something with incompatible file names I assume, but still this is preposterous. Looks like I'll have to end up attaching the drive at my bro's PC and worry about linux later.
Take care Ya'll and until next time stay tuned and EID MUBARAK!!!!!!
Plus stupid Ubuntu isnt letting me cp files from my NTFS C:/Documents and Settings to my FAT32 D: Something with incompatible file names I assume, but still this is preposterous. Looks like I'll have to end up attaching the drive at my bro's PC and worry about linux later.
Take care Ya'll and until next time stay tuned and EID MUBARAK!!!!!!
Thursday, November 03, 2005
Blog Feeds Ahoy!!
Another productive yet useless way how to spend my Time. After Hatim showed me Akregator, it looked so cool that I had to get it for myself!!!!!!! Mine all mine!!!!. So I got the program and stared adding feeds for everyone elses blog and it works wonders. It can check other peoples blogs for updates regularly and show new posts, without you having to type out any adress. No Links involved. Also works great with news, etc etc (Almost anything that gives an orange Feed Button on the lower right corner when viewed with Firefox. Heres how the Akregator interface looks.
A day in the life of an I-T during holiday season
Today (rather yesterday) was just another usual holiday season day for me. It starts off with me making a big mess. i.e. Playing around with my Hard Drive Partitions in Windows causing GRUB to give errors, Shifting the Hard Disk to my bro's PC, hypothesizing and Deleting Partitions in order to make stuff work, getting GRUB to work again somehow, going to hafeez center and getting Price quotes for Athlon 64 processors and Motherboards, a CD bag and Network wire extenders, coming back home and fixing the link between the floors, facing problems initially due to service tweaking and later on due to a wire being cross-over and also because of XP Firewall, and if you guys think this is not enough, configuring Windows ICS Connection with Linux (A really big Headache, but nonetheless like most other stuff simple at the end) followed by downloading update Patches for Suse10 which is still going on.
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