The night before another farewell

Well this is I-T as usual reporting live but this time from home on the eve of a very important special event, the night before the day when KB, the eldest of the bhatti brothers is leaving for sweden but on a literary epic quest one that will take him to the depths of Gotenberg. Just to be exact, Chalmers University. At the moment everyone is tired after scurrying about from here to there, running errands and stuff. Relatives have been visiting since the last three hours and now it is 12:30 AM. Last days are well ... umm... different if not anything else. The day started off with us getting gadgets and tech accessories. In fact the fact that we were out getting tech stuff today was because of yesterday when we weighed KB's PC. It weighed a whole 5 KG. That was too much for him to take and too much to handle, so he set a budget a budget under 50 K Rupees. Once that had been done, I contacted yet again the person who does not exist that I .... well used to work for, but still do in  a virtual way. He suggested ibuy a pretty cool site that is the authorized dealer of quite a few makes. There was this Decent dell machine availible just under 50 K, well I doubt that you would've guessed it but its a Dell Inspiron 1300 and they had it stocked. And that was when we got one booked. Only to go forth and get it. THen came along the addons e.g. clipon webcam, IDE 2 USB converter. I bought myself a 512 MB MP3 Player and USB Mass Storage Device while running around Hafeez center. I've been using it since the last well, 8 hours and it has served me well. And it continues to do so. At the moment I'm listening to Red Hot Chilli Peppers, The Zephyr song. Anyways buying this made me do one thing that I have wanted to do since quite a bit of time and that is organizing my music collection according to my desired mood. My current desired mood is relaxed. Other desired moods include alert, cool, 80's, oldie(thank god its not gay anymore). This is the kind of stuff you'd expect from a geek computer nerd. CS kind of does that to youk, but then again there are positive sides to the story as well.

Ahhhh now where was I, so many relatives visiting means that I wont be able to depart for GIK today, which is bad in a good way because I wont be able to get started on the Compilers Manuals that I intended to, however I will be able to go and see KB off at the Airport. Oh goodie, Desert Rose is on :) Another step closer to my current mood goal of relaxed and once I reach to that state, my next mood goal is anticipated to Dark and my friend Rappie knows what that means, yep Rappie if you're reading this you guessed it NIGHTCRAWLER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Okay dudes this is I-T going *kapoof*. See you guys next time same blog time, same blog channel.

Oh man blog composing on this laptop is so soooooooooooo goood. I want to run away with it. This night I'll play Golem, KB will be Frodo and well we all know what the laptop will be. Its going to be a long night Sigh!!!!!!

Back to GIKI

Well I went to gik today afte a lon itme and I saw Hatim blogging an d I decded to give it a try on my wy back from teh daweoo termail even though they have sucky ekbord with key s really heard to press ti wa sitll a good way to kill time. After going yesterday to bytesenes. the 2nd last time I go there as an empoyee, i deided to work at the university(GIKI) as a TA. I went fo rthe interiew early in the moring after a journey that lased toe whole enight. I reahed IGKI and it looked diffrent. Met a lot of old freinds. Had a lot of fun. The TAhship intreveriew was great. I wodnder if you gcan read this. I acan but mayee it is i n my head that mwhy .

I got 2 labs. I have to share the burden of 1/3 of the 300 CS101 students and pierre is getting them hooked on linux from the start. This should be interesting. Apart from that they gavee me the compilers and langauge lab too. Hve to decide its course content from scratch with Usmnan the instructor from scratch because it is being foffer d for he first time. This should be fun. Masroor said he would help me with algos for code Jam. I hoep tht the busy s`heduel allows me to tke time out for everythig.

I wen t bcak with Hatim. He generously gave me a ride till pindi daewoo even thought he himself got off at Hasan Abdal. Great Guy. He's the reason I got into microsfot ni the first place. Inshallah Nice things will happen to nice poeple.

now my fingers hurt these keys are as hard as rocks with litlte rocks between thim. Will post this later. Mouse not owrking. Onlly enough engery to save as draft. Cant find quick post contact in list.

I-T out. Might wriet from Lahore

Maria Go Bye Bye!!!!

Yesterday was quite a hectic day. Most of the day was spent doing stuff such as packing bags, carrying luggage, weighing 40 KG boxes by carrying them and stepping onto a weighning scale. Thats right!!! Yesterday night my Sister left for Sydney via Bangkok to start a new life. Best of luck. Yesterday, the airport was quite a scene, had quite a hard time consoling Ami.
However to be quite honest, I didnt feel a thing. I really dont know why. Maybe because the world is such a small place today. However the takeoff at 11:50 pm was spectacular. All of us walked to the right of the airport and witnessed the Jumbo jet get on to the runway, accelerate and take off at a 40 degree angle. Spectacular indeed. Just to vanish into the hazy night sky(thanks to Lahore's Automobile Industry), and then appear again travelling in the opposite direction far away as three dots moving across the sky and vanishing finally. It wasnt until 5:20 am till we got an email from Maria saying that she cant find a phone and she's okay and all. Pretty advanced airport.
Anyways at estimated 4:00 pm she'll reach Australia to her new home and well I get to occupy her room and we all live happily ever after. I guess thats something only time will tell.

The Breaking News[In MultiColor]

THis is the question people have been asking me for a long long time until the point that its becoming kinda frustrating answering it. Anyways dudes, I cant go to Microsoft this October, however I may be able to go next October. Thanks for all the support. And this is all there is to it.
Apart from that everything is A Okay. I'm looking for a job to pursue and I'm perfectly happy. I dont have a picture with me so I'm putting a smiley :) <-- to show how happy I am.
OH and the Certain Mr. Somebody who I work for who I havent met suggested to me that we need little demons in our servers. You know little ones with pointy tails.

For Code Geeks:-

rectangles are defined by 4 vertices. We have lots and lots of rectangles. Come up with a solution better than O(n) time to determine how many points there are in the rectangles. Post solutions in comments. First awesome answer gets a treat from me :D.

Driving in Lahore's Killer Traffic

Well now that I have a break from the tough academic life at GIK, I finally have little if not much time at my hands, just enough to learn cooking and driving. So on todays menu was driving from 2:00 to 3:00 pm in Liberty, Center Point and Gandhi Park. Did I mention I hate roundabouts.The people here have no road sense(newbie driver talking), the people are deaf(you could honk all you want, but they wont listen, rather stroll along in front of your car at angles that make them look as if they are switching lanes rather than crossing the road. Okay the description most befitting to driving in Lahore is 1st Gear, 2nd Gear, Clutch, break, 1st Gear, Clutch Break. Maybe I'm overdoing it a little bit.

Apart from driving I'm working nowadays for someone who does not exist, whom I havent met and havent talked to and yet something makes me feel that he'll pay me for doing nothing at the end of the month. It was that certain person who does not exist who started pronouncing "Evil M$ person"[ME] as Evil Madolla Person. Gracias!!! You guys probably think that I'm working for some sort of Government Agency or Covert Op's, and if you're thinking along those lines. Its far more serious than what you think.

Anyways, Look at what I got <bzzt> *you are startled by the white Light* ((YOu remember no more))

Anyways I learned to cook Chicken Karahi today and it was awesome, one dish I definitely know how to cook, and I need to know how to remember to cook so here Goes.

CHICKEN KARAHI:

The Stove:

Take 1 Kilo of Chicken, throw in pot along with some hot oil[No! the oil doesnt have peppers or chilli in it, it has to be preheated]. Then you leave the chicken in and occasionally turn over and over and over.

Meanwhile, at Another Corner of the Kitchen where the cutting boards Dwell:-

Take out some Garlic. Around I clove. Take the segments out and peel. Also cut 1/2 Kilo of Tomato into Cubes, around 1/2 Ginger[okay I'm no expert in weight, but around as much ginger that would make 2 segments of your finger], cut around 4 Green Chillies, And take out the leaves[I beleive they were parsley] and start separating the leaves from the stems.

Back to the Stove after translocating the cutting board with all the Goodies on top of it there:-

Cut the garlic up a bit and throw it in the middle of the Chicken, and keep turning the chicken until golden brown. Once this is done, throw in the tomato[this will make the paste]. After this step throw in just a bit of Haldi[Tumeric], some corriander powder, some safaid zeera. Let everything slowly cook  and stuff, and in a bit, add all the parsley leaves and the Ginger. When it ends up looking like chicken karahi, add in the Green Chillies, pepper and squeeze in half a lemon. I guess that covers Chicken Karahi. :D

I-T does not accept any legal responsibilities or does not provide any assurances for the turn out of your chicken Karahi and shall not be held accountable for the any of mishaps that might happen. For safety purposes always cook with industrial grade safety googles and wear gloves. *Okay this is extending this a bit too far, so I'll stop now. Anyways Happy Cooking. I just wish I had a digital camera to capture this in its true essence.