6th March 2009, the day active bloggers in Karachi met again to discuss various issues affecting our nation online and offline, organized by Google Pakistan, CIO Pakistan and Wateen Telecom, turned out to be quite some resolutions and suggestions, thoughts and valuable brainstorming.

I reached the venue a little late, since I was coming straight from work, and particularly because the taxi driver took the longer route for some reason. *Curses the evil taxi wala * Any how as I reached that place I discovered most of the people were already there, I recoginized some faces instantly (Ali K. Chisti, Awab Alvi, Batool, Jehan Ara, Rabia, Badar, Salaina). It was a little surprize that most people know me, I m not much of a proper blog, I mostly write crapy stuff, but anyways..

I was delighted at the fact that this meet up was to discus activism issues, my blog isn’t about activism but what I do like about the idea of activism is that it gives people what’s rightfully theirs and they get their voices heard.

After my arrival, soon Imran Hussain and Umair K. Jadoon were there too,  it was the first time I met them properly, the first time I met them was at the First bloggers meet up, but I didn’t get time to get to know them properly, until obviously we had a great online blogger meet up. Great ppl.

The topic that we discussed was about how to get a better image back to Pakistan, since we’re getting all the negative publicity recently, be it the government or the militants, it’s just not good, so we thoughts it’s time for all the nerds to take the situation into their hands (j/k)

We discussed matters of importance, being it sponsoring bloggers from the outside world or setting up proper resolutions and following them, the sponsoring bloggers idea was brought int light by Badar Khushnood, while Salaina suggested that she could draft a national PR policy. Farhan was of the opinion that we could all put up Pakistan’s flag on our blogs to reflect our love for the country (I came up with that graphic, that I allow anyone to freely use on their blog, but please host it on your own).  I suggested that bring out the positive image, snap along the way and upload the beauties of the country, be it people, places, events or anything on the positive side.

After our discussions and all, we moved to the Bowling area, where some awesome refreshments awaited us..it wa already time my tummy felt the need to get a top up

So we had out tiny snacks, some coffee and then.. yes right then we bowled our heads off.. didn’t make for some good score but had fun.. I had Awab Alvi, Badar and Rabia as my competetors.. It had to be nice and surely it was.

The picture right at the begining was a snap shot that was taken while lights went out for a bit. Thanks to Rabia for the picture.

Related:

Blogap – Bloggers Association of Pakistan

‘Karachi Blogger’s Meet up’ [Highlights]

Highly energized Bloggers meet in Karachi

Tags: 09, activism, ali, ammar, awab, Badar, bloggers meetup, blogs, discussion, fun, Imran, karachi, plans, Rabia, resolutios, thoughts, umair

I ‘ve been trying to write a blog post since 3 days, but you can’t do that when you’re occupied with lots of work plus you’re tired and sleepy.

So any how, I just found time to write about things that are going around in my life (other than constant electric breakdowns).

I had been working on a start up company’s website lately (TimeSvr), and was at their office the whole yesterday, since there were things that needed to be completed and the best way was to interact with their team directly, they had offered me to come work at their place, since they know about the electric conditions of the city, but I had turned down their offer a couple of times, before giving up and finally going to their office, honestly and no buttering, I really enjoyed it there, not really the way I enjoyed at my last job, but it was fun, atleast they did not have any electric problem, even if it did happen their were UPS and standby generator, which reminds me I have to call the guy who repairs the generator, because mine isn’t functioning !

So what I was saying is that they have a brilliant team, not only is the management good, they have strong, and confident Virtual Assistants (Aides) too. Getting to know these people and helping them get the company a good online presence was a pretty good experience, not only that, I also got to know some tiny bits about Ruby on Rails, and I have been tempted to learn than too (desheikh thanks for that !). I’ve started to look for resources now.

I’d like to thank their staff for such a nice time, specially Osama Sehgol, Zulfiqar Ali Sheikh, Farheen Iqbal, Zaki Mohamed and Angel Bernadine.

Thanks so much guys.

Tags: ali, angel, awesome, farheen, osama, related, shahzad, timesvr, work, zulfiqar

I guess most people now know, that I had resigned from Creative Chaos (Pvt.) Ltd. last month, and was just serving my notice period, and then I had some great opportunities to select from.. I think I had found the right one, and might be relocated for that particular purpose.

Right this day, it’s going to be my 2nd last day, Monday being the last day that I serve at Creative Chaos, also, I’ll be collecting all my letters and all sorts of stuff that’s post resignation on Monday.

I have also been working on a sex education website, which should be live by Monday hopefully… or thats something we here at Creative Chaos are hoping, I’ll post the link and review here, once the website goes live.

I’ve also been listening to Ali Azmat’s ‘Klashinfolk‘ on loop lately, which has been released just recently, and boy it’s good.. to good !

I m also planning to take a 2-3 day break before I join the other company, and fix things that shouldn’ve been fixed some time ago. Also I will need to help dad on somethings he had planned, but that’s going to happen only after he’s well.. right now he’s still a little weak, and needs speech therapy..

The rest all seems ok, I know one thing right now, I m going to miss Creative Chaos and all the people here alot.. There’s no one here, that I might not like, all the folks here are awesome !

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