Wednesday, November 28, 2007
Two Emergencies!
After a long period of being offline for various reasons, most of which were work or edu"ma"cation related..I have decided to start posting again but I should mention right in the beginning that there's something seriously wrong with my left and and I can only use my right eye to see hence it's causing a lot of problems.
Well, As my last post mentioned that I went to a conference to Islamabad, alot has happened since then. Most of what has happened has been covered by the media pretty well globally, cant say the same for the Pakistani media since most of the news channels were threatened to stay quite or loose all chances of ever broadcasting again. Geo on the other hand decided not to abide by those rules and now they're probably the only ones who cannot still broadcast. Oh well....Life's a bitch and then some.
A little update on whats been happening since I've been away dealing with real life...another conference happened in Karachi which was awesome from what i hear, I'm sure there are a million pictures everywhere on facebook, ya`ll will just need to know an AIESECer to tap in to that resources :D
The worst part of all this is that I am using an old laptop to type this since Lucy my regular PC has been in the shop for over a week, I hate those warranty people...they take ages to replace a motherboard, and to top it all off...this is the board that I got in place of a busted board. Bastards I tell ya!! Note to self Never buy an MSI board. It will drive you up the Wall with problems!
I started working in September, I always told myself I will never work in a bank and then I ended up in one :|, it's true what people say, in Pakistan...the best place to be is in a bank. I'm in the Phone Banking dept. which is fast money with flexible timings. Well it works well if you're not studying at the same time cuz then one can salvage whats left of his social life. I'm at work 8 hours a day but it seems like an eternity since those eight hours just don't go by!! It takes forever to spend eight hours doing the same thing again and again. The night shifts are the worst. They're the most tiring and looooong shifts possible, even though they're just eight hours again, they seem like eighty! The one thing that's making me stick around is the people in my department, apart from a few, the others are okay. No one I would like to keep in touch with if and when I leave but for the duration of my stay, they're all I have hehehe.
Well, as the emergency in Pakistan takes different turns, its quite obvious things will get worst from here but the good part is, Karachi has not had any violent protests like the ones before. Our dear old Mushy stepped down and is now a civilian "dictator" President :), let's see what he can achieve now. I'm all for Mushy btw..he's done some good work regardless of what people say. I've never seen so many roads dug up as during his "development" schemes. Flyover's did not fall on people either before that but then I guess thats the cost of development.
Anyways, more discussion on this topic later. Right now I have to get some dinner and then my ritual post dinner smoke.
This is O. signing off.
O.
Well, As my last post mentioned that I went to a conference to Islamabad, alot has happened since then. Most of what has happened has been covered by the media pretty well globally, cant say the same for the Pakistani media since most of the news channels were threatened to stay quite or loose all chances of ever broadcasting again. Geo on the other hand decided not to abide by those rules and now they're probably the only ones who cannot still broadcast. Oh well....Life's a bitch and then some.
A little update on whats been happening since I've been away dealing with real life...another conference happened in Karachi which was awesome from what i hear, I'm sure there are a million pictures everywhere on facebook, ya`ll will just need to know an AIESECer to tap in to that resources :D
The worst part of all this is that I am using an old laptop to type this since Lucy my regular PC has been in the shop for over a week, I hate those warranty people...they take ages to replace a motherboard, and to top it all off...this is the board that I got in place of a busted board. Bastards I tell ya!! Note to self Never buy an MSI board. It will drive you up the Wall with problems!
I started working in September, I always told myself I will never work in a bank and then I ended up in one :|, it's true what people say, in Pakistan...the best place to be is in a bank. I'm in the Phone Banking dept. which is fast money with flexible timings. Well it works well if you're not studying at the same time cuz then one can salvage whats left of his social life. I'm at work 8 hours a day but it seems like an eternity since those eight hours just don't go by!! It takes forever to spend eight hours doing the same thing again and again. The night shifts are the worst. They're the most tiring and looooong shifts possible, even though they're just eight hours again, they seem like eighty! The one thing that's making me stick around is the people in my department, apart from a few, the others are okay. No one I would like to keep in touch with if and when I leave but for the duration of my stay, they're all I have hehehe.
Well, as the emergency in Pakistan takes different turns, its quite obvious things will get worst from here but the good part is, Karachi has not had any violent protests like the ones before. Our dear old Mushy stepped down and is now a civilian "dictator" President :), let's see what he can achieve now. I'm all for Mushy btw..he's done some good work regardless of what people say. I've never seen so many roads dug up as during his "development" schemes. Flyover's did not fall on people either before that but then I guess thats the cost of development.
Anyways, more discussion on this topic later. Right now I have to get some dinner and then my ritual post dinner smoke.
This is O. signing off.
O.
Labels: AIESEC, Conference, Emergency, Lucy, Phone banking
