Muhammad Usama

Matrix Tension

HCI Class

Student: “Maam… I have one question regarding 1^st Phase of our HCI Project. Can I ask?”

Maam: “Yes, sure. Why not?”

Student: “Maam, what is the difference between Traceability Matrix, Usability Matrix, and Feasibility Matrix?”

Maam: “Look, the difference is very simple. In traceability matrix we do traceability engineering. In usability matrix we do usability engineering and in feasibility matrix we do feasibility engineering.”

Student (Thinking): “WTF!”
Student: “Ahaan! Maam, another question… What is engineering?”

Maam: “Hmm. In short, Engineering is all about Traceability, Usability, and Feasibility of Matrices.”

Student (Thinking): “FML!”
Student: “And what is Traceability?”

Maam: “Traceability is a kind of engineering, in matrix form, that we usually do in our 1^st Phase.”

Student (Thinking): *CENSORED*

PIT Class

Student: “Sir, I have a very professional issue and it’s really related to IT… Can I ask?”

Sir: “Be strong, haha. Yes you can ask”

Student (Thinking): “What does he want?”
Student: “Sir, what is the difference between Traceability Matrix, Usability Matrix, and Feasibility Matrix from PIT point of view?”

Sir (Thinking): “Oh God! What I’ve done to deserve this? Why … Why!!!”
Sir: “Well, when we talk about matrix and specially engineering then we can’t just ignore patent and copyright. According to Parliament act of 1890…”

Student: “Shit! Why did I ask?”

After continuously listening to the garbage being spewed out by various zombie-fied IT professionals, who’ve spent more time on MS-Word than any compiler, the student went to some teacher and ask the same question. He replied, “Tera bhai tao 5 minute mai saray ‘ability’ matrix bana leta tha. Khair chhor …” He changed the topic.

Innocent Student to himself: “Yaar hamari parhai itni mushkil kiu hai.”
Teacher to Director: “Sir, we found new “ability” – Ergonoability, Can we include this in our course?”

Director: “Sure, include whatever you said “ability” Matrix too”

This article is based on fiction. lol

Motivation is a key to Success @ Part 2

First of all Assalamualaikum, I hope you all are having a nice time. Last time, we discussed about the important of confidence. Today, we are going to shed light on lack of focus, the second aspect, and killer, of motivation.

Developing tangible focus requires confidence plus extra energy. How many times we focus on what we don’t want rather than on a concrete goal? We usually think in terms of fear. Like I don’t want to be poor, I’m afraid that no one will respect, I can’t face them because they will not respect me, I don’t want to be alone and when this happens, fear overwhelms and then it feeds on itself and drains our motivation.

So what’s the solution of this fear based thinking? How we can get rid of this? The first step is focusing that energy on a well defined goal. Focus on the consequences, and advantages; try to understand what you have done so far, what you are doing right now, and what you need to do to achieve your goals. By daily practicing it, this will become your habit and once this will become your habit then no one can stop you from being a successful person.

By focusing your mind on a positive goal instead of an ambiguous fear, your brain starts working properly and it automatically formulates the necessary steps in order to achieve success. This way, you start doing something instead of worrying. You motivate yourself to take actions.

Next important aspect of motivation is direction – head start of your success, which I am not going to discuss right now because this aspect only works if you are confident and focused.

My friend ask me yesterday that why I am writing this crap? And what I am trying to do? Well there are following reasons.

I want to encourage my friends that they are missing the most important ingredient of success. Still, when we make project groups we need to consider the “balancing aspect”. We need to think about those who are weak – don’t mind but this happens every time. And this is not because they are mentally retarded, or they are sick but this is only because that they are not motivated enough. They don’t try, and even if they try, they give up.

I want to encourage that you are not here to just get BS degree and a job of 20K to 30K in some xyz company. Your goals should be beyond than simply doing a job and getting degree. Although, job is very important but this should not be your goal. You are special and God has given you an opportunity to study in one of the best university, avail it, work hard and get yourself involve in entrepreneurship. That’s what Bill Gates did.

I want to tell that how easily money can be earned; there are infinite creative ideas and ways to earn (halal) money. The only problem is that our horizon is surrounded by fear, anxiety and doubts.

So, these were some of the reasons I initiated.

With great power comes great responsibility – from Spider-Man movie.

Motivation is a key to Success – Part 1

Hello friends, hoping you are having a nice day, let me bore you again by giving you a brief *lecture* on motivation. I am not gonna write about Bill Gates or Steve Jobs because we all are listening about them for many years. Although, we think that they are exceptions but unfortunately they are not. Some of us claim that they had resources, and money, and that they are intelligent, shrewd, or smart. I believe whatever they are today is only because of their motivation, dedication and hard work they showed in their life. They weren’t born intelligent, they weren’t shrewd and they weren’t smart at all. They were layman like us. The only difference between them and us is that they didn’t give up. Steve Jobs was fired from the same company he built but he didn’t give up. He was motivated enough and because of this motivation he was hired again.

Today when I see my friends, not those who are motivated, but those who aren’t motivated enough, I feel very sad for them. They say they don’t get time to learn anything – I say they will never get time. They say what else we can do, we don’t have a good teacher – I say you don’t need a teacher to be Bill gates or Steve Jobs. And then, there are many excuses which they proudly proclaim. The only problem in us is that we are not enough motivated. We want everything without doing anything, which is not possible.

The three most important reasons we lose motivation are lack of confidence, lack of focus, and lack of direction. I am gonna discuss all three, one by one, in detail. As this is the most important key of success.

The first reason of losing motivation is lack of confidence. This happens when we start focusing on what we want and neglecting on what we have. When this happens then our mind creates explanation of why we aren’t getting it, which creates negative thought. Our mind starts pointing out past (failed) experiences, and weakness. We become jealous of others and then we start complaining for why we can’t get success. This is the state when we tend to make a bad impression, think the worst about others, and lose self-confidence.

I have seen many friends who say that this is the worst country, why the hell I was born here? Why I wasn’t born in USA? Why the hell I am studying in FAST? Why we don’t have resources? I am inspired by Bill Gates but he is BILL GATES… When this happens you lose your confidence. When you start giving excuses that he is cheetah and I am not because he is intelligent, then there is mistake at your end. He is cheetah because he didn’t give up, he is confident enough and he achieved what he wanted. He is simply focused.

If you are not good in presentation, or you are a bad designer, and that your English sucks, and your friends always pull your leg, then it doesn’t mean you lose your confidence. The only way to get out of this is to focus on gratitude. Think positive about everything in your life. If your friends are teasing you because you wrote a very bad code or you designed badly then instead of showing anger, laugh on them that they identified your mistake and that you got an opportunity. Avail that opportunity. Work hard and show that you are better than them. Believe me they will not laugh this time, in fact they will praise you and will encourage you.

I think this is enough torture for today… We will talk about other aspects of motivation later. I encourage everyone to think positive about everything. Be thankful to God of what you have and try to make this world a better place. Your contribution is very important and it really doesn’t matter whether or not you are cheetah, until and unless you are motivated.

How to start… ?

Friends, Yes! My papers are over and now I am sitting right in front of my computer thinking what else can I do except Facebooking. I can either waste my time or I can do something constructive. Sleeping right now is also a good idea but why not to write something constructive or let me bore you people.

I was checking comments on my articles and I was motivated. It really encourages when someone praises you. I have tried many times to continue my “Chaos” story. Although, some of you may not like it because it contains many errors and I am not at all a good blogger (I never read novel in my life). But thing is that if I’ll stop writing then how I am gonna polish my skills but it doesn’t mean that I want to be Paul Coelho. Anyways, I did try many times to continue my story but then storyline as usual pissed me off. Because whenever I try to write a new episode, I have to read all previous episodes in order to understand the flow and storyline. I believe I am the most forgetful person of this world. So, it takes double time to write plus time it takes to correct my content, which is not usually done by me J and time it takes you people to understand what the hell was going in previous episodes. This all forced me to put “Chaos” aside as it was requiring more and time.

Yesterday, when I was coming back from university (in point) a freshman requested to answer queries he had. He was confused and he gave me his assignment paper (ITC) and told me to explain all questions that he marked. There were, I guess, 16 question and 8 questions were marked. He wanted help in understanding flow chart concepts and most importantly they (students) aren’t yet exposed to compiler. Questions were very simple like “Input 3 number and sort in Ascending Order”. We gave him real world examples to make him understand. I found him intelligent and he was able to absorb simple logics but thing is that why he was unable to understand in class? I know he has no background but I have seen many students who are not in 1^st semester and they don’t know about shit of programming. I would rather say they are not good problem solvers. I believe there are few reasons that I want to point out but I’ll point out later (Not in this post).

I have seen a very common question among students who are not “cheetah”. They want to start, they want to learn but simply they are unable to do it because they have this question in their mind – “Which language you will prefer?” – “From where should I start?” – “Which language is best? PHP or ASP” and even if we tell them it will not matter because after some time they will come again and ask similar questions. Simple answer for them is until and unless you will not show your WILL and DEDICATION, you will not be able to learn anything. Detailed version of this question will come soon

So, why I have written this article? Well I have decided to bore my friends again. In my upcoming articles I am going to focus on what steps one should take to be a good competitor, I’ll focus on some advance tutorials but those tutorials will be different than normal boring tutorials, which are available on different sites. As I am not a good reader because when I read any novel or article, I feel sleepy so, my main focus would be to keep your perspective, level, and skill set in mind and to write article more juicy and absorbable.

“I can trust my friends. These people force me to examine myself, encourage me to grow.” – Cher

3rd Episode – The Pattern

3^rd Episode – The Pattern

“Hello, can I talk to Mr. Mustafa Hanif?”
“Yes! You are talking to a right person. How can I help you?”
“This is Agent Taha and we need to talk. Be at Osama’s house in half an hour”
“Whoa Whoa… I have to go somewhere.”
“No, you aren’t going anywhere. Be there in half an hour.” He hangs it up then.

After half an hour Agent Taha was sitting right in front of them. They were already there. He felt he was late. “I am here to ask couple of questions but before I start let me tell you that this meeting is unofficial. Ok?” “Got it”, confirmed by Osama.

“I have that both of you, Nikki and Agent Usama studied together in MIT. Am I right?” “Yes you are right”, confirmed by Mustafa Hanif. He was pissed off because he canceled the date.

“On the day of escape Nikki said that Agent Usama did something unusual with her too, when they were studying in MIT. I want to know what happened exactly.”

“Hmmm, I do remember one incident which happened on Veteran’s Day. Nikki slapped Usama after reading some kind of letter, which was given to her by Usama earlier”

“And I saw her weeping… crocodile tears.” Added by Mustafa Hanif

“What letter?”
“Well I don’t know what was written in that letter but Usama said that he passed his first assignment”
“What assignment?”
“He informed me that he was selected as Agent and that he got some kind of assignment which was supposed to be cleared”

“Oh!” Agent Taha smiled and asked, “What year was that?” “Hmmm, I guess 3 to 4 years back. We were in a final year”

“Ok. Thank you for helping. I got my answer”, he stood up and walked towards the door. As he opened the door Mustafa Hanif requested, “Hey, can you elaborate?”

“Well, he lied. He is working with us from the very first day of MIT but I still don’t know… this mystery of letter… He never informed me about letter… but thanks anyways.”

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Agent Taha was, sitting in his office, thinking about the letter. He was trying to connect the dots but he knew he was failing. He knew there was this missing piece which he was unable to figure it out. While thinking about the letter he was looking at the white board, “Why 625? What is inside that letter? Why Massachusetts Bay Colony?” he wondered. It was all chaos for him.

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It was a dark room and Agent Usama was sitting on a chair, which was positioned middle. He was unable to move as he was tightened with cables. He was mentally active and was trying to figure out the location. He was trying to listen outside world but he realized that room was sound proof. What he heard was the opening of air tight door. He focused on the door and sensed some people were approaching. They circled around him. He felt they were kind of body guard. He was trying to memorize their faces but they were wearing masks so, he failed. Then he sensed someone else. He was the same person who phoned one of his men regarding Massachusetts Bay Colony accident. As he approached him one of his men sited a chair in front of Agent Usama and then he sat.

“I know you have a lot of questions in your mind. After all you have done a great job but you have to be patient”, He introduced himself, “My name is Akif and I am the one…” Agent Usama intervened and said, “Whatever you are, whoever you are… My people will get you”. Akif laughed, “This is not gonna happen. Nikki, as you know already, is reporting every single detail. You betrayed them…  According to them, you are the traitor.”

“You will see soon. This is just a matter of time”

“They will never find you”

Agent Usama suddenly changed the topic;

“You got what you wanted. Device is working. Now what you want”
“Well I ain’t the one who take decisions so, we can’t free you and her.” This was the first time when Akif talked about “her”.

Akif was born in Kanye, Botswana. He was shifted to East London with his parents, south of South Africa. His father was a fisherman and started a small business in Southernwood. Akif was grown there. He was fifteen when his father and mother died in a car accident. He wanted to look after his business but his father’s partner wrapped up whole, sold everything illegally and ran away.

Akif was sharp and he always got 1^st position in school but there was no back for him and he felt his career in darkness. One day he was sitting in agony, outside his flat, and crying, when a big guy came, sat beside him, explained things, which changed his entire life. Since then he is working for him. Last time he, was witnessed, was in 23^rd Street of Haven Hills. It was a dark street and he was standing right in front of him. He wanted to take revenge so he pulled the trigger. It was his debut. He finally killed his father’s partner. He was then moved away from Africa.

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Agent Taha was right in front of MIT gate. He was hoping to find missing piece but MIT was not a small building of 2 floors. He was having a master plan of MIT in his hand. He didn’t know where to start. As he was looking the blue print something flickered in his mind. He saw the hostel area in master plan and found out that MIT hostel has 6 blocks. “What if 625 is a pattern, or a route”, he wondered “four blocks are for men and 2 for women.”  He was confused but somehow he got a bit which might clear this anonymity.

“If 6 is number of blocks and 2 is a floor number, then 5 must be a room number”, he wondered and moved towards reception area.

End of 3^rd Episode

2nd Episode – Vantage Point II

2^nd Episode – Vantage Point II

It was noon and Agent Usama was moving back and forth, he was confused and angry. After a while he stopped, pointed his finger on Irtaza and said, “I told you not to kill him”.

Irtaza was, sitting on a chair and, confused and upset. He replied, “I didn’t kill him”

Irtaza explained that he missed the shot and that the car was approaching in zig zag direction – due to brake failure. He ran away in confusion and missed to purge his fingerprint which was now projected in a dark room where four special agents were sitting and discussing.

Tabish and Farhan were sitting on one side of the table in conference room and Agent Taha was sitting right in front of them. He was looking at the projected image while Nikki was about to talk about her lead.

“I cross referenced this fingerprint and I found no results. Agent Usama already deleted all the possible records. So, we still have no evidence.”

It was three days after the escape and they had no clue of what was going on. This was worrying Agent Taha because according to him he was working with exceptional executives. He was continuously thinking about Agent Usama. After some discussion he ended the meeting with some unusual sentence, “I am still unable to believe that Agent Usama has done this.”

“It’s raining here and right now we are at Massachusetts Bay Colony and everything was in peace before this accident that you can see in your TV screen. According to our report all the traffic signals were signifying green light for 6 minute and 25 second, which eventually turned this place into chaos. 15 cars confounded with 32 people wounded. Government says accident was due to short circuit because of heavy rain. This is all right now. I am Tasmiyah Iqbal – Massachusetts Bay Colony”

A strong, sharp-eye, whiskered guy turned off the Television via remote control. He then phoned to one of his man and congratulated him, “its working. Don’t let him go. I want to talk to him”

On the other hand Agent Taha, with his team, was sitting in a conference room. They were relating Massachusetts Bay Colony accident to Riemann’s Algorithm, which they were not in a possession to lose, and was captured by Agent Usama.

Agent Tabish interrupted and said, “That Accident exactly happened for 6 minute and 25 second. Am I right?” Nikki replied in affirmative. Agent Taha looked on Agent Tabish and said, “Are we both thinking same?” “Yes, I guess!”

Agent Taha, who was pissed, stood up and, left conference room in hurry. He didn’t want to share anything so, he went in his room and there was this white board on which he wrote “6m – 25s” after “Highway – 625” & “EK – 625”. He said to himself, “Why exactly this duration, why he selected Massachusetts Bay Colony, what the hell this kiddo is trying to prove, what this number says”.  He knew that he was in a position where he was not supposed to trust anyone.

End of 2nd Episode

1st Episode – Vantage Point

1^st Episode – Vantage Point

Day of Accident [Highway – 625]
Sniper is holding breath and waiting for car at Highway – 625. He has worn flak jacket, been positioned under hoary tree, kept advance binocular with face recognition system. Overall appearance says that he is trained military man. “Report in”, voice from walkie-talkie. “Sir, I am on my position, target not yet seen” “Ok we just need to scare him so, be careful… got it?” “Affirmative” “Did you hear that? No idiocy this time… Irtaza” “Positive Sir”. Irtaza smiled and switched off walkie-talkie.

Day of Accident [Near Mr. Khalid’s House]
25-year highly qualified man was holding sniper, standing one kilometer away from Mr. Khalid’s house. He had worn black suit with Bluetooth connected through cell phone. He was waiting for the target and after a while when target came close to window glass “Sir, Target locked” “Then what you are waiting for” “Affirmative, I am pulling trigger… ” and then a clean attempt was taken. After couple of seconds “Sir, mission accomplished” “Nice job, Abdul Basit”

7:25pm – Day of Escape
Irtaza is eradicating patterns indicate characteristic of Agent Usama. They are about to leave airport in ten minutes. After ten minutes they are in a car. Irtaza is driving while Usama is sitting silent. Irtaza says, “Did you set up the EMI device?” “Yes I did”. After couple of minutes Irtaza warns Usama, “From now on we don’t know each other” “Got it”.

They stop their car few miles away from the airport and heading to airport in different cabs.

After exactly one hour, they are sitting in plane. As the plane is running at low pace air hostess saw Usama and asks him to place his briefcase. Usama denies and request to keep briefcase with him. She lowers her tone and says, “Agent Usama, I know you are here for a reason. So, don’t waste your time and place your briefcase right now.”

7:50pm – Near Beach
“Sir, we are at beach, everything is according to plan” “Ok, I want you to be careful” “Don’t worry sir”

“Talha Arif you are on your own now. We don’t know each other?” “Yeah! I got it”

Talha Arif is a smart man and is trained specially for spy missions. He is in jeep with Mr. Khalid who is unconscious because of medicines that were injected an hour before.

12:00pm – Next day
Agent Taha and Agent Tabish are at petrol pump. This is the same petrol pump where Agent Usama phoned someone before headed to Khalid’s house. They are here to get video tapes which they got it in an hour. Due to technical problems they didn’t get chance to watch video tapes so, after interrogation they went back to Bureau.

On the other hand Agent Nikki and Farhan are at highway – 625. They are at accident location, scrutinizing more evidence. They decide to enlarge investigation umbrella. Agent Farhan perceives her voice and approaches towards her. “Can you see this dead grass?” “Yes I can see but what is so important about it?” “You are an idiot” and then she bends on her knee and very carefully she figure out the fingerprint pattern. “We found the major lead”, she smiles and request to bring camera.

End of 1^st Episode

Captivity of Negativity

Captivity of Negativity

I was reading an article on Captivity of Negativity and I found it fascinating not because this phrase “Captivity of Negativity” was highlighted by T-Bag in Prison Break but because this is something that we all are keen to. We all are used to it and we always want to shift towards it because we think that we are weak, ugly, pathetic, and regardless of what response we offer, someone is going to impair us.

I found out that there are two classes of people: victims and survivors. Everyone in this world faces hardship, disappointment, pain, and affliction but how you respond to these difficult conditions is what earns you a membership into one of the defined set.

Captivity of Negativity is nothing than a negative mind set, a type of depression in which individual feels negative about self and others. Such a person lives in a prison of his own making and which in effects the decision he or she makes. Solution is very straightforward but hard. Feel positive.

The reason of writing this article is to show you how we are captives of our own negativity. We are so used to living in the worse that when some positive thing comes along, we don’t even recognize it. God has created everyone unique. Each having wonderful personalities with extraordinary gifts that perfectly suits on them, which balances the nature and defines the glory of God.

I think what is most concerning here is when a person replaces gratefulness with complaining and trust with worry. They actually create a wall between themselves and God and miss the blessings of God. It does not matter what you have, are, or gone through, try to be positive, give gratitude to God for what you have, for what you have achieved so far and for everything that others don’t have it.

I am going to focus on negativity amongst us as an example. I am studying in one of the best university and I am thankful to God that I was given chance to study here. I was part of different competitions held in different universities. I went with my friends as delegate. Tried to figure out the differences between their and our university and naturally, we found dozens of differences. Some of us fall into the trap of inferiority because of difference in society, services and facilities. Some of us proclaimed that we are studying in torture and that we are far behind the curve. However, there are always some positive points. I am proud that I am studying in FAST because FAST has given me confidence in me, responsibility that I am capable of holding, and courage to fight. Trust me I was null before I came here. I learned a lot here and I am thankful to God for it.

It is incredibly easy to blame others and extremely hard to accept mistakes of yours. Similarly, it is easy to find negative points rather than positive points. If someone is blaming you, insulting you because you did something wrong then you should not worry about him or her. Take it in a positive way. Find the reason and then find the solution. Let me give you an example. I was updating my Facebook status and mistakenly I wrote, “Its rain here” Instead of, “It’s raining here”. Everyone affronted me but then I realized that hey! Perhaps this is the opportunity and that I should take it as positive. I did mistake because I am learner. I didn’t notice my mistake but my friends identified (in unexpected manner though) and this is my chance to improvise my mistake. I might have fought with them but then again this is what we are doing for years. Therefore, if you think that someone is insulting you because you have problem then try to get rid of that problem rather than fighting with him or her or blaming for what they did.

So last but not the least our captivity is dependent on how we handle these issues. Everything counts. So, be positive, honest and always justify. I know there are hundreds of mistakes in this article but if I continue like this then one day, there will be only one (followed by zero zeroes) mistake, and I’ll feel proud of my positive actions.

Therefore, if we have negative attitudes, these negative attitudes affect what we expect of ourselves which in turn, affects our actions. For example, those with the negative attitude that they ‘can’t do math,’ are almost assured of trouble when attempting math. A negative attitude limits performance, saps motivation, and inhibits learning (Journal of Health Psychology, Vol. 4, No. 3, 1999).

Trip to Lahore – Day 2

Trip to Lahore - LUMS Olympiad

Day 2

It is 6:00am and train is moving with proximity of 150km/hour. I am standing at bogie door. All I can see from here is “greeny green greenery” and sun tempting to look out on us. This feeling of zephyr is something that can’t be defined here. In short, I was simply enjoying the nature.

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We had a great Nashta party at Kanpur station. Train stopped for 10 minutes so, we got out washed our face, managed to brush our teeth, took a cup of tea, some biscuits and chips, and came back. Unfortunately there was this incident which took our breath. We didn’t see Moiz in our bogie and train was touching slow velocity. Hamza and others, standing at bogie door, were trying to figure out where the hell that guy set out. Everyone was in search of this guy and we checked every single compartment and bogie but we didn’t find him. At last we found him in economy class. This stupid guy said, “Bhai kia huaa! I was charging my cell DUDE”.

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By the way Moiz and Hamza also wrote something. I have their material so let me put it over here.

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Moiz

The first sight that caught the attention of all of us was a Halwa Puri. Since we all were starving, but then we saw the cost at which we would be filling up and that was a little overwhelming. Nevertheless we went to the platform and got our self some stuff to munch on, while the rest of us began the search of a clean and tidy washroom, a desire which can only be dreamed in Khanewal Station. In the meantime I and Tabish went to the extreme front to check out the cockpit view of the train. One of the co-drivers invited us inside the compartment to take a few something (I don’t know what he has written) but his partner wasn’t that hospitable.  He told us to get down from his throne of power and we had to allege.

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I didn’t get the single word of Hamza… may be his writing sucks. Anyways, we had a mind-blowing in fact, mind-blastic 2 day trip.

The next 5 days at LUMS made some of us in inferiority. Of course I don’t have to put their names here but moments that we all had are unforgettable. That is all for now. Thank you, take care and Khuda Hafiz.

Trip to Lahore – Day 1

Trip to Lahore - LUMS Olympiad

Day 1

Every day we pass Malir Cantt road and look at train but right now we are in train and watching the same Malir Cantt road and its heavy traffic and one police officer who is trying to control the traffic. The difference is that when we are in ‘Point’ we are heading towards ‘One of the prestigious university of the world (FAST-NU)’ a sentence which is at peak now a days after organizing ‘unilympics’, which is one of the best event organized by Sportix.

We have been selected as delegates (Participants) for LUMS (Lahore University of Management Science) Olympiad Competition and right now we are in Karachi Express Train. Train speed is approximately 70km/hour, which I guess is very low and is in same pace for about 25 minutes.

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Its 6:40pm and Tabish and AI (Ali Iftikhar) are in my compartment and doing recitation. We are scared, you know… little… I guess. Anyways, Akif is still thinking. I don’t know what he wants but he is still trying to find new problems. We call him ‘The problem manufacturer’. Our compartment ‘F’ includes me, Ali Iftikhar, Ali Maisam, Akif, Tabish and Irtaza where Hamza, Hammad, Ali Sheikh and Samad are in compartment ‘G’.

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Irtaza has just posted a new facebook status and it reads ‘Lahore trip begins… chuk chuk chuk chuk’

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Its 6:55pm and some anonymous uncle, I guess he is Memon, is forcing us to offer Namaz. We are going to offer ‘Bajamaat Namaz’ in train. We have very limited space outside our compartment where we have to offer namaz. I guess width is not more than 2ft.

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We have just crossed Malir Bridge and right now we can see our University tower from this small window. One thing that I want to add here is that we all are missing Arqam, who was supposed to come with us but because of unfortunate consequences he didn’t manage to make up this trip.

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Do you know we have mosquitoes here? I mean how this is even possible. The clock reads 8:10pm and Ali Sheikh and Samad are in our compartment and Fika (Akif) is making ‘Sheesha’. This is my first trip to Lahore and I am excited actually, I am excited because I am leaving bhains colony for one week. Compartment is centralized AC and environment is peaceful, entertaining, No HQ or Big Picture. And most importantly we are independent. INDEPENDENT for one week… this is another factor of this excitement that we are feeling right now. By the way the second party (Hamza and all other seniors) are in compartment where that Memon Uncle is lecturing.

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Right now we are at Kotri Station and trying to figure out how much time we have got because I have watched many Indians movies in which heroine loses her train and then hero comes and then blah blah. All we can see here are many Pathans & weird people. Ali Iftikhar is pissed off because I am wearing his sandals. All I can hear is the whistle of Karachi Express train so let me first reach to my compartment.

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Its 9:05pm and we are at Hyderabad junction. Akif and AI are outside trying to figure out what food they should buy. As more and more people are picking this train to reach their destiny we have to be extra careful and so we are securing our luggage, which includes from toothbrush to mp3 player. Oh! I got sms… see you later.

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Lolz Hamza bought two dozens of banana, some LAYS and some biscuits. We are going to play board game that Tabish bought. So see you later. Bye