The place I am writing from right now is an internet cafe located in the vicinity of F-10 Markaz, Islamabad. The place I am living in currently is LMKR's hostel, a large house, with shared rooms and what else, it's very near to the market here.
About the hostel, there are some facilities/services provided such as cook, TV, table tennis, badminton, ACs & heaters, etc. There is a cemetry just beside the hostel, in an approx. 1500 sq. yards area, I wonder what's a cemetry doing in a residential area and that too in F-10. Strange!
The F-10 markaz is a good place to shop for daily consumed items, there is almost every bank's branch in it, but there seems to be a lacking of good restaurants, cloth shops, gaming arenas, etc. My favorite outlets here are Best Day Super Store & Bodyonics (gym) plus I am trying Paradise Tailor here, if he's good he'll also add in my favorites. I have heard some good things about a couple of bakeries as well, one's Bakewell, though haven't been there yet.
Tuesday:
I found a gaming arena (finally!), it's called Striker Xes Gamer. There is a kid and his father who are running the shop and they can't speak Urdu much, the decoration is not that good, but the PCs are good enough. Whatever! It's a gaming arena after all.
Saturday, October 30, 2004
Friday, October 29, 2004
Packing up the stuff!
With a day remaining in the departure to Islamabad, to join the new company, I am already feeling the loneliness which is waiting to haunt me for a few initial days. Nah, it's not that bad! Maybe it is. Exactly, this is the confused state of my mind currently so I am better off being somewhat careless on these thoughts.
Karachi is one of those places which have people who make maximum use of what is available, depending upon the constraints. The same applies to the social life and the people conducting the socials. Hence, I will surely miss this social life there in Islamabad, at least for a few months. Though it's pretty obvious that other aspects of life are better in Islamabad than the hometown. E.g. the corporate culture as far as software industry is concerned, the standard of life, city structure, atmosphere, weather, profile of the dwellers, etc. and what else, it's the capital!
Having said that, there are a few things which can be counted as cons for a person like me. Firstly, the social life, then we have the lack of outing places, the standard & profile of people living there (it seems hard to get good company), the distance from family and most of the time being lonely. I hope there are good gamers out there in Isloo.
Packing the stuff these days physically and mentally, yet to give final touches to my baggage.
**Next: Will be writing the things learnt in the new city, from one of its internet cafes.
Karachi is one of those places which have people who make maximum use of what is available, depending upon the constraints. The same applies to the social life and the people conducting the socials. Hence, I will surely miss this social life there in Islamabad, at least for a few months. Though it's pretty obvious that other aspects of life are better in Islamabad than the hometown. E.g. the corporate culture as far as software industry is concerned, the standard of life, city structure, atmosphere, weather, profile of the dwellers, etc. and what else, it's the capital!
Having said that, there are a few things which can be counted as cons for a person like me. Firstly, the social life, then we have the lack of outing places, the standard & profile of people living there (it seems hard to get good company), the distance from family and most of the time being lonely. I hope there are good gamers out there in Isloo.
Packing the stuff these days physically and mentally, yet to give final touches to my baggage.
**Next: Will be writing the things learnt in the new city, from one of its internet cafes.
Friday, October 22, 2004
Myself
Family name being Kasbati which means "Hardworker" my full name is, as you might have noticed, Muhammad Salman Kasbati. My hometown is Karachi, Pakistan. I am a computer science graduate, degree being BCS (Dec 2000), from one of the better institutes in Pakistan, FAST.
After graduation, I joined CresSoft Karachi, one of the leading software houses of Pakistan, as a Software Engineer and during that completed my MCS degree. In late 2002 I joined another company named connect2web, Karachi. Have been working there till the mid of October 2004. Recently accepted an offer from a company in Islamabad by the name of Landmark Resources, I'll be working as a Senior Software Engineer there from November 2004.
My activities include solving problems, computer gaming (Unreal Tournament, Counter Strike, strategy games), sports (football, table tennis, weight training, etc.) and providing help to all sorts of people in sorting out their problems :), depending upon the time left from work & sleep.
After graduation, I joined CresSoft Karachi, one of the leading software houses of Pakistan, as a Software Engineer and during that completed my MCS degree. In late 2002 I joined another company named connect2web, Karachi. Have been working there till the mid of October 2004. Recently accepted an offer from a company in Islamabad by the name of Landmark Resources, I'll be working as a Senior Software Engineer there from November 2004.
My activities include solving problems, computer gaming (Unreal Tournament, Counter Strike, strategy games), sports (football, table tennis, weight training, etc.) and providing help to all sorts of people in sorting out their problems :), depending upon the time left from work & sleep.
Thursday, October 21, 2004
States of Mind
It's funny how a person performs same action differently at different times depending upon the state of his/her mind. This happens with me all the time and I am at this point in time assuming that others experience this as well.
The things which get affected may include the confidence level, sharpness, reactions, communication, etc. Like e.g. my verbal english fluctuates from really-bad to above average in almost every english conversation I have, may it be an interview, a meeting with directors of our company or just a chat with a friend. In this particular case, I have noted that the confidence level fluctuates which creates a confusion in expressing words in addition to the confusion in selecting them.
Having said that, there's this other concept "Practice makes perfect" and which at some extent is true for many situations, but really the baseline in my opinion is the state of mind. This arrives us to the questions such as what makes up this "state of mind"? What effects it? Can we control it or get a grip on it?
***Let me think over it..I'll be back in a few days on that.
The things which get affected may include the confidence level, sharpness, reactions, communication, etc. Like e.g. my verbal english fluctuates from really-bad to above average in almost every english conversation I have, may it be an interview, a meeting with directors of our company or just a chat with a friend. In this particular case, I have noted that the confidence level fluctuates which creates a confusion in expressing words in addition to the confusion in selecting them.
Having said that, there's this other concept "Practice makes perfect" and which at some extent is true for many situations, but really the baseline in my opinion is the state of mind. This arrives us to the questions such as what makes up this "state of mind"? What effects it? Can we control it or get a grip on it?
***Let me think over it..I'll be back in a few days on that.
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