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Protected: Staying Awake
12Jun08Growing Up
10Jun08Confirmation that maturity is a journey, not a destination. Or something. AE: Dude, big changes. Me: ? AE: You remember I was saying I have this paralysing fear of whether I was good enough? Like fretting at work about people thinking I’m no good, etc.? Me: Yes, distinctly :) AE: Well, it’s gone. Me: Wow. That’s huge, man…you should be proud [...]
I don’t like sports writers. I don’t like the contrived soundbites they convey, the cliched storylines they create, the false drama they so carefully cultivate. I don’t like the fact that most of them have no real qualifications, but a few years on the circuit gives them the title of ‘expert’ and, for example, allows [...]
Shikwa
24Mar08Watch this: And the second part: It’s quite remarkable. A tangent to my own confusion and complaints, but fascinating and insightful nevertheless. My favourite couplet is this, the fulcrum of the poem: Even then you grumble, we are false, untrue, If you call us faithless, tell us what are you? From a historical point of view, it’s probably amazing that [...]
Honestly, I’ve had it up to here with the nincompoop-edness of LSE administrative folks. I’ve been waiting for my degree certificate since my December 18 graduation ceremony (which I didn’t attend). I assumed that graduates would have been handed their certificates there but it turned out that wasn’t the case, so I waited a couple [...]
I’ve been working with Excel a lot these past few months. At least half my time these days is spent writing and running spreadsheets and interpreting the results I get from them. In many cases, I run a lengthy batch of calculations overnight and then have Excel produce a pivot table and save the results [...]
Out of sight, out of mind
23Nov07A couple of weeks ago, Newsweek’s cover proclaimed that Pakistan is the most dangerous country in the world. It was only mildly disturbing, since constant immersion in hostile media does tend to numb one’s senses. I came across this wonderful article a few days ago. Every once in a while, an article comes by that scrapes [...]
Insanity
18Nov07There’s so much of it to pick from, but here’s a sampler: The IJT has expelled 17 members over the Imran Khan incident. Yay. But brace yourself now for the ‘operation’ that the IJT will launch to maintain its ‘hold on PU’. Na Islami, na Talib, siraf Jamia. Mr. Musharraf isn’t in right now. Choice quote: “Before [...]
Stages of intelligence
25Aug07Certainty Uncertainty Certainty about uncertainty Uncertainty about uncertainty Certainty about the uncertainty of uncertainty I’m not sure if that pattern continues (there’s a tower law in there after stage 5, I think). My data suggests ‘achievers’ inhabit the odd-numbered stages; ‘thinkers’ and ‘feelers’ inhabit the even-numbered ones. Make sense?
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03Aug07PylaKasha tagged me, so here we go with 8 things about me. I’m a little bit of a snob, and a little self-centered. Like I saw this on Kyla’s blog and mentally snorted and thought, ‘not me’. And then I thought, ooh, a solicitation to yap. About me, no less. Doesn’t happen every day. But it’s [...]
‘Female’
13Jul07Here’s a fun thing to do when you have some free time: count the number of times women are referred to as ‘females’ in the popular media. I think it started in hip-hop culture (eg, “I can’t congratulate these females”), but it seems to be entering the mainstream now. I don’t quite understand it — [...]
PKBloggers
20Jun07Apparently, PKBloggers have listed me as ‘Voila!’ (check their right-hand column). I can’t tell if this is a good thing or a bad thing.
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