FarQuest Fariha's Quest: Finding an answer to the question "Why can’t Utopia be a reality?" Wish to add some colors of Utopia to this world because I dare to dream and strive to turn my dreams into reality!

I hated sleep.
I had enjoyed my life enough.
I couldn’t live without tension.
I wanted to pay for my sins.
I believed in the principle : karm karo, phal ki demand na karo.
Everything in life has a reason; I wanted to prove it wrong.
I wanted to take revenge on myself.

Read it in my friend’s scrap book on orkut and found it too funny so decided to share

How can I forget what I don’t want to forget? How can I even forget when every other thing reminds me of it……the fragrance of a perfume, the scent of a hand lotion I use, rain, music everything reminds me of it. When someone utters kind words, tries to help me out or when I get hurt…that reminds me of it too…and yet I think I would be able to forget it…..would these remembrances fade away with the passage of time or would they remain alive in my memory always?

Update: Emailing, instant messaging, short messaging, orkuting and even googling reminds me of it as well….weird…am i?

PS: and U would be thinking what this pointless post is all about…nothing ….just wanted to take my mind off a few things. Btw has anyone ever experienced forgetting what one doesn’t want to forget? 

Aasman ko chootay jain hum..tin tin tin tin…….This wonderful song by Ali Zafar from his album Masty tops my play list these days and I’m falling in love with its lyrics may be because I can relate them all to my life and myself. Living life has never been simple for me….getting what I want has never been easy too. There have been times when I strongly desired for something, worked day’n’night to get it and a moment came when I was about to get it but then everything changed in a wink of an eye leaving me with a sinking heart and teary eyes, asking Allah “Why Me?” Gradually I started getting an answer to this question….it was may be because Allah wants me to get stronger and He has never left me alone but with this HOPE that everything would be fine, things would eventually turn out to be good for me and they do Alhamdulilah. I feel I get surrounded by sorrows because Allah has given me the courage to fight through them and get to my destiny. I do get frustrated, I do weep at times but ‘am always self-motivated to take a new start as an attempt to achieve my goal…no matter how disappointed I may seem to be but I keep getting a flash of optimism from inside that fuels me to keep walking no matter how difficult the journey is

Btw u can download Aasman from here 

PS: I wanted to upload the mp3 here but Blogsome doesn’t allow me to upload Mp3s….neither can i add any plugin as to get a plugin added, blogsome users have to make a request to the admin and God knows when would they furnish the request

I wanted to blog on this some time back as it is associated with the IEEE-ACM Seminar that we had at our college but got busy with my finals, projects, presentations, reports and all right after this seminar so couldn’t take time out to write on it. In our last semester each one of the graduating class had to write a research paper and when it was time for the final presentations we had two options in front of us:

a) either to go for the same old classroom presentations where most of the time ur purpose is to deliver a long "taqreer" trying to impress people about what you have worked on while the audience is either sleeping or having cramps in stomach as its their turn to present right after urs

b) or the other option was to do something DIFFERENT

We choose the second one but then the question was WHAT to do and HOW to do it? There came our Coordinator (a man whom I feel I have learnt the most from during my BS). He said lets have an "IEEE-ACM Seminar" where you all would be required to present your papers and not only that u need to carry out a promotional campaign for this event as well. He said "If BBA and MBA ppl could market their halwa puri (referring to one the MBA projects that we had at SZABIST some time back) then why can’t you guys promote your academic work"

Techies are usually known to be lone souls who just want to sit in server rooms lost in their geeky stuff but things have rapidly changed these days. Now we the IT people are required to participate in all the business activities to achieve strategic advantages and so we can no longer stay being lone souls not having enough confidence to present our work in front of the world. Also when it comes to presentation…it should be catchy enough to attract even the non-technical people. So with all this in our mind we started out with the promotional campaign for the event. Designed loads of posters in a single day and placed them all around SZABIST. They were so colorful and funny that many people thought SZABIST is going to have a carnival but no it was purely an academic activity

Here are some of the posters that I designed. I wish I could put the pics of when all the posters (designed by others as well) were in place but sadly i don’t have ne pics  

Btw I even put some posters on trees . After all the purpose was to show that "Techies can PROMOTE their work and that too in ATTRACTIVE manner"

PS: I welcome readers’ opinion about the topic! 

NOTE:  The images used in the posters were taken from different websites and weren’t designed by me. One credit is already there..gonna put others soon.

Images Credit: http://www.mitre.org/news/the_edge/summer_04/images/semantic_web.jpg