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!

Now, you can grab the Ideas Hut team and its fans on Facebook as well

Click the banner above to reach our facebook page and become a fan!

Update: We just realized that creating a facebook group is a better way to interact with people so, now clicking the above banner will take u to our facebook group. Do join it!

Once upon a time there was a lovely couple who gave birth to a cute lil’ baby girl and gave her a beautiful name "Fariha" which means "Joy and Happiness". However, the meaning they came to know about then was "Paak Daaman" (Could neone plz help tell me the english for Pak Daaman? ) and since it’s a very good meaning so, they decided to call the little one by this name.  Days passed…years passed, the baby girl grew up and started going to school. She had always heard her parents calling her "Fariha" pronounced as "Fur-ree-hA" but now she was quite surprised to hear everyone calling her by different names such as Faria (pronounced as fareeAa….very similar to "chariyaa"…an urdu slang word for crazy), Farha, Faryal, Farheen and hardly anyone called her by her real name. When she started her high school aka college, she was hopeful as she was part of a group of grown ups  now, who she mistakenly thought to  be intelligent enough to call her by her actual name that is FARIHA…but the situation was actually worst there. People not just called her by different defaced versions of “Fariha” but also spelled her name incorrectly. She spent all her college years in trying to correct them but all in vain . Then she started her undergrad studies and was hopeful that at least the people in her university would be wise enough to spell and pronounce her name properly but ahhh…there she came across some newer versions of her name, Freeha being the most common …..Haan…Freeha ?Sounds like a name of some place where people could laugh freely ..Free Ha as in ha ha ha! Silly people   During the entire course of her bachelors….her coordinator kept calling her Fareha (pronounced as Faarayha) as if she was a ray coming from somewhere far…Far ray HA…HUH! She kept requesting everyone to call her Fariha but nobody listened.

Then after her bachelors, she started working and was pretty much sure of being called FARIHA as per rules of the professional environment, which require everyone at office to be called by his/her proper name but how wrong was she. At office also people kept calling her by the twisted versions of her name and even by different nicks, the most common being Fari/ Fari Pari (which till 2-3 years ago only the close friends were allowed to call her by)…sigh. She excused everything but then one day she that noticed her boss has renamed her resume to “Fareeha_Athtaar”  OMG both the spellings incorrect! At that very moment she decided to SUE not just her boss but also everyone else who doesn’t call her by her actual name i.e. FARIHA and spell it correctly too i.e. F A R I H A (any other spelling and pronunciation no matter how appropriate it may seem to be is totally UNACCEPTABLE).

Being called by his/her name is everyone’s birth right and people have been depriving a little girl who btw is a young lady now , of her right for the past so many years. This can also be taken as the violation of human rights and hence needs to be strongly condemned. So, I PROTEST!

Teabreak-which is a Pakistan based blog aggregating site, has launched its version 2.0. It’s still in it beta stage but has introduced a lot of new and interesting features. For details follow a post on my friend’n'colleague Ammar’s blog here.

Great going Teabreak!

"If you don’t like me, that’s okay

There’s nothing I can do about it

I don’t live to please you"

Source: Read it on one of the bumper stickers on Facebook and man isn’t it just true

One fine day while I was facebooking, i noticed Sohail’s status and then:

We had a discussion for 4 days and that too revolving around a single idea put up by Sohail as his facebook status

And that was when this mad Pakistani felt we could have such discussions on a forum meant solely for this purpose. By next morning he was done creating that forum with some basic functinalities to enable users discuss different ideas.

Also by then he had started feeling that his mental faculties are being affected by the risen levels of insanity so, he decided not to take it alone and infest the culprit behind his madness with the same as well.

That culprit was accussed of bugging mad pakistani for implementing his idea related to "Developers Network of Pakistan" ……for brain storming with him writing long wall posts (argg…needless to say but she often got irriated by the restrictions put on the length of the wall post ) and for helping him shape his ideas.

On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 3:17 p.m. PST, history witnessed the emergence of another mad pakistani who happens to be the author of this blog when she decided to take the Ideas Hut project forward along with Sohail after being sentenced to madness.

So, this is briefly about how Ideas Hut started; which today after about 10 days of its birth and being still in its beta version has already got 5 ideas being discussed on it.

But this is just a start and we are expecting a lot more to come. So, keep following

Life starts with a dot but while living this life we often fail to connect many dots……….

 We(Sohail and I) at our little venture Ideas Hut seek to and invite all of you to connect all such dots that can potentially make a beautiful picture.

Keep checking this space for further details about what Ideas Hut is all about! 

Image Credits: Katesbabybasics and Ebaumsworld

 I always praised the government for introducing the National Internship Program.

But there is always another side of the picture. Let me share an email with you from one of the internees who’s working under this program

" Salam to all..

 I am XXX having job under national internship program. Me and my rest of fellows are waiting for our salaries since 4 months…. I belong to a poor family.  If any one can approach to higher authorities of nip,, plzz plzz help me and all alike me in getting our salaries…

 what sould i do .. Tell me.. where sould i go ….  i am very anxious…

  hamara kya kasur hai akhir,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,!!!!!!!!!

I have just copied and pasted this email without changing even a single word(as you could see from the grammatical mistakes etc.) except the sender’s name to avoid getting him/her into any further trouble.