One thing I missed the most in Pakistan was sleep. Because of all the happenings and the jet lag I usually got only a few hours of sleep during the week that I was on ground. Add to that only around eight hours of sleep during the thrity-eight hour travel time. So now I back and have started catching up but the missed sleep and the jet lag is making things a little tougher than expected.
Author: farhan
Back from Pakistan
I just got back from my very short ten-day visit to Pakistan. Three of these ten days were spent travelling to and from Pakistan leaving me with exactly seven days to enjoy. Usually I go there in December because of the extra time off due to the Christmas holidays but this trip was an exception because my brother was getting married. More on this later…
Going to Pakistan
Finally the time is here and I am off to Pakistan. The only part that I am not really looking forward to is the almost 19 hour flight each way. Oh well, let’s see how it all goes… 🙂
John Hancock Center
Here is a picture of the John Honcock Center from my car.
Mercedes-Benz S66 AMG!
Last weekend I went to the Chicago Auto Show and enjoyed almost all of it. Here is a picture of a kick-*** Mercedes-Benz S66 AMG! Enjoy! 😀 Click on the picture for a larger version.
US State Department National Visa Center Disappointment
The phone system of US State Department National Visa Center is pretty bad. I have been trying to get a hold of a person to update the address for an approved visa but haven’t had any luck. The worst part is the fact is that instead of making you hold and put in a queue so the next available personnel can answer your questions they make you call them back! :-O So far I have called them several times over a 4-hour span but haven’t been able to get a hold of anyone. 🙁
KDE Screenshot
Here is a screenshot of my current KDE desktop.
Comment Spam
Lately I have noticed that a poker spam bot keeps hitting my website almost every other day. Now it is starting to annoy me because I have to manually delete these comments, and thats just a pain. Luckily there is a captcha module available for drupal and I am currently working on setting it up. I think I will have to upgrade to drupal version 4.5.2 (currently I am running 4.5.0, I think). Let’s see how it all goes…
Whats your purpose in life?
My job starts in March and right now I don’t have too much that remains on my plate till then (i.e. almost everything is optional, nothing required). So I have had a lot of time to think about things, things that I guess most of the people (including myself) don’t usually think about during their "normal" life because there is always something to do. The first thing that came to mind was, why live 😕 Don’t get me wrong, I am not a suicidal!
Interesting Article
Lately I have had some time to think about life and its purpose so after spending some time thinking on mine today I decided to look around the internet and see what was out there. In my search I ended up at this site: Health, Wealth & Happiness. It has very interesting content, for starters checkout the article titled "How to Know What Your True Purpose in Life is." Also there is another interesting article titled "I want the Earth Plus 5%"; it does not have anything to do with the my original goal but it sure is quite interesting.