Moved to my Own URL

Dear ALL,

I have finally decided to move to something more independent of any blogspaces around. My own URL. Thank God there was no other Umar Pirzada around to take up my first choice URL…

Its an amateur effort if you talk about specialist web-designing and all. I don’t know my way around developing a good attractive website so the main page is a real low-class crude image of what I really wanted…with some Ads (no fun otherwise…)

The main page has options to take you to my new personal blog address and also some other places where I blog. This is my first attempt to running a website seriously and everything will continue to improve as I get more into it.
As always, thanks for coming here again and hope to see you soon at my new presence on the web.

Ladies and Gentlemen, I present to you http://www.umarpirzada.com.

P.S. Please update blogrolls….Thanks

Missing…

I have been pre-occupied with an important project at work….which has completed development and testing and soon is going to move to its implementation phase….its very interesting and actually linked to something that I am good at as well…

Its taken up my weekends and has put me through long hours at work…however soon there will be some happy time…with the automation completing by mid of May. Its a tough month ahead also but its soothing to see success after lots of effort.

My studies have suffered big time as well….with exams nearing…its worrying times and honestly I have lost that knack to study also. Just feel so mentally exhausted all the time. I have already passed some big exams in life and its like my mind cant find the energy to clear of just a few more. Sounds so stupid coming from a 26-year old….and yes I just realized that. These next 4 years could set the record straight for life. Just need to find some motivation to study and get it over with. Finance is not exactly running in my blood but I think I can get things done….if I could just find some motivation. I have been getting the “Is it really worth it?” thoughts….and with not the right kind of support system around…it really is a case finding something to motivate myself. Its not that that is something new, its been pretty much like that all my life. Just to need to get back to finding something to get me going again.

Anyway, its really good to see people still coming here and my hits haven’t really gone down. So all you people out there who still come….thanks….a lot….you make my day….each day I am able to check my mail and see some comments still coming….that is really encouraging….my google reader must be exploding now with me not seeing how everybody else I know has been doing on their blogs…its been that kind of month, last month….

I ll be back soon….and with a big bang….I m planning something big in the blogworld….just need to find some time….

Reveal the Truth…

I was recently applying for a UK visa and after a long on-line application form which had already asked me about my involvement in terrorist activities….which I had of course answered No, the application asked me something that CRACKED me up. By the way, even if I would have, would I have said YES while trying to get a UK Visa?

Anyway, this is what cracked me up….

Q. Have you engaged in any other activities that might indicate that you may not be considered a person of good character?

Umm….I actually gave it a few seconds of thought heheh….means I should just open my life open and tell them everything….man…of course NO…now gimme the damn visa….heheh….

Who buys a Yellow Shirt?

This is not for people who actually like YELLOW as a SHIRT Colour.

I do have 1 yellow shirt which I never bought. In fact I would never buy a Yellow Shirt. I got it from…now I dont even remember. It must have been a gift.

I think the only way a guy can have a yellow shirt in his wardrobe is via a gift from another guy who got it in a gift or via a 3 shirt deal at Pierre Cardin. Yes, Pierre Cardin in Dubai has a perpetual sale all year. It is a store who will give you 3 shirts for a good price….out of which one will be Yellow. Of course all of them will be NON-FITTING…being free-sizes.

Yellow shirts look so odd somehow….especially if you wear it with a black pant. Its like those footpaths going black-yellow-black-yellow-black….partial orange(PAN Peek)…partial yellow….black-yellow-black….

Or in a graphic design courses where they tell you the best combination to make a signboard visible to the human eye is Yellow on Black. You could be the human signboard wearing yellow on black….or even feel like a taxi.

The yellow shirt that I have actually has great material…and that is one reason I still wear it….otherwise I would have given it to someone ages back. Its for the days when I have no meetings and I have no chances of getting from my seat too much at work.

Anyway, no head or toe to the post….cos have not been in the blogging mode REALLY….need a few prayers for getting well permanently and also for my studies….don’t really need to comment….just PRAY!!!

Thanks for still coming….

La Makan Mein Ghar – Part Two

OK after quite a gap from La Makan Mein Ghar – Part One…here is another verse from it…

Aap tou buth bun kay kee…jalwa-garri….

Aur hamein…kafir banaya….yaar nay….

Translation/Explanation:

The poet is complaining and addressing the ‘mehboob’ (love) here that you yourself became something like a statue, a holy statue to be more specific and spread the good word of religion or good deeds in life. But when I, started worshipping you I became a villain. A kafir is a word used for non-believers in One God or non-Muslims. Kafirs worship idols and statues and that’s where this theory comes from.

UTP’s Two Cents on the Thought 

An interesting mention is the beautiful use of buth or statue in this verse. The mehboob has been called a statue in many ways in poetry because of the arrogance and ignoring attitude associated with it. No matter how much the lover worships, talks and basically lives his whole life for that statue….treats her like God, the statue remains silent and pays no attention. So, in this verse, brings that point out that you can be a statue and still be Holy etc and when I put my soul to rest and live only for u…I am called a Kafir since its idol worship. How unfair is that?