Words talk

The other day in class when I was dozing in and out of sleep my friend poked me when her elbow saying “Oye! You are missing all the fun”. As I gained my senses I realized that the lecture discussion on strategic leadership in organizations had somehow transformed to leadership in Pakistan. I heard very valuable contributions from the class on different political parties, I was amazed that how keenly my fellows followed up on the political activities and embarrassed that I did not know peanut in comparison. A student said: “Pakistan could only prosper if it has good leadership, Malaysia was on the breach of collapse too when Mahateer Muhammad came and changed it all.” Another said: “Pakistan needs a dictator; this spoiled nation can only be straightened with a rod” Our professor asked “Where is such leader going to come from? ‘Fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me’ and as far as Pakistan is concerned it has been fooled by its leaders for as many as four times...” Bui...

Even Parke Kunkle, the person who made the discovery, is not embracing the new signs. The change in the format of the newspapers horoscope section and the addition of a thirteenth sign, which is also an odd number. More work! The need for updating zodiac signs of celebrities everywhere, starting with Wikipedia. The change in compatibility, since now you are compatible with certain zodiac signs you previously were not compatible with. For a hardcore believer in astrology this means lots of changes. A change in zodiac personality traits equals to a change in zodiac personality perception, which evidently equals to not-easily-digestible. Astrologists are still debating the usefulness of the discovery and deciding on whether or not it will even have an impact. Astrology has lost its credibility, and while there have been issues with the science since its inception, this recent discovery is the final blow. Many twins are now crabs, many crabs are now lions, and many lions are now v...

All is well that ends well. What about when all is well but does not end well? Like when you are excited, yet surprised, but excited to enroll in one elective course you pick by choice in a semester and enjoy the lectures all along, learn a lot and consequently perform decent on evaluations but end up victim of tough grading? Is that not well because it did not end well? Or is it well because it was great learning? Let’s simplify and do a weighted-performance-matrix-thing. Weightage Scene A Scene B Grade/ Your learning from worlds point of view 0.8 0.9 0.2 Learning 0.2 0.2 0.9 Total 1 0.74 0.36 In Scene A you have this amazing grade which can be achieved by various ways including fair useless means i.e. route learning etc. and unfair means i.e. cheating, flattering the instructor etc. In Scene B you have learned a lot out of the course but end up with a poor grade*, thus your will be considered one grade lesser in tha...

Shameless or should I call the self-proclaimed-judges-of-other’s-deeds hopeless? I was amazed to see people celebrating other over the murder of governor of Punjab. Let’s review the reason for murder of the governor in the first place; HE WAS SHOT BECAUSE OF HIS CALLING THE BLASHEMY LAWS AS THE ‘ KALA KANOON’ . Although I completely disagree with the victim’s approach towards the blasphemy laws but I condemn the execution of the assassination; if every walking person has the right to pass and carryout the judgment I wonder why do we have the courts, judges or even laws to begin with? The irony of the situation is that you are trying to be a supporter of a religion by doing exactly what’s disliked in the very religion. Congratulating on someone’s death? Seriously? I would quote an event as described in Sahih Al-Bukhari ( Volume 2, Hadith 399) : “ A funeral procession once passed in front of the Prophet Muhammed (peace be upon him) and he stood up out of respect. When he was told the pe...