Shall we laugh on this?

Well, this particular video is going VIRAL on Facebook, these days. It comes from Islamabad. While a lot of us will sit and joke about this one, we should all ask ourselves some questions. Why a guy like him is on the streets? Why are we here joking?

Yes Pakistan, it is easy to joke. It is easy to make fun. It is easy to laugh off things. It is easy to blame it on "conspiracies" but then again why this guy was on the streets and why we were not there.

I saw this video from a friend. The remark from him was "HAHAHA! Agaya Inqilab! (Here Comes Inqilab!)". I am sure that my friend would have been staying inside his cool office on that Friday afternoon, continuing with his hobby of making OneNote books of 'Why Shias are not Muslims?'.

I believe it would not be wrong if I say that I am equally guilty of not coming out as well. Past Friday, I was not working. I should have been out as well, protesting.

Guess what guys?

سالا برگر جیت گیا! ممی ڈیڈی ہوتے ہوے بھی مردانگی دکھا گیا!

I am not going to translate that one line. It is not for the world to read but it is for Pakistanis to read, especially those who live in the urban centers.

This video is a mirror for a lot of us. For people like you and me, this guy shows that the courage Pakistan has. He showed that for the right cause, with the right voice, he can make a point. With all the "oddities" in his life, he is responsible for his actions. Even though, he complains about the weather and the "harsh" conditions, he is there.

There is a message for a people who will every day write how Pakistan is a mess. This guy shows it is not. Pakistan is different now; it has a different young mindset. A part of the last generation who lived in urban area has pushed the future to study. This new generation is young but it is waking up and it has logic which is louder than rants.

There is a message for the people sitting in the Parliaments. An elite kid is out on the street; something is going wrong. Quick, fix the situation or this elite kid would not support the Bilawals, Hassans and Mounises. Then again, it is kinda too late. I hope you will buy him an iPad 2 but I think he is not going to accept it.

However, there is a point which impressed me when he asks the crowd if he is lying. The crowd agrees that he is not and he is not lying, indeed. Had the Raymond Davis being caught by the Punjab Police, he would have been released in a matter of minutes. Raymond Davis was caught by the People of Pakistan and he should have not been let free that easily. The 'bloody money' smokescreen is bullshit. We do not care if the family wanted to prosecute or forgive the killer but we would like to know why Raymond Davis was carrying a 9mm Glock in Pakistan. Even if he had the gun by any chance, where did he get the ammo from. It was the responsibility of the state to do that. Furthermore, if the families have forgiven him, why the sudden urge to disappear?

I guess the Davis matter will be forgotten as time passes by. However, it would be best that we take a note of inspiration from this guy and do something.

Brain... and then... Brain Buster...

Well... 25 years ago... I was born! YAY! But 11 months before my birth, 'Brain' was born.

Of course, I am not talking about my brain but what I am talking about is something REVOLUTIONARY. Two brothers in a small town of Lahore created the world's first PC virus. They called it 'Brain'. It infected 360 kb (kilobyte) 5.25 inch floppy disks and is considered to be the world's first full-stealth virus. The virus used to copy itself in the memory and then transferred itself to other floppy disks meanwhile, it did not effect the hard disk. It changed the disk's volume label to (c)BRAIN as well.

Intentionally, Brain had no intentions of harming computers. It only slowed down the disk access or cause timeouts due to which floppy disks failed to work in some of the cases. As the virus marked its 25th year of inception, F-Secure, an computer security solutions company, went out to track the original creators and made a documentary out of it.

If you think that trailer is dramatic, then I agree too. I am not sure what was F-Secure's point behind the orchestral chanting music with half dialogs but it surely makes the virus look bad.

Indeed, with all the bad things going around in Pakistan, having the title of being home to the world's PC first virus not adds much to our glory. However, it seems that there are several points which we do not cater to look at when we talk about this. Had this been created in the West, the whole outlook would have been different.

N00bilink

Aray! Mobilink is burning... its hot... bewares bixches!

If you were in Islamabad (or in Northern Pakistan), chances are that Mobilink has gone all the famous "MaybeLink" on you. Apparently, there was a fire at the Mobilink databank at I-10 in Islamabad which kinda killed the network for all of the Northern Part of the country. Some blogs are telling that the network throughout the country is affected and they are reporting it as a second incident in this month.

During the past decade of of service, there has been a number of times when "Pakistan's favorite cellular company" turned unfavorite in seconds. Somewhere in 2002, I even remember them that under a Court ruling, they had to compensate their subscribers for incompetent service. Overcrowding and overcharging has been a practice of this company in the past as well. Furthermore, it is the same company which promises a "treasure chest" in their ongoing SMS-based promotion (for the 5th time).

Koi pregnant ho ya naho... Dhol bajay ga! (Let there be pregnancies... There would be drumming all along...)

First thing first, Meesha... Sexy lady! Congrats on starting a family. We hope that the creative genes continue in your off-springs.

Second. EXPRESS TRIBUNE! Get some fucking talent on your panel who can do fact-finding (and maybe some proofreading - there is a em-dash and hyphen together in one of their sentences). Gwen Stefani never left No Doubt. They were on a hiatus and are now planning to have a new album, later this year.

Third. Overload just off-loaded their chance to be something more than a "one-hit wonder". We all know why Meesha was fired. She got some mainstream attention when she did Coke Studio. I always had my doubts on Meesha but that girl can sing. Farhad Hamayun, the God-father of Overload earlier this week, announced that he is firing Ms. Meesha and her hubby and daddy-to-be Mahmood Rahman. Farhad and Mahmood are cousins and their family dawats will be a such a sweet affair from now. Oh the dramz!