Its one of our favourite topics isnt it...we love blaming someone else for our condition. This post is a mini diatribe against all the people that keep telling me to start watching and believing all that is said in the arrivals, this imaginative new age conspiracy theory series thats fast gaining popularity in the youth of pakistan.
I get it. The jews own the world. They own the media, the top financial institutions, the american votebank and by defualt every system that exists on our planet. And theyre probably out to get us since its been foretold in our religion.
My take on it? It doesnt give me the right to sit around and do nothing. It doesnt give me the right to keep blaming the zionist regime for the ummahs miseries. I wont, repeat WONT keep blaming israel for the state of our world. it isnt entirely their fault!
If only our muslim leadership had realized earlier on that unity, education, faith and discipline, were the fundamentals of what our future success would lie in, only then would we be owning the planet instead of the others. Taking out parades, shouting 'death to america' just wont cut it anymore. Taking innocent civilian lives just wont work. Banning facebook wont work either really.
We need to get our act together, and not for 2 years, but for the long haul. As they say in urdu, 'kamar kasne ka time aagaya he'. Lets all start playing our part.
Looking for a job is difficult, and somehow for lateral hires even more so. Each time i get a call for an MT program and i reject it, i know that im kicking another one of Gods opportunities out the window and decreasing my chances with some of the top organizations in Pakistan.
and its down right scary....because everyone else is getting interviews, and you keep getting calls for immediate recruitment rather than later. The additional anxiety attacks havent really helped either. However, these past 27 years have not been an easy ride for me. Most of my success has not come easily, and has been the result of a lot of risk taking, and even in the darkest of times, ive realized that God has walked with me every step of the way.
I just hope it keeps working out.
Before your mind starts wandering into weird sexual freakishness....STOP right there! This post is NOT about me coming out with some hidden fetish...its about sarcasm.
I love sarcasm. Sarcasm to me is like a cherry topping on the perfect icecream sundae. The perfect joke with just the right amount of sting that gives a split second the amount of power to devastate and truly shock and awe the victim and leave them reeling.
I identify with sarcastic people in general, and this love for the wicked even extends to tv characters. Thats why my favourite character in everybody loves raymond is not raymond, but his miserly old sick-of-life-holy-crap father. Or the fact that my favourite character in Frasier is actually frasiers dad, or the-ill-put-my-foot-up-your-ass father in that 70s show.
The problem that ive been struggling with is this....does that make me a negative person? Is it just for fun or have i started literally living it in my everyday life? And if I have, how many people have i managed to hurt with this attitude? Or am I just overthinking things?
Sent from my Nokia phone
So i turned 27 and as always there were hundreds of midnight birthday calls, hundreds of celebretory text messages and ofcourse as always my facebook wall was flooded with happy birthdays and party all night type of messages...
Growing up can have a big impact on your life, some positive and some negative. Certain friends of mine see it as a confirmation of their manhood and thus by indulging in their own securities see another year of life as a go ahead to add yet another feather (sin) to their cap...meaning if they were on dope before with their birthday they would graduate to coke and pill popping.
I tend to do stuff differently. I like spending the day/week alone and taking stock of my life. I realized something this time around.
As we grow older, we tend to move farther away from our parents. I guess that is the way of the world. Thanks to the capitalist mindset that we live in and have been brought up on, the old eventually shrivel up and die, and somehow that is seen as a given in the human race as well.
Think about it. Who were the people who gave you your first birthday cake and invited all your friends to enjoy it with you? Who were the people who have been buying your presents all these years? Your parents. And as soon as you grow up, you start prefering your friends over them. When on the job in Islamabad, on the job, I made it a point to take my mom to plays and movies with me, just to show the world, i dint care if anyone judged me, i loved my mom. And it just hit me, I havent spent my birthday with my folks for the longest time.
I need to. You need to. We ALL need to. They made us what we are today, and they deserve this much and MUCH MUCH MORE
Posted by
Ahmed Mustafa
4:49 AM
Running away is a crime
and acceptance not condoned
And although I may be
My soul is never owned
Continuing my loud discourse
of freedon's philosophy
I eventually come to realize
Its a hypocrisy
Shodow governments, a capitalist mind
Screw media control
buy morality, buy your mind
buy your self control
Sir,
After reading the article that I just sent to you, I got down to thinking. How will IBA in an increasingly unstable world be able to differentiate itself?
I believe that values and ethics and creativity of business solutions is the way to go. IBA has previously been known for supplying the market with cut throat executives that will do just about anything to succeed. However in view of the financial crisis, its evident that such a strategy will not work.
Since Islam has always taught tolerance, values and ethics, I personally believe that IBA can become a shining beacon of such a system and this is something that I have realized after having been taught by Dr. Mahnaz Fatima this semester. The approach that she has taken with corporate strategy is one that cannot be found in any other business school in Pakistan, and I believe that she is a real asset to our institution. However one thing that is fundamentally wrong with the MBA right now is that we had her in the last semester, rather than in the first.
When the new crop of MBAs/BBAs come to IBA, they come here hungry for success in the corporate world. That is exactly why the race for grades has become the order of the day amongst our students. If they were to be given lessons in values by Dr. Mahnaz in the first semester, I am sure that this mindset can change. The way she has taught my class, and myself included, has really changed our perception. Every class is like a call to arms, which includes a drive for excellence in education, success in the corporate world, but at the same time, never forgetting what our true value system is and how we should maintain it in our daily lives. We come out of every class completely inspired, and this has never been the case in any class that I have taken here since 2002 (I worked for 3 years in between) save a few other illustrious examples which include Ms. Lalarukh Ejaz and Mr. Samir Amir.
Another thing that needs to be instilled within our graduates is the love of our country and finding creative solutions to the problems that we see around us. It should be our graduates that are making and implementing new BOP marketing and microfinance models rather than people sitting in harvard, because these problems are in Pakistan and not in the US. Our graduates should be consulting with NGOs or even governmental departments on how to improve their functioning and helping them effeciently achieve their objectives.
Our new positioning should not only be that we produce leadership within the ranks of the corporate world, but the world overall.
