More Midnight Mayhem

(*) Welcome to the Next Level says (00:21):
my computer is on its way to depreciation
steampunk says (00:22):
computers are always on their way to depreciation
(*) Welcome to the Next Level says (00:22):
but this one 'was' good.
steampunk says (00:22):
mine's like 4 months old and already suffering with old age
(*) Welcome to the Next Level says (00:23):
u were fooled into buying an old one to begin with :/
steampunk says (00:23):
nah it's new
bechara can't cope with my computing practices
(*) Welcome to the Next Level says (00:23):
insane!
computers have feelings too
(*) Welcome to the Next Level says (00:24):
u can actually count them by opening task manager

Khao Soy Ramadan

I have been having chicken noodle soup hankering since like 5:00 in the morning. It's all boey's fault actually. Boey is this 31 year old ethnically Chinese, born in Malaysia, schooled in Singapore, went to college in the US, working in California as animator/graphics designer guy who is famous for his styrofoam cup art.

Anyway so today was the first day of Ramadan, and it was the weekend so as usual I was up till 3:30am or so, and after that there was no point in sleeping since sehri/sahoor/dawn was at 4:20am anyway and I had to stuff my face before then. I had had a late night frozen-food dinner and was already kinda full since I hadn't slept but I ate anyway and around 4:30, since I still wasn't sleepy, started reading my RSS feeds, and then one blog had written about boey, so I ended up on his site, which is rather cool with stick figure drawings of him, his friends, his workmates and funny everyday stories about his life. I mean the stories wouldn't be funny if I had been telling em but the guy writes em so they are funnier. You know what I mean!

So boey is having some sort of noodles or noodle soup every 3rd or 4th blog entry or so, and that gave me the noodle soup hankering. So I went to sleep around 6 am, woke up in the afternoon, lazed around and since I was still dreaming about noodle soup, went to Carrefour to get the makings of Khao Soy ... which is Thai but anyway it is yummy noodle gravy thingy. Stupid Carrefour people don't believe in boneless chicken ... I was hoping they'd have a frozen boneless chicken pack so I could make enough for just me and dunk the rest in the freezer but they didn't so I ended up buying 1/2 kg of fresh chicken which you can't freeze so I had to chop it up into little pieces at home and then cook it all. And they didn't have spring onions either so I had to stop at another shop to get some sad looking spring onions. Not as bright and crisp as the ones we got back home. Anyway I was back after 5:00, iftar/sunset was at 6:45 so I went about making everything at once, and emptying about a ton of food that I got besides ... I do that EVERY time ... I think I have a buying-too-much-food phobia. Anyway I had forgotten curry powder so I ended up dunking in a random mixture of spices which thankfully came out fine. And then I had some spring rolls and mango flavoured milk at iftar and then I ate sooo much khao soy that I couldn't move. And I got like three more servings lying around cuz I had cooked all of the chicken but I think it will be a good idea to freeze it for later.

So a Khao Soy bowl is egg noodles at the base, with Thai chicken curry poured over it and then heaped with fresh spring onion and shallots and cilantro and sometimes they even put fried crispy noodles and pickled cabbage but I stuck to the fresh veggies bit only.

Khao Soy: At this point you can only see the cilantro and the rest of the veggies. Maybe it should served in glass bowls for people to be able to see the layers

All Shook up -- after a few bites

By this point I was so full I was half sitting half lying on the rug in the lounge, somewhat leaning against the couch and praying for the food to stay where its supposed to be ... anyway you can see the thai chicken curry at the base now

Oh and I even got instant hot chocolate ... mostly because the bottle was kinda funky! Darn the pretty package designs. I always fall for em! And its midnight already and I'm waiting for some space in my tummy so I can also have the hot chocolate. And sehri/sahoor/dawn is at 4:20 again. Boy o boy I'm gonna eksplode! :D


Oh and at the end of it i left an epic mound of dirty dishes in the kitchen, but the maid is coming in the morning so yay!

There's Always a Song Playing in My Head!

Pat Benatar in my head sings: "We are young, Heartache to heartache we stand, No promises, No demands, Love is a battlefield ...."

bahahahaha *shoots self*

*tries making Whitesnake nudge out Pat Benatar*

The voices in my head sing: "We're young ... here i go again ... heartache to ... on my own ... we stand ... only road ... no demand ... like a drifter ... is a battlefield ..."

How about some Golden Earring?

The voices in my head sing: "All set, the court ... we're young ... on my own ... to heartache ... going down the only road ... I swear, nothing but the truth now ... no promises ... born to be alone ... bullshit ... battlefield ... i've made up my mind ... bullshit ... "

Final Score:

Pat Benatar: 4 Whitesnake: 3 Golden Earring: 1

Lost in Translation

She checks the time ... "oh its nearly six! should call a cab otherwise it won't get here for ages, what with the rush hour traffic and all!".

Picks up the phone, dials 2080808, the phone gets picked up by the system after a couple of rings ...

"ahlan wasahlan bekum fi taaksi Dubai ... Welcome to Dubai Taxi ... al'al istamrar fil lughatul araabia wahid ... to continue in English press 2". She presses two. An Arab operator answers the phone ...

"Hello welcome to Dubai Taxi, how may I help you?"

"Hi, I need a Taxi in the Jebel Ali Free Zone"

"Where in the free zone?"

"At junction 12, gate 5, the company is P&G"

"B&G"

"Procter&Gamble, P&G"

"B&G?"

She suddenly realizes that arabic doesn' t have the "p" sound in it, the closest approximation is 'B'. "Yes"

"When do you need it madam?"

"As soon as possible, please"

"May I have your name and cell number please?". She gives the details ...

"Anything else Madam?"

"No, Thank You!"

She hangs up the phone and turns back to her laptop, winding up work for the day. The cabbie should call any time now. Her phone rings once. Missed call from an unknown number. Has to be the cab driver. So she calls back ...

A subcontinental voice answers the phone

"Haallooo"

"Hi, I called a taxi"

"Yaas, yaas, this is the taxi"

"So where are you?"

"Eye yam neaarr gate 5, wherrre eye comme?"

"Okay, go straight from here and you will come to junction 13"

"uhhnnnn?"

"go straight and you will come to roundabout 13"

"Yaas Yaas, raoundabaout 13"

"Take a left"

"Laft?"

"Yes, left"

"oakay, oakay, naow wherre eye goo?"

"Go straight and you will reach roundabout 12"

"12?"

"Yes, 12, take a left"

"oakay, oakay, 12 naoww, laft?"

"yes, and as soon as you take left, its the first building on your left again, it has a blue gate"

"oakay, oakay" hangs up.

She packs up, since the taxi is barely 5 minutes away. 15 minutes pass, no luck. Just as she is beginning the wonder, the phone rings.

"Yes? are you here?"

A frustrated subcontinental voice replies ... "Thaere is nooo aaafis here, eye haave chaeked aal bildings"

"you took a left from roundabout 13?"

"yaas"

"and then a left from 12?"

"yaas"

"So then it is the first building on your left, it is a white building with green windows and a blue gate, found it?"

"nooo"

"okay, okay, do you see a black building on the other side?"

"uhh uhh whyyeee essss ellll buuh... buuh ... byoo ..."

She is confused for a while then realizes he's trying to pronounce beauté. Can't blame him, poor guy, French is not for the faint hearted! "Yes, that one, now look on the other side, the white building on the other side, come there"

"butt thaat ees P und G"

"Yes thats the one, P&G, blue gate, come inside"

"Buttt eye have been looking faar a B und G, thaey told me B&G!"

"No its P&G". Shakes her head and hangs up.






Disclaimer: pronunciations and accents have been highlighted to convey the essence of this situation. The writer does not intend or endorse any sort of discrimination whatsoever!

I missed May

and this is the first post from Dubai ... for those following the countdown to salvation, salvation has arrived or rather arrived 1 month 17 days ago. Took its own sweet time but I take my nauseatingly sacchrine sweet time reporting it ... along with about gazillion other things I promised to tell but never did. I wonder if the time lost makes them irrelevant now?

later!

P.S. Time to update Islamabad/Karachi/Tashkent? ...





oh and *dance like a monkey* ^_^

A day in the life of Blabbering Wombat ... Today() - (21 years +1 day) ago ...

One of the blogs/pages I visit most often is All Things Pakistan. They posted about the 'Ojhri Camp blast' yesterday here, which happened 21 years ago. Ojhri camp is one of my earliest memories.

I was 3 and it was my very first day at school, which was located in F-7 Islamabad ... a missile broke through our classroom wall and I have vague memory of adults picking up the children and running around screaming, crying and hiding under stairs and praying. Of course I was totally fascinated by the glittery stuff flying around in the sky, totally unaware of what it meant. My parents came to pick me up, then we went to pick my sister up from her school, and then we drove around the better part of the day picking up and dropping home acquaintances who couldn't get a ride home. It was only much later that we found out that the missiles were heat-seeking and going around in an internal-combustion-engine powered vehicle was equivalent to walking around with a bulls eye painted on you!

More about Ojhri Camp:

Wikipedia
Some random conspiracy theorist on the net

The Relocation Blog

Or post, blog just sounds cooler ... a dynamic one that will be created soon, and will be edited and reposted everytime there's an update ... this is to save myself from repeating the same details via phone, chat or email one million, three hundred and fifty seven thousand, nine hundred and thirty sixth time ...

oh btw I missed March ... nearly two years of discipline gone down the drain! I blame it on relocation.

Random Thought: I have over 10 drafts lying around ... some of them are over one year old. Don't remember what they were about for over half of em

Anyway ... WATCH THIS SPACE!

Feel Good inc.

I apologized to and re-established contact with a friend today I had broken off with some six to eight months ago. Was hard but it feels great. Some people are worth it.

Since I borrow the title from Gorillaz, here is the song, no lyrical/interpretative relation, it's just a good song

The Tandoori Chicken Fiasco

Some things are jinxed from inception ... and I have evidence to prove it! Some months ago, I tried my hand at making tandoori chicken, and the results where quite encouraging, as per the evidence below:



So encouraged by the initial success, I set out to make tandoori chicken again with results that stand solemn testament to murphy's law, i.e. anything that can go wrong, will go wrong!

Given my 'living out of the freezer lifestyle', I put the chicken into the fridge for defrosting, generally it takes full 24 hours to completely thaw, which is good enough, except that events chose to unfold themselves in a way that kept me away from my thawing/thawed chicken an entire 48 hours.

Not discouraged, I ploughed on, finding the time after midnight to make the marinade, all ground and crushed and mixed and whisked, and the powers-that-be dealt a bad hand, literally, resulting in me dropping the entire bowl, hence immediately dispatching the marinade to the trash bin. half an hour and 2nd batch of marinade later, I was able to put the chicken in it, and stuff it in the fridge to cook the next day.

And the higher powers chose to keep me away from the chicken another 36 hours! So today being the weekend, I happily put the chicken on to the hob, all excited about the opportunity to eat it, and then I absolutely forget about it! Only to remember when all the creamy tandoori masala was burnt to cinder {read: over exaggeration for the sake of emphasis} however the chicken proved to be as determined as me ... and survives fully, albeit it is half the chicken it could have been with the masala. But the chicken and I refuse to be daunted, and judging by the aroma wafting through my house, I assume it will still taste great!

The Fiasco will not be photographed

This is to beating the powers that choose to jinx our endeavours! *clink*

Salvation Delayed --- oh and end of the year!

So the salvation counter has been extended ... from 15th December 2008 to 15th January 2009. There's hope though! for salvation that is!

This post is coming two weeks too late ... and I've forgotten like 99% of the stuff I was going to write about. Anyway today is the last day of the year 2008. And this post is also to hail the new year in ... Happy New Year all!

Awesomeness Comes in 167 Pieces!

Of the things I got my hands on when I hadn't even learnt to walk, these were and still are the two of the most precious:



Legoland 6040: "The Blacksmith Forge"
Year: 1984 (that makes it older than me!)
89 pieces, 2 figures

This was an awesome little set. Though small in size it had not one, not two but FOUR alternate models!



I absolutely loved the magical red beams and pillars that made a castle's grand entrance or a blacksmith's kiln depending on how you put them together! I still have the set, though I admit with a few pieces misssing.




Legoland 6688: "Ambulance"
Year: 1985
68 pieces, 2 figures

I was absolutely awed by the colored translucent plastic lights and the rear hatch that moved. Sadly the same story I have the set but the lights are all gone, so are few other pieces.

Despite the never ending infatuation, those were the last LEGO models I called my own and had the luxury of owning, playing with, and growing up with .... until now!

Enters the:

8142 Ferrari 248 1:24
Year: 2007
167 pieces, 1 figure

TOTAL AWESOMENESS!

front of the box

back of the box

The finished model: vs. the box for scale

Some more goodness

The finished model: vs. my 'biggish' Dell Latitude D630 for Scale

Complete with the trappings of a Ferrari F1 Racer

The laptop appears to be a fitting place to park

Oh almost forgot, it comes with a windup motor, so it runs too! Just pull it back as far as it will go and then let it loose!

as always, click on the pictures to enlarge in a seperate window

Documented for Posterity

The best chussis are utter accidents ... and I solemnly believe that they should be documented! Here's an exchange, which took place on facebook, as always after 3am in the morning.

For those who don't understand Urdu, I've translated into English at the end of the post ... though that DOES take away the essence of it

What is a 'Chussi' you ask me?
Here is a wiki entry by one of the masters himself!

Without further ado ...


Ali is looking for some good spacious backpack. 1:39am - 23 Comments

Wajiha Said at 2:47am October 17

why? you wanna fit a body in it?

Adeel Rizvi at 2:50am October 17

no just himself :P

Wajiha Said at 2:52am October 17

phir tau normal size ka bhi chalay ga! -_-

Adeel Rizvi at 2:53am October 17

normal kyun? saath kuch aur bhi dalna hai? small sahi hai

Wajiha Said at 2:54am October 17

haan kya pata saath koi takiya hilaaf rakhna ho? sardi na lagay na!

Adeel Rizvi at 2:55am October 17

lol haan phir sahi hai. warna tao wallet seh bhi kaam chalaya ja sakta tha

Wajiha Said at 2:56am October 17

nahin wallet se nahin chal sakta! phir 5 rupay ka sikka kahan aaye ga! abhi note milna nahin shuru huay! state bank nikamma jo hai!

Mohsin Attaur Rehman at 2:58am October 17

becharay ne ek backpack lena tha .. sirf ek backpack :O

Adeel Rizvi at 3:02am October 17

haan so we are helping him decide ^_^

Wajiha Said at 3:03am October 17

yup yup -_-

Ali Mohsin at 3:18am October 17

@wajiha and rizvi:
mein saath mein aik dual-sim mobile pe le raha hun... sims tou hain nahin mere pass... tum donon ne fit hona hai uss mein?? :0

qasam se kitne wailay log ho!!! :P

Wajiha Said at 3:20am October 17

hum aa tau jayen par tumhara dual sim mobile nahin chalnay wala phir ... will be permanently corrupted -_-

Adeel Rizvi at 3:20am October 17

Ali Mohsin ghussa kar gaya hai. gandi chussiyon peh utar aya hai :P

Wajiha Said at 3:21am October 17

well yeh konsa kabhi achi chussiyon pe charha tha jo ab gandi chussion pe utray ga?

Adeel Rizvi at 3:23am October 17

lol true!

Ali Mohsin at 3:43am October 17

yeah for sure corrupt ho jaye ga... i forgot sim's slot mightl be a lil bigger for u ppl :P
and thanks for explaining me this inverted-bell-shape graph of chussi-meter!
3:45am!! and tomorrow... rather today is a working day :S

Adeel Tassawur at 11:56am October 17

sala aik backpack...aik backpack insaan ko ali-mohsin bana deta hai :P

Wajiha Said at 12:19pm October 17

Allah insaan ka maghphirat farmaye -_-

Adeel Rizvi at 12:25pm October 17

meaning Allah kuch bhi banay lakin Ali Mohsin na banay?

Wajiha Said at 12:28pm October 17

open to interpretation

Ali Mohsin at 4:31pm October 17

eyaar mutt preshaan ho iss baat per... :P
aik mein ne backpack ka lena hai... duniya tension mein aa gayee hai :|

Adeel Tassawur at 4:50pm October 17

i heard this would be the topic of next Obama /McCain debate

Wajiha Said at 12:30am October 18

what? optimum size of a backpack for Ali Mohsin? weren't they already researching it at CERN? pata hai tabhi tau large hadron collider kharab hua hai! they gave it this problem! a little too much for the machine's capacity!

Translation

Ali is looking for some good spacious backpack. 1:39am - 23 Comments

Wajiha Said at 2:47am October 17

why? you wanna fit a body in it?

Adeel Rizvi at 2:50am October 17

no just himself :P

Wajiha Said at 2:52am October 17

in that case a normal sized one will work too! -_-

Adeel Rizvi at 2:53am October 17

Why normal? Does he need to put something else in it as well? small would be better

Wajiha Said at 2:54am October 17
Yea what if he wants to keep a pillow or quilt etc as well? We don't want him to catch a cold!

Adeel Rizvi at 2:55am October 17

lol then its okay. Otherwise a wallet could have made do as well

Wajiha Said at 2:56am October 17

No a wallet wouldn't have worked! Where would the 5 rupee coin fit then? The new bank notes aren't available yet cuz state bank is useless!

Mohsin Attaur Rehman at 2:58am October 17

The poor guy only wanted to get a backpack ... just a backpack :O

Adeel Rizvi at 3:02am October 17

yea so we are helping him decide ^_^

Wajiha Said at 3:03am October 17

yup yup -_-

Ali Mohsin at 3:18am October 17

@wajiha and rizvi:
I'm also getting a dual-sim mobile ... I don't have sims ... but do you guys want to fit in it instead?? :0

Honestly how free are you!!! :P

Wajiha Said at 3:20am October 17
We don't mind coming but then your dual sim mobile is not going to work ... will be permanently corrupted -_-

Adeel Rizvi at 3:20am October 17
Ali Mohsin has gotten pissed off. Has come down to bad chussis :P

Wajiha Said at 3:21am October 17
Well as if he ever managed to move up to good chussis that he'd come down to bad chussis now?

Adeel Rizvi at 3:23am October 17

lol true!

Ali Mohsin at 3:43am October 17

yeah for sure it will be corruped ... i forgot sim's slot might be a lil bigger for u ppl :P
and thanks for explaining me this inverted-bell-shape graph of chussi-meter!
3:45am!! and tomorrow... rather today is a working day :S

Adeel Tassawur at 11:56am October 17

one damn backpack ... one backpack makes ali-mohsin out of a man :P

Wajiha Said at 12:19pm October 17

May god forgive the man -_-

Adeel Rizvi at 12:25pm October 17

meaning god creates you anything but Ali Mohsin?

Wajiha Said at 12:28pm October 17

open to interpretation

Ali Mohsin at 4:31pm October 17

buddy don't be stressed out over this ... :P
i just needed to get a backpack ... the entire world is in tension :|

Adeel Tassawur at 4:50pm October 17

i heard this would be the topic of next Obama /McCain debate

Wajiha Said at 12:30am October 18

what? optimum size of a backpack for Ali Mohsin? weren't they already researching it at CERN?
you know that is why the large hardon collider is not working! they gave it this problem! a little too much for the machine's capacity!

Silently we Creep ...

... towards the number 3000 and beyond!

(click to enlarge)

Rappy Crappy

Since I have started to post chats that stand solemn testament to the insanity of people who stay awake at night at ungodly hours, here is an excerpt from a recent one with Raptor. Raptor a.k.a. Ali Ibraheem Rashid, drama queen, king of absurdity and procrastination, an accomplished chussar and a phenomenon unto himself ...

13th September 2008

.....
.....
blitzkrieg says (01:35):
we'll send someone to pick u up
or wait is ur office in isloo or pindi?

. says (01:35):
yea it's in islamabad

blitzkrieg says (01:36):
kis sector mein?

. says (01:36):
g8

blitzkrieg says (01:36):
hmm and u work saturdays too?

. says (01:36):
nope
i donut

blitzkrieg says (01:37):
do u have a hole in ur tummy too? :P

. says (01:37):
:|
erm, the belly button? :/

blitzkrieg says (01:38):
lol no donut :P
like a thru and thru hole

. says (01:39):
oh, hmm, nai

blitzkrieg writes (01:41):


blitzkrieg says (01:41):
khekhekhe

. says (01:42):
:|

blitzkrieg says (01:44):
:D
this looks like a blueberry jelly donot

blitzkrieg says (01:45):
donut*

blitzkrieg says (01:58):
bleh?

. says (01:58):
blah?

.....
.....

. == raptor
blitzkrieg == me

Too much time, too little sleep, too late an hour, a sweet tooth and hard-wired-to-engineer mental circuits

This can potentially happen to you if you're up too late, sleep very less, chatting on googletalk with a friend who's essentially crazy and both of you have spent a big part of your life studying physics, mathematics and computer science ...

May 18th 2008

4:55 AM

I-T: hello

me: hio

I-T: what are you doing up at this godforsaken hour :)

me: trying to go to sleep

I-T: you're feeling sleepy
sleeeeeeeepy
look into the winding lollipop

me: my eyes feel itchy and gritty

4:56 AM

I-T: the red and white twirls inside the winding lollipop

me: hey u accept my request :D

I-T: the lollipop is rotating about a normal drawn out of the plane of the lollipop towards you

me: on facebook please please please please please :D

4:57 AM

I-T: The normal has something to do with the moment of centroid of the lollipop

4:58 AM

I-T: the electromagnetic field around the lollipop can be calculated by summing up the volumes of an infinte number of infinitesmal pie segments of the lollipop

me: okay shuttup :P

4:59 AM

I-T: you're sleepy arent you

me: i am

I-T: The inverted lollip law states that an inverted lollipop tied to a string can be used as a plumbline

5:00 AM

me: not if u have a very determined lolly pop lover attached to it
corollary one says: in that case hte lollipop can be used as a leash

5:01 AM

I-T: In that case by extension it becomes a heavier plumbline
:)

5:05 AM

I-T: If you embed two jellybear arcs on both the right and left sides of a lollipop and wind licorice tubing around the lollipop and pass molten chocolate through it, while the whole arrangement is enclosed within two Chocolate bricks of opposite polarity i.e. Dark and White, the reaction caused by the spinning of the lollipop actuator motor will cause rappie to appear, breakdance and go back to his room.

5:06 AM

me: wow!
there's an addendum to this one as well ....

5:07 AM

me: depending on the level of rappy's level of crankiness, the entire structure can disappear with him between breakdance and 'go back to his room'

5:08 AM

I-T: All the great Celestial bodies were once lollipops -- Arthur C. Clarke

me: hehe
what are u doing up this late waisay?

I-T: Until they had their sticks removed -- Albert Einstein
The milky way was once a chocolate factory -- Mr Higgins [Whats he doing here]

5:09 AM

me: lol

5:10 AM

I-T: Lollipops with sticks is an unnecessary wastage of resources, because in space nothing falls - - Stephen J. Hawking

me: how do sticks relate with falling
and where in lollipop-land are u finidng all tehse enlightening quotes?

5:11 AM

I-T: The answer seems to be simple, you lick the large celestial lollipops until they become smaller dwarf lollipops
"The best quotes here are the ones made up by me" -- The Narrator aka yours truly

5:12 AM

I-T: "I'm sacking you for your arrogance"-- The Narrators Manager
"But I love him" -- The Narrators Managers Daughter
"Thats it wheres my shotgun" -- The Narrators Manager
"Exit Stage left" -- The Narrator

5:13 AM

I-T: "But which way is relative in space" - Thomas Finnigan

me: "we want licorice" -- the stage bunnies

5:14 AM

I-T: "Sorry, A little typo there, hope you didnt publish my last quote, it was more like which way is left in space everything's relative" - Thomas Finnigan
"Bunnies are evil" -- Monty Python

me: "but they hold the secret of licorice" -- the dust bunny

5:15 AM

me: oh man i must sleep i got a headache

I-T: "No candy for you evil bunnies, you've had your share of mischief for one eon" -- Cheif Snuggums Official Bookkeeper of the Order of the Bunny Kickers

5:16 AM

I-T: "You better get to sleep little girl" - Nurse Freda [???]

me: "but knight googaham of the Order of the Bunny Kickers stole all the licorice and ate it in one night ... he had to be pulleyed out of his room afterwards, after removing the ceiling" -- Willikums, diplomat bunny

5:17 AM

I-T: "You lie, they all lie" -- Mongizumoid Head of Legal Affairs of the OBK

me: "and we dont' do mischief, some of our things just randomly explode, take this 5 legged chair for example ... *boom*" -- wonikins, technology bunny

5:18 AM

I-T: "For more information on evil acts commited by bunnies you shall have to watch Monty Python - The search for the Holy Grail" -- The Narrator

5:19 AM 

me: "I'm afraid wonikins will be unavailable till further notice, the explosion of the 5 legged chair has addled with his brain and he thinks he is a flying tortoise" -- winkadins, nurse bunny, gasping for breath while trying to restrain wonikins

addled his*

I-T: http://www.bebo.com/Profile.jsp?MID=367137231&MemberId=3951291356

me: time to sleep :) tomorrow is a long day!

5:20 AM

I-T: sure
take care
AH

me: you too
hehe what is this site?

I-T: dunno. It says that bunnies are evil
Anyways I'm off
ciao
AH

5:21 AM

me: sure
AH :)

I-T: Exception Caught : not geeky enough
Handler being INvoked
Send Ack

5:22 AM

I-T: Return Ack timer expired , trying resend Attempt 1 out of 3
Resend Ack

Rechargeable Fan for the Soul

No sir, chicken soup is not the only thing needed for the soul, rechargeable fans are just as important, especially if you live in Pakistan, and specifically Karachi.

The other day, I woke up in the morning to no electricity, bumbled about in the dark, got dressed, went to work, came back to no electricity. In frustration went to sleep, woke up 10:30ish, had barely managed to get out of bed and think about dinner when electricity went the third time, coming back at 1:30 am. One can endure the pitch dark but not the stuffy, humid Karachi heat. Humidity here was 81% or something yesterday. Anyway I have a trusted rechargeable fan. It runs like no tomorrow. Charge it fully once and it can last 8 hours or more without needing a recharge. Small enough to put on your bed and sleep with the wind in your face.

And I don't know why I made this post, maybe cuz the title is probably the only interesting statement in the entire thing or probably just for the heck of it I guess!

*poof*

Cause to Celebrate

Long ago, I celebrated here, the 400th visit as recorded by my faithful statcounter. Since then we have progressed nicely along, and with the last post, the one below this one, we have reached another milestone; one whole year of faithful blogging, at least one post every month in the past 12 months.

*blog roll please*


oops i mean drum roll! ^_^



disappears into thin air *poof*

Celebrating 2+ years of the Blabbering Wombat!

After knocking about for more than two years, an entire year out of which the allegedly 'blabbering' wombat was utterly silent, I decided to give my blog a new look, or a partial new look anyway. Since i can't seem to find the time or the patience to write the entire page from scratch, I resorted to switching to the new 'widget' based template that has been around for at least a few months. But since I was always partial to the design / layout of my old template, I've pretty much stuck to that, though played quite a bit with the colors and obviously, I'm widget-ed ;)

I must admit the new blogger makes editing your template and layout immensely easier. Instead of looking for the right spot in reams and reams of HTML code to insert that additional line, you now just add 'page elements', drag & drop it to the desired place in your blog and thats about it! Everything is a few clickety-clicks and a lil tap-tapping away! and NOW if you want that additional lil tweak, you can *still* go into the HTML of your layout and add that additional line. hehe. (though an easier way to do it is to add an HTML/javascript widget)

In the coming weeks, expect a few more changes till this latest interest wears off and I sink back to the relative laziness of the marsupial that lends its name to my utterings.

As for posts, I have two in the pipeline, one of them is on Chinchillas, though if I were you, I won't bank on the Chinchillas bit ;)

Here's a rather disappointing wiki entry on widgets: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GUI_widget

woohoo!

400 visiting blabbers it is! :D

And again ....

My God I havne't posted in a year!? or something. That's bad. Well going to try to. And will start with that promised Chinchillas post.