Crescent Nation’s Adversity Times

As sad as it might sound, the artsyHANDS team itself did not have any post ready for Independence Day. But lo and behold! Farrukh Zafar of FarrukhUNPLUGGED.com came up to save the day!

(photo source: Ilyas Ansari)

Crescent Nation’s Adversity Times

With the timers on the bomb, we’ll synchronize our watches,
Till every terrorist’s drooling plan, in our fist scotches

Five ants are seen stuck under, the famous American dime,
Pakhtun, Punjabi, Sindhi, Gilgiti, Balochi – each ant a paradigm

If all five united, we can turn the dime with time,
Till instead of blasts we get to hear the nation’s blissful chime.

- Farrukh Zafar (@fariZafar)

The message is simple. The more we feel increasing loads on our backs, the stronger as a consequence, our backs become. Embrace the pain and live up to the ask, Pakistanis. There’s a good time coming, InshaAllah.

NOTE: Please spread the love by sharing this post on Facebook/Twitter! Happy Independence! ;)

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Mobilink Motorola Milestone Launch Event

motorola milestone Moblink invited people from the blogger’s community yesterday (30th July, 2010) to the Mall of Lahore for the launching of their first non-Blackberry smartphone: the Motorola Milestone. The event was deemed as a success by the bloggers who attended the meetup (including yours truly). The community appreciated Mobilink and Google Pakistan’s efforts in finally bringing an Android smartphone to the local market.

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Hah! I knew you’d guys would do this… *coughirregularpostscough*

Sigh. You are right. But this was inevitable, my dear reader. In life, you gotta prioritize shit: I will not be able to blog this year. The studies are harder than what was the case last year. See what I did there? I gave preference to studies over blogging. Haye! I’m so mature. -_- :P

Studies Be Hard

So what’s the reason, O artsy-admin? Why are you really going away?

Sigh (again). Contrary to what my teachers had been telling me, my HSSC-II studies are hard. Not just hard hard, but hard hard. The course is lengthier and very different from what we were studying last year. And it is real-taxing that way.

Balance Blogging And Studying?

“So why not balance studies and blogging?”, asked Hamad Dar (Guru-dude: He’s the reason I’m blogging today). My answer was rather simple, “Do0d lolz, I e!daa studehh or blaag. Kn’t d0 bOtHHH @ da same tym lolx…!!

I’ve thought a lot about this: do I blog or do I study? Or do I balance both? Blogging is probably more productive than studying the shitty course that we have, but it is what is required of me most at this stage of life (lolz) to become a bara aadmi.

And readers might say, “But you never updated artsy all that regularly to begin with!”

That’s true janaab. But that’s how it is with personal-experiences based blog. I have to have personal experiences in order to blog about them and truth be told: I am out of such experiences for now. :P

I’ll Make You An Offer You Can’t Refuse

So here’s the deal: I put off blogging for a year. Come back next year in July harder than ever and be a true WINAR blogger. Deal? (I’m hoping you’ll say yes) :D

Until then, I suggest you to get off the computer and take a walk. :P -

You’re free to look around the site till July ’11. :D

Salaam!

Your artsy-admin,

Waisybabu

10 Of The Greatest Apple Stores From Around The World

3472211951_cb81ecb5eb Apple is known for its minimalistic yet striking designs. Just look at the iMac, iPhone, iPod and iPad and you’ll be able to observe a general theme of simplicity and practicality sensed across all products. These are the workings of Jonathan Ive, Senior VP Industrial Design at Apple.

What is surprising, though, is the fact that Apple incorporates its iconic design into all of its retail Apple Stores and this makes for some rather awe-inspiring buildings.

Enlisted after the jump, are some of the most beautiful Apple Stores from around the world. I hope you enjoy the list :)

Read it here (from artsyHANDS’ sister site: WINARS)

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The Failbum Vol. 1

The internet is home to some pretty fun stuff. All it takes is a visit to sites like 9gag, StumbleUpon, Cracked, Digg, Dorkly to leave you laughing in stitches. I personally love 9gag and StumbleUpon, I visit them whenever I feel I have nothing else to do (which happens quite a lot these days *coughsummervacationscough*).

Shown in the link below, for your pleasure, are just some of the amazing images I found while stumbling my way through the internet. Be sure to comment on the photos and ‘like’ them (so we know that you actually went through them [and that they weren't uploaded in vain]). :D

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A Missed Call

Short films… well, tend to be short. But they make up for their shortness by being more what one might call: punchy. Featured below is a short film by Saad Altaf and Usman Ahmed (concept by Saad Altaf) which presents, to the viewer, the effect of telecommunication advances in the country. Sure, what you’re about to watch in the film isn’t something you get to see daily, but the premise here is metaphorical. And quite moving!

‘Missed Call’ – a must watch!

If you liked it, it would be awesome if you could leave a comment and share the post! Thanks! :D

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Now We Can Finally Buy an iPhone Without Selling A Kidney

iPhone 4Apple just announced the latest iteration of their smartphone: the iPhone 4. And it is, as expected, much superior to the iPhone 3G and 3GS. Steve Jobs is on stage talking about it as this is being typed. Now of course, he has already announced the all-new design, the microSIM only format (not available in Pakistan), the new so-called “retina display”, a faster processor, a better battery, a gyroscope for better motion-sensing, a much better camera, inclusion of the iBook Store and iAd advertisement system and blah blah blippity blah blah that you can read about here or here or here.

It’s going to cost well over 900$ in Pakistan. So what is there to rejoice about?

You’ll have to read on ahead for that!

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The Stuff Dreams Are Made Of

I had a weird dream yesterday. I started in a forest where a fat merchant was having a yard sale. From the clothes, I knew the dream took place in medieval times. As I was looking through the items for sale I came across a small cat cage. In the cage, there was a dirty grey angel with a missing wing. The angel was about my size, but it was stuffed in the cat cage like in cartoons.

For some reason, I needed the one winged angel, so I used the oldest trick in the book. I said to the merchant, “Look over there”. While he was busy looking over there, I picked up the cage, jumped on my horse and rode away.

Read on ahead. It gets weirder!

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20th May: Draw Mohammad Day and Facebook Boycotts [UPDATE]

Drawing a picture of Prophet Mohammad (PBUH) is considered by most, if not all, Muslims to be simply wrong for a couple of elementary reasons: a. It may promote idolatry b. It’s just not allowed! This very concept has, in the past recent years, caused quite a lot of controversy. Remember the Danish cartoons? Or the documentaries? Or South Park’s depictions of Mohammad? Oh and, what about the recent “Draw Mohammad Day”? Read on ahead!

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Taalib-e-Ilm ki Awaz: Chemistry Paper – HSSC-I 2010

Chemistry HSSC-II am a student of HSSC-I (Session 2010) and I was one of the many students who gave the rather unbalanced paper of Chemistry on the 30th of April, 2010. Most, if not all, students were strongly against the paper stating how the paper was “totally L” or “totally P” (for male and female gender respectively) due to the following reasons:

  • Too many numericals in Section B (which were very time-consuming)
  • Too many questions from Chapter 8: Chemical Equilibrium (5 short questions totaling 20 marks in Sec B, 1 long question totaling 13 in Sec C)
  • Questions were said to be "dodgy" (which they honestly were!)

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