Here I'll write about the issues that I feel are not working well. Well anything is not going well these days. Yet there is something that's burning inside me when it comes some other things. I'll try to come out with those things. There will also be, at times, a commentary on news. This may turn out a 'melting pot' where I'll pour down anything - of note or not of note! :) Now the truth: Here you'll see some rambling with a sprinkle of worthwhile things - just for the spice!
The topics that are trending on Google+ at the present are: True Blood, #Science Sunday, Rafael Nadal, Google Checkout, Israel, Madagascar, LeBron James, Steve Jobs, Britney Spears, #Euro2012.
Looking at these topics tells us something about human nature. All the topics are diverse and they are completely unrelated to each other. Though it is not remotely necessary that it should be so yet one just argues that since we are connected to the same network or networks somehow the things that we are searching for from our table nudging this or that part of the 'webosphere' and trying to see what there is in the cyberspace that is helpful to us and a way out of our own troubles should be connected somehow at least by a some remote links. But it seems there is nothing like this.
We all homo sapiens are a lot different in our individual respective natures and since are in search of completely different things or at least different categories of things. We employ technology very differently.
So keep searching about True Blood, #Science Sunday, Rafael Nadal, Google Checkout, Israel, Madagascar, LeBron James, Steve Jobs, Britney Spears, #Euro2012.
I googled "Science Sunday" and this is what I got:
The news making rounds today include the news of a German minister who is being criticized for avoiding to pay customs duty on a carpet bought in Afghanistan. He bought the carpet while in Afghanistan on an official tour and could not manage to get it on flight back. Afterwards he got the head of German spy agency to bring it with him. The minister -Dirk Niebel who heads the Ministry of Economic Cooperation And Development- even sent his driver to airport to pick up the carpet.
Now this is amazing and funny especially when looked at from the point of view of a Pakistani. Corruption is rife in our politics. So much so that we use the idiom he is the 'proper / real politician' in our daily life of someone who somehow manages to have his way and and gets what he wants with the mix of diplomacy and bribery. I came across an article about Pakistani (yes we have made it our own by the mastery we have acquired in it) corruption: Pakistan's Culture Of Honourable Corruption.
Coming back to the original news; the latest to be heard is that the minister in question has offered an apology. There we go again! I know perfectly well what you are thinking: that no apology is offered in Pakistan. Well! This is how we are - I mean this is how we Pakistani public are: We just let things go and then we criticize them when they get out of hand.
As far as apology is concerned the US Commander has apologized for the deaths of 18 Afghans. But nothing seems to be forth-coming in Pakistan's case though Zee News says that both countries are working on a possible apology wording.
Five women went on a recreation trip to DG Khan at one of their relation's house and then they went to Fort Monroe where the security personnel, on the pretext of checking, took them to the police station and allegedly abused them physically. A team ordered by Chief Minister Punjab is probing the matter. These men are likely to hand themselves in today.
The last one which I find important is the news that Pakistan Cricket Board has employed the services of a psychologist for help in the rehabilitation of Muhammad Aamir - the fast bowler.
Muhammad Aamer who got embroiled in the spot-fixing scandal of making deliberate no-balls along with the then captain Salman Butt and fast bowler Muhammad Asif was released from jail in February this year. The psychologist Maqsood Babri has been hired to make Aamir's return to international cricket as easy as possible in a way that will not cause him psychological problems in the future.
Friendship is a universal concept. All the human beings from a child when he starts understanding things to the elderly who have lived a long life speak of it and no one even the person who has a lot of pain at the hands of friends speak against the idea. There are people who do speak against their friends or the troubles that they have had in their life resulting from being really close to someone but there are few people who are against the very idea of friendship.
What is friendship? This is a question that pops in our minds at various stages in life. If looked at carefully we find that most of the life we spend searching the meaning of a myriad of things - friendship is one of them. We are in our native country or somewhere abroad we start looking for friends. It is natural. Since man is a social animal it is quite natural to look for someone with whom we can associate, entertain, share and become a part of.
Well! A friend is someone who cares; someone who worries about what we are doing to our life and to ourselves for that matter; maybe someone who loses sleep when he hears you are in trouble; someone who stands by us when others depart; someone who we can share everything with and someone "thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked (Bernard Meltzer)".
I have a video that will help understand the main concepts involved in friendship.
