Mensa Pakistan

Mensa Test in Lahore: Nov 1st

Raza Jaffri — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 18:28:40 +0000

MENSA Pakistan is conducting a Grand Test in Lahore on the 1st of November, 2009 at LGS Defence Boys Branch, DHA Phase V. The test will be of 30 minutes duration and will be conducted in 5 sessions from 10:30 am till 2:30pm. Click here for more info Registration Fee: Rs. 500/- For Registrations: Ahmad Babar: 0323-4554215 Usman Zaheer: 0321-4292295

What to do with this RSS stuff?

Raza Jaffri — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 12:37:08 +0000

I must admit, I don’t have an RSS reader as yet, and I rarely used Google Reader!!! I did create an account on Google Reader, and probably added a few RSS feeds to, just to see how this baby works, but that was about as far as I went. Today’s blog post from Gmail gang did [...]

Type in Roman, Google converts it in Urdu script

Raza Jaffri — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 12:21:42 +0000

Google never ceases to amaze us. Google Indic Transliteration tool as shown in the above screen grab lets you type in roman, a.k.a. English characters and as you finish a word a press the space bar, the tool immediately converts it into Urdu. If the word you see is not exactly what you wanted, click [...]

World e-Book Fair: Grab the free books before August 4th.

Raza Jaffri — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 07:55:43 +0000

The 4th annual e-book fair is on from July 4 to August 4. I am told that some 2 million e-books in PDF format will be available for free download during these dates. Their collection is normally available for an annual membership fees of $8.95.So if you don’t take advantage of the bookfair period then you [...]

Reclaiming Karachi Project

Raza Jaffri — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 08:15:26 +0000

Hasan recently shared this ad on the Mensa Pakistan Yahoo group. Although, while writing this article I am wondering, “Oh, yet another movement, and we still seem to be standing still!!!” An interesting idea, and if properly implemented, it should give the city a neat look for few months. Beuase, the griffiti writers are not going to [...]

Help change Mensa Pakistan website with new Wordpress Theme

Raza Jaffri — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 05:07:36 +0000

When I changed the content management system of Mensa website to wordpress sometime ago, one reason was to encourage the members participation in the technical aspects of this website. But don’t be scared by the word “technical”. The beauty of wordpress is that you dont need to know anything about programming. Its all click and click [...]

Mensa Ad

Raza Jaffri — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 15:29:59 +0000

Alright, now something short, and light. Look at this print advertisement from Mensa and decode the puzzle!

The intellectual bankruptcy

Raza Jaffri — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 15:18:33 +0000

I was reading this thought-provoking post by Lee Seigel, The Intellectual Crash of 2009: Where Have All the Smart People Gone? and I can’t help share Lee’s sentiments. I remember the times when we used to argue and debate concepts, ideas (no, I am not talking about the hot new idea for a urinal with a [...]

Live band performance, with iPhone!!!

Abeer Habibullah — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 19:58:29 +0000

Yes you read it right folks! This is actually an all-girl band and they have produced a song entirely played through a bunch of standard, off-the-shelf, or rather off-the-appstore apps downloading on their iPhones. Amazing amazing stuff. Is it the sign of the times to come?

[Lahore] – Mensa EGBM – 7 March 2009

Hasan Zuberi — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 12:55:40 +0000

Mensa Pakistan is proud to Announce that it has now been recognized as Provisional National Mensa … and is in final stages to claim its full NATIONAL STATUS. Kindly come to this meeting and also invite any Mensa current or old Mensa member that you know. Hope to see you at (details as follows): Date: Saturday, March 7, 2009 Time: 6:30pm [...]

Mensa Test @ Karachi – 28 Feb 2009

Hasan Zuberi — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 12:31:45 +0000

Mensa Pakistan is organizing its Karachi Grand Test on 28 February 2009 Timings: 11am – 3:00pm (test session every 30 minutes) at: New Horizons Pakistan (formerly TEC) 49-C, Block 6 PECHS (Behind Habib Bank Limited (HBL), behind main Nursery Bus stop) off main Sharah-e-Faisal, Karachi Tel: (021) 4554772 4382352 - 53 – 54 (3 lines) Test fee Rs. 500 Walk-in registration facility at the venue More [...]

How to Improve Your Memory & Exercise Your Brain?

Hasan Zuberi — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 11:54:11 +0000

How to Improve Your Memory & Exercise Your Brain – (source: internet) Everyone can take steps to improve their memory, and with time and practice most people can gain the ability to memorize seemingly impossible amounts of information. Whether you want to win the World Memory Championships, ace your history test, or simply remember where you [...]

Mensa – The Game!

Raza Jaffri — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 02:22:48 +0000

Web is all gaga about a game being launched by Empire Interactive. According to a number of blog posts and press releases Empire Interactive has signed a deal with American Mensa and British Mensa and they plan to bring out a mensa themed game on an entire range of platforms… console, handheld, PC, and Mac! [...]

Pump up that password

Raza Jaffri — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 02:01:43 +0000

Way back many centuries ago – in internet terms, of course – we could choose a password that typically had 3 to 4 characters… and were often the same 4 digits that were the ATM pin code, or the 3-digit code of our favorite number lock. Then we saw the era of minimum 8-character passwords. We [...]