Lecture-Hall

Fun Tour

2014-06-18T08:58:00.000+04:00

Hello,
What's up people?
Long time no posts?? Anyways, someone had to break the streak so I decided to volunteer.
It's been so long since I last visited the blog that I even forgot how to sign in. Thanks to google for remembering my username and password. Seems like everyone's busy studying like nerds to get good grades, good jobs and shit....:P

I've been trying to do the same thing too but me and studies can never be on the same page. I still manage to get the passing grades in theory, a little extra sometimes but it's the projects where I make up for the lost marks in theory.

The good part of my study is the actual planes or airworthy parts that we work on rather than the dummy freaking diagrams or plastic models. The parts we sign off in the workshop can actually be put on a plane and sent flying. I just love being around the planes, working on them and sometimes just looking them.

Here are some of the pics from the tour of Air Canada hangar that we went to. It was more of a Boeing 767-300 tour for most of us. The people there were extremely friendly as they not only gave us a brief tour of the hangar but allowed us to play with some of the flight controls on this plane. I was on the first officer's seat and one of my friend was on the captain seat. With the hangar supervisor giving us the commands, we turned on the battery power, and as soon as we did that the whole cockpit lit up like a christmas tree. We then turned on the Hydraulic pumps and moved the ailerons, elevators, set up the altimeter and took some selfies.:D I so badly wanna get my commercial pilot's license now!

The flight was scheduled to depart the same afternoon to Narita, Japan. The only sad part was that they couldn't take us for a ride around the airport as we didn't had the thing set up in advance. That would have sweet though. Anyways go through the pics, have a great summer, and do reply back.

PS: M-K(guest) thanks for reminding. @Mustafa, khud nahi likh sakta saale!!!

LET'S GO GERMANY!!!!!! #fifaworldcup

Bubye. :)

Taxing out to transfer the plane to the gates for loading and flight.

Engineering the Complicated..

2013-12-23T21:26:00.001+04:00

Engineering isn't easy as it sounds, You have to take your small bandwagon through series of uphills and downhills. You stay at home and study, You lose attendence. You go and study, you lose marks. Its a big gamble you see.

Most people think if you are doing engineering you can fix their tape recorders etc. Sometimes my father is into repairing things and he asks my advice, i say take it to the technician. He replies in a very 'parentic' manner, ''What are you doing engineering for?''. Well..to become an engineer and not a technician.

Well i ask myself too, what am i doing engineering for? Hmm.. for mugging up long long derivations? learning conceptual methods of solving problems? Studying 3 books of mathamatics? Too satisfy my self ego?
But i got the answer after the first year. Once you are done with the first year you get your prospects cleared. you know what you want to do. And you start planning ahead. 2nd year is the year from where your real engineering starts.

If you are into imagining then you are done with engineering, almost 35% of it. Then you need Photographic mind, the technique to take photos with your mind of any page of the book.

Now comes the college life, you goto college and meet different kinds of people. Some are there just for the sake of it, some for the girls and some just don't know why and how they got here. its like they lost their memory on the way.

The FIRST impression is the LAST. Note my words. The impression you make on the students or on the lectures will last for all your 4 years. If you are the boss you will remain, if you are the servant you will remain and you may be forced to do chores of many. Lecturer's are just okay, they just don't care whether you exist in free space or a dielectric, but they can sense the electric field you generate.

Girls top the chart. No doubt about this. Don't waste time figuring how, just move on...its a waste of time.

Finally i found some MEME's to explain the expressions of my lecturer's and my own on some occassions.

1. Results declared, geeks are happy but for others its a sad ending.

2. Einstein type geeks ask a Einstein type question to the lecturer.

3. You get caught laughing in the class.

4. Finally Jackie Chan in his first lecture.

Winter, sports and the life in West coast

2013-11-26T13:40:00.001+04:00

Yeeehaaa! Finally! the active part of my brain over ruled the lazy part(dominating) of my brain thus allowing me to write a post I've been willing to write for the last 15 days or so.

OMG! I love winter. It's 0 degrees with a bit of wind chill and everything is frozen, but, my window is still open. I find winter as the most beautiful season but at the same time I hate it coz it makes me extremely lazy. I can just sit in front of the T.V at 8 in the morning and watch Football followed by american football, Ice hockey, NBA and cricket right until the midnight (that's my schedule on Saturdays and Sundays).

Let's get over it. So, How's life? Mine's pretty busy with mom gone to Dubai and me having to do all the household works along with studies, watching all those games and than moving stuff with my cousin as he's moving into a new house. The positive thing about moving is that I have learned and mastered backing up a towed trolley, it requires some skills. Also, I got my class 5 driver's license! which means almost no restrictions, apart from drink and drive. I won't have to place the "N" sign at the back of my car anymore, even though I never placed one..:D and never got caught.

The things have changed quite a bit since I got my license. I've been stopped by the cops asking for my license thinking that I'm still a new driver. The funny part was when I was stopped at the border crossing at Point Roberts a couple weeks ago. The officer questioned so much that I almost freaked out. He started with asking the reason for the visit and ended with pointing at my Hoodie and asking whether it's the logo of my cricket team? I replied in a funny way saying "We don't have sponsors from US" pointing at Hollister written on top of the logo. Having been questioned a lot me and my cousin decided to take a look around the Point Roberts as he was sippin on his beer and I was drinking Starbucks.

So, we were just going around looking at some of the empty lots that were put on sale. We saw a person working at one of the house across the street and decided to ask him about the prices but were too late as we almost took completed our turn and we had to take a U turn and come back again. We went further down the street thinking about how they come across the border to work in the US. We kept going for another minute or two and we came to the dead end. Now, what I saw across the dead end shocked me. It was the same border we crossed.

We took a U turn and started going back towards the house where the person was working. Still very confused and searching up on the GPS for the area. Just when we got there and my cousin almost stepped out of the car to ask him, I realized that the house was in Canada when I saw this giant stone at the side of the house saying international boundary. It would have been a big offence had he gone to the other side and we might have been sitting in a prison calculating the size of the prison rather than the lot.

So we safely came back to Canada and watched some movies on the weekend. Singh Saab the great is a great movie. It has a good story and is very good overall If you don't go at the logic behind the action scenes. It's the case with every Bollywood movie where every action scene has to be in slow motion as if we they go too fast in the normal mode. A person in negative role goes flying whenever he's kicked or punched by the hero. I mean WTF!? and at top of all they compare krrish with Hollywood movies which is nothing more than a Bullshit or a cow dung. Well, Ram leela is a good movie. No comments, watch it and you'll know...;)

Meanwhile, sorry to Priyanka for not dedicating a post to her as I told her that i'll do it when I get my class 5. Project pending. Now, that reminds me of my projects at the school which are pending this week and I still haven't finished them.

Also, sorry to all those I forced to buy Samsung over Apple at some stage in my life. I'll most probably buy Apple as my next laptop...:P

And yeah, why is it that every person nowadays put their copyrights on every low quality and unrealistic looking picture taken even by a professional camera? Having a professional doesn't mean that the photo will look professional too! Look at these photos before putting something on internet with your copyrights on it and please at least write the credits in contrasting colors. Going out to everyone who does it.

I think I should end this before I start complaining about the rest of the world.
Adios!

Looking at the Pacific ocean, Lions gate bridge and North Vancouver from the Stanley park.

The poor one legged bird

Indian winters....

2013-11-15T18:33:00.002+04:00

Kuch bolne ki himmat nahi hai bhai, CT pe CT diye ja rahe hai. The winter is approaching fast avast, my winter exams are in january, thats a good news...exam mein angeethi rakhni padegi. Uttar pradesh ko to antartica ka part ghoshit kardena chahiye. Kam se kam logon ko dhoka to nahi hoga,

This is a snap of my central library, good isn't it...but you can't see it in -1 degrees with fog all over. I just hate the winters here ....:'{{{{{. Doctor saab mujhse agree karenge.

Tough Times

2013-09-05T03:10:00.000+04:00

Hallo Freunde
I've been a great fan of Germany lately. Mainly due to Bayern Munich, German national Football team and of course, Adolf Hitler.
What a terrible 2-3 months its been, full of depression, pain, more depression and more pain.

It's been more then a month since I broke my thumb and life's been completely dead ever since. Talking about the injury in medical terms, the Interphalangeal joint of the right hand thumb was pushed back from its actual position as I was trying to be Dale Steyn on a caught and ball opportunity. It was operated as a result and the pins were inserted in the thumb to hold the bone in its right position(Am I right Dr. sahab?). It has been in a splint for over a month and the skin have started to rot and it stinks.

The disappointing part is that I was getting back in rhythm after some bad games with the ball. I missed the important part of the season and will also miss the Final due to the injury.

Another disappointing thing has been the transfer window deadline day (football). Being a great fan of Ronaldo, Kaka and Ozil it was very disappointing to see both Kaka and Ozil move to 2 different clubs on the same day. I was happy for Kaka as he wasn't getting enough playing time at Madrid But the real shocker was Ozil forced to leave the club. It was a complete bull shit by Madrid to sell the top midfielder in the world.

The Only good news is that my closest cousin became father to a son early in the morning and I became chacha (Uncle). Time to open up some Limca bottles. Burrrraaaaa!!!!

I have a lot to share but I don't remember much and good the see some modifications on the blog and some posts...

Bye

2013-08-15T12:36:00.000+04:00

Welcome to North India!

2013-07-25T21:06:00.001+04:00

I have made a list of things you would surely need while coming towards North India.

Number 1: Odomos mosquito repellent
If you do not have a mosquito repellent you are gonna become a feast for the blood thirsty mosquitoes.
Malaria, Dengue etc are quite common here.

Number 2: Calcium Tablets
Yes, In my stay of more than a year here i have experienced that most of the milk over here is 'purely' artificial. You will need external calcium to avoid decaying of teeth and joint related problems.

Synthetic Milk Siezed

Number 3: Anti-Allergics
With the weather changing here almost constantly you will surely need an anti histamine. We have so many seasons that its impossible to believe that your living in the same country all the time.

Number 4: Body Warmers, Quilt .etc
We have one of the most mind blowing winters. It is so cold over here that it literally blows your mind. Keep the cold in mind when coming between December 25 to January 25. Its damn cold. Brrrrrrrrr.

Number 5: Parle-G, Chocolate bars.
As Odd as it sounds, when coming here during the monsoons keep some ready snacks with you. Floods are very common here. Water just enters the house without knocking and you could be stranded without any food.

Number 6: Bargaining Technique
Its very important that you argue for every rupee here. People have tendency to take people for a ride if they feel they are new to the city. Bargain with them , argue and show them you are not a newbie.

Number 7 : A Sharp Eye
The Dhaba's and Roadside restaurants are not very hygenic here. You will need a sharp eye to spot any thing 'extra' in your meal.

Update Ju713

2013-07-09T14:43:00.001+04:00

I have finally fixed the error that was not allowing any side bars to appear.

The problem appeared to be one of the posts that were causing problems. I turned like 15 posts to draft and then starting publishing them one by one to check if they are the one causing the problem. one of the posts were causing it and i was able to remove it. It took me 30mins.

Rajesh's post The best four letter word was causing problem. though appeared pretty harmless.

Conclusion : To avoid losing the sidebar again please use the computer to post and not any kind of smartphone and make sure you donot post any picture that is too big. The font was eventually causing the side bar thing to show up in the bottom of the blog.

PS. I have republished 'The four letter word'[font change] and removed some pictures from the posts.
I'll be adding chat app also.

The best four letter word...

2013-07-09T14:40:00.000+04:00

I have been asked to write about a topic out of the love the person shares for me, or my writing,(may be?) but most probably for the love of reading she has. Why did I agree? For the love of my writing you suppose? But this time for the sake of other writers(a little secret between me and her).

But what's the topic?

It's a four letter word, to begin with, very commonly used, least understood, expressed in more ways than one, perceived wishfully, it's something called "Love". Now, what's the first thing that comes to your mind when you hear this word? To most, it might mean a boy and a girl, looking each other in the eyes and smiling. For others, it's a feeling, a realisation, or even a synonym for life. A few may even question it's mere existence. For me, it's everything I live for.

I am not going to tell you about all those things you already know but yes, I am going to tell you how I see and look at all those things you already know.

Everybody loves themselves, their parents(most people), their friends etc. plus people also love their hobbies, and stuff. The question here is not about who and what should or could we love but how they should be loved.

I mean you can simply love an object with a pumping heart and a one without it. There are no boundations at all to what you can love, but the society has it's boundations as to what you can express your love for.

Why?

I think it's love, that's going against itself.

Confused?

Some people love the importance they get, by going against love. And others may develop love in sync with someone else for the same person/object. But if you look at it, everybody loves the rivers, mountains, and Gangnam style but is there a problem?

No.

Then why is there so much of a fuss with other minute people/things being loved? Because Love was never a problem, the problem was always the Desire to achieve what you love. But that's one perspective.

Another way to look at it is what you must achieve that you love and what isn't compulsory to be achieved. Like your love for success in life, a must, while your love for a Rolls Royce doesn't necessarily have to be translated into you owning one(would be great by the way).

Let's talk of the form of love we love to talk about most. The kind of love between a man and a woman. Honestly, my views about this are very simple and practical. If A loves B and B loves A, it's the end of a story for me. Nothing else matters, go out there, live your life. But in real life, there are cultures, thought processes, religions and races. The past has left it's massive mark on humans and their thinking machineries.

We have evolved, No doubt, a bit too much at that, simply because simple things have been complicated and complicated once are being turned into Weapons. From the society's perspective, if there is a someone who loves anyone and it is being reciprocated, and you love one of them, and they want to be together, you are just another someone who loves anyone and I am sure you wouldn't like being interfered, then why interfere? As simple as that. Except, I still find myself too small to comment on the love for offsprings, may be after I have one, I shall elaborate.

And then there are other feelings as well, anger, happiness and guilt. Why did I mention only these? Because they are as strong a feeling as love is. Therefore, they can overcome love, if not always, but mostly. Though these are short lived but their effect is long lasting. If one is aware of oneself and his/her feelings, their relative intensities, he/she can choose anyone of the four feelings for life and go on with it. It's individual. But again, this is what the billion neurons in my skull could come up with, the reality could be something completely different

I am writing way less than she asked me to. But, due to business...may be next time. (Sorry daddi)

Aata Singh?

2013-06-25T00:36:00.001+04:00

It was our first year and we somehow managed to get through the first semester. We had a new applied physics lecturer from Dehradun and we were not that happy. After all the time we got for canteen and roaming around the MAJU campus was now sabotaged by someone who will fill our minds with Schrodinger and many other related derivations. It was a big setback for our branch. In the starting we were told by him to write the attendence on a sheet and give him afterwards. We did so. But when the sheet came to me, i looked at my bench mates in a devilish manner and came up with an idea to write something most awkard. My friends told me to write something feminish. But i came up with a more moderate option..its was rather foolish.

I wrote Aata Singh [I am this random] on the sheet, leaving some spaces and changed the font[as i had the worst writing anyone could catch me]. Days passed, One day he entered the lecture hall, kept his attendence register on the podium and started the attendence with Aata Singh[Flour Singh], the room remained silent. He soon realized he was pranked. The Bench i was sitting on bursted out in laughter. We hid our faces and laughed hell as the room was silent it was pretty tough to control our laughter.

Not that funny but Aata singh was very awkard.

This Team Rox!

2013-06-24T00:16:00.000+04:00

This is here to stay...Hats off to Indian Cricket Team. All of them. Congrats to Indian Team and the Indian Nation. Special credit goes to MS Dhoni!

A Special Hats off to the Two Muchchars!

Its quite late...no college but still i hate wakin up late..signin off..
seeya guys.

Honorably Engineered Indian Chief Ministers

2013-06-22T22:02:00.005+04:00

You think they can just talk sweet? Some of them are even big geeks. Most of them being engineers..do we have Indian states in good hands?

Stay with me while i take you to a ride of list of honorably engineered present chief ministers of various states of India.

#1 Prithviraj Chauhan- Maharashtra

Well they don't say 'Jai Maharashtra' for nothing. This guy takes all the credit on my list for being most educated engineer and chief minister of any state in India.

He graduated in mechanical engineering from the Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani and holds a Master of Science degree from the University of California, Berkeley. He has also written articles on computer science; engineering design; and also contribution to research in computerization.

#2 Manohar Parrikar- Goa

Go Goa. He is surely a landmark for IIT Bombay as he's the first IIT graduate to become chief minister of any state of India. He studied at Loyola High School, Margao. He completed his secondary education in Marathi and went on to graduate in metallurgical engineering from IIT Bombay.
Normally, IITians don't really like to waste time on petty politics. They have their own set of politics to handle.

#3 Akhilesh Yadav- Uttar Pradesh

One of my personal favourites, people say he does what his father says. Is this making him popular in many circles today? He studied at Dholpur Military School in Dholpur, Rajasthan and subsequently was awarded a degree in Environmental engineering while studying in Mysore. He went to Australia to study for a master's degree in the same subject.

#4 Nitish Kumar- Bihar

Chief minister of one of most unprivileged state, Bihar. No, its not Laloo. But he's also one of my favourites as he holds a degree of B.Sc in Electrical Engineering from NIT Bihar, earlier known as Bihar College of Engineering and Electrical engineering happens to be one of my most favourite discipline in engineering.

2013-06-22T21:10:00.003+04:00

Indian Politicians..These two words really make u

Flooded India, a waste of good energy source?

2013-06-18T12:41:00.000+04:00

With India slowly being runaway by floods the Indian authorities are running to help those who are trapped in floods. Poor drainage, lack of dams, and blind eye towards monsoon destruction every year has led to death of more than 60 people this month.

Every year our country has a season called 'Monsoon' which brings hell alot of rain. It gives respite to many farmers and people suffering from drought and water shortage. But every year excess of rain leads to destruction of many areas but we have no solution at all. Uttarakhand being the most affected region.

I ask one thing why don't we look for alternatives and use the excess water as a alternative energy source. We need more dams in the hilly regions with more capacity, but then environmentalists will stand up against it. We need to be practical, Surely dams will wipe out forests and species but we are looking to save scores of human lifes.

Water is unconventional source of energy, but the amount available in our country every year makes it more or less conventional. This amount of flooding if used in a useful manner can be used to produce good amount of electricity.

Shawrix

Rajesh in the Indian Cricket Team?

2013-06-15T18:17:00.001+04:00

For a moment i thought Rajesh has been selected for the India cricket team. but wait....

One year complete? :O

2013-06-12T17:28:00.002+04:00

Hey hey Bloggon,

What up peeps?

Firstly, congrats to Rafael nadal for grabbing yet another French open title. [Djokovic nahi jeeta :D]

And finally my second semester exams are over YOHOO~@$!. The only thing left is physics external practical tomorrow that won’t be that tough. The first year was like a roller coaster ride for me. I just thank god who gave me strength in long stretches of light cuts, mosquitoes, -1 degree Celsius temperature and burning heat. I still don’t believe my one year has been completed successfully.

Its not all about temperature.

Its also about >Studies<.....

if you think first year of engineering is a cake walk…well…ITS NOT!. Uhm…its even worser than the temperature itself. But..i managed through…

I have lost like 2Kgs..in the present second semester. And if you think 2kgs is nothing , then its everything for me..those who know me physically know what I am saying. Now ‘’I get 2 reactions on my bottom whenever I sit down.’’ [mechanics interpretation of weight loss]

There is a lot of competition and mindful people in India. But I don’t understand one thing, how come we are still lagging behind. We don’t invent anything new..except the only thing I heared was that some IITians invented a “anti -rape jacket”, is that what we are studying for? Japan and China are miles ahead or I should say centuries ahead. We are still the ‘’same old nation’’. The only difference being ‘’same old nation with 50 lakh engineers.’’ I do acknowledge the growth in biotechnology sector. But in engineering apart from TATA, HCL, INFOSYS, I hear nothing. Even if you name a few more that doesn’t matter. With the size of India we should have like 50 IT parks and 100 industrial zones to cope with unemployment.

But India is still busy in making quantity count rather than quality. Poor education system and lack of funds reaching to the needy people is what makes it so. Misuse of resources is another factor. I also do not like how Indian government functions. It has so many loop holes. If the scam doesn’t occur at central level, it may occur at state level. No scam at state level? alright we have officials waiting at district level. No scam are district level? Well that’s surprising….but wait! we have city officials too..and the common people just keep waiting and waiting and waiting.

I think its high time to rethink where we are heading. Its time that we rethink our strategies and look for alternatives.

Shawrix [Looking for some weight gain methods]

Desi Kanjar!

2013-05-31T15:53:00.000+04:00

Gear up guys.. Another post.

This kanjar who commented “chal nikal” on my last post is defiantly that SHARK I was talking about. =D Shark u need to grow a bigger ‘FIN’ lol.

I’ve been much Desi recently; I mean I’m always Desi but recently on a higher scale lol. Me and my best college mates sit in the canteen and shout out “Oye zalillll” and yeah almost everyone turns back =D and sometimes the professors staring and that’s when I think these kahjars! I wanna squirt neembu in their eyes.

There is this fringee friend of mine, he’s like what and who is this “DesiAuntiji”

Haha well I don’t think you people would be much familiar with her, she is amazing! I mean for like bloody real!

Ill be introducing her to you people bit by bit and I’m sure you people will love her, She is hilarious.

Recently DesiAuntyji was like “ Mehndi taa’n sajdi je nachay munday di maa” saalo ye mehndi hai ya dance bar? Lol

“pyar kiya toh darna kya!” Kanjari you wouldn’t be saying this if your parents were desi.

DesiAuntiji talks like this always.. once she was like “doctor asked the banana what is wrong? Banana Kehnda im not peeling too well”

Angreezi desi style de naal.

Its like the door of insult opens when she wakes up. A kudi on tv was like “im sooo hot daaayyuumm” Aunty goes “chal oye kaali kanjri, tujhay shaayad koyla kha ke paida kiya hai” and yeah never disturb Aunti ji while watching cricket, this idiot was like mein kaisa lag raha hoo she was like CHAKKAAA!!

These days teenagers are always “sun raha hai naa tu.. Ro raha hu main..” Aunti replies “manhoos, ronda hee ravien chavi ghantey kanjar le doodh phaad”

So Manhoos log keep your distance please ;) warna haramkhooro tujhay aatay ki tarah goondh dengi.

Just a brief description of auntiji ill get back with Auntiji again lol

See you all again soon.

-YK

RE-LAUNCH

2013-05-31T00:27:00.000+04:00

Well well… look who just jumped in.. I finally decided to check our blog after years of hibernation.

Things have pretty changed here but what’s not changed is some idiots coming frequently to post here but not bothering to reconnect back to their old mates.

I missed you guys L there is this SHARK around here and frankly I want to kill it! fry it and guess what? I wont eat it! Ill throw it away! It’s not even worth looking at! YES I’m talking about Shariq! ‘He just forgot that I even EXIST!’ never expected this, Anyway its not worth it.

So.. I was with a few friends today chilling in hot, humid conditions that’s a bad combination btw :P walking on the cornice talking and jumping from topic to topic. We ran across a topic of ‘blogs’ and that’s when I realized Lecture hall I shall check and so I’m here.

I don’t have much to write at the moment, but yeah surely ill come up with a few topics soon.

Sorry for being away for long L

SHARIQ please don’t comment! You and me are katti!

-YK

Bunch of creeps organising cricket of india BCOCI

2013-05-24T20:51:00.003+04:00

Well i have got my second semester exams tommorow. So pray for me..

Apart from all this i keep hearing about match fixing going on and some players getting caught. I don't understand what the 'hulla bulla' is all about? This was going on for ages just under the nose of the BCCI and the BCCI themselves turned a blind eye towards it.

Match fixing has no solution...thats what the BCCI says it. You know what i say..shut the BCCI, thats the solution to match fixing.

I dont get it..is there a single government organisation in India that is not involved is some kind of scam, scandal, or some sort of mischief ?

I have one thing to say about match fixing..''Retire before you are caught''. And that's the thought that came to my mind when i decided to write this post.

I'll get back to maths..time for one last revision..and then sleep..yawn..zzz

You know who.
शारिक

Be Bant Da Cup

2013-05-20T11:25:00.000+04:00

Hello Folks!
Seems like everyone's busy with there works, studies and so on, So am I. I don't do any of these but I still don't get time from playing cricket, parties and so.

Just Came from a wedding party and it wasn't the best one. First of all, how am I suppose to do bhangra on Gidha or a romantic song???? Secondly, there was no pepsi at all!!!! My Turban was good though, and just in case someone didn't liked it, it was a new one...:P. I don't tie it all the time, but when I do, I feel proud if it. Also, I just like it how people react when they see me after a long time.

Well that was about the party, talking about cricket now. I have got off to a great start here in Canada, Hasn't been the best of the starts for the team as we have had 4 games and 2 of them have already been washed out having won the other 2 comfortably.

The last game was a great one for me as I got useful hands in all the departments. The best part of it was the bowling where I took 3 wickets in 7 overs, all of them coming in 6 balls and all of them were bowled, what was even more amazing was that all 3 of them pitched on middle and leg and went on to hit the top of off stump. I still have the picture in my mind, it was a great feeling. Also, took a splendid catch while fielding at the second slip. It was a leading edge of a spinner's bowl which was travelling very low to my left.

So far, we look like the team to beat in our division and hopefully we will win this division. Lehgo Lions!!!!

You can check the rest of the stats of this link: http://www.bcmcl.org/index.jsp?form=matchrev&r=matchrev&game_number=104&season_id=2013REG

Meanwhile, Mom, Dad and brother are back, which means that I can enjoy more on the field without caring about my clothes and injuries. Hoorayyyyy!

Tata!

Another Great Week

2013-04-26T10:06:00.003+04:00

What's up folks!
Gurpreet Bin Khalifah reporting walahi! lol. Ever since I started my cricket practice here in Canada, I have hardly managed 5 wickets in 3 practise sessions, I'm much slower than how I use to ball back in days, but I've had 5 different names over the last 2 weeks. Starting with Gill saab to Dubai Express, Sheikh, Al Khalifah and Gurpreet Bin khalifah, just a correction of Al Khalifah.

Most of it actually started when I told my teammates about some Dubai facts last weekend, it took me one complete medium size pizza(as we were siting at a pizza place) and half n hour extra to explain them about U.A.E, Burj khalifah, Burj al arab and a couple more places. The best part of it was when I told them that Dubai Isn't a country, They were all shocked for a while.

Meanwhile, I'm still loving the couple of places I went last week. Starting with Victoria, The capital of B.C. I didn't really love the place but the drive from Nanaimo and the ferry was the best.Driving with 3 drunk people was always going to be funny, and when you have vegetarian burger in breakfast with lots of non-vegetarian jokes it's just like extra toppings on pizza. There was this uncle with us who was actually 65+ but looked very young from his knowledge and his jokes...

The funniest part was him explaining the difference between methanol and ethanol after having 3 pegs and then saying that he won't have more, but he still had 4 more pegs after that. There was another guy with us, a very famous guy in BC. The so called "Tandi mangta", Priyanka might know her. It's same guy who calls on every talk show on every radio channel and talks all the rubbish until his call is eventually put down. I didn't knew that it was him and he never looked like the whole time as he was so quiet, until my cousin told once we dropped him. But I should say that he is a hardcore cricket fan. OMG! throughout the whole time that guy was just asking me about some of the cricket shots. I was teaching him the straight drives and the cover drives even in the restaurants.

Also, saw a couple of killer whales on the way back from there,But they were not looking deadly at all!WTH! They were looking like a newly married couple having romance. I don't know who named it killer whale.

The other place I went to was "White rock" and it's a very beautiful place too! The drive on the beach side was amazing, specially with a twin turbo sports car with dual sub woofers and lots of girls on the street...;)

Meanwhile, the biggest news coming forward is that some 12 people from 2 German football clubs are accused of raping Barcelona and Real Madrid. They are Lewandowski from Borussia Dortmund and the whole of Bayern Munich playing 11. Well, for all those who missed it, It was nothing less than a rape for 2 of the biggest and strongest clubs in the world. losing 4-0 and 4-1 within 24 hours. Hiter's army is back! That's the reason why I support Germans!!!...:P

Bin Khalifa signing off!
Time to buy some buildings... Hmmm

The Unexpected Journey

2013-04-05T11:39:00.000+04:00

Hello Folks!
There I was all packed up, all set to leave for the airport, heading back to Surrey when suddenly a friend of mine turned on my laptop despite me yelling at him for doing so. The first thing I saw was a call on Skype, it was cousin from San Antonio. He straight away asked my passport details and my landing time in Seattle. The next thing I saw was my ticket from Seattle to San Antonio via Phoenix. I was shocked, Surprised and happy all at the same time.

There is always that pre planning and that stuff when you know you are going to a place you expect yourself to be at, But it's a completely different experience when you are not prepared, It's something amazing! So after travelling for than 24 hours changing 3 different flights, sleeping like a dead guy on my 3rd flight (only to be forced to wake up by the air hostess after requesting for 5 minutes or so), I finally reached San Antonio after midnight. That's when I came to know that I was there on my Niece's birthday party.

The party was pretty good, the pool wasn't as I lost very badly to almost all of them. But yes! every single dude in the party was taking tips from me about my turban, felt really good. Had an amazing time out with cousins, having party on one day, starving for food on the other and overeating on the next day just to be on the safe side. The kids were just lovely. I never met them before but still they were just around me all time for the days I stayed there.

Some of the places were really good, I mean I wasn't expecting Texas to be so good after all that I've heard about it, it was an unexpected journey with unexpected experiences. The food was good too! and more importantly it was different all the time.

I want to write more about it but I just feel very tired, will write about the complete experience some time later. Meanwhile, my poor luck with my electronics continues and I can proudly yet sadly tell another story about my device getting damaged unluckily. :(

Me and my this cousin were wearing shorts just to show off because we were from a colder region, we ended up shivering like hell as it very cold and windy on that day...:P

Tata!

Indian engineers...need more brains

2013-02-01T18:02:00.002+04:00

Well just scrolling through the news archives i found a very astonishing piece of news. According to evaluation conducted by Nasscom an IT body only 50% of the total engineers were employable in india.

Its quite sad how India is focusses on quantity rather than quality. The education system of India needs a major change over. What I believe is that the problem lies in the language. We as Indian proudly sing the National Anthem on Independence day but we have left our liguistic instincts far behind. Whether we belong to any state, speaking any language than english..we are forced day after day to shallow the bitter 'tablet' called 'English'.

I ask..Why can't we study in our own language. And after all we can't use the excuse that we are exporting engineers..as according to this report 50% of the engineers can answer this question, given below.

Q Did you _______ cereal for breakfast.
Only 50% of the students were able to give the correct answer – have. Wow?

Now what are we running after?..We proudly say that we are one of the largest producers of engineers and we can 'have' cereal for breakfast. How is that..

Now problem is not you..me or him. But the problem lies within us. We as a whole have rejected our language whether it be Hindi, Punjabi or Telugu....and Marathi also.

..This is something we should look forward. Lets make it optional for people to study in english. Lets make engineers for our satisfaction and not for show off. Lets change the India and stop caring for the world as we have to come back to our country one day...one day, and that day you will realise the importance of your language.

Take an example of China..you ask a person on the street, standing suited, booted, with a Rado watch on his wrist and a black laptop bag..''Hey, Whats the time?''..He replies..'' Chong wayang sing sing''. ''alright..but i am in no mood to sing''. Apart from this joke they have really brought up their country just by embracing their language.

I don't know about doctors till now..whether they can 'have' cereal or not. Maybe Mr. Ron Parker can elaborate.

Linky for the article : http://www.hindustantimes.com/India-news/NewDelhi/Class-7-students-better-than-50-

of-India-s-engineers-survey/Article1-894986.aspx

Post also on: beingshariq.blogspot.com

Shariq Shahid

Me And My Electronics

2013-01-22T13:18:00.000+04:00

Glad to see something from someone. It kinda wakes me up when I see posts by other members. I have been thinking about writing ever since I wrote my last post, I knew the so called page "Anthropists" exists, But, where there is laziness there is me. It's not that I don't have anyone to blame, I do! It's the weather. I almost my interest in this page until someone insisted me carry on writing stuff.

So, recently people(only one) have been questioning me on my over bragging of phone. Why shouldn't I? It's one of the best smartphone ever! Well, I'm a kind of a person that even if you wake me up in the middle of the night and ask me about my SIII or Vaio or Smart T.V, I'll write a full page essay on them about their pros. I never regret on what I buy, even if my laptop is a crappy piece of plastic, even though it's more of heater than a laptop, but I will never say anything wrong about it. Never!

Even though I speak all good about them, I have a bad history with electronics. I have a bad luck with most of the electronics.

Back in my school days my biggest priority on my b'days were my school shoes (Nike), But it was this one B'day when I was in 9th, I asked for a watch and my dad brought me a Swiss watch. I loved it so much and that was the first watch I ever cared about (Having broken 2 in the same year). On my next B'day I brought shoes again and just when I was trying my shoes I dropped my watch. The worst thing happened was that the warranty expired the same day. It cost me around 100 bucks to get it repaired. I still love it.

I brought my present laptop in around August 2010. I was a Sony fan back then, So, buying a Sony Vaio was like a dream coming true, I took a great care of it. Exactly after a day the warranty ended, I damaged the screen fighting with brother over a blanket.

Recently, my SIII (It's an awesome phone :D), nothing happened to it. Last week, when all the sale periods ended, all of a sudden, my Samsung headphones stopped working. Just a week before that I was planning to buy Dre Beats as they were on 75% off. But! this time I got extended warranty on the ones I brought. Now I'm gonna use them the worst way I can for a year and then I'm gonna exchange them for new one's.... :)

Special mentioning: All my school friends might never forget about my Nokia N79, I promoted it more than Nokia did. I got it repaired around 5 times and I still have it.

Btw the new Jelly Bean 4.1.2 on SIII is just awesome! A pic of one of the different gallery modes

Exams finished!..me...

2013-01-19T09:17:00.002+04:00

Hello Hi!

YES! I have finally gone through my 1st semester exams..Thank God.

Hmm..stop giving me those odd expressions...i know i have been away for a while but that doesn't mean i have to reintroduce myself?..Oh All right! I am Shariq remember? Thin guy, long hair..and knew nothing about cricket but was still in the cricket team.

My winter exams went okyish. And guess what...i got to sit on a tractor! And that made me the only person of my family to do so. Though i had to listen alot after coming back home. But it was a great experience!. Thanks goes to the person who gave us a lift back home.

Nothing is quite happening now-a-days. Just passing my time ...watching air force jets flying over my house..wating for my external practicals..etc. And i am also sorry if i didn't respond to any messages or calls as i was really heaped up in exams. x_X

Adios
Shariq