UTP's Personal Blog

The Woman behind the Great Man

utp — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 01:31:23 +0000

There have been great men who have inspired me or have had a great impact in making the person I am today. I am very open in giving credit to where its due and have written about the great contribution my grandpa has made on multiple occasions. What I have not written about is the [...]

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Mind Conditioning & Control

utp — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 11:23:04 +0000

I saw this image in a recent article I read on WIRED. The article itself is worth reading but this picture is in itself replacing the thousand words that I wanted to write on this topic of mind conditioning and control. Its more than recent that I was inclined to look beyond the obvious and [...]

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EID Mohammad!!!

utp — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 01:26:30 +0000

3 decades back, a first-time expectant mother in her last trimester arrived at the blessed month of Ramadan. Question to ask herself. Should I fast this Ramadan? Will I be able to? Hope it doesn’t harm the baby? I think about it now and realize what kind of thoughts would my mother have gone...

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The Required “Constant” of Life’s Equation

utp — Sat, 09 Jul 2011 06:36:09 +0000

If you speak to a mathematician or a physicist he would tell you that all research starts with a theory and they start building equations around it. The equation starts with a whole lot of variables for which they start putting in hypothetical approximate values to get results. They would keep...

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The Boiling Frog

utp — Sat, 09 Jul 2011 05:00:28 +0000

Consider the story of the boiling frog. It may or may not be true, but the point it makes certainly is. Toss a frog into a pot of boiling water and it instinctively jumps out, self-protectively. Next, place the frog into a pot of cool water. Not surprisingly, it swims around, happily. Now heat the...

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Flat No. 2601

utp — Sat, 25 Jun 2011 08:21:43 +0000

In this so called busy day and age that we have created for ourselves, our strength of faith weakens with every day. We are part of this daily rat race that runs like a perfect routine with minimal time for spiritual revival. We turn back to our faiths only in times of distress and otherwise [...]

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Build vs Buy

utp — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 15:32:30 +0000

In the world of real estate investments there is a decision making point that many investors go through. Should I build or should I buy. There is that other topic also of leasing vs buying but I will be focusing on the former one in this write-up. So what is the thought process behind this....

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Capitalism vs Volume Selling

utp — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 13:00:19 +0000

OK the topic seems like an unrelated match-up. I somehow feel there is a link. Let’s see if I can put my thoughts together. A few random thoughts have converged to how Volume Selling beat the concept of Capitalism through the recession. First lets put both these in perspective. This is how I...

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Sympathy Selling

utp — Sat, 08 Jan 2011 15:00:09 +0000

Very recently my focus has turned towards entrepreneurship. While I am part of the corporate slave community at the moment, the thought of entrepreneurship has been recurring. I have a feeling, something’s gotta give soon. Proud to be married to an entrepreneur who actually has creativity and has...

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Beirut – Paris of the Middle East

utp — Fri, 24 Dec 2010 06:41:32 +0000

Now almost at the end of the project, I reached Beirut, Lebanon this December. With Germany, Egypt, Jordan, Korea, Morocco, Tunisia, UAE, Pakistan & Russia implemented, it is already quite an impressive resume. Isn’t it, head-hunters? Beirut also known as the Paris of the middle east and...

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