Posted on December 19, 2008, 6:23 AM, by Sohaib Athar, under
Brain,
Life.
My son likes to watch Mr. Bean, which is a little worrisome for me, as I do not believe in ‘harmless and silly fun’. While good humor and puns certainly stimulate your brain-cells (aka neurons), I think that part of the reason people are amused by Mr. Bean, Charlie Chaplin (or any of the situation […]
Posted on December 6, 2008, 2:12 AM, by Sohaib Athar, under
Pakistan.
Since we usually have a bomb blast or two every other week in one of the major cities of Pakistan, and as there is nothing happening right now to hope for things to change in the near future, so I think that it is about time that we started some research on how to cope […]
Posted on December 1, 2008, 9:36 AM, by ReallyVirtual, under
Pakistan.
Two months ago, this Urdu + English “sponsored link” ad for a website worstnation.com started showing up in my Gmail every day. I will not link to it for obvious reasons, but here’s what is says: دنیا کی سب سے بدترین قوم www.WorstNation.com پاکستان سے زندہ بھاگ آپ یقیناً اتفاق کریں گے۔ The Urdu text […]
Posted on October 1, 2008, 6:56 AM, by Sohaib Athar, under
Life.
This song came up on my playlist just as I published the previous post, so I had to share it. Consider spending six minutes of your life listening to Pink Floyd. I tried looking for a ‘moderate’ flavored documentary, but couldn’t find any good video that didn’t mention the US of A. Warning: it contains […]
Posted on August 17, 2008, 6:31 AM, by Sohaib Athar, under
Etc.
While a tiny percentage of our Pakistani population is protesting for fair treatment to Dr. Aafia Siddiqui, it looks like the US FBI is as confused as we are about the truth regarding her case. The official FBI page on one of the most wanted women in the world has her picture with the caption […]