Of: "Go beyond the impossible and kick reason to the curb! That's the Gurren-dan way!"

How do you feel about a Robot being piloted by another robot inside it, which in turn is being piloted by another, even smaller robot inside it, which in turn is being piloted by another, even smaller robot inside it, which in turn is being piloted by a human-being.

Simply put, its Robot --> Robot --> Robot --> Robot --> Human

That is the epic scale of Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagaan

And yes, I've started watching it again. It's just too awesome.

WOOHOO!!

Attenborough: (After launching about 50 missiles at a target and is surprisingly able to hit it) "Pinpointing this close is my specialty"

Of Idiotic Things One Does With Friends

I miss giving Aisha phone high-fives. It used to be so simple once upon a time. Either of us would say something that deserved a high-five during a call and as custom dictated, we'd give our beat up phones a high-five.

Now that I think about it, it was such a Todd thing to do... I miss the Phone High Five.

Of a Random Dream

I've been setting my sights on earning something from all the paper junk I make, I had a window of opportunity which I was made aware of yesterday at 11 a.m.

So, from 11 AM till 10 AM (yes, 23 hours) I spent furiously making paper cranes, flowers, stems, stars, vases, enclosures, and lotuses and dipping the afforementioned in boiling wax.

Naturally by 10 a.m. today I was tired. So I fell asleep.

Now, usually I don't have memorable dreams. Today however, I had a pretty messed up one.

I went to sleep and a while later I got a call. Turns out it's Aisha. She had called because she was hungry and she wanted help. And she started talking really really fast. Then she gave it to her friend Maha, who also went berserk. So, being ultra tired that i was, I tried to put as much distance between myself and the phone and aimed it at the carpet. Sadly what I thought was the carpet turned to be the ceiling, (let me tell you, gravity works in dreams as well) and the phone fell back on my head.

So that was the dream, or so I thought... Turns out Aisha did indeed call, which would explain the throbbing headache I had when I woke up. I feel like a bad friend. :(

Oh and I have some good news, I sold my first paper awesomeness, and I got a new Cutting Mat! WOOHOO!

Of Funky Licence Plates

Have you noticed Motorcycles have the funkiest or the randomest things written on their licence plates. I mean, fine they might not me the "Don't Jallus" or "Follow Me Not" of the motorized world but still

One think I have noticed is that we cannot have enough press in one area. Every 4th bike you see has "PRESS" instead of a numberplate.

While I was coming home from an awesome day spent with friends, the following thing inspired me to write a post on numberplates.

THIS IS LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT!

(Shani, if you plan on buying a bike this better be the one you get)

Of False Botanical Hopes

Post before last, I was ranting about paper and flowers, well... here's the end product.

I first started with a red version, three flowers, with a washi paper vase. Washi paper is a very fibrous paper with coloured strands often mixed in to the pulp. Yes, it's expensive.

So anyways, After the initial red one, I tried to fix the flaws and make another one. The second one was much better, as you can see in the picture.

I made a blue one with the same specifications in mind. Personally, the red one looks better, or maybe it's because the read paper was much more easy to handle. While taking a picture of the blue one I realised my camera had a manual focus option. Hence the blue one looks alot more crisper.

Because Karachi is a dust city, not to mention these things are fragile, I thought of making a protective case for it.

Voila. Finished Product.

I wonder if I should commercially sell them.

Of Butt-Head Advertising

Really now. There are people who like to maintain their blogs as personal pages. They would rather not have it advertised all over the world.

If you stumbles across their blog well and good. If you leave a comment even better. But no one asked you to advertise it! No one asked you to print fliers and distribute it to the entire world and have useless people empathizing with you, you idiot!

Sadly, there are idiots out here who put up a Blog List / Blogroll of all the blogs they "read"

The thing is, that they just want to seem like they are into blogging and reading all sorts of blogs, having a ton of "blog-buddies"

Of Annoying Things in the Middle of the Night - 1

I just added the 1 in the post header because I have this feeling that I'll be ranting about more annoyances in the near future.

So for the first thing.

Paper. I'm sure everyone who's not living in Karachi (as I don't know about other cities) won't be able to related to it, but what the hell.

See, being an Origami enthusiast, I love coloured paper. I mean, I adore it. If i go into a bookstore and see a colour I don't have or I am running out I'll buy it on the spot. Heck I even once went to Macro just to buy black paper. Black paper is so hard to find in the market, one that hasn't been painted by some idiot that whenever you handle it your hands end up all black and sooty. Not to mention the look on the vendors faces when you ask them for black paper. Most of the time its a "Why would you need BLACK paper?" And these hypocrites are okay with keeping gray paper and ultra dark blue paper. Fine, technically speaking, you cannot print anything on black paper, and apart from gold silver and glitter, nothing is visible on it. But still, I am telling you, we need decent black paper (and don't give me the look that says I'm frigging insane... try finding the appeal in an orange raven or a purple black-widow spider... yeah! I need black for some stuff)

And, I am guessing the paper industry is totally biased towards white paper. The other colours suffer. Either they are coloured by an idiot using crayons, or they are cut into misshapen A4 rectangles with one or more sides slanting, or when I'm lucky, BOTH!

I mean, Retarded much? I had to invest in a giant and equally fragile setsquare just to trim the edges right.

WHAT IS WITH THE COLOUR BIASNESS OF THE PAPER INDUSTRY??

I mean, go pick up a packet of white A4 and you'll have all these words thrown at you like: "precision cut", "enhanced thickness", "improved smoothness" etc. Whereas a total dumbass is in charge of colour paper.

Here's how I imagine coloured paper is made: a bunch of kids are locked in a room with paint and crayons. These kids have been specially scouted from schools all over the nation. These are the kids who use ONE COLOUR to fill in a colouring page, or colour the car, dad, sun and tree all purple. Then once they've finished slathering the paint or crayon on the paper, they put it on a conveyor belt, which goes through a hole in the wall. On the other side is a redneck equivalent sitting in a room with the conveyor belt passing in front of him and he's got this butcher's knife and he's been instructed to swing the knife down when the light in front of him blinks. Now we all know that a normal person's reaction time is not perfect. So naturally the knife wouldn't always land straight or on time for that matter. Hence, we have crooked paper. There, that's how paper's made.

Anyways I had to make this flowers set piece for a friend and it took me 15 minutes (and three pages) just forming a perfect square. I'll put up the picture soon (once I finish making it)

Oh and if you've been following this blog, I lost my cutting mat. *cries*

Of Over Protective Parents and Their Hydrophobic Kids

Ladies and Gents. The Suzuki Cultus you see is a very special one.

Everyday, without fail, they are going to be in the parking lot well before the teachers come and will stay till 8 (that is when the gates close and school starts)

Both parents with their two children come. The dad waits outside in the car, while the mum goes to drop her kids inside. One's in O-Levels and the other one, I had the supposed privilege to teach.

What loving parents no? Yep. That, and the fact that the younger kid has serious issues with water. He stinks like anything! Ewww.

And That's all I had to say in this post. Cheers.

Of Freedom

Exams are finally over!

My room during exam season is like an ever growing sea of paper, which causes my mum a huge heartburn (She's one of those cleanliness loving people)

So, as soon as exam season is over, threats are issued about the door being taken off and Mum going Hannelore Ellicott-Chatham on me.

(Click picture for comic)

Yeah, so two and a half days of intensive back breaking sweaty labor followed by hauling 15 giant trash bags filled with junk I'm finally free. Not to mention my room looks surprisingly minimalistic.

Next on my to-do list, fixing my sleep schedule.

Hopefully I'll start regularly posting again. I gottay new camera! I'm super excited and taking random pictures. I came across this blogger person who had this amazing camera and took crap pictures with it. Hope I don't turn into said blogger person.

Good Morning and I'll go catch some "Zzzzz"

I had almost forgotten! The comic is from Questionable Content and if you don't know about it, start reading. It's awesome!

Of The Way I See It: Cellular Network Providers

So, at the moment, we have 5 ultra competitive networks in Pakistan, namely:
Jazz, Telenor, Zong, Warid, U-Fone.

And here's what I gather from their advertising campaigns.
(Once again, this is my view on it... like it? "yay" for you; don't like it, scroll down; still don't like it, click the reddish orange button on the top right of your screen)

Jazz: They're the all-rounders, all thanks to their vast coverage. you can stand, wearing a suit and a pagri(turban), on Mount Bleeding Everest (assuming it's within our borders) and you'd be able to call your begum (or shohrr) and ask what's for dinner. And thus if the food's not to your liking, you can proceed to hunt down a yeti and cook it (Quick Tip: turn your phone on silent, because when you do receive that maila londa call asking for Shumaila or get that annoying forward, the beeping will trigger an avalanche)

Warid: They are international, they have people dressed to impress, and that's about it... I rarely get to see an advert of theirs, though. Maybe if I do end up watching one I'd update this post.

Telenor: Their mission was to give the young, hippy, trendy, people of Pakistan the lowest call rates (taxes not included) They must have spent a fortune on their effects laden adverts. Then it was to impress people by having pretty boy Ali Zafar mimic high wire stunts from a bunch of old Chinese movies. So, you go:

• "O.M.G! Ali Zafar is flying thanks to Telenor! Lets Buy!"
• "O.M.G! Ali Zafar uses that package, I should really buy that!"
• "O.M.G! Ali Zafar is so popular amongst the ladies, guess it's all about your Mobile Connection after all. I'm SO Buying It!!
  

And similar declarative statements. However, that's no longer the case. Now, they focus on connectivity more than anything. Whether you are the old uncle who lives in the middle of nowhere and you want to talk to your city dwelling son who never calls you. Or updating your Facebook status while you're out camping or hiking. (Be sure to try the tasty Yeti Roast that Jazz User cooked if you're on Mt. Everest)

Zong: They aim to be the cellular service that is your Mohaley-ka-Bhekari's best friend. They quote prices from other networks and offer cheaper rates (Kinda like your typical desi housewife arguing with the local vegetable wala) So, if you're harassed by loans, credit cards, and what not.. Get Zong. It's so cheap that your Mohaley-ka-Bhekari, after he's given his day's earnings to his ustaad, can afford to prank call random numbers and Frandship laddiss.

U-Fone: These people know how to get their consumer base. They will make you laugh so much, that when you finally go to buy your SIM, you'd double over laughing at the very sight of their logo. Faisal Qureshi and the team make magic happen. I wonder what would happen if Shark/The Real News made a U-Fone CM.

(For the record, I use Telenor and U-Fone. Warid has awesome International Rates! I had Jazz, but it's covered in rust so yeah...)