the IT people

Abu jee thinks that i wasted my CS degree by joining a bank...also he thinks that i wrongly occupied someone else’s seat for four years since my work doesn’t involve IT! but what he doesn’t realize is that in today's era computer knowledge (not only basic) is required in most walks of life.....there have been numerous times when i feel utterly blessed for having strong IT background and how it helps me excel in my current job as compared to my fellow colleagues occupying the same positions....common misconception amongst people is that if you have a CS degree you shud either be working at a s/w house or at the IT dept of some company.....matlab you shud be involved with programming (eww :s) ....
if you belong to the same league as me i am sure you'l understand .....esp during interviews...they’ll always ask...

Interviewer: "ummm, so why did u change ur field??"
me (standard response): well ...i didnt! the position i am holding requires IT background"
Interviewer: *gives me a doubtful look.....* ummm, i am not sure how?
me: well to begin with...blah blah blah ......

Yesterday only, while sitting in a room full of MBAs/product managers struggling to comprehend what the system vendors were trying to say .......*they were talking about an ERP solution customization and test case environment building*....in my head i kept on thinking ..."ahhh...i am so cool....its all so simple....poor them!! " *evil grin followed by a sympathetic look and a sigh*

So yea in my eyes those 4 years....where i have prepared myself to feel super COOL then the muggles (non-IT people) and be able to give them that look of pity.....are totally worth it ;)

Baby blues....

Everyone around me is having babies....whts with this world!!! i am telling you one day we will be flooded with babies ....cute babies, ugly babies (yes they exist!!) , annoying babies...babies babies and more babies...... ufffffffff..........i am in no way a baby hatter...infact i really adore them .....but this sudden baby season is definately getting to me.....either you go to a super market, mall, especially a plane or for that matter another country!! all you see is babies....i know Allah mian i want a baby too but that doesnt make me feel sympathetic or effectionate towards them...cause as long as they are not mine ....i think i have the right to be annoyed at them....no!? i think i do!

actually now a days i am constantly hearing the "baby talk" .... since i move in circle that has 1 seven month pregnant lady, another 4 month, one who is dying to be pregnant, one JUST had a baby and me !! so u can imagine.....i feel i know all about pre-post and during pregnancy issues, highs and lows....which is not comforting at all! i want to stall that all till the time when i experience them myself!!

Also, this flana is "having a baby"...is certainly planting various thoughts in my mom-in-law and my own mama's brain... the rest you can imagine......

another interesting fact about these "new" baby owners is how they try to convince you that what a blessing it is and how you shud have one too..... i at times feel they are just trying to convince their own selves..... and justify that they have made the right choice !!

and the dark lord rises...

When I was reading Harry potter, never did I in my wildest dreams imagine that it will become a reality…… it was a fiction, an interesting tale sketched in a fantasy world of J.K Rowling.

But Pakistan's current political scenario has forced me to think that may be the plot of HP is becoming a reality- Voldemort- the dark lord - "the one who must not be named" has come to power …. has taken over our country with his Death Eaters openly vandalizing our country and more specifically our dear city. What is the fate of this nation? my soul shudders even by thinking about it...May Allah help us all and save dear our Nation! Amen

My dream Job....

My dream job is the one where I’ll be the boss (naturally!), have my own room –a beautiful room, designed to perfection :D , will have a car (chauffer driven of course, who wants to drive in this traffic!) …. Will have a personal secretary… a team of loyal employees (who love me and worship me…*dreamy sigh*) my boss (owner of the huge company, totally adores me …thinks of me as the best employee ever) huge salary and 9 to 5 dot ….and yea the work will be something I really like doing (that I still need to figure out!!)….my work place will have a well equipped gym and a day care center …… I will travel (first class) around the world looking all professional and super hot! Having sophisticated meetings at the most exquisite places of the world :D Haiiiii……kahan kho gayee main!! Allah miannnn…meri dua sun lainnn…..

“Hazaroon khwahishain ais, kai har khwahish per dum niklay,
Buhat niklay meray armaan, laikan phir bhee kam nikay” ...wah wah wah...

Oops my stupid boss is coming and he wants some crap data by day end today I think I should just head back to work……will continue dreaming later….

Me as of today....

So, today is 22nd of August 2008, and I am 25 years old as of now and weigh an embarrassing 70kgs *sob*, have lost a bit of my snow white complexion am currently working at a big bank as a Product Manager, am married to the love of my life for the past 3 years and have a reasonably great life (in fact more than reasonably) :D

I see life as a stage drama, a bollywood film with its ups and downs as Shakespeare writes (from As You Like It ) …..

“All the world's a stage,And all the men and women merely players:They have their exits and their entrances;And one man in his time plays many parts….”

Or as Karan (Saif Ali Khan) says in HUM TUM …… ;)

“Humari zindagi aik kahani ki tarah hai…jab hum kisi sai miltay hain toh humari kahan us shaks ki kahani sai jur jati hai aur aik nai kahani ban jati hai……” ...lol

Today......
1. The weather is gorgeous and i was in an awesome mood till i came to work where I got annoyed at my boss , cause he gave our team this huge lecture about what we should be doing and what we shudnt be etc etc *yawn*

2. Have alot of farigh time at work (am thinking if my office is exactly what producers of "The Office" had in mind...ho bhe sakta hai)

3. Am obsessed with loosing atleast 10Kgs, have been planning and replanning for weight loss and been putting it for 2moro... and 2moro never comes .... :)

4. Am again thinking of what i want out of my life....what i really want to do ..... :S

5. Am glad that Id be going to my mama's place for 2 days :D:D *yayyyy*

6. Am thinking of going to the gym 2day ......when will the clock strik 5 ..ufffff

7. Am craving for something sweet but trying not to think about it since 10kgs have to go ..they just HAVE to !! am trying to get inspiration from various sources btw (e-diets etc) Imagine!!! :/

9. just got a call from a head hunter for a job at another bank ....... ahhhhhhh Allah mian plz get me a new job now ...cant stand mean people who ask me....STILL here !?!? btw speaking of which reminds me that i do have a dream job...... will write about it later ....and i know one day the dream WILL become reality (inshAllah )

10. and i am missing my hubby as usualll ...... haiiii

Can you keep a secret?!?

I read a book today, it was lame, useless, total crap titled “Can you keep a secret?”…but I actually read all of it in one go….cudnt put it down..,,yea I admit it …I actually liked it! One of those embarrassing books you have read and liked but people should not know about ;) and you actually try to justify it to your own self that why something like it appealed to you! And the reason I came up with was a bitter truth …..I could relate to it! The main character in the book ‘Emma’ had a personality like mine …she had a crazy restless brain like mine….. that kept on buzzing, talking gibberish to her …just like my brain does!! I got so fascinated by her character that I just kept going on and stopped only once I finished. And then I realized that may be I am not THAT weird….there are more people like me who don’t know what they want out of their lives …live in their own dream world and who see their lives as a movie script with proper background music. Yes ladies and gentlemen I am that WOMAN!! *sigh* anyway, so I thought I should also start writing about my life….. for my own sake. So that tomorrow when I grow old, I can read about my life at any point in time and analyze it in general (yes i am this farigh! *sob*). This will make me realize that how things that are important and even life threatening to me today (for instance, N A) will be a good laugh tomorrow (hopefully!!) :D

To realize that we always cherish the days gone by- the past always seems better then present and future always seems promising, seems more attractive and how the same future when becomes present seems crappy and once becomes PAST suddenly transforms into one of the best times! So yea that’s my logic for starting this thread.