First Rig Job!! (yay)

Alhamdulillah, the day i had always been dreaming for reached on the night of 10th Dec, 2007. At 2:30 am we (my, my mentor Boyd and helper/driver Ashraf) when to our company yard to pick up tools for the job. From there we went to Wafra Oilfield, Rig BWD-127, Well # EW-15.
Yeah baby, i got to look and work in an oil rig for the first time. As soon as we reached there we set up our equipment for GWD. The wireline from Halliburton came and suddenly the drilling team faced some problem with the Whipstock from Weatherford company. They had to put us on standby which went to 48 hrs of stay and nothing to do in the middle of desert. Anyways, on the night of 12th Dec, 2007 we got our chance and we did our job which lastest 7 hrs. Alhamdulillah the job was well done and i learnt a lot. Next time i'll have to setup the tools and run the survey... O0.
Anyways, it was an awesome experiance and Alhamdulillah my wishes are coming true one by one. I always had full faith in right thing, on right time by Allah and now it is happening. Thats all...gotta go for another job tomorrow. Didn't get any sleep for more than 24 hrs. Will sleep in a few mins. Ciao....

A new Chapter!

Well well well, Alhamdulillah at last i got my break through. Yeah, you guys are right, i got into Gyrodata Inc. as a Field Engineer. Well it all started 2 weeks back when the regional Manager Mike Grahamme asked me to send my passport and resident id scans to him so that he can arrange the documents. I did send him though but never believed that it'll all happen so fast.
So a week later i got mail from them that my visa is ready and i've to give them a date for my ticket to Kuwait. I was all excited and shit because i didn't expect it coming my way that fast. Anyways, the problem at this point was how to leave the company. I discussed every step with my Mamoojan who has been my career mentor from the start. He said either i make up some story and ask for an emergency leave, go to Kuwait and then send my resignation from there or resign right away telling them that i've a new job offer at Kuwait.
The problem with the earlier option was that according to GCC countries rule i can't have 2 work visas at one time. So i had to quit and finishup all the bussiness at Saudia. Khair i did that anyway. Wrote a resignation letter which said blah blah stuff as normal but i was suspecting that they'll create issues and try to delay the "exit stamp" which i needed on my passport. But Alhamdulillah they said nothing and infact did all the stuff in a jiffy. Paid all my benefits without me asking for it. Then my new employers booked my ticket (Thursday, 29th Nov, 2007) and here i'm at Kuwait.
At the airport my visa was not with the visa department, i thought here we go... but Alhamdulillah after a few mins they found it and let me go through. Now here i am waiting for my rig pass to be ready because i can't go at Oil rigs without that. I attended the safety induction yesterday and submitted my documents for Rig pass. My regional boss was on vacation and he'll be back on Tuesday. Then i'll have my agreement/Contract signed and will have a picture of what plan my company has for me. Wish me luck guys...
Oh another thing, my good ol pal Cheema is also in Kuwait and he lives nearby. He has been giving me company and he'll leave on vacation this 6th. He'll be back on 1st... but he has shown me a few places around so that i have an idea of the happening places. Thats all for now, catch ya guys later. Ciao

What is the happening?

Last Weekend:

So last weekend went great. On Thursday I watched the most thrilling cricket match ever…. Yes you guessed it right. It was Pakistan Vs India. The great rivals of all the time. Well I was more seriously watching the match because we were sitting with Indians in our room and it would've been a real embarrassment if we had lost the 2nd match as well. I mean I understand that one team has to lose but it’s a series brah!.. we have to give them a good fight even if we don't win the series… we should push it up to the final match.
Therefore tomorrow again is a very important day in Pakistan cricket history. With so much fucked up things happening at Pakistan. This win (Insha'Allah) is going to be a relief for some of the poor Pakistani souls. So Insha'Allah go Pakistani team go!!

P.S: For the fuck sakes please don't include Kamran Akmal as keeper. He catches like a girl, hits like a girl… runs like a girl… maybe hes a girl. That freagging @#$%@#$Y@$%&^.

This Weekend:

As again like all other weekends for past one and a half year I have nothing to do as well on this weekend. Now that I don't have a car its even more boring. Khair I'll try to finish up the Tomb Raider game (already completed 48% in 2 days). After that will try to finish up the King Kong stupid game…. Wasted my 15 SR on it :S. Maybe this weekend we'll go to my Uncle-in-law's place, maybe. But mostly I'll be at my Mamoo's place watching TV or Movies. Have some good news but don't wana share them atm cuz whenever I share or tell guys something… it never happens! So let me shush till it really happens and then we'll party altogether ; )….

A Replay!

Ahlan Ahlan…. How are u doin my readers? Hope that everyone is fine and smoothly running the mean life business. Well a lot has happened since last time I wrote something. I will write about everything one by one.

The "Plan"
This is the fun part. I think I had it all planned and It really was all well planned NOT. *ppfft*. Well the thing is I sometimes rush to opinions and decisions. I think of the world as a perfect place and everything happens just like it all happens in a fairy tale. You rub the lamp and get a genie that is at your command. You wish and he fulfills. Its not like that Vicki, wakie wakie smarty pants.
"The plan" was that I'll get a visa from a guy, resign from my current job, take along a NOC and come back to Saudia after spending two months of Vacation in Pakistan. But….. BUT everything didn't turn out as planned.
First my Mamoo pushed me not to resign as it'll be a great risk and he was right by all means. If I had resigned at that time I would have been a jobless, engaged freak in anarchic country of Pakistan. Alhamdulillah because of Mamoo I am not…. Anyways, the second part was that guy who was suppose to give me a visa never said no but also never gave me any visa. That ahole is a total bluff…. Khair I don't blame him for my stupidity. I shouldn't have gone for vacation without getting some solid paper work here for the visa.
Anyways I went to Pakistan and spent whole 50 days in my motherland. My sister arrived a few days later as well from England and we were having a ball at my home. Soon after eid I got engaged. The function was awesome and had like 4 days of events full of masti and shughal. Now I am back in Saudia and working again.

WAAAAAAOOOOOOOOWW (WoW-TBC):
TBH (to be honest), I didn't go out much while I was in Peshawar. I mean I did go to all cousins and stuff but mostly spent my time around my laptop with PTCL DSL connection. All thanks to WoW, seriously addictive game man!! Khair with all my efforts and those sleepless nights, at last I became level 70. Got a flying mount as well ;). But now because of this sucky place Saudi Fucking Arabia, I don’t have an internet connection anymore and so can't play WoW. My one month subscription will go down the drain and I can't do anything about it. My friend are pleading me to come online by any mean but they don't understand my situation cuz they have never been to Saudi Arabia…hehe.

The New Console:
My Mom-in-law sensed my gaming passion and she gifted me a XBOX-360 on my birthday (that was on 2nd Nov, am 26 now ;) ). Have bought 3 games so far that include F.E.A.R, Fifa 08 and Halo 2. The problem with FPS games in XBOX 360 is that controls… I am more of a computer game guy, don't like consoles that much but I love playing RPG third person view games on consoles (e.g Prince of Persia, Resident Evil, Devil May Cry etc). Its because those games are much easier to control than FPS games… will buy some in a week or so Insha'Allah. Well this is all for now and hopefully will write more soon. Ciao guys and keep in touch!!

Dil Dil Pakistan, Jan Jan Pakistan!!

14th August, 1947!
Rings any bell? yes, it was the day when our great country Pakistan was born. A great leader Quad-e-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah tireless and continuous efforts were materialized and this was the day he saw his dream come true. The nation which was built on three important things.

• Faith
• Unity
• Discipline

Alaaaas =(, first of all me and then my nation severly lacks any of these 3 thigns mentioned by our Quad, our Bani-e-Wattan and our great leader. Lemme discuss a little of all these things.

Faith:
Faith has many forms in our daily lives. We, being a muslim first of all should have faith in Allah. This is the most important thing is our life and should be. A hopeless and faithless man is a danger for himself and others as well. If we have faith in Allah then we can get through any trouble, any misfortune and any disaster, why? Because we believe that Allah has the greatest power over all things and is the only one who can turn bad things good, turn day into night and show us a rainbow after a storm! If we really think about this point it'll lift us up both spiritually and morally.
Now faith can also be in each other. Because our Prophet Mohammad (S.A.W) said Muslims are like a body, if one part is hurt. The whole body feels the pain. This is how we should be, we should have faith in each other and help each other our in time of trouble. If i am having a bad time, i should have faith in my neighbor Pakistani people that I've their back! If i am going outside town, i should have faith in my Pakistani friends that they'll look after my family. If i am doing a job which is for a good cause but low pay like Police, civil defense or gov. doctor, i should have faith in my Muslim Pakistani government that they'll take care of my monitory problems.
Faith can take so many forms and each and every form has its own good points, no bad points at all but Alas we are a nation with no faith at all. No faith in government, no faith in our other Pakistani brothers, no faith in Police, no faith in Army, no faith in Maulanas, no faith in Pak Ruppee, no faith in anything at all =(.

Unity:
"United we stand, divided we fall"

In class 2 or may be 3 we used to write this story where one guy has 3 kids. This guy is about to die but he is worried because his kids are always fighting with each other so he asks them to bring wood sticks from jungle. Then he asks all of them to break one stick, which they do very easily. Then he asks them to bundle up all the sticks and now try to break the bundle and they can't. The moral of the story was "Unity is strength".
Back in those time, i mean the same time when i was in class 2-3.. i had no idea about unity? all i could see was my friends all around me. I couldn't see or feel the color difference, the racial difference, the ethnic difference, the language difference, the religion difference... nothing at all. They were just my good brothers, good friends.... but because of the constant feed from our leaders, our maulanas and in some cases our friends/families and relatives, i slowly started seeing the difference. I would no more try to hangout with Punjabis because they were so called the moochers of Pakistan. I would try to stay away from Shias because they were Kaffirs as my molvis would say in their Jumma sermon. I would not eat with Christians because this is Kuffar as per Molvis!
My question is, why these so called leaders are not doing their jobs properly? Why don't they preach the unity message as our greatest leader of all time Mohammad (S.A.W) said
"All mankind is from Adam and Eve, an Arab has no superiority over a non-Arab nor a non-Arab has any superiority over an Arab; also a white has no superiority over a black nor a black has any superiority over white except by piety and good action."

Why can't we just erased everything as see each other just as muslims? Why? why? why can't we?

Discipline:
My mamoo came back from a trip to China, he showed me a pic. In the picture, there were many people standing in line on a factory gate. I was like "Mamoo, yeah kia factorty keh andar ja rahe hain?" Mamoo smiled and replied, "Nahi baita, inhe chutti hogaye hai aur yeah line bana kar factory seh nikal rahe hain". This is discipline. In America or Europe, there is no lock on newspaper stands, or no one guarding it. You just throw in a few coins and the box opens. If u want to, you can take as many as u want but they don't.
Last night i was having dinner at my friends apartment and there someone was telling us a story of his friend who was working in Japan. He said that there was a vending machine outside their building, once he was trying to take a juice from it. He inserted a coin in it and the coin came out from the lower pocket and so did the bottle. He was like woohooo, jackpot. He tried again and another bottle popped out also returning the coin. This guy went berserk and popped out a dozen bottles. This was not enough, he went to his shared apartment and told his other friends as well who did the same and popped out a couple of dozen bottles. This Pakistani guy's greed was not over yet, he thought of going again and getting some more bottles. As he went back to the machine he saw a japanese guy standing near the machine. He stood there and watched him. The japanese guy tossed in a coin and the bottle came out but so did the coin. He was a little confused, he placed the bottle on the top of the machine and tried again and same thing happened. Confused as he was, he went to the nearby phone booth... went through the yellow pages and called somewhere. Then leaving the bottles on the machine he left.

The Pakistani guy stood there waiting for the area to be cleared when a van came and guys wearing company outfit came out. They were the people from the company who owns the vending machine. They pulled out the machine from the place and took it away with them.
The point is, we have no discipline at all. We honk as soon as we see the lights turn green. We park our cars right infront of NO PARKING boards. We through our trash outside the trash drums. We try to get at the head of the line by pushing and yelling. We don't leave our seats for elder people to sit in. We don't pay our taxes. We don't have a single drop of disciplinary material in our blood.
"Our duty is other guy's right". If we do out duties on time and properly, the other person will get his right. If everyone keeps doing work in this manner, the whole society will be a tranquil place which requires no police or army to control like Switzerland!

The irony is, west learnt all the "gurrs" of their technology and civilized modern era from great muslim empires and scientists. Look at us now, where we stand? To bring up outselves, we have to first change ourselves rather than pointing fingers at others. We have to step up and be a good muslim first because Islam is the key to all success in every manner. A good muslim can be a good scientist, leader, writer, poet, soldier and anything. This is how we should think and act. This is what our priority should be. This is what our aim should be....

I end my blog with Allama Iqbal's shair,
"Firqa bandi hay kaheen aur kaheen zatein hain

kya zamane mein panapne ki yahee batein hain
Tum syed bhi ho Mirza bhi ho Afghan bhi ho

tum sabhi kuchh ho batao ki musalman bhi ho"

Pakistan Zindabad!

Legends' of da Dawgg (Gamophile history) Part-2

And the legend continues.....
The second era of my gaming disease began when i stepped in GIKI. From here the disease (i am calling it a disease because i have infected many others with this virus as well).


The First Idol (5 BG, 1st Semester-Year 2000):

Now you'll say whats with the BG? BG stands for Before Graduation. I have divided my life in BG and AG periods because they are totally different times in my life.

For the first 2-3 months in GIKI i had no computer, so i couldn't play anything but still i used to play Dave in PC-Lab..hahahaha. What a whacko!! =P. Anyways i got y first mean machine by the end of Oct, 2000. For that machine, i lied with my Mom like hell (I felt sorry for it because she spent a lot on it out of her budget) and i told her that i need all this stuff (512 mb, 1.6 celeron, 32 mb Nvidia card etc) for programming which had nothing to do with me in a 1000 miles. Khair i still bought the machine and returned home (GIKI, yes.. not the one in Gulbahar) with pomp and show.

The infestation begins:
In the time of 5 BG, whenever i used to roam around in my hostel i heard crazy voices coming from my seniors's rooms.

"My life for Aiur",
"Carrier has arrived",
"Huuuuuua, Huuaaaaa, Huaaaa"

They were cussing each other, hitting their CPUs, constantly clicking on the screen here and there and i used to wonder what the fuck is wrong with them? What are they playing which is making them go insane?. I have to try this as well. This is the point where i started playing my first ever lan game....

STARCRAFT - Broodwar:

Though i had no idea about RTS games and also it was my first time playing a game with a mouse and keyboard control but i learnt all that pretty fast. The first alias i ever kept on Starcraft or any LAN based game was "Mast-Khare" (which means a naughty citizen in Pushto). To be honest, i never was a very good player in Brood. I recall myself as an avg one but my team still managed to beat the hell out of the best team in the brood tourneys, twice (2001-2002). I still cherish those wins as it was really funny to see the embarrassment on the faces of those pros who got smacked by nOObs (they thought we were).
This game had only 3 races.. Tarrens, Zergs and Protoss. The aim was to build army, defend ur base and destroy enemy base and forces. Compared to new RTS games it had quite a few unit control options and unit diversity but it skill was fun to play.

Quake II:

This game remained with me for a longer time and i was good at it, much better than Brood. I am naturally more talented in FPS games rather than RTS games. But because of immense practise, i got better at some RTS games as well (In GIKI). Quake II was the first game with high adrenaline rush for me... infact every FPS game is. I love them all like hell. The feeling you get when u are overpowering everyone whos online at that time. You feel like the king of them, you mercilessly rail them again and again and again. Their bodies blown up in smithereens.. you rail their body parts again just to enjoy the victory! Mayeeeeeeeeeeen!!!.
According to most of the Quakers, Rail requires the most skill in Quake II...I was good at rail gun. But the batch 8 guys were waaaaaaaaaaaaay more awesome man. I was enjoying my wins over my batchmates and smacking their asses like hell. The only guy who gave me some competition was Sarfi... he used to be really good with rocket launcher.
Then the day came when i joined a game played by batch 8 guys... through all that session, i just spawned and got railed from nowhere by someone i didn't even see. Maaaaaaayeeen, they were really really goood.... Khair still it was a good time and i can never ever forget it.
The aim of the game was to kill any opponent you see and the one who kills the most is the winner. The only map we used to play was Edge. The different guns were, rocket launcher, rail gun, gattling gun, shotgun, grenade launcher etc.

Will write more about other games and later....

Aloha Seniore'

So this is my first blog on this site. Shifted from MSN spaces because it was too heavy site for some folks to open with their slow dial up connections. Anyways, cherish this moment guys cuz Vicki da Dawgg is writing here now :D.