Adnan`s Crazy Blogging World

Note to all men: This post might sound anti-Men and “feminist” to many men but the matter of fact is that whatever I am going to share is not fictitious and it really happens, atleast in my country. The post has been written on the occasion of International Women’s day

Like every year women(or men!) around the world would be celebrating International Women Day without serving the women and their real issues. I am not so frequent in writing anymore but there was something which I could not cover last year which I want to share now. The topic might burn many women who consider themselves smart asses while they are not. I am going to discuss how easily we men fool women and women even feel pride of it and feel *great* that they are being played by us men.

Where should I start from? Ok, I would start by targeting men first. This is not a hidden secret that men by nature has *lust* for women(I’m not talking about gays here) and they always try to justify their lust by different means. On other hand women are considered quite loyalists to the people whom they are attached with. Daughters,wives,mothers are just fewer of examples.

Before I go into details how men fool women, I would like to go back in 1908 about the incident which was all about given freedom and rights to women and encourage them to step out and work in offices. Who does not like to have money? hence women started movement about their rights and all that. You can read all about that here.

As I said above that this post is all about women exploitation by male and how women offer themselves for such exploitation.  First of all I would talk about Media industry modeling and fashion.

Many of you would have heard or even seen on roads(in signboards and TVCs) here and there selling different things. These sales girls are called Models in the language of fashion and media industry. These two ladies are considered top models in Pakistan named Vaneeza Ahmad and Tooba Siddiqui respectively.  Now anyone who is associated with this industry will agree that every Ad campaign is launched by the marketing department of that product’s company. They are given task to contact Ad agencies. On the other hand Ad agencies contact their associated models and other related people to come up with an Ad which meets the criteria of the client. When a model is hired for an Ad, she is actually asked to use the stuff given by the client(product owner here). She/He has to wear clothes given by Ad agency and make-up and all that. After all it’s client’s demands. On other hand Ad agencies and the marketing department tries to sell product by any mean; be it legal or not ,ethical or not, they have to sell their product any way by using the human psychology or I say,men’s psychology .  This type of Advertising is called Sexual Advertising.  The name sounds quite taboo and rude but when you read the details in Wikipedia, it says:

the use of sexual or erotic imagery (also called “sex appeal”) in advertising  to draw interest to a particular product, for purpose of sale. A feature of sex in advertising is that the imagery used, such as that of a pretty woman, typically has no connection to the product being advertised. The purpose of the imagery is to attract the attention of the potential customer or user. The type of imagery that may be used is very broad, and would include nudity, cheesecake, and beefcake, even if it is often only suggestively sexual.

As you can read, this Wiki link was quite unexpected for me because I did not know that there is a branch of Marketing and Advertising which believes in using women as a tool to sell something.

In Pakistan use of sexual Advertisement is not new and uncommon and you would have seen stupid Ads like for Guy Soap in which a stupid lady says ,”What a guy!” after watching a handsome guy.  Similarly I find no connection of Honda Bike Ad, Treet Razor Ad and several other with Women. They were just injected in Ads just to make them spicy.  As the Wiki article  exposed that these women are used just to play with Men’s nature of having lust for women. In urdu we say it “Tharak” and such person is called a Tharki. These marketers know that as long as there’s a woman in Ad, there’s a probability that people would pay attention to the Ad. Wajood-e-Zan se hay Tasweer-e-Kainat may Rang,, if Iqbal would have seen such implementation of his Ad he would have committed suicide before saying any other verse. In marketing it’s said, Jo Dekhta hay wo Bikta hay and men in marketing and sales know quite well how to use these women. Did you or any of those models ever think why these men ask them to expose their body? why do they have to show off their body parts or make such seductive moves to sell a product? Did you find men selling product in similar way? If you are a model, I ask you that did you ever feel how do you act like a prostitute for these men? Did you ever feel how we men use you as condoms and flush you out when you’re not needed?. Sounds yucky haan? but this is the fact!! Nobody wants to see aged models. Nobody would like to see Tooba and Vaneeza at age of 70 because at that time there wouldn’t be anything in them which could turn men on. Nobody cares about these models after certain age.Either these “modern” women bank on their husbands or commit suicide. You guys should watch Fashion, an Indian flick which has discussed about the harsh reality of how men exploit these “top notch” women are used by men and just throw them out when not needed. An eye opener I must say.  Similarly these women are exploited in similar ways in movies and TV dramas as well. Watch current Pakistani TV dramas, every other actress looks desperate to free herself from clothes to get more exposure. This is why the talented actresses like Maria Wasti and Ayesha Khan also could not save herself and become victim of modernism and now feel quite ok to lie in arms of every other men in the name of script’s demand. Obviously, the party which is being exploited is none other than women. Men on other hands are enjoying the company of different women free of cost hence satisfying their lust.

This process is not limited to media industry only. Women working in other fields have also been fooled by men one way or other. Unlike media there is no such thing like bold exposure but men one way or other approach women and harass them at work place.  I have got chance of working in co-environments where noble looking men have made efforts to gain the attention of their female colleagues. I have also seen how some women used to come in skimpy clothes so that they can get promotion without doing any kind of job. The funniest thing is that these women who expose themselves professionally or willingly feel proud of what they do. They think that they are fooling men by playing with emotions and making them unrest but these idiot women don’t know that men just need some object like a woman to fulfill their desires. These women are like toys for them. They are not loyal with them. Unfortunately these self-acclaimed smart women never ever understand men’s nature hence they become victim of them. I have seen myself how few guys of a famous company were discussing about their peer colleague who used to believe in open source hence rarely wore full clothes on her body. I really got pissed and mad because they were using quite a cheap language for the peer who might have trust on those guys as friends but then on other hand I thought that the lady herself gave those guys a hint to abuse her. Should men be blamed here only? I don’t think so because those guys were just fulfilling their tharak nothing else. I wish I had something so that I could give some proof to the poor lady but I had not. That girl *could be* spared from such comments if she would have used proper dress. She herself lost her respect hence she presented herself as prostitute for other men out there.

Things don’t end here. Several times you would have read that a guy fooled his girl friend and raped or molested her one way or other by making her video or taking *uncommon* snap shots via mobile. The girl on other hand who starts considering that guy her savior and prince charming happily submits herself to the guy. This guy was able to molest the poor girl because she got fooled easily by the guy. Forget about dating you see in different restaurants. We are living in the era when girls and guys often get ready to live together without any legal bondage. End result? Girl commits suicide and the guy escapes. This does not happen in Pakistan only. This sad and shocking news about sexting says enough about how women are being exploited in civilized part of the world as well. Things does not end here. There are several other incidents which reveals the sad reality about using women for various purposes. Ironically women play major role to exploit other women when they become a medium between a women and man. Women running brothels are the classic example of such exploitation.

We men know quite well about women nature and men know quite well how to exploit women. The work started in early 1900 opened several doors of such exploitation which modern women happily digest and feel proud of it. It’s quite a bitter fact that men have been fooling women for centuries without giving them a feeling of it. You women who feel proud of being  modern women and feels great that how a man gets desperate of your “adaain”,”latkay jhatkay” aka seductive moves.  Is it not ironic that women who wants to be independent of money given by male elders at home happily become dependent on several strangers out of home?I would just like to inform you respected ladies that men just use you for their own purpose and fool you in such a smart manner that you don’t even feel about it. A bitter but yet it’s still a fact. Deal with it! You women yourself become fuel of such fooling and no one else can be blame for it.

Next time when you see some pretty woman hanging on top(on sing boards) or being treated well by men, be careful!!, you are being fooled by men pretty soon.

In the end, this video just shows what all I said above.

Welcome to International Women’s Day.

My friend forwarded me an email which I could not resist to keep to myself. See below:

 It was the wish of this young man to meet sheik Nabeel Al-Awdi. So Ibrahim’s father spoke the sheik on the phone in order to arrange a visit to Ibrahim.

This is sheikh Nabeel at the airport. 

Ibrahim was very happy to see sheik Nabeel open the door to his room. We can only see his happiness from his expression as he is unable to speak 

The moment sheik Nabeel entered Ibrahim’s room 

And this is Ibrahim’s expression on meeting sheik Nabeel
Notice the breathing instrument around Ibrahim’s neck.. he is unable to even breath normally. 

And a kiss on the for head for Ibrahim 

Ibrahim with his father, uncle and sheik Nabeel

Thus sheik Nabeel and Ibrahim started talking about da’wa on the internet and the striving it requires.
They also exchanged some stories .

And during their conversation sheik Nabeel asked Ibrahim a question. A question that made Ibrahim weep… and tears rolled down Ibrahim’s cheek.

Ibrahim couldn’t help but weep when he remembered some painful memories 

Do you know what question it was that made Ibrahim weep?

The sheikh asked: Oh Ibrahim.. if Allah had given you health.. what would you have done?

And thus Ibrahim wept bitterly and he made the sheik, his father, his uncle and everyone in the room weep.. even the camera man wept
And his answer was: By Allah i would have performed my salaa (prayer) in the masjid (mosque) with joy.. i would have used the favor of health in everything that would please Allah Subhanehu we Ta’ala 

———–x——————–x————x————————–x——————–x———————x—-

I could not resist myself and my eyes got waet fter reading this. Some intellectual idiot might call these images or every thing a fraud but the point which has been highlited is the response given by Ibrahim. Allah(SWT) says in Quran:

And when harm toucheth you upon the sea, all unto whom ye cry (for succour) fail save Him (alone), but when He bringeth you safe to land, ye turn away, for man was ever thankless. (17:67).

Hardly we care about the things given to us free of cost by Allah(SWT) and we happily use them without thanking the one who gave them to us. Don’t we say thanks to those who give us gifts? then why do all decency and good manners blow away when it’s the matter of Allah. We should actually think who is actually ill. This guy or us?

Though there’s no concept of V-day in Islam neither it has any “positive” history associated with it but still, if V-day is all about spreading love  and expressing love with loved ones then there is no one other than Allah who should be loved. You can never find a friend who is more closer than Allah. You might get a negative response from the one you feel you love and it might ruin your moments but Allah will never disappoint you. Allah has never disappointed me despite of I am not a good practising Muslim, trust me. If you can’t trust me then trust in words of Allah(SWT) when He says:

And you cannot escape from Allah (i.e. His Punishment) in the earth, and besides Allah you have neither any Wali (guardian or a protector) nor any helper.(42:31)

When He did not disappoint a person like me then I believe you’re way better than me. May Allah guide us and keep us away from crap like V-day or som XYZ day. Ameen

Image source: Unknown

We are living in a digital age where every day we hear about some new application which targets to sort out issues related to humans. Softwares ,web applications specifically are getting smarter day by day. Many of them are successful due to constant involvement of their users one way or other.

Suppose you are willing to buy a book and you visit Amazon.com. For instance if you search for recipe books about Italian cuisines, you would come across sections where Amazon itself will be recommending you books which pertain your query. You select a book and you wish to go thru reviews by the people who have already bought that particular, just like you ask opinion of your family pals when buying some stuff from a shop. You form an opinion after reading those reviews that whether you should go for the book or not. A typical Amazon’s product review section is given below:

Next time you visit Amazon, it would be recommending you further items based on your past history or your your inclination towards the type of items you are looking for. For instance Amazon recommends me following books based on my previous history.

Google has recently blended a social touch in searches which now would help you to find out opinions given by your friends and family members who would already have experienced the things which you are willing to do in future.  Obviously you would count your friends’opinion more than strangers hence it would make your life easier and pleasant.

The examples I mentioned above are few of many examples of Collective Intelligence which is a part of text-mining which itself is a branch of Artificial Intelligence(AI). According to Wikipedia,Collective Intelligence(CI) could be defined as, a shared or group intelligence that emerges from the collaboration and competition of many individuals.

Opinions formed  by a group could either be positive or negative. Both can help certain individuals or a community to perform certain actions based on conclusion emerged from that group. CI has been playing the vital role to make current applications smarter and helpful because applications behaviour based on how users use that application.

I got interested in the subject when I bought Programming Collective Intelligence-Building Smarter Web 2.0 application. Few years ago I was not aware how Google invaded everything and made us addicted to its products. The reason Google is successful today because it makes products and gives search results which are quite nearer to our need. Google smartly involve people who are connected with us one way or other. Though the book has been written for Python users but Toby has explained algos in such a simple language that every programmer could implement those algos.

When I read the book and got an inside about CI, it suddenly made me think that how Islam had given the concept of e Collectivintelligence 1500 years ago when Islam asked Ummah to promote the concept of Shura at every level. What’s Shura? In simple words Shura is all about seeking consultation on different matters. In quran Allah encourages the concept of Shura in these words:

And those who answer the Call of their Lord [i.e. to believe that He is the only One Lord (Allah), and to worship none but Him Alone], and perform As-Salât (Iqâmat-as-Salât), and who (conduct) their affairs by mutual consultation, and who spend of what We have bestowed on them; (42:38). Prophet(saw) was also used to consult His companions and others. Beiqhi(RA) writes:

‘’Certainly Allah and His Messenger did not stand in need of the advice of anybody, but
God has made it (the seeking of advice) a source of mercy for men. Those who hold
consultation will not stray away from the path of rectitude, while those who do not are
liable to do so.’’

As you can see how Islam has given the concept of Shura or Collective Intelligence several centuries ago.Why Shura is needed? It’s because we often save ourself from any kind of  misery or wrong decision after knowing the opinions of others. This is why those families rarely fail to conclude something wrong where concept of Shura is properly implemented.

Now when I read different algorithms to implement CI in web applications, I’m forced to believe that Islam is quite a logical religion which encourages several things which modern world is implementing today. What West discovered today,it could be discovered several years back by Muslims if they would have paid attention on Quran and Education itself. But alas, either we don’t read Quran or if we ever read Quran, we don’t ponder on things mentioned by Allah.  In future we will be happily embracing the concept of Shura implemented by the technology and would even praise about it but would not think about it how Quran and our Islam already revealed this technolgy several years ago.  May Allah guide us.Ameen

Finally it came out as expected. The American court finally gave the verdict of it’s own choice against Lady Alqaeda(As Americans refer her with this title). The court says that she tried to kill American marines with a rifle. No matter how much Qazi Hussain and Hussain Haqqani whine, she has been poisoned for 60 years!

Image: NYDaily News

One agrees or not but Steve Jobs has got talent to produce amazing products. He has also been blessed with selling out his products. After iPhone, Steve came up with another amazing device and called it iPad. As expected, Jobs came up with intuitive User Interface. Specially iBook is definitely going to kill Kindle in near future.

I am not an apple fan, can’t be because Apple’s products,specially computers are pretty expensive but I am definitely another fan of Steve Jobs due to his genius mind and clever entrepreneurship. Steve is a trend setter in technology world and always will be. The way hype was created on tech crunch and others attracted many geeks around the world.

How iPad will be used, it’s not clear. People are trying to figure it out. Surprisingly this new slim device is not so expensive as the price starts from $499. iPad does not have every thing. Basc stuff like USB,Camera,GPS and Flash ain’t available in it. I don;t know the reason but iPad is not a complete package. Many people are disappointed and not considering it revolutionary.  I didn’t like the name of the device, quite girlish and embarassing. You know what I mean. I mean.. you will not like to say things like,I lost my pad!*shrug*

Following are the two videos, one about UI features of iPad and other video in which fake Steve Jobs expresses his conerns about this new technology(Disclaimer:lingo is not so appropriate in it)

Apple’s iPad UI

Fake Steve Jobs

Ridiculing the molvis/Mullahs is like a domestic hobby in Pakistan. One can’t be considered educated and broadminded if he/she don’t curse molvis.

Many of you would have heard others to make fun of molvis or curse them because molvis always called TV as “Haraam” and evil stuff. Then you would have met people who would have tried their best to prove themselves educated by throwing up stuff like..These molvis are backwards. They just prefer to sit in Masjids or Madrassahs rather than adapting changes. I myself may not agree with these molvis because I think that TV as a medium could be used for positive things as well but these scholars and molvis always came up with arguments that current media trend is not healthy for people.

Anyways,the enlightened class always ignored people of religion by declaring them clerics hence backwards and moved on.

Yesterday I came across an Interesting study on Slashdot that how watching TV could steal few moments of your life.

From Guardian:

Every hour spent watching television each day increases the risk of dying from heart disease by almost a fifth, say scientists.

Couch potatoes were warned that their lifestyle also increased the risk of death from other causes including cancer.

People who spent hours watching television greatly increased the chances of dying early from heart attacks and strokes, researchers in Australia found. Compared with those watching less than two hours of TV, people who sat in front of the box for more than four hours a day were 80% more likely to die for reasons linked to heart and artery disease.

New Scientist reports that watching TV in early stages could cause attention problems in adolescence.

Another report which is very dangerous that kids who watch so much TV could suffer from Asthema.

I know families where there are no TV sets and yet they are not suffering from any kind of infeririorty complex. They do this because they consider it a gateway of suffering and sorrows. Today scientists proved how TV could be the reason of various diseases in our family members. I am one of those who say,”Don’t curse the tool,curse the user” but honestly speaking it does not apply everywhere, specially on TV. The religious scholars would have called it Haraam for various reasons which might appear irrelevant to you but if you think deeper, you would find out that the reasons given by Molvis are actually causing the diseases identified by scientists. TV is asked to avoid due to lust of watching Haram(na-mahrams women or men) and we usually spend hours in front of TV just for sake of movies or songs. Sometimes we love to watch models and feel *happy*. Islam had summed up all and declared it Haram. Maybe it was so unusual for people of logic who try to run away from faith hence reject all such orders but now when Science is also backing molvis then such illiterate intellectuals might like to ponder on this serious issue.

So, try to avoid discourage TV in your family as much as you can. Not for a molvi but for your own family. May Allah guide us and save us from such half-baked modern Muslims who try to mould Islam according to their own needs.Ameen

Many of you would be aware of devastating earthquake in Haiti which caused the lost of lives of thousands of people. People around the world have been trying their best to help the one of the most poorest country of Americas which is dealing with the crisis. Once again the current array of technologies could be helpful to provide a bridge between volunteers and people who are willing to help them. For instance Haitian-born singer Wycelf has been trying it’s best to help his country men. All he wants to text Yele to 501501 which will cost you $10 per SMS. If you want to donate to RedCross then “HAITI” to 90999 or send a gift card to RedCross.

On other hands techies in America are teaming up to utilize current technology to help earthquake victims. CrisisCampHaiti is calling techies from different parts of the America to use their skills to build up systems which can provide some help on ground. Tim Oreilly just updated his twitter status about the facility of free SMS service for Haiti where you can ask about the things need on ground. Google has comeup with a people finder badge which you can embed on your site

UN has already declared Haiti’s earthquake the worst disaster ever dealth with. We can’t challenge to God Almighty but such incidents also become the reason of testing our faith that how sincere we are to help these victims.

We Pakistani have already dealt with similar situation 4 years ago. The way we all we teamed up to help our countrymen was really commendable. People of Haiti might not be out countrymen or belong to same faith but yet they are human like us and they do need our help. There is an appeal from Pakistanis and they ‘re being asked to come forward and help. Edhi sahab is already participating in relief activities. Unfortunately we could not do things much in technology ground despite of my appeal here and there . Please come forward and help the people who are similar to us. May God reward you on your efforts.

This is the question which was recently asked by few guys who happen to follow me here. All of them asked, why my blog is so dead now? no updates, nothing! I just thought to write something about current activities.

It might surprise you that it’s not my new marital status which keeps me busy here and there. Neither I have become bloggingly infertile that I don’t find new things in pocket to discuss. It’s all about change in priorities. I have been trying get back to same world which I belong to, the tech world. Someone might call me an insane that how come I am getting more into this thing rather than enjoying new life? So my friends! Alhamdolillah I have been enjoying this new relationship and things around it hence it’s been helping me to keep my brain focused on things which are very near to me and more important for myself(My veteran married friends might not agree with me by saying,”yeah yeah enjoying” :-> ). I had already mentioned here that as soon as soon as I got engaged in something then I would not be able to spend much time in blogging stuff.

I am a wannabe entrepreneur cum software engineer and for past 2 months I have been trying to work on fewer ideas which have been in pending since ages.  By default I am a kind of lazy who just don’t finish something up on time plus I have to take care of new entry in my life too,wife. Usually she does not complain when I don’t give her much time after getting back to home or on holidays but I can feel what she feels at that time and I try my best to convince her for what I am doing or try to reschedule my stuff just to make sure that I don’t hurt her. Note for all women: Being a husband is not so easy as they think about it!

Luckily I found few friends around me who think like me, who wants to do something which they can’t do in their  own respective companies due to various reasons. So it’s like we have been discussing things(aka brainstorming) about different ideas I have or they have. Apart from that I have been trying to work on things which should have been done by now. For that purpose I have got a hosting service along with a domain which would be used as  a platform where I can do various experiments. I might not reveal the name right now as there’s nothing over there to show off. So, in short I have following things in my life which keeps me engaged most of the time.

1) My Wife and home offcourse.

2)Job

3)My very own experimental lab and things related to it

4 )Formation of a team to work on newer idea(prolly a startup? Not sure though..)

I was supposed to write a post about the role of a husband in which I wanted to share things I learnt in past 3 months or..a husband can learn due to a relationship with wife. That post was supposed to go live after 1st month of my wedding but I could not start it, then I thought to write about it after 3 months and yet It could not be done. The only thing I have done so far that I have drafted a post only with a title and introductory lines. My wife is staying at her mom’s place. I thought I would be able to give time for that pending blog post but against I rejected my own idea and thought to work on stuff I mentioned above. I don’t know when will I be able to complete that post. Things around me keeps me busy most of the time. Wish me luck for new ventures and remember us in prayers.

Note: For all those techies who are willing to work on their own ideas, I would recommend them to read Founders at work. Simply an amazing book about famous companies/people who faced issues in their early days.

Ro’ain woh jo munkir hain Shahadat-e-Hussain (R.A) ke..

Hum Zinda-e-Javaid ka Matam nahi kia kerty

روئیں وہ جو منکر ہیں شہدات حسسیں کے
ہم زندہ و جاوید کا ماتم نہیں کیا کرتے

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