Yesterday, i attended a wonderful session conducted by Naeem Zafar, well known name for the entrepreneurs.

Session was organized by PASHA.

He did the best job shared many things, to prove that technology has dramatically reduced the cost of starting business.

He shared different tools, some are

http://www.legalzoom.com/ Getting your entity a legal one in US
http://www.oovoo.com/ (For Video Conferencing)
http://www.conferencecall.com/ (For Conference Calls)
http://www.clickbank.com/ Affiliate Marketing
www.davidmeermanscott.com (New Rules of Marketing)

Would like to thanks especially Naeem Sb for sharing this cool knowledge, and PASHA for arranging this.

Attended a good workshop at T2F, conducted by Badar (Google Consultant for Pakistan).

He shared some excellent tools, which can help companies in showcasing/ marketing their websites in the online world.

Some of the tools he discussed were Google insights, Google Adwords,
Google webmaster, Google sitemap.

Those who are into SEO & in this career must attempt Google Certified Professional certification as well.

The workshop was quite knowledgeable, and overall it was a good event.

Would like to thanks Badar & Jehan for this quick initiative.

Never ever saw such dynamic, innovative young boy of this age.

His imgination, innovation & invention will change the way we deal the World.

See it.
Pranav Mistry: The thrilling potential of ‘SixthSense’ technology.

His site.

Some good quotes to share…..

1) Believe in yourself….

“Excellence has always been achieved by those who dared to believe that something inside them is superior to circumstances”

2) Light within will make you GLOW even when darkness is outside

“People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in;
their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.”-Elisabeth Kubler-Ross (Psychiatrist and Author)

read it from a blog.. a good one.. so posted here.. its an inspirational short story.

It happened several years ago in a Paris Opera House. A famous singer had been contracted to sing, and ticket sales were booming. In fact, the night of the concert found the house packed and every ticket sold.

The feeling of anticipation and excitement was in the air as the house manager took the stage and said, “Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for your enthusiastic support. I am afraid that due to illness, the man whom you’ve all come to hear will not be performing tonight. However, we have found a suitable substitute whom we hope will provide you with comparable entertainment. “

The crowd groaned in disappointment and failed to hear the announcer mention the stand-in’s name. The environment turned from excitement to frustration.

The stand-in performer gave the performance everything he had. When he had finished, there was nothing but an uncomfortable silence. No one applauded. Suddenly, from the balcony, a little boy stood up and shouted, “Daddy, I think you are wonderful!” The crowd broke into thunderous applause.

We all need people in our Lives who are willing to stand up once in a
while and say, “I think you are wonderful”.

And at times others are expecting this from you.

Just 45 minutes back, on August 31, 2009 at 9:00 AM — 10: AM, I was having the first experience of Behind the Camera at Indus TV morning show with its host Junaid & Tabasum, talk on “Importance of Career Guidance”.

It was a week back when Mohammad Ali Syed Sb, a big name in the Media Industry called me, and asked me to appear in this show, thanks to him.

It was overall a good LIVE Session, as per the feedback of the host, program producer, it went good, and they were having lot of phone calls, due to the topic importance as well. One of my friend, whom I wanted to thanks for the moral support, told me that the session was good, but just the starting 2 minutes makes my face RED, tiny nervous, and then all SET.

So Wanted to thank you all. The program was good, I too enjoyed a lot, the phone calls and all things & Syed Sb for taking me to Behind the Camera.

If you reading on August 31, 2009, you can see the program on night, repeat telecast at Indus News at 11 PM — 12 PM.

I will provide the link of youtube as well.

PASHA arranged a wonderful session yesterday i.e. July 29, 2009, conducted by seasoned entrepreneurs Idris Kothari & Saeed Kazmi, recently heading Vertical Systems Inc in US.

They shared their story as well. Both are V.Snr NED grads, and have a lot of experience in Silicon Valley.

They conducted a wonderful session, for fresh startups, entrepreneurs, and how to market your new business.

I remember & like following some good points, wanted to share here as well.

1) Don’t develop Small product i.e. which can be developed in 1. 2 months, as anyone else can replace you within such small time frame.
2) Marketing.. CS grads/ Engineers cannot understand this science. They may come up with good idea, but how to market & understanding the customer is the WIN, which majority of the times they don’t know. So you must have some good business person with you, or you must be that much Xtra Smart.
3) Every another idea is a good idea, but that doesn’t mean that it will produce results.. Maybe you produce something extra ordinary /.. but the market is not ready… so reject your good ideas as well on wrong times.
4) What value you are adding or image you are creating in customer minds (Mr. Burger may be far better than Mc, but the value Mc creates, people go for that)
5) Good partners.. trusted partner.. you need them. Team working & building is the key, most of the start up fails because of this reason.

The event was quite interactive.

Thanks to PASHA, & the speakers.

2 Enrique Songs always TAKE me away from the PRESENT.

For no good reason, i LOVE his 2 songs, his voice, tone, wanna listen these 2 great numbers.

1) Ring My Bell

2) Do you Know

“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”By John Quincy Adams

“To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.”By Anatole France

“I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”By Maya Angelou

Read a beautiful quote at Imran Rauf MSN Title. It’s the truth!

“Societies are not destroyed by the activities of rascals but by the inactivity of good people”

Related to another good quote,

“Evil is when, few good man decide to do nothing”

So it’s not the BAD people who destrys society, it’s the good people silence which destroy the societies. When people stop talking on the things that matters, when people think ONLY for them & when individuality becomes stronger! That led the destruction of society.

It’s easier to raise fingers on others, but hard to ask yourself that what we did for society. That if we have done our part before judging other accountability!

Let’s Be honest to our self FIRST!

Good quote to share.

“The great composer does not set to work because he is inspired, but becomes inspired because he is working.”–Ernest Newman

Thank you for sharing!

Congratulations Microsoft for arranging a nationwide contest i.e. Microsoft Imagine Cup Pakistan finals.
Microsoft Imagine Cup is a global event in which team from every country participates. Pakistan is participating from last 3, 4 years.

In Pakistan, Microsoft PK runs a fantastic campaign, & invites projects from every university. And then these projects were submitted to Microsoft Office, & then the top ten projects will be filtered by a panel, filtered down to 5, and then these 5 invited to Karachi to demonstrate their project.

And yesterday, may 19, 2009, these 5 teams were in Karachi to made their final demonstration. 3 were from UET Lahore, 1 from LUMS & 1 from PAF KIET.
Event start with the project demonstration.
Projects were, IQRA, from PAF KIET, a kind of online schooling software having distance learning & other features.
LEBEN — From UET Lahore.. A good project, who won the Final. Best of luck Leben Team for the global final. It’s a good tool for health worker for immunization.
EWE — from UET — Electronic Empowerment for women — judges like it much.. And it’s a good concept… providing a collaborative envirnoment for women…
Astute Agrarian — From UET — A good project for framers….
Crayon — From LUMS Team — A study aid project, a software for a child laptop… a mesh up tool, with class room interactive features & much more.

Judges were Jehan Ara, Yosuf Jan, Jawwad Farid, Qasim Sb (ICT RDF), Waseem Akber & Asad Ullah. It was an exciting event

Leben team won the Pakistan final, and will be competing for Global Finals. Qasim Sb & Jehan Ara delivered an inspirational speech motivating the students.

Nice effort by Microsoft Pakistan to provide a platform where universities country wide can compete & learn.

From last couple of weeks… 2 things are knocking me hard, and i have to response them anyhow.

1. A beautiful quote….
“People cannot discover new lands until they have the courage to lose sight of the shore”. Andre Gide

2. 2 Week back attended a session on a beautiful book “who moved my cheese”. It’s about dealing with change. A wonderful story, book can be easily downloaded (search on Google), will not take more than 3, 4 hours, but you can go through its presentation Click here

Let see, how to response them!

Just a minute back, I heard this from my friend during lunch. He was referring some event happened, week back, in which he & his colleague were discussing on something, some office boy (peon), visited that place for some work (probably cleaning), also joined their discussion. And then he stayed there for a while, & expresses his views on the talk going on. As the office boy was not interrupted by my friends, so after that event, whenever he visited that room, he says hi/ hello besides doing cleaning.

Because, my friend allow him to do this, and so he take this as for granted, and continue the same. Ideally the office boy should not talk to us in this manner, as he belongs to the lower class than my friends. How we can allow him to communicate us on same level. He should not be allowed to talked to us, like the way our friends, or same class.

And for this, the great reason we have “In koo free na kerna, yee sir pay char jatay hain”. (Don’t free them, they will sit at your head) And this is very common sentence everywhere & in all classes.

Those who belong to upper class don’t free the middle class, as if they free them, they will also join their discussion, and they may sit with them day by day. Why the upper class should free middle class.

And then the same for middle class, they won’t free the lower class, as if they will make them free, they will take it as a habit, and join with their discussion.

And so as lower class do it with further lowered class.

And this goes on.. We don’t want the lower to stand with us, at the same place where we are now. We don’t want to grow them, and also complaining the same thing for classes upper to us. That classes upper to us feels proud, things like that.

This is called Tabqati Nizam (Class system), which 1400 years was before too, and among other major objectives of Islam was to break this system.

Allahamadoliliah after 1400 years, we especially in Pakistan have 98% Muslim, we have the 2nd largest religious gathering after hajj, we have more mosques, more religious system, but yet, this class system roots is stronger compared to other societies. We have this system, not only lives in this system, but enjoy this sytem. But yet we are muslims. Not only muslims, but the Best Muslims in this World.

Read the quote on Khurram bahi MSN Tag, liked this, so sharing with you guys.

“Being complex is easy, being simple is hard”

Very true, that’s why everybody want to seem complex, so he/ she cannot be approached or encounter by other, if you are simple everyone can easily approach you; counter you, as you are open to All.

And it’s really hard to BE OPEN, as we always resist for change, and wrapper around us with a shelf, so no other can approach us.

Music is one of the best medium of expressing feelings/ emotions. No doubt it’s the most powerful tool in ARTS. (Here I am not referring Songs, just music).

Well I always in search of good music, some days back I found some really great music of Yanni. Yanni is among the world renowned musicians. You will always found his music in backgrounds of many local/ Persian’s/ international films/ dramas.

These days i am listening. (You can download from following links too)
Within Attraction

Khongtac2k

One Man’s Dream

Nightingale

A 10 year old boy went to an ice-cream shop & asked how a cone costs? Waiter said Rs. 15 The boy started counting how much he had in his pursue Then he asked how much a small cup cost? Waiter said Rs. 12.

The boy asked for a small cup. He had it, paid bill & left. When the waiter came to pick the empty cup. He was touched. The boy had left Rs. 3. coins as a tip for him.

MORAL: Try giving something to everyone out of whatever little you have

Almost after 14 years, waking up early ….. & rushing ……… just. …… for a single reason …….. BACK TO SCHOOL.

Emotion lost values when expressed into Words. The feeling & experience cannot be transformed into words that we had on Saturday, April 4th, 2009 event on school. Last time i visited the same auditorium was 1995.

It was another major success of our Alumni team (First was the alumni website), and now our first event on “Career Counseling”.

The session started at 8:45. There were almost 4-5 speakers. Speakers were allocated 10 minutes to brief their areas. Shayan Hassan conducted session on Business, Finance & Accountancy. Umme Aimen Kazmi conducted session on Arts & related field, Aqueel Pabaney conducted session on Medical & I myself conducted session on IT & Engineering.

I hope that these sessions helped students in getting a flavor about these fields.

It was wonderful experience to meet the current metric class. 14 years beyond we don’t have many options for our career, but now they have been blessed by such number of options.

Murtaza was the anchor person of the program, managed the session & time beautifully. Beside the speakers, there were many other x-students who were panelist, like Hussain, Adeel, Faizan, Zahra, Ailiya, and Khumar.

The program ended on Q&A session. Lot of questions has been asked by the students.
Would like to thanks here, school Management, especially Madam Tasneem Shabar & Tahir Javed Sb, whom continues support makes this happen.

Thank you Students of Class X for listening us. It was a great experience to meet you. We wish you best you ever had, and we would be always available to guide you.

You can email me directly (wajahatabbas@yahoo.com ) or contact our Alumni. The peer mentorship program will definitly help you.

THANK YOU SCHOOL. THANK YOU METRIC CLASS. THANK YOU ALUMNI

BACK TO SCHOOL
Wajahat Abbas

Wonderful peace of art.

What a rich pixel camera reached out every person attended the Barak Obama Oath ceremony.

See it here.

Yesterday, Jan 1, 2009, I attended Apex launch event at Beach Luxury hotel. Apex (All Pakistan Entrepreneurs Exchange) is a good imitative by Mr. Hamza Matin (CEO of EDP).

No doubt, nurturing Entrepreneurship culture is a good thing in Pakistan. Last year, we had Startup Insider sessions all over Pakistan, and then we have MITEF (Zahir Syed Sb & Azhar Rizvi Sb) programs, and now Apex. I don’t think that they have any kind of competition, but it clearly shows that Entrepreneurship culture is growing in Pakistan.

The launch event was participated by Anjum Nisar Sb, Karachi Chamber commerce president, as well Elahi Sb, a good speech from both of them.

Hope, the objectives defined by Apex, will be well driven.