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How will you feel?

Well…When did I contact ASUS about my motherboard? I sent the support e-mail on 14th. It’s 17th today and will be 18th in around 30 mins but no answer from them. This is happening to ASUS VIP member, you become ASUS VIP when you buy ASUS and register that product online. It’s really a shame, it really is when such Companies can’t keep up with their “SUPPORT” factor. I’m sure it’s same for ASUS, Gigabyte, Thermaltake etc. etc. Contacted Gigabyte, asking where to get their products in Pakistan, I never got a reply, when I saw an ad of Gigabyte distributor in Pakistan. Called them up, the guy hanged up on me when I asked about a Mobo which was available in other countries, he hanged up by saying “It will come after a few weeks!”. Thermaltake, contacted them about where to get your things in Pakistan. Never got reply this time, last time I inquired it 2-3 years ago, for which I got reply after like 3 months. Oh & I contacted Thermaltake showing interest in selling their products over here in Pakistan. Guess what. They replied even to THAT after a full month. The hell with selling their products! I would like to praise one Company in Pakistan though, whom I have dealt with once before. Silicon Technologies who are based in Karachi as well. I ordered my laptop’s RAM from them. They deal in Kingston and other companies too. I get reply within a day from them always. That’s how everyone should run their so called MOnEY making businesses. The trend mostly here in Pakistan & appears to be the same with ASUS etc., SUCK the money out of your customers. Smile and hang around when they buy, as soon as they are out of your sight, forget about them.

It was a hard time on me to get even the order done trough Distributor directly (Because their STUPID IDIOT STUPID Reseller was not ordering it for me, further more they were giving me 9 months Warranty where as it’s 3 years!!!). I prefered contact by e-mail. The person at other end, in Karachi, called up and said he will e-mail me shortly and I never got a reply from him. After continously messaging him, I did get the prices and arrival time estimation (which was fetched more than a week by him later). Khair!!!

Oh & the funny thing here is. I had asked that Distributor to send me complete list of ASUS products they sell with their prices. Guess what did he send me. That dude sent me their “CONFIDENTIAL” information. That e-mail was sent as Carbon Copy to me and originally sent to some guy at Viewsonic headquarters. It contained list of the monitors they had ordered, which they received, the pending ones and how many were to be delivered to them in the coming months!!! That was very STOOPID of them to do.

Why is all this just messy over here? You are not allowed to return the things you buy. You lose lot of money if you do. In foreign countries, UK or USA, you don’t like something, return it. They cut only slightly, refund you, you can even go on and buy another thing from the same vendor or shop. They will never be like NO WE DON’T WANT TO SELL YOU ANY THING ANYMORE BECAUSE YOU JUST RETURED THAT THING TO US AND YOU ARE GOING TO BE A BOTHER. Well, come here, get a piece of something, then try to return it. G0OOd luck from me! It’s Ramadan, the shopkeepers, most of them have their FASTS running high up in their heads, so you are most probably going to hear a few curse words from him and him ordering GET THE HELL OUTTA HERE.

What will you feel when a school friend contacts you after 5 months. He asks how you are and everything. You are happy to get a call from him and he shoots, I need to work on a Project I have been assigned in University. It’s this this this, please collect it on Internet for me and e-mail it to this this this e-mail address within two days. Then after a few weeks, he does the same, this time for another project. Then you receive a call from your school teacher, who never bothered to call you, but the next thing he says after how are you is. Listen, I need to print something. The guys in Bazaar are asking for too much money. Could you do it for me? I wonder why even they ask me this “Could you do it for me?” question. WHy don’t they just say, dude do this for me. It’s never a bother for me to help people out with things that I have knowledge of, but I feel really very bad when I get the feeling of them being mean to me and just using me for their work & nothing else. Even the respect they give me is because “This guy owns a computer, can work fast in Word & Urdu compliation, owns a printer too” so let’s be NICE with him as will be really helpful for us in future. . .

Speaking of all this. I’ve fixed computers n stuff for my friends too. I only wonder sometimes, they are happy with me helping them as long as it’s free and as long as I fix their computers, what if someday, something happens, their computer burns or something while I’m doing a Windows refresh for them. Will they just come & take their system or get pissed off at me for BURNING it? This has happened once, a school friend had problem with his computer’s 3D card. Brought it to me, it was not attached properly or something & the PSU had some problem too. I reinserted the 3D card, when started the system, there was a circuit break in house, there was a burning smell coming out too (from the PSU), something went wrong with it’s cable. This friend, cursed me badly right away saying I burnt his computer now I’ll have to pay him in full…Was’nt any problem. Ran fine afterwards, but I could never forget what he said.

Yey! I won 250,000 UK pound sterling :dry:

Hehe. Don’t jump. I did not win any thing. It’s another stupid SPAM e-mail I received this morning. Hehe. I once tried to make them pay me 5000 US$ as security so I am sure they are in real. :rolleyes: They were very clever, did not reply me regarding that, then I said I will report you to FBI if you don’t pay me 5000 US$, looool, I never got a reply after that!!! ;)

A friend of mine has received lots of such e-mails, even after telling him not to give them his details, he still did all that saying it won’t hurt him, may be they are real. Till today, he’s still waiting for the money to arrive. LoL. It’s just stupid spam people. They I think sometimes fool you into giving money as well.

Here’s the e-mail,

“Lottery Headquarters:
Customer Service
28 Shefield ROAD,
CROYDON.LONDON
Ref: BTL/491OXI/04
Batch: 12/25/0304

WINNING NOTIFICATION

We happily announce to you the draw (#471) of the BRITISH NATIONAL
LOTTERY,online Sweepstakes International program held on 1st August,
2006.

Your e-mail address attached to ticket number: 56475600545 with Serial
number 5368/02 drew the lucky numbers: 05 21 23 28 40 48 26(bonus
no.),which subsequently won you the lottery in the 2nd category
i.ematch 5 plus bonus.

You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of #250,000 (Two
Hundred And Fifty thousand pounds sterling) in cash credited to file
KTU/9023118308/03.This is from a total cash prize of #10,000,000 shared
amongst the first four (4) lucky winners in this category i.e Match 5
plus bonus.

All participants for the online version were selected randomly from
World Wide Web sites through computer draw system and extracted from
over 100,000 unions, associations, and corporate bodies that are listed
online. This promotion takes place weekly until the end of the year.
(31/12/2006)

Please note that your lucky winning number falls within our European
booklet representative office in Europe as indicated in your play
coupon.(5647560054) In view of this, your #250,000 (Two Hundred And
Fifty thousand pounds sterling) would be released to you by any of our
payment offices in Europe.

To file for your claim, please contact our fiduciary agent and Provide
him with the information below:

1.Name:
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3.Marital Status:
4.Occupation:
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10.Fax Number:
11.Draw Number above:
12.Annual income:

Mr. Emmanuel Loiseau
Email:emmanuelloiseau_43@yahoo.co.uk
Phone Number:+447011121926
( Fudiciary Agent)”

Story time! :wub:

Ok. So here is the story. Well, I did not create or make this story, it’s something which happened in real, I hope you will enjoy it and say :wub: like I did at the end of it.

So there are two brothers. Daniel and Stephen, Daniel is six years old and Stephen is four. Whom do you think should be acting like the BIG brother? Oh & let’s include their mother too, umm she’ll act like a referee? LOL. So one day, Daniel and Stephen were fighting over a toy bus. Stephen told his mother that Daniel was being selfish. Daniel said “I’m not selfish!”. Stephen asked his mother “What does selfish mean?” Mother answered, “It means you want things for yourself and don’t care what other people want.” Stephen thought about it for a moment, then with a shine in his eyes and a devlish sweet smile (For which you would WUB him) he said, “I’m selfish.” Then he asked his elder brother, “Daniel, are you selfish?”. Daniel said, proudly & trying to do his best with making an innocent face (For which he should be WUBBED too), “I’m not selfish”. Stephen said with a winning smile on his face, “Well, I am, so give me the bus.”

HeHe. Who’s the big brother masha’Allah se? Gawd, some kids of the new age are sho sho clever. Watch your back Billy ;). Oh & my friends, well actually ONE friend only has been complaining alot lately (:p to her) that I am not commenting on her blog. Busy + Lazy + Bypassing the Blogspot censorship = impossible for Mr. Patri0t to visit the Blogspot blogs and comment. I will be making few changes to the Favourite URLs now. By default they will be routed through the “Bypassing BLOGSPOT technique” provided by PKBlogs.Com. It will be easy and convinient for me then. This will remain as long as the ban on Blogspot is here in Pakistan.

Don’t forget to send your WUBS to the two brothers, also say Masha’Allah and pray for them all! :wub:

Find me the reason

Got my self to write this today. I hope my “Internet Vacations” are over now. Find me a reason for the following…

A young man, smiling and laughing, goes out on work to the mountains, he is a “mountaineer” or “rock climber”. The group he works in is known as the most hardworking group in the crew of 1500 people. He prepares everything, does all the safety precautions he could, he tries to climb and then something happens. He falls, his head hit by a rock, ambulance is there ready, on his way to the hospital, he is no more. What did you feel? Did you feel anything? Or you did not feel anything for every minute, someone dies in this world? I felt sad when I heard this, only the next part made me find a reason for why it happened.

He was a hard working man, doing this job a thousand kilometers away from his home in the other end of this counry. Why? For the two parents who grew him up; who are old now and won’t be able to feed themselves, he was there for his seven sisters, so he can save up and get them married that is every brother’s dream, isn’t it? Oh and he has a wife too, with a five years old daughter and two years old son. Put it short, he was the only person available at his home to feed all of them and now he is no more. How do you feel now? Does it appear normal to you?

This world and life is indeed not forever, it will end tomorrow if not today, the next hour if not now. In a way, perhaps not living in this world is better than living in this world. I don’t know. Allah is the ONE indeed who decides all these things and I am no no no no no one to object what happens. But…I am a human and I have a few unanswered questions which will remain unanswered, perhaps forever, perhaps till I share the same fate as the one’s before. Why was this guy meant to die? Why was the only person to feed the whole family of 13 people meant to die? There are alot of people who are BURDEN on this earth, they hurt people, hurt people very seriously, they are killers, kidnappers, they deveice people, they rape, they loot, they are robbers sitting in the houses of Parliament, there are people who will suck the last drop of blood out of the poor and needy, there are people with long long beards calling themselves MULLAHS and the saviours of Islam but you will find them doing all the sins. Why can’t one of them die instead of a guy like this???

Find me the reason…

Happy Birthday JUJU!

Yup! It’s my best friend’s bday today. So please wish her everyone. LOL. Now I don’t know how many will wish on time but whatever. Waise I know I could not send you a gift or any thing like that but you know those things does not really matter :p. Hope you had a blast today on your Birthday. O, btw, here’s something for you. It’s only for JUJU to click so everyone please stay away from it.

CLICK HERE!

Hope you like it. :p OH & I am stealing the balloons from someone so I hope that someone does not mind :p.

Oh & here is a little Computer geeky way to wish you Happy Birthday! Right click HERE and click Save as then play it and enjoy!

I know this isn’t much yaar but this is all I could find. I am trying to look for a poem, hehe, I am too dumb to write one you know so I hope this is enough. Ofcourse it should be. You are featured on The Patri0t’s BLOG :p so be happy now. Hehe.

With lots of prayers, wishes and good luck for your future. Forever friends!

Main Zakhm Zakhm Sunaati Hoon Daastaan Apni

If giving their rights to women (which are told by our religion; Islam) and supporting those rights is feminism, then I am a proud feminist. I read a column by, “Kishwar Naheed” yesterday in the newspaper. I would like to ask the ones sitting in parliaments of Pakistan as to what are they doing for the women who are oppressed. Where are those mullahs and their wives who are always talking about the Government degrading women? Where are those “MUSLIMS” who according to them are using their privilege of maximum 4 wives. These “MUSLIMS” marry to fulfill their “DESIRES”, why would they marry a woman with stinking mutilated face or body? They forget the “SUPPORT” part always. They just remember they won’t be able to hitch hike her in the bed.

Here I am with the translation…

With the increase in oppression on women, more and more have visited me personally and told me their stories. I am conveying few of them here for you to read so you come to know about the injustices in our society and so you shed tears and go through the phase in which currently I am.

“My name is Naseem, mother of three. My husband married the maid who used to work in our house. Now he demands me to leave the house along with our kids. Tell me where should I work so I can get a place to stay under with my kids. This incident if of no remote area in Pakistan but our own Islamabad.”

“My name is Shamim Akhtar. I am 20 years old. I was kidnapped, raped and then acid thrown on me so I am never able to tell names of the people who did all this with me.”

“My name is Sabira Sultana. I was forced into marriage when I was 15. My husband was 35 years old. My husband’s complain was that I did not bring dowry. One day he threw me in fire and vanished. I have no one, no relative who will go to court for me or report him to the Police.”

“My name is Azra. A relative threw acid on me as according to them, my sister was divorced. I belong to Jatoee tribe of Sind. What would have happened if I had filed a case, my whole body is ROASTED.”

“My name is Nasreen. Having blue eyes was my fault. Straying guys would whistle on me while I would pass through the street. My brother could not see this. He brought a bottle of acid and threw it over my face when I was sleeping. My skin is bady damaged, all of my hair gone. I am blind now. I don’t have ears that I will hear nor a nose that I will smell a fragrance.”

“My name is Parveen. My husband’s family burnt me by throwing the gas stove on me. Despite of all this, I am still living in that home. I am hardly able to see Musarrat Misbah since 2 years. Perhaps I find the peace which was snatched long ago.”

“I am Saira, 22 years old. I was married. My husband put forward demand for huge sum of money to my parents instead of the dowry. My poor parents could not arrange the money. He threw acid on me. One of my eye is intact, I am trying to learn embroidery and sewing.”

“My name is Parveen Akhtar. My fault was the fact that I did not give written permission to my husband for his 2nd marriage. He pour oil and set me on fire. I shouted and ran, people saved me. I was punished for I could not give birth to a child.”
“My name is Naseera, 17 years old. I am Afghan but living in Pakistan. My fault…I declined a marriage proposal. I was sleeping when he came and threw acid on my face and body. I am alive in this hell and searching for him. I will do the same to him if I find him.”

“My name is Zubaida. My husband used to marry poor girls for his desires. If a girl declined, he would put oil and set her on fire. I also fell prey to him. I am finding him so I can burn him too but he has vanished.”

“My name is Shomail Jan, I am from Afghanistan. I was thrown into fire but I lived. Half of my body is burnt, despite that, I will not allow him to live in peace.”

“My name is Iram, used to be a college student in Rawalpindi. A guy proposed me, I declined and was angry on him. Next day while passing in the street, he threw a jug full of acid on me. I tried to save my self and he threw the rest of it on my clothes.”

“My name is Tasneem. I live in Karachi. I worked as a maid in homes in order to feed my drug addict husband and his family. They were still not happy, always cursed me for not brining any dowry. One day they put oil on me and set me on fire, they gathered people and told them I was working in kitchen when the stove blew up. I am a divorcee now but will never forget those animals.”

“My name is Basheera. My husband pushed me on a lit stove and burnt me, he told everyone that I fell on stove and burnt my self. I was not able to leave my home after this due to shock. I gave birth to 5 kids. They leave me everyday on the road, people throw money in front of me. They come from home and take me at evening They are very happy on my life.”

“My name is Mumtaz, 39 years old, living in Khairpoor. My fault was that I did not allow my husband to sell our daughters. He burnt me with acid and still sold them.”

“I am the Fakhira Younis who was thrown upon acid by son of a politician. I am mother of that cursed’s son. An Italian woman has adopted him. I am permanently living in Italy and doing treatment for the last 5 years with fear of that husband.”

She talks a little about “Musarrat Misbah”. She is known as a beautician here in Pakistan. She helps the women who are burnt by fire and acids. No one can fill the injuries of soul, but she gets their operations done and give them hope. She also takes them to Italy for treatment if necessary. I will write about “Musarrat Misbah” one day insha’Allah.