| Resident Evil 5 |
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-July 20, 2008 -
Well one of the biggest crazes of my life back in college years, the Resident Evil video game, is back with the fifth
installment in the series, the Resident Evil 5. RE5 is releasing in first quarter of 2009. The spectacular latest trailer can be seen here as well as many more videos here.
For fans an old and reliable source is the ResidentEvilFan website. So the long wait is near to end as the previous installment Resident Evil 4 was released four years back in 2004 and became a phenomenal success. That time I was doing my master in Sweden hence could not play the game until I completed master and started my professional life. But this time I hope I would be enjoying it straight after its release, though first I hope there comes a price-cut for the currently beyond the access Playstation 3. Well anyways 2009 is certainly going to be fun year.
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| The Dark Knight |
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-July 18, 2008. All I can say is I am dying to watch this movie, and I am talking about The Dark Knight, the
sequel to the fantastic and one of my all time favorites The Batman
Begins. Talking about Batman Begins, there was something so special about this movie which is hard to explain in words, it
was simply awesome. I loved everything about this film. And now as the
sequel The Dark Knight is out (it released today) and is getting nearly perfect reviews (currently 94% on RottenTomattoes),
I am dying to see it. Everyone is saying great things about it, is it going to
be the best movie of the year or perhaps the best super-hero movie ever? From a
lot of overwhelming reviews on the web it seems this time it is more a thriller
and crime saga than a super-hero movie and I absolutely LOVE that. I have to wait for the cinematic release (13th August in France)
because I don't want to spoil the whole experience on small screen. I am not surprised that TDK has smashed all box office records, including all-time biggest weekend opening record previously held by Spiderman 3, as well as the records for best opening day and best single day gross ever. The movie has been ranked number 1 on IMDB's Top 250, surpassing even The Godfather. Amazing!
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| Jaane Tu Ya Jaane Na |
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-July 16, 2008. Aamir Khan Productions' Jaane Tu Ya Jaane Na has already been declared a blockbuster by now.
It is by far my most favorite movie of 2008 till now (Sarkar Raj being the second). It is not a path-breaking cinema or a masterpiece but it is refreshing, youthful, enjoyable, simple but very effective film. Music was already a huge hit (the genius A.R. Rahman rocks as always). The biggest strength of the film is its characters and how they are developed and related
to. Everyone in the movie literally rocked. Imran Khan
as Jai is fantastic, a star has born no doubt.
Genelia D'Souza as Aditi
is a revelation, a very spontaneous and natural actor. The veteran Naseeruddin Shah as Jai's father is hilarious, never saw
him in such a short but so effective role before. The gang of four (Jai and Aditi's friends) is superb. Paresh Rawal is enjoyful as ever. Prateik Babbar as Aditi's brother Amit is a surprise-pack, another fantastic performance
from a new comer. Ayaz Khan as (the villain) Sushant is incredible. Ratna Phatak Shah as Jai's mother is
mindblowing and equally funny. The two Khans, Arbaz Khan and Sohail Khan are funny. Aditi's parents ..... are fantastic (watch them out in the
hilarious "interview" schene). Manjari Phadnis as Meghna is superb. I've always admired this girl
as an actor, she is a fantastic actor with unbelievably natural expressions, I feel sad that she has always been ignored in her earlier two movies but happy too that she has finally got the acclaim she
deserved. And to my personal rejoice Aamir Khan after receiving a
record number of responses
on his blog
in favor of adding the title song to the movie has added the song back to the movie.
The beautiful title song sung by Runa Rizvi was chopped off earlier to cut the movie's length down.
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| The Mythical Man-Month |
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-July 10, 2008. Today I've got hands on my copy of the celebrated work by
Frederick Phillips Brooks, Jr., the 1975 classic book on software
engineering The Mythical Man-Month which is as affective today as it was three decades back. Brooks was awarded the most
prestigious honor in scientific community, the Turing Award, in 1998 for his contribution to computer science. The book is a compilation of essays on software engineering. It is this book which coined the now famous "law" in software engineering: adding man power to a late project makes it later.
The book contains such gems as "All programmers are optimists, so the first false assumption they do is that
all will go well, i.e., that each task will take only as long as it ought to be take.", "When a task cannot be partitioned because of sequential constraints, adding more man power has no effect, the bearing of a child takes nine months, no matter how many women are assigned." and "An omelette, promised in two minutes, may appear to be progressing nicely. But when it is not ready in two minutes, the customer has two choices - wait or eat it half-cooked. Software customers also have the same choices."
Well I have just started reading it and hopefully will come up with a short review once I finish (I promise this to myself
every time I read a book but mostly I find myself too lazy to write one).
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| Rescom 2008 and Trip to USA |
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-June 30, 2008. It was a busy but fun month. First I was attending the summer school RESCOM 2008 held at
St. Jean Cap Ferrat during the 15-21 week and then 22-28
week I was visiting USA to attend the IEEE WoWMoM 2008 conference. It was both my first ever conference and first
ever visit to the USA. It was a great and memorable time there together with Thomas Nilsson
(my ex-supervisor and the co-author of our paper) and Amir Krifa, my colleague at INRIA.
I will be sharing some photos with you soon.
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| Am so happy for the maestro! |
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-June 20, 2008. I am soooo happy! 2007 has been such a great year for the maestro A.R. Rahman, with
his latest victory at the
IIFA Awards, now he has won some 9-10 awards
in total for the music of Mani Ratnam's Guru. And the year 2008 would be
perhaps his most anticipated year as it will see some 5-6 major releases in
total, while Jodhaa-Akbar,
Jaane Tu Ya Jaane Na
and Ada have already created magic on
the charts.
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| The youngest fan of A. R. Rahmann |
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-May 28, 2008. See this sweet video of the
cute baby as the youngest fan of A. R. Rahman. A viewer has rightly coined the interesting new term
The A. R. Rahman Effect. Find the video here.
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| Code Complete |
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-May 28, 2008. Currently I am reading Code Complete, the now classic piece of work by Steve McConnell. It is a truly remarkable book in every respect. The books touches almost every topic in software engineering life cycle, the volume is huge, it is some 960 pages. I strongly recommend this book to every serious software engineer out there.
So impressed by the book and its "coding horror" concept that
Jeff Atwood named his web site after it, that
is the famous programming related site/blog www.codinghorror.com.
By the way I have read (or am reading) three of the books (Pragmatic Programmer,
Code Complete and The Mythical Man Month) from Jeff's recommended books list
and hope to have read all of them some time soon. |
| My obsession with A. R. Rahman's music |
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-May 20, 2008-
Celebrating the rare occasion of two back-to-back releases of
A.R. Rahman albums (Jaane Tu Ya Jaane Na and Ada... A way of life) on the same day, I recall those good days when I first time heard his music and how I became a
Rahmaniac. The year was 1995, a function was being held at my school (Laboratory High School, UAF) where the song Muqabala Muqabala was being played repeatedly
on high volume. I was really hooked to the rhythm,
the innovation and more specifically that distinct sound, which later on known as "Rahman Sound". Soon the whole nation was rocked by the song. The song was actually from a Tamil movie Kadhalan which was later dubbed in Hindi as "Humse Hai Muqabla". To imagine the popularity of the song, I used to have a "Muqabala Special" cassette which had ten different versions of the song on it, two originals (the original and the dubbed) and the rest eight "copied" versions by the Bollywood music directors (ARR was not then introduced to the Bollywood industry). My next encounter was with the classic "Kehna Hi Kya" from Bombay. It is still
one of my most listened ARR songs. The song brings back lots of sweet memories from those
days. Then came Milgaye Milgaye from Love Birds, Roop suhana lagta hai from Gentleman (remake of Tamil movie, Anu Malik re-aranged ARR's songs), Ek Hogaye Hum Aur Tum from Bombay, Urvashi Urvashi from Humse Hai Muqabla
and Chandarlikah from Chor Chor. From here onwards there was no looking back for ARR. First ARR's success eventually resulted in a number of his south movies dubbed in Hindi, Humse Hai Muqabla, Chor Chor, Duniya Dil Walon Ki, Priyanka,
Love Birds.... It was not until late 1995 when world saw ARR's first original Hindi album
Rangeela. And perhaps the first ever time in Bollywood history the trend of including
music composer's photo on the music album started, cashing ARR's popularity. And then probably the most memorable year in ARR's career, year 1997 came with Dil Se..
arguably ARR's best album to the date. The title track Chaiyyan Chaiyyan took the nation
with a storm and later found international acclaim (it was recently used in Denzel Washington's
Inside Man)
as well. Each song of the album was a masterpiece in itself. The next year witnessed Subhash Ghai's Taal, once again probably the best by the maestro or a close contender to Dil Se... Taal se taal still remains my most favorite ARR song ever, and which I like to play especially in rain. In those days there used be a very
comprehensive and well-designed website dedicated to ARR, www.rahmanonline.com, it was the ultimate destination for ARR fans, however the site was closed down later on for unknown reasons. Currently ARR's official web site is www.arrahman.com. Perhaps the biggest online community of ARR fans is the yahoo group ARRahmanFans, currently the group has some 13000 members. You can subscribe to the group here. There are enough reasons for his fans to rejoice, having hands on two of his albums on the same day is not less than a blessing. Furthermore while we are used to see one
(if at all) release by him a year, 2008 is one lucky year which will see in total 5 albums by the maestro, after the marvelous Jodhaa-Akbar and these two now, coming up in the line are Subhash Ghai's Main Yuvraaj and Aamir Khan's Ghajini, both are two of the most anticipated movies to come this year. Yuvraaj is also special as the invincible combo of Subhash Ghai and ARR which gave us the masterpiece Taal is coming back after a long period of 10 years.
Celebrating 13 years being his fan now his music has become an essential part of my life, as very well said by a fan of him: I live in a musical kingdom and AR Rahman is the King (courtesy of Madhavan Rajan from the ARRahmanFans community). And the magic of his music is phenomenal and never-ending. I have a compilation of my most favorite ARR songs, it can be seen here. A comprehensive discography of ARR can be found here and a compilation of countless awards he has won here.
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| Planete Seminar 2008 |
-April 28-30, 2008. A three days trip to a beautiful hill-station called
Barcelonnette
located in the Ubaye Valley in the south of France was organized by our project team
Planete at INRIA Sophia Antipolis as Planete Seminar 2008. Some photos from the trip can be seen here.
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| "Man Mohana" is special |
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-March 15, 2008. Here I want to express my "deepest sympathies" for probably the most underrated A.R.Rahman song ever. I mean the marvelous "Man Mohana" from Jodhaa-Akbar. The song is nothing short of maestro (A.R.Rahman)'s other masterpieces but unfortunately nearly every other so-called music critic out there (Taran Adarsh/Joginder Tuteja ????) either panned the song, ignored it altogether or
"declared" it as an ordinary. In my opinion "Man Mohana" is the best song of the album, or may be as good as the
azeem-o-shaan "Azeem-O-Shaan Shahenshah".
I fell in love with it right when I listened it the first ever time. Nothing about
"Man Mohana" is ordinary, only a true music lover
(or a true ARR fan perhaps) can recognize and appreciate a work like this. From the soulful vocals of Bela Shinde to the mesmerizing flute
in the second and third interludes, to the violin (?) playing in parallel behind Bela's voice, everything about the song is special.
The flute piece in the third interlude always gives me goosebumps, and actually I have set it as my mobile phone's ring tone. The song
was equally favorite among my younger brothers/sisters as well (I used to play
while driving car) and was actually our most favorite (along with Azeem-O-Shaan
Shahenshah and Khwaja Mere Khwaja) for a long time after the album released
(though none of us could understand more than 30% of the song because of its
very Hindi lyrics). The only thing we could have wished was that it had some
understandable lyrics rather than the pure Hindi. Well done maestro, great work, but alas once again people could not recognize
your effort.
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| My marriage |
-March 12, 2008. I am back after a memorable visit of Pakistan. My wedding ceremony was held on 7-9 February 2008, alhamdulillah. So finally I am "fully" married now (Nikah ceremony was held earlier last year). Find some photos here.
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| Gold Medal for my wife |
-December 1, 2007. A great happy news! today my wife was awarded Gold Medal as well as the Academic Roll of Honor in the convocation ceremony held at GCU (Government College University) Lahore for securing first position in Master in Computer Science. More
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-November 16, 2007. It is an extremely sorrowful news that Geo News, the most popular and beloved news TV channel
in Pakistan since many years, has been closed down. This came after nearly two weeks of severe curbs on electronic
media since the day emergency was imposed in Pakistan. Apparently the government could not resist the channel
showing it its real face in the mirror. The primary target of this act as we all know were the current affair programs
and their hosts, especially Capital Talk (Hamid Mir), Merey Mutabiq (Dr. Shahid Masood) and Jawab
Deyh (Iftikhar Ahmed). I, together with hundreds of Pakistanis here abroad, strongly and harshly condemn this shameful act from
government/Musharraf, and send the message of our firm support for the channel and all the people working for it.
We pray for Geo News and inshallah will see it back very soon.
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-November 03, 2007. It is extremely sorrowful news that Pervez Musharraf has declared Martial Law (which he calls "emergency") in Pakistan.
A new PCO (Provisional Constitutional Order) has been released under which
"non-so-friendly" judges of
highest courts (Supreme and High Courts) will be dismissed and new
"favorable" judges will take the oath. Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, the honorable Chief Justice of Pakistan and
country's hero since last few months, has been dismissed.
It is very obvious that the actual target of this extreme step is the Supreme Court which was going to give verdict against Pervez
Musharraf. It is actually a coup against the Supreme Court. First ever time in
the history of Pakistan the supreme court had become fully independent, but
sadly it is no more now. In their last moments the seven member
bench of Supreme Court out rightly rejected the PCO. The bench consisted of chief justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, Justice Javed Iqbal, Justice Rana Bhagwandas, Justice Mir Shakirullah Jan, Justice Nasir-ul-Mulk, Justice Raja Fayyaz Ahmed and Justice Ghulam Rasani.
We salute these seven honorable judges who refused to bow before a
dictator, and pray that situation becomes stable very soon.
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-October 04, 2007. Listened some great
Naats
(hymn) after long time. The first is
Ilahi Teri Chokhat Per by Junaid Jamshed,
a very beautifully
rendered Naat with Junaid's sweet voice and some very well written lyrics. The other is Mere Aaqa Aao Ke Muddat Hui Hai
originally rendered by Shahbaz Qamar Fareedi, however the version I liked more is the one by someone named Shehryar Khan I found
here.
A truly mesmerizing rendition. He has got such a
beautiful and soulful voice, mashallah.
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-September 21, 2007. Reading the timeless classic
The Road to Mecca by Muhammad Asad
(1900-1992). The book, first published in 1957, is the
autobiography of the Polish-Austrian
Jew who later embraced Islam. The book narrates his journeys through the
Arab world following his conversion to
Islam. He traveled to
India where he
worked alongside Allama
Muhammad Iqbal (the poet-philosopher who proposed the idea of an independent
Muslim state in India, now known as
Pakistan).
Muhammad Asad was later appointed the first Pakistani ambassador to the
United Nations.
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| In the Line of Fire |
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-August 02, 2007. Reading In the Line of Fire: A Memoir by Pervez Musharraf, Pakistan's famous (not necessarily popular) president. Book is in fact very interesting and engaging, I am reading nonstop and expect to finish it in few sittings. Hopefully I will write a review once finish reading.
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-July 9, 2007. Here you can find some new photos after my arrival to France along with some old ones.
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| The Pragmatic Programmer |
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-June 15, 2007. Reading
The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master by Andrew Hunt, David Thomas, one of the highly recommended
classics in software engineering.
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| Tere bin by Rabbi Shergill |
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-March 25, 2007. Listening (and deeply in love with) "Tere bin", a beautiful song by Rabbi Shergill. The song was first released in
his album "Bulla Ki Jaana" and now as part of the soundtrack of upcoming movie "Delhii Heights".
Besides the title track "Bulla ki Jaana", the album contained other beautiful
songs such as "Heer", "Jugni" and "Ishtihar". Two other
awesome songs from the movie soundtrack are "Dilli"
and "Kitni der tak". |
| Design Patterns Explained |
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-March 10, 2007. Reading Design Patterns Explained: A New Perspective on Object-Oriented Design
by Alan Shalloway, James Trott, a very well written and interesting book on design patterns (software engineering). |
| Latest movie ratings |
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-March 15, 2007. Here are the latest movies I watched along with my ratings: The Departed (8/10), The Descent (8.5/10),
Casino Royale (6/10), Babel (6/10), Slither (5/10), Hostel (6.5/10), World Trade
Center (5/10), V for Vendetta (7/10), Click (6/10), United 93 (7.5/10), Pan's
Labyrinth (7/10), A History of Violence (5.5/10). |
| Resident Evil 4 |
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-March 5, 2007. The survival horror is back! Playing the all time number one game
Resident Evil 4 on GameCube.
The game was first released on GameCube in January 2005 and on
PlayStation 2 later on in October 2005, and was eventually declared as one of the highest ranked
games ever. GameSpot and IGN gave it
9.6 and
9.8 respectively.
GameRankings gave it accumulated score of
95.8% and 95.7% for PlayStation 2 and GameCube, respectively.
Since its release it has won
several game of the year awards. It will be released for
PC and
Wii in near
future. |
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-March 15, 2007. After reading impressive (though biased to some extent) work by Reza Aslan, I compiled a list of some of the best books on religion available in English, including introduction, history and evolution of Islam, meaning and interpretations of Quran, biography of
prophet Muhammad (PBUH) etc. Find the list here.
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-March 10, 2007. Reading Muhammad : His Life Based on the
Earliest Sources, biography of Muhammad (PBUH) by
Martin Lings. A marvellous work widely believed as the best biography of the Prophet (in English). The book was written in 1983
and has been awarded "The best biography of the Prophet in English". Currently it is rated 4.5/5.0 at Amazon (based on 51 customer reviews).
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-February 10, 2007. Reading No god but God: The Origins, Evolution, and Future of Islam by Reza Aslan. Impressive
work but unfortunately from Shiite/Shia perspective, which resulted in highly disputed (and biased) material on some topics, such as the
Caliphate period (particularly Hazrat Umar and Usman's caliphate).
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| 4th birthday of my personal website |
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-February 05, 2007. Celebrating 4 years of my personal website. It was "born"
on February 5, 2003. Initially it was hosted with www.jahanzeb.net,
until I bought www.jahanzeb.com on December 5th 2004.
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-February 04, 2007. With lots of sweet memories, I returned back to France and joined my job.
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| My Nikah |
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-January 26, 2007. The big day for me, the day of my Nikah (marriage contract). Alhamdulillah. The Nikah was performed in a simple ceremony. The proper wedding ceremony will take place at the end of this year, inshallah. My wife's
name is Zerka Ismail, she is also
associated to the field of computer
science. She recently completed her Master in Computer Science.
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| Visiting Pakistan after 2.5 years |
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-December 28, 2006. After a long period of 2 years and 4 months, finally I am visiting my beloved country, my family and friends.
I will be staying in Pakistan from December 29th to February 3rd 2007, inshallah. |
| Long awaited album by A.R.Rahman |
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-November 20, 2006. Finally I got my hands on soundtrack of Mani Ratnam's
"Guru", an album by A.R.Rahman's after a long time. After masterpieces Roja,
Bombay and Dil Se with Mani Ratnam, A.R.Rahman once again delivered a brilliant
score. The best song in the album is no doubt "Jaage hain", an instant classic
(however it would generally be critics' choice, not mass'). The songs which are
already rocking the charts are "Tere bina" (dedicated to Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
by A.R.Rahman), "Barso na" (so prepare yourself to see Aishwariya singing and
dancing in rain). Other favorites are "Mayya mayya" and "Aye hairate". |
| Arrival in France |
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-October 01 and 02, 2006. Arrived in France and joined INRIA, the French National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control, as an R&D Engineer. I will be working on IEEE 802.16 WiMAX.
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| Goodbye Sweden! |
-October 01, 2006. Goodbye Sweden! Finally I left Sweden and departed to France. This period of 2 years (25 months,
more precisely) was such a memorable time, full of lots of memories, mostly good. I came to Sweden for my master studies. I completed M.Sc in 1.5 years and then worked as a Research Assistant
at Umea University for 5 months.
I would like to thank all of my fellows (both batch mates, and seniors and juniors). Special thanks goes to my fellows and friends
Mujtaba Mohsin, Ashar Nafees, Owais Ansari and Wajid Ali, as well as Bilal Rauf, Saad Riaz, Khalid Muhammad, Syed Moin Ahmad,
Majid Ali, Javed Ali, Arsalan Siddiqui, Ahmad Naeem, Amir Shahzad, Shoaib Tariq
and Saddam Nabhan, for their love, company, cooperation,
(and patience) in all the time we spent together. It was very hard time in the initial days and would have been even more difficult
without the affection and care we showed for each other.
Here I must express my heartiest thanks to my juniors, particularly Shahid Manzoor, Waseem Ahmad, Imran Siddiqui, Asrar-ul-Haq,
Nadeem Raja, Dr. Hasnain, Zia-ul-Haq, Shahzad Gujrati and Dr. Asif, for their love, respect and company. They came and made the
life so easy and happy, and made Umea an all time fun place. It would have been difficult to pass this much long time without
their company, cooperation and love. I will always remember them and the time we spent together.
At the end I would wish you all best of luck in your future.
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| Job + Goodbye Party |
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-September 29, 2006. I gave party to all my fellows (seniors, batch fellows, juniors) as well as some Swedish
friends (corridor mates) on getting new job and to say goodbye as well. The party was arranged at my residence (Fysikgrand 23c). I will soon upload some photos from the
party. |
| 7.5 in IELTS |
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-September 16, 2006. By the Grace of God I have secured 7.5 band in IELTS (Academic). I appeared for IELTS two weeks
ago in Stockholm. |
| Got job at INRIA! |
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-August 24, 2006. Just one week before my current employment will end, by the Grace of God Almighty I got new
one. I have got employment at INRIA.
The job very much suits me as it is related to simulation of wireless
networks. I would be working on a simulation model for WiMAX (a new standard for
wireless broadband networks) for the next generation
network simulator NS-3. |
| Working as a Research Assistant |
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-April 01, 2006. I started working as a Research Assistant at Department of Computing
Science, Umeå University. I will be working with Thomas Nilsson and Jerry Eriksson on research
areas including resource optimization in wireless networks, QoS (quality of service) in WLANs,
and IEEE 802.11e. Job responsibilities include implementation and performance
evaluation of
wireless networks protocols mainly in C, GloMoSim and MATLAB. I will also be
working on a research paper evaluating the ability of AP in a 802.11e network to
dynamically adapt optimal medium access parameters according to the varying
network conditions.
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-April 26, 2006. An Overview of Wireless LAN Standards IEEE 802.11 and IEEE 802.11e, as presented in my master thesis report, can be
found here.
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| Presented master thesis |
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-February 10, 2006. Presented my master thesis Implementation and Evaluation of IEEE 802.11e Wireless LAN in GloMoSim
and thereby completed M.Sc in Computing Science. Master thesis
report can be seen here.
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| Started master thesis |
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-August 07, 2005. Started my master thesis under the supervision of Thomas Nilsson.
It is a 20x20 points (Swedish credits) thesis. I would be doing it together with Bilal Rauf. The proposal is to implement IEEE 802.11e Wireless LAN stanadard in GloMoSim and to evaluate
its performance.
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-June 23 & July 10 2005. Ashar, Owais and Mujtaba left Sweden. It was such a great time with them since we arrived here in August 2004.
I will always miss their company. I wish them best of luck for their future concerns.
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| Students Conference in Computing Science |
-June 03, 2005. Umeå University's 9th Students Conference in Computing Science. My article was Mobility and Internet Connectivity in Mobile Ad
hoc Networks, download a copy here. See some photos of my presentation here
and the photo session we arranged after the conference here.
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-June 01, 2005. With the last exam, my last semester ended today. Thanks God Almighty! Now only master thesis is left.
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| Finally got dot.com |
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-December 05, 2004. Finally I got the dot com. I got
www.jahanzeb.com. Now it will bring you here as
www.jahanzeb.net is doing for 2 years.
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-December 13, 2004. University celebrated the event called 'Lucia's Celebration'.
This is event is celebrated in
connection to Christmas and a girl is selected as 'Lucia', who
distributes gifts, flowers, chocolates etc in homes. We arranged a photo session
after the celebration. See photos here
(don't be very excited. We did not, actually 'could not' made any photos of 'Lucia')
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-December 10, 2004. A party was arranged for international students at
Department of Electrical Engineering. See photos
here.
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| Pak_Umea |
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-September 20, 2004. I created the Yahoo group Pak_Umeå for the Pakistani community studying at
Umeå University, Sweden. One of the main objectives behind creating this group is to assist Pakistani students regarding the admissions,
studies, courses, accommodation, life in Sweden and so on. Please subscribe to the group here.
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| Arrival in Sweden |
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-August 25, 2004. I arrived in Sweden for M.Sc in Computer Sciences & Engineering at
Umeå University, Sweden. New ambitions, new destinations, new environment... a new world. It was very painful to leave my country, my family and my friends.
We have to sacrifice to achieve our goals!
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| Admission at NUST |
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-August 10, 2004. I was selected for
MIT Leading to Ph.D at NUST
(National University of Science and Technology). Thanks God Almighty!
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| COMSDEV - A nice experience |
-August 07, 2004. It was my last day at COMSDEV,
a newly established software house in Faisalabad.
I joined Comsdev at 22 March 2004 as a Programmer.
It was a very nice experience at Comsdev.
It was very good time with Sarfraz Anwar,
Usman Hameed, Umer Zeeshan, Bilal Niaz and Imran Anwar. Thanks for your company. I will miss you
all. Best of luck for your future ambitions.
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| Admission at FAST |
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-July 16, 2004. It was very happy day as I was selected for MS(CS) at FAST-NU (Foundation
for Advancement in Science and Technology) at Lahore campus.
God rewarded me for my hard work. Thanks God Almighty !
It was such a nice feelings to be one of the 26 students selected for MS program.
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