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Harris MoinJuly 02 Honest ShoppingHere in our office rather in almost every office I have visited in Australia, there are different sweets and other edibles available on the concept of honest shopping. So what happens is that we have a box full of different edibles (chocolates, chips, sandwiches etc) and every item has its price tag sticked to it, a money box is there as well. You shall pick up your thing and pay the amount in this box. No one's around to check if you have paid or not, no cameras nothing. It is honest buying, they trust most of the people here that they will act honestly and always pay whenever they take out a thing to eat from this box. This box is refilled almost weekly. This concept is very strange for me, it is not that all Australians are honest but it shows such a large number of people are, that they market things this way. It gives convenience to you, sitting at the office if you feel like having a chocolate you need not to go all the way to the store just hit the kitchen and have it. And with such an ease and temptation these companies are doing good business. Whenever I see these boxes, it reminds me of my time working in Pakistan for one of the best IT companies. The company is famous for recruiting only the best. Before lunch the office boy used to come and ask every individual if he/she wishes to order something from the market, mostly people used to order their lunches or soft drinks. He used to bring all these items and put it in the refrigerator. Almost every second day we used to find that someone who ordered something couldn't find his thing, although the office boy brought his things. Someone else must have eaten his lunch leaving this guy hungry and angry. And with soft drinks this was a very common practise, people knowing that the soft drinks in the refrigerator are pre-ordered, many a times those who didn't order it just have it. This thing went to such an extent that once we planned to have a camera placed near by to catch the miscreant. Good old days!!! Okay I feel my sugar level is down, better hit the kitchen and do some honest shopping myself. June 22 Singapore Airport 22nd June 9:00 amGoing back to melbourne without wife and manha sucksssssssssssssssss!!!! May 01 My First Linux InstallationThe other day I installed Linux on my laptop, something I thought I will never even consider all the more do it in reality. More and more work in unix at office and finally a Unix training paved way towards learning something which is associated with Geeks. I for one got windows on my first pc and since then I never had an urge to think about anything else but the new versions of windows. But now I have installed unix and one thing I like about it is when you are working on unix and specially on the console to me it seems a more intelligent way of interfacing with the computer. But to all my friends who love using windows (which i still do) trust me for a home pc you can do almost everything in linux what you normally do in a pc like checking mail, using internet, printing stuff etc. As per playing all the latest games I still have to ask someone. March 26 Pursuit of HappynessOne sometimes watch a movie, TV commercial, drama, read a book or just an article from the newspaper which leaves an everlasting impression in the mind. Pursuit of Happyness a movie starring Will Smith did exactly that to me. It is based on a true story of a person's life from rags to riches. This is the story of Christopher Gardner, the owner and CEO of Christopher Gardner International Holdings with offices in New York, Chicago, and San Francisco. The strong acting by Will Smith keeps you involved in the movie so much that at the end you feel it ended too soon. I will recommend this movie to all for its strong message of going after your dreams with passion against whatever odds, all you need is to believe in yourself and your goals. March 06 A good book after a long timeI became Jeffrey Archer's ardent fan after reading "Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less". A book, I still never think twice recommending to my friends. When Jeffrey Archer was serving his sentence recently the books he wrote like Prison Diary, I was not too impressed and almost forgot about him when I started my pursuit of reading books by different writers and made a point to give a gap of at least 3 books before picking up a second book by a writer I have already read. The other day while I was browsing through the books section of a store I saw this book in new arrivals, "A Prison Of Birth" by Jeffrey Archer. And I picked it up and went through the summary and found many similarities to his book "Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less". It looked like a book about a common man's revenge against very strong personalities against all odds. I am still in the first quarter of this book and have not completed but I am loving it. Jeffrey Archer has done it again and I think it is going to be a best seller for sure. Note-13Mar2008: Completed the book yesterday and it ended with no major surprises meaning a good book to read. |
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