Adnan Farooqui

Taken at Home

It's been quite a while since i actually posted anything here, rather this has become sort of a photo-log since i hooked up Instagram with Posterous. Anyhow, today, being in the melancholy mood I am, i'm walking down all the roads of the past that i have skipped for a long time. 

The most important of which is poetry, and who best to study when you gain interest in something once again, than the great Faiz Ahmed Faiz.

Blogging is most definitely one of the passions that I am crazy about, and whenever I buy a new device, ease of blogging is something that I look for as it is my first and foremost priority.

I discovered posterous about a year back and was immediately hooked to it because it was surprisingly easy to use, long story short, I loved it and I still do ! Well atleast for personal blogging through Which i rant and rave, for pro blogging Wordpress is hands down, the king.

So anyway, day before yesterday I was fortunate enough to be able to buy an iPod touch 4g, and man is this thing slim! Although I do have to make a confession and that is that this is my first Apple device and I literally am loving it. I still am trying to get use to the on screen keyboard due to which I am making a lot of typing errors, and the autocorrect is turning out to be a pain in the as, however putting my incompetency aside, I love this thing!

So now I've found the posterous app for iOS, and he funny thing now is that I will be posting shit up on this blog whenever I want to because the app makes it so much easier to do so!

Adnan.

This is totally true. I blogged about this earlier, its amazing to see how these companies and cons try to weave their way out of grilling by such statements!

I am continually in anthropological awe at large organizations and the people who work there. Today's example: This bit of opacity from a Yahoo spokesthingie in response to a NYT reporter asking whether Yahoo could confirm rumored plans to shut down the popular Delicious service, among other things:

These are the essentials of flirting. Must read.

"Shall I compare thee to a Summer's day?," asked Shakespeare. Now, women of the world have replied: "No, just tell me I have beautiful lips."

A new survey of online flirting by dating website Badoo.com has found that the best Internet chat-up line for men to use is: "You have beautiful lips."

"We have found the Holy Grail of flirting," said Badoo Director of Marketing Lloyd Price.

The site, which boasts 87 million registered users worldwide, analysed the success rates of opening lines from nearly 200,000 online flirtations in 11 languages over the course of one month to come up with a "Compliment Success Index."

Site users were invited to use one of 12 different chat-up lines. Each complimented an aspect of a woman's body or appearance. Researchers measured the success rate of each line in two ways: first, their success at prompting any response at all; second, their success at launching a longer conversation -- one going back and forth at least four times.

Complimenting a woman's lips was the most successful overall, but other lines worked best in particular countries.

American, French, Italian or Brazilian women were more responsive to "You dress beautifully." Brits preferred praise for their legs, Spaniards responded to compliments about their hair, while Germans and Canadians preferred skin praise. Dutch and Portuguese women liked: "You have beautiful ears."

Jo Hemmings, a British behavioural psychologist said women responded best to compliments about their lips because it's a bold approach that seems more personal.

"What many women want is for men to take the initiative and not be wishy-washy," Hemmings said in a statement accompanying the survey. "A lot of men on dating sites send a sort of generic message and women recognize something that hasn't been customised for them."

David Givens, American author of the book, "Love Signals: A Practical Field Guide to the Body Language of Courtship" said the results made sense because women focus a lot of attention on their lips.

"From adolescence onwards, they cosmetically adorn their lips, applying lipstick and colours. They have been doing so since ancient Egypt."

Source: http://us.mobile.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSTRE6BD3DC20101214
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I can totally related to this. Whenever somebody says this word in front of me, I just flip out and get my ninja on to kick some ass!

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Whatever you think about using grating words, at the end of the day it's actually better not to say whatever, if you know what I mean.

http://us.mobile.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSTRE6BE5TL20101215?fe...

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Well, here I am again, in the departure lounge of the Allama Iqbal International Airport, Lahore. Its the same procedures, the same security checks, the same formalities etc etc... However sometimes there are incidents which make these highly boring trips, one to remember.