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Professional Marketeer. Designing, Travelling and Photography are some of my interest.Ahsan Mateenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17423469456482875585noreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8372244512704083486.post-83374002976556433042013-04-26T05:49:00.001-07:002013-04-26T05:52:09.140-07:00Food Delivery in Pakistan - foodpanda.pk<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">After living like 2 years in United Kingdom and getting so much accquainted with justeat.co.uk, it was a step back at my home town Pakistan. Life was so easy back in UK you just make your order online and get it delivered at your door-steps. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">They are just a new-bee right now but what is the best part about them is I see every week different menu's and cuisines uploading on their portal.. Now, let's justeat through foodpanda.pk! </span><br />
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Ahsan Mateenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17423469456482875585noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8372244512704083486.post-43515703297307807912013-03-30T13:27:00.004-07:002013-03-30T13:27:53.964-07:00Karachi Specific: Construction at Baloch Colony <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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The other day I was passing by this place after work at around 5:30 and it took me 40 minutes to just cross this truck because the traffic was jam from KPT bridge (Imtiaz Supermarket) till here. It is three lane road but because of the construction it has become 2 lane road and above that if you can see the cement truck standing in the middle making it a single lane to cross it. I just laughed when I crossed the truck because the whole road was empty after that till Tipu Sultan Road signal.<br />
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Construction is a good-thing it will eventually solve the accidents on this roads or help the commuting traffic to go home hassle-free but working at the peak hour when cars at the maximum number on the road was just a joke that made me laugh.<br />
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Pakistan Zindabad.</div>
Ahsan Mateenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17423469456482875585noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8372244512704083486.post-62001956042525857702012-10-11T08:50:00.004-07:002012-10-11T08:50:44.518-07:00tabPhotography <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I come from the generation, in which I have seen things innovating and changing with time. I have seen the time when the camera's use to have films, after sometime floppy disk were used in camera, than digital camera. Today, the mobile phones are intact with the high definition cameras in them. The most recent is the tablets with camera feature in them. </div>
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Recently, I was travelling in the Schengen states, and came across many people who are using tablets as the medium of taking the pictures. A tourist asked me to take the picture for him in Paris at a basilica, while holding the tablet in my hand and clicking the picture, the feeling was a bit odd to be very honest. I do not own any tablet probably that is the reason why. </div>
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I have been fond of photography since I was a teen. Taking picture from my elders brothers floppy camera and later on with digital camera built my love for photography from there. With my first job saving I bought myself a beginner Canon 1000D and since than I am planning to upgrade it but it cost a lot of money but still I am using my Canon to click the pictures. </div>
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Now, people do not carry camera with them because they have that utility in their mobile phones they are carrying with them most of time and now the tablet computers which people carry with them. It makes it easier for the user to arrange their library with the tablets. I do not oppose the tablets or mobile phones, but what I see is that this is affecting the love for photography in people, whereas it is letting people capture their memory at their ease. My argument is with the people who uses their tablet computers to take pictures or make long movies in the crowd while the people who are sitting behind them are just viewing from their tablet computer screen, that is annoying which the people who use them does not realize because they are busy doing what they are doing.</div>
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Ahsan Mateenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17423469456482875585noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8372244512704083486.post-85904329858244225872012-08-05T21:04:00.000-07:002012-08-05T21:04:46.038-07:00#HeroTV #Pakistan - A TV Channel with NO INFORMATION online!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Twitter, LinkedIn, Blogging and so many other applications of Web2.0 we come
across every day. Regardless of knowing what all they are meant for people just
use it because they are considered to be the fastest way of information
exchange. In Pakistan, if you consider the percentage of people using Facebook
is lot more than any other Web 2.0 applications. I see people starting up their
businesses through Facebook which is a great sign, it brings in the employment
opportunities for the application developers and so on and so forth, but that
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the article published in by Tribune in February 2012, there are 6 million
Facebook users in Pakistan, in which 1.9 Million are women and remaining are
men. 6 million is a good figure for the marketers to play its card right to target
the right TG (Target Group), and that what we all see these. Very often we see
the teasers on our SNS’s (Social Networking Sites) that tested by the marketers
about the response of the product/ service by the TG. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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saw this teaser of new Channel called HeroTV on the Facebook featuring Veena
Malik with an exotic make over and one tear falling from her tear A GREAT
RESPONSE! No doubt in that, viewership of that teaser was insane, this
obviously predicted that the show will be a HIT no matter how much it will be
criticized. Than we heard the news that the Veena Malik is no more part of it
and again today I saw that it is on air, which clears all the misconception
that no matter how much you offend on SNSs you can never put the bad-man down
in the country like Pakistan. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">I am based
in Glasgow, United Kingdom and today I saw a viral video of the show in which
Veena Malik is crying and a Mualana Sahab is sitting in the show to answer the
queries of people. Since, the time the teaser of this show was launched I tried
to look for the company which owns this channel. I just could not find anything
on Google. The channel does not even have a website, there Facebook page does
not even have the company information that who are the owners and who are
stakeholders of this channel. Then I came across the Express News TV page on
the Wikipedia and found out that Hero TV is there collaboration, it states as, <b><i>“</i></b></span><b><i><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 115%;">EMG is now launching new channel named Hero Tv,
an infotainment channel, from 5 June 2012</span>”, (Wikipedia). </i></b><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 115%;">It comes as a shock to me although I do not totally
agree with the information available at the Wikipedia but I would like to ask
anyone who can tell me that if this information is correct or not. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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people don’t even care about what is happening and how it is affecting our
society, the major stakeholders of the society the people who can run the
television channels are just busy in selling the spots and raising money and
the advertisers are flowing money like anything just to have their product/service
on TV. There is so many ways that an effective marketing can be done but the
seth-sahab environment will always pull-back Pakistan and will never let the
young talent to show their creativity. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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ask the users of SNS, how many of you people raised the question to know the
people who are behind the channel HeroTV and expose them. We have the power to
write and spread the information and that can change the stage play but only if
we would want to do it. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</span></i>. [online] Available at:
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Facebook! – The Express Tribune</span></i>. [online] Available at:
http://tribune.com.pk/story/330906/over-6-million-pakistanis-on-facebook/
[Accessed: 6 Aug 2012].</span><o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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generic name to the brand names are more emphasized by people because the brand
name eliminates all the doubts related to the generic names. The strong brand
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In the last decade with the technological or internet boom
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The evolving words and their meaning have been a vital part
of our dictionaries, an ordinary search engine Google is not itself a billion
dollar organization but that is not we are emphasizing here. Google started by
the two people in their garage is now a billion dollar organization. The
journey started with a search engine and now that search engine has replaced the
generic name to the brand itself, ‘Google it’. The company relies with the
strong brand image which helps them to build the whole empire over a search
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Internet made it very convenient for its users to do video-conferencing.
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conferencing like most popular one were MSN Messenger, Yahoo Messenger and etc.
but Skype came in 2003 and now it has completely changed the perspective of
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</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The stock price of the Motorola might also increase as the approval of acquisition undertakes which will be beneficial for Google. </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
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</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="line-height: 22px; text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Facebook’s IPO would be the biggest ever by an Internet or technology company. The portal have the 800+ million user around the globe but still many of the emerging countries are not being counted in the league namely China; being the most populated country runs their own alternative to Facebook same with Russia. </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span style="line-height: 22px;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span style="line-height: 22px;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The uncertainty of the Facebook IPO is very much high because the average age user of the Facebook is 35 and we are only talking about the users here and it is not confirmed that those users will be interested in buying the stock of Facebook because it is used for fun in the emerging markets. </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span style="line-height: 22px;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span style="line-height: 22px;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">My opinion over the Facebook initial public offering is that it is not a strong company as Google and it is like a bubble which is playing its card on the usage per user. Now, even the users are not comfortable with the policy they have privacy protection which gives an other turn to the Facebook company itself. </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span style="line-height: 22px;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">From the first day of school there are those who are born to succeed, those born to fail, and those who don’t even bother to try. This is the root of the plant that gives out big green leaves, which dry out in the heat of misery, are rolled into sheets of failure, lit with the burning flame of loss, of pain, of insecurity, of fear and inhaled with inhibition, perplexity and reticence. But as an intense high silently infests the body, nerve after nerve, it all fades away. All that remains is an imprisoning freedom, a liberating confinement. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The reason why people take or do drugs may not entirely be an attempt to make the obstacle course of life seem a tad easier, but it definitely has a lot to do with running away, from a lot of things – people and faces, the past and the present, inner and outer demons or just running away for the heck of it. But many of them run too far, so far that there is no more ground to rest their feet on, and no wings to fly. The fall is hard, especially when they hit the ground. Then the pain ceases. There is nothing to run from, for there is no life. Not any more.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Youth is probation of sorts before real life begins. It is the practice session for life’s obstacle courses, a test drive before the actual race, the first coat of nail polish. It is when we are born. The sad part is that it is during this probation, that we crumble most often.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Substance abuse, drugs, alcohol, risky sexual behaviors and crime threaten the youth as much as involve them. Weed, cocaine, heroine, dope, ecstasy are familiar names for this generation, more familiar than they should be.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Drug abuse precedes addiction. It starts when one makes a conscious decision to take substance. What may start as fun, play, experimentation, peer pressure to try something exciting and dangerous or simply a way of finding refuge from depression, can lead one to addiction. Statements like ‘ I’m not addicted’, ‘I can quit whenever I want to’, ‘I’m in control’, ‘ It’s not like other drugs’, ‘ It’s actually good for you’, ‘I know everything about it’ or ‘ I can go off it in a know everything about it’ or ‘ I can go off it in a day’ only certifies how little one knows about drugs and how diverted one is from the reality of the fact that it ain’t all that easy. There is a reason why drug addicts need rehabilitation, because they have a compulsive carving, which they conveniently deny and cannot quit by them. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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