Since my Dad doesn’t have a LinkedIn profile or much of an online presence, I’ve posted this here for his old friends and buddies to get hold of him and cherish the old memories 🙂 Syed Amjed Hussain, National Plastic Factory (NPF), Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Hyderabad, India Syed Amjed Hussain, Read more…
Can you actually believe that we have a Roti (What’s Roti?) Bank in India! It’s been established to help the poor and hungry folks get something to eat and not go to bed hungry! They operate on the model of CrowdHelping where households each contribute 2 Rotis which is then Read more…
I came across this (funny) job applications that I used to send out to companies around when I completed my Graduation. This particular application was sent to a prominent VLSI and Embedded Company and I was foolish enough to apply for ASIC instead of Embedded (Dated: 6 May, 2010). They Read more…
I showed my Dad the PCB design of an upcoming project we’re working on. And that spiralled into a 120+ min brainstorming session on Business and Product development. We discussed on great ideas vs actual manufacturing, marketing strategies vs R&D, the Hyderabadi and Indian lacklustre mentality, community welfare, saving pennies Read more…
Came across this awesome quote on a TED talk: The TED talk isn’t any less awesome: http://www.ted.com/talks/joe_desimone_what_if_3d_printing_was_25x_faster
Just testing if the Android app nicely publishes this post. Random image of a Raspberry Pi
Credit: http://muslimspoet.blogspot.in/2011/03/video.html?m=1 Thanks to @myawarbaig for the share
It’s 8:30 in the morning and it’s been ages since I am up early. The weather now here is dammn awesome and inspirational. There’s a breeze going on and I just love it. Nothing’s more awesome than blogging about it to cherish these memories later. I didn’t sleep last night Read more…
Hmmm, it’s been a while since I posted anything cool/boring on my Blog. Not that I’m busy, but I’m very buzy planning on how to be busy again. There’s a nice couplet in urdu that goes as: Subah hoti hai, Shaam hoti hai, (Morning dawns, Evenings dawns) Umar yun hi Read more…
The beautiful 1st day of the 1st Month of 2015 started for me now quite beautifully. The weather out here is so serene and calm; there’s so much freshness in the air, and as if all the air particles are exhorting to breathe them in and feel them. I feel Read more…
I just received an awesome Gift card from my awesome friends called as Kai of my ex-company 🙂 Thank you guys, you made me extremely happy!!! Thanks Guys 🙂
The last few hours have been terrible for me. I was given the shocking news of a great friend of mine passing away: Jameel Mohammed. Inna Lillaahi Wa Inna Ilaihi Raajioon (To Allah we belong and to him we return). He’s my age and I’m still shocked and choked. We Read more…
I’ve finished reading of the most encouraging and inspiring biographies of great leaders. My favorite biography is that of Prophet Muhammed (PBUH) titled “The Sealed Nectar” and can be purchased from here: http://www.amazon.in/Ar-Raheeq-Al-Makhtum-The-Sealed-Nectar/dp/1591440718 or downloaded freely from here: http://www.kalamullah.com/Books/Ar-Raheeq%20Al-Makhtum.pdf One biography that I just finished reading is this: One of the Read more…
I was wanting to buy a new Android device, now that my Nexus 1 is starting to show signs of old age 🙂 I wanted to buy the Nexus 6, but didn’t want to spend 48K on that device, given the fact that I’d be unemployed soon 🙂 A month Read more…
It starts with a sneeze…. and the rest is a week off 🙂 I’ve had a sick week, I fell down with fever, terrible headaches, numb body and freaking rush of ideas. I’ve been unwell since Sunday night (Nov 8), and still am. I had to take sick leaves in Read more…
The journey of repairing my Nexus One began here. I saw this cute little cover for my Nexus One and shared it on G+: And then since I didn’t really have a 3D printer, I decided to buy new clothes for my phone and grabbed this one off Amazon: 48 Read more…