Monday, June 26, 2006 

Euphoric Relief, Sheer Disbelief

For the Italians who narrowly went past Australia with a last minute controversial penalty. It was a great match till 93mins and in the 94th min Spanish Refree gave a penalty to the Italians which seemed questionable. It was a dive from the Italian player ..aargh cant remember his name right now but the every football lover was shocked with the refree's decision.

Anyways Italians through now. What a world cup...England, Germany, Argentina, Italy, Portugal and brazil and spain/france will join soon in last 8.

Saturday, June 24, 2006 

Remove your hair please!

You expect people diving in the swimming pool to be clean. People do take bath before swimming , i am not talking about that. What i am p*ssed about is the fact that some people dont take time out of their precious busy schedules to remove the hairs even of their "Arm Pit". Its such a sick feeling to even look at that. All kinds of filters, chlorine and other stuffs are there to remove the finest of impurities but if you are in water with your hairs on your special places, how can you expect the water to be clean.

I just dont know how people can even live with this. Not only guys are involved in that but Uncles , The Husbands , all kind of people who just know how to swim but dont care about the integrity of the water. Dont care about others.

I dont know how they going to love others if they dont even love their bodies. If they dont clean the hairs of the arm pit , how do you expect them to clean their X-Area hairs!

Such a sad feeling , Islam lies so much stress on purity. Even Namaaz is not acceptable if hairs of arm pit and X-areas are not removed.

 

Germany All the Way!

Yess! Deutschland beat Swedes 2-0 in the Pre Quater final. It looked like a close encounter on paper but Germans tore them apart. I love this german side, they are playing some real good soccer. Argentina and Mexico will clash today as well, but its Germans who are on the roll and they will kick the Argies out of the world cup in the Quater Finals!

DeutschlaaaaaaaanD DeutschlaaaaaaaaaanD!

Thursday, June 22, 2006 

Time has changed!

When i was in school , i was kinda short as compared to the other guys ( in height). They seemed to reach their peak heights early...and i was lagging according to them. Most of the fellows called me "piddi" because of the height i had. Well then times started changing...school to college and then college to university....i amazingly by the grace of Almighty increased the height a lot. I attained average height 5'6 till second year of university i think.People say height dont increase after that. But i dint stop there..i kept exercizing, stretching myself.

I had a firm believe that i can increase more. I kept on hanging on the rod and taking myself up...did it a number of times...and then amazingly i increased 2 inches more. In the Final Year of my graduation life i have reached 5'8 (MashaAllah) which is equal to Angelina Jolie ;)

Whenever i meet my school friends, they seems to get a bit amazed what has happened with me. However i wont stop here...i will keep exercizing and stretching inshaAllah ...i want to make my body work harder n harder!!!.. Adriana Lima here i come ( 5'10 ).

Aamir Khan 5'7

Tom Cruise 5'7

Britney Spears 5'4

Jeniffer Aniston 5'7

Angelina Jolie 5'8

Except for others...many famous Hollywood actors and actresses lie in that range.

Moral : Hardwork can make you achieve anything!

Tuesday, June 20, 2006 

Who let the Dogs out in Karachi???

Anywhere you go in the city, even if there are no people there, you will certainly find dogs :S..huh! what did you say ?...Yeah i said dogs. Normal Dogs, Abnormal dogs, German Sheperd, Bulldog e.t.c ..whatever type of dogs..but they are there to be seen. Found under the car, behind the tree, in the garden , outside the shop, crossing the road. Certainly they will make their presence felt by abruptly showing themselves or by barking suddenly.

When they bite someone , then obviously they are taken care of but still they have their freedom in the metropolitan city of Karachi. Even if humans dont , dogs do have.

I remember i was reading a newspaper after some sort of voilence which errupted in the city. I read a news in almost neglected column of Jang newspaper stating " Dog Burned Alive by the angry protesters " . After that i couldnt stop my laughter burst!

 

Gulminha Slapping an Unknown Guy!

Its from the Living on the Edge show in which the girl Gulminha whatever slapped an unknown guy who was possibly with her gf. The girl was daring enough to do so but she simply humiliated the guy in the public. Guy was actually caught unawares and off-guard. I dont think this should be allowed in any way..i mean you just cant simply humiliate others for the sake of entertainment and money. Whats the guy's fault in that?..he had everything to lose whereas the girl had nothing to lose. She got 2000 rs. and the guy got the humiliation in public infront of his (possibly) gf. I was p*ssed off that guy could have been anyone...the girl got a great acknowledgement.

I was thinking what should be the perfect reply of the guy who got slapped for nothing and i got one....hmm...French kiss! ...lol..that would have really turned the tide towards the guy.... :)

Yeah because if you wanna prove you have got something in you, do it with yourself not on others..do something what David Blaine does, do what Armstrong does , do what Venessa Williams does!

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Monday, June 19, 2006 

You might know in the morning that last night pill dint work!

All you desperate husbands and aged people whose cylinders have ran out of steam there, beware of the imitated viagra out there in the market. Indian Manufacturer has been caught in United Kingdom for producing imitated viagra which looks like real but it doesnt work the same way and has its side effects as well and for selling it to all parts of world in great number. The real company Pfizer which develops Viagra is astonished to see that the imitated viagra looks exactly the same and its impossible for anyone to find out which is the real one. Since the indian manufacturer has sold it to all parts of world , Pfizer has denied to take all the Viagra back and to test and to seperate the real from the copied one.

I came to know about it when my doc. brother and other doctor was discussing about it. They seem to have checked up the patient having some problems in Aga Khan Hospital. Later there discussion somehow from that patient came to Sildenafil (medical name of Viagra) and i came to know about the above. So beware you all, if you have used Viagra , you should take yourself to the nearby hospital because if in UK , it is impossible for to differentiate the real and imitated, how do you expect Pakistani shops to give you the real one! :)

Sunday, June 18, 2006 

Swimming, i love to do!

My love is now divided..yes b/w swimming and soccer :P whoelse you people were thinkin. The greater ratio of course is of soccer but now swimming is getting huge importance in my life. As i am still learning, i just dont want to come out of water. I want to spend hours and hours in swimming pool but unfortunately i cannot happen as the girls timing start right after the guys.

I went today for swimming again at 2. I went to AKU Hospital. There met my doc bro with whom i entered in the Sports Complex of AKU. We changed in the locker room. There in the swimming pool i met some senior doctors with whom my doc bro works. It always nice to meet doctors...i love to talk to them..they are so good from heart..they always meet you courteously. Anyways i am still unable to complete my second task assigned to me by my brother and trainer. Aaargh, its getting on my nerves now!...I just couldnt cross the swimming pool by only moving my legs and with my face in the water completely and eyes open. The swimming pool is so big...i just couldnt reach the other end. Inface i am just able to swim till the half of the pool. After reaching the half of the pool, its is completely impossible for me to hold my breath.

Brother says it will take time...keep swimming and keep building the stamina..and Godwilling you will do it!...Yeah but i know its easier said than done.

 

Red Day in Kaiserslautern

Uraguain refree spoiled the match by giving 3 red cards. Frenzy all over the stadium, it was unbelievable to see a game where one team was with 9 and other with 10 players. USA deserved a win , the way they played with 9 men against Italian 10 men, it seemed like USA was playin with 10 and italian with 9. It ended 1-1, but a big pat on the back of USA, they really did well by drawing against the mighty Italians.

Guess what? , If italy draw with Czech and Ghana beat USA...it will be Italy vs Brazil in the next round. What an amazing prospect!!!!!

Saturday, June 17, 2006 

I can guess what you are typing..Amazing eh ?

Imagine that you are working over a perfectly secure network with nobody in the middle, no key loggers, sniffers or any other sort of spyware over the local workstation or in the communication channel. Can you be sure that no information will be exposed?

Think again. Snooping at the digital level is not the only way to sniff at computing activity. The sound that your fingers make while touching the keyboard, emissions from your monitor and the noise from your printer, CPU and hard disk can be used to find out what you are doing at your PC.

The amazing technology which makes this possible is called Acoustic Cryptanalysis in which computation sounds during input-output processes are analysed. Generally, such attacks are called side channel attacks, as they exploit seemingly secure systems for unintentional interesting leakages. Recall how people can recognise on the phone which number is pressed by differentiating the individual sounds. In a similar way, when we punch in particular words using the keyboard, a distinct sound pattern is generated because each key has a distinct sound attached to it which can be analysed. If repeated probes are possible, the well-established algorithms of machine learning and statistical methods can be applied to correctly reproduce up to 90 per cent of the typed text.

Asonov and Agrawal are credited with experimentally showing how this works and later on other researches followed up on their work, enhancing the techniques and methodologies. Let us take a brief look at how this works.

To a human ear, each key sounds the same. But when their direct frequency spectrum recording is examined using a simple PC microphone, several subtle distinguishing features are discovered. Notably, there are two distinctive peaks in the keyboard sound spectrum.

The first one comes at the time of the push, called "push peak", and the second at the time of key release, known as "release peak". These readings, called features, are then normalised between 0 and 1 so that they may be used as input data for a neural network which records the sound differences with continuous inputs, say, pressing each key 100 times as sample training data.

Experimentation showed that touch peak was best suited to show the vulnerability of keyboards. Once the neural network is trained with keys and their corresponding features, it can successfully detect typed input to the tune of more than 90 per cent, much on the lines of known plain text cryptographic attack.

This is not only true in the case of normal PCs but also for notebooks, ATM machines and telephone pads, which means PINs and other identification information can also be sniffed by simple and inexpensive acoustic cryptanalysis that requires just a mike and a programmed application.

Thursday, June 15, 2006 

Clashes in Germany after Germany kicks out Poland!

Germany is alive and kicking, all they needed was to win the game to go through the next round. They tried and tried and tried and eventually got their just reward. Neuville scoring in injury time which leaves poland almost out of the world cup.

More than 300 people are in police custody after a World Cup match between Germany and Poland sparked clashes. Violence flared ahead of the game in Dortmund, which Germany won 1-0 and organisers had long identified as a high-risk fixture. About half of those arrested were German and half Polish, police said, with a handful of Dutch also held.They include some 70 known hooligans arrested earlier in the day with the help of Polish police.All those arrested will be held for up to 24 hours, and then may face police charges.

German police spokeswoman Saskia Schneider told the BBC officers were initially sent to the Alter Markt to deal with troublemakers."It started when the police were about to arrest a number of violent hooligans in the city centre. This situation led to attacks on the police," she said.

German and Polish hooligans have a history of violence
"Then it spilled over and different fan groups started attacking each other."

About 120 fans threw bottles and chairs at police. Officers were then seen chasing some fans through the main square, the Hansa-Platz. Earlier, liaison between German and Polish officers had led to dozens of arrests.

Polish police captain Rafal Wasaik said: "We have arrested people who we believed could cause trouble. They were recognised by my Polish colleagues."

Tuesday, June 13, 2006 

Germany , Cech Republic, Italy so far!

Germany , my love has played outstanding football in the first game, they played truly attacking football. Goals from Lahm and Frings made the day for Germany.

Cech also played one heck of the game. They slaughtered USA 3-0 . Rosicky's goal was awesome. They are a team to reckon in the world cup and will go far.

Italy played attacking football which is not their traditional way. However i like the new look of their team with Luca Toni and Giolardino taking the role of Del Piero and Christian Vieri. Italy's defence was shaky at times with no Maldini in the back. They surely need him back.

 

Germany's WC Ball Unique

The World Cup ball being used in Germany 2006 is different from the English Premier League ball, England Training ball and Kids soccer ball.

The WC ball when passed through the wind tunnel started moving sideways when a force on the ball started to get decreased, so as the player hit the ball , firstly the ball will go straight (if no bend is applied by the player himself) and then as the force decreases on the ball, the ball will itself bend creating a lot of trouble for the goal keeper to judge the trajectory/line of motion of the ball.

The English Premier League and England Training ball dint bend much when passed through the wind tunnel, however the kids soccer ball as expected bent alot.

So in germany 2006, expect some great goals. You have already seen some long range efforts in the goal and that too if you look closely , the ball stated to go in a curved trajectory after going straight and beating the goalie comfortably.

Torsten Frings shot in the match Germany vs Costa Rica, Thomas Rosicky shot in the match Cech rep. vs USA, Andre Pirlo shot in the match Italy vs Ghana, Cahill shot in the match Australia vs Japan.

I wonder how many more to come! Great World cup so far!

Tuesday, June 06, 2006 

Crossed 5th line!

I managed to cross 5th line in the swimming pool. I am learning swimming these days, go once in a week though because of the timing constraints. The swimming pool of Aga Khan Sports Complex is quite big not too deep though. One pool is of 4 and a half feet and the other pool is 6 feet but a very wide pool. The first step assigned by the trainer and my brother (cool swimmer MashaAllah) to me was to move the feet straigt in the water for 5 mins which i did after some time...infact 10 mins i reached easily after two three sessions of swimming. Now the second step assigned to me was to cross the entire pool by moving just the legs , not to make use of hands and keep the eyes open in the water. The pool is 20-25 meters long (lenght wise) and is divided with 8 lines (drawn at the bottom) with each two lines 2.2-2.5 meters apart. I first at the start was able to cross only 7 meters (3 lines) but however i kept tryin and tryin and managed to cross the 5th line. However i couldnt stop the breath after that, i tried hard but couldnt cross the 6th. The elusive other end of the pool always waited for me. God willing i will cross that next time.

However one thing i find quite unusual there, during the timings of men, women/girls can stay around the pool (not in the pool) and can do anything but during the timings of women, no man, no kids are allowed. I mean why girls/women are allowed to stay outside the pool during the timing of men?, they keep distracting us! :D...frankly it becomes a lot harder to swim then! :P

 

[Germany 2006] Munich Allianz Arena

The new stadium will be the home ground of rivals TSV 1860 München and FC Bayern München, who now play their home games in the aging and somewhat atmosphere-lacking Olympicstadion.
Different coloured lights can turn the walls red (Bayern) or blue (1860) depending on which team is playing.

Gross Seating Capacity: 66000
Total Seating Capacity:59000

What a great stadium indeed! ...

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