I AM The Universe: Random Thoughts

For the first time, I have more unread emails in my inbox that I can count! Include my work email and the figure makes my head spin! By the end of work today, I had 13 unread text messages on my phone. That never happens! My news reader tells me I have a gazillion unread items.

Inbox

 

News Reader

 

I is for Inbox

Damn. I never imagined I’d be this swamped. And yet, instead of reading that stuff, I’m blogging about it…

1. CD Turns 26 And It Still Won’t Die - Interesting, though I don’t think I’ve burned a CD other than Audio CDs in quite a while now.
2. Must-watch for gamers: ‘World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King’ Cinematic
3. 35 Greatest Works of Reverse Graffiti - Interesting stuff. Usually this stuff gets you in jail. Not in Pakistan though
4. Atari: The Golden Years - Ah! My brother had an Atari when I was little.. oh how I loved that wood-finish box with the slider latch switches and the huge, huge cartridges!!
5. The Idiot Test - Hehe, it’s fun to forward this to people at the office and hear them go “SsSsssss!”
6. Top 10 Fitness Ball Exercises - Good stuff for overall body toning, with a focus on abs.
7. Six Thinking Hats - This is something that Aamanna came back talking about when he was done with his masters. Please remember that the hats are completely metaphorical, and don’t come running back to me if people at your office start laughing at you for alternating between colorful hats in a meeting!

You got a lot of tenderness
And so much love, you can get no rest
If you‘re willing to waste a little time

I don’t wanna all of it
All I need is a little bit
You got a lot of money saved
No use taking it all to your grave
Ain’t worth nothing
If you ain’t feelin’ fine

I don’t wanna all of it
All I need is a little bit

You know daddy gave you everything on a silver platter
But the one thing he never gave you
Was the one thing that really matters

So if you feel unsatisfied
Something missing deep down inside
You had so many lovers
But you never really tried

I don’t wanna all of it
All I need is a little bit

Telling you not getting dark
It’s getting late
Now ain’t we all need someone
To sit down and set us free

You got gold to give and time to pray
You think living right is living your way

But there’s heaven down here, baby
We can find it if we try
I don’t wanna all of it
All I need is a little bit

I don’t wanna all of it
All I need is a little bit

Okay, so I was tagged by Umem/Ema/Umemalicious/Oye Moti/Maya/Dinky Mind to do a post on my nicks. By the way, if I don’t reply to any comments on this post… please inform my next of kin….

My nicknames - ah the list is pretty short. I’m almost universally known as.. wait for it… Shanoo. Yeah. There you have it. Happy now? That’s my nickname for my extended family and mohalla-walas, although most people are aware of it whether they choose to call me by this name or not.

My school friends call me AB or Shah.

At college, people used to call me Shah Ji.

Since my name Absar means ‘a keen observer’, some of my close friends used to call me Taroo, though I would hate for that to be a testament to my observation habits

At work, I’m affectionately called Ab-sir Though I have to admit, that is more a result of pronunciation inaccuracy than affection

Saffi calls me Jhonny, but then he calls everyone that! :P 

Asma calls me bachay, and I’m not very approving of that, that’s why I call her… *wonders if I should take two life-threatening risks in one post*….. burhaoo :P

Like everyone else, I have a nickname that I am not telling you guys about!

But I like Shanoo. I’ve been called that since… people started calling me

I’m thinking of dropping a Link Parade a few days a week, rounding up a few interesting websites I end up at. So here goes the first one!

1. Top 10 Songs Over 10 Minutes
2. The Trojans of Sulawesi Live To Die - Spooky article!!
3. Executor - App Launcher - Finally, Windows users have a semi-elegant app launcher
4. Creating a Content-Slider - Neat CSS How-to
5. Six email Aggregators - For people for whom one email address is not enough Even otherwise, some of these are really nifty start-pages!
6. How To Manage Priorities with Excel - Amazingly helpful productivity tweak.
7. The Evolution of Men’s Style: 1933-2008 - Neat pictorial!
8. 13 Things That Do Not Make Sense - Very interesting read.