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10th Muharram

10th Muharram. I went to find the markaz with my cousin Shaikha, but never found it. After a 6 hour journey we returned back home.

Yummy Pakola. I just forgot to post this picture here. I got a case from Gerrard St. I am down to less than half now :(

I love Google

I love the google search, I like gmail quite a bit.
Two things I am looking forward to:

Ginger - The Google Instant Messenger
gBrowser - Google's browser

My only concern about Ginger is moving all my msn contacts to it. If they can seamlessly do that, they have won me.

Sushi USB Memory Sticks

Haha guys check these babies out !

Organizational Effectiveness

I found this on the web, quite interesting:
If the above lists and discussion seem like the textbook chapter titles from a principles of management book, they are. It seems organizational effectiveness is about doing everything you know to do and doing it well. The universals of management – planning, organizing, leading, direction, and controlling – have not changed. They are still important and executing them well remains challenging. The answer here is similar to the finding in the famous meeting between American and Japanese managers. When asked by American guests how the Japanese were making such quality cars, one Japanese manager smiled and said we are following the book. He then presented the “textbook” of assembly line production written by Henry Ford in the early 1920’s. Ironically, one of the leaders of the industrial revolution, Henry Ford, Sr., developed many of the fundamentals of what we now call “total quality practices” in the early 1900s. This approach was only discovered when Ford executives visited Japan in 1982 to study Japanese management practices. As the story goes, one Japanese executive referred repeatedly to “the book”, which the Ford people learned was a Japanese translation of My Life and Work, written by Henry Ford and Samuel Crowther in 1926 (New York: Garden City Publishing Co.) “The book” had become Japan’s standard while Ford Motor Company had strayed from its principles over the years. The Ford Executives could only find a copy at a used bookstore to when they returned to the United States.

Pehli Raat

Pehli Raat Mubarak and Happy Chinese Newyears!

Just another Wednesday

Well, its just another Wednesday morning right now. I just finished browsing http://www.cp24.com There is just so much going on in the world, its hard to catch up. I don't even bother sometimes. But its cool to know what's going on sometimes. Oh well, nothing new to report today, Ill just put down some of the interesting info I found from cp24.

Famous Players slashed movie prices

Blockbuster abolished late fees (You gotta buy it if its late. Im still debating whether this is a good plan, in my opinion it will probably not work, ahh I don't care I don't rent from them anyway.)

New technology (by HP I think) that will make computers even smaller, tiny substitute for transistors.

More CUTC (Sans Photographs)

    Okay, finally Im getting to write more about CUTC. Problem is that Ive waited so long to write about all of this, I may have forgotten a lot. Okay, so anyway. Day 2. I missed the morning keynote, was supposed to be good, Allan Vermeulen CTO Amazon. The reviews were that he was a very dumb guy, saying a lot of smart things. I still don't get it. Anyway, I reached just in time for the RIM Techshop. It was a waste of time, I wish I had slept more. Well anyway, after I came out of there, I found Iqbal and friends going down to BCE Place for lunch, I had no idea Joel Spolsky was gonna be there too! Man that guy is really smart. I can't remember what but I learnt important things from him, they will probably pop up sometime when I need them. Anyway back from lunch (I have Marche's Angus Burger and Chocolate Mousse) it was the tech expo, lots of freebies there. The Waterloo Robotics club had some interesting robots. And apart from that Deloitte seems like a good company to work for, and Waterloo's MBET program seems good, the guy said I gave him 7 million $ for a new building, he would even call it the UofT building! After that was the Imagine Cup. We were in the lets do business stream, Me, Juno, Iqbal, Leyla and Philip. We got second place, they gave us T-Shirts so now we had more to add to our many from before.
After that me Arpit, Sina and Juno went to the Indian Buffet, I think the name was aroma. Really good food, an interesting and fun dinner.
    Day 3, finally starting at a sane time. There was a tech pannel in the morning, and a Seminar with Jim Mitchell. I skipped both. I got there in time for the Rosaleen Citron Keynote about Whitehat. I didn't like it too much. Others really liked it. Then was the good part. Think tank. Out of pure luck, I got in David Ossip's think tank. Really Great! More useful info that will pop up when I need it. One lesson learnt, VC's are a pain in the ass. The the next part, was the Formal Closing Banquet. Really good food, Chicken Breast Stuffed with feta cheese and spinach I think. And mousse for dessert. Everyone looked all dressed up and good, I think Juno was probably the best looking person there! After dinner we took lots of pictures, and then there was a crappy DJ, there was some dancing, it was fun, but as it began to die a little we left. Overall awesome conference. Made some great new friends! Here are the pictures. Lets see what all I can remember.

Thats's from the first day dinner. Im not very good with names, so don't ask.





That's after the Formal Dinner. Some UofT people, mostly Waterloo.





Me Arpit, and I forgot his name, from Waterloo.





Our Dessert from the Banquet.





Before eating at the Banquet





Arpit didn't really pour water over my head. I had two fingers behind his hear which
you can't see.





Me and Juno in a picture after the Banquet.