Shahbaz

After a long and tiresome search for a usable and inexpensive laptop for my personal use I have found and bought Compaq Presario C714NR, which is a speedy dude with Intel Dual core and 1MB RAM. It has a flat screen, CD/DVD RW, Broadcom WLAN/Bluetooth, Realteck Fast Ethernet and 120GB HDD. The most wonderful thing (why it took me so much time to investigate) is that it runs Linux beautifully. It comes with Vista but I did not like the response time of Vista on this machine. Linux runs like hell on it.

It seems that it will add a lot of efficiency i my research and development projects

I was editing my previous post where I added (slave to their own will). It clicked me that I should write something on this because some people have defined mental slavery in such a gross manner that they have led themselves astray along with many other beautiful people.

First of all I would like to inform everyone that I am not a philosopher nor an expert writer but just a person using too much common sense. What I do is I question everything and then I patiently seek for the answer rather then discussing with irrelevant people. I mean if I have to discuss medicine I will talk to a doctor. If I need to discuss religion I will consult a religious scholar. Most of the time we discuss sensitive things like beliefs and belief systems with people who are like us (stupid and unaware). We have all heard this one “You have met too many people like you.”

So I wanted to say that every human being is a slave. There are voices (thoughts) that cross our minds and we are constantly lightening to something. Either we pick it up and act upon it or either we let it pass by. These are whispers (both from the dark and light sides, talk about this thing some other time). So when we are in an environment we are influenced. We are learning, enjoying, getting bored or as such. Either we accept the environment or either we resist it and try to change it or leave it. Environment can be a book, an individual, a room (with or without people and/or paintings and/or others as such). Even when we are negating or resisting we are taking a stand on some choice we made earlier from a set of choices available from a series of environments. So we are continuously being influenced and we have a right to chose and accept what we want. Therefore we are free to choose slavery to any set of ideologies and concepts presented by the environments we encountered in our life. In most of the cases we can loosely cause a series of environments to happen to us. But the fact remains we are slaves and slaves of what we want.

The point that I wanted to make clear was that if we are to be slaves then why not something that we choose without any bias and tilt to pleasures. We should chose to be slaves of something higher than physical pleasures like food, sight seeing, TV, music, drugs and sex. Higher than any culture, ritual, traditions and background. Exactly what the Creator wanted for His creation. The truth is in the open and its waiting for those who are willing to take the pains to inculcate and get it into us from every physical and psychological angle.

I hope this is useful to the masses that come across this. Comments and criticism will help us all to handle the doses of reality.

I was offered a visiting package from IM|Sciences which I accepted and thus had to leave Qurtaba. I am teaching data structures (I scored 100/100 in my BCS), Programming fundamentals (using C Language, scored 97/100 in BCS), Introduction to IT (I’ve been teaching intro to computers but this is more interesting, gives a wholesome view of businesses and computers) and Artificial Intelligence (An interesting subject but very difficult to motivate students because they can’t see an output as in programming and networking).

I am enjoying and students (not AI) seem to like me, which is a good feeling and I love them too (when I see them taking interest and working hard).

When I started teaching, I made up my mind that I will try my best to teach all my students, irrespective of subject and program, how to write original work with proper references because we as a nation are suffering a lot from plagiarism. I will try my level best to publish their work in online magazines and if possible send to conferences.

Lets see what future holds for us ……

I was selected as lecturer at Qurtaba University and joined her on 19th of Oct. I personally appreciate the Islamic environment that they have managed to preserve in an era where valueless western culture prevails and where enlightened (slaves of their own will) people are being empowered. I pray that it shall grow as a leading institution and I will try my best to add some good value to it while I am serving here.

Shahbaz

Just figuring out something!