“Forget not that the Earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair”

- Kahlil Jibran

(world’s second best presentation made me aware of it)

And I hope to turn this dream into reality any time now. These days I am planning for it. Getting things done, finishing client projects, and buying necessary stuff. It will be quite an experience. I have got a special domain ready to post pictures, videos, and text about the places where I will stay/pass through out this tour.

I gave not decided by what mean I will be traveling. What about a motorcycle?

I dont think any of my friends will be ready to go with me. So most probably I will be alone. Lets see. I will keep you updated!

For the first time in my life, I was in a hospital. It was quite an experience for a person like me who has never been there, believes in human adaptability & natural healing and is quite lazy too

The hospital was all fine and not at all like what I had imagined and read in newspapers. But I didn’t quite like it. I didn’t like the need to get checked. I hated it.

I was having lowgrade fever every other month. And some people said it might be something serious. So I was there to get tested for anything other than fever. I don’t even understand the names and effects of those disease! They have taken half a syringe of my blood. Will be applying some chemistry over them to tell me what chemicals (they call it medicine) I need to take.

I was thinking if it turns out to be serious, then… I don’t want to die

• Antonius:
  I want knowledge! Not faith, not assumptions, but knowledge. I want God to stretch out His hand, uncover His face and speak to me.
• Death:
  But He remains silent.
• Antonius:
  I call out to Him in the darkness. But it’s as if no one was there.
• Death:
  Perhaps there isn’t anyone.
• Antonius:
  Then life is a preposterous horror. No man can live faced with Death, knowing everything’s nothingness.
• Death:
  Most people think neither of death nor nothingness.
• Antonius:
  But one day you stand at the edge of life and face darkness.
• Death:
  That day.
• Antonius:
  I understand what you mean.

This is a dialog from The Seventh Seal, one of the best movies I have ever watched. I can quote so many lines that are just close to my heart. I highly recommend you to watch this. What wikipedia has to say about this movie is:

The Seventh Seal (Swedish: Det sjunde inseglet) is an existential 1957 Swedish film directed by Ingmar Bergman about the journey of a medieval knight across a plague-ridden landscape, and a monumental game of chess between himself and the personification of Death, who has come to take his life. The film has long been regarded a masterpiece of cinema.

And here are some more lines from the movie:

“I met Death today. We are playing chess.”

“Love is the blackest of all plagues… if one could die of it, there would be some pleasure in love, but you don’t die of it. “

“I want to confess as best I can, but my heart is void. The void is a mirror. I see my face and feel loathing and horror. My indifference to men has shut me out. I live now in a world of ghosts, a prisoner in my dreams. “

“Have you met the devil? I want to meet him too. I want to ask him about God. He must know. He, if anyone. “

Now my youtube experience with Zong GPRS: Last night when power was out and I was laying in bed. I thought to visit that youtube mobile portal. And clicked on one of the featured videos from home page and then “Watch Video” and WOW, it streamed very smooth without a single second pause. I never thought a gprs connection can do this for me. Thanks Zong. I’ll be waiting for when you offer EDGE (and 3G). I guess, I will abandon my exile then

UPDATE: Now its easy to subscribe to this package. Just dial 905 from your phone and select the package. In addition to this monthly package, you can also subscribe to the hourly package that will cost you Rs 15 / hour. And the billing will be for the minutes you have used not for the whole hour.

update: so it worked! The client is Scribe. Its written in python. I had to install python for symbian before installing this client. Its quite slow, may be because its not native symbian code.

Most of all I am thinking of my country. Things are not hopeful and so am I. Read a column last day in a local newspaper titled: “lamentation of a dying civilization”. The column resembles our times to those described in masterpiece of Urdu fiction Bahao of Mustansar Hussain Tarar (this is one my my top favorit books). So you can imagine how much affect I have taken of that!

And I am thinking of extending this website. To make it a hub of different sections each presenting an aspect of my land (and my passion). You will see in a week or two or three… I am not sure…….

And the best part of freelancing was freedom. I was free to take off whenever I wanted, to work whenever I wanted, to earn how much I wanted, and to spend with freedom. LESSON LEARNED: freelancing makes you happy, relaxed and responsible (will write about responsible part later).

And I’m feeling quite good now… Have started full time freelancing… Which is going good… Now I don’t have to turn on my PC daily at 3pm and don’t have to sit before PC all evening till 12pm. Now I am a free man!

Now I work when I feel like, write project proposals to potential clients when I’m in mood to work otherwise just rest… Isn’t it great? Wakeup, sleep, work, go out, everything whenever you feel like…

Freedom is the greatest virtue!!

This weekend I have been busy in making this new website. Installed wordpress from scratch, redesigned home page with career information & introduction to my projects, made screenshots of my projects and fine-tuned this theme.

So stay with me. We will be brining good to this world and for the people…