Dubai Works

This is part of my thesis, it was originally supposed to be a literature review, but I have taken out in-text citations and chapter references, and basically turned it in to a blog entry/article. This is part of the over all bigger thesis of mine, where I am doing a research on Pakistani tweeters and their tweeting patterns and behaviours. Also how they react to news.  There are many Pakistani users who come to Twitter to just have a casual chat with their followers (people who read a person’s ‘tweets’) or just tweet their thoughts, or even share information. Pakistani twitter users can be divided in to sub-groups. There are people who mainly blog, then share their blog writing with their Twitter followers, there are people who casually tweet about their thoughts and random stuff, there are people that share informative links on Twitter, but all of these users do have something in common. They comment on news. Any disaster that happens, any abnormal news, some situation that i...

Mass Communication's role has changed a bit since the invention of New Media or Social Media. Mass communication before basically involved a sender, a message, a medium and a mass audience. The purpose was to appeal to a wider audience and get your message across to as many people as you can. These days with Social Media, the purpose is not only to get your message across to as many people as you can, but also to get them to participate. Get them to interact with you, by participatory means. Shows like Britain's Got Talent and Big Brother, call for participation from the audience. This culture has mainly spread due to the Internet.  Participatory culture does not only mean people reacting to television programs and voicing their opinions about what they see, but it also means people coming together, collaborating, building ideas and this culture allows people with similar goals, ambitions and interests to connect to one another. This kind of culture has allowed, celebrities ...

There is a popular German proverb "blood is thicker than water" and it means that, blood relations are supposed to come first in your life, they are supposed to be more important than people you are not related to by blood. Such as friendship. It means bonds of family are more stronger than bonds of unrelated people. What is going through my mind at the moment is, whether is this really true? Whether blood is really thicker than water? Especially in this time and age. I was thinking about this the whole night. This was in my mind and this is the reason why I couldn't sleep as well. This proverb insinuates that relatives stick together and relatives will do more for you than others. I am debating in my mind whether to do this argumentatively or whether to be biased and write this blog entry in the opinionated fashion. My heart says this is not true. Blood is not thicker than water, especially these days. My experience says this too. However, the logic behind this prove...

Ghum tu khushi ke saath ho na ho Dil may teri, teri ik aas ho na ho  Chehray par teray muskurahat ho na ho Dil mai koyi shikwa, koyi gila ho na ho  Teri yaadain hamain satati ho na ho Teri baatain hamain yaad ati ho na ho Lafz hamarey nikaltey ho na ho  Pyasi ankhain kuch kehti ho na ho  Hamay nahi pata teray janey se mayoosi ho na ho  Beshak meri nazroon may tu ho na ho  Choor keh janey waley, kabhi alvida kaho na kaho Fark nahi parta mujhe ab tum ho na ho

I never thought I would experience, what it feels like to get sick because you miss someone so much. I did not know what would it feel like, to see the person you love heart broken and sad. Someone that I love dearly is very sad. I can't seem to shake this fact from my mind. Not only that, I can't seem to help them. What am I supposed to do or say? There are so many questions in my mind. How do I approach them? What do I say to them? How do I help them feel better? Is it my place to make them feel better? This is what goes through my mind all the time. Where do I stand? What is my position in their life? Do I have the privileges? I know they are sad and this is what is making me sad too. The whole day I was sick and in bed. Most of the time sleeping. The whole day I was thinking about them. Even thinking about them right now. Sometimes you are happy and all of a sudden something happens, which forces you to forget everything else and just break down. No one human being on t...

ayo aye sanam aisi mohabbat karain mar bhi jayain hum to zinda rahain phool kehtay hain tumhay has kar jiyo khushboyoon ko lotatay raho tum bulbulo ki tarah aye sanam pyaar ke geet gatay raho! aye yaar zindagi hai wahi zindagi jo mohabbat mai hi dobi rahi hona payaingay juda hum aye sanam ayo hum aaj aisay milain! rashk karta rahay aasmaan naaz tum per karay do jahan daastane hamari aye sanam mehfilon mai hamesha gonjti rahain! ayo aye sanam aisi mohabbat karain mar bhi jayain hum to zinda rahain

I have no idea why but today I started crying because I was missing mum too much. I am in Lahore, first time I travelled anywhere alone and I just started crying. I wasn't feeling well today. Yesterday it was raining at night and I went out without shawl or anything. I should have been more careful, but anyway I wasn't and I caught a slight cold. When I was sleeping last night, I got a runny nose and a headache. Woke up with a runny rose as well.  The whole day I was feeling sick, kept on cleaning my nose, was wearing shawl. Basically I was feeling down and sick, plus I was worried and thinking about someone else too. Everything just came down to me ending up in tears. I ate Cold and Flu Panadol and was watching television. It has sedation in it, so I basically started feeling really drowsy while watching television. My uncle came to give me my dinner, he had the food plate in his hand and he was trying to wake me up, by calling out to me, but I wouldn't wake up, so he pok...