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Good way to take out frustration, no? This is regarding his horrendous commentary during the Pakistan vs. India match, in the T20 World Cup 2012, Super Eights stage. Dear Ramiz, We lost. We get it. We are gutted that we lost. We all know that Pakistan team succumbed to psychological pressure against India and did not perform well at all out there in the field today. We know that the team players had a mind block and were feeling pressured. We kind of also knew that Pakistan would lose this match. We were prepared for that from the beginning, but one can have hope right? One can pray for a slight chance of victory against India right? But what is your problem? Your comments against your country’s players were very harsh and at times, uncalled for. You were consistently badmouthing the players of the Pakistan T20 cricket squad. You were commenting and making it seem like if it was a player’s fault, when in reality it wasn’t really, at times too. We all know that commentato...

We have always heard of how people say that, your actions shape up your life. Well actions do shape up our lives, but so does reactions. It is always what we do and how we deal with something, that shapes us; not only the ‘what we do’ part. A person has a certain amount of control over the actions part and this is why god has given us a brain to use, but the things we react to? We have absolutely no control over that. We don’t know when something will happen, we don’t know why that something will happen and we don’t know how we will react to that something that happens. The main point is that, something does always happen and puts us in a test. It is a test to see how we will react. That reaction and its outcome is what shapes us. It is the same when you are driving and out on the roads. Part of driving and the part that you can control is, to drive safely. What that means is, you drive within the speed limits, you adhere to the rules etc. The part of driving and bei...

Love makes you helpless. Many people these days say that they are in love, but that is actually laughable, because it isn't love. It is just lust and infatuation. Real love is so much different than that. Real love is much more than just sexual desire. Real love breaks down all stereotypes and still exists. When there is real love, connection and bond between two people, they don't need to speak every day, all the time, for them to feel it. They don't have to act like immature lustful teenagers and stay awake all night talking, for it to keep existing. You know when it is there and when it will last. Real love doesn't mean that you keep lavishing the person you love, with gifts all the time. However, when you are really in love with someone, you want to keep giving them presents and you feel like you want to give them each and every thing that they desire. You feel like putting the world at their feet, even though it is not necessary. When you go out, you feel like bu...

A lot of us use perfumes right? We lavish some perfume on us every day and then bask in the goodness of the fragrance until it lasts. BUT, have you thought about doing something other than using your perfume for that purpose? To get really original photos, you have to get really creative. To get really creative, sometimes you have to go the extra length and do something absolutely crazy. Have you ever seen people’s Photoshop creations of flames with a black background? They look stunning isn’t it? People add artificial flames to objects, to text etc in Photoshop and make the things and text look real snazzy. Well there is some good news. You can do that too! How? Without the use of Photoshop! That’s how! In this tutorial, you won’t even need to edit the photos, if you get them right.   Creating flames in Photoshop or creating text/objects wrapped around with flames is surely not an easy task. To master this, it takes time. For a beginner, it might take more than 1-2 hours to g...

IHOP or International House of Pancakes, just went even more International, with the opening of their first store in the Middle East, in the Mall of the Emirates of Dubai. Mall of the Emirates is one of the premier destinations in the UAE to go to, which already includes high end brand name stores like Armani, Louis Vuitton, Prada etc. It attracts a lot of visitors each month, so it was an obvious choice for IHOP’s parent company, DineEquity, Inc. to open a restaurant in. IHOP in MOE is located right next to another famous chain of restaurants from the US called ‘Shake Shack’. Dubai foodies are in for a treat, because they are spoilt for choice now. IHOP’s vast menu offers things ranging from Burgers, Pancake Combos, Crepes, Waffles, French Toast to Eggs and more. The restaurant is primarily good for breakfast dining only, but has relatively other good items available as well on the menu, which can be good for lunch or dinner too. Twitter and Facebook communities were abuzz with pe...

The future of newspapers is a very debatable topic and there are many views from different experts in the field on this. Some say there is a bright future for newspapers; however other people are not so optimistic. There is a common perception that people would always need to know information and for that, some sort of medium would be needed. In the information age and with continuous media revolutions and technological advances, we may pose the question to ourselves; is traditional conservative media giving way to the modern media practices? These days life is very fast paced and we are in a commuter culture. People are always on the move. Whether it is going from the home to the office or commuting between different countries for work or personal reasons. In such a culture, people have less time to sit down and actually read newspapers. That means that circulation of print based newspapers is less and because of that the advertisers are pulling out advertisement money from newsp...

Applied media aesthetics differs in three major ways: Rather than being concerned primarily about beauty and philosophy of art, applied aesthetics deals with a number of aesthetic phenomena, including light, colour, space, time/motion and sound and our perceptual reactions to them. The media themselves plays an important part in shaping the message. Media aesthetics can be applied both to analysis and synthesis i.e. production. We can stabilize the environment and we practice, selective seeing and perception. We perceive an event relative to the context in which it occurs. Applied media aesthetics places great importance on the influence of the medium on the message. The medium itself acts as an integral structural agent. The five fundamental image elements are: - light and colour - two dimensional space - three dimensional space - time/motion - sound Aesthetics suggest that that we are all bereft of all aesthetics, that our perceptions are dulled or totally shut off...