Dubai Works

Over the past few days during the build-up to the Pakistani elections and the days after, it has become evident on how social media has been exploited, for your own personal gain. Not to rule out the fact that, social media has indeed been pivotal in doing some sort of campaigning, from all political parties; but the fact of the matter is, that such a platform can easily be abused and exploited. The biggest danger of social media includes the fact that, whether whatever that’s posted on a platform, has been checked for credibility or not; whether whatever that has been posted, is the out-and-out truth or not. Social media platforms are a great way to connect with people, to spread awareness and news and to exchange ideas etc. But along with the benefits of using social media platforms and indulging in social networking, comes few disadvantages as well. Those disadvantages or flaws in the social media ideology are applicable in all situations, especially becoming evident during Pakis...

Well, first of all I would like to say, I hate academic writing. Why I hate academic writing? The style is old and going in to extinction. Whoops? My first paragraph of this article is only one line and it doesn’t even have the ‘thesis statement’ at the end. Yeah. It doesn’t. That is because, this way of starting an essay/article is becoming increasingly rare. You will only find it being used by academic institutions etc. Everyone else has adopted new ways of writing and writing itself, is a very evolved process. It keeps evolving and changing. The way we write and communicate, isn’t a stagnant fixed process. It keeps changing. When you are in school or when you are in University, you are told that an essay has a particular format. It has an introduction, a body and a conclusion. The introduction has the thesis statement at the end and it can’t be more than 4-5 lines. The body should be maximum three paragraphs and we are supposed to restrict our thoughts to just three ‘big’ parag...

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...

…Or having a good photo camera for that matter. Many people have over the years approached me and asked me what camera/cameras and equipment I use to take my photographs. I am not one of those people, who keeps this information secretive. I do tell them what camera I used to take the photo and the lens that was used. However, there is a big misconception in the mind of the newbies, of the serious photography world. They think that by just buying an expensive camera, they will start taking good photos. This is slightly true, in the sense that obviously if you have better equipment and more megapixels, your in general photo taking standards will increase, but in essence they won’t be actually ‘producing’ an excellent photograph, but just taking a better photo than they were before. Some think that by just buying a camera and getting some fancy lens, which they don’t even know how to use, they’ll just automatically become professional photographers. Well, that’s where they are wrong....

Veena Malik after a series of press conferences and interviews, and not to forget 'ALL THE DRAMA', finally said earlier tonight that ‘she committed a big mistake by agreeing to do that FHM shoot’ and then at the same time, posts on her Twitter account, “No one has cheated me the way FHM did…will never forget them!” Get a life Veena. You are a grown woman, unlike what your fake D.O.B on your Twitter BIO suggests. What goes on in the mind of a person like Veena Malik is a mystery; however it is not really hard to decipher the consequences of the actions of a person, with brainless behaviour. Such are the celebrities, or even people of today, who would do anything to gain attention. People literally do anything to gain attention. It has been easier with the advent of social media, to gain attention of loads of people, in the quickest span of time. Even mainstream media has allowed celebrities to give more interviews and appear in more shows which are primarily focused on them. T...