That’s Called Sleeping

07:30 PM – 08:00 PM : Sleeping while traveling

08:00 PM – 09:30 PM : Dinner, spending time with relatives

09:30 PM – 09:45 PM: Tea Time

09:45 PM – 12:30 AM: Sleeping

12:30 AM – 12:35 AM: Electricity Load-sheding enforced me to wake up

12:35 AM – 02:15 AM: Sleeping

02:15 AM – 02:45 AM: Trying to sleep

02:45 AM – 03:00 AM: Sitting on bed, what to do now?

03:00 AM – 03:15 AM: Tea time, offered by sister

03:15 AM – 03:20 AM: Washroom

03:20 AM – 03:25 AM: Time to travel

03:25 AM – 04:15 AM: Sleeping while traveling

04:15 AM – 04:30 AM: Sleeping, looks like raining outside, I missed that.

04:30 AM – 06:30 AM: Sleeping while traveling

06:30 AM – 06:40 AM: CNG filling station, time for some cookies.

06:40 AM – 09:50 AM: Sleeping

09:50 AM – 11:00 AM: Reaching Home

11:00 AM – 11:20 AM: Breakfast

11:20 AM – 11:20 PM: Sleeping

11:20 PM – 01:20 AM: Sleeping

Its rough estimation of my sleep time yesterday.

So I spent nearly 24 hours in sleeping.

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My Friend’s Father Death

Father of my friend, Abid Ali, died on 27th April (morning). He was a nice person, indeed his role is critical in providing good education, knowledge and character building of Abid. May Allah bless him with Jannah and patience to his family.

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10 Things I Hate About Being An Intern

Work Simulation

Pretending to look busy is just strenuous as actually working — in fact it require much more creativity and dedication, like switching between the “make-believe-research” and the “actual-research” tabs on your browser in time. This actually takes time and effort to perfect, folks.

Perpetual Guilt

Since you are in internee you can’t be Youtubing or Facebooking with as much liberty as other employees, and make sure never to laugh out loud regardless of how hilarious today’s “Cyanide and Happiness” is.

Great Expectations

So what if it’s just the first half of your first day? How do you not know where the IT desk is? *bewildered look*

Leftovers

The work given to you will mainly be heaps of labour that no one want to indulge in.

Homelessness

There willl be no work station that is “actually” yours. The moment Mister-Just-Married returns from his honeymoon, you will be sent back to the PC which only work in MS-DOS mode.

Job Description

“This wasn’t in the job description” you will hear yourself wondering time and time again. Well, too bad kiddo. When you enter the workplace looking that eager and that perky, there will be consequences.

Vague Boundaries

Since you will be working here for six weeks — two months tops — you will occasionally fell the I-can-say-anything-euphoria. You will then follow you instincts and tell your supervisor how much blue suits her, in response she will give you an awkward why-are-you-talking-to-me-look.

No Renumeration

Like most interns, you probably aren’t being paid more than few thousand bucks. So you’ll understand how frustrating it is to pretend to be enthusiastic about a project, babbling on about how it will add to your CV… When all you care about is spending the rest of your summer in bed or catching up on “How I Met Your Mother”.

The Humiliation

As an intern, you really have no status in an organization. So you aim to fly below the radar, but you know that whenever some “real employee” walks past the desk and sees your unfamiliar face, he’ll inevitably ask your supervisor, “Who’s that?” To which they’ll give that ego-crushing reply: “Just the intern”.

Being The Outsider

Since you aren’t exactly part of the ‘corporation’, the ‘official’ details will be withheld from you. For instance:

“Can you start on that project where you compare everyone’s performance with their respective salaries?”

“Sure, where do I get to the payroll database from?”

“Just assume random number for now.”

“Uhh…..”

Now look at Google’s definition of Internee:

Noun: A person who is confined as a prisoner, esp. for political or military reasons.

Thanks to The Express Tribune Magazine, Pakistan

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I Am 26 Now

Its Abid Ali here, a coworker & friend of Zubair Lodhi. I congratulate my brother Zubair Lodhi on his 26th birthday. I pray to ALLAH ALMIGHTY that HE may give my brother thousands’ of blessings and happiness in Present and in Future, and May Allah forgive his sins in Past.

I am working with Zubair Lodhi for nearly 2 years and I found him an honest person, too much loyal, hard working,  and many more good qualities, in short he is a great man, a great friend.

I remember many occasions when he was with me and he did what a good brother can do for a brother. I am thankful to ALLAH that he is my friend and may ALLAH keep our friendship forever and ever.

Thanks Zubair for being a good friend of mine, May you see all your wishes fulfilled, all your dreams be come true.

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Thanks Abid for birthday wishes. I learned so many things from you and our friendship is a continuous source of learning for both of us. Your support played an important role in my life in last 2-3 years and I wish you and me continue with same passion.

Thank you so much for standing with me in birthday celebration.

Zubair Lodhi

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Nice post, Abid!
I have worked with Zubair for over one year and I agree with everything you wrote!
Plus, he is very intelligent too and does a lot of backlinks for me.
We talk about SEO all the time and I am impressed with his knowledge.

Happy Birthday Zubair

O-O
\__/
Peace,

Dan

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Happy Birthday to u,

May u live a Happy, Healthy and Long Life.

May ur all dreams come true……….

From My Friend

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Happy Birthday to my brother, may Allah bless your with thousands of blessings in present and in future also, and forgive all your sins in past. Aaamin

Very Very happy birthday brother

From Abid Ali

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Happy Birthday to u.

Happy Birthday to u, may u have may more, may u have many more. Happy birthday to u.

May God bless u more happiness n success this year

From My Friend

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Dear Bro today is ur birhday. A special day for u and ur loved ones indeed. On this precious occasion i pray to Allah Pak for ur success and happiness. May the new year of ur be happiest and most prosper than ever and this blessing remain till the end.

Have fun and enjoy ur day fully and be happy and make happy to others. Get blessings and wishes of ur parents.

Your sis.

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Google Pagerank Update for May

Pagerank is a popular term among SEO guys, alternatively used for Google PageRank. Pagerank is an algorithm used by Google to determine the importance of any webpage. Pagerank is mostly based on how many other pages linked to any specific page but still there are some other factors affecting pagerank. Pagerank is a trademark of Google.

Google has changed its policy of showing pagerank in its Google Toolbar from last year. Till 2010 pagerank was updated every 3-4 months by Google but after considering the factor of too many people focusing on Pagerank to get their site ranked, Google make a gap of 9 months in its last update. There are rumors that Google will update Pagerank (PR) in May but still nobody can confirm it.

Google is continuously applying new algorithms to provide its user more reliable results and this can be only done by hitting sites with poor quality content. Google Panda and Google Farmer algorithm was part of Google efforts to hit low quality content sites.

Thanks,

Zubair Lodhi

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Service Providers – No Need To Hide Your Country

Service providers must not hide their country/region. But its a dilemma with Asian providers, most of us pretend to be American. I don’t know why, because its your skills which will bring you some work but US banner will not bring you any work. If you are qualified then don’t be afraid in disclosing your identity, your region. Buyers will appreciate you, they have no concern with your nationality, just needs projects completed.

Here is one of the service provider, just tired of chatting with him so I decided to share his weak efforts (language) to pretend like American.

[1/2/2011 10:01:53 PM] computervirus: hi
[1/2/2011 10:02:06 PM] computervirus: i m computervirus from xxxxxxxxxx
[1/2/2011 10:15:53 PM] me: hi
[1/2/2011 10:41:22 PM] computervirus: hi 2
[2:58:15 AM] computervirus: hi
[2:58:54 AM] me: hi
[2:59:10 AM] computervirus: are you from pakistan ?
[2:59:29 AM] me: i think so
[2:59:35 AM] me: whts up
[2:59:47 AM] computervirus: i need some help to you
[3:00:30 AM] computervirus: my friend also from pakistan and we is always receive payment in his plimus account ( like you )
[3:01:05 AM] computervirus: but after going 10 day’s my friend not recieve plimu december month payment yet in pakistan
[3:01:31 AM] computervirus: do you known what’s the matter between plimus in pakistan
[3:01:56 AM] computervirus: and do you receive you december month payment from plimus or your payment in still on hold
[3:02:09 AM] computervirus: please help me and reply me ,thanks.
[3:02:41 AM | Edited 3:02:49 AM] me: ask plimus for this purpose…i don’t know whats wrong with your friend
[3:03:58 AM] computervirus: ok :( , you also from pakistan , you just tell you , you receive you december month payment from plimus or not that’s it.
[3:04:11 AM] computervirus: after that’s i m inquiry from plimus
[3:04:15 AM] me: so you are not from pak?
[3:04:22 AM] computervirus: sorry for personal asking
[3:04:26 AM] computervirus: ni
[3:04:29 AM] computervirus: no
[3:04:35 AM] me: hmmmmmm
[3:04:44 AM] me: from which country?
[3:05:39 AM] computervirus: why you ask to me about my city , you can’t trust me ?
[3:06:55 AM] computervirus: if you can’t trust me so no problem , i m just contact you becasue your skype profile show your country , and i was thinking you are a helpful person for my pakistani friend
[3:06:58 AM] computervirus: :(
[3:07:26 AM] me: if you are not Pakistani…then which country you belong?
[3:07:41 AM] computervirus: us
[3:09:07 AM] computervirus: or you wan to known any thing alse about me ?
[3:09:26 AM] me: what’s your friend WF id?
[3:10:12 AM] computervirus: msaqib301
[3:10:54 AM] computervirus: we is new in WF and we also providing do follow blog commenitng services of WF
[3:11:00 AM] me: both banned
[3:11:08 AM] me: am i right
[3:11:11 AM] me: well anyways
[3:11:19 AM] computervirus: check again
[3:11:29 AM] me: if you are in
[3:11:31 AM] me: its ok
[3:11:34 AM] computervirus: he’s unbanned :)
[3:11:44 AM] me: anyways
[3:12:47 AM] computervirus: that’s not me, he is my friend and he also from pakistan
[3:13:09 AM] computervirus: hope you understand me problem’s and proper reply me
[3:13:10 AM] computervirus: thanks
[3:13:22 AM] me: you are not native english
[3:13:22 AM] computervirus: any ways congratulation for you marriage
[3:13:28 AM] me: marriage
[3:13:35 AM] me: who gonna married?
[3:13:51 AM] computervirus: marriage or engagement
[3:13:58 AM] computervirus: i m see a post from xxxxx
[3:14:19 AM] computervirus: i m not conform i can post very long time
[3:14:32 AM] me: in which city you are in new york?
[3:17:07 AM] computervirus: i m a little confused why you ask me again and again about my city , do you want to come here ?
[3:17:47 AM] me: ok
[3:18:50 AM] computervirus: are you intrested for reply me ?
[3:19:12 AM] computervirus: i just need and very simplease ans from you
[3:19:37 AM] computervirus: you receive plimus payment in your country or not that’s it
[3:20:13 AM] me: ok move on
[3:20:14 AM] computervirus: if you not intrested to reply me so no problem, any way’s thanks for your cooperation
[3:20:24 AM] me: sorry for that

Thanks

Zubair Lodhi

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One Year in Freelancing

Its now one year completed for me as a freelancer. During this time period, I learned many new things about internet marketing. When I completed my MBA with marketing majors, I had a dream of becoming a brand manager in a reputed multinational company but that remained just a dream. Then comes the banking sector, ugh, I always hate banking job during my study times. Even I used to criticize my fellows for doing bank jobs. I was of the opinion that banking job has no innovation, just following predefined methods (although marketing field has no different scenario). I hate banking job but I never hate my fellows doing bank jobs they all are very nice.

Work from home

Earn from home

work at home jobs

These kind of advertisements are heavily published in Classified ads, public transport or even you will notice such posters on Bus stops. Most of these ads having similar statements like earn 15000 by working 2-3 hours daily. I researched on such jobs available in my local area and most of them were scam. These companies/peoples use to take some money for your registration and most probably they will not offer you work for your home.  At one point it looks like a scam field where making fool is the principle but that’s not the case.

Internet is a real field offering earning resources to everyone who is willing to perform any job here. Yes I bet as I am earning from here. I was interested in online earning from my university time and that’s why I created my first blog in 2006 but it was a failed experiment for me. I never earned a single penny but I learned many good lessons.

After MBA, luckily I got a job in a Software Company as Marketing Executive although I never performed any marketing task there. Because my TDRs included only data entry work, managing others work, and brochure designing, so it seems I was spoiling myself. But I think that was a training period and that’s why I am running some good websites.

Alright I am going to sleep now, I will update it with my life experiences in coming days.

Zubair Lodhi

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