Pakistan

Charity / Pakistan — No Comments
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Aug 10

Fundraising Dinner for Pakistan Flood Victims

For those of you living in Ottawa, I would like to invite you to the fundraising dinner in Ottawa on September 7th, 2010. Details for the event can be found here. I can assure you that this is a great chance to meet the charity organizations, embassy of Pakistan and other great people who have collectively come together to help Pakistan from this disaster.

Tickets for the event is $50 per person and $400 for a table of 8. All proceeds from this event goes directly to charity. Please contribute to this cause. Millions of people are in need for clean water, food, clothes, shelter and much more. We have many charities lined up for this event and you can also get a tax receipt for your contribution.

You can also bid for the ticket via eBay auction. All proceeds will go to charity and the auction is there to encourage people to participate and raise funds.

For those of us who are fasting please note that this is an Iftar dinner so you are requested to join us to open your fast and help for a great cause.

Please contact me via email if you wish to have any questions.

Please note that the auction is being held by me personally. If you do not want to participate via auction, you can still buy your ticket directly from me.

General / Pakistan — No Comments
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Aug 10

Pakistan Floods 2010: Please Donate

Pakistan has been affected by the worst floods in the recent history. Millions of people have been displaced and this number is only expected to go higher. While there is a lot that each and every one of us can do to help them the easiest and simplest thing is to contact your local charity organizations and give them food, water, money, used cloths and whatever else you can think of.

Every bit counts.

For a complete list of organizations that you can donate to please check here.

General / Mazaydar.com / Pakistan / Startups — 2 Comments
18
Jun 10

Keeping me busy

I apologize for the lack of updates on the blog. For the past few months a combination of exciting projects, personal development and amazing friends have kept me busy.

I will be posting (hopefully) short previews of what’s cooking in my world in coming weeks. I will however, give you a hint: Redesign, reworking, rethinking Mazaydar.com

General / Mazaydar.com / Pakistan / Programming / Startups / UI Design — No Comments
2
Jun 10

It’s coming.

General / Inspirational / Pakistan — No Comments
12
Feb 10

You are responsible for your own experience.

While browsing through my online news-feed I stumbled upon this statement and it just struck with me. I just had to write a blog post around it. I truly believe that the statement is extremely true for what it says.

You are responsible for your own experience.

In my short (and still going) time in entrepreneurship, I have learned this lesson many times. When I was starting this journey, I always asked other successful entrepreneurs (offline & online) about their experiences. The best advice I ever got was similar to this statement.

Soon I realized that this is true for everything in life. If my experience was similar to yours, or yours similar to mine, than what would be the fun in that? I am glad the way my life experience has been so far. It has been a challenge, fun, sad, happy, exciting, nervous, long nights, sleepless nights and much more.

In my opinion, one of the mistakes that we make as humans is to look up to someone as our “role model”. While the concept of “role model” is good, what it can potentially lead to can be dangerous.

We look at successful startups and we try to convince ourselves that we if we replicate their success story than we will be automatically end up with the same success. This isn’t true at all. Its their experience that made them what they are. You can’t replicate that. You can’t replicate the experience Bill Gates had while building Microsoft, you can replicate the experience Steve Jobs had while building Apple.

So stop trying to recreate experiences, build your own. Enjoy what life throws at you and make the best out of it.

There are a gazillion problems out there that need your skill-set, your time, your efforts and your ideas. Go out there, solve them, help others. That is what your life experience would be.

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