Another Gold Medalist in family !!!

My little brother Rana Omer Hussain, received Gold Medal from Governor of Punjab, Salman Taseer, at the convocation of Punjab University. It’s an honor for my family to have another Gold Medalist in family. I received Gold Medal but I was 3rd in my batch but my brother stood 1st in his batch, so this is the real Gold Medal in our family.

I wish my brother Best of Luck for his future plans. May Allah bless him and give him success in every aspect of life and hereafter. Ameen.

We both then had our photo together for memories…

Gobbledygook

I am a member of Counter strike clan named AZOSH…………..named after me and my brothers. Every one has a nick and mine is Gobbledygook………..Why? What is the reason behind this nick? So to know the reason behind my nick, here we go

At the time of my graduation I received the title of “Min Min Jee” ( in Urdu) which means that I talk in so less volume that every other person thinks that I am just moving my lips and making small sounds……….or I am just doing gibberish

So I started looking for something similar to the title I received and found Gobbledygook. To some it is a nonsensical language and for some it can be a secret language for sharing thoughts; but to my clan it’s a player with non sensical strategies and this clearly describes why my blog is gobbledygook……….because there are no links in all posts in my blog and it makes no sense whatsoever I am posting, just like this very post………which itself has become gobbledygook

PUCIT First Degree Awarding Ceremony

PUCIT arranged its first Degree Awarding Ceremony for BSC Hons students on 6th February 2008. The most awaited event, though arranged haphazardly, but still left a great positive impact for later degree awarding ceremonies. Both BCSS01 and BCSF01 batches were called for the rehearsal of Ceremony on 3rd February 2008. All students participated well and fully cooperated with the organizers.

The Nation newspaper outlined the event on 7th February 2008 in the following way:

Pakistan has a great potential in the field of computer sciences and information technology and the new graduates of PUCIT (Punjab University College of Information Technology) can contribute a lot in this regard.
India is earning Rs 10 billion annually from IT industry and Pakistan is also preparing a lot of professionals through public sector universities to compete with India in this field.
This was stated by Punjab Governor Lt-Gen (r) Khalid Maqbool while addressing the first-ever degree awarding ceremony of PUCIT held for BS Computer Science Spring 2001 and Fall 2001 graduates at Allama Iqbal Campus on Wednesday. PU Vice-Chancellor Dr Mujahid Kamran, Dean Faculty of Science Prof Dr Jamil Anwar, PUCIT Principal Dr Syed Mansoor Sarwar, Dr Naveed Malik, Prof Azhar Ikram, Prof Dr Mujahid Mansoori faculty members and chief executives of local software houses were also present on the occasion.
The governor said that Pakistan can come upto the standard of advanced countries with digital technology. He said Pakistan is making advancement in many fields especially in information technology and computer sciences. The Punjab government is building a technology park at a cost of Rs 3 billion. The industry needed dedicated and committed professionals and the government is providing all out support to public sector universities to take up this challenge.
He said the PU has started mega projects at a cost of Rs 4 billion which include PUCIT campus at New Campus at a cost of Rs 600 million and a cell of custom built. The government is also providing a sum of Rs 70.50 million for new academic block of PUCIT.
PU Vice-Chancellor Prof Dr Mujahid Kamran in his address said the invention of digital technology, in particular the Internet, constitutes a revolution of the same magnitude as the invention of printing. The invention of printing enabled the thoughts of any one individual to be scattered across the globe. The Internet enables access to vast stores of human knowledge in a flash. This is pure magic. He said the PUCIT is the outgrowth of the department of computer science which was founded and established by Prof Dr Naveed A Malik who is also the founder Vice-Chancellor of the Virtual University.
Eulogising the services of Principal PUCIT, Dr Mansoor Sarwar, the Vice-Chancellor said that his supervision, the college witnessed academic peace and quality to this College. Dr Mansoor Sarwar has managed to rid this College of the restlessness and attendant decline in quality. The Principal is the proud Pakistani whose textbooks on UNIX and LINUX published in the US are recommended texts for over 200 US universities. All of his books have been translated into Spanish and Chinese.
The PUCIT has begun to expand its activities. Its projects have been approved recently by the government of Punjab and the Higher Education Commission. The funding to universities is a consequence of the perception that knowledge is the key to wealth and power and, above all, to a place of respect in the comity of nations. The PUCIT is a product of exceptional times. He advised the young graduates to work conscientiously and creatively, be open minded and tolerant, alert and active, forward-looking and cultivate the desire to make a mark on the world. Pakistan stands at cross-roads today – it must choose a tolerant and open world view or regress into strife ridden darkness, he added.
Principal Prof Dr Mansoor Sarwar said that the college has progressed considerably within a rather short span of time. From a modest start in 1988 as the Centre for Computer Science today PUCIT is the largest institution of higher learning in the country in the area of information technology, offering curricula that are in line with the guidelines of the HEC and international bodies like the IEEE and ACM.
He said we believe in producing well-rounded graduates, who are professionally competent and contributing members of the society. We provide a learning environment which inculcates technical soundness and motivates understanding of human and social issues, enabled by well-balanced curricula and co-curricular activities. Curricula of BS programmes have around 25percent content dedicated to Humanities and Social Sciences. During the past year and a half, the college has spent around Rs 1.5 million on student activities, including bi-lingual declamation contests, poetry recitation competitions, quiz competitions, programming and gaming contests, graduation dinners, comical skits, sketching competitions, tug-of-war, girls table tennis and badminton contests, participation in international activities and competitions, and student recreational trips. Due to student societies in the University, our campus hums with co-curricular student activities throughout the year.
The College has also progressed in many other ways, including hiring of qualified faculty, higher admission standards, up-gradation of IT infrastructure and tools, and uplifting of faculty offices and the college library. We have also started degree programs in BS Software Engineering, MS/MPhil Computer Science, and (regular) MSc GIS, and consolidated our masters degree programs into one MSc Information Technology programme. The College faculty has recently brought the first-ever research grant from the HEC worth Rs 2.63 million and Rs 11 million funds through the National JCT R&D fund are in the pipeline.
The Vice-Chancellor congratulated the new graduates and extended warmest felicitations to those who achieved distinction. He said that the graduating students must feel proud that they have joined the rank of all those who have graduated from this university in the past 125 years.
Earlier Chief Executives of Gen/Team, Umair Javed, Zartasha Uzmi of Confiz Solution and Wyne of Angro appreciated the quality of education in PUCIT. They urged for linkage of the college with industry and some hours of the students to be spent in software houses.

Besides the above speeches, Governor Khalid Maqbool awarded Gold Medals to position holders. Kiran and Sohaib were not present, so their relatives collected the Gold Medal, but I was lucky enough to receive it myself. We had lunch and group photos after the ceremony. Overall it was a great event. It would have been nice if everyone attended it.

I am uploading couple of unofficial photos here.

Reunion of BCSS01 and BCSF01

Reunion of first 2 batches of PUCIT BSc HONS was held on 10th September 2006, in Salt n Pepper Grill.

Both batches attended the reunion in large numbers. Only 16 students from BCSS01 and about more than 50 students from BCSF01 attended the reunion. Great ratio, right:)

The idea was initiated by our junior microsftian Fahim, and our teachers Sir Waqar and Anzar proved to be very supportive. It was great fun meeting everyone after almost 20 months. All juniors have got a better place and few are getting higher education, that is great toooo.

The event started well and ended well. We had a fateha for our batch fellow Farhan Bhatti. Aleem shared some of his experiences with everyone while standing on a fountain We had a great dinner and it was something I will not forget for some time. The students of our batch who attended were:

Abdul Aleem Khan, he is currently working in Dubai sotware house (don’t remember the name) as a Senior Software Engineer.
Mian Haroon Saeed, he is currently working in Techlogix as a software engineer. He also became a coder king in couple of weeks back.
Usman Qutab, he is currently working in CambridgeDocs as a software engineer. A .Net specialized boy working in Java domain from about a year.
Touseef Liaqat, he is currently working in Mentor Graphics as a software engineer. He is engaged and sooon will be married.
Yasir Mehmood, he is currently working in Innovative as a software engineer. He got married 2 days before the Reunion.
Ikhlaq Ahmed, he is going to University of Glosgow on HEC scholarship for facult development program. He will join Quetta Institute of Technology after completing his studies.
Waleed Yousaf, he is also going on 26th september 2006 for further studies. I did not get the course name and place where he is going.
Sheheryar Ilahi, he left Descon then joined some other place, and then he again joined Descon. How faithful
Salman Abid Jafri, he is I think in Descon. Did not get a chance to know about him completely.
Salman Hamid, he is a Human Resource Manager in Greenwich something. They conduct hiring for many big companies.
Irfan Tahir, he is doing MBA from NUST.
Tariq Yousaf, he is currently working in Systems Ltd as a software engineer in .Net team.
Moeen Ahmed, he is currently working in Systems Ltd as a software engineer in .Net team.
Najam Nazar, he is currently working in a software house (did not get the name) as a software engineer.
Dawood Nasim, he is ……………. did not get the chance to ask him what he is doing

I hope I haven’t missed anyone. I’ll add them if anyone comes in my mind.

Good luck to everyone for their plans.