Aqeel Zafar’s Randomness

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Archive for January, 2008

Getting Discount on Already Active PTCL Broadband Connection

I have been planning to  get the 30% discount offered to the students enrolled in any university / college, which is affiliated with HEC (Higher Education Commission of Pakistan). To make sure that person applying for the discount is eligible for the discount, they would first contact university registrar and upon approval, follow up the application.

This process shouldn’t be much of a problem, except that you can not apply for discount if you are already using PTCL Broadband connection, you would first have to disconnect their service and apply again, which would take almost a week (according to call center representative, whereas I have heard many people complaining that it takes much longer).

Anyways, I am going to return the equipment and give application for disconnection tomorrow, and as I don’t have modem or any other form of internet connection available, I might not be able to come online for a week or two. Let’s hope it doesn’t take too long.

Something about me

Couple of days ago I got a text message on my cell, from a friend. It was a small quiz type thingy, in which you ask recipient few questions about yourself. I forwarded it to a few of my friends and asked couple of online friends, only a few responded to it, interestingly, results were quite accurate so, I am posting that here:

Question 1) What is best in me?
i) Umm…
ii) Caring person.
iii) You’re always here when i need to talk.
iv) You are really good and nice to your friends.

Question 2) What is bad in me?
i) Lazy.
ii) Boring, sometimes.
iii) Don’t know you well enough to know your bad sides
iv) Irresponsible

Question 3) I am just like a?
i) Computer Worm
ii) Teddy Bear
iii) Fortune cookie - You always tell me what to do.
iv) (No answer)

i, ii, iii & iv are all real people. :) I agree with their answers, except that I don’t think myself irresponsible, at least not most of the time.

Let me know what do you think of me?

Happ New (Hijri / Islamic / lunar) Year!

Happy New Year to muslims all around the world (and anyone else who uses hijri calendar)