I went with my dad today at the site of the home we had in construction for quite a while, Alhamdolillah the house is in the final stages since most of the work has been done already. The work has stopped these days cos of the GAS authority installing pipes in the streets for the GAS connections to the houses in the vicinity and offcourse us.

My room is my favorite part of the house with a long room, a big toilet and a big open window and the best of all a double my room size of a terrace where i can do the best of the thinking of my life in the leisure time. The tiles at the toilet are kinda ok but the sanitary fittings are yet to be done. The most concerned i am about is the ceiling fans, and weather to install a split unit or not since the weather is changing here abruptly and the need for one will surely be felt but well. The ceilings fans are important because they’re too in adding to the decor of the entire room and since my room has a lower ceiling i plan to install those stylish casablanca fans or those hunter fans or the craftmade fans etc or any other that could be stylish and affordable.

The paints and Rockwall stuff is yet to be done, today we chose the Marble pattern for the floors in the lounge , drawing room and the car porch. The rest is soon to come and hopefully we’ll shift in the coming October or so, I am too much concerned about the Rock Wall and the color that i’ve already decided but i hope dad also picks it cos he is the man incharge!.

The use of UPS has spread like a rapid fire all over the country these days, not only at offices but most of the people at home are as well utilizing the services provided by the device, offcourse they are left with no other affordable alternative since petrol prices have shooted up like fire again and the scorching heat of the summers and than the untimely and unlimited load shedding all over the country is killing people.

I’ve never used a UPS before but a friend of mine had one custom built for his home 2-3 months back, a custom one in a sense that he made a electrician design it for his requirements that could at least bear the load for 6 tube lights and 6 fans and at the same time make a computer function properly, it set him up for about 9000PKR but the thing is powerful and i kinda like it because the Appliance Parts are easily available and re-usable;).

P.S:Get your UPS before the scorching heat of summer toasts you out there!

XBox is probably not a very famous gaming console back in Pakistan , the main reason is because at first Sony’s Play station has dominated the entire console gaming market with the launch of its PS 1 , PS 2 and now the hit of all PS 3. The second main reason that Xbox a Microsoft product is either too expensive for people to handle out here, with nearly no support in the games available out here.

XBox 360  though i don’t own one but is a great thing to be but when you go to the market to purchase games and cds (e.g Hitman, Age of Empires, Motorcycle DVDs, Racing games like Need for Speed etc) you won’t find much variety and even if you get them am sure they are top level pirated dvds with a very bad quality that either won’t run in the first place and if they really do, the graphics quality reminds you of the VHS era and not to forget to mention the life of such cds and dvds is hardly 20 time insertion to the console and than you’re all done! And than you think Microsoft woud expect its revolutionary XBox 360 to prevail over the market which has so much and better to offer for PS users.

We’ve been on the rent house for over a year now till my father finally found a good peace of land in a good area in Abbottabad and started the construction on it. Though i never liked Abbottabad as a place to live permanently because its nearly a dead city as they call it, mostly with old age people living there just because of the great weather and peaceful nature the town has. The place however is not that bad but i hate it because the town shuts off sharp before 11PM which is just the beginning of my full swing time;).

Anyways the house that my dad started probably over 4-5 months back is 60% complete as far as i think so since most of the work from foundations , ceilings, 3 storey building architecture, the plasters are all done, even the pipe fitting for gas , water and the sewerage system i believe is installed. The left over work is of the finishing , paints. installing the delta faucets , my father plans to put the best among delta kitchen faucets and the delta bath faucet in the kitchens and bathrooms respectively, the windows are to be done soon and the marble floor is sooner or later going to be selected. The best part and my favorite at least is the outer look and its planned to be rock walled unlike the dry stone though , its a kind of new technology as per the use is concerned and looks really amazing with one not having to worry about painting the house over and over again. The main gate for the house am not sure about it yet but i want a decent one to be put in there and i’ll have to talk to my dad about it specially;).

I am more than worried about my room , it has a huge window at the front and a big rack for cupboard, etc for clothes and stuff but it has a shared bathroom and that too very small in size.Though i plan to get it designed myself but since am back at the dorms here and the construction is in the full swing i really can’t help much though i really want to:)

Or are they fond of too much ads that will eat your brains out, you certainly won’t like to watch a movie that plays for 15 minutes and the rest 30 minutes all it runs are rubbish ads of universities, institutes etc. Here at my end though we don’t have much choice since that’s the best they could do for us since they’re not well backed up with a good investment in a medium city so they don’t have much options.

In Pakistan though Wateen Telecom is probably one of the best for its service and uniqueness at the moment providing a phone,WiFi High-Speed Internet and Cable Tv But in the foreign countries when you look out broadly, you’ll find out that there are plenty of such companies that give you  services that now a days we can expect only from the Telecommunication sector companies only. One of them amongst them for instance is Cox Television, the company has a great list of value added services for a consumer like my type who wish to have all in one deal from a same company so that in case of emergency they don’t have to bother several companies, this very company has a great deal of offerings that an average tech-savvy user can benefit from, those Cox services are all in a Cox bundle packages that include a Home Phone, a High Speed Broadband internet and Cable television. So what more do you expect from a single company under one roof and that too at the best prices and deals~

In one of our previous posts here….we talked about the prices of toner and printer being the same so we thought it was a good idea to get a new printer rather than getting the toner that has the same price. Today we talk about the cartridges, since the Laser Jet and Desk Jet printers entered the market making the other dot matrix and slow printers go on a long vacation there have been various developments, the cartridges work fast, they have a better impression, have had there prices reduced with the every latest innovation in this industry and the best of all reliable.

When it comes to toners, they are more expensive here probably because they are mostly made in China and we have to have them imported, on the other hand the inkjet cartridges the more they look technically advanced are cheaper though they are also imported from the same place, but its all about the quality of the cartridge that produces the best results on paper. Say goodbye to dot matrix era, Ink Jets , Laser Jets and Desk Jets are working more accurately, cheaply and reliably~