Hey there Honey! I exist

It was fall of 2007, an average kid of good height suited in formal clothing entered the premises of his university for the first time , which was then located in a market. That was the day that the world turned upside down for him, well that’s what he thought.

Three and a half years have passed, since then I am the same me that I was on 17th September 2007, alone. Though I have gained some airs and graces to show off but they are as good as dust, you gather plenty of it but its of no use. In the end of fifth semester a thought came to my mind – not for the first time – but I looked back on my two years in university and compared myself with some dorky face boy, who was accompanied by a woman while I was lurking by some table in the café alone.

I absorbed the thought, and hoped that I will have someone by the end, I kept on building on myself, stacked successes, jumped higher and higher just to be more prominent, to show them [the ladies], “Hey There! I exist”, but to no avail. I am currently sitting here ‘alone’ in my bed and writing on my stupid blog, may be someone reads it and her heart melts.. BTW if that’s the case, I have my mobile number on Facebook. See in three and a half years I have kept on trying harder and harder, but I am like something that doesn’t exist. If I am standing in a group and some of the boys are talking to the ladies, they ignore me like I don’t exist, I am made of thin air, even air can be felt sometimes.

So that was my story for three years, I will stack up everything I did, just to get attention in this time starting from the morning of 17th September 2007 to 24th January 2011 and 38 minutes.

1. I have a GPA of 3.44, I have never gotten a C in any subject.
2. I preside the ACM student Chapter at my university
3. I have a Car
4. I have my own bank account
5. I have work experience in world at reputed places
6. I play striker in football
7. I play tennis, I swim, volleyball, cricket, badminton etc etc
8. I play computer games
9. I even delivered help session just to get attention, otherwise why would I give a damn if someone fails
10. I look good, 90 percent of the time
11. I take bath daily
12. I shave every third day – normally
13. I wear branded clothes most of the time
14. I have tried with unbranded too
15. I have tried informal and formal for three semesters
16. I can speak English
17. I can write like a 10,000 words story
18. I can even do poetry
19. I can make beautiful stuff in Photoshop
20. I tweet 😛
21. My Dad has served in the Army – Just to let them know that my Family is stable
22. I was even Teachers assistant to 6 classes
23. I can do better coding than 90 percent of the class
24. I am witty
25. I had a 16 GB Flash drive when even 8 GB drives were scarce
26. I had a laptop in the age of Desktop computers
27. I bring lunch from home and eat vegetables, lentils,beans and meat
28. I have an athletic build and can run very fast
29. I can trek for 10 hours to a lake at 13,500 feet
30. I even go trekking on weekends to Islamabad
31. I tried smoking
32. I tried sheesha
33. I tried quitting smoking and I did because I started smoking the day before
34. I have friends who go out with girls
35. I tried French cut moustache
36. I tried gotee, makhee, clan shave , mangal panday style, rouge looking beard nothing worked
37. I shaved my head
38. I have ray bans
39. I danced
40. I didn’t dance
41. I joined a research lab
42. I can cook my own breakfast, can fry an egg and toss it on the pan without breaking it
43. I can cook food
44. I drive really really fast, I have tried it slow as well
45. The size of my foot is 12, I wear 13 number shoes
46. I sit with and have company of intelligent people
47. I have some stupid friends as well
48. I have friends in NUST Business School, Civil School, Mechanical , EME, MCS you name the institution i have people there
49. On Contrast, 80 percent may deny knowing me, so i have tried both being reserved and outgoing
50. I have managed to get my own magazine out
51. I did a pathetic speech at NASTEC, just for the hell of it, i wanted to prove that i could
52. I try to be prominent by asking difficult questions
53. I have met DG, Dean, shook hands with important people
54. I have tried being quiet
55. I have been loud as well
56. I have joined all the societies in my university
57. I support Manchester United & FC Barcelona
58. I also watch cricket , tennis and every other spot on TV
59. I watch movies
60. I pray often
61. I talk in soft words / have tried brittle ones too
62. I uploaded my videos on Youtube
63. I uploaded photos on Facebook
64. I can do good photography
65. I can even do spy photography – that was troublesome
66. I weight a lot less than 70 percent women in the hostel
67. My waist is less than 40 percent of them
68. I can do pushups, run for 4 miles consecutively, do skipping rope, lift 50 Kgs of weight, climb on the roofs without anything
69. I shared assignments, helped in quizzes, came at 08:00 in the morning when the paper was at 11:00
70. I have a 5.1 surround system
71. My room is organized like anything, it looks more like an office
72. My cupboard is always in place, i change my clothes daily

I will continue building the list, but it is evident from this. I am one talented Lad, left to rot to the virus of neglectfulness. I think I will use more tricks to get attention.I will put all my energy to excel in everything, I will not let regrets kill me in 60’s. For now I only hope that I will walk out through the gates of my university with somebody, someday.

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Update: This post is meant to satirical and has been exaggerated by magnitudes. Any kind of semblance with reality is totally unintentional.

2011 ICC Cricket World Cup

World Cup matches and their expected results brought to you by Paul the octopus  Cheeda the match fixer from Sialkot…

 

Match	Date	Teams	Venue	Expected Winner
1	19 Feb	India vs Bangladesh	Dhaka	India
2	20 Feb	New Zealand vs Kenya	Chennai	New Zealand
3	20 Feb	Sri Lanka vs Canada	Hambantota	Sri Lanka
4	21 Feb	Australia vs Zimbabwe	Ahmedabad	Australia
5	22 Feb	England vs Netherlands	Nagpur	England
6	23 Feb	Pakistan vs Kenya	Hambantota	Pakistan
7	24 Feb	South Africa vs West Indies	New Delhi	South Africa
8	25 Feb	Australia vs New Zealand	Nagpur	Australia
9	25 Feb	Bangladesh vs Ireland	Dhaka	Bangladesh
10	26 Feb	Sri Lanka vs Pakistan	Colombo	Sri Lanka
11	27 Feb	India vs England	Kolkata	England
12	28 Feb	West Indies vs Netherlands	New Delhi	West Indies
13	28 Feb	Zimbabwe vs Canada	Nagpur	Zimbabwe
14	1 Mar	Sri Lanka vs Kenya	Colombo	Sri Lanka
15	2 Mar	England vs Ireland	Bangalore	England
16	3 Mar	South Africa vs Netherlands	Mohali	South Africa
17	3 Mar	Pakistan vs Canada	Colombo	Pakistan
18	4 Mar	New Zealand vs Zimbabwe	Ahmedabad	New Zealand
19	4 Mar	Bangladesh vs West Indies	Dhaka	Bangladesh
20	5 Mar	Sri Lanka vs Australia	Colombo	Sri Lanka
21	6 Mar	India vs Ireland	Bangalore	India
22	6 Mar	England vs South Africa	Chennai	England
23	7 Mar	Kenya vs Canada	New Delhi	Kenya
24	8 Mar	Pakistan vs New Zealand	Pallekelle	Pakistan
25	9 Mar	India vs Netherlands	New Delhi	India
26	10 Mar	Sri Lanka vs Zimbabwe	Pallekelle	Sri Lanka
27	11 Mar	West Indies vs Ireland	Mohali	West Indies
28	11 Mar	Bangladesh vs England	Chittagong	England
29	12 Mar	India vs South Africa	Nagpur	India
30	13 Mar	New Zealand vs Canada	Mumbai	New Zealand
31	13 Mar	Australia vs Kenya	Bangalore	Australia
32	14 Mar	Pakistan vs Zimbabwe	Pallekelle	Pakistan
33	14 Mar	Bangladesh vs Netherlands	Chittagong	Bangladesh
34	15 Mar	South Africa vs Ireland	Kolkata	South Africa
35	16 Mar	Australia vs Canada	Bangalore	Australia
36	17 Mar	England vs West Indies	Chennai	England
37	18 Mar	Sri Lanka vs New Zealand	Mumbai	Sri Lanka
38	18 Mar	Ireland vs Netherlands	Kolkata	Ireland
39	19 Mar	Australia vs Pakistan	Colombo	50-50 [Asian Pitch]
40	19 Mar	Bangladesh vs South Africa	Dhaka	South Africa
41	20 Mar	Zimbabwe vs Kenya	Kolkata	Zimbabwe
42	20 Mar	India vs West Indies	Chennai	India
43	23 Mar	First Quarterfinal	Dhaka	–
44	24 Mar	Second Quarterfinal	Colombo	–
45	25 Mar	Third Quarterfinal	Dhaka	–
46	26 Mar	Fourth Quarterfinal	Ahmedabad	–
47	29 Mar	First Semifinal	Colombo	–
48	30 Mar	Second Semifinal	Mohali	–
49	02 Apr	FINAL	Mumbai	Sri Lanka vs England

Matrix Multiplication using Pthreads

The following code i wrote to multiply two n x n matrices. it also prints the time taken to perform the multiplication. BTW this is a multithreaded code. Also to run it you have to type the following

$blah@blahsPC~ gcc path/threadfile.c -lpthread

$blah@blahsPC~ ./A.out

The Code

#include<stdio.h>
#include<stdlib.h>
#include<pthread.h>
#include<time.h>

struct Index{
    int LOOP1;
    int LOOP2;  // thread counter and loop multiplier
    };

 //globals for sharing b/w threads
 int** Matrix1;
 int** Matrix2;
 int** ResultMAT;
 int row;

void* multiply(void* _multiplier);

void main(){
    ////////////////////////////////////////
    ////A Little Housekeeping///////////////
    int col,i,j,rc,LoopVAR,L2;
    long TimeVAR,t;
    struct Index *L_StructVAR;
    printf("Enter rows: ");
    scanf("%d",&row);
    printf("Enter Columns: ");
    scanf("%d",&col);
    Matrix1= malloc(row * sizeof(*Matrix1));
    Matrix2= malloc(row * sizeof(*Matrix2));
    ResultMAT= malloc(row * sizeof(*ResultMAT));
    L_StructVAR= malloc(row * sizeof(*L_StructVAR));
    void* status;

    ////////////////////////////////////////
    //// Thread initialization////////////
    pthread_t* threads;
    pthread_attr_t _attrib;
    threads = malloc((row*col) * sizeof(threads));  ///// Square Matrix Rows = Columns
    pthread_attr_init(&_attrib);
   // pthread_attr_setdetachstate(&_attrib, PTHREAD_CREATE_JOINABLE);

    ///////////////////////////////////////////////
    // Populating array matrices
    if(Matrix1 != NULL)
        {
            for(i = 0; i < row; i++)
            {
                Matrix2[i]=malloc (col * sizeof **Matrix2);
                Matrix1[i] = malloc(col * sizeof **Matrix1);
                 ResultMAT[i] = malloc(col * sizeof **ResultMAT);
                if(Matrix1[i] == NULL)
                {
                    printf("Memory allocation failed. Exiting....");

                }
            }

        }
    else printf("Failed");
    for(i=0;i<row;i++)
        {
           for(j=0;j<col;j++)
           {
               Matrix2[i][j]=rand() % 10 +1;
               Matrix1[i][j]=rand() % 15 +1;

           }

        }
//////////////////////////////////////////////////
///////////Printing Facility /////////////////////
/////////////////////////////////////////////////
/*
printf("Matrix 1: \n");
        for(i=0;i<row;i++)
        {
           for(j=0;j<col;j++)
           {
               printf("%d", Matrix1[i][j]);
               printf(" ");
           }
           printf("\n");
        }   */
///////////////////////////////

//////////////////////////////////////////////
///////////// Threading :D ///////////////////
TimeVAR = clock();
printf("%ld",TimeVAR);
printf("\n");
long threadVAR=0;

for(LoopVAR = 0; LoopVAR < row;LoopVAR++){

      for(L2 = 0;L2 < col;L2++){
          L_StructVAR[threadVAR]. LOOP1 = LoopVAR;
          L_StructVAR[threadVAR].LOOP2=L2;
            //  printf("%ld\n",threadVAR);
           pthread_create(&threads[threadVAR], &_attrib, (void*)multiply,(void*) &L_StructVAR[threadVAR]);
           threadVAR++;
        }

}
printf("%ld\n",clock());
printf("%ld",CLOCKS_PER_SEC);
 TimeVAR = clock() - TimeVAR;
//TimeVAR *= 1000;
TimeVAR /= CLOCKS_PER_SEC;
printf("Total time taken in seconds: \n");
printf("%ld",TimeVAR);

////////////////////////////////////
///// Printing Facility ///////////
/*
printf("Matrix 2:"); printf("\n");
for(i=0;i<row;i++)
        {
           for(j=0;j<col;j++)
           {
               printf("%d", Matrix2[i][j]);
               printf(" ");
           }
           printf("\n");
        }

printf("check 0");    */
/////////////////////////////////////////////////
/////////////// Thread join //////////////////////
/*
pthread_attr_destroy(&_attrib);
for(t=0; t<(row*col); t++) {
    printf("%ld\n",t);
      //rc = pthread_join(threads[t], &status);
      if (rc) {
        // printf("ERROR %d\n", rc);
         //exit(-1);
         }
     // printf("Main: completed join with thread %ld having a status"
      //      "of %ld\n",t,(long)status);
      }
      //printf("%ld",clock());

printf("check 12");

*/

////////////////////////////////
// Printing facility
/*
printf("Matrix final"); printf("\n");
for(i=0;i<row;i++)
        {
           for(j=0;j<col;j++)
           {
               printf("%d", ResultMAT[i][j]);
               printf(" ");
           }
           printf("\n");
        }       */
/////////////////////////////

  }

void* multiply(void * _multiplier){
    struct Index * _LVAR;
    _LVAR = (struct Index*) _multiplier;
    int  _LOOP_3, _TEMP=0;
    for(_LOOP_3 = 0; _LOOP_3 <  row; _LOOP_3++){
        _TEMP += Matrix1[_LVAR->LOOP1][_LOOP_3] * Matrix2[_LOOP_3][_LVAR->LOOP2];
       // printf(" %d * %d  +",Matrix1[_LVAR->LOOP1][_LOOP_3], Matrix2[_LOOP_3][_LVAR->LOOP2] );
       }
          //printf("%d\n", _TEMP);
    ResultMAT[_LVAR->LOOP1][_LVAR->LOOP2] = _TEMP;
    pthread_exit((void*) _multiplier);
    }