Hi guys

I am feeling good right now. Have been working on oDesk from Feb 17, 2009. And its good you get paid on hourly basis. I like oDesk the most among freelancing sites I have worked on. Anyhow, I took a few screen shots to show you that I was once featured on home page on oDesk.

Fahd Murtaza

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Hello dear blog surfers, wanna tell you something about me. You recall the things that happened each month/day/time a year ago. Thats what everybody does. I was so broken last Ramadan that I fell seriously ill. I spent my eid day with Doctors and Nurses in the Hospital. My parents all down with frustration about me.

Now I wonder what made me do all this. I am crazy. Have been so much senstive. So I listen to this song now. Hope you got my point

OK guys here in Pakistan all know about the power outage issues. Its a big disaster of our country. Guys like me who work all the time using their Computers and solely depend on the power to get them going. To get the creative juice flowing, you need power right? So everybody is buying a UPS (Uninterrupted Power Supply). My American Friends always ask me, what is this and hope you all know why. Because they never need it, while here in Pakistan, its a household term.

Anyhow, the Good news is after getting burnt for so many years by PESCO ( That’s whats the new name of WAPDA ), I decided to buy that cool thing called UPS. This is not like APC UPS (widely used with mission critical systems in USA), which gives you backup time for like 35 minutes. Rather I went for the custom solution.

My friend Farhan’s father has his own developed circuitry for UPS that he has started selling recently. He has been in great demand lately for his custom UPSs. I even asked him a hundred times before I got mine and it was specially done for me. Got it shipped from Lahore to Rawalpindi by train. And hand picked on last Friday’s evening after Aftar.

Farhan has done some rigorous testing of the thing as as its 500 watts, I was able to easily run a TV, a Media Server and my brand new LCD monitor and its worked for 2 hours until I switched it off myself. By the way, battery being used was Excide N145. 145 is the Ampere for the battery.

So I have taken all the things back home in Mansehra. Planning to by two batteries one 100 A and one Excide N5200.

The quotes I have got from local market in Mansehra are

Model Price
N185        PKR 9500/-
N5200      PKR 10,500/- (Gonna buy this)
N140s      PKR 7,500/-   (and this)

So the power outage for continuous 10 hours wont be a big deal now. All I have to do is to get a good fast internet connection and I will be able to work from home again after a long long time.

OK guys you can view my favorite YouTube video here on this link. Its a new feature added to NasheedResource that works for profiles so far. Shows videos added by a user and also his/her favorite videos. Works fine. I am working on one that supports channels.

http://www.nasheedresource.com/profile/fahdi2k/

This following video when posted on youtube; I watched and I had to admit this girl was going to be a celebrity. No I am not that Media God or even a paparazzo out of these Paparazzi guys there, but I have been a music lover and youtube freak since 2 years and I have seen people coming from nowhere and becoming a phenomina like Google, so here is the best song (in my opinion) of Lisa Lavie. Her voice has got an explosive quality, I am a fan of her and I am happy for her success. Summing it up, she really deserves it.

Views by now:  3,446,451

Even if Lisa Lavie hadn’t racked up 1.5 million YouTube views of her song “Angel,” in just a week, it would still be clear that the Internet phenomenon was born to sing.

Growing up in a suburb of Montréal called LaSalle, Lisa loved music so much that she would spend hours holed up in her room listening to her favorite singer, Mariah Carey, as well as Boyz II Men and Brian McKnight.

Lisa didn’t have to go far to find musical heroes; they were right at home. Her brother Danny built a strong following in Montreal as DJ Devious, and Michael was a respected hip hop dancer on the streets.

Lisa had her aha! moment as a child. She was 10. “The teacher wanted everyone to audition for our school play. Everybody was supposed to sing ‘Somewhere Over the Rainbow.’ I was hiding because I did not want to sing. I started singing and when I stopped, the teacher said, ‘Continue.’ I did, and when I finished he said, ‘You got the part.’ I ran home saying, ‘Mom, I can sing!’”

Fueled by encouragement and her passion for music, Lisa landed her first real music gig at 15. Danny got her an audition to perform as a backup vocalist on the tour of the landmark French-Canadian hip hop group Dubmatique. She nailed it, and spent months touring Canada with one the country’s most popular groups.

“It was amazing,” she says of the experience. “Every night, we’re playing for thousands and thousands of people.” She was hooked. “I knew this was what I wanted to do full time, however I didn’t know what avenues to take to make that happen.”

Lisa was out of a job when the tour ended, but it wasn’t enough to keep her away from her true love. She recorded a demo with the $5,000 she’d saved from working as a cashier. Then, at just 19, Lisa became co-owner of Montreal’s then-biggest karaoke company “Harmony Karaoke,” even supervising a staff of 12. “I loved it! I loved the great singers and the terrible singers and the what-the-hell singers.”

And here’s where the fairy tale gets good.

A copy of Lisa’s demo exchanged hands until it landed in the palms of songwriter and producer Ben Margulies. Margulies is well-known for his contributions to the debut project of a Mariah Carey, who — yup — just happened to be Lisa’s musical idol. Impressed with Lisa’s emotional, smoky voice, Margulies began reaching out to her, but she figured it had to be a hoax. “I ignored the phone calls. Everybody knew I grew up listening to Mariah, and now somebody is calling me saying Mariah’s producer wants to work with you? I thought it was bull.” Three months later, Ben — calling from a private number — finally got through. She sang her song “Guys Are All The Same” from her demo over the phone to him while at a mall; when she was done, asked her to come to California so they could record. “I Googled him to make sure he was legit. Then I looked up my cousin Lyne and said, ‘Pack your bags — we’re going to California tomorrow.”

That was roughly three years ago — Lisa has been in Santa Barbara ever since, immersing herself in the crafts of songwriting, singing and recording. Early reaction has been so favorable that two songs have appeared in major motion pictures: “Mockingbird” and “If I Only Knew,” were in “The Guardian” with Kevin Costner and “Stick It” with Jeff Bridges, respectively. In spring of 2007, Lisa began posting videos online. She got 1.5 million hits in a week. Today, her videos have received over 3.5 million hits.
Armed with a stimulating album, the Internet phenomenon is plotting her next musical move.

“The great thing about MySpace and YouTube is that it’s kind of a test. We know people like it. People are recording versions of my song back to me, and when that happens, you know you’ve got something.”

So if you think you overhear someone say “C’est la vie” — listen closely. He or she may not be speaking French, but telling you about the Internet’s breakout new star. Say Lavie!

–Malcolm Venable
(Taken from Lisa Lavie’s YouTube profile, and crediting the original writer of it, Malcolm Venable)

Picture says it all. No need for words.

Originally uploaded by Oaun kazmi {(SPIN)}.

Well last night we went to Pizza Hut. Had lots of fun and today I got a Cream Cake from Saeed Bakers and we had a little cake party at office.

I was looking at my old photo Archives and I found this fascinating photo among these old photographs I have been taking while my trip to Lahore in December 2005. It was fun and I have lots of memories of that time.

Shahi Masjid.. Lahore, originally uploaded by Fahd Murtaza.

Badshahi Mosque

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Badshahi Masjid
Basic information
Location	Lahore, Pakistan
Geographic coordinates	31°35?19?N 74°18?50?E? / ?31.58847, 74.313787
Province	Punjab
District	Lahore
Year consecrated	1671
Ecclesiastical status	Mosque
Leadership	Aurangzeb Alamgir
Architectural description
Architectural type	Mosque
Architectural style	Mughal
Specifications
Dome(s)	3

The Badshahi Mosque (Urdu: ??????? ????), or the ‘Emperor’s Mosque‘, was built in 1673 by the Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb in Lahore, Pakistan. It is one of the city’s best known landmarks, and a major tourist attraction epitomising the beauty and grandeur of the Mughal era.

Capable of accommodating over 55,000 worshipers, it is the second largest mosque in Pakistan, after the Faisal Mosque in Islamabad. The architecture and design of the Badshahi Masjid is closely related to the Jama Masjid in Delhi, India, which was built in 1648 by Aurangzeb’s father and predecessor, emperor Shah Jahan.

Badshahi Masjid is one of the locations where Qari’ Abdul Basit recited the Qur’an.^{[citation needed]} The Imam-e-Kaaba (Sheikh Abdur-Rahman Al-Sudais of Saudi Arabia) has also led prayers in this mosque in 2007.

My nephew Faizi in his very own, special style.

Faizeeeeeee aka Faiji the Model, originally uploaded by Fahd Murtaza.

I photographed this on my cousin Ammar Yasir’s Wedding. It was a fun being there with my little Faizi.