Posted on 18 January 2012 by Tea Server
If you are planning to spend your holidays out of town, be it somewhere else in Pakistan or abroad, you must be interested in knowing about the weather of the place, its time zone and such things to be fully prepared for your trip.
Here is a website which displays the world clock, sun and moon calculators, seasons, weather forecast, etc.— www.timeanddate.com. The website is free, continuously updated with accurate information available all over the world.
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Among the calculators hosted here include the world clock, time zones, countdown timers and date, distance, and travel time calculators. These handy calculators will be a great help to you in a new place and help you plan your stay without any confusions messing up your schedule.
Apart from this, the site also offers a lot of personalisation for more convenience; you can select up to 25 cities of your choice and you will have their respective times displayed on a single page. These settings are saved automatically, and the next time you visit the site you will have the homepage of your choice.
This feature is also useful in deciding when to call your family or friends abroad at proper time, lest you spoil their sleep.
So, here you are with a toolbox of time, date and weather calculators which can be of as many uses as you can think of. Sit in front of your PC or laptop and start playing with time. — Aamir Raz Soomro
Posted on 07 January 2012 by Tea Server
From
ashrafiya.com
Sayyidi wa sanadi Shaikh Mufti Mohammad Taqi Usmani (Allah preserve him) said,
‘These days most of us are preoccupied by the past events or future apprehensions. In doing so we neglect the present.’
An individual inquired,
‘In our era due to technological advances every day chores are done relatively quickly. Hence we have extra time available to us. This usually results in preoccupation with useless involvements including those you mention. How can we utilize time more effectively?’
Sayyidi wa sanadi replied,
‘I repeatedly tell the people the same and ask them what are they doing with the time they save by using these new technologies.
An individual has to develop the importance of value of time.
Once this importance is developed then it will be impossible for him to waste a single second. Moreover, Allah will give barakah in his time and he will be able to do more work effectively in the same amount of time.’
Posted on 02 May 2011 by Tea Server
Many years back, my class fellows and I were waiting for a new visiting teacher to take first session of an advanced master-level course on management. We were quite relaxed as the teacher was already fifteen odd minutes late and the course coordinator had just confirmed that she was stuck in a traffic jam caused due to VIP movement, which has become a hallmark of Islamabad ever since, and that she was on her way to the University and would soon make it for the class. Naturally, I and my class fellows went further slack expecting she would first apologize for coming late after entering the class, then routine ice-breaking would follow through formal introductions etc., and onwards till the end of the stipulated three hour credit time the course plan / outline, do’s & don’ts etc., would be discussed as the way first sessions are usually conducted. However, when our teacher entered the class two things struck us all like lightening, firstly the graceful & impressive personality of our teacher and secondly she did not follow the normal pattern and instead asked the students to get ready for a five minute written quiz, take out papers and explain any [...]
