NED Diaries

In the beginning (1^st year) I was like a machine gun that continuously fired words that were beyond the comprehension of people. I had few friends as most people avoided me.

In the second year I gained some control over my words, though not completely and I started to make some friends.

In the third year I almost became a celebrity, as most of the class discovered my talent and I gathered yet another bunch of friends. The third year was the best year in the university life, we had lots of fun and most importantly I discovered Fatima, though I did not have enough courage to talk to her. Taha had to bear two internships with me during that year. The final year was a gloomy year, though we had a little bit of fun, it was a total reign of boredom. The only memorable event in the final year was the visit to Mari Gas Company, the movies that I watched with Belal and the drafting of the constitution of the SPE.

Drawing class

Engineering drawing was a boring subject, taught by Mr. Waseem who showed his attitude on the very first day.

He came to the class and started writing a long list of materials, and then suddenly Waqas cried, “Is this all included in exam syllabus?”(Ye sab aaega exams me?) He asked in an annoying voice; “who said that will this all come in exams?” (kis ne kahathakyakyalikhwaenge?) He repeated the words twice and then expelled the entire row from the class.

Pakistan Studies Class

I am a history lover and since my childhood I find it very interesting. Pakistan studies (a course in Pakistan’s history) was taught by Sir Mansoor Ali Shahani, who was a very lively person and made a dry subject very interesting one.

Once he commented about Quaid I Azam:

“Quaid I Azam was not a religious person, when he went to London, he rented the house of a widow, the widow had a daughter, they used to play snooker and the penalty in case of foul was to kiss.”

Chemistry class

During the first year we studied applied chemistry which was taught by Mr.Ghazanfar Hussain. He suffered from multiple personality disorder. During the theory class, he remained very frank but during the practical class he transformed into a bad tempered executioner.

During most of the session he talked about ethical conduct and behaviour, forgetting that he was there to teach chemistry not ethics.

Towards the end of the session, he became very short tempered, he conducted very difficult tests and gave very low marks.

During the practical sessions he changed into a ghost and asked very difficult questions in the viva that followed the practical.

The final viva and practical were very difficult and his behaviour was very harsh. He laughed loudly when the students gave incorrect answers .

Physics practical

During the first year we studied Applied Physics that comprised of both theory and practical sessions.

I enjoyed the practical a lot as I had many lively personalities of the class in my group, namely; Faisal, Belal and Taha .

One of us generally performed the practical, while the others borrowed the workbooks of our colleagues so as to copy the readings from them.The practical was followed by the viva. 

Electrical engineering class

The electrical engineering class was an ill fated class in which we were very reluctant to study. The class began at 2pm and ended at 3.40pm, these 100 minutes were very difficult to bear.

The teacher (Sir Arshad) used to copy the solved examples on the board, while the unsolved examples were given as assignments.

The class made different sorts of noise, for example animal voices and the sounds of unmentionable acts.

The syllabus was completed but the memory of the class still haunts us.

Absent

During the first year, I was not well accustomed to long attendance call at the university and usually was not cautious enough to comply to it. So someone (Mubashir) coined the word absent for me. After that, whenever the teacher called my name the whole class chanted, ‘absent’.

What’s the problem? Why so noisy?

During the first and the second year, Sir Abid used to teach Engineering Geology and Petroleum Geology respectively.

Whenever he saw someone talking in the class, he used to say:”What’s the problem? Why so noisy?”

Drilling Engineering

In the second year, we studied engineering drilling which was taught by Sir Afzal. He had a vast knowledge of the subject but the problem was his volume was very low. On the other hand the class made so much noise that his voice became further inaudible.

Out of 50 students, only 5-8 attended the class while the others roamed in the class or talked to each other.

At the end of the session he leaked the original paper after course completion, this brought the inattentive at par with the attentive students, this made the paper a piece of cake and enabled them to score high marks.

Sir Afzal

Appa Don shoots Miss Sadia

It was just another day at the university during the third year. We were sitting in Miss Sadia’s class when suddenly there was a sound of shutter (of the camera), followed by complete silence in the class.

When she turned back she saw Hasan (Appa Don) aiming his E63 at her. She confiscated his cell phone and instructed him to follow her to her office; the rest of the event is between Miss Sadia and Hasan. The event blew away his cover of innocence and anonymity .After this event he came to be known as Appa Don.

Mohsin’s sacrifices for Aelia

During the third year we studied instrumentation and control. The subject teacher, Sir Tariq was very friendly but had one bad habit;he used to mark talkative people absent.

On average 5-6 people used to get absent marked in their presence!

When he used to mark Aelia absent, Mohsin used to say, ”Sir mark me absent in her place.”(sir in kijagameri absent laga den)

Mr. Tariq used to comply to his request with a clever smile on his face.Keep following for more chronicles.

Mohsin karlos

Patta Group

There is a group of gamblers in the class known as Patta Group. This group entirely comprised of a row and Zeeshan.Mohsin is the Master and Commander of the group, while others are Jamal,Shaine, Owais and Bilal.

The group takes its name by its habit of playing cards. They play cards whenever they get time. The group is also notorious for the use of highly abusive language used during the game.

The Patta Group

Kheer of SSGC

During summer 2011 Taha and I were having lunch at the SSGC SITE Terminal; I ate the kheer and felt that it had been contaminated with natural gas.

I told Taha about my deduction he also confirmed my fears.We left that kheer and never tried it again. Later we used to tease each other by its name.

Angry Bird Day

On 18^th September’12 the Khappa Community celebrated the ‘Angry Bird Day’. On that day the walls were decorated by posters exhibiting the photos of Zeeshan and specifying the subsequent action in case he was sighted. These posters were torn by Zeeshan as soon as he entered the class.

Some people wore angry bird T-shirts. The day was well picked as Zeeshan’s group had a presentation that day, all the class tried to annoy him by playing weeeee sound from their call phones.

The day ended in a photo shoot and in the end Zeeshan also wore one of the angry bird T-shirt as he was the mascot.

The Dent

This event occurred on Monday September 3,2012. A small group of students from the petroleum department visited the Edhi home to give some presents to the children residing there.

The event according to an eye witness is as follows:” Hasan (Jin) was walking in front of Zeeshan’s car, suddenly the car touched Hasan, he sat over the hood (bonnet) leaving a dent on it.”

The relations between Hasan and Zeeshan went below 0°C, but soon normalized.

Colour day

The color day marked the end of our engineering journey at the NED. On that day everybody gave autographs to each other and sprayed colours.         

The introduction to the SPE Constitution

We the legislators present the constitution of the SNSC to the executive council. It is intended to

be the ‘modus operandi’ of the SNSC.

Since the dawn of civilization societies are governed on a set of rules that dictate their behavior.

The Ten Commandments that were the code of conduct of the Israelis, The Treaty of Medinamade between The Holy Prophet (PBUH) and the Jews are a few examples. These laws set thelimits of individual and communal behavior of any society. Sometimes the rules are from Allahand at other instance it is by his Prophets sometimes they are drafted through consensus of thepeople and prevalent these days. In either case these laws are meant for the welfare of themasses.

On the contrary in despotism, governed by an omnipotent individual there are no laws. His will

is regarded as the supreme law. He governs his masses according to it and do not take any

consent before making any crucial decision. His absolute power is the root of all the corruption

and tyranny as Lord Acton has indicated:

“Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.”

To avoid all such mal practices the constitution of the SNSC is based on the principles of

democracy where every final year student has the right to form a group to contest for theelection.

To avoid omnipotence, the power is not centered to the president of the society, but is divided

among the elected legislature along with the president.

To maintain accountability and impartiality in the functioning of the SNSC, the faculty sponsor

has been given certain special powers. This is according a saying

“Where there is no guidance people fail but in the multitude of counselors there is a victory”

The constitution of the SNSC is brief and to the point so as to avoid any confusion or

misunderstanding. As Napoleon has said:

“A constitution must be short and obscure.”

It has been ensured that it addresses most of the major issues that may arise during the tenure ofSNSC.

For execution of everyday tasks various subcommittees have been made and the executive

committee has the authority to create a new sub committees.

The power between the executive committee is divided in a manner so that everyone bears equal

burden of the responsibilities of the executive committee.

No law is perfect and final; there are certain circumstances where an amendment becomes

inevitable. To address this situation the executive committee has been given the powers to amend

the constitution.

The executives have also been given the power to draft new laws through a proper procedure.

Another issue on the table is publication very professional society has its own publications

department that publishes its periodicals, newsletters etc. A publications department has also

been made an integral part of the SNSC to address these issues.

To conclude this constitution will lead to the prosperity of the SNSC and will make it strong but

these two can only be achieved through good practices as Charles De Gaulle has said:

“A constitution is made of a spirit, institution and a practice”.