Category: Personal

  • Immediate effects if you STOP smoking

    Smoking is an addiction which claims over 3.5 million premature deaths every year throught out the world, Pakistan has a huge population of cigarette smoking addicts. Beating any addiction requires a person to make a choice and a decision that they will stand by no matter what it costs or how difficult it may be.…

  • Unaiza on a Mission for the EQ

    Unaiza Nasim, a co-blogger who I have known for sometime, has embarked on a very noble mission where she is collecting funds for making a “Shelter for the homeless. There are over 40,000 people still living in tents in the earthquake zone in the northern areas of Pakistan and the upcoming winter will be the…

  • Have You Forgotten? October 8th 2005

    October 8th 2005, changed Pakistan forever, at precisely 08:50:38 a massive earthquake struck the northern areas of Pakistan which devastated the entire country over 80,000 lives perished in a blink of an eye, thousands were displaced resulting in millions of dollars in damage. The entire country joined hands in unison to help the suffering, but…

  • “The Media is Definitely Playing Havoc with your Mind”

    This was the recent comment from a very respected online acquaintance, who wrote in response to my recent US-Bashing barrage, We Will Not be Silent and also in the post titled Muslims Dont Hate Freedom, They Hate Oppression. You are very right, and I too feel this sentiment coming through on all of my posts,…

  • The True Essence of Life

    “Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out and loudly proclaiming, “WOW! What a ride!”

  • Muslims Don’t Hate Freedom, They Hate Oppression

    I came across this article written by Khalid Amayreh, its well written and quite adequately explains the present dilemma regarding Muslims being termed as Islamic Fascists. I have partially reproduced this article the areas which I feel need more attention, though I would recommend reading the entire article found at ZioPedia – Muslims don’t hate…

  • A Life so Cruelly Extinguished

    On Aug 4th a very close neighbour of mine Aamir Parekh was crushed to death as a loose Cargo container fell on top of the car he was driving. It was because of a speeding truck which lost control while entering a cross section while coming off a ramp on the bridge. The container was…

  • For the Love of Pakistan

    This is a commemorative post made on 14th August to mark the 59th Independence Day of Islamic Republic of Pakistan. I am born and bred Pakistani and I assure you I am emotionally patriotic enough to even die for this country of mine. This 14th August to me is a proud moment to see my…

  • Brush’em upgrade

    All techies like to name their upgrades in a funky manner, it would be idiotic for me to consider myself a techie so I settle for being a simple dentist hence this upgrade is titled v Brush’em. So I present to you the new look of my blog in the next few days I will…

  • Its a Boy

    Last week on Monday 26th June I was blessed with a baby boy clocking in at exactly 1:55 pm. Weighing in at a delicate featherweight category of 2.4 kg this chap (still yet to be named) came kicking and screaming into the world more like a boxer ready to kick some serious butt. Butt kicking…

  • 100,000 Satisfied Customers

    Today can be marked as a major milestone for this blog, it has little meaning to anyone apart from creating a milestone for myself. Teeth Maestro’s Blog has crossed the landmark of having served 100,000 unique visitors on this website (since May 2005). Teeth Maestro previously existed on blogspot until the migration to my own…

  • TAG IT! on Bloggers.Pakistan

    Bloggers.Pakistan now boasts another nifty feature called TAG IT! A community driven tagging system perfectly designed to improve the overall blog reading experience for everyone using Pakistan’s First and Only Blog Aggregator – www.bloggers.pk. In the first week of launch we have processed over 70 applications of which a few are still pending due to…

  • Bloggers.Pakistan Launched

    We (Omer Alvie and Dr. Awab Alvi) are pleased to announce the launch of Pakistan’s first and only Blog Aggregator at www.bloggers.pk, a one-stop site to preview what is being said in the Pakistani blogosphere. It started off as a casual discussion between two chat-buddies which slowly took the shape of a massive effort to…

  • Happy Birthday – Zaafir

    A shout out to my son Zaafir who celebrated his 3rd birthday in amazing style this past week, the theme was Thomas the Tank Engine where everything from the invitation cards, decorations and even the waiters serving the food were dressed as train conductors, everything was based on the cartoon character. We even had a…

  • Blogspot Blocked AGAIN

    Well our celebrations from the last post, were indeed short lived as the PTA has again resumed the blocking of the entire blogspot domain. As of today, 6th May 2006 5:00pm, after a brief relief of three precious days for the internet surfing society of Pakistan, the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority appears to have again resumed…