Category: Personal

  • Dentistry in Karachi

    Teeth Maestro is actually the pen name of Dr. Awab Alvi who is a dentist by profession in Karachi, Pakistan. He has been practicing Dentistry in Karachi since 1999 when he graduated from de’Montmorency College of Dentistry, Lahore and has since been practicing with his father Dr. Arif Alvi at Alvi Dental Hospital, which is…

  • Tag me if you can

    Just recently I was blog-tagged by Minigma, I usually am not too keen to play the tag game but thought that this specific tag was very interesting. Go ahead read this post it is possible for you to discover the person behind the Teeth Maestro’s blog, so discover away. TAG Questions: 5-years ago: That’s a…

  • TeethMaestro.com

    Thanks to the amazing offer from Yahoo I am now a proud owner of a couple of domains including TeethMaestro.com which is now and addition to my blog. I still continue to publish at teeth.com.pk/blog but if you happen to type in teethmaestro.com it will also lead you down the garden path to my blog.…

  • Torrent Fascination

    Gone are the days of Kaaza and Bearshear or even the old Napster, in come the world of torrent file servers. For the past few days I have been preoccupied with downloading numerous software and files shared on the torrent network. I have installed the software Azureus and have been busily using my 256k DSL…

  • Irritatingly Interesting

    If you cast your gaze at my sidepanel you will see an new addition Titled “How to Irritate People”, I have just recently compiled a huge list of more the 250 quotes of very interesting and mostly funny items that one can do to act irritating to people. You will be treated to a fresh…

  • I am Back with tons of Static electricity

    People living in Pakistan see a loss of electricty quite frequently but rarely excess of electricity – apart from the few surges we get every hour or so, well yours truly experienced a surge of static electiricty in my laptop which corrupted the magentic fields of my hard disk (at least thats my diagnosis). Sadly…

  • Absence

    I apologize for my protracted absence from the blogging world and also the net as on Thursday 12th May I had a traggic Hard Drive crash, I am slowly in the process of recoveting my 60GB data off the Hard drive and transfered onto another computer. The process is slow and time consuming, sorry again,…

  • Mobile Alerts in Pakistan?

    I have wanted to receive Yahoo and MSN alert on my cell phone (ufone) for sometime. Going through the MSN / Yahoo Alert sign-up screens I am allowed to enter an email address of my messaging device and I enter is properly in the format as 0333*******@ufone.com following this I am supposed to receive an…

  • Review of Pakistani Bloggers

    It is my sound belief that more exposure is needed to bring our local talent of Pakistani Blogger into the International limelite. Not that they arent already making waves, but more exposure can’t hurt. Linkbacks etc do help support the blog but nothing would beat a review which might actually try to reveal the person…

  • Nokia 9300 Communicator

    I proudly announce that today I became a proud owner of a Nokia 9300 Communicator. It means an end to my crappy PDA Handspring 270 and I now move up the mobile ladder to hold a slick and stylish piece of equipment. I got this as a birthday present, and I surely am NOT complaining…

  • Blogger to WP migration: My Experience

    The concept took birth about a month ago when I seriously explored the idea of taking my blogger experince to a different level.  Being a novice I downloaded the WP 1.5 release onto my present hosting only to realize I needed to upgrade my basic service to include PHP & MySQL.  Exploring various hosting services…

  • My Birthday too

    Isn’t it surprising when you accidently find that some other person happens to have the same Birth date as yours. Well I was surprised to find that Shirazi and myself having the same Date of Birth which is 5th April [mind you I have no idea if our year coincides; PS- dont wanna know as…

  • Contemplating to Move to a Domain

    I give full credit to Blogspot to have completely captured my attention and I am now whole-heartedly stuck to blogging, long gone are the days where I used to idle aimlessly on the web, the world of Blogging has my undivided attention. The passion has gone to such an extent that my family need not…

  • Is Islamabad Really Dead?

    I was in Islamabad for two days to visit the US Embassy for a visa so that I can go to the US to continue my training at UPENN in Microscopic Endodontics. The visit was OK as the Gods of the INS Authorities found me "qualified for a visa", but I dearly missed the hustle…

  • and the pictures……

    Here are the pictures of the event we held at Alvi Dental Hospital to launch the 1st Dental Microscope in Pakistan – the event was well covered in the press, News reports appeared in PTV Khabarnama, ARY News, City News and Indus News, articles appeared in The News, Daily Times, Pictures were seen in many…