The Cheapmunks

The rage which made the fans go crazy about Cheapmunks was their unique mash-up songs. Adding to that were the beautiful and soulful voices of the girls.

Cheapmunks have created and made way for youngsters to show the world what they got, have been making music which the people want to hear!

In my interview with Hamza Quddusi taken almost a year back I was sure that Cheapmunks had a long way to go. After hearing rumours about how Cheapmunks had come so far to fade like this, was their commitment to their fans just an act?Sources reveal that Mehak left the band after Cheapmunks’ last concert on 5^th June 2011 due to her personal reasons. With mutual agreement, Cheapmunks decided to continue. As time passed, clash of ideas was at its peak, wanting different things for the band and personal opinions made the members doubtful of continuing in the future. Suhana left for USA soon enough, leaving Cheapmunks lifeless.

“I always invited them to come and do something together but they left the band themselves and never joined hands with us, though I asked them enough times, their response was not positive.”, says Hamza Quddusi.

Cheapmunks Really Returning?

Hamza and Danyal have taken over the Facebook page and are claiming to return, with or without Suhana and Mehak?

Are the girls really concerned about their image or they just want to seek attention as new girls are going to come and replace them?

Is the skit writing on Pakium’s Facebook wall genuine as the girls know they are fading away? Only time will tell.

I remember it was Pakistan and India’s match when I gave the admission test of IBA back in 2009. Reviving those memories overwhelms me to that extent that I can still feel the excitement all over again. Since I knew getting admission in IBA is not an easy job more like climbing a mountain of air, giving the test was a last minute decision.

When people asked me how was the admission test, I retorted back with ‘so easy’. I thought I had gone crazy but when I got to know I passed, it was a totally different feeling. Going through the whole procedure of admission, be it group discussions, interviews, all through this I had been flying on seventh heaven with happiness. I remember the people over there were very different, friendly ofcourse but so focused. The seniors were ever so helpful probably because my sister was in her last year there too, making her friends being just amazing to me.

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Discussions had been going on a day earlier whether Twitter would really be banned or were they just warnings?

I had woken up on the aggravated day of 20^th May, trying to access Twitter to vent and what not. I thought something was wrong with my phone or I was daydreaming because the timeline wasn’t refreshing. Basically Twitter was unreachable. I quickly messaged a friend via Facebook saying my worst fear, seeing it turn it into reality that is was twitter really blocked? A kind soul she is who told me ways to get to it, allowing me to tweet like a gangster when there was actually a #TwitterBan in Pakistan.

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I have been seeing and using social media since I can remember.

Through social media people interact with each other, talking about various things, giving their opinions, criticisms, complaints and mainly just taking out contentment or frustrations whatsoever.

I have concluded some Do’s and Don’ts of the social media. Let me know if you relate to them.

The Do’s

- Using it for businesses. While some people use it for business purposes and marketing their product, they also use it to promote themselves like actors, celebrities. A nice way to get more famous as well as interacting with your fans and followers.

- Helping others to achieve their goals by inspiring and motivating articles via blogs, newspapers and magazines. Informing and encouraging people to know what they want and how they will achieve it.

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Hackivist group Anonymous vows to “kill Facebook” on November 5, with a valid reason of weak privacy for users. While

Update: Anonymous confirmed via a tweet that while some of its members are organizing the upcoming attack against Facebook, the hacker organization as a whole does not necessarily agree with the attack.

The group of hackers has claimed participation in just about every recent notable hacking attack of this year and successfully broke into 70 law enforcement websites and took down the Syrian Ministry of Defense website this week alone.

This recent interest in Facebook, despite a huge number of privacy issues against the social network since its founding, may be a result of Anonymous’s recent announcement that it plans to create its own social network, called AnonPlus. After the group’s Google+ account, called “Your Anon News,” was banned, it began fleshing out AnonPlus.com, “a new social network where there is no fear … of censorship … of blackout … nor of holding back.”
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First there was Orkut in which people use to write walls and wait for others to reply. You could add pictures and your friends can see them. Start a topic and invite people to share their views for a discussion. This was the only past time back in those days. I remember creating an account and sharing my views with the world.

Facebook is a social networking service and website launched in February 2004, operated and privately owned by Facebook. Facebook swapped Orkut right away. As of July 2011, Facebook has more than 750 million active users. From just walls Facebook shifted to uploading and tagging pictures, sharing links with your friends. Update how you are feeling and your friends can add comments to your status.

Business use to run on Facebook. Facebook advertising was considered to be the most convenient way to earn and grow your business. Instead of asking visiting card people now ask what’s your Facebook id? Facebook became the most convenient way to stay in touch with your customers, friends and family.

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With the popularity of Facebook having risen, Pakistanis haven’t been far behind in using it. No, leave ‘Leave far behind!’ They’ve flooded the site to such an extent that I believe Mark Zuckerberg should keep a quota for the percentage of Pakistanis on facebook! So here’s my take on the 7 obvious, and ridiculously annoying types:

1. The Rohndoos:

These are the ones who just cannot help but keep crying and whining on and about how sad/bad or unfair life and this world is to them. They are prone to updating statuses like the following everyday:

“I Fe3L LyK crYing! I h@te ma lyfe!”

“So0o lonely! Nobody cares about me! I jus d0nt want 2 live!!”

“My life SUxxx!”

“I want to end ma life!”

(Yes please, go ahead and spare us this torture)

They, I firmly believe, are people who used to keep the lyrics  ‘Zindagi Nay Zindagi Bhar Ghum Diay” as their MSN ‘nick’ with the picture of a slashed wrist, with the oozing blood spelling ‘Heart-broken’ and have now graced us with their pleasant presence on Facebook.
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Facebook is the home of millions of users now days. People eat and update their status, people hangout and upload their pictures, people even protest on Facebook. For this security is the main issue which was of concern for Mark Zuckerberg. To overcome this Facebook introduced a feature which enables Facebook to send you an email or an SMS when someone logs into your account from anywhere in the world. Just stick with me and will guide you to activate this feature.
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These days hackers and some other are so smart that may steal your account passwords and you never get to know about it, as they keep on logging to your account from other computers without your knowledge and peek into your account without your permission.
So, if any one else login to your account from some other computer other than the registered one or the some other mobile phone other than your registered mobile phone you will get notified via email.

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Recently you must have received sms messages or emails saying: Sign a Petition to stop the recent burning of the Quran. Or join this page or that website that is condemning this act. And let’s hold a rally to stop this. Maybe all of this made you stop and think about the recent incident that caused a commotion universally as well as in the Muslim world. This was the incident of Pastor Terry Jones announcing the desecration of the Quran in Gainsville, Florida as retaliation to the Islamic Mosque being built on the site of 9/11.
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