Likable People

People I absolutely adore, admire, or quite like.

A list of people whom I deem either truly remarkable or at least very good based on my personal interactions in life. Although most of my family members have proven themselves to be rather horrendous folks, nevertheless, I have had the good fortune of meeting some spectacular individuals during my years in the educational system and even at a couple of software houses here in Punjab.

Owing to certain undocumented issues, I am having some problems right now, however, I plan to complete the list later. However, to get the ball rolling, meet my favorice senior in town and two of my the most favorite class fellows, one a school fellow and the other one a batch fellow from FAST—NUCES, Lahore. Once I have the energy, I will add the names of the other individuals, from truly remarkably likable to quite likable, later on.

• Esteemed Dr. Khaver Zia

  Former dean of FAST, subsequently dean at Beaconhouse National University, and a complete course work in modesty and remarkably good behavior. I adore Dr. Khaver Zia as a person who was an authority figure when I was started to observe him and then had at least half a dozen conversations with him, oh the polite and humble manner of the dean of an engineering institution with a PhD from UMST in electrical and electronics engineering.

• Asad Gill

  Although we have lost contact, however, during my 3 years at FAST, I found this individual to be a phenomenal human, a truly remarkable person. I would forever remain in debt for the numerous times he lent his help without ever making me plead or beg for assistance; I just had to ask for help, and he was always there to rescue a drowning soul. Sensational Mr. Asad Akram Gill: a truly remarkable programmer, software engineer, and a tremendous friend as long as we were in touch during our 3 years’ long stay at FAST. It would forever remain an unforgettable experience experiencing his truly remarkable conduct during those 3 years.

• Sheeraz Fazal

  A spectacular teaching assistant (TA) and team lead; I had the absolute pleasure of working in the team that he was leading at Vroom Technologies (formerly WorldWerx), Lahore. You can read more about him on my Acknowledgements page.

• Azhar Ali Chaudary

  A competent and phenomenally well-behaved guy. Losing contact with this person has been and will forever remain a great personal disappointment; alas, c’est la vie.

• Fahd Pirzada

  He was my class fellow at F. G. College Kharian, Cantonement, and his profile and listed achievements have left me truly impressed; that rarely happens. I don’t know about now, however, when we were enrolled at F. G. College, Kharian, he used to be a remarkably well-behaved young person. I wish him even better results in the coming years.

• Fahd Reaz

  Stellar class fellow and batch fellow at FAST, Lahore, who was always willing to lend a hand in the time of need when we were together at FAST. I remember this fellow extremely fondly.

• Ahmed Ayub

  A remarkably, rather sensationally, well-behaved roommate when I was staying in a small flat here in Lahore during my days at FAST. Sharing the room with him and spending that year and a half as his roommate would forever remain a cherished memory. I sincerely hope that he is enjoying life and doing well. Fables, movies, articles, short stories, and the rest always keep revolving around a certain trite concept, the sheer unlikelihood and improbability of finding a perfect flatmate or roommate. In my case, I was not only able to find a perfect roommate, even my flatmates, two brothers Fareed and Naeem, were extremely likeable fellows with just one minor flaw. I cannot say with any degree of certainty what sort of opinion they have of me as I was utterly uninterested in computing affairs at that time, however, I spent the best year and a half away from home in my life. Ahmed Ayub at the time was not only a good student but an excellent human, as well, who was probably deeply liked by most of his batch fellows at FAST. It is to Ahmed’s credit that he introduced my to one Raja Bhai from Sialkot who would eventually teach me some much needed basics of assembly programming. Raja bhai’s lesson eventually helped me learn to program a little in assembly and pass that course. The blame for that lesson does not rest with the teacher of assembly at the time at FAST; I had zero interest in computing at the time, hence, I was almost always in trouble. When it comes to my life in Lahore since the start of December, 1996, I probably remember that year and a half in the fondest possible manner.

• Manzil-e-Maqsood

  Spectacularly well behaved woman. The truly remarkable and phenomenal experience of conversing with her on what is deemed by the larger society an exceptionally sensitive matter, body weight, would forever remain etched in my brain. This sensationally well-behaved woman with 923 marks in FSc tackled my question from a purely scientific point of view, and we had a short conversation on metabolism, body’s various mechanisms involved in converting food into energy, and how, on occasions, it fails to fully convert the consumed food into energy and starts to store it as access fat. It was an absolute joy conversing with this person as a young girl at FAST, Lahore, and even when she was working at Cressoft.

• Farhan Zaheer Chaudary

  An extremely caring young adult whom I met at FAST. I still remember the young guy’s love affair with Zippo lighters.

• Imran Majid

  A phenomenally decent person with whom I had the chance to converse on at least a few different occasions while we were enrolled in FAST, Lahore. The fellow now works for Microsoft, and I am elated that he has been able to find success as a stellar software engineer. At least he used to be a spectacularly well-behaved individual; I can only hope that his colleagues share the same sentiment. Experiencing his mannerism would always remain a source of joy for me.

• Fatima Fikri — A spectacularly well-behaved girl conducting herself in a spectacularly likable manner.
• Usman Khan

  This guy has been my savior at least once. Without his help, I would not have been able to sit the final exam of Numerical Methods course as the teacher was just not willing to change the attendance sheet where I had not attended the requisite number of classes. He pitched in and somehow convinced the teacher to let me sit the exam. Forever grateful for that help.

• Spectacularly well-behaved, extremely likable former class fellows

  At F. G. Public Boys School Jhelum, Cantonment, I had the pleasure of meeting Atiq Rehman (remember the times spent with this person spectacularly fondly), Khalid Bhatti, Bilal Ayub, and Ali Ayub.

• Sami Chaudary

  The only son of our chemistry professor in Jhelum Sadiq Sahab. A sensationally well-behaved young adult and it was a pleasure conversing with him, always. He will forever enjoy a special place in my brain.