I am Lee

I'm an Internet Gypsy.
I carry endless love for simple
beautiful technology.

Coming to the side of my real life,
My interests are pretty wide.
So when Im doing something
which makes Me Happy,
I'm living — My Life.

My Thoughts

"People not only affect us temporarily. they influence us. they connect with us. they drastically change us"

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Welcome to GCC Shoppe

Welcome all to my Company founded by Me & With my Co-Founder Saqib to GCC Shoppe.

The Innovative Idea of opening GCC Shoppe™, A Simple Platform where GCC students can Buy/Sell their used items, comes from a very simple thought ― “why wasn’t there any easy method available for GCC students, like a centralized hub where they can post their ads and get them reached directly to their own college mates, so that the whole process of finding a buyer or a seller from their own college is made very easy and simple.”

Being run by two Garden City College students themselves, who understands the difficulties, needs or demands of GCC students, GCC Shoppe™ platform helps the students in various scenarios, like the ones mentioned below.

Dear friends, its been really nice to keep in touch with you online. As part of my policy of keeping a very limited online—Social presence, there are few updates though.

As of Now, Facebook & Twitter are the only Social Networks I’m part of, and below are the ONLY Accounts I manage for my formal or personal use. Directly or Indirectly, I manage NO other online accounts to represent Me, other than the ones mentioned here.

Facebook profile — www.facebook.com/imleekub
Twitter profile — www.twitter.com/imleekub
Facebook Page — www.facebook.com/misterleeme

If there are any other online accounts misleading to believe as if it’s mine, I declare No relation or accountability for the Same. Any updates will be reflected here on my Website. Thank you all, for being a part of my Life.

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Onto another Adventure

Tonight begins another big year for Me. Well, for me, a year as a whole, is a big thing, it’s almost like those slices of life, which incredibly contributes to the making of my own self. Every year gives me a lot to experiment, a lot to regret and even bigger lot to rejoice and remember. 2012 was none the less. So here I was wondering how fast 2012 has come to an end. I still can’t believe that its almost the year end, and in just few hours I will be welcoming 2013, though for few couple of days, I sure will be making the mistake of using 2012, while writing dates.

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Music that made my year Iridescent.

yet another year is getting over. Throughout this year, like always, Music was my escape. I could spend hours doing anything, while my iTunes is playing my collections. This year was filled with some good music, some really good music I mean. Being a big fan of iTunes, most of the time, I keep playing tracks in shuffle, to figure out how better some tracks can thrill my heart, than the rest. So heres my year’s personal ‘mixtape’ which covers my loved selection through all Genres of my iTunes, All of the albums in this list are my Day and Night favorites.

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Remembering Steve Jobs

“to the Man who shaped everything in technology to simplicity & Perfection. Steve Job’s absence is thoroughly felt. Miss you SJ. May your Soul, Rest in Peace.”― Mister Lee

"When you’re a carpenter making a beautiful chest of drawers, you’re not going to use a piece of plywood on the back, even though it faces the wall and nobody will ever see it. You’ll know it’s there, so you’re going to use a beautiful piece of wood on the back. For you to sleep well at night, the aesthetic, the quality, has to be carried all the way through.” ― Steve Jobs

Those words from Steve Jobs is the first thing that crossed my mind, when I watched Apple’s Special event Keynote today Morning. As Apple does not broadcast their events live, I had to wait impatiently for few hours until Apple finally showcased it on their website. Needless to say, Steve Job’s absence was immensely felt throughout, however the whole keynote event was exactly as it was expected. Just brilliant.

Since the official announcement of this event, I was so thrilled, and it reached to the excitement when I actually reached home last night, and the countdown was showing almost 25 minutes. The Apple event itself wasn’t live, so I had to tune in myself to CNET’s live coverage on the same. It was fun to watch, as my friends were online same time, and we were excitedly chatting over iMessage while the show was going on along side. I was actively discussing with few community members of the Apple Software forum. I had fun. But the excitement was not only about watching the show, but to me, it was more about experiencing the ethics and charms of Apple, the brand i keep close to everything thats beautiful in my heart. CNET broadcast was rather funful discussion. It was sure fun to watch, but I wasn’t truly happy with CNET’s coverage.

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Are you a victim of Facebook or Twitter?

Note : This article of mine is dedicated to my friend, who is recently going through some hard times, due to negative influence of Facebook and Twitter.

Social Networks like facebook or twitter is being increasingly popular these days. With the incremental usage in smartphones and digital devices, we can see, everybody is spending a whole lots of their times online. And a huge share of our time online, is dedicatedly spent on social networks. It could even surprise us, if we start to write down the amount of time we spent on social media every day of a week. Truth is, it is very entertaining to most extent, to be sharing everything of our life to the people thats connected to us. Its healthy and is a necessary way of building a healthy conscience and that helps us build the quality of our life and lift our spirits up.

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Getting to know Apple, like a curious kid.

Choosing an apple product isn’t just enough to show off your brand loyalty. Having an iPhone or an iMac simply doesn’t mean you are living the apple way. Most people out there, who gets an iPhone or any apple products, doesn’t know anything about how to make the best out of the product. In my words, they “think” they are in style. Steve Jobs, who was the founder of apple, whom i refer to as SJ always, was a perfectionist and he was super specific about defining a lifestyle based on a single brand that he loved the most, Apple.

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A day with Mountain Lion. Paws & Claws of Apple’s New Big Cat.

Switching to Apple OSX is one of the best decision I have made this year. It is a very clear choice of mine, considering all the good and bad in it. I switched to OSX Lion, when Apple reached to such a level of perfection in their OS, which I have been waiting from years to happen. 10.7.3 is the magic number. Watching that happen, it was very definite to me, its a beddy bye to Windows.

So while I was living with lion, with all the joy, I was waiting for Mountain Lion to be released. Like a surprise, Apple announced the launch for July 25th, and that too just a day before the launch. That night I was so restless. Like a boy who was waiting desperately for his brand new cycle or something, I simply couldn’t wait no more. So there I was, spending my time in-front of OSX App store, wishing to see the purchase link to appear. And when it did the first thing I did was to get it.

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Life as I know it, through my recent past.

Its been few days, I haven’t written anything on my website. Not that I was abandoning this place, but the truth is that, I was going through a phase of “change” in my life. Past few days weren’t exactly what it were expected to be. It was bit rough, since the beginning of June, as I had to take care of few personal issues that came knocking my life’s door. fortunately or unfortunately, I had to deal with life’s uncertainties and certainties. And like its said, “what doesnt kill you, will always make you stronger”. So here I am, back to my state of happiness, to my own expression of “I’m always fine”. Turns out to Me, those weren’t that bad anyways, but I needed some time of my own too. So I took my break, and spent few days on my vacation, which inturn gave me enough time to clear my head off and assess my life in all its beauty.

‎"People usually ask Me, what do I Study and things like that. for Me none of that matters. Because throughout my entire life, it was never about learning anything in its typical pattern. Im a born lover of technology, and ever since I have shared a never ending relationship with the world of technology in all its beauty and passion.” ― Mister Lee

Most people consider technology and tech products as mere devices to make their daily life, and day to day tasks easier. The moment you hear the word technology, most of you might get a picture of a Smartphone which you are using, an xbox or even your brand new TV. But for me nothing of that sort comes to my mind. It makes me intensely sad to see, how beauty-less  this world envisions technology or even make a choice in usability or productivity of tech products.

Having used a personal computer at such young age, I have always been curious to see the beauty of technology, and the progress it was making, while I was growing up. If I have to define myself, Im not a technology enthusiast. Im not even a tech savvy programmer. Deep down, Im passionate about beautiful tech products. I am a lover of technology.

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Moving past the Windows Lifestyle, and life with Mac OSX Lion. Fairytales do exist.

For years, I been a hardcore Windows fan. Not that I was belonging to any third world, were apple devices are deemed over-priced and quite alienated; but for the same single reason, i knew both platforms way too well to ignore the cons over pros of either given platform. Windows, as always been the Operating system of the common men. My story with Windows started since windows 95, which was pre-installed on my PC. Back then computers weren’t exactly what they were today. Multimedia was not even at its infant stage. But still, the moment I started working with Windows, it got my interest in it. In the following years, windows XP was released. I have spent countless hours and sleepless nights in front of Windows XP for almost 5 years. I used to love it, I used to love what I was able to do with it. I began to imagine all the possibilities of centralizing my life around devices and their Operating systems. Those times, Apple wasn’t that popular among the tech world. I had no experience with any Apple products at that time.

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A better month to look back at. My April.

Finally my April been quite amazing. Since the beginning of March, my life wasn’t that cozy. To add to this apocalypse, i been super busy too. Being vacated from my previous apartment, I was in search for a new place to stay for the whole of my March. And I got it too, a cute little space, but it was under construction. I followed my heart, and then followed the troubles, as the construction workers didnt show up for few following weeks. I was unable to live there practically, because of all these. Along with that, I had my professional training going on. So, altogether i was out of my world and space, during entire march. With No active internet connection, with No permanent place to crash and having numerous unfinished things in my calendar, finally I was feeling sick, towards the end of the month.

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An in-depth look at How and Why Cloud Services makes life easy.

So we been hearing this a lot. Wherever we turn, its all about cloud computing these days. Microsoft is integrating cloud services in Windows 8 for all Windows Devices. Apple is doing it for their Devices running iOS and OSx. Google is doing it for android. So what is it? What does it do for us? If you want to get the simple idea behind it, and how it all works, read on.

In short, cloud computing means, making use of online storage and online services to retrive data from the internet storage, regardless of the device. May it be a smartphone, tablet, notebook or a desktop. Also, cloud storage pushes your personal digital content, like photos and music, to all your devices automatically.
So a photo or a document, you are working on the notebook, will be automatically made available to the other devices you own. And cloud services allow you to manually access these files in the online storage, no matter where you are, and lets you operate them right inside the web, depending on the online service available to your platform. All the major Device platforms are having cloud services. For Apple, its iCloud. and for Google, its Google Documents. For Microsoft Windows Devices, its Skydrive, the most flexible and easy online cloud service.

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Hate it or Love it. Valentine’s Day is here.

Its a beautiful Tuesday Morning. I woke up around 3, and im still fresh. And the date reminds me of all the craziness around Me, and all the silence inside of Me. Like it or not, its valentines Day. for all the die hard hopeless romantics out there, “I wish you all, a  very Romantic Valentines Day..”

for Me, its not a special day. Im single this time, and so im going to stick with myself today. Im having a busy schedule, so will have to skip the evening’s ‘party-out with friends’ as well. Infact im gonna live on the other side of love today. Not that i wouldn’t want to be in love, but im not wanting to push it. I will still be waiting for the right girl to step into my life. Presently, I’m single and happy. Moreover I’m so busy with myself, because I really need to give myself all the time in this world as of now.

"Most relationships people make in their lives are based on selfish, cruel underlying motives" — Mister Lee

Day to day life we keep meeting so many new people. We make friendships and relationships almost every single day. With the rise of social networking and advancement in technology, discovering people who interests us isnt difficult at all. But did you ever stop your thoughts and taken the time to think, whether its all worth it?

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My Promising Monday

Weekend is over, and its another Monday. I am sitting here infront of my personal computer, palnning my week, constantly striking and re entering, to-do in my calendar. And theres something wrong with the tea I made this morning. The flavour seem to be dead. I guess I have to throw the carton away, because this doesnt make me fresh, in any possible way.

So with that emptiness in my mind, I opened my website. Something wasn’t right there either. The left side menu items started to look, ‘way too ordinary’ to me. The same “Blog-About Me-Contact” that, almost every single personal blogs carry.

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What you should know before you buy a PC

Saturday is just about to end. Unlike my other weekends, today i planned to hang-in and spend some time alone, to do things which i love the most. So i made myself my favorite Coffee, and was browsing through few tech articles. Suddenly my little buddy popped up on MSN, and he was all curious like “is AMD better than Intel?” So started to tell him the story of hardware evolution through the years, and how intel has stacked up to build revolutionary processors by the beginning of this year. And he was listening through my talks so curiously, and i could feel the surprise in his words, knowing things which he never thought was important when considering PC hardware.

Suddenly he asked Me, “Is 4 GB enough for my next PC? i want to buy an i3 Machine. You know Lee, I can get this awesome configuration just for so less amount. Do you think i should put more memory and storage?”.

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those little words without any life.

So you were there. just like Me. That nice little moment when you see that someone who you care for, and your heart is filled with happiness, and you say something nicer, and you get a reply “wish you the same” or even worse “same to you”, without even the “wish” part. And all your energy just goes away, like a tiny little pop on a soap bubble.

Not that I’m saying there is something wrong in replying “same to you”, but there’s no life in it. So there’s no charm in it.

Some times the way we talk, fails to express the feelings that we want to convey. So its very important to take care of, how we express our gratitude or greetings, in replying to people, who actually take their time and effort to wish us, or even say simple nice things to us. And when we say “same to you”, its almost like, as if you are not interested and you take no effort, and you simply wishing them off with something like, “ya same to you”. For an almost formal hello-stranger situation, anything will do. Drop your dead words, as much as you like. But on occasions, when we express our feelings, there has to be little bit of affection and little bit of care added to our words.

‎"Whatever trouble or sadness your life may seem to be in, be patient with yourself and be kind to the one that left you. because one day or other, they have to come back. and that time everything will be more perfect, if we were perfect to them and self in those bad times." — Mister Lee

As humans, We all go through so much difficulties in life. May it be our personal Life, may it be our economical or family life. I have been through times, where I felt obviously so happy and self satisfied. but Most important, were the times when i felt everything around me is collapsing before my eyes. I been through relationship issues and bad times where I couldn’t figure out how to pull everything together. The more i confused and worried, the more worse the times were.