Tuesday, February 13, 2018

Installing Java 8 on Ubuntu 14.04

Here are the commands

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/java -y
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install oracle-java8-installer
To automatically set up the Java 8 environment variables
sudo apt-get install oracle-java8-set-default

if the first command fails try:

sudo -E add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/java -y

Saturday, February 3, 2018

ہک گھڑی

اے وقت دیا خالقا' ہک گھڑی بنا 
جس تے ہر آن وقت وصال ہووے

-Fayyaz

A note

She wants to be a composer, 
an instrument maker
Or a pianist 
Sometimes all she wants is just listen
Sometimes to do all these all at once
My soul yearns to be music
Free, beautiful, without a past or a future
Not a Symphony
A mere note that can't be played again.
Unless she wants that.
-fayyaz7

Crazy Life

I need to let go of living 
And be alive. 
In this Valley of the dead
I need to free my soul of the meat I carry around 
And climb up to see the morning sun
Maybe lose a few hundred pounds in the process.
In this civilized house of sanity
I need to lose my mind
To make some sense of how to save myself from death.
-fayyaz

تہمت

تیری من کے میں بہہ تے جاواں 
تیرے کول رہ تے جاواں 
جان تے دل میرا وی نہیں کردا 
لیکن تہمت لگ جاندی ایہہ

Run!

Sometimes I just want to 
Run, go away, hide!
And then I look at you
And I still want to run, go away, hide!

-Fayyaz

Tattoo

You are tattooed on my heart in red...
Nuff said!

-Fayyaz

Cat

Curiosity keeps the cat alive in the cat
It may kill it too
but that would mean it lived one life out of many!

-Fayyaz

Sleepless

Every day I wake up
Join a herd of people fulfilling their empty lives
With the conformationist "ba ba" of others!
What if I don't sleep one night?
-Fayyaz

The cross-eyed painter

I am a cross-eyed painter
I draw everything the way I see it
And then wonder why did I draw the same thing four times?

-Fayyaz

Identification Friend or Foe

For once, switch off your IFF,
And meet everyone you see,
As if its the first time and the last!

-Fayyaz

Smoking kills

You
are like that musky cigar we shared
with a strong aftertaste
that just won't go away.

-Fayyaz

Divorce

You say you wanna go?
That it's no longer working between us
I have one last wish, my love
please take the trash on the way out!

-Fayyaz

A line for you

You say I never wrote
A single line for you
Here's three
And four!

-Fayyaz

No more demons jumping in the head

One little demon jumping in the head!
I called the doctor And the doctor said
"Two little demons jumping in ma head"!
I put the phone down and went to bed!
-Fayyaz

In the jungle...

He farted on the couch 
in front of the TV
watching a lion 
mark its territory!

-Fayyaz

Penguins of Antarctica

O God! make me a bird
So I can escape all this
He listened and turned me
Into a penguin in Antarctica!
-Fayyaz

Posthumous Union

When we die and turn to earth
And I rise again as a tree
I will wait for your bird version
To sing in my arm branches!

-Fayyaz

Soul Mirror

I kept looking into the mirror
But couldn't see myself 
no matter how hard I tried
Until she came and let some light in.

-Fayyaz

The wanderings of sanity

The wanderings of sanity
---
Go
Live in the huts
vacated by shepherds during winters
Near lake Latbo
At feet of the Nanga Parbat
Or
Jump to the abyss
of the Mariana trench
Spend a day in the International Space Station
Watching all silly 7 billion of your kind
Or ride Voyager-I out of the solar system
In search of intelligent life
Spend a night nestled in your lover's bosom
Or dig a ditch
and bury yourself
Eat cement
Melt steel and pour it into a red wine glass
drink it down with some fine caviar
Run naked in the snow
Walk on your head
And think with your feet
Place your mind on a golf tee
And strike it with a sledgehammer
Pull your heart out and put it into
A horse's behind
Just never
go crazy!
-Fayyaz

Cola men

They were wise
Soft-Spoken, Composed
Settled
Like flat cola!

-Fayyaz