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Few days back I went to trip to northern areas with school through Adventure Foundation Pakistan. It was fun and a really nice experience, specially the first three trekking days were really cool. We trekked from Thandiani to Biran Gali on day one, from there to Dagri on day two, next day we trekked to Natia Gali via Miran Jani.

We then had to part with the very nice new friends we had made over the three days. We then camped at Ayubia and rested there most of the time. There we had 16 annoying sixth-graders camping with us. On the second day at Ayubia we went for a trek to Shekapura, if I got the name correctly.

As I would be leaving for my CAS trip very soon, I decided to clean up my K750i memory stick so that I have enough space for pictures. I had only 15MBs left even when I had removed all the pictures. My Mp3s were only 20MB so what was taking rest of the memory? The file hierarchy of the phone had always confused me before, but today I found out most of the folders were junk.

The system folder was taking the most space so I checked it out, I previously thought that this folder would have critical files, essential for running the phone. But it turned out that most of the stuff is useless, the ams folder contained what seemed to be some program data of applications I dont use at all, or were removed from the phone long ago. Interestingly the muvee folder in ams had some .mrp files which turned out to be bitmap images. Just rename them to .bmp and you’ll be able to view them. This was where most of the memory was going. I also removed the SKINS folder, which seemed to have pictures aswell but I could not find any way to open .mbm files. I tried a tool mbmbmp but I guess SonyEricsson uses a different method to store data in these files.

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This site: http://whistler.intelecasoft.com
This basically is my blog.

Last.fm: http://www.last.fm/user/ibrahimm/
Here is what music i like and am listening to.

E-zine articles: http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Ibrahim_Mohammad
I wrote a few articles there.

My Tech Blog: http://techblahog.wordpress.com

6th was my visa interview date so I had to go to Islamabad. Woke up at 2:30 at night, I had 5 O clock PIA flight and that reached there at 7:00. I did not have any luggage, just a hand bag, so I was the first one to get out of the airport. Reached the convention center a little later. It was quite unexpected, bags and mobile phones were entrusted to some people before getting in to the shuttle. The shuttle took us in the enclosure towards the embassy. Then there was a really long wait after i got interviewed. They said I’ll hopefully get a visa before the GYLC starts.

When returning to the convention center, the shuttles tire’s went flat, so we had to wait for another shuttle to come.