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Cultural practices I learned in my past life while I was growing up in my place of birth. updated June 24 of 2025

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When I was in school,  words brain drain and similar word were commonly heard on radio, on TV, in news papers in personal conversations etc. After Pakistan was established qualified people were in high demand in Pakistan but at the same time qualified people were in demand in other countries as well so qualified people always (most of the time) preferred to go to other countries especially western countries for better life and better financial rewards. Some parents did not want their offsprings to go to other countries so they used some techniques which were social and domestic techniques not law enforcement techniques to prevent people from going to other countries permanently fir a living. While I was watching a very old bollywood hindi movie, a song reminded me of this method. But AI language translators now adays will make wrong interpretation in English language of those techniques (such as involving law enforcement to prevent), which will be completely wrong. Some times it wa...

misc thoughts - Posted on May 28 of 2025, updated June 06 of 2025 in OTTAWA ONTARIO Canada K1G3P2

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Those who knock on my door in my absence, (just a theory) do so, to confirm my absence. No response implies absence, but does not mean nobody lives in the apartment and those who knock on my door while I was in my apartment (i.e. in my presence),  do so to confirm my presence and to see me open the door, which is normal method. It is my choice/prerogative to open or not to open the door.  How would it be known to others about my presence or absence is by spying on me, unauthorized Dada collection on me, invasion on my privacy etc. Untill the age of 24 when I lived with my parents in Karachi, my parents used to be the source of this information about my presence or absence from home, which was collected by the next door neighbour's children, but was not for malicious intentions, was only for socializing and friendship purpose and for caring purpose. ---------------------------------------------------------- Adults and seniors are disciplined or punished differently than the chi...

meanings behind the phrase "I will talk to him" , "I know him" etc. posted May 24 of 2025 around 10h00

"I will talk to him/her" has several meanings depending on the context. But when a illitrate person, or a person in a position of power or higher social status says this pharse would mean they are referring to non-social conversation which may be from a law enforcement point of view etc, just to establish authority/ or bullyism on some one. Once I was told most people in law  enforcement or position of power are those people who have a learning disability and did not excell in acamedia. But they have a opportunity to prove it wrong. It is very easy to make people obedient under the threat of weapons or uniforms in every day normal situation. It would he nice to see a PhD qualified as a police officer in police uniform or a medical doctor as a police officer in police uniform. I wonder what is the minimum education level these days of the law enforcement work force and the induction process. Where as for some normal people it would mean social conversation (in civilian setting...

my casino card when I lived in Niagara falls Canada, 2013-2017 it was a different brand, later on casino changed the brand of this entertainment card.

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Fallsview Casino Card. Published by Engr. {(male) KhalidMahmood} Ontario DL#: M01684340561220 Ph:(289)990-6590 Ph:(613)413-9812

Banks keeping a customer profile without a bank account - Posted on May 22 of 2025 by KM.

Banks keep a profile of consumers even without an account with just some basic information. When I lived in Hamilton Ontario Canada I applied for a personal loan from a Scotiabank branch near my residence in Hamilton, and a profile was created with Hamilton address which was updated in Brampton and also in Ottawa before the lease with OCH was signed which meant that Scotia bank profile was at shelter address when Scotiabank staff at Carleton University in 2023 approached me to setup an account for me. This account was opened after the lease and my ID was at the current residential address. But before the lease with OCH, address on my ID was waller St.  The bank officer who opened my account did not update the profile address in their system just attached a new account with the old profile without updating the address and printed paper work with shelter address which I got updated over the phone by customer service. Banks should be more careful and pay attention to such details. In ...

Scotiabank entered an unauthorized transaction in my account six months ago in November 2024. Posted on May 20 of 2025

Scotiabank entered an unauthorized unknown transasction in my account six months ago. They are not able to provide the transaction details and have not removed it from my account despite my written request and complaint to the bank. Credit memo and ABM/ATM deposit are different kind of deposits. A customer can deposit money in account at an ABM machine using the interac card issued by the bank. But credit memo method is banks internal matter, not accessible to account owner/ customers. I am not sure why the bank was asking for my consent. Published by Engr. {(male) KhalidMahmood} Ontario DL#: M01684340561220 Phone:(613)413-9812

fear mongers and data/information collectors - posted on May 20 of 2025

I have been noticing that fear mongers data collectors/information stealers go around and ask vague questions from Junior newly hired staff in businesses such as"what did he do" etc to extract quick information, in such a away or tone as if the person referred by the word "he" has done something wrong, for no reason.  Businesses and staff should be loyal to their customers not to such data / information collectors. Collectors/information stealers should go through legal requirements like any other law abiding citizen to get the information if it was required legally otherwise not. This is a matter of civil liberties that what information should be disclosed, why and to who.  They have a specific style, they go in running in the middle of the transaction and after getting the response quickly run out. Such unauthorized data collection may be used for crimes or to deprive the right ful owner of something (over a long period of time) not known at this time.  Published ...

about customers records, bank accounts/records other information, data bases protection. Posted on May 08 of 2025 in Ottawa Ontario Canada K1G3P2

about customers/consumer records, information, data bases should be protected like Bitcoin block chain ledger keeping/record keeping, to make any changes even to correct something init, entire block chain should approve it, it should not be left to a single person's authority to mess up with such records which were crucial for individuals. In the past it was heard that crooks and fraud makers targeted institutions and big corporations to defraud as a revenge or to teach them lessons for their crimes, but such techniques should not be used against individuals. Entry level junior staff should have be given the ability to alter any re words at all, even if their parents were in the same industry, because such junior entry level workers do not learn the profession fully from their resources available to them at home, they might learn or pickup on few key things to impress others but that was not the indicator for the professional proficiency and can be dangerous for the customers. Inst...

About my housing situation between OCH, Housing and Social Workers of Ottawa Mission since 2023. Posted May 01 of 2025 in Ottawa Ontario Canada. Updated on May 22 of 2025 in Ottawa Ontario Canada K1G3P2

When I was offered the apartment in OCH building in July 2023 by the housing workers of Ottawa Mission, I was reluctant to accept the offer because I was on OW social assistance and rent portion was not sufficient to cover the housing cost. I was forced to accept the offer by the question "as if, I was refusing (or perhaps the word  "declining" was used) the offer" and rental Subsidy was also offered to make it affordable. So, I accepted the apartment at the subsidized monthly payment offered to me. At the time of renewal of the lease in 2024 my monthly payments went up more than five times (due to reduced Subsidy) and the reason was the increas in money due to transition from OW social assisistance to OAS. But increas in money was not as much as was the increase in my monthly payments. So why reduce Subsidy. This increase in rent required me to setup a new payment schedule with the bank, causes other hardships as well.  Although there was never missing rent, OCH st...