Diary of a Punk Dervish

2006-11-08T12:30:00.000-08:00

George Fulton

During the week we got to meet lots of famous People including George fulton of George ka Pakistan fame.He was a speaker in the conference and his topic was :An Outsider's perspective on Pakistan.His lecture was one of the most enjoyable ones.He is very good with words and it is pleasing to see him talking as a Pakistani.Starting the lecture he said" Four years back i fell in love with Pakistan ,three years back i came to Pakistan ,two years back i became a pakistani ,one year back i married a pakistani girl."He suggested that pakistanis should adopt chinese in their languages too as then we will be knowing Urdu,english and chinese,the languages spokes by world's most promising nations (china ,india and us/uk).He posed with me before the lecture.

George Fulton and me

Dr farooq Sattar

He is a senior leader of MQM .We saw him at the airport and a friend suggested that we get photographed with him.So we went upto him and talked about us the conference and Pakistani politics.We were impressed by his modesty and objective talk although i must say that i am not into Pakistani politics and don't support his party or any other party for that matter.

A friend ,Dr farooq and me.

You network,we party ...Part 2

2006-11-08T12:29:00.000-08:00

Supervisors

Both of our supervisors during the event were a diappointment.The first one should have been the last person to be considered for a supervisory post.He was afraid of getting information from top for us.He was too lazy to do anything preperly and it seemed like he had slept for the last thirty years of his life.
The second one was much active ,aggressive person but he was too stubborn to be taken easily by anyone.Everyone working around him wanted to bury him alive.he just did what he felt like ,talked about managment as it in textbooks and read musharraf's memoirs which he had managed to get a free copy of from liberty books stall.Everyday he used to leave after exactly 12 hours of his duty ,an act which is preposterous in the field he was freelancing in.

Food

My friends idea of a goood working environment starts with food.Being true Lahorites,they will be ready to work for free even if they are offered food from posh eateries.But food for them as well as me was not upto mark at all.In the airport there are no healthy eating options available and in the hotel ,the rates were unaffordable ,and we couldn't spare time to go anywhere.On first day (or night) we had breakfast from AFC, a fast food restaurent ,in the airport.as their rice deal was a bit expensive and we were paying for the breakfast from our pockets so had to fill our stomachs with cokes and burgers.later we also joined the whole team for a nsahta of siri pai's at a restaurent in ghazi road but i wasn't available as i was panicked and making phone calls from nearest PCO's for averting an uncalled for problem.

One the second day we also got to eat the AFC's only which were our only meal of the day.

On third day our duties stated in the morning so we had the luxury to have breakfast at home.For the lunch i had club sandwiches and cookies which were offered to us and the delegates when they had gone for a visit to atchison college.

The last day was the hardest one in this respect. We were in the hotel from wee hours and as we couldnt go out to so we atrved until noon when we had some cookies and coffee which arere available as part of the refreshment between lecture sessions.

Girls

Two encounters stand out from the rest.

One was with a brtish girl whose father was sindhi indian and her mother was brought up in Lahore.I was the guide in the bus which took delegates including her to aitchison and anarkali's tomb. I had a fabulous time with her during the her the whole trip .
The other was with our international supervisor who had come from southern france.Although i didnt meet her during the whole week and i only met her when i was asked to porter her luggage trolley in the airport,i liked the way she communicated her thoughts.

I am waiting...

2006-11-08T02:30:00.000-08:00

My times can be divided into two parts
when i am waiting for others or when others are waiting for me .Right now i am in the former one.

You network,we party ...Part 1

2006-11-07T11:24:00.000-08:00

Rich businesmen need to constantly remind themselves that they are rich and not overworked cogs of a company by throwing parties and spending money on lavish networking sessions.One of the biggest winners in this process is us ,the people, organizing their parties.We get to drink their wines ,dance with their girlfriends and then laugh back on the bus back to our middle class homes. Our city as they said won the bid to host their conference-the conference of an organization of high ranking individuals round the world.
Their arrivals brought home to us the point that thier ticket money was being put to use. With police escorts provided to them ,i loved the idea that i was playing with in mind.That police escorts is such a bitchy commodity which can turn any one into a top brass offiical.i am happy that i got to see through the acred image of police escorts i had in mind.
Here were few encounters i had.

On one of the trips to the hotel from airport in the middle of the night i met an indian exectutive whol told me that he had come from india while actually he had come from uae.I dunno why he lied .He said that he worked in banking sector of India.he also asked me about a local golf club and i introduced him to a new golf club in city to which he replied that he already knew about it.
On another trip i assisted a famous pakistani scholar who was in a sullen state and thought of me as a nalaik assistant and ignored me. i stayed silent during the whole journey.I do acknowledge that we pakistanis are bad at talking to strangers.Or maybe we have many biases buried within.

On another trip to hotel from airpost i encountered two ladies ,one from poland and another from belgium.We talked about halloween,weather in lahore,the altitude of lahore,me and what they were expecting from lahore.

Eleven Minutes

2006-11-07T10:25:00.000-08:00

So i stopped posting on the blog yielding to 12 hour work days in addition the onus of university studies thrown in .Ofcourse its worth it.But then it passed by and i wokeup.watnext? I am still mulling the answer .

junk hai ya fun hai ya dunk hai ya drunk hoon ya crank hoon....................

2006-05-04T12:41:00.000-07:00

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The vicious circle of hatred…

2006-02-16T13:54:00.000-08:00

All our actions, oozing hatred, generate more resonant ripples than we think. Jyllands Posten ,Denmark’s biggest newspaper and the political affiliate of country’s current government, published twelve cartoons depicting Hazrat Muhammad(SAW) in bad light. Later other European newspapers joined it. This offended Muslims all over the world and they started protesting against Denmark in particular and Europe in general .The hate generated by these protests in deepening the cultural divide between these two civilizations .On Tuesday, protests turned violent in Lahore and protesters torched private property generating further hatred against themselves .in the wake of this violence the hatred against religious parties is also growing. But in a parallel development , hatred against government is also growing .In a country which is already witnessing the spate of terrorizing activities by Baloach separatists and the enormous controversy of kalabagh dam ,people are discovering new reasons to hate each other.
On Tuesday the protesters most of whom are a regular sighting in the protests and various functions organized by religious parties set on fire a travel agency at Davis Road, where more than three hundred copies of Holy Quran were kept. Now who did more damage to the cause of Islam, Jyllands Posten and other European news papers or the violent protesters ?

Alos read my post on Lahore Metblogs about it. In the post i talk about one reason the protesters so indifferently reduced the hard earned private property worth millions to ashes.
http://lahore.metblogs.com/archives/2006/02/the_theory_of_w.phtml

The world is my oyster

2006-02-03T13:21:00.000-08:00

I wish i always stay a Dervish:Lost but Content

I want lot of spice in life ,i will work hard for it even surviving on bare necessities of life only
I will sip the wine of exploration and freedom and dance till sunset

By never stopping to learn and exploring perpetually , i will ascend deep inside my self and discover my truth.....

WTO Conference in Hong Kong

2005-12-18T12:20:00.000-08:00

The on going Hong Kong round of WTO conference has attracted the same kind of protest and anguish that is the fate of most of WTO conferences. The reason being that these WTO conferences are the forums in which the rich countries play moves to maximize their interests at the expenses of the poor countries. In Hong Kong , where the recent WTO conference is being held, hundreds of activists and south Korean farmers have gathered from round the world .These activists and farmers like are putting up protest shows to grab the attention of media to the issues which WTO can’t. The rich countries even having zeroed on trade barriers are continuing to give heavy agricultural subsidies to their farmers. These subsidies give an unfair advantage to these farmers as compared to the farmers in the developing world .It should be noted that most of countries had earlier promised to cut down on subsidies but took no action or instead did the opposite as in case of US. US has increased its subsidies to the farmers over the past few periods.

Another issue which I see as a very important issue is that of barriers on flow of labour . The developing countries have lot of cheaper, competitive labour to export but there are too many barriers for them. If the flow of capital should be free of barriers, then so should be flow of labour .Countries like US and UK have legislations to block the entry of immigrants with skills which are very common .These legislations have been meant to protect the jobs of their citizens and protect their own manpower against the manpower from developing countries which is can be recruited at relatively lower wages making these countries own work force less competitive. But isn’t this the same reason developing countries are afraid of free trade. The free trade facilitates the entry of better quality products from developed nations into developing nations making the products produced in developing countries less competitive. So the developed countries are getting the countries are enjoying the benefits of free trade of goods and denying the benefit of free flow of labour to developing countries.

Sa Re Ga ma Pa Dha Ni

2005-11-27T14:54:00.000-08:00

I have been sticking to the adage, work hard and play harder, all this time. After a grueling session of studies for midterm examinations, I have been spending the time winding up at the World performing arts festival. Today was particularly an interesting day. For three hours I was there in the chilly atmosphere of the Alhamra open air listening to hard core classical music i.e rags by people like Hamid Ali khan, Ustad Shaggan and Shafqat Ali khan .Its Monday now time to switch back to work hard part of the adage. No I am not an artiste .I might never become one. I’ll discover my world in corporations or cartels but I will always continue to be open to all beautiful things life besides money ofcourse.

Eid Mubarak

2005-11-05T02:44:00.000-08:00

Happy Eid to everyone. Recharge yourselves to the fullest during the holidays.

GMAT and Beyond

2005-10-27T13:34:00.000-07:00

So I have launched the task of studying for GMAT finally .Some days back I bought Barron’s Guide to GMAT.I later found out that it had pretty bad coverage of quant (math part) of GMAT .Moreover everyone has some reason for criticizing the book.
So right now I am exhausting it in few days before I move on to proper guides like Princeton review and Kaplan. I am not going to any coaching centre for it. I had this passion for self-learning since I was in school .Even in college when I was overwhelmed by complex formulas of Chemistry and un scalable equations of Physics I persisted in not going for tuitions and it paid off. I scored brilliant. It helps to improve basic understanding of one’s own concepts. When you leave yourself alone in the ocean of complex knowledge ,you get the push to bring out the best of yourself and come to terms with your own concepts. ”Ocean of complex knowledge!!” I just waxed some lyrical! So now I am busy studying for GMAT and participating in GMAT forums online .GMAT is all around me .it is making me sharp and geek enough to tell the product of 18 x 16 in a jiffy.(Method: Subtract 18x 4 from 18 x20 i.e 72 from 360 and 288 is the answer)

Where i have been the past few days?

2005-10-27T13:30:00.000-07:00

It’s been quite some time since I posted something. I was around all the time but made comments on other people’s blogs rather than writing something on my own. I love to read different perspectives and embrace them .Thanx to Blogging, aspiring freelancers like me got an opportunity to our their skills into bit of practice everyday and write without the fear of censor dogs .

Day 7: Thinking about Day 200!!!

2005-10-15T09:18:00.000-07:00

A week has passed since the tragedy befell on the dwellers of Kashmir .One week later , the omens at Sahri were scary ones. With CNN broadcasting the rerun of The show with John Stewart and everyone talking about the quake I went to sleep with some disturbance.

It was the week that shook Pakistan, made her citizens brave their biggest catastrophe. Pakistan will never be the same. With the mammoth task of rebuilding the quake-hit zone, budgets in the coming years will reflect the squeeze on expenditure in other areas. The Nation, so as to say, will be more aware of the disaster management next time around and the uncles will grumble lesser about the “lack of spirit and patriotic zeal” in today’s youth.

The cities are strewn with collection booths of relief goods .Hundreds of thousands of rupees are being generated for the relief funds. All kinds of organizations from religious organizations to local NGO’s to Islamic charities based in Europe and North America are collecting funds. People who were previously criticizing NGO’s for stirring the rape cases are all but mum .Joining the fundraisers club are amateurs who are collecting goods and funds for the first time. I am skeptical of their promise however.

Kashmir-Chalo fever is in full swing. Someone was telling me the other day that he was ready for going to Kashmir along with his friends but the military didn’t allow them. TV show hosts are also discouraging the naive and “jazbati” youth to go to Kashmir .I wonder how come all the TV show host are using the same word i.e Jazabati for describing the state of mind of youngsters .Perhaps there is something in the back of mind which says “we made a lot of emotional decisions in our youth and so do the youth of today. They can’t think rationally”

Bloggers are fortunate enough to have two luxuries which not many people have in Pakistan
The “ability” to find time to write
The ability to write in English

They are using these advantages heavily to help with the relief work by reporting about the quake and posting links on their own blogs or other blogs. However Pakistani bloggers can bring the biggest breakthrough Pakistan needs in the relief work .i.e getting the message across to other countries where the general public is indifferent to what Pakistanis are going through. The Pakistani bloggers can do this by writing letters and articles to foreign newspapers about the quake. In addition they can raise the issue in foreign community blogs too.

My institute has collected more than Rs 50,000 and a truckload of relief goods yet. Here I am reminded of people who are coercing others to donate for the cause .No wonder they are doing more damage to the cause then aiding it. And the people who volunteer in the places which are overflowing with volunteers are also not helping .Six months down the road ,how many People will still be part of the rebuilding process?. To make sure that People are part of the relief work even then, it has to be made part of their lifestyles .And that requires everyone to do for this cause, what they can do through their interests rather than merely following the crowd.
So are you really up for volunteering in Kashmir?

The Moving Experience

2005-10-08T12:37:00.000-07:00

It was one of those idyllic Saturday mornings which our university students enjoy thanx to the official two day weekend. Especially in Ramadhan it gives us the luxury of being up till Sehri and then sleeping off the whole day.
Having slept the morning after Sehri and watching The Daily Show with John Stewart on CNN and Hard Talk Extra on BBC simultaneously, the day had started on a very intellectually delighting note.
I was jolted out of deep slumber by the tremors .I jumped on my feet at once fighting off the giddiness while coping with the trembling ground and the furniture around me. I quickly rushed outdoors along with my mother, whom I had spotted in front of the TV frozen with shock.
The recurring thoughts about damage caused to the people I know was quite disturbing. More disturbing were the thoughts about people having to rebuild their lives from scratch in a country already hit by increasing energy prices and corrupt and ineffective administrations. With a disturbed mind set we went back indoors to experience some minimal tremors which I dismissed as my imagination more than anything else.
It was the first time in life that I had experienced and earthquake of such magnitude. In March 2002, I was studying for my Maths exam on the following day when I experienced light tremors and noticed the ceiling fan rattling. I was in United Arab Emirates then. Surprisingly no one acknowledged the the quakes in next day newspapers and there were no reports about it on the TV since no one could believe that there could be a quake in the Middle East. It took two days for the news about the tremors to be published in the newspapers.
I remember the devastating earthquake in Gujrat, India few years back .Some Non resident Indians took offs from their work and went back home to become part of the rescue work.. Most of the Indian stores started campaigns of generating funds for the relief work.
As I write this I just experienced the ground shaking beneath my feat and I can see the chandeliers quivering. I hope that we escape through this calamity unscathed. Some questions however still linger.
Why wasn’ t the quake forecasted by the met department?
What is the forecast for the next few days?

Rounding off the truth

2005-10-05T09:33:00.000-07:00

4.pm: We were rather fatigued out after strolling for hours in the Fortress Stadium under the scorching afternoon sun in limbo for the briefing we, volunteers, were to get from the management of Wall’s Fun Carnival. The songs of Noori started blaring from some distance. I thought they were coming from our festival’s sound systems for the sound checks, but few people thought otherwise. Noori’s album launch was to be held in a nearby leisure complex so everyone stated talking that it must be Noori rehearsing for their big night. We decided to see this for ourselves. When we went to Silverstar Bowling Alley the staff was busy bracing themselves for the heaviest ever crowd they were going to receive

7.45pm:Mr Tarsa Hua had already left for the concert ,while I and Sherry decided to walk our way back to the Silverstar for the concert. Shock waited for us as we presented our tickets to the ushers only to know that they were not valid due to some reasons only known to the organizers. So we babbled few things to the fat-ass who was their boss but he didn’t listen. He wanted us to buy the tickets again. I happened to see Teeja there, who was from the organizing team. She saved us the fortune we were going to dole out on “donations”. And there we were at the rooftop where the launch was to take place

8.30pm: We spotted Simon and Amir there and started chatting with them to kill the time for the obvious eternal wait. Before it we kept on making and laughing on all the jokes about how Mr Tarsa Hua, our friend was with the organizers, would mess up the things. The best one of them was in which we imagined that Mr Tarsa Hua would sneak up to the dressing room where Ali Noor would toss his pant on the chair but it would fall over Mr Tarsa Hua who would exert maximum efforts to shape his body like chair and…[baki bakwas]

9 pm: We were talking music, dance ,theatre and education scouring over sample copies of Sunday Times and not to forget still making fun of Mr Tarsa Hua while he was pouncing at every chance of talking to the all three or four girls who had turned up. That made us laugh like crazy and wait for Noori without swearing them for their unpunctuality.

10 pm: Noori entered… Ali Noor introduced Hasil ,the new rhythm guitarist of the band. Hasil is part of the band ,Sahil, famous for their song Tu Bol.In the beginning of the performance, they warmed up with the slower version of Kuttey to uthay working their way to Nishaan .I heard someone in the crowd screaming “Hamza(Noor) tum ne wohi kaali chev gurrera wali shirt dubara peni hui hai”.They performed some songs from their last album then. Khalla and Saari Raat Jaga were followed later. A big part of the crowd seemed rather disenchanted and preferred to hang around ather than giving the boys a serious listen. A lot of Kids showed up too. I was constantly irritated by a bunch of seemingly 12 year olds who were shouting the songs in my ears and talking each other about how dire it can be for them to reach home later than 10.30.The proceeds form the sales of tickets are going to Fatimid Foundation which is a very nice thing to hear .It was sad to see that the show was opened rather abruptly after the eternal delay by a member of sponsor organization. the show deserved a better host who could go down well with audience too.
The problem with Noori songs is that it is very difficult to decipher what they want to say .it is good to see a band to which we can “relate”, but the looming question is that can we really relate with them.this problem is magnified in the titular song .I will discuss it some other time.
I didn’t find lyrics on their website so I decided to post them here to make things easy for people who are looking for the lyrics.

Khalla
Tum Ne Apne Ehsaas Ko Maar Diya… Phir Tum Ne Us Ki Maiyat Ko Jala Diya… Ab Tum Is Ki Raakh Par Kharay Ho… Aur Tumhari Insaaniyat… Aur Tumharey Darmaiyaan… Ek Khalla Hai… Khalla Hai Khalla Hai Khalla Hai… Khalla Hai Khalla Hai Khalla Hai… Main... Tum... Hum Akelay Hain... Be Kali Kee Chaoon Main Hum Be His Jeetay Hain... Jeetay Hain... Aaarzuu... Ab Chupee Hai Kahan... Us Dyar-E-Khamoshee Main Yeh Dil Hain Jahan... Woh Jahan... Ab Nahin Hai Per Woh Hai Kahan? Hum Hain Kahan? Ghafil Hais Sayee Main Apne Jahan... Hum Hain Wahan... Ab Lage Aisey Jaise Zameen Se Buhat Dur... Ab Jaisey Aur Aage Barh Letain Hain Majboor... Buhat Dur... Jaisee Chand Tare Pooochtay Hain Mujh Se... Kaha Hai Teri Zindagee Kahan Hai Tu? Kahan Tu? Ab Nahin Hai Per Woh Hai Kahan? Hum Hain Kahan? Ghafil Hais Sayee Main Apne Jahan... Hum Hain Wahan...

Nishaan

Raaton ke andheron mein jab Khamoshi galyon mein ghoomaySayay bhi tum se kuch keh dein gayRahon ke kaanton pe chal ke Dur andheron se nikal ke Rang sab apnay badal ke…Aa gaye ho phir yahan Ho gaye ho aashnaRoshni ke des mein Tum bhi dekho gay kayee jalwayDhoondo ge sitaray to zamana tumhey dekhay gaAa ke tumharee yeh zindagee se khelay gaJalo ge zamanay ke jo sang tum chalo geTum so na pao ge, doob jao geLikho jo naee daastan Mitain gay naheen phir nishaanBhoolay se bhi woh na jaagain Sayay se apnay woh bhagainJal nahin paein gay phir diyayDur anjaani iss dagar pe Ek andheri rahguzar pe Aas ki kirnon se dar ke…Chal diyay ho tum kahan? Dhoondtay kiss kay nishaan?Shor ke bazaar meinHosh na ayay kabhi phir tumheinDhoondo ge sitaray to zamana tumhey dekhay gaAa ke tumharee yeh zindagee se khelay gaJalo ge zamanay ke jo sang tum chalo geTum so na pao ge, doob jao geBhula do yeh saara jahaanLikho ek naee daastan Mitain gay naheen phir nishaanDhoonda hai sitaron ko, zamanay ko bhi dekhain gayAa ke tumharee hum zindagee se khelain gayLikhi hai apnee zindagi ki daastan Mitay ga naheen phir nishaan

Saari Raat Jaga

Sari raat jaga ray jaga ray...lagay dil hara ray hara ray...kho diyay wo lamhay saray ray...teray bin kaun mein yaara ray...meri jaan tu nay jana menay jana...meri jaan teri haan meri haan...dar aya daur aya...dar aya daur aya na...rat jaagi yaadein meray dil meinkho diya na paya jo bhi dil nay...teray liyay hara yara ray...teray liyay saray ghum hain sahay...teray liyay...Jab teri aankhein so jayein...aur teri yadein kho jayien...teray tan mein teray man mein...teray ghar ko aag lag jayay...aur tujhay jag na ayay...Sari raat jaga ray jaga ray...dobay man mera jo hara ray hara ray...kho diyay wo lamhay saray ray...aaj hein dhoondtay yaara ray...Rat jaagi aahein meray dil mein...kho diya na paya jo bhi dil nay...Teray liyay hara yara ray...teray liyay saray ghum hain sahay...teray liyay...jab teri aankhein so jayein...aur teri yadein kho jayien...teray tan mein teray man mein...teray ghar ko aag lag jayay...aur tujhay jag na ayay...jab teri aankhein so jayein...aur teri yadein kho jayien...teray tan mein teray man mein...teray ghar ko aag lag jayay...aur tujhay jag na ayay...

Being busy: Being busy is one thing and getting it into the head is another one.

2005-09-24T15:27:00.000-07:00

Here are some things to talk about since I last blogged.

Being busy: Being busy is one thing and getting it into the head is another one.

Words: I love them. I wish to know the meaning of every word in the dictionary

Mr Blindly ambitious:
You have the energy of ten thoroughbred horses
You are in your craft, what Microsoft is in software firms.
You are surrounded by pretty, pretty girls.
You treat others as badly as possible.

The Friday Times: A weekly magazine issued by feudalist family talking about all things liberal is a becoming a favorite with me. Being a Punk ,I don’t buy stereotypic liberalism however.

“Horoscopic” realities: My horoscope warned me about something .I didn’t heed. I suffered

Answer# 5: Why should a business student work in theatre?...Because it teaches teamwork

Ammi ,Abbu aur humsab: One’s family is everything.

Bon Jovi: Channel V should stop overplaying Bon Jovi

Just Do it: People who do it, find every possible way it doing it.

GMAT: Its time I start doing justice tom its preparation.

My Pathan connection: Having grown up with lots of Pathans, I am sorely missing them these days in Lahore.

To do or to be: Do you be your own boss doing anything or you want to do what you wish to do but meet some one else’s expectations all the time.

10 questions about 5 things.

2005-09-14T15:51:00.000-07:00

I was tagged by Raheel to do this.

5 years ago: In 2000, I was a grade ten student in a Pakistani school in Alain, a small city in United Arab Emirates. I spent a big portion of year spending sleepless nights in hospitals owing to my mother and father’s illnesses. I also spent some time touring other cities of UAE for debating competitions. I was the head boy of the school. I admired my Maths teacher and school’s administrator. Both of them left for greener pastures in the next year.

1 year ago: I was happy on being a free person. I was flying like a bird(I still am).Like last year even today, I spend half of my time discovering things, going to places and rest half of my time meeting my target of watching two movies everyday. I am the young middle class Yousaf Salahuddin (the socialite not the conquerer)of 21st century. But there is no such thing as middle class Yousaf Salahuddin so I will soon move on to the places which the actual Yousaf Salahuddin only visited in his vacations.

5 Songs which I know all the words to:

Behind Blue eyes-Limp Bizkit
Be Youself- Audioslave
Behind these hazel eyes-Kelly Clarkson
Aeitbar-Vital Signs
Comfortably Numb-Pink Floyd

5 snacks I enjoy: I avoid them as much as possible.

5 Things I’d like to do with 100$ million: Travel the world, Buy magazines, Give away to friends, Invest in business and wat else.

5 places I would run away to: Busstops(lol),libraries, dhaabas, darbars and net cafes.

5 thing I would never wear: I am ready to wear anything.

5 Favourite TV shows: Whose lines is it anyways, Jack Ass, Viva la Boom,10 @ 10, Geo news,

5 Greatest joys: Living a happy life with my parents, Becoming a good actor, becoming a good writer, becoming a good guitarist, Becoming a successful marketing consultant and finding well paid jobs for some of my frinds back in UAE.

5 favorite toys: My imagination is enough.

5 people I am tagging: Amna, Hasan, Sana ,Natasha and Laila

Day 9 of the plays

2005-09-10T13:14:00.000-07:00

I will never forget the audience we had today. It reminded me of old says of school. Different people whom I had met at different times in my life were there in the audience .And it was not until the end of the play, that I discovered the who’s who of the audience.
The few minutes of sing-and-dance session we had just before the play was a wonderful fun too. While people were waiting for the play, we were basking in warm-up sing song sessions.

I got my result of this semester and this time around I have scored well enough to bury the thoughts of regrets on my various indulgences in the past few months. Yaay,I can shoot myself in the head and dance too. Now all those of you want lectures on”1001 ways of multitasking for a successful life” ,please register with me

And yeah today I want to undergo the ultimate self-depreciative experience and curse myself .Here I go.

I can’t talk

I can’t joke

I can’t fight

I can’t die

I can’t pretend even.

[period]….*stops tormenting himself*

Dear Diary

2005-09-06T02:05:00.000-07:00

Dear diary, I feel like riding in strange waves from the shore I set on sail and far from the shore I think I am destined for. I have stopped measuring myself in anything, comments and compliments of friends, strangers and even my family. I don’t know what I am doing, but I feel like doing something I should have done before…

Trouble-Coldplay

2005-09-02T12:17:00.000-07:00

This was the first song of the coldplay i heard.Although it has become old now in the wake of the launch of their new album,X& Y, but i was reminded of it when a band played it before our play today.

O no, I see,
I spun a web, it's tangled up with me,
And I lost my head,
The thought of all the stupid things I said,
O no what's this?
A spider web, and I'm caught in the middle,
I turned to run,
The thought of all the stupid things I've done,
I never meant to cause you trouble,
And I never meant to do you wrong,
And I, well if I ever caused you trouble,
O no, I never meant to do you harm.
O no I see,
A spider web and it's me in the middle,
So I twist and turn,
Here I am in love in a bubble,
Singing, I never meant to cause you trouble,
I never meant to do you wrong,
And I, well if I ever caused you trouble,
Although I never meant to do you harm.
They spun a web for me,
They spun a web for me,
They spun a web for me.

How to spend a lifetime travelling the world?...some wild ideas

2005-08-30T15:29:00.000-07:00

Become an English Language teacher.
Work in call centers in different countries.
Get into some sales/marketing job which involves lots of travelling to diffent countries .
Become a legend like Rolling Stones and then go on a world tour.
Work in an ordianry job and save money .
Become a crew memeber an airline
Get hold of some technical skill which is rare and prized worldwide
Join the diplomat staff of your country
Become the president of USA
Work in National Geographic

Blog day 2005

2005-08-30T15:27:00.000-07:00

Its Blog day today. A day when we are supposed to post about five blogs and do all things to celebrate blogging. Check out this lick for more details http://blogday.wikispaces.org/.
Here is my list of five blogs

SAJ Shirazi's blog
Shirazi’s blog has it all. He writes about blogging , traveling ,writing and loads of other things. He’s got a huge list of blogs too along with blogging trivia. He’s got a big blogging fraternity too.

Lahore Metroblogs
Lahore Metroblogs and lahoreblogs.com are places where Lahoris post words and pictures of Lahore portraying the life and times of the city.

Hasan's blog
Hasan Mubrak has just started blogging and I wish him best of luck for connecting with right kind of people. Best of luck,dude.

Natasha's Photo blog
A blog which makes me sit up and take notice of colour and detail in ordinary things around me.

A’s Blog
There are some blogs which I visit but never post comments on .This are one such blog. In honour(wat?) of my visits to such blogs I am not disclosing the hyperlink of this blog

What should i do in my life

2005-08-30T14:31:00.000-07:00

I gave an aptitude test on study incanada.com and here are the results.Note that i am studying business managment and specializing in marketing.

1. Arts - Performing 15
2. Communications 15
3. Humanities and Languages 13
4. Community Services 12
5. Arts - Creative 11
6. Hospitality Industry 11
7.Business Administration 9
8.Business Marketing and Sales 9
9.Engineering 7
10.Recreation 6
11.Computer Studies and Math 5
12.Trades and Apprenticeships 5
13.Law 4
14.Natural Resources and Environment 3
15.Medical and Health 2
16.Research Sciences 0

New things I’ll be doing everyday

2005-08-30T13:58:00.000-07:00

Listening a new song

Reading a new newspaper online

Surf a new blog/website everyday

Look up a website of a university for MBA courses

These are all subject to availibility of time.

A reflection on Deadwood Dick

2005-08-27T03:15:00.000-07:00

I invested heavily in the play in terms of my time .I spent three or four hour’s everyday day on the play which was just before my exams. But as it turned out later, I didn’t have many difficulties in preparing for exams. Excellent class work and spending quality time
on studies did the trick for me. I wish things will be better next time around.

The play went off good and now it’s good to see people giving feedback on the actors, set, cast and the costumes. Now I feel like being part of something bigger. I wish I get to act in a play. But with the rigid schedule of my business school, it is hard to take offs which you have to if you are into acting. And as with every memorable event, some incident of the play which I’ll never forget are the nation episode, the bag incident, the football incident and ofcourse the last curtain fall episode. Whoa there Whoa there smoky!!

To be or not to be

2005-08-27T03:02:00.000-07:00

Hi everyone
I have been away for just ten days and it seemed like an eternity. Those busiest days were a test of my time and temperament more than anything else. The ten days which showed me a lot about new ways where I should go and where I shouldn’t go.

Busy Times

2005-08-16T03:52:00.000-07:00

Today is an exciting and a hectic day. I love to be occupied by all the exciting things even if they start grating on my senses. I visited PASHA (a cartel of IT companies) job fair. It is probably the biggest job fair in recent years though it has got a corporate presence of just 26. Hundreds of youngsters had thronged the place. Up to two hundred people were queued up for the entrance .I can only help but wonder why they were being so bad to themselves since i went in through the exit gate twice without any barriers. Play: silly face
From today onwards we are rehearsing throughout the day in Alhamra .The set is almost constructed. Yesterday I delivered the articles to The Nation and Daily Times. Daily Times has published an announcement about the play in the events list and article will be their in few days. The nation will run our ad from Wednesday to Saturday. Most of the caste has almost learnt their lines. We are hitting the stage on this Friday, Saturday and Sunday. I am having a tough time balancing studies and plays but I think I’ll emerge through all of this unscathed. after all this busyness is going to fade away on 27th of this month as my exams ends and everything will the same monotonous again I have to go as I have top make a list of all the action scenes in the play

Ice cream stick snuggled inside a boulder

2005-08-14T03:13:00.000-07:00

This is the pic i snapped the other day in a school .

Cursed by Overload

2005-08-13T14:40:00.000-07:00

The video and the kind of music might not go do down well with uninitiated in the beginning, but it gradually grows on one. Oh I almost forget that many people might not even now what is special about the video and the band. Overload is a unique Pakistani band as they specialize in Instrumental music. Their instruments being drums,dhols and percussion. Overload has become famous for its association with Papu and Jora Sayein ,the famous Dhol players in the Shrine of Hazrat Shah Jamal in Lahore.The Video seems to have done more justice to the Fahad’s drumming than the Dhol of Pappu sayein. Either the initial popularity of the band is the result of the nation’s infatuation with drumming and Dhol or the beginning of something large? The question will be only be answered once their album comes out. Download:http://umrevolution.com/media/Videos/images/overload.jpg

Birthday horoscopes

2005-08-10T13:56:00.000-07:00

Here are some of the If you were born today thingies i got from various websites

Birthday Horoscopes for 08/11

Now we are in the last full phase of Leo before we reach the cusp of Virgo which will happen in 7 days. Here we have the August 11th person, a driving force like superman seeking truth, justice and...... well you get the picture. The difference is the August 11th person has a dark side which they concentrate allot of their energies on.

A look ahead; You can know the truth without using it as a sword.
Famous Birthdays; Eric Carmen, Bill Clinton,Jerry Falwell (what's the chances on him reading this), Alex Haley, Hulk Hogan

Thursday 11thThose born early in the day may have a similar tendency to yesterday's children with trying to be the boss in social situations. They will be intense little people and have something of the 'old soul' about them. Along with those born later in the day they will be loyal and true friends and very protective of their loved ones. They can become obsessive and this is a characteristic that will need to be worked on form the time they are small to prevent it becoming a problem as adults. The later born babies may have an air of mystery and will be fascinated by the things adults would prefer not to talk about.

I turn 21 today

2005-08-10T13:28:00.000-07:00

I remember the days when I was held outside the parties for being less than 21 years of age. Now I am officially big enough to go anywhere. yippie.*dances*

Last one year in my life was dominated by tumultuous friendship activities which seem to be dying away now, giving place to many new possibilities making me feel more in control. I love looking back as I took some brilliant initiatives and went in for some lethal fun and came back unscathed. Lol. I have also begun to appreciate and take interest in smaller things around which I took for granted.

Working in theatre ..complete

2005-08-10T00:54:00.000-07:00

I often wonder what people struck in ordinary mechanical or semi mechanical jobs think about the lives of People pursuing “glamorous” careers including theater. Half of the crowd that comes to English theatrical plays in Lahore does so for the glamour and the English.

Working in English Stage Theater in Lahore is a very refreshing experience. Besides the caste of the play, everyone else is involved in interacting with the world outside. Procuring material for the sets, arranging the sounds and the lights, getting publicity material and publishing it, everything makes you feel like if you are doing something international in a Pakistani surroundings .Neighborhood guys and guls acting as the characters in the plays and getting into the skin of the character is very creative

.Theater can be a very wonderful way to discover yourself if you do it with an intention to do so nd do justice to your character.
Here is how Pakistani English Theater can help people in their lives.

You get into the skin of character of someone from an English novel. The thoughts of being inside the character even after the rehearsals of the play can help you come up with good ideas to rejuvenate yourself. Just the stark contrast of the life and times of the character and our own lives is big enough to open up a world of perspectives to us.

Acting like a person entirely different from yourself helps you forget the entire burden you’re carrying for a while. It helps you to be more confident and shed any shyness you are carrying along

The experience of being on the stage performing in front of a crowd is an amazing one.

Rehearsals and the whole process is a good socializing too.

Working in Theatre

2005-08-09T04:35:00.000-07:00

I often wonder what people struck in ordinary mechanical or semi mechanical jobs think about the lives of People pursuing “glamorous” careers including theater. Half of the crowd that comes to English theatrical plays in Lahore does so for the glamour and the English.
Working in English Stage Theater in Lahore is a very refreshing experience. Besides the caste of the play, everyone else is involved in interacting with the world outside. Procuring material for the sets, arranging the sounds and the lights, getting publicity material and publishing it, everything makes you feel like if you are doing something international in a Pakistani surroundings .Neighborhood guys and guls acting as the characters in the plays and getting into the skin of the character is very creative .Theater can be a very wonderful way to discover yourself if you do it with an intention to do so and do justice to your character.
Here is how Pakistani English Theater can help people in their lives.
1. You get into the skin of character of someone from an English novel. The thoughts of being inside the character even after the rehearsals of the play can help you come up with good ideas to rejuvenate yourself. Just the stark contrast of the life and times of the character and our own lives is big enough to open up a world of perspectives to us.
More on this later…

Gigs in Lahore

2005-08-08T03:28:00.000-07:00

Many underground musicians whine that today’s underground music culture is nothing compared to how fabulous it used to be few years ago. Some of the musicians have been consumed by lucrative Call Center jobs and others have left the country for greener pastures. The scene of gigs have been quite grim in the recent past. But things seems to be changing .
Since the last few weeks there have been a gig every Friday, Saturday and Sundays. Some of them were held in combination with movie screenings but most of them were solely music events.
On this Thursday, there was a gig followed by a movie screening in Sozo World,Fortress stadium. Yesterday there was a similar event, and today there is a rock concert where eight bands will be performing.The problem with underground bands is that some of them are so bad they make you feel disenchanted about the local music scene.
The Planet (H Block DHA ) ,a leisure complex has been the most popular venue for the these underground music concerts. Sozo World. Fortress Stadium is also a popular place.
As they say, these days every third guy in Lahore is playing guitar and if one of every third guy who plays guitar ends up forming or becoming part of some underground band, then we are going to witness a mushrooming growth of bands. Even now many bands are invading the music scene.Only time will tell how many of these bands actually survive the competition and go beyond the few music websites and concerts .

Random Quote

2005-08-05T02:59:00.000-07:00

If there is too much of life happening to you , and you take your life too seriously then you shouldn’t let too much of life happen to you ,since it is making you dead, more than anything else. Take life one step at a time.

Smoke in the air

2005-08-05T02:58:00.000-07:00

I am sure some of you might have received invites of Huqa.com, a desi social-networking website which has combined blogging , scrapping and photo posting activities. But a member can go only far as an institution where he studies/works at.I did register but I don’t think‘ll need to check back.lol

You are all receivers

2005-08-05T02:50:00.000-07:00

You often say, "I would give, but only to the deserving."
The trees in your orchard say not so, nor the flocks in your pasture.
They give that they may live, for to withhold is to perish.
Surely he who is worthy to receive his days and his nights is worthy of all else from you.
And he who has deserved to drink from the ocean of life deserves to fill his cup from your little stream.
And what desert greater shall there be than that which lies in the courage and the confidence, nay the charity, of receiving?
And who are you that men should rend their bosom and unveil their pride, that you may see their worth naked and their pride unabashed?
See first that you yourself deserve to be a giver, and an instrument of giving.
For in truth it is life that gives unto life - while you, who deem yourself a giver, are but a witness.
And you receivers - and you are all receivers - assume no weight of gratitude, lest you lay a yoke upon yourself and upon him who gives.
Rather rise together with the giver on his gifts as on wings; For to be overmindful of your debt, is to doubt his generosity who has the free-hearted earth for mother, and God for father.
-Khlail Jibran

Of rumours ,selfish motives and death of King Fahd.

2005-08-02T13:17:00.000-07:00

Few years back when I was in UAE where people expect to have mourning holidays if some high royalty in Saudi Arabia dies. One day a rumour spread around like fire in the jungle that King Fahd of Saudi Arabia had passed away and there ill at least three offs. I did receive quite a few phone calls about this and I did call some people to confirm it too.
All of this happened with in few hours. The televisions weren’t beaming anything about it and it was being said that the news is being covered up from media. But we discovered later that nothing of such sort had happened and it was nothing but a rumour. My father was enraged over it as how people can indulge in fabricating such rumours for the sake of getting holidays! On 1st August 2005 (i.e yesterday) King Fahd passed away.may God bless his soul.

Exploring music

2005-07-31T14:01:00.000-07:00

I am thinking of going on a music tour .I will be picking a genre each time and listening to the best of songs in it. This spark comes from realization that I have been listening to lot of rock these days and there is lot of music which hasn’t touched my ears yet. I would be listening to different instrument too. I am wondering to start with Jazz and its various forms.

Why I feel so gloomy and not even in the mood of listening anything good?

2005-07-29T13:39:00.000-07:00

I had a car accident today with a class fellow who is estranged from me .His brand new Toyota Corolla 2.0 D got some smears and dents, but my small car, Suzuki Mehran, escaped without any major damages.

I didn’t study anything today. If I continue this attitude my grades might suffer which will effect my job prospects next year.

Some people never trust you no matter how much you compromise for themThey can hurt you bad.

I have to choose between to things both of whom are very close to me.I will have to take the decision next week.

I am not available at home.

I am feeling strange in my newly created short-on-time schedule.

I ain't gonna live forever

2005-07-29T12:52:00.000-07:00

This is for the ones who stood their ground
For Tommy and Gina who never backed down
Tomorrow's getting harder make no mistake
Luck ain't even lucky Got to make your own breaks

Chorus: It's my life
And it's now or never
I ain't gonna live forever
I just want to live while I'm alive (It's my life)
My heart is like an open highway
Like Frankie said I did it my way
I just want to live while I'm alive
'Cause it's my life

What do you depend on?

2005-07-28T13:23:00.000-07:00

Some people are object centered; all of their emotional and intellectual efforts go into acquiring things to make them happy, to cover their insecurities wagaira wagaira. Some people are people centered, the gregarious ones. Some people are always lost in their reveries.

But some people are principle-oriented. They stay with their principles like being generous with giving love, having maximum fun or being the best everywhere. Being principle centered can provide you with a very stable back up .Principles last while people and things come and go………

Staying at home, while the beat goes on

2005-07-28T13:20:00.000-07:00

So I didn’t go to the Shrine of Hazrat Shah Jamal today.

I am missing the ambience and the trance.

I am missing the odour of the smoke that charasis used to puff on my face in the crowded surroundings

I am missing the fear of being blown away by some bomb in a split second (as the people in the Bari Imam were)

I miss the temptation of smoking drugs

I miss the intimacy of sitting in the cramped spaces amidst the horde of all strangers clad in dirty smelling salwar qamiz.lol

I miss the Dhol of Pappu and Jora Sayein which helped me lose in my deeper self.

I miss being among the people who take life to extremes.
I
miss sitting quietly with friends , among the noisy masses , observing the extraordinary.

call your driver here!!

2005-07-28T13:10:00.000-07:00

Self-help books

2005-07-26T13:04:00.000-07:00

I think I have read this somewhere too. All the self-help books just teach us to ‘push’ ourselves to reach there .They don’t tell us what do there once we reach there.
All the self-help books tell us the benefits of thinking positively and present hundreds of arguments to advocate their point. But none of the books tells us how to keep on positive thinking once we set out on path I hope I am wrong about it and self help books do tell about what do once we reach there.

On the go

2005-07-24T13:30:00.000-07:00

What is an average Sunday like? It is the day when you wake up in the afternoon and hit the couch and scan the newspapers and watch TV.I had a extraordinary Sunday. After being under slept for last few nights ,i had to lose sleep again. After just sleeping for two hours I was up at five in the morning ready to go to Sahiwal to meet the relatives. But I was happy since I was going there on my car which makes the journey feel like a picnic trip. Here are few pics which I snapped on the way.

This is the pic of the house of the richest person in sahiwal who also happens to be its nazim.

2005-07-24T13:27:00.000-07:00

Roads on Sundays mornings

2005-07-24T13:14:00.000-07:00

Did anyone sleep eight hours last night?

2005-07-23T13:28:00.000-07:00

I sleep for six hours every night .This reduced period of sleep make me feel drowsy in the afternoon classes .Otherwise I am quiet ok with it. This reminds me of a Kenyan friend who worked for twelve hours at Starbucks and was pursuing a MCSE certification in the meanwhile. He used to sleep for four hours daily. He claimed that it was his ‘capability’ but I doubted it since Starbucks coffee is not an impotent drink.
This morning atleast three people told me that they slept only few hours last night and that was making them feel bad .I believe it is all in the mind. If you want to sleep lesser as everyone seems to be doing, you got to train your body and mind for it.
Caution: Research has proved over and over that there is no substitute of eight hour sleep

Laughing bits

2005-07-19T13:20:00.000-07:00

I first came to know about David Letterman andJay Leno few years ago. As I have never actually seen their shows .I’ve always been fed their humour through different sources mostly websites .I love watching stand up comedies too. The other day I saw a standup comedy program on M net at three in the night .Now I wish I could wake up every day to three everyday but that’s not possible. Few years back I fell in love with liners. It was my resolution of 2003 to find and read all the one liners on internet and I think I was successful in attempting it atleast. My love affair with comedies continues and here are few Jay leno monologues form may and June 2004 .

Former President Ronald Reagan's son, Ron Reagan Jr., has attacked President Bush saying he made a terrible mistake in Iraq. President Bush is furious! He said, 'What does the son of a former President know about Iraq?!'

Here's something interesting... The dinner menu for the last meal on the Titanic just sold at auction for $75,000. I was reading about this in the paper. Do you know at that last meal that the passengers ate fish? Which is ironic because a few hours later -- the tables were turned.

Did you hear about this? Britney Spears injured her knee during a video shoot yesterday. I'll tell ya, that lip-synching is more dangerous than it looks.

She had to have arthroscopy surgery. The amazing part, it was the same doctor who worked on her breasts and now her knees are HUGE

Musicians in Pakistan

2005-07-18T12:36:00.000-07:00

Half of the Pakistani musicians aren't sincere.Half of the Pakistani musicians are not even rich enough to own a car.

Reading times

2005-07-18T12:30:00.000-07:00

I just discovered this evening that I have accumulated so much to read that I might have to wake the night through to complete my day’s readings. Our Sales and selling management has handed us over a book, The Power to change, which he expects us to complete in one seating. I also have to read the script of the play, Deadwood Dick, which I am working on. I also started Shirazi’s Raet pe Tehreer(writings on the sand) yesterday and writing this reminds me that another friend has started reading The seven habits of highly effective teenagers which I will be reading alongside her. So tomorrow I have to go out and buy it .And what about Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s One hundred years of solitude which I started reading few days ago. Although I didn’t feel like reading The seven habits of highly effective teenagers but since my friend was utterly impressed by it and claims to have read the first chapter ten times, I better read it and find out what impressed her so much. Oh God, its midnight now and I got to read whole of The Power to change in the next two hours….

I did it !

2005-07-16T15:18:00.000-07:00

For the past few years I have been going to lot of plays in the city. I don’t know of anyone who has attended more plays then me in Lahore on the past two years .I have always been sitting there in the corner watching the whole happening with the burning desire to be in. To get involved in some theatrical process and have some serious fun. Now I’ve struck upon an opportunity of life to be assistant director of the play. That is a big news for me. I confused about accepting since I might not be able to do justice to the job.Lets see.

Lahore has a very active commercial Punjabi theatre. The Punjabi theatre is very infamous among many People as they look down upon it as vulgar entertainment. I’ll discuss this some other day. Lahore has also got a English theatre scene albeit it is not an established one.

The scene is governed by some schools (LGS, Beaconhouse, LACAS etc) and ‘private production houses’. These private production houses are mostly a group of few people who gather once every year for a play.Fall season is the peak season of these plays. The reason is that advertisers have no better options to put in their money and the heat is bearable in those days.

To brace for this year’s peak season theatre activity, production houses have rolled out plans for staging their plays. Some production houses have started recruitment and other have even started rehearsals. The plays are mostly attended by People for socializing, opposite sex (I hope you understand this one), for the lack of other activities and for satisfying theatrical curiosities too. The audience consists of teenagers and youngsters who understand and speak English.

The marketing managers of Voodoo tee, Nestle, Levi’s, Hangten, Slazeneger, Nirala Sweets, Gourmet, Bank Alfalah decide the fate of such plays as they approve sponsorships for these plays. A play which made huge ripples while the rehearsals were going on was paralyzed when the producer woke up to discover that he was planning to stage play in the Basant season when the advertising money is splurged only over Basant events. it is expected that from next month onwards theatrical activity will warm up and we will get to see few plays next month too.

City FM ,one year later.

2005-07-15T13:16:00.000-07:00

Many months back I saw a very creative advertisement in the newspaper .The advertisement was of an upcoming radio station which was looking for new Radio Jockeys. I called them up and they invited me for an interview. So one fine morning I set out to some place in Liberty Market where the new FM was being set up. Once I walked into the building I had to come out and confirm the name of the tower with People outside. There was some construction going on in the building. The place was littered building material which made me step consciously around it. And then I arrived at the partially ready office of the radio station where I was made to sit and wait for my turn among a crowd of people ,most of whom seemed in 20’s and 30’s. Soon my turn came and I had a brief interview with someone who had an airline and “PricewaterhouseCoopers” tag on his bag which it made seem like the man had come from London the day before. I was called for another interview few weeks later .I didn’t hear again from them after that second interview. Few months later, when I had forgotten about the thing, I came about the launch of the radio station. I was elated. The radio station, City FM(which one of my friends jokingly refers as shitty FM),is today the most popular radio station among the English music loving populace. It is quite popular among the advertisers too. The advertisers targeting westernized youngsters (and perhaps middle agers who’ve grown listening to English music) find nothing better than City FM to Publicize their product.City FM has managed to escape the wrath of the PEMRA monitor so far, the media watchdog. Some topic of Ayesha Alam in her morning show didn’t go down well with the PEMRA guys however. Another radio station Mast FM 103 was taken off the air for broadcasting BBC news. The issue is still being debated in the courts.Although I don’t listen to City FM religiously except when I am in the car, I love it. Lemme say something which seems grossly exaggerated but it might be true” Everybody loves City FM and is planning to end up as its RJ”(excluding me). Radio trivia: Did you know that no radio station in Pakistan is allowed to broadcast news about the politics of the country.

Overload

2005-07-13T12:52:00.000-07:00

I am feeling flooded with things to do. For the last five hours I’ve been sitting on computer doing blogging and checking the mails. I haven’t even Orkutted today which I must since I plan to spend all the day outside the home tomorrow and I need to check events on Orkut.

I don’t like sitting behind a screen and navigating the world with my joystick-keyboard.The last time I did this was when i was a net addict or netholic.It was back in the school days, when I wanted to impress a girl. All I did was chat with the girl and her friends and build websites and do other things on net .Now when I introspect,I don’t find that experience any good. I’d rather sit on the roads and observe People then do rigorous blogging. Is this my laziness speaking?

I am excited because tomorrow (i.e today,Thursday) I plan to go to darbar of Shah Jamal and watch Pappu Sayein perform there. I wish I could gyrate to his dhol wearing Ghungroos. Oh man ,it will be such a cathartic experience .But as I don’t think tomorrow I’ll be able to borrow ghungroo from my friends and secondly they don’t allow ghungroos in darbas I think .Now you might think this is so weird of me. I am not just weird I am MAD.lol.peace.(I should add this before I go really mad)

Mr and Mrs Smith

2005-07-13T10:03:00.000-07:00

All through the exam days I was going through the gossip about Mr & mrs Smith so i decided to give a watch. Here are some quotes from the movie courtesy http://quotes.worldvillage.com/i/b/Mr._&_Mrs._Smith
[from trailer] John Smith: Come to Daddy. Jane Smith: [she beats and kicks him] Who's your Daddy now?
John Smith: [searching for Jane, holding a pistol] Honey...!
John Smith: [after tripping into a fence and accidentally firing a shot at his wife] Oh, dear God!
John Smith: Your aim's as bad as your cooking sweetheart... and that's saying something!
John Smith: [at marriage counseling] Ask us the sex question again. Jane Smith: [whispers] John. John Smith: [softly] Ten.
John Smith: How many? Do you want me to go first? Okay, not that I keep count or anything... but somewhere around high 50s low 60s... not that it matters or anything. Jane Smith: 312. John Smith: 312? Jane Smith: Some were two at a time.
John Smith: [after firing a rocket launcher] We should so not be allowed to buy these.
John Smith: [after Jane escapes on a high wire] Chicken shit! Jane Smith: Pussy!
John Smith: [after he finds out that Jane stole all of his guns] Bitch.
Marriage Counselor: One a scale of one to ten, how would you rate the happiness of your marriage? Jane Smith: 8. John Smith: Could you clarify? Is 10 the highest or is 1 the highest? Marriage Counselor: Just answer with your instinct.
Eddie: Mom! We're on high alert here! I almost killed you right there!
John Smith: She's trying to kill me. Marriage Counselor: They all try to kill you - slowly, painfully, cripplingly...
John Smith: [hitman from the BMW opens the van's left door. John opens the other van door and yanks the hitman through] Gotta love those doors!
John Smith: You looked like Christmas morning.
Eddie: No, thanks, I don't get out of bed for less than half a million dollars.

John Smith: Hiya, stranger. Jane Smith: Hiya back.
Jane Smith: You still alive, baby?
Jasmine: Jane, it's your husband!
John Smith: Does that include weekends? [when asked how many times they have sex]
John Smith: We remodeled the house.
John Smith: I hate the curtains.
John Smith: I guess that's what happens in the end, you start thinking about the beginning.
Eddie: So, did you kill that bitch? Jane Smith: This bitch?
John Smith: [angry that Benjamin had blown their cover] You burn the picture after you get the assignment! It's the first thing you learn! Benjamin: Oh, I must have missed that day. Just like you missed the day of don't marry the enemy.
Jane Smith: Happy endings are just stories that haven't finished.
[John has just returned from shooting Lucky at the bar] Jane Smith: Where've you been? John Smith: I just went down to the sports bar. Put a little money on the game. Jane Smith: How'd you do? John Smith: I got Lucky.
John Smith: [both pointing guns at each other; John drops his] It's your call. Jane Smith: No! C'mon! Let's finish this!

Phrase of the week

2005-07-10T08:19:00.000-07:00

Here is my pick of the favourite phase i've come across this week .It is "Helping africa to Help itself " which is title of a story in The Economist

My third blog !!!

2005-07-10T08:08:00.000-07:00

Lahore has got a metro blog of it's own.http://lahore.metblogs.com/.Eight writers from Lahore are currently enlisted to post on it.I am one of them.Yoohuuu!!I have finally found the right avenue for uploading my experiences on the streets of Lahore.

Breaking News: M Atif is back

2005-07-09T08:04:00.000-07:00

Don’t be shocked by the title. I wasn’t Kidnapped or on a sojourn. I was just busy with mid-term exams .Now I am down sore throat and a little fever. A friend of mine, who was also playing in the dirty water on last Friday when the city received its heaviest rain of the season, is suffering from some nasty disease .I hope I don’t catch any such fever .Should I get vaccinated? Umm……

Have i become Comfortably numb?

2005-07-04T11:43:00.000-07:00

I don't feel like scoring good grades in the exam
I don't feel like competing with others. I want to compete with myself
but it seems less thrilling than competing and fighting with others
I don't feel like doing lots of things which I had earlier declared
mandatory for myself.
Have I become comfortably numb?

Hello.
Is there anybody in there?
Just nod if you can hear me.
Is there anyone home?

Come on, now.
I hear you're feeling down.
Well I can ease your pain,
Get you on your feet again.

Relax.
I need some information first.
Just the basic facts:
Can you show me where it hurts?

There is no pain, you are receding.
A distant ship's smoke on the horizon.
You are only coming through in waves.
Your lips move but I can't hear what you're sayin'.
When I was a child I had a fever.
My hands felt just like two balloons.
Now I got that feeling once again.
I can't explain, you would not understand.
This is not how I am.
I have become comfortably numb.

Ok.
Just a little pinprick. [ping]
There'll be no more --aaaaaahhhhh!
But you may feel a little sick.

Can you stand up?
I do believe it's working. good.
That'll keep you going for the show.
Come on it's time to go.

There is no pain, you are receding.
A distant ship's smoke on the horizon.
You are only coming through in waves.
Your lips move but I can't hear what you're sayin'.
When I was a child I caught a fleeting glimpse,
Out of the corner of my eye.
I turned to look but it was gone.
I cannot put my finger on it now.
The child is grown, the dream is gone.
I have become comfortably numb.

Why do i dont feel like studying?

2005-07-03T12:24:00.000-07:00

I get fever in three stages mostly.
Firstly I feel that phlegm thing in the throat , then I get flowing nose and then finally my body temperature shoots slowing me down .Rite now I have that phlegm thing in the throat perhaps due to occasionally indulging in sips of freezingly cold Pepsi throughout the day.
I hope I feel normal when I wake up tomorrow .My mid term exams are beginning tomorrow and they will go up to Friday. Tomorrow is Ecommerce’s turn.

The Show

2005-06-30T14:53:00.000-07:00

I've just come back from the show .It's 3 AM now.I am too exhausted to write a detaild review so i am listing down my key thoughts about it.

Very tight but rather unintelligent security planning
A hugggggggge crowd.the organisers prepared for about 25000 ppl
Invitations and tickets didnt matter as many people gate crushed
Malkoo and another singer just wasted time
Why dont we get to hear guitaring in Atif Aslam's live shows?
Yan Gupta is lovely(whoever she is)
Bombay Rockers did rock Lahore too
Too much and too mad crowd drived my crazy too.

The biggest musical event of the year.

2005-06-30T03:53:00.000-07:00

For us, lahorites ,its not the LIVE 8 concert in London and other cities. It is the show featuring Indian stars Katrina kaif, Yana Gupta ,Bombay Rockers and others. A big number of my acquaints are going there which tells me that it will be one hell of an affair,and there is going to to be whopping crowd out there in the Fortress stadium.An arrangment hass been made for audience of upto 25000
It will start at 19.30
See you there.

Live8 concerts

2005-06-29T12:53:00.000-07:00

Our own ,The Musik, is broadcasting them live.There are people travelling from round the world to attend them.They are being held to coincide with a very important G8 meeting.
I am talking about Live8 concerts being held in London on 2nd and 6th July.Find more about them on http://www.live8live.com.

"Killed in the hotel"

2005-06-29T11:32:00.000-07:00

Dong crazy,crazy things-Season 1 Part 1
These are the five search engine results when i searched the phrase.Although it seemed quite pointless to me but i went ahead with it thinking htat there should be balance of rational and silly things in life.lol.
Gangman,Girlfriend killed in hotel blast
By Mark Louie P. Roxas, Central Luzon Bureau
CITY OF SAN FERNANDO: The leader of a kidnapping gang operating in Central Luzon and Metro Manila and his alleged female cohort were killed in a grenade explosion in their motel room here Thursday night, according to a belated police report

1 Killed In Olympia Hotel Fire
POSTED: 10:11 am PDT August 15, 2004
UPDATED: 5:49 am PDT August 16, 2004
OLYMPIA, Wash. -- Olympia Firefighters responded to a structure fire at 519 Washington St SE at 1:38 Sunday morning. The fire was in the Olympian Hotel Apartments

31 killed in Guangdong hotel fire
BEIJING, June 11: At least 31 people were killed and 15 others were injured in a hotel fire in the worst blaze in China’s southern Guangdong province for 11 years, state media said on Saturday. The blaze broke out shortly after noon on Friday and engulfed the top three floors of the four-storey Huanan Hotel, located in a downtown district of Shantou city, the Xinhua news agency said quoting local officials.

Briton killed in Malta hotel fire
09 May 2005 21:51:32 GMT
Source: Reuters
VALLETTA, May 9 (Reuters) - A British tourist died from smoke inhalation after a fire swept through part of a hotel in Malta on Monday.

Four killed in Kashmir hotel attack

Saturday 12 June 2004, 17:17 Makka Time, 14:17 GMT

Four people died and 28 others, mostly tourists, were hurt when rebels hurled a grenade on Saturday at a hotel in Pahalgam, a popular holiday spot in Indian-administered Kashmir.

Restructure-me courses

2005-06-29T02:03:00.000-07:00

I have started taking a self help course which inspires one to reach their highest self .The course was recommended by a fellow blogger, David O, on his blog. I just received the second part of the lessons. I have gone through a really lot of Self-help material in the past .Infact the first book I read in childhood after classics were my brother’s Self-help book. It’s been a quiet some time that I didn’t go through any of those Positive thinking preaching books. Even my own copy of Vincent Peale’s(needs spell check) THE POWER OF POSITIVE THINKING is still to be returned by a friend
Jose Silva’s course is free and available to everyone. Just Click on this link and get started
http://www.silvaultramindsystem.com/

Celebrating the first monsoon outburst!

2005-06-28T10:41:00.000-07:00

It’s 22:44 here, and the city is receiving its first monsoon. ut pour. Its getting humid inside but People outside seem to be partying (and singing the jingles from latest Multinational company commercial)..

Doing Crazy, crazy things-Season 1-Part 1

2005-06-27T12:41:00.000-07:00

I am starting this Jackass of Blogging in which I’ll do crazy things on web and post them here.
Here I’ll start with searching the web with any phrase like “Killed in the hotel’’ on a lesser known search engine (lets take Findfast.com) and publish the first ten interesting results here.(don’t tell me that Findfast is famous,it doesn’t matter) .

Katrina Kaif and others in Pakistan

2005-06-27T12:37:00.000-07:00

There is this show sponsored by Warid featuring Saif Ali Khan.,Katrina kaif and Bombay rockers this Thursday which is quite a news in my friends circles .Although I didn’t plan to go to it due to some family affairs but I think this a good opportunity to pull my friends from their sleepy home environments and expose them to the dazzle of big entertainment shows like this. This might infuse them with the spirit of going to other concerts and performances too. Let’s see.

Return to Peaceful-and -dull-no-activity- days

2005-06-27T12:10:00.000-07:00

Now that my father is visiting us for few days, the clock has turned back to the days when we were all together. It’s after a long time that my family has reunited. Today as my father got hot on some issue with my bro, it took me back to those old days when I identified myself as the one on other side of my Parents lectures. Now I am happy looking at the big picture.

Summer of 05’

2005-06-25T12:27:00.000-07:00

Life wasn’t bad last few summers’ .The power didn’t fluctuate so frequently and there was always water in the taps. This time around it’s different. The sweat is everywhere, sliding down from the mane, making circles around the neck, on the arms(now I don’t want to go deeper in),on the belly almost all over the body and that makes one hate himself. The recent wave of heavy heat attributed to delaying monsoon rains seems has put the city on halt.
We are having class breaks in the university due to power outages. The sort of breaks in which classes are cancelled or put off until power retuirns. They do provide a rare excursion but exhaust us out. All the blogs are whining about the heat. Cars feel like furnaces when you get back onto them .Driving cars without A/C has become very torturing. The first thing one gets to hear in the morning is someone else asking how long it has been since the power tripped off. It feels like doing so much injustice to the branded clothes. I doubt if they will survive the summer. It seems as if the heat bubble is going to burst but it doesn’t

PS: The electricity went off while I had written only half of this post .And my cable internet’s server remained inactive for quite sometime even when the power returned.

Reality bites

2005-06-25T08:11:00.000-07:00

At times one is stunned by the fact that some of the routine things in
life become so complicated and tangled up, while seemingly daunting
things pass off so easily.

Marketing Director ,Pepsi Cola, West Asia, lectures at Avari Hotel

2005-06-23T11:34:00.000-07:00

Around fifty of the 234 members of Mktg Association of Pakistan turned up.Most of them were in their 40's and looking for forming new contacts more than anything else.
Their method :
Step 1 :Ask the Marketing a Director a witty question in Q & A session
and use it to trigger conversation with others after the seminar

Step 2: Exchange business cards

Step 3 : Walk home with hopes of new businesses coming in.
My comment : Good for them.But i dont want to be a maketing professional and spend rest of my life developing some toothpaste brand,and feel good at my death bed that i increased its market share from 30% to 70%???I'll rather become a musician or a writer and build the biggest brand in the world .Me .

When i asked him ,the mktg boss of pepsi cola, that how did he react to critcism on commercialsation of music.He was like Wat criticism??

Moment profile

2005-06-23T01:00:00.000-07:00

Watsup :Philosophy class is going on
wat the hell am i doing in the lab then evn though i love studying philosophy?blogging

wats not up!!!: loneliness

why am i excited: I am going to attend a seminaer organized by Marketing Association of pakistan .A friend will be with me.

why am i tense too.: Got to pick my father from lahore airport
in the wee hours of morning tomorrow and i have a big assignment of System implementation and design pending before me

The End of days for classical music?

2005-06-22T03:47:00.000-07:00

Was anyone there at Sudh Sangeet Yesterday.There were only three or four people(including me ) in the hall besides the performers and their relatives...And even the performers came right at the time of their performance and left immediately afterwards..
Who say classical musicians are the most sincere musicians around???

Sher Minadad Live in Alhamra

2005-06-22T01:34:00.000-07:00

Now adding live in the description above make it feel like concert of some rockstar r wat.It was the first time i witnessed a live Qawwalai session .Quite Good indeed .But why wasn't anyone except gyrating in trance?Perhaps it was their first time too. My frind who had been to a Aqwwali session by Nusrat fateh Ali Khan said that this concert was nothing compared to NFAK's concert....iI am beginning to love Qawwalis

Finishing off Paulo Coelho's Eleven minutes

2005-06-22T01:10:00.000-07:00

I (i am having a temptation to add finally here)finished reading Eleven minutes .Another book of Paulo Coelho which failed to disappoint me.When in the bookshop ,i always try to resist the temptation to buy books by Paulo Coelho.it's his uniqueness which drives me to do so.If he is so unique and can utter so much good,why not try someone else to discover their unique point of views.
While reading this book ,sometimes i felt like i am taxing my daily routine more thatn i should .But somehow this guilt doesnt seem to be plaguing me too much .I always manage to quash it.
Next read: The Prophet by Khalil Jibran(...Dont be amazed now i still havent read it.) ...

2005-06-21T01:21:00.000-07:00

During a boating session..

VVip's speedboating ...

Zooming on in Mangla Dam

2005-06-21T01:15:00.000-07:00

At a stopover in Mian Jee resturent

Clockwise from the top:Sheikh,Hassan,me,Omar, Sikander

Comments about piracy crack down in The News of Sunday

2005-06-20T03:11:00.000-07:00

Did anyone checkout the article.?Particularly prominent were Amir Zaki's views about the crack down.

Thy shalt not speak!!!

2005-06-20T03:00:00.000-07:00

It's almost three and due to fluctuation of electricity the class has been cancelled.Few moments back everyone was reading and discussing an article in today's Daily Times.The article is about the beating up of a university student after he spoke against the mighty jamiat (the religion-based extremist students council ).it's one of those bad,bad news for us.This made me feel very bad about ending up in violence ridden university.
Moral:The common belief that state universites or should i say governement universities are prestigious institutions of education is mostly not true.

Living the Mangla Dam experience

2005-06-19T13:40:00.000-07:00

It’s just a dam. A glorified phenomena in Pakistan because of perhaps few scientific
Landmarks in the country. I went there on a university trip. Isn’t my blog turning into a travel blog. Not bad, since I cherish the moments I spend in traveling.
Waking up in the early hours of the morning and ‘discovering’ the life outside at that time always invigorates me.
The Bus ride was good, as it always means guys letting loose and having party whose memories they’ll carry for uptill the next trip. It was good to see the don’t-party-it’s-a-taboo crowd of the university going wild .As for myself ,I didn’t went crazy as it seemed to me that only those guys were having the fun who could speak and indulge in jugaatbazzi Punjabi. Their idea of fun was jugatbaazi only. And moreover, not being on their wavelength I found it difficult get a push from inside to enjoy with them/.This what I was furious to myself about. Why don’t I learn to keep every single idea of being distinct aside and enjoy the moment.
Mangla Dam produces 100 MW’s of electricity everyhour. Equipped with large machines and a large reservoir of water Mangla dam is not a good tourist spot. Worth mentioning is the VVIP(read military personnels) Corner at it’s base which was irritating everyone in our group. Why can they only enjoy the benefits of speed boats and not us?hehe
As for the people here’s something about them

Outcast: He will never change himself even if he is imprisoned in lonely prisons.i appreciate that.

The-least -progressive-toothbrush-alive: This guy who’s a nerd to the ass and had a big party .he did all things wild and crazy in the bus. I felt relieved that he atleast got to express myself.

Mullah-Omer-in-underwear: This name taken from NFP’s recent article best suits this guy. A guy who always says that we will learn things when we grow up, which is his defense mechanism to cover his follies. He definitely put all the jugaats to some advantageous use.

The-right-guy-in-the-wrong-place: He had a big chunk of fun and had grown stronger and more dignified because of the experience.

The-undeserving-guy: He seems to have it all not because he deserves it but because of his ability to take first-mover’s advantage. Although he didn’t have as much fun but he achieved breakthrough in his agenda

Bitchy-conservative: He knows Punjabi jugaats and the art of seducing (by mainly positioning himself as the most grown up of the crowd) and that works for him.

Me: Me !! Though I was silenced by circumstances but still I had all-round fun.

Mangla dam did generate lot of currents which are traveling in the class psyche now .

Khali botlein

2005-06-16T23:44:00.000-07:00

A huge ocean surrounded by vast empty deserts .Is the desert gulping the ocean or is it the desert drowning in the ocean .Whatever.It remains unpredictable .

Weekend bruch

2005-06-15T01:44:00.000-07:00

The places I visited last weekend

New and Old Rasool Barrage
Monument recording the stay of Alexander the great
Some Darbar in Jalalpur Sharif
Khewra salt mines
Temples at Katas
Lake at Kallar Kahar

The People I met last weekend

· Just-another-desi-pseudo-philosopher-casanova
· Hardcore-desi-junoon-fan
· The-fatter-guy-with-bleak-future
· The-handsome-prince-who-will-turn-into frog one day(also called colony-ka-daddu)

The thoughts I had last weekend

Can I actually spend all of my life traveling like this?
Why do I feel so suffocated even when I shouldn’t feel so?
When will I learn Punjabi?
When will I get the experience of being in the crowd?

How to spend rest of my life

2005-06-15T01:27:00.000-07:00

I m feeling more than dizzier then ever when it comes to thinking about my career .When I was in matric I wanted to become an Actuary ,but couldn’t fulfill the dream because it required expensive American or British education. Then it was Business studies .my career passion of college days. And now it’s World travel and a gypsy lifestyle all I ask for.F**k

Finding better expressions

2005-06-14T13:15:00.000-07:00

I am back finally after spending three days traveling and one day catching up with lost sleep. Blogging can very boring if I don’t express myself the way i like. I want to talk about the whole experience but I am thinking how should i.

Some time again!

2005-06-09T12:58:00.000-07:00

i wanted to talk about my weekend which i am going to spend with a friend at his place in interior punjab(wat?) and a new kidnappers gang in lahore here but i better go to sleep. A good night's sleep helps to crack better jokes next day

University bulletin

2005-06-09T12:47:00.000-07:00

It has been almost three weeks since the sixth semester of my BBIT course began and I am feeling very Dervish but very little Punk.
This has been the best semester till now as I haven’t touched studied at home even once in the first there weeks. Instead I have been doing loads of other things. They say that students at LUMS are always tied up to the books because of the workload, and that shows how much qualified they are. I don’t regret not going there because studying in Punjab University I have all the time in the world for all the activities in the world.huhuhu.(not muahaha!).I am loving the experience of coming late to classes everyday, sitting in the back and inventing games to while away the time. Today we started those games of likes Comment on the person besides you. Thank God a paper which in which we swore at each other didn’t reach the teacher.
Happy Birthday to Ali Raza , a friend who is too instable and restless to get respect from anyone. I wish People stop treating him like a dead insect.

Getting slice of mysticism

2005-06-07T03:31:00.000-07:00

Hazrat Shah Hussain was some great sufi in the fifteenth century. His Kaafis are read out, recited and commented upon once a month in a function organized by LEAF. This month’s recital is today at 7:30 in Alhamra Hall 2 Qaddafi Stadium. Everyone is invited.
Last time it was good to come across his kaafi in which he says that our life in theis world is very short so we shouldn’t spend it in things like anger etc. Although I found the
Kaafi was rather mushy but i enjoyed the session.

Eleven Minutes

2005-06-06T11:50:00.000-07:00

Just started reading Paulo Coelho's Eleven Minutes .

Sunday Times

2005-06-05T13:15:00.000-07:00

Guitaring
By the Way and Lose Youself Into
All 16 strumming patterns on 4/4 beat of commonly used chord progressions .

On my TV
Cycle Rally on Sports Channel
Tennis on Ten Sports
Performance By Ali Azmat On The Musik

On my Radio
Rock Artist of the day : MegaDeath on City FM(Listening to it right now)

Magazines:
Newsline: Liked Huma Yusuf’s Dubai debauchery and disliked review of maximum City
Mag(or is it the mag)
Friday Times : As usual I confirmed how much I relate to Ayesha Alam.Why does everyone thinks so.
Daily Times (DT Classified I m coming)
Jang

Then and Now

2005-06-04T15:02:00.000-07:00

When I was in college, my life was strewn with achievements. I was the class topper, the most active guy in extracurricular activities and quite famous in the town because of my articles .I had limited freedom to explore the life around me as my parents were around .When I came to Pakistan in mid 2003 ,I had to restructure my life. I started exploring the world around me as Dervish I spent almost all of the time out roaming on the streets and places of Lahore. And then I got myself into serious staff like working in commercial festivals, playing guitar and still exploring the life here. But now I feel aloof .Most of people around me are still living in the same state of mind which I was in. They haven’t stepped out and kissed the reality. Though I am living with my family here but the essence of exploration is still present in my life now. But now I find people too ordinary. I spend half of the day in the Punjab University classrooms. I find many people in the class boring and I don’t feel like talking to them but I can’t pass a day silently humming some moby song.Now I don’t have any achievements ,nor do I am a class topper nor a Mr Know-it-all but i m travelling .

Another user dumps kazaa

2005-06-01T12:55:00.000-07:00

I used to download files from kazaa few years back.But my PC crashed once and i lost it.Since then i have often tried to download it,but couldnt complete the download because of various glitches.I succeeded this time,but now with the Army of Spyware and affilate p2p programs ,which kazaa has loaded on my computer is proving too heavy to itself to connect.Whenever i try to connect .it fails.I went to P2p forums and found people abusing kazaa beacuse of this problem everywhere.
I am now trying eMule (not trying imesh which has been on my mind for quiet a while).i hope it'll help me .

This blog is on TV

2005-05-30T14:40:00.000-07:00

Ever tried visualising the best possible thing in every aspect of life, like visualizing 20 comments on every post of your blog and people recognizing you on the street because of your blog. Try it .It works wonders to your routine.

Weekend Brunch

2005-05-29T14:12:00.000-07:00

Weekend went off good. First I went to see Bullha,a production of Ajoka Theatre. A sort of biographical play about the great sufi, Bullha in Punjabi language was rather difficult for me to understood but I tried my best often shying to ask my friend about the meanings(now that means I didn’t try my best).And then I went around the city with the a mad mad friend doing all the crazy Punk things possible. A bad day for potbellied traffic Policeman of Lahore !!
I went to Cooco’s Den too. I love it because of it’s peaceful and removed-off-from-the-noisy-city feel. However it is not convenient to go there every other day as it is too far .

What do you think

2005-05-29T13:36:00.000-07:00

Debate : To be a realist or an Idealist(or to perceive things realistically or idealistically to be more accurate)
Being a Punk Dervish I m neither .Both suck .I love to bend rules and see things upside down or laterally rather than exert efforts to carve them in a shape they should be.

The new small talk

2005-05-28T14:14:00.000-07:00

Just saw the 2nd Indus Music Awards. I missed being there. But seeing the same faces again pacified me. We live in Pakistan, the land of the same five People, afterall.

"I have to discuss this look because it's like Barbie meets the Stepford Wives."

2005-05-26T14:00:00.001-07:00

Here are some quotes of Simon Cowell I have painstakingly copy pasted from MSNBC’s site.
"You may just have put 34 musicians out of work."
Simon to Bo Bice, after Bice sang a capella, 5/17
I think you need soul to sing that song. It's kind of like trying to have Woody Allen play the lead in 'Shaft.' "
Simon to Anthony Fedorov, 5/10

"That was the equivalent of you singing in the shower, you do it effortlessly."
Simon to Carrie Underwood, 5/10
The show tonight, with all the film clips and the lyrics, it feels like Miss Universe... it felt a bit cynical, that song."
Simon to Anthony Fedorov, 5/10

Bo Bice is going to be the next American Idol

2005-05-25T13:49:00.000-07:00