stuck in a moment

I know its a poor quality video

Well today was a long day after so many short days.

Early in the morning after the gym,my friend called and wanted me to come with him – he was going for his ACCA docket thingy and then he wanted to go to our school and meet some teachers.  Well thats how i got a chance to make this video.

it starts from the karsaz overhead bridge and goes to the EOBI house (formerly Awami Markaz). This whole area had been traffic jammed. We were midway the karsaz bridge (joining shahrah-e-faisal) and my friend dropped the cars speed.Since i was with my cellphone i inquired abt the car and simultaneously i put my head up and LO! n behold! half of the bridge is traffic jammed.

The traffic jam continued and we both were of the opinion that the traffic jam is due to an accident and thats when i pulled out my cellphone camera and started making the video hoping that i would catch a heated up situation in moments. But everything seemed to be fine and as soon as we crossed the EOBI house (formerly Awami Markaz)  area the traffic was all of sudden in smooth flow : |….

…it was the traffic signal. The traffic police was controlling the traffic at the signal near Crown plaza.

so y can’t we have traffic signals up and running 24hrs a day. why do the police has to interfere? and if its the load shedding issue den at this time the electricity not down, there must have a fault in the signal. and secondly y can’t the traffic signals and street lights be granted exclusion from load shedding?

at the end of the day we have Bono

And if the night runs over
And if the day won’t last
And if your way should falter
Along the stony pass
It’s just a moment
This time will pass

P.S: wasn’t the weather really pleasant in the morning!?

…to spend or not to spend

“I want the pencil box I was looking at in the shop!” I cried on top of my lungs. There was nothing dearer to me at that moment in time than that pencil box and I was willing to do anything to get it. But before I could reach the point to do “anything” for it, my parents had bought it for me.

Eight years later…

I was sitting in the lounge with my face down, tears dripping down my eyes, I wanted that Discman and this time again I was willing to do anything to possess it. A week later it was in my hands and this time again I didn’t had to do “anything” for it.

About a year later...I had become a little thoughtful

“Should I? or should I not?” were the questions jumping in my head making my nights restless. I just loved that wristwatch I saw in the store and I had enough of eidi to help me buy it. Finally I decided to go buy the watch.

Another year passed…

This time I had the cap in my head to wear it on my head. I did some research on different types of caps and a few weeks later I bought one from Tariq Road with my savings + eidi.

A few months later I got myself an mp3 player after deciding between whether I should or shouldn’t.

Going back to the pencil box, I remember at that time I at least 3 more pencil boxes all in perfect condition, yet I wanted that particular one.

The Discman, I used it barely 10 times – since i watch movies on my computer and listen to songs on computer or the car cd player – and now its somewhere in the cupboards coated with a zillion layers of dust.

The wristwatch. As far as I remember it was a good watch and I used to alot until it slipped from my hands and being a “made in china” make it stopped working and the repairing cost could have bought me a new watch.

Now comes the CAP! I never actually wore it :s  and the mp3 player, I used it for the sake of using it, not because I felt the need to use it but I actually took out some time to use the 1000 rupee mp3 player.

Conclusion…I simply wasted so much money!

All things I bought were nothing but the result of stupidity which leads to the conclusion that i should think whether i actually want to 1) buy this thing and 2) spend on this thing.

I think alot before spending and still end up spending on useless stuff. But over the years I have become good at it and now I barely spend which is a problem itself, since not-spending leads to a lot of money in my wallet which forces me to think about spending it :S and at the same time assures me that I can buy anything whenever I feel like

Not that I have a lagao/attachment with money but what if I keep on saving my whole bachelor-life and then my wife drops in and spends all of it :p

I advise the readers to start looking on to their spendings, m sure there are others like me out there.

Tired of doing nothing for the last 2-3 months I had started browsing through various websites of my interest and not of my interest and in the course i found the karachi city’s website. As usual the first thought that occured was that the website has been uploaded and is rarely updated: guess i was wrong.

I browsed through the website, visited various towns’ dedicated websites and then one day i discovered this complaint center thing there. I immediately logged a complaint against the unclean road right outside my house. Later on i forgot about it and on the third day i had a city government fellow on my doorstep with a print out of my complaint. I was taken aback with quick response in contrast to my idea of the website been left unattended. Anyhow, i explained the complaint and the guy told me that evrything would be taken care of on the next working day.

Now is this improvement in the system or is this improvement in the system?

Oh n before i end my post lemme mention that nothing is taken care of. Maybe thats because the complaint center guy asked me to sign the print-out he had, i should have told him that i will sign it when the work is done. Anyway, atleast they did show up.

Benazir n Karachi

Since after the 12th MAY incident Karachi has been pretty peaceful. But now we have Benazir in the city and the revival of PPP. 18th October Benazir lands in karachi and wht she brings with her is 100+ deaths and 400+ injuries and just a few minutes back we had PPP people on their motorcycles terrorising the shopkeepers to shut their shops. Agreed that its supposed to be 3 day grief but isn’t it a job of the government to take care of this?

What have we got in store is yet to be unveiled

robert ludlum

Her blond hair was caught in the moonlight, her racing silhouette given substance by the beam of powerful flashlight fifty yards behind her. She fell; the gap closed and a staccato burst of gunfire abruptly, insolently split the night air, bullets exploding the sand and the wild grass all around her. She would be dead in a matter or seconds.