Thursday, May 04, 2006

a lil update plus some musings

ive been busy lately.im in the process of opening an electronics shop in lahore.its taken me more than a year but now im finally a week or so away from finally opening the shutters.im quite excited.it still wont be the finished thing even when ill open the shop but ive got to start now.retailing in lahore is not easy.you literally have to harrass people to get things done.i myself have kind off picked up such habits as some of my customers at uptown books would only too keenly point out.they order books that i forget to follow up on.its the damned heat i tell you. khair just yesterday i came across a news article that sent my blood boiling. a think tank in america came out with a list of countries that they described as failed states.pakistan was in the top ten, worse off than believe it or not AFGHANISTAN. im sure these fellows there at the thinktank must be hooked on the opium being mass produced by afghanistan. i mean for starters terming pakistan a failed state is ludicrous but to place it beneath afghanistan.....arrghh...anyway seeing the report i knew that someone in the local press would pick it up and lend legitimacy to it by using it as an example of how things are so messed up in this country.i decided that if someone did use it that would be the last straw that broke the camel's back and i would finally start writing opinion pages for newspapers ie if anyone would take me on board. lo and behold in todays opinion pages in the daily times someone did use it. so as a first step ive started blogging again.now i have to try to write something clever so that some newspaper publishes it.

in conclusion im totally hooked on my new Ipod.im glued to it.im listening to it right now.i listen to it while working, driving and best of all while working out.my productivity in the gym has sky rocketed ever since i got this ipod.so if any one wants an ipod just contact me.hehe...no seriously ive got brand new ipods, their accessories etc.

2 Comments:

Blogger Muneeba Omar said...

hmmmm, I actually read quite a few articles about Pakistan being a failed state by 2015, but all were written prior to 9/11. We were also heading no where under Nawaz and with all the nuclear testing and all, the international community was all aghast and thought we would fail by 2015. But I do agree with you in that things have changed a great deal post 9/11 and with Musharraf's leadership, and it would be ludicrous to label Pakistan a failed state, and to rank it more likely to fail than Afghanistan. Send me the link to the article if possible. Accha also if you are intrested, the assisstant editor at the Post is on vacation this week, so I am taking over for a whole week!!! EEEEEK J-dawg killer hours, till next thursday, so I can definitely try to whip up something, even though most people won't read it bc the Post doesn't have a huge circulation ... but send me article via email, sms, orkut, or whatever. I'll just phone you, must know more about this article, I even heard something from Zainabs dad about pakistan being a failed state discussion ats ome uncles ki dinner party ... this is quite the hot topic.

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Blogger Muneeba Omar said...

OOOOoooooohhh and which ipod did you get? And btw ipod for gym is KEY. Do you have covers for the nano? mine is absolutely ruined.

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