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i just entered this contest on a website where i could possibly win an ipod.
how exciting.

i had to enter twice, cos i entered once and it said you have to be a member to take part.
inefficient website.
so i became a member and re-entered.

i wonder when ill get my ipod.
i hope it’s the large capacity one and not some simple shuffle crap. i hate cheap gifts.
cheap inefficient website.

:)

that reminds me of my charsi (junkie) joke. which i find really funny but noone else does. only misbah did.
misbah was/is this good friend of mine. who was with me at indus. hes in dubai now.

but when we were in school we were quite the team. but now we’re both grown up. i’m married, hes not. hes started smoking. i’ve quit. hes making lots of money in dubai. i’m not. in dubai or making money.

and he came to visit recently and we realized that it’s the end of the good times.

pretty soon we’ll have nothing to talk about. except each others work. and that gets boring real fast.
we could reminisce, but for how long?
pretty soon we’ll be reminiscing about reminiscing- and that’s certainly no fun.

i wonder.
i wonder if as we grow older…that’s all there is to do. reminisce about the good times.
which would mean that all good times end, sooner or later, and are replaced by times which aren’t as good.

how come everyone elses blogs are about so many other things? where as mine is always about me worrying about growing old.

ive realized people take their blogs really seriously.
as in they write with the intent that lots of people are reading their blogs. i can’t deal with that pressure. therefore i make my bloggy intentionally boring for anyone other than the people i know.

sometimes i make it boring for them too.

a sleep

.why cant I start a sentence with a full stop?

I guess i can if I really want to.

Ive asked tahir (the other guy in the office) to make me some tea. I have a splitting headache.
But its alright.

These days work has been crazy, office wise and own-work wise. But last night I finished a book I was supposed to design for the bookgroup, and completed a major design job for the juice shop. Stayed up till 4:30 and am dead tired now but its all worth it—cos I thought the design looked alright at the end.
And beenish bookgroup just called and said the book looked awesome.

So im happy.

In a weird tired way.

But like the guy said I have “miles to go before I sleep” and then he said it again. He probably had lots of miles to go.
That’s how I feel. I could say it more than two times even and it wouldn’t be enough.

Heres a poem inspired by that guy.

Whose house is this
I think I know
He works all day
All night also

But he has
Miles to go before he sleeps
And miles to go before he sleeps
And even more miles to go before he sleeps
Hes still walking.


I added the last line to give it this infiniteness.
Now that its on paper—whenever someone reads it, He, which is actually I, will still be walking.

Intense.

Now replace walking with driving. And that’s my life.
For someone who hates driving I do an awful lot of it


.
fullstop for the heck of it

im off now.
The next couple of days seems mad, but I seem to be getting a lot of work done.

In this song called ‘Aarzoo’ on the noo knewri album—theres this little break—where he whispers “ab so gaye, meray chaand aur taaray- hum kho gaye, hum haaray”.
I think that’s the best part of the entire album.

But enough about me.
Who are you?

Or in the words of Immu (from Fuzon) “How is it?”
hahhahaHA---
that’s an internal joke.

Only I get it.

Really internal.
hahaHAhahahaHA

another one.

tag

for mariam:

5 years ago: September 21st 2000

1 year ago: September 21st 2004

What is this?!?!?a test??

5 songs i know all the words to: Jaago by Jazba, Ice Ice Baby by Vanilla Ice, the Igloo song (there can be only one King), Gasolina by Daddy something, Creep by Radiohead.

5 snacks i enjoy: Marie biscuits with tea, Maggi Noodles (any flavour), Hinas brownies, Pringles (Any flavour—but not too many cos then I feel sick), Chocolates (any kind except dark chocolate)

5 things I'd do with a million dollars: Give to the needy, End world hunger, set up schools throughout the country, make mariam feel bad cos shes so materialistic :)

5 things I'd really do with a million dollars: build a small house, on a large piece of land. Somewhere near a river. In Karachi.
Build a river.

5 places i would run away to: home. Kinokuniya (kitaabon ki duniya). At one point in my life I would have started this list with Indus.

5 things i would never wear: a pointy bra (madonna style), a huge flower on my chest (mariam style), spandex.

5 favourite TV shows: the Simpsons, SNL, Aangan Terha, Lost, Party @ the Palms

5 greatest joys: [Meekla-Khiz-Zehra], Chillin’ wid da Gel, Jammin wid da 8, a good book, night painting, rain, a new song.

5 favourite boys: ?

faith hope and tenderness

There was once a british all girl pop band called ‘Faith Hope and Charity’. And coincidentally, those were actually their names.
One of them was Faith, one was Hope and the last was Charity.

I think Charity got the short end of the stick.

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Counting bodies like sheep to the rhythm of a war drum.

That is the name of the song I listen to as i write.
And its actually quite nice.

Swinging to the rhythm of the New World Order.

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This is the Much Awaited Birthday Blog.
Ive been waiting to write it for some time now.

Primarily because of that joke.

:)

im 28 now.
Which is 1,460 weeks old.

Which doesn’t seem like a lot. But it is.

The first 1460 went by in no time.
Therefore if the next 1460 go by at the same rate, ill be 56 in no time.
But that’s alright. Because I figure all my friends will be 56 or thereabouts so I wont be too lonely.

Its good to have friends.
It’s a pity I don’t stay in touch with all of them. Sometimes I think about the friends ive had over the years and realize that they weren’t really friends.
But in that time, at that place—I used to think they were.

I like the friends I have now.

(abrupt end)
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three blogs in one!!! what more could one ask for??

Four?
:)