we spoke of was and when.

did everyone in the world know that hannah montana (weird whine-y pre adolescent tween singing sensation)'s real name is miley cyrus??
AND did everyone know that shes the real daughter of billy "achy breaky heart" ray cyrus (brc)??
and that brc plays her dad in her sitcom who writes her music?
i just think thats weird.

weird because its the kind of thing i would expect me to know.
i'm usually quite 'hip' with what the kids are upto...if you know what i mean.

i think its important to stay up to date with these trends. if only to earn the respect of my nephews and nieces.
nothing makes my heart fill up with joy more than when i can impress them with my knowledge regarding ninja hathodi, dragonballZ or their current favourite...the blazing teens.

of late i find myself being left behind quite a lot.
and then i cheat.

i act like i know my blazing teens (who apparently are kids with yo-yos?!?) but i really have no idea.
i pick up on snippets that i hear them talking about...and then throw it right back at them. so they feel they can connect with me better because i know who matthew and leon are.

another favourite these days is MAD on cartoon network.
i havent seen that either. but i totally act like i have. ive heard it stands for "Music Art and Dance" and it actually sounds better than anything else on tv these days.

i dont like how gauhar (of jal) lecherously looks at that girl while she's walking away with that hybrid half pink-half brown cycle of hers. and he does it every ten minutes on every channel in the world.
and speaking of which...why in the world did gauhar get the girl and why was farhan relegated to role of unimportant wingman.
i guess thats still better than shazis role of cycle mechanic.
haahahahaaaa....this blog will make no sense to my international readers...
like my good friend who replied to my earlier post with his little speech on ju-dy gar-land. (i dont want to say it properly because i fear he'll come back)

hadiqas singing that weird "its all the same" song on tv abhi.
what the hell is that all about???

even though i dont speak punjaabi i once wrote a punjaabi song.
well, actually, i cant take all the credit (blame). misbah and i wrote it at indus.
i dont know why.

its not really a song.
we sort of imagined it as a rap (gangsta ...if you please)

here is the original (with a translation for all of us non punjabi speaking folk)

Sanu pyaar karaan teray naal...
main tainu naa chuddunga.
(I have loved you...
I won't let you go.)

the "tainu naa chaddunga.." line is actually a threat.
hence the "gangsta" feel to the song.

tussee heer raindeeh-ay assaan dil ki
main tainu naa chuddunga.
(you are the heer* of my heart,
I won't let you go.)

ballay ballay sohniye, aaja aaja heeriye (obligatory punjaabi words that basically mean "i have the ball lover. come here lover")
oho oho, a-haa brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrruah.
(uh-huh , yeah. thats right. uh-huh, yeah.)

[the oho oho's can be replaced with the more jawad ahmad-esque ho-haa's]

if that doesnt have 'hit single' written all over it i dont know what does. maybe i should give abrar a call.

*[fictional heroine of tragic folk love story where heer either drowns or gets killed by evil uncle, or both. not necessarily in that particular order]